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Chuck & Buck 12-18 Hour 2: Headlines and the playoff picture, BMac with the weather and our Stove wish lists. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: The rest of the fortune.
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Speaker 2: These guys want to be These guys are lawyers and
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Speaker 2: like real they want to be on.
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Speaker 1: TV too, Brother, like the game. You don't think he's
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Speaker 1: texting his friends in.
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Speaker 2: The group chat like, Yo, you guys just saw me
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Speaker 2: Sunday football like that way.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't p I like, but I called it was
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Speaker 1: seriously you do that that?
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Speaker 3: I mean?
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Speaker 1: These guys are noble human beings too, bro. Like you
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Speaker 1: hear somebody else say that sounds silly.
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Speaker 4: It's Chuck bucking Ashley with you here game day on
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Speaker 4: a Thursday.
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Speaker 1: That's right. We're getting you set.
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Speaker 4: For Seahawks Rams tonight right here in Seattle. Is it
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Speaker 4: gonna be windy? Is it gonna be rainy? Is it
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Speaker 4: gonna be neither? Is it gonna be both? We're gonna
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Speaker 4: talk a little bit. We're gonna talk to a weatherman,
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Speaker 4: that's right, ye know, grandall, hey turn on the weatherman.
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Speaker 4: So Grandpa, you tell me, northy turn on the weather man.
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Speaker 4: That's funny, yeah, uh. And so we'll be turning on
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Speaker 4: the weather man a little bit later on this hour
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Speaker 4: to find out exactly what we can expect and how
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Speaker 4: it could impact the game a little bit later on
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Speaker 4: this hour. Also our twelve man Roundtable Today Game Day
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Speaker 4: Roundtable with Hugh Millen and Greg Bell, starting at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 4: What a special special evening. We've got a plan for
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Speaker 4: Seahawks versus Rams. Good morning. Let's first though, talk about
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Speaker 4: your frost brewed Corslight choose chill headlines. Of course, it
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Speaker 4: does start with that game five point fifteen kickoff, and.
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Speaker 1: It will be aired locally.
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Speaker 4: It won't just be the Prime video broadcast. They will
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Speaker 4: air it locally, so you don't have to worry about that.
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Speaker 4: Charles Cross is out for the Seahawks, our starting left tackle,
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Speaker 4: and Mike McDonald didn't beat around the bush Josh Jones.
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Speaker 1: They feel okay with Josh Jones.
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Speaker 4: He's been on the roster all season long, hasn't played
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Speaker 4: that much, but this is why he's here to be
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Speaker 4: that guy that will step in for either Abe Lucas
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Speaker 4: or Charles Cross or Josh Jones will get the start
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Speaker 4: tonight at left tackle in the biggest game of the year.
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Speaker 4: Davante Adams is being listed as doubtful. Most people reading
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Speaker 4: into it believe there's really no shot that the Rams.
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Speaker 4: The wide receiver and possible future Hall of Famer is
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Speaker 4: going to play tonight, but that Sean mcvayh wanted to
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Speaker 4: keep hope alive, either lying to himself or forcing Mike
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Speaker 4: McDonald to have to strategize for something that's not even
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Speaker 4: going to participate. But it's looking very doubtful that DeVante
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Speaker 4: Adams will play for the Rams. Will bring a professional
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Speaker 4: on to talk about this later this hour. But there
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Speaker 4: is a chance there won't be much rain tonight, it's
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Speaker 4: looking like, and yet there could be high winds tonight.
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Speaker 4: So again we'll get into that at seven point thirty
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Speaker 4: with somebody that does.
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Speaker 1: This for a lidding, thank goodness, because yeah, we don't.
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Speaker 4: This is the week where NFL Saturday games start, so
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Speaker 4: you're gonna have college football playoff games, three of them
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Speaker 4: with two NFL games on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: That's some prime watching right there. Oh, I love it.
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Speaker 4: Philadelphia at Washington, Green Bay at Chicago.
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Speaker 1: That second game is a monster.
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Speaker 4: Which we'll discuss here in a little bit as we
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Speaker 4: look at the playoff picture for the Seahawks in the NFC.
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Speaker 4: But those are the two games on Saturday, and then
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Speaker 4: of course a full slate on Sunday as well.
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Speaker 1: You doub losing talent.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday, entering the transfer portal was running back Adam Muhammad
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Speaker 4: and wide receiver Raident vines Bright also offensive lineman Zach Henning.
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Speaker 4: Had a few Husky fans wondering what the heck is
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Speaker 4: going on? Is Fish really leaving? The Michigan rumors will
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Speaker 4: not die, And when you lose three prominent young players
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Speaker 4: like that in a short period of time, it certainly
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Speaker 4: gets the mind to whirlindrases eyebrows. I don't know. I
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Speaker 4: don't know what to tell you. I don't have any
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Speaker 4: inside information. I would say that there's enough smoke there
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Speaker 4: that I wouldn't rule it out. That's true that Jetfish
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Speaker 4: is leaving, and that these moves yesterday had something to
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Speaker 4: do with that. Maybe he's leaked a little information, But
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Speaker 4: there's also a really good store to tell in regards
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Speaker 4: to I think every program's gonna lose players every single year.
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Speaker 1: That's just where we are.
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Speaker 4: Number two, The Huskies have already finished their bowl game.
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Speaker 4: Where most bowl games have not been played, They've already
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Speaker 4: cleaned out their lockers, So it shouldn't be surprising to
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Speaker 4: people that a few players have moved on earlier than
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Speaker 4: other programs. Have had to confront and then look, I mean,
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Speaker 4: Adam Mohammad might.
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Speaker 1: Be replaced by Jordan Wash.
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Speaker 4: He's been waiting to be the RB one through the
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Speaker 4: entire Jonah Coleman era, and now he might not get
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Speaker 4: the chance because of how good and how fast and
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Speaker 4: how talented Jordan Washington is. So maybe he sees the
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Speaker 4: riding on the wall and wants to get to a
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Speaker 4: place where he's guaranteed more carries.
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Speaker 1: And then with Rayden Vines Bright, I mean, he had
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Speaker 1: a really scary injury, really scary.
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Speaker 4: To the point where you know, it's one of those
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Speaker 4: type of injuries where he goes to the hospital and
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Speaker 4: mom and dad spend all night worrying about you. He's
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Speaker 4: from Tempe, Arizona. This could be a case of I'm
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Speaker 4: saying you are coming home. I am not going to
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Speaker 4: go through I mean, who knows. There gonna be a
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Speaker 4: million different reasons why these things happened yesterday. But obviously
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Speaker 4: when your head coach at your local football program as
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Speaker 4: a nomad, our minds naturally go to, oh my.
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Speaker 1: Gosh, you might be leaving after all?
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Speaker 2: Right, right, I think just about everybody probably had their
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Speaker 2: mind jumped to that conclusion. And yet I mean, I'll
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Speaker 2: just say, at the end of every season in college,
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Speaker 2: you would end up having a conversation with your coach, right,
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Speaker 2: And I know I had a few buddies that would
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Speaker 2: go in and talk to ed chef and what do
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Speaker 2: I need to work on, coach, And you go, you
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Speaker 2: got a lot to work on. The first thing is
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Speaker 2: I'd find somewhere else to play because you're not going
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Speaker 2: to play here.
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Speaker 1: That happened to you every year, not to me.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, but I have some buddies that that happened
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Speaker 2: to He just told me you got to work on
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Speaker 2: pretty much everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, mainly your attitude and your fashion.
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Speaker 2: That well, my fashion was garbage, but that was part
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Speaker 2: for the course. This was the nineteen nineties, remember, and
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Speaker 2: so no, it was an attitude was fine. It was
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Speaker 2: just his way of being like, your hitting still garbage.
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Speaker 2: Defense sucks really bad. Your mentality is the worst I've
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Speaker 2: ever let anyone wear a warrior uniform. So take that
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Speaker 2: into account as you go into the off season. I
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Speaker 2: would just basically work on everything because you're horrible.
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Speaker 1: And get some breath mints. Yea, he probably maybe.
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Speaker 2: You did as I was leaving and I just was.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't hear it through my tears.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, but I do.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the idea of a post season, a postseason
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Speaker 2: conversation with your coach happens. It could be that simple now,
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Speaker 2: and you add the murkiness of money. If they're like, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're right now, we don't have to pay Jordan as
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Speaker 2: much and you know we need that money that we.
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Speaker 5: Have set aside for you to go here. Who knows?
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Speaker 5: Man to me, it's just one of those we can speculate.
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Speaker 2: It's it's a topic for us to discuss on sports
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Speaker 2: talk radio, but we don't know what the the situation is.
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Speaker 1: Could be a thousand different reasons for it.
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Speaker 4: But one of those reasons is Jedfish is leading great YEP,
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Speaker 4: could be one of my So I think we're I
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Speaker 4: think we're kind of prepared for anything. That's so what
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Speaker 4: you have to be as a college football.
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Speaker 1: Fan right now. I think so.
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Speaker 6: And if you're not, then you're you're you got your
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Speaker 6: head in the sand and you're pretending things haven't changed,
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Speaker 6: and they have changed. They have changed a lot.
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Speaker 1: They have changed dramatically.
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Speaker 4: College football playoff will start on Friday, Alabama at Oklahoma
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Speaker 4: will be the matchup, and then three games on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Kurt Signetti named National Coach of the Year for a
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Speaker 4: second consecutive season there at Indiana and the Kraken will
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Speaker 4: be in action tonight in Calgary to take on the Flames.
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Speaker 4: They have lost nine of their last ten games. They've
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Speaker 4: got to get it right and right now. Lane Lambert
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Speaker 4: in the program struggling, no question about that. Those are
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Speaker 4: your frost brewed cors like choose Chill headlines again twelve
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Speaker 4: man round table today at eight. Mike Sander will join
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Speaker 4: us DELP preview the game tonight at and yes, there
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Speaker 4: there is a playoff picture to consider here. So let
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Speaker 4: me paint this for you, let me bob ross it
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Speaker 4: for you here. Maybe we'll put a little bush down here.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes mistakes can turn into something wonderfully on a canvas.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, bush exactly. But game day tonight, and yes,
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks can clinch a playoff spot tonight where they win.
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Speaker 4: It's just as simple as that. A win and they
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Speaker 4: are in the postseason. But they're certainly more at stake
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Speaker 4: than that. You got your eye fixed on finishing first
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Speaker 4: place in the NFC West, which almost certainly is going
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Speaker 4: to lead to you finishing with the number one seed
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Speaker 4: in the entire NFC playoffs, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: good that comes from that. That's home field advantage throughout
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Speaker 4: your NFC playoffs. That's also a bye. Now we have
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Speaker 4: seven teams in the playoffs, only one team gets a bye.
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Speaker 4: It's the team with that one seed. So there is
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Speaker 4: certainly a lot to get from this victory tonight. It
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Speaker 4: doesn't guarantee you anything. You still have to play Carolina.
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Speaker 4: You still have to play San Francisco. San Francisco, believe
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Speaker 4: it or not, controls its own destiny as well. All
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Speaker 4: three of these teams do, Rams, Seahawks, forty nine Ers.
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Speaker 4: All three of them control their own destiny. If they
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Speaker 4: went out, they're gonna be the number one seed. Because
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks have to turn around in a couple of
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Speaker 4: weeks and take on the forty nine ers and not
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Speaker 4: ignore Carolina, and they're push they're a better team with
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Speaker 4: a lot at stake next week. So there is a
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Speaker 4: lot still left to do. But there's no doubt that
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Speaker 4: a win tonight at home against the Rams, thanks to
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Speaker 4: that Rams loss a couple of weeks ago, that was
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Speaker 4: so unexpected. We are in a position to take stranglehold
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Speaker 4: of the NFC West and that number one seed with
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Speaker 4: a victory tonight. That's why this thing is so damn huge.
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Speaker 2: That's huge. I mean it feels like, I mean, they're
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Speaker 2: gonna make the playoffs. The Seahawks are gonna make the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: So they would have to be like a month, they'd
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Speaker 2: have to lose all of them and somebody else come up.
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Speaker 1: Detroit has them all. That's very simple.
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Speaker 4: If they lost them all and Detroit won them all,
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Speaker 4: then Detroit and there's still a chance the Seahawks get
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Speaker 4: in by percentage points because we did not face Detroita.
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Speaker 1: You're right right.
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Speaker 2: It basically is a greater than ninety nine percent chance
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Speaker 2: that they're gonna make the playoffs. But how you make
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Speaker 2: the playoffs is a different story. And to me, when
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Speaker 2: I look at Okay, what you have going forward, and
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Speaker 2: you can't look past tonight's game, obviously that's the first thing,
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Speaker 2: but it's if you don't win this game, the idea
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Speaker 2: of you getting that number one spot, winning the division,
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Speaker 2: when when the Rams get to play Atlanta and Arizona,
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Speaker 2: it seems futile. It seems like you. Basically that is gone.
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Speaker 2: The division is gone, the number one seed is gone.
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Speaker 2: So then you're going on the road and playing somebody
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Speaker 2: and making it a little bit tougher path. Not that
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Speaker 2: they can't play on the road, but it's just tougher.
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Speaker 2: You'd much rather have a buy. So, yeah, it's a
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Speaker 2: It's a big one, There's no doubt about it. I mean,
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Speaker 2: then you move on to the next game, and you
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Speaker 2: got to try to take care of business against Carolina,
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Speaker 2: who at this point still has something to play for.
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Speaker 2: They're in a big division game this weekend against the Buccaneers.
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Speaker 2: So and then you get the Niners at the end
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Speaker 2: of it, who are just trying to kind of wait
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Speaker 2: in the grass and sneak up and bite somebody.
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Speaker 6: I think the great thing is though, that it is
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Speaker 6: all in your own control, right, You control your destiny.
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Speaker 6: You're not saying, Okay, well we've got to win out
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Speaker 6: and we need these other things to happen for us
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Speaker 6: to be in the position we want to be in.
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Speaker 6: All you have to do, not that it's easy, but
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Speaker 6: you just have to win your games. So focus on you.
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Speaker 6: You don't have to worry about what other people are doing.
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Speaker 4: They do of the three of the toughest remaining schedule. Yes,
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Speaker 4: I mean the Rams lost at Carolina just a couple
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Speaker 4: of weeks ago, so they can get you, and then
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Speaker 4: they still have to play San Francisco. But yes, that's
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Speaker 4: the exact position after fourteen games that you want to
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Speaker 4: be in, right, be able to control your own destiny.
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Speaker 4: Have a home game against the team that has already
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Speaker 4: beaten you once here tonight, and to take them out.
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Speaker 4: And look, I mean as much val you goes with
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Speaker 4: this win and finishing out winning the division and most
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Speaker 4: likely taking the well, you would end up with the
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Speaker 4: one seed if you want out, you even control that.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that the road I mean is as
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Speaker 4: daunting as it normally is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't end up with the one.
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Speaker 4: Seed, I think there's still a very good chance that
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Speaker 4: you could be champs of the NFC. Number one, you're
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Speaker 4: a better road team right now than you are a
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Speaker 4: home team for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: I mean as just factual, you know, just record wise.
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Speaker 1: And number two, I mean, I don't know if there
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Speaker 1: is a great team in the National Football League this year.
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Speaker 4: The Rams I think have been the closest to it,
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Speaker 4: most consistently in the neighborhood of greatness all season long.
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Speaker 4: Certainly the Seahawks have spent some time at club greatness
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Speaker 4: this year, but I don't think they've been as consistently
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Speaker 4: great as what the Rams have been so particularly in
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Speaker 4: the NFC. I mean, the Philadelphi Eagles are coming off
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Speaker 4: a Super Bowl and they look absolutely damaged. I mean,
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Speaker 4: they are very fortunate to be in a division with Dallas,
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Speaker 4: Washington and the Giants, because I think that they really
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Speaker 4: be panicking right now because their season seems to be
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Speaker 4: slipping away from them in Philadelphia. But statistically they're in
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Speaker 4: the right division. But so I don't think that's a
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Speaker 4: great team to have to go through. I certainly think
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Speaker 4: they're a team that could get their stuff together in
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Speaker 4: three weeks time, and at home in the Northeast might
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Speaker 4: be a really difficult place to win, But I don't
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Speaker 4: see Los Angeles being some daunting home field advantage. The
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Speaker 4: scary part about them is that they're really good, yes,
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Speaker 4: and they're really well coached. That's the scary part about
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Speaker 4: facing them in the playoffs. It's not because you have
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Speaker 4: to play it in Los Angeles, and I don't think
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Speaker 4: there's any chance you're going to be the seventh seed,
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Speaker 4: so and I don't think Tampa as the four seed
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Speaker 4: is any intimidating place to play or an intimidating team
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Speaker 4: to face. So I don't think there's a really a scenario.
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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a gauntlet that you're facing even
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Speaker 4: if you do miss being the one seed. I think
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Speaker 4: it's just that type of year. Whoever plays the best
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Speaker 4: in the NFC playoffs is going to win. I don't
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Speaker 4: think it's going to come down to home field advantage
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Speaker 4: or you know what road that you're on. But certainly
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Speaker 4: you would love to have the buy first and foremost
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Speaker 4: and make everybody come through loud ass Seattle to try
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Speaker 4: to take you down. So, yes, tonight is huge. I
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Speaker 4: just don't feel like it's make or break when it
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Speaker 4: comes to whether or not you can still achieve all
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Speaker 4: of your big, giant, lofty goals.
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Speaker 2: The goal is to win the Super Bowl, obviously, and
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Speaker 2: I think that they have the right. They've played themselves
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Speaker 2: into that conversation and have the right to do it.
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Speaker 2: I see it as just drastically tougher if you just
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Speaker 2: have to not just play the extra game.
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Speaker 5: That's a big one.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, everybody wants to win out and control your own
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Speaker 2: destiny and you get the buy everybody would say that,
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Speaker 2: right if you don't and you end up becoming the
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Speaker 2: five or possibly the six seed, depending on how the
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Speaker 2: next couple of games go. Buccaneers, I mean they they
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Speaker 2: put it on you here at home. Now they're not
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Speaker 2: playing the same as they would.
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Speaker 1: Put it on us.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they barely won a game where we played
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Speaker 4: our only crap defensive game of the entire year.
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Speaker 2: It felt like they did they did what they wanted
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Speaker 2: to do. That they came into your house and did
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Speaker 2: what they wanted to do. And that to me was
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Speaker 2: if if there's a game that would worry me, it
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Speaker 2: would be the Buccaneers because of the fact that.
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Speaker 1: That's not the team nearly as well now as what
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Speaker 1: they were. I agree, but they can on any day.
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Speaker 4: Just say this just I don't mean to cut you off,
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Speaker 4: but bring on the Buccaneers. I'll face them any time anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Well, okay, you might get that, and then I would
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Speaker 2: say the same thing with the.
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Speaker 1: Fort against them.
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Speaker 4: And there's no way that Mike McDonald's given up thirty
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Speaker 4: five points to anybody.
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean they have to that exact team this season.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just saying it's just it's not I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying it's impossible. I don't think that if they lose
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Speaker 2: this game and they have to go on the road
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Speaker 2: during the playoffs so they don't get the number one
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Speaker 2: seed and they don't win the division, that they can't
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Speaker 2: do it. I'm agreeing with you. I feel like it's
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Speaker 2: much tougher, not just because of the one extra game.
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Speaker 2: I think the Buccaneers are a team that you got
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Speaker 2: to worry about and if they've played each other already
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Speaker 2: this year and we've seen that outcome at one point time,
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Speaker 2: and I agree, they're not playing near as well right now.
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Speaker 2: Same thing though with the Eagles. The Eagles to me,
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Speaker 2: have floundered their way to nine and five. I mean
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Speaker 2: there's still nine and five. It's not like they you
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Speaker 2: know they're they're gonna win the division. At eight and nine,
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Speaker 2: you know there's still nine and five. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: surprised if they get to ten or eleven wins before
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Speaker 2: this whole thing's done and going and playing at Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: That's a team most certainly that if they get hot
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Speaker 2: at the right time, you got to worry about it,
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Speaker 2: and you know it just everything just seems a whole
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Speaker 2: heck of a lot easier if you get to stay home,
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Speaker 2: sleep in your own bed.
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Speaker 1: You get it.
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Speaker 4: God, I'm acknowledging the mugenous of getting the number one seed.
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Speaker 4: I just don't think this is a I think I
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Speaker 4: don't mean to call him out by name, but I
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Speaker 4: think Greg's kind of painted this as you're not going
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Speaker 4: to win if you don't get home field advantage. I
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Speaker 4: don't feel that way. I think that this is not
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Speaker 4: the year where if you don't get the number one seed.
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Speaker 4: It just to me, there's just not this gauntlet of
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Speaker 4: teams great teams out there this year. I'm not even
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Speaker 4: sure if there's one in the entire National Football League
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Speaker 4: that I would call a great football team. And I
17:24
Speaker 4: don't think that the home field advantages that you'd have
17:28
Speaker 4: to manage. And I acknowledge I'll give Philadelphia and Green Bay,
17:32
Speaker 4: but I don't think we end up in Green Bay.
17:34
Speaker 4: I don't think that the math works that way.
17:36
Speaker 1: But other than that, I.
17:37
Speaker 4: Don't think that there's some road that you have to
17:41
Speaker 4: go on that is filled with you know.
17:43
Speaker 1: Spikes and peril and danger.
17:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say too, just to finish up the
17:48
Speaker 6: note on the Buccaneers. When we played them, we didn't
17:51
Speaker 6: have nick emn Warry out there, which has made a
17:53
Speaker 6: huge difference, and I don't think the defense in general
17:55
Speaker 6: was the same.
17:57
Speaker 1: I think Mike McDonald has night terrors like waking up
18:00
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night like, oh, are you
18:01
Speaker 1: dreaming about the Buccaneers again?
18:02
Speaker 5: Honey?
18:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did that happen?
18:05
Speaker 2: Yeah?
18:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, because it was just an offensive game. But it
18:08
Speaker 6: was a I mean, it was again a three point game.
18:09
Speaker 6: It was they were trading touchdowns for touchdowns. So I
18:12
Speaker 6: don't think it would be that same outcome.
18:16
Speaker 1: I don't either.
18:17
Speaker 4: I don't either, And frankly, Caroline is playing better than them.
18:20
Speaker 4: I mean, they've got to still beat Carolina. I just
18:23
Speaker 4: heard their head coach say that his team is basically
18:26
Speaker 4: quit on the season last week.
18:27
Speaker 6: Oh and I guess they did have Nicky Menmorrey.
18:28
Speaker 1: I at that's when I was wrong.
18:30
Speaker 4: So you know, I mean, I think that I'm not
18:33
Speaker 4: going to be worried about that, but I don't want
18:35
Speaker 4: to make it about that. This conversation, obviously tonight is huge.
18:39
Speaker 4: Love to have the number one seed. There's nothing else
18:42
Speaker 4: that the focus is on for Mike McDonald and the
18:45
Speaker 4: entire Seahawks organization, then winning this game tonight, finishing it off,
18:49
Speaker 4: not letting San Francisco steal their lunch money on the
18:52
Speaker 4: last week of the regular season, having that first round,
18:55
Speaker 4: by having everybody have to come.
18:57
Speaker 1: Through Seattle in order.
18:59
Speaker 5: It's in your control.
19:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, keep things into control. I just don't The only
19:02
Speaker 4: point I was making, I just don't feel and I
19:04
Speaker 4: felt like this in the past. You know that if
19:07
Speaker 4: you don't get that number one seed, my gosh, what
19:10
Speaker 4: you have to do to get to the super Bowl.
19:12
Speaker 4: I don't think it's one of those years. So but
19:15
Speaker 4: let's not worry about it. Let's just take the number
19:17
Speaker 4: one seed and go from there.
19:18
Speaker 1: I like it all right.
19:19
Speaker 4: Coming up next, weather could play a major role in
19:22
Speaker 4: tonight's game, but maybe not as major of a role
19:26
Speaker 4: as we thought earlier in the week. Brian McMillan from
19:30
Speaker 4: Fox thirteen's going to join us next Sports Radio ninety
19:32
Speaker 4: three point three KJRFM Thursday Night Football. We are front
19:36
Speaker 4: and center. We are the center of the football world
19:39
Speaker 4: tonight as we get ready to take on the Los
19:41
Speaker 4: Angeles Rams. Hopefully our football team puts its best foot
19:44
Speaker 4: forward or city puts its best foot forward. I'm certain
19:47
Speaker 4: that it will, but what kind of conditions are the
19:51
Speaker 4: teams going to play in? It seems to be that
19:55
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the week it felt pretty dire,
19:58
Speaker 4: but maybe the forecast is changing a little bit. We're
20:02
Speaker 4: so confused we wanted to check in with an expert,
20:05
Speaker 4: and so joining us now here on the radio program
20:09
Speaker 4: Chief Meteorologist at Fox thirteen, right here in Seattle, Brian
20:14
Speaker 4: McMillan b mack himself is with us on Chuck and Buck.
20:17
Speaker 1: What up? Chief?
20:19
Speaker 3: Hey guys, how's it calling this morning?
20:21
Speaker 1: It's game day?
20:22
Speaker 3: We're excited.
20:23
Speaker 1: Go Hawks.
20:24
Speaker 4: Do you make everybody call you chief around the station?
20:28
Speaker 5: There?
20:28
Speaker 1: I would if I were you.
20:30
Speaker 3: When I got the promotion, it was a little weird. Yeah,
20:33
Speaker 3: like everybody started calling me that and it it felt
20:35
Speaker 3: a little weird, but I kind of like it now,
20:36
Speaker 3: to be honest.
20:38
Speaker 4: Make every let everybody off the hook, Butt Levine, make
20:42
Speaker 4: Levine continue to call your chief. Yeah, but everybody else
20:45
Speaker 4: can call you Brian or b mac or whatever.
20:48
Speaker 1: He has to call you chief for the rest of
20:50
Speaker 1: his cares, right exactly.
20:52
Speaker 3: You know, he's a massive Dobby. Whenever I see Aaron Round,
20:55
Speaker 3: I just throw trivia questions at him.
20:57
Speaker 1: All the time, and he always gets them right.
20:58
Speaker 3: It's really frustrating.
21:00
Speaker 4: Has his head gotten big since he's become Jeopardy champion
21:03
Speaker 4: over there?
21:05
Speaker 5: A little?
21:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little left to be honest, I might would too.
21:08
Speaker 3: I mean, come on then, never how many people can
21:10
Speaker 3: say that?
21:10
Speaker 1: Yeah?
21:12
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we needed to check in with an
21:15
Speaker 4: expert today.
21:16
Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation as to what's going on tonight.
21:19
Speaker 4: The best as you can tell right now, seven thirty
21:21
Speaker 4: in the morning here on game day.
21:23
Speaker 1: What kind of weather are we going to have this
21:25
Speaker 1: evening for the football game? Okay?
21:28
Speaker 3: Well, right now we have steady rain, okay across the region.
21:31
Speaker 3: I think by the time we get into game time,
21:34
Speaker 3: so five fifteen kickoff here tonight at Womenfield, we're gonna
21:37
Speaker 3: be looking at kind of on and off showers by
21:39
Speaker 3: the time we get to kickoff. But I think the
21:40
Speaker 3: bigger story tonight is going to be that wind, because
21:44
Speaker 3: it's going to be kicking in again. We'll see guts
21:46
Speaker 3: around thirty to forty miles an hour, So I don't
21:48
Speaker 3: think you're gonna see Meyers kicking six field goals tonight
21:52
Speaker 3: or you know, probably not those fifty sixty yarders, So
21:56
Speaker 3: might have to get the run game going a little
21:58
Speaker 3: bit more this evening. It's going to be blustery, there
22:01
Speaker 3: will be showers at times, and TIMPs are going to
22:04
Speaker 3: be a little closer to fifty degrees. We always get
22:06
Speaker 3: one of these games. I feel like every year here
22:09
Speaker 3: in Seattle, for these Seahawks games, we get one that's
22:12
Speaker 3: you know, it's either dumping rain or it's a little
22:15
Speaker 3: bit windy or.
22:15
Speaker 5: Something like that.
22:17
Speaker 3: And tonight's going to be that in prime time under
22:19
Speaker 3: the lights.
22:20
Speaker 1: B Mac.
22:21
Speaker 2: I don't have the same tools I would imagine that
22:24
Speaker 2: you do when it comes to looking at no chief, No,
22:27
Speaker 2: I'm not a chief. I have an iPhone and that's
22:30
Speaker 2: that's it. But I did look up the layers or
22:33
Speaker 2: one of the screens that had the wind, and it
22:35
Speaker 2: looked like it was coming straight from the south. So
22:38
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, does it is it still? Do you think
22:42
Speaker 2: it'll be swirling in there or is this Could it
22:44
Speaker 2: just be one of those boy, you're either throwing straight
22:46
Speaker 2: into the wind or kicking straight into the wind, or
22:48
Speaker 2: you got it at your back.
22:49
Speaker 1: One of the two.
22:51
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of interesting down there, illuming because yeah,
22:54
Speaker 3: the wind's gonna be coming in from the south or
22:56
Speaker 3: kind of the southwest at that point. But yeah, and
23:00
Speaker 3: it gets when it gets in the stadium there, it
23:02
Speaker 3: can kind of swirl around a little bit. I wonder
23:05
Speaker 3: if you know when we're usually, you know, on the
23:08
Speaker 3: coin toe, you're thinking about, okay, am I going to
23:11
Speaker 3: kick or am I going to defer? But they may
23:14
Speaker 3: be thinking about, Okay, which side of the field do
23:17
Speaker 3: we want to be on instead? Because you probably want
23:20
Speaker 3: to in the game kicking with the wind as opposed
23:23
Speaker 3: to into the wind. That might be interesting tonight. And
23:28
Speaker 3: you're gonna be want to of course, want to be
23:30
Speaker 3: kicking towards the the north end zone there. So that'll
23:33
Speaker 3: be interesting this evening because you know, we've had to
23:36
Speaker 3: rely on that kicking game.
23:37
Speaker 1: Here for the past few weeks.
23:38
Speaker 4: Not every chief meteorologist can insert valid football strategy in
23:43
Speaker 4: his forecasts, but chief, but they get it done with
23:46
Speaker 4: Chief Meteorologist Brian McMillan over there at Fox thirteen. All right, So,
23:51
Speaker 4: I mean, what's the margin for a I mean, you
23:54
Speaker 4: guys always are told you you know that you got
23:57
Speaker 4: the forecast wrong, but you get it right more often
23:59
Speaker 4: than you get it wrong.
24:01
Speaker 1: Uh and so what's the what's the margin for era?
24:04
Speaker 4: I mean, what kind of percentage chance do you give
24:06
Speaker 4: it to Brian that the forecast changes between now and
24:10
Speaker 4: five point fifteen.
24:12
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna change.
24:13
Speaker 3: But okay, you know people, it's funny people people remember
24:17
Speaker 3: like the three to five percent so that we're that
24:20
Speaker 3: we're wrong.
24:21
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they hold on.
24:22
Speaker 3: To it, and they hold on the back forcot for years,
24:26
Speaker 3: for years. You I was repaving my driveway and you
24:30
Speaker 3: ruined that that one time back in twenty fourteen. You know,
24:33
Speaker 3: stuff like that. But uh no, this is this has
24:38
Speaker 3: been pretty consistent in regards to our weather modeling and
24:41
Speaker 3: all that stuff here over the past few days that
24:43
Speaker 3: we're gonna see some win today. So yeah, it's not terrible.
24:47
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be like what we have yesterday morning.
24:49
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys still have power at
24:50
Speaker 3: your house or if you get it knocked out during that,
24:53
Speaker 3: that's not gonna.
24:53
Speaker 1: Be that bad.
24:54
Speaker 3: But tonight it will be annoying and it will be blustering,
24:58
Speaker 3: and you're gonna want to bundle up and you're gonna
25:00
Speaker 3: want to.
25:00
Speaker 4: Wear your rain gear just in case.
25:02
Speaker 3: That's gonna be the story down there at lumin But
25:04
Speaker 3: it should be fun. It's gonna be fun.
25:06
Speaker 1: This is the game of the season so far. Yeah,
25:07
Speaker 1: you're right, right.
25:08
Speaker 2: I've always wondered this if you guys have the ability
25:11
Speaker 2: to figure out which kind of rain it is, because
25:13
Speaker 2: we all know we've got enough rain up here. You
25:15
Speaker 2: get that soaking rain, you know, big drops and just
25:18
Speaker 2: torrential downpour.
25:19
Speaker 1: You get that seattle mist that is just.
25:21
Speaker 2: More annoying, but it doesn't need You have ended up
25:24
Speaker 2: getting drenched in the whole thing, but it's not all
25:26
Speaker 2: that bad. Do you guys have information where you can
25:28
Speaker 2: tell the difference between what kind of rain it's gonna be.
25:32
Speaker 3: It's like Forrest Gump, right, you know, upside down rain
25:35
Speaker 3: and you got all the heavy rain Bay rain. Yeah,
25:42
Speaker 3: you know, we can see, you know, the level of
25:45
Speaker 3: precip so, like, yeah, how how intense it's gonna be.
25:48
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's like small pockets where it's gonna be really
25:51
Speaker 3: heavy for about five minutes and then it kind of
25:53
Speaker 3: moves on. What we're seeing this morning is really light,
25:56
Speaker 3: kind of misty light showery rain. It's really annoying for
25:59
Speaker 3: people with glasses like myself. You know, you need like
26:02
Speaker 3: little windshiel wipers on your glasses. But tonight's going to
26:06
Speaker 3: be more just on and off normal Pacific northwest showery rain.
26:10
Speaker 3: Most of the heavier stuff's going to move its way
26:12
Speaker 3: south into Portland. They're gonna be dealing with that here
26:14
Speaker 3: later on tonight.
26:15
Speaker 4: All right, me, Mack, thank you very much, sir. We
26:18
Speaker 4: appreciate it, Chief, and enjoy the game tonight. I know
26:21
Speaker 4: you'll be watching, and this was some really valuable data
26:24
Speaker 4: for us, So thank you.
26:26
Speaker 3: Thanks boys.
26:27
Speaker 1: I'll be there.
26:28
Speaker 3: I can't wait. We gotta yell loud.
26:29
Speaker 1: Tonight, Go Hawks, all right.
26:31
Speaker 4: Brian McMillan from Fox thirteen Chief Meteorologists. He's not just
26:35
Speaker 4: some foot soldier. Oh no, No, he's the chief over there. Yeah,
26:39
Speaker 4: And I love it. I love that he's just like, now,
26:41
Speaker 4: this is going to be the weather tonight, Like it's
26:44
Speaker 4: not going to change what I'm telling you. That's the
26:45
Speaker 4: weather tonight. And I guess I can live with that.
26:48
Speaker 4: I know that, Hugh, we'll talk about weather in the roundtable.
26:51
Speaker 4: He'll tell you what you don't want it is across
26:53
Speaker 4: the field. So if it's at back or you're throwing
26:56
Speaker 4: against it, that's a lot better than it going across
26:58
Speaker 4: the field because it's a little more unpredictable. But I
27:01
Speaker 4: do believe it just hammers home. And maybe I'm reading
27:04
Speaker 4: into it because it's my no cliche key to victory.
27:07
Speaker 4: I just don't want this team digging a hole to
27:11
Speaker 4: try to prove that they're good at something that over
27:15
Speaker 4: fourteen games that they haven't been. If we can run
27:17
Speaker 4: the football tonight, great, take the weather, take the win
27:21
Speaker 4: completely out of our chances. I mean, we can just
27:25
Speaker 4: eliminate that element. Ken Walker finally goes off for one
27:28
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy five yards and we win by thirteen
27:30
Speaker 4: over the Los Angeles Rams, and we dance in the
27:33
Speaker 4: damp streets. Okay, that's great, But I don't want to
27:36
Speaker 4: dig a hole because based off of that forecast, I
27:41
Speaker 4: don't think we're gonna be able to come back against
27:44
Speaker 4: this quality of a team, and because of the weather,
27:47
Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna be able to Jason Myers
27:49
Speaker 4: our way to a victory tonight. We got to score touchdowns,
27:54
Speaker 4: and I don't want to just spend an entire half
27:58
Speaker 4: trying to figure out if we run against this team tonight.
28:02
Speaker 5: I hear what you're saying, and I understand it.
28:06
Speaker 2: I would be willing to bet that they're gonna do it, though,
28:09
Speaker 2: I would be willing to.
28:09
Speaker 5: Bet that because of it.
28:10
Speaker 2: Yes, if it's just a straight you know, north south wind, yeah,
28:14
Speaker 2: I think it is not as difficult as this crosswind
28:17
Speaker 2: that he always explains that said. You still you just
28:21
Speaker 2: throw it into the wind and all of a sudden
28:22
Speaker 2: the gus catches it and it's underthrown, and you know,
28:25
Speaker 2: maybe it works out in your favor. Maybe it's the
28:27
Speaker 2: other way around, and now their receiver stops and you
28:29
Speaker 2: get a long p I call. I just think that
28:32
Speaker 2: there's both teams are going to be like, we want
28:34
Speaker 2: to take that risk out of the equation a little
28:37
Speaker 2: bit and see if the run game works. Because I'm
28:39
Speaker 2: with you if if you do try it, and all
28:41
Speaker 2: of a sudden he snaps off a couple of big
28:43
Speaker 2: runs or consistent runs and moving chains, now all of
28:46
Speaker 2: a sudden, you might you might win the thing running away.
28:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, i'le maybe you run against the wind like they
28:52
Speaker 4: worked for Bob Stop Seeger would tell you or and
28:57
Speaker 4: throw with the wind. I mean, would you make it
29:00
Speaker 4: that obvious to the opponent? I don't know, but we
29:03
Speaker 4: will certainly get some analysis from Greg and Hugh Gamed,
29:06
Speaker 4: a twelfth Man round table coming up at eight o'clock,
29:09
Speaker 4: Mike Sando at nine thirty. Pretty much from eight to ten,
29:12
Speaker 4: nothing but Seahawks and rams, which gives me this one
29:15
Speaker 4: little crack in the show to ask Ashley and Bucky
29:20
Speaker 4: for their hot stove. Christmas Wish of twenty twenty five
29:24
Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, all morning long.
29:28
Speaker 4: Obviously it is the number one story of the day,
29:33
Speaker 4: but I did want to slip this in because there
29:35
Speaker 4: seems to be a real big appetite right now hot
29:38
Speaker 4: stove wise, some katel Marte rumors are flying all over
29:42
Speaker 4: the place that maybe the Mariners are interested. Ryan Divish
29:46
Speaker 4: described it as being a really difficult scenario. As much
29:49
Speaker 4: as they'd like to have kateel Marte, there are some
29:53
Speaker 4: clubhouse issues.
29:54
Speaker 1: That they're weighing.
29:54
Speaker 4: There's a financial issued awigh, there is a how much
29:58
Speaker 4: do we have to give him issued away? There are
30:00
Speaker 4: injury issues to weigh. There's a lot at stake if
30:04
Speaker 4: you're going to try to acquire a Katel Marte, who's
30:07
Speaker 4: been a superstar by the way, with the Arizona Diamondbacks
30:10
Speaker 4: ever since he left here. I would just I can't
30:13
Speaker 4: imagine the organization would want to even risk having traded
30:18
Speaker 4: him away before he got great, and then traded for him.
30:22
Speaker 1: After he was great.
30:24
Speaker 4: That would be a nightmare scenario if I were the Mariners.
30:28
Speaker 4: So we'll see, We'll see where they go on that front.
30:31
Speaker 4: But obviously, with Hora Polonko not here, there is an
30:34
Speaker 4: appetite out there to try to find some sort of
30:36
Speaker 4: second baseman slash DH type to put into this lineup.
30:40
Speaker 1: So we'll keep our eye on that.
30:42
Speaker 4: But we only have one baseball segment. We got the
30:45
Speaker 4: holidays coming up. We'll certainly be talking all Seahawks rams
30:48
Speaker 4: again tomorrow. So before we get to the holidays, I
30:52
Speaker 4: wanted to ask you both, what is your stove Christmas
30:55
Speaker 4: wish list? You give me one Christmas wish for the
30:58
Speaker 4: Mariners roster before the offseason comes to a close.
31:01
Speaker 5: It would be Marte.
31:03
Speaker 2: It would be okay, yeah, I mean, I just think
31:06
Speaker 2: I think the group of guys in that clubhouse, I
31:10
Speaker 2: think that they can wrangle in if there's any issues
31:14
Speaker 2: personality wise, I think that he will you know, conform
31:18
Speaker 2: or or adjust or adapt and become part of what
31:21
Speaker 2: the culture is. I don't think he'll come in and
31:23
Speaker 2: ruin it. I think it's too strong for that, to
31:24
Speaker 2: be honest. And I don't care that he was dealt
31:28
Speaker 2: when he basically when he when he was up and
31:31
Speaker 2: coming before he had kind of burst on the scene
31:33
Speaker 2: and became the superstar. I don't I am not going
31:35
Speaker 2: to sit there and say, wow, we made a mistake there,
31:37
Speaker 2: so we can't do it now. Now there is the
31:39
Speaker 2: risk of you get him after his prime is over
31:43
Speaker 2: and he's before and after. Yeah, that would be bad,
31:46
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to be fearful of that. I mean,
31:48
Speaker 2: it's not like he's coming off a bad year. He
31:50
Speaker 2: still is a dude that rakes. I mean, we need
31:53
Speaker 2: some offense. Polonko's gone, Suarez has probably gone at least
31:57
Speaker 2: at this point. He's not with us then, so at
32:00
Speaker 2: this point you got to add some offense, and he
32:02
Speaker 2: definitely brings that to the table.
32:03
Speaker 1: He's got a good glove.
32:04
Speaker 2: He could play second if you your youngsters don't.
32:07
Speaker 5: He could play third. I'm sure he could play third, if.
32:09
Speaker 4: You think he wants to be the DH from what
32:11
Speaker 4: I'm hearing, and wants the DH to preserve himself for
32:14
Speaker 4: longer years, so.
32:15
Speaker 2: It makes sense it could work out absolutely perfectly. And
32:19
Speaker 2: I just flat out he's a guy that I think
32:21
Speaker 2: you just go wow, put that name right there in
32:24
Speaker 2: the top of the lineup somewhere.
32:25
Speaker 1: You're like, I like that.
32:27
Speaker 4: Talk me into it, you know, I mean, you know
32:29
Speaker 4: you're staring at one of the great Ktel Marte fans
32:31
Speaker 4: in all of baseball. But it's not as quite cut
32:35
Speaker 4: and dry as you know. It never is, right, It
32:39
Speaker 4: never is quite as cut and dry as you think.
32:41
Speaker 4: You'd actually get him for less of a salary per
32:44
Speaker 4: year than what poluncle will be making the next couple
32:47
Speaker 4: of years, but you obviously would have to give a
32:50
Speaker 4: trade compensation.
32:51
Speaker 1: Package as well.
32:52
Speaker 4: All right, Ashley, what's your hot stove Christmas wish list?
32:55
Speaker 1: Heading into this wonderful time?
32:57
Speaker 6: I mean, I'd be okay Christmas, yeah, and Christmas right now,
33:00
Speaker 6: I think I'd be okay with either Marte or Donovan.
33:03
Speaker 6: We've talked a lot about both of them, and just
33:05
Speaker 6: looking kind of at their stats, they're relatively similar in
33:08
Speaker 6: terms of batting, although.
33:10
Speaker 1: I think maybe batting average, yeah.
33:12
Speaker 6: Batting everything else, yeah, batting average. I think Marte is
33:15
Speaker 6: a bit more of a balanced hitter, I would say,
33:17
Speaker 6: just looking at that stuff. In terms of walks and strikeouts, well,
33:22
Speaker 6: Donovan doesn't walk as much, but they both strike out
33:24
Speaker 6: about the same and they're both versatile in the field.
33:27
Speaker 5: So I think either one I'd be happy.
33:29
Speaker 6: I'd say, thank you, Santa.
33:30
Speaker 1: I'm going to choose as my Christmas wish list.
33:34
Speaker 4: I know you've already heard me talk about this guy,
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Speaker 4: Mouna Takamricami. I just can't resist, as this is a
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Speaker 4: time to give people impractical gifts. Right, you don't want socks?
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Speaker 4: I mean you might need jeans or both. Right, yeah,
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Speaker 4: well you can give socks. But if you're coming away
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Speaker 4: from the Christmas party with just socks, even though you
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Speaker 4: might need that more than you need atomic squirt gun
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Speaker 4: for example. But if you really wanted the atomic sport
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Speaker 4: gun and you got the wouldn't you be just much happier. Inosaris,
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Speaker 4: who's one of the analytics nerds out there. He's built
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Speaker 4: quite a name for like crunching the numbers, and he
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Speaker 4: put out this statistical warning basically to anybody that wants
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Speaker 4: this player that his hit rate and his swing and
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Speaker 4: miss rate is on par with and he puts together
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Speaker 4: this ghastly list of people that you would recognize as
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Speaker 4: big swing and miss guys. I mean, Mike Zanino is
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Speaker 4: on this list, Joey Gallo is on this list. Sam
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Speaker 4: Hilliard of the Rockies is on this list. Matt Wallner,
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Speaker 4: who currently plays for the Twins. Christopher Morel, huge strikeout guy,
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Speaker 4: just signed with the Marlins, Chris Carter, the former first
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Speaker 4: baseman of the Brewers. And you read down the list,
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Speaker 4: Chris Davis is on the list. You read down the
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Speaker 4: list and you're like, oh, I don't want any of
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Speaker 4: those guys. I'm not gonna spend twenty million dollars on
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Speaker 4: any of those guys. But Joey Gallo hit thirty eight
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Speaker 4: homers or more three of his first five years, struck
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Speaker 4: out a lot, didn't play a lot of defense. Chris
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Speaker 4: Davis hit forty two plus home runs three straight years
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Speaker 4: for the Oakland A's. I wouldn't mind that. I wouldn't
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Speaker 4: mind having that in the middle of the lineup. So uh,
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Speaker 4: it's just kind of one of those like guilty pleasure wishes, like,
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't sit here and tell you
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Speaker 4: the only thing I've ever seen is highlight packages of
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Speaker 4: the guy. But so I can't sit here and tell
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Speaker 4: you that I've thoroughly scouted him. We've got nothing to
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Speaker 4: worry about. I have no idea. I just am kind
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Speaker 4: of leaning on this. Every single Japanese phenom they tell
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Speaker 4: me we should want ends up being awesome. So I
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Speaker 4: they're saying that he's the next great thing coming out
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Speaker 4: of Japan, and his value apparently is plummeting financially.
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Speaker 1: I want him. I want him under my Christmas tree.
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Speaker 1: I just do know.
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Speaker 6: I'm just picturing him wrapped up with a bow on
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Speaker 6: his head under the tree.
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Speaker 1: I'm alright with it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll take a little bit of swing and
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Speaker 2: miss if you're gonna pop forty fifty home runs for sure?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, the list is.
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Speaker 4: The idea of the list is to scare the crap
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Speaker 4: out of you, Like you don't want this guy?
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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind three straight years of forty five home
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Speaker 4: runs even if he strikes out two hundred and forty times.
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Speaker 2: Boy, mind that, I won't mind it. At the same time,
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Speaker 2: those are hard to watch, just as a former hitter
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Speaker 2: that I struck out plenty. But boyle boy I can't
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Speaker 2: imagine just walking back to the dugout like every other time,
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Speaker 2: like it's all or nothing.
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Speaker 5: That is a there's parts of that that's frustrated as well.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he can be coached, well, that's one thing about
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Speaker 2: Japanese players, they typically are very coachable.
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Speaker 4: Pretty sure Murakami is not Japanese. For Mitch Garver, I
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