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Chuck & Buck 1-21 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, the Front 4 and Reckless at breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: But you've picked off Sam Donald four times at your
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Speaker 1: place and twice up there. Why have you been so
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Speaker 1: successful picking the ball off against Sam Donald?
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Speaker 2: Our secondary like, we know what type of quarterback he is,
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Speaker 2: and our D line pastor, like, you know, going back
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Speaker 2: last year in the Wild Card, you know we got
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Speaker 2: after him. The pastors got after him. He was in Minnesota,
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Speaker 2: and you know it's always gonna be in the back
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Speaker 2: of his head.
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: So the D line can get after him, we can
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Speaker 2: make plays on the ball that's gonna win us the game.
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Speaker 1: Do you see him get rattled?
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Speaker 4: I f like our D line can ratle any quarterbacks.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 2: We got some guys on that D line on the
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Speaker 2: edge and an interior man, So I feel like our
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Speaker 2: D line can be expected for.
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Speaker 6: Another cool continuing a lazy narrative out there, that was
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Speaker 6: Skip Bayless interviewing Cam Curl.
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Speaker 7: I'll give you that camp. That was an elevant interception.
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Speaker 6: Yeah it was good. Yeah, kind of kind of sealed
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Speaker 6: that game for your team. That was phenomenal against the
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Speaker 6: Chicago Bears. And I don't think Cam necessarily was all
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Speaker 6: that insulting with that answer. He pretty much just said
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Speaker 6: we feel they can do that to any quarterback out there.
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Speaker 7: We can rattle them.
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Speaker 6: I don't think Sam Darnold gets rattled either, don't think
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Speaker 6: that's in his makeup. If he throws for our interceptions,
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Speaker 6: probably just made some bad throws. But usually Sam, after
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Speaker 6: he makes a mistake, very very next play, he lets
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Speaker 6: it rip.
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Speaker 7: Good morning to you all, Happy Wednesday. It is hump day.
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Speaker 6: We're count down the days to the NFC Conference Championship game.
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Speaker 6: Let the trash talk commence, get nasty if you'd like
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Speaker 6: Light Shoes Chill. AFC Conference Championship Game will be played
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Speaker 6: Sunday as well. That'll be the first game of the day,
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Speaker 6: and it will be the New England Patriots at the
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Speaker 6: Denver Broncos, who, of course will be starting Jared Stidham
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Speaker 6: in that game instead of the injured Bo Nicks. By
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Speaker 6: the way, information that I know Bucky will be excited
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Speaker 6: to hear mel Kiper's mock Draft one point zero is
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Speaker 6: out today, officially out today. He's just like me with
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Speaker 6: my tree at Christmas. I mean he he's just a
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Speaker 6: guy that just celebrates draft miss all year around.
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Speaker 7: I just love it this good. I love his spirit.
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Speaker 8: Yeahs hard as always. Fill Mel has been known for
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Speaker 8: being premature. I bet he's known.
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Speaker 3: For it when it comes to this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 6: Hey wait, well, college football Indiana celebrates its national championship. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 6: little Mendoza for Ano's brother Alberto transferred to Georgia Tech yesterday. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 6: Duke and Miami have themselves of Demand Williams junior situation
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Speaker 6: on their hands, and it looks like this one's going
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Speaker 6: to go further than ours went up here in Seattle,
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Speaker 6: so certainly something worth monitoring.
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Speaker 7: You Dubs.
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Speaker 6: College basketball team has another tough Big Ten opponent to
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Speaker 6: face tonight. They'll be on the road against Nebraska. Actually
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Speaker 6: is that maybe that's not on the road.
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Speaker 7: Damn it.
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Speaker 3: We looked at up.
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Speaker 6: They're taking on Nebraska tonight at six o'clock. Is the
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Speaker 6: game against the corn Huskers. We'll get that information for you.
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Speaker 6: Sorry about it. I meant to write that down and
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Speaker 6: I didn't. But you dub versus sut Nebraska. They are
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Speaker 6: on the road.
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Speaker 7: That's what I think.
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Speaker 6: Nic Are okay, you dub at Nebraska tonight. Nebraska undefeated,
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Speaker 6: rank seventh in the country. Kracking will be taking on
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Speaker 6: the Islanders six point thirty. They'll drop the puck on
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Speaker 6: that crack and need a win. We'll talk to al
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Speaker 6: Kiniski about it later on in the show. Felix Hernandez
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Speaker 6: moved a lot closer to make the Hall of Fame yesterday.
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Speaker 6: He went from twenty percent of the vote to forty
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Speaker 6: six percent of the vote this year. It might seem
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Speaker 6: like a far cry from the seventy five percent that
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Speaker 6: is needed, but Andrew Jones and Carlos Beltran, two guys
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Speaker 6: that did get into the Hall of Fame yesterday, also
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Speaker 6: started with very humble percentages when the process began, and
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Speaker 6: look where they are now.
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Speaker 7: They are in Cooperstown. So actually a good day on
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Speaker 7: the Felix Hall of Fame watch. Yesterday.
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Speaker 6: Bryce Miller also avoided arbitration with the Mariners. He agreed
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Speaker 6: to a deal with an option next year in his
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Speaker 6: arbitration proceedings in his arbitration years. So actually a little
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Speaker 6: good news on a couple different fronts for the Mariners
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Speaker 6: organization yesterday. All right, let's talk to Greg.
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Speaker 4: With the bell tolls.
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Speaker 5: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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Speaker 5: Now with pok Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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Speaker 5: and Bud.
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Speaker 6: All right, joining us now our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
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Speaker 7: You're doing all right?
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Speaker 4: Bell, I'm doing fine.
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Speaker 7: Okay, morning, Good morning to you everything.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we just want to hasn't been a customary morning.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to give away any information, but hasn't
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Speaker 6: been a customary morning for Greg here today?
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Speaker 4: No? Is it morning?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's morning, It's morning.
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Speaker 4: The first I will say that.
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Speaker 6: Well, do you want to reveal it or do you
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Speaker 6: want to not reveal it?
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Speaker 4: That's that fine. I'm a medical center with okay, admitted
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Speaker 4: with a hand infection out of nowhere that they're trying
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Speaker 4: to avoid surgery on. So yeah, I got IVS dripping in.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I didn't want you to have to mention
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Speaker 7: that information.
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Speaker 6: But it does really paint a picture about Craig bell
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Speaker 6: I talk about a Seahawks insider.
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Speaker 7: He's like, I got IVS hooked up to me. But
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Speaker 7: I am coming on the radio show. It's conference championship
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Speaker 7: week by gum.
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Speaker 4: I still still my commitments.
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Speaker 3: That man of his word.
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Speaker 7: Well, well, sorry to hear that.
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Speaker 6: Sorry, it's not exactly an ideal morning for you, but
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Speaker 6: it is good to hear from you, and so we
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Speaker 6: might as well do this thing here today. You don't
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Speaker 6: have Zach Sharbone sitting next to you in the hospital, do.
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Speaker 4: You, Okay?
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Speaker 6: We we did mention this yesterday with you, but we
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Speaker 6: were just discussing it on the show again here this morning.
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Speaker 6: So I'll start with it. And that is just how
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Speaker 6: large will the workload do you think be for ken
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Speaker 6: Walker after twenty four hours to investigate this?
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Speaker 4: I would think season high, Chuck, I mean, this is
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Speaker 4: his time, and because they paced him through the whole season,
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Speaker 4: this is actually a He's fresher than a lot of
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Speaker 4: times at this point of the year. And we talked
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Speaker 4: about managing the foot issue that he had in August
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Speaker 4: into September, and he had fewer percentage a lot lesser
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Speaker 4: percentage of offensive snaps than did Jack Charbonay for most
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Speaker 4: of the season two minute drills and they'd down with
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Speaker 4: Charbonna's goal line with Charbonna's He had twelve touchdowns. Charbonnay
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Speaker 4: did first double digit season with touchdowns in Seattle since
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Speaker 4: Marshawn Lynch in twenty fourteen. So Walker's been kind of
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Speaker 4: idling in half the game. I mean, he'll do between
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Speaker 4: the twenties and then walk off the field. So if
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Speaker 4: he's ever been ready for a full oad in January,
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Speaker 4: it's this year. This is the first season he's played
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Speaker 4: all seventeen games, and that was a big thing for
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Speaker 4: him that he wants to be able to go into
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Speaker 4: his contract negotiation to talk about that. He changed agents
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Speaker 4: this week, which I thought is interesting. I had David
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Speaker 4: Canter and his group down in Florida, got Ridy he
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Speaker 4: fired and changed agents from the ones he had since
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Speaker 4: his rookie year, So he's got an eye toward what's next,
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Speaker 4: and he has a gigantic chance to prove to the
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Speaker 4: league what his worth is. The Seahawks have the ability,
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Speaker 4: of course, to get him re signed before free agency
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Speaker 4: starts in March. They've been waiting to see if he
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Speaker 4: could last an entire season and be productive, and we
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Speaker 4: saw in the San Francisco game last weekend how productive
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Speaker 4: he is right now. If he can get anything close
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Speaker 4: to that, it's really going to help Seattle's chances get
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Speaker 4: to the super Bowl, especially with Darnold still managing the injury.
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Speaker 8: Okay, well, I mean yeah, let's just pretend that he
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Speaker 8: can go out there and carry the rock twenty five times,
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Speaker 8: maybe still catch it to you know, three, four or
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Speaker 8: five times out of the backfield. There's going to have
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Speaker 8: to be a time when he's not when he has
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Speaker 8: tap tell me he has to come out. So is
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Speaker 8: George o'laani back from being injured or is it the
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Speaker 8: Velis Jones or is this one where you nope, if
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Speaker 8: he's if he's too tired, we're just gonna pass or
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Speaker 8: maybe hand it off to Rashid.
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Speaker 4: No, there'll be a second running back come in, and
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Speaker 4: Vilas Jones was the one who came in in the
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Speaker 4: San Francisco game last weekend. Cam Akers, the former Rams
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Speaker 4: lead running back, is still on the practice squad. We'll
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Speaker 4: find out more today. If George Laani comes off injured
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Speaker 4: reserve and is designated to return to practice, they have
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Speaker 4: to do that before you can even get on the
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Speaker 4: field of practice. Then they would have to add him
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Speaker 4: to the active roster before you could play. The obvious
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Speaker 4: move would be he's sharpening onto injured reserve and then
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Speaker 4: Halani off I r under the active roster to play
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Speaker 4: on Sunday. They just haven't gotten to that step yet.
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Speaker 4: He's got to practice a few days before they get there.
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Speaker 6: where you can get complete coverage from Greg Bell Matt Stafford.
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Speaker 7: He had one terrible game against the Sea Hawks in
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Speaker 7: which they.
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Speaker 6: They won that game, and then he had one excellent
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Speaker 6: game in which they lost to the Seahawks. So in
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Speaker 6: the game of chess, I mean, what is Mike McDonald.
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Speaker 6: What did he learn from the first two performances against
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Speaker 6: Matt Stafford.
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Speaker 4: Well, he learned well. As I mentioned yesterday, he learned
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Speaker 4: that he gave his defense too much in that second
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Speaker 4: meeting and confused him. And it was a short week
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Speaker 4: of Thursday game after Sunday game, and he said that
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Speaker 4: really he thought was the reason they gave up five
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Speaker 4: hundred plus yards thirty seven points. The Stafford that played
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Speaker 4: in November is against them in Inglewood is actually more
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Speaker 4: what Stafford has been here the last four or five weeks.
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Speaker 4: As I mentioned yesterday, he's been under sixty percent in
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Speaker 4: three of the last four games. He was under fifty
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Speaker 4: percent in Chicago the other night, and an MVP candidate
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Speaker 4: that the most important games of the season, that's not
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Speaker 4: normal to be under fifty percent. So there's something up
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Speaker 4: with him. And there's some encouraging signs that for the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks that this is not the same Rams team that
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Speaker 4: rampaged in here with the thirty seven points and five
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Speaker 4: eighty one yards a month ago, especially offensively and even defensively,
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Speaker 4: they gave up a lot of yards the game after
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Speaker 4: that inst Atlanta, they could have lost easily their first
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Speaker 4: round playoff game, given up about thirty points to the Panthers.
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Speaker 4: And then you saw what Caleb Williams and the Bears
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Speaker 4: did with the game on the line, and they were
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Speaker 4: even moving down in overtime heading into field goal range
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Speaker 4: until Williams got greedy and threw the ball deep. The
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Speaker 4: Rams are a different team now every game. No two
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Speaker 4: games are the same, so we'll see where it actually
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Speaker 4: ends up on Sunday. But the seahwks won't be the same.
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Speaker 4: They probably aren't going to expect thirty seven points and
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Speaker 4: they probably aren't going to score thirty eight on Sunday either,
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Speaker 4: But it's a different Rams team.
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Speaker 3: I'm with you.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I think that i've seen Sam Darnod the
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Speaker 8: last few weeks. When i've seen him, I mean obviously
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Speaker 8: last week in the playoffs, and what in two weeks,
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Speaker 8: I think he's looked like he's missed some open guys,
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Speaker 8: which usually he doesn't. Majority of the season he had,
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Speaker 8: so it could be from that finger injury when he
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Speaker 8: hit his his finger on a helmet or whatever. But
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Speaker 8: I think you have to go into it assuming he's
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Speaker 8: going to be this Matt Stafford, And so how does
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Speaker 8: this defense, what adjustment does this defense make? Because you
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Speaker 8: have to be able to contain Pukunuku If I think,
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Speaker 8: if I don't think, you can expect all the things
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Speaker 8: to go well or right down the stretch for you
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Speaker 8: to win a game. If you allow him to catch,
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Speaker 8: you know, two hundred twenty five yards.
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Speaker 3: In a couple of touchdowns.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they got a pressure Stafford and affect him
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Speaker 4: and that's the key to the game. He's at an
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Speaker 4: age where he's not going to elude past rushers anyway.
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Speaker 4: That'll be the key. Can they get Stafford to throw
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Speaker 4: the ball more quickly than he wants to and Nakua
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Speaker 4: can't run twenty yard crossing routes because that takes time
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Speaker 4: to do. And if you've got the front floor they've
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Speaker 4: been doing is what they've done most of the season,
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Speaker 4: then the Seahawks would be in good shape of getting
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Speaker 4: Stafford to get the ball. The problem that Thursday night
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Speaker 4: game is they weren't doing it a few times this season.
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Speaker 4: That was a large reason why McCoo went wild. Deep
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Speaker 4: crossers behind the linebackers in front of the safeties is
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Speaker 4: what really killed the Seahawks, and they were hoping that
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Speaker 4: pressure can take a lot of the deep game away.
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Speaker 6: Craig Bellers, Seahawks Insider, a segment brought to you by
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Speaker 6: Coppola Diamond Prosecco. There's something I mean, Rams seemed to
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Speaker 6: be talking a little bit of trash this week, which
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Speaker 6: is a little surprising. Seem like San Francisco was as well.
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Speaker 6: How did the Seahawks players, how's that locker room? It
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Speaker 6: sounds like that they do kind of like to mix
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Speaker 6: it up that that does kind of stir it up
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Speaker 6: for them. How do the Seahawk players in twenty twenty
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Speaker 6: six respond, in your estimation to trash.
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Speaker 4: Talk on the field? They're right in it. I mean
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Speaker 4: they're like they have major they major in it. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: on the field, not so much, not so much between games,
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Speaker 4: and McDonald really does try to steering away from that,
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Speaker 4: but they do their fair share during the games. But
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Speaker 4: McDonald really does try to discourage him from the extracurriculars
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Speaker 4: to focus on themselves. He calls it noise and he
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Speaker 4: really tries to minimize the noise during the week. You're right,
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Speaker 4: the other teams have been wolfing the in between games,
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Speaker 4: and some of that's a product because there's six games
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Speaker 4: between games and then Seahawks Game seven. But oh yeah,
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Speaker 4: you'll see Witherspoon and Woolen and even Ernest Jones yelling
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Speaker 4: across the line at as former players, and they'll be
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Speaker 4: wolfing quite a bit Saturday Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Is there sample size? We've seen two games this year.
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Speaker 8: I guess we can include the postseason game last year
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Speaker 8: with Sam Darnold against their Rams. I mean, the low
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Speaker 8: hanging fruit for a lot of people is just to
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Speaker 8: think that this guy's his turnovers, is that's who he is,
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Speaker 8: versus the guy that's won fifteen games so far this
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Speaker 8: season and is sitting with his team with home field
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Speaker 8: advantage to the Super Bowl. So which is it for
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Speaker 8: you or what is your opinion on this? Is this
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Speaker 8: an issue a RAMS issue or is it just yeah,
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Speaker 8: he's thrown a few picks against them, and yet that
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Speaker 8: happens to every quarterback.
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Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't a Rams issue when they scored thirty
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Speaker 4: eight one in overtime. So I think that game really
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Speaker 4: boosted the trust in the locker room that this guy
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Speaker 4: can win. I mean that was a game for the
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Speaker 4: division title. They lose that game. They don't win a division.
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Speaker 4: They don't have home playoff games. They're not playing this
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Speaker 4: title game in Seattle. They don't have the number one seed.
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Speaker 4: And he came through. They were down sixteen. Rashiitia heats
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Speaker 4: puint return helped them, but that Rams game really told
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Speaker 4: them something in the locker room. I think the results
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Speaker 4: speak for themselves. It's wins and freaking losses, as my
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Speaker 4: buddy ken Walker used to tell me, and twenty nine
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Speaker 4: wins in the last two years. Yeah, they've got his
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Speaker 4: first playoff win last week. But you in the NFL,
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Speaker 4: you don't accidentally win twenty nine games in two seasons.
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Speaker 4: You're as a quarterback with a guy in the hand,
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Speaker 4: has been ball in his hand all the time. You're
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Speaker 4: doing something right. And that's something more times than not
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Speaker 4: for the Seahawks is when he doesn't turn the ball over,
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Speaker 4: they win rather easily. And that's what they did both
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Speaker 4: times against San Francisco. That will be the key again Sunday.
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Speaker 4: You give them, you give any team, but if you
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Speaker 4: give the Rams a short field. They're going to score
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Speaker 4: touchdowns on few goals and that's going to be the key.
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Speaker 4: Just don't give them short fields. And they have a
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Speaker 4: defense a Seahawks that we've been talking about Super Bowl
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Speaker 4: quality that's not going to give up too many eighty
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Speaker 4: plus yard seventy five plus yard drives to the house
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Speaker 4: seven points. That'll be the key on Sunday. Just don't
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Speaker 4: give him short fields.
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Speaker 6: The NFL's toughest beat writer, Greg Bell with us right
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Speaker 6: here on Chalking back in the morning. I'll close with this,
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Speaker 6: I mean, the head coaching cycle, the obvious names have
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Speaker 6: kind of already come off the board. It doesn't look
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Speaker 6: like Mike Tomlin is interested in coaching anywhere going forward.
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Speaker 6: And now it sounds like teams like the Ravens and
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Speaker 6: the Steelers and the Bills are willing to kind of wait.
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Speaker 6: Are they waiting for more names to become available? Are
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Speaker 6: they waiting for Clint Kubiak? Is it looking pretty clear
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Speaker 6: that he's going to land one of these jobs this offseason.
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Speaker 4: I've been hearing that the Ravens are really interested in him,
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Speaker 4: and they may be waiting for him, But I'm just
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Speaker 4: not sold that this is his time or the opportunity
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Speaker 4: for him. I don't know that, but he again has
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Speaker 4: only been in jobs from no more than two seasons.
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Speaker 4: He has to have all that much of play calling
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Speaker 4: experience in the league. He's thirty eight years old, the
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Speaker 4: same age as Mike McDonald. I wouldn't say it's a
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Speaker 4: slam done, but I have heard that. I've been told
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Speaker 4: that the Ravens are particularly interested, and that that may
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Speaker 4: be why they are waiting in particular in that particular instance.
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Speaker 4: But we'll see. He doesn't strike me off the top
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Speaker 4: as a head coach right now. But look, Ben Johnson,
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Speaker 4: Mike McDonald, Sean McVay. Back in the day when he
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Speaker 4: was like twenty years older whatever, he was thirty years old.
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Speaker 4: But the trend is to go inexperienced and younger, and
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Speaker 4: that Kulbeck would fit that. Boy.
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Speaker 7: That'd be something.
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Speaker 6: If your first head coaching job in the NFL and
18:46
Speaker 6: you're an offensive minded head coach, you get to coach
18:49
Speaker 6: either Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen.
18:52
Speaker 7: That's not bad. It's not a bad way to get
18:55
Speaker 7: it going.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well, rest up, recover, and we will talk
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Speaker 6: to you soon, hopefully from the comfort of your own bedroom.
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Speaker 7: Tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 4: I hope. So the roommate here in hospital pretty mad
19:09
Speaker 4: at me?
19:09
Speaker 6: Oh no, oh no, oh no, have a thanks, Greg
19:17
Speaker 6: Bell Our insider. That just we didn't even know that
19:21
Speaker 6: was happening. So at that point you're like, well, do
19:23
Speaker 6: we let him go? Does he want to do it?
19:26
Speaker 6: I don't think he would have answered his phone if
19:28
Speaker 6: he didn't want to do it, right?
19:29
Speaker 3: Yeah?
19:30
Speaker 7: Were we not good friends right there?
19:32
Speaker 3: What happened?
19:32
Speaker 4: Oh?
19:32
Speaker 3: We're good friends.
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Speaker 8: He wanted he's type is gonna want to stick to
19:36
Speaker 8: I think he made his commitment. He wants to do
19:38
Speaker 8: what he can do. It's he just plugged into an IV. Yeah,
19:42
Speaker 8: and his roommate probably. I'm sure he said, hey, you
19:44
Speaker 8: gotta do an interview on the radio real quick. Who
19:47
Speaker 8: gets mad when you do that? I mean it's not
19:49
Speaker 8: like he's are the Starbucks.
19:51
Speaker 9: The problem was he had had a roommate I guess
19:53
Speaker 9: in the Yeah, yeah, medical center.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
19:57
Speaker 4: That's fine.
19:59
Speaker 7: Well maybe the room it's a RAMS fan. Why don't
20:01
Speaker 7: maybe the.
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Speaker 9: Roommate now just learn more about the Seahawks plan on Sunday.
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Speaker 7: I'm excited about it.
20:05
Speaker 6: They have something to talk about, that's right, all right,
20:09
Speaker 6: thank you to Greg. Seriously, thank you to Greg. His
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Speaker 6: like for me to use, Bubble up your playbook and
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Speaker 6: celebrate every win with game day bubbles. I plan on it.
20:33
Speaker 6: Copala Diamond Prosecco coming up next. That's the phrase that
20:38
Speaker 6: you're gonna hear a lot leading up to kickoff on
20:42
Speaker 6: Sunday from different analysts, and I think it might be
20:45
Speaker 6: the most important phrase that can be uttered via analysis
20:49
Speaker 6: this entire postseason. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRF
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Speaker 6: A little bit off this morning. Maybe we got to
20:56
Speaker 6: do some sort of like jumping jacks thing as a group.
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Speaker 9: The breaker usually like if I'm watching the game and
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Speaker 9: something's not going how I want to like change seats
21:05
Speaker 9: or you take a shot.
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Speaker 7: So we could take a shot.
21:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, we could take a shot. Maybe just a good shake.
21:10
Speaker 6: Yeah you know Bucky can shake you. Okay, you can
21:14
Speaker 6: shake me, and then I can shake Bucky.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 9: I think I'm gonna get the short end of the
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Speaker 9: stick of this one.
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Speaker 6: I won't shake you too hard because even like my
21:24
Speaker 6: ears I don't think are working perfectly well. I still
21:27
Speaker 6: every day think that she's saying there are black guys
21:30
Speaker 6: on the road when it's black ice.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
21:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like I think you're running that together. I
21:36
Speaker 6: don't think it's my ears. I think she's running that together.
21:39
Speaker 6: Watch black guys on the road. All that is inappropriate.
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Speaker 3: You can't do that.
21:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't say that on radio. And oh wait, black
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Speaker 6: ice is what she's saying. And then I swear to god,
21:52
Speaker 6: he's saying pender Gas law slaw, like it'ts a cabbage company,
21:56
Speaker 6: you know, come get some pender Gas law right now.
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Speaker 3: I won't say what I think he says.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, don't say that.
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Speaker 6: It's Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 6: three point three KJRFM, And we've got a big game
22:12
Speaker 6: coming up on Sunday at three point thirty as the
22:15
Speaker 6: Seahawks get ready to take on the Los Angeles Rams.
22:18
Speaker 6: And I will say, in terms of all the analysis
22:22
Speaker 6: out there, I think the one thing, the one thing
22:26
Speaker 6: that has the biggest impact on who wins the Super
22:29
Speaker 6: Bowl and the Seahawks, they say it about the Seahawks
22:33
Speaker 6: more than anybody else. I've heard it about the Rams
22:36
Speaker 6: a lot this year, and I've heard it about the
22:38
Speaker 6: Rams this week. I even heard it from Cam Curl
22:41
Speaker 6: when we played that little clip at the top of
22:44
Speaker 6: the hour. But I think I hear it about the Seahawks.
22:47
Speaker 6: It's the compliment they're given the most. Where the criticism
22:51
Speaker 6: is certainly Sam Darnold on the team for whatever reason,
22:54
Speaker 6: But the compliment they're given the most. And I think
22:56
Speaker 6: it is the most impactful thing I heard about the
22:59
Speaker 6: Broncos too, The most impactful thing toward winning a Super Bowl.
23:04
Speaker 6: Getting pressure with four guys. Yeah, your front four, this
23:09
Speaker 6: front four, which has been excellent all season long across
23:13
Speaker 6: the board. But when you can get pressure with your
23:17
Speaker 6: front four, especially when you have a talented a secondary
23:21
Speaker 6: and as athletic and versatile as the secondary as Mike
23:24
Speaker 6: McDonald has with the Seahawks, to be a I mean,
23:28
Speaker 6: how many quarterbacks have we watched, especially recently Purty Stafford.
23:31
Speaker 6: I don't care who it is that just look like
23:35
Speaker 6: look like they're facing thirteen players, and it's because getting
23:40
Speaker 6: pressure with just four guys, which we've consistently done all
23:44
Speaker 6: season long and now all of a sudden, that Harvard
23:49
Speaker 6: mathematical equation that Mike McDonald creates in the secondary, where
23:53
Speaker 6: you don't know which coverage you're following, you don't know
23:56
Speaker 6: which coverage you're going up against, you don't know if
23:59
Speaker 6: a blitzer's come. They can't read the secondary because you've
24:02
Speaker 6: got seven different guys that you can use to cover downfield.
24:08
Speaker 6: So to me, like, if there's one thing that gets
24:13
Speaker 6: you to the Lombardi Trophy, one analytical expression that describes
24:18
Speaker 6: a team and its talents. Can they get pressure with
24:21
Speaker 6: four guys? And the Seahawks seem to be able to
24:24
Speaker 6: do it more consistently than any other football team in
24:27
Speaker 6: the Galaxy.
24:28
Speaker 3: Well, it's big, obviously, it's crazy important.
24:30
Speaker 8: I mean the last game against the Rams that they
24:34
Speaker 8: came back and won that one, they did not get
24:37
Speaker 8: the same pressure.
24:38
Speaker 3: But most of the season they have.
24:40
Speaker 8: In the last couple games of Carolina, San Francisco and
24:42
Speaker 8: then San Francisco again, so the final three games they
24:45
Speaker 8: most certainly were I would say that majority of the season. Yes,
24:50
Speaker 8: give that front four because they'll get pressure when they're passing.
24:54
Speaker 8: They also are capable of stuff in the run and
24:57
Speaker 8: then the guys behind them step up in the gaps
24:59
Speaker 8: that are are left there. It to me does feel
25:02
Speaker 8: like the defense in general is getting hot at the
25:06
Speaker 8: right time right I mean, they're getting they're getting everything.
25:09
Speaker 8: They're playing their best football at the right time right now.
25:12
Speaker 8: And I think it does start with those front four
25:14
Speaker 8: because of what it then allows Mike McDonald to do.
25:17
Speaker 8: It's not like you say, well, this defense relies on
25:21
Speaker 8: the front floor and then if they don't play well,
25:23
Speaker 8: then they don't. The defense isn't good. No, the back
25:26
Speaker 8: end is spectacular, but they get to be as spectacular
25:30
Speaker 8: as they are because they don't have to send extra
25:32
Speaker 8: guys to make the quarterback uncomfortable.
25:34
Speaker 6: Well, if you're spectacular and versatile and deep and healthy,
25:40
Speaker 6: that's the secondary right now. I mean, I wouldn't trade
25:43
Speaker 6: our secondary for anybody's out there, There's no question about it.
25:47
Speaker 6: But when you get to unleash an extra guy every
25:52
Speaker 6: single snap because you don't really need to create any
25:56
Speaker 6: exotic blitz packages, you don't even have to blitz as
26:00
Speaker 6: long as you're getting home with four dudes, and you
26:02
Speaker 6: can rotate the four dudes because that group is healthy.
26:06
Speaker 6: The ability to put nuosu in there again, is he's
26:09
Speaker 6: back in the group. I mean the advantage that that
26:13
Speaker 6: gives you as an NFL football team, it might be incalculable.
26:18
Speaker 6: I mean, it might be the thing that a coach
26:21
Speaker 6: wants to get out of his team more than anything else.
26:25
Speaker 7: To start a day.
26:26
Speaker 6: If we can get pressure with four guys and we
26:28
Speaker 6: don't have to commit anybody else, and then use our
26:32
Speaker 6: secondary to just blanket everything that they think is open.
26:36
Speaker 6: And then you add to that that you've got a
26:39
Speaker 6: maniac like Witherspoon and a freak like Woolen and a
26:42
Speaker 6: physical freak like Emon Worri to cover even more of
26:46
Speaker 6: the secondary than anybody else can in the National Football League. Yeah,
26:51
Speaker 6: I mean getting home with four. I think it's as
26:55
Speaker 6: valuable to winning in the National Football League as any
26:58
Speaker 6: phrase that any analyst can pump out there. And it
27:01
Speaker 6: seems like we do it better than anybody. Well, yeah,
27:04
Speaker 6: they feel good inside. They are doing as well as
27:06
Speaker 6: anybody right now. I mean, the only other team that
27:08
Speaker 6: I watched near as much or as closely as the
27:11
Speaker 6: Seahawks is the Broncos. And early in the season they
27:13
Speaker 6: were doing that. They didn't have to send a bunch
27:15
Speaker 6: of guys, and so they weren't getting passed on because
27:18
Speaker 6: they didn't have a lot of time. And then with
27:21
Speaker 6: the limited amount of time you had before the pass
27:23
Speaker 6: rush got there, guys recovered and so you were getting turnovers,
27:28
Speaker 6: you were making stops, you were getting off the field
27:30
Speaker 6: on third downs. They're not playing the Broncos i'm speaking of.
27:34
Speaker 6: They're not playing They're not doing that near as well
27:36
Speaker 6: as they were the first half or three quarters of
27:38
Speaker 6: the season, Whereas on the flip side, it feels like
27:40
Speaker 6: the Seahawks right now the last month have been playing
27:43
Speaker 6: doing it as well as anybody and then some better
27:46
Speaker 6: than anybody else has the entire season.
27:47
Speaker 3: The Rams were in that same conversation early in the year.
27:50
Speaker 8: They were putting pressure on guys, making it really difficult
27:54
Speaker 8: to go put you know, seventy five eighty yard drives
27:57
Speaker 8: together simply because you couldn't pass on them. They were
28:00
Speaker 8: always harassing your quarterback, and then the guys that were
28:03
Speaker 8: trying to get open were covered. With the exception of Puka,
28:06
Speaker 8: He's somehow is never covered, it feels like. But I
28:09
Speaker 8: do think that that is going to be one of
28:11
Speaker 8: the keys to this game, in.
28:13
Speaker 7: Particular, every game yeah, Yeah, this is.
28:15
Speaker 3: A big one.
28:16
Speaker 8: I think when if you don't get in Matt Stafford,
28:19
Speaker 8: I mean he's been a little off. Well Greg's been
28:21
Speaker 8: talking about it for a couple of days. He has
28:23
Speaker 8: been a little bit off. But I think you still
28:25
Speaker 8: have to go into it assuming he's going to be
28:26
Speaker 8: the Matt Stafford that is going to win the MVP.
28:30
Speaker 8: If you don't get in make him uncomfortable. I mean,
28:33
Speaker 8: I don't think he's going to go out there and
28:35
Speaker 8: throw for four hundred and fifty yards like he did
28:37
Speaker 8: the last time that they played. But he's not going
28:39
Speaker 8: to get shut down if he doesn't. If you don't
28:41
Speaker 8: get him off the spot, he's not going to run
28:44
Speaker 8: on you. He's just going to sit back there and
28:46
Speaker 8: pick you apart. And yet this defense, the way in
28:48
Speaker 8: which the secondary plays behind that front four, to me
28:52
Speaker 8: is it reminds me a lot of the Legion of Boom.
28:54
Speaker 8: Legion of Boom had the maybe not the same front four,
28:57
Speaker 8: but they had like eight guys that they rotated through there,
29:00
Speaker 8: and the Seahawks didn't have to cover any more than
29:02
Speaker 8: like twenty yards from the line of scrimmage because if
29:05
Speaker 8: you by the time the guy ran twenty five thirty
29:08
Speaker 8: yards down, the pass rushers already getting there. If they
29:10
Speaker 8: can continue that for two more games, I wouldn't be
29:13
Speaker 8: surprised of their hoisting the trophy.
29:14
Speaker 9: Well, and it seemed like obviously the defense had the
29:17
Speaker 9: rams figured out in game one and then game two,
29:19
Speaker 9: as I think as Greg has been saying, like maybe
29:22
Speaker 9: they were trying to do too much or trying to
29:23
Speaker 9: make things more complicated.
29:25
Speaker 4: Cute.
29:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you just.
29:26
Speaker 9: Go back to being that solid front four and that
29:29
Speaker 9: thing that's been working, and you should be good.
29:31
Speaker 7: Well, they're two forever outliers, the Tampa game and then
29:33
Speaker 7: that game. Yeah, that Tampa game too.
29:35
Speaker 6: So I mean that's fifteen out of seven. If you
29:37
Speaker 6: have an outlier game, you're vulnerable. Yeah, but what do
29:41
Speaker 6: we have to what do we do? We try to
29:43
Speaker 6: kind of forecast, like based off of percentages and what
29:47
Speaker 6: this team.
29:47
Speaker 7: Is mostly a majority of what they've been doing.
29:49
Speaker 6: And fifteen out of seventeen games they're getting home with four.
29:52
Speaker 6: I don't know if anybody else has that ratio. Yeah,
29:54
Speaker 6: and I'm not even necessarily talking about sacks. We didn't
29:57
Speaker 6: get a lot of sacks against Perdy on Saturday, but.
30:01
Speaker 7: You just gotta make them feel the pressure. Thirteen pressures.
30:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, made him run for four hundred and eighty yards
30:06
Speaker 6: all over the field, back pedaling, sideways, everything else. That's
30:11
Speaker 6: that's putting pressure on the quarter. But he didn't have
30:12
Speaker 6: a clean look in two games, yeah, against this defense.
30:16
Speaker 6: And it's because you're getting home with four guys. This
30:19
Speaker 6: isn't Jamal Adams being given the golden ticket to pass
30:24
Speaker 6: rush whenever he wants, even if it makes you vulnerable
30:27
Speaker 6: in other places. This is all your defensive backs get
30:31
Speaker 6: to just do defensive back things because your front four
30:34
Speaker 6: is dominating upfront, and that has been the hallmark I
30:37
Speaker 6: think of this team's success at fourteen three, and I
30:40
Speaker 6: think the Rams are probably in the as capable. They're
30:44
Speaker 6: vying for second place in that category. Yeah, second place,
30:49
Speaker 6: and so they can do it to us as well.
30:51
Speaker 6: They got a great group up front, and so obviously
30:55
Speaker 6: that's going to be a key for them as well.
30:57
Speaker 7: All Right, coming up next, we're gonna get a little
30:58
Speaker 7: reckless at breakfast.
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Speaker 6: This morning on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
31:03
Speaker 6: I heard somebody piece together and I think a guest
31:06
Speaker 6: had canceled on them, and so the I think the
31:08
Speaker 6: list was hastily put together because it was crap. But
31:12
Speaker 6: it was talking about who is the next Indiana? Is
31:16
Speaker 6: there a candidate out there, Does somebody have the profile
31:19
Speaker 6: that they can go from horrible throughout history to maybe
31:24
Speaker 6: on the brink of becoming special and turning their program's
31:29
Speaker 6: fortunes completely around and in the blink of an eye.
31:34
Speaker 6: And so then they put together their list and it
31:36
Speaker 6: was shoddy. I mean, the Charlotte Hornets were on there,
31:40
Speaker 6: and the New Orleans Saints. They've actually had a really
31:43
Speaker 6: good recent history.
31:45
Speaker 7: I don't know if you've heard of Drew Brees.
31:47
Speaker 6: New York Giants were on that list. It's like the
31:49
Speaker 6: Giants have had a great history. I mean, they've won
31:52
Speaker 6: Super Bowls, numerous of them throughout their history.
31:57
Speaker 7: So just a crap list.
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Speaker 9: I mean even in the twenty twenties, the two thousands,
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Speaker 9: they've won one.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I'm like, I can do better than that,
32:04
Speaker 6: And so here's your list. I've got a better list
32:06
Speaker 6: than that one man in any booboo. But these are
32:09
Speaker 6: programs that really have been bad throughout history and yet
32:15
Speaker 6: could be on the verge of a turnaround and we
32:17
Speaker 6: could see them go and be special here for the
32:20
Speaker 6: next few years. And I'll start with a National Football
32:23
Speaker 6: League number five. The Jacksonville Jaguars a joke. They have
32:29
Speaker 6: been a joke. They were used as a punchline a
32:32
Speaker 6: thousand times in the TV show The Good Place.
32:35
Speaker 7: Yeah they were. It was an ongoing joke on a
32:38
Speaker 7: very good show.
32:39
Speaker 6: And never did the Jacksonville Jaguar joke not make you laugh,
32:43
Speaker 6: you know, hearing Ted Danson play an angel and still
32:46
Speaker 6: rip on the Jaguars hilarious. So it speaks to what
32:51
Speaker 6: a joke the Jaguars have been. But I don't think
32:54
Speaker 6: they're going to be anymore. I think they got the
32:56
Speaker 6: right head coach. I think he got the right mentality,
32:59
Speaker 6: he got the right structure. I don't think it was
33:01
Speaker 6: a fluke that they were very good this season, a
33:04
Speaker 6: Super Bowl contender this season, and they took their lumps
33:07
Speaker 6: in the playoffs, which usually you have to take your
33:10
Speaker 6: lumps in the playoffs before you do find tremendous success.
33:13
Speaker 6: But I think that this is a team that is
33:16
Speaker 6: the second youngest in all of the National Football League,
33:20
Speaker 6: with an average roster age of twenty six and a half,
33:22
Speaker 6: built around a young quarterback, built around two defensive superstars
33:27
Speaker 6: that are both in their twenties, and Devin Lloyd and
33:30
Speaker 6: Josh Heinz Allen. The Jacksonville Jaguars, I think are finally
33:33
Speaker 6: here to stay.
33:34
Speaker 7: Look out for the Jaguars.
33:36
Speaker 3: Well, I think they got the coach.
33:37
Speaker 8: I think they got a coach that can figure out
33:39
Speaker 8: a way to get the most out of Trevor Lawrence.
33:42
Speaker 3: He played well this year.
33:43
Speaker 8: They were one of the hotter teams coming down the
33:45
Speaker 8: stretch and obviously ran into Josh Allen and a team
33:50
Speaker 8: that has been there and done that kind of already
33:52
Speaker 8: taken their lumps for still in the process of taking lumps,
33:54
Speaker 8: I guess when it comes to postseason, But yeah, I
33:56
Speaker 8: think they need another step. But I think that they
34:00
Speaker 8: are most certainly on the verge of moving forward.
34:02
Speaker 6: Number four any college basketball program in America, because when
34:08
Speaker 6: you think about the nil era and you think about
34:12
Speaker 6: what it takes to win big in college basketball. Two guys,
34:16
Speaker 6: and I don't care where you're from. I don't care
34:17
Speaker 6: how bad your history has been. You can be Kennessall
34:19
Speaker 6: State for all I know. If you get two superstars,
34:22
Speaker 6: because you've got an alum.
34:23
Speaker 7: That's willing to pay this isn't football.
34:25
Speaker 6: Where you've got to fill out one hundred man roster
34:27
Speaker 6: and eleven starters on both sides of the ball. This
34:30
Speaker 6: is college basketball. You get two great guys and you
34:34
Speaker 6: can build something around that going forward. And so I'm
34:37
Speaker 6: going to throw out BYU. And although they don't have
34:40
Speaker 6: an embarrassing college basketball history the church. That know two
34:44
Speaker 6: things about the Mormon Church. They got a lot of
34:46
Speaker 6: money and Mormons are competitive as hell, all right, So
34:51
Speaker 6: those two things combine. Now that BYU has this ability,
34:54
Speaker 6: they could win the national championship this year. They're that talented,
34:58
Speaker 6: and they might be some buddy. They love basketball in Utah.
35:02
Speaker 6: They might repeat this. BYU could become a national power.
35:06
Speaker 7: Even the team we're playing a night in Nebraska is
35:08
Speaker 7: eighteen and oh they've never been good at basketball. But
35:11
Speaker 7: you get the right.
35:12
Speaker 6: Kind of support financially, especially in college basketball, and I
35:16
Speaker 6: would think you could go from obscurity to greatness overnight
35:19
Speaker 6: and then maintain it as long as you're getting the
35:22
Speaker 6: right nil support. Number three and number two, I'm going
35:25
Speaker 6: to go to college football programs two that really burst
35:28
Speaker 6: on the scene this year, Texas Tech. I think they're
35:31
Speaker 6: here to stay. I think the oil money is real
35:35
Speaker 6: unless they changed the rules for how NIL is going
35:38
Speaker 6: to operate those oil tycoons and operate out of Lubbock,
35:41
Speaker 6: Texas that went to Texas Tech to learn the oil
35:44
Speaker 6: business and ended up becoming billionaires because of it.
35:47
Speaker 7: They're just going to keep feeding that program. Not only
35:50
Speaker 7: did they.
35:50
Speaker 6: Become one of the top four ranked teams in college
35:53
Speaker 6: football this year seemingly overnight, they also went into this
35:57
Speaker 6: offseason and landed the number one NIL recruit soars be
36:01
Speaker 6: out of Cincinnati. In the entire process, Texas Tech doesn't
36:05
Speaker 6: make those kind of polls, but they can today. Texas Tech,
36:08
Speaker 6: I think is here to stay until they change NIL rules.
36:12
Speaker 6: I'm gonna put Vanderbilt in that group as well. You
36:15
Speaker 6: want to talk about terrible, They went twenty five years
36:19
Speaker 6: without a winning record in the modern era. They went
36:22
Speaker 6: from nineteen eighty three through two thousand and eight without
36:26
Speaker 6: ever having a winning season. This year's ten win season
36:30
Speaker 6: was their first in program history, and they did it
36:34
Speaker 6: with a guy built like Ryan Divish at quarterback, Diego Pavia.
36:39
Speaker 6: Now they've got a five star recruit, the pick of
36:42
Speaker 6: a litter that has decided I like, what's going on there.
36:45
Speaker 6: I like Charlie Lee, the head coach. They're giving me
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Speaker 6: Nashville dollars. I don't know if it's Willie Nelson banking
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Speaker 6: roll in that system.
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: We've got dollars rolling out for nil. I think Vanderbilt
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Speaker 6: is in a luxurious position to rinse and repeat and
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Speaker 6: could become until they changed the rules again, a legitimate
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Speaker 6: power who never won in the SEC, seemed outmatched in
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Speaker 6: the SEC. But people love to live in Nashville, and
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Speaker 6: people I think are going to love to support a
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Speaker 6: winner there. And then finally number one, I'm gonna stay
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Speaker 6: right here. I'm wearing their jacket today. The Seattle Mariners
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Speaker 6: like five years of winning seasons. I think only two
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Speaker 6: other baseball teams have done that. So we've been winning,
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Speaker 6: but we still have a fan base that thinks that
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Speaker 6: they sucked. Even this year they thought they sucked. We
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Speaker 6: were a George Springer home run away from going to
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Speaker 6: our first World Series. Didn't quite make it. But I've
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Speaker 6: said it all along. You're going to win a World
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Speaker 6: Series in the Jerry Depoto era and you're going to
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Speaker 6: go to multiple ones, and that's the floor. And so
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Speaker 6: I think the Seattle Mariners, who right now are the
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Speaker 6: second betting favorite to win the American League, only behind
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Speaker 6: the Yankees, because Vegas takes money on the Yankees and
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Speaker 6: they don't take as much on the Mariners.
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Speaker 7: I mean, basically, we're the favorite.
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Speaker 6: Despite everything that Toronto has done this offseason, we are
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Speaker 6: the favorite to win the American League.
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Speaker 7: But the Mariners number one.
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Speaker 6: I think that we've were on the verge of being
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Speaker 6: great and are going to sustain it for a long time.
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Speaker 3: Well, I hope you're right on that.
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Speaker 8: I mean, they are young, and does feel like they
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Speaker 8: have figured out their blueprint, the idea of going out
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Speaker 8: and making some moves to just make sure you fill
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Speaker 8: the hole. They've done it. Typically they wait until the
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Speaker 8: trade deadline to do it. And I would love it
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Speaker 8: if they would maybe just go a little bit harder
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Speaker 8: in the offseason with the free agent stuff.
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Speaker 3: But that is what it is.
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Speaker 8: They have a blueprint and right now we are reaping
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Speaker 8: benefits as much as people want to poopoo one.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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