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11-10 H1: What's On Tap, Empty the Notebook & Benton From Finland · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: Hey, great Tuesday morning to you. Welcome into the radio show.
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  Speaker 4: be here until 10 o'clock this morning, and it is
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  Speaker 4: a special, special day for those of us that love
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  Speaker 4: the puzzle-making aspect of sports. It's a trade deadline day,
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  Speaker 4: and we will dive in. With full hearts here today
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  Speaker 4: My name is Chuck Powell. It's great to have you
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  Speaker 4: with us here on this trade deadline day.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're new. We're new.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is our first trade deadline day together.
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  Speaker 4: I left you flowers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. Yeah, in the hangout area. So this
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  Speaker 3: is a celebratory occasion. Oh, always.
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  Speaker 2: It's not one of those things where couples go to
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  Speaker 2: Ikea and test their relationship and see how it goes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, I would never do that. Okay, good, good.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's just a, here, have a gift. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 4: of you.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's lovely. That's lovely. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: If Hugh's going to buy you chocolate while I'm away,
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  Speaker 4: I've got to keep pace.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Kid, I got you a brooch. Yeah, you'll
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  Speaker 3: love it. It's wonderful. It's my mom's. Appreciate it, man.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take anything I can get right now. I feel that.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? You got a win in
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  Speaker 4: Fact or Fiction last night.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't even have to sweat it. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to lie. It was looking ugly that first half, that
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  Speaker 3: first quarter. I was like, it's 3-0. What are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: This looks terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I think Minnesota's defense is great.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine. It is really good. But that's why I
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  Speaker 3: was nervous.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, maybe I should have just went the
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  Speaker 5: Vikings plus three, because this is looking terrible right now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch the Vikings offense?
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Even then, I'm just like, could they win the game 3-0?
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  Speaker 3: I was really fearful of that. Could they just win 3-0?
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  Speaker 4: After the course of four quarters, when your quarterback's playing
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  Speaker 4: that poorly, you're going to have interceptions. You're going to
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  Speaker 4: lose the field position battle. Eventually, the defense is going
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  Speaker 4: to tire from being on the field for you know,
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  Speaker 4: 55 minutes of the game last night. And I thought
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  Speaker 4: you were, I thought you were golden. I think that's the,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the first game since we started the
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  Speaker 4: new show that we were all like, yes, love that pick.
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  Speaker 4: So glad we can make this before any of the
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  Speaker 4: other shows.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Yeah. One and O star. Let's go. Nice work.
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  Speaker 3: Nice work. Gratification as well. Always a win.
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  Speaker 4: Bills win it by a final score of 23 to
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  Speaker 4: six over the Minnesota Vikings. And of course, Josh Allen
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  Speaker 4: was really good last night. I don't know if he
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  Speaker 4: was at his best.
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  Speaker 3: I think Minnesota may have made him look human last night.
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  Speaker 4: But the other side of the story is the real
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  Speaker 4: story here coming out of that game and The fact
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  Speaker 4: that it was on the eve of NFL trade deadline day,
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  Speaker 4: and happy NFL trade deadline day to everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, happy NFL trade deadline day to you, Chuck. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you very much.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I did send out a few candy grams today,
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  Speaker 4: so hopefully those loved ones received those. But the Minnesota
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  Speaker 4: Vikings quarterback, Carson Wentz, could not have looked worse.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's about as bad as you can play
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  Speaker 3: the position. That was Fagnano. I was going to say
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  Speaker 3: who was worse. Fagnano.
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  Speaker 4: Fagnano was definitely worse. At least you could see, oh,
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  Speaker 4: Wentz has some zip. I mean, he's sailing it 100
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  Speaker 4: yards over everybody's head, but at least he has some
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  Speaker 4: zip on the ball. I think that might have been
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  Speaker 4: the first time Fagnano has ever thrown a football.
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  Speaker 3: I probably concur with that, to be honest. Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: But Wentz was abysmal, and I don't know if the
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota Vikings fan base or any analyst in the country
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  Speaker 4: thinks that Even Kyler Murray is the solution for this. Oh, sweet.
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  Speaker 3: He's hurt right now. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't look like they want to put all of
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  Speaker 4: their eggs in the Kyler Murray basket. So with the
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  Speaker 4: deadline at 1 o'clock today, are they going to make
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  Speaker 4: a move for a quarterback? Kevin O'Connell was asked about
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  Speaker 4: it when the game came to a close, and this
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  Speaker 4: was supposed to be the quarterback guru, right, who chose
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy over Darnold.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then chose Murray and Wentz over McCarthy, who's actually
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  Speaker 4: looked like he might be able to save his career
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  Speaker 4: with the New York Giants. Somebody that chose McCarthy over
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  Speaker 4: Cousins chose McCarthy over Daniel Jones. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And yet what are the two names?
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  Speaker 4: And apparently the only two names, according to Adam Schefter,
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  Speaker 4: that are available at quarterback. So any thought of like
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  Speaker 4: Justin Herbert or some outside the box C.J. Stroud idea
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  Speaker 4: because his contract's expiring and maybe the Texans don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: sign up for face of the franchise money with C.J.
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  Speaker 4: Stroud after this year. I even saw a Matt Stafford
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  Speaker 4: rumor to the Vikings. That's just idiots. Idiots who are
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  Speaker 4: trying to get attention.
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  Speaker 3: And I gave it to them in a very small amount.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, a lot of people are trying to dig
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  Speaker 4: for something else other than the reality. But the reality
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  Speaker 4: is if the Vikings are going to improve the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably going to come down to two guys they rejected.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins, who we just so happen
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  Speaker 4: to be facing this week here in Seattle. And so there's,
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  Speaker 4: I think a chance, I don't know how great a
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  Speaker 4: chance there's a chance that the story of the weekend
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  Speaker 4: could be Fernando Mendoza's debut against the Seattle Seahawks in
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  Speaker 4: Las Vegas. And that could end up being a really
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  Speaker 4: big story. But we'll find out a little bit later
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  Speaker 4: on today. As long as Cousins is in Vegas, it
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  Speaker 4: sounds like they're going to stick with Cousins pretty much
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  Speaker 4: all season long, which I think is a great idea,
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  Speaker 4: by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Totally agree. But if you do have.
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  Speaker 4: An opportunity, if Minnesota does start getting a little desperate
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  Speaker 4: today after watching what Carson Wentz did on that football
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  Speaker 4: field last night.
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  Speaker 3: And you're down to two guys.
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  Speaker 4: Which one do you want to overpay for to try
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  Speaker 4: to salvage this season and not waste what might be
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  Speaker 4: an elite defense? Maybe the best defense in the National
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  Speaker 4: Football League. Now, I say that believing wholeheartedly the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: have the best defense in the National Football League, but
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  Speaker 4: the Vikings are right there with them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think in terms of the defense, I came away
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  Speaker 2: last night. That was the first time I ever had
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  Speaker 2: questions that Seattle was the best defense in the national
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  Speaker 2: football league.
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  Speaker 3: You got to see it up close and personal. Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, I've seen a couple of my Vikings games.
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  Speaker 2: I watched them against the lions the previous weekend, but
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  Speaker 2: like the, see what they did against Josh Allen and
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  Speaker 2: Bill's offense that no one had slowed them down at
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  Speaker 2: all this year. And, to see how they're able to
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  Speaker 2: just continuously win games solely because of their defense. The
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks play what Mike McDonald calls complementary football, right? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they rely on their defense to win games, but you
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  Speaker 2: still need the big plays from JSN, an occasional good
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  Speaker 2: throw from whoever's that quarterback, and a decent running game, right?
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  Speaker 2: But for Minnesota, they're like, if our defense doesn't completely
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  Speaker 2: shut them down, we are losing.
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  Speaker 3: Period. End of story. I think you're better off with Murray.
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  Speaker 4: With the sweet.
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  Speaker 3: The sweet one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But you can't win with Carson Wentz.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not even talking about the Super Bowl. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think you can get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: With Carson.
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  Speaker 4: There's too much competition in your division. I don't care
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  Speaker 4: if you got off to a 6-0 start or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: 6-0 start or not. So they do have a decision
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  Speaker 4: to make, and they probably at this stage are going
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  Speaker 4: to have to overpay for either an overpriced Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 4: or a Kirk Cousins, which, let's face it, even if
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  Speaker 4: they traded for Kirk Cousins today, Kevin O'Connell's not putting
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  Speaker 4: his head down on the pillow tonight and saying.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good. Super Bowl, here we come.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason he got rid of him, and that
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  Speaker 4: was four years ago.
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  Speaker 3: As his starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I do believe he has a great defense now.
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  Speaker 3: An elite defense now.
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  Speaker 4: And so it will be interesting to see what kind
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  Speaker 4: of decision they make, because there is another way to
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  Speaker 4: go about this. It's sort of the same song that
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  Speaker 4: we sung a week ago, or John Schneider sung a
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  Speaker 4: week ago, about his own trade deadline interests. And we
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  Speaker 4: were sure that running back, running back, running back, and
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  Speaker 4: he goes, no, left guard to improve the running game.
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  Speaker 4: to make the job easier for the guys that we
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  Speaker 4: already have in the corral. I don't know if I'm Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: If I want to reach on one of these two
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks that I'm not convinced are better. I think they're
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  Speaker 4: better than Wentz, but are they better than Kyler Murray?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: If so, it's not by much Leadership-wise, I think you
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  Speaker 4: can count on them a little bit more. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. And maybe that's all you need is
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  Speaker 4: an edge. But what if you decided to go down
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  Speaker 4: the road of Jonathan Taylor today and give your offense
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  Speaker 4: a true elite running back? And then try to make
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  Speaker 4: your quarterback situation better just because you've committed wholeheartedly. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: let's face it. Mike McDonald, I mean, it's pretty clear
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  Speaker 4: what he kind of wants to do right now. He
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  Speaker 4: just wants to run the ball 40 times a game
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  Speaker 4: and let his defense speak for itself.
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  Speaker 3: If Minnesota, and we don't have an elite running back. No,
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  Speaker 3: we do not.
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks do not have a top-tier running back. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if we have a starting running back. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if Minnesota does either. So are they the
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  Speaker 4: team that says, I'm not paying that price for Daniel
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  Speaker 4: Jones and Kirk Cousins, but I will pay that price
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  Speaker 4: for Jonathan Taylor. We could have an elite running back.
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  Speaker 4: That will make our quarterback better. That will make our
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  Speaker 4: passing game better. And if we can chew clock. keep
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  Speaker 4: our defense off the field because we're moving chains with
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  Speaker 4: the ground game, then that keeps our defense fresh all
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  Speaker 4: season long.
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  Speaker 3: And let's face it, that's our bread and butter. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's, that's the game plan for, for
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks moving forward. But, uh, I just wonder how
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do that with, like you said, out
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  Speaker 2: an elite running back. Unless we really see a true
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  Speaker 2: breakout and see Zach Sharpen as something that he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been in his entire career, or finally see what the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks saw in round one of Jadarian Price, especially with
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  Speaker 2: the way the offensive line is a little banged up
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  Speaker 2: right now, I don't know if we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: to be able to lean on that running game like
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  Speaker 2: it's this savior for the offense, if you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I will say this as opposed to what I
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  Speaker 4: was saying about the Vikings is that I don't think
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  Speaker 4: we have a mess at quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: No, we do not. You're right. And they do.
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  Speaker 4: So I think we do have a quarterback, even though
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  Speaker 4: everybody in town seems to be doubting him right now.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have two of them.
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  Speaker 4: That proved just a year ago that he can win
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  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl and not only win a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: be more than just a manager, game manager type quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He can win games for you.
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't played to that level so far this year,
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  Speaker 4: but he's also played through injuries.
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  Speaker 3: To this point in the season.
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  Speaker 4: And then Drew Locke is better than anything the Vikings have,
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  Speaker 4: which is why I pointed out a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 4: that there is a scenario where Minnesota could come knocking
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  Speaker 4: on John Schneider's door for our backup quarterback and might
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  Speaker 4: give a lot more in a trade package than what
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  Speaker 4: we thought we would ever get for Drew Locke, especially
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  Speaker 4: since his salary is so manageable. Daniel Jones isn't manageable.
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  Speaker 4: But the problem is, the difference is, between when I
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  Speaker 4: floated that idea weeks ago to now, now that we're
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  Speaker 4: at trade deadline day, is.
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  Speaker 3: We need Drew Locke. It's a start.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we need him. And obviously Sam's not been healthy
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  Speaker 4: enough or played well enough to surrender our really good
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  Speaker 4: to great backup quarterback at this stage. Otherwise, I think
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  Speaker 4: all of these talking head shows that we're watching right
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  Speaker 4: now on trade deadline day, I think Drew Locke would
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  Speaker 4: be all over the television screen.
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: If Sam was playing right now as well as he
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  Speaker 4: was playing a year ago at this time.
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  Speaker 3: He was healthy, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I really think that could have been the case. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: would have been the case. But certainly that's not the
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  Speaker 4: situation here for the Hawks. So the Vikings got to
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  Speaker 4: find a quarterback or a running back today before the deadline.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's obvious.
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  Speaker 4: And then the question is here locally, Does John have
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  Speaker 4: another trick up his sleeve?
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to make another move today? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see a big sort of name, although him
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  Speaker 2: responding to what Jacksonville did yesterday might be on the cards.
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  Speaker 2: We all love John Schneider for his kind of feeling like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I like to set the tone with this trading deadline.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he did with the Quentin Nelson trade.
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  Speaker 2: But he also, you know, this is how he adds
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  Speaker 2: to the team more often than not. It's not through
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  Speaker 2: free agency.
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  Speaker 5: It's mostly through the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 3: And he's so good at it. You're so right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's the best. The best. The best at it. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's usually just one move. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Is he going to make another move? Is he going
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  Speaker 4: to look at the landscape and say, hey, some people
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  Speaker 4: have picked up on my trick.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. The 49ers weren't supposed.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 4: They're supposed to shy away at the trading deadline while
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  Speaker 4: I get away with murder. Right. And then the Jaguars
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  Speaker 4: topped everybody by trading for three players in one day yesterday,
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: two of them legit star players. And so certainly Jacksonville's
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: put pressure on Buffalo. Jacksonville's put pressure on Denver, which
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  Speaker 4: I would think has to be in the Jonathan Taylor sweepstakes.
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City, they put pressure on the Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 4: who need a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty clear.
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  Speaker 4: So they put a lot more pressure on the AFC teams,
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  Speaker 4: but in the NFC, the Chicago bears are like, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see your Quentin Nelson and we'll raise you a Jeffrey Simmons.
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  Speaker 4: And so now that everybody's playing this NFL trade deadline game,
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  Speaker 4: which is glorious.
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  Speaker 3: I just love it.
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  Speaker 4: I love that the NFL no longer doesn't make trades.
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  Speaker 4: We are, we get trades all the time. We get
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: them in the off season. We get them at the
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  Speaker 4: draft at the draft. And now at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 4: this is, This is one of the more special trade
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  Speaker 4: deadlines that we have because big players are moving, and
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  Speaker 4: now that teams are trying to separate themselves via the
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: NFL trading deadline... you better be participating or you're going
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  Speaker 4: to be left behind. And even if you are an
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: active participant, you better get more aggressive because now other
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  Speaker 4: teams have figured out your tricks. So for those reasons,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: John may have to take his game to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: I love the idea that you threw out about Josh
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  Speaker 4: Downs yesterday. Well, maybe not love. I like a lot
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  Speaker 4: the idea of Josh Downs from the Indianapolis Colts, but
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  Speaker 4: I'll say this. If you don't go after him, I
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  Speaker 4: have a feeling the Rams will. The Rams just lost
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  Speaker 4: Puka Nakua. They probably aren't going to get Devontae Adams
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  Speaker 4: back until December. And Matthew Stafford's not exactly having an
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  Speaker 4: elite season this year. He's going to need some help
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  Speaker 4: for the next four weeks. I would think the Rams
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  Speaker 4: are going to trade for a wide receiver today, even
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  Speaker 4: though Adam Schefter says he's not hearing anything on that front.
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  Speaker 3: That surprises me because I totally agree with you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I think that would be one of the few things
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the Rams could really really need and they're kind of
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: just it's funny how it all works because going into
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the season it was what everyone was talking about they're
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: just kind of simmering underneath everything right now just letting
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: everything play out Believe me, by the end of the year,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: they will be firmly in that conversation, depending on what
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: happens here at the trade deadline. But I wouldn't be
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: surprised if they surprise people with what they do at
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: this deadline as well.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Dallas Goddard is a name I threw on out a
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: couple of times for the Seahawks.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: I don't dislike that idea either. Without Elijah Arroyo right now, obviously,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: whether it's Drew Locke or Sam Darnold, Mike's kind of
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: sent the message that he wants to be run-centric, and
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: maybe doesn't want to take as many chances downfield knowing
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: he's got a top defense. Man, the idea of having
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: a Barner and a Goddard, shorthanded two tight ends, I
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: don't hate that idea. He's available, and I think he
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: is going to get moved based on the fact that
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Philadelphia moved Jordan Davis yesterday, a player they really like,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: but they just couldn't They couldn't pass up on how
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: sweet an offer that Jacksonville made for him. Because Jordan
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Davis is not worth a first and a second round pick.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: He's basically a nose guard.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: But that was.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: That was Jacksonville saying, we are all in. And it
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: is time for Jacksonville to be all in. That's the
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: mode they should be in. See, everybody that thinks that
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: the Mariners should go all in every single year, no, no, no, no, no.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Rarely should you go all in. But this is an example.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I'm proving that I do see that sometimes you do
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: go all in. Jacksonville, I think, is right to go
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: all in. Their fan base deserves it because they've suffered forever,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: just like the Mariners fans have. But right now they've
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: got the team to do it and they have gone
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: all in here at the trading deadline. I wouldn't even
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: be shocked if they're still going to make another move
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: or two, the mode that they're in right now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Well, it's a, it's a happy day. It's a happy occasion.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: It's NFL trade deadline day. Let's find out what we've
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: got on tap for today's show.
• 18:38
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• 18:40
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  Speaker 4: Trading deadline today at 1 o'clock our time. Greg Bell's
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: going to join us at 7.05. We'll see if he's
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: hearing anything on the Seahawks front. Meanwhile, as I mentioned,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the Jags made three trades Monday afternoon. They were certainly
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the most active. They were the only active buyer at
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: the deadline yesterday. Jordan Davis from Philadelphia for a one
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: and a two. Jesse Bates from Atlanta for a two
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and a five.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: And then they added a defensive tackle. God chow.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Sounds like something you get your ear pet. He was
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: acquired a defensive tackle from the New Orleans Saints. Colts
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: could trade up to five players today, according to Adam Schefter,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor, Josh Downs, Keenan Allen and Grover
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Stewart are all available, but for whatever reason, the Colts,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: after trading Nelson and Buckner last week, haven't even returned
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: calls to teams that are seeking these players. Maybe that
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: changes today. with the pressure of the deadline. Kirk Cousins
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: is a name being floated around. And of course, Kirk
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Cousins is expected to face the Seahawks this week. Maybe
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: we will be the team that Fernando Mendoza will debut against.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: We shall see. What happens with the deadline?
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills, 23-6 winners over the Minnesota Vikings. Chalk one
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: up for the morning show for Factor Fiction. Nice job, Chris.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: We'll play again today at 7.35. Anders will have the pick.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Drew Locke will start for the Seahawks on Sunday. We
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: know that for sure. Sam Darnold is out. So Milrow
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: will be the backup to Drew Locke. A lot of
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: NFL injuries are mounting right now. Puka Nakua looks like
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: he's going to be put on the IR with a
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: knee injury. Josh Jacobs with a broken finger looks like
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: he could be put on the IR. The Patriots have
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: lost their top two running backs here in the last
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: few weeks. It looks like Ramondre Stevenson's going to miss
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: some time. And Michael Wilson of the Cardinals was playing
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: with a fractured neck, playing with a fractured neck on Sunday.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: They diagnosed it after the game with x-rays. He's out
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: for the season, as you might expect, and so is
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew. Yes, that elbow injury that he suffered in
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: the game was serious enough. He played through it. He
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: gutted through it, but it looks like he is done
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: for the entire year. College football, UW-Michigan State this Saturday
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: at 115. The college football playoff rankings come out tonight.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Rick Neuheisel will join us at 9 o'clock. College basketball,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: UW goes to 2-0 on the young season with a
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: 77-64 win over Mississippi Valley State last night. NBA, tonight
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: is the matchup Tatum versus Jalen Brown, Boston versus Philadelphia.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Since opening night, this has been the best matchup of
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the season so far this year, and this might be
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: better than anything from opening night considering all of the
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: drama that surrounds this game. And the Kraken will be
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: in Finland. They are in Finland right now. They will
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: play on Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes. We'll chat with
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Everett Fitzhugh at 8.30 today. Also, Mike Benton joins us
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: at 6.45 this morning. But coming up next, we're going
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: to empty the notebook from the Seahawks' victory over the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals. We do it every Tuesday on Sports Radio
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: 93.3 KJR FM. Let's just get down to business kind
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: of games and get a win and then get out
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: of here and get ready for the next game. And
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: they got the job done. And yet, even though we
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: covered a lot of ground yesterday over our four hours
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: and certainly with Greg and Hugh, There are a few
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: other things that did slip through the cracks for me.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Number one, I sort of get why the Cards are
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: trying to establish the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Run with Algier.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I think he's a tough customer, and I think he's
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: one heck of a running back to have on your
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: team as your third stringer. But you've got a guy
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: that limited going up against this defense with its different
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: looks and its fierceness and its speed and its versatility.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: And what they did was, we're going to try to
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: establish Algier.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: It was never going to work. There was never stood
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: a chance.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I know we had a huge game against the Dallas
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Cowboys the week before, but you weren't facing the Dallas
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Cowboys on Sunday.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And I guess it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Worked to the degree of, we got a few big
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: plays on the first drive, and like a lot of teams,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: we scored points against the Seahawks defense on the first
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: drive to take a 3-0 lead.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: But that was it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I guess it worked. I guess your big game plan
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: of establishing Tyler Algier.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: You established it. You established it. You got three points.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And then like every other team that faces Mike McDonald,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: you figured out every drive after that was going to
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: get harder and harder and harder. And you just weren't
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: going to win that battle. And at the end of
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: the day. Tyler Algier, 2.7 yards per carry. I mean,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I realize Jeremiah Love is their plan. I don't even
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: think he's hurt, Anders.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I think they know that this.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Is not the season they're going to cash in. They
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: took a running back with a pick really high and
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: that a lot of people criticize.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: You just don't draft a guy when you're not ready.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: You don't draft a running back that high.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: And I think that they strategically, from the beginning of
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the year, We're not going to overuse him this season.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: We're going to look for any excuse not to play him.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Worst thing is we get a higher draft pick. God forbid.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: They're saving Jeremiah Love and all of those bullets for
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: when they're actually in the fight.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: And right now, I don't think, even though they play
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: hard under a first-year head coach, they've played hard. They've
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: got three wins out of this season. But Tyler Algiers
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: playing for a reason. and that is that they're going
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: to use him in their rebuilding year. Different story next year,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: they're hoping.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully. I mean, I do see some pieces with
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: that team, but not this year. Yeah, just not ready
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I was so glad that Byron Murphy, at least the
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: stat guy, noticed that it was his sack that knocked
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew to the ground when he just kind of
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: flew through and Kenny Albert gave all the credit to
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Jaron Reed and the camera crew gave the credit to
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Jaron Reed. And he was in the picture and he
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: fell on him. But Byron Murphy just sweeping through. I mean,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Minshew's 220 like Hugh suggested yesterday,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: but he's over 200. And for that big, strong dude
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: to kind of just come through here.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: And just ole him with an arm. and knock him
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: off his feet.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I'm glad the stat guy saw that Murphy got that
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: sack and not Jaron Reed, but it wasn't the.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Only thing that that broadcasting crew missed on Sunday.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: No, it was not. Yeah, Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilba.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Not exactly my favorite booth combo.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I think they might be my least favorite. It's up there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of another one.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: And I'm going to add another guy because this is
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: also in my notebook. Their spotter is the worst in
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: the business. And the only reason that I know that
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: is because I keep score.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: And I have to, you cannot trust them. I have
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: to wait. until you actually get to the play. So
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I can see for myself because second and six is
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: never second and six. It's probably second and seven could
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: be second and four. Oh, that happened a few times
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: during the, they were like two full yards off, uh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: at times. So between Kenny Albert, not being able to
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: tell players apart from JSN to Jadarian price. I don't
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: know how you missed on that one, bud.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: It's two digits versus one digit. One's a running back.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: One's a wide receiver. One's shorter.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Vilma couldn't get the A.J.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Barner stuff down. The entire game was weird.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Why do you keep trying? Just let it go. You
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: don't get it. Just let it go.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: It's an awesome celebration too. Yeah. What are we doing?
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Really good one. I don't think he really knew how
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: to finish that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: No, that's exactly what he does every single time.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I wanted to say that to Albert all game long
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: as well. So, yes.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: But, and then Jadarian Price, the pass catcher, four catches,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: 54 yards on Sunday.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: He led the team in receiving yards.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: JSN had more catches, but Price, the pass catcher, had
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: 54 yards. That was something that was questioned majorly coming
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: out of college because people just didn't see him play enough. And, boy,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I thought his hands– I thought there were four terrific
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: catches on Sunday. That over-the-shoulder catch was outstanding. And I
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: know the throw was good too, but that over-the-shoulder catch
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: and that tie to quarters was outstanding for a guy–
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: who was knocked for his hands coming into the draft process.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Again, he was knocked because people just didn't see it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It's not that you saw him be bad at that
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: in college. So you didn't see it being successful. And
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you saw that this is the guy that could definitely
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: be that. And I think that's going to be a
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: huge thing for this offense. They haven't really had like
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: a change of pace, quote unquote type of guy.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You could say George Lonnie, but this is a real
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: change of pace type of guy. When you have Charbonnet,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: it could be duo concept up the middle, uh, And
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: then you get the outside zone with Jadarian Price and
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: throwing the ball out of the backfield.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Love that. How about the fact that we didn't see
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Wilson or Helani at all?
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: In the backfield. It made me so happy. Did it
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: make you happy?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, there you go. We've emptied the notebook
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: for another week. I'm not sure if it's going to
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: win the love of the hunky Ryan Gosling. Maybe he'll
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: pick someone else.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe you stay with the rich guy then. Yeah, but nonetheless.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: All right, coming up next, we're going to go to Helsinki, Finland,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: and see if Mike Benton has gotten over his terror
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: of seafood. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, you got me.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Hello, Chuck.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: All right, good morning.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: It is Chuck and Anders with you. Sports Radio 93.3
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: KJR FM. Great to have you with us. We now
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: head overseas to Scandinavia where Mike Benton has become king
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: of Finland since last we spoke. I was thinking maybe
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: we could play like a famous, you know, Finnish singer. Oh, yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: You know, some of their music, but it turns out, Mike,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: there aren't any. Yeah, there aren't any.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry about that. Sorry, you could have had a
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: better intro. I was hoping Bjork was from Finland.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Kippus, Chuck.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: How are you? Good morning.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Which means also cheers in English.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: In Finnish. Does it?
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Okay. Give that to me again so I can use
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: it around the house. Kippus.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Kippus?
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Kippus.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Kippus.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I raise one to you.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Very good. Kippus. Okay.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I'm going to use that.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Slowly but surely integrating ourselves here. Yeah, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Speaking of which, I mean, you're playing on Thursday. How
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: much concern is there about.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, have they given themselves enough time?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: We're not going to see some sort of Sean McVay
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Rams didn't show up on the tarmac one hour before
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the game started in Australia.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: That clearly isn't going to happen.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: How does the coaching staff feel that the big flight
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: over there and playing overseas may or may not affect
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: this game on Thursday?
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Well, they certainly see there is an advantage here to it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, let's just be real.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: It's It's a.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Nine-and-a-half-hour flight and 10 hours of a time zone difference
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: in between Pacific time zone and what we're over right
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: now in Helsinki. So, I mean, me, I flew on
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: the team charter right after the game against the Rangers
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: on Saturday, and it gave me a fresh perspective on
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: what the Rams did.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And I have no idea how this got signed off
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: and who signed off on this, but at minimum.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: you need.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: At least about two or three days to go and
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: play in a game like this to get any kind
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: of jet lag and 100% of it out of your system.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Lane Lambert said, They're just trying to kind of tiptoe
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: their way back into on-ice stuff. They practiced Monday, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: it was only about 35 minutes. They barely did line rushes.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: It was just to get out there and get a
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: sweat going. And honestly, I really felt like I didn't
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: get back to normal until maybe this morning when it
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: was kind of still late on your guys' time zone
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: right back on Monday.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: So it really takes a while.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Once you get off the plane, you're basically told push
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: as hard as you can. until you go to bed
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: that night to give yourself the best chance to get
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: your body clock reset.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So it really does make a big difference.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, I'm curious about what the, from what you
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: can tell the hockey culture in Finland is like, because
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: for me, I struggle to really get a sense of,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: is this more like when the NFL does games overseas
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and it's just like, oh, this is cool. It's another
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: sport where we can check it out, you know, get
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: used to it. Or is this like, These guys are
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: diehards for this league. I know they're big hockey fans,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: but in terms of the NHL specifically, what is the
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: NHL culture like in Finland?
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: They're going into a high degree of familiarity with these
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: players in Finland, Anders. And the NHL Global Series tends
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: to vary because they shipped this here from Finland one year.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: They'll play two games in Germany next month between Ottawa
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: and Chicago next But this all began way back in
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: the late 90s when they played two games in Tokyo
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: at Yoyogi Arena. And this is all done because they
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: want to have this kind of like as a precursor
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: here for the Winter Olympics and get Japan kind of
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: warmed up here to the concept of NHL players coming
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: over to.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Play that year in Nagano. So it's taken on a
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: big life of its own.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: So out there, there's kind of like an expansion feel
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: of curiosity to it. Here, hockey and culture are rooted
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  Speaker 5: together all the way down here to the very bottoms
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  Speaker 5: of bedrock beneath the surface of Helsinki. Teemu Solani's picture
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  Speaker 5: is on the wall inside the practice rink over at
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  Speaker 5: Fakos Arena. who is arguably the greatest player in Finnish
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  Speaker 5: hockey history. Yari Curry was before Taimou Solani came along.
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  Speaker 3: His picture is up there.
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  Speaker 5: And you run into guys who have played this game
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  Speaker 5: in this country and then come over to the pros
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  Speaker 5: or the NHL, and they said, I was inspired by
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  Speaker 5: Taimou Solani. I wanted to be Yari Curry when I
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  Speaker 5: grew up. Taimou Solani did so as well. Then you
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  Speaker 5: have more modern players who have taken on a life
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  Speaker 5: of their own. And even Kapo Kakko said that, uh,
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  Speaker 5: For Dallas, Mikko Rantanen was his inspiration growing up here.
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  Speaker 3: It's taken a significant turn, I think, in the.
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  Speaker 5: Youth and grassroots program I've heard in the last 15
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  Speaker 5: to 20 years and more on the upswing here. They're
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  Speaker 5: very recognizable athletes and figures. I've heard that if you
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  Speaker 5: walk around in your team gear, you get a lot
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  Speaker 5: of more hellos.
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  Speaker 3: And handshakes and how-do-you-dos.
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  Speaker 5: For me, it's kind of comparable and You know, Anders,
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  Speaker 5: I know that you weren't alive for back this, but
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  Speaker 5: I certainly was. I remember when the PGA Championship went
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  Speaker 5: to Sahali Country Club back in 1998. The PGA Tour
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  Speaker 5: is not going through Seattle on its circuit usually. But
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: when the PGA Tour or the PGA Tour stars got
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: there for the PGA Championship, everyone in Seattle knew who
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: these guys were. From Tiger Woods to Tom Lehman to
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: David Duvall to Davis Love III, and it was like
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: watching a rock concert everybody had been waiting for for
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: a long, long time because they hadn't seen these players
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  Speaker 5: come through previously, and they don't know when they'll come
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  Speaker 5: through ever again. It's the same thing, I think, here
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  Speaker 5: for Finland. Everyone knows who Kapo Kako is. Everyone knows
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  Speaker 5: who Sebastian Aho is here for the Carolina Hurricanes. these
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  Speaker 5: are going to be two very special games to really
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  Speaker 5: give these fans an up-close and personal view of what
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: these players are all about.
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  Speaker 4: Thursday, 9 o'clock, they will drop the puck in Helsinki.
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  Speaker 4: We've got it covered for you right here on the
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  Speaker 4: flagship Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM, starting with the pregame
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  Speaker 4: at 8.30. We've sent all our best people over to
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  Speaker 4: Helsinki for this major event.
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  Speaker 3: Have fun, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Kippus to you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Chuck. Goodbye and hibasti.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, now he teaches us another one.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go. All right, tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll get our hibachi lesson.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Is that what he said, hibachi? Hibasti? Pretty sure that's Japanese.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Something like that. Yeah, I think he's lost. Yeah, I
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: think he doesn't know what he's talking about.
• 35:54
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• 35:56
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• 36:06
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  Speaker 4: that you will win a pair of tickets to see
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: the crack and take on the vancouver canucks canucks uh
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  Speaker 4: november 19th is going to be when they uh drop
• 36:19
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• 36:23
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• 36:25
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  Speaker 3: Headlines next. Greg Bell next.
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