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Chuck & Buck 12-4 Hour 1: Fischues, countdown to the Winter Meetings and fun with Nick Emmanwori. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's a sound shirk. Good morning, folks.
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  Speaker 3: the hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: Don't jumped any conclusions.
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  Speaker 5: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting some Bucky jacobs and vibes and former.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped
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  Speaker 5: Five seven guard and a former college water polo and
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  Speaker 5: national champion.
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  Speaker 6: Is a lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 5: Ashley Ryan. But to you buy to they look casino
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  Speaker 5: the action never stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning and welcome into this Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 2: Chucking Back in the Morning.
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r f M.
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  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us. I do emphasise the
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  Speaker 4: we're great. It's not just good it's great to have
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  Speaker 4: you with us. Thank you, Ashley, very Tony the tiger
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  Speaker 4: of you.
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  Speaker 6: Well showing him what I could do.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh, four hours. We got you till ten o'clock
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  Speaker 4: this morning. We've got all sorts of cool stuff planned
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  Speaker 4: for you. Of course, Bucky Jacobson will not be a
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  Speaker 4: part of our reindeer games here. Today's taking a couple
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  Speaker 4: of days off pretty much just to go drinking with buddies.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know how else to put that.
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  Speaker 4: That's yeah, yeah, he's got a he's got a friend
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  Speaker 4: of his that all he does is give grief to
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  Speaker 4: and yet good buddies. And those two buddies they're selling
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  Speaker 4: lebrating a birthday down there in the old Palm Springs
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  Speaker 4: with some other buddies, with other buddies, and so Bucki's
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  Speaker 4: out for the next couple of days. Really does sound
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  Speaker 4: like an Ashley type of trip.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very jealous.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't sound like a Bucky Tighter kind of trip. Like
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  Speaker 4: an Ashley kind of trip. Like I'm eating girlfriends down
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  Speaker 4: in Palm Springs and we're gonna, you know, do shots and.
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  Speaker 6: Play golf and hang out by the pool, hanging out.
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  Speaker 4: By the pool all day.
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  Speaker 6: Doesn't sound like a bucket out, No, it doesn't. Especially.
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  Speaker 7: I mean he's lucky it's only seventy degrees, because when
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  Speaker 7: I looked at the weather, it's gonna be like eighty
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  Speaker 7: as I said in a week.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he would be miserable.
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  Speaker 4: I think a bucky outing is like heading to the
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  Speaker 4: cabin with my boy.
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  Speaker 6: Would wear a fur hat. Yeah, I don't wear a
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  Speaker 6: fur hat from an animal I killed.
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  Speaker 4: We're a drink elk blood.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I might add some to the dips.
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  Speaker 4: Smear it on each other, knack like man.
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  Speaker 7: His trips to me seem very Lord of the flies,
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  Speaker 7: Like like when he was home alone, I was all
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  Speaker 7: I pictured was Lord of the Flies type of string.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like he hasn't bathed and he's just jumping over the
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  Speaker 4: fire pit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah okay, yeah, okay, Well I'm he might go into
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  Speaker 7: the river for a bath.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, but that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh Okay, I see what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: His goal when Kate was gone was no dishes that.
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  Speaker 4: Even even Lord of the Flies have to find social.
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  Speaker 7: Occasions they do, and this one is quite opposite of
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  Speaker 7: Lord of the Flies.
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  Speaker 4: Right, it's an Ashley trip.
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  Speaker 7: Let's face and I don't think he should be allowed.
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  Speaker 6: To take one without me getting to go along.
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  Speaker 4: For I think that's the great approach, because I don't
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  Speaker 4: think there's anything wrong with how, you know, friend lives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, see what they do for fun, See what
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  Speaker 4: they do for fun. But you ought to have you
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  Speaker 4: around to show everybody how it's done.
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  Speaker 7: I agree, But that's all right. I'm sure they'll have
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  Speaker 7: an okay time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be fine. It could be better, Yeah, exactly. Well,
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  Speaker 4: welcome in. But we do have a lot planned for
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  Speaker 4: you here on the Today's program, including we're going to
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  Speaker 4: replay some of the conversation last afternoon from the off
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  Speaker 4: the Maler Dick Faine radio program where they had on
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  Speaker 4: Jed Fish. It was National Signing Day yesterday. Obviously we've
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  Speaker 4: taken a little bit of a breath coming out of
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  Speaker 4: the regular season having come to an end. In college football,
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  Speaker 4: of course, the postseason starts on Saturday with Conference Championship Week.
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  Speaker 4: The Huskies will play in a bowl game, and it
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  Speaker 4: sounds like it's gonna be a relatively early bowl game
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  Speaker 4: gathering in the process. But nonetheless to me, I mean again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a bowl game person, so to me the
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  Speaker 4: season's over. Yeah, And so certainly we've had a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a breath and we've had Lane Kiffins stories
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  Speaker 4: in college football rankings to discuss, but haven't really sunk
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  Speaker 4: our teeth into with the exception of the Cam Cleveland
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  Speaker 4: conversation yesterday, kind of just making sense of what the
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  Speaker 4: season has been for Jed Fish and Washington Huskies. And
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  Speaker 4: so we're gonna take a little more time to do
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  Speaker 4: that today. We're gonna replace some of that conversation coming
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  Speaker 4: up at seven oh fo five between Softie and Jed.
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  Speaker 4: But I've been wanting to talk about my Jedfish issues
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  Speaker 4: all week long, my fish shoes if you will like that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I have the right person to chat about it with,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, duck boy over here would get in
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  Speaker 4: the way of just a real good husky conversation about
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  Speaker 4: Jetfish and how it's going. And I brought this up
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  Speaker 4: to Cam yesterday and we haven't had a chance as
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  Speaker 4: a show to discuss it. But I do find it
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  Speaker 4: pretty fascinating that. I mean, it does feel like Jetfish
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  Speaker 4: took over the program and every right thinking person in
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  Speaker 4: Seattle was like, Wow, we don't want to lose Kaylin
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  Speaker 4: de Bore, this seems like a pretty good pivot. You know,
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  Speaker 4: remains to be seen, but that seems like a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good pivot. This guy's got a reputation of being a
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  Speaker 4: really smart guy, and he also is somebody that was
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  Speaker 4: perfectly willing in this transition period in college football of
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  Speaker 4: embracing the NILP and all the changes that were happening.
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  Speaker 4: And he immediately showed you his transfer portal abilities brought
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of different veterans. But replacing twenty starters
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  Speaker 4: twenty one starters in your first season doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 4: kind of program you take over. That's hard. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 4: so Jetfish had his work cut out for him, and
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  Speaker 4: it felt like we were all on the same page,
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  Speaker 4: like we're going to give him a free pass. And
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  Speaker 4: then he went six and six, and you're like, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Can't be mad about it.
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  Speaker 4: He can't be mad about.
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  Speaker 1: It, but.
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  Speaker 4: I do wish we would have seen a little bit more.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. It was like, temper your expectations, but we're ready
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  Speaker 6: to be pleasantly surprised, right, Yeah, and yet he delivered
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  Speaker 6: what we had expected. What you should have.
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  Speaker 4: Expected, certainly, and we should have all been alright with that,
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  Speaker 4: then you go into the second season like, well, you
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  Speaker 4: better be better next year. The free past days are over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so we need to see some progress from year number
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  Speaker 4: one to year number two. And they delivered on that.
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  Speaker 4: They went eight and four this year. I think teams
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  Speaker 4: like Washington that are sort of on the cusp of
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  Speaker 4: being a top twenty five team in the country, not
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  Speaker 4: program team in the country. You know what happened to
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  Speaker 4: them in their schedule, I think is what you would expect.
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  Speaker 4: They're not ready to beat Ohio State. Yet No, they're
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  Speaker 4: not ready. They weren't ready this year to beat Oregon,
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  Speaker 4: and yet they competed. They competed with Ohio State for
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  Speaker 4: three quarters. There were moments in that Ohio State game
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  Speaker 4: you're like, man, if they would just have executed this
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  Speaker 4: or that, we'd have a different ballgame. Now I had
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  Speaker 4: fifteen things that needed to change, like no, you execute
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  Speaker 4: that play or you execute that drive, and we had
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  Speaker 4: a different game here, and you were very close to
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  Speaker 4: doing that. So they competed. Yeah, and I know that
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  Speaker 4: people with a championship mentality, it almost feels like you're
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  Speaker 4: patting them on the head like, oh, nice job, little buddy.
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  Speaker 4: So nobody wants to like wants that to be long term.
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of what our expectations were for Jedfish
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  Speaker 4: in year number two, what were they You gotta be
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  Speaker 4: a lot better, yep, and they were. They went eight
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  Speaker 4: and four on the season, and yet we get to
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  Speaker 4: the end of the year, and then you can sense
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  Speaker 4: the frustration. I think you had it. I have it,
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  Speaker 4: certainly people around this building have it. It's like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: you did go eight and four and you were more
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  Speaker 4: competitive with the big boys in the conference. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: slipped up and lost a game, but that's usually what
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  Speaker 4: top thirty teams in the country do. They're not good
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  Speaker 4: every single day. And so when you've took on Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 4: those are the kind of game. Top thirty teams lose
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  Speaker 4: a game like that during the year, and they usually
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  Speaker 4: steal a game as well, and they usually show up.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure Illinois is sitting back there thinking, Man,
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe we got beat that soundly.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, in Seattle when we faced them, we thought we
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  Speaker 6: were better than that.
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  Speaker 4: I would agree with it, right, And so he delivers
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  Speaker 4: on the eight and four season, and yet we get
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  Speaker 4: to the end of the year and what's our reaction? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: that was our expectation for your number two. You could
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  Speaker 4: have surprised me with a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: More, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the way you feel like everybody's kind of reacting
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  Speaker 4: to it, we could have seen more from you. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what was wrong with the offense? Why wasn't Demon Williams
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  Speaker 4: more consistent? Jonah Coleman? What was that whole thing? You know,
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  Speaker 4: it does feel like you get to the end of
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  Speaker 4: the year and you kind of got what you thought
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  Speaker 4: you should have got, and yet you can't help but think, well,
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  Speaker 4: it could have been better, right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, and I think going in you had such
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  Speaker 7: high expectations of Demon Williams and what he could do,
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  Speaker 7: and so then to see that some of the issues
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  Speaker 7: were Demond Williams, it.
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  Speaker 6: Was like, wait a minute, I didn't think. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: expect this.
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  Speaker 7: And then with Jonah Coleman and his injury, I don't
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  Speaker 7: really understand when that exactly happened or how severe it was.
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  Speaker 7: But you have two really good backup running backs that
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  Speaker 7: could have fulfilled that role a lot earlier, I think,
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  Speaker 7: and I just I don't There was certain things like
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  Speaker 7: after coming out of those the first three games, it was,
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  Speaker 7: and going into Ohio State, all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 7: offense disappeared. And I know Ohio State's defense is exceptional
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  Speaker 7: and that had probably quite a bit to do with it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it didn't disappear. It showed up for the average
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  Speaker 4: two below average teams, right, dominated that, right, But it
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  Speaker 4: never appeared against the great teams. Right.
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  Speaker 6: That was my issue.
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  Speaker 4: So even though you did show progress, I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: weren't competitive with the Oregon last year. You were this year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean again, that was another game where like, man,
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  Speaker 4: they're playing with him, Walter's getting the job done, and
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  Speaker 4: we could just stop people on third and long and
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  Speaker 4: we would just give the ball to Mohammad because he's
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  Speaker 4: obviously the run game is having more success than demand
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  Speaker 4: throwing the ball. Right now, you know, there was you
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  Speaker 4: could entertain like, hey, we can take this thing. You
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  Speaker 4: could entertain that as late as the into the third
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  Speaker 4: quarter into the fourth quarter, and that's progress, that's progress.
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  Speaker 4: And yet once you get in it, you're like, well
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  Speaker 4: we're not as good as organ dammit. Yeah, but that
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  Speaker 4: really wasn't the expectation. I guess my point is I
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: have developed some fissues. There are some things about the
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: program thus far that have surprised me to the negative. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: and yet when you start doing your checklist of what
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  Speaker 4: were your realistic expectations for how this thing was supposed
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  Speaker 4: to go six and six in the first year, considering
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  Speaker 4: what you had to dig out.
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  Speaker 6: Of, Yeah, that was that's a check Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Eight and four in the six second year with time
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  Speaker 4: spent in the top twenty five competitive games against the
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  Speaker 4: best teams in the country that were on your schedule. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you kicked the game in Wisconsin. But as I said before,
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  Speaker 4: that's what that's the that's the recipe of a top
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  Speaker 4: thirty team in the country, which is what Washington was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this year, and so that's that usually happens to top
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  Speaker 4: thirty teams. They lose a game they shouldn't and then
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  Speaker 4: so all of that stuff, it's like they did kind
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  Speaker 4: of achieve What if you wrote it down on paper,
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  Speaker 4: this is what I want to get out of this season,
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  Speaker 4: it probably did satisfy if you were being realistic.
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  Speaker 6: If you're being realistic, yes, what you were looking for.
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  Speaker 4: And then yesterday he comes through. First of all, he's
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  Speaker 4: staying yeah, which was another thing that everybody was, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: this guy's reputation. He just bounces and all season long
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: hounded by are you leaving for this job? Are you
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: leaving for that job? Are you leaving? And he's staying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what the politics are or what the
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  Speaker 4: gossip is behind. I don't know why. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I understand all of the reasons for why he's staying.
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  Speaker 4: But he is staying. So that's another thing. Six and
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  Speaker 4: six to eight and four more competitive. Now he's staying.
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  Speaker 4: We know he's going to be around for at least
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  Speaker 4: one more year. And obviously the recruiting is working. So
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  Speaker 4: you come away yesterday with a top thirteen class and
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  Speaker 4: you had a lot of people in college football praising
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  Speaker 4: like oh Man Washington. Look out for Washington. Something is
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  Speaker 4: happening there. So I guess my point because I was
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  Speaker 4: planning on talking about my fishues all week long before
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: I would enter into discussing further any fishes that I have.
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  Speaker 4: I think there has to be an acknowledgment of he's
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  Speaker 4: checking the boxes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes for us.
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  Speaker 4: Now he hasn't taken it. You know, he didn't take
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  Speaker 4: over a rebuilding effort and go eight and four in
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  Speaker 4: the first year.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that we would all love that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't go in the second year and beat
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  Speaker 4: Oregon and and be a part of the college football
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  Speaker 4: playoff ranking discussion. I mean that would have been the
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  Speaker 4: high end expectation for this year. But he got done
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  Speaker 4: what I think realistically we expected him to get done.
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  Speaker 4: And the recruiting classes keep improving every year. His willingness
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  Speaker 4: actually energy for this new world of college football, which
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  Speaker 4: a lot of coaches hate. He seems to be embracing it,
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  Speaker 4: which is a wonderful feather in his cap. So it
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  Speaker 4: is progressing. It is moving in the direction that realistically
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  Speaker 4: we should have expected it to move the pace it
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: should have moved at. There have been guys that have
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  Speaker 4: come in the past took over a program that seemed
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  Speaker 4: to be in shambles and they did such an excellent
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  Speaker 4: job that they turned it around overnight. Bob Stoops was
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: one of those guys. Nick Saban's done that before. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there are exceptional jobs that have been done in college
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: football where they came in, put their hands all over
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  Speaker 4: the product and it turned around instantly overnight. And it Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so's there's another world that we could have been living in.
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of just kind of keeping focus on
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  Speaker 4: the task at hand. He's gotten the job done. He's
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  Speaker 4: done what he's supposed to do. Taking over a program
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  Speaker 4: that was left I'm not going to say and ruin
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  Speaker 4: or in ashes, but certainly.
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  Speaker 6: It was pretty low.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to replace everything that got destroyed when Kaylin Debor
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: left was not going to be an easy task. And
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: two years into it, it's been a steady climb, but
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: it's a climb. We are climbing. It is elevating, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that we need to spend some time giving
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Jetfish credit for that.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely, it has been an improvement, and I think,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's just not it hasn't been exciting, you
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  Speaker 7: know what I mean, It's just kind of been the steady. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: you're doing what people would expect, and thank you for that.
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  Speaker 7: There's nothing that's just blowing your mind, like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 7: I can't believe we did that.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's where my have just this tempered.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it was so.
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  Speaker 7: Exciting with Debor and Ryan Grubb and Michael Pennix and
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  Speaker 7: Roma do you know that whole group, and to come
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  Speaker 7: off of that is no fault of Jed's at all,
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  Speaker 7: and he kind of got put in a really tough
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  Speaker 7: situation because people one adored Kaitlin de Boor and two
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: we'd just come off making it to the National Championship.
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  Speaker 4: And that's another aspect of it. When he comes into town,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: you know that he has this reputation of bouncing around,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: so you know that the coaching rumors are going to
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: fly around every time that one comes up. You know
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: that people are going to go crazy on social media.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Are you going to overreact to it or are you
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: going to try to keep a levelhead about it, because
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: we don't What we don't know is what really is
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: going on between Jedfish's ears. We also know, I mean
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Chris Peterson didn't really have much of a relationship with
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: the media. He had one with Softy, but Softy's an exception,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: or with really the fan base. Yeah, I mean Chris P.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Pterson was a good guy. But Jetfish has had a
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: better relationship with the fan base and with the media
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: than what Chris Peterson did. But because we came off
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: of Kaylen de Boor, who was like Doris Day.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah and then broke our hearts yeah, and.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Came in and won immediately and took those big jumps
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: forward and was kind to everyone.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: So exciting. Everything was so awesome.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like a I know this is a Dick
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Fane nickname. He was like a snow globe. It's like
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: everything in that world looks so wonderful. Well, that's hard
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: to match up with Jetfish doesn't have the same personality.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: We knew going in that it was going to be
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: more difficult to get him on the airwaves with us. Yea,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: and yet I've enjoyed every conversation that I've had with him,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: and so he Yeah, he hasn't done the things that
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Kaylen de Boor showed you that you can do in
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a short period of time. Yeah, and or Bob Stoops
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: did at Oklahoma, or a Nick Saban did at LSU,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: or the list. I could make a list. But he
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: has done what realistically we expected him to do, right,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: He has checked those boxes. The programs getting stronger in
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: this new era of nil, Washington is embracing it. They
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: seem to be ahead of the game. And so I
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: think it's you know, in this week of sort of reflecting,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I was planning on doing a segment earlier this week
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: on what I don't like about Jetfish and what I'm surprised.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I don't like about Jetfish, but as we get now
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: that we get to Thursday, I think it was more
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: important to have a conversation about, Hey, there are a
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: lot of things to like here.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, there are, yeah, a lot of positives.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And so even though it hasn't gone from zero to
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: sixty as fast as we've wanted it to go, it's
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: still we're moving towards sixty. We're not decelerating. We are
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: accelerating as a program under his direction. We just started
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: from a lower point than what we are accustomed to, and.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: I think that's a that's the fair expectation to put
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: on Jetfish. I think putting anything else on him would
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: have been unfair to him. We would have been setting
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: him up and ourselves up for a disappointment. And so
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: it is important to look at that steady improvement as
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: as as I said, it's not overly exciting.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were open to being blown away, yes, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: that has not happened.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: And that's okay because at least it was an improvement.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, all right, let's find out what's on tap
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: for the rest of the show. What's on to what's
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: on top?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: National Signing Day did come to a close yesterday. We
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: will replace some of that conversation between Soft and Jetfish.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: That's kind of on your way at seven five Transfer Portal,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: by the way, for those wondering. That opens up January second,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: and there's a two week window, and so that's basically
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: free agency frenzy in college football, and it's going to
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: become a bigger deal every year unless you know, more
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: rule changes are in store for us in the future.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: But as of right now, that is a really important
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: two weeks in the college football calendar, and it starts
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: on January tewod College Football Conference Championship Week Friday and Saturday.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: All the big boys you're going to play on Saturday
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: and including Indiana versus Ohio State one excuse me two
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: versus one for the Big Ten title. Oh, it's gonna
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: be great at five o'clock. Selection Sunday is this Sunday,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: so we will know the NCAA Tournament field. Will spend
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: some time later on in the show talking about college
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: football playoff rankings bias, because I think it's hilarious. The
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiff and Saga took another turn. We actually found
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: out some information about how Old Miss isn't all that
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: broken up that Lane Kiffin left and more information regarding
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: just what a liar he can be to try to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: make himself look better.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Shocking.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we found that some of that out yesterday as well.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Thursday night football starts week number fourteen of the NFL season.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: It's a good one. Dallas at Detroit. That's a fun game.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Might be a playoff elimination game, considering the heavy competition
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: in the NFC this year. Also from a fantasy football perspective,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: it's the last week of the regular season in a
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: lot of leagues, and I almost everybody's got either a
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: cowboy or a lion on their team or will be
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: facing a cowboy or allion this week. Mike Sander will
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: join us at nine thirty. Seahawks Falcons will of course
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: be a monster topic today from eight to nine, that's
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: all we'll discuss with our experts, Hugh Millen and Greg Bell.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It's the twelfth Man Roundtable, cracking finally back in action.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: They'll be in Edmonton. They'll meet at the Tree in Edmonton.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: It really does feel like they haven't played in a month.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: So they played tonight at six o'clock College basketball probably
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: should have spent some more time on this. What a
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: game last night you dub trailed by sixteen with fifteen
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: minutes to go, and the Big ten opener against UCLA
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: almost came back and won that sucker. They do lose it,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: ultimately eighty two to eighty and they will next play
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: usc Saturday at three, and Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: will start in three days. I know there's a lot
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: of holiday activities, but yes, we have to celebrate Christmas
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: just as hard as we do the Winter meetings this year.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Don't lose steam. No, So we're gonna, yeah, we're going
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: to talk about what the Winter meetings are for and
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: what the Mariners might do because I think, and I'm
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: kind of changing my mind on this, it might be
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: the off season to make a blockbuster trade. I'll explain
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: it next. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Haven't even eaten all my Thanksgiving Day leftovers, and now
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I got to summon the energy to go to a
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Winter meetings parties all next to week. You do, Yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: and I certainly let's let's not forget Christmas. It's a
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: pretty big deal too.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: It's right up there, yeah, right.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Up there.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: You gotta pace yourself so you got enough steam for family, friends,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: loved ones during the Christmas holiday as well. Just don't
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: don't peter out. Don't tucker yourself out.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: We're worried about you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, partying too much. Next week during the
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball Winter Meetings.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Do we know for sure that that's not where Bucky's
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: not actually on a meeting celebration.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, down plays it, but that's probably what they're doing.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: And he tell everyone it's your birthday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I don't even think Benny has a birthday. I met
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: him all Yeah, I think he just popped out of
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: the ground one day.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Anyway, major League Baseball's Winter Meetings start on Sunday. They'll
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: run for a couple of days. They used to run
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: all week long, and then they were they realized, we
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: don't really need to do this for five straight days.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: But the and it's not nearly as filled with activity
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: as it used to be. It used to be sort
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: of the week for off season activity. I would like
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: nothing more for Major League Baseball to artificially implement another
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: trading deadline, an off season trading deadline, because I think
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: that even though there have been some fascinating moves this offseason.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Fascinating when there happen every eight days. Yeah, it just
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: the NFL has its free agency and it's awesome and
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: it's awesome. And NBA, I mean rarely do NBA guys
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: even become free agents anymore, but they have this period
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: of forty eight hours of craziness and Major League Baseball
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: does a great job. It's trading deadline is the best
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: trading deadline. There's no better trading deadline. And for those
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: of you like, well, there won't be any activity, just
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of hype, you're not paying attention because the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: last three years in Major League Baseball, the trading deadline
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: has been insane. And the Mariners have been excellent in
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: three of their last four trading deadlines, very active, very busy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: And so the Major League Baseball trading deadline does well.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: I'd like to see one in the off season so
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: that we did have an off season sort of frenzy
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and Major League Baseball.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Something to kind of build up to and then yeah,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: get all that that mojo going.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you, if you don't sign as a free
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: agent by this day, you you can't play this year.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, someone like that, but like something that
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: you're like, Okay, now we know what we're counting down to.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's not to happen because the players are
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: all sticks in the mud and they count every single
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: cent that they have and always still think they're getting robbed,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: and so it's not gonna happen. At least I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: think it's going to happen. But Winter meetings used to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: be sort of that week of all sorts of Major
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: League Baseball activity. And I don't need to see free agency.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Free agency we can do all off season long. This
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: is the Week of trades because the idea behind it is, Hey,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: all of you general managers who I've already started Winter,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: would you like to come to a warm weather city,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: hang out in a five star hotel, meet each other
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: for dinners and drinks to talk baseball, and in the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: process you talk trades and you make trades, and then
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the trades get broken and then the MLB network analyzes them.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: It's really a beautiful setup. But people aren't contributing. They're
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: not not enough to satisfy us. So I just want
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: to talk about trades. I don't want to talk about
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: or a Polanco in this segment. I got one segment
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: to talk about baseball today. I don't want to talk
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: about Jhore Polanco or what free agent you want that
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: they're never going to sign. Let's talk about what could
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: be a trade because I've heard from Jerry and I've
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: heard from Justin that they're trying to run it back.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, Jerry was on our show and told us, hey,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: we trade Luis Castillo. That's not running it back, is it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: So they want to run it back. So that's their
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: goal and that's their objective, and I get it, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I think it would work this offseason. I think it
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: would work okay if they can bring back Naylor, Polonco
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: and maybe even Gino in that process. Could that's a
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: playoff team yep, or a playoff team next year who
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: could still add before next year's trading deadline to fill
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: any holes that you might wan.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Which would be kind of the modus operande that they've
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: been working with.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Certainly did this year, and I think they fell in
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: love with that point, I think, so I wouldn't be
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: surprised if that's what they do. But the more I
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: start thinking about it, and maybe I've just got the
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: holiday spirit.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: It's just taken over welling up in me.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: This might be the perfect offseason to make a blockbuster trade.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: You've been sitting on this major league prospect pool, which
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: some people believe is the best in baseball again, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you've been sitting on it. I mean, yeah, you gave
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: away a Tyler Locklear, but you haven't traded any of
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: your top one hundred prospects. And there are some of
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: those top one hundred prospects, and you have several of
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: them that are blocked from playing baseball for the Seattle
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Mariners this year and four years to come. Harry Ford
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: is one of those.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: You have.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Of those top one hundred prospects, like five of them
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: are middle infielders. There are only two middle endfield spots.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, col Emerson might play third base for
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: a little while, but you're stockpiled at the position of
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: shortstop or second base right now in your organization, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Cole Young's you're starting second basement as of today. So
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the idea is that he's not going to go anywhere.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: He's just gonna keep getting better, right, and Emerson's your
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: future shortstop and Kyl Rowley, how the hell Harry Ford
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: gonna get any playing time with that beast in his way.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: I hope he's not ever getting anything exactly.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you could concoct a role that is a
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: little more aggressive than how you used Garver. He's a
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: backup catcher and can DH some and maybe you teach
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: him a new position and so he gets more playing time.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I like Harry Ford. I'm damn near love Harry for yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: as a as a prospect, but he wants to catch
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: and I and right now, Harry Ford's got tremendous value
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: trade value at this point, may not ever have more
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: because you, whoever gets him, is gonna have complete control
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: of the first six valuable years of salary control. And
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: he's ready to play right now. He's ready to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: somebody starting catcher in Major League Baseball right now. You
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: add to that one of these one. Yeah, I'm not
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: saying getting rid of all of them. I like having
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: depth there too, But a Michael Arroyo or a Felman
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Celestine or a Tie Pete. Uh yeah, don't trade Young
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: if you don't want don't trade Emerson. I don't want
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: you to trade Emerson, but not all of them are
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: going to play for you. So you got an opportunity
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: to take one of these middle endfielders plus Harry Ford
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: and add a couple of other things to a trade
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: and really go get somebody. And when I say somebody,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: don't think Juan Soto or Aaron Judge. Why do you
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: do that to yourself as Mariner fans, no one of those,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Like financially wise, Let's go get somebody from an organization
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: that is in a rebuild, probably isn't going to be
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: winning in the next couple of years, has a young
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: talent that they're by the time they're ready to win,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: they probably can't afford him and won't re sign him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: And so you have an opportunity to kind of get
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: a guy like that this offseason. And maybe that is
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: a Byron Buxton. I mean that's thirty one years old.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Maybe not exactly the description that I'm giving you. Maybe
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: it's a Seede Abrams from the Washington Nationals that you
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: know is could be your shortstop, could be an upgrade
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: at shortstop right now, or a future second baseman. But
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: maybe this is the year to go out and make
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: a really significant trade for an excellent young piece. And
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: even if you're not planning on keeping that piece, beyond
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: once they get to free agency to be able to
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: use two of the three of their best years of
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: their entire career on the cheap. You've got the prospects
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: right now to make the move to add that player
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: to this mix. That gives you the chance to keep
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Gino if you want, Yeah, and Naylor and Polanco and
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: that's your offseason spending, and then you use your prospect
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: pool to get that future superstar that you are only
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: going to rent, but you're going to rent them for
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: three years, not three months. It might be the off
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: season to do that. I kind of want to see
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: it next.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: I would love to see it. Yeah, Yeah, I mean
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: I think we're going to probably not, but could we
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: dream about it?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: And I would like him.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Dream about it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Jane. We just.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: All right coming up next, Nick emn Wori man Mike
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: McDonald just fantasizes about ways of using him. There's no
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: doubt about it. And apparently he's got another trick up
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: his sleeve scheduled for the Falcons this Sunday. We'll talk
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: about it next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, All.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Right, chucking' Ashley with you, Bucky out today I'll be
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: back with us on Monday. I go back to the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: NFL Combine where the darling of the NFL Combine was
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: a safety out of South Carolina by the name of
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: nick Emon Wori. He was making a combine splash, not
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: unlike what DK Metcalf had made years previous. Ends up
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that on Draft Day or Draft Days, I should say,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: nick Emon Worri makes it out of the first round,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and you're wondering why because forecasts had said he was
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: climbing at one point in the process too, as high
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: as ten, eleven, twelve in the draft. Suddenly he's on
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: the board in day number two at the thirty fifth
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: overall selection. And look what John Schneider does.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: He moves up just like he did with DK Metcalf
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: to get the physical freak that was nick Emon Worri
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: with a thirty fifth pick in the draft, a round
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: two steal, or so it felt. Then we go to
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: training camp and Mike McDonald finds out, Oh, this guy's
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: not just measurables. This guy has some football skill. This
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: is going to be fun working with this dude all
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: season long, and he has turned out to be a
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl type player in his first year in the
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: National Football League, and now it sounds like there's more
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: to Nick emon Worri's versatility. Greg Bell was on with
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: us yesterday to talk about how he has written that
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: maybe Mike McDonald has another trick up his leap in
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: regards to how he might use Emon Worri this Sunday.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, I am how about Nick even Warrey as a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: defensive end, boy, that's what he played. I went through
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: snap by snap. I just watched Demon Worry Monday and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: he lined up seven times as a defensive end. And
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: McDonald chuckled and said, we just keep giving him stuff
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and he keeps doing it. When they drafted, of course,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: even Warrey in the second round, traded up seventeen spots
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to get him in May, they talked about him being
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a Kyle Hamilton and doing everything. Well, he's doing more
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: than Hamilton, the All Pro as a rookie. He's only
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: played eight NFL games, and they've got him playing post safety,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: nickel safety, outside linebacker sometimes inside linebacker. Next to Ernest
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Jones is the only two off linebackers in the field.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: They've got him playing outside linebacker, blitzing up the edge.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: They got him playing outside linebacker dropping into the flat,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and now they got him playing defensive end. When you
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: look at the numbers, everyone says, well, Seattle's got the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: sub packager a ninety two percent. They're in sub package
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: nicol or dime. It's because of Nick, Eve and Worry
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  Speaker 1: and they saved all these light box numbers that these
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  Speaker 1: analytics guys talk about. The Steers don't play a light box.
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  Speaker 1: They have a two hundred and twenty pounds safety who
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  Speaker 1: comes to the line of scrimmage to play defensive end.
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  Speaker 1: That's their light box. So it is fascinating to watch
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  Speaker 1: McDonald in real time invent things to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we're making it up on the fly. When
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  Speaker 1: they drafted him, they said that they had no idea
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  Speaker 1: that he could play defensive end, but they tried it
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  Speaker 1: in practice. It looked good. They tried it in the game,
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  Speaker 1: looked great. You're going to see it again in Sunday
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and McDonald's would just making it up as
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  Speaker 1: we go. He kind of chuckled that there's nothing this
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  Speaker 1: kid can't do yet. His speed is powered his awareness
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  Speaker 1: and his ability to learn and willingness to learn. It's
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  Speaker 1: really fun to watch when he rarely lined up in
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  Speaker 1: the same place two snaps and definitely not three snaps
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  Speaker 1: in a row against Minnesota, and that's a headache for
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks and offensive coordinators and McDonald that's half the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of doing that, so they don't know where he's coming from.
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  Speaker 6: Craig Bell with us yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be with us again today. Round table with Hugh Millan.
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  Speaker 4: I'm certainly certain we'll talk a little more about nick
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  Speaker 4: em and Warry expand on this topic. Couple of just
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  Speaker 4: quick takeaways before the top of the hour. Break number one.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of synonyms for laughter. Don't know why we
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  Speaker 4: have to pick that one and say it twice. Chuckle.
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  Speaker 6: Really it made me chuckle.
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  Speaker 7: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're doing it. I think you did it
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  Speaker 4: on purpose. You were trying to send a message.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's just like when people say chuck the
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  Speaker 7: ball around you. I think it just comes to mind.
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  Speaker 4: H Yeah, I think so too. I think people say
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  Speaker 4: chuck the ball a lot more around me than they
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  Speaker 4: do in their normal every day I don't agree with that,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm insulted. I think you should be flattered they're
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  Speaker 4: thinking about you. Nope, Nope, they're doing it and doing
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  Speaker 4: it to get under my skin. And then the other
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  Speaker 4: thing is, man, what a steal? This feels like, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: and it felt like at the time, it felt like
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  Speaker 4: one of those things where you get something that you
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: don't know if you deserve, and you you love that
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  Speaker 4: you're getting it, but you're like, wait a minute, what's
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  Speaker 4: the cat?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, where's the where's the other shoe?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what are we going to find out about
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  Speaker 4: this guy in training camp that you know he's you know,
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  Speaker 4: is there is there some hidden story here that people
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: knew about in the National Football League? Why did he
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  Speaker 4: fall to us? And why does it seem too good
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  Speaker 4: to be true? And it's been even better, Yeah than
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: what you could have imagined. Even if you were over
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: the moon about Emon Worri at thirty five, you couldn't
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: know just how good a football player he was. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: now to have Mike McDonald sitting there and kind of
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  Speaker 4: making him his pet project. I mean, what is the
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  Speaker 4: future for this guy?
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  Speaker 6: Exciting?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. I mean, we're we're just we're just tapping in
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  Speaker 4: to everything that he's going to bring to the table.
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  Speaker 4: So it is thrilling. We'll talk more about it in
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  Speaker 4: our round table headlines though next plus, as I told
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  Speaker 4: you earlier in the show, we're an here from Jedfish.
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  Speaker 4: Great conversation with Softie and Dick Faine, last night, Sports
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