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Ian Furness 11/5 H2: Steve Palazzolo, a secret conversation and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: is the Rockies. Big news. Seahawks quarterback situation. We heard
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  Speaker 2: you on Greg Bell just a moment ago. Sam Donald's out.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke expected to start. Says his elbow feels okay. So,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: J.O.
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  Speaker 2: Mill will roll back up. They did sign Adrian Martinez
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  Speaker 2: in the practice squad. There's still a lot of layers
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  Speaker 2: to this thing, man. And we'll talk about that with
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  Speaker 2: Paolo Zolo coming up. Another quarterback change in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Carson Wentz will get the start for the Vikings on
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  Speaker 2: Monday night against the Bills. Wentz in because Murray has
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  Speaker 2: a hamstring injury. Mike Holmgren nominated to the coaching category
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  Speaker 2: for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Other coaching nominees
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  Speaker 2: are Bill Belichick, Mike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin, and Dan Reeves.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest, you can make an argument
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  Speaker 2: for every one of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Every year that it happens, because the
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  Speaker 3: same guys were out there last year.
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  Speaker 4: I read all the bios and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 4: they're all good. They all deserve to be in.
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  Speaker 2: Every one of them does. Matty Beneers came through for
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken overtime last night, gave Seattle a 2-1 win
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  Speaker 2: over the Flames. They host the Rangers Saturday. That's two
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  Speaker 2: days from now at 2. Then they're off to Finland
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  Speaker 2: for a couple games against the... Carolina Hurricanes in the
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  Speaker 2: Global Series. Mariners introduced new manager Jason Kanzler to the
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  Speaker 2: media yesterday and was not to take away, to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you. Live Golf is done. League attempted a
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  Speaker 2: Thank God. All right, let's get to it. Steve Palazzolo
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  Speaker 2: standing by.
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  Speaker 5: Now with Ian, here's Steve Palazzolo.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Our guy Steve Palazzolo here.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night football tonight right here on 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: We had Monday night football last week. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: that in a second. We got quarterback injuries here. Seattle
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  Speaker 2: was feeling left out, Steve. They wanted to have some
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  Speaker 2: quarterback injuries like everybody else, man. How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Doing great. Yeah, it's unfortunate. I think Sam's just ducking
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  Speaker 5: the Cardinals again, I think is what is happening here.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think of it that way, but you're probably right.
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  Speaker 2: He's just like he wants no part of... Why would
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  Speaker 2: you want any part of that team right now?
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't want to pad his stats against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing a solid walk. He needs to pad his
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  Speaker 2: stats is the problem. Let me.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to revisit everything from Monday because it
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  Speaker 2: was a few days ago. We're moving on. Bill Belichick,
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  Speaker 2: we're moving on to Arizona. But before I do that
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  Speaker 2: and take a tour of the rest of the league, Steve,
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  Speaker 2: what can we gain from what we saw on Monday?
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  Speaker 2: And not just for Seattle, but Chicago. Because we talked
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  Speaker 2: last week, hey, this great euphoria over a win over
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City. Handing the Chiefs their first loss. And is
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City not all that? Is Seattle better? Now we
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  Speaker 2: have another completely opposite result from Monday night. What did you, Sam,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the crew, what do you guys
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  Speaker 2: think from what happened on Monday night for both Seattle
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  Speaker 2: and Chicago?
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  Speaker 5: My takeaway was mostly driven by Chicago and the fact
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  Speaker 5: that year three of Caleb Williams in the league, year
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  Speaker 5: two of him and Ben Johnson together. I think they
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  Speaker 5: made a statement. I think Seattle, like I haven't really
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  Speaker 5: soured on the Seahawks a ton, you know, the whole
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  Speaker 5: season I've said, ah, the turnovers, the turnovers, they're kind
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  Speaker 5: of fluky, trust the defense. But this was the first game,
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  Speaker 5: you know, first game they've lost by a lot in
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  Speaker 5: a long time. And it was, I think it was
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  Speaker 5: the bears. I think it was their ability to put
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  Speaker 5: together and sustain long drives against Seattle in Seattle against
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  Speaker 5: that defense. They ran the ball a lot, not necessarily well,
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  Speaker 5: but a lot. and just you know control the ball
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  Speaker 5: and control the game and then come out and make
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  Speaker 5: big plays with their defense and the Jeffrey Simmons hype
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  Speaker 5: which I think is warranted right I don't think he
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  Speaker 5: played that much differently than he plays in Tennessee but
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  Speaker 5: we all got to watch it and see it in
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  Speaker 5: prime time and so for me it was more hey
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  Speaker 5: look the Bears look like they can contend right I
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  Speaker 5: think they showed a lot and then for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: you know it still comes down to I trust the
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  Speaker 5: defense yeah they got you know they gave up more
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  Speaker 5: than they usually do in that one but the offense
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  Speaker 5: and the consistency. And if Darnold was, I forget, do
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  Speaker 5: you know where they said he was hurt? You know,
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  Speaker 5: if he's like playing her through the game or if
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  Speaker 5: he got hurt late, the consistency of the offense, the
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  Speaker 5: fact that you still have JSN with 118 of the
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  Speaker 5: 188 receiving yards. like the same kind of problems popping up,
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  Speaker 5: the inconsistent run game. So I think they have the
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  Speaker 5: same problems to fix. I think they're fixable. As you know, Darnold,
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  Speaker 5: I've seen him play better football, but I think Monday
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  Speaker 5: night was really about the Bears making a massive statement
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  Speaker 5: to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the big thing with, you know, Darnold
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  Speaker 2: was hurt. Well, he got hurt twice. They say the
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  Speaker 2: ribs aren't or the rib isn't as bad, but he
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  Speaker 2: got hit on that blitz by Kyler Gordon, who's from
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  Speaker 2: this area, went to Archbishop Murphy and up in Somerset County,
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  Speaker 2: went to UW. He got hit, but then the last
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  Speaker 2: play of the game, I guess, is when he hurt
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  Speaker 2: the quad, and that's what's keeping him out this week. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, listen, those things, that happens in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. He had struggled, though. So you just don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're never going to tell us how much each
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  Speaker 2: of those two, the last play of the game, obviously
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  Speaker 2: doesn't affect the rest of the game. Maybe the ribs did.
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  Speaker 2: But now they're in a different situation because... Drew Locke
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to start this week. He was limited in
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  Speaker 2: practice yesterday. We're not able to see practice, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know this, we've been out there the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, not even thinking anything about it, knowing he's
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  Speaker 2: got a sore elbow and while guys are kind of
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  Speaker 2: tossing around, they're stretching. We don't see much from Drew
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  Speaker 2: Locke at all. This might be the Jalen Milrow show
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. And that feels like that's the story of
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  Speaker 2: the season in the NFL is it would be quarterback injuries.
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  Speaker 2: And Steve, the drop-off from Locke to Milrow, we think
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  Speaker 2: is pretty significant. That's maybe a little worrisome.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even realize they could be down to Milrow
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  Speaker 5: for this one. I thought it was definitely Locke. But
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  Speaker 5: the Milrow question, I mean, either way, I mean, Locke
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  Speaker 5: played pretty well in week two. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 5: most of week one when he had to come in.
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  Speaker 5: If it was him, I think he's at least shown, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you can get the ball to JSN and make some
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  Speaker 5: of those big plays that are necessary. The Drew Locke
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  Speaker 5: story for his career has been avoiding turnovers and a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the stuff that has been an issue for
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  Speaker 5: the Seahawks this season. But Locke has been better in
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  Speaker 5: the limited time that we've seen him over the last
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  Speaker 5: couple of years. I think Milrow is so fascinating as
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  Speaker 5: a prospect because there were some games where you said, OK,
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  Speaker 5: that's it, right? There were games in college where where
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  Speaker 5: you said, I'm seeing the throws that I need to see.
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  Speaker 5: And then he is a, he's a very good runner,
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  Speaker 5: special runner as far as his speed and acceleration and everything. So, um,
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  Speaker 5: there were other games, however, where everything was bad and
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  Speaker 5: it was like pocket presence, decision-making game management, all of it. And,
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  Speaker 5: What I usually say about a quarterback that can run
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  Speaker 5: as well as Milrow is that they raise the floor
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  Speaker 5: of the offense. And so even in a game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: picture a stat line where QB goes, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: 12 for 30 or some crazy number. They can still
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  Speaker 5: make an impact. Even if they have a tough time
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  Speaker 5: in the pass game, you could still run the ball
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  Speaker 5: eight times for 70 yards or have a couple of
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  Speaker 5: keepers or whatever. at least keep the defense honest because
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  Speaker 5: of your legs so if it is a Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 5: show I mean that opens up a whole different part
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  Speaker 5: of the playbook it doesn't mean it's a better part
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  Speaker 5: of the playbook but a different part where you have
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  Speaker 5: to use his legs you have to make the defense
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  Speaker 5: account for his legs you probably have to run them
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  Speaker 5: eight to ten times don't want to get them hurt
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  Speaker 5: but you probably have to just to open up the
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  Speaker 5: pass game and Lamar Jackson I think is an extreme
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  Speaker 5: example but Lamar is so good as a runner that
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  Speaker 5: he changes the math of the defense and that opens
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  Speaker 5: up throws. And so Lamar Jackson has more open throws
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  Speaker 5: than most quarterbacks because defense has, they have to account
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  Speaker 5: for his legs. They have to worry about him as
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  Speaker 5: a design runner. So I think that's what, jaylen milrow
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  Speaker 5: potentially brings to the table is like hey you could
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  Speaker 5: scheme open some non-jsn type of players because of the
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  Speaker 5: run threat of jaylen milrow they just have to lean
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  Speaker 5: into that maybe early in the game.
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  Speaker 2: If if it's if it's his show yeah and you
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  Speaker 2: know his last preseason game milrose was really good like
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  Speaker 2: he he looked really good in that last preseason game
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  Speaker 2: but you know it's preseason as opposed to what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see maybe on sunday and we don't know
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  Speaker 2: he's going to play i just here's here's how you
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  Speaker 2: connect the dots steve and tell me if this makes
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  Speaker 2: sense to you because you The funny thing was there
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  Speaker 2: was this weird narrative going around both here and really
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  Speaker 2: kind of across the league. Well, this is just a
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  Speaker 2: soft benching of Sam Darnold, and that's what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: and all that. And as we've tried to point out, like, guys,
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  Speaker 2: Locke has been the third quarterback the last two weeks
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  Speaker 2: because of an elbow. He's limited in practice on Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: because of an elbow. And let's take it one step further.
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  Speaker 2: When Sam Darnold was hurt before at the start of
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  Speaker 2: the season, they didn't bring in another quarterback. to have
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  Speaker 2: on the practice squad or another guy. It was Locke
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  Speaker 2: and it was Millworld. They were both healthy and they
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  Speaker 2: were fine. Well, they brought in another practice squad quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: you know, as well this week. So that tells you
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  Speaker 2: that there is a concern that Milrow will be playing
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  Speaker 2: or one or two, and they're going to need to
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  Speaker 2: have a guy that they can elevate on Sunday if
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  Speaker 2: need be. So that's all you need to know there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we've got, we don't know what lock
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  Speaker 2: status is, but I mean, quarterback with an elbow, you
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  Speaker 2: were a pitcher for people to know Steve, the great story.
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  Speaker 2: Steve was a baseball pitcher, minor league baseball pitcher as well.
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  Speaker 2: You helped me out baseball, football, a sore elbow. Does
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  Speaker 2: that affect you? Steve helped me out here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh. That's my sob story, Ian. I was
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  Speaker 5: on my way to the big leagues in 2008, go
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  Speaker 5: from AA to AAA early in the season, first call
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  Speaker 5: up from our AA bullpen. In my second outing in AAA,
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  Speaker 5: Elbow starts barking, killing me. And I'm like, I can't
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  Speaker 5: tell the trainer I got to try to pitch through this.
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  Speaker 5: And like an 11 ERA later, three or four appearances later,
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  Speaker 5: it's like, hey, Elbow hurts. Shut down for six weeks.
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  Speaker 5: See you later, San Francisco Giants. So yeah, it's tough
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  Speaker 5: to throw through any kind of elbow or arm injury
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  Speaker 5: or shoulder injury. Elbows, we used to associate more with accuracy,
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  Speaker 5: whereas a shoulder might sap your velocity, but an elbow
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  Speaker 5: might sap your accuracy a little bit. It's not easy
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  Speaker 5: to throw through that if you're dealing with pain. I
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  Speaker 5: also had the Mariners kind of soft bench me when
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  Speaker 5: I was in AAA, too. I had a little phantom
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  Speaker 5: calf injury. so that they could hide me on the
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  Speaker 5: injured reserve for just a little bit. So I've seen
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  Speaker 5: it all here, Ian.
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  Speaker 2: Was that Zarensik? I never asked you this. Was that
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  Speaker 2: Zarensik or Bavese?
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  Speaker 1: Zarensik.
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  Speaker 5: He was the first guy that signed me. So him
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  Speaker 5: and his scouting director, Blangino, who was his, I think,
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  Speaker 5: AGM at the time, they first signed me with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 5: And then when I needed a job, I got released
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  Speaker 5: by the And then they brought me in with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: So I was like, I had that connection. So yeah, that's,
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  Speaker 5: those are my people. I know they didn't do well
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  Speaker 5: in Seattle, but those are my people.
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  Speaker 2: So they gave me.
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  Speaker 5: Two jobs here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, believe it or not, the poor Mariners, they can't
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  Speaker 2: do anything right these days. They, on a side note,
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  Speaker 2: they bring in Jason Kanzler yesterday and they introduced him.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of. He's kind of blah, a little underwhelming
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  Speaker 2: in his press conference. But as I pointed out, I'll
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  Speaker 2: say this. Pat Murphy could quit tomorrow Milwaukee and say,
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  Speaker 2: I want to come to Seattle and Mariner fans until
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  Speaker 2: they get to the World Series and find something bad
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  Speaker 2: with that. So that's just the way it is out
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  Speaker 2: here with our baseball team. All right, so let's take
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  Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew gets to start for Arizona this weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: we're very familiar with it. Go Cougs. And what his
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  Speaker 2: career is. Somehow the guy's eked out a $ 28 million
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  Speaker 2: career so far. Hopefully he's helping donate to the NIL fund.
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  Speaker 2: We need it. What I've always thought with Gardner, and
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  Speaker 2: you guys study this closely, I feel like he can
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  Speaker 2: give you a few games. He's not going to give
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  Speaker 2: you 17, but he can give you a few. And
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  Speaker 2: he certainly, as we saw last week, a better option
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  Speaker 2: than Jacoby Bursette, who we'll get to him in a second.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe Carson Beck is our guy of the future.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll find out. But what does Gardner Minshew bring
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  Speaker 2: to that team? Because that second half against Dallas, especially
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  Speaker 2: that last drive, was lights out.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, he was unbelievable in the second half.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look, Jacoby Brissett's had his moments too. I
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  Speaker 5: think Brissett struggled to kind of finish games, but they
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  Speaker 5: were in this pass-happy script where Brissett's throwing the ball 45,
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  Speaker 5: 50 times, way more than he should. That's not Brissett's game.
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  Speaker 5: Minshew has definitely been a spark plug. I mean, we
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  Speaker 5: always try to look at quarterbacks and what's around them
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  Speaker 5: and who are the playmakers and who's helping the QB
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  Speaker 5: and what's the offensive line look like. Minshew's rookie season
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  Speaker 5: in 2019 with the Jags he had nothing around him
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  Speaker 5: and he looked great 21 touchdowns six picks throwing the
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  Speaker 5: ball down the field he never really matched that but
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  Speaker 5: yeah he would have these stretches of play that are
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  Speaker 5: really good you look at the Indianapolis Colts the they've
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  Speaker 5: had two good runs under Shane Steichen one was in
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  Speaker 5: 2023 they were on the the fringe of the playoffs
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  Speaker 5: with Minshew going seven and six and then they had
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  Speaker 5: the Daniel Jones a little run last year but Minshew's
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  Speaker 5: had runs in his career where he's looked good and
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  Speaker 5: other runs where he's not looked as good, but he
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  Speaker 5: feels like that type of backup quarterback who's ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: You give him a few games, he can spark the offense.
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  Speaker 5: He'll run out of juice at some point, but yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he looked great last week, and he's done that at
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  Speaker 5: other points in his career.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what they've got this weekend. Meanwhile, around
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the league, let's kind of take a tour.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start tonight. Boy, Baltimore. At what point do you
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  Speaker 2: just tap out? I mean, they're going against a good
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  Speaker 2: Jacksonville team. and they're down to number three, undrafted free agent.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on in Baltimore?
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  Speaker 5: It's a tricky one for them because obviously expectations are
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  Speaker 5: always really high in Baltimore, but even the stuff behind
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  Speaker 5: the scenes like this offseason where Eric DaCosta is the GM,
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  Speaker 5: and I think if you were ranking organizations over the
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  Speaker 5: last 10 to 15 years, you'd have the Ravens pretty
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  Speaker 5: high and the job that Eric DaCosta has done as
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  Speaker 5: general manager. But They fired John Harbaugh this last offseason
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  Speaker 5: because they needed a change. And the owner, Steve Bishotti,
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  Speaker 5: saying something to the effect of, Eric knows that he
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  Speaker 5: got our friend fired. And it was like, oh, boy,
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  Speaker 5: this is a pivotal year for GM Eric DaCosta, who's
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  Speaker 5: usually ranked as one of the better general managers. And
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  Speaker 5: here they are, four and four, on their third starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: a UDFA rookie. They'll have a fourth starting quarterback when
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  Speaker 5: Brissette takes over next week. And so I think they
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  Speaker 5: need to win. I don't think they can punt. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think they can say, oh, it's another lost season.
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  Speaker 5: Last year was a lost season. They didn't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: They underwhelmed. And so even with Lamar Hurt and Tyler
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  Speaker 5: Huntley Hurt, they're still trying to– I just don't know
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  Speaker 5: if there's like a hot seat issue with Eric DaCosta.
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  Speaker 5: But they've underwhelmed, I think, defensively. Jesse Minter was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to solve that. They still have some pass rush issues
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  Speaker 5: despite the talent being there. So I think it's– An
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  Speaker 5: underwhelming year in Baltimore, plus the quarterback injuries, make it
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: just a tough one. And it makes a game that
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: looked great on paper coming in, if it was Lamar
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Jackson and Trevor Lawrence, and loses a little bit of luster,
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: I think, especially with how well the Jags are playing
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like you've got no chance. You don't
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: have a quarterback. I mean, it's just so hard, right?
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: It's just so hard what you're doing there. And I
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: think that's what we're seeing right now from these guys.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: All right, it's Steve Palazzolo joining us here on the
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Let's look around. Philadelphia, same thing. They're
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: going to Joe Milton, who wasn't even good enough to
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: be a backup in Dallas. I know that they weren't
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: happy with him there with some of the preparation, shall
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: we say, and things like that. So what the hell's
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: going on there with Joe Milton?
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Joe Milton is just fun. So hopefully he'll be fun
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: on Sunday. He doesn't use one of those big-armed, inaccurate
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: quarterbacks when, you know, that's why he doesn't, you know,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: it goes until the sixth round coming out, but he's,
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's got as big of an arm as
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: anybody in the NFL. And the thing about the inaccurate
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: quarterback is sometimes it's like, all right, get them in
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: the building. Let's see if we could fix them. What's
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: intriguing about Milton is he's shown elements of being better,
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: both in the preseason with the new England Patriots, one
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: start with the Patriots in week 18 and And like
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: a preseason game with the Dallas Cowboys. So what's intriguing
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: about him is there's been times where it's like, wow,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: the footwork looks good. He looks comfortable in the pocket.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: He could throw on the run, makes big plays inside
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: of structure, outside of structure. But the consistency is still
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: not there. But it'll be fun. Like he might hit
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: a couple bombs. He might throw three interceptions, might, you know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: overthrow somebody by a mile.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: It'll be fun.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: It'll be intriguing. I can't wait to see if somebody
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: can harness Joe Milton at some point, though. But on
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: the other side, the Patriots traded him for almost nothing.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: The Cowboys let him walk. So there's something going on
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: there where nobody really believes in him, but he's as
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: toolsy as it gets when it comes to the quarterback position.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: So see if the Eagles can at least get some
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: sort of big playability out of their offense, which has
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: been awful so far this season.
• 16:36
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  Speaker 2: All right. Uh, Kyler Murray, he's out. So Carson Wentz
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: is still in the league. Steve, is that true? Did
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I just see that? Right. Is Carson Wentz still in the,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: in the national football league?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: He's still there. He played a little bit for Minnesota
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: earlier this year, last year. So, yeah, Carson Wentz getting
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: the start. It's not looking good in Minnesota for the
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: quarterback position. Looking great on the defensive side, but they're
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out a quarterback. There were rumors that
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: maybe they might be in the Jacoby Brissett sweepstakes, so
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: to speak. It's going to be Wentz because Kyler has
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: just not been a fit. I don't think that might
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: be the soft benching that you guys are talking about, though.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: He's got a hamstring tweak that popped up on Monday, Kyler,
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: and the Vikings may have done something like that with J.J.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: McCarthy last year as well.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Interesting. That's soft benching. Like we said at the start,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: this is definitely not the case here as we look
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: around the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers looking more and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: more like they're going to walk away with the NFC West.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: They got the Brandon Ayuk situation, but they're getting healthy
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: right now. And the first time this year we'll see
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: DeForest Buckner in a game. They're taking on the Raiders.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: What do you think he's going to bring to that
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: team and that defense?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Just another interior pass rusher, good run stopper, immediately the
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: best defensive tackle on that team. And look, they've already,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: they've done a better job in the, against the run
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: defensively than I had thought going in. I thought they
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: were going to get beat up at the defensive tackle
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: in particular in the run game, but they've been pretty
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: good there. Fred Warner makes so much come together for
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: that defense now that he's healthy. Yeah. They just have
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: a chance to reload. Like they have done a great
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: job with all of the turnover at receiver, all of
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: the injuries and, Brock Purdy playing the best football of
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: his career. I know they're coming off a loss before
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: the bye with Atlanta. But, you know, Mike Evans will
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: be back at some point. And they're just in a–
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: they are in a really good spot. I think it's,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: you know, Purdy's keeping it all together offensively and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: defense with Raheem Morris coming in. I'm doing a really
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: nice job with Fred Warner in the middle where he
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: just makes such an impact and you feel it every week.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: And I think the D line is getting their reinforcements.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: You have Warner, you have a secondary that's been playing well.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think the Niners, they're in good shape
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: despite all the injuries throughout the season.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: The before you go, Steve trade deadlines coming up at
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the time we talk again, the trade deadline will have
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: come and gone. What do you think may or may
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: not happen with Jonathan Taylor and what should happen with
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor?
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, I could just see him being a part
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: of the Colts future. I think the next general manager,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: the reason why they trade DeForest Buckner and Quentin Nelson
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: is they're in the last years of their contract. that
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: kind of makes sense to get rid of somebody that
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: you might lose nothing. You know, we get nothing for
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: basically Josh downs. I could see him being traded, but Taylor,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I could see them saying, look, we've got a couple
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: more years of Taylor. We already paid him his bonus
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: and everything. Let's keep him around. Let's you just have
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: to keep him on board and say, look, we're going to,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: we're going to turn this around. We're going to figure
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: it out. We're going to get the new guy in here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: But I could see Taylor staying and I don't know
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: which teams, maybe the Vikings, but I don't know which
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: teams around the NFL are, are desperate enough for the
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: running back upgrade that they have to make that move
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: to go get Jonathan Taylor. So I could see him
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: still staying in Indianapolis. I could see him getting traded,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: but I guess I'll lean toward him staying at this point.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You guys on the Check the Mic podcast, not to
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: be a total spoiler, but you had some midseason awards.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Does our friend JSN factor in there somewhere?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we gave him Offensive Player of the Year,
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: and we debated him for MVP. And on our show,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: we very rarely talk about non-quarterbacks for MVP. It's just
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: the nature of football. But when you stack up what
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: JSN has done with an inconsistent Sam Darnold, with basically
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: two games of Drew Locke, with no help elsewhere on
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: the offense, I think JSN has to be in that conversation.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: for MVP. And if the Seahawks had a better record,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I think you'd have even more of a conversation about it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: But yeah, he's been incredible. And he's one of the
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: few non-quarterbacks I think you could say has had MVP
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: type of impact this season.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: All right, go check that out. Check the mic. Tell
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: folks about the Check the Mic podcast. I'm a podcast guy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily watch on YouTube, but I know you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: guys are on YouTube as well. But it's a great,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: great place for any NFL fan to check out. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: you guys, the amount of content you guys put out
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: is amazing too. Fire away.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, check the mic anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: And then, yeah, YouTube. We are live on YouTube every Monday, Wednesday,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: and Thursday, and we cover the whole league, every team,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: somewhat equally. So we try to be as unbiased as
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: possible and cover all 32 teams.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I will say this. They are, and they don't just
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: cover the Cowboys and the Jets and the Giants and
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs. They do more than that. Thank God. Thank
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: God for you and others. All right. Hey, we'll talk
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to you next week. Thank you very much, Steve. Appreciate it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: All right. Steve Palazzolo, check the Mike podcast. We'll take
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: a break.
• 21:59
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• 21:59
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• 22:04
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• 22:19
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• 22:28
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• 22:30
  Speaker 2: KJRFM tonight. Jacksonville, Baltimore. We took that game, did we not?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: We sure did.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Jacksonville minus the 10. I wonder what that spread is
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: at right now.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: That's funny you say that. I was just going to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: ask you that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Still at 10.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Still at 10.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a blowout.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of think so too. We got, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: didn't see what the other one, let me see what
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: this one was. You know, the one that's that, that
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: we did take too. You, oh, so it's only, I'm
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: going to refresh again. We've only gone up a half
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: a point in Notre Dame, Miami.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: That's interesting. Cause I would think that one after the
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: news yesterday would have changed drastically.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: We got it at seven. It's now seven and a half,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: which doesn't help us much or help her. It doesn't
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: change much, but the Malachi Tony being out for the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: year or not out for the next six weeks, which
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: is effectively the regular season. That should change that on Saturday.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:18
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• 23:20
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• 23:21
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• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I have been just racking my brain for hours.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I can tell.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just very distracted. So she'll have that for you
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: coming up here. So we've got a few minutes here.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: We're going to get to Daily Power Play at 145.
• 23:37
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• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Don't call now.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Don't call now. We'll tell you when. Thank you.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I'm locking the phones.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: We will tell you when to call.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So I wake up this morning and I'm sipping on
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: some coffee, trying to shake the cobwebs out. I glance
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: up and I see my buddy Bill Wixie on Fox 13.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: He tosses over my other buddy, John Hopperstead, and they've
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: got news from the NBA. And I'm like, what? I
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: have news from the NBA. What do we got going
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: on here? Usually I thought I was fairly on top
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: of such things. So yesterday at a post-election media availability,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the fine governor of our state, Bobby Ferguson... I can
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: call him Bobby because I went to school with him.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, yes, you can.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: St.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Anne's Elementary School up there in Queen Anne. Bobby sits
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: there just as he did when he was a class
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: president in second and third grade.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Started his political career early.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Then later at Blanchett and then later at UW. ASP
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: president and all that. Bobby tells us that, yeah, I'm
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: talking to the commissioner or the NBA. We've reached out
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: or they're going to have a conversation. And they are
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: doing something via Zoom. That gets people all revved up. Oh,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: here we go. It's getting close. I cannot emphasize this enough.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: If and when the NBA comes back, the people that
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: need to take zero credit for it and don't, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: really frankly, aren't very involved are anybody who was elected
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to a political office. And I'll just leave it at that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Agreed.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: It's well said.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But why is this newsworthy? Well, let's connect the dots,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: shall we? We're still waiting on the Vegas situation. We
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: had heard, and I'm just going to say we, some guys,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the people working on the story, that we had heard
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: that maybe the Vegas decision in terms of ownership, we
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: haven't heard that publicly, that maybe it has come to
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: a conclusion. And it will not be Bill Foley, the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Vegas owner, Vegas Golden Knights owner, who actually owns and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: operates the building, T-Mobile Arena as well, which would lead
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you to believe that either temporarily play in T-Mobile with
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: a lease, which wouldn't be fun for a new owner
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: paying billions of dollars, like probably close to 10 in Vegas,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: or they would probably have to build a building. Well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that's not going to happen in a year's time or
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: two years time. So they start wondering about 2029. I'm
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: just guessing, talking out loud, maybe 2029 is more realistic
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: if they want to bring them both in at the
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: same time. But until that gets rectified, expansion decisions probably
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: won't be made. So we're still waiting. End of the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: year is still a month and almost two months away.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: We're on November 5th. But Why would– to connect the dots,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: why would the governor need to speak to or why
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: would the commissioner need to speak to the governor who
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the ownership group in the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: state of Washington? Well, politically, we just saw the repeal
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: of the billionaire tax– millionaire tax, not billionaire.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Millionaire tax. It looks like– I think it already has failed.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I think it's– Yeah, the repeal failed. I think the
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: AP has called that race. They've called– the big initiatives
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: in our state, that one, the gender identification bill that's
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: got people all in an uproar. I think those have
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: both been called. And in the case of the millionaire's tax,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: right now it's scheduled to go into effect in a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: couple of years. Well, that is a concern to professional
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: sports leagues. And don't shoot the messenger here. The reality
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: is when the majority of your employees are making that
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: kind of money, at least the players when I talk employees,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: whether it be NFL, MLB, NHL, Those three and the NBA,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: NBA for sure, they're all making that kind of money.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: That's a concern. That would be a concern if you're
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the commissioner of the NBA. It doesn't take much to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: figure out that that would be concerning to him. Now,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I know there's other states in the country that have income.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I get that. They're not trying to get an expansion team.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: That's the difference.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And also the other states with the income tax, that's
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: an income tax on everybody and a percentage based off
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: your income, obviously, but this is specifically targeting millionaires.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Millionaires who are professional athletes oftentimes. And there's a lot
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to this. The public has spoken and that's the way
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the world should work in our country. We should be
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: able to, whatever the majority wants, that's what it should be.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: But when you're talking about expansion and the NBA commissioner-
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: is sitting in his office. His job is to protect
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and to look out for the league, whether it be
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: owners or players, et cetera. And I would think, let's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: connect the dots and use some common sense, that if
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: the commissioner is speaking to the governor or vice versa,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: that would probably be the conversation. Because Bobby has nothing
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to do with ownership.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: He's not investing.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: He has nothing to do with the building. That's a
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: one roof slash city of Seattle property, but he does
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: have something to do with the tax that he just
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: pushed through.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: So just you think about that for a second. That's
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: now I'm not saying, and I know people get.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Very, there's going to be somebody, Oh, Ian, I'm not.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Saying that you vote against it or vote for it
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: based on the NBA coming back. Yeah. That's not what
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Again, the public has spoken and good. I mean,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that's what it should be. I mean, Actually, voting results
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: should be respected in this country, whatever they might be,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: whether you agree or disagree. The thing with this is
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that you have a situation now where if you're going
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to bring a team to this area and to this state,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: that is something that will be discussed. Among other things,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: franchise fee is the other part of it. There is
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a drop-dead number that makes no sense to bring a
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: team back here. And I know for all of us
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: as fans, we want to see it. But whatever that
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: drop-dead number that Sam and Samantha Hallway, Melinda French-Gates, Annie
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Jassy and others may have, whatever that drop-dead number is,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you right now, it's below the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: $ 10 million that you're hearing in Vegas. It is below that.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Significantly below that. Because at some point then it becomes
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: a business model in a franchise that doesn't work. And
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: it doesn't work for them. It's not going to work
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: for you as a fan in terms of tickets and
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: concessions and average, all the things that come into play.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So it's eerily quiet right now. But that did come
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: out today. You may see that and understand, again, that
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Bobby has nothing to do with this other than that,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: what I just talked about. And I'm sure now, hopefully,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: if there are concerns, if there are concerns by the NBA,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: then hopefully he can alleviate those. I don't know how,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: because you will pay those taxes as an athlete unless
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: you're at the very bottom rung of a roster, like
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a two-way contract with the G League. You'll be paying
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: those taxes. And you said it very well, Ashley. Those
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: other taxes in other states, by and large... They exist
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: for everybody in the state. I worked in two of
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: those states, two NBA cities in both Salt Lake and Utah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I paid them. Carl Malone paid them. Brandon Roy paid them,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: et cetera. You get the point. We all pay the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: same tax. This is a little bit different. It's targeting
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: people making a lot more money. And whether it's good
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: or bad for the state, time will tell.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Right. And there are people texting, well, it's just going
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to open the door for others. We're not talking about
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: the political aspect of it. It doesn't matter what's happening
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: right now. All we can talk about is what is
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: actually in front of us.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And there's a big, there's a strong push by many.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, if we're being honest, it's unconstitutional by our
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: state constitution.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Right. And it's not supposed to start for two more years.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: For two more years.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've already had it on a ballot once.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: But think about this. Two years is the exact same
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: timing we're talking about.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying there's still more chances for this to
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: go up and people to fight against it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: There will be lawsuits for that, and there will be
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: lawsuits for the other bill, the gender identification bill. There
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: will be lawsuits. We don't let things just go by
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the wayside in our country anymore. We don't accept things
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: as being this was what was voted on. We have
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: to file lawsuits. and the state constitution comes into play,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: all those different things. But I think when you hear–
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: because you'll see that headline. I think the Times had
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a story on it too. The TV stations love that
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: because in amongst Bobby talking about everything else that happened
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: over the course of Election Day on Tuesday, that was
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: like the very end. I don't know if he was asked.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: He brought it up. Hey, I'm talking to the commissioner.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: And he's right. He thought, hey, we're a great NBA city.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: We should be an NBA city. I did find it
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: interesting last night. We're doing a show, and I get
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: in my ear, hey, we're going to show– a suite
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and it's Todd, my wiki sitting with Spencer Haywood. Oh, interesting.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Which I thought was interesting to Spencer. Hey, I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: he's a, he Spencer Haywood is the original face of
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the NBA in our city. NBA hall of famer before
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: there was Gary, before there was Sean, before there was George,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: before there was Dennis Johnson, before there was Gus Williams
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: or even Lenny Wilkins. There was, well, actually Lenny played
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: before Spencer, but you get the point. Spencer was our
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: first real superstar in this league. So he was there
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: at the game last night. Looking good too with Todd,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: my wiki. Spencer, I'm just, I'm partial Spencer as big as,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He was like one of the first guys I remember
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: growing up.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Because I'm old. But it was cool to see him
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: there last night. All right. Daily Power Play. Kraken, big
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: win last night. And then we'll get you set for
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Funston coming up at 2 o'clock.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: 93.3 KDRFM.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Here comes the Kraken. Good half. Dumpers in.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: The way.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Down the shot.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: He scores!
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: This is the Daily Power Play. On your home for
• 33:34
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• 33:51
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• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Seattle Kraken with Ian Furness. The power play, power play.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Matt Fakert in around Buneers, across to Coronado.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: Picked off.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Montour ahead to Buneers.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: The game on his stick in the slot.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Score!
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Let's go home! Matty Buneers wins it in overtime.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: 2-1 Seattle.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Nemitz on the trailer. Here's a puck stolen. Beniers could
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: have a breakaway the other way.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: He will.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: And he's got Montour with him. Matty Beniers shoots and scores!
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Matty Beniers got it!
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Seattle wins it 2-1! Game-winning calls last night, Everett, and
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: yours truly there on radio and TV, respectively. I'll tell you,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: our radio stuff sounds good. I give a shout-out to
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: our crazy, eccentric, wild engineer, Terry Ryan. Our radio stuff
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: sounds good.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: It sounds really good.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We've got a good team. The stereo of the
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: FM on 93.3 KJR FM sounds good. You can tell
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the difference between a radio and TV call?
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: There's a bit like a.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because he has to say so much more.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Everything.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's very different, but Everett nailed it. Absolutely nailed it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I just love when he's like, we're going home.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: We're going home.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Let's go home.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing. Can we go home now? Okay,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: we can.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: That was fast overtime.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Great call, Ev. Fitz, well done.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Well done to you, too. They were all great.
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Well, the only thing you can do in those situations
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: is screw it up. Well, true.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Try to say too much or take away from the moment.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Let the play... Let the play breathe. But yeah, Everett
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: had a great call and a fun game to do
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: last night. They're cracking now three and one in overtimes
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I know, which is, I was like thinking to myself last.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Night, who are these guys?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Three and one. But here's the thing. They're one and
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: one in three on three. They're 2-0 in shootouts to
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: get to the 3-0.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: That's the crazy part.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: That is the crazy part.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Because shootouts last year, I was like, oh, well, it's
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: going to be a loss.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Last couple of years. Ash, last couple of years. Yeah,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it's been nice. Yes, and like I, last night, I
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: don't know, get to the shootout, we'll be fine. We'll
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: see what happens. But good win last night. Calgary's better.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: If you take three or four in the season series,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: you're done with them. And probably good, because they're good.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: You don't want to see them again. Move on. Like,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: let's just move on from Calgary. Which the Kraken will.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: They'll be on the ice on Saturday taking on the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: New York Rangers. That's a 2 o'clock start. Bento and
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: company will have the pregame on the radio for you
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: at 1.30. We should point out that's on 9.50 on
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the AM dial. iHeartRadio app as well. Because we've got
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Husky football. They're playing Penn State at 12.30 on Saturday.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: So just make a note of that if you're a
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Kraken fan. If you're driving around and you're not able
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: to get to the game or watch on TV and
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: you're relying on the radio and the great call from
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Fitz and Al. And Bento, it'll be on 9.50 on
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the AM dial, but again, the clear feed is the
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: perfect one is on the app. Why would you not
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: have the app? Because if you have the app, you
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: can send us talkbacks, right? That's right.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: You sure can.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, so great stuff. Jager Fergus called up today by
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the Kraken.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, there's some great names on this team.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: There are. He's having a really nice season for the
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Coachella Valley. He's got 12 points in 12 games. I've
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: been waiting to see him. I don't know if he'll
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: make his debut Saturday or if they're just bringing him
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: on the trip. I know there's a couple injuries, so
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: But good for him. He's very deserving of that. So
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: at some point, maybe he'll make his NHL debut this year. Again, Saturday,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: 1.30 pregame, 9.50 a.m. Also on the iHeartRadio app. And
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock, drop in the puck before they head to Finland.
• 37:28
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• 37:33
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• 37:35
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• 37:35
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• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Mike's already calling.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Attaboy, Mike.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: 206-286-9595. If you're calling in and it rings, it takes
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: a while for Ashley to answer like eight or nine
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: phone calls at once. So just be patient, and we'll
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: get to your phone calls. Text as well, 49451. The
• 37:53
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