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9-18: Farhan Lalji, Joe Cronin and Justin Portz · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJRFM
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  Speaker 3: It's a Washington State Beef Commission football Friday morning here
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  Speaker 3: Coors Light. As cold as the Rockies. New Seahawks offensive
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  Speaker 3: coordinator Brian Fleury said the limiting of rookie first-round draft
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  Speaker 3: pick Jadarian Price in the opener as the lead running
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  Speaker 3: back was by design. that after he didn't play all
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  Speaker 3: preseason and as a rookie, Price is getting ramped up.
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  Speaker 2: Into a workload.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like that may continue Sunday at Arizona, though Fleury
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  Speaker 3: did say Price has earned more chances than the 12
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  Speaker 3: carries he had in 50 plays against the Patriots. At
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  Speaker 3: practice yesterday, Sam Donald again did not participate. He's not
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  Speaker 3: going to play Sunday. Drew Locke will start against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 3: Nicky Mawory was again limited at practice. He hasn't practiced
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  Speaker 3: fully since mid-June at arthroscopic ankle surgery in July. I
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  Speaker 3: don't see him playing. On Sunday, I don't see Ty
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  Speaker 3: Okada playing because he hasn't practiced all week with that
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  Speaker 3: hamstring issue still. So they're back to where they were
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  Speaker 3: last week at the safety situation. Rodney Thomas, come on down.
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  Speaker 3: Or come on up, as it were, from the practice
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  Speaker 3: squad again. Starting right guard Anthony Bradford now has a
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  Speaker 3: hip issue on top of his knee issue.
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  Speaker 2: He's listed as limited again in practice.
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  Speaker 3: My hunch is he's going to play. I talked to
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  Speaker 3: him after the game last Wednesday. I think he's going
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  Speaker 3: to play. Torrey Horton, full go again yesterday on track
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  Speaker 3: to make his season debut Sunday at the Cardinals. NFL
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  Speaker 3: Week 2 began last night. The Bills beat the Lions 41-31. Bills'
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  Speaker 3: offense is rolling. Their defense gave up a few there
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  Speaker 3: at the end. Bills are the first team to go
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  Speaker 3: 2-0 with, excuse me, third team in NFL history to
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  Speaker 3: go 2-0 while allowing 30 points in each of the
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  Speaker 3: first two games. In the last 10 years, 67% of
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  Speaker 3: NFL teams that start 2-0 make the playoffs. Washington Huskies
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  Speaker 3: 2-0 host Eastern Washington. The Eags at 415 on tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: afternoon live right here on 93.3 KJR from Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Jessamyn McIntyre will be in Martin Stadium in Pullman where
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  Speaker 3: the Cougs are hosting Duquesne.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners, are they still playing? Yeah, they're still playing.
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  Speaker 4: They are.
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  Speaker 3: They got three games this weekend in Colorado. Brian Wu
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  Speaker 3: starting tonight. Bryce Miller starts tomorrow. Kate Anderson starts Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Then the M's come home to finish the final six
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  Speaker 3: games of this absolutely lost, frustrating season at home. Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: clinched their 13th division title in 14 years last night,
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  Speaker 3: by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Sounders are also in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to end their 12-game MLS losing streak. 6.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: kickoff of the match tomorrow on Saturday in Colorado against
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  Speaker 3: the Rapids. The Kraken began their NHL training camp yesterday
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  Speaker 3: at the Kraken Community Iceplex in Northgate. Their first preseason
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  Speaker 3: game is tomorrow. Training camp began yesterday, and their first
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  Speaker 3: preseason game is tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: That's how the NHL rolls out.
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  Speaker 3: 6 p.m. tomorrow, Climate Pledge Arena against Vancouver to start
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  Speaker 3: the preseason. The Storm returned from the WNBA break from
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  Speaker 3: the World Basketball Championships and got blasted. Las Vegas Aces
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  Speaker 3: beat them 114-77 at Climate Pledge.
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  Speaker 2: Storm are 8-33.
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  Speaker 3: And the big high school football games around the state
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  Speaker 3: this weekend include tonight, Puyallup at Lake Stevens, number one
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  Speaker 3: versus number two in a 4A showdown. We've got the
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  Speaker 3: Fish Bowl going on down in Gig Harbor, Peninsula High
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  Speaker 3: School against Gig Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: That's such a great name for a rivalry match.
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  Speaker 3: We've got the Battle of the Bridge rivalry between 6th-ranked
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  Speaker 3: Enumclaw and 9th-ranked White River in 3A.
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  Speaker 2: And in 2A, No.
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  Speaker 3: 1 Archbishop Murphy is at No. 3 Anacortes in a
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  Speaker 3: Northwest Conference showdown. In class 2A at 11 o'clock, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk to Archbishop Murphy coach Joe Cronin. 11.15,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Anacortes coach Justin Portz live
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  Speaker 3: from Anacortes before that game tonight, the showdown. That's our
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  Speaker 3: weekly high school football showcase. And now on with a
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  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday show.
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  Speaker 4: We sure do.
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  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission back with us. They brought in
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  Speaker 3: a couple years ago when I was on this show
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  Speaker 3: and they sponsored Football Fridays. They brought in a smorgasbord
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  Speaker 3: of barbecue one day.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I believe that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a feast.
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  Speaker 4: They take a lot of pride in their product.
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  Speaker 3: As they should. And we met the executives from the
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  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission. So hopefully they can line that
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  Speaker 3: up here one of these Fridays for us.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, beef, are you listening?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kind of. Goosing the opportunity there. It was
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: That's really awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back in person here in the Elliott Bay studios
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  Speaker 3: because the Seahawks have a little bit of later availability
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  Speaker 3: for the media today. Jessamyn McIntyre, Greg Bell, as we
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  Speaker 3: are every weekday, 10 a.m. to noon here on 93.3
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  Speaker 3: KGR FM. The Seahawks will issue a injury report for
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  Speaker 3: the game on Sunday at the Cardinals, the first NFC
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  Speaker 3: West game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: That report comes out about 1 o'clock this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to have questionable for Nick Emanwuri
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  Speaker 3: to continue to keep the Cardinals guessing, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: think he's playing. Again, he hasn't fully practiced in, what,
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  Speaker 3: three months now. I don't think Ty Okada's playing. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be listed as doubtful, maybe out. Sam Donahue will be
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  Speaker 3: listed as out because he is out.
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  Speaker 4: They were very transparent on that one.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want anybody thinking, and they just said, nope,
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  Speaker 2: forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: But, as we mentioned, Sam Donah was on the field
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday in cleats throwing, and then when practice started, he
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  Speaker 3: went back into the training room and was not a participant,
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  Speaker 3: as he was not a participant yesterday. But the mere
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  Speaker 3: fact that he had cleats on and was throwing suggests
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  Speaker 3: perhaps he could come back next week. I still would
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  Speaker 3: be surprised if he plays at Washington Week 3. I
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  Speaker 3: think more likely Week 4 against the Chargers here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe even Week 5 against the 49ers, but Not
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  Speaker 3: a long-term deal or else he'd be on injured reserve.
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  Speaker 3: They have not tried out a free agent quarterback. That
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  Speaker 3: is not in the cards, Mike McDonald said when I
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  Speaker 3: asked him that on Wednesday. He said, nope, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to roll with two. And I talked to Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 3: yesterday about the fact that he's wearing two hats this
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  Speaker 3: week because he's getting first-team reps. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 3: this some yesterday. Brian Fleury, the offense coordinator, and Mike
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  Speaker 3: McDonald don't want Jalen Milrow to have to go through
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  Speaker 3: what the veteran, Drew Locke, went through last week. playing
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  Speaker 3: without practicing the game plan plays. They want Milrow to
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  Speaker 3: have some exposure to the game plan plays for Arizona
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  Speaker 3: in case he has to play. Of course, he only
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  Speaker 3: will if Drew Locke is injured, but they don't want
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  Speaker 3: him to come in cold. It's one thing for Drew Locke,
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  Speaker 3: an eight-year veteran who's done this backup thing now for
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  Speaker 3: six years to do it. It's another for Jalen Milrow,
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  Speaker 3: who's never played in an NFL game as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He has done the scat back running thing. But for
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  Speaker 3: him to come into a game without having practiced any
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  Speaker 3: of the game plan plays would not be a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: So they're having him do first team reps, but they're
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  Speaker 3: also having him still do the scout team reps. He's
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  Speaker 3: running Jacoby Brissett's plays for the Cardinals as well. And
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  Speaker 3: I talked to him about that yesterday and kind of
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  Speaker 3: chuckled about, yeah, he's a little busy this week. He
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  Speaker 3: also said, I didn't write this in News Tribune, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it here, is that they are
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  Speaker 3: not doing any of that run-specific, run-packaged stuff that Clint
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  Speaker 3: Kubiak had for him. He said he hasn't done that
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  Speaker 3: at all this year. Brian Fleury. They're not even, that's
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  Speaker 3: not even an option in Jalen Milrow's mind. Now he could,
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  Speaker 3: if he had to come in, but now they have,
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  Speaker 3: it appears on short yardage, they're going to go with
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  Speaker 3: the Barnyard-Tush-Push play over bringing in the trick of a
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  Speaker 3: Taysom Hill type of a package for Jalen Milrow. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a little interesting sidebar of how different Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 3: and Brian Fleury are. Of Milrow did it for three games,
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  Speaker 3: one play in each of three games, and then fumbled
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  Speaker 3: in that Tampa Bay game.
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  Speaker 2: That was the end of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was rough.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't even active for a game the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season after that game. Brian Fleury mentioning yesterday, at
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  Speaker 3: least Jalen Milrow, he's looking forward to the fact that
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  Speaker 3: he'll be active to play in this game rather than
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  Speaker 3: just as an emergency third quarterback. So, yeah, tons of
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  Speaker 3: football going on. Jessamyn's about to get on a plane
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  Speaker 3: to go to Pullman. Yeah, that's how she rolls.
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  Speaker 4: This afternoon, I am in and out.
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  Speaker 3: Most of us drive across I-90 and Route 26 to
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  Speaker 3: get to Pullman, but not Jessamyn McIntyre.
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  Speaker 4: Nuh-uh, man.
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  Speaker 3: She's got a— you probably have a PJ that'll take you
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  Speaker 3: over there in 20 minutes, right?
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  Speaker 4: I have been on a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you have.
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  Speaker 4: Of course you have.
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  Speaker 2: Cooks have donors, too.
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  Speaker 5: I am going through Alaska Airlines, and, yeah, my status
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  Speaker 5: grows with that. Particular airline each and every season, and
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  Speaker 5: I love it. I have a great experience with them
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  Speaker 5: throughout my 14 years of traveling for this team.
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  Speaker 2: That whole 23-minute flight or whatever it is, once you
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  Speaker 2: get in the air.
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  Speaker 4: It's about an hour.
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  Speaker 2: An hour maybe gate to gate, but I'm talking actually
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  Speaker 2: in the air.
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  Speaker 4: If I was going to Spokane, I would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's like 40 minutes. That's true. Pullman is crazy. About
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  Speaker 4: an hour.
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  Speaker 2: They've expanded that Pullman Airport. I remember flying with the Huskies,
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  Speaker 2: and we couldn't fly in there most of the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is so nice.
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  Speaker 2: They've gotten a bigger runway. They've got some terminal action going.
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  Speaker 2: They do. They've stepped it up.
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  Speaker 4: It used to just be that little, you know what
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  Speaker 4: it's like.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be like a private airport. You might
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  Speaker 2: fly a private plane in and out of.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I mean, when I flew with the Husky football
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  Speaker 3: team and basketball team, but certainly the Husky football team,
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  Speaker 3: we often had to.
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  Speaker 2: Fly into Lewiston.
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  Speaker 3: One, because our plane was too big, and two, because
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  Speaker 3: it was always fogged out in the late winter, November,
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  Speaker 3: Apple Cup time. Remember when the Apple Cup used to
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  Speaker 3: be in November?
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  Speaker 2: Sure do.
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  Speaker 5: I remember we had Friendsgiving with my entire crew every
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  Speaker 5: single year.
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  Speaker 3: I have spent Thanksgiving nights in the Best Western in Moscow, Idaho,
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  Speaker 3: where the Huskies used to stay.
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  Speaker 2: Fun fact, the Huskies don't stay in Pullman. There's an
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  Speaker 2: obvious reason for that.
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  Speaker 3: You'd get the pulling of the fire alarms in the
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  Speaker 3: hotel and the egging of the windows and cars blasting
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  Speaker 3: music outside the room. They are smart enough to go
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  Speaker 3: to Moscow, Idaho for the Apple Cup or were when
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  Speaker 3: the Apple Cup was going on. So, yeah, I've spent
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  Speaker 3: many a Thanksgiving night in the West Western across the
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  Speaker 3: U of I campus at Moscow, Idaho.
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  Speaker 4: Which is only nine miles from Portland.
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  Speaker 2: I love Moscow, Idaho. People should know how close it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they should.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But I love Moscow, Idaho. I had a farmer's market
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  Speaker 2: there on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 4: Really great breakfast joint there, too.
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  Speaker 2: Great breakfast joint. I know exactly what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's called The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It is fantastic. For those of you who have been
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  Speaker 3: to Moscow, Idaho, you know what we're talking about. Because
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  Speaker 3: it is the place to go on especially a weekend
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  Speaker 3: morning brunch with gigantic pancakes and waffles and homemade french
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  Speaker 3: toast and berries and yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's i'm an eggs person um yeah i'm not really
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  Speaker 5: um big cake on you know on game day would
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  Speaker 5: weigh me down so i um i'm big eggs and
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  Speaker 5: they make a ridiculously large omelet.
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  Speaker 3: Yes they do yeah over the plate like old beth
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  Speaker 3: yeah y'all remember beth's on the text line 49451 those
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  Speaker 3: of you been in seattle for a minute you know beth.
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  Speaker 5: Cafe i lived in green lake so yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I live on the other side of green lake from
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  Speaker 3: beth's And man, Beth used to be the place. But
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  Speaker 3: if you were caught, back when my day, if you
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  Speaker 3: were caught in Beth before 2 a.m., you were doing
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  Speaker 3: something wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was always after the bars closed.
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  Speaker 6: Yep. Always.
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  Speaker 2: And you went in there at 12.
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  Speaker 4: Guilty as charged.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. A 12-egg omelet that used to hang off
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  Speaker 2: the sides of the plate.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that was, I think it was on that food
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  Speaker 5: challenge show.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. I'm sure it was.
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  Speaker 4: It is a man versus food.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And food won at that place. It's hard to conquer
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  Speaker 2: a 12-day gauntlet.
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  Speaker 4: They make you eat, like, all the sides, too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they got that damn state of Idaho on your
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  Speaker 2: plate as hash browns.
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  Speaker 3: When you walk in, the Old Best— I haven't been to
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  Speaker 3: the New Best. Those of you on the text line, 49451,
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  Speaker 3: is it still the same? The Old Best Cafe used
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  Speaker 3: to have, as their decor, writings and colorings from customers.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And some of them weren't kids. You were usually drunk
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  Speaker 3: people that came in after 2 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: That was part of the charm.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. But when you walked in, the grill was right
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  Speaker 2: in front of you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Through the main front door. And the entire state of
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  Speaker 3: Idaho was on that grill. I mean, unbelievable, prodigious amount
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  Speaker 3: of hash browns. Just mounds and mounds of hash browns
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  Speaker 3: on the grill. And then you'd order a 12-gay.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a lieutenant in the Army, my buddies—
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Scott Blair would order a 12-egg chili cheese omelet.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's like five meals.
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  Speaker 2: That was bad for the house, let me tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: That was not good.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, as the wife of a flatulent person, I can
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  Speaker 5: only imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Mike's not even here to defend himself.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he can't. It wakes me up. I'm literally sleeping
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  Speaker 4: and I go, oh, God. Ready to pull my own
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  Speaker 4: fire alarm in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: The things you don't know about your spouse until it's
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  Speaker 2: too late.
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  Speaker 3: On the show today, we'll talk about more than just
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  Speaker 3: flatulence and Beth's Cafe. I know some of you on
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  Speaker 3: the text line know what I'm talking about with Beth's Cafe.
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  Speaker 3: Give me a scouting report if you've been to the
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  Speaker 3: new one.
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  Speaker 4: And the Breakfast Club, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the Breakfast Club in Moscow, Idaho.
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  Speaker 3: Beth's was closed for a while and reopened about five
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  Speaker 3: or six years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was right after the pandemic or right before
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  Speaker 3: it reopened. I haven't been there since it reopened, so
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  Speaker 3: those on.
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  Speaker 2: The text line want to give me a shout-out and
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  Speaker 2: a scouting report if you've been to Best Cafe on
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  Speaker 2: Aurora just north of Greenlight.
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  Speaker 3: On the show today, Football Friday, what it looks like
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  Speaker 3: Nicky Manwari isn't playing, why it looks like he's not
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: playing Sunday, and why Jadarian Price got only 12 carries
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: and 50 offensive plays in the Seahawks opener, and why.
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  Speaker 2: It may continue.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to talk live with our weekly NFL guest
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  Speaker 3: Farhan Lalji from TSN Canada. He was at the Kenneth
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Walker debut set in Kansas City Monday night. 11 a.m.,
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: our weekly high school football showcase. I know Puyallup and
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Lake Stevens is the one versus two Class 4A showdown,
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: but we featured Lake Stevens two weeks ago, so we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to spread this around. The opener was Lake Stevens
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  Speaker 3: and Graham Kapowson, so we're trying to spread this around.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to go to tonight's one versus three
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  Speaker 3: state showdown in Class 2A. It's Archbishop Murphy. Their coach,
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  Speaker 3: Joe Cronin, is going to talk to us live at
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  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock. Anna Cordes is hosting Archbishop Murray, No. 3
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  Speaker 3: team in 3A against No. 1. And Justin Portz, the
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  Speaker 3: coach of Anna Cordes High School and the athletic director there,
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  Speaker 3: is going to meet and talk to us at 1115
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  Speaker 3: live from Anna Cordes, where tonight's showdown is. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be at Bellevue High School, officiating Bellevue and Lyndon Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Hats off to Lyndon Christian, a power in 1A in
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  Speaker 3: Washington State, going against the No. 1 Class 3A team
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  Speaker 3: in the state, the defending state runner-ups that lost to
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  Speaker 3: O'Day in the title game. at Husky Stadium that I
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  Speaker 3: called last December.
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  Speaker 2: And Lyndon Christian's going down to Bellevue to take on
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  Speaker 2: those cats. Let's go. Or those wolverines, as it is.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, let's see. Let's see what that does.
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  Speaker 4: I always like a good matchup like that.
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  Speaker 2: My son thinks that's going to be a close game.
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  Speaker 2: That's good for them, stepping up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: 11.30, we'll read back your text. We'll do your talkbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn loves herself some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: 1130, we'll play this. 1135, Factor Fiction, last one of
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go college. And I'm actually going to
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  Speaker 2: stay on a.
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  Speaker 3: Theme that I started on Wednesday when I got back
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  Speaker 3: from Hawaii. Remember I took Eastern with the 43 points
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  Speaker 3: over the Huskies?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that Eastern's going to win. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't think they're going to lose by 43 points because
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think the dogs can score 43 right now.
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  Speaker 2: But my pick today is there's a similar theme to
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  Speaker 2: that today. We'll do that at 1135. I'm trying to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: learn this radio business.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: And for now, it's going to join me at 1145
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: before his show from 12 until three. I think he's
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: in the studio with me today after being at the
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  Speaker 2: Text, of course, 49451 in the Comodage text line. And
• 15:56
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  Speaker 2: Best Cafe or the Breakfast Club in Moscow, Idaho is,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts, your concerns, your disagreement with how the Seahawks
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: are handling Jadarian Price at the start of his career.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: 12 carries and 50 plays. Seven carries, seven touches, period,
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  Speaker 2: in the first 37 plays into the fourth quarter when
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks just had three points. And I was in
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the press box just, what's going on here? Well, Brian
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Fleury explained that yesterday.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say when I started asking
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: him about the use of Jadarian Price in his NFL
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: debut last week. Jadarian Price, when you self-critique how that
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: game went, do you Are you satisfied with the reps
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: he got, especially in the first half?
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we were very deliberate about the reps that he
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: was going to get and how he was going to
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: be used. He didn't play in the preseason. It was
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: the very first NFL game, huge stage, and we just
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: wanted to be cautious in terms of his workload. He
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: obviously earned more reps moving forward, and we'll continue to
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: bring him along and develop him the right way.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: So it's still a ramp-up for him. For sure. It's
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: not because of anything physical. It's just being a rookie.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Fleury's saying that he has earned more opportunities with how
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: he played. But it sounded to me like those more
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: opportunities aren't necessarily coming Sunday in Arizona. Because when I
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: said it's still a ramp-up, he said for sure.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: It's not health-related, but basically that he's a rookie and
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: he hasn't played all preseason. Well, that's not Price's fault.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: There's a Seahawks choice not to play him in the preseason.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: None of the starters in the preseason. But it is
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: interesting for Fleury to say he's a rookie. Being a
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: rookie is what he said. And now what's that mean? Well,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: we've talked about this, you and I, Jessamyn, about a
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: rookie running back in the NFL. It's not just take
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the ball and run. You have to really be good
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: in the nuances and the physicality of the pass game
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: and specifically pass blocking. And that is where Jadarian Price
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: hasn't been, I won't say struggled, but just hasn't done it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: At Notre Dame, he was the number two back. So
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: when it was third down, it was usually Jeremiah Love
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: on the field. And when he was on the field
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: on third downs, Price, at Notre Dame, they threw him
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: the ball. So he didn't block very much, and he
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: admits that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: And he admits that that's a big part.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: In training camp, man, did Thomas Hammock, the new running
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: backs coach, work on pass catching and pass blocking with
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Jadarian Price. Now, George Helani is supposed to be the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: pass blocker. The reason why he stuck from Boise State
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: is that he's a rookie in large part, special teams,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: but also his pass blocking. Well, if you really look
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: closely at the play that Sam Darnold got hurt on,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the fifth play of the season, George Helani caused that
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: whole thing. He got run over by Robert Spillane, the
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: linebacker for the Patriots. I mean, Spillane just basically picked
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: him up and shoved him in to Sam Darnold. Darnold
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: was trying to throw that pass on time. And had
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: he been able to throw it, had Helani been able
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: to block Spillane instead of getting run over by him,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Darnold would have thrown it on time, and Abe Lucas had.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Draymond Jones on the right side, the front side, blocked
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: on time. But when Donald had to pull the ball
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: down and start running away from Spillane, moving George Helani
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: into him, that's when Draymond Jones disengaged from Abe Lucas'
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: block on the right side and ran down from behind
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Sam Donald onto his right hip, caused the injury, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: here we go. Now Drew Locke's starting in Arizona. But
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: George Helani is supposed to be very good at pass blocking,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and it was that play that of him missing a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: negative for sure on that pass block assignment that caused
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the whole injury. So, does DeJarrius Price get more opportunities
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: on third down, perhaps? More in the red zone.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, against the Patriots, he came out of the game,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: and Helani came in when they got inside the 20-yard line.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I would sure like to see Price get more than
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: 13-yard carry, see you for the rest of the series.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: 12-yard carry, back to the sideline. I'd like to see
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: consecutive rushes. They only had one consecutive rushes. One set
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: of Two carries in a row for Price over the
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: first three games. quarters, and only two times in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: entire game over 50 plays did they hand the ball
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: to Price twice in a row. They threw to him
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: on two swing passes in the third quarter twice in
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  Speaker 2: a row, but otherwise that was it. It was feast
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: or famine, fits and spurts.
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  Speaker 3: And I talked to Price about that after the game,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: and he talked about, well, we were getting a lot
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: of pre-snap penalties. That was keeping us all out of whack,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and it was changing our play calling and our substitutions.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Suffice to say, Price needs the ball more. But as
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: you hear Brian Fleury say, they're going to keep him
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: on a governance pacing program here, at least early in
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: his career.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: 49451, how do you feel about that?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Let's stay in the NFL next because we're going to
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: go to Farhan Lalji, our buddy, TSN Canada, BC, Langley guy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Up north, his son is now playing high school football
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: at a prep school in Virginia, getting a ton of D1.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool. He's been on a couple times
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: to Virginia to go see his son play. That's why
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: last week when we had him on the show and
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: his cell phone was failing, he was in the middle
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: of nowhere in Virginia watching his son play football. I'm
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: not sure where Farhan is next, but we're going to
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: talk to him about The Kansas City Chiefs debut of
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker, the Rams.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: That's sending them back to Australia again, huh? That worked
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: out great for them. We'll talk to Farhan next on
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• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
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  Speaker 1: with Greg Bell on your home for the NFL. Sports
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre with you. I love the Sounders
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: fans rising up on the Tacoma Dodge text line 49451
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  Speaker 3: correcting me that it's a 12-game winless streak and not
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: a 12-game losing streak.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is correct. I wrote winless streak in my
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: notes and I said erroneously. that it was a losing streak.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: 12-game winless streak tomorrow for the Colorado Rapids to go
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: up against the Sounders.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: They're trying to break the 12-game winless streak. Thank you.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Like I said, nothing like a rata on the text line.
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  Speaker 2: 49451 is the text line.
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  Speaker 4: I love corrections.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Don't we all? Farhan Lalji, kind enough to join
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: us as he's coming back from wherever the hell the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Vancouver Canucks training camp is. It's up in Pentacon or
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle of nowhere, B.C. He joins us
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline from a tin can somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of B.C.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, sir. How are you, my friend? Penticton and Kelowna
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: are the jewels of the Okanagan. And if you've never
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: been to the Okanagan, you need to go.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I have, actually.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: It is some of the... Well, then you know it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: It's some of the most beautiful... You know, beachfront, real estate,
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: you name it, in North America. Like, it's just an
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: awesome place to go to, especially this time of year
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: where it still feels like summer. I didn't get to golf.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: And now I am in the middle of nowhere in
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: a little town called Merritt, just so I could talk
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  Speaker 6: to you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And then I blow it by being late.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Merritt, I believe, is on the Route 4 or 3
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: or whatever that BC route is up into the.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Okanagan, right?
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  Speaker 6: We don't have that many numbers in our route. There's
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  Speaker 6: no 403. It's like Route 3.
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  Speaker 2: Or 3, I said. We don't have many numbers.
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  Speaker 6: They used to have the Merritt Mountain Music Festival up here,
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: and it was a complete destination, like literally 100,000 people
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: in a town of 5,000 people for this big event.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: It'd be like going to the Gorge for a big concert, right?
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: But like times 10 in terms of volume of people.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe in Pentikin, if I'm saying it correctly, they
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: had the— Pentikin. Pentikin. Thank you. Never been there, or
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: at least maybe passed through it. Maybe they had the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Bills-Lyons game last night. I'm not sure.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: But we did watch. Absolutely.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Okay. And your impression of Joe Brady's offense.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, Sean McDermott's bills didn't score like this regularly.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: It's early in the season, but man, he's Joe Brady
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and the bills are running it up with Josh Allen
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: running and scoring touchdowns.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: With his legs. What do you think about the bills offense?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And why is it better? I mean, they got Shakir,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: they got cook, the running back, but what's going on there?
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Well, this probably is how the Bills play early in
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: most seasons.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: And I think Josh Allen's just playing the best football
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: of his career right now, but he's played at this
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: level before. I don't want to make this feel like
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: an anomaly for him. I think he's as good a
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: quarterback as there is in the national football league. Even
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: when Holmes was at the top of his game, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I know we're going to get to the Chiefs in
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: a moment, but... Josh Allen was right there and you'd
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: get to a big game and you'd get to the
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: final moments. And you usually have that one mistake in
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: a game where he's put up ridiculous amounts of yardage.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: And really at the end of those games, the chiefs
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: were also better on the margins, right? Like, you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: he moms had a better team around him than maybe,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: than maybe Allen did. I think Brady's are an exceptional
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: offensive coordinator. I think he's got the complete freedom to
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: do what he wants this year without Sean McDermott there.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: And I, You know, you add a guy like DJ Moore, right?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Who's just such a savvy player and such a reliable player.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: And it doesn't look like his injury is going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: be too serious with the AC joining might even play
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: this week. But I think he's a really underrated piece.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: And then you just have to be named Dalton, right?
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Whether you're whichever guy's named Dalton is going to do
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: really well, but you know, they're getting good tight end play.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: So he's using all his pieces consistently. You know, five
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: touchdowns in their first six drives, all at the hand
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: of Josh Allen, either running or passing. This guy's an
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: unstoppable force when he's in that zone.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Does Bill's defense worry? They gave up a couple late
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: there to make that a closer game.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It should have been.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: They gave up 31 and beaten the Texans last week.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I think the third team in NFL history to go
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: 2-0 while giving up 30-plus points in each of those
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: first two games. Would you be worried now that McDermott,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the defensive guy, is gone about the Bill's defense?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: To a point. I mean, I think I've always been
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: worried about the Bills' defense. And when I look at the...
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Number one, they were able to play without Ed Oliver,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: who was a late scratch last night because of an
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: injury in warm-up. What the heck are they doing in warm-up?
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: They're in Buffalo. But anyway, they were able to.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: They were able to overcome that centerpiece of their defense,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: but they've got some holes, right? It's a patchwork secondary.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: They're average at linebacker. So I do think at some
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: point that's going to expose them. I mean, that's why
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: the Bills' biggest challenge is there's not a single team
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: that's more reliant on their quarterback, even the Chiefs and
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: the Holmes in their heyday, than the Bills are with
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Josh Allen. So they've got some... Better pieces around him offensively,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: but they're completely dependent on him winning shootouts and winning
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: games this way. And if they run into injury problems,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: if eventually by the end of the year he gets
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: a little beat up, we might see what we ought
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: to see with the Bills, and that's that late-season slide.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: But they're dependent on him. That's just the way it goes.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: And their defense is something to be concerned with, no doubt.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I think you were in Kansas City on Monday night, right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker and his Kansas city debut, 68% of the snaps,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: 29 plays for him, 23 runs, six pass targets by
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: my homes in the chiefs, 67 play almost 40 plus
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: percent of the time they gave it to Kenneth Walker.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You told us in Casey's training camp, when you were there,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: they were using Walker everywhere. Can Andy Reed keep up
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: this workload for Kenneth Walker?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: You think?
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Well, it's a case of Ken Kenneth Walker, keep up
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: this workload. Right. And, um, um, Who's the backup? EJ,
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to, Johnson's the last, and the rookie that
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: they just drafted this year, who looked also very good
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: in camp. And I think his role is going to
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: continue to increase significantly. the season progresses as he gets
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: more and more comfortable. And I think it needs to
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: increase just to keep Kenneth Walker healthy. And I'm telling
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: you the Kenneth Walker I saw in that game, I'm
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: not even convinced he was that good in the Superbowl
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: and he was great in the Superbowl.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: And I felt going into that game and it didn't
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: surprise me that they were going to run between the
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: guards because they had so many problems to tackle and
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: coming into that game, but their interior three are very good.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: 18 of his 23 carries began between the B gaps
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: or inside the B gaps. Like it was just, even
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: on those 60 yard run, it was an inside run
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: that bounced to the left.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: So, He was able to play for the level of
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: patients in there and burst in those tight spaces. You
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: know what? When I think of him in Seattle, I
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: think of the wide zone run game and the cutbacks
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: off the wide zone run game, seeing him inside play
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: like that. And he showed like Levy and bell type
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: of patients. It was really, really impressive to watch. With
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: that burst, he could get behind the guards, set up
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: the block, and then just get out of there. 101
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: of his yards in that game came above expected. He
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: did it by himself, even without the offensive line. Forced
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: 14 missed tackles in that game. He played the game
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: in a way that he didn't necessarily play it in Seattle.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: He was good in pass protection when needed offensively. But again,
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: the thing with him, he's had some injury histories prior
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: to last season. I think the Seahawks' commitment to splitting
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: time with him allowed him to be at his best
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: late in the year. So we'll see what he looks
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: like at the end of the year, but right now
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: he sure looks pretty impressive.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are already doing that with Jadardian Price as replacement,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: governing him for an entire season. The Rams, Sean McVay
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: yesterday saying, man, we hope we never play in Australia again.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Did they gum that up with the travel and you
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: think that going, trying to go in and out boomerang
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: style caused them to lose by so many points. I mean,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: they got boat raced in Australia by the 49. You
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: think that was all because of the travel?
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: I think it had a lot to do with the travel.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: And I don't want to take away credit from San
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Francisco because they, they certainly raised some eyebrows with their play.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: That said, um, They looked completely sluggish. They looked disinterested
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: later in the game as they fell behind a little bit.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: And I know that he got a little greedy when
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: he was able to have success doing it on a
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: seven-hour time zone change when he went to Europe and
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: thought he could do that this time around. And it
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: was just completely different. They sent like 15 staffers over
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: there during the past two years to figure out the
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: right strategy, but those aren't.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Professional football players.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Staffers. Staffers. Pencil pushers.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I was able to tell you whether or not they
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: were capable of doing that. They even run the treadmill too.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I couldn't play it like that. I don't I can't
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: wrap my head around why an incredibly intelligent coach would
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: make such a dumb decision, right? So I think it
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: had a lot of impact. I think the Myles Garrett
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: loss had a lot of impact because coming out of
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: last season, they knew they needed to address their pass rush.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: And without Myles Garrett, they weren't in a position to
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: do that. So we'll see how much better they are
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: with Aaron Donald. this time around um but yeah i
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: think it was a huge mistake and you know you
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: watch the trickle down effect that it had in that
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: game so you can't come anywhere near brock purdy with
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: what's in that pass rush with miles garrett doing nothing
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: in that game and so what do you do oh
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: you start playing a lot of zone with your expensive
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: corners right like if you're going to do as much
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: of that they did with Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Why did you pay those guys if you could sit
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: back there and zone? But again, why you did it
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: if you're not able to rush the posture because you
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: can't cover forever. It was flawed from planning to execution.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't want to overreact and say all
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: of a sudden this is a team, but I'll tell you,
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: when you look at the schedule that they've got coming up, right.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: And then the teams that they're playing, the Broncos, the Eagles,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: the bills, like this is going to be seriously difficult
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: for the Rams to tread water. Everybody's talking about the
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: two games in the final three weeks of the season
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: with the Seahawks. What are the Rams going to look
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: like at the end of the month?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett, did they get damaged goods from Cleveland? It's
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: not like Miles Garrett was pushing it in training camp,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: doesn't play in the preseason, and then game one needs
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: a knee issue.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they did. I think they did, and
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: I think they knew what they were getting.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I just think they.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: overestimated their ability to get him turned around and ready
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: to go. I mean, when I was down there at camp,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Miles Garrett did nothing. He hadn't come out on the
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: field for five days. The day I was there, he
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: came out on the field, took a few reps in
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: individual drills, and then kind of did nothing, right? And
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: it was like that. And you kind of chalked it
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: up to... the Rams and Sean McVay having that emotional
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: IQ and understanding he's got a veteran team that's older.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Don't push them too hard now, but you're seeing it, right?
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: Like you're seeing it with Pooka Nakua. You're seeing him
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: with Devante Adams. Like you said, and Nakua is not
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: old by any stretch, but the other guys are. And so,
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: you know, they are feeling that. I think this is
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: going to be an entire season of injury and roster
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: management for the Rams. And it may work out because
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: there's such a high end upside, but in the case
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: of Miles Garrett, it's, He's going to, you know, he
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: was a non-factor this past game. He's going to miss
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: four games at least. And when he comes back, I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: this is not an upper body injury. This is a
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: knee injury, right? I just wonder if there's going to
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: be some maintenance and an extended absence. So if he's
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: at full strength in the second half of the season,
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know that I want to be dealing with
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: the Rams, but it could take a while for him
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: to get to that point beyond these four games.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: We've said it. They're going to miss Jared verse and
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: versus a lot younger. And he's available.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Unlike miles Garrett right now. Yeah. What a difference a
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: week makes. You can't win a Super Bowl in March
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and June. I think that was a good reminder of that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, you're right. And now, and now McVeigh's talking about
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: expecting Aaron Donald to not have any drop-off. So that's
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: scary because he was, he was supposed to be like
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: the luxury item, right?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: So, you know, it's like, you've got this incredibly solid
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: show and I just come in every Thursday or Friday
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: as the luxury item.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You are a luxury item, Farhan. That's true. in many ways.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Anyways, I think you can have felt that. Not that
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: I'm comparing myself to Aaron Donald. It might be as
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: big as that at some point by the end of
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: the season. But you know, when you, when you look
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: at him, you thought that they were going to be
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: really good before we had the Aaron Donald conversation, right?
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: The super team label got applied before he decided to
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: come back and everyone thought that, okay, he's not going
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: to be that guy at the beginning of the year.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: He's going to be a 30 snap a game guy
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: and then work his way up. But when Sean McVay
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: talks that way about him, it's, it makes you think
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: they're going to try to play him, you know, 80%
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: of the snaps or 75% of the snaps coming right
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: out of the gate. And if that's a 35, chalk
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: up the next injury on the Rams roster, right?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: And also, if we go to the last game, let's
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: not overlook the fact that Kyle Shanahan has always owned
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Sean McVay. True.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: That is true. And if the 49ers are healthy, hmm.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe it will be a three-team. Maybe the two teams
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: are going to be the 49ers and the Seahawks, the
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: way it looks. We're overreacting, obviously.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Cardinals, are they for real? Farhan going down, smashing the
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh's. They got LaFleur, McVay's offensive coordinator, running outside
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: zone 44% of the time. Got Jacoby Brissett completing 27
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: of 37 passes. Did that raise an eyebrow to you?
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: And maybe the Seahawks have a tougher task in Arizona
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: than you might have thought?
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Well, you know me, and I'm not a Jim Harbaugh guy.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I know you're not. I know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I haven't been, so I kind of looked at it
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: and thought of it more from that perspective. Jacoby Brissett
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: is a 500 quarterback. He's not a terrible quarterback, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: he's also not a quarterback that's all of a sudden
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: going to put them in contention in that division. So,
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: you know, I think that's... an eight, nine, nine and 18, right?
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: Like it can be, I think, I think that would
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: be the high end for them. So, you know, I
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: still look at all of their offensive pieces. I don't
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: know that it's sustainable. I'm not surprised that the chargers
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: had some issues, but really the chargers offense made their
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: defense look bad because they just stayed on the field
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: the entire game.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Um, We thought that Mike McDaniel was going to be
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: able to unlock Justin Herbert, but my question coming into
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: the year was, who is Justin Herbert going to throw
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: the ball to outside of Ladd McConkie? And you saw
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: him lock in on Ladd McConkie repeatedly, despite all the
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: fancy pants shifts and motions that McDaniel comes up with.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: They simply weren't able to create the matchups that they
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: wanted and they weren't able to protect the passer. So
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: a year ago we were told, okay, well, they've got
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: all these injuries and offensive tackle. And now all of
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: a sudden you come out of training camp and they've
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: got injuries in the interior. So he gets sacked three times,
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: throws for just over 200 yards. But gaze after Jim
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: Harbaugh said, this is going to be the greatest quarterback
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: to ever play in the NFL. Like, are you kidding?
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: me you think you're helping your quarterback by showing him
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: confidence by saying something so ridiculous and all you're doing
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: is putting a greater target on him um so yeah
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: i mean the offense i thought they would have early
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: success i thought mcdaniel you know until week four or
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: five might.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Be oopsies oh i merit bc'd him Yeah, well, now
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: we know a little bit more about the area. But
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: we do appreciate him pulling over into a Tim Hortons
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: parking lot just to make this interview happen.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Tim Hortons, exactly. Far and long, GTSN Canada. We'll get
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: him back tomorrow, or next week, I should say. Maybe
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: somewhere that has cell phone service.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: They're not in the middle of Vancouver, BC, training camp somewhere.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: But it's great. Talking about the Rams, and he's right.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: The Rams schedule now. Eagles, Bills... I mean, what.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Are they going to look like, as he said, by
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the end of the month, let alone by the time
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks and the Rams first meet on Christmas night.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Our thanks to Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada. Up next, have
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: you checked out the drama that's going around LSU and
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Not just the game, but everything beside the game. I mean,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: they got serving warrants and parking lots of team facilities
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: and crops on horseback in Oxford, Mississippi.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the circus that's going on with the
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin hate bowl. In Oxford, Mississippi, this game's going
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to be tomorrow night.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: That's next.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock, our high school football weekly showcase. This week,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Archbishop Murphy at Anacortes. One at three in Class 2A
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: in Washington State. We'll talk to both coaches at 11 o'clock.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Your text and talkbacks at 1130 and 1135.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction. I'm going college again on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: with Greg Bell on your home for the NFL. Sports
• 37:54
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• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Sorry. Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission Football Friday here on 93.3 KJR FM.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: If you missed our talk with Farhan Lalji going around
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: the NFL, including Kenneth Walker, who he was very impressed
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: with running between the guards, as he mentioned. for 108
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: of his 173 yards or whatever it ended up being
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: in the Chiefs win of the Broncos. If you missed
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: that talk about the Rams going to Australia, what a
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: disaster that was. And now Miles Garrett out on injured reserve,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: missing at least four weeks in a schedule ahead of L.A.,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: including the Eagles and Bills.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: On the schedule for the Rams.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: If you missed all that, you go to the iHeartRadio
• 38:38
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• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Com. The Greg Bell Show podcast page will be up
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: this afternoon.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Our Washington State Beef Commission Football Friday goes NFL, college,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: and high school. At high school at 11 o'clock, we're
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: going to talk to the two coaches in the big
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: game in 2A in the Northwest Conference tonight and Anacortes,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Archbishop Murphy High School at Anacortes, one at three. We'll
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: talk about that at 11 to 1125, and then Factor
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Fiction at 1135. College football tomorrow, a bunch of dud
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: games this weekend, a bunch of, this is what happens
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: when the non-conference schedule is just Cupcake City.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Awful. Gee whiz.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: It used to be a little better.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: A little.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, we had a couple bangers to start off
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: our season with the Cougs.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: You did. And now you got Duquesne. So, I mean,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: they got Wagner and Cal.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: We need a get right game.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, you do. Yes, you do.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: And- Washington's hosting Eastern Washington. In Oxford, Mississippi, the Lane-Kiffin
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: hate bowl will go on tomorrow at 4.30 our time.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: LSU at Ole Miss. There's stuff going on. They're bringing
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: cops in from New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Alabama.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: To help with what they're expecting to be a raucous
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: scene tomorrow on the Grove in Oxford, Mississippi. I spent
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: a week in Oxford with the Washington baseball team in
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: an NCAA tournament once. It's a great, great setting for
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: college students.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: The Grove is amazing. Yeah, I got to go there
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: And just like taking in the sights, obviously I couldn't
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: partake in the activities that were happening there, but I
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: very much appreciated the pageantry of that location.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: What's going on tomorrow is the Oxford Police Department. It's
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: not a big city. It's a college town. They have
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: 140 police officers on their staff. All of them are
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: going to be deployed and working. All of them.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Friday and Saturday in various shifts. Then they brought in
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: cops from Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans to help patrol
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: the square. That's the hub in the middle of downtown Oxford,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: separate from the campus. 19 officers are going to be
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: on horseback. 13 of them are from Mobile in New Orleans,
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: working with the six horseback officers in Oxford.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: They called in the troops, literally.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Yesterday in Baton Rouge, defensive end Princewell Umilevan, he is
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: one of the Ole Miss players who went from Ole
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Miss to LSU when Lane Kiffin left last year in
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: the middle of College Plath.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: You remember that whole shebang.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Well, Old defensive end Princewell, who happens to be the
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: sack leader in college football right now from LSU after
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: transferring from Ole Miss, he was served with a notice
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: of a lawsuit against him by Ole Miss for transferring
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: to LSU. I mean, in the parking lot of the
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: LSU football facility, he's got served legal papers from the
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: breach of contract suit that Ole Miss is filing against LSU.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: And they have every right to do so.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: A player getting served a voice lawsuit by some server. Oh, man.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Have you ever been served?
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I have. My friend of mine in Oakland was serving
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: someone for a lawsuit he had. And he had me
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: serve the papers because he couldn't do it because he
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: was a party in the lawsuit. Oh, right, right, right.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why they hire those external parties.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, I was the external party. And I was
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: in the passenger seat. And we went into the Oakland Hills,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: a beautiful neighborhood above Oakland. And I knocked on this
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: guy's door. So how it works, if you've ever done this,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: either been served or served anyone, if they answer the door,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: you hand in a paper, done. They can try to
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: refuse the papers, but if you actually physically see them
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and contact them, it counts as a legal contact. And
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't take the papers, he can get charged
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: with refusing to be served or whatever the charge is.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: So once he opened the door, I hand the papers.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I just left. I didn't even say anything.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Don't you have to say you've been served?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Maybe I did. I can't remember.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It's been 30 years ago.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is when I lived in Oakland.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: And he looked at me like, why the hell did
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: I open this door? Because I guess what it is, the.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Trick of being served or serving is just don't answer
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: the door or just don't answer whatever. As long as
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: you don't make physical eye or physical contact.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Confirming who you are or anything like that.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Sounds like you've been through this before, too.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I had a restraining order against someone once, and I
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: had to go through an external party to serve that.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: But this is, again, a very long time ago. But, yes,
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: that is a whole thing. And plus, I see it
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: in the movies, Greg. I just see what they hit,
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: They did that quite a bit.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: What was it?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I didn't see that.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: It's very funny, but you have to be prepared for
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: complete idiocracy.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: It's just a funny movie.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Anyway, yeah, I think that was his job, where he
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: would dress up as FedEx agents and things like that
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: because you have to confirm the person's name, physically hand
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: them whatever paperwork it is, and then you say you've
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: been served so that it's confirmation.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I think now that I'm remembering, I did have to
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: say something to make it legal.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: But so an LSU player who was playing for Ole
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Miss last year got served papers in the parking lot
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: of the LSU football facility two days before LSU and
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss played.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: That's what's going on in that game tomorrow night.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Back here close to home, Washington State Beef Commission Football
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Friday rolls on.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to our high school football showcase next.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Archbishop Murphy, the number one team in Class 2A, going
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: to Anacortes, the number three team tonight. Northwest Conference opener,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: one versus three. We'll talk to Archbishop Murphy coach Joe
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Cronin next, then Anacortes coach Justin Portz right after him
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  Speaker 3: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre with you as we are every
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  Speaker 3: And our high school football focus, our showcase that we
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  Speaker 3: do every Friday. Tonight we're showcasing a showdown in Class
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  Speaker 3: 2A of Northwest Conference Opener in Anacortes.
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  Speaker 2: We're No. 3 Anacortes hosting No.
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  Speaker 3: 1 Archbishop Murphy High School Coach Joe Cronin.
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  Speaker 2: Join us live. on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a busy day of work and then coaching,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: so we'll let him go quickly here.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, thanks for joining us. Great to have you on.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, thanks so much for having me. Thanks so much for...
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: Supporting high school sports, high school football.
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  Speaker 2: This is awesome. Yes, sir. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: And what you do, hats off to you and what
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: all you coaches do out there for our youth and
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: the selfless service you do.
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  Speaker 2: Really interesting showdown tonight. A matching of different contrasting styles.
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  Speaker 3: As I've been told, Coach, you have changed Archbishop Murphy
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: to a wing T. I think Bellevue, for those of
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: you here in the Seattle area, closer in than Archbishop
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Murphy up in Mill Creek, Everett. but why you did
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: that how that's going is this the first time you've
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: done this with and the physicality that that takes is
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: that something you're trying to bring to your program something
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: you already had after you had three division one prospects
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: leave after last.
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  Speaker 8: Year yeah so no we've been in the uh the
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: wing t-based offense the past uh this is my fourth
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: year so When we got here, kind of installed it,
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: and we have some of the Bellevue coaches that were
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: there with Butch Goneroth back in the day on staff,
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: and that really helps as well. And I played in
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: the wing tee as well under Paul Lawrence and then
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: coached with Terry Ennis, who was a longtime coach up
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: at Archbishop earlier. But what it allows us to do
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: is control the ball. You don't always need a quarterback
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: in the offense. You can have smaller linemen, get angles
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: on guys, and play with speed. And then if you
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: do have all of the other intangibles receivers and whatnot,
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: you can spread it out a little bit. And so
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: that's kind of where we've morphed it for more of
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: a base wing tee to spread wing tee. So it's
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: been a great system for us.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: And so you, you'd still want to run a throw
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: the football and how many times a game would you
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: on average store the football? Well, I'm a, I'm a
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: defensive guy at heart.
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: I was in a day before with a coach Kohler
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: helping on the defensive side. So, you know, And then
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: Coach Ennis back in the day said, two bad things
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: happen when.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: You throw the football. But we're not like that. We
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: chuck it a little more. We probably chuck.
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: It 12, 15 times a game, maybe a little more,
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: depending on what teams give you. It depends on the
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: game plan. But no, we definitely throw it more than,
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: especially when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Let me ask you, Joe, a bigger picture question,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: if I may.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a game day and you're hyper-focused on
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: tonight's Talons and Anacortes. But The college game has changed
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: so much, and you are a program that does regularly
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: produce Division I college football players. What is your message
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: to them now in this NIL transfer portal era when
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of high school players have been, well, the
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: last few years, frankly, shut out of opportunities that have
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: been transfers have taken instead? Are you telling them to
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: go to perhaps a junior college route or NAIA and
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: relaunch into Division I after that, or What is your message?
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: How has it changed? And even the last couple of years,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: you've been the head coach at Archbishop Murphy.
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: No, we've been fortunate here to have some great athletes
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: and even more importantly, scholastically, some good kids, which opens
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: up your options as well at the next level and
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: same before at O'Day. But the biggest thing talking to
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: kids is just, and I've seen it over and over,
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: go to somewhere where you feel like It's a place
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: you want to be a part of regardless of football.
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: I know that's easy to say because there's money involved,
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: but man, you see people, you know, a kid starts somewhere,
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: then transfer to here. and transfer to there and transfer,
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: which is a rough way to go through college, you know,
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: making connections and whatnot.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: But I think that is the.
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: Most important and the NIL world has changed it a
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: lot as far as, you know, the younger, the smaller
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: programs are, growing kids to you know eventually go to
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: you know d1 um so you can grow at the
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: junior college too so we just kind of tell them
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: go where you see you feel like you're wanted and
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: it feels like a good spot for you to grow
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: and be and then usually everything else.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Works out hmm that's pretty good advice and it's great
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that you have.
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  Speaker 8: I stayed in college for four years and played rugby
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: so you know it wasn't like you know college football but.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Joe, I wanted to ask you, because the wing tee
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: is such a unique offense, especially in this spread, prolific
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: spread offense in football and college high school these.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Days, what is your off-season program? I mean, everyone lifts weights,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: but do you do anything in particular for your style
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: of offense that might be different? You mentioned smaller linemen
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: who are quicker. Do you do agility drills that you
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: maybe wouldn't have done if you weren't doing the wing tee?
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Or is there anything in particular to your training that
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: is based solely on how you run your offense?
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  Speaker 8: I think, you know, we have a phenomenal, we have
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: a strength coach, Archbishop, Coach James. I'll give Jordan James
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: a shout out. And we have the new Lucas Center,
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: which is our weight room, which, you know, Abe Lucas,
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: we honored him last week at the game. He came
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: and Andrew, his brother, is a senior tailback for us. And,
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: I mean, they do a phenomenal, he does a phenomenal
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: job in there as far as training our kids. But, Honestly,
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: it's about quickness and it's about leverage. We're big on stretching,
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: getting low, getting your hips and knees to bend to
• 51:10
  Speaker 8: make sure that we have correct leverage on our blocks.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: And we want, you know, shoulders and on hips. And
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: I will say we still do all the seven on seven.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: We throw the ball.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: So in all of that stuff, and then we have
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: our spread sets. And where that helps us, too, is.
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: helping on the back end of the defense, working on
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: your defense against other teams that run.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: Spread sets and so on and so forth.
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: So I would say the training is similar, but, again,
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: really trying to work on leverage and flexibility, which helps
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: you maintain your health as well.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Do you do yoga as a team or encourage kids
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: to do it?
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: We do.
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  Speaker 2: I knew you would. I knew you would, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Namaste.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Namaste. Namaste. That's right. What do the kids think of that?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Because a lot of them probably never did yoga before this.
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  Speaker 8: No, they don't.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do not.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: And to be honest, like it's nice, you know, to
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: do some of that in a quiet room where you're
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: going to get the mindfulness, you get to think a
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: little bit. But the flexibility is really for us a
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: huge asset in injury prevention. You know, we're a 1A
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: school playing 2A. generally might have a few less kids.
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: So we need to maintain our health throughout the year.
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: So if we can maintain that with flexibility and, and
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: some of the yoga and some of the stretching and
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: all of that, um, to at least prevent some of
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: those injuries, that's big for us.
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: What are you expecting tonight, Joe from Anacortes? They run
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: the spread, the RPOs spread you out on defense. So
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: what's the challenge there?
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's a huge challenge. Um, they, they, they've been,
• 52:50
  Speaker 8: they're a phenomenal program. They're well coached. Um, good football
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: players and a fun atmosphere. I mean, they'll spread you out.
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: They'll put you in space. They always have a great
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: screen game.
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  Speaker 2: They have a good quarterback.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: This is his third year as a starter.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Brian Harrington.
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: Um, yeah, Brian Harrington. And I think he's, you know,
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: I don't know how the commitment stuff works, but I
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: know he has a, an offer at, uh, Washington state
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: to be quarterback there. And he deserves all of it.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: So there you go.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Little coogs.
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: Um, but yeah, yeah, they're going to present lots of problems,
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: especially on the defensive side of the ball, or for us.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: And then defensively, they get after it. They pack the box.
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: They'll run some man cover. They'll bring backers. So it'll
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: be a physical football game, and it'll be a fun atmosphere.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: And your boys at Arch, Mr.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Murray, anybody in particular you'd like us to shout out
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: for their commitment to the program and just the guys
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: you have?
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: Oh, it's just, I mean– You're like your dad.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: It's tough to single them out, right? Yeah.
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: And we're really about, you know, the assistant coaches are
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: awesome and the players are awesome. And we're big on
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: community and coaching by community and no egos.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: And same on the team.
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: You know, it's a it's a really no ego group,
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: a lot of selflessness among the group. But this senior
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: class is special because for me personally, I came in
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: in their freshman year. So they've been part of this
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: program since I've been there and to see them grow
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: and to see them mature. and all of that stuff.
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: That's kind of what coaching is about. And, and the
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: way they play kind of together, we're about playing together.
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: And there's one, you know, one unit on both sides
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: of the ball. And, and it's just a fun, fun group.
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: I don't want to give anybody, you know, like an
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: individual shout out, but I said, as a group playing team,
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: we just, we have a really, really, really good group
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: of kids.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: That's what makes it fun. That's, That's cool.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: And again, hats off to what you do, Joe and
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: the Archbishop Murphy community. Good luck tonight. Thanks for joining
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: us on a game day. I know it's busy for you.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I really appreciate the time, Joe. Good luck in everything
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: you do.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 54:55
  Speaker 8: And thanks for doing this too. I'm also, you know,
• 54:57
  Speaker 8: I know you talked to coach Bartle, uh, with the
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: president of the coach association. I'm the vice president. All
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: you do for the association and all this and promoting
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: high school sports.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: It's, It's awesome.
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: So thank you for doing that.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Joe. Thank you very much, sir. Good
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: luck tonight and the rest of the season. Thanks, Joe.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Coach Joe Cronin of Archbishop Murphy High School, the No.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: 1 team in Class 2A, playing up. They're a 1A
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: school by enrollment, but as good as they are, they
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: play up to 2A.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: The No.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: 3 team in Class 2A is also in the Northwest
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Conference with Archbishop Murphy, and they're hosting Archbishop Murphy Night's Anacortes.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: We're going to go live to Anacortes right now, where
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Justin Portz is the athletic director and also.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: The head football coach there. And if I'm not mistaken,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Coach Port, you are also a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Navy.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: That's correct.
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's correct. You did a little research.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: I'm a reporter. That's what I do. First of all,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: hats off to you, sir. Thank you for serving our country.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: What was your specialty in the Navy before we get
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: to the football?
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: I did aviation ordnance for 27 years.
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: 27 years.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Is that how you got out to the side of
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: the neck of the woods?
• 56:04
  Speaker 9: I did my last tour at Whidbey Island out here
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: in Oak Harbor, and we just liked it here and
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: had kids, school-aged kids, and just decided this was a
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: good place to drop anchor.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Wow. Tell me, sir, what you do now for Anacortes
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: High School and the football team, your military lessons and experiences,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: how do they apply to leading young men in football?
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, in the military, coming into it as
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: a young man, and then you kind of work through
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: the ranks, and you're leading young people from all over
• 56:36
  Speaker 9: the country, every type of diverse group from everywhere, every
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: kind of background you could imagine. And so when you
• 56:43
  Speaker 9: come into the high school setting, it's really no different.
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: It's young people that are trying to figure things out
• 56:47
  Speaker 9: in life, and if you can find a way to
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: point them in the right direction and help them be
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: successful some way, then I think you're doing a pretty
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: good job.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Well, hats off to you again. Go Army, beat Navy, sir.
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: Right on.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Well, tonight's game, it's a clash of styles that are
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: completely different.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: You, as I understand, spread RPO, really spread them out
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: and do a modern offense where Joe's got Archbishop Murphy
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: in a wing tee, power set, physicality.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: The clash of styles.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: Tell me how, as a coach, X's and O's wise,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: that you prepare your kids to see something they never
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: see in practice.
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, it's hard to, I mean, I can't say
• 57:26
  Speaker 9: it's hard. It's impossible to give the right scout look
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: because you're never going to run it as good as
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: the other team does. And so, you know, there's some
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: ways around that. We try to just focus on getting
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: lined up the right way is the most important thing
• 57:39
  Speaker 9: when you play a wing tee team.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: And if they move.
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: Guys around a little bit, you know, if they catch
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: out of alignment, they're winning before the ball snaps. So
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: we just really focus on the basics, like get lined
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: up right, understand what your assignment is, and at the
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: snap of the ball, we're just playing football. And And
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: if we do that well, we've got a chance. And
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: so we really try to focus on that. Our scout
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: team will just line up and snap a ball, maybe
• 58:01
  Speaker 9: move a couple guys around. But we don't pretend that
• 58:03
  Speaker 9: our scout can run their offense like they can. So
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: we don't spend a lot of time really trying to
• 58:08
  Speaker 9: do that. I wish we could, but it's kind of
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: a waste of time. So we focus on the other stuff.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: I have to assume that eye discipline is something you've
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: been stressing this week and not peeking into the backfield
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: and trying to guess.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Where the ball is and just beating your man and
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: doing your assignments.
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you got to do that. You have to, you know,
• 58:25
  Speaker 9: there's a lot of misdirection. And if you get caught
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: up in that, you're chasing ghosts. And, you know, they
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: do that well. So, yeah, just being real disciplined and
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: guys just doing their job, not trying to do too much.
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: We talk about that a lot, too. If 11 guys
• 58:38
  Speaker 9: do their job, it makes sense. Um, it makes it
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: harder on the other team. They kind of count on
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: one or two guys, maybe, you know, trying to do
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: a little extra and that's when you get out of
• 58:46
  Speaker 9: position and, and, uh, big plays happen. So, um, you know,
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: they've had a lot of really big plays the last
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: two years, um, explosive after explosive. So obviously, um, teams
• 58:56
  Speaker 9: that statistically have explosive plays when had a high percentage.
• 59:00
  Speaker 9: So if we can limit explosive plays and just kind
• 59:02
  Speaker 9: of make them, make them earn it, if they're going
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: to do it, make them earn it. And, uh, we
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: can do that. And we feel like we've got a
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: fighting chance.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: We're talking to Justin Portz. He's the athletic director. and
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: head football coach at Anacortes High School, the No. 3
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: team in Class 2A, who tonight hosts Archbishop Murray, the No.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: 1 team in 2A, in a huge Northwest Conference showdown.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: We're talking here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline on a
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission football Friday on 93.3 KJRFM. Justin,
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: let me ask you about your quarterback, Ryan Harrington. He's
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: a Class of 2027, but already committed to the Washington
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: State University Cougars. How much of, I'm assuming, much of
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: what you do revolves around his talent and throwing the ball?
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 59:38
  Speaker 9: Special player. You know, there's a lot of stuff that
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: we do that we couldn't do without him, and we
• 59:45
  Speaker 9: put a lot on his plate and really push him.
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  Speaker 9: He wants it, so we try to push him as
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  Speaker 9: much as we can to be the coach on the field.
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  Speaker 9: We give him the keys to the car. He can
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  Speaker 9: change plays. He can audible. He checks in and out
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  Speaker 9: of stuff, and um, pass protection and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 9: And so we can't always do that, but with him
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  Speaker 9: we can. And so, um, you know, we go, we
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  Speaker 9: go as far as he can take us and we
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  Speaker 9: surround him with a lot of guys that work really
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  Speaker 9: hard and, uh, don't want to let each other down.
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  Speaker 9: So it's like, everybody kind of knows their role on
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  Speaker 9: the team and they're going to go out there tonight
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  Speaker 9: and give, you know, full effort and they're going to
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  Speaker 9: sell out for four quarters of football for each other. And,
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  Speaker 9: and obviously with Ryan, um, Getting the snap every play,
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  Speaker 9: when your best player's holding the football, you've got a
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  Speaker 9: chance to probably do something special.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned giving your quarterback, Ryan Harrington, a lot of latitude.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? Is that either or? Is it
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage? Does he have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: change any play to any play, or what parameters do
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  Speaker 2: you give him?
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  Speaker 6: He does.
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  Speaker 9: He, he has full autonomy. And the only thing that, uh,
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  Speaker 9: I'll ask him is if he changes a play, he's
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  Speaker 9: got to have a good answer.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 6: And so it can't.
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  Speaker 9: Just be because I like that play better or whatever.
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  Speaker 9: He's got to tell me why, you know, I saw,
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  Speaker 9: I thought the safety was down or I thought the,
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  Speaker 9: you know, the, they shaded into a inside shade. I
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  Speaker 9: thought I could, you know, do whatever. So he's, he's
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  Speaker 9: checking coverage and he's checking alignment in the box. And
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  Speaker 9: it's a lot of stuff for a high school quarterback,
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  Speaker 9: but he's proven that he can do it. Um, and yeah,
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  Speaker 9: and he has full, he has our full menu of
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  Speaker 9: plays and, uh, And I just, he'll come to the
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  Speaker 9: sideline and he'll just say, hey, what'd you see there?
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  Speaker 9: And why'd you change the play? And he always has
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  Speaker 9: a good answer. And so I trust him, especially his
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  Speaker 9: senior year, to go out there and try to get
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  Speaker 9: us in the right look. So we're at least not,
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  Speaker 9: it's a numbers game. So we're just trying not to
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  Speaker 9: give ourselves a disadvantage before the ball snaps.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Portz, tell us, those of us who have never
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  Speaker 2: been to Anacortes High School for a football game, the environment,
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere that that town comes out for on Friday nights.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, if you go back historically, there's been
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  Speaker 9: a spread of some good teams here and there over history,
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  Speaker 9: but traditionally it hasn't been a team that had a
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  Speaker 9: lot of success. So in the past few years, football
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  Speaker 9: has had a resurgence, and the community has really rallied
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  Speaker 9: behind that and come out to support. And this being
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  Speaker 9: our first home game and then having to have Archbishop
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  Speaker 9: Murphy play, the, the, the defending state champs and number
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  Speaker 9: one ranked team coming to town. I'm sure everybody's cleared
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  Speaker 9: their schedule for Friday night. I expect to have a
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  Speaker 9: packed house here and it's a cool environment, especially early
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  Speaker 9: in the year when the weather's nice, you can see
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  Speaker 9: a little glimpse of the Bay. You can see the
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  Speaker 9: water from a top of our stadium and it kind
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  Speaker 9: of sits down into a bowl a little bit. So
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  Speaker 9: the noise even kind of echoes over the state. It's
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  Speaker 9: just a great place to play football and really nothing
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  Speaker 9: better than like September football at Anacortes is pretty special.
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  Speaker 3: Justin, I have to ask you, and at the risk
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  Speaker 3: of being somewhat controversial, your feeling about being a public
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  Speaker 3: high school competing with private schools who have had advantages
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  Speaker 3: in recruiting and other things in Washington State. Unlike California
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  Speaker 3: and other schools, the private schools play in the public
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  Speaker 3: school leagues and they mix.
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  Speaker 2: Are you cool with that, the way the system is?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Are you and a lot of coaches potentially looking down
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  Speaker 2: the line at maybe changing that and separating the schools?
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I focused a lot of energy on it last
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  Speaker 9: year because I just really was feeling like it's a
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  Speaker 9: big advantage. At the 2A level especially, you've got Anacortes
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  Speaker 9: kids who are a small school, and they all live
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  Speaker 9: within an eight-mile radius of the high school here. They
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  Speaker 9: work really hard, and we have a pretty good team.
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  Speaker 9: The team we had last year was just probably one
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  Speaker 9: of the best 2A teams probably historically ever. They had
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  Speaker 9: multiple Division I kids all over the place. So it
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  Speaker 9: really just felt like there's no shot. And so it
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  Speaker 9: is hard as a public school to feel like you're
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  Speaker 9: kind of playing against different rules. There's some different rules
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  Speaker 9: and advantages that the private schools get. But, you know,
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  Speaker 9: no blame to the players that want to go there.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, they've got great facilities and they're winning. So,
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  Speaker 9: you know, if you're in the 50-mile radius, which is
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  Speaker 9: where they can pull kids from, In the North Seattle-Everett area,
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  Speaker 9: there's millions of kids in that area to pull from,
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  Speaker 9: and they go there for whatever reasons to have a
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  Speaker 9: better life. advantage or or uh opportunity for themselves and
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  Speaker 9: um but i i do think that the california model
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  Speaker 9: or texas model something like that would probably be better
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  Speaker 9: let the private schools play each other and in the
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  Speaker 9: playoffs they can still schedule non-league games with with two
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  Speaker 9: a's three a's whatever and you know they like last
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  Speaker 9: year they kind of went through and blew everybody out
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  Speaker 9: all season and they didn't really have a game until
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  Speaker 9: tom water gave them a little bit of pushback in
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 9: the state championship but they still won by multiple scores
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  Speaker 9: and i just don't know that that's a I mean,
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  Speaker 9: winning is fun, but it's probably not– it's more fun
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  Speaker 9: to be challenged and then win, and I just don't
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  Speaker 9: know that that's the experience those kids are getting to
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  Speaker 9: just win. That's 50 to nothing at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, tonight's your opportunity, Coach, to have your shot. And
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  Speaker 2: you got the Ryan Harrington and Anna Cordes High School
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  Speaker 2: going against Archbishop Murphy.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you joining us on a game day, a
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  Speaker 3: big game day for you. And hats off, sir. You've
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  Speaker 3: spent 27 years serving our country. And now you're spending
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  Speaker 3: your post-military career serving your community and children and young
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  Speaker 3: adults of that. And for that, sir, we salute you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate you. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Justin Portz, head coach, athletic director at Anacortes High School,
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  Speaker 3: where tonight they're hosting number three. Anacortes is hosting number
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  Speaker 3: one defending state champion Archbishop Murphy. in a showdown in
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  Speaker 3: Class 2A in the Northwest Conference on our High School
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  Speaker 1: Hey Greg, come on over for the big game Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I'm making.
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  Speaker 6: Hawk dip and pork sliders with some pendergast slaw.
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  Speaker 2: Go Hawks! I'm a little busy, but I appreciate the invite. Slaw?
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  Speaker 2: What's in the slaw, I wonder?
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like a good invite. I don't know what hawk
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  Speaker 4: slaw is.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean chopped up bird?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, no, especially because bird nerdy over here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: because that would either be an osprey or an auger hawk,
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  Speaker 5: and we don't want to ruin any of those.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they endangered species, too, or protected species or something?
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  Speaker 5: They were, except I think the osprey got taken off of.
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  Speaker 4: The endangered list.
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  Speaker 2: We are speaking, and you are listening to a bird savant. Nerd.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen The Big Ear? No. That's Jessamyn McIntyre.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think Owen, wasn't it Owen Wilson?
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  Speaker 2: Owen Wilson's in that. He's the bad guy.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves his pregnant wife at a moment's notice to go
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  Speaker 3: chase birds across North America. Well, part of the scene
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  Speaker 3: comes through the Northwest, right? And there's a ferry terminal.
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  Speaker 3: Every time we've watched it, our kids really like that movie.
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  Speaker 3: And we're trying to figure out what ferry terminal that is.
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  Speaker 3: Do you happen to know?
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  Speaker 2: I don't. Remember that Owen Wilson pulls a fast one
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  Speaker 2: and cuts the line and gets on the ferry and
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  Speaker 2: leaves Steve Martin in the dust?
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  Speaker 4: And you are right. Jack Black.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Jack Black and Steve Martin were trying to get on
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  Speaker 3: a ferry together. They teamed up for this birdwatching big
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  Speaker 3: and got on the ferry ahead of everybody. Does the
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  Speaker 3: very un-Northwest thing and gets on a ferry. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: always trying to remember what ferry. Think about what ferry
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  Speaker 3: that is. It looks like the San Juan Islands, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: I would assume.
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  Speaker 3: I've done a little bit of ferries in my time
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  Speaker 2: back to college football. Not only that, I'm going back
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  Speaker 2: to the Big Sky Conference. Montana is at Oregon State.
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  Speaker 2: The late, late game Saturday night. I mean, 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: Pacific, like 11 o'clock is going to end at 2,
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  Speaker 3: 2.33 o'clock Eastern time in the morning. Montana, you know
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  Speaker 3: the Grizz, right? They're number three in the football championship subdivision.
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  Speaker 3: They're always top two, three. They're in Montana State. The
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  Speaker 3: Bobcats are just rolling over there right now. Montana has
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  Speaker 3: beaten this season Southern Utah 28-21. They beat Drake out
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  Speaker 3: of Des Moines, Iowa 45-10. And they beat Utah Tech
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  Speaker 3: last week 35-14. They're ranked number three in the country,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, in FCS. Oregon State, we know about
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  Speaker 3: their story. Them and the Cougs both just absolutely left
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  Speaker 3: behind by the Pac-12. And now they're trying to forge
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  Speaker 3: their own new conference and reform Pac-12. Well, in unranked play,
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  Speaker 3: they play two nationally ranked teams. They lost 33-10 at Houston,
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  Speaker 3: and they lost 35-24 to Texas Tech. Montana is getting
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  Speaker 3: 17.5 points at Oregon State. Do we really think that
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  Speaker 3: Oregon State is three touchdowns better than Montana?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's an FCS school, but here we go again.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Washington getting 43 at Washington just because they're a
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  Speaker 2: And Montana is absolutely not a tomato can. FCS or not, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be happy to take 17.5 points, the Grizz on
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  Speaker 3: the road at the Beavers in Corvallis Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: Montana plus 17 and a half. I'm going big sky
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  Speaker 3: this week in a big way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you are.
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  Speaker 3: Two of my three picks. But I love the Grizz.
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  Speaker 3: I love the program. I love the stadium on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the hill. I love everything about Montana football.
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  Speaker 3: The Ryan Divishes going down to Corvallis. Yeah, give me
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  Speaker 3: 17 and a half in the Grizz, please.
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  Speaker 2: The whirling Divish. Whirling Divishes. Maybe Brian. Well, Ryan's in.
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  Speaker 2: He'll probably be at T-Mobile Park on Saturday. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be in Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Rockies, right?
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  Speaker 2: Horsefield.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about a guy who deserves a salute. Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Divish and Adam Jude for the Seattle Times beat writers
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  Speaker 3: for putting up with the season that they've had to
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  Speaker 3: cover this year with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way that is any Monica Mopizzi.
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  Speaker 2: They should win a Pointer Institute Award or something for that.
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  Speaker 2: Grizz are getting 17 and a half.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying give me those points because I think the
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  Speaker 3: Grizz are going to lose by fewer than 17 or
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  Speaker 2: All right, I see a couple. Go Navy, beat Army.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even say that. It's just like foreign. It
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  Speaker 2: barely comes out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 5: That's like me saying something about UW, which I won't say.
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  Speaker 4: It feels bad in my mouth.
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  Speaker 3: 425 says, I don't think you've talked Mariners the whole show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I just ruined that. Man, there's like 12 exclamation points
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  Speaker 3: on that thank you in all caps.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's been a rough go for the
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  Speaker 4: fans this year.
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  Speaker 3: There are a few on here that says they appreciated
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: us bringing up the private school versus public school and
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: the private school advantages. Great question about the private school advantage.
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  Speaker 3: Let's keep beating that drum from 253. Jim from the 425,
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  Speaker 3: friend of the show. Thank you for bringing up the
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  Speaker 3: private versus public issue. Go Anacortes. The 206, that's actually
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  Speaker 3: the one who prompted the question from me. I read
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  Speaker 3: it on the text line. 206, it'd be great if
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  Speaker 3: Washington moved the California system of separating private and public schools.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Look O'Day last year with one of their running backs.
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  Speaker 2: We won't get into that.
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  Speaker 3: Archbishop Murphy with three Division I prospects. Completely unfair to
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  Speaker 3: those schools that have to adhere to a geographic territory.
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  Speaker 3: And you heard the coach talk about he's got kids
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  Speaker 3: just from Anacortes. Now, WIA has changed where you can
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  Speaker 3: have one free transfer, but it's still supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: for some kind of familiar reason. You're not, by the
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  Speaker 3: spirit of the law, not supposed to just move around
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  Speaker 3: to find a school, but that's where it's headed, especially
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: with NIL money coming to high school football. But you
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: heard the coach talk about 50-mile radius for private schools.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: Let me just say that's a soft radius in practical application.
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  Speaker 3: We'll just put it that way. But yeah, Archbishop Murphy,
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  Speaker 3: a 1A school by enrollment, 2A school by athletics and football,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: the number one team, the defending state champion, had been
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: steamrolling teams. You remember a few years ago, they were
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: canceling games because Archbishop Murphy was winning 60-0 at halftime.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: And opponents were just refusing to play.
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  Speaker 2: This was 10, 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Anacortes hosts them tonight, the three versus one. There's
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  Speaker 3: a ton of other big games tonight. The Fish Bowl,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: Gig Harbor and Peninsula. I'm at Bellevue versus Linden Christian,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: the 1A Linden Christian Power, stepping up to the number
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: one team in 3A. I'm officiating that game tonight. We
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: got Glacier Peak and Bothell. I think that might have
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: been last night, actually. A lot of great high school
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: football going on now as the league play starts to begin.
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  Speaker 3: Up next on our Washington State Beef Commission Football Friday,
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  Speaker 3: Ian Furness is back from Puckland, back from Kraken Training Camp.
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  Speaker 2: He'll join us next to tell us what's on his show.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: I think Danny O'Neill is on on Fridays. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to you next on 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to a Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We got a text on the text line from the
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  Speaker 3: 206 saying that we'd rather listen to talk about the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: Mariners than high school football.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're an idiot. I don't think that's even possible
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: right now. You're just an idiot.
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  Speaker 11: Why would you want to hear about the Mariners? We've
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 11: been talking about them and their follies for the last
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 11: five months. I'm going to just say this. I love
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 11: the high school segment you guys are doing. I appreciate that.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 10: Last week, my buddy Steve Alec was on with Benton. Steve,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: I've known Steve forever at Liberty. He does an incredible
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 10: job there building a program up. But I was talking
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 10: to somebody today about the Seattle Times. And God, I
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 10: remember the days when Mason Kelly was working there and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 10: just did an incredible, and like, you know, the News
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 10: Tribune down South and what used to be the Everett
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 10: Herald up North would kind of handle Snohomish County, Pierce
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 10: County and stuff like that. But all the schools in
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 10: Seattle and on the East side, that, you know, are really,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 10: they're just ignored by the local newspaper of record now.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 10: And I think it's the saddest thing going on because,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 10: you know, I was always told from people in the
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 10: newspaper business that some of their most read stories were
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 10: either back in the days of people buying papers where
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 10: people just buy Saturday papers.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: That's right. To see what their kid did. And now
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: we don't even have Saturday papers. You don't have Saturday papers.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 10: Or even in the digital era, it was the high
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 10: school stuff got a lot of, I just don't get it. And,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 10: you know, it's kind of, to me, Greg, like college football,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: that it's a cumulative thing. Like 14 million, I think,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 10: watched Ohio State, Texas last week. But if you add
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 10: all the college football up across the country, it's like 50,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 10: 60 million, right? High school football, there's 5,000 people at
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 10: this stadium, 4,000 people all tonight on a Friday night
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 10: or last night on a Thursday or tomorrow. In every
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 10: little locale, every community. I know for us, it's a
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 10: huge deal. Mariners, if they were in it, that would
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 10: make sense.
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  Speaker 6: They're not.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, am I the only person that knows
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: where Merritt, B.C. is? Yes. I've driven through it, but
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: I can only remember it on its freeway sign. And
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: say it with me, Penticton. I can't say it. Is
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: it Penticton? Penticton.
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  Speaker 10: What is in Penticton besides that festival? Well, it's right
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 10: on the lake. It's in the Okanagan. It's right next
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 10: to it. It's about 30 miles from Kelowna, I believe.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: It's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 10: That's where the Canucks have their training camp. That's where
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 10: they have their training camp. We used to vacation up
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 10: there as a family. Yeah, well, I mean, Canadian family.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 10: So yeah, we'd go up there.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: But it was Penticton and the Kelowna and Lake Okanagan
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: and stuff. Unbelievable. You ever heard of Ogopogo? No. I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: have a sea monster up there in the lake.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I got a sea monster. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 10: Next time you see my son, ask him about, hey,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 10: is it true that one time you guys were on a,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 10: what do you call those, Ski-Doos or whatever?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jet Ski. Yeah, Jet Ski is in the middle
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: of the lake.
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  Speaker 10: You were losing your mind because your dad wiped out
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 10: and you thought the Ogopogo was going to get you.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: You were like eight, nine.
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  Speaker 5: So this is like our own version of Nessie over
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 5: here in the North America.
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  Speaker 10: And if you don't think Ogopogo is real, then we're
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 10: not going to have this conversation anymore.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: Sure, it's real.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 10: I grew up afraid to swim in that lake. And
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 10: I love freshwater and saltwater swimming. And I was afraid
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 10: because that damn Ogopogo was there. That thing is scary
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 10: and he's still up there somewhere.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: So, yeah. Ogopogo. Look it up. Google it. You'll have fun.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: Legends never die.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: 253 says, Mr.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: Wallachs was my junior high baseball coach 30 years ago.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: Great coach and teacher.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 10: Because you did Aberdeen-Hokiam tonight, right?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you did? What did you do? Tonight
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: we're doing Archbishop Murphy and Anacortes, three versus one in 2A.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: But we're trying to spread it around. I know Puyallup-Blake-Stevens
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: is the big game in the state, but we've done Blake-Stevens.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Spread it around. I love what you guys are doing.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 10: I absolutely love what you guys are doing. Friday, I
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 10: think it's Danny O Day, right? Danny O'Neill at 120.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 10: Greg Cosell at 1220. Oh, there we go.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: What does the film say? That's all I can tell you. Jess,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: that's all I can tell you.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: Ask him what the film says about Jadarian Price and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: how many touches he should get.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: We're going to get into that. You know, Love didn't
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: have a lot of touches either.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: No, he didn't.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Both Notre Dame running backs are being kept in bubble
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: wrap early on. Tyler Algier had more carries.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so we'll talk about that with Cosell and preview
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 10: that game. And then 2 o'clock, Rob Rang will join us,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 10: courtesy of Frelli's Pizza, and we'll... Talk about the big
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 10: college games this weekend and who the players are we're
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 10: watching for in those. There's one pretty significant game down
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 10: in Oxford, I do believe. So, yeah, we've got a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 10: lot coming up on Football Friday. That's Ian Furness next.
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  Speaker 6: 12-3.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIndoe. Thanks for listening. I'm off to
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Bellevue High School to do Lyndon Christian Bellevue after Seahawks.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: I'm going to find out. Nicky Minori's status. They're going
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: to list him as questionable in a little gamesmanship. And
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: then I'm headed tomorrow to Arizona. I'll be broadcasting Monday
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: from Phoenix postgame of the Seahawks and Cardinals, covering that,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: of course, for the News Tribune as well.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Ian's up next on 93.3. Have a
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: great weekend, 93.3 KJR.