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Chuck in the Morning 9/4 H2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, Kiffin gonna Kiffin and happy holidays! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: You're home for the Kraken, the Huskies, and the 12th man.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM, Seattle, and iHeart Radio Station.
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  Speaker 3: Guaranteed human.
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  Speaker 4: In a right field, Montez chasing after it, and Heim
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  Speaker 4: is coming home.
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  Speaker 1: He will score, throw to second. Safe there.
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  Speaker 3: Back-to-back doubles.
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  Speaker 4: And it's 7-4 A's. And it's starting to slip away
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. I'll say. Aaron Goldsmith on the call.
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  Speaker 4: Mariners TV. The Mariners came home. Coming off two straight
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  Speaker 4: wins against Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Right back in it, right. Bad competition the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the way, right?
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  Speaker 4: Off to a 3-1 lead after one inning of play.
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  Speaker 1: Man, is this offense on fire.
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  Speaker 5: We've got this.
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  Speaker 4: And instead, the A's win it. 7-4 is your final
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  Speaker 4: score last night at T-Mobile. Kate Anderson did make it
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  Speaker 4: through five, but not with the lead. And then some
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  Speaker 4: ineffective bullpenning by Carlos Vargas and Edward Bazzardo last night
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  Speaker 4: extended the A's lead.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, ineffective. I think that's a good way to describe it.
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  Speaker 4: And the Mariners hitting 18 strikeouts last night. Had men
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  Speaker 4: on the base all night long. Ended up stranding 14
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  Speaker 4: base runners, and they lose this game 7-4. That's how
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the season starts. And the Astros won yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: So the team is six games back with 21 to go. Tonight,
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  Speaker 4: Logan Gilbert versus right-hander JT Ginn of the A's. And
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  Speaker 4: he's better than what you faced last night. First pitch
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  Speaker 4: is going to be at 7-10 here this evening. And
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  Speaker 4: that's where we start with our Frostbrood Coors Light Choose
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  Speaker 4: Chill headlines. Elsewhere, of course, the college football season is underway.
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  Speaker 4: Week zero last week. Week one got underway last night.
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  Speaker 4: Colorado highlights the schedule last night with a 14-13 win
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  Speaker 4: over Georgia Tech. So Coach Prime, that's a nice win.
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  Speaker 4: That's a nice win for the Buffaloes there last night. Tonight,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have Miami in action at Stanford. You're
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  Speaker 4: also going to have USC in action, home to Fresno State. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: all sorts of games being played on the first true
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  Speaker 4: Saturday of college football 2026. The most interesting game is
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  Speaker 4: probably Clemson versus LSU. And then on Sunday, not only
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  Speaker 4: do you have the Apple Cup on Sunday at 1 o'clock,
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  Speaker 4: that's right, this Sunday, the Apple Cup will be played
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  Speaker 4: at 1 o'clock. You're also going to have No. 4
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame taking on Wisconsin. And you're going to have No.
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  Speaker 4: 9 Ole Miss taking on No.
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  Speaker 1: 24 Louisville.
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  Speaker 4: We'll discuss this more in our Ocho today at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: The Apple Cup, the Huskies are 23.5-point favorites.
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  Speaker 1: As of this morning over the Cougs.
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  Speaker 4: And then, of course, you've got Sounders Red Bull on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday at 5.30. The Sounders have had life breathed into
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  Speaker 4: them by their new trade acquisition. Dayon will make his
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  Speaker 4: second appearance in a Sounders jersey today. Tomorrow at 5.30,
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  Speaker 4: he's already scored twice and led the team to a
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  Speaker 4: draw in.
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  Speaker 1: His first game.
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  Speaker 4: And, of course, we've got the Seahawks playing on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: their season opener, and we count down the days till
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  Speaker 4: that with our Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now is Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 2: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 2: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 2: with our own Greg Bell. Brought to you by Emerald
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  Speaker 4: Good Friday morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're getting very, very close to the start of
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  Speaker 4: the season, and I'll start with this, and then we'll
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  Speaker 4: get into player stuff. We are now officially under Coastal
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  Speaker 4: rule at this point. The Coastal Nostra is in charge
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  Speaker 4: now of your Seattle Seahawks. The move made official yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: and so we get tweets from the Kosla family for
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  Speaker 4: the rest of our lives.
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  Speaker 6: Big news. You do.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It is different. It's a new modern way of life,
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  Speaker 6: I guess. 71-year-olds on Twitter X responding to every single thing.
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  Speaker 4: Can't wait to see them do a dance on TikTok, the.
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  Speaker 1: Family, together.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Maybe that's next. I don't know if they have
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  Speaker 6: a TalkTik Snapgram. I haven't seen any of those other ones.
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  Speaker 6: The interesting part of the news yesterday was Vinod Khosla
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  Speaker 6: is the chair, named the chairman of the Seahawks. The
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  Speaker 6: vice chair is the son, Neil. And the controlling owner
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  Speaker 6: slash chairman of the Seattle Seahawks Foundation now, a new entity,
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  Speaker 6: is Niru, the wife. And there were 12 minority investors
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  Speaker 6: revealed yesterday, and they're a pretty eclectic group, a couple Seattle-based,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of AI, a co-founder of the Kozla Ventures
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  Speaker 6: that Vinod Kozla started down in the Bay Area, a
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  Speaker 6: couple private equity firms, and up to 3% each for them,
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  Speaker 6: and a family in Mexico that is behind Modelo, Grupo Modelo,
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  Speaker 6: and Corona, and the beer industry in Mexico. So a
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  Speaker 6: swath in 12, yes, 12 minority investors. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 6: if that's on purpose or not for the 12s. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's a new era for sure. It's the first time in, what,
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  Speaker 6: it's only the third sale of the franchise in its history.
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  Speaker 6: If you go from Nordstrom's to Bering's, Bering to Paul Allen,
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  Speaker 6: and then, of course, the Paul Allen Trust. It's only
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  Speaker 6: the third franchise sale in the 50, 51 years they've
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  Speaker 6: been doing this. So a monumental day for sure and
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  Speaker 6: a new era for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And also along those lines, I was listening to the
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell radio program yesterday, and it sounds like they're
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  Speaker 4: going to delay the ceremonial raising of the 12th man
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  Speaker 4: flag for a year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, did I?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going to let Jody Allen do it this year,
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  Speaker 4: and then they'll do it starting next year. That was
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  Speaker 4: my understanding of what you were discussing.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, the owners, yeah. I thought you meant they weren't
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  Speaker 6: going to do the flag at all.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: No, yes. Vinod Khosla, in one of his responses to
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  Speaker 6: his many fans on Twitter X, said that he would
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  Speaker 6: like Jody Allen to raise the 12 flag on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 6: and A lot of fans would say that's a pretty
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  Speaker 6: nice bookend way for Jodi Allen to say goodbye to
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  Speaker 6: the fans publicly. She was not very forward-facing at all.
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  Speaker 6: She did raise the flag at the NFC Championship game
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  Speaker 6: last season, then did one other time at the start
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  Speaker 6: of her tenure after her brother passed away. I do
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  Speaker 6: want to say, though, and I said it yesterday in
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  Speaker 6: the show, it is worth re-mentioning that Jodi Allen deserves
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  Speaker 6: a ton of credit. She wasn't front-facing, but she was
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  Speaker 6: very involved. She met weekly with the football operations after
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  Speaker 6: every game, talk usually via Zoom with Mike McDonald. And
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  Speaker 6: it was her decision at the fork in the road
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  Speaker 6: of where the franchise's direction was going to be after
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  Speaker 6: the 2023 season that they did not make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: It was her decision to say, Pete Carroll, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: It was the greatest run we've had. You got us
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  Speaker 6: our Super Bowl, but now we're changing. And it was
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  Speaker 6: her decision to give John Schneider the keys to the
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  Speaker 6: franchise and become the ultimate football savior. It was Jody
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  Speaker 6: Allen's decision to go with the future path that John Schneider,
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  Speaker 6: not Pete Carroll wanted. Carroll wanted to keep his whole
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  Speaker 6: band back together. He wanted to be loyal to his
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  Speaker 6: assistants and his coordinators and keep everything the same and
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  Speaker 6: run it back and thought they were close. And Jody
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  Speaker 6: Allen said, no, I'm going to listen to the GM
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  Speaker 6: who's earned his chance now to run this. And it
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  Speaker 6: was John Schneider who then went and fetched the most
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  Speaker 6: innovative defensive mind he could find in Mike McDonald. And
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  Speaker 6: two years later, they win a Super Bowl. Jody Allen
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  Speaker 6: did that, and she deserves a ton of credit for
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  Speaker 6: letting the football people do like her brother did, let
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  Speaker 6: the football people do it. But she was an idol,
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  Speaker 6: and she made a huge decision that really changed, obviously,
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  Speaker 6: the direction and fortunes of the franchise.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. You can
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  Speaker 4: follow his coverage at the News Tribune. Also at G.
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  Speaker 4: Bell Seattle there on X, where you can talk to
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  Speaker 4: him or the Coastless whenever you'd like, apparently. And then
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  Speaker 4: joins us every day at 7.05 or nearly every day
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  Speaker 4: to talk some Seahawks football, thanks to the Emerald Queen Casino.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get into what the big story was,
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  Speaker 4: at least on the practice field yesterday. I'm seeing videos
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  Speaker 4: of Nick Emanwari looking healthy, I suppose. So where are
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  Speaker 4: we at in his timetable and trying to get ready
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  Speaker 4: for Wednesday?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he looks to be on his own schedule. We
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  Speaker 6: only get to see him for the first five or
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  Speaker 6: ten minutes of practice and just stretching and doing warm-up drills,
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  Speaker 6: and then they shoo us away. But he stretches on
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  Speaker 6: his own. He doesn't do every one of the opening
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  Speaker 6: calisthenics and warm-ups that the players do. He does more
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  Speaker 6: band work. He does more on the side with the trainer.
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  Speaker 6: It is a different ramp-up schedule. He's not in full
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  Speaker 6: mode that I can tell. If they were required, which
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow they will start to be required of practice participation,
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  Speaker 6: my guess, guesstimate is that he would be limited in
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  Speaker 6: so far. It's not a done deal that he's going
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  Speaker 6: to play. I think it's still pretty iffy. He hasn't
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  Speaker 6: done anything since the Super Bowl. Well, he's done OTAs
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  Speaker 6: and minicamps and t-shirts and shorts before he had the
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  Speaker 6: arthroscopic surgery on his ankle in mid-July, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 6: done anything since that surgery in mid-July. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: They're going to keep the Patriots guessing, obviously, for competitive reasons,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm not convinced he's going to play Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you replace him?
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  Speaker 6: Well, schematically, he has obviously been trying to find a
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  Speaker 6: third cornerback he can trust. Avery Smith is now here
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  Speaker 6: from the Chargers. How many times do you trade for
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  Speaker 6: an undrafted rookie before his first game? Avery Smith yesterday
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  Speaker 6: was saying how surprised he was by the trade. What
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  Speaker 6: exactly were you surprised at? That the Chargers gave up
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  Speaker 6: after you had a great preseason for them? Was it
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  Speaker 6: that you got traded to the Super Bowl champions out
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  Speaker 6: of nowhere? And he said, I follow football a lot,
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  Speaker 6: and I don't know too many undrafted rookie free agents
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  Speaker 6: who get traded before their first regular season game. And
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  Speaker 6: he's right. It's almost unheard of. And that's how much
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  Speaker 6: the Seahawks liked him, even coming out of Toledo. They
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  Speaker 6: had scouted him because they had scouted Max and Hook,
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  Speaker 6: and they had Andre Fuller out of the same Toledo
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  Speaker 6: secondary each of the last two years, Hook and Fuller
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  Speaker 6: on the practice squad for Seattle. So they knew Avery Smith,
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  Speaker 6: even from college. And then, of course, their pro scouts
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  Speaker 6: followed him through so Chargers preseason. Trevon Diggs looks much
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  Speaker 6: more into the full meal deal than he did last
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  Speaker 6: week at this time, I think, in the short glimpses
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  Speaker 6: I can see of them in practice. And now the
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  Speaker 6: decision is can Diggs master the playbook? And he told
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  Speaker 6: Mike McDonald he'd need a couple weeks to do that,
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  Speaker 6: and that would take him past the first game. They
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  Speaker 6: cut Noah Igbenogany. They weren't satisfied with him. They did
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  Speaker 6: keep Nehemiah Pritchett. That's another option they could use as
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  Speaker 6: a third corner. Or they could go to three linebackers.
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  Speaker 6: And I saw a little bit of that in training
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  Speaker 6: camp of Tyrese Knight and Drake Thomas flanking Ernest Jones.
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  Speaker 6: That would take one defensive back off the field. If
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  Speaker 6: Eamon Worry plays, then they go right back to me.
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  Speaker 6: They go right back to what they did last year.
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  Speaker 6: And they have three corners. They've just got to find
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  Speaker 6: a third one they trust and put Witherspoon inside where
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  Speaker 6: McDonald likes him at nickel to influence and blitz more.
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  Speaker 7: And....
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  Speaker 6: Then they roll. But if they don't, and Neymar doesn't play,
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  Speaker 6: and he can't trust a third corner, now you're talking
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  Speaker 6: two fewer defensive backs that McDonald would like to employ,
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  Speaker 6: then I think you might see some of that heavier
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  Speaker 6: three off-the-ball linebacker stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to now ask you, for the first time
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  Speaker 4: this year, a question that we brought up a lot
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  Speaker 4: a year ago at this time, and something that you,
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  Speaker 4: and I give you credit maybe more so than anybody else,
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  Speaker 4: hammered home in your reporting over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: You told us that they were going to be committed
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  Speaker 4: to the run one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how.
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  Speaker 4: Unsuccessful it might look at times, they are going to
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  Speaker 4: run the football. They are going to stick to it.
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  Speaker 4: And they did it. And it ended up working like
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  Speaker 4: a charm, winning the Super Bowl a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: There's no Walker. There's no Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold's got to have an extra layer of confidence.
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  Speaker 4: They've got millions spent on JSN, Rashid Shaheed, Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 4: They've got double tight end that they're going to use
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  Speaker 4: this year. They've got a lot of questions in their
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  Speaker 4: backfield in terms of Jadarian Price. We haven't even seen
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  Speaker 4: him play as a professional football player. Is this philosophy
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  Speaker 4: the same that no matter what, we're going to stick
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  Speaker 4: with the run, or would they possibly be more apt
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  Speaker 4: to turn the offense more over to Sam Darnold if
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  Speaker 4: they struggle out of the gates getting the run established?
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  Speaker 6: I think the former. Their identity is going to run
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  Speaker 6: the ball because that's how Mike McDonald wants his offensive
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  Speaker 6: identity to be. He wants him to be physically punishing.
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  Speaker 6: He wants you to attack in physicality like he does
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  Speaker 6: his defense. It's a mentality. And he believes you will
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  Speaker 6: wear down the opponent in will and in physicality by
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  Speaker 6: the end of the game, even if you're not succeeding
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  Speaker 6: earlier in it. But having said that, you're right. They
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  Speaker 6: trust Sam Darnold. They know Jackson Smith and Jigba now
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  Speaker 6: is an all-pro that can handle anything, any coverage, anything
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  Speaker 6: a defense throws at him, he's going to get open.
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  Speaker 6: They know all of it. They have a tight end-centric
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  Speaker 6: offensive coordinator who is going to send the tight ends
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  Speaker 6: further down the field. They do know that if they
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  Speaker 6: want to open it up and throw, they've got the
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  Speaker 6: weapons to do that. But I still think it's going
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  Speaker 6: to be very much predicated on the run. They just
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  Speaker 6: don't know what they have in the running backs. They
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  Speaker 6: know what they have in the scheme. They don't know
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  Speaker 6: what they have in the schemers, the ones that are
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  Speaker 6: actually going to do the scheme. Because you're right, Price
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  Speaker 6: hasn't played since November 29th, Notre Dame at Stanford. Emmanuel
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  Speaker 6: Wilson has never played for the Seahawks. He's now back
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  Speaker 6: from injury, and he'll be the short yardage pounding back.
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  Speaker 6: George Helotti has really only had limited time up from
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  Speaker 6: the practice squad in a couple years as a third
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  Speaker 6: down back. It's the risk they took in allowing Kenneth
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  Speaker 6: Walker to leave for bigger money and not investing in
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  Speaker 6: him and deciding to go with the rookie draft pick instead.
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  Speaker 6: If it goes as planned, it'll be 50-plus percent of
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  Speaker 6: the time they'll run the ball just like last year.
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  Speaker 6: But you're right, 12 rushing touchdowns is on the physically
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  Speaker 6: unable to perform list. Zach Charbonnet with a no timeline
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  Speaker 6: to return, maybe October, maybe not. It's the biggest question
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  Speaker 6: of an offense. It is fundamentally a question that a
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  Speaker 6: team that wants to be based on running the ball,
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  Speaker 6: that was among the top three in the league running
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  Speaker 6: the ball, have three dudes that are completely unproven at
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  Speaker 6: this level running the ball. That's the dice roll that
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  Speaker 6: they're going with. They think philosophy and mentality will win out,
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  Speaker 6: and we're about to find out. We won't find out
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  Speaker 6: game one, obviously, if this is going to work over
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  Speaker 6: the haul, but we'll find out by the end of
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  Speaker 6: October where Charbonnet stands, how Price looks as an every-down
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  Speaker 6: NFL player, where does Helani fit in that. Yes, tons
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  Speaker 6: of questions right there.
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  Speaker 4: And what is your understanding of how Rashid Shahid will
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  Speaker 4: be used, both in the passing game and in the
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  Speaker 4: running game?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they still do the fly sweeps. They'll still do
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  Speaker 6: a lot of outside runs with him. They're going to
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  Speaker 6: try to get him the ball in space because of
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  Speaker 6: his speed. He's just so much better messed with Darnold
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  Speaker 6: in timing and Darnold knowing and gauging his speed down
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  Speaker 6: the field. Just way different. It was, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: he was merging into traffic. Shahid was joining the team
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  Speaker 6: in November, and they were just trying to figure him
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  Speaker 6: out as a weapon. Now they know. And with Torrey Horton...
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  Speaker 6: Who knows what Torrey Horton's up to health-wise. They say
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  Speaker 6: it's not a major injury for him, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 6: practiced the last couple weeks of the preseason. I think
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  Speaker 6: Shahid's their home run threat right now. They think they
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  Speaker 6: have two of them, but can they count on Horton
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  Speaker 6: to stay healthy? So far that answer has been no.
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  Speaker 6: Defenses know what Shahid does and how fast he is.
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  Speaker 6: It's one thing to know what he's going to do.
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  Speaker 6: It's another to have a guy being able to run
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  Speaker 6: with him. And there aren't a lot of cornerbacks in
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  Speaker 6: the league that are going to be able to run
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  Speaker 6: with him. When they want to throw the ball deep,
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  Speaker 6: that's probably where they're going to go, the 22. And
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  Speaker 6: they think, schematically and in philosophy, that's going to open
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  Speaker 6: things up for 11 and 10, Johnson, Smith, and Jigwood
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  Speaker 6: and Cooper Cup.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Well, are you going.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: To do an all-day affair on Wednesday? Are you going
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: to do your show at 10 o'clock from Jimmy's.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And then go to the Mariners and.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Then cap it off with the Seahawks and then all
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: sorts of fun late-night reporting on the opener? I mean,
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: is that... Is that what you got in store for
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: us on Wednesday? Just a full day?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know about the Mariners in the middle of
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: that because I've got a new owner that's going to
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: have a press conference. New owners in between my show
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: and the kickoff of the game at the stadium. Plus,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: why would I want to spend two and a half
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: hours watching guys strike out 18 times against sub-500 teams?
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: That's not exactly entertaining.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Are you saying that's not fun? Are you saying that's
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: not a good time?
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: That doesn't sound too fun.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you are hard to please.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, I am. Yes, I am. Eight outs from
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: a World Series and nine games under.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: 500.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Why would I expect more? It's like the old Bugs
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Bunny cartoon. Remember the whole behemoth Babe Ruth-type batters against
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Bugs Bunny pitching, and the guy would swing three times
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: at the same pitch? That's what it reminds me of
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: watching the Mariners play most of the time. They strike out,
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: I think, three times and won it bad.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was bad last night. That was bad.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: That was, too.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you got planned for the show today?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: The schedule's only easy if you can beat the easy team.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: High school football, we're going to do a little bit
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: of a– every Friday we're going to introduce a new
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: high school football, focus on the game of the week,
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: and the coaches in the game of the week. We're
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: going to interview the game in the state this week.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Graham Kapowson against Lake Stevens, the three and four teams
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: in 4A, a rematch of the Class 4A state semifinals.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: They played in finals in the last few years. We're
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: going to talk to the two coaches at 11 o'clock,
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: and that should be fun. And then we're going to
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: talk to Farhan Wazi, TSN Canada, the NFL guy who's
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: going to be at the Seahawks Open. He's going to
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: be at the Chiefs Open on Monday night. Talk to
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: all things NFL at 1020.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, sounds great.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. We appreciate it, and we'll bug you
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: on Monday.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Have a good weekend.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: With us nearly all football season long at seven Oh five.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: He's going to be back for the round table this year.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: We're not going to be able to do a preview
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: round table because of the weird schedule this upcoming week,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: but he and he will be joining us for the
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: round table again this year as well. Um, on Wednesdays
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: or Thursdays. Why am I Thursdays?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Thursdays at eight. Uh, so we look forward to that
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: We've added that to Greg Bell's responsibilities to us, uh,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: right here on the morning show. And it's all brought
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: to you by the Emerald Queen Casino. Coming up next, man,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: college football's newest controversy.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: It's a doozy.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: And I do wonder where this is all headed with
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin and just college football in general. We're going
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: to discuss it next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: How excited are you to have football back?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, it is back. It is underway, people.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Is your heart exploding?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Have you finally reached that point of the year where
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: you can finally be nice to your neighbors and your
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: family members? Like, you just don't have the temperament when
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: you don't have football in your lives?
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Have we reached that point? If so, good. Good for
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: your family. Good for your neighbors.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Because you have been insufferable.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Real big jerk, actually.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: And now here we go. Football is back in our
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: lives and the Seahawks will be back. I mean, this
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: isn't even a football Friday. We don't even start football
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Friday until next Friday. That's the official start for us. Um,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and that's, I guess, apparently at KJR, you got to
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: have them both going at the same time in.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Order for it to be a football Friday.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Uh, so that's going to be next Friday, but no
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: doubt it is underway. And we are just a few
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: scant days from the start of the Seahawks season on Wednesday.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: And if you want to be a part of a
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: party atmosphere, uh, head on over to the Laylip Resort
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Casino on Wednesday night. They're going to show the game
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: in their amphitheater where they tend to put on big,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: raucous concerts. And they're going to show the game on
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: the big screens. They're going to have that great amphitheater
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: audio for the football.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Game for you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: And then they're going to have Ashley Ryan hosting the
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: event with prizes, maybe a few contests, obviously food and
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: drink within reach, and an adult playground right down the sidewalk.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: that you can venture into whenever your heart desires. Before
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the game, after the game, halftime, during the game, whatever
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: you want. It's all there for you. When all you
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: want is everything, that's what Tulalip Resort Casino is there for,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: and they're going to prove it again next Wednesday.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they are going to deliver. And so are the Seahawks,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: dang it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: So go watch a victory.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about some college football.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I heard.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I don't hear these a lot on the drive in,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: but I heard a really interesting conversation this morning.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Brady Quinn, who now that college football is here, he
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: comes alive. He's one of those people I was talking.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: About a few seconds ago.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's nice to his friends, family, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: neighbors until football season rolls around, but college football starts.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And the guy just becomes wonderful.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Um, Anyway, he had a really good breakdown today. He
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: was talking about the changing face of college football, and
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I know that it's bothered Ashley, and I know that
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: it's bothered a lot of people, even though it hasn't
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: really affected ratings or attendance. Obviously, we're in a different world,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: and a lot of people don't like it, maybe even
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: hate it. And I have said for years now, we
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: were going to go through a process of of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: wild wild west and some things are going to occur
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: that aren't going to set well with us that just
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: feel so foreign to us and we cannot believe that
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: they are happening and i've been right there with you
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: even though i tried to warn you i was also
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: i can't believe we're talking about having pros come back
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: after they've declared That's something I didn't see. There have
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: been a few things that I haven't seen, certainly, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I have a feeling we're going to see a few things.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: More down the road that we didn't see coming.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: But I did believe, even though it's hard for me
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: to get through as well, through Reckless at Breakfast, you
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: know that I have believed that we were going to
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: have this period of time. And it's going to be
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: a necessary evil. Because college football had to go this
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: way or they weren't going to survive financially the way
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: that they have in the past. And so it was
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: going to become professional football.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I knew that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And there was going to be a period of time
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: where it was going to take. little difficulty to get
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: your arms around it, which they're still having difficulty doing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And I think almost intentionally they are waiting for more
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: shoes to drop that they didn't see coming before they
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: do kind of wrestle it, you know, wrestle it down,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: submit it. And now let's go ahead and apply some rules.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: And Brady brought up some really interesting things. He said,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: this is the process to getting there. And nobody wants
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: to see our sports teams, being played out in courtrooms.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: But things like what Lane Kiffin is trying right now
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and that Louisiana and Alabama and Georgia court systems and
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: judges and lawmakers are going to go round and round
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: about this. Because in Brady's, not necessarily word for word
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: what he said, but he was like, We need to
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: have this conversation because we need to figure out whether
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: or not this is going to be a part of
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: the future or not. And unfortunately, the only place to
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: settle that is in the courtroom because we can't exactly
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: settle it on a football field or in a boardroom.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: And so that's kind of where we are in college football.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Like I said, a necessary evil has taken place over
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: the last few years.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And I think eventually.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: We will have a resting point where things will smooth out,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: but we knew there were going to be choppy waters
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: along the way. Maybe they've been choppier than what we foresaw,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: but certainly this was a voyage that had to be
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: taken in order for us to figure out how the
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: future is going to operate.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I would say, yeah, they've been choppier than I expected.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: It's been more like a perfect storm. I mean, just
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: big wave after big wave trying, you know, knocking the
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: boat over.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: But the product still, obviously, people want to watch it,
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: and it is still a success that way. But just
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: in terms of what we actually love, I think what
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: draws people to college football versus pro football and that
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: love and that loyalty and that camaraderie, I think that's gone.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: I think you're just kind of watching minor league pro football.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: There was always a joke Kind of, I think, when
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: people were talking about college football that, oh, all they
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: care about is money. All they care about is money.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: But that was kind of it wasn't it didn't wasn't
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: actually true back.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: In the day.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, yes, they wanted to make money, but it
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: wasn't all driven by money, whereas now that is all
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: it is.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: And that's every individual player. And that is.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Every coach, and that is every program, it is a
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: money-driven game. There are people in Louisiana especially that are
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: praising Lane Kiffin for doing what he's doing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Of course they are.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: And if it was happening in Alabama, they'd be out
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: of their minds.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: They'd be angry, angry, angry. And saying, oh, we need
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: to have this. He needs to do this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: He's the only one that's going to stir the pot
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: and get everything going so that they're going to fix it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Lane Kiffin is not doing this so that he can
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: fix college football. That's the difference.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: He's trying to come across as an evil genius who
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: got one up on everybody else.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: In the country.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and he is a selfish person. He is not
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: doing this because he wants all of college football to
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: be better. He is not out there saying, see, now
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: they're going to have to force that Protect College Football Act.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: He doesn't give a rip about that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: He is doing it for himself.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Well, we are experiencing minor league football, but The difference
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: is really popular minor league football. You know, love the
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Tacoma Rainiers, but they're not going to sell out hundreds
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: of thousands seat stadiums for their product. They're just not
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: going to do it. Love the Thunderbirds. They're not going
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: to sell out a hundred thousand. So minor league professional
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: sports certainly can put together a good, entertaining, worth going
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: to product. But it's not something that you're going to
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: spend your entire offseason counting down the days toward. It's
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: just not going to be that way. Where college football's
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: got an opportunity as a minor league sport, if that's
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: where it ends up, and I think that's where it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: going to end up, it's still going to have that
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: drawing power if they do it the right way. It's
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: just what's going to be sacrificed, what's going to be
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: lost along the way. I've had a lot of Reckless
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: at Breakfast where I've talked about how I think it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: inevitable that that it's just going to be minor league football.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: And it's going to come down to whether or not
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: we want to use our most famous college football brands
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: in that minor league football arena. How many universities want
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: to sign up for that just so that they can
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: have Washington Huskies football to go to or Alabama Crimson?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Tide football or LSU Fighting Tigers football to go to?
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I said this for a while and I feel like
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: this is where I still feel like it's where it's going.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: We're going to end up with like 30 to 40
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: programs that are truly going to matter and get all
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: of the young talent either through recruiting or for transferring.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: And I think that's where it's going to land. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: the moment you get to around 40, that's when the
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: NFL's ears perk up. And the NFL's like, you know what?
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: We're pretty good at this football thing. And you guys,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: we're going to let you make all the messes. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: then once you've got it honed to as close to
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: professional football as you can get it, then the professional
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: people are going to take over. And I do believe
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: that that's going to be the end result of this,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: that the NFL will come in and start running that
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: minor league and will want to use the brands, Washington
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Husky brand, LSU brand, Ohio state brand. They want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: use those brands since they're red hot and on fire.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: But what I think that they'll be are offshoot minor
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: league systems for NFL teams. In other words, the Seahawks
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: minor league team will be the Washington Huskies.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: And Mike McDonald, theoretically is going to hire the coaches
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: at Washington and they are going to run his system
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: so that when they get to his system, they already
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: know his system.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And there's going to.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Be a high school draft to the Huskies and then
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: a college draft or see me then a, high school
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: draft to the Huskies. And then there will be other,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: another form of draft that will take place to get
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: you to the pros. I think that could be where
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: it's headed. And I know that nobody likes that idea
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: when they hear it. Nobody has, I've done several reckless
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: at breakfast on that and everybody hates the idea.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Um, that said, I do believe that's where it's going
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: to eventually go. And then what I think will happen
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: is that once you're down to say 32 and college
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: programs that play for a minor league title on college
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: campuses featuring nothing but professional football players, then everybody else,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: and there will be a lot of other football players left,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: can go to all the other college schools, and we
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: can actually have real college football again. We can have
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: another level. where those players are going there for a degree,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: and there is no NIL, and there is no transfer portal,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: and the Cougs suddenly operate in that world on an
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: even playing field with their peers across the country, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: yet they're not even in the same league as Washington.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: If Washington chose to be a part of that professional league,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: maybe a Washington school that does stress academics, would choose, no, no, no,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: we want to be a part of the college league.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: We don't want to be a part of the pro league.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Alabama will probably be a part of the pro league.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: LSU will be a part of the pro league.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: The Ducks will probably be a part of the pro league.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: But maybe there'll.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Be a few schools out there that are like, no, no, no,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I yearn for, and maybe it's not as much money,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: but at least we operate it. Yeah. And it's not
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: the National Football League. At least it's not just something
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: that the Seahawks are running on our campus.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: We would like to be in charge of what's right. So,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know it sounds like a crazy idea,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: but the moment I mentioned it on these airwaves 10
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: years ago, every step they've taken has gotten closer to
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: that crazy idea.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Every step.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Now, it might not end up there. Maybe I've gone
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: too far with it. I mean, the segment's called Reckless
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: at Breakfast for a reason.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: But everything that's happened since I made that statement 10
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: years ago has moved closer to the reality that I've
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: pitched that everybody has thought.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Was a zany, loony idea. And so we'll see. We'll see.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: But it might not be the worst thing to have
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: NFL football and minor league football featuring some of our
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: favorite college football brands. And the spring league is now
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: true college football. Now you have true college football. Or
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: maybe the minor league is the spring league. That's actually
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: probably smarter. The minor league is the spring league, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: then we go back to true college football. It's not
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: going to be as good a product, but it will
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: remind us of some of those things that we used
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: to love and cherish, or at least we thought we did.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I think that could be the future of the sport.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: We might have three leagues, three levels that we can't
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: wait for. I don't know. We'll see.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: But certainly, it seems like we're headed to some version
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: of that. And Lane Kiffin and others that are continuously
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: pressing the edges to try to look for advantages are
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  Speaker 4: just making it more professional every single day and every
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  Speaker 4: single court case.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, are you ready for the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Friday Ocho coming up at 8 o'clock. We got Alex
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Brink joining us today to talk Apple Cup at 9.30.
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  Speaker 4: Hugh Millen with X's and O's. ABC's still yet to come.
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  Speaker 4: Booze news to wrap up the week. Oh, some of
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  Speaker 4: my favorite Friday things. And also another one of my
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  Speaker 4: Friday things is that it starts the weekend. and it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a Labor Day weekend. And, man, there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot going on. I mean, we're just talking about
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  Speaker 4: our fantasy draft that we're going to do on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: So that's going to be part of the weekend that's upcoming.
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  Speaker 4: The Apple Cup's going to be part of the weekend
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  Speaker 4: that's upcoming.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley lighting candles that smell like fall. That's going to
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  Speaker 4: be happening this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: I know, and it feels very weird because I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to a pool party today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you are?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: That does throw a wrench in things.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that just seems— I' m like, do I bring my pumpkin candle?
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  Speaker 5: To the pool party? How am I supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: embracing fall?
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  Speaker 7: I know it's not going to be that warm at
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  Speaker 7: the pool party, so I'll probably be wearing a sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 7: But pool is more summer, and we're having an end
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  Speaker 7: of summer celebration, but I'm already over here at fall.
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  Speaker 1: I like combining things.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I should make a pumpkin pie.
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  Speaker 4: I think a pool of lantern would really spice up
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  Speaker 4: the ambiance.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. I need to do something, because I can't just
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  Speaker 7: say bye to summer without- acknowledging to everyone at the party, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 7: I've been in fall for the last week.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to stay here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why don't we invent a day?
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  Speaker 4: You know how I am with holidays. We invent a
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  Speaker 4: day where you want to say the same day you
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  Speaker 4: want to say goodbye to something. And it doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: to be at the technical, what the calendar says is
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  Speaker 4: the last day. But just the day that you're ready
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  Speaker 4: to wave goodbye to summer, like, this is a good
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  Speaker 4: time to say goodbye. We've had a great experience, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we should see each other anymore. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then you also celebrate, you know, going into fall.
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  Speaker 4: So, like, I'm going to launch Millen Day today because,
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  Speaker 4: to me, Millen Day is the last weekend– Last Friday
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  Speaker 4: without the NFL this year.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we should call that Millen Day. So
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  Speaker 4: today should be Millen Day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But you could come up.
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  Speaker 4: With some sort of summary into fall day where you
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  Speaker 4: just personally declare, this is when I'm ready for fall.
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  Speaker 4: And then we give it a name and we put
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  Speaker 4: a big celebration behind it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, there was a whole trend that was
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  Speaker 7: going around this summer where people were like doing Halloween
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  Speaker 7: things this summer.
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  Speaker 5: And they called it Summerween.
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  Speaker 1: Summerween.
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  Speaker 3: Summerween.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It does sound a little dirty to me. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why. Well, actually, I do know why.
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  Speaker 4: That would only happen during a summer pool party. That
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't happen during an upstanding fall party.
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  Speaker 7: But I feel like, yeah, because of that, maybe I should.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe it should be a summerween party today.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, if you're going to do it today, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to interfere with my first ever Millen Day.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but I'll be doing it after work. It
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  Speaker 7: doesn't start until 4, so like the first half of
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  Speaker 7: the day.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to empower you on this one. I'll help
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  Speaker 4: you come up with a name and some traditions. I'm
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  Speaker 4: pretty good at that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But you just figure out. I think I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: empower you to choose when that day is.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You choose when you want to.
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  Speaker 4: Say goodbye to summer and say hello to fall.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I did that on the first, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you've already done it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, because that's when I made. And then I
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  Speaker 7: made soup on the second. And then I ate soup
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  Speaker 7: on the second and the third. And the candle's been
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  Speaker 7: lit every night.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: It's like Hanukkah, basically. Eight crazy nights of fall candles.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So it's already in our rearview mirror. But for next year,
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  Speaker 4: let's get out.
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  Speaker 5: Ahead of it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Luckily, we have some time.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a pop-up store.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be great.
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  Speaker 4: We can sell all of our- PSLs.
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  Speaker 3: Goods.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There, we can introduce new traditional holiday foods.
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  Speaker 5: Woven blankets.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And, of course, the Pooloween will have to
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: take place. Pooloween. We got a lot to do.
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  Speaker 4: We got a lot to figure out, and I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to get with my people, and you get with yours,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll have lunch. All right, Friday, Ocho's next on KJR.