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Ian Furness 10/22 H1: We're not done yet, Ross Tucker and Ian watched the NBA... · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star-Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKR-FM sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light, cold
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  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. News from the Seahawks, just in the
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  Speaker 2: last little while. You probably heard Greg and Jess talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. They have officially activated Zach Charbonnet from the
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  Speaker 2: PUP list. He is on the active roster. More than
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  Speaker 2: likely will play on Sunday. The corresponding move... Tied in
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Arroyo. Second round pick last year. Placed on IR
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  Speaker 2: due to a shoulder injury. ESPN reporting he's expected to
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  Speaker 2: miss the rest of the season with that shoulder injury.
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  Speaker 2: He had one catch this season. Criticize the... I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get into it right now. Cracking back
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  Speaker 2: in action at Climate Pledge Arena tonight against the Utah Mammoth.
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  Speaker 2: Puck drop at 7 because the game is on ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: Pre-game at 6.30 right here on 93.3 KJR FM. Because
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  Speaker 2: of that... Thursday night football. Thursday night football. New England
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  Speaker 2: and Chicago. 5.15 will be over on the 9.50 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: side tonight. Let's see. What else we got? J.J. Watt
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  Speaker 2: will replace Tony Romo as a full-time NFL game analyst
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  Speaker 2: for CBS Sports. I guess that's bad news for Troy
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  Speaker 2: Aikman if he's thinking about maybe going to CBS, right?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe. Also probably bad news for Tony Romo.
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  Speaker 2: Really bad news for Tony Romo. Eagles running back Saquon
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  Speaker 2: Barkley returned to practice today in line to play on
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  Speaker 2: Monday against the Cowboys. He missed the last two games.
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  Speaker 2: with a hamstring injury. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go on a Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 2: the show. And a little different today. We pointed this
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  Speaker 2: out in crosstalk. I'll let you know again. Funston's going
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  Speaker 2: to be with us at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Not at 2 like normal, 1 p.m. today, Brandon Funston
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  Speaker 2: joins us. So, if you have questions for Funston, 49451,
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  Speaker 2: or we'll take some calls at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Palozzolo, kind enough to be flexible, will move his
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  Speaker 2: segment from 1 o'clock hour to 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Funston at 1 on the radio station. So get your
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  Speaker 2: questions in for Fantasy Football. Ash, what do you think,
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  Speaker 2: who do you think of our regulars will be alert
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go at 1 o'clock for phones?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to say who I don't think will
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  Speaker 3: be alert and ready to go at 1 o'clock. Mike,
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  Speaker 3: I love you, but I don't think you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be calling in first at 1 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess Mike is listed as questionable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ricky will be on top of it.
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  Speaker 2: Ricky should be on top of it. Rob should be
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  Speaker 2: on top of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's probably still winning.
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  Speaker 2: That's a stretch.
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  Speaker 3: And Derek, I think Derek and Sultan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Stephen Sultan and Derek and Sultan. Those guys will
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  Speaker 2: get one of the two Sultans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that might open up opportunities for others to get
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  Speaker 2: in on the phones starting at 1 o'clock today with Funston.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker is going to join us, Westwood One, CBS Television.
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  Speaker 2: He'll join us coming up at 1220. He's got Colts
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  Speaker 2: Vikings on Sunday on TV, and he's got the Westwood
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  Speaker 2: One broadcast over on 950 tonight, Pats and Bears. How
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  Speaker 2: about the Bears real quick? That's a nice schedule. You have,
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  Speaker 2: you know who they play next?
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Your Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: On a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So they get three extra days that the Seahawks don't get.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a nice little bonus to be the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 2: So that's coming up today. Pats and Bears, 515 over
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  Speaker 2: on the 950 on the AM dial. Okay, God, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. You're done. I'm done with Ken Walker. Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll get into it with Ross. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into it with Steve.
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  Speaker 3: But you're just over the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We just have this massive problem in this town. You
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  Speaker 2: can't do anything about it. Really, if you're being fair,
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  Speaker 2: you can't judge it after six games.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Do we want him here?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Would he be better?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: 100% yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The question is, how would they be using him? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it'd be different. I don't know. I mean, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have drafted Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And they wouldn't have Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 3: Right. But I think they'd still be trying to find
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  Speaker 3: someone to be the person that could take some of
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  Speaker 3: the carries off him because clearly they've said it out loud.
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  Speaker 3: They were very clear and concerned about keeping him healthy
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  Speaker 3: all year.
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson and Helani still would have probably had touches.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: At this point... A year ago, Charbonnet had one 100-yard
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  Speaker 2: rushing game. It was 105. He had one more in December.
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  Speaker 2: It was exactly 100. It came with a 55-yard run
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 4: Midst of that.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't use him, guys, and they didn't utilize him.
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  Speaker 3: And is it frustrating to see how well he's doing
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  Speaker 3: being used? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely it is, especially when you can't run what you
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  Speaker 2: want to run because your running backs are as slow
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  Speaker 2: as you and me combined, Ashley.
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  Speaker 3: That's not fast. I was a swimmer for a reason.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, guys, he's gone. He's gone. He's not coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Buyer's remorse, seller's remorse, whatever the hell we want to
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  Speaker 2: call it, I'm just exhausted with the walkers. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: exhausted with it.
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  Speaker 4: Understandable.
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  Speaker 2: He's not coming back. And you'd have to be a
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  Speaker 2: fool to say you wouldn't still like him here, but
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  Speaker 2: then you have to ask again, how would they use him?
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  Speaker 2: How would they be using him? Maybe they'd be utilizing
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  Speaker 2: him more. They could have utilized somebody else as a
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  Speaker 2: first-round pick. Maybe they would have My guess is they
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  Speaker 2: probably would have traded that pick, you know, the 32nd.
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  Speaker 2: They probably would have moved it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they would have been buying or
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  Speaker 3: picking up a running back.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I think the only reason they used it
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  Speaker 2: is because Price was there and they needed the running back.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a thought that there was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: significant drop-off. If you listen to any of our draft shows,
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  Speaker 2: pre-draft shows last spring, there was a pretty significant drop-off
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  Speaker 2: from the two Notre Dame backs to everybody else. Like
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  Speaker 2: a huge drop-off because we spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: talking about the draft. And talking about running backs in
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  Speaker 2: the draft with guys like Cosell and Rang and Palazzolo.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm guessing they probably would have moved 32. Hell,
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  Speaker 2: they might have. My other part of the buyer's remorse
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  Speaker 2: is if they would have moved 32, the pick, and
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  Speaker 2: then they would have kept Walker, they'd probably be a
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  Speaker 2: better team, not just because of Walker and what he
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  Speaker 2: could be doing, but because they could have got something
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  Speaker 2: out of their draft class, which they're getting nothing out
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  Speaker 2: of their draft class.
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  Speaker 4: Nada.
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  Speaker 2: They have zero, zilch, nothing out of their draft class
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  Speaker 2: so far this season. If you look at this roster,
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  Speaker 2: it's effectively what you had last year. You didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: You subtracted. You didn't add. You subtracted Moffay. You subtracted Walker.
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  Speaker 2: You subtracted Wheatreek. You subtracted Kobe Bryant. And most of
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  Speaker 2: those guys you could make up for. you're getting nothing
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  Speaker 2: out of your draft class. Now, there's bad luck involved.
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  Speaker 2: The Bud Clark injury, bad luck. He'd be playing.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And would he have been a difference maker in a
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  Speaker 2: loss or two when Okada was out?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: But you're getting nothing out of that draft. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that to me is a bigger story. And again, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to make it an indictment on John Schneider,
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  Speaker 2: but the reality is you're not getting anything out of
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  Speaker 2: that class.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and compared to what your class before was, or several,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's very disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: Very disappointing. I mean, Offensively, let me just double-check this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so offensively, you've got a handful of 20
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  Speaker 2: snaps per game for Bo Stevens at right guard, and
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  Speaker 2: that hasn't looked great. Jadarian Price has had 33 touches
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  Speaker 2: this season. 33 touches. Again, not his fault he got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: It happens. You know, as far as... So that's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of, you know, you're another high pick. Julie Neal
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  Speaker 2: is hurt. He's out. You just get nothing out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Walker part, to get to three and three, yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 2: Walker's part of the equation. But you've, and I'm not even,
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  Speaker 2: this is, I want to be very clear. This is
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  Speaker 2: not criticism of Schneider. It's just really bad luck with
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  Speaker 2: injuries for your young guys in the draft class. A couple,
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  Speaker 2: like really three of them. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if Neal's going to be any good ever. We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Bud Clark for sure would have been a big time
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  Speaker 2: player for them and a big part of what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously Jadarney Price. As far as, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then you lose Walker. Well, you knew Charbonnet wasn't
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  Speaker 2: coming back, wasn't going to be back at the start
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  Speaker 2: of the season. That was the thing that I guess,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm Walker fatigue, but I'm going to wrap it
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  Speaker 2: up with this. The one thing that really kind of
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  Speaker 2: made no sense to me with it was you knew
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  Speaker 2: Charbonnet was going to be out. So you were going
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  Speaker 2: to either have to find a free agent, which you
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  Speaker 2: weren't going to do because you're not going to pay
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  Speaker 2: a guy. I mean, I don't count Wilson because he's
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  Speaker 2: on a veteran's minimum. Yeah. Or you were going to
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  Speaker 2: do what you did and draft a guy. But I
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  Speaker 2: thought when Charbonnet got hurt in the playoffs, we all
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  Speaker 2: knew Ken Walker's contract was up. Like, okay, they're bringing
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  Speaker 2: him back. They've got to bring him back, even though
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  Speaker 2: they're very different running backs. Very, very different in terms
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  Speaker 2: of how they operate. But let's just get to this game,
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. Walker ain't coming back. Buyer's remorse. Frustration.
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  Speaker 2: Yelling and screaming. Just not doing us any good. Not
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  Speaker 2: doing me any good. My headspace is messed up with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done with it. I'm done with Walker. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about it with Ross Tucker. And I'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: it with Steve Palazzolo. And then I'm done with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, then you're done with it.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll talk about it with Cosell tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, right?
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  Speaker 3: Then we're going to be done with it. Then we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about it probably on Monday. After the
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  Speaker 3: game Sunday night. Because it's going to be one way
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  Speaker 3: or the other. It's going to be like, okay, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't let him do anything. There's no issue. Or he's
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  Speaker 3: going to run all over us.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any way he can just cruise in for
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  Speaker 2: a second? smooth 78 yards, maybe one touchdown, but really
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  Speaker 2: not be a huge factor? Is there any way that
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  Speaker 2: can happen?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 3: Again, Seahawks have not allowed a 100-yard rusher since October 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Ross Tucker, again, he's on the
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  Speaker 2: call for tonight's game. That's kind of a, this is
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  Speaker 2: going to make you feel dirty, Seahawks fans. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you something right now. You're rooting for,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's only October.
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  Speaker 4: 22nd, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're rooting for the Patriots tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and I think for more reasons than one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're rooting for the Patriots tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We want the NFC North to start losing some games.
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 3: And we also don't want the Bears coming in off
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  Speaker 3: a loss to face us and be angry.
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  Speaker 4: No. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: We want them. We want them to lose. We want
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  Speaker 2: Chicago to lose.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. We do want them to lose. We want
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  Speaker 3: them to lose. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. I then reversed it in
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  Speaker 3: my head.
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  Speaker 2: You want to see four and three next to their name.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: And then just beat them again and make them angrier?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then make them four and four.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, because you need conference wins for tiebreakers. You
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  Speaker 2: need head-to-head wins for tiebreakers because... Decent chance it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be one of, it's going to be two or
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  Speaker 2: three NFC North teams are going to be battling for
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  Speaker 2: a wildcard spot. And yes, I'm talking wildcard already.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the reality of where we are. Prove it different.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like reality. Can I live in my little
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  Speaker 3: optimistic fantasy?
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  Speaker 2: You watch reality shows. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: How are the Mormon wives doing?
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  Speaker 3: They're great. Still really rich and still really mean to
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  Speaker 3: each other. But that's the kind of reality I like.
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  Speaker 2: I gotcha. I gotcha. All right. Ross Tucker joins us next.
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  Speaker 2: Westwood one tonight, which we can hear on 950 on
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing terrific, Ian. How about yourself? Good.
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  Speaker 2: Ready for a little football starting tonight. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: your game tonight in a second. But we got issues
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  Speaker 2: here in Seattle, Ross. We got issues, a 3-3 Seahawks team.
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  Speaker 2: Two losses last week. I say two because in the
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  Speaker 2: course of five days it happened. You had a Thursday
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  Speaker 2: game and a Sunday game. But looking back, Sam Donaldson, interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: The offense can't run the football. Ross, what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with our team out here, the defending champs?
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  Speaker 5: Well, a lot, and it's primarily on the offensive side
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  Speaker 5: of the ball. I think, let's start with this, and
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  Speaker 5: you guys have probably been talking about it all week.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the same offense, and Darnold's not the same
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  Speaker 5: quarterback when they can't run it. I saw where Charbonnet
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  Speaker 5: just got activated. That should certainly help, because....
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, did he throw 50 sometimes last Thursday night?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe at least 40 something? I mean, that is not
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  Speaker 6: what you're looking for. That's just not really what he is,
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  Speaker 6: you know? And I think he probably knows it. And
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  Speaker 6: I think Brian Flory knows it.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm very confident that that's not what Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 5: wants at all. So you get Charbonnet back. You figure
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  Speaker 5: out a way to stay committed to the run game.
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  Speaker 5: And you put Darnold in more advantageous passing situations when
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  Speaker 5: he is throwing the ball, whether that's first and ten
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  Speaker 5: play action. What you don't want is you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to be in a lot of obvious passing downs. That's
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  Speaker 5: just not his strength. In fairness, to have gone against
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  Speaker 5: some really good defenses the last couple weeks. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the Broncos can play. The Niners can play. We realize that.
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  Speaker 5: Chiefs defense is pretty darn good as well. Just feels
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  Speaker 5: like a really, really big game on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, he did throw 51 passes in
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  Speaker 2: that game. He also has had a 46-pass game this
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  Speaker 2: year as well, has Darnold. In today's NFL, does anybody
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  Speaker 2: want to throw it more than 30, like low 30s
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  Speaker 2: per game? We live in a world, obviously, of college football,
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  Speaker 2: and we see high rates in college football. The clock
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  Speaker 2: stops a little bit more. It's a different game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if there's any NFL teams, Ross, that want
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  Speaker 2: to throw it that many times.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they want to.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: I think there are certain guys that, if they do,
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: can still have a lot of success. And that's Josh
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Allen and Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes, etc. I think
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: a lot of the other quarterbacks, the more they throw,
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: the worse it probably is.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, Bo Nix is certainly in that category.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of them are in that category,
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: which is the ironic thing because.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: The Bills run it very well, and the Chiefs run
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: it really, really well with Kenneth Walker, and I'm sure
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: we'll get to. So you have to sort of appreciate
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: the irony that these teams that probably could have their
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: quarterback throwing it a lot are running it very effectively
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: so they don't have to.
• 15:37
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• 15:49
  Speaker 3: 425-255-0500.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, before we get to Walker, yes, there is a...
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet got activated today off the PUP list. Elijah Arroyo,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: the second-year tight end, is on injured reserve, probably done
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: for the season. Ross, as an offensive lineman, you know
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: this better than anybody. Not all running backs are created
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the same, and especially depending on what you want to run.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Seattle wants to run that wide zone, right? And they
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: don't have guys right now with Helani and Wilson that
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: can run that. And I think it might be safe
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: to say that's really probably not Zach Charbonnet's strength either,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: but he is a better back than the other two guys.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: So what are realistic expectations for Seahawks fans when they
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: see Charbonnet take the field, especially considering the scheme and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: everything else?
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a good question because, you know, first game back,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: He's been out a while. I wouldn't expect, you know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: a miracle. I wouldn't expect, you know, some huge breakout game.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: But even if he can just make a couple plays
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: more than the other guys were, just make a couple
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: more guys miss or get a few extra yards. You know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: I see this with Philadelphia. There's a big difference between
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: when they had Saquon Barkley running and the guys they've
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: had running the last couple weeks.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying Charbonnet is safe on Barkley. He's not.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: But he certainly is better than Wilson Helani and should
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: be able to make, as long as he's 100% or
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: close to it, should be able to make some plays
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: that those guys are probably just not really able to make.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Not all running backs are created the same. A lot
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: of them look good, right? When you're running the cone
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: drill at the combine and you're running the 40 and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: You're testing and all that, but I always think there's
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: a speed element, right, Ross? There's also just the vision
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and the understanding and the feel. All that stuff goes
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: in that running back position, right?
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: It's a lot.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the one thing that would also concern
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: me a little bit about Charbonnet is part of it
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: is just the timing.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll have fresh legs. Obviously, he's been.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: and they wouldn't have activated him unless they really thought,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: you know, he was ready to go and help them.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: So I think I feel pretty good about from a
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: health standpoint, but man, he has not really seen the
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: speed that he's going to see Sunday night and how
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: fast everything sort of unfolds in front of him.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: And so it would be, you know, he's going to
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: have that balance.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Between a little bit of rustiness with that part of
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: it but then also the fresh legs.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: And the burst.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: He's going to have one run where you're like, wow.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Did you see his burst?
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Then another run where he runs right into the back
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: of an offensive lineman.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker, he has had four games this season over
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: 100 yards, and when I say over, not even flirting
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: with close to 100. 128-177, a 70-yard game when they
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: handled Miami rather easily. 117-173 for context. Ross, a year
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: ago in Seattle, he had two 100-yard games all year.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: One of them came early. The other one came very late.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: One was 100 yards on the button. The other was
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: 105 with a 55-yard run in there. I bring that
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: up for context because, as you can imagine... NFL fans,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans included, not always the most rational. Sometimes we
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: get a little edgy, overreact, and fired up, and they
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: see all those numbers. I'd also point out, they never
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: used Walker like that here in Seattle. They just never
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: used him like that. But here he comes, rolling in.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: What kind of differences has he made for the Kansas
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: City Chiefs?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: It's been unbelievable.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Honestly, I was on some other station today, and I
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: was talking about this, and I just can't remember.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: another situation.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Where a guy has had this much of an impact
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: on two franchises in the first six weeks of a season.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: You know, the Seahawks look like, and part of it's who,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: you know, the fact that price is hurt and Charbonnet
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: wasn't available, but still you look at the contrast between
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks running game so far this year and then
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: the Chiefs running game so far this year. I mean,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: you're talking about a lot of people think he's a
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: very reasonable MVP candidate to this point. He is the
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: single biggest reason why the Chiefs are 5-0. Conversely, on
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: the other side, you're talking about the Seahawks really struggling
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: to run it. And, I mean, the guy was just
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: a super MVP for the Seahawks, as everybody listening knows.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: And I thought it was reasonable for them to move
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: on for the reasons why they did.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: But, wow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I'm confident NBC might talk about this a little bit
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: on Sunday night.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: At nauseam, Ross. It's going to drive Seahawks fans that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: aren't at the game nuts watching it, but that's the reality.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: So now you go, all right, you've got the number
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: one total defense in the NFL, the number one total
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: offense in the NFL, head-to-head. We saw that in a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl years ago with Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: It worked out well for the Legion of Boom and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks team. Let's talk about what we're going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: see on Sunday. You've watched that. I mean, listen, we
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: spent some time, consternation that is going on in this
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: town over the Seahawks offense. Seahawks defense still doing its
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: job and unfortunately, all too often been faced with short fields,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: with turnovers and things like that. But what do you see?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Does that still look like the same Seahawks defense you
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: saw last year?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, very good.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if they're quite what they
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: were during the postseason run, but they're still very good.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: And I think Mike McDonald's pretty darn good at realizing
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: what makes the other team tick. And right now, what
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: makes them tick is Kenneth Walker. So I would imagine
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: he will have a pretty good plan And certainly, Byron
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Murphy and Leonard Williams and those guys, I would imagine
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: they will be up for the challenge on Sunday night.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: They have a really good feel for his truly unique
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: running style. There just aren't many people that run like
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: him in terms of going, let's be honest, places where
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: the ball is not supposed to go. And I think
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: that's sort of his burst and his ability or uh,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: unique decision-making let's call it, um, is part of what
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: makes him special, but can also really get him in trouble.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I'll, uh, Barry Sanders, if you're ready for it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: So there's certainly the potential for there to be a
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: lot of negative yardage runs as well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Uh, we'll move on to the rest of the NFL
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in a second. One final thing. You, uh, you do
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: this every week. You talk to coaches every week.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: This week you're talking to probably four or five, six,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: depending on coordinators, coaches with the two games you're doing. Um,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: What separates Andy Reid from everybody? What's his brilliance? What
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: is it about Andy?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple things.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: One I would say is that the players genuinely really
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: like him and really like playing for him. And the
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: craziest thing, if you go during all his time in
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Philly and all his time in Kansas City, I can't
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: remember a single player saying bad things about him. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: these are guys that he cut or traded or they
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: wouldn't give a new contract to.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: It really is remarkable.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, he just has a really, really good way
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: about him that the guys really appreciate. It resonates with them,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and it's a big reason why he's had the success
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: that he's had.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: We've got Thursday night football tonight here in Seattle. We're
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: rooting hard for the Patriots. Words that we never thought
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: we'd say before, but we're rooting hard for the Patriots
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: because it's looking more and more with the 49ers doing
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, that wildcard berth might be in order
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: for the defending champs here. Because it's kind of the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: NFC West and the NFC North as far as the wildcard.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I think we can count out probably the NFC East,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and it looks like Carolina's going to walk away with
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the South when it's all said and done. What are
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: we looking at tonight? You got Drake May, who was early,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: awful early, better lately. Caleb Williams is back. Pretty good
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: matchup for you tonight.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be a great game. It really
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: should be.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: The issue, I think, for the Patriots is they've already
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: ruled out both starting offensive guards. So they basically have
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: now lost their top four guards this year. So they'll
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: be starting guards five and six on a short week.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: That is... usually not a.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Formula for success at all. So I think that's certainly
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: something to keep an eye on and something.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be keeping an eye on. And I
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: really think.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: That's going to end up being an issue for them.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: You know, the bears are playing better defensively. Williams looked
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: awesome against Atlanta in his first game back. Patriots have
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: been really good. Patriots defense has been outstanding. This would
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: be a super impressive win. If they were able to
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: get a first Bears home game since Mike Ditka passed,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: it is the single most expensive ticket of the season
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: so far.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Should be an epic, epic game.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Are they doing some stuff for Coach Ditka then, I assume?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And the emotions that would probably bring about will be massive,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I would think, in that building.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I would imagine they are. I have not heard as
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: of yet.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Usually when I get to the stadium, they'll tell me
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: about a moment of silence or whatever they're going to do,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: but I'd be stunned if they're not doing something. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: know they're giving away a mustache to everybody that comes in.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. That'd be a cool atmosphere. Minnesota in that
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: same NFC North. You've got the Minnesota Vikings coming up
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: this Sunday as well against the Colts. You've looked enough
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: at Minnesota so far.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: 5-0.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Is that a legit 5-0?
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it is.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, obviously their offense is still struggling,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: but part of that is they really haven't had all
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: their guys together at the same time.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I think it's less than a quarter.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: That they've had Addison, Hawkinson, you know, Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, Jones.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: All at the same time.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: And it sounds like based on the practice report yesterday
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: that they're going to have all those guys together this week,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: which is gigantic and could go a long, long way
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: towards them having success offensively.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: And then the defense is just outrageous. I mean, the defense,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: it's really, really cool too.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Cause it's not like it's a bunch of first round
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: picks or even highly paid guys. It's really just a
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: collection of guys that the D coordinator, Brian Flores really
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: believes in.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: And because of that, they've had a lot of success.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Should be a good one for both games you got
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Before I let you go, let's talk about
• 27:01
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• 27:03
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• 27:05
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• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, it's six days a week, Monday
• 27:12
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• 27:17
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• 27:19
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• 27:21
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• 27:24
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• 27:49
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• 27:50
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• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I was just going to ask you, I've only been
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to Soldier, I guess I've been to Soldier Field twice
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to cover games, and I don't remember, I'll say this,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: it doesn't stick out in any way, so I'm going
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to assume it's average maybe, but we'll get an update
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: from you next week on that. If I believe right,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Minnesota was good. And, by the way, Greg Cosell is
• 28:07
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• 28:10
  Speaker 2: We love Greg. I don't know, Ross, if he tells
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: you this. All he tells us is, quote, I can
• 28:14
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• 28:16
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• 28:19
  Speaker 4: I love it. His favorite line.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So we'll look forward to talking to you next week.
• 28:22
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• 28:25
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• 28:27
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• 28:29
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• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Sounds great. Thank you so much, Ian.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker joining us here as he does every... I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: going to get my days mixed up, Ash. I don't
• 28:41
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• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Thursday.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it's Thursday Night Football. I should probably know that.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I thought it was Friday earlier.
• 28:46
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• 28:49
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• 28:53
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• 28:56
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• 28:58
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• 29:00
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• 29:02
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• 29:03
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• 29:15
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• 29:16
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• 29:17
  Speaker 2: So when we say open up the phone lines, that
• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:20
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• 29:38
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• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, even earlier this week than we started it last week.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, that's right. Because, yeah, we got to get
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: back to like just a normal.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm really a fan of starting the
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: weekend unofficially earlier.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It's good. For those of us that really can't start
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the unofficial start of the weekend earlier, it's not as good. But, yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: it's good.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I get that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, I'm with you. I mean, it's kind of
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: let's get this thing going. So we'll have Steve coming
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: up in a second or Funson coming up in a second. So,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I want to.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: So two things NBA related. One, I should point out,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not really watching the games. I monitored a little
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: bit last night.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Just flipping around. And I noticed something, and I'll get
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: to the Sonics here in a second. It's a little news,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: little thought on that in a second. These were the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: point spreads or the final, the margin of victory yesterday. 12, 25, 43, 18, 22, 41, 25.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You notice anything there?
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: 12, 25, 43, 18, 22, 41, 25. Where's the competition?
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not surprised. This is the one league. I
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: guess in a sense baseball, but you're still trying in baseball.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Like you don't want to give up 18 runs and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: have Luis Rivas coming in pitch. Like you don't want
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: that to happen, right? Like that's not, I mean, it's
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: a necessity sometimes, but 162 games, it just, it happens.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And baseball is a little bit different. Football, it's rare
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: you see in the NFL a blowout like to the
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: same proportion, right? Hockey, Kraken got beat eight to three
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the other night and might not have been that close,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: but they were still playing hard at the end. Like
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: there were still guys, gloves and face, like we're still,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: we're going to compete. Lane talked about it on Monday,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the fact that he had to leave Joey in there.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: They weren't going to play Grubauer again. He played two
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: straight games, and they were going to bring him in
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: cold for a game that was probably out of hand,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: and Decord wore it and actually played well in the
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: final 20 minutes and still competed, building a culture. This
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: is the problem with this stupid league. There's too many
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: games like this. I flipped on the Blazer game because
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I wanted to see what an absolute disaster their broadcast
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: would be because they've cut back to epic proportions in
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the world of Tom Dundon. I'll give them credit, and
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not giving him credit, just some great pros down
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: there in Portland. I worked with a lot of them
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: when I was doing Blazer games on Comcast Sportsnet. Great people.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: They're making chicken salad out of something. It's still not
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: good at all, but it's not an NBA caliber television broadcast.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I watched 10 minutes of it, a little bit of
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the halftime to see how bad it was, and it
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: lived up to what I was expecting. Outside of the production,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: people work their butts off and do a lot with less.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: But that game was over at halftime. All these games,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: so many games were over at halftime. When it does
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: come back, be ready. This is the one sport that
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: gives you, and we're not even talking load management, it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: opening nights.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: The only thing I've actually heard about the games so
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: far is that somebody got mad at Luka.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lexenberg, the kid from Michigan, rookie from Michigan. Yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: he basically called him soft.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's probably smart to do early on.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: The Lakers won by, they were the 22-point spread that
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I mentioned.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Well, at least he got his.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And it was worse because it was 22, but they
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: outscored them 37-25 when like Brawny and company were playing
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. Oh, wow. That is bad.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: So it was ugly.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: It was ugly.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just noticed that. This is the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: one sport that just kind of there's a give up
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: factor like no other.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They give up at halftime.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of very frustrating things about the NBA.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: That's why I said as much as I'm like, I
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: just want the Sonics back to right the wrong. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: don't know if I actually, how I'll actually feel about
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: the NBA being back until it happens.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. Say that again.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I just want the Sonics back to right the wrong,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: but I don't know how I'm actually going to feel
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: about it when it actually comes back.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: How would you feel if it comes back a year
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: later than we thought in 2029?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, every year that passes, I just kind of
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: move further and further away from it. It's just that
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: thing that you think, you know what? I remember that
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: guy in high school. He was a really big jackass.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: And I just want him to get his. And then
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: finally karma comes up and does something that he deserved
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: for a long time. That will never go away. But
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: as far as my love for the NBA, I don't know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: And let me phrase this a little differently, too. What
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: would your reaction be if it's delayed one more year,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: at least? I mean, the same irritation I have all
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the time. I just don't believe that they're coming back.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like we keep getting used as a pawn.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: We keep getting used to further whatever agenda they have.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And they're going to continue to do it as long
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: as it's beneficial to them. Okay. I think that this
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: is a possibility, by the way.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I believe it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I think it's a possibility. I didn't think it was
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: until the last little while, but I believe now it's...
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: There's a possibility if it does come back, it might
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: not come back until.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: 2029, 2030.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And then who knows what they'll say next year or
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: what thing will get in the way or where they
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: want to go then.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem. Therein lies the problem.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Probably by 2930, will they have to do another TV
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: deal and then they'll have to work that out before
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: they can do expansion? I mean, I don't know. Yes.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Our situation is so complicated because of Vegas and the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: money involved in Vegas.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: And what has Vegas done to earn this? We've been
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: waiting since 2008.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they have an insatiable appetite for sports and entertainment,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: according to Adam Silver.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Well, they do have that.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: That was his quote the other day.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: But all they do is just sit there and like it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Nobody else does.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: No, no one else.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No other market does.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: No one else.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: None whatsoever. That I I'm going to be curious on
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: that market period. I mean, the gold Knights for the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: first time, they're having a harder time selling tickets. The
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Raiders are able to sell tickets because everybody goes there
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: from other teams. How are the A's going to do
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: in that stadium, in that new stadium?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, probably not great.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Insatiable appetite.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: When I say, when I say they complicate our, they
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: complicate our situation because a, they haven't decided who's going
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to get the bid yet. B, uh, the bid's going
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to be so high because people, the people all involved
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: with the Vegas bid are all having ties to Vegas,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: not Seattle to Vegas. and living their businesses there, what
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: have you. So, anyway, I brought that up. I just
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: wanted to bring that up. Now we'll go back.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Thanks, you got me all pissed off.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Now we'll go back to our regularly scheduled program, and
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: that would be ignoring the NBA. All right. Are they open?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: They're open.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: 206-286-9595.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: 206-286-9595.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: You're going to get your phone calls in for our guy,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Brandon Funston. Coming up next.