Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 12-10 Hour 4: It's Humpday, bring on the Colts! Al Kinisky and one last thing.
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Shake his jump, twirked it out right there, trying to get.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Ashley any opportunity.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Usually Wednesdays he hates Tuesdays.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Tuesdays are the worst Wednesdays, even on lesser sleep. I'm
- 0:13Speaker 3: I'm a little bit more. And at this point we're
- 0:15Speaker 3: already downhill stretch. We're heading towards the weekend, folks, And
- 0:18Speaker 3: you play that I'm gonna shake my rump, my lovely
- 0:21Speaker 3: lady hump.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't say the words are.
- 0:24Speaker 2: In it, but I meant you trying to show you
- 0:26Speaker 2: my skills. I was back here.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Look, why were you over there vomiting?
- 0:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't want to tell you.
- 0:33Speaker 3: She did have a very concerned look on her face,
- 0:35Speaker 3: just looking down like maybe she did see it and
- 0:38Speaker 3: then looked away.
- 0:38Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 0:39Speaker 4: I didn't see it. I was looking at something on
- 0:41Speaker 4: the computer that was being wonky. My keyboard has been
- 0:43Speaker 4: acting up. Remember when yours did that weird thing where
- 0:45Speaker 4: it would just make bizarre Yeah, So my pauses. So
- 0:50Speaker 4: I'll type a whole thing and then five letters are
- 0:53Speaker 4: all that actually went through, or or it'll add like
- 0:57Speaker 4: seven eyes if I type one eye and.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Then make every word really long. But there's and so I.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Think there's a battery. Isn't there a battery?
- 1:04Speaker 4: Changed the battery yesterday. Yeah, they're ordering us a new
- 1:08Speaker 4: one back here because it's just being a little one.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Okay, So anyway I get annoyed by it.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Sorry, could be you ye, down the eye button, the key,
- 1:18Speaker 3: it'll it'll just keep let me try.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Oh don't don't do it.
- 1:23Speaker 4: If I just push it and then lift up, what happens, missus?
- 1:27Speaker 1: If you hear it one, then you get one.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Oh see, there you go. You're welcome. That's lose Clark
- 1:33Speaker 3: State right there.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Impressive, missus.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Jordan would have talked to that freshman year high.
- 1:38Speaker 3: School legitimately typing class that you took on a typewriter.
- 1:42Speaker 1: We didn't. I don't even know what that is typing class.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I remember that those of you that do know the typewriters,
- 1:49Speaker 1: I'm with you to be on your your home keys.
- 1:51Speaker 1: I saw some documents that I typed out on a
- 1:54Speaker 1: typewriter as a kid that I kept.
- 1:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I still, how fast did you type back in
- 1:58Speaker 3: the day when.
- 1:59Speaker 1: I could probably if we do without air, a good
- 2:03Speaker 1: solid eighty letters?
- 2:10Speaker 5: I think.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Then now, kid, Yeah, well I should be I've typed
- 2:17Speaker 1: more things than yeah Ernest Henningway. So yeah, so yeah,
- 2:22Speaker 1: I'm good now, but yeah.
- 2:23Speaker 3: I was sixty one words a minute in seventh Oh
- 2:28Speaker 3: I was best in seventh grade.
- 2:29Speaker 1: How white out?
- 2:31Speaker 3: There's a lot, a lot, but I'm remember we had
- 2:34Speaker 3: to reach out and hit the two team.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Yeah hit that thing.
- 2:36Speaker 6: Oh I hit it?
- 2:37Speaker 3: Uh me and Aaron Donnelly we were racing. We both
- 2:40Speaker 3: wanted to be the fastest typers. Oh yeah, and I
- 2:45Speaker 3: plenty of white out, but in the speed test it
- 2:48Speaker 3: was always the same thing, so you could do that. Well,
- 2:51Speaker 3: they weren't, you know, far off. Home Row wasn't a
- 2:53Speaker 3: whole lot of capitalizing, you know, semi colon's and.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I feel bad for those guys on Home Row.
- 3:00Speaker 2: You do just serving the life road home Row.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I may have I may have screwed up some more.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Yeah you were thinking it was no, it's just this
- 3:11Speaker 3: just home Row home road fingers understood now, Yeah, okay, good?
- 3:15Speaker 4: Yeah, you had to have them on your home keys,
- 3:17Speaker 4: and then you had to practice because you have to
- 3:18Speaker 4: like reach up to like R without looking R. Yeah,
- 3:22Speaker 4: you got to make sure you got that right and
- 3:24Speaker 4: be like T.
- 3:25Speaker 1: I don't even think, Yeah, I guess you do get
- 3:27Speaker 1: to a point where you don't think about it, obviously,
- 3:30Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't even I don't even know what letters.
- 3:33Speaker 1: I know where they all are, just by field, but
- 3:35Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you across the.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Board asd F. I think is your left hand there
- 3:40Speaker 3: you go? Then g right inside of that?
- 3:42Speaker 1: H nice? Oh boy j K yep L yeah, and
- 3:48Speaker 1: good job and well done last week. Hold on, yeah,
- 3:51Speaker 1: colon and I have one of those. You have one
- 3:54Speaker 1: of those? You have a normal colon. I have a
- 3:57Speaker 1: colon right.
- 4:02Speaker 6: By the way.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Just me correct this because I don't want a bunch
- 4:04Speaker 1: of emails. Missus Sordan was our band teacher.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Angry.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Missus Wilson was our type right because and I remember that. Yeah,
- 4:14Speaker 1: I know, so sorry, stop with the hate mail. I
- 4:17Speaker 1: know I know all of Brighton's listening. But Missus Wilson,
- 4:24Speaker 1: I know that because she's the only person that ever
- 4:26Speaker 1: gave me a detention. I was like late to her
- 4:30Speaker 1: class because that was my chance to walk the girlfriend
- 4:35Speaker 1: you know, to her class, and so I always would
- 4:38Speaker 1: take that and then I would usually get there in time.
- 4:41Speaker 1: But three times a year, you better believe I was
- 4:43Speaker 1: a little late.
- 4:44Speaker 6: Okay, you know little here and there.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, And I guess it was worth it.
- 4:49Speaker 1: But she didn't slap me with the detention like the
- 4:51Speaker 1: most well bathed GD in the history of Brighton, Illinois.
- 4:54Speaker 1: And missus Wilson is slapping my hands. She sounds like
- 4:57Speaker 1: she sucks being four seconds late, three different ties.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Also, because you only can type eighty letters a minute.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I think it's because she wanted me jealous, jealous of
- 5:09Speaker 1: Amanda coin Schoffler. She was jealous of her, Yes, Cochoffler, Yeah, wow,
- 5:15Speaker 1: the problem going for her? Freddy she was, yeah, Freddy
- 5:21Speaker 1: cochas Berger, coch Scherger, cocus Burger and it was actually
- 5:26Speaker 1: spelled with a P, and yet we always called it
- 5:29Speaker 1: cocus Burger, but I believe it was cocus Perger.
- 5:32Speaker 2: That's ridiculous, that's not I guess.
- 5:34Speaker 1: If you don't have a real name, you don't correct
- 5:36Speaker 1: the other. One's actually spelled Cokeers Perger. What k O
- 5:42Speaker 1: c h e R s p e r g e r.
- 5:47Speaker 2: That is an abomination.
- 5:48Speaker 1: But we called them the Cochusburgers.
- 5:51Speaker 6: But it was probably wouldn't even be in there.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Perger is probably what it was pronounced. Yeah, yeah, sure,
- 5:57Speaker 1: And you still think I'm making this up?
- 6:00Speaker 4: Yesterday the full Burger, Yeah, fully fully burger, perfiction books.
- 6:04Speaker 3: You could have made up cocus Berger that you call
- 6:06Speaker 3: itch Berger.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Why would I make up that crappy of a name.
- 6:10Speaker 2: I mean, I show when I'm like, that's the name
- 6:13Speaker 2: you came up?
- 6:14Speaker 1: Somebody made it up generations ago. Yeah, well why but
- 6:17Speaker 1: not to write a book about Like if you go
- 6:20Speaker 1: watch The Invention of Christmas and watch how Charles Dickens
- 6:24Speaker 1: couldn't write Christmas Carol until he got the name of
- 6:30Speaker 1: the villain exactly what he wanted it to be. Yeah. Yeah,
- 6:35Speaker 1: So he sat there and he toiled, and he had
- 6:37Speaker 1: a soft idea and until he came up with the
- 6:39Speaker 1: name Ebenezer Scrooge. It didn't take off. And then he
- 6:43Speaker 1: was like, now I got it. Now I can see him,
- 6:46Speaker 1: now I know him, Now I know his personality. Now
- 6:48Speaker 1: I can write the book funny List yesterday? Oh you should.
- 6:52Speaker 1: It's really good, It's very good. And so why would
- 6:55Speaker 1: I make up such crappy Cocusburger.
- 6:58Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 7:00Speaker 1: We might play another round of that this week. It's
- 7:02Speaker 1: come up twice now, But uh, I never realized how strange.
- 7:05Speaker 1: The people's names were that I grew up there, very strange,
- 7:08Speaker 1: and I guess they are like the strangest. Like Bucky
- 7:11Speaker 1: and Ashley are telling me Cochsberger sounds made up it. Well,
- 7:15Speaker 1: it's not. It's actually cokys Perger.
- 7:19Speaker 4: Yeah, you sound a way to make it worse, all right.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Uh well, uh it went from hump Day to Cocas
- 7:29Speaker 1: Perker's uh back to hump Day. Uh it is the
- 7:32Speaker 1: Hawk's Colts. Everything's been about Phillip Rivers so far this week,
- 7:35Speaker 1: and understandably so. I mean that's just a sensational story.
- 7:39Speaker 1: But this Indianapolis Colts steam Bucky was falling apart before
- 7:43Speaker 1: Daniel Jones got hurt. I mean, they just started this
- 7:47Speaker 1: season like wildfire. Halfway through the year, they were right
- 7:51Speaker 1: there with the best record in the National Football League.
- 7:53Speaker 1: They were leading the NFL and points scored. Uh Daniel Jones,
- 7:58Speaker 1: I mean, uh, we talked for a couple of years
- 8:02Speaker 1: and Hugh really emphasized how that guy's in the worst
- 8:05Speaker 1: quarterback situation in the NFL and has been since he
- 8:08Speaker 1: got into the league. He's actually better than he looks.
- 8:11Speaker 1: And he gets to Indianapolis, he gets with Shane Steichen.
- 8:15Speaker 1: He gets around Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman and Tyler Warren,
- 8:19Speaker 1: and sure enough, the Indianapolis Colts were just flying high.
- 8:22Speaker 1: But they not one in a while. They are struggling.
- 8:25Speaker 1: They're a third place team, I mean seven and one start.
- 8:28Speaker 1: They're at eight and five right now, a third place team.
- 8:31Speaker 1: And that decline had started rapidly long before Daniel Jones
- 8:36Speaker 1: Torre's Achilles.
- 8:36Speaker 3: This Sunday, Yeah, I mean they lost, I mean the
- 8:40Speaker 3: loss to Pittsburgh and then they beat Atlanta barely in overtime.
- 8:45Speaker 3: I remember watching that game, watching that overtime game and thinking, boy,
- 8:48Speaker 3: that didn't look like a team that was should be
- 8:51Speaker 3: eight and two right now. That's when I think the
- 8:53Speaker 3: conversations were, are they legit? Because they were right there,
- 8:57Speaker 3: they were top of the heat in the American League,
- 9:00Speaker 3: and then they the American League.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Yeah, they're right there, the Royal right there, yep, right there,
- 9:06Speaker 1: the Yankees. They might beat the Yankees. They they might
- 9:08Speaker 1: be the AFC.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Yeah, and yet then they they lose one to Kansas City,
- 9:13Speaker 3: Houston and Jacksonville. So those are kind of acceptable. Even
- 9:17Speaker 3: though the last last week after Daniel Jones goes down.
- 9:21Speaker 3: It was not even a contest. I mean, Jacksonville absolutely
- 9:23Speaker 3: rolled them. I almost took that game in factor fiction
- 9:27Speaker 3: because apparently, yeah good, it's something. It's like seventeen straight
- 9:33Speaker 3: times that they haven't won in Jacksonville, so it was
- 9:36Speaker 3: like I almost went with that. But that that aside,
- 9:39Speaker 3: they've kind of played some tough teams. I mean, Kansas
- 9:43Speaker 3: City at any point in time can go out and
- 9:45Speaker 3: beat anybody, I feel like, and Houston's just now kind
- 9:47Speaker 3: of getting right in. Jacksonville's right up there as well
- 9:50Speaker 3: as one of the better teams in the AFC. I
- 9:52Speaker 3: don't know how, but they are so to me, it's
- 9:54Speaker 3: like I wouldn't sleep on them when they're healthy. I
- 9:57Speaker 3: think there's some legitimacy to them being a set one team,
- 10:00Speaker 3: even though they've started to skid.
- 10:03Speaker 6: Basically, since I don't know Halloween well, I.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Would say two reactions to that. Number One, I mean,
- 10:07Speaker 1: you do have to face good teams in the league,
- 10:10Speaker 1: so if you can't beat them, then you're not nearly
- 10:11Speaker 1: as good as what your record might have indicated. So yeah,
- 10:16Speaker 1: maybe the competition is ramped up, but maybe you were
- 10:19Speaker 1: taking advantage of the soft competition. Earlier in the season,
- 10:22Speaker 1: and that was misleading to people that were putting them
- 10:25Speaker 1: at the top of their rankings list. The second thing
- 10:27Speaker 1: I would say is, I don't know if there's any
- 10:28Speaker 1: getting around this. I mean, they started the season offensively,
- 10:32Speaker 1: thirty three points, twenty nine points, forty one points they
- 10:35Speaker 1: had twenty against the Rams, forty thirty one, thirty eight,
- 10:38Speaker 1: thirty eight getting to seven and one. Those are some
- 10:41Speaker 1: gaudy numbers that they're putting up. And ever since that time,
- 10:44Speaker 1: twenty points thirty one against the Falcons twenty sixteen, nineteen,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and that's with Daniel Jones until halfway through a game
- 10:52Speaker 1: that the Jaguars were beating the pants off of them.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Yeah, they only had like three points or something when
- 10:56Speaker 2: you went out, didn't they? Sometimes?
- 10:57Speaker 1: I think so? Yeah, and so offense. The league adjusted,
- 11:03Speaker 1: The league figured it out, and I'll give credit to
- 11:05Speaker 1: the talking head since we like to bash them so much.
- 11:08Speaker 1: It was week after a week of Jonathan Taylor's the
- 11:11Speaker 1: MVP of the league, because the Colts would be nowhere
- 11:13Speaker 1: without them, And it took about half the season before
- 11:16Speaker 1: NFL defensive coordinators seemed to figure out Hey as good
- 11:21Speaker 1: as Daniel Jones looks. However, much better he looks than
- 11:25Speaker 1: what he looked at as a giant. If we stop
- 11:28Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor and make him beat us, we think that
- 11:32Speaker 1: we can mortalize this Colts offense because it can't be
- 11:38Speaker 1: as good as what it's showing thus far. And since
- 11:40Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor started to be taken away, and look, he's
- 11:43Speaker 1: still good. He's still getting his seventy five eighty yards
- 11:45Speaker 1: a game, but he was getting one hundred and thirty
- 11:47Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty yards a game in the first
- 11:50Speaker 1: half of the season. As soon as defenses took started
- 11:53Speaker 1: taking him away or at least minimizing the damage that
- 11:56Speaker 1: he could do, the Colts real colors started to show.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And yeah they are. I think they're not a bad team,
- 12:06Speaker 1: or at least they weren't at the start of this
- 12:08Speaker 1: past Sunday. But I think that it was a mirage
- 12:12Speaker 1: how good they were playing in the first half of
- 12:14Speaker 1: the season.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't think that they were great. I mean,
- 12:16Speaker 3: I watched in week two. They ended up beating Denver,
- 12:19Speaker 3: but it was that kind of fluky They missed a
- 12:21Speaker 3: field goal, but then there was a flag and so
- 12:24Speaker 3: then they got to kick it again.
- 12:26Speaker 6: And won had a little walk off win. I'm with you.
- 12:29Speaker 3: I mean, the one team that maybe is good that
- 12:31Speaker 3: they is the Chargers that they beat. And yet it
- 12:34Speaker 3: was shortly after that that the yeos kind of fell off.
- 12:37Speaker 3: I think that there's something too that team goes through
- 12:41Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, and yet there was times that the opponent
- 12:45Speaker 3: would be like, okay, this play, we can't go. We
- 12:48Speaker 3: can't let Jonathan Taylor do this anymore. They would put
- 12:50Speaker 3: their foot down for that moment in time, and Daniel
- 12:53Speaker 3: Jones rose to the occasion and made the play once
- 12:56Speaker 3: the teams came out and said, we're just not going
- 12:59Speaker 3: to let Jonathan Tay Taylor beat us period. Right, He's
- 13:02Speaker 3: still gonna get his You can't stop him, but you
- 13:04Speaker 3: can contain him.
- 13:05Speaker 1: And since then, thank you, Dan Patrick.
- 13:09Speaker 3: But it does apply to this. Yeah, yeah, well you're welcome.
- 13:11Speaker 3: I remember hearing that quite a few times, so I
- 13:14Speaker 3: thought i'd use it. I just think that there's a
- 13:18Speaker 3: there's something Daniel Jones has looked good, and yet Daniel
- 13:22Speaker 3: Jones doesn't necessarily he doesn't seem like the type to
- 13:25Speaker 3: me that just is like Josh Allen can just flat
- 13:28Speaker 3: out take over a game. Right him himself. He can
- 13:31Speaker 3: go win you the game. I don't feel like that's
- 13:33Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, even though after you know, Hughes broke him
- 13:36Speaker 3: down and said, in a different situation, I think this
- 13:38Speaker 3: guy could be better than what we saw is. I
- 13:41Speaker 3: think he's better. I don't think he's Patrick Mahomes or
- 13:44Speaker 3: Daniel or you know, or you know, Josh Allen at
- 13:47Speaker 3: this point in time. And so he's still going to
- 13:50Speaker 3: be probably better. He still would have been more of
- 13:52Speaker 3: a scary proposition than you know, Riley Leonard or Philip Rivers.
- 13:57Speaker 1: I think, well, I mean Jonathan Taylor's value the game.
- 14:01Speaker 1: He say he's had five games, six games with ninety
- 14:05Speaker 1: yards or more. He had one hundred and sixty five
- 14:06Speaker 1: against Denver. How did you let that happen?
- 14:09Speaker 5: By?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 14:09Speaker 5: Right?
- 14:10Speaker 1: One oh two against Tennessee, won twenty three against the Arizona,
- 14:14Speaker 1: won fifty three against Tennessee, ninety four against the Chargers,
- 14:17Speaker 1: and two hundred and forty four against the Falcons. Guess
- 14:20Speaker 1: what they won all of those? They won six of them.
- 14:23Speaker 1: So when these ninety yards or more, the Colts are undefeated,
- 14:27Speaker 1: and when he's below that marker, you know, which is
- 14:32Speaker 1: what teams decided to do well. Now you've lost five
- 14:36Speaker 1: games with when you do contain, don't stop that contain
- 14:42Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. So as you get ready to face them
- 14:44Speaker 1: on Sunday, and who knows who's going to play quarterback,
- 14:48Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, he'll be between twenty two and
- 14:50Speaker 1: forty five years of age. Whoever plays quarterback. I mean,
- 14:57Speaker 1: I think the game plan before was the the word
- 15:00Speaker 1: is out stop Jonathan Taylor. You beat the Colts, now,
- 15:03Speaker 1: good lord, put all twelve in the box, you know.
- 15:07Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the Seahawks run defense with Mike
- 15:10Speaker 1: McDonald versus a one man offense and Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, Colts,
- 15:18Speaker 1: nobody better be running in Indianapolis to bet the money
- 15:21Speaker 1: line this Sunday. Put it that.
- 15:22Speaker 4: Way, yeah, and they and they haven't used him very
- 15:24Speaker 4: much as a receiving threat either. For speaking of Jonathan Taylor,
- 15:27Speaker 4: I mean I was looking at the last three games.
- 15:29Speaker 4: He's had zero yards receiving thirty six and eight. So
- 15:34Speaker 4: I mean he's not necessarily, you know, coming at you
- 15:37Speaker 4: that way. So if you can just stop him from running.
- 15:39Speaker 4: They're not using him very often in the passing game either,
- 15:44Speaker 4: even though he is a threat after the catch up.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's they have to figure out ways
- 15:49Speaker 3: to get the ball in his hands and try to
- 15:50Speaker 3: do it in space, because you're not going to just
- 15:52Speaker 3: be able to hand it off and have him run
- 15:54Speaker 3: inside the tackles, not against Seattle and whoever they have
- 15:57Speaker 3: back there.
- 15:58Speaker 6: That's where another reason why.
- 16:00Speaker 3: The whole philip Rivers thing, like the idea of if
- 16:04Speaker 3: they're just stacking the box, how how comfortable can you
- 16:07Speaker 3: feel about Brett Ripkin going out there and making changes
- 16:11Speaker 3: when all of a sudden he thinks he sees the
- 16:14Speaker 3: most confusing defense is trying to that they have this play,
- 16:18Speaker 3: the handoff to the running back, they have it covered.
- 16:22Speaker 3: I don't feel comfortable with him making that adjustment. Whereas
- 16:25Speaker 3: somebody that's been played for six decades and you know,
- 16:29Speaker 3: five years ago, I would feel more comfortable that he
- 16:31Speaker 3: might be able to diagnose something and check out of
- 16:33Speaker 3: that play to a little RPO or something.
- 16:36Speaker 6: I don't know, man, I.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Just had one of those like moments, those little let's
- 16:43Speaker 1: go back in time. Yeah, how far back are we going?
- 16:47Speaker 1: They're twenty twenty? Okay, this is Chuck with Chuck and
- 16:51Speaker 1: Buck with Ashley Ryan and I'm the draft is coming up.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Happy drafts everybody, and the Jonathan Taylor is a guy
- 16:58Speaker 1: I really like for the Seahawks take with the twenty
- 17:00Speaker 1: seventh pick in the draft. We're back to really oh
- 17:06Speaker 1: you remember that? Remember that? Yeah, we took Jordan Brooks.
- 17:10Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor would have been a better pick. I haven't
- 17:12Speaker 1: been a nice pick for yees. Yeah, been a good pick.
- 17:15Speaker 1: He went forty first.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Would have been decent.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, barely if you were on the naughty list.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Better than Jordan Brooks as an example. Alligator mouth, Yeah,
- 17:23Speaker 1: I alligator mouth open to Jonathan Taylor for sure. All Right,
- 17:27Speaker 1: coming on next, Al Konski is going to be with us.
- 17:30Speaker 1: What and the hell has happened to our hockey team?
- 17:33Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M.
- 17:49Speaker 7: All right, Chuck pal Bucking, Jacobson, Ashley Ryan with you
- 17:52Speaker 7: on this hump day, joining us now on the program
- 17:55Speaker 7: to talk some hockey, that old ice hockey.
- 17:59Speaker 1: It is uh, our friend Al Kaniski, color analyst for
- 18:01Speaker 1: your Seattle krack and struggling Seattle crack. And right now
- 18:04Speaker 1: six straight losses, Al, what gives yeah?
- 18:08Speaker 5: Bit of a rough patch lately for the Kracking and
- 18:11Speaker 5: they're trying to dig their way out of it, but
- 18:12Speaker 5: the schedule is not offering them any easy games as
- 18:16Speaker 5: of late. And tonight they've got the LA Kings in town,
- 18:19Speaker 5: and you know you're gonna see a two teams that
- 18:21Speaker 5: play a very similar game. It's almost like playing yourself
- 18:24Speaker 5: in the mirror that LA plays a very defensive, structured
- 18:27Speaker 5: game two point four to eight goals against average excuse me,
- 18:32Speaker 5: goals four average, but under three goals against. So I
- 18:35Speaker 5: expect it to be a low scoring game if the
- 18:37Speaker 5: Cracking can stay out of the penalty box. If they can't,
- 18:40Speaker 5: it could go sideways with you.
- 18:43Speaker 3: I hear you on the idea of how they look
- 18:46Speaker 3: similar and yet they're right now kind of heading in
- 18:49Speaker 3: two different directions at least if I mean, they're not
- 18:51Speaker 3: on some six game winning streak, like a six game
- 18:53Speaker 3: losing streak, but they've started to score the last couple
- 18:56Speaker 3: of games that they've had out there, and so what
- 18:59Speaker 3: is it going to take. Is it just staying out
- 19:01Speaker 3: of the box, or what is it going to take
- 19:03Speaker 3: to kind of give us the boost offensively to keep
- 19:05Speaker 3: up if they do end up putting you know, two
- 19:08Speaker 3: or three goals in the net.
- 19:10Speaker 5: Well, I think it's gonna be a couple of things,
- 19:12Speaker 5: and it sounds pretty straightforward. But the Crack can have
- 19:15Speaker 5: to find some success on their power play. They've got
- 19:18Speaker 5: to stay on the box on their own and not
- 19:20Speaker 5: give LA any power play opportunities or at least limit
- 19:22Speaker 5: them like they did last game, and then obviously kill
- 19:25Speaker 5: them off. But if they can get one on their
- 19:27Speaker 5: power play, limit the power plays for LA, and then
- 19:31Speaker 5: play a better version of that defensive structure, then they'll
- 19:35Speaker 5: win the game if they If they don't, and if
- 19:38Speaker 5: they go into the penalty box too many times, I
- 19:40Speaker 5: think LA will hurt them on their power play and
- 19:43Speaker 5: it will just become a who can score more goals
- 19:45Speaker 5: And I don't pick the Crack and want to get
- 19:47Speaker 5: into that game.
- 19:48Speaker 1: I don't know how similar the psychology of hockey versus baseball,
- 19:52Speaker 1: but a baseball player can be as a slump. They
- 19:55Speaker 1: can convince themselves they're not going to get out of
- 19:57Speaker 1: a slump, and then all of a sudden, they get
- 19:58Speaker 1: a blue pit in their next did bat, they're off
- 20:01Speaker 1: and running. So does that happen in hockey? Like you
- 20:04Speaker 1: get a power play goal, it was your only goal
- 20:07Speaker 1: against the Wild, but at least you got one finally
- 20:10Speaker 1: first time in a long time. Can that just psychologically
- 20:14Speaker 1: unlock things or is there something wrong with our power play?
- 20:19Speaker 6: Well?
- 20:20Speaker 5: I think checks psychologically maybe, But I also think momentum
- 20:23Speaker 5: is a powerful, powerful thing in sports that you know,
- 20:26Speaker 5: you get on a bit of a winning streak, that's momentum.
- 20:30Speaker 5: You get on a personal goalscoring streak, that's momentum. I
- 20:33Speaker 5: think last game, the krack and going perfect on their
- 20:36Speaker 5: penalty kill, even though their penalty kills at the bottom
- 20:38Speaker 5: of the league right now, that could be momentum. Come
- 20:40Speaker 5: into tonight and I think they've made some adjustments in
- 20:43Speaker 5: that particular area that the penalty kill that they'll continue
- 20:46Speaker 5: to use today and tonight in tonight's game and try
- 20:50Speaker 5: and have the same outcome. Obviously, state out of the
- 20:52Speaker 5: box works as well, but my expectations are going to
- 20:55Speaker 5: have to kill off a couple of penalties, and if
- 20:57Speaker 5: they use the same structure they did last game, I
- 20:59Speaker 5: think I can generate momentum. So I think it's psychological,
- 21:03Speaker 5: but I think it's also momentum that can drive a
- 21:05Speaker 5: team forward into winning streets.
- 21:08Speaker 6: You know, when Lane Lambert was hired.
- 21:10Speaker 3: We joked around because he's got the you know, the
- 21:12Speaker 3: widow's peak, like he's got the hair of Dracula to
- 21:16Speaker 3: speak right. Yeah, I don't have hair. I most certainly
- 21:19Speaker 3: don't have a widow's peak. I wish, But he just
- 21:23Speaker 3: seems like a dude that has that kind of I
- 21:26Speaker 3: can get kind of gruff with my team if needed.
- 21:29Speaker 6: Is have you heard anything?
- 21:31Speaker 3: Have you been standing outside the locker room and heard
- 21:34Speaker 3: him lay into him a little bit about going out
- 21:36Speaker 3: there and you know, being tougher and stopping this skid.
- 21:40Speaker 5: I have not heard any garbage cans thrown around the
- 21:43Speaker 5: red I have not heard it. I have not heard
- 21:45Speaker 5: anything break. But I will tell you one thing about
- 21:48Speaker 5: Lane Lambert is he's consistent. He's going to be intense
- 21:52Speaker 5: on the ice, He's going to be intense when he
- 21:54Speaker 5: talks with you. He's going to be intense in the
- 21:55Speaker 5: locker room. And I think he expects that intensity to
- 21:59Speaker 5: transfer over to you game and intensity usually means prepping properly,
- 22:04Speaker 5: playing every shift properly, you know, taking accountability when you
- 22:07Speaker 5: do something wrong. And I think he pushes that hard.
- 22:10Speaker 5: And yeah, he barks in practice, you know, I see
- 22:14Speaker 5: him bark a lot more than I see him laugh.
- 22:16Speaker 5: But I also think that he's a professional and that's
- 22:19Speaker 5: what he's pushing his guys to be is intense hockey players.
- 22:23Speaker 5: And you know, it's certainly shown up with the best
- 22:27Speaker 5: start in franchise history.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Jordan everly did say something though afterwards. Was it time
- 22:32Speaker 1: for that? Was it long overdue? Was he premature with
- 22:35Speaker 1: it as role of captain? Did Jordan Eberley pick the
- 22:39Speaker 1: right time to kind of throw it out there that
- 22:42Speaker 1: we got to be better?
- 22:44Speaker 2: No?
- 22:44Speaker 5: I think he actually absolutely picked the right time. Players
- 22:46Speaker 5: hate it when you when you go on these sumps
- 22:48Speaker 5: like this, especially after a great start, and I think
- 22:51Speaker 5: it was absolutely the right time to, you know, call
- 22:55Speaker 5: out not a player, but call out his team included himself,
- 22:58Speaker 5: to say we need more, We need more from everybody,
- 23:01Speaker 5: and look at your own game individually. What could I
- 23:04Speaker 5: do better? What could I do more of? How could
- 23:07Speaker 5: I prepare better? How can I push harder? You know?
- 23:09Speaker 5: How can I defend better? And I think that that's
- 23:12Speaker 5: what a captain does, is it's a message to the.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Entire team of we need more.
- 23:17Speaker 5: And I look forward to seeing how that message transfers
- 23:20Speaker 5: into tonight's game.
- 23:22Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously need to score more, and they probably just
- 23:26Speaker 3: need to try getting some more pucks on net.
- 23:28Speaker 1: I mean, there's times more let's try to win more.
- 23:30Speaker 3: Well, okay, so let's score more and then hopefully that
- 23:33Speaker 3: turns into win more. But in order to do both
- 23:36Speaker 3: those things, they need to shoot more. Is there anyone
- 23:39Speaker 3: in particular that you're watching that you think is just
- 23:41Speaker 3: being too passive when there's opportunities in the offensive end.
- 23:46Speaker 5: I think it's different in every game.
- 23:48Speaker 1: Buck.
- 23:48Speaker 5: I think that you know from from our comfy, warm,
- 23:52Speaker 5: two hundred foot spot above the rink, it's easy to
- 23:55Speaker 5: see that for us. I don't know if the players
- 23:58Speaker 5: always see it. I love seam pass The cracking have
- 24:01Speaker 5: been burned on seam passes in a few of these losses.
- 24:06Speaker 5: There's a time and a place for that. You often
- 24:07Speaker 5: see them the power play. But I think that when
- 24:10Speaker 5: you've got the puck anywhere in the slot area from
- 24:12Speaker 5: the top of the circles, in your very first, second,
- 24:15Speaker 5: and third thought should be shooting the puck because although
- 24:19Speaker 5: you might not score, let's let's be honest, most of
- 24:21Speaker 5: the time you don't. At the NHL, you might not score,
- 24:25Speaker 5: you're creating a scoring opportunity, not just for yourself, but
- 24:28Speaker 5: for the guys that are going to the net. Those
- 24:30Speaker 5: guys that are going to the net have their sticks out,
- 24:32Speaker 5: they're looking for a deflection, they're looking for a rebound,
- 24:34Speaker 5: they're looking for a tap. And and if you put
- 24:37Speaker 5: the puck on net and a goalie gives up a
- 24:39Speaker 5: bad rebound, then it does turn into a scoring opportunity
- 24:42Speaker 5: or a goal.
- 24:43Speaker 1: So I want to.
- 24:44Speaker 5: See guys thinking shot all the time, and I think
- 24:46Speaker 5: that they've been emphasizing that a lot more over the
- 24:49Speaker 5: last few games. Listen, so the last six have been losses,
- 24:53Speaker 5: but the last couple of been one goal losses. The
- 24:56Speaker 5: cracking have been in these games. I think it's just
- 24:58Speaker 5: tweaking a couple of things to get them over the
- 25:02Speaker 5: top here tonight.
- 25:03Speaker 1: All right, Well, tell us about the King's pretty good
- 25:05Speaker 1: team that we're facing. You've already alluded to that. Give
- 25:08Speaker 1: me something specific about what the Kraken got to take
- 25:11Speaker 1: away from them this evening.
- 25:13Speaker 5: Well, they're a team that's you know, like I said,
- 25:16Speaker 5: they don't give up a lot of goals. They've got
- 25:18Speaker 5: great goals ending in Darcy, Kemper Anton Forsbergs are backed up.
- 25:22Speaker 5: He's great as well. Hasn't played quite as much about
- 25:25Speaker 5: a third of the games. But they're a team that's
- 25:28Speaker 5: not going to give you a lot of scoring opportunities.
- 25:30Speaker 5: So see above, you got to shoot the puck.
- 25:32Speaker 1: I think that.
- 25:33Speaker 5: You know, they're a team that has a great power play.
- 25:36Speaker 5: It's in the eighty percent mark, so if you give
- 25:39Speaker 5: them too many power play opportunities, they're going to hurt you.
- 25:42Speaker 5: So it's a pretty simple game plan. If I'm drying
- 25:44Speaker 5: it up, stay out of the box, put put everything
- 25:47Speaker 5: on that, and play your defensive structure that you've been
- 25:51Speaker 5: playing so well for the first twenty eight games.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Nita way out. I don't know if you and ever
- 25:55Speaker 1: tried to shake it up a little bit, you know,
- 25:57Speaker 1: do your hair differently or a mustache. Yeah, maybe you
- 26:01Speaker 1: don't wear fancy shoes. I don't know if you tried
- 26:04Speaker 1: anything to try to get it going.
- 26:05Speaker 5: I mean, we tried to put our headsets on backwards,
- 26:08Speaker 5: but engineer Terry Ryan didn't like that. So you know,
- 26:11Speaker 5: we're we'd wear each other's shoes, but we both wear
- 26:14Speaker 5: a size fifteen. That's not gonna work either. We'll come
- 26:17Speaker 5: up with something for tonight.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Engineers don't care about winning, do they? They don't care
- 26:20Speaker 1: about Yeah.
- 26:24Speaker 3: So Skinny, now he's not. Just tell him you don't
- 26:26Speaker 3: worry about it, Skinny Terry.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Of all the sports though he might care about winning,
- 26:30Speaker 1: though it might be hockey. Knowing Terry, he might it. Yeah,
- 26:34Speaker 1: all right, well, get us a win tonight. Al you
- 26:38Speaker 1: got it boys? All right? Alciniski our color analyst for
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- 27:19Speaker 2: for your beer. Yeah, you have to pick it up.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Never have never drank beer with a straw.
- 27:25Speaker 2: It's never too late to start, Chuck, I would.
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- 27:30Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ r F M HI
- 27:42Speaker 1: final segment here of Chuck and Buck in the morning.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM. We
- 27:48Speaker 1: go round the room for one last thing, Bucky, what.
- 27:50Speaker 6: Do you got?
- 27:51Speaker 1: Well?
- 27:51Speaker 3: I did not know this, but because I mean, there
- 27:54Speaker 3: was a large chunk of my life from fifteen maybe
- 27:59Speaker 3: I don't know when it's exactly started, all the way
- 28:01Speaker 3: definitely through my thirties where Baseball America was a publication
- 28:06Speaker 3: that I've ran a lot. Yeah, I did not know that.
- 28:09Speaker 3: They're just a bunch of ball washers over there.
- 28:12Speaker 1: Yep, yeah yeah.
- 28:15Speaker 3: Jerry Depoto got was announced as a twenty twenty five
- 28:18Speaker 3: Baseball America's General Manager of the Year.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Ball washers. Oh man, what are they sucking up? Yeah?
- 28:26Speaker 3: Well they're probably getting something for it, Yeah, probably getting
- 28:29Speaker 3: something from him.
- 28:30Speaker 2: I think they probably worked for the maritors.
- 28:33Speaker 3: Wants a job, Yeah, you just want a job or
- 28:37Speaker 3: you you.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Just saw Jerry over for coffee?
- 28:40Speaker 3: Yeah, Gerard the Poto if that really is your name?
- 28:45Speaker 6: Yeah, you didn't learn it.
- 28:46Speaker 3: There is ball washing because they Baseball America wants a
- 28:50Speaker 3: big dumper shirt or something.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't believe that anybody would stoop that little.
- 28:55Speaker 1: I thought they were reputable.
- 28:56Speaker 3: I thought that they were hard hitting journalistic newsletter.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Now I know they washed the balls.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Washers by a way to live.
- 29:08Speaker 6: Couldn't help.
- 29:09Speaker 3: But I couldn't help but make fun of those that
- 29:11Speaker 3: called us ball washers because Jerry Depoto.
- 29:14Speaker 8: Because I liked some of his moves, not all of them,
- 29:18Speaker 8: So we were apparently washing his undercarriage. So when I
- 29:22Speaker 8: saw Baseball America, yeah, well now Baseball America is taking
- 29:26Speaker 8: it over, so we don't have to. Now that the
- 29:31Speaker 8: rest of the world realizes he maybe isn't the worst
- 29:34Speaker 8: at his job.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Uh, he's actually very good at his job. There are
- 29:39Speaker 1: some certainly holes in his game, but I think even
- 29:42Speaker 1: those have gotten plugged in here the last couple of years.
- 29:45Speaker 1: I think he's finally looked in the mirror and seen
- 29:46Speaker 1: the light on a couple of the things that I
- 29:49Speaker 1: didn't I angrily raged about for a number of years. Uh,
- 29:54Speaker 1: and it kind of feels like those things got fixed
- 29:57Speaker 1: during this past season. I wouldn't sa off season. We
- 30:00Speaker 1: had almost I almost used the s worth. We had
- 30:03Speaker 1: a crappy offseason last year, but certainly love the moves
- 30:09Speaker 1: in season. And then all of the hard work that
- 30:12Speaker 1: everybody bashed for so long. You started to see all
- 30:16Speaker 1: the good work that had gone into building this roster,
- 30:19Speaker 1: building this organization. And there's a lot more talent on
- 30:22Speaker 1: the way as well. So I think that they actually
- 30:25Speaker 1: do a very good, too great job in the front office.
- 30:29Speaker 1: There you go again, I mean, there you go again.
- 30:32Speaker 1: If you want to commend America Washer's ball.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Yeah there, jeez, you're going on and on about how
- 30:40Speaker 3: he's pretty good at his job.
- 30:42Speaker 1: Ball washer Baseball America.
- 30:46Speaker 6: Oh goodness, I'm glad I don't have to do it anymore.
- 30:48Speaker 2: Finally you got someone to take over for it.
- 30:50Speaker 1: I didn't get anything free out of it, and probably
- 30:53Speaker 1: will just haunt us forever, probably will ever be over there.
- 30:56Speaker 1: I'm not letting it go Ashally.
- 30:59Speaker 4: What you want last thing, well, you guys will be
- 31:01Speaker 4: really excited to hear this. According to new research published
- 31:06Speaker 4: in the Tuesday Journal of Sleep Advances, getting less than
- 31:11Speaker 4: seven hours of sleep a night is a strong predictor
- 31:14Speaker 4: of a shorter life expectancy. Researchers found that sleep was
- 31:18Speaker 4: more effective in predicting a shorter life expectancy than any
- 31:21Speaker 4: factor except smoky.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Oh, so we're two and a half is closed?
- 31:29Speaker 2: Yes, two and.
- 31:30Speaker 4: A half hours a night like seven, but broken up
- 31:33Speaker 4: into two segments, one in at night and one in
- 31:36Speaker 4: the middle of the day.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Seven hours a night or seven hours a week.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Yeah, seven hours, getting less than seven hours a week
- 31:43Speaker 4: and you're host.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, that's not news. I think we all
- 31:47Speaker 3: kind of understood it and feel it. But yeah, feel
- 31:52Speaker 3: like you're dying. Like you're dying because you are, yeah,
- 31:55Speaker 3: at a faster pace than those that get normal sleep up.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Okay, how many years have you done it for?
- 32:02Speaker 4: Well, I worked at warm and was up. Our show
- 32:05Speaker 4: started at five before I came here, so that was
- 32:08Speaker 4: three years.
- 32:08Speaker 2: And then I've been here now four and a half.
- 32:10Speaker 1: So yeah, seven and hours twenty five of it. Yeah.
- 32:12Speaker 4: No, I don't want to, Yeah, sorry, I got to.
- 32:16Speaker 4: I don't want to be on the morning show for
- 32:18Speaker 4: twenty five years.
- 32:19Speaker 3: I was talking to Arden's husband last night and he's like, oh,
- 32:23Speaker 3: you that you got the morning show tomorrow?
- 32:25Speaker 1: Is it? The Chappelle Show?
- 32:26Speaker 3: He's like, you got the morning show and he goes
- 32:29Speaker 3: and I said yeah, and he goes all the pros
- 32:31Speaker 3: and cons. Getting up that early's got to be the worst,
- 32:34Speaker 3: right And I said yeah, like by a mile, and
- 32:37Speaker 3: he goes, like five times worse than anything else anybody
- 32:40Speaker 3: at the station.
- 32:40Speaker 1: I said, yeah, but luckily we.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Get compensated for it.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Yep, show up earlier.
- 32:50Speaker 6: Actually kill yourself to do the job.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Definitely. Well, the good news, the silver lining is is
- 32:56Speaker 1: that we never get the days off for games because
- 32:59Speaker 1: we never get pre.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Yeah, we never have the extra days off that everybody
- 33:03Speaker 2: else has.
- 33:04Speaker 3: Hey, guys, you get Christmas off this year, enjoy it.
- 33:09Speaker 2: I'm going to enjoy the crap out of that, honestly.
- 33:11Speaker 1: Like when it's when I can get into a rhythm
- 33:14Speaker 1: of the week, I really don't mind it at all.
- 33:16Speaker 1: But you we just you just walk such a fine line.
- 33:19Speaker 1: And if I get out of that rhythm, because I
- 33:22Speaker 1: will do sleep, get up work, go home, sleep, get
- 33:28Speaker 1: up work starts the process. Yeah, and I don't even
- 33:31Speaker 1: go I'm not even tired till like ten thirty eleven o'clock.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:35Speaker 1: So if I can stay in that rhythm, I'm fine.
- 33:37Speaker 1: But it's so easy to get out of the rhythm.
- 33:40Speaker 1: That's the killer. That's the killer. So when they call
- 33:44Speaker 1: for like meetings at one o'clock, which they don't do
- 33:47Speaker 1: anymore around here.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Yeah, don't we have one coming up?
- 33:50Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, next week? All right, anyway, we don't
- 33:57Speaker 1: have our job enough. Hey, getting up early though, that's.
- 34:00Speaker 2: The part I hate, just getting up early. It's just hard.
- 34:02Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow at six am. Coming up next,
- 34:04Speaker 1: Mark James and Christopher Kidd on KJR.
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