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Chuck in the Morning 9/9 H1: It's Gameday! Mariners Morning After & No Cliche Keys to Victory! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Something completely different this this is chuck in the morning
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  Speaker 1: why do you people are beyond let's go let's get
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  Speaker 1: the game on Oh, happy opening day to you all.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome in to the radio show here
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  Speaker 1: on this hump day, but one of the most special
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  Speaker 1: hump days of them all. Hump day! It is time
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  Speaker 1: for the start of the National Football League season. It
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  Speaker 1: is time for the world champions of the great sport
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  Speaker 1: of football to begin defense of their title. It is
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  Speaker 1: time to get you ready for a blue Wednesday. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you all. It is great to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us for the next four hours. You are not
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  Speaker 1: going to believe what we have prepared for you here
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  Speaker 1: today on this opening night of the National Football League season.
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  Speaker 1: One of the craziest sports days we're going to experience
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  Speaker 1: for some time going forward. And we welcome you to
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  Speaker 1: the extravaganza. We get to kick it off from studio.
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  Speaker 1: Although most of our broadcast day will be spent from
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy's on First, right in the midst of it all.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan is here as well.
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  Speaker 1: Did you blue Wednesday it up at all? Yeah! I
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  Speaker 1: got blue on. Yeah, good. Very good, very good. I
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  Speaker 1: remember when I first moved here and Jackson felt, now granted,
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  Speaker 1: he was pie-faced and childish.
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  Speaker 2: Is he different?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, now he's got a beard over his pipe. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, childish, but in a mature married sense.
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  Speaker 2: Right, a mature child. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, he was, you know, he and I worked
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  Speaker 1: together at first, and he really, I mean, but he
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  Speaker 1: was like a puppy on the carpet. He went over everything.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, you better make sure that the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Friday, I mean, it is a big deal. It
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest deal. That there is here in town.
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  Speaker 1: And it was. Those Fridays, like, I mean, wow, everybody
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  Speaker 1: in town is ready for the football game.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend. But now that Jackson's like a bearded, matured, professional,
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  Speaker 1: yet over-emotional broadcaster. Uh-huh. Great description.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, it doesn't have quite the same effect, but
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, I get to work today. I go to
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  Speaker 1: the restroom. I come out of the restroom, a mostly
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  Speaker 1: empty building here, of course, at the hours that we work.
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  Speaker 1: And I walk out and here comes the traffic lady
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway and she is decked out, ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Got the 12 jersey on as well. And she is
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  Speaker 1: fired up, gave me a woohoo. down the hallway and
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with my backside. I can promise
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  Speaker 1: you that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a bummer, though.
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  Speaker 1: I know. It hurts. But she's ready. Ashley's ready. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: You're ready. Here we go. Maybe Blue Friday becomes a big,
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  Speaker 1: enormous thing again. I mean, it's not like it went away.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't like... pow it's just not pow in
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  Speaker 1: your face everybody in town's.
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  Speaker 4: Doing it anymore yeah they kind of i think it
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  Speaker 4: was really a big pete carroll thing uh-huh and so
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  Speaker 4: and it was the day before the day before and
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  Speaker 4: you had all the pete carroll sayings and then when
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  Speaker 4: pete left they haven't been like because pete was the
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  Speaker 4: one that's like it's blue friday let's go let's go
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  Speaker 4: and there was you know they had all the days
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  Speaker 4: the techno thursday all those things the team did and
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  Speaker 4: yeah so i think because since he's gone they haven't
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  Speaker 4: it's the seahawks haven't really embraced it so.
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  Speaker 1: We need to have a talk yeah we do we
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  Speaker 1: need to have a talk and and especially like uh
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  Speaker 1: And it is a weird week. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: had tacos on Monday this week, which is not allowed anymore. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: we did too.
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  Speaker 2: And then leftovers on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: So it worked out for us.
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  Speaker 1: And today we've got Blue Wednesday. And tomorrow we'll have
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback on a Thursday. Thursday morning quarterback. Life
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense right now. But what will make
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  Speaker 1: sense is if our Seattle Seahawks go out onto the
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  Speaker 1: field against the New England Patriots tonight and set the
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  Speaker 1: tone for the season. And that's what we are here
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  Speaker 1: for this morning, to set the tone for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of our broadcast day on this special, special Wednesday here
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  Speaker 1: on the radio show. And so let's fire this thing up.
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  Speaker 1: The start of the season, the start of our radio program.
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  Speaker 1: And we, of course, will start with the Seahawks and Look,
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  Speaker 1: it is prediction time right now, and I'm sort of
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  Speaker 1: in this boat where I kind of believe the storylines.
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  Speaker 1: I see them, I understand them, and I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: embrace and promote them that are going on right now
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  Speaker 1: in our NFC West division. And I'll just start with
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  Speaker 1: the two teams at the top. I think that there
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  Speaker 1: is space in this conversation for believing that, yes, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams are as good potentially, as their hype indicates. And
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  Speaker 1: there's also room in the conversation for, yes, and yet
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are still getting overlooked because people want to
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  Speaker 1: find the next champion. You spend enough season kind of
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  Speaker 1: poking holes in the reigning champion, and that's what's happened
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  Speaker 1: since the Super Bowl. I mean, that was happening before
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. It was not a great Super Bowl matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the Patriots weren't worthy of getting there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Sam Darnold was just carried by the
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  Speaker 1: defense because in the Super Bowl, our defense was so dominant,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't even really need an offense. That's true. And
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  Speaker 1: so all of those storylines have kind of colored the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yes, I do believe that the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 1: been under-discussed. I might guess that John Schneider and Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald love it They prefer it that way. And I
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  Speaker 1: do believe the Los Angeles Rams have earned the hype
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  Speaker 1: that they're getting. They were a team that was, if
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  Speaker 1: there were two great teams in the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, and only two, they were the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams. Those were the two
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  Speaker 1: best teams in the league a year ago. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you are already one of the best teams
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  Speaker 1: and you've got one of the best quarterbacks in the
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  Speaker 1: National Football League, and even though I think Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: should be on those top 10 lists that he was
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  Speaker 1: missing this offseason as a quarterback, it's around 10. It's
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  Speaker 1: 9 or 10. Matt Stafford's 2 or 3. Okay? So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they've got the quarterback, and then they went out like
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  Speaker 1: the Rams are known to do. They threw caution to
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  Speaker 1: the wind for their future. And they have added Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett and Trent McDuffie and have talked Aaron Donald back
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  Speaker 1: into playing for them this year. So, yeah, I believe
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  Speaker 1: the hype. I believe they're as good as what people
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  Speaker 1: are talking about. Maybe not undefeated. I don't think anybody's
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  Speaker 1: going to go undefeated in today's climate. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that that's what's going to happen. But I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that they are. I totally get it. Totally understand it.
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  Speaker 1: They should be made the favorite heading into this season.
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  Speaker 1: That said, I also believe the storyline, the narrative, that
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are being overlooked in this conversation, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: perfectly fine with it. Here's what the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: National Football League and its analysts are sleeping on. The
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks have been built in the John Schneider, Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald era for this season, not last season. They were
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  Speaker 1: built for this season to be a champion, and yet
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  Speaker 1: they've already got a ring. They already got a banner.
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  Speaker 1: They've already got that championship under their belt. So Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's never have to carry through his head coaching career,
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  Speaker 1: that monkey of, oh yeah, you're really good, but you've
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  Speaker 1: never won the big already done it. Yeah. Already done it.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold expectations. Hi, Sam Darnold now walks around. He,
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  Speaker 1: he reports to campus. Hugh Millen. So eloquently put it.
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  Speaker 1: He reports to camp for the first time as a
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  Speaker 1: Superbowl quarterback with really nothing left approved to any of
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  Speaker 1: his doubters.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And this team was designed three years ago. We believe
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  Speaker 1: we can be champions by 2026. Well, they're already champions
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  Speaker 1: heading into 2026. And I do suspect that they are
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  Speaker 1: going to be a better football team. Will they win
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl again? I mean, I don't know that.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's a long season and you have to get, you
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  Speaker 4: have to actually do a lot.
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  Speaker 1: The competition's great. I think the Philadelphia Eagles are going
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  Speaker 1: to be really good. I think the Detroit lions are
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  Speaker 1: going to have a bounce back and are going to
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  Speaker 1: be really good. And that's not even getting into what
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  Speaker 1: might happen in the AFC. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a battle to get to the super bowl and certainly
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  Speaker 1: to win the super bowl for a second year in
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  Speaker 1: a row. But what I think has not crept in
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  Speaker 1: to the Seahawks, unlike maybe it did, um, to the
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  Speaker 1: previous Seahawks championship team. And I don't think complacency was
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  Speaker 1: the problem the second year because they obviously got back
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  Speaker 1: to the Superbowl, but some infighting had already begun. Some,
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  Speaker 1: I deserve more of the pie conversations had begun. Well,
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  Speaker 1: with Mike McDonald's ship that he's captaining, I don't see,
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  Speaker 1: and we've even been featured on hard knocks. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been exposed. There doesn't seem to be anything on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon. that suggests that this team is not just
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  Speaker 1: as bound, not just as united as what they were
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, if not more so. And there doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be any complacency in the building either. So
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  Speaker 1: they are not the favorite. That's okay. But what everybody
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  Speaker 1: else doesn't understand is that this team's going to be
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  Speaker 1: better than they were a year ago. Again, might not
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  Speaker 1: win at all, The competition just to win the division
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  Speaker 1: is going to be obviously steeper than it was a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. But I'm just talking about from week to week.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to have the slow start where we're
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  Speaker 1: wondering how good of a team do we have after
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  Speaker 1: six games? It's not going to happen this year. That's
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  Speaker 1: what was happening last year.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Six games into the season. How good is this team really?
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  Speaker 1: You know, all those points they gave up to the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers and How did we lose that opener to the 49ers?
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  Speaker 1: Are the 49ers even that good? You know, those conversations,
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  Speaker 1: we were still trying to figure out just how good
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  Speaker 1: this team was. I don't even think here we thought
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  Speaker 1: that they were great. They were a Super Bowl team
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  Speaker 1: until a little bit after the midway point of the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen this year. I
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  Speaker 1: think there are a lot of young players who've got
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  Speaker 1: another level to reach. Byron Murphy has another level to reach.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has another level to reach. This offensive line
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  Speaker 1: played together for the first time a year ago in
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  Speaker 1: my entire broadcasting career, and I've interviewed them all, including
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame offensive linemen. And the conversation usually ends
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  Speaker 1: up with, what is the key to a great offensive line? Continuity. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have continuity. For the first time, a
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  Speaker 1: full season under their belt as an offensive line. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: what did Walter Jones tell us about he and Hutch's
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  Speaker 1: career together? We were good immediately, but we were special
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  Speaker 1: in our second year together. So we'll cross and Zabel,
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  Speaker 1: who I'm not putting in the Jones and Hutchinson category,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just discussing from the standpoint of improvement, a
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  Speaker 1: year together, an off-season program together. They're going to be
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  Speaker 1: better this year. The entire offensive line is going to
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  Speaker 1: be better. A.J. Barner is going to be a breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: player in the National Football League. This team might end
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  Speaker 1: up with the same record at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, but they're going to be a better football
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  Speaker 1: team than they were a year ago from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 1: And now, in the last three weeks of the season,
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  Speaker 1: where you faced the Rams twice, everything's going to get decided,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like, In those three games. And I will
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  Speaker 1: sign up for that. Let's go. Christmas Day, two.
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  Speaker 3: Games.
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  Speaker 1: Let's determine who gets home field advantage. Let's determine who
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  Speaker 1: wins the division championship. And let's see what happens then
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But this is going to be an
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  Speaker 1: exciting year. And I believe both brands of hype. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Rams are nearly every bit as good as
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  Speaker 1: what people are crowing about. And I think that the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are going to be better than they were a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. It's the reason the Rams made all those moves.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the Rams are absolutely doing all of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff in order to try and one-up the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: and win the division. And that's what they should be doing, right?
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to stay the same if you didn't win.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't want to stay the same even
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  Speaker 4: if you did win because you know everyone around you
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  Speaker 4: is changing and I was listening to somebody on my
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  Speaker 4: way and talking about how the Seahawks may have already
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  Speaker 4: lost the game before it started.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because of all the people they lost from the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl team. This was a literal conversation on national radio.
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  Speaker 1: Which morons? Was it our morons or their morons?
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  Speaker 2: It was the middle morons.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, why are you even listening to them?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, because I can't handle commercials. So whenever it's commercials,
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  Speaker 2: then I end up over there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't say that as a radio person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, because I listen to him enough all day long.
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  Speaker 4: So then in the morning, there's three options. And I
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  Speaker 4: like to hear who's being stupider each day.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of fun. But anyway, it was just, well,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have Kobe Bryant. And they don't have.
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  Speaker 4: Neither do the Bears, by the way. Which was my
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  Speaker 4: first thought. Even if we'd had him, he's hurt. They
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  Speaker 4: don't have Reek Woolen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I think that's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: He was more of a liability by the end of
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  Speaker 1: last season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't have Ken Walker. But those are things,
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  Speaker 2: and he was like, there's a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 1: There aren't any questions. And then, look, we saw that
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  Speaker 1: at Super Bowl Row last year, the ignorance on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it. I was a national guy,
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  Speaker 1: so I can say this. I mean, it's hard enough to, like,
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  Speaker 1: Have time in your day to follow the teams locally
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  Speaker 1: that you root for as a local host. To follow
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  Speaker 1: everybody nationally, it's even more of a challenge, obviously. And
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  Speaker 1: the good ones do it. And the bad ones don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you heard a bad one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just ignorance. Just like the ignorant statement that
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's Trent Dilfer and some of the other... I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even entertaining the ignorance that's out there about this
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  Speaker 1: football team. I'm talking about the legitimate challenge of winning
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and look how much the Rams did
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  Speaker 1: to improve. And yeah, the Seahawks are going to be
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  Speaker 1: really good, but is it all going to come together
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  Speaker 1: for them two years.
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  Speaker 5: In a row?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to engage with those who experiment
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  Speaker 1: with hogwash. I'm going to just, on the surface, there
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  Speaker 1: is obvious a Rams are exceptional. element this year that
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  Speaker 1: Vegas has played into and national people that actually have
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  Speaker 1: a clue are kicking the can about an undefeated team.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the Seahawks are great too, but they certainly
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  Speaker 1: aren't getting the hype that the Los Angeles Rams are getting.
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  Speaker 1: Those two storylines, I can buy them both, but I
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  Speaker 1: think they're both going to intersect on Christmas day and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to settle this thing. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: the Rams know that that they had to do everything
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  Speaker 1: they did this offseason to try to get ahead of
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  Speaker 1: not only a champion, but a champion that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be better this year than they were a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: No, and absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And we've had a lot of conversations about that, and
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  Speaker 4: I fully agree, and I'm excited to see what the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks have on the field today. And I'll be looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to watching the Rams play, too, because I do
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  Speaker 4: want both of these teams to be good so that
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  Speaker 4: we get that epic battle on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: Can you even imagine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can. It's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I can't. Why would you even suggest
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't? Come on now. Well, I've got something planned
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  Speaker 1: for you later on today.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I got two segments today where I get to be
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  Speaker 1: vintage Chuck. Uh-oh. I got Reckless at breakfast today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to map out for you what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then I have my annual tradition, my admittedly bold
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  Speaker 1: NFL preseason predictions. Boy, do I have a doozy for you.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. It's going to tickle you. It's going to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: tickle you in your privates.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: That's going to happen today. I'm not saying you. I'm
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: talking about everybody.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Everybody listening. Yeah. That wasn't like a direct thing. Okay.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: That was more of like just.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: In a general private.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Everybody out there sharing the same privates. Yes.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: That one. It will tickle.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: That one.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: rest of the show.
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• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Kickoff tonight at 520. You know that's not going to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: be on time.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Um.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: 12th man flag. Did we get an update? Is it
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: going to be Jody? I'd assume it's going to be Jody.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I think it makes the most sense, but we have
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: not gotten.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They kind of try to keep it a surprise.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Coastal has probably said too much actually
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to kind of ruin the surprise. So that's my expectation. Also,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Ty Okada is going to be out. That is official now.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So we are down a safety. We know that. And
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: we know D'Anthony Bell is on the roster and it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: going to play a prominent role tonight. We still don't
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: know about Eamon Worry. Still hasn't been declared out. I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's just so the Patriots kind of
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: have to prepare for him. I don't know. But we'll
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: get some updates coming up later on in the show.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Torrey Horton also listed as questionable. And the first depth
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: chart came out. George Helani is RB3 on the depth chart.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Wow, Wilson passed him.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's Price 1, Wilson 2. and Helani three
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: on the depth chart at running back right now. So
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen got his wish. Uh, Greg Bell's going to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: join us at seven Oh five today, of course, our
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Seahawks insider. So we'll get updates on all of those stories. Uh,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen will be with us today for a special
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: X's and O's at nine o'clock. Um, there's a reason
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: why we didn't have a round table this week with
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Greg and Hugh, even though we will for the rest
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of the season back on its normal slot on Thursdays,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: but because of the weird Wednesday start, um, I wanted
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to do a all hands in sort of morning to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get the broadcast day started. So we're going to hear
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: from Hugh at nine. We're going to hear from Greg
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: at seven Oh five and our round table today from
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: eight to nine will be the knuckleheads. Uh, Ian, Softie
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and Dick will be joining us here on the program
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: for an hour, so we'll get their thoughts. They're emotionally charged.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, no one's going to be emotionally charged today.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Analysis of this upcoming football season, so we'll do that
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: from 8 to 9. Also, Replicit Breakfast will be Seahawks-related,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and we will have No Cliché Keys to Victory at 645,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and we will also have admittedly bold NFL preseason predictions. So, yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: we got a lot. We got a lot planned for
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you today. On Thursday, 49ers Rams will play. Aaron Donald
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: didn't even make the trip. I guess he's chickened out.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: He just quit. Bummer.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: He got a little nervous.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got a little nervous about playing again.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Or they were like, hmm.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Wet himself on the tarmac, I guess.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Or they were like, we don't need you for this game.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: This 49ers team's beat up.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: They are beat up. And add another log to the fire.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Alfred Collins, their starting defensive tackle, is out for the season.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Not only is he not going to play Thursday, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he is out for the season. McCaffrey's had an injury
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: this week, so we don't know about that availability. So
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a lot going on in that Thursday game. What a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: pair of games to start the football season. College football,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Huskies will be taking on Utah State on Saturday. Cougs
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: will be in Manhattan, Kansas to take on the Wildcats.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, the biggie, Texas versus Ohio State
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: this Saturday. The college football poll, Michigan, despite their controversial
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Hail Mary victory over Western Michigan, the pollsters said, nah, nah,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you got exposed. You are out of the top 25.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So they dropped out of the polls. UW fell from
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: 17 to 19, but don't feel like you got picked
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: on because you didn't play that well, number one. Number two,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Oregon also fell because they didn't play very well from
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: two to six in the second polls of the year.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: The U.S. Open last night, I guess, one of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: greatest matches in the history of tennis. And yet it
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: didn't start till 11 p.m. Eastern time. I don't know
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: why you're doing this.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And who would agree to even play starting at 11?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Because it is in New York.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: No way. No idea how they could do this to themselves.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Four and a half hour match. It ended at 3.33
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in the morning.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Eastern time. And Ben Shelton pulled off an upset over
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: someone who was described earlier this week. Who was it?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: By John McEnroe or is it Billie Jean King? I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: get them confused. As the greatest tennis player of all time,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Carlos Alcaraz. and so Shelton pulled off the upset and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: just earned a trip to the semifinals. He's still got
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to win two more matches in order to win the U.S. Open,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: which I don't think he's going to do after a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: four-and-a-half-hour marathon that ended at 3.30 in the morning. Finally,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Mariners lost to the Texas Rangers 10-5, so they are
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: seven back with 17 to go. Yeah, they're playing the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: walk-off music right now for the Mariners, but something happened
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: last night that had everybody talking about And we will
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: have Mariners morning after for you next. Sports Radio 93.3
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Rangers did pretty much everything right last night.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: They played defense like they don't play defense. Corey Seager
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: made a play he's never made in his life and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: will never make again at shortstop. He's just not that
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: good defensively. Ezekiel Duran made an incredible play. He ended
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: up not getting an out on it, but they played
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: defense well. last night, and they hit the snot out
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of the ball all night long. And the Mariners lose
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: once again to the Texas Rangers. The final score was 10-5.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Once again, Dan Wilson did manage the game like it
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: were a playoff game, removing Bryce Miller in the fourth.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer gave up a big hit in relief of Miller.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that scored a couple of runs, and then Bazzardo was
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: once again counted on by Dan Wilson, and the roof
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: caved in. He gave up not just a two-run homer
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in his inning, but also a three-run homer, and it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: went from 4-3 to 9-3, and that was the game.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It ended up being 10-5. Now, that's all the particulars,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: so I've given you the entire way that the Mariners
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: lost last night, but leave it to baseball. in a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: game in which you get outplayed and you may have
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: been eliminated from any kind of playoff hope last night,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: something in the sport happens that people, their jaws drop.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: They can't believe what they just witnessed. And even though
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they are dressed in black for the Mariners' funeral, they
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: can't help but sit there and go, oh, wow, there's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a reason to live right over there. And that is
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: because Laz... Montez did something that has never happened before
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: at T-Mobile. He came up to the plate, down four,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: two men on, facing Cal Quantrill of the Texas Rangers,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and he hit a ball further than anyone's ever hit
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: it in Seattle.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Smacked!
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Center field! This one is a cannon shot! Les Montez!
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: We have never seen one way back there! What a
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: first home run inside T-Mobile Park.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: 474 feet.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: That was a breathtaking home run.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Mariner's right back in it. Aaron Goldsmith with the call.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You heard Ryan Healy in the background, wowing. 474 feet.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I guess there has been one hit further in Seattle,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the Mark McGuire home run, maybe. But it was the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: longest one at T-Mobile by a Mariner. And the second
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: longest by a Mariner in franchise history, according to the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: graphic last night. But it went to center field and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: over the stands, and there was a woman with her baby,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and you could see the baby sitting there in the stroller,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and you could see the look on her face like...
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: How was I not safe this far away from home plate?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Eyes were just bulged out. Everybody's scrambling for the baseball.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Everybody cannot believe that a human being hit a ball
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that far. And that woman thought she was safely removed
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: from any danger of anyone hitting a ball that far
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and hitting her baby with a baseball. And Laz Montez,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of course, not knowing the baby was there, hits one
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: 474 feet. My goodness, that was power.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I will say if he had known the baby was
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: there and was trying to hit that baby.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Even more impressive. That would have been more impressive. But no,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: he did not.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just the second it left the bat,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: you were like, oh my God, how hard did he
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: just hit it? And that was before you even saw
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: where it flew to over the J-Rod squad. And then
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the way he just kind of drops the bat, he's.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, that's what I do. Just so you guys know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that's the power I have.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he got it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: All?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, he got a lot of it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saying he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: got it all. I mean, you would describe it as
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you got it all. I'm not sure if he can't
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: hit it further. That's crazy. But yeah, that was, I mean, 474,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like young man, still, still growing into his swing, still
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: growing into his giant physique. Um, something to get excited about.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, He might be able to top that at
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: some point, but certainly he did get it all. I mean,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that was just destroyed.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Unreal. Unreal.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And it had everybody buzzing. I mean, here was a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: night in which it's like, season's over. And here's Laz
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Montez has the entire internet buzzing because of the power
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: display that he put on last night.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Incredible yeah and it was nice too to be able
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: that at that point it brought him back into the
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: game so it was you could have an appropriate celebration
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: because you're down four nothing now you're only down one
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: run you're like okay here we go we've got this
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: oh wait oh we don't have good pitching anymore i forgot.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: We got this we don't got this yeah correct um
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: yes uh very next inning a five spot put up
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: against bizardo made it nine to three And they went
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: on to a 10-5 victory. But Laz certainly gave us
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: something to kind of laugh and get excited about last
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: night with that bomb of a three-run homer. Still, the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: reality is very grim. Here's Dan Wilson after the game.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, not how we wanted to start the
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: series tonight. You know, tough one for sure. You know,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: they were able to get on the board early there
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: with a couple runs and then, you know, created some
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: traffic on Bryce.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You know, I thought... you know, a little.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Bit there and, and especially in there in the fourth inning,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: fifth inning and fourth inning. And, and, uh you know
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: just uh a lot of pitches on them um you
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: know able to get some traffic going um and uh
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: you know wanted to go to chuki there in that
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: in that situation knowing that they might pinch hit there
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: which they did um you know and uh you know
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: able to get another you know couple runs on that
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: on that uh situation um but our guys came back
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: i thought You know, the home run by Laz was spectacular.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: You know, when you talk about home runs here at
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: this ballpark, I don't think I've seen one that far.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: You know, just a really good swing and, you know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Got us right back in it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: And then, you know, they were able to come back
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: there in the fifth inning and put up their five spot.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And, you know, tough to overcome that at that point.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: As far as I think of.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: His 16 appearances, he's only had a couple clean innings.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: He hasn't a lot of base runners.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: At what point do you kind of have to pull
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: back on.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: That from the leverage solutions?
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: And I know you don't have a lot of options
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: doing where you're at with Nomad and everything else.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: How do you handle that?
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, we're continuing to look at
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: everything and, you know, continue to assess where we're at and,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: you know, what situations we want to put guys in. And,
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: you know, obviously it's been a tough stretch for Zardo. But,
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: you know... We'll continue to look at it and see
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: where we need to make our adjustments, and we'll be
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: willing to make those adjustments.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: If you haven't adjusted by now.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I like that he says, yeah, we'll put guys in
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: situations that, like, we'll see what situations we.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Should put them in.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I can just suggest not that one. Don't put them
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: in that situation. And by that, I mean don't put
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: them in the game.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. I mean, you took out your starter
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in the fourth. You're going to have to rely on
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of people last night. Um, he's just not
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: reliable and I'm not throwing the dirt on the grave
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of Bizzardo's career here, but right now he's just not reliable.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And if you want to win a game, he doesn't pitch. Um,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and maybe bounces back next year. I know he's somebody
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that they really believe in, but right now he is
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: batting practice for major league hitters, batting practice.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's what he looked like last night.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. Um, and so, I mean, I mean,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you had six plus innings that you were going to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: have to fill last night. And I, I guess the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: thought was he's got a pitch at some point. Uh,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: but obviously he can't be trusted right now in any
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: game situation where you have a chance to win. You
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: just can't trust him. And yet Dan Wilson keeps throwing
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: them out there. And I guess he's continuing to assess
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: it as the season ends, um, 17 games to go.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Seven games back now in the American League West because
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: both the Rangers and the Astros won last night. The Astros,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: seven-game deficit with the Astros. But both teams ahead of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you won last night. So, yeah, if it was, boy,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: highly unlikely before, it's all but dead now, unfortunately.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there's still an opportunity.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Like, the Astros could go on a cruise, like the
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: poop cruise, and then get stuck out at sea.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: For 10 days.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: So they have to forfeit all their games.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how the MLB would rule on that.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I also don't know that that would help us. We'd
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: still have to win games.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: So they'd just lose, but we'd still have to win.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: So it's bad. Kate Anderson will start today. Cody Bradford's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: going to start today as well. It's a one o'clock start.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I know I said yesterday on the show that Cody
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Bradford is starting yesterday. They flopped it. I mean- It
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: was there on all websites that it was going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be Cody Bradford pitching. At this time yesterday, he was
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: supposed to pitch, and they just decided to change their
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: mind to the more effective pitcher to start the series
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: in Quantrill, and it worked out for them. But today,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it looks like, unless they change it again, it will
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be the oft-battered Cody Bradford starting for the Rangers against
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson. one o'clock start time before the Seahawks game
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: coming up next. Speaking of the Seahawks game, it's back.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: No cliche keys to victory on KJR. It's time for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: our no cliche keys to victory. It is a staple
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of our game day preparation, or usually it's Friday go
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: getting ready for the Sunday matchup. But it's game day today.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Seahawks taking on the Patriots tonight. And of course we're
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: going to deliver no cliche keys to victory on If
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you are unfamiliar with the segment, so many people bring
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: up win in the trenches, turnover battle, all three phases.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: We don't allow for cliches as our keys to victory.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: That's lazy broadcasting. I want a specific element of this
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: game that will be the difference for the Seahawks in
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: winning over the New England Patriots tonight. Ashley, show us
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: how it's done.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I'm going to say, you got to do what you
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: did in the Super Bowl. Get all up in Drake
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: May's grill. That's not a cliche. You don't talk about
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: grills and cliches. I mean, they did force a lot
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: of turnovers. They didn't have a good run game against
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks. It was just defense, defense, defense, defense, defense.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: And that's what it needs to be today. And it's
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: got to be those front four guys just.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, look at that. Look at that. Animalistic.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I am nervous about the secondary.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's what Greg said yesterday. How do you
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: counter some holes potentially in your secondary? And that is
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to make sure that Drake May is uncomfortable all game long.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And I think what we saw emerge from this past
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: season into this season is is that there's a strong
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: belief that our front seven is the strength of the team,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: or at least the front four is the strength of
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the team heading into this year. And so, yeah, I
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: think you got a chance to do it. I will
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: say that Will Campbell, from what we've heard, they're starting
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: left tackle with a little tiny short arms. He apparently
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: was hurt all toward the end of last season and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: may have explained why he was so bad down the stretch.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and so a healthier Will Campbell with some experience might
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: not be as easy to turn him into a turnstile
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: over there on the edge, but I do believe that
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: there's no getting around, no game-planning around the fact that
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks' front four is monstrous. Ah! Yeah, look at that.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: The sound effects. Yeah. All right, I'm going to say...
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I will play off of the secondary. I had to.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't know exactly where you were going to go.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: But I will play off the secondary because I am
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: expecting them to put a lot of pressure on Drake May.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And I'm not expecting Drake May to have much success tonight.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: The correct term was get all up in his grill.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I expect us to get all up in his grill.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Is what I expect. Me too. And so there is
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: this new element to this football team, and it is A.J. Brown.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And A.J. Brown right now has the right attitude. Feels
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: like he's with the right team and the right coach.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: And when we've seen A.J. Brown with the right attitude,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: he can be a real big problem to have to face.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: He's an even bigger problem to have to face because
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: he creates a mismatch with his physicality and his strength.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: It's an even bigger mismatch when you're down some important
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: pieces to your secondary. So I'm sure that Mike McDonald
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: has a great game plan for this. And executing that
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: game plan with really no live action. Like you're going
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to go from, we just practice football in shorts to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: trying to tackle NFL players on a Wednesday night and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: have to defend A.J. Brown on a Wednesday night. I mean,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: that can get tricky. And so I think whatever the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: game plan is, and I have faith in Mike McDonald
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: is going to get this done. but they better be
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: able to execute the plan in how to defend A.J.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Brown because Drake May was runner-up to the MVP a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: year ago, and that is without a true wide receiver one.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: He has one now. So I think that creates a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: really interesting mismatch for us. I don't know who will
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: be responsible for being able to slow down A.J. Brown tonight.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know who matches up well against him, so
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to scheme it. And I suspect
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that Mike McDonald will ace that test like he normally does.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: But to me, that's the key. As long as he
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't go off, as long as he doesn't get seven catches,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: 118 yards, then you're running the football game tonight.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is the only part, really, aside from
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: the questionable, you know, the questions we have surrounding the
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: run game. But that's the only part that makes me
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: nervous is how are we going to match.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Up against A.J. Brown and how are they going to
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: handle it? I mean, that's why.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you can just get up in Drake May's grill,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: then hopefully he can't even get the ball to A.J.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Brown because that's the goal is to not allow him
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: to have those catches.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I think one of the keys to football is
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: having the smartest coach. So I think that's on our side.
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