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Ian Furness 10/9 H2: Rob Rang and Danny O’Neil Interviews · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: As part of our never-ending coverage of the NFL, it's
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  Speaker 1: time for Ian's weekly visit with Rob Rang from FoxSports.com.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Furness with you. It's a Friday. We've got Husky
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  Speaker 2: football coming up here very, very soon. But I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to squeeze a Rob Rang segment in, normally at 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously we've got to do it at 1 o'clock
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  Speaker 2: hour because... Husky pregame starts at 2 p.m. today at
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  Speaker 2: Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Rob.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing very well, Ian. How are you today, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the Washington-Iowa game in a second. We
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  Speaker 2: set to go for that as well. Rob, we will
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  Speaker 2: talk in a minute about the college games. Just probably
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  Speaker 2: hit on a couple this weekend. Bama, Georgia, and definitely
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about the one later tonight, Iowa and Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Before we do that, let's get some thoughts. The Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: for people that are just tuning in for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time, Rob, of course, scout for the BC Lions,
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  Speaker 2: but he's our draft insider, has been so for about 18,
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  Speaker 2: 19 years now, and works closely in that world. When
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  Speaker 2: we went through the spring, I don't know if we
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  Speaker 2: ever talked about Robert Henry Jr. on the air, but
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  Speaker 2: I know he was a fairly highly thought of running
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  Speaker 2: back in kind of a weak running back's class, but
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  Speaker 2: people liked him a lot coming out of UTSA. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't get drafted. He goes to the Washington Commanders, and
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  Speaker 2: now he's a member of the Seattle Seahawks. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go down that road for a second. You probably studied
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  Speaker 2: a lot of tape of him. Tell me about Robert
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  Speaker 2: Henry Jr. He'll wear number 34 on Sunday for the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks against the 49ers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ian, he's a really exciting back.
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  Speaker 4: He's just got some juice to him that I think
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  Speaker 4: is very different than, frankly, any of the other running
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  Speaker 4: backs that the Seahawks have that at least are healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Jadarian Price being injured right now and on IR.
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  Speaker 4: You just see the lack of big play ability from
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  Speaker 4: Seattle's backfield.
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  Speaker 3: I think you got to give some credit to Emmanuel Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: He's done fine.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't think that there is a element to
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  Speaker 4: his game that really strikes fear into opponents.
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  Speaker 3: And whereas with Robert Henry Jr., I can tell you this, he.
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  Speaker 4: Struck some fear into Texas A & M Aggies in
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  Speaker 4: week one a year ago. And he's playing for Texas
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  Speaker 4: San Antonio, a pretty small school compared to the Aggies.
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  Speaker 4: But he ran for 180 yards, two touchdowns, and he
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  Speaker 4: was very impressive in a couple of preseason matchups this
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  Speaker 4: year as a free agent signee of the Washington Commanders
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  Speaker 4: and scoring a touchdown and really showing some vision.
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  Speaker 3: Some burst, some elusiveness. I mean, he's an interesting guy.
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  Speaker 4: And I just think back to all the years that
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  Speaker 4: you and I, of course, have been working together and
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  Speaker 4: all the years I've been following John Schneider and the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: It's just very rare that you see the Seahawks sign
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  Speaker 4: a player from somebody else's practice squad. And I actually
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  Speaker 4: took some time and did some research to try and
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  Speaker 4: look it up. And the last time that Seattle did that,
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  Speaker 4: that was back in 2023, where Seattle signed a tight
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  Speaker 4: end fullback named Brady Russell, who, of course, has become Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: a key component of Seattle's success on special teams and
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  Speaker 4: on offense. So I think that Robert Henry Jr. is
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  Speaker 4: a legitimate factor for Seattle. Maybe not in this very
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  Speaker 4: first week. It's going to take some time. for him
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  Speaker 4: to truly learn Seattle's playbook. But I do think that
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  Speaker 4: he is going to be a factor for Seattle. I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited about his addition to the club.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I mean, it is an interesting comment you made,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's true. Like, they don't have, without Price,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Helani is what he is. My apologies to
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  Speaker 2: Corbin Smith, your partner on the podcast, the Seahawks triple option.
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  Speaker 2: But Helani is, he's kind of a third down back,
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  Speaker 2: good blocker, can catch, good special, but he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a core special teams guy. Wilson's Between the tackles, downhill guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think they would hope and had hoped that Jakartier
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  Speaker 2: Wright was going to be healthy, and he hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: healthy in two years. He's now on the injured list.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the injured reserve from the practice squad. So
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  Speaker 2: he's out as well. So this is a guy that,
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  Speaker 2: if nothing else, is going to be a good change
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  Speaker 2: of pace, I would assume, on Sunday against the 49ers
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  Speaker 2: from what Wilson gives them.
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  Speaker 3: No question about it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they could not be more different and still
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  Speaker 4: play the same position. I mean, with Emmanuel Wilson, you
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  Speaker 4: got a guy who's kind of a pounder, and he's
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  Speaker 4: going to get what is blocked for him, and he
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  Speaker 4: might get a little bit more just because of his physicality.
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  Speaker 4: He's a downhill runner, and he's got a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of wiggle to him. For a guy who's 225 pounds,
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  Speaker 4: and he can make some people miss, but you'll see
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  Speaker 4: it with Robert Henry Jr. I mean, this guy, he
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  Speaker 4: has just an ability to put his foot in the
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  Speaker 4: ground and then just break laterally just about as explosively
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  Speaker 4: as any back that I've seen in recent years for Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Similar in some ways, I guess, to Kenneth Walker III, in.
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  Speaker 4: That he is a little bit slow when he initially
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  Speaker 4: creeps to the line of scrimmage and then sees the
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  Speaker 4: hole and just can zoom through it. And then again,
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  Speaker 4: once he gets into the open field, he has legitimate
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  Speaker 4: breakaway speed. Now, he came in at a 4.52-second 40-yard dash,
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  Speaker 4: and he plays so much faster than that. Again, the
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  Speaker 4: way that he ran away from Texas A & M,
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  Speaker 4: the way that he ran away from both the Baltimore
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  Speaker 4: Ravens and Miami Dolphins during the preseason this year against
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  Speaker 4: NFL competition, again, you'll see the difference in speed with
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  Speaker 4: this young man on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Rob, was the 4.5 the reason he didn't get drafted?
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a variety of factors here. For one,
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  Speaker 4: he is a little bit smaller than you'd typically like.
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  Speaker 4: He's 5'9, he's 200 pounds. He is a little bit
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  Speaker 4: older player, 24 during the draft itself. He is not
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  Speaker 4: the best back and pass protection. So like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: George Helani, that's one of the areas in which historically
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  Speaker 4: he's been excellent. And, you know, both Josh Snyder and
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald really praised him during the Super Bowl run
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  Speaker 4: for the way that George Helani excelled in that specific
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  Speaker 4: area during the Super Bowl run. Helani is not quite
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  Speaker 4: as good, in my opinion, in pass protection as This
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  Speaker 4: past week against Los Angeles Chargers. I think that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the reasons why this became a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: of a priority. If you're not going to be able
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  Speaker 4: to pass protect, then what does Helani bring you that
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  Speaker 4: this young man can't bring? So I think there's a
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  Speaker 4: number of factors there. And then again, just the level
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  Speaker 4: of competition. that he faced. I think that there was
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  Speaker 4: some question about maybe as a junior college kid, people
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  Speaker 4: are always going to question just the football intelligence, his
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  Speaker 4: ability to handle a complicated playbook. I think all of
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  Speaker 4: those are factors as to why he went undrafted. But
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you this, I had a fifth round
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  Speaker 4: grade on him. I know a lot of scouts that
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  Speaker 4: had fifth round day three, but solidly day three grades
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  Speaker 4: on him. I was surprised when he didn't get drafted,
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  Speaker 4: wasn't surprised at all when he wound up being in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL this year.
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  Speaker 2: Rob Rang, brought to you by Feralius, FeraliusPizza.com. Real quick,
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  Speaker 2: one final thing Seahawk-wise. You a little surprised that they
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  Speaker 2: haven't used Valus Jones much?
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that the knock on Valus Jones is
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  Speaker 4: that he's a former wide receiver and sometimes runs like
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  Speaker 4: a former wide receiver. He just doesn't have that ability
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  Speaker 4: to fall forward and generate the tough yards and The
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  Speaker 4: reality is that Seattle prides itself on being physical at
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  Speaker 4: the running back position.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that.
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  Speaker 4: He can play a role as a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a change of the pace, kind of like what we
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  Speaker 4: just talked about with Robert Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that Robert Henry Jr., if he gets
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  Speaker 3: enough of an opportunity, that.
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  Speaker 4: He could take over not only being kind of a
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  Speaker 4: complimentary guy, I think that he could get meaningful snaps.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, really pushing to be not necessarily the lead guy,
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  Speaker 4: because I think that's Jadarian Price and Zach Charbonnet's role
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  Speaker 4: moving forward once they're both back on the field for
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks, but certainly could be a real contender for
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  Speaker 4: significant playing time. Again, I don't know if it's going
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  Speaker 4: to happen against the 49ers. But a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 4: from now against Denver, I would expect No. 34 to
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  Speaker 4: be on the field playing a significant role for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Rob Rank joining us, brought to you by Farrelly's. Farrelly'sPizza.com.
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  Speaker 2: old homecoming dances over the next couple weeks. Rob, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the game taking place here in just a
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  Speaker 2: few hours. Across the way where I'm sitting right now,
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  Speaker 2: and that would be at Husky Stadium. Iowa in town
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  Speaker 2: to take on the Huskies of Washington. The big story
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  Speaker 2: there is, and it sounds like it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a game-time decision, whether or not Hank Brown plays the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He's banged up, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, so we're not sure about him. Is
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  Speaker 2: he an NFL prospect, and what kind of loss would
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  Speaker 2: he be?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know that he's an NFL prospect in
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  Speaker 4: that he's just barely been on the field. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's only played in 13 games so far over his
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  Speaker 4: four years playing major college football. He was at Auburn
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  Speaker 4: originally and now is at Iowa, of course. He's got
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  Speaker 4: a five to one touchdown interception ratio. But Ian, so
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  Speaker 4: much of them are basically play action passes and just
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  Speaker 4: little quick throws. He's got NFL size, 6'4, 218 pounds.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like he's got plenty of arm strength. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, he needs to prove that he
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  Speaker 4: can stay healthy, of course, for one, and then just
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  Speaker 4: raise his level of play now that he's actually getting opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: that I the Iowa Hawkeyes are what they always are
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  Speaker 4: it feels like under Kirk Ferentz there are You know,
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  Speaker 4: they're very talented along the.
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  Speaker 3: Line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they were in the Joe Moore Award last
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  Speaker 4: year as the best offensive line in all of college football.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that they're even better this year, which
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  Speaker 4: is remarkable. They've got a first round pick playing right
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  Speaker 4: guard in Cade Piper, number 58. He's probably going to
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  Speaker 4: move inside the center when it gets to the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: But his initial quickness, his balance, he's got textbook hand placements.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he just is as good of an interior
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  Speaker 4: offensive lineman as there is in this entire draft. And
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  Speaker 4: then Trevor Lauk, number 59, the left tackle, 6'5, 314 pounds.
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  Speaker 3: He's never given up a sack in his college career,
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  Speaker 3: for one.
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  Speaker 4: But for two, what makes him fascinating is that we
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  Speaker 4: have this conversation every year, Ian, about these guys that
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  Speaker 4: have a little bit shorter arms than ideal.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that whether.
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  Speaker 4: You put him a tackle or you slide him inside
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  Speaker 4: to guard him, He, again, is going to be another
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  Speaker 4: first-round caliber player. And the rest of them are basically
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  Speaker 4: underclassmen who are very much on that NFL pipeline as well.
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  Speaker 4: But other than that, Iowa doesn't have great skill position players.
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  Speaker 4: They've got such a great offensive line. They make their
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  Speaker 4: skill position players look even better. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: that this is going to be a fascinating matchup because
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  Speaker 4: I like Washington's defense. And I'm curious to see if
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  Speaker 4: Iowa is able to put up any type of points
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  Speaker 4: against that stout Washington defense.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Lauk hasn't given up a sack in his college career.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Now, he's only played 18 games.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but that's a full season. That's a season in college.
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  Speaker 2: That's a season and a half, for goodness sakes.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And to go into a Big Ten competition and not
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  Speaker 4: give up a single sack, yeah. I mean, that's, you know, again,
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  Speaker 4: what Kirk Ferentz does at Iowa is just remarkable. We
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  Speaker 4: talk so much about some of the programs that produce
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks or wide receivers. For my money, and this is
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  Speaker 4: one of the reasons why I'm strongly considering going to
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  Speaker 4: the game tonight, is because I just, Kirk Ferentz to
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  Speaker 4: me is, football coaching royalty and just to be in
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  Speaker 4: the same stadium with him uh i think it's i
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  Speaker 4: can just learn something just from breathing the same air as.
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  Speaker 2: Him that's amazing that's a that's a good that's a
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  Speaker 2: good matchup we'll see how it goes tonight big game
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  Speaker 2: this weekend biggest game this weekend who knows what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen with weather and everything else but let's get
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  Speaker 2: to it georgia alabama let me think georgia alabama rob
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  Speaker 2: any guys you're watching for the draft in that game
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  Speaker 2: tonight uh tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, there's just so many guys.
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  Speaker 4: And we talked a little bit about Alabama. You know,
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  Speaker 4: of course, it always starts when talking about Kalen DeBoer's programs,
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback position. Keelan Russell, number 12, is still just
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  Speaker 4: a sophomore. So, you know, we have some time to
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  Speaker 4: kind of evaluate him, but he has been dynamic so far.
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  Speaker 4: He reminds me in style and even just his look
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  Speaker 4: of Michael Panks. So, again, very, very high quality. expectations
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  Speaker 4: and excitement about their quarterback. As far as the draft-worthy guys,
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  Speaker 4: draft-eligible guys, one of the receivers that he's thrown to,
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  Speaker 4: number one, Ryan Coleman-Williams, reminds me so much of Devontae Smith.
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  Speaker 4: I have him as a first-round selection in the mock
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  Speaker 4: draft I have at Fox Sports right now. We've talked
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  Speaker 4: about the edge rusher, Yonce Pierre, number zero. He, to me,
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  Speaker 4: is one of the more sea hockey players I've seen
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  Speaker 4: so far this season. And what I mean by that
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  Speaker 4: is he's just a violent, physical, highly competitive player, not
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  Speaker 4: just as a pass rusher, but against run defense as well.
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  Speaker 4: I love Alabama's safeties. Number 10, Bray Hubbard. Number three,
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  Speaker 4: Keyon Saab. I'm not so sure that either one of
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  Speaker 4: them are going to run that well, but they tackle
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  Speaker 4: cleanly in their assignment sound. They're kind of like a
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  Speaker 4: throwback to the Nick Saban time in Alabama where just
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  Speaker 4: defensive backs.
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  Speaker 3: Came in year in and year out.
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  Speaker 4: And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention number one
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  Speaker 4: defensive lineman, Devin Tompkins. For one, it's just bizarre to
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  Speaker 4: see a 6'5, 300-pounder wearing number one. But he's a
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  Speaker 4: USC transfer. He's got three sacks on the season so far.
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  Speaker 4: And he could be the guy that kind of disrupts
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  Speaker 4: things in the middle, that puts the Georgia Bulldogs a
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  Speaker 4: little bit behind the eight ball. I'm excited about all
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  Speaker 4: the young talent that the Bulldogs have. On offense, of course,
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  Speaker 4: it all goes through their quarterback, Gunnar Stockton, number 14.
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  Speaker 3: He's a senior.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't have the elite physical traits, but he certainly
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  Speaker 4: puts the ball where he needs to.
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  Speaker 3: He's a very smart player.
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  Speaker 4: And then the running back, Nate Frazier, number three, is
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  Speaker 4: a player that I think is slowly moving up draft
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  Speaker 4: boards just because of his consistency and his balance through contact.
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  Speaker 2: Rob, is it just in terms of pure talent on
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball? And this is usually a real–
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  Speaker 2: and when I say pure talent, we're talking about guys,
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  Speaker 2: upperclassmen that you guys are keeping an eye on for
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  Speaker 2: the draft. Who has the advantage overall, do you think?
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  Speaker 4: I think that Georgia has the talent advantage in terms
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  Speaker 4: of just guys who are draft eligible as well as
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  Speaker 4: the players who are just kind of on the rise.
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  Speaker 4: They have a lot of freshmen and sophomores that you
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  Speaker 4: can just see that they are going to be you know,
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  Speaker 4: big time players in the future. Ellis Robinson, the cornerback
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  Speaker 4: number one, he's only a redshirt sophomore, but again, he
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  Speaker 4: just moves differently than just about any other corner in
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  Speaker 4: the country. Other than Leonard Moore from Notre Dame, who
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  Speaker 4: we talked about last week is probably the defensive version
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  Speaker 4: of Jeremiah Smith for Ohio state. He's just the best
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  Speaker 4: player on his side of the field and all of
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  Speaker 4: college football. Chris Cole is a, A linebacker who's 6'3,
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  Speaker 4: 230 pounds and probably is going to run in the 4'4.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: K.J.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Bold, another safety that is a first-round caliber player himself.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Really excited about it. Actually, I'll mention a Georgia player.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Speaking of guys that kind of are flying under the
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: radar a little bit, this is a senior, Raylan Wilson.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Had to kind of wait his turn to get onto
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: the field for the Bulldogs. But, I mean, he leads
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: the Bulldogs in tackles and sacks and forced fumbles. He's 6'1,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: 235 pounds. And that's my point, Ian. It's like the
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Georgia Bulldogs, and Alabama as well, but certainly Georgia, they
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: have so many great, young, talented players that they have
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: to kind of wait their turn. And we just don't
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: see that in today's era of everybody transferring. They're keeping
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: them in Athens. And so I do think that this
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: is a team that not only has the top-end talent
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: to win, but they have the depth.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: If they.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: sustain any type of injuries, they have the depth to
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: be able to just plug another guy in and keep
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: on rolling.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Are you going to have a scout's eye on at all,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: last thing for you, just any kind of scout's eye
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: at all on UCLA-Oregon? I can't believe I'm saying UCLA-Oregon's
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: a big football game, but it is.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: It's a massive game.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, for one, it's the Dante Moore kind of
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: revenge game because, of course, Dante Moore was.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: But he's not playing, I don't think, right? I think
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: he's out.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but originally at UCLA. But, you know, it's a
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: perfect segue. Again, you're such a pro, sir, because we
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: were talking about how Georgia, they, you know, they keep
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: these guys. I mean, UCLA, Ian, there's obviously 11 players
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: on the field on offense, 11 players on the field
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: on defense, 22 players for your starting lineup, so to speak.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: 20 of the 22 players for UCLA this year are transfers.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's why UCLA is. is being really productive
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: this year. I would mention a couple of players. The
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: running back, Wayne Knight, number three. He's a pretty dynamic player.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: And then on defense, and this is another recent Fox
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: article I wrote as far as players rising or falling
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: at this point. Number 10, Sammy Omosigo, who is a
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: former Oklahoma Sooner. You want to talk about a reason
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: why the Bruins are 4-0 at this point. Sammy Omosigo said,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: has four forced fumbles in just four games so far
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: this season for the Bruins.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: So he has been absolutely dynamic. I mean, just his
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: explosive collisions.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: He's just the defender or ball carriers are putting the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: ball on the ground. And then he also has some
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: edge rushing ability to him. So he's another one that
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I think that has some untapped potential. He never got
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: onto the field previously. It was a consistent starter at Oklahoma,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: but he is flashing here for Oklahoma. So everybody's going
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to talk about, or excuse me, he's flashing here for UCLA.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Everybody's going to talk about the quarterbacks, whether it be
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Nico at UCLA or Rayola at Oregon, or maybe Dante
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Moore plays, who remains to be seen, of course. But
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: there's so much more talent around the rest of the field.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: And I think what's all said and done, you didn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: ask me to pick this game, but I do think
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: that UCLA is a fun story. I think that this
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: is the game where you see Oregon's defensive line just
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: take over. All four of their starting guys are going
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: to be early NFL draft picks. Probably, certainly the first three,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Amari Washington, number 52, Bear Alexander, number one, Mateo Uyagale, who,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: by the way, I have as the Seahawks pick in
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: that first round of mock draft, and then Tatum Tuoloto.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: All four of them are going to wind up being
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: early NFL draft picks, and not just early draft picks,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: but successful players in the NFL as well.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: You know, it's wild, too. You're talking about the guys
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: that are transferring. I think Justin Herbert's the only quarterback
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Oregon's had in recent memory that wasn't a transfer. And
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about whether you go back to Masoli, right?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: What's his, Vernon Davis? Vernon Adams, I should say. Vernon Adams.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of insane in that regard. All right,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: my friend. What do you got up on FoxSports.com right now?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that mock draft right now, it's still kind of
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: crazy to me. As much as I love the NFL
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: and the NFL draft and all that kind of stuff,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: to be doing a mock draft before we get to
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Halloween is.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Kind of crazy to me. But some people love it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: And if you are a fan of, say, the Miami
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Dolphins or some of these other teams that are just
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: struggling right now, then you're already looking ahead to next year.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: And this looks like a quarterback class. it's going to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: generate a lot of excitement and certainly again with players
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: like Jeremiah Smith the wide receiver Ohio State or Leonard
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Moore the quarterback at Notre Dame there are some guys
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: you're going to be selected in the top five this
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: year Ian who are going to wind up being all
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: pros uh you know early in their NFL careers.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Great stuff Rob as always we'll talk to you next
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: week thank you my.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Friend Looking forward to it, buddy. Take care.
• 20:10
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  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neill joins us every week on a Friday afternoon. Hello, sir.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: I'm doing fairly well, Ian.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: How about yourself?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I would say fairly well would describe it as well.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: For me, just real quick, you know who's doing better
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: than that is apparently Leonard Williams. Mike McDonald spoke just
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: a couple moments ago, and he's a full go. No
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: injury designation, so he is in. Big Cat is in.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Sunday against the 49ers. Danny, I'm on your campus as
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: we speak. University of Washington. Big Ten Studios.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: We're also at Moonlight's is the Kraken Studios as well. Yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I'm getting all kinds of.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Grief from Softie, but I'm.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Behind enemy lines today, buddy. I'm here for Kirk Ferentz
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and the Iowa Hawkeyes. I'm here to help them as
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: best I can. So I'm looking for the Danny O'Neill
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: statue plaque. Is there one somewhere I should be looking
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: for here on campus? Where's it at?
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Well, the closest thing is there is a sculpture out
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: on Red Square. uh, in front of Susilo, which it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: referred to as the broken obelisk. We always called it
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: the broken pencil. And, uh, I, I, I live in
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: a building where there's a plaque out in front and, um,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: it is dedicated to, to Herbert Newman. Uh, last name
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: is Newman and he has, he's a sculptor and he
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: is the one who is responsible for for that sculpture.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: He was a Polish Jewish man who lived in the
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: very same building I did.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: He had no attachment whatsoever to the University of Washington.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: It just so happens that the broken obelisk, his most
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: famous work, and one of four places it's installed.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Is right there on the glorious University of Washington campus.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, two things have come to mind. That sounds like
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you just described softy. Two, with all those things, broken, Jewish, whatever,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and had nothing to do with it. That's... 100% our
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: sideline reporter who's getting ready for the pregame show at
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock here. Number two, I'd wander up to Red Square.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I'm always worried there's going to be a protest or
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: something up there. Is there something going on? It's always
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: like a protest here. I give you guys credit here
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: at Washington. You do protest well. Wazoo, we don't care
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: about such things. We just go to the Coug, drink beer, whatever,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: move on. You guys are much more refined here on
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Purple and Gold campus, I'll tell you that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: The rumor was always that it was a brick patio
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: that was there so they could use high-pressure water sprays
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: to rocket the protesters across the ground. I've been told
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: that that was actually not true, but I like to
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: think it. It's a pretty good story. And the sculptor's name,
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: it just came to me, is Barnett Newman. Who once
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: resided in the building.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Where I live now.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I love it. Danny O'Neill joining us, brought to you
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• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the crew at Northwest Handling Systems. You wrote an interesting
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: thing in the dang apostrophe this week, and it's relevant
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: because it's today. The Huskies are playing tonight against Iowa
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: at 6 o'clock. We'll have it for you here on
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KDRFM, 2 o'clock pregame. Pete Thamel, what is the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: relationship Pete Thamel from ESPN has with your coach, Jed Fish?
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Well, he seems to be a reliable conduit of game-day availability.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know, someone like Landon Hatchett, who everybody's been asking,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: is he going to be available all season? And yeah,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: lo and behold, Pete Thamel of ESPN kind of just
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: pops up on last Saturday and says, yeah, he's doubtful.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Doubtful to play at USC, which was the most definitive thing.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: And it's the most recent installment. I believe that one
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: way or another, Jed gets word to Pete. about who
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: may or may not be available and then pete also
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: uh felt compelled to throw in.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: There hey you know there's four freshmen and eight sophomores
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: they're also playing for university of washington wink wink i.e
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: they're very young the coach is doing an incredible job
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: with them.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Oh well done so pete pete gets a little info
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: that pete pumps the tires of jet even if things
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: are struggling right now i get how it works I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: get how it works.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. It is a one hand washes the other.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: It's a little bit of a, not quite a quid
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: pro quo, but it's kind of one of those things
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: of like the person receiving the information knows what can
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: be done to continue that steady supply of info.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Is Hatcher going to get his 12th year of eligibility
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: at some point? How's that going to work?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: That's Garrett. Landon is a little bit younger. I don't know.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Which of the Hatchet brothers is in his 12th year?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: One of those guys is in his 9th or 10th year.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: It's not 12. It's not quite 12. It might be 6.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: It could be 7. But yeah, that's Garrett. That's Garrett.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Garrett plays guard.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Okay. He's on the Juan Garcia plan, who I think
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: had 9 years of eligibility here. We had a guy
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: at Wazoo named Bob Garman. He had the same I
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: think Garmin is a wazoo for 12 years as well.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: So it is funny. I did look at Washington's depth chart,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if all the schools do this.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I thought it was good. Well, first of all, Jeff
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Bechtel is a great SID. He's phenomenal. All joking aside.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: But now these schools have to list guys as first year,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: second year, third year, fourth. You know what I mean?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: It's no longer your red shirt this. No, it's your.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You're a first- or second-year guy, and away you go.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Big game tonight for your team. Listen, we've talked about
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: them every week. The pregame's coming up in a minute,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: so let's dance down this road. Iowa coming off a
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: tough loss. Washington coming off two tough losses. Pretty pivotal
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: game for both teams. Iowa still probably has a chance
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: to get to the college football playoff. I don't know
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: if that still exists for Washington or not. What's Danny
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: O'Neill say about tonight?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: It's a huge game, and it's bigger for Washington than
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: it is for Iowa. Iowa is the same.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: It always is, which is a strong enough team to
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: give everyone problems and their offense isn't good enough to
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: really take them seriously. They might win eight or nine games.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: I can't imagine them getting into the college football playoff
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: just because they are what they always are, which is
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: they're going to have to win everything in the teens.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: Washington played its best game of the season against USC.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: And it also showed how underwater their offense is because
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: They had to resort to trick plays for any big gains.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: And yeah, I thought DeMond did a really good job
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: of driving them down at the end, but he hasn't
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: had a great season. I don't even know if you
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: would say he has a good season. And if Washington
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: is going to do more than six and six, if
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: they strive to do more than just barely make a bowl,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: this is a game they have to win.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. No doubt about it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Because if they win 20 points, they're going to, if
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: they score 20 points, they'll win tonight. And if they
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: don't win this game, I do think that six and
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: six is a best case scenario for the Huskies.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Then what? Then what? With Jed in his third year?
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: The reality is that, well, that's a great question, Ian.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: And it depends on so many different things. My big
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: picture answer is that six and six, Jed does have
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: a very young program. There are a lot of guys,
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: but it's going to depend on how many people are, are,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: are you going to lose at that point? Because that
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: is a consideration as well. The next one is who
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: your quarterback is going to be. I don't think Washington
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: is in a position where they're going to make or
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: consider a coaching change after this year, regardless of what happens.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: The really tough thing about this year is that you,
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: they are paying top ticket for a quarterback. And everything
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: else about this team, or at least everything else about
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: the offense, says it's a rebuilding year. And that disconnect
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: is really tough, and it's puzzling, and it came kind
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: of out of left field for me. I certainly did
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: not expect it. I thought their offense was going to
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: be better than it's been. And the injuries to the
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: running backs don't explain that. The depth of, of the
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: offensive dysfunction, it really ties into demand has not had
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: a good year. He has not been able to operate
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: the offense with consistency. And I know everybody fixates on
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: the turnovers. The turnovers aren't the biggest problem. The problem
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: is he's not making enough big plays to offset those turnovers.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: He's committed.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: The Seahawks went to the Superbowl last year with a
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: quarterback that committed a lot of turnovers.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Cause they had huge explosive plays. DeMond hasn't been able
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: to do nearly enough of that. It's been a huge
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: deficit for the team this year.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I listen, the, the DeMond thing, you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: he's one of a handful of guys across the country
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that are kind of the poster children for today's world.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And you know, what can go good and what can
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: go bad with NIL. I mean, it's not just DeMond
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and his $ 4 million, uh, You know, I mean, JKS
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: at Cal is an absolute horror show. That's just a
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: disaster down there. He's getting benched by Tosh LaPoi, who
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: probably still has money in his styrofoam cup. So you've
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: got that going on. Bryce Underwood at Michigan is, I mean, whoa.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: The only good thing about that is I guess they're
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: not beholden to his $ 10 or $ 12 million. So that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: going on as well. It's just tough. This is the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: tough part about college football, Danny, these days, is that
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: you have to have an elite quarterback. and then you
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: have to pay that elite quarterback. Like at Wazoo, we
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: have no quarterback, and they pay him $ 250, 000. I think
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: he's not worth $ 250, but it's also $ 4 million could
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: be a bad thing as well. I don't know what
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: to do. This is part of the problem in today's
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: college football. Everybody wants these guys to get paid and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: paid a ton of money. That's great and nice and fine,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: but then what if they don't pan out? At least
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: in the NFL, you're paying for somebody that you– if
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you pay a guy big money, right, Danny, in the NFL,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: there's a proven track record. right? Like you, we've proven
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: something along the way. That's not the case here.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is one of the things it occurred to me.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: So we've seen that if you're a quarterback away, if
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: you're a program that needs a quarterback, you can go
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: into the portal and get that quarterback. Like whether it's
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Bo Nix in some ways, Michael Pennix, though, the Huskies
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: really lucked into that because nobody was pounding the pavement
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: trying to get Michael Pennix when he came to Washington
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Mensa this year at Miami and Carson Beck last year.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: But the reverse of that isn't true in that if
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: you have an elite quarterback or a guy who's perceived
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: as elite, he doesn't guarantee that you're going to be
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: a good team or get into college football playoff. And
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: I think that that's some of what's happened with Washington is, look,
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: what they're paying DeMond, DeMond could have gotten more than
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: that on the market.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: He certainly tried to. He did everything he could to.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: And Washington kept him And at the time, it was
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: feeling like, thank God, because if he wasn't here, everything
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: would be sunk.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Now what you look back and say, I don't think
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: it's entirely.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: DeMond's fault, but DeMond certainly isn't enough to counterbalance the
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: other struggles they have, both the absence of running backs
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: and then the issues of whatever the hell.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Is going on with the Huskies offensive line.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: So I think that that's something that people are seeing,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: that getting a quarterback doesn't guarantee you what you think
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: it does in the transfer market.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a simple solution. Go out and get Austin Mack.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Bring him back home. Bring Austin Mack back. He's a backup.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: He ain't playing anytime soon at Alabama, and you can
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: pay him pennies on the dollar and invest elsewhere. Danny
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: O'Neill joining us. Before I let you go, massive one
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Niners from San Fran. By the way, they
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: hate both of those things, my friend John Lund says.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: So that's where I'm going with that. Niners from San
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Fran here in the Seahawks on Sunday. Leonard Williams is
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: a full go. Danny, thoughts on how... Derek Hall tried
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: to give me the old, you know, it's just another game.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Mike is approaching like, it's not just another game. Stop it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: This is a massive event on Sunday.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: It's a huge event because the 49ers are sort of,
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: they've got the strut going. They're 4-0. People are talking
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: about Brock Purdy as the MVP. And it delights me
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: to think back. They had two shots at the Seahawks in, what,
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: the span of three weeks?
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: And I don't think they found the end zone.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: So I actually think that this is a great matchup
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: for Seattle. I think that San Francisco is more banged
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: up than the Seahawks are. And I think that Seattle's defense, they've, yes,
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: they committed too many penalties, but they've got a snarl
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: and swagger about them. I don't believe that Mike McDonald
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: has Kyle Shanahan's number, but I know this. Kyle Shanahan
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: does not have Mike McDonald's number in the same way
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: that he had Pete Carroll's number.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Toward the end of Pete's tenure. And I really do.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to watching Brock Purdy, who's played great,
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: be subjected to an abject beating on Sunday.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I love it. Tell us about the dang apostrophe, sir.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: It is a newsletter that originates in New York City.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: If you go to dannyoneal.com, all you have to do
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: is type in your email address, and you will be included.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Perhaps even a little bit of a eulogy spoken for
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: the New York Yankees, who were summarily kicked out of
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: the playoffs in glorious fashion. To much the regret of
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: all of my neighbors, it was delicious.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: You know what? That's worth a read itself. Go check
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: it out. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks, my friend.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Take care, Ian.