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Furness Show 1-12: NFL Playoffs, Hardcore Football with Hugh Millen · The Ian Furness Show

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Speaker 1: We have a short show. We're only on till two
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Speaker 1: o'clock today. Hugh Mallen coming up at one twenty. I
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Speaker 1: want to get into it with him about George Kittle.
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Speaker 1: It's hardcore football, so we'll do it hardcore style. What
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Speaker 1: the George Kittle absence will mean to Kyle Shanahan's offense
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Speaker 1: already without Brendon Ayuk most of the year. Ricky Piersoll
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Speaker 1: didn't play yesterday. I would assume even if he does
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Speaker 1: come back for this game, he's not gonna be healthy.
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Speaker 1: Yet another game in which Christian McCaffrey goes under fifty
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Speaker 1: yards rushing. God, whoever thought betting McCaffrey under the under
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Speaker 1: McCaffrey rushing yards would be a good bet? Jackson, Like,
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Speaker 1: that can't be the case. And they still win twenty
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Speaker 1: three to nineteen over the Eagles in a game that
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Speaker 1: I just I still can't believe they won with Perdy's interceptions.
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Speaker 1: But he comes back and he has a great game
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Speaker 1: winning drive, and the defense somehow holds on at the
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Speaker 1: very very end, and man, what a weekend, Jackson. I
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Speaker 1: don't know about you, Like, I'm gonna talk about this
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Speaker 1: with Hugh one of the cool things when your team
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Speaker 1: gets a bye, and it's been a while, we haven't
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Speaker 1: seen this since the twenty fourteen season, is that if
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Speaker 1: you're an NFL fan and your team Denver in this
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Speaker 1: case and Seattle in this case, AFC and NFC, if
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Speaker 1: they get you get a bye, you kind of sit back,
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Speaker 1: You kind of can relax over the weekend. But I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest with you, for I don't know for me,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure for a lot of Seahawks fans, I don't
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Speaker 1: know how relaxing it was. Because if we're gonna be honest,
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Speaker 1: can we all be honest now? Can we all just
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Speaker 1: sit back now? Then everything's played out and it's turned
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Speaker 1: out okay, if we're being honest, weren't we all just
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Speaker 1: really fretting the possibility that it would be the Rams? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: in the divisional round? If you got to see him,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. Fine, if you got to see the Rams, great,
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Speaker 1: Make it be the NFC championship game, not the first
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Speaker 1: playoff game you have. And they eke out the thirty
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Speaker 1: four to thirty one win over the Panthers and get
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Speaker 1: that win. So that's Saturday. That's the first game Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Jackson I don't know if you caught the Packers Bear
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. What an incredible game.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm back of the ages for Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Twenty five fourth quarter points. Now it's interesting because because
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Speaker 1: of that game, after the Rams win, I think most
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Speaker 1: of us are thinking, yeah, I hope the pack give
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Speaker 1: me a Packers win. I'll take Jordan Love, No, Micah Parsons,
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Speaker 1: a really subpar defense, a running back that used to
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Speaker 1: be known as Josh Jacobs but no longer is because
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Speaker 1: that I'm not sure what we're watching with that guy
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Speaker 1: number eight a very I mean, without their best tight end,
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Speaker 1: who's kind of their version of Kittle but not the
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Speaker 1: same blocker in Tucker Kraft. They don't they don't threat
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Speaker 1: you with it, threatening you with the passing game. The
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Speaker 1: receivers are below average at best. I'm like, give me
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Speaker 1: the Packers Bear score twenty four five in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: Then my mind Jackson starts racing because of what the
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Speaker 1: Bears have done in second half and fourth quarters this season,
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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, God, I don't want to see the
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Speaker 1: Bears either, And then I thought, well, you know what,
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Speaker 1: this is the playoffs. You're gonna see good teams. That's
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Speaker 1: how it works in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she could see right right there, but.
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Speaker 1: Twenty five flipping points in the fourth quarter. No. So
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Speaker 1: then we get to Sunday. Sunday, we could start stress
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Speaker 1: free easily, right because you've got I mean Bill's jags.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you guys do you what's that's fine unless you
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Speaker 1: have juice on the game. I did jag, but you
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Speaker 1: know that's kind of a stress fee game, just highly entertaining.
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Speaker 1: Then we get to the forty nine Ers and Eagles,
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Speaker 1: and I had a couple of my son and a
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Speaker 1: couple buddies over. We ended up having a I just
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Speaker 1: love the Sundays when we can all kind of get
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Speaker 1: together family, daughter and boyfriend. Come on, we had we
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Speaker 1: had a good time. We're watching the game forty nine
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Speaker 1: Ers Eagles stressful because and here's when it turned when
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Speaker 1: George Kittle got hurt. When he got hurt. Now I
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Speaker 1: think we all want to see the forty nine ers anyway,
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Speaker 1: When he got hurt, then it becomes even a bigger deal.
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Speaker 1: And no, no one's rooting for him to be hurt.
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Speaker 1: Nobody is happy he got hurt, But the reality is
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Speaker 1: he's hurt. He tore his Achilles. It's the one injury
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Speaker 1: we all know. Everybody can play doctor at home these days.
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Speaker 1: When you see an Achilles injury on slow mo, we
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Speaker 1: all know it, we all see it. It's like, God,
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Speaker 1: he's out. Now, he's out for a while. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: love John don Tomorrow from the by area, but he
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Speaker 1: is out for a while. That's a devastating blow. He
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Speaker 1: is such a huge part of their offense. He goes
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Speaker 1: down and I'm thinking, well, we want to see the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers before now, we really want to see
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. In fact, I'd make the argument
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Speaker 1: I'd take the forty nine Ers over probably the Packers,
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Speaker 1: maybe not Carolina, but without Kittle a slow down, Ricky
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Speaker 1: piersoll that defense. Fred Warner is not coming back. Kyle
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Speaker 1: Shanahan said today, give me the forty nine ers all day.
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Speaker 1: They did their best to keep Philadelphia in it. They
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Speaker 1: didn't though Philadelphia is a train wreck, like they're an
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Speaker 1: absolute trade.
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Speaker 3: What does Greg Cossel always say about Philadelphia's offense, It's
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Speaker 3: it's terrible and the way they designed it is terrible.
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Speaker 2: I was I wasn't going to ever fear them.
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Speaker 1: No, but we get a forty nine ers team and
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Speaker 1: we get a win by San Francisco. So my point,
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Speaker 1: Jackson is this, it wasn't necessarily stress free for this
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Speaker 1: particular guy sitting in Seattle. I was a little bit
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Speaker 1: more stress than I thought I would be, only just because,
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Speaker 1: as you know, you're looking at matchups and again you're
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Speaker 1: gonna play good teams in the playoffs. You're good. There
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Speaker 1: was a pecking order you were going to see. At
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Speaker 1: the top of the list of do not want to
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Speaker 1: play were the Rams. And now, assuming Seattle gets the
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Speaker 1: win Saturday, and I think we assume I hate to
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Speaker 1: say this, I think we all assume they will. Right
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Speaker 1: there's hell a seven point favorite a playoff game. Then
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Speaker 1: we get to watch the Bears and the Rams beat
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Speaker 1: the snot out of each other on Sunday, and you know,
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Speaker 1: in the cold weather in.
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Speaker 3: Chicago once again, an extra day arrest, extra day arrests.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I still think this should be the Sunday night
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Speaker 1: game myself. Seattle and in the forty nine Ers you
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Speaker 1: got just based on media market size doesn't matter until
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Speaker 1: it's over. Said, now, we got to watch the Packers
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Speaker 1: and the Bear or the Bears in the Rams. Matt
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Speaker 1: Stafford's got a sore finger, Chicago. Feel free to grab
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Speaker 1: it and tug on it, twist it, do whatever you
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Speaker 1: want with it. All on the way. I'm still terrified
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Speaker 1: of Pook and Davante and Kyron and oh my god,
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Speaker 1: who gets the game winning touchdown the other day? Coins
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Speaker 1: Give me a break. What are we doing here? But
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Speaker 1: this is a glorious, glorious time of the year. Is
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Speaker 1: it not just an absolutely awesome time of the year
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Speaker 1: that we get the playoffs? Win? Get And I mentioned
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Speaker 1: this too, and Jackson you know this. I mentioned this
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Speaker 1: to Mark. He asked me about it briefly in cross talk.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it as the week goes on.
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Speaker 1: Loomenfield hasn't seen a home playoff game since the twenty
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Speaker 1: sixteen season.
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Speaker 2: With fans the Lions game. Paul Richardson Thomas Rawls.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, the one handed, amazing, one handed casual
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Speaker 3: he made.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll never forget when he was drafted out of
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Speaker 1: Colorado second round. I was sitting there as this puck
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Speaker 1: and I were sitting there and with Rob Rang was
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Speaker 1: with us and some others and we're sitting and I'm like, damn,
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Speaker 1: this is a great pick. Oh, Richard just watching him
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Speaker 1: at Colorado, and it was he that was the play.
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Speaker 1: That was the one, that was the one play, that
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Speaker 1: was one play the twenty sixteen What were you doing
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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen?
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Speaker 3: I was producing for you. That's what I was doing
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Speaker 3: in twenty three?
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Speaker 1: Were you with me? Then?
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Speaker 3: I think I think I was still doing the ten
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Speaker 3: to three shift until all. That's right, the double, the
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Speaker 3: double producer in the double, Yeah, the double, the double dip.
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Speaker 1: No marriage yet, right, I know your wife then.
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Speaker 3: Married in twenty sixteen, so September twenty sixteen, so yeah,
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Speaker 3: but still to your point, like I guess it would
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Speaker 3: have been that would have been January twenty sixteen, right,
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Speaker 3: so I still wouldn't have been married at that point.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like that's a whole diy.
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Speaker 1: It was January twenty.
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Speaker 2: Season, ok yea yeah, twenty sixteen season.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean a long time ago. But I
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Speaker 1: told Mark, I said, here's the thing. One of the
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Speaker 1: reasons Pete Carroll got fired. One of the reasons he
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Speaker 1: got fired and they had to make changes because the
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Speaker 1: fan base became complacent. We all know the complaints here.
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Speaker 1: We all were selling tickets and all that. That Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: game on December thirty first, twenty twenty three, New Year's
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Speaker 1: Eve twenty twenty three, when the Steelers fans took over.
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Speaker 1: That hadn't happened a little bit before. And before that
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Speaker 1: that year they also had one with the forty nine Ers.
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Speaker 1: Same thing that had this was the fan base that
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Speaker 1: went across the country and TERRV terrorized everyone, and instead
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Speaker 1: that happened to us. They made the change. You wait, guys,
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Speaker 1: Sunday or Saturday, it's gonna be epic. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: crazy in that stadium and look out, forty nine Ers.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna check in Humil in hardcore football, talking what the
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Speaker 1: George Kittle injury means to the San Francisco offense.
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Speaker 4: Next your home for the twelfth Man in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: All Right, hardcore Football short show Today, Softy's up with
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Speaker 1: you Fain at two o'clock this afternoon. I'm over at
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Speaker 1: root Sports getting ready for the Cracking and the Rangers tonight.
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Speaker 1: But you know, listen, when your team is playing in
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Speaker 1: the divisional round of the NFL playoffs, we gotta do
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Speaker 1: hardcore football, even if they didn't play wild card weekend,
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Speaker 1: because I know what the people want out there. They
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Speaker 1: want a little humillian, they want a little hard core football.
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Speaker 1: And this is the time of the year. We can't
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Speaker 1: talk Seattle Seahawks football enough. Happy Monday, Hugh Millen, how
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Speaker 1: are you great?
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Speaker 4: To be with you?
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Speaker 6: It is it's these are good times. These good times
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Speaker 6: to be a fan, good time to be specifically a
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Speaker 6: Seahawk fan. But you know, I was thinking in college
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Speaker 6: wild card weekend when we were basically the same age, right.
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Speaker 6: Wildcard Weekend for US was one day and it was
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Speaker 6: two games, one AFC Wildcard, one NFC. Now fast forward
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Speaker 6: this weekend when I'm gonna throw in the playoffs. We
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Speaker 6: got eight playoff games from Thursday over five consecutive days.
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Speaker 4: This is just.
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Speaker 6: Almost too much for me, and I love it. Give
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Speaker 6: me more tonight, and you can't wait for next weekend.
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Speaker 1: I there is always a bittersweet year time of the
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Speaker 1: year for me, Hugh to be honest with you, because
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Speaker 1: it's awesome, like you just said, I mean even the
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Speaker 1: just if we just take the NFL. We had two
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Speaker 1: games on Saturday, three on Sunday, one game later on tonight.
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Speaker 1: I just I love this time of the year. Yet
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Speaker 1: at the same time, I know that it's almost over.
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Speaker 1: Like football, just football more than anything else, just comes
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Speaker 1: and goes. College football specifically for all but well, a
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Speaker 1: couple teams left to go. But I mean, it just
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Speaker 1: a football season, just it seems like it flies by.
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Speaker 1: And yet you know, I got just a great day yesterday.
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Speaker 1: We had, you know, a couple of people over, a
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Speaker 1: kid and his friends, and just I just I love
10:23
Speaker 1: just sitting there watching football. We had some great food.
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Speaker 1: And now I'm thinking, damn, it's over. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: it was something I was gonna say it was somewhat
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Speaker 1: of a stress free weekend if you're a Seahawk fan.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if it was because I think
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Speaker 1: all along. I'll just say my thought was. And we'll
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Speaker 1: get into some hardcore thoughts on San Francisco in a second,
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Speaker 1: because it's hardcore football, but there's no game to react
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Speaker 1: to specifically, So Hugh, for me and just with my
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Speaker 1: guys we're watching. The stress for us was as things
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Speaker 1: played out over the weekend and Carolina lost, the Packers lose,
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Speaker 1: now you know, okay, it's either gonna be the Rams
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Speaker 1: or and Francisco. To me, the stress was and this
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Speaker 1: was even before George Kittle got hurt, which we'll get into,
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Speaker 1: but to me, it was all about getting the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers and if you got to see the Rams,
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Speaker 1: let's wait until the NFC Championship game. So it wasn't
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Speaker 1: completely stressed free, at least for this guy and for
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Speaker 1: some of the people I was with, What about you.
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Speaker 6: Well, I spent the I felt like I spent ten
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Speaker 6: close to eleven hours rooting for three different games, all
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Speaker 6: from a Sea Oawk perspective, And obviously I was rooting
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Speaker 6: for Carolina that that was winnable by the Panthers against
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Speaker 6: all odds, right, and then and then there was the uh,
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Speaker 6: oh jeez, why am I drawing blanks?
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Speaker 1: Rams and Bears, the Bears and Packers.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, rooting for the Packers exactly. And you
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Speaker 6: know there's a five percent chance that the Bears were
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Speaker 6: going to win that. So that was mildly excruciating. If
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Speaker 6: that's not a contradiction in terms. And then of course
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Speaker 6: last night with the forty nine Ers and the Eagles.
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Speaker 4: Now I had.
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Speaker 6: Thought the Eagles would beat the forty nine ers, so
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Speaker 6: I thought we were going to face the Rams in
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Speaker 6: week one. I'd prefer to play him in week two
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Speaker 6: and kind of get Sam Darnold a win so he
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Speaker 6: doesn't have that monkey on his back. But you could
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Speaker 6: make an argument if you're gonna have to play, like,
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Speaker 6: if you're really fearful of the Rams, then you're saying
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Speaker 6: that they're the best, Well that means you're gonna have
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Speaker 6: to play them eventually, and one could make an argument. Again,
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Speaker 6: I want to stress I would rather play him in
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Speaker 6: the NFC Championship Game, But had it been this coming weekend,
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Speaker 6: I think my thought would have been, he see, Ile's
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Speaker 6: got the bye week the Rams, don't you know, they're
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Speaker 6: traveling back from Carolina, so so you just kind of
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Speaker 6: hope to ride that wave. And I think the Rams
12:47
Speaker 6: they're missing a cylinder or two in the last few weeks.
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Speaker 6: They kind of it seems like they peaked right about
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Speaker 6: the beginning of the fourth quarter of the Seat game
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Speaker 6: on that Thursday night in the Amazon and on the
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Speaker 6: Yeah it was in Amazon, Yeah, Amazon Prime game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: I I listen, you're probably gonna see I say, you're
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Speaker 1: probably gonna have to see him. I don't know. Maybe
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Speaker 1: Chicago seems to have that little mojo and magic or something.
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Speaker 1: I mean, hell, no leads safe with those guys, that's
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Speaker 1: for damn sure. I mean all there's all their fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter comebacks. So you know, let those two teams, you know,
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Speaker 1: beat the hell out of each other and hopefully by
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Speaker 1: then we've already enjoyed a Saturday Seahawk win against San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned, you know, maybe LA had peaked.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt the San Franusco forty nine ers peaked
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Speaker 1: a while ago, and then all of a sudden, just
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Speaker 1: the injury Buck. I mean, it's just a they had
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Speaker 1: been decimated and now they lose George Kittle to an injury. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and this is hardcore football, So let's let's kind of
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Speaker 1: get into that a little bit. Because Kyle Shanahan's offense,
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Speaker 1: which was shut down by Mike McDonald's defense a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, now they lose a big, big part
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Speaker 1: of what they like to do. A guy that can,
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Speaker 1: a guy that we know is a great in the
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Speaker 1: passing game. You know, everything about Kittle is just screamed
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Speaker 1: superstar and difference maker. And unfortunate for him torn achilles.
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Speaker 1: That's a long term injury. We've seen that here in
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Speaker 1: Seattle all too often with guys over the years. So
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Speaker 1: let's just go through what that means for what Kyle
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Speaker 1: Shanahan is going to look down at that play sheet
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Speaker 1: and when he looks down that playshet on Saturday, Hugh,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna probably look a little different than he would
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Speaker 1: like it to.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'll just tell you kind of what in
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Speaker 6: my opinion, George Kittle has been I know for at
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Speaker 6: least a handful of years there. You know, the forty
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Speaker 6: nine Ers really came on in twenty nineteen. Shanahan was
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Speaker 6: hired in twenty seventeen, they had been a two win
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Speaker 6: team the year before. Took him his third year. They
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Speaker 6: go to the Super Bowl. Since that time, the forty
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Speaker 6: nine Ers of the winning this team in the NFC,
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Speaker 6: that's their standard. And in that they they're twenty one
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Speaker 6: use of twenty one personnel since twenty one to nineteen
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Speaker 6: they they're twenty four hundred and forty nine plays. Now
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Speaker 6: twenty one personnel, has two backs, that's Usteff and Kittle, right,
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Speaker 6: and just two receivers. They're twenty one excuse me, twenty
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Speaker 6: four to forty nine plays. The next closest is fourteen
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Speaker 6: seventy nine. They're almost one thousand plays more than second place.
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Speaker 6: The average is five to sixteen. So they are they're
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Speaker 6: four and a half, almost five times what the average is.
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Speaker 6: So they are a physical team with their personnel. They
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Speaker 6: play hardball, and for a number of years they said, look, who's.
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Speaker 4: The best tight end in football.
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Speaker 6: If you want to say the best receiving tight end,
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Speaker 6: it's Travis Kelce. Now this is for a number of years,
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Speaker 6: not the last year or two, right, But if you
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Speaker 6: want to who's the best all around tight end, counting
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Speaker 6: blocking and what he contributes in the passing game, it's
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Speaker 6: George Kittle. I think that was a fair take. He's
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Speaker 6: seven time Pro bowler. If you feel comfortable about your money,
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Speaker 6: if you bet against him to be in the Hall
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Speaker 6: of Fame, I wouldn't no chance, right. I think it's
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Speaker 6: more probable than not that he's going to the Hall
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Speaker 6: of fame, and so they lose that and and here's
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Speaker 6: the point. The second interception that rock Purdy had yesterday,
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Speaker 6: which was in the fourth quarter, early in the fourth
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Speaker 6: quarter and preceded that game winning drive, he kind of,
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Speaker 6: you know, nutted up from a big boy perspective, because
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Speaker 6: that's hard to do, right, to have a game winning
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Speaker 6: drive at following an interception.
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Speaker 4: That interception, he was trying to throw the ball to
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Speaker 4: Kittle's replacement, Jake Tongus.
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Speaker 6: And it was a deep over route where speed speed
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Speaker 6: isn't always a factor in receiver routes, let alone tight
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Speaker 6: end routes. Oftentimes it's short eiry quickness. But when you
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Speaker 6: get that deep over route where you're just kind of
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Speaker 6: running as an angle, some people call it a race route,
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Speaker 6: some people call it a deeps but it's a it's
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Speaker 6: an intermediate to deep crossing route and you're running, you're
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Speaker 6: running as fast as you can and a good portion
17:06
Speaker 6: of the route it's all about your long speed. Now
17:08
Speaker 6: your your quickness, which is different your long speed. Well,
17:12
Speaker 6: George Kittle ran a four or five to two at
17:14
Speaker 6: the combine. Jake Tongus ran a four to seven to seven,
17:18
Speaker 6: so two and a half seconds like Jenny, you can
17:22
Speaker 6: say it's a yard per tenth of a second. That
17:24
Speaker 6: is a big difference. And the Eagles were in Mann
17:27
Speaker 6: a man. They had the corner Quinion Mitchell, who you
17:31
Speaker 6: know was able to sift out the direction of the
17:34
Speaker 6: route then catch up with the speed. And that's one
17:38
Speaker 6: where you say, Kittle, you know, if he's within a
17:43
Speaker 6: tenth of a second on his forty times as fast
17:47
Speaker 6: as a corner, well he's already got a head start
17:49
Speaker 6: because he knows where he's going.
17:51
Speaker 4: He makes a nod, he starts to pull away.
17:53
Speaker 6: Now that four or five to two is enough that
17:56
Speaker 6: Rock Purty can throw it out in front and a
17:58
Speaker 6: corner even though he runs a four to four two,
18:00
Speaker 6: just say hypothetically, he's still not catching up to that.
18:03
Speaker 6: But a corner runs a four to four to two
18:05
Speaker 6: in man and man coverage as that one we call
18:07
Speaker 6: that cover one post safety in the middle. Everybody else
18:09
Speaker 6: man and man cover one corner. Like Quinnon Mitchell, he's
18:14
Speaker 6: going to catch up to a guy easily at four
18:16
Speaker 6: seven seven.
18:17
Speaker 4: So brock Perdy.
18:19
Speaker 6: Is is he's leading the guy who runs a four
18:22
Speaker 6: to seven seven, Well that's not good enough, and so
18:25
Speaker 6: and then down on the on the goal line on
18:28
Speaker 6: the the the game winner by Christian McCaffrey.
18:31
Speaker 4: They're trying to get.
18:32
Speaker 6: Tongus on a on a on a crossing route the
18:36
Speaker 6: same way. It wouldn't be as deep because it was
18:38
Speaker 6: down at the four or five yard line, but from
18:40
Speaker 6: left to right, they were trying to do a crossing route. Again, speed,
18:43
Speaker 6: Uh not a factor there. Perdy had to come off
18:46
Speaker 6: of it and uh he's able to find his fifth
18:50
Speaker 6: option in the progression, which was McCaffrey for the game
18:54
Speaker 6: winning touchdown. But I studied that tape this morning, the
18:58
Speaker 6: forty nine ers against the Eagles, and you see that Tongus.
19:02
Speaker 6: He's a nice backup player, but he's no Kittle, and
19:06
Speaker 6: you know, just you know, and for Brock Purdy to
19:10
Speaker 6: not have Brandon Ayuk and Ricky Piersall was inactive yesterday,
19:17
Speaker 6: so he didn't have his top two receivers and he
19:20
Speaker 6: doesn't have his tight end, and yet the guy still
19:24
Speaker 6: finds a way to win a football game against the
19:27
Speaker 6: defending champions on the road. So they're resilient bunch. But yeah,
19:31
Speaker 6: you asked me about Kittle. That's that's the first thing.
19:33
Speaker 6: You just don't have the athlete in tongus that you
19:35
Speaker 6: see in Kittle. Let alone the blocking. We're not even
19:38
Speaker 6: talking about the blocking right. Kittle has been an outstanding
19:41
Speaker 6: blocker his entire career.
19:43
Speaker 1: Hardcore Football humiling with us on this Monday afternoon. All right,
19:46
Speaker 1: let me maybe my eyes deceived me, and this is
19:50
Speaker 1: why we have you on for Hardcore Football. Did they
19:53
Speaker 1: use used check at all as h bacs slash like
19:57
Speaker 1: a replacement for Kittle as the game we're on? Did
20:00
Speaker 1: that happen? I mean, is that is that something they
20:02
Speaker 1: can do? I know he's not as tall, he's still
20:04
Speaker 1: six two, it's like he's short, But like, is there
20:07
Speaker 1: anything they can use with us check as opposed to
20:10
Speaker 1: Tagas and the other tight end Ferrell?
20:13
Speaker 4: Yeah?
20:13
Speaker 6: I mean within you know, five six yards of the
20:15
Speaker 6: line of scrimmage. On that game winning drive, he ran
20:18
Speaker 6: a little uh uh a snare route where he started
20:22
Speaker 6: to go to flat some people call a flat China.
20:24
Speaker 6: There's a lot of different terminology and he came back
20:28
Speaker 6: in purty in zone coverage. Had to throw behind him
20:31
Speaker 6: because there was a defender out in front, and Yuschek
20:34
Speaker 6: made a great catch, so he he catches the ball
20:38
Speaker 6: that's a ten time pro bow by the way, who
20:40
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to bet he's not going to the
20:42
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame, right I mean if yeah.
20:46
Speaker 1: If he's been the best tight or best fullback of
20:48
Speaker 1: the air and it's like.
20:48
Speaker 6: Close, Devin Hester can can make the Hall of Fame
20:52
Speaker 6: as a return jolly well can put a fullback in there.
20:55
Speaker 6: Right So yeah, so, but I would say he catches,
20:59
Speaker 6: his hands are to the level of a tight end. Absolutely.
21:02
Speaker 6: Now he doesn't move like a tight end or receiver.
21:05
Speaker 6: But he's smart, you know, Harvard guy, a lot of experience,
21:09
Speaker 6: been in the system a long time, so he's a
21:11
Speaker 6: reliable guy for for perty. But you know, here's a
21:16
Speaker 6: here's an interesting note from the last game, forty nine
21:20
Speaker 6: ers at Seattle. They used ysjef for nineteen plays.
21:25
Speaker 1: Was just forty nine ers at Seattle the first game
21:27
Speaker 1: of the year or Seattle at forty.
21:28
Speaker 6: Nine I'm sorry, did I say forty nine ers at Seattle?
21:30
Speaker 6: I meant to say Seattle at Yeah, okay, perfectly, you
21:33
Speaker 6: know last weekend. I misspoke. I'm sorry, thank you for
21:37
Speaker 6: correcting me. So the game at San Francisco, Seattle just
21:40
Speaker 6: won sixteen to six, right, the forty nine Ers had
21:44
Speaker 6: USEEF on the field for nineteen plays. Now how many
21:47
Speaker 6: total plays they didn't That probably have much more than
21:49
Speaker 6: about forty five or fifty. But of the nineteen he
21:55
Speaker 6: only was in the backfield at the snap one time,
21:59
Speaker 6: one time. That's not who the forty nine ers are.
22:02
Speaker 6: They Kyle Shanahan is experimenting around with well obviously split
22:07
Speaker 6: splitting him out. That's something that teams do to declare
22:10
Speaker 6: manner zone if the corner walks out on him and say, okay,
22:13
Speaker 6: you know it's his zone.
22:14
Speaker 4: But they're putting him at the wing.
22:17
Speaker 6: Which is a terminology where you're off the ball and
22:22
Speaker 6: you're just to the outside of the tackle and if
22:24
Speaker 6: there's a tight end there, you're just to the outside
22:27
Speaker 6: of that tight end, but again off the line of scrimmage. Well,
22:30
Speaker 6: that allows him to insert as a lead blockers. It's funky.
22:35
Speaker 6: I don't see it from a lot of teams. And
22:39
Speaker 6: given the forty nine ers lack of success on offense,
22:42
Speaker 6: if we were doing a forty nine Ers show, you say, look,
22:46
Speaker 6: my conclusion would be Kyle Shanahan is brilliant. He's proven
22:49
Speaker 6: to be one of the true masterminds of offensive football.
22:54
Speaker 6: But how poorly we played against Seattle there. And given
23:01
Speaker 6: the idea that you he's toying around with Yushchak in
23:04
Speaker 6: these very unusual dare I say peculiar ways, is that
23:10
Speaker 6: is is Kyle Shanahan trying to get too tricky with
23:13
Speaker 6: it all because it didn't work. And by the way,
23:17
Speaker 6: Seattle had their use of Robbie uts in that game.
23:22
Speaker 6: Oots had his second most h reps in the game,
23:26
Speaker 6: and he had of the seventeen times he was on
23:31
Speaker 6: the field, he was in the backfield sixteen times. That's
23:35
Speaker 6: what San Francisco has always done with yushik. Hey, you're
23:38
Speaker 6: a fullback, you like right almost all the time, you're
23:40
Speaker 6: going to be in the backfield. You're going to be
23:42
Speaker 6: ready to be because that's the advantage of having a
23:44
Speaker 6: full back. If you're if you're trying to and particularly
23:47
Speaker 6: in the I formation, if you got Chris McCaffrey behind
23:51
Speaker 6: the full back, they say, well, it can be a
23:53
Speaker 6: lead to the left or it can be a lead
23:55
Speaker 6: to the right, and you know in between, you know,
23:58
Speaker 6: the B gap, the A gap, the gap, what have you.
24:01
Speaker 6: And the ifirmation gives you that opportunity. And now with
24:04
Speaker 6: the lead full back, you create an extra gap. So
24:08
Speaker 6: if you're going in the B gap, which is between
24:10
Speaker 6: the guard and the tackle, and you're a linebacker and
24:13
Speaker 6: you see you Jeff coming at you, it's not enough
24:15
Speaker 6: to just be in the B gap.
24:17
Speaker 4: You have to know where your help is.
24:19
Speaker 6: You say, do I need to be in the outside
24:21
Speaker 6: of the B gap because I've got an inside linebacker?
24:24
Speaker 6: Like if i'm if I'm Drake Thomas and I see
24:27
Speaker 6: you Jeff coming at me and I got the B gap,
24:30
Speaker 6: I say, well, I got to take the outside portion
24:33
Speaker 6: of the B gap. I got to take my inside
24:37
Speaker 6: shoulder and make contact with U chef on his outside
24:41
Speaker 6: shoulder because I know Ernest Jones is gonna have the
24:44
Speaker 6: inside of the B gap. Like that's the processing that
24:48
Speaker 6: teams have to go through when you're trying to fit
24:52
Speaker 6: the gaps and there's a full back in the backfield.
24:55
Speaker 6: But again, you Jeff, out of nineteen times on the field,
24:58
Speaker 6: he was only.
24:59
Speaker 4: In the backfield.
25:01
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
25:01
Speaker 3: Uh.
25:02
Speaker 6: You know one time now, as I said, he tried
25:06
Speaker 6: to insert as a fullback, but it was coming from
25:09
Speaker 6: a wing position.
25:10
Speaker 4: His power isn't behind him.
25:11
Speaker 6: He's moving more laterally, you know, It's just something you
25:15
Speaker 6: don't see a lot of. And now maybe you know,
25:18
Speaker 6: had had they dropped five hundred yards on Seattle or something,
25:21
Speaker 6: I would say, wow, Ian this cool thing that the
25:24
Speaker 6: forty nine or not wouldn't be cool because the Seattle
25:26
Speaker 6: had lost.
25:27
Speaker 4: But but this just.
25:29
Speaker 6: Speaks to the innovativeness of Kyle Shanahan that he's inserting
25:33
Speaker 6: from a wing position. Well, if they worked, then we're
25:36
Speaker 6: gonn allott it. If you see something unusual and it
25:38
Speaker 6: doesn't work, then he kind of raised your eyebrows. He
25:40
Speaker 6: give him the benefit of doubt because he's been proved
25:43
Speaker 6: be a brilliant offensive mind for several years. So I'm
25:46
Speaker 6: not gonna clown on him. There must be something there
25:49
Speaker 6: to it, but it hasn't materialized and certainly didn't materialize
25:52
Speaker 6: against the Seahawks.
25:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. As you're saying that, I'm just thinking,
25:54
Speaker 1: I remember back my buddy Jed Collins, but at Wazoo.
25:57
Speaker 1: He's working in the financial world now actually helping NFL
25:59
Speaker 1: team Good dude, and Jed was. Jed was a fullback
26:03
Speaker 1: hash h back in college, played a number of years
26:06
Speaker 1: in New Orleans for Sean Payton, wh and Drew Brees
26:08
Speaker 1: was there, and in my mind's eyes, human interm I
26:12
Speaker 1: pitched her number forty one for the Saints kind of
26:14
Speaker 1: lined up that same way. And now Jed wasn't as
26:17
Speaker 1: thick and as fit, you know, like as use check.
26:19
Speaker 1: But that's kind of how they used him. But Peyton
26:21
Speaker 1: used them a lot more goal line and passing situation.
26:24
Speaker 1: It's good, it's fascinating. Just you know, are you who
26:27
Speaker 1: they counted on this year? Pierceall who even if he
26:29
Speaker 1: is back, Hughes probably not gonna be healthy, right, He's
26:31
Speaker 1: not going to be one hundred percent. No George Kittle
26:34
Speaker 1: second week in a role McCaffrey is held under fifty
26:37
Speaker 1: yards rushing, you know, and that's a great defensive line
26:40
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has. Guess what they're gonna see this week against
26:42
Speaker 1: the Seattle a great defensive line again. I mean, uh,
26:44
Speaker 1: Trent Williams did come back and makes a difference. But
26:47
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just I think, and again,
26:50
Speaker 1: even before the Kiddle injury, but certainly after the Kiddle injury,
26:54
Speaker 1: and no one's rooting for him to get hurt. If
26:56
Speaker 1: you are, you got to look yourself in the mirror
26:57
Speaker 1: and ask yourself what the hell's wrong with you? But
27:00
Speaker 1: I think with the Kittle injury, this was this was
27:03
Speaker 1: probably ends up maybe being the best matchup outside of
27:06
Speaker 1: probably what Carolina, right, I mean Carolina, well, green Bay,
27:09
Speaker 1: you could argue green Bay without Micah. I mean green
27:13
Speaker 1: Bay's defense is a little a little sketchy. But yeah,
27:16
Speaker 1: I mean in the rotting carcass of what once was
27:19
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. I guess too that you know, all of
27:21
Speaker 1: a sudden disappear. But yeah, that is the best one.
27:25
Speaker 6: We gotta tip our hat to the resiliency of the
27:28
Speaker 6: forty nine. Oh yeah, let's just be let's just let's
27:32
Speaker 6: just take our our emotions out of this. Just's just
27:35
Speaker 6: let's just be analytical for a second. I mean, here
27:38
Speaker 6: brock Purty with without we just said, is you know
27:42
Speaker 6: they're a twenty one personnel team. Without there, they're three
27:44
Speaker 6: top targets. Who's twenty Who are your targets? When you're
27:48
Speaker 6: in twenty one personnel? You two receivers in your tight end.
27:50
Speaker 1: Now, of course, Turner just up from the practice squad,
27:53
Speaker 1: remember him.
27:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, Rock Party just won.
27:57
Speaker 4: Is his fifth playoff win? Okay?
28:01
Speaker 7: Ye?
28:01
Speaker 6: That that is this the equivalent of Warren Moon and
28:09
Speaker 6: Joe Namath combined damn career playoff wins. And if you
28:15
Speaker 6: want to take Warren Moon out of it because we're Huskies,
28:17
Speaker 6: insert take Warn Moon out and insert Dan Fouts. You
28:20
Speaker 6: still have the same number. Moon and Fouts won three
28:23
Speaker 6: each in their entire career. Brock perty has five of them.
28:27
Speaker 6: Four of them are officially by the NFL's definition, get
28:31
Speaker 6: quote game winning drives. Well four, He's got four game
28:35
Speaker 6: winning drives in the fourth quarter of to win playoffs.
28:40
Speaker 4: Joe Montana only had five.
28:42
Speaker 1: Wow.
28:42
Speaker 4: Now Montana had.
28:44
Speaker 6: Sixteen total wins, and you know, maybe he played well
28:46
Speaker 6: enough in the first, second, and third quarters he didn't
28:49
Speaker 6: need to have game winning drives, and sixteen is the
28:52
Speaker 6: third most behind of course Brady and Mahomes. But I'm
28:56
Speaker 6: not saying he's up or around Montana. I'm just saying
29:00
Speaker 6: pretty has five playoff wins and four of them more game.
29:02
Speaker 4: When he drives. So you're gonna you're gonna have.
29:05
Speaker 6: To, like like like the chick in the bathtub with
29:08
Speaker 6: the knife and uh on fail attraction, Like like you're
29:14
Speaker 6: gonna have to. It's gonna take you sixty minutes to
29:18
Speaker 6: kill brock Purty. Yeah, because this guy just seems to
29:22
Speaker 6: battle back. And uh, you know, no matter what you
29:27
Speaker 6: take from a member and what have you. Uh, you know,
29:29
Speaker 6: he's there to battle. And he throws a pick, his
29:31
Speaker 6: second pick of the of the game. And that's a
29:33
Speaker 6: that's a part of the resilience. Uh, that's the part
29:37
Speaker 6: of the resilience that we have for Purty.
29:41
Speaker 1: Is it?
29:41
Speaker 6: And and and I'll liken it to this because we
29:44
Speaker 6: because there's this stuff about Sam Darnold and interceptions of
29:47
Speaker 6: what have you? Is is the catch by Dwight Clark.
29:51
Speaker 6: One of the most famous plays and games ic iconic, right, yes,
29:55
Speaker 6: And there's that famous video.
29:57
Speaker 4: If you're a real fan, Uh.
29:58
Speaker 6: You know, I don't say fan like a like like
30:01
Speaker 6: an old fan, I should say. But you know there's
30:04
Speaker 6: there's Montana and and there's Bill Walsh and they're they're
30:08
Speaker 6: chalk talking because there was a time out before the
30:11
Speaker 6: play when Montana jogged out and went in the huddle
30:14
Speaker 6: call that play got put his hand in under center.
30:17
Speaker 6: He had already thrown three interceptions in that game against
30:21
Speaker 6: two touchdowns. He snaps the ball, rolls right, fades, fades,
30:27
Speaker 6: throws throws it to Dwight Clark, and the rest is history.
30:30
Speaker 4: Right.
30:30
Speaker 6: But the point the reason I say that, who talks
30:33
Speaker 6: about the fact that Montana had three interceptions?
30:35
Speaker 1: Nobody? Nobody talks about because we're all talking about the two.
30:38
Speaker 1: We're talking about the two interceptions by Purty instead. That's
30:41
Speaker 1: a great point. Listen. I gotta take a break here,
30:43
Speaker 1: real quick, take a break. Come back. I want to
30:44
Speaker 1: throw some a little different at you from the world
30:46
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30:47
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30:49
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31:11
Speaker 1: All Right, Hardcore Football continues Seahawks Saturday, taking on the
31:14
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. No game this weekend from Seattle's perspective
31:17
Speaker 1: to break down with Hugh Millen, but instead where spent
31:19
Speaker 1: a lot of time in the last segment. If you're
31:21
Speaker 1: just joining us, go back and listen to the podcast.
31:22
Speaker 1: Great stuff, talking about what Kyle Shanaan's gonna do without
31:25
Speaker 1: without George Kittle, with that offense, and how it's going
31:28
Speaker 1: to break down if you want to throw something a
31:29
Speaker 1: little different. I hear the NFL music, and that's fine.
31:31
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something college football wise, because
31:33
Speaker 1: it's just what a week it was. Last week you
31:37
Speaker 1: mentioned we had, you know, all, we had eight football games,
31:39
Speaker 1: six in the NFL and the two college games on
31:42
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, including you know, Indiana just smashing Oregon.
31:47
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not an Oregon hater, like a good
31:49
Speaker 1: chunck of the city or the station, but I just
31:52
Speaker 1: I found was that was just crazy impressive along the way,
31:55
Speaker 1: led by Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner and came
31:59
Speaker 1: from Goes to Indiana to finish off his career, kind
32:03
Speaker 1: of looked every bit the part of a number one
32:05
Speaker 1: overall pick. Today we're hearing stories Sam Levit's going to LSU.
32:09
Speaker 1: Sounds like Dylan Royola from Nebraska might end up at Oregon.
32:12
Speaker 1: I don't know if that says something about Dante More,
32:14
Speaker 1: et cetera, DeMont Williams last week, the Common Denominators, all
32:18
Speaker 1: these guys are getting paid in in the final five minutes.
32:22
Speaker 1: You I'm curious from your standpoint, it's such a and
32:25
Speaker 1: I don't maybe there's no answer. Maybe so Ian, I
32:27
Speaker 1: have no idea because this is all new, unchartered territory.
32:30
Speaker 1: This is new ground. I don't know, but I don't
32:32
Speaker 1: need either. Heugh, That's what I'm asking you.
32:35
Speaker 4: We'll stumble in the dark together on this one.
32:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are your expectations for a quarterback? I think
32:40
Speaker 1: it was three million this year. I heard mjsay that
32:43
Speaker 1: Carson Beck was paid at Miami. To me, the return
32:47
Speaker 1: on investment there, every bit of that's worth it. But
32:50
Speaker 1: you're paying a guy one, two, three, four, five million,
32:53
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. What are your expectations as a program.
32:57
Speaker 1: It's got to be college football or playoff or bust, right, Well.
33:00
Speaker 4: Would have to be.
33:01
Speaker 6: You've got a much easier schedule, and this this year's schedule,
33:05
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five was easier than twenty twenty four.
33:08
Speaker 1: So about Washington, About Washington specifically, Yeah.
33:11
Speaker 6: Washington, And look, Jed has expressed his shall I say favoritism,
33:19
Speaker 6: certainly his enthusiasm for demand in unprecedented ways, at least
33:24
Speaker 6: from my perspective a Husky coach and how he's talked
33:28
Speaker 6: about a Husky quarterback anointing, you know, saying hey, we
33:32
Speaker 6: want to get this guy to New York. You know,
33:34
Speaker 6: no competition whatsoever in the spring. He's just handed the job.
33:40
Speaker 6: And maybe that's what you have to do in this
33:43
Speaker 6: modern times. But I would say to answer your question
33:48
Speaker 6: first things first, the performance against the good teams has
33:53
Speaker 6: got to improve. Because we're gonna hear a lot about numbers,
33:57
Speaker 6: but that was all that was all manufactured against a
34:02
Speaker 6: very weak non conference schedule. And then the five wins
34:05
Speaker 6: you had in the Big ten were all against defenses
34:08
Speaker 6: that were in the bottom twenty of sixty seven Power four,
34:12
Speaker 6: bottom twenty. And their four losses were all against teams
34:17
Speaker 6: that are in the top twenty five defensively out of
34:20
Speaker 6: sixty seven Power four, and Wisconsin was twenty third, by
34:24
Speaker 6: the way, So those four losses the gap there for
34:28
Speaker 6: both the offense and demon Williams. The gap between the
34:31
Speaker 6: performance against the poor teams and the good teams is
34:34
Speaker 6: the biggest gap. I could give you all the details
34:37
Speaker 6: this number, This claim can be absolutely verified with pure statistics,
34:45
Speaker 6: and that is the biggest drop of any quarterback in
34:48
Speaker 6: all Power four. So you're making four million, that's where
34:52
Speaker 6: you got to start. You've got to be better against
34:54
Speaker 6: the good teams. And you know, there's a part of
34:56
Speaker 6: it that I think from a ex's and standpoint, he's
35:02
Speaker 6: too deep behind the offensive line too often. He's often
35:07
Speaker 6: straddling ten and a half ten yards from the line
35:10
Speaker 6: of scrimmage with it. I mean, he's so athletic that
35:12
Speaker 6: he can bounce back and it doesn't seem like he's
35:15
Speaker 6: he's you know, really striving to get deep, but he
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Speaker 6: ends up deep. And then when he goes to throw
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Speaker 6: the football, hell the balls in a half an hour
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Speaker 6: just until it gets to the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: Does that make sense?
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Speaker 6: And so defenders have I mean, I've done all this
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Speaker 6: nerdy calculation. What's the you know, a dB running eighteen
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Speaker 6: miles an hour? The balls call it fifty five miles
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Speaker 6: an hour. Because I've looked at the combines from you know,
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Speaker 6: past quarterbacks, and you know, you tabulate out the math.
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Speaker 6: It's literally ian. What I'm about to say is is
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Speaker 6: not figured. If I was saying half an hours of
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Speaker 6: that's that's just being figuredive. But now I'm gonna get literal.
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Speaker 6: It's the equivalent of arming all the defenders with a
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Speaker 6: tennis racket in each hand. That's how much longer you
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Speaker 6: make your defenders when they're reacting the ball. Just the
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Speaker 6: difference between being back a yard and a half deeper
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Speaker 6: than Because I've studied Mendoza, who is very comfortable in
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Speaker 6: that seven and a half to eight and a half
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Speaker 6: yards ranged from the lion scrimmage, Well.
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Speaker 4: He's six for five.
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Speaker 6: He feels comfortable, and now when he goes to throw
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Speaker 6: the ball, the defenders have less time to react to
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Speaker 6: the ball, and so that the the the depth at
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Speaker 6: which demand takes his drops is in my mind, correlated
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Speaker 6: to his height.
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Speaker 4: Not gonna get taller.
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Speaker 6: But he's got to have to somehow figure out how
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Speaker 6: to play within these constraints because the numbers are undeniable.
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Speaker 6: How he's played against the better teams, and I don't
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Speaker 6: really care how he stat pads against the you know,
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Speaker 6: he's throwing with a minute to go in the in
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Speaker 6: the Apple Cup unnecessarily you know, Okay, we're going, you know,
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Speaker 6: to add those to the stats. Really, okay, how about
37:03
Speaker 6: how about scoring more than seven points to get against
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Speaker 6: Ohio State? Okay, that's not fair. It's Ohio State. How
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Speaker 6: about don't throw three interceptions against.
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Speaker 1: Michigan, Yes, or beat Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Beat Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like that deep drop. I think you
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Speaker 1: had a conversation with somebody I know about that, and
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Speaker 1: it makes it hard if I remember right, it might
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Speaker 1: make it also hard on his offensive line, but that's
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Speaker 1: for a different day.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, no, no, no, it's just the angles.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you can just you can take out a protractor
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Speaker 6: and you can explain this. Just the angles that the
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Speaker 6: offensive tackles they want. They want to ride the defensive
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Speaker 6: end around, make it hard for the defensive end to
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Speaker 6: turn a circle to get to the quarterback. If they
37:42
Speaker 6: can run a straight line, they're faster and more agile
37:46
Speaker 6: to get to the quarterback. So you want that quarterback
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Speaker 6: to yes, take his drop, but then be able to
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Speaker 6: step up into the pocket. Guys are reluctant when when
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Speaker 6: they're at that height.
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Speaker 1: That is humail and hardcore football is in the books.
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Speaker 1: Next week we talk God. I hope after a Seahawk
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Speaker 1: win over San Francisco heading to the NFC Championship game,
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Speaker 1: we'll have a game to react to. Hugh. I'm told
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Speaker 1: checking my notes here, take a deep breath, relax for
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, because coming up here top of
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Speaker 1: the hour or actually a little later, I guess at
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Speaker 1: three o'clock you're gonna check in with Dave, Softy mall
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Speaker 1: or not more at four more at three today with
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Speaker 1: Hugh Millon and Softy. Thanks all, yes, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: There you go. That is That is Hugh mill In,
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Speaker 1: Softy Fain coming up next to you.
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Speaker 2: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionably infness, this is
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Speaker 2: paddle day saying so long everyone,