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Chuck in the Morning 9/7 H1: It was sloppy, but it was a win! Mariners Morning After and it's game week! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's get the game on. Well, great morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the radio show. Yes, we are live on
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  Speaker 1: this Labor Day. Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you. Hope
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  Speaker 1: you had a great weekend. Of course, for many of you,
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  Speaker 1: it is continuing on into today with the day off.
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  Speaker 1: And we are glad to have you with us here
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  Speaker 1: at 601 in the morning. For the rest of you
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  Speaker 1: that are laboring here on Labor Day alongside of us, well,
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  Speaker 1: happy Labor Day to you as well.
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  Speaker 4: And welcome into the radio show. You got us.
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  Speaker 1: You got us to lean on here for strength here
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. And we are happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. Ashley Ryan is here.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. And for the next four hours,
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  Speaker 1: we shall do our best to educate and entertain you.
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  Speaker 1: We got all sorts of things planned for you on
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  Speaker 1: this program today, which we will detail in what's on
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  Speaker 1: tap here in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley, did you have a good weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I did have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Enjoyed being outside pretty much all weekend long.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man, it was a perfect day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was perfect. Sat outside and watched the Husky game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Stayed outside and did a fantasy football draft and ate
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  Speaker 7: dinner and watched the show.
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  Speaker 4: Slept outside.
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  Speaker 5: Almost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Almost.
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  Speaker 4: That would have been a fun way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: To close out a Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Wouldn't have been a great way to sleep outside and
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  Speaker 7: then have to wake up so early.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just got to take the good with
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  Speaker 1: the bad sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way I've seen it in my years.
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  Speaker 1: But, all right, well, yeah, it's great to have you along,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got a lot to discuss today. But before
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  Speaker 1: we dive into the Apple Cup action here, I do
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  Speaker 1: want to let you know that today is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a special day around these here parts.
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  Speaker 4: It's Factor Fiction Day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Today we start Factor Fiction. It is back again this year.
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  Speaker 1: If you've never heard it played before, I think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to want to play it. I think you're going
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  Speaker 1: to want to be involved. We got money to give away.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a contest that you will be taking
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  Speaker 1: on actively, all other listeners, all season long here on
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  Speaker 1: our show. Every show makes a pick every single day
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  Speaker 1: throughout the football season or at least the large majority
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  Speaker 1: of the football season. And somebody's going to win a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cash at the end of the season by
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  Speaker 1: playing Factor Fiction, being good at Factor Fiction. And so
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  Speaker 1: get yourself off to a good start here today. At
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  Speaker 1: 7.35 is when we make our pick traditionally. We will
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  Speaker 1: not change that tradition this year. So it gets underway
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  Speaker 1: on our radio program here today. 7.35, it is back.
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  Speaker 1: One of KJR listeners' favorite things year-round, your opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: play Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 4: It all starts today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness. People have been asking for weeks. Is it
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  Speaker 2: coming back? Is it coming back? And no, we would
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  Speaker 2: never disappoint you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Like we started airing some sort of promo that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be aired a couple of weeks ago. And
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  Speaker 1: it was telling people it was going to start on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so that threw a few people off. But that
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  Speaker 1: was really never the case. Never the case. It was
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  Speaker 1: always going to start on Labor Day.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And that's always a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: It is. In the office.
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  Speaker 1: Should we start on the holiday or should we start
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  Speaker 1: on the Tuesday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're starting today.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So fact or fiction comes your way today here on
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  Speaker 1: the radio program at 735.
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  Speaker 4: At least I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a memo over the weekend that maybe I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see?
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  Speaker 2: As far as I know, we're good.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get that started today at 735.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you're listening.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know, what is he talking about?
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  Speaker 4: How do I play? We'll detail it for you when
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  Speaker 4: the time comes.
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  Speaker 1: And so 735, that's when we start the new season.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into the Apple Cup, which was played yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: of course. First time on a Sunday. First time to
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  Speaker 1: start the season today. First time with Elyse Woodward on
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  Speaker 1: the call. The first time with the psychopath Dave Softy
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  Speaker 1: Mahler on the sidelines here on your flagship. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. And it was our first look at
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 Huskies, 2026 Cougs. And you never really know
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  Speaker 1: what to expect. And I think that that kind of
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  Speaker 1: is my big takeaway from the game. on Sunday, my
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  Speaker 1: first take of the Washington Huskies and the Washington State
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  Speaker 1: Cougars this football season is, I think the first week
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  Speaker 1: of any season these days is like the hardest thing
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  Speaker 1: to judge. I mean, the way that they now treat
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  Speaker 1: practice and the way that they now, I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a coach in America, win or lose, that didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to the sideline and do their sideline interview on
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  Speaker 1: the television network, who didn't start it off with, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot.
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  Speaker 4: To clean up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what every single head coach said across America. We
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  Speaker 1: had a lot to clean up, but glad to get
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  Speaker 1: the win. And it's a testament to those guys in.
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  Speaker 4: That locker room.
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  Speaker 1: That was the speech of the weekend because nearly every
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  Speaker 1: victorious coach gave it. And we're probably going to experience
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  Speaker 1: this a little bit on Wednesday as well, even with
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  Speaker 1: the pros, even with the world champs. I'm expecting a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a sloppy first game. It just is
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  Speaker 1: going to take.
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  Speaker 4: A while before.
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  Speaker 1: You actually know what you have. And plenty of people,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of coaches out there made the statement going into
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Even Kurt Cignetti, who is the defending national champion,
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  Speaker 1: was on with game day on Saturday, and he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about this team, and he goes, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're good or not. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: excited to have some film to study on us. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were playing North Texas. There was no threat of
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  Speaker 1: losing on Saturday, and yet here's the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the defending champs and probably the most confident coach in
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  Speaker 1: the history of football. And he's sitting there telling you
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday morning before he kicks off the season, I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what we have right now. And until
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  Speaker 1: the pads start to pop, until the tackles start to
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  Speaker 1: become real, until the emotions of football start to play
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  Speaker 1: and have their effect, which they certainly did during the
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  Speaker 1: Apple Cup, and some really profoundly stupid moments for Huskies particularly,
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  Speaker 1: then you don't really know. And Jed Fish still doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know what he has even after a 24-10 win.
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  Speaker 4: So it was sloppy. It was over-emotional.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably unrepresentative of exactly what both teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to be this year, but I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: there's any getting around it. I mean, Oregon almost lost
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  Speaker 1: to Boise State. Michigan almost and should have lost to
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan on Saturday. Got outplayed, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And so... 24 to 10.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people bothered by that, that you only
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  Speaker 1: won by 14, that you only put 24 points on
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  Speaker 1: the board. that the offense didn't really get going until
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter against the Cougs. But I think there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a slop period that's going to take
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  Speaker 1: place at the start of the season, whether you're a
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  Speaker 1: college football team or a National Football League team. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: pops and tackles anymore. So how do you really know
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  Speaker 1: how your guys are going to pop and tackle when
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  Speaker 1: the season gets underway if you haven't practiced it in
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  Speaker 1: over a year?
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  Speaker 4: So that's... Nine months, eight months.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, that's, I mean, we've got details, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: to get into about this game yesterday, but that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of my big takeaway from the opening weekend. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm warning everybody for the opening National Football League
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  Speaker 1: weekend as well. Expect it to take a little while
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  Speaker 1: for the gears to oil up and for it to
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  Speaker 1: run smoothly. I don't care which franchise it is. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care which program it is.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: If they're coming off a national championship or a world championship,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the way that teams prepare now for
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  Speaker 1: the start of the season, they are giving themselves leniency.
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  Speaker 1: We know it's going to take three, four, six, seven
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  Speaker 1: quarters before we can actually judge what we have as
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  Speaker 1: a football team.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think too, and especially in rivalry games,
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  Speaker 7: we had a whole conversation last week about You know,
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  Speaker 7: should this rivalry continue and all of these things? And
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  Speaker 7: I think in a rivalry game, too, even if the
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  Speaker 7: underdog is going to step up and want to perform,
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  Speaker 7: they're more hyped up than they would be for a
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  Speaker 7: regular game, and now you make that rivalry game the
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  Speaker 7: first game of the year. But I do think it was, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: especially just Apple Cup-wise, sloppy, very sloppy, and a lot
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  Speaker 7: of things very avoidable. There were some dumb mistakes made,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm pretty sure, judging by Jed Fish's comments heading
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  Speaker 7: into the locker room, that that's not going to continue.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to. He's going to allow
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  Speaker 2: that to continue.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, saying, you know, if we can't, if we
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  Speaker 7: can't score from the one yard line, we don't deserve
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  Speaker 7: to get in the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So you could see his frustration. I appreciated his honesty and,
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  Speaker 7: and his, and hearing his frustration. Cause I think Husky
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  Speaker 7: fans were frustrated watching it thinking, oh my gosh, we
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  Speaker 7: only won by 14.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we would have won by more.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But we didn't lose. We didn't come close to losing
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  Speaker 2: like Michigan almost did.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 24-10, again, the final score. And yes, I mean, those
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  Speaker 1: are the two big stories of the contest, more so
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  Speaker 1: than anything. I mean, Washington's defense looked really good, but
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  Speaker 1: do we know how good the Cougs' offense is? How
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  Speaker 1: much credit do we give them? There was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conversation before the game started about how big of
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  Speaker 1: an advantage just pure physically, that Washington has to a man? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Cougs defense flew around yesterday as well. What are
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  Speaker 1: we supposed to take? Is that a reflection of the
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  Speaker 1: Cougs might have a pretty good defense? Or is that
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of the Huskies offense has a lot to
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  Speaker 1: be worried about? So certainly, as we are feeling out
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  Speaker 1: each team to start the season, it didn't go exactly
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  Speaker 1: how Jed scripted it. And he certainly was bothered to
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  Speaker 1: be heading into the halftime break, having scored only 10
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  Speaker 1: points at that point in the contest. But on the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that he has to be frustrated with, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess we do chalk this up to emotions, because
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  Speaker 1: if we don't, then we got a stupid football team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it better have been emotion.
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  Speaker 1: 12 penalties, 130 yards, one exasperating drive that was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to continue on two different counts because players couldn't keep
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  Speaker 1: their emotions in check. Ryland Dillard-Allen, I mean, he did
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  Speaker 1: some bench-worthy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And he actually got kicked out of the game for
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  Speaker 1: targeting at one point, which I thought maybe they were
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  Speaker 1: going to overturn. The Gene Steratore of the game made
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  Speaker 1: a hell of an argument for, I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: he should be called for targeting here, but it certainly
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  Speaker 1: was close enough, borderline, and he played recklessly the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: And so he gets kicked out of the game and
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  Speaker 1: had way too many penalties against him. And so part
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  Speaker 1: of it is, it's a rivalry. It's the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season. You've been playing patty cake at practice and
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  Speaker 1: you cannot wait to tackle people.
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  Speaker 4: And cause harm and do violence.
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  Speaker 1: There's an element of that, but it better get it
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  Speaker 1: better get cinched up in the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: against even far lesser competition, potentially, than what you faced
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  Speaker 1: even against the Cougs. It better get cinched up by
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  Speaker 1: the time you get to Big Ten play, because I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people's reaction from that is, oh gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to win a lot of Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: games if we don't play better than that. I think
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  Speaker 1: Oregon fans probably have the same takeaway this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: think Michigan fans have the same takeaway this morning.
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  Speaker 4: So I really am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to chalk most of it up to first
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. Football teams, both college and pro,
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  Speaker 1: are more untested in really fundamental areas of the game,
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  Speaker 1: more so than ever in their practice schedules. And then
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  Speaker 1: you add the emotions of first game of the season
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  Speaker 1: and And then you add a rivalry on top of
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  Speaker 1: it as well. And I think some people played recklessly.
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  Speaker 1: They played after the whistle in the contest. Some needless penalties, certainly,
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  Speaker 1: in the game yesterday. I don't think it should be
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  Speaker 1: cause for panic, but certainly a little bit of concern
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  Speaker 1: for a Washington football team that put up good numbers
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  Speaker 1: a year ago until they faced good competition. And then
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  Speaker 1: they put up bad numbers. Did we see an offense
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  Speaker 1: that looks like they're going to rewrite that script yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: But perhaps we can chalk that up to, hey, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to get into our rhythm as well, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no way you can go from nothing to 60.
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  Speaker 4: Without stripping a few gears here and there.
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  Speaker 1: And so obviously not a well-oiled machine yesterday, but still
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  Speaker 1: a 14-point win. And there was a moment, one moment
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  Speaker 1: in the game in keeping score.
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  Speaker 4: Where I think I wrote down an uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, it did feel like the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies were in charge, weren't going to lose the contest,
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  Speaker 1: even if you weren't pleased with the performance overall yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And i think that's a good way to put it
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  Speaker 7: yeah they were in control they didn't ever look like
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  Speaker 7: i never had that thought of oh i think the
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  Speaker 7: coogs are gonna pull this off or i think the
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  Speaker 7: huskies are gonna blow it i didn't think that i
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  Speaker 7: mean i did think the huskies made a lot of
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  Speaker 7: mistakes but as you said chalk that up to first
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  Speaker 7: game jitters first game excitement rivalry game, excitement.
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  Speaker 2: And move on to the next one, cleaning a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things up.
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  Speaker 4: It was 10-7 at one point, though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 4: Early in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 7: We had a lot of people stopping by that were
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  Speaker 7: playing golf saying, what's the score?
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  Speaker 2: What's the score?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then a flea flicker gets things going. So I
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  Speaker 1: thought maybe we were going to see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trickery from Kirby Moore. We really didn't see that in
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  Speaker 1: the game yesterday. And if there was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of trickery, it was that one play.
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  Speaker 4: And it was a big play.
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  Speaker 1: And DeMond Williams ends up at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: day with some pretty good numbers, 268 yards passing. I
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  Speaker 1: think he had 60 yards rushing as well, a couple scores.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't one for the time capsule. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was the greatest Apple Cup ever played.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely not.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, the season gets underway with a 24-10 win.
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  Speaker 1: And as every head coach who won a game over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend said, lot to clean up. but credit to
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  Speaker 1: those guys in the locker room for sticking together and
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  Speaker 1: getting the job done. So it is a W with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of lessons to learn, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go over all of it as the show goes on today.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot to update you on from over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Let's find out what's on tap for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the show.
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  Speaker 3: May I have your.
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• 17:29
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• 17:33
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• 17:34
  Speaker 4: So we'll do that for an hour today from.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: 8 to 9 with him as we'll break it down
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: as only Hugh can do. The Dogs will next play
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Utah State this Saturday at 1230. Meanwhile, the Cougs go
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: on the road to face Kansas State at 9 a.m.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: This Saturday. So that's the next matchup for them.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: A couple of other games. Terrific Sunday of college football, really.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss won a thriller against Louisville. 41-38 was the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: final score there. So top 10 team in the country
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: taken to the wire there. A late field goal wins
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: it for the Rebels. They might have the best kicker
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: in America. Notre Dame won over Wisconsin, even though they also, again,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: another example of it, they weren't clicking. Can't really judge
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame by the first couple quarters, but once the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: second half began, they absolutely steamrolled the Badgers 41-13 in
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin, not in Madison, but at Lambeau Field.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: But again, I think every team's going to differ, but
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to take, because of the way
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: teams practice now, and I'm not criticizing them, by the way.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: This is very important. I'm not criticizing them.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: It's the right thing to do to keep yourself healthy
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: for the grind that is upcoming, but you do accept
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: when you don't tackle and practice and you don't bring
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: people to the ground and you don't raise... the tension
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on a practice field, and then suddenly you go from
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: patty cake to live action, it's going to take, I think,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: just about every team in the country, college or pro,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: one to eight, nine, ten quarters before they actually find
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: out who they are. And for Washington, you get a win,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and now you've got a couple of games to figure
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that out. against lesser than competition before it gets going
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: in Big Ten play. So I think Notre Dame's another example.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It only took them two quarters to get going where
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: it took Washington three. Right. Well, and it might take
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: another team seven, but there's just that element.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: It's going to exist.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Michigan won controversially over Western Michigan. It looked to all
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of us like the time had expired and Western Michigan
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: had beaten them on Saturday. And instead, they put one
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: second back on the clock, and wouldn't you know it,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that one second resulted in a Hail Mary touchdown for
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Still has people up in arms.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: But the official response to it was the clock that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you see as a television viewer is not the official clock.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And so it expired, yes, but our official clock had
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: not expired. There was one second left and allowed them
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: one play, and it ended up being a miraculous play.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: But it was so controversial, it knocked LSU off the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: headlines Saturday and And LSU thwarted Clemson, and they did
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it without pro players, which Lane Kiffin in his post-game
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: interview made sure he pointed out.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Of course he did.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Seahawks Patriots in two days. On Wednesday, we start the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: National Football League season defense. of the championship. Greg Bell's
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: going to be joining us at 7.05. We'll talk about
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: DeAnthony Bell, who was activated for the Seahawks, and that
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: probably means they're not feeling real good about Nick Emanwuri
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: starting on Wednesday, and now we know that Ty Okada
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is also on the injury list. He did not participate
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: in practice, in the most recent practice, and actually the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: injury report is a lot more, there are a lot
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: more names on it than I was expecting to see.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So we'll get to the bottom of that with Greg
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Bell today at 7.05. 49ers and Rams are going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: play on Thursday. They still don't know if Puka Nakua
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is going to be able to play for them. Apparently,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: there's still a chance that the NFL could suspend him
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: for off-field conduct for this game. But as of yesterday,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: as of last night, the report is that the Rams
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: believe he's going to play on Thursday and that the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Hammer is not going to strike on their superstar wide receiver.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But it remains a possibility, I guess, that he is
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: not going to play on Thursday in Australia against the 49ers.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Sounders and Red Bull New York played to a draw.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: We'll call it a draw on Saturday. And the Mariners,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of course, which we will discuss next, they did win yesterday,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: two to nothing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: And Brian Wu was amazing.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: But it was a disastrous weekend for the Mariners, having
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: lost three of four I mean, it's something when you
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: have to call a team meeting on September 5th of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a baseball season.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and tell people to get their stuff together.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that's their 100th team meeting that they've had,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: but if that's the first, oh boy.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: So we'll talk about.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Not just the game yesterday, but the weekend as we
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: go along here.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Uh, on a Monday morning.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Mariners morning after is next sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to the lowly athletics who don't even.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Have a home to call their own. And yet, um,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: with pretty much their entire.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Lineup on the injury list, uh, the A's roll into
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: town and beat the Mariners three straight games, games, the Mariners.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It kind of feels like had to have, uh, you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: do get a game, uh, I'm not even going to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: say salvage because you still lost the series three games
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: out of four, but you do win on Sunday thanks
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to Brian Wu because the offense only managed two runs
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in this game, but at least Cal Raleigh is finishing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the season pretty strong.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: And zone at second, Julio at first.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: On a 2-2. Line left field. Base hit.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Canzone is being waved in. He rounds third and is
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: headed home to score. And Cal Robbins' hot hitting continues.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: It's 1-0 Mariners in the fourth inning.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: This is going to sound strange, but he is up
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to 183. I mean, it was down to like 156,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I think, at one point.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I thought it was like 153 at one point.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Might have been.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: It might have been.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It's not good.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: But he has been hitting, and he's over 183. 20
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: home runs on the season, and might end up with
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: 25-plus homers and 198 batting average, so at.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Least he's finishing strong.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: At least he's got some kick left in him, but
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know about the rest of the team having
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: lost three out of four games over the weekend that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: they really had to have.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Brian Wu delivers yesterday. He went eight innings.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He allowed just one hit Just two walks, nine strikeouts.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It was his best performance.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Of the year.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But Wu spoke afterwards on Mariners TV, and kind of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: some eye-opening comments from Brian Wu.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: What was working for you today?
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: Just doing little things, getting ahead, putting myself in good counts,
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: good situations. Johnny was unbelievable back there today.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: How do you get back in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: The win column?
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: I noticed you were busting out the change-up a little
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: bit more, especially early on. Is that something, I mean,
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: you haven't thrown it a whole lot this year. Is
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: that something you're trying to bring in these last handful
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: of starts?
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: No, I mean, it's a pitch, you know, I've wanted
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: to throw more for a while. It's such a hard,
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: you know, it's a field pitch. You've got to, it's repetitions,
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: you know, continue to throw it, trust it. But, yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: it was nice to, you know, have that today.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Johnny Parade, you mentioned him too. We see a lot
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: of Cal. We've seen handfuls of Johnny Parade a bit.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: When you guys get in a nice rhythm, what's that
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: rhythm like for him and you talking game prep and
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: then once you get into a nice rhythm.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: With him, once you get deep in his game?
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah i mean it's you know something that you can't
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: force but with communication you know um going through the
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: reports before the game um you know it just makes
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: things a lot easier and you get in the rhythm
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: you guys are on the same page about how you
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: want to go at each guy uh makes a lot
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: of fun.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: You went career high today you're in that eighth inning
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: the bullpen was getting loose were you looking over your
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: shoulder looking at the bullpen did you you were sniffing
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: out you wanted to.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: Finish eight absolutely yeah i mean i want to stay
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: in it just You know, we got what we got
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: in front of us. Behind us is what it's been,
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: but just keep fighting, man. It's all we got.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: It's been a tough series, this series, but what's that
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: message you got for the fans? We're all behind you,
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: behind this team. What do you got for the fans?
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: Just stay with us, man. I mean, everything you guys feel,
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: we feel tenfold. You know, I know it's not the
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: perfect season, but.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Keep showing up every day. Keep giving it everything you got.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Fight to the last, you know, last end. Just give
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: it everything, man. It's all you can do.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu afterwards. And I do like that. I do
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like that message that he's still going to fight. And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: he's certainly also, like Cal, finishing a frustrating season on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a really strong note personally. But I do like hearing
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that we're taking it 10 times harder today.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Than you are.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I believe it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of Mariner fans taking this really hard.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of times fans do take
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: it harder than the actual players do. Maybe they shouldn't,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: but they do. And when you watch the team and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the way they played Saturday, it didn't feel like at all.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: There were a few players, and I'm not even going
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to list them today. I'm not sure they.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Gave a damn on Saturday. It was.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: If there was a game, and there are a lot
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of times that Mariner fans have accused this team of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: looking like they don't care, like they're apathetic. I think
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: they were struggling and were frustrated. And when you can't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: get your offense going, it makes it look like you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: don't care or you're trying your hardest. So I don't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: think that really has been the case this season, but
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it certainly was the case on Saturday. There were a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: few moments where the team just didn't hustle, didn't try,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and looked like they didn't even want to be out there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And so apparently they had a team meeting afterwards for
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: everybody went home. I don't know how many of these
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: they've had this season. I mean, you can overdo that, certainly.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And players start tuning that out if you have too
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: many of those. But they did have sort of a
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: come-to-Jesus kind of moment on Saturday night. and they responded
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: with a 2-0 win on Sunday.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: But probably too little too late.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: It looks like the season is cooked, and it is
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: very unfortunate because I think I would argue until I'm
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: blue in the face that this might be the third-best
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: roster in franchise history, and for them to be 10
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: games under. 500 at this point in the season, six
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: games out of first place with 18 games to go,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: they should be embarrassed because it has been an embarrassing
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: year for the Mariners. Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And I, I think, you know, just of disappointment too.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I just, it isn't even a big enough
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: word because it is so disappointing to see what's happened.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I'm still not giving up on them.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: Obviously mathematically, they are still not out of it, but
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: to go into last weekend and we were talking about
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: how this team is so unpredictable and we have no
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: idea what's going to happen or who's going to show
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: up and how this is going to go against the
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: A's when you should be talking about sweeping the A's,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: not almost getting swept by the A's.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, I don't know. And then I,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you know, I look ahead, I'm like, I don't even,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going to happen. I have
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: no idea.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think he got a pretty good idea. I mean,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Astros aren't a great team. They've got a lot
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of flaws. I'm not even sure they're a good team,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: but they're not a bad team. They've never been a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: bad team. The Astros have been exactly what they were
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: predicted to be. that this would be a down year
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for them after a decade of excellence.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: They got knocked off.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Of the throne, and they're going to stay off the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: throne because Seattle's ready to rule for a little while.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And the Astros gave us exactly what we thought we
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: were going to give. You know, a couple games over.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: 500 this year, maybe in the wild card race. The
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Texas Rangers have been pretty much exactly what they were
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: forecasted to be. So you trail them four games as well.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: You've got a chance to make some of that up
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: starting tomorrow because you go head-to-head against the Texas Rangers.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: But it's just really hard to believe that both of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: those teams are going to fall apart down the stretch.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Safe estimate, let's say that they just keep playing the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: way that they are, 500 baseball.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: You've got to go 15-3.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You got to go 15 and three over your last
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: 18 games to track down the Astros. And that's if
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: they play 500 baseball. And where is any evidence that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this team can win 15 out of 18 games? I
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: don't get against anyone. I just, it's hard to see it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, you had that chance.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's absolutely hard to see it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: You had that chance going into Thursday night to say, okay,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: gauntlet's over. Here we go.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Pedal to the metal. Let's, A's are coming into town.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Let's choke them out. Let's get this thing rolling. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you lose three straight games to them. Yeah. Before Brian Wu,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu, because your offense still only scored two runs yesterday.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu bails you out and gets a win.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Out of the series.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: It's almost impossible, not even hard to believe, it's almost
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: impossible to believe that they're now finally ready to go.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: We've been predicting it all season long. Really hard to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: believe that you lose three out of four to the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: A's and that you're ready now to kick it in.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So it feels dramatically over, frankly.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: At this stage.
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: And I understand, I totally understand why it would feel
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: that way. I just am Still holding out hope.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: We'll do that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we are just two days away from
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the world champs taking the field. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: It's all sorts of fun things to talk about with
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: the Patriots the next three days.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: They've got a circus going on. Greg Bell is going
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: to join us at 7.05. He will update us certainly
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: on a lot of the injury news for the Seahawks,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: which doesn't feel good. to find out that there are
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that many significant names on the injury list and a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: reason for DeAnthony Bell. You know, Bells stick together. That's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: what I found, the entire Bell family. So he's back
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: on the roster at this point. Probably means that the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Seahawks don't feel like one of the safeties is going
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to be good to go or at least aren't sure
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: that he can get through four quarters. So anyway, we'll
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: talk to Greg. We'll get the latest information later. on
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the injury front and start our preview of the New
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. I mean, we got a Wednesday game. We
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: got to get to it. We got to get cracking.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Wednesday's usually when we start looking forward to the opponent.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: And now we're going to have to start doing it
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: here today.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of juicy little nuggets about
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the Patriots that we will discuss. Also want to let
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: you know, if you are not going to go to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the season opener, the next best place you can be
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to watch the opener against the Patriots, you can join
• 33:25
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• 33:29
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• 33:33
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• 33:37
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• 33:41
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• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a blast and we're going to
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: watch a blowout.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Are you going to get as good a weather as
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: we had yesterday?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: It says it's supposed to be like mid-70s on Wednesday.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Lovely.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I soaked that stuff up with a biscuit. I almost
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: didn't say stuff.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm glad you corrected yourself.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: That was a last second edit right there. It is Monday,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you know. Monday sometimes takes a little while for the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: brain and the tongue to unravel.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I hear you. Sometimes the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Comes out wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I got to get my stuff together
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  Speaker 1: here this morning. The New England Patriots, and I do
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about the Patriots in greater detail later on.
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  Speaker 4: In the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just give you some, just a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: here this morning, and then we'll talk more about it
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  Speaker 1: with Greg. Trayvon Henderson may not play in this game,
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  Speaker 1: the backup running back for the New England Patriots. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like, I mean, he hasn't practiced in like two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So the latest report and it's come out within the
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  Speaker 1: last 24 hours is that they're not feeling good about
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  Speaker 1: their running back. Now they have sort of a co-running
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  Speaker 1: back situation. And as everybody has either done their fantasy
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: football league draft or are preparing for their fantasy football
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  Speaker 1: league draft.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, on most of.
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  Speaker 1: Those rankings list, you are going to see Travian Henderson
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  Speaker 1: either really closely rated to Demondre Stevenson. Um, uh, Ramondre Stevenson. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's sort of, um, one, a one B.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of deal that they have in their backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Adam Schefter in the last 72 hours or so
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  Speaker 1: has said that, um, if you're going to invest in
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  Speaker 1: somebody in your fantasy league from the new England Patriots
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  Speaker 1: invest in Ramondre Stevenson, um, he thinks he's actually going
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  Speaker 1: to be the starter, uh, And the Trayvon Henderson injury
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  Speaker 1: is not going to help that. But I bring it
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  Speaker 1: up because, obviously, Henderson is a weapon. He might have
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  Speaker 1: been the Patriots' best player in the Super Bowl, if
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  Speaker 1: memory serves me. He was having the most effective time
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  Speaker 1: at times.
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  Speaker 4: And then their third string guy?
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  Speaker 3: Never even heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: So their running.
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  Speaker 1: Back room is as suspect, it seems, as what the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks is. So that's usually a franchise that typically can
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  Speaker 1: run the football a little bit, but that might be
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  Speaker 1: an issue for them heading into Wednesday. And then the
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  Speaker 1: other thing is the passing game has been bolstered. Their
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  Speaker 1: big offseason acquisition, A.J. Brown, is now a New England Patriot.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that they did not have. in the Super Bowl, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And A.J. Brown, they are expecting really big things out of.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard that they think that he could have
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  Speaker 1: a monster year this year, have the kind of effect
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  Speaker 1: on the Patriots that Terrell Owens had on the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: when he joined them, and they were seeking a No.
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  Speaker 1: 1 wide receiver, and he gave them what they were
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  Speaker 1: looking for. You obviously have a very good young quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in Drake May who put up MVP-like numbers a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: finished 2nd. without really having a wide receiver one on
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  Speaker 1: his football team. So they're expecting big things out of him.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the attitude so far has been pretty good
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  Speaker 1: from A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown.
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  Speaker 1: So, yes, the last time we played the New England Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: the running game might be a little more suspect, but
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  Speaker 1: the passing game might be a little more dangerous. And
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  Speaker 1: we have even yet to start brushing off those topics
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  Speaker 1: as we get ready for Wednesday. But we'll discuss a
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  Speaker 1: few coming up with Greg Bell next, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.