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Ian Furness 9/25 H1: Thank you, Rick. Greg Cosell and a look at the Seahawks matchup on Sunday. · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Kraken beat the Flames last night 4-3 in a preseason
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  Speaker 1: game that was massively eventful, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: What's for dinner? We've got a lot coming up today.
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  Speaker 1: Football Friday. And we'll get into a lot of football.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell is going to join us at 1220. Danny
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  Speaker 5: We're just getting into it early.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: I heard him this morning. I don't know if you heard.
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  Speaker 1: They have a new little thing called Raise a Pint. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Wonder where they got that idea.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, because they lost in the divorce settlement
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  Speaker 1: the booze news.
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  Speaker 5: I told them they should call it Booze Dudes.
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  Speaker 1: Booze Dudes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So they do raise a pint. It's a pretty cool deal.
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  Speaker 1: They raise a pint. And they actually raise it to
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  Speaker 1: you and I. Oh. On the new show for two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in. And Chuck was very kind, so I thank
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  Speaker 1: him for that. That was very cool.
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  Speaker 5: That was very nice.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I am, I, I'm going to go down
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  Speaker 1: a path that's, I need a Mariner thing, but I'm not, I,
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, I don't care. We taught, we put them
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  Speaker 1: to rest yesterday. We played the funeral music. We're done.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll let you chime in Ashley as well here
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  Speaker 1: in a second, but I just want to on a
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  Speaker 1: weekend that from a baseball standpoint is a nothing burger
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  Speaker 1: means nothing. And a weekend in which you're playing, you're
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  Speaker 1: not playing meaningful games. So your final four games of
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  Speaker 1: the season ended up being meaningless. You have your worst
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  Speaker 1: record in years. you on the field, and I'll just
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  Speaker 1: use Joe Sheehan's words, but I think most Mariner fans
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  Speaker 1: would agree, it's the most disappointing baseball team in this
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  Speaker 1: century on the field in terms of results. There's a
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  Speaker 1: time and a place to get back to that. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be Monday for Molly Watt Monday, and whenever they decide
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  Speaker 1: whatever they're going to do with Dan, the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: if or anything's done with the front office, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that Monday and Tuesday next week. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to say thank you to Rick Riz. That's all I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. I want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 1: Rick Riz. In the broadcasting business, there are certain people
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  Speaker 1: that are different. A lot of people can call a game.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people, and I do believe play-by-play, selfishly,
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  Speaker 1: I believe play-by-play is a craft, something that you have
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  Speaker 1: to have some unique talents inherent to you to do
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  Speaker 1: it well. but also something that is a craft that
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  Speaker 1: you work on, and not everybody can do it at
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  Speaker 1: the highest levels. Not everyone can do it. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people try. There's a lot of people that are
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  Speaker 1: in our business of broadcasting that give it a go
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  Speaker 1: or are given opportunities. I mean, just look at ESPN
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  Speaker 1: over the years when they used to do the double
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football games, and they'd throw whoever the host
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  Speaker 1: is in there and say, hey, go do play-by-play. Rich
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  Speaker 1: Eisen is a great example. Rich Eisen does a lot
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  Speaker 1: of European games. He is not a play-by-play guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: a great host. That's not his thing. It's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball is a unique skill set because the storytelling, all
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  Speaker 1: the things you do in addition to calling the actual game.
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  Speaker 1: And I've done a lot of baseball, especially in Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: I did the AAA team a lot down there because
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  Speaker 1: we had a little trade-off. The AAA guy, when they
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  Speaker 1: did TV, I did radio. When we did hockey on
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  Speaker 1: TV in the season, he would do radio. So we
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  Speaker 1: had that little thing with the late, great Steve Klauke,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a lot of fun. I did baseball
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  Speaker 1: in Tri-Cities. I find it really difficult to do Because
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  Speaker 1: the stops start. Every sport's unique. Football, very succinct. Down, distance, time, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the ball? Basketball is continuously flowing. Hockey is different
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  Speaker 1: than all of the above. But baseball has to have
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  Speaker 1: a unique skill set. You have to call the game.
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  Speaker 1: You have to describe the action. You have to paint
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  Speaker 1: the picture. But you also have to be a storyteller.
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  Speaker 1: And no one was better than that than Dave.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But Rick was right there with him. And for 50 years,
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  Speaker 1: this baseball team has really not been very good on
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  Speaker 1: the field, six playoff appearances in 50 years. But for
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  Speaker 1: a good chunk of those 50 years, we have had
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  Speaker 1: the ability to be entertained on television and radio by
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  Speaker 1: two of the best ever, Dave and then Rick. Rick
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  Speaker 1: Riz and his voice, it's like whatever makes you happy
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  Speaker 1: at night, warm glass of milk, glass of wine, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it might be. He is that comforting voice and has
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  Speaker 1: been for so many years. I'm going to miss him.
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  Speaker 1: We're all going to miss him. I'm glad he's going
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  Speaker 1: out on his own terms. I'm glad he's able to
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  Speaker 1: go and enjoy time with his grandkids, travel when he
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  Speaker 1: wants to, as he said. But the thing with Rick
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  Speaker 1: is he was not only one of the best at
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  Speaker 1: calling a baseball game and underappreciated, I think, on a
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  Speaker 1: national scale, mostly because of Dave. And the little stint
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit didn't help replacing Ernie Harwell, but He's been
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  Speaker 1: one of the best in Major League Baseball. And we
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  Speaker 1: are lucky and blessed to have him. And then the
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  Speaker 1: work he does in the community, what he does to
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  Speaker 1: make this area better, cannot be overstated. He is truly
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  Speaker 1: a treasure for all of us in our community. One
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  Speaker 1: of the nicest people I've ever met. The day I
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  Speaker 1: walked into the building for the first time, a new
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  Speaker 1: guy here at KJR, he knew who I was, was great. gracious,
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  Speaker 1: so nice to this day. Uh, I'll tell a quick
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  Speaker 1: little story. My, uh, future son-in-law, if he ever gives
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  Speaker 1: her the damn ring, uh, and my daughter live in
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  Speaker 1: Issaquah and they go to Gilman village all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's where his coffee shop is. And, um, Keegan ran
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  Speaker 1: into him a couple, it was about three, four weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, Oh, Rick Riz is here. And he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say hi, but I just can't. I go,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now. He's the most
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  Speaker 1: approachable guy in the world. Go say hi. Tell him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, me, whatever. And he says, he went up
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  Speaker 1: to me, he texts me later and he goes, I
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  Speaker 1: just talked to Rick for like 10 minutes. You have
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  Speaker 1: a coffee. I'm ordering a coffee for Brianni.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, I told him who I was and, and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my relationship with your daughter. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: look down and goes, you take care of Ian's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, thank you. Thank you, Rick. But
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  Speaker 1: that's who he is. Even if you've never met him,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you know him and he treats you
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  Speaker 1: like that. Uh, sad weekend coming up. I'm mostly sad.
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  Speaker 1: as we all are, that he's not going to get
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  Speaker 1: a call World Series. That's not right. But that's also baseball.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be the first to admit that. That's baseball. This
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  Speaker 1: year went off the rails. That's sports. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to say thanks to Rick. Thank you, Rick, for everything,
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  Speaker 1: for making our summers better. I'm going to miss the
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  Speaker 1: happy totals. Not nearly enough of those this year. Goodbye, baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to miss as well. But we're going to
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  Speaker 1: miss you, Rick Rizzo. Enjoy your retirement. I'll let you
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  Speaker 1: have the final say here before we get to a break.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just want to say too, it's so apparent
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  Speaker 6: how much he means to the players on the team
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  Speaker 6: and the organization as well. I mean, they went out
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  Speaker 6: of their way on that 50th anniversary weekend to make
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  Speaker 6: him feel so honored and his emotions were so.
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  Speaker 5: It was just great.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I cried the most when Rick was being
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  Speaker 6: honored because it was just so cool. And I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if you saw this, but Cal got the chest
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  Speaker 6: plate made with Rick and pictures of Rick with various
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  Speaker 6: players throughout the years. And the look on Rick's face
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  Speaker 6: when Cal was like, after I wear it, I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to put it on a frame for you.
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  Speaker 5: And Rick looked at me, goes, you're going to wear this?
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  Speaker 1: He's very humble.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like the idea that Cal would wear
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  Speaker 6: something of Rick all weekend long, and Cal was like, yes,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to wear this all weekend, and then you
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  Speaker 6: get it. I don't know. It's just that I thought
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  Speaker 6: that interchange right there, exchange, spoke volumes about him. And
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  Speaker 6: he's just a one-of-a-kind, classy individual who we are so
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  Speaker 6: lucky to have representing our city here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And he has let us all be a part of
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  Speaker 6: his life, too. He's gone through some very difficult things
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  Speaker 6: in his life, and he doesn't shy away from it.
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  Speaker 6: And you do feel like he's part of your family
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  Speaker 6: because he's in your house all summer long.
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  Speaker 1: In your house, on your car, and everything else. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to miss him. I'm glad he's sticking around. I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for it. Player Hall of Fame things, to me,
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: are almost a dime a dozen. Like, you know who's, okay, great,
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  Speaker 1: you're a Hall of Famer, Mariner Hall of Famer, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But honoring him To me will mean more because he's us.
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  Speaker 1: He was a fan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, a lot of these players that we've
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  Speaker 1: honored as Hall of Famers, you know, they went and
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  Speaker 1: played elsewhere. And he went for two years, but he
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  Speaker 1: came back. He's one of us. And I just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's next year. I'm the same way. When he got
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  Speaker 1: honored that day, I was like, all the feels.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing to me?
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  Speaker 1: All the feels. All the feels are coming right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's baseball gives and takes a lot. And in this town,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a lot from us. But what Rick gave
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  Speaker 1: us over all those years cannot be replicated. The five
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: best things about the Mariners organization in 50 years, and
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big Mount Rushmore guy, but really it's
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  Speaker 1: simple to me. It's Griffey, it's Ichiro, it's Edgar, it's Dave,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Rick. And the list ends there. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the five, those are really the only five things that
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  Speaker 1: matter to me in this baseball's history until they win
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  Speaker 1: a World Series. And unfortunately we'll be with Rick behind
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  Speaker 1: the mic. All right, we'll take a break, come back.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell, Seahawks, Commanders, Sunday, next.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3, KJR-FM. All right, here we go. 12
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  Speaker 1: o'clock hour on a Friday, Football Friday, and Greg Cosell
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  Speaker 1: joining us to talk all things Seahawks Commanders. He does
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  Speaker 1: this every week with us. We preview the games. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I was just thinking this off the top
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  Speaker 1: of my head. I'm going to throw this out there
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  Speaker 1: before I get too far in. First of all, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: how are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Ian. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. Looking good. Got the TV show taping.
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  Speaker 1: I can see with the suit on. That's perfect. You
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  Speaker 1: look fantastic. I'm going to throw this out there before
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  Speaker 1: I get too far in.
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  Speaker 3: This morning yeah yeah all done yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Looking good go espn matchup show it's on like a
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  Speaker 1: zillion times now with the nfl network and all espn's
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: uh properties go check that out see see our guy
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  Speaker 1: greg on tv he looks good they put makeup on
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  Speaker 1: him he looks fantastic so uh.
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  Speaker 3: Go without that you know i don't look good so
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  Speaker 3: i need a lot of that i spent a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time in the makeup chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you're preaching the choir with me my friend uh
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  Speaker 1: the behind the scenes world that we live in. I
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  Speaker 1: just had to send a picture of the makeup we
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  Speaker 1: used last year for the reorder for our hockey this year.
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  Speaker 1: So my, my wife just, my wife just laughs at me.
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  Speaker 1: She goes, my husband wears more makeup than me. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, that some of us need
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  Speaker 1: it more than others. That's all.
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  Speaker 3: Um, correct.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let me, um, I want to bring this
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  Speaker 1: up just cause I was thinking about this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I mentioned this to Ashley. I don't even
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: know when the Seahawk bi-week is like week eight or
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  Speaker 1: 10 or something like that. It's down the road.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you in a sec, cause I got
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  Speaker 3: it here. Uh, They are not in a bye week
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  Speaker 3: until week 11.
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  Speaker 1: Week 11. That's the week we need to do the
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell-Hugh Millen think tank again, if you're up for
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  Speaker 1: that again.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: God, that was fun. That was so much fun. I
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: was telling somebody about that the other day, where the
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  Speaker 1: bye week, no game to talk about. It was Hugh
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  Speaker 1: and it was Greg. They're both part of that 33rd
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  Speaker 1: team and all that stuff. And I just say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Greg's here, Hugh's here, and I just got the heck
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  Speaker 1: out of the way and let you guys talk football.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll do that again, all right?
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  Speaker 3: We can do that. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming he was going to be okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: I know he'll be good with it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the game coming up this weekend. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of chatter about quarterbacks. So let's start first
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: on the Seahawks side, we believe. And we won't find
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  Speaker 1: out until... probably about 40 minutes from now or so
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: when the first of the injury and practice reports comes
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: out for the Seahawks. But we are believing that Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold is going to play. He met with the media
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  Speaker 1: yesterday as the starting quarterback. I don't think they're playing
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  Speaker 1: any games. Mike Holmgren says, yeah, this isn't something you'd
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  Speaker 1: be trotting him out there if he wasn't going to play.
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  Speaker 1: So we're expecting Darnold. He didn't make it definitively, but
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he's going to play. It sounds like he's
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  Speaker 1: going to play. But you've watched Drew Locke the last
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks. What have you thought of number two for
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  Speaker 1: Seattle out there?
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  Speaker 3: He's played well, but the thing that has really stood
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  Speaker 3: out to me, and again, you know, I assume it's
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  Speaker 3: likely a function of the new offensive coordinator, Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 3: because of his background, but they've been a pretty heavy
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  Speaker 3: 21 and 22 personnel offense. They certainly were last week.
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  Speaker 3: Russell played 31 snaps, which was 44% of the offensive snaps.
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  Speaker 3: And they're 11 personnel percentage, meaning three wide receivers and
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  Speaker 3: in their first two games, was only 32%. They played
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  Speaker 3: a slightly higher percentage versus the Patriots week one, but
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  Speaker 3: it really looks like they will be more of a
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  Speaker 3: base personnel offense. That could well be the influence of
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  Speaker 3: Brian Flurry, as I said, and you know this, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure the audience does too. He came from the 49ers,
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  Speaker 3: where they played with Kyle Juszczyk for 10 years, and
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  Speaker 3: Juszczyk normally plays 40-plus percent of their offensive snaps in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if that is as much a problem. I
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  Speaker 1: understand what you're saying about Brian Fleury's influence. I'm wondering
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  Speaker 1: this out loud, Greg. I'm wondering... how much of that
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  Speaker 1: maybe has to do with just the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks kind of right now have Jackson Smith and Jigba,
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  Speaker 1: but not a lot else on the outside. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper cups, you know, at the end of his career,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's just,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: it's not, there's not a lot there right now.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Well, they still have Shahid, right. And granted he's not
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: likely to be a volume target, but he certainly has
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: juice and he certainly presents concerns for a defense, um,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: By the way, saying things out loud, I do that
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: a lot at home. And then my wife always says,
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: are you talking to me? And, you know, so I
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: do the same thing when it comes to football. I
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: just say stuff out loud and I'm really not talking
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: to anybody at home. But we'll see. I mean, you know,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Cup is obviously not what he was a number of
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: years ago, you know, going back to when he won
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: the Triple Crown and the year surrounding that. And Shaheed,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: like I said, is not a volume target per se,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: but it's not as if they're total stiffs. I mean,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: they can line up an 11 personnel and present some
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: problems for a defense. So we'll see. I mean, uh, look, I,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I guess, uh, I guess to Darian prices is banged
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: up a little. I don't know what his status will
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: be for this week.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to play.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: It looks like he's going to play. Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: They ran the ball more down the stretch, obviously with
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson. I mean, that was, you know, that's the
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: way that game played out. I don't think Emmanuel Wilson's
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: going to get, um, you know, 21 carries every week,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: although it was mighty impressive that they got the ball
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: with 11 and a half minutes remaining and they put
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: together a 16-play TD drive that ate up more than
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: 10 minutes of clock and that Wilson rushed six consecutive
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: times in the middle of the drive. I mean, you
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: can't draw that up any better than that. I mean,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: that's the way you want to close out a game. But,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: you know, I guess we'll see. One other thing I
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: want to mention. which I thought really stood out to me,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: and I don't know what their plan is going forward.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: It's two weeks in, so you don't really know. Number one,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I thought the offensive line, I thought, played really well
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: in the run game. I mean, I've just really been impressed.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: We've talked about them before. I'm really impressed with Sundell,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the center. Zabel is a really good football player. I mean,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: they're both athletic offensive linemen who can work effectively to
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: the second level. They can track and block linebackers in
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: the run game. Sundell has outstanding snap-to-step quickness off the ball.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, I thought that the
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: rookie from Iowa, because he played meaningful snaps, because I
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: don't know what Bradford's status is, but obviously they rotated
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: a bit at right guard with Haynes.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, Stevens.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Stevens, the rookie. Yeah. Yeah. I thought he looked really good.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I was very impressed with his tape.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: We can stay there just for a second. They put
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Bradford on the injured list, so he's going to miss
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: four games. Oh, there you go. It sort of still
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: feels like they want to rotate Haynes and Stevens, but
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I want to go back. I'm interested to hear. You
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: really like Stevens. Just a little background, Greg. Bo Stevens,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the fifth-round pick out of Iowa. He was in training camp.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: He really, when we watched, we're out there for every
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: practice in training camp. He never really got elevated professionally.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: up past the third team. Like he was, he was
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: never a second, never got first team reps. So for
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: him to come in and play as well, like you said,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I think you said the same thing on Monday. You
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: liked what you saw from both Stevens. That's a good sign.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And again, you don't want to necessarily be in
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: a position of, of, uh, doing what you're doing and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: rotating offensive linemen in one position. I don't think any
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: team wants to do that. And again, it's one game.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here and say he should
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: now be the guy who's playing. I'm not there every day.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I wasn't there throughout the whole offseason. So, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: they know a lot more than I do, Ian, and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I would not presume that I know more. All I'm
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: doing is coming into my office here at Films and
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: watching tape. And, you know, I think Stevens is– I
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: liked his tape more than Haynes' tape this past week.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say one guy was a 10 and one
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: guy was a 3. I just like Stevens more. That
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean a whole lot other than that's all it means,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: that I like to hesitate more in this last game.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I like it, though, because that's a good sign for
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: this team moving ahead. It's Greg Cosell checking in every week,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: NFL Films ESPN matchup show. All right, on the other
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: side of the ball, what are they going to see
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: with this? Dan Quinn, Washington Commanders defense. I should point
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: out it looks like Frankie Luvu is going to miss
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the game. He has not played practice this week. They're
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: listing him as out. Sonny Stiles, the first-round pick out
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of Iowa State, another linebacker. They're pretty good inside with
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Payne and Kinlaw. So what are we expecting to see
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: with this Dan Quinn-led Commanders defense?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Well, it's actually, it's interesting you say that because it's
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: a little bit more of a Durante Jones-led defense, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: he came from the Brian Flores School in Minnesota. This
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: is a team that blitzes a lot. They play very aggressively.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: The problem is at the corner position, and that's a
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: concern because the corner that they really wanted to be
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: their number one corner was Trey Amos, and I believe
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: he's on IR, so I don't believe he's playing this week. So,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you know, they're kind of stuck a little bit at
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the corner position, and that's a little bit of a problem.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: But they are an aggressive defense, which always can pose
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: problems just because those kinds of defenses, as you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: if they catch you right, they can make plays because that's...
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: aggression at times can be a problem. But they're not
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: a strong defense overall in terms of personnel. But again,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: what that means, that's always hard to know because I
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: don't think the Seahawks in an ideal world given the
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: completeness of their team, Ian, and you tell me if
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong, you're there, but this is just my sense,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you know, having gotten a feel for Mike McDonald over
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: these last couple of years. And I think the way
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: he'd ideally like to play and it kind of showed
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: up last week against the cards. They're not a throw
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: ball team. They're not going to, you know, now every
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: game is different. I know that. And who knows what
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: will happen this week, but I don't think ideally, that
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: they want to come out and have Sam Donald drop
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: back 40 times by choice. I don't think that's the
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: way they ultimately want to play. Wouldn't you agree with that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I would a hundred percent agree with it. It just
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: goes back to, I mean, Listen, they've got the best,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: at least in terms of last year, offensive player of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the year and what he's done so far this year,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: one of the best wide receivers in football in Jackson, Smith,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and Jigba. And so they've got that going for them. But, yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I think what you saw, you mentioned it earlier, I
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: think what we saw at the start of the game
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: or the end of the game against Arizona, let's just
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: run it down your throat. That's Mike McDonald's style. He
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: wants to play tough guy football. He wants to kind
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of exert his will on them, and I think that's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what they'd like to do. Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, every coach wants to score on every try.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: We know that. That's not a profound thing to say.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: But I don't think their goal is to come out
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: and just toss it all over the yard as the
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: means of scoring.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I think they want to establish a physicality, a toughness.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: This is a four-quarter game. We're more physical than you are.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: And they wear you down. I mean, look at last week.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was 14-7 in the third quarter. Was
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: it 7-7 at the half, I believe?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 7-7 at the half.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I don't think, look, obviously you'd
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: like to be winning. I'm not saying that that's okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: but I don't think they view that as a negative, like,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: oh my God, it's only 7-7. I think they see
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the game as a four-quarter battle of attrition, and they're
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: going to win the battle of attrition.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I totally agree. It is Greg Cosell. Just real quick
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: before I go to the other side of football. I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: always like, we watch the highlights. We watch the game.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: People see No. 11 for Seattle, Jackson Smith and Jigba
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: doing his thing out there. You're studying the tape. What
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: are the nuances? What does the tape say about what
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you see from what this guy does? Because it just
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: seems like every week there's more of a wow factor
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: with him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Is he the wide receiver that's pretty good, by the way,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: that's on Seattle?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: He's okay. He's just okay.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's ridiculously good. You know, he's one of
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: those guys. I mean, I'm not going to add anything
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: to the discourse on Smith and Jigba. I mean, you know, it's,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: they do some really good, obviously that first touchdown, I
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: have no idea what, what, you know, happened on that play.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Cause obviously that was not supposed to happen the way
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: it happened. And I couldn't tell you what they were
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: supposed to do. I don't know the answer to that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I watched the play 10 times. I mean, the corner Johnson,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: just let him run by him clear. I mean, if
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: you're doing that, unless you just went brain dead, You're
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: clearly expecting help over the top. But the safety, Buda Baker,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: who's obviously been a very smart, savvy player his entire career,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: he stayed inside and low. So it just became pitch
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: and catch. What really stood out to me on that play, too,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: by the way, was left guard Zabel had unbelievably good
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: one-on-one pass protection versus D-tackle Walter Nolan. But that doesn't
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: surprise me because Zabel's a really, really good player. I mean,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: you can start going through every single play with Smith
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and Jigba, you know, Based on what you said earlier,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: you wonder why more teams don't necessarily bracket him or
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: double him, whatever they want to do. But I think
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: they do a nice job with how they get him
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: matched up on people. I mean, think of his 12-yard
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: touchdown early in the fourth quarter on third down. They
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: went empty. And, you know, Smith and Jigba was number
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: three to trips. And for people who don't know what
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: that means, that means he's closest to the formation. The
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: way wide receivers are numbered, it's from the outside in.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So he was closest to the formation at number three.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: And so they got him matched on a safety. You
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: can do that with your formations. They got him matched
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: on Baker and he beat him on the in cut.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, the Seahawks also know that teams might
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: try to do things and they have responses as well.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: That's why great receivers do catch a lot of balls. Yes,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: there are teams and times when teams do try to
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: double or bracket or set their defense for a great receiver.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: But the great receivers at times still win those kinds
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: of things, Ian.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I love that. Greg Cosell joining us. All right, flip
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to the other side of the football. As we speak now,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we're waiting for the next half hour or so to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: maybe get some more definitive word on Julian Love's status.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Did not practice yesterday. Surprise to us. If he doesn't go,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: we would expect it to be Rodney Thomas because Okada
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is still out along with A.J. Finley back there. They're
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: going to see a backup quarterback, Marcus Mariota, because Jayden
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Daniels is out. What do we see with Marcus Mariota?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you can line up and play with him, obviously.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's started a lot of games in the NFL.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: He's certainly not as dynamic as he once was. You know,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: it's almost hard to know how they would go about
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: playing this game. You know, they don't really have a
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: true number one back. I can only give you my
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: personal interpretation. I would think that given Mariota being there,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: that you might see more Katron Allen, the rookie from
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Penn State, who's a grinder and a sustainer. And, you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: he can turn a three-yard run into a six-yard run.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: And in this game, they need that. You know, they
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: have to find a way to sustain offense. I mean,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: this Seahawks defense, now they have a legit four-man D-tackle
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: rotation because Riley Mills is showing up on tape. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you've probably noticed it as well. I mean, he's making plays.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: He's controlling and displacing interior alignment, making plays in the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: run game. I mean, I really loved his tape at
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame. unfortunately, until he hurt his ACL his last year.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: But now they have a true four-man D-line rotation, D-tackle rotation.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: We see what they do with Williams and Lawrence, tremendous versatility.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: They're starting to do some more creative things, standing up
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Byron Murphy. You know, I mean, there's, you can see
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: that McDonald that the wheels are turning and, you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: he's just got really good people. Every time I watch
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: their defense, I come away going, God, Drake Thomas is
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: a really good football player. I watch, I watch what
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: they do with their fronts. They're really good at setting
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: their fronts so that there's a gap that's available, particularly
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: when they're in nickel, so that there's a gap available
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: for either Witherspoon to shoot through or Thomas to shoot through.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And they do that with the way they set their fronts.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So they're just, you know, they're not like a glitzy defense.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Like they're not a high percentage blitz. They play almost
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: predominantly out of a too high safety structure and You know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: they don't do a ton of stuff in the way
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you think of a ton of stuff. But I said
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: to one of my guys in the matchup show that
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: there has to be so much more there because I
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: wouldn't call their defense vanilla. But yet they don't blitz
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: a lot and they don't play a ton of, you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: single high. But there's got to be a lot more
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: there that, you know, I'd have to be in the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: meeting rooms to know that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: But.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: They're so disciplined. I mean, they play with tremendous discipline
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: on the defensive side of the ball.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell joining us. Nicky Minowari only played a handful
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of snaps last week, but he has been a full
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: participant all week. They're expecting, and he's telling everybody he's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: expecting to play a lot more.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: They'll go back to their big nickel, and now that
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: means they'll probably play dime because they've hardly played dime
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the first two weeks because they haven't had Minowari out there.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: And by the way, there's nothing wrong with the way
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Pritchard's been playing at the field corner position. So I'm
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: sure they're okay with that. So they'll go back to
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: dime and they'll go back to their big nickel because
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: they've been playing, you know, they've been playing some 5-2 base.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: They've been playing some 4-3 base with Knight. My guess
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: is now you'll see, you might still see a 5-2,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: but I don't think you'll see the 4-3 with Knight.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be big nickel with them in Warwick.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So they list Imanwari as a safety. If someone just
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: came up to you, walked into your office right now
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and says, Greg, what's Nick Imanwari? What position does he play?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: How would you answer that?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Well, it's multiple depending on the offensive formation. He's a
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: slot player. He's an overhang player. He's a Sam linebacker.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a multiple position player. You know, there's,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: you know, Derwin James is like that. There's not 20
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: guys in the league like that. And that's what makes
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: these guys so special and important to a defense. Because
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: don't forget, you're quote-unquote nickel. Let's just designate him as
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: that for the moment. Depending on your defensive front, there
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: are times that player has a B-gap responsibility in the
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: run game, which is why you're not seeing nickels the
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: way we used to, who are like Mike Hilton, who
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: are 5'9, 180 pounds. because they have to have a
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: B gap at times, not all the time, but there
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: are times. So, you know, even someone like Witherspoon is
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: not sick, you know, he's not the size of Imanwari,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: but he is a physical competitor. I mean, he can
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: play the, there's no problem with Witherspoon and the physicality
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: required to play the run, you know, but if you
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: can't do that, it's hard for a team, you know, to,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: to really put that kind of smaller nickel out there.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there's no doubt it's, Yeah, I think we're
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing some more No. 3 out there
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: just because of the versatility. There was a play last week.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I talked about it on Monday with Hugh. It was
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a big third down play, and Eamon Warrie was basically
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: lined up as an edge rusher. And they had to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: keep Trey McBride in to block him. So you just
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: took your best offensive weapon off the field because of No. 3.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Eamon Warrie is just– it's funny. I
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: probably told you this, but I remember– you know, studying
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's defense when they had two or three guys
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: coming out and Eamon Worry was a freshman. Okay. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I didn't know, I didn't even know who he was.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: And I'm watching South Carolina's defense because I usually try
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: to get through six, seven, eight games, you know, when
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I watch these players for the draft, as you know,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and I'm seeing the safety and I'm going, who is
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: this guy? And, you know, you find pretty much traditional safety,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: obviously in South Carolina, but I looked him up, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I saw he was a true freshman. I said, I
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: just sort of made a note that I wanted to
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: be aware of this guy because he was really good
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: as a freshman in college.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Apparently, John Schneider made a note, too. Yeah, apparently.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so if he's healthy, I mean, it doesn't mean
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: he'll play 100% of the snaps, but I'm sure they'll
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: go back to being what they, I think, want to be.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: What's on the matchup show this week?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: The matchup show is, you know, there's good games. I mean, and,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: you know, what we try to do a lot early
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: in the season is teams that, you know, we don't
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: know how a season is going to play out. Like
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: we're doing the Raiders at the Saints this week. I mean,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I'm sure it wasn't on your bingo card that the
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: two highest passing yard totals in the NFL through two
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: weeks are Tyler Shuck and Bryce Young. That probably wasn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: on your bingo card, Ian, I would imagine.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: So I did a piece on Tyler Shuck this week.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I really like him a lot. So we've got the Chargers, Bills, Eagles, Bears, Ravens, Cowboys, Rams, Broncos, Cards, 49ers,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and Bengals, Steelers. And who would have thought that the Bengals,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you play them this year, but
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: the Bengals' defense, believe it or not, has been incredibly
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: good through two games.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think Seattle sees them, which is fine.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's struggling. People in Seattle love that because we're still
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: bitter from that Super Bowl back with Mike Holmgren and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: his era. So that's all good for us. What do
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: they say? Who, dad, or don't? Whatever their thing is in...
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Go get them. Buddy, great stuff as always.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Love you. We'll talk to you next week. We'll be
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: watching the matchup show. NFL Network, all ESPN. Cosell's got
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the good looking, he's got the nice patterned shirt, black
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: suit going on today. Looking good. That's an A-plus effort
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: on the attire, my friend.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that really well. At least from the neck down,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: maybe I look okay.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: We won't talk about waist down. I go jeans most
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: of the time if people can't see it. Nobody needs
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to know that, so that's all good. Hey, great stuff.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week, Greg. Take care.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks. Appreciate it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: That's Greg Cosell. Daniel O'Neill coming up in the 1
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: o'clock hour. Rob Rang at 2 on Football Friday, 93.3
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. All right, back. Big thanks to Greg Cosell.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Good breakdown of this weekend's game with the Seahawks. and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. I feel very similar, Ash, to last week.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Kind of a stress-free, should be kind of a stress-free game.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: It should be.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Should be. I mean, their roster's awful.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, they're not good.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Their roster is awful. Frankie Luba's probably one of their
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: more important defense. He's not playing. You get Mariota, who... No.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I honestly wouldn't even be concerned with Jayden Daniels. I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: just don't... I think Seattle's defense is so good that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but then you throw him in there.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: As Greg says, they're really having a hard time figuring
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: out the running game. It sounds like Payne might be
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the guy that gets more carries, more of a thumper,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't bother Seattle. You want to try to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: thump them up front? Yeah, good luck. Good luck on
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that one. That's not going to help you too much,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: so Should be a stress-free game. The one part we're
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: waiting to hear is the Julian Love situation. That just
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: cropped up yesterday. It's one of those deals where no
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: one's expecting anything. You know, you look out there and, okay,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he wasn't listed on the injury report on Wednesday. And then, boom,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden yesterday, it's Julian Love did not
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: practice or did not participate is the technical term. And,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: you know, calf, and you're like, what the hell? McDonald
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: speaks here in a little bit. We'll see the injury report,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: so we'll kind of keep an eye on that. More
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: than likely, A.J. Finley and Roddy Thomas would be your
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: two deep safeties if that happens. It does help get
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Neiman Worry back, but I don't know. Against Mariota and company,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: should it really matter?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: It shouldn't, no.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: And they're missing a couple offensive linemen as well. It's
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: been just a catastrophe so far around the league in
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: terms of injuries. I mean, God, look at Chicago. Chicago's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: playing Monday night, and they're going to be down a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: quarterback three.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Did you watch last night's game much?
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: I did have it on. I was also watching Real
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Housewives of Salt Lake City at the time.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, how'd that go?
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: It was great.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, good.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: All the drama was back yesterday, which was good.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Are they Mormon?
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Some of them say they are. Some are, but you
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: don't ever see them really do anything. I mean, the
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: people that say they are also own a liquor business,
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: so I don't know how that works.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Wait, what?
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: There's a family that is Mormon but owns a tequila company. Actually,
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: like five tequila companies. And then there's a couple that
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: left the church.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: And then one of the others who, I don't think
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: she converted to Mormonism, but her husband's Mormon, but she
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: just got out of prison.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, why?
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Because she was defrauding people over the phone, like elderly people,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: making them give them money.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: That's nice. Her husband is a coach for University of Utah,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: I believe.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember that. I do remember that story. Yeah,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I remember that story. I don't think he's still there.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Is he still there?
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: He's somewhere else. I don't think he's still there, but he.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Is still a coach. I wonder if he went with
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Kyle to Michigan.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's probably more compelling than watching B. John
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Robinson just run for a zillion yards.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was nice to see Michael Penix doing well.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the thing with Penix that was great
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is he throws a pick on the first drive.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, it's the Falcons. And then they decide,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: you know what, we're just going to smash the ball
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in your face and run it down your throat. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: they let Penix kind of ease into it. Oh, and then,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: wait a second, Drake London had 194 yards receiving or
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: whatever the hell it was.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Penix made a difference last night.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: A big one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Made a massive, massive difference. Hopefully he can stay healthy.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And good for him. Like, I'm obviously the first thing
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: from a Husky fan, but my interaction with him once
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: was phenomenal. I liked the kid. I think he's a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: young man. He's not a kid anymore. Hell, he was
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: 28 when he played here, wasn't he? Something like that. No, yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you didn't miss much. I had the game on at
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Climate Pledge watching the Kraken game, had that one kind
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: of glancing down, and it was just, Green Bay is
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a absolute train wreck oh like just a train.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Wreck and i almost picked them to finish under the
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: eight projected wins or something and then i was like
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: oh they'll just screw me over so instead i picked
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: atlanta to finish under their five wins.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Well i was gonna say i you're giving me advice
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: for factor fiction later which i kind of liked but
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: now i have to rethink that thought well but that was.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: For a whole season i'm never good at that one
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: but i.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Don't like those no you know what they're just to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: me there's there's just not enough juice it's just too
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: hard i also wait i don't want to wait No,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I need.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: I need instant satisfaction, which is why I almost picked
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: that Falcons Packers.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Game last night. And then I didn't. And I was
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: kicking myself.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Falcons plus six and a half. Ooh, wow. That's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: pretty nice. Uh, I think I am. I might lean
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: towards what you were saying though, too. Okay.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: I think it'll be a good, I think it's a
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: good plan.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: There's a weather issue on the East coast.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: We just had to cancel a big music festival that
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: I heart was doing there this weekend.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, they did.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: In central park.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Sure, I should know that.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Global Citizen Festival has been canceled.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: That's unfortunate. Okay, we'll take a break, come back. We'll
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: hopefully get an update on Julian Love. We'll get to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Danny O'Neill at 1.20, all coming up on 93.3 KGRFM.