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10-16: Mike Macdonald live, Gregg's assessment of the Hawks and HS Friday Football Showcase · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 3: Let's choose a little chill today.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold issue, if you can't tell. Two more interceptions
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  Speaker 2: last night. His sixth and his seventh in four games.
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  Speaker 2: Against the Broncos last night. Came in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: in an overtime, handing the Broncos a 17-14 overtime win.
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  Speaker 2: Here was what those throws sounded like.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind. Seahawks are 3-3. They lost their second straight
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  Speaker 2: game even after their defense allowed just 38 yards in
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  Speaker 2: three periods after halftime. Tons more. I mean, tons more
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  Speaker 2: from what I learned and heard last night in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room in Denver. Coming up, I talked in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room to Drew Locke, but not for what you
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  Speaker 2: might think the reason is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we do have those picks coming up.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to relive the misery that we lived
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  Speaker 5: through last night, we do have that for you right here.
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  Speaker 3: Do we want it? I mean, we can. We don't
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  Speaker 3: have to, though.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Take a vote. Who wants to hear it?
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  Speaker 2: The Huskies play today. They're 3-3 overall, 0-3 in the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten. 15th-placed team in the Big Ten is playing
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  Speaker 2: Purdue tonight. 1 p.m., a Husky game day with the
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  Speaker 2: Husky Honks, including Dave Softy-Maller in West Lafayette, Indiana. 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: kickoff with Elyse Woodward, Cam Cleveland, and Softy-Maller. Washington State
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  Speaker 2: Cougars 1-5 play at Oregon State tomorrow. 3 p.m. kickoff
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  Speaker 2: from Corvallis. The game's on USA Cable Network. The Kraken
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  Speaker 2: last night got a Matty Beneers goal. That second goal
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  Speaker 2: of the season with just over four minutes remaining in
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  Speaker 2: regulation tied Tampa Bay at two, but the Lightning won
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  Speaker 2: with a goal two minutes in overtime by Victor Hedman.
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  Speaker 2: He tapped a pass to himself and split two defenders,
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  Speaker 2: poked the puck past Philip Grubauer. First loss in four
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  Speaker 2: games on this road trip for the Kraken. The trip
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  Speaker 2: ends tomorrow at the Florida Panthers. Kraken now five and
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  Speaker 2: three on the season. Major League Baseball players, the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting ready for the World Series, their first one
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  Speaker 2: since 1982. The Brewers took out the champ Dodgers. The
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  Speaker 2: reign is over. The Dodgers go out in four straight
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  Speaker 2: in the National League Championship Series. 6-4 win last night
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  Speaker 2: for Milwaukee at Dodger State. I mean, Milwaukee hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: to the World Series since Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of the Wisconsin people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good people there.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And now they get to have a World Series in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Who will they play? The Guardians or the Rays? The
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  Speaker 2: Guardians beat Tampa yesterday, and Cleveland take a 2-1 series,
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  Speaker 2: leading that best to seven. It looks like it's going
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  Speaker 2: to go on for a while. And a report this
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  Speaker 2: morning that Seattle, you talk about leverage. This is leverage
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  Speaker 2: to drive up a bidding war. Seattle's no longer considered
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  Speaker 2: a lock for an NBA expansion team. Commissioner Adam Silver
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  Speaker 2: has informed team owners that who leaked that to Brian
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  Speaker 2: Winhurst of ESPN. The league leaked it to Winhurst of ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they do that? Because they want to leverage
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  Speaker 2: other bidders, perhaps the ones that lose in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: to enter the Seattle bidding to drive up the price
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  Speaker 2: up here. The league is reportedly using Mexico City as
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  Speaker 2: a potential alternative to pressure Seattle's bidding group into raising
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  Speaker 2: its offer.
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  Speaker 3: Which is.
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  Speaker 2: That's ridiculous, though. Mexico City?
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  Speaker 3: Come on. It's so NBA, though.
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  Speaker 2: That just means the price is not as high as
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  Speaker 2: it is in Las Vegas right now. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: go live to Renton. Coach Mike McDonald is talking now
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  Speaker 2: live to us, the Seahawks beat writers. You hear that
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  Speaker 2: now live in the wake of the loss. This is
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  Speaker 7: This is football.
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  Speaker 2: This is football.
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  Speaker 8: He's done a lot of great things this year. We've
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  Speaker 8: obviously turned the ball over for him more than we
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  Speaker 8: want to. I feel like there's things on our end
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  Speaker 8: that can help him play better football, and I think
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  Speaker 8: he's definitely... part of the solution rather than, um, rather
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  Speaker 8: than the opposite.
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  Speaker 9: And then you talked about when you hired Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 9: part of the reason that you're, you found it appealing
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  Speaker 9: was things that you could add, uh, to kind of
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  Speaker 9: the Seahawks offense that you guys are building. Do you
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  Speaker 9: feel like he can add those things without necessarily calling plays?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I actually feel like one of, I don't know
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  Speaker 8: if I actually felt like it was an ad. I
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  Speaker 8: felt like it was going to be a great continuation
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  Speaker 8: of what our identity was on offense. So I think
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  Speaker 8: that's what our focus is right now is making sure
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  Speaker 8: that we're playing the Seahawks-style offense that we all envisioned
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  Speaker 8: when we decided all to work together. So I think
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  Speaker 8: that's where our focus is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 10: John? Yeah, Mike.
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  Speaker 11: Defensively, what did you see in that kind of change
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  Speaker 11: from they got the two long touchdown drives and then
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  Speaker 11: really not much after that? What did you see improve
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  Speaker 11: for your defense? Was it schematic stuff or just guys
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  Speaker 11: kind of buckling down?
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  Speaker 8: I think it's a great situation or observation of let's
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  Speaker 8: not panic. you know, it's, um, there's things that we like,
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  Speaker 8: if you look at how they got down there in
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  Speaker 8: some of those situations, it was like an explosive run
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  Speaker 8: that we could have played better. It was a third
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  Speaker 8: down penalty. Uh, it's a couple of third downs. I
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  Speaker 8: think it was on the, that we, um, frankly, I
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  Speaker 8: probably could have called better plays. So it just felt
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  Speaker 8: like there were things that were then like our control of, um,
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  Speaker 8: kind of settling down and just kind of sticking to
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  Speaker 8: the game plan and sticking to the process, staying together,
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  Speaker 8: finding some, some more solutions. I think our coaches deserve
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  Speaker 8: a lot of credit on, um, you know, the communication
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  Speaker 8: we've had between, between me, AD, uh, the guys upstairs
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  Speaker 8: and then the guys on the sideline of, um, really
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  Speaker 8: finding solutions in that moment. And then, you know, trusting
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  Speaker 8: the work we put in and the preparation and then
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  Speaker 8: just sticking to it.
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  Speaker 12: Ian.
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  Speaker 7: Like on the, uh, Last interception, what did you see
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  Speaker 7: looking back on it, and how would you just describe
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  Speaker 7: your confidence level right now, and Sam and us, also
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  Speaker 7: his confidence level, because it feels like that's pretty important
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  Speaker 7: for that position.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's a similar answer to what I
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  Speaker 8: told Brian, was I think there's things that we can
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  Speaker 8: all do to help Sam play better football, and we
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  Speaker 8: trust Sam, we believe in him, and we feel like
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  Speaker 8: he's definitely part of a solution, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 8: of us playing better football on offense and at quarterback.
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  Speaker 10: The Seahawks style offense that we all envisioned.
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  Speaker 4: When.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your biggest plays last year.
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  Speaker 13: When Sam would get out of the pocket and would
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  Speaker 13: find big chug plays downfield, he's getting out of the
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  Speaker 13: pocket more this season, but you haven't had as many
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  Speaker 13: of those big plays.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's something we definitely want to encourage Sam to
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  Speaker 8: continue doing. Obviously, within the progression of the play and
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  Speaker 8: what's expected for you on a per-play basis, I think
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  Speaker 8: those plays will happen, but how we play throughout the
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  Speaker 8: down without the ball in our hands, that's really important.
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  Speaker 8: That'll be something that we're going to be looking at.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, to me, that's one of the kind of
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  Speaker 8: the thorough investigation we want to be able to do
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  Speaker 8: over the next 24, 36 hours to really understand where
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  Speaker 8: we can take our game to another level.
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  Speaker 13: And then on Arroyo, do you have any further information
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  Speaker 13: on his shoulder injury?
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  Speaker 8: I don't. I think he's getting some imaging and testing
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  Speaker 8: as we speak actually so uh no update yet.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you andrew.
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  Speaker 14: Forgive me i'm on a phone here traveling to the
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  Speaker 14: airport if you can't hear me well but um you've
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  Speaker 14: had a few games of rotating christian ains and bo
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  Speaker 14: stevens at right guard i'm just curious what you thought
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  Speaker 14: of that rotation thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't had a chance to talk to our office
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  Speaker 8: of staff yet about that specifically but um Anthony Bradford
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  Speaker 8: probably has a really good chance of being back this week,
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  Speaker 8: so that will be part of our decision-making as we
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  Speaker 8: go forward.
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  Speaker 10: Greg?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: You say Sam's best chance of a solution. You believe
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  Speaker 2: he's part of a solution. What about Sam's game makes
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  Speaker 2: him the solution? What are the traits that you're now
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  Speaker 2: trying to draw out and attack that you're not getting
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, you guys have been here over the
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  Speaker 8: last two years. We just won a world championship with him.
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  Speaker 8: We believe in the guy. We see him every day.
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  Speaker 8: We see what he does. We see the plays he's
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  Speaker 8: been able to make. We see the actual talent. All
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  Speaker 8: those things. So that's where my mind is.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned a half hour ago on the radio
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  Speaker 2: show that this was an opportunity to have a connection,
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  Speaker 2: more of a connection, the coaching staff and yourself with
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback. What would you like to connect on? What's
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  Speaker 2: the trigger you're trying to push on that?
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  Speaker 8: I think it's more of a doubling down It's kind
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  Speaker 8: of like, hey, look, when you're going through adverse situations,
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  Speaker 8: you need to double down on your principles. And us
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  Speaker 8: being aligned with Sam throughout the week and making sure
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  Speaker 8: that we're letting him be the best version of himself
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  Speaker 8: is definitely part of that kind of calculus, if you will.
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  Speaker 8: And so that's really what I meant was we're not
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  Speaker 8: reinventing anything, but double downing on those kind of like
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  Speaker 8: core fundamentals of how he operates is going to be important.
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  Speaker 2: Are you, are you concerned or is it just still
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  Speaker 2: six games into a 17 game season and, and you're
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  Speaker 2: confident this will fix?
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  Speaker 8: I don't like using the word concern. I think, I think, um,
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  Speaker 8: I think there's a sense of urgency to get better,
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  Speaker 8: you know, in several areas of our football team. Um,
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  Speaker 8: a lot of those are on offense on, uh, on,
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  Speaker 8: how we're protecting the quarterback, how we're running the ball.
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  Speaker 8: There's line items on defense, there's lines on special teams.
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  Speaker 8: I really do believe, Greg, that these things are within
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  Speaker 8: our control of things that are on the input side
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  Speaker 8: of the equation of how we do things throughout the week,
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  Speaker 8: what we do throughout the game. And so to me,
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't say it's exciting, but that does get you
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  Speaker 8: going knowing that, hey, there's a solution out there and
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  Speaker 8: I believe in our people. I believe in our ability
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  Speaker 8: to solve problems and work through issues and go through
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  Speaker 8: not around. That's a real thing that I really do
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  Speaker 8: believe in. I think we're always optimistic that we're going
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  Speaker 8: to be able to find solutions. However, you have to
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  Speaker 8: do an honest process. You have to go through those things.
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  Speaker 8: You can't just kid yourself in times like this. I'm
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  Speaker 8: confident we're going to be able to do that and
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  Speaker 8: a big part of this weekend is going to be
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  Speaker 8: allocated to really continuing and making that process better.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Ari? Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 15: I believe you talked about all the turnovers not being
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  Speaker 15: on Sam. It's just like a whole team process that's
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  Speaker 15: on the offense. Yesterday he addressed the team. I'm curious
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  Speaker 15: what you think about him stepping up to do that,
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  Speaker 15: to take ownership of the turnover. What does that tell
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  Speaker 15: you about who he is?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm glad he did. He's the leader of our offense,
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  Speaker 8: and if it's not where you want it to be,
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  Speaker 8: then it's the leader's job to take responsibility and go.
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  Speaker 8: Just as I stand before you saying, hey, look, our
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  Speaker 8: football team's not where we want it to be right now,
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  Speaker 8: I'm responsible for what happens on the field for our team,
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  Speaker 8: and so we kind of all take responsibility for our
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  Speaker 8: area of influence. That's a great example of how we
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  Speaker 8: want to operate. Let's own our part and let's figure
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  Speaker 8: out a way to find a solution and move forward.
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  Speaker 8: On the player side, it definitely starts with Sam and
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad he's the first one to say it.
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  Speaker 6: Brian?
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  Speaker 9: Coach, last year when you guys were playing some of
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  Speaker 9: your most explosive offense in the first part of the season,
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  Speaker 9: you were seeing mostly heavy boxes, A-plus guys in the box,
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  Speaker 9: and now teams seem to be playing a lot more
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  Speaker 9: light boxes and a lot more coverage. Anytime a defense
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  Speaker 9: does something, they're giving up something else. What are defenses
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  Speaker 9: challenging you guys to do that you can punish them?
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  Speaker 8: I think you know the answer to that one, Brian.
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  Speaker 8: We have to be able to control the ball more.
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  Speaker 8: That'll happen more through the run game. You know, Shell
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  Speaker 8: boxes doesn't automatically mean more run. There's definitely ways, as
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  Speaker 8: we've seen against our defense, like we're a shell defense
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  Speaker 8: and teams try to attack us a certain way through
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  Speaker 8: the air. So again, there's trade-offs to how teams are
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  Speaker 8: playing it. That's something that we have to really find
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  Speaker 8: a better solution for of how do we want to
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  Speaker 8: keep moving the ball forward to really puncture these defenses
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  Speaker 8: so we can create more explosive passes.
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  Speaker 9: And then I think every sack you guys have had
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  Speaker 9: on third down this year, I think at least with Sam,
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  Speaker 9: have been on five yards or more. And how much
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  Speaker 9: of the conversation that you guys are going to be
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  Speaker 9: having is trying to get out of obvious pass situations
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  Speaker 9: to keep defenses.
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  Speaker 16: A little bit more on their heels?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a great point. That's a huge part of
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  Speaker 8: the conversation of understanding how we play our best football
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  Speaker 8: and how Sam plays his best football and how we
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  Speaker 8: can protect them the best. It's very, it's very difficult
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  Speaker 8: to drop back in however many five man protection, six
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  Speaker 8: man protection, seven man protections and do that. I don't
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  Speaker 8: know X amount of times throughout a game. I don't
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  Speaker 8: care how good your offensive line is. I don't care
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  Speaker 8: how good your players are. Um, it's just too much
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  Speaker 8: of a tax on, uh, offenses right now in the
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  Speaker 8: NFL from, from the lens that, that we see it through. So, um,
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  Speaker 8: we have to do a better job of staying out
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  Speaker 8: of those situations. And that's going to be a part
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  Speaker 8: of our focus here moving forward.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, John.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Mike, I know there's a fumble he would want back,
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  Speaker 11: but aside from that for Rashid, was that looking a
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  Speaker 11: little more like how you guys want to get him involved?
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  Speaker 11: Just ball finding him more, got a big plate downfield
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  Speaker 11: and all that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, she, she's definitely, I mean, we've seen it last year.
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  Speaker 8: seen it in spurts this year him you know getting
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  Speaker 8: over the top of defenses uh that's what we expect
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  Speaker 8: from him and i think something that we saw throughout
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  Speaker 8: the offseason that we want to make more come to
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  Speaker 8: life in games are some of those more intermediate cuts
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  Speaker 8: because i don't know if i was fighting rashid i'd
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  Speaker 8: be playing off too you know and so you know
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  Speaker 8: those those intermediate cuts um could i think we can
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  Speaker 8: expect more to come to life try to give him
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  Speaker 8: the ball but We've seen him in the run game.
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  Speaker 8: We've seen him on the perimeter run game, over the top,
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  Speaker 8: all those things. He's really his biggest impact on our
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  Speaker 8: football team.
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  Speaker 4: Brady? Hey, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Another one on the quarterback play.
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  Speaker 13: I realize there are different opponents, and there was maybe
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  Speaker 13: one or two players that were playing while Drew was
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  Speaker 13: starting or while Drew was playing. But what do you
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  Speaker 13: make of the fact that it was across the board,
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  Speaker 13: it was just so much cleaner when Drew was in there,
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  Speaker 13: no turnovers, I think only a couple stacks in those
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  Speaker 13: two games, despite largely the same players around him?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I respect the question. I think to make it
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  Speaker 8: like a one-for-one, hey, this is the same and this
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  Speaker 8: is different and it's one person, I don't think that's–
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  Speaker 8: I don't think that's doing the whole thing justice. There's
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  Speaker 8: definitely more.
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  Speaker 4: To the equation.
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  Speaker 8: What we called, how we got to it, that certain thing,
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  Speaker 8: maybe the process for Drew, how he catered the game,
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  Speaker 8: his skill set, all those things are part of the
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  Speaker 8: conversation as well. I understand the question, but I think
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  Speaker 8: there's more to it than just who's playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Ian?
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  Speaker 12: Ian?
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  Speaker 7: Mike, your comment last night about the quarterback is getting
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  Speaker 7: hit too much, is that just cumulative? I mean, everyone
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  Speaker 7: looks at the offensive line at that point and says, well,
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  Speaker 7: it must be the offensive line that's outside of Anthony,
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  Speaker 7: the same guys as last year.
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  Speaker 2: Is that scheme-related?
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  Speaker 7: Is that quarterback holding the ball too long-related? Just kind
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  Speaker 7: of elaborate on that because it feels like all these
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  Speaker 7: things we're asking you is kind of coming back to
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  Speaker 7: that same issue.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, like, I hope you understand, like, when you have, like,
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: At least I believe this. When you have things that
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: you want to improve on your team, so right now
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: we're talking about takeaways, and we're talking about getting the
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: quarterback hit, and we're talking about the run game, we're
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: talking about red zone defense, we're talking about the return
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: game on special teams. These are areas that we want
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: to improve, right? If you just point to a person
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: or a position group, it's like, that's not how football works, man.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: It is a team game, and we spend a lot
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: of time with a lot of resources like investing in
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: the process and how we make these things come to
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: life on game day. And so it's never just like
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: a one person or a one group thing. Now, could
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: you say, hey, look, this group or this person needs
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: to perform better in their area of responsibility, head coach included?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: And that's how we operate here. But could the offensive line,
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: can they step their game up? Yes, absolutely. But just
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: to point it on the offensive line, I think... Again,
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: same thing with the takeaways with Sam. Does Sam bear
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: responsibility for taking care of the football? Do our runners
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: take care of the responsibility for fun with the ball? Absolutely.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: But it's a team game, and how we set our
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: game plans up and how we execute falls on all
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: of our shoulders. So that's how we choose to look
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: through it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Last question, Jen.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Jen?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Coach Mike McDonald, the day after the Seahawks 17-0. 17-14
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: loss in Denver last night, saying twice this morning now
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: on his coach's show and now today, just now, you
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: heard him with us on the Beat Writers on the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Zoom call, that Drew Locke is not going to start
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: against Kansas City. Sam Donald is their quarterback. He said
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: that Sam Donald is the solution, that he firmly believes that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And you heard me try to ask him what traits
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: about Sam Darnold. He said, wait a minute, we just
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl eight months ago. And this guy
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was a huge reason why. There's three and three. There's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: six games into a 17-game season. That's really the crux
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: of this. Yes, I know, there's three games back in
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the lost column to San Francisco having lost the 49ers already.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: But let me just tell you, the tenor last night
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: in Denver, in the locker room, we as fans and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: people who follow it, We have little else to do
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: with the Seahawks except on game days, right? You go,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: you watch the games, you react to how they play.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And last night they played well. The quarterback played poorly
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: while the defense played like a Super Bowl champion. And
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: so the visceral and emotional reaction to that is all
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: we really have between now and the next game nine
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: days from now. The Seahawks... That's not what the players
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and the coaches do. The players and the coaches, here's
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: what happens. Last night, you would think, okay, they're throwing
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: stuff and turning over tables.
• 21:14
  Speaker 17: No.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: They got IVs in their arms. They're dehydrated. They played
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: four and a half quarters at 5,280 feet. They're exhausted.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: They played their second NFL game in four days, and
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of them couldn't barely walk before the game
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: even started. They just wanted to rest. They were absolutely disappointed.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: They're frustrated with themselves and the penalties that they had
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: in the Chargers game, the turnovers they had in the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: San Francisco game, in a Denver game. And they firmly
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: believe that the reason they have three losses is that
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: they made their own mistakes and they're laying in their
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: own bed with their own errors. And that's why they
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: have the three losses. Yes. But they are not in
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: crisis mode. Chicken Little's sky is falling. That was not
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the tone last night in the locker room. It was, man,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: we're beating ourselves. And we just went to the Super
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Bowl and won it eight months ago. So we really
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: are a really good team that is coming back in full.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, Anthony Bradford, being on the injured reserve list,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: is about the only difference in starters from the Super
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Bowl to last year. I know Kobe Bryant's gone, but
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Ty Okada was on the field last night, and he
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: started 11 games last year. Rick Wolin's gone, and Josh
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Jovich started most of last season. This team is returning
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: intact from just won the Super Bowl eight months ago.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: But what that team didn't do was they didn't have
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the killer turnovers at the most inopportune times. And they had,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I know the stats said earlier last season, the running
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: game wasn't up to par, but they don't have a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: consistent threat in the running game that makes defenses have
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to play them honestly. And the Denver Broncos really didn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: play them honestly either. The other thing is the Seahawks
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: don't have running backs that fit their outside zone system.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: We saw again last night, Emmanuel Wilson's just slow. By
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the time he gets to the outside zone lane that's
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: being blocked, the lane's closed. Outside zone is not man
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: blocking where you just plow your guy into the concession stand.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: You have a timing synchronization where those linemen are only
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: required to just get in the way of a zone
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: block area. Not a guy, but whoever happens to be
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: in that zone. That's what zone blocking is. It's not
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: man-on-man drive blocking. It's get over to your lane, shade
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: off the guy that might be in the zone, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: As the running back has the choreography of getting through
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that lane while you come over and slide in and
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: become almost like a pick playing basketball. Not to say
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: it's not physical, but it's not just plow your guy
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: DJ Fluker style into the ground. So the running back
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: needs to be fast enough to get through that hole
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: before it closes because the offensive linemen are not being
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: required to drive them into the end zone. And Wilson's
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: just too slow.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Everything that you're saying is what I was hanging out
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: with a couple of former NFL players last night down
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: at Muckleshoot Casino watching the game with them. And that
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: was exactly what they were saying as well.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: They had a lot of criticism for E-dubs.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And when you have that as your basis of your offense, 50%
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: of the plays are supposed to be that, and you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: don't have that back that can get through there, then
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: you get 56 dropbacks to throw like we got last
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: night from Sam Darnold. 56 dropbacks. This team will never
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: win a game throwing 56 times. 48 times plus four sacks,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: 52 times in regulation. They will never win with numbers
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: that skewed. It was skewed in Washington. 48 dropbacks, I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: think 46 dropbacks to 18 rushes. They lost that game too.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: The offense is broken because they don't have a running
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: back to run their system. And that is a trickle-down
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: effect on defense is how they played Sam Darnold and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: how Sam Darnold forces throws to try to make bigger
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: plays because it's not there and it forces third and longs.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You heard McDonald just mention we need to be better
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: on first and second down. To me, that's the root
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: cause of all of this. But then, It doesn't matter
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: if you didn't run the ball once. Sam Darnold's two
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: throws at the end of the game were horrid. That
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: throw in overtime was the worst throw I've seen him
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: throw since he became the Seahawks quarterback. That might be
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the worst throw I've seen a Seahawks quarterback make, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I start covering his team in Matt Hasselbeck 2005. That
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: throw in that situation was horrid. In overtime, just don't
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: get his third and seven punt. If you punt there,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the Broncos are like at the 20.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: You flip the field, yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 18: And they've got to drive 80 yards or 60 yards
• 25:37
  Speaker 18: or 50 yards to win the game. And the Seahawks
• 25:40
  Speaker 18: defense had held them to 39 yards from the second
• 25:44
  Speaker 18: quarter on. After halftime, the Broncos had 39 yards and
• 25:48
  Speaker 18: one first down on 20 plays. So you mean to
• 25:51
  Speaker 18: tell me if they had started at the 20 at
• 25:53
  Speaker 18: that point in the game, they were going to march
• 25:54
  Speaker 18: down the field and win the game?
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: No.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks would have made them punt. Then Darnold could
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: have gotten the ball back. minus 40 or so on
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: his side of the field, and try again. Instead, he
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: forces it in and hands the Broncos the win. 49451,
• 26:08
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• 26:11
  Speaker 2: he ain't changing quarterbacks. It's Sam Darnold starting in nine
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: days against Kansas City. Up next, you'll hear from the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Seahawks quarterback, the same one that's going to be the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: quarterback against Kansas City. Sam Darnold is up next. 11 o'clock,
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• 26:36
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• 26:39
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• 26:42
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• 26:47
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• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: with Greg Bell.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: On your home for the NFL.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm straight off a plane from Denver. Didn't
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: sleep last night. Went straight from the stadium to the airport,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to the airport, to SeaTac.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: I couldn't tell.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: To SeaTac to here. Oh, I'm wearing the same clothes
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I wore at the game last night.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's why you look so nice.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, thanks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I don't look nice. I look unkept, disheveled, wrinkled. 22C
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: for the three hours coming here.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That does not sound like my favorite seat.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: As Lisa's on the aisle. I was in Denver last
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: night covering the Seahawks. 17-14 overtime loss. They scored 11
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: points in the last five minutes to rally from 14-3.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: They had three points for 55 minutes. That's how broken
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: the offense is. They had a defense that held the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Broncos to 39 yards on 20 plays and one first
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: down after halftime, and they didn't win. They had a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: quarterback who threw for, what did end up Nick's getting
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: through for like 93 yards or something? I mean, Nick's.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: The last time I'd seen Bo Nix play in person
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: was the Oregon-Washington Pac-12 title game in Las Vegas.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I wasn't there, but I saw him.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: He was brilliant. That was one of the better college
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: games I've ever seen. Both those quarterbacks that night, Pennix
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: and Nix. Last night, Nix couldn't have hit. I mean,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: it was amazing how inaccurate his throws were. And he
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't throwing down the field too often. The two times
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: he did throw down on the field was at Devin Witherspoon, curiously. One,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why Witherspoon grabbed Cortland Sutton in the
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: end zone for the DPI, and he did. He grabbed
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: him right across the chest.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: It was unnecessary.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: That throw was 10 yards overthrown. That ball was going
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: to be nowhere near caught. And then the deep ball
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: in the second quarter that Witherspoon made a brilliant play on,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: he had the timing right on that one and put
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: his arm across the chest as the ball was arriving
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: near the goal line to break it up. And that's
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: about the only two times I can remember him throwing,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yet he was so inaccurate, even on his five-yard passes. Really,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: really inaccurate.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: J.K.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Dobbins got loose a couple times, and that was about it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Early in the game, remember, the only two scores for
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Denver came on drives of 79 and 74 yards. And J.K. Dobbins,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: he had a 16-yard run where he juked both Nicky
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Manwari and Devin Witherspoon, the two best defenders on the team.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: He juked them both. That was the same drive that
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: they had stopped him on a third and 10 on
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a wide receiver screen. And Byron Murphy made a great
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: hustle play from defensive tackle, ran outside. But when he
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: made the tackle on the wide receiver, he grabbed his
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: face mask and pulled him down with a face mask
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: for a 15-yard penalty, extended the drive to the second
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: touchdown for Denver. And that was it. When they quit,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I talked to Julian Love. You'll hear him at 1045
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: in the locker room last night. When they quit doing
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: their own mistakes of face masks and missed tackles, the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Broncos went nowhere. But in the meantime, the offense for
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks again went nowhere. Sam Darnold with crushing interceptions
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: with a minute and a half left when they were
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: on the edge of field goal range to tie the game.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: They frantically come back and tie the game anyway. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: then in overtime, the inexcusable, I mean inexcusable play of
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: trying to fit it in a tight window on a
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: line to Rashid Jahid down the sidelines. He had Cooper Cupp.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I saw it in the press box, and to his credit,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Sam Donaldson, yep, I should have thrown to Cupp. He
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: was underneath on the same side, underneath the coveries that
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: was going deep on Shahid, and he had thrown it.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: He said, well, he's a little short of the sticks,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: but Cupp probably would have gotten there on a third
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: and seven. And even if he didn't, like we said,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: then you punt. There's seven minutes left in overtime. The
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are going to stone the Broncos yet again in
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: their own 20-yard line, and then you get the ball
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: back with three or four minutes left in overtime. So what? Instead,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: he forces it in. A junior high throw down the sidelines,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: intercepted by the nickelback who was just waiting. That was
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: just bad. It really was in the situation. This was
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold last night owning it. He went into the
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: locker room after the game, by the way, stood up
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: in front of his own teammates and said, this loss
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: is on me. I blew it, guys. This was Sam
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Darnold last night in Denver.
• 31:40
  Speaker 19: Yeah, no way to sugarcoat it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: That one sucked.
• 31:41
  Speaker 19: You know, can't turn the ball over.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: You know, that's obviously....
• 31:49
  Speaker 19: You know, at the forefront of my mind. But there's
• 31:52
  Speaker 19: just a lot, you know, a lot we can do better.
• 31:56
  Speaker 19: You know, obviously we're driving, we're running the ball and,
• 32:00
  Speaker 19: you know, we're dropping back and having some things work
• 32:03
  Speaker 19: in the dropback game. Some of the play action stuff
• 32:05
  Speaker 19: was a little iffy tonight, but yeah, we just got
• 32:08
  Speaker 19: to be better all around and it starts with me.
• 32:11
  Speaker 19: So we just got to, you know, look at who
• 32:14
  Speaker 19: we are as an offense, look at kind of things
• 32:17
  Speaker 19: that we do well things that we don't do well
• 32:19
  Speaker 19: and go from there.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: What do you feel like you do well at this point?
• 32:23
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think, you know, I pretty much said it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 19: I think like our run game, um, is good at times. Um,
• 32:29
  Speaker 19: and then there's some, sometimes where it's, where it's not
• 32:31
  Speaker 19: so good, but that's, that's how it goes. Like sometimes
• 32:34
  Speaker 19: you're not going to, you know, get five or six
• 32:37
  Speaker 19: yards every single time you run the football. Um, but
• 32:41
  Speaker 19: you know, I felt like our run game was, um,
• 32:44
  Speaker 19: was pretty good at times tonight. Um, And then, yeah,
• 32:47
  Speaker 19: I feel like, again, it's just one of those things. Like,
• 32:51
  Speaker 19: when you have a defense and a special teams group
• 32:52
  Speaker 19: that's playing the way that they are for us, like,
• 32:55
  Speaker 19: for me, I just got to protect the football. And
• 32:57
  Speaker 19: dropping back and taking what they give me, I feel
• 32:58
  Speaker 19: like I did a pretty good job of that in
• 33:00
  Speaker 19: the first half. And then late in the second half, man,
• 33:02
  Speaker 19: those two plays, it's just.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Can't have it. You got hit, like, I think 17
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: times today. Was that something Debra was doing?
• 33:09
  Speaker 16: Was that protection?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Or how would you sum up that? Yeah, again, you
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: got to.
• 33:13
  Speaker 19: You've got to give credit to those guys. They've got
• 33:15
  Speaker 19: a really tough defense, really good defensive coordinator in Vance.
• 33:20
  Speaker 19: There's obviously things that we can do better, but it's
• 33:22
  Speaker 19: tough to say without looking at the tape yet.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: What do you think the.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Biggest difference has been since last.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Year?
• 33:29
  Speaker 19: I'm not going to compare last year and this year.
• 33:31
  Speaker 19: It's the 20-26 Seahawks. There's a lot of things that
• 33:34
  Speaker 19: we need to get better at, and I'll just leave
• 33:36
  Speaker 19: it at that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: What did you see on the two picks? The first one,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like I had.
• 33:43
  Speaker 19: Coop in the flat, thought his man might have been
• 33:45
  Speaker 19: driving it. Just wanted to progress and felt like I
• 33:48
  Speaker 19: had some good options, especially in their man coverage on
• 33:50
  Speaker 19: that play specifically. And just got a little bit of
• 33:54
  Speaker 19: pressure and forced me to make an errant throw. And, yeah,
• 33:58
  Speaker 19: just guy made a good play as well. But, you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 19: and then the other one just got greedy. You know,
• 34:02
  Speaker 19: they did a good job in their, you know, cover
• 34:05
  Speaker 19: two type defense.
• 34:07
  Speaker 20: Got greedy in choosing Shahid or throwing it on the
• 34:09
  Speaker 20: line or both?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: No, just, I mean.
• 34:12
  Speaker 19: You know, I feel like that play specifically, I should
• 34:15
  Speaker 19: have just gotten it down to Coop. Coop ran a
• 34:17
  Speaker 19: really good route, you know, right under the sticks, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 19: I feel like he would have caught it and got
• 34:21
  Speaker 19: the first down. So just got to continue to go
• 34:25
  Speaker 19: through my progressions and trust it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: You told us back in Renton you wanted to be
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: more decisive.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: How did you move in that regard?
• 34:31
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I felt like I was pretty decisive, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 19: the first and second, you know, first half, first and
• 34:37
  Speaker 19: second quarter.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: You know, really, really the whole game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 19: I felt like I was really decisive.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I just.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: There's a couple plays I'd like to have back.
• 34:45
  Speaker 19: Unfortunately, sometimes that's how football goes, but it's not acceptable
• 34:49
  Speaker 19: for me to keep turning the ball over that way.
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: You told us that you talked to the team right
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: away and kind of put it on you. Why was
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: that important to you to do that?
• 35:00
  Speaker 19: I just think it's BS for me to keep turning
• 35:04
  Speaker 19: the ball over. It's not fair to our defense, not
• 35:07
  Speaker 19: fair to our special teams group, and not fair really
• 35:08
  Speaker 19: to the entire team. I've got to be better that way.
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: Are you right physically?
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Are you okay physically? Yeah, I feel good.
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: With these 15 hits, at one point it was 15
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: hits anyway, how was that dealing with that and.
• 35:24
  Speaker 19: The constant pressure that they had? Like I said, they
• 35:27
  Speaker 19: have a good defense and really good pass rushers.
• 35:32
  Speaker 20: When you take a step a little bit back and
• 35:35
  Speaker 20: say we're 3-3, is it a solace that you guys
• 35:38
  Speaker 20: know why? If you cut down on the turnovers, you
• 35:41
  Speaker 20: cut down on the penalty mistakes, you're probably losing.
• 35:44
  Speaker 19: Is that a loss or a silver lining? I mean, yeah,
• 35:48
  Speaker 19: you can look at it however you want.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: We're 3-3.
• 35:50
  Speaker 19: There's a lot of football left, and we need to
• 35:52
  Speaker 19: get better.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Zach, how have the last two weeks been on your end?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: What has the field contributed to that?
• 35:57
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think I could do a better job of
• 35:59
  Speaker 19: getting the ball out.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: He wanted to leave by the end of that. I mean,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: he wore it, though. He went in front of the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: guys in the locker room and said, guys, this one's
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: on me. I own this. For those mistakes at the
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: end of the game, especially the overtime one, you heard
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: him say, our defense deserves better. And they do. They
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: have a Super Bowl champion defense that led the league
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: in points allowed last year and last night allowed 39
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: yards over the last three quarters of the game. The
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: third quarter, the fourth quarter, and overtime, although there was
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: an abbreviated drive. The Broncos did not even have to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: get a first down to win the game in overtime
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: because Darnold handed them the ball in scoring position. That
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: just cannot happen. Seven touchdowns against seven interceptions for Sam
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Darnold this year. He's tied for the league league in interceptions.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: He was going into the game leading the league in
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: interception percentage of his throws being intercepted because he has
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: fewer throws than other starters because he missed One and
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: three quarters a game. Actually, one and seven eighths, really,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: a game. And Drew Locke was spotless. No turnovers in
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: his two games playing for Sam Darnold. Jessamyn, I knew
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: where this was headed, and I knew McDonald was going
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: to say he's not changing because the one big reason
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: is because there's 10 days between games. If he announces
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: now that everything's on the table, including the starting quarterback,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: his locker room will be going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Are we getting a little panicky here? And then they
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: have nine days to stew on that. So he was
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: going to squelch that this morning. And that's why on
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: his coach's show, the question was planted by the host
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: so that they could just squelch it now so the
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: players can go off to their off weekend without having
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: to think that the Seahawks sky is falling on the
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation. What do you think? Would you start Drew
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Locke or would you start Sam?
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I would keep with Sam. I would keep with Sam.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: that's what I would do right now. And they have
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: nine days, just like you said, that they do not,
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: if they pull that parachute cord, there's no putting it
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: back in the backpack. Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: What do you do? Do you bring them back in
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: like unbench them? I mean, right, exactly.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, I saw the same thing at Washington state.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing though, excuse me, before you talk
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: about Washington, what I meant to talk about the top
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: of the show, but we had the press conference. To me,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: the question is not who starts against Kansas city. It's,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: The contract situation for next year for Darnold. Because remember,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: he's in line to get a $ 50 million or so
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: before this. He was in line for a $ 50 million
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: or so a year contract to be the– he's only 29.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: He was going to be the Seahawks quarterback for the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: foreseeable future. Now what? That's the crux of what's going
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: on right now. Are John Schneider and Mike McDonald going,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, is this our guy or what? I mean,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke's contract's up this year too. He's not your
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: quarterback of the future, is he? He's only 28. Jalen
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Melrose sure hasn't shown he's the quarterback of the future.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: What is the Seahawks' situation at quarterback beyond next year
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: when Darnold's contract ends? That's now the issue.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: It is for us, but it is not for them.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: They are focused on the next game.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: In the locker room?
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: But John Schneider sure as hell has got a plan
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: and budget for this. And he thought he was about
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to pay $ 50 million a year for Sam Darnold, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: now he's got to think, well, do I want to
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: do that? Is this the guy we're going to ride with?
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: is Sam Darnold. The Sam Darnold he was for the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings in his breakout season 2024. And then the
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Seahawks go into the Superbowl or is he the Sam
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Darnold in the other seven seasons of his career for
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: the jets, the Panthers never got to play for the 49ers.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: And now these first four games for the Seahawks.
• 39:41
  Speaker 15: Hmm.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: And if that's the question, do you want to pay
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: that guy $ 50 million?
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: So do I need to make a mock-up of, will
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: the real Sam Darnold please step up? Like, do I
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: have to go Slim Shady on us?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Somebody may. I'm telling you, you're right. In the locker room,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: they're worried about Kansas City. But in the building and upstairs,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: John Schneider's plans, he's got to think about, is this
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the guy I want to have the keys of the
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: franchise for five or six years at 50 mil a year?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: What if he had a run game right now?
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I think it would change everything.
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: So is that on him?
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Is he still the same dartle we saw last year
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: because he had the run game?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It's on John Schneider for making the choice they made
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: philosophically at running back and letting Kenneth Walker go and
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: putting all his eggs into the Jedarian price basket. Now
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: we have a trade deadline coming up November 10th. He
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: has a chance to fix that. It'll cost him some
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: of his 11th draft picks next year. But that's where
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the situation stands to me. Up next, what I heard
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: in the locker room last night. I talked to Julian Love.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I talked to Charles Cross. I talked to A.J. Barner.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Had a nice sit-down with A.J.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Barner.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: He had nice things to say about my last week
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: or so. I appreciate the Ohio guy sticking with his
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: fellow Buckeye. What I learned and what I heard in
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: the locker room next, 11 o'clock, Monty Kohler, the legendary
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: coach from O'Day High School, and Jeremy Theodol is the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: head coach at Eastside Catholic. They play each other. The
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: two powers play each other. We'll do that at 11
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: o'clock in a Factor Fiction, 1135 on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Welcome back.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre on a Washington State Beef Commission
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Football Friday, Husky Football Game Day, 1 p.m. pregame show
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: from West Lafayette, Indiana, 5 p.m. kickoff with Elyse Woodward,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Cam Cleland, Dave Softy-Muller, Washington at Purdue, 5 p.m. kickoff
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: here on 93.3 KJR FM. I was in Denver last night,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: straight off a plane from the Seahawks 17-14 overtime loss,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: and I went up in the locker room to Julian
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Love for a state-of-the-team perspective of what the vibe is
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: in the locker room. This is what Julian Love said.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: This is a little unusual for you guys.
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: It's unusual for sure. I mean, we're just not playing
• 41:54
  Speaker 12: any good.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: I think on defense, we have to start much faster.
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: They're going to have their way with us in those
• 41:59
  Speaker 12: two drives. Penalties attributed to it. Continue to play clean
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: is a priority, and then red zone is a priority.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: It's interesting.
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: We got to be competitive in the turnover battle, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: now it's killing us. So chasing those kind of little edges.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: It was a.
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: Good team in a hostile environment. We felt like we
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: had a shot to win that game. The guys were
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: confident all game that we had our moment. So the
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: good news is we fought back.
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: We did.
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: We showed what kind of world we were made of.
• 42:28
  Speaker 12: And just kind of callousing that up, the competitive stamina.
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: Those guys can miss these games.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: First two drives, uncharacteristic. Missed tackles, face mask penalties.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: But then nothing from those two drives. Nothing until the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: end of the game.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: What changed? I think we just cut our group.
• 42:43
  Speaker 12: I think we have two third down stops in there,
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: negated by penalties.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: It's like, okay.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: In those moments, you just kind of reset, regroup, and
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: just finish.
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: You guys need to come back even though there was
• 42:55
  Speaker 12: a stop emotionally and you see a penalty throw.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: But in those moments, we just kind of lock in.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: What's the psyche in there? How the hell are we 3-3?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I think we.
• 43:06
  Speaker 12: Know exactly why we're 3-3. There's only anybody looking around
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: wondering why we're 3-3. We're not playing the games we lost.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: We're not playing good ball. So that's the result. That
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: was close.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: We were competitive.
• 43:21
  Speaker 12: The guys fought. But you just got to play cleaner
• 43:23
  Speaker 12: football in the league. Yeah, I mean, it's early in
• 43:28
  Speaker 12: the year. You definitely have to keep the season going.
• 43:31
  Speaker 12: Long weekend, you know, guys just reset, kind of go
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: with their families, just reset the body, mind, spirit, everything.
• 43:37
  Speaker 12: And when we get back in Monday, wherever it is,
• 43:40
  Speaker 12: we're back on it. That's kind of how we operate, win, loss, whatever.
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: There's urgency, obviously, because some things are just really not
• 43:46
  Speaker 12: good right now. But there's a lot of things that
• 43:48
  Speaker 12: we are doing very well. So we highlight those and
• 43:50
  Speaker 12: just collect the things that we aren't. Whatever, just regroup, reset,
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: and just finally get it in.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Julian Love last night with me in the locker room.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: You can hear this quiet. Nobody's throwing and yelling and screaming.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: But certainly no music playing. We haven't even talked about
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: the offensive line. Gray Zabel had his worst game as
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: a pro last night. Missed blocks all over the plate.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: George Helani in pass blocking has become a liability. It
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be his strength. And what's happened to
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the tight ends? They're non-existent. A.J. Barner is like he
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a uniform on. Darnold won't throw to him,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: including on one of those interceptions when he was open.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I sat down and talked with the second-year tight end, A.J. Barner,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: last night in the locker room in Denver. You guys
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: aren't used to this. What's the mood or vibe? Is
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: it just anger at yourself?
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:37
  Speaker 17: I mean, I can speak for my mood and, like,
• 44:42
  Speaker 17: I know the work that I'm putting in as an
• 44:44
  Speaker 17: individual and our team's going to continue to put in.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: If we're about the things that we say that.
• 44:49
  Speaker 17: We're about, you've got to move forward and come together
• 44:53
  Speaker 17: as a team.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: For you personally, there were some times the night you
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: were open and Sam didn't have time to get to
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the ball. There were a couple times you stayed in
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: to pass protect. It seemed like it was a little
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: bit all over for you today.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: How was that?
• 45:06
  Speaker 17: That's just the flow of the game right now. I
• 45:10
  Speaker 17: think It's going to start to slow down, and that
• 45:15
  Speaker 17: can be frustrating as a player because I know what
• 45:18
  Speaker 17: I'm capable of. And like I said, I know the
• 45:23
  Speaker 17: work that I'm putting in. I know the product that's
• 45:25
  Speaker 17: going to show up on the field when things start clicking.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: So I have confidence in myself and the team that
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: it's going to get right.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: You look around and go, how the hell are we 3-3?
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, what can you pin it on?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, man. I mean, that's what it is.
• 45:42
  Speaker 17: Like, I think three and three, four and three, four
• 45:46
  Speaker 17: and four. Like when you have the Seahawks in the schedule,
• 45:48
  Speaker 17: like we're still who we are. Like, I don't think
• 45:52
  Speaker 17: you want to see us and a lot of stuff
• 45:55
  Speaker 17: that we can clean up that falls in our court on.
• 45:57
  Speaker 17: And again, like it's the NFL, everyone's good team, but
• 46:01
  Speaker 17: I still think.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: You have the Seahawks in the schedule. Like it's going
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: to be a battle.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: That's the silver lining, that if you eliminate the mistakes,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: the turnovers, the penalties, you probably win these three games
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: you've lost?
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
• 46:13
  Speaker 17: I think that's just the same story every year in
• 46:17
  Speaker 17: this business. Play clean football and execute and win games.
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: A.J.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Barner in the locker room last night in Denver. They've
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: got to get him the ball. When you say who's
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: the second receiver right now for this team, Rashid Shaheed
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: showed it a little bit, but they've got to get
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: him the ball. 4-9-4-5-1, your reaction to the Seahawks in
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: the locker room last night when I talked to them,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: what you thought about what you just heard. Up next,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: our high school football focus, our weekly feature at 11
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: o'clock on Fridays. The biggest game in the state this
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: week is O'Day and Eastside Catholic out on the plateau tonight.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Both the head coaches up next, the legendary Monte Kohler.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Tealbar from Eastside Catholic. We'll talk to them next
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: in Factor Fiction 1135. Your chance to win $ 1, 000 from
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Lucky Eagle Casino and Hotel coming up on a Washington
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: State Beef Commission football Friday on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Welcome back.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre with you on a Washington State
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Beef Commission Football Friday. Our high school football focus, our
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: weekly segment at 11 o'clock on Sunday, on Fridays. Big
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: game down in the south side of Puyallup and Sumner.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: That's a co-headliner game here in the state. Those communities
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: are fired up. Thanks on the text line for, yes,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I was aware Puyallup and Sumner are playing. Two powers
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: down from the South Sound. Out at Hoquiam tonight, Jack Elway,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: who was a quarterback at Hoquiam High School, is being
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: honored as a quarterback for one of the first spread
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: offenses back in the 40s.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Well, that's cool.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: At Olympic Stadium. We've talked about Olympic Stadium. Built as
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: a war project. The legendary stadium for football and baseball
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: in Hoquiam. That's where Jack Elway is going to be
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: honored by the mayor. They're going to make a proclamation
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: calling that Olympic Stadium in Hoquiam the birth of spread offense.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: That's tonight in high school football down at Hoquiam. And
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: on the plateau, Eastside Catholic and O'Day High School in
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: a battle of 3A powers from the Metro League. Rivals
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: that end up finding themselves in the state finals, semifinals.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: And we have both coaches on the phone live on
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. First, O'Day High School's athletic director,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: head coach since 1985, and Washington State's all-time leader in
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: head coaching wins, the legendary Monty Kohler on the phone
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: with us on a game day. Coach, I know as
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: a game day you have many other things to do
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: than talk to this clown on the radio. I appreciate
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you being on the radio and talking to us on KJR.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: You bet.
• 48:56
  Speaker 16: We appreciate what you guys do for high school football.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. If I may, and ask you to
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: take a 30,000 foot lens on your entire career, what
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: is the similarities and the differences from 1985 when you
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: first became a high school football coach at O'Day to today?
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: How have you changed how you coach players? How have
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: players changed? Or maybe how has it stayed the same?
• 49:20
  Speaker 21: Well, again, I think kids are probably better now than
• 49:23
  Speaker 21: they were then.
• 49:25
  Speaker 16: You know, I'm not saying they're.
• 49:26
  Speaker 21: Better players, but their attention span might be a little shorter.
• 49:31
  Speaker 21: You know, I don't think the game has changed that much.
• 49:34
  Speaker 21: I mean, I think, you know, that same old idea
• 49:36
  Speaker 21: that you have to um, you know, build relationships with them.
• 49:40
  Speaker 16: You know, you can't just tell them what to do
• 49:42
  Speaker 16: and they'll do it. They have to trust you. And
• 49:44
  Speaker 16: then they'll, then you have a chance that they'll do it.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: How have you evolved your schematics, your X's and O's
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: coach from the eighties to what, how college football plays
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: and what most of your kids want to go play
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: college football?
• 49:58
  Speaker 21: Well, we, uh, you know, we haven't changed, uh, defensively
• 50:01
  Speaker 21: we changed down then offensively again, When we first started here,
• 50:06
  Speaker 21: we were probably one of the, you know, we were,
• 50:08
  Speaker 21: in a sense, a West Coast offense, as it was
• 50:11
  Speaker 21: called back then, and then we kind of developed into
• 50:14
  Speaker 21: what we run now. We just kind of tweaked that
• 50:16
  Speaker 21: year in, year out, depending on the personnel. So I
• 50:20
  Speaker 21: guess it's always changing, but never too far from our core.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: What makes this, this is Monte Kohler, the legendary coach,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: the all-time leader in coaching wins in high school football
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: in Washington, honored to have him on the show. Greg
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Bell Show with Jessamyn McIntyre, 93.3 KJRFM. The Seaside Catholic Rivalry,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: you guys both go deep, not just in the Metro.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: You go out of the Metro League deep into the
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: state championship playoffs. What makes this rivalry so special? The
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: kids know each other, seven-on-seven camps, recruiting trails, growing up.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: What makes this rivalry unique?
• 50:56
  Speaker 21: Well, I think it brings a lot of excitement and
• 50:58
  Speaker 21: energy to both communities. You know, I guess I think it's–
• 51:04
  Speaker 21: it's great because it, it makes, I think both teams better. Uh,
• 51:09
  Speaker 21: it's one, it's one of those, you know, that, uh,
• 51:11
  Speaker 21: you have to, you know, really prepare for, you really
• 51:15
  Speaker 21: have to, uh, have your kids in the right mindset.
• 51:19
  Speaker 21: So I just think it makes, uh, your teams better. And, uh, I, again,
• 51:26
  Speaker 21: I think, uh, there's always a chance that we're going
• 51:28
  Speaker 21: to play again.
• 51:29
  Speaker 16: So this one just kind of, it's not a free one,
• 51:31
  Speaker 16: but it's one to really see where you're at.
• 51:33
  Speaker 21: Um, you know, and kind of find your weaknesses and
• 51:37
  Speaker 21: maybe some of your strengths as well.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Coach Jeremy Tealbar of Eastside Catholic told us that his
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: starters haven't played a full game yet or even had
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: to punt because the games have been so lopsided. What
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: stands out to you about Eastside Catholic? How are you
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: going to make them uncomfortable? If O'Day's playing their game tonight,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: what are you going to do?
• 51:56
  Speaker 21: Well, again, we have to, I mean, obviously they're really
• 51:59
  Speaker 21: good on both sides of the ball.
• 52:01
  Speaker 16: They're dangerous on offense. Uh, They've got some quarterbacks playing
• 52:06
  Speaker 16: really well.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: They've got some kids that can.
• 52:08
  Speaker 22: Run and catch.
• 52:10
  Speaker 16: So, you know, we've got to eliminate big plays.
• 52:12
  Speaker 22: But, you know, again, I don't know the snap, but
• 52:15
  Speaker 22: it seems like that quarterback's got a ton of touchdowns
• 52:18
  Speaker 22: already and a short amount of throws.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: So they've got a.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Lot of big plays there.
• 52:22
  Speaker 22: But then, you know, if you loosen the box too much,
• 52:25
  Speaker 22: they're pretty capable of running it.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Again, offensively, You know, we've got to get first downs.
• 52:31
  Speaker 16: You know, take our shots.
• 52:32
  Speaker 22: We have a kid that can throw it down, some
• 52:34
  Speaker 22: kids that can go and get it. So I'm assuming
• 52:39
  Speaker 22: that both teams will probably be pretty comparable in the
• 52:43
  Speaker 22: run-pass percentage. You know, I think they're going to make turnovers,
• 52:48
  Speaker 22: and that's always a big.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: Part of the big game.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: This is Monty Kohler, a little bit of static on
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: the line, but Monty Kohler, the head coach and athletic
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: director of Day High School, the defending state 3A champions,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: playing Eastside Catholic tonight at a big showdown in Washington
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: State high school football here on 93.3 KJR FM. I
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: don't know if you, you probably don't remember, but on
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: the field at Husky Stadium after you won the state
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: championship over Bellevue, I asked you live on the air
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: on KJR, if you would be done coaching and what
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: keeps you coming back and you say, Oh, I'm not,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm done. And you did come back
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: obviously for another season. What keeps you coming back coach?
• 53:24
  Speaker 21: Um, you know, I really have, we have great students. Uh,
• 53:28
  Speaker 21: I mean, and it's fun to be in, uh, this
• 53:31
  Speaker 21: place is pretty special. Obviously I've been here a long
• 53:33
  Speaker 21: time and, you know, uh, the environment, the all boys environment,
• 53:37
  Speaker 21: there's this, you know, there's special energy that, uh, is
• 53:41
  Speaker 21: pretty fun and it's beyond what we do in athletics
• 53:46
  Speaker 21: it's just uh what the kids and what they bring
• 53:48
  Speaker 21: to the school and and then uh you know because
• 53:51
  Speaker 21: they're they're hungry they're they're.
• 53:53
  Speaker 16: Here to learn and get better.
• 53:55
  Speaker 21: And hopefully we can i can still play a part
• 53:58
  Speaker 21: in that so that's probably them and you know i've
• 54:01
  Speaker 21: got great coaches and great principal and all those kind
• 54:03
  Speaker 21: of things that make my job easy.
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: So Coach brings me back.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Coach Kohler, I do have to ask, a
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: lot of listeners ask me, what would you feel about
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: a private school league? You, an Eastside Catholic, maybe, and
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: it would have to be geographically, so Bellarmine perhaps, Archbishop
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Murphy if they moved up in class, but for the
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: private schools to play in their own league, is that
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: something you would ever, I know you've heard that before
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: from people who think that's a good idea in Washington.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: What would you think of that?
• 54:35
  Speaker 16: I mean, I don't think it serves the student population.
• 54:38
  Speaker 21: I don't think it'd be good for the state of
• 54:39
  Speaker 21: Washington and high school football. You know, I think there
• 54:44
  Speaker 21: are other alternatives to maybe get to what they're trying
• 54:49
  Speaker 21: to get to.
• 54:49
  Speaker 16: And that's some kind of balance and equity.
• 54:53
  Speaker 21: But I think a private school, you know, just if
• 54:57
  Speaker 21: it was a league, that's one thing. But if it
• 54:59
  Speaker 21: meant a private school state championship, and not part of
• 55:02
  Speaker 21: the WIAA, I think that would be detrimental to high
• 55:07
  Speaker 21: school football in the state of Washington.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: What are some of those alternatives you mentioned, if you
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: were trying to get equity, as you see it?
• 55:16
  Speaker 21: Well, I think there's maybe even an amendment out there now.
• 55:19
  Speaker 21: I don't know if it'll pass, but it was something
• 55:21
  Speaker 21: along the lines of basically ceding the state tournament.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: So....
• 55:27
  Speaker 16: So like I think Arizona does it, California maybe used
• 55:31
  Speaker 16: to do it.
• 55:32
  Speaker 21: So at the end of the year, the tournament, so
• 55:35
  Speaker 21: you could have Tumwater, Eastside, O'Day, Puyallup, Sumner all in
• 55:40
  Speaker 21: the tournament, the.
• 55:42
  Speaker 16: Open division or whatever you call it. So that's one alternative.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Coach Monty Kohler, I know you're busy at school. You've
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: got a game. You've got a road trip. You've got
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: to get kids on a bus and get out to
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the east side. Appreciate you joining us. Honored to have
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you on the show. And thanks for all you do
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: from 1985 for young student-athletes in our state. Thanks for everything, Coach.
• 56:02
  Speaker 16: I sure appreciate you guys, and thanks all of you.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Monty Kohler, the all-time winningest coach in high school football
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: in Washington from O'Day High School. He's playing east side Catholic.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: The Crusaders are rolling. Jeremy Tealbar, lefty side Catholic as
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: the long-time coach, came back. And now he's back with
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: another powerhouse team. He tells us, if it's true, Coach Tealbar,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: that you have not punted with your starters this year.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: And they haven't even finished a game yet. I have
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: a feeling you might punt tonight and you might finish
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: a game against O'Day. Thanks for coming on. And how
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: is this return? See, what brought you back, I guess,
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: is the first question. You know, thanks for having me.
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it a ton, Greg, and what you're doing
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: and getting some exposure to our kids and our place. Gosh,
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: I'm happy to be back. You know, fired up to
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: be back on the plateau. I was in Sandpoint, Idaho.
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: Mama got sick, had to go take care of her
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: and the business and the family business.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: And, you know.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know what.
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: Happened when I was gone, to be honest with you.
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't come back.
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: I did touch base with Dom from time to time
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: and Stacey Stout, our athletic director. But no, it ended
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: the way it did with Dom and his reign. And
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: then I got a call saying, hey, would you be
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: interested in coming back? And I was in Sandpoint, Idaho,
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: Coeur d'Alene area. And I said, gosh, I never even
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: thought about it. And But what's weird is Monty and
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: I had had conversations while I was gone. For some reason,
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: I kept telling him, hey, we got the book of O'Day,
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: our long, long, massive scouting plan of O'Day, which– In
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: the state of Washington, when you're playing Bellevue, which is
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: complicated and has a basic offense in regards to the
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: wing T and how they play the wing T and
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: then Monty's offense and his veer eye formation and then
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: his caveats on top of that. you get pretty used
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: to the plan that you're going to be putting in
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: and how to attack them and how not to attack them.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: And Monty was like, hey, why don't.
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: You ship that folder over to me?
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: And for some reason, I never shipped.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: It over to him. I was like, no.
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: For some reason, I don't know. Maybe something in the
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: back of my head was like, hey, maybe... Maybe this
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: guy and I are going to face off one more time.
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: Maybe this guy, this guy and I, and his rivalry
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: and this great rivalry, probably the best rivalry in the
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: state of Washington. And maybe we're going to face off
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: one more time. And I got a call from, from
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: the athletic director here.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: He's a Catholic.
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: And he said, are you interested? And I looked at
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: my wife and I said, Hey, we're.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: In North Idaho.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: We're some people call us having, you know, kind of
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: a dream living the dream ish. And I said, do
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: we want to throw ourselves back in that fold? And
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: then to be frank, You know, I looked at my
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: two kids and I didn't have kids last time I
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: was here.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: At least that were school age kids. And I got
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: a seven-year-old boy. His name is Tanyan Decker Fieldball. That's TDT.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: And then I've got an 11-year-old girl, Kate Adeline Fieldball.
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: That's Kat for Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire. And,
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: you know, she's 11. And I know what Eastside Catholic is.
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: And I know how beautiful our community is and how
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: beautiful and the outcomes of our kids and what they learn, mindfulness, mind, body,
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: and soul when they're here and the experience they have
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: in this bubble of of a world that is, that
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: is so tough on kids in micro traumas with social
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: media and Instagram, Instagram, Instagram, and, and Snapchat.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: Snapchat, Twitter.
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: And I looked at myself and I was, how do
• 59:40
  Speaker 6: I as a father do the one job I have,
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: which is to keep them safe. And I'm like, if
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: I have an opportunity to go back to that beautiful place,
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: that place on the plateau, that, that bubble of, of
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: that melting pot, but a bubble of, where you get
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: to see the real world and you get to see
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: multicultural and you get to see all the different races
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: and communities, socioeconomic protected in this bubble in the plateau.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: How can I say no? And, you know, I got
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: the opportunity. I had to go through the whole process.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: I was, you know, I was a four time state
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: champion here and and and.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: And had to go through the whole process. Back of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: the line.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: Back of the line.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: Hey, Jeremy, you ain't, you don't got a front row seat.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: Um, no, don't get me wrong.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: I had a lot of community members helping me and, and, uh,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: a lot of people in support and, um, excited to
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: be back, uh, excited for this game, excited for our kids.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Um, you know, building it back.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: It's, it, there's a lot of things have changed since
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: I've been gone. I mean, COVID happened. Um, you know,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: a lot of, a lot of heartbreaking things happened while
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: I was gone, um, in regards to what happened with
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: kids and, and, you know, NIL happened while I was
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: gone and, and all sorts of recruiting things and, and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: the acceleration of, um, you know, all the seven on
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: seven stuff and five on five and, um, lots of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: street agents and, and lots of people involved in youth sports. And, um,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: it's fun to be back and try to, um, stick
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: with our core values and our traditions and be as
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: elite as we possibly can in this area while the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: world is going crazy around us and to keep swinging
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: the hammer and do the next right thing for our
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: program and for our kids and for our school. It's
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: just a beautiful place, man, and it's hard to explain
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: if you haven't been up here or you haven't really
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: felt the EC family. We're going against a brotherhood tonight,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: our family versus their brotherhood.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: It's well-known.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: And I'm excited to see the outcomes.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: Coach, my name is Jessamyn McIntyre. My father has been
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: a coach my entire life. So I hear everything. He
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: has gone through the football, high school football level all
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: the way through college for literally my entire life. And
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: everything that you're saying. is a breath of fresh air
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: when it comes to the direction that we're seeing college
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: football go specifically. And I'm wondering how far down it
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: will go as it seems to have gone professionalizing every
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: single level.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: How do you think that what you're.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: Saying, your passion, do you think there's enough people out
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: there that can keep it what it is, the sanctity
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: of just football family?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: Well, I think our culture depends on it. You know,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: I hate to say that because there's a lot of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: people out there that are going to be like, well,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: it's just football. It's not really just football. It's growing
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: kids up, adversity, grit, determination, culture. You know, right now
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: we're talking about football. are saying this year is rad, respect, accountability,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: and discipline. It comes from the bike movie, Radden, in
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: the 1980s. I'm a 1980s kid.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: That is a really good throwback.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a throwback deal.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: And those core values and skills in order to teach kids,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: no matter what math, science, reading, English, that is what
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: gets blue-collar people and blue-collar kids and families together in
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: hard times.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: And keeping.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: with traditions of what we love and respect. And I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: don't love the way college football is going. I don't
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: love the way high school football is going necessarily. And,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: you know, I think if you just stick with your
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: core values, you continue to have relationships at a high level.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: You keep trying to teach and educate. In the end,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: the kids are experiencing, here you say Catholic forever moments.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: We base our, our, our, Our whole.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: Program, faith, faith in each other, faith in God, faith
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: in what we're doing, faith in you're here for a reason. Family,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: family together, family stays. You don't got to like everybody
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: in your family. Finish what you do. Finish every single rep.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: Finish every single academic assignment.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: Your brand matters.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: Finish this thing. And then forever moments. And some of
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: those moments are state titles. Some of those moments are losses.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: Some of those moments are what we did in our
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: first three days, which was to try to find our culture,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: find our kids and where we at. Instead of practicing
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: the first three days of this year, we went to camp.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: We call it C4.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: It's in CISPUS.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: It's in Blaine, Washington.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: No cell phones, three days of retreat, leadership camp, getting
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: to know each other, looking each other in the eye,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: having conversations, cell phones away and trying to find this
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: unique thing that is a family in football that is
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: so special and so missed in this world. And I think,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: you know, somebody is going to have to stand, stand
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: up and say, enough is enough. You know, we got to,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: we got to pay the players.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: There's no doubt.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: They got to get what, what, what's earned them, but
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: we got to put some limits on this. I'm with
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 6: Nick Saban in regards to helping this thing along and,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: and making their, their B limits within the thing within
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: recruiting or admissions or, or NIL and, You know, there
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: is a sanctity to high school football that has to
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: be saved because of how kids need to have great
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: determination when they get out in the real world. That's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: not going away. That's never going to go away, at
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: least while I'm alive.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Tilbar is the head coach at Eastside Catholic. They
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: play O'Day tonight in our high school football-focused showcase game.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: I'd play for you, man.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: I'd play for you.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: You run through a wall for Jeremy Tilbar. Coach, real quickly,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: you said there are things about high school football that
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: you don't like. If you could be the czar of
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: the WIAA or Washington State Athletics, what would you fix
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: in high school football in our state?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: There are so many things that are broken. It's not
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: necessarily the WIAA. It's the whole educational process in regards
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: to funding and understanding how important educational athletics is to us.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: the culture of our country, of our state, of our world.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: And when you're, you know, we don't fund, the public
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: schools don't fund it at the level of a private school.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they don't, you know, they got kids coming
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  Speaker 6: in for free. They don't have to market brand and
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  Speaker 6: communicate to get kids and parents and people understanding why,
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  Speaker 6: you know, one place has got a little bit better
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  Speaker 6: than another place. They, you know, the lack, the lack
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  Speaker 6: of basic attitude of, Just the overall society in regards
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  Speaker 6: to funding these important programs. Don't get me wrong, math, science, reading,
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  Speaker 6: the academic pieces of that are so critical, but culture, grit, determination, family, team, love, togetherness, experience.
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  Speaker 6: you know, some of these things that are out there,
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  Speaker 6: I think these public schools would be phenomenal if they
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  Speaker 6: had the support and the funding of the administration. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: and you see that throughout the state. And I was
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  Speaker 6: that I don't know how that could be good for kids.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't necessarily put it all on WIA. I
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  Speaker 6: put it all on, hey, we as a society need
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  Speaker 6: to understand that athletics and extracurriculars are extremely important for
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  Speaker 6: confidence in kids, especially with the onslaught right now of
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  Speaker 6: what's going on with social media and the micro traumas
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  Speaker 6: that are being caused there. And, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I come from a, you know, my family business is
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  Speaker 6: a residential treatment center for at-risk girls who have massive traumas.
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  Speaker 6: And so you see how society is breaking down, and
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  Speaker 6: it's because they look at their phones and they're getting
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  Speaker 6: made fun of. All the silent bullying, harassment, and intimidation.
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  Speaker 6: How do you counter that? You do that with confidence building.
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  Speaker 6: You do that through them buying in, pouring into something
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  Speaker 6: that they risk at other than at-risk behaviors. You pour
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  Speaker 6: it into, hey, I'm going to be in the play.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to risk making a fool of myself at
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  Speaker 6: the play or I'm going to go play football because
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  Speaker 6: it's a grind and I know it's a team that
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  Speaker 6: loves each other. I know they're going to do fun
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  Speaker 6: things and I have this forever moment in these experiences.
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  Speaker 6: And I think we all have to come together and
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  Speaker 6: say this is very important. We need to fund this.
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  Speaker 6: We need to help get athletic directors full-time pay.
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  Speaker 4: We need to get coaches more pay.
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  Speaker 6: Because it's a grind, and it's a lot of hard work.
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  Speaker 6: If not, the inequity is going to be what you
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  Speaker 6: see right now at times. You have massive public school
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  Speaker 6: programs with massive donor bases helping them.
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  Speaker 4: You have big.
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  Speaker 6: Private schools that understand the vision of their place, and
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  Speaker 6: they have– They have the means to be able to
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  Speaker 6: attract elite coaches and elite systems and market brand and
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  Speaker 6: communicate to families. And you be that family and look
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  Speaker 6: around the block. I do it all the time because,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we get admissions here. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 6: where else are you going.
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  Speaker 4: To go than here? Right, right.
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  Speaker 6: Are we competing against? Other privates? Kind of.
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  Speaker 4: But this place is real special.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's an overall cultural society problem and I
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  Speaker 6: don't think the WI can fix it. I think this
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: open division plan is is good, but really the roots
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  Speaker 6: of the problem, and I think that WI would say this,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: is we just need all our programs to be competitive
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  Speaker 6: and compete. And some people would say, well, you can't
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  Speaker 6: because you can't recruit from a 50-mile radius or admissions
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  Speaker 6: from a 50-mile radius, whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 6: And it's like, well, hold on. There's been some pretty
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  Speaker 6: good public schools that have done real well in the area.
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  Speaker 6: What are they doing? Well, they have massive funding, massive
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  Speaker 6: booster clubs. They create an amazing experience for the kids,
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  Speaker 6: and they keep their kids. And That doesn't mean the
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  Speaker 6: privates won't be successful. We're going to have some success
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  Speaker 2: It'll continue tonight on the plateau. O'Day and Eastside Catholic. Coach,
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  Speaker 2: No problem. Thanks, Jeremy Tealbar, Eastside Catholic. Against O'Day tonight,
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  Speaker 2: Todd Beamer High School halted its season. My former News
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  Speaker 2: had so many injuries. They had some lopsided losses. And
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  Speaker 2: I know. 253 says, thank you very much for asking
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  Speaker 2: the obvious question of private schools in their own league.
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  Speaker 2: Their recruiting abilities versus public schools has created major inequities.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks again.
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  Speaker 2: And you are absolutely right. And credit to Monty Kohler
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  Speaker 2: for recognizing that. Jeremy Tealbar of Eastside Catholic also recognized
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• 1:17:50
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  Speaker 2: And we have interchangeable Ian, the two-sport guy who watches
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  Speaker 2: How did that go? It was hard cracking in the, well,
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  Speaker 2: the cracking started at what? Four 30 Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 7: Off, uh, we had, yeah, I'm just trying to think
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  Speaker 7: first intermission was over.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Early second period. And so I had one eye on
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  Speaker 7: I jumped in the car and jumped on the Westwood
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  Speaker 4: It looked dire.
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  Speaker 7: It had to look very dire, and then I got home.
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  Speaker 7: Then I was like, I had this, like, what do
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  Speaker 7: I do thing, because I'm driving along, and I don't
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  Speaker 7: know who the two guys on Westwood One were yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: They were guys, Ryan, somebody who was a former offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 7: and I don't know who they played, but they do
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  Speaker 7: a great job. And I'm listening to it. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 7: should I just pull into, like, the Classic? There's a
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  Speaker 7: sports bar there. Or the Red Dog. No, I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to get home because I think my son's there. And then,
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  Speaker 7: you know, then it looked like he throws the interception
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  Speaker 7: in regulation. Well, they're going to lose anyway. And then
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  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, by the time I'm up once,
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  Speaker 7: I'm almost in Maple Valley. they kicked the field goal
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  Speaker 7: to tie it. I'm like, damn, they're going overtime. Should
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  Speaker 7: I jump into a vibe and watch the, like the
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  Speaker 7: overtime there? Cause I'm right there. No, I'm going to
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 7: get home, fly into my house, right. As they're starting
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 7: their first drive in overtime, the ill-fated drive. And, uh,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 7: and then my son wasn't even here. He's with somebody
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  Speaker 7: who's watching it somewhere else. So I watched it there.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, it was, I had quite the viewing experience yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 7: I should have stayed in the car because that was
• 1:19:55
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  Speaker 2: Or just kept in the car in the driveway. We
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  Speaker 2: all remember Matt. I was in Green Bay for Madhouse,
• 1:20:02
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  Speaker 7: No, that's about it. I mean, there has to have
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• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: We've also seen Stan Gelbaugh and Dan McGuire in this town.
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  Speaker 7: I think of the famous Brett Favre with Minnesota, Paul
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  Speaker 7: Allen saying, you know, this isn't Green Bay or this
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• 1:20:46
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: So there was that with Favre.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, in Seahawks history.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 7: I do remember this. In Pete's first year, I believe
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  Speaker 7: it was.
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  Speaker 4: Tavares.
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  Speaker 7: And, well, remember Matt was the quarterback, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: But he was banged up a little bit. That's right.
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  Speaker 7: And it was one of the first– that was the
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  Speaker 7: first year I was covering the team for Fox. And
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  Speaker 7: we're down at Candlestick Park, and we're doing live shots.
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  Speaker 7: We're running back and forth between getting players and going
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  Speaker 7: to the press conference. And there were questions about Matt.
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  Speaker 7: And I ran literally to the press area, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: all right, I'm going to ask. And I just said, hey,
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  Speaker 7: is there any chance that you would, you know, look
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  Speaker 7: to switch quarterbacks? And Pete looked at me with the
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  Speaker 7: level of disdain I've never felt in my life in
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  Speaker 7: a press conference and just like kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and Pete was always very diplomatic how he answered questions, right?
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  Speaker 7: And he looked at me like it was the dumbest
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  Speaker 7: question ever. And why would you ask that? Blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 7: And he didn't say it that way, but he didn't
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  Speaker 7: like it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 7: It was a legitimate question. I felt like it had
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  Speaker 7: to be asked.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up because I think you
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  Speaker 2: and a couple others were intimating that we may ask
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: last night, McDonald, that question. But I made the calculus
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  Speaker 2: that you don't ask that question after a game. That's
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  Speaker 2: a day after or a couple days after because– Of
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  Speaker 2: course the message he's going to send to the locker
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  Speaker 2: room is he's our guy.
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  Speaker 7: Before they've assessed anything. I think every coach is different. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Pete had changed– here's why I asked it
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  Speaker 7: that night. A, I thought it had to be asked.
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  Speaker 7: And I thought it was– someone had to ask it,
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  Speaker 7: and I did. And two, Pete had had– at USC,
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  Speaker 7: he would do that.
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  Speaker 19: Right.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, now at USC, you've got two five stars
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  Speaker 7: on the bench. So it's right. But he had done
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  Speaker 7: that at USC. And that's what, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I had in my ear, I had an IFB in
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  Speaker 7: my ear. And that's what the postgame was, is, you know,
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  Speaker 7: what are they going to do? You know what? I'll
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 7: take the bullet and and pay the price later. And
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  Speaker 7: I remember I kind of pulled him aside later on.
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  Speaker 7: And he's like, no, he goes, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: He goes, I wasn't going to.
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  Speaker 7: And he kind of said what you just said. He
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  Speaker 7: was I wasn't going to say that after the game.
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  Speaker 7: even if I was going to do it. And we're
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  Speaker 7: going to play the audio from you and me specifically
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 7: today in McDonald's press availability. We'll do that in the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: noon hour, right? Probably about 12, 10 or so.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, we're forgetting the Russell Wilson interception at
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the one-yard line for the worst pass in CX's history.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah. There's that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there is that.
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  Speaker 3: That's like a PTSD thing.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. The text line's blown up going, are
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: you kidding me? Yes, I'm kidding you. Yes, that's the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: worst one of them. I try to put.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: That on my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neal and?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: No, Danny O'Neal. We have a one-hour show. We're at
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 7: a wind sprint today. We're at an absolute wind sprint.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 7: I do have some info on the Sonic situation that's
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: blowing up as well.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get into that.
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  Speaker 7: I'll explain what we're dealing with here.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA, man.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: It's something else, isn't it? So I'll get to that.
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  Speaker 7: I will get to that. We'll get to the audio
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  Speaker 7: from Mike McDonald today and hear what you and I
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: asked as we tried to three or four of us
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 7: tried to spin it around in different directions as best
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  Speaker 7: we could and uh you'll hear mcdonald's i thought mcdonald
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  Speaker 7: was great today by the way i thought he handled
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 7: it perfectly today um and we'll hear his responses coming
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 7: up i know a lot of people were like down
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: on mike mcdonald guys he won a super bowl uh
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  Speaker 7: let's relax eight months ago but there's a reality of
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 7: the situation where they're at and we'll talk about that
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: as well and we'll take talkbacks and uh And Texas
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: Wall coming up in a one-hour sprint to West Lafayette,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 7: Indiana for the Huskies in Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Enjoy your weekend. May your Cougs go down
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  Speaker 2: and beat the Beavs.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Ian.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: He's up next for one whole hour before the Husky
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: tailgate show from West Lafayette, Indiana before the Huskies in
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: Purdue kick off right on this station at 5 p.m.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Jessalyn McIntyre. I'm going to go try to
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: sleep for maybe an hour. I haven't slept since Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 3: I think you need it.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: I know. I do.
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  Speaker 3: Let's please take care of Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Ian's up next. Thanks for listening. I'll talk to you
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  Speaker 2: Monday on 93.3 KJRFM.