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Ian Furness 9/16 H3: More from the VMAC, including Mike MacDonald's updates on the QB, talkbacks and Softy! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrook Coors Light.
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  Speaker 2: Cold as the Rockies. All right, lots going on out
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  Speaker 2: here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center today where we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the show. Mike McDonald spoke to the media a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hours ago, and here's what we know. Darnold
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  Speaker 2: and Dean, Sam Darnold, will not play this weekend. More
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  Speaker 2: on that in a second. We'll hear from the coach.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Emanwuri, Torrey Horton expected to practice today. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: the practice report out later on this afternoon. Not sure
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with Ty Okada, although there's a chance
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  Speaker 2: he could play this week, according to McDonald. They will
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  Speaker 2: not sign a third quarterback. Lots going on for the
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  Speaker 2: mighty Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Mariners are done.
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  Speaker 2: Pitching showed up last night. Anheim bats for Norby found.
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  Speaker 2: They lose 2-1 to the Angels. Third loss in a row.
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  Speaker 2: They fall 6-1 behind Houston, the AL West. Ten games
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  Speaker 2: to go. They will finish with a losing record this
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  Speaker 2: season if they win out They'll have just 80 wins
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  Speaker 2: on the season. That's where they are right now. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey Devils hiring former Seattle Kraken assistant coach Jessica
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  Speaker 2: Campbell as a manager of player development. Of course, she
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  Speaker 2: was the first woman to serve as a full-time bench
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  Speaker 2: coach behind the NHL or behind the NHL behind the
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  Speaker 2: bench in the NHL here in Seattle. Finally, Jake Tong
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  Speaker 2: is tied in for the 49ers out for the season
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  Speaker 2: with a knee injury. And DeJuan Stribling, who's probably their
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  Speaker 2: number two receiver, rookie out of Ole Miss, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to miss at least 10 weeks with An injury as well.
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  Speaker 2: Hour number three. Here we go. Hanging out at the
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Mason Athletic Center today with all my friends. Corbin
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  Speaker 2: Smith has sat down. He's going to join us here.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, buddy? I'm good. Thanks for having me
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  Speaker 2: as always. Emerald City Spectrum and so much more, which
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about in a second. Ashley's back in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: She's got some sound we're going to play in a
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  Speaker 2: second from Mike McDonald. A couple of sound bites from
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  Speaker 2: the press conference earlier today. Should mention coming up bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the hour, text 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line.
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  Speaker 2: You can also send us talkbacks as well. but four, nine, four, five,
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  Speaker 2: a $ 10, 000 grand prize. We'll react to this. Ashley, go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and you set up and play what you want
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  Speaker 2: to play here from Mike McDonald. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Our first clip is going to be Mike's answer basically
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  Speaker 4: to how much does it help to have Drew?
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  Speaker 5: No, he's starting this early in the week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get all the reps. He's, he's, he's our starter
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  Speaker 6: this week and what we'll, uh, we'll operate accordingly, but
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  Speaker 6: Drew's going to start here for, for a while. So, um,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm looking forward to seeing him practice today, just
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  Speaker 6: like I am Sam when he's playing. It's, uh, we had,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we've had some episodes in our, in our
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  Speaker 6: history here, especially the latter parts of last year. I'm
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  Speaker 6: sure you know what I'm talking about, where we felt like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Drew was about to go play for us and, um,
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  Speaker 6: and really nothing, nothing changes.
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  Speaker 4: So, I expect nothing to change with Drew's demeanor.
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  Speaker 3: Or the way he approaches his work, but have you
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  Speaker 3: seen anything different, a spring to step, an enthusiasm, a joy, anything?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's Drew. That's the way Drew is every day.
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  Speaker 6: Drew's a joyful guy. He's a great guy. He's got
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  Speaker 6: his own personality, which we love. He's got his style
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  Speaker 6: of playing quarterback, which is what we want here. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: we want to be within the scheme and how we're
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  Speaker 6: training our guys, but you've got to be yourself, too.
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  Speaker 6: And Georgia's definitely that, and we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley, hold off on the second one just for a second. Corbin,
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  Speaker 2: I think his own personality, Leonard Williams was talking about
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  Speaker 2: how he's confident. And he's, you know, I think we
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  Speaker 2: see him, I think on the post-game show after the
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  Speaker 2: game on Wednesday night last week, we saw him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. You guys talked to him in the press
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  Speaker 2: room afterwards. Locke is, how would I want to say this,
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  Speaker 2: he's Goofy's not the right word. He's fun. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he takes himself seriously, but he's got a
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  Speaker 2: very likable personality. But there's a confidence there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams talked about that.
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  Speaker 3: I think charismatic is the best word.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way to use it.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's always been, even when he's had his
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  Speaker 3: chances here to start, when he was competing with Geno
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  Speaker 3: Smith back in the day, he's always been a pretty
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  Speaker 3: open book. That's just who he is. He's got kind
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  Speaker 3: of a laid-back personality. and I think that you see
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  Speaker 3: that sometimes with the way that he plays quarterback, but
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  Speaker 3: I think he's had to pull back a little bit
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  Speaker 3: on that. You can't be thrown into quadruple coverage all
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  Speaker 3: the time, and I think that some of those experiences
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  Speaker 3: that he's had early in his career, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: humbled him some. He's still got swagger, but I think
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  Speaker 3: it's humbled him some, and it's put him in a
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  Speaker 3: position now where he understands, hey, I've got to do
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  Speaker 3: what the offense is asking me to do. I've got
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  Speaker 3: a coordinator that's going to scheme guys open. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get the football to him, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 3: the ball out, and I'm going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: move the pocket when I need to, but I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to push the issue and try to get outside
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  Speaker 3: the pocket too early. He's figured out a lot of
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  Speaker 3: those dynamics.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley, what do you have for us next?
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  Speaker 4: All right, this one is Mike's answer to, is Sam
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  Speaker 4: totally shut down or is he already rehabbing?
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  Speaker 6: He's killing it on his rehab. He's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 6: He's doing a lot right now. He's not going to
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  Speaker 6: be able to play this week.
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  Speaker 7: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there we go. Thanks, Ash. All right, so I
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  Speaker 2: think the fact that they, Corbin, they did not sign
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  Speaker 2: a third quarterback is telling.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: In the sense that he's not playing this week, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to bring a third guy in just
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  Speaker 2: for a week to run a scout team and what
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  Speaker 2: have you. And as an insurance policy, there's every rumor
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  Speaker 2: in the world out there, oh, the Seahawks are inquiring
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  Speaker 2: about J.J. McCarthy or this and all this other nonsense
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  Speaker 2: that's going on out there. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: You listen to Mike McDonald, they're optimistic about his return,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that they're not going down and bringing
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  Speaker 2: a guy in I think is telling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wrote an article about it earlier this week that, look,
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  Speaker 3: you had to look at some options if you felt
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  Speaker 3: like he was going to be out for two, three,
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  Speaker 3: four games. If this would have been an injured reserve stint,
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  Speaker 3: then you have to. In today's NFL, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: have a third quarterback available. But if this is only
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  Speaker 3: going to be a one-week, two-at-the-most type scenario... Again, we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to pour the resources in to get a
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  Speaker 3: guy ready on the practice squad. I understand that. To me,
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  Speaker 3: that was just one of the many encouraging updates here.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that he's saying that he's already doing
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  Speaker 3: a lot in his rehab. When you have a soft
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  Speaker 3: tissue injury, you can start to work back into stuff.
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  Speaker 3: The issue is you can feel like it's healed and
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  Speaker 3: it's not. So that's why they have to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that he is right before they bring him back.
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  Speaker 2: There was an interesting comment today made by Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: in the press conference, and he said that Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 2: is going to get first-team reps this week. And then
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Cupp came into the media room afterwards, and Greg
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  Speaker 2: asked him a great question. He said, hey, Greg Bell did.
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  Speaker 2: He said, hey, how many times– this is to Cupp.
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  Speaker 2: He says, how many times did Drew Locke throw to
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  Speaker 2: you last year in the 20 weeks of the regular
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  Speaker 2: season and playoffs? And Cupp kind of looked at him like,
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  Speaker 2: how many times? He says, like, how often did he
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  Speaker 2: get reps? Like, you know, five, ten, whatever. And Cupp goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: about ten. So that tells you how little work the
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  Speaker 2: backup quarterback in season gets with the starting receivers. So
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Milrow is going to get some work this week, though,
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  Speaker 2: because if Drew Locke wasn't getting any reps with those guys,
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  Speaker 2: you sure as hell know that in two years or
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  Speaker 2: a year plus, Jalen Milrow hasn't had any. So they're
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  Speaker 2: giving him some reps this week.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're doing what they have to do because
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  Speaker 3: the thing that's nice about this is you have a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in Drew Locke that has played a lot of
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  Speaker 3: snaps in regular season games. And he could come into
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  Speaker 3: a game like he did last week, and you could
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  Speaker 3: quickly make adjustments with him, and he would be able
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  Speaker 3: to handle that. If Jalen Milrow hasn't been getting any
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  Speaker 3: reps with any of these starting players, and he gets
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  Speaker 3: thrust into a game, I'm not going to go as
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  Speaker 3: far as saying it's like when the Broncos had to
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  Speaker 3: play the receiver at quarterback, but it puts you at
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  Speaker 3: a massive disadvantage, and it really puts the kid in
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  Speaker 3: a position that he can't succeed. So you want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure, and it's not going to be a ton,
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  Speaker 3: you still have to make sure Drew Locke is getting
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  Speaker 3: loads of the reps, but you've got to get enough where,
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  Speaker 3: God forbid, if something happened to Drew Locke in Arizona,
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  Speaker 3: and we know the house of horrors that State Farm
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  Speaker 3: Stadium has been over the years.
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  Speaker 2: God, I didn't think about that part of the equation.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to make sure that you've got at least, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we've gotten him some reps this week, because you know
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  Speaker 3: that you would have to modify your game plan in-game
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  Speaker 3: if he came in for Drew Locke as well. The.
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  Speaker 2: The run game's got to be so important. And it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be interesting. We've got Notre Dame versus Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame this week, right? Jadarian Price versus Jeremiah Love. The
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  Speaker 2: only two running backs taken in the first round of
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  Speaker 2: this year's NFL draft from the same school, obviously. Fourth
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  Speaker 2: time that that's happened in NFL history. And they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be on the opposite sidelines. I had Riley Mills
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  Speaker 2: in earlier. He had a conversation and effusive in his
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  Speaker 2: praise for both guys. How do you think that matchup's
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  Speaker 2: going to look? I know you wrote a little something
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  Speaker 2: about that, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's fascinating because when you look at
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  Speaker 3: the efficiency numbers from this past week, Jadarian Price was
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  Speaker 3: the more efficient runner. But Jeremiah Love had the touchdown
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the game. They kind of set
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  Speaker 3: the tone for Arizona. And he averaged 3.7 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 3: Price was at 5.2. But they both were very similar.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was just one carry separating them. Love
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  Speaker 3: had 11 and Price had 10. So both of them
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  Speaker 3: were kind of getting weaned into the action game. and
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  Speaker 3: their respective teams are not using them as bell cows yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious to see how much Arizona deploys Love this week, though.
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  Speaker 3: Something tells me we're going to, especially in the passing game,
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  Speaker 3: he only had two catches. I expect that Michael Fleur
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  Speaker 3: is going to be looking for ways to try to
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  Speaker 3: test Seattle horizontally.
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  Speaker 2: And get him the football in the passing game. Corbin,
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  Speaker 2: this is Monday night game this week. Everyone's watching Kenneth Walker,
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  Speaker 2: the third goal bananas, right? Everybody just has this great game,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like the consternation starts. Why did they
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  Speaker 2: not re-sign Kenneth Walker? and like you can't look back
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  Speaker 2: on your decision it was a financial decision we all
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  Speaker 2: know that like it's just it and the thing i
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  Speaker 2: found amazing about it was and i guess maybe frustrating
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  Speaker 2: at times was the fact that they used him as
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  Speaker 2: that so-called he said bell cow like there was we
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  Speaker 2: were watching the game and like oh was that four
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  Speaker 2: straight carries for ken walker Has he ever had four
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  Speaker 2: straight carries ever in his life in Seattle?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Like at some point, that's got to be a Helani
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  Speaker 2: or Charbonnet carry, doesn't it? Like it can't be him again.
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  Speaker 2: And yet they use him as a bell cow. That
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  Speaker 2: being the context, Jadarian Price, 10 carries. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: get more than that in a game, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 3: I think what you're going to see is each week
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be a progression in the amount of carries.
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  Speaker 3: Because you have to remember, I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 3: real thing. He didn't start a game at Notre Dame. Now,
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  Speaker 3: my counterargument for that would be he didn't start a game.
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  Speaker 3: He's got fresh legs. But when you haven't had that
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  Speaker 3: experience and you've never been that 20-plus carry game guy,
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  Speaker 3: I think he can do it eventually. But you've got
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  Speaker 3: to build him up to that, especially when he didn't
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  Speaker 3: play at all in the preseason. And this is how
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  Speaker 3: Seattle does things. And when Zach Charbonnet gets back, this
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  Speaker 3: is going to be a by-committee with those two guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's who's got the hot hand. And that's how John Schneider.
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  Speaker 2: Likes it, to be honest. Yeah, exactly. How similar is
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  Speaker 2: this offense to what Seattle has seen before that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to see on Sunday with LaFleur?
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  Speaker 3: With only having one game to work off of. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I went back and watched some clips from the New
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  Speaker 3: York Jets a few years back when LeFleur was the
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  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator. So, that's how deep I go. I expect
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to see a lot of three tight
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  Speaker 3: end sets. We saw this this past week.
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  Speaker 2: So, very Rams-like.
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  Speaker 3: The most recent Rams, because they transitioned into that last year.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm expecting to see a lot of three tight
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  Speaker 3: end sets there. I think they have the second most
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  Speaker 3: in the league this past week. And again, it's one week,
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  Speaker 3: it's mostly ample size. But the other thing, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't throw the ball to their running backs very much.
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  Speaker 3: That is something I am anticipating that is going to be,
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  Speaker 3: that might have been something that Mike LaFleur was kind
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  Speaker 3: of holding back on a little bit for this game
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  Speaker 3: against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's, I mean, it's a fascinating matchup because two
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago you're thinking, okay, well, you got the tough
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  Speaker 2: one against the Patriots, but you should handle them. And
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  Speaker 2: then you've got the Cardinals. That's a win. And then
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  Speaker 2: the schedule gets a lot tougher. I mean, the commanders,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. Who knows what they're going to be like
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  Speaker 2: next week. But you look at that, you're like, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: then the Cardinals, and you wrote about this on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Weird weekend in the NFC West. The team that's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be awful was pretty good. The team that was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be 17-0 got just smashed last week. Crazy
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  Speaker 2: start to the NFC West.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Sean McVay learned his lesson. If you're
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  Speaker 3: ever going to make that trip down to the.
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  Speaker 2: Down under, I guess they never will again.
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  Speaker 3: You probably should, uh, probably should go a week early
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  Speaker 3: at minimum because of the body adjustments. But, uh, It's
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  Speaker 3: always weird with Week 1 because we saw the Raiders
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  Speaker 3: beat the Patriots last year in Week 1, and I
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  Speaker 3: think they won one game the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Week 1 can be the ultimate fool's gold. But there
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  Speaker 3: were some things that I saw re-watching the Arizona game
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  Speaker 3: that impressed me. I mean, they didn't blitz much, which
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  Speaker 3: is weird for Arizona. They got the same defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: He blitzed a lot last year. They only blitzed 17%
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  Speaker 3: of that game, but they got three sacks on Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 3: And they played... I think it was 43% of 3-4 base,
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  Speaker 3: which you just don't see teams do that. But that
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  Speaker 3: kind of told you what they thought of the Chargers receivers.
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  Speaker 3: We're not scared of your receivers. They're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do that against Seattle. So I'm expecting
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  Speaker 3: to see a lot different game plan from them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk receivers. How much does Seattle need Torrey Horton?
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  Speaker 3: You're never going to turn down having a 6'2 guy
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  Speaker 3: that can run like a deer and can win downfield.
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  Speaker 3: It's just another guy they have to worry about. I
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  Speaker 3: think you have to look at last week. I've seen
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fans talking about Rasheed Shaheed, only one
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  Speaker 3: catch for four yards. It's like, But look at what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold goes down six plays in. Brian Fleury has
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  Speaker 3: never called plays in a regular season game before. He's
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  Speaker 3: got to now pivot. Okay, Drew Locke got no reps
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  Speaker 3: to speak of this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you're in, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to try to cater this game plan. It
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  Speaker 3: took him a little while to try to figure out
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  Speaker 3: how can we adjust this. I can't blame the skill players.
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  Speaker 3: In that case, if it were Drew Locke, of course
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Jackson Smith and Jumper.
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  Speaker 2: Or Cooper's pulling up for Cooper to go get.
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  Speaker 3: The fans that are panicking about that, we saw what
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  Speaker 3: Rasheed Shaheed did in training camp. I don't expect that
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  Speaker 3: to be the norm. There's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 3: of games where he has a lot more productivity. I
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  Speaker 3: would expect now that he's getting reps this week with
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke that we're going to see him and Torrey Horton.
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  Speaker 3: I expect Horton's going to play this week, but it's
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  Speaker 3: just another guy. that can stretch the field, and can
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  Speaker 3: create after the catch. We know how talented he is.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the one time that Rashid Shaheed was in
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  Speaker 2: the backfield, there was a penalty called, so the play
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: got blown dead, right? Because I think we're going to
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: see that a little bit, too.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're going to see some moving around.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: I just think they had to get away from a
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: lot of that stuff this past week just because... That
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: playbook condenses so much when you have a backup, even
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: a backup that's experienced. Like Drew Locke, he didn't do
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: much this week with the starters. We have to pull back,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: and then you're just going to, let's make some easy
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: completions for him. This week you can actually game plan
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: with the quarterback.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: That you've got. Let's talk defense first. Weird first week
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: in the NFL in terms of defense as well. It
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: was optional. It was very optional. The Rams get 27
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: put on them. All right, down under or not, they
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: gave up 27. Texans gave up 36. And that's what
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I was going to bring up. The Texans gave up
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: 36 points to the Buffalo Bills with a new coaching staff, effectively.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: And if I just look at the numbers, I mean,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: 409 net yards for Buffalo. And they didn't do great
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: on third down. They were three for nine. But they
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: just did big plays. I mean, they just rolled those guys.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: And I guess the other one that just kind of
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: jumped out at me, too, What happened in Detroit. Like,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Detroit all of a sudden gives up a bunch of points.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And Carolina, which I know isn't a great team, you
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: give up almost 60 points in the NFL. That's a problem.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, I know everybody's talking about the Bears
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: putting up 59, and that's incredibly impressive. But you also
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: let Bryce Young put up almost 40 points on you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: I still don't consider the Bears to be a legitimate contender. Really?
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go that far because I just think...
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: if they had a healthy Kobe Bryant, I thought that
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: was going to be.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: A big difference maker for them.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Their defense is just like, yeah, I know they create turnovers,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: but you can't live and die with a porous defense
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: that creates turnovers because if you're not creating them and
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: you're playing it like, and I don't know what Carolina's
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: defense was doing that game, but them and Denver.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the other team I was going to bring up.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Denver gives up 31 and just couldn't get a stop.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: 28 missed tackles in that game. For almost 300 yards.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So Leonard Williams was asked that today in the press
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: conference when Leonard Williams had his media availability. And someone
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: asked him about the tackling. I don't know if it
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: was Matt or you. It wasn't me. Maybe John Boyle.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: But somebody asked him about the tackling. Bob, this is Condona.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: The fact that starters don't play in the preseason anymore.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: It's one thing on offense, you're trying to work on timing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: But defense, learning how to tackle and stuff.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: And they don't tackle in practice anymore either.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: No, no. So there's no tackling done since the Super Bowl.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: This isn't Mike Holmgren and Cheney.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: No, nothing's Mike Holmgren and Cheney. But yeah, no, you're right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But they did that. And Leonard Williams even said, hey,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was okay, but there was one
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: time when I kind of didn't plant my feet and
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I just kind of didn't finish it. And he's like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: we've got to get to that mindset again.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: See, I've had this conversation. I've actually talked to a
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: couple of the running backs that are in this room,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: in the locker room, about this. And I can't expand
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: on what they said, you know, it was all off record. But, like,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I've had this conversation with a few of these guys.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: And a lot of us were, I mean, generally, all
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: of them were in agreement that, you know, as a
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: running back– You understand you want to be protected, but
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: at the same time, you like to go into the
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: season with a little bit of lather. You want to
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: be lathered up a little bit. You would have gotten
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: hit a few times. But in today's NFL, that's not
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: going to happen.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't happen. The Broncos are giving up 31,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: and it's funny because in that Monday night game, it
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: was more about, well, Pat Mahomes, Kenneth Walker, look at
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, they're back, they're not the last year's team,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: all those things that people were talking about with the Chiefs.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I'll just go back. At the start of the game,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the narrative was, listening to the ESPN broadcast, it's, hey,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the Broncos, if Bo Nix is healthy, the Broncos win
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the AFC, and they win the Super Bowl maybe, blah, blah, blah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: This great elite defense, they got boat raced by 39-year-old,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: 59-year-old Travis Kelsey and company. I'm still not sold on
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Bo Nix. I think he's fine.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I think if their defense is playing as good as
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: it can, they obviously won a lot of games last year,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: but I I could also see that being a team
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: that they had a lot of one-score wins that could
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: get flipped upside down this year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, what's Mike McDonald's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: biggest concern this weekend?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Biggest concern, I would say it's twofold. One, don't let
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Trey McBride beat you. I think this is a big
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: week to have Nicky Manwari back healthy. I'm expecting him
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: to play in this game, and it's a nice game
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: to have him back to put him up against Trey McBride.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: And the other thing from an offensive standpoint– Don't let
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the pressure get to Drew Locke to the point where
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: he gets forced into some bad throws and makes some
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: bad decisions. So lean on the run game, scheme up
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: some quick throws for Drew Locke, get him in a rhythm.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Arizona then will start getting antsy, and they'll start blitzing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And if you can get them doing that, you can
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: scheme up some ways to burn the blitz, and then
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you can make that defense, you can make the Cardinals'
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: feathers burn. But if you're letting them get after you
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the way they did against the Chargers, last week, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: they're creating pressure, and you're not running the football... Arizona
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: can beat some teams.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the NFL.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: You can lose any given week. But I was impressed
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: with their defense last week.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: If I call up my iHeartRadio app, which I just did,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: what do I type in there if I get some
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: NFL stuff going on? What do I type in there?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: What am I searching for? What's the podcast again? Seahawks
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Triple Option. There it is, baby. There it is. Tell
• 20:14
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• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we just launched this to kick off the season
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: with Robert Turbo-Turban, Rob Rang, and myself. We're even going
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: to have Quandre Diggs guest hosting tomorrow with us, so
• 20:25
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• 20:28
  Speaker 3: rolling daily, five days a week, sometimes six days a
• 20:31
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• 20:35
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• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Look at that, huh? Look what I got there. Actually,
• 20:38
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• 20:42
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• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: EmeraldCitySpectrum.com. We've got all Seattle sports all the time. I'll
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: have a full update coming up here in a few
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: minutes that's got all the details.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Once we're allowed to speak on what we saw. Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: In full transparency, until the Seahawks are done and all that,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the injury report and all, we know more than we
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: can say right now, and that's fine. That's the rules
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: we play by. but I think it's safe to say
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: there's probably some reasons for optimism if you're a Seahawks
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: fan on the injury front.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, generally speaking, I would say so, yep.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: All right. Good luck this weekend. Have fun. We'll be
• 21:15
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• 21:18
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• 21:20
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• 21:21
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• 21:24
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• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Stuff like that. Go check that out. That's Corbin Smith.
• 21:28
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• 21:32
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• 21:34
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• 21:50
  Speaker 8: This has to be the most disgraceful season in 50
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: years of Mariners baseball. This is the most toxic relationship
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: I've ever been in in my life.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: By far.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: This team is just, it's something else, man. I can't
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: believe where we are right now. The fact that Rick
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: Riz will not be calling playoff baseball is just a disgrace.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Disgrace. That's some anger, Ash. That's some anger. That's some
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: frustration there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: It's extra depressing.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: You know, what did Joe Sheehan call it yesterday? The
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: most disappointing season in this century.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: By any team this century.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: By any team in baseball this century, since 2000. Because
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the talent and everything else, the expectations and talent. Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Where they are and where they've fallen, it's remarkable. Like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: it just is.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem real, honestly.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: It's like, there's no way this really is how bad
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: this is.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You just keep waiting all year for it to... They're
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: going to figure it out. They're going to figure it out.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Now here we are with 10 games left, and you're like, oh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: my God.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what Logan Gilbert said last night. Yeah, Logan Gilbert.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: And that apparently was the attitude. Oh, we'll just figure
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: it out somehow and hit a switch or do something.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And I'm just flabbergasted looking at the records, 70 and 82. Uh-huh. Like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that's just... That's remarkable. All right, one more.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: The boys of Bummer have.
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: finally lost their 82nd game, thus ensuring another losing season.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: Here's some numbers for you to consider. Two out of 11,
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: that's the number of times Jerry's teams have made the playoffs.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Five out of 11, the number of losing seasons. And zero,
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: the number of top flight free agents this ownership group
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: has ever purchased.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Nothing short of a.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of threw my support a little
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: bit at DePoto yesterday. I know I'm, actually, I think,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: help me if I'm wrong, I kind of think I'm
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: in the minority there.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, there's just a lot of people that
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: just want to blame him for everything. And I understand
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: that because there's frustration and there's anger just with the
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: product as a whole. But if you actually take a
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: step back and look, he is not to blame for everything.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: He is not out there performing on the field every night.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: And he put together a good roster that should have
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: done a hell of a lot better.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Way better. Way better. All right, let's get to the text. 49451425. Wait, what?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: It's no longer early? Nope, it's not early anymore. No,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: this is just in. This is just in. Oh, my God. Yeah,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: 148 days until spring training starts, says the 253.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Wow, wow, wow.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Dom Canzone isn't a quality defensive right fielder,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: says the 360.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Dom's played well this year, so I'm not.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any reason, any slander for Dom
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Canzone is very unwarranted right now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Randy Rosarena's not a great left fielder. Yeah, but again.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And I'll take him in the lineup every day.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I like the bat.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what it is.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: And then you deal with it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: You know. Let's see. The Seahawks should think that way
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: with the first team reps this week. Only Drew needs
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: snaps just like Sam. If you listen to this stuff
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: we just talked about, it's a sad thing. They're going
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to get Milrow reps. I mean, your third string guy
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: hasn't had reps in the regular season yet. So he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: got to get reps. Here's the difference. Drew Locks played
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: NFL games.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and won them.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And won them. And played real NFL games and thrown
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: real NFL passes. Jalen Milrow has not.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: He has played preseason and it's not the same.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: It is definitely not the same. Somebody mentioned Fred Young
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: passing away. I tweeted something out, a picture from here.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Fred Young, great Seahawk linebacker, special teams player as well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And in the late 80s, early 90s, I guess, he
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: was a four-time Pro Bowler, one-time first team All-Pro as well.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Gone all too early at the age of 64. He's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a top 50 Seahawk player of all time. You know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I was looking at it. I took a picture of it,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: posted it on Twitter. X, whatever we call it. The...
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Here in the media room, they've got the top 50
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: players of all time on pictures of all those guys.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool because there was no outcry when the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Seahawks made their picks of their top 50 of all time.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: There was no.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: None whatsoever. None whatsoever. Let's see. Ashley. A lot of
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: people liking Ashley on the afternoon show.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, yay.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I do, too. Yeah, I do, too.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Me, too.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. How's sleeping in so far?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: How's that been?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I've been productive, I'll tell you that. I get a
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: lot more done in a day now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Do you wake up at the same time, or are
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you able to sleep through where you normally would have
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: got up?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I wake up at 6.45. So I usually wake up around,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: like this morning I woke up at.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Like 5.30, and I was like, hey, I get to
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: go back to sleep for another hour and 15 minutes.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I don't have to get up and haul out. I'm
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: not late.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 5.30 would have been late. Yeah, that would have been.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would not have made it to work on time.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Well, that's right. Chuck could have run the board, right? Totally.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I think that's bad. If I had to try to
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: do it, that would be even worse. Trust me. That
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: would not be good. All right, let's get to some
• 27:20
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• 27:22
  Speaker 7: We're set to go.
• 27:23
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• 27:45
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going down the road of college football.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: We've got to do this. We've got to do this.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: If you missed our conversation earlier today with our good
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: friend Stuart Mandel, check it out. Go back. Take a listen.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Fun stuff. Ashley will post the podcast later on today.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: We were talking about the game.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: That one's actually already up.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss playing host to LSU. If I need to
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: remind you of what happened last year, and by the way,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: when I give you the pick, you'll text FACT to
• 28:19
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• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Last year, Lane Kiffin had the Rebs of Ole Miss, Mississippi,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: running through towards the college football playoff. Top 10 team
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: most of the season, led by Trinidad Chambliss, their quarterback. Ashley,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: they were a very good football team.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, they were.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: They were cruising along. In today's college football, I'm not
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: sure if you're aware of this, you can just up
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and leave if you're a coach at any time.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: I just found that out.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Contracts don't matter. They matter not at all.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: No, they're fake.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: LSU turfs Brian Kelly and said, hey, let's go get
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: that Lane Kiffin guy. We heard he's pretty good. So
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: before the playoffs started, guess who left Ole Miss? That's right,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin. Where did he go? LSU.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: What?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: What? How can you do that? What are you thinking?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: He took a bunch of his players with him to LSU. Well,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: LSU rolls into Ole Miss this Saturday, 4.30. It's the
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: biggest game of the weekend, and it's going to be something.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: It's going to be an atmosphere that Stu and I
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: were talking about like I haven't seen ever. LSU, most
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: people believe Lane's got a national championship contender, and they've
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: looked really impressive so far in the early going, especially
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: against Clemson. But college football is about emotion. No matter
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: how much you pay NIL, how much you NIL this
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: or pay a guy that, emotion matters. Two guys that
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: did not go to LSU, running back Kiwan Lacy and
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, who I believe, much like Stu and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: so many others, may be the best quarterback in the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: country right now. He is fantastic. Truly special. Can run
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and can flat out throw. Sam Levitt, the quarterback at LSU, has,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: how about this, two touchdowns and four interceptions already? I
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: don't like that. Former Arizona State guy. I think emotion, atmosphere,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: win out. I'm going Mississippi. Ole Miss.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting three points. Plus three.
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  Speaker 3: Fact.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: 49451.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, fiction.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: 49451.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: LSU's favorite, but I'm going Ole Miss. And taking the
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: three points. Fact, 49451. If you disagree, fiction, 49451. Two
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: reasons here. One, there's emotion involved. Absolutely. Two, you're rooting
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: against Lane Kiffin with this pick if you go fact.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I always root against him.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I just can't think of anything else other than rooting
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: against Lane Kiffin that would be more enjoyable in college
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: sports right now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: But rooting against Lane Kiffin would be near the top
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: of the list. So again, Ole Miss.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Plus three. Ole Miss plus three. They're getting three points. Fact, 49451.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, fiction, 49451. Here's how we do it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: If you are voting, you're trying to get a chance
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: to win a $ 1, 000 weekly prize, $ 10, 000 grand prize. $ 10, 000
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: goes to whoever has the most correct picks during the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: course of the year. We have 14 weeks. This is
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: week two, so we're still very early in the process.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: If you haven't played a lot yet, you still have
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: a chance to get yourself established. There's 20 picks a week.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: barring something unforeseen like a cracking game this way earlier,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: something like that. So you have 20 picks a week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Every show does it. 735 Chuck, 1135 Greg, 235 Ashley
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and me, and 335 the Softie Fane Jackson Experience. They
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: all make their picks, and if you agree, you text fact.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, you text fiction. It's very simple, very easy,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and very fun. All you have to do is text
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: fact or fiction to 49451. Every time you're correct, you're
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: entered to win that $ 1, 000 weekly prize. And every correct
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: pick is cumulative, goes to your final score total. And again,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the most correct picks during the course of the year
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: wins $ 10, 000, courtesy of the Lucky Eagle Casino and Resort.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: How about that, Ashley? What do you think? That's what
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I think. You love it. You nailed it. You nailed it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: And any excuse to cheer against or root against Lane Kiffin,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: sign me the F up.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I can't even. That atmosphere, like Stu said, is going
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to be crazy in Oxford, Mississippi. It is going to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: be nuts. And LSU. And by the way, did you
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: see the pettiness that's already involved?
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: No.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: There was an Ole Miss lineman that bailed on his
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: NIL agreement and went to LSU. And he got served
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: papers on campus this week. I don't know what they're
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: suing him for or what they're doing. But, I mean,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: unlike DeMond, who's being held hostage right now, this guy
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: just said, screw it, I'm leaving, and left. And they
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: served papers. The week of the Ole Miss game, they
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: served papers on this team.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh, I love it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I will say... It's petty and it's lovely.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: And I will say, yesterday I said that you always
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: get bounce backs during your show. But guess what? The
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: bounce backs aren't working. So, yeah, we got your text,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: but you're not getting a bounce back.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: We know. Our apologies for that. Our apologies for that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: By the way, congratulations yesterday. Your pick got 81% of
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: approval rate. And somehow I got 82% on Monday, which
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: is shocking because my record would tell people don't ever...
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Go with my pick.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: Right, exactly.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: And we have an 0-1 already this week because Chuck
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: took Denver plus two at Kansas City on Monday. So
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: we're climbing back into the race, Ash. We're climbing back
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: into the race.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: All right. One more time, fact or fiction, 49451 if
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you agree or disagree. Ole Miss plus three at home
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: against LSU Saturday 4-30 on ABC. Check it out. Make
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: sure you get that pick in right now. You've got
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: about ten more minutes to do so. Softie joins us next.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: All righty then, wrapping things up here at the Virginia
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Mason Athletic Center. I'm sitting in the Dave Softy Mahler
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: broadcast room. Where the hell were you? This is the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mallard Broadcast.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: Where have you been? The rejoin's been playing for like
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: five minutes.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: No, it hasn't.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: You getting a cookie or something?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't check.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: One of those great cookies, one of those great caramel
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: cookies they have there, the best cookies I've ever had
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: in my life. I used to be, you know, growing
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: up as a kid, jumping around Bellevue Square, places like that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Big Mrs. Fields guy. Big, big, big Mrs. Fields guy.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: And then I came to the VMAC. And I had
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: what I am considering now the greatest cookie available to mankind.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: And I will be honest with you, it is hard
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: to say no when so much of you wants to
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: say yes. When you see those cookies.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about. What are those things, Paul? Let me
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: go see if they're on.
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: I don't even know, man.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Talk to Ashley for a second.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: They're on my phone somewhere, but they're tremendous.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: We're talking about cookies.
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, as Ian just slams his microphone on the table.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: He's got to find something. He's got important things to do.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: You know what this is? This is the former fat
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: guy and him just getting a little bit excited, right?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I found it. They're called Sandy's Amazing Cookies. Yeah, they're amazing.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: They're incredible. They are so awesome.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Dave, guess what they have out there?
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: Sandy's Amazing Cookies?
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: They have a chocolate chip version. Yeah. Do you want
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: me to bring one to you?
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: No, I don't want those anymore.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Or three? Or four?
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I am a recovering cookie-holic.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I don't need them anymore, man. Oh, those are good.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Those are good. Those are good.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: Thanks for moving as fast as you just did, though,
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: by the way, to just strain a groin or something
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: on the way back. Holy cow.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I'm hurting right now. I'll be honest with you.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: I don't blame you. For your age, you're not supposed
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: to move that fast, man.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: No, I'm not.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: Unless you're going to the bathroom. Then it's okay. Then
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: it's approved by your doctor. Then you can move fast.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Then you can run like that at that point.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: Thanks for asking.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I'm moving as fast as Sam Darnold right now is
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: probably what I'm doing.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Ooh, wow.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: You think he's got like a big, like, you know, raspberry...
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: On that spot. You know what I'm talking about?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: Like, I remember when Tui... What spot, Dave? His ass.
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: When Tui bruised his butt against Stanford.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: And this was the two... 99 game, not the 2000 game.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: It was the 99 game. Because 2000 was down there. 99,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: I think it was the game that he went 300-200.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: And then 2000 was the day Curtis got hurt, obviously,
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: down there in Palo Alto. But I remember one of
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: my greatest memories of covering that football team is when
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: Marcus pulled his pants down. and showed me his big
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: bruise on his ass. And I have it burned into
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: my mind forever. If there's any members of the Tuyasasopo
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: family that are listening right now, Manu, Leslie, Tina, whoever,
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but I specifically remember 26 years ago staring
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: at your son's butt and, man, did he have a
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: bruise on that sucker.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: How did he bruise his butt?
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: It was gigantic.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: How did he bruise his butt?
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: I don't remember. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: was a tackle. You may have just hit the deck.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: I don't know, man.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: That was back when turf was like... like cement right
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: right right like although was it stanford though stanford was grass.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: No stanford was grass but the game where you got
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: hurt was in seattle that was on the turf at
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: husky stadium yeah yeah so.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: No donald donald donald was so weird because it like
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: when they were all thinking it's knee or okay now
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: it's a hip no no neither one of those it's
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: his ass yeah yeah it's his butt cheek yeah it's.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: Hurt that's that's that's the technical term it's his ass
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: come on man what the heck.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Actually, Ashley wrote that, I believe, in my update. What
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: did it say, Ashley?
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: I said, but.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she said but.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: Well, you could just call it a tookus and be
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: done with it. I mean, nobody really knows what that
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: is except for me, but, you know, a tookus works.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Not as far.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Tookus. Tookus does work.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Tookus is like, it's also the name of the guy
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: that got hurt. Oh, that's Tungus. Never mind. That's Jake Tungus.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: He doesn't have much good stuff going on right now.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Not Jake Tookus.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: No, Tungus does not have good stuff going on, Ash.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: He's out for the year.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: He's got an owie. He's got a bad owie. The
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: substation keeps hitting those guys down there.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: Too much bad stuff.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Too much bad stuff. Oh, God. All right, what are
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: we doing today? What's going on? Is this a Florio
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: show today?
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes. This is a Mike Florio. This is a
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: Kevin Harlan. This is a Petros Papadakis kind of show.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Florio said six to eight weeks.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: I think he said four to six at first.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: He may have changed his mind. I'm going to volley
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: an eight to ten just so I can be a
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: part of it. Why not? I'm hearing eight to ten.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tweet that right now. According to KJR's
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler and UW Sideline reporter Dave Mahler, the
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: butt injury is going to keep Sam Darnold out for
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: 8 to 10 weeks.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: No, I said 8 to 10 days.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: Maybe I meant minutes. 8 to 10 minutes.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: With an injured tuchus.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: Wouldn't it be great if we got guys hurt during
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: the middle of games and we got minute-by-minute injury updates?
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: He should be out for the next 5 to 7 minutes.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: How do you spell tuchus? Hey, how do you spell tuchus?
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: I'm going to spell it T-O-U-C-H-A-S. I believe that's how
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: you spell tuchus. Let me look it up. T-O-U-C-H-A-S.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Tuchus.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I should go figure it out.
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: No, it's spelled T-U-C-H-U-S.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: No O. No O. Tuchus.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Tuchus.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Mike Florio, who thinks that tuchus is going to...
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I can't even say it. It's going to out for
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: an extended period of time. Petros and a lot more.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: I'll see you tomorrow.