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10-6 H4: Rick Neuheisel Joins, Thirst for Hirst & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: As part of our continuing in-depth college football coverage, it's
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  Speaker 1: time for our weekly visit with college football analyst and
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  Speaker 1: former head coach Rick Neuheisel. Brought to you by Taco
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  Speaker 1: Time on your home for college football Saturdays. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Taco Time, you are delicious. And oh, Rick Neuheisel.
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  Speaker 2: Your analysis is needed. We have much to discuss. Joining
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  Speaker 2: us now on the program, former UW head coach and,
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  Speaker 2: of course, top analyst. I'm going to say top analyst
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  Speaker 2: at CBS College Football coverage on the weekends. Rick Neuheisel
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  Speaker 2: joins us here on the radio program. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: How the heck are you, man?
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  Speaker 2: Doing all right.
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  Speaker 3: Good to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tell your whole crew I have you ranked number one.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else is number two or lower there at CBS Sports.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to share that with them today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what Chuck says.
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  Speaker 2: And he really knows what he's talking about, crew.
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  Speaker 3: And he is absolutely the authority.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for finally acknowledging it, Coach. All right, well,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to discuss. First and foremost, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: not just from a personal standpoint, but Friday night, new stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Northwestern Wildcats are the real deal. What on earth? Give
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  Speaker 2: us an idea. You were there in the building. You
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  Speaker 2: got to see that incredible environment. You got to hang
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  Speaker 2: out with your son a little bit. That must have
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  Speaker 2: been a great Friday night for you. It was a.
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  Speaker 3: Great Friday night. Thank you for allowing me to talk
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  Speaker 3: about it a little bit. First of all, congratulations to
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  Speaker 3: Northwestern and the Ryan family, Pat Ryan Sr. I think
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  Speaker 3: the cost of the deal was $ 1. 4 billion. You imagine
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  Speaker 3: an alum just coming in and saying, here's what we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do for you and building a stadium for
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  Speaker 3: you like that. And yet that's exactly what took place.
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  Speaker 3: I got to talk to all the Ryans. They're so
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  Speaker 3: proud of it, and as well they should be. It's
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  Speaker 3: an absolute beautiful place to take in a college football game. But, Chuck,
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  Speaker 3: what makes it so unique is what they call the
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  Speaker 3: Wildcat Wall, and it is going to be the envy
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  Speaker 3: of every stadium in America in terms of where you
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  Speaker 3: put your students. They have the students right in the
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  Speaker 3: end zone, and there are no seats. It's standing room.
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  Speaker 3: And you stand, but there are drink holders so the
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  Speaker 3: kids can have their beverages. You know, everybody wants a
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  Speaker 3: juice cup. So you've got your beverages, but they have
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  Speaker 3: a camera on this wall the entire time so that
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  Speaker 3: the kids can sit there and watch themselves on the
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  Speaker 3: big screen. And then they put the president on the
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  Speaker 3: big screen in the midst of like 10 students, him
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  Speaker 3: doing the wildcat claw thing. I guess the president's name
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  Speaker 3: is Ming and they go Ming mixing it up. And
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  Speaker 3: they had the music playing. I'm like, this is too cool.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously it was heightened by the fact that Northwestern
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  Speaker 3: played well, ran for over 400 yards against Penn state
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  Speaker 3: and won the game kind of going away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great atmosphere. That was a fun
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  Speaker 2: Friday night watch. No question about it. And Look, 413
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  Speaker 2: rushing yards against Penn State, for goodness sake. That's pretty
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  Speaker 2: proud of having a good defense and its history. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what are we talking about with this 3-1 start for
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  Speaker 2: the Wildcats? I mean, is this going to be a
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  Speaker 2: playoff sleeper this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, pump the brakes. First of all, that was fun.
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  Speaker 3: I knew when they were at like 330 and Chip
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  Speaker 3: had probably two more possessions that he was going to
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  Speaker 3: go for 400. I knew, I know my man, he
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  Speaker 3: was going to do that and he got it done.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to remember that Matt Campbell, the new
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  Speaker 3: head coach at Penn State, brought 24 players with him
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  Speaker 3: from Iowa State. So rather than playing Penn State last night,
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  Speaker 3: they were really playing Iowa State. And so I just,
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  Speaker 3: I think Penn State's a little bit overrated. Their schedule's
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  Speaker 3: soft by Big Ten standards this year. We'll see how
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  Speaker 3: it turns out. But Northwestern needed that win because they
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  Speaker 3: still have Oregon on the road and Ohio State on
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  Speaker 3: the road. And so they got some heavy lifting ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, Indiana had 329 yards rushing this weekend
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  Speaker 2: as well. So, I mean, I know you like to
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  Speaker 2: throw the football, but man, that's got to be fun
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  Speaker 2: as a coach where it's like, oh, they can't stop
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  Speaker 2: us and we don't have to risk anything through the air.
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  Speaker 2: There are a few cases of that over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's no question. And when you get a running game,
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  Speaker 3: it is up to the head coach to realize you've
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  Speaker 3: got them down. You have to put them out. You
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  Speaker 3: have to keep Punishing that. That was something I had
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  Speaker 3: to learn as a head coach because obviously I'm a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback guy. Love to throw it. Love to scheme up
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  Speaker 3: passes and so forth. And when we were at Washington,
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  Speaker 3: when we got that veer going, we knew we had him.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun to put him away with that Marcus Tuyas,
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  Speaker 3: the soap bowl-led offense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, UW has struggled a little bit with their running
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  Speaker 2: game this year as we've discussed the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It did look better. in Los Angeles on Saturday, and
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  Speaker 2: it looked like a game. I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 2: here and say that they outplayed the Trojans, but they
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  Speaker 2: certainly could have won that game on Saturday against the Trojans.
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  Speaker 2: What kept them from doing it? What did you think
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  Speaker 2: of that fourth quarter, if you got to see it,
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  Speaker 2: of the many opportunities they had and just couldn't come
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  Speaker 2: up with a big play?
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  Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, you know, you go down the field and
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  Speaker 3: then you get that sack late in the game. That's
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  Speaker 3: a protection issue. The quarterback has to know that. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to– I thought it was a really,
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  Speaker 3: really good game plan and they were right there to
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  Speaker 3: win the game. The sack fumble was, you know, devastating
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  Speaker 3: to give, you know, seven points away because you take
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  Speaker 3: that off the board, you're flying home.
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  Speaker 2: With a victory.
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  Speaker 3: Jed had figured out some answers. They ran the ball respectively.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a juggernaut, but you're playing against USC, who's
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of store-bought defensive linemen. It was no
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  Speaker 3: shame in the performance. Unfortunately, it's the second loss in
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  Speaker 3: a row, and now here comes Iowa, and you better
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  Speaker 3: be ready to play in the trenches again. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is just the way it is. I still think
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  Speaker 3: they would benefit by moving the pocket more than just
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  Speaker 3: dropping back. And we'll see if we incorporate that more
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  Speaker 3: in the coming weeks because it'll take some pressure off
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  Speaker 3: both the front, your offensive line, and take some pressure
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  Speaker 3: off the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to bring something up along those
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  Speaker 2: lines because I know that Jed is hesitant to just
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  Speaker 2: use DeMond as a running back weapon. because of his
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  Speaker 2: size and he doesn't want him to get beat up.
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  Speaker 2: That said, he seems to be taking too much abuse
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  Speaker 2: in the passing game. So I think I'd run him
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  Speaker 2: more and then figure out a scheme. I mean, for
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  Speaker 2: as quick and fast and small as he is, he's
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  Speaker 2: not the most elusive quarterback in the pocket. He gets
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  Speaker 2: sacked a lot. And I'm wondering if he'd be safer
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  Speaker 2: in the running game than he is right now in
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  Speaker 2: the passing game.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting sacked a lot in the pocket because everybody
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  Speaker 3: knows that that's where he's going to be. He's going
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  Speaker 3: to be seven yards behind center. And the other complication
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  Speaker 3: for you as an offensive coach is that he's five,
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  Speaker 3: nine and a half. So when you're trying to create
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  Speaker 3: a place for him to get rid of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: some of the timing aspects of those throws become much
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  Speaker 3: more difficult because he can't see. When you're standing right there,
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  Speaker 3: moving the pocket gets him out on the places where
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  Speaker 3: his vision is not obscured and you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: hold the ball a little longer. So I just think
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  Speaker 3: that has to be incorporated a little bit more. Jed
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  Speaker 3: knows this. It's not like I'm telling him something he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know. He's just trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: do it and also accommodate what he has up front
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  Speaker 3: in terms of protection.
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  Speaker 2: How much fun is it going to be Friday night
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  Speaker 2: on Montlake? taking on a cool brand, a really cool
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  Speaker 2: brand like the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope they pack the place because there's no
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  Speaker 3: home field advantage better than Washington. That was one of
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  Speaker 3: my favorite things about being there. When, you know, Oregon
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  Speaker 3: came to town, they were going to be loud and proud.
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  Speaker 3: And that was certainly the case when we beat Miami
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  Speaker 3: at home. I mean, it's a 12th man. I know
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks, coined the phrase, but I would tell you
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  Speaker 3: that that happened a lot more on Montlake before the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks got going with it over the years with Don James.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to have some of that go my
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  Speaker 3: way as well.
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  Speaker 2: How good is Iowa? What would be your analysis of them?
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  Speaker 3: Iowa is... consistent as any program in the country. They
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  Speaker 3: are not going to fool you. You're going to know
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  Speaker 3: exactly where they are, but they are going to make
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  Speaker 3: you beat them. And if you don't, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get beat. They are going to play great run defense.
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  Speaker 3: They are going to try to keep you in front
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  Speaker 3: of them. It was kind of amazing because Phil Parker
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  Speaker 3: is their defensive coordinator. He's a Broyles Award winner, which
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  Speaker 3: is given to the best assistant coach in the country.
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  Speaker 3: He's been doing it forever. he's for jj smith uh
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  Speaker 3: the buckeye receiver to have over 200 yards receiving against
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  Speaker 3: them was eye-opening and yet when you watch the film
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  Speaker 3: they had him covered they just kid just made plays
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  Speaker 3: that were just really neat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he can be stopped. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they just completely got Jeremiah Smith on Saturday. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if Mike McDonald would have an answer for Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 2: He might be the best receiver I've seen in college football.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you put him? I mean, he's doing the
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  Speaker 2: Heisman pose in week number five of the season, for
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  Speaker 2: goodness sake, and I think that he's on track for
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  Speaker 2: getting that done.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's an old movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: This Smith is going to New York. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: he's going to win it. But he's going because he's unique.
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  Speaker 3: He's shattered every Ohio State receiving record. And think about
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  Speaker 3: the different receivers that have been there, including your Seahawks,
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Smith, and Jigba, right? I mean, you've got Marvin
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  Speaker 3: Harrison out there. You've got a slew of them. Chris
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  Speaker 3: Olavi was on TV last night. This guy shattered them
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  Speaker 3: all in two and a half seasons. This guy is
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  Speaker 3: that good. So Iowa had their hands full there, but
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  Speaker 3: they are going to make you beat them. You cannot
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  Speaker 3: play turnover. You can't play careless against Iowa and find
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  Speaker 3: a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel with us here. Thanks to Taco Time on
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Chuck in the mornings and
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  Speaker 2: plenty of good games this weekend, including one on CBS,
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  Speaker 2: which you'll be previewing, and that is UCLA versus Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: They're both coming off bye weeks. We knew Oregon was
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  Speaker 2: going to be good this year. We didn't know UCLA
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  Speaker 2: was going to be good, and yet Dan Lanning's already
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  Speaker 2: kind of said it. I mean, I think he was
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  Speaker 2: taking a shot at USC when he said it, but
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  Speaker 2: he also propped up UCLA by suggesting this is the
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  Speaker 2: best team in Los Angeles. They've certainly played that way
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  Speaker 2: so far this year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he knows he recruits against USC more than he
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  Speaker 3: does UCLA. So he was taking his swing. Just like
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  Speaker 3: he said, if you want to stay in LA, go
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  Speaker 3: to Chris Brown concerts and go ahead. But look, Bob
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  Speaker 3: Chesney's a heck of a coach. He was at James Madison,
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  Speaker 3: but he was at Holy Cross before that and won there.
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  Speaker 3: James Madison has great resources, and so he won there.
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  Speaker 3: He played against Oregon in Autzen last year in the
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff. So he knows exactly what this will
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  Speaker 3: be like. Whether or not he has the weaponry to
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  Speaker 3: compete with Oregon, we'll wait and see. But it won't
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  Speaker 3: be because they're not prepared. They will go in there
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  Speaker 3: with a plan and see if they can do it.
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  Speaker 3: What will be interesting about this game, which is on CBS,
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  Speaker 3: What will be interesting about this game is Dante Moore.
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  Speaker 3: He's come back to practice. But after watching Dylan Rayola
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  Speaker 3: against USC, you got to wonder if you wouldn't like
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  Speaker 3: to have Dylan Rayola keep playing, especially if Dante isn't 100%.
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  Speaker 3: So that will be interesting, a game-time decision, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: as to who's going to play quarterback for Oregon. But
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  Speaker 3: this little kid, Wayne Knight, For UCLA, the running back
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  Speaker 3: who came along from James Madison with Chesney, he's averaging
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  Speaker 3: nine yards a carry and already has nine touchdowns. He's
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  Speaker 3: on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. And I'm still, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're all still getting used to the new Big Ten.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still not even used to Nebraska being
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten, much less UCLA and Oregon. But
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska and Indiana will play a Big Ten game this
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  Speaker 2: weekend as well. Both teams are 5-0. I know Indiana's
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  Speaker 2: for real. Is Nebraska for real? Okay, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: When was the last time Nebraska won a game against
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  Speaker 3: a ranked opponent?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. I don't even know. Was Jarvis Redwine in
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  Speaker 2: the backfield?
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  Speaker 3: 2016.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa!
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  Speaker 3: It's been 10 years. Matt Rule is 0-8 against ranked opponents.
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  Speaker 3: And here comes Indiana. Can you imagine being a Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: fan who's been there for 20, you know, 30, 40 years,
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  Speaker 3: going to these games, you know, selling out Memorial Stadium,
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  Speaker 3: which they've been selling out since the early 60s, and going,
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  Speaker 3: where's Bob Devaney? Where's Tom Osborne? What the heck is
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  Speaker 3: going on? And Indiana comes in here ranked, and we
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  Speaker 3: can't beat Indiana?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This is a monster opportunity for Nebraska to take a
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  Speaker 3: giant step in the Matt Rule era. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a great game, but I still think Indiana is
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  Speaker 3: more Nebraska than Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Indiana is going to win by 30.
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  Speaker 2: I really do. I think it's just going to be
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  Speaker 2: a blowout right there.
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  Speaker 3: You know what on everybody's corn, haven't you? What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Jeez, Chuck. Yes, that's what I did. I you-know-whated on
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  Speaker 2: everybody's corn. That's exactly what I just did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, holy smokes.
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  Speaker 2: What about the Red River rivalry? I think everybody's done
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  Speaker 2: you-know-what on Johnny Mateer's playing abilities so far this season.
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  Speaker 2: It's Red River rivalry. This is one we always circle,
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  Speaker 2: but Oklahoma's not playing well, and it sounds like Sooner
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  Speaker 2: fans are blaming the muscle-bound quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's been too careless. He hasn't made enough plays
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  Speaker 3: to be out there when you're turning the ball over
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  Speaker 3: as often as he did. I mean, they were in
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  Speaker 3: that Georgia game. They're going to make it a one
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  Speaker 3: score game and the ball just comes out of his hand.
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  Speaker 3: And he just fumbles it, and you can see a
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  Speaker 3: gazelle defensive lineman from Georgia go 90 yards the other way.
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  Speaker 3: That can't happen. Then he fumbled again almost the next series. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's been a problem. I know he's popular, and he's
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  Speaker 3: an alpha personality, and we've seen him have great moments,
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  Speaker 3: especially at Washington State when he ran for over 200 yards.
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  Speaker 3: But Mateer's got to play better. The question is, do
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  Speaker 3: they have anybody better than him? And Ben Arbuckle, the
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  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator who came with him from Washington State, better
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  Speaker 3: cobble together something. Otherwise, they'll both be looking for jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss started a letdown game of Lanch a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. They beat LSU. Then they lost to Florida.
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  Speaker 2: And then when Florida started feeling good about themselves, they
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  Speaker 2: lost to Missouri. So does Missouri lose to Texas A &
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  Speaker 2: M this Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: You are on it, man. I think that's exactly what happens.
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  Speaker 3: I think Marcel Reed, they finally used his legs. And
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  Speaker 3: he was part of the running game. And they stopped
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  Speaker 3: throwing it 40 times. And I think that's the equation. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if Missouri's defense plays like they did against Florida, then
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  Speaker 3: all bets are off. And I'll say that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Missouri can win again. Jaden Baugh, who's been kind of
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  Speaker 3: the darling of Florida football, He had 13 carries, 12
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  Speaker 3: carries for 13 yards. 12 carries for 13 yards. And
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  Speaker 3: one of them was for 12 yards. What the hell
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  Speaker 3: was going on on the other 11 carries, right? So
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  Speaker 3: if Missouri can, you know, quell the– a and M
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  Speaker 3: running attack and Marcel has to throw 40 times and
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking everything back. But I think Marcel Reed running
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  Speaker 3: is a deal. And you know, in that let down
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  Speaker 3: league where you get excited about a big win and
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden it's not the same the next week. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: don't be surprised if the Aggies find a way to
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  Speaker 3: win on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just pictured Jeremiah Smith standing over ball with
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  Speaker 2: that Heisman pose that he shot, you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend against Iowa, uh, You.
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  Speaker 3: Can, you can picture that. I keep picturing what you
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  Speaker 3: said about those, what those guys are doing on the corn.
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  Speaker 3: That's just wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, all right. I saved the big was, uh, for
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  Speaker 2: last you've got Bama versus Georgia this Saturday. My goodness,
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  Speaker 2: how this thing going to play out?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I, I like Kalen to bore against Georgia. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Kalen is, is, uh, I think two and one against Kirby. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason, Kirby struggles against the tide. I think
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: he's two and seven overall. One of them was the
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: national championship game, and last year was the conference championship game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: So it's not as though he doesn't know how to win.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: And Kirby Smart might be the best coach in college
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: football right now. But for whatever reason, it's been a
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: bad matchup for them. The intel of what Alabama knows
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: when they're playing Georgia is terrible.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Unique.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to go with Alabama at home. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: just love how Keelan Russell's playing, but don't count out
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Gunnar Stockton. He's kind of a, you know, a poor
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: man's quarterback, but he's playing like a rich man. He
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: is really, really hot right now, passing for over 75%
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: of his, uh, his passes are complete and they, uh,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Mike Bobo and him have a thing going. So, uh,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a hell of a game,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: but I'm going to take roll titers.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You're going to say Kalen DeBoer does you-know-what all over
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Georgia's cornbread. That's what you're going to say.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: You need to stop. You need to stop.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to stop. Let's close out with Taco Time
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Pick of the Week. Did we already cover it? I mean,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you were feeling pretty good, I thought, earlier. Which game
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: was it?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Which one was it? Was it Indiana? No, that was me.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: All right, just tell us. What's the game you're feeling
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: best about this weekend?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to take Ole Miss. They had
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: last week off. Ole Miss looked like a team that
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I thought was pretty good against LSU. I think they'll
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: have been reminded of that in a variety of ways
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: during the off week. and I expect them to play
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: really well against Vanderbilt. I think their fans will be
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: all over the scene in Nashville. It'll feel like a
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: home game, and I'm going to say I'll lay 10.5
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and say give me the hottie-totties.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat LSU really without Kwon Lacey, so he's
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: going to be back this week. All right, great breakdown.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it, sir. Thank you very much. Make sure
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you pass– You know, my analysis of the crew on
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: to the group today, and we'll be tuned in Saturday
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to watch you on TV.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: On CBS. Yeah. Thank you, my friend.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Rick Neuheisel joining us right here. His segment
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: brought to you by delicious, delicious taco time. Coming up next,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: you've got a thirst. You've got a thirst. You've got
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a thirst for Anders Hurst. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. A
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: thirst for Anders Hurst.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Do you really, though?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. Trust me, they do. They do, whether
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: they realize it or not.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: They've got it. They've got it.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Well, let's jump right into that thirst. I know this
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: is a topic that's going to get you all fired up,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: and I'm excited for it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. See if you leave me parched.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: With the success early in these playoffs of Tampa Bay
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: and Milwaukee, there's this notion that they are quote unquote
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: old school baseball teams that throw analytics in the trash
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and quote unquote just play fundamental baseball. And that couldn't
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: be further from the truth. These are the two most
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: analytically driven teams in the sport. Just because they value
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: defense and contact doesn't mean that they don't.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Use analytics, Chuck Powell. I'm very satisfied. I don't know
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: if Milwaukee's in the top two. Tampa Bay is definitely one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: They're one, yes. But certainly they are very heavily... heavily
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: driven by their analytics. And because Milwaukee plays like a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: college team, which I love. Yeah, I do too. Pat
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Murphy's a college coach who came to the majors and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: took his time and studied major league baseball behind Craig council.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: So they play with that hair on fire sort of mentality.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: There's no question about it. And I think he does
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: go with his gut a lot, but it's like you
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: and I have discussed. It's like I've discussed for 10 years.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you have to use analytics or you're a fool. If
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you marry yourself too much to analytics, you're a fool.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: It is using analytics to help you arrive at decisions
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: before game, during game, but then Pat Murphy going with
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: his gut when it's time to make a decision. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I think he's the best at it out there. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: that's how a manager should operate in today's world.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the Rays, like you said, are probably the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: most driven by that. They use it probably more than
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: any other team in baseball.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Kevin Cash took Blake Snell out of a World Series
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: game with a no hitter through five innings. And you
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: want to sit here and tell me that they're not
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: analytically driven?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Whoever it is that's spreading that nonsense, you're out of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: your mind.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: It's everyone. I'm looking on Twitter right now. Mike Petriello.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: This is from earlier this season. A thing I've come
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: across a lot this season is that since the Rays
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: make a lot of contact, people think they're old school.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: The Rays. The Rays.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: The famously anti-data Rays. And if anybody.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Knows, it's him. Yes. Because that is basically the prince
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of analytic reporting in baseball.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: He's that guy. So if Mike Petriello says it, it's true. Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: It's gospel.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: About the Rays. I'm not saying about anything in baseball.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: About analytics. But no, if he's telling you that the Rays,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: if you don't want to believe me, then you've got
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to believe Mike Petriello when he says it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: All right. Like I said, I don't think the Brewers
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: are as much Tampa, but Tampa is top of the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: food chain.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Are you quenched?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'm quenched.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I'm satisfied.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm satisfied with that.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: All right, this is less of a take and more
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: of a question for both you guys. Is it too
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: early to say that the Seahawks made a mistake in
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: not paying Ken Walker and going forward with drafting DeJarian Price?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: It's not too early?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And I didn't hate the idea at the time. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: sort of understood why they did that at the time.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I think, though, when you went overpaying on Shahid, that
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: was the first time I was like, well, why didn't
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: you just play Walker then? We're getting to see everything
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we thought we were going to see out of Ken Walker.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: But we didn't see it for four years. And I
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: know they were frustrated. I know Mike McDonald was frustrated
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: with him. But Ken Walker is sitting there showing you
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: right now, see what could have happened. Had he just
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: given me the ball like I wanted to be given
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the ball? Then again, he couldn't stay healthy during the
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: course of the season. And he might not stay healthy
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: this year. So let's let it play out. Let's not
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: arrive at any conclusions. But right now, yes, it feels
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: like to me, A bonafide mistake. Christopher? Oh, yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's not too early? Or it is too early?
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: It's not too early. We just had Greg Bell on
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to talk about running backs.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: That's a good point.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: We just signed Joe Mixon. Let's think about it. Bring
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: in Kenneth Walker. Just re-sign him at a good deal
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: that's not asking or saying, oh, we paid him too much,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: versus Velas Jones, Joe Mixon, some kid named Junior Henry.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Not Derrick Henry Jr., that is, or whatever. We're talking
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: about five other running backs. Or you could have just
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: brought in K-9. We signed K-9, excuse me, kept him
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: a little longer, and maybe we're talking about the Seahawks
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: having the best running offense in the league.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I got Corbin Smith getting all salivated about Robert Henry Jr.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: on his podcast, for goodness sake. We could have had
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker, the league's leading rusher right now.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: You mean the guy that thinks George Helani is going
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: to be the best runner on the team every single year?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, did Corbin say that? He loves George Helani. He
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: loves George Helani.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, Corbin. Get someone that loves you as much as
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Corbin loves George Helani.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: That's all I say.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: The angle that I didn't even think about that Greg
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: brought up, do you think this is going to affect
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Zach Charbonnet's free agency with the Seahawks? Are they going
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: to overcorrect and give him a bunch of money when
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: he's coming off an ACL tear and may not even
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: have a full season to show his stuff?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: No. Even if it was a mistake, we can forgive.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: John and Mike have made some really great decisions. You're
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: not going to get them all right. So even if
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: it is, you don't compound it by saying, Okay, well,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: let's make another one. You know, I think the idea,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the notion of overpaying Zach Charbonnet would be a huge mistake.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, we do have to have a little bit
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: of faith in Jadarian Price.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: We got to see more of him. Can we all
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: agree with that? We can see more of them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Even when he was healthy, I still wanted more of him.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: But yes, seeing Ken Walker become everything that I thought
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: he could be in another uniform. Yes, it does hurt.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It does hurt to see that come together. Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: All right, last one. Lionel Messi is playing his last
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: game for the Argentina national team today. It really feels
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: like the end of an era from my childhood of
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the all-time great athletes. It's really close to its end.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: With him, Tom Brady, and LeBron James, I got to
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: witness their entire careers together. And all three of those
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: players can at least be in the conversation of greatest
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: of all time in their sport, which is rare for
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: three major sports for that to be the case. If
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: you wanted to throw in a couple more names, someone
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: like Cristiano Ronaldo, also in soccer, you could throw in
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Ovechkin and Crosby too, but I don't think they're in
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: the conversation of GOAT.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: No, they are not.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: They are not.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Take that back.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I never said they were. I was just throwing them
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: in terms of that era of sports.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: My mouth got really dry right there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: But it's quenched again.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You've got some more making up to do.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Just be more clear about.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: That in the future.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Can I do one more? Yes. Okay.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: It's too early to judge the Kraken yet based on
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: two wins versus an awful team and a loss against
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: a great team. But if there is an uptick across
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the roster and the Kraken do become a playoff team,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: that creates even more urgency for me to go acquire
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: a top-line player, center or wing, I don't really care.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Because this team has good pieces basically everywhere but the
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: top of the roster, which is the most important part.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: So if they are slightly better across the board, which
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: would kind of take them into playoff contention already... Getting
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: that top guy is even that much more important because
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: you could realize something that no one thought could be
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: possible if you end up getting that piece.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's so important. It's so important. Then
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you've got to piece together what you think is the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: strength of the organization, which is your young depth. You
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: might have to do that. And if not, you've got
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: to go the other way and get bad enough to
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: get a Bedard or get a Celebrini. If you need
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: them that badly, then playing this middle-of-the-road, we'll get the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: sixth overall pick in the draft, isn't going to get
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: you where you need to go.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: And maybe Berkley Catton is that guy. I think that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: the best chance, I think, of on their current roster
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: of turning into an 80-, 100-point guy.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But we thought about that, about Beneers at one point,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: and then Shane Wright about that. It's true. No, it's true.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: So I think it creates even more urgency if the
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Kraken are to be better than a lot of people
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: thought they were.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Okay. How are you feeling about all of this, Chris Kidd?
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Do you feel quenched? Do you feel— I think I'm good.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty quenched. Do you get enough electrolytes in with
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: that segment? We're good here.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Three out of four.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I'll take it. Okay. I would say that I'm satisfied.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I might take another cup. Okay.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: You're left wanting more.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: One last thing to close it out next. Sports Radio
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM. All right, final segment here of today's radio program.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: We always do one last thing to close out the show. So, Anders,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: get us started.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: It's basically a little extension of Thirst for Hearst here
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: in one last thing. Yeah, perfect. My son, we're trying
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: to get him from Coe. sleeping co so yeah co-sleeping
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: in uh me and my wife's bed which is i
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: know it's for some people it's taboo you want to
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: get him to the crib as soon as possible but
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: we're just starting help yourself no it's can't take it
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: yeah it's he's we're trying to transition over to the
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: crib and it is a process he melts my heart
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: yeah well it's more just we want sleep so we
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: kind of sacrifice the short term or sacrifice in the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: long term for the short term gain you know what
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: i mean but it's been tough uh the last probably
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: week or so uh it's been like getting him up
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: putting him back getting him to bed all that stuff
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: so just wanted to give a quick little life update
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: okay for the little one okay he's eight months in
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: a couple weeks and uh we're just just now getting
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: him into his crib and it's uh it's been a
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: process so pray for me Especially with morning shows. Sleep
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: is hard to come by nowadays.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's hard. I always get out of mind, still
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: to this day, don't want to be in the crib.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: And it's been set aside for me.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Does someone have to pick you up?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: But sometimes I'll just stand up in the middle and
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I say, I don't want to be in the crib!
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: It's literally what Austin does.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, you got to enjoy all of these things.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: I know, I do. You gave a parent four. It's
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: hard in the moment, but then you look back on it,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: and then you're like, okay, yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: It just happened so fast. Why can't he be in
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the crib?
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Remember when he was in the bed with us?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Remember those great days?
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Great days.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: All right, kid, what do you got for your one
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: last thing?
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: I know. NBA preseason is probably the last thing I
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: will ever watch.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: Ever?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I would think you would be the leading candidate to
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: watch a preseason game.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: I will watch track and field preseason before I watch
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: anything NBA, NFL.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Honestly, is there anything more unnecessary in all of sports
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: than NBA preseason? It is the dumbest thing on the planet.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: It's pretty bad, but my goodness, I did see a highlight,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: and I had to start thinking, like, this guy's top five, right?
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: So I don't know if you saw the no-look cross-court
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: behind-the-back dime that he threw in a preseason game.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I heard about it. It was disgusting.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: It's awesome.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: It was like, okay, he's probably top three all-time passers.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: You got Magic, John, and then you.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Can throw in LeBron, Jokic, Nash.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Like, they're all right there, but Jokic, he's seven... feet
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: and he makes it look effortless so true it's like
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: he's a eighth grader playing with second graders and he's
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: on this court and like trying to guard him and
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: he's just like oh yeah oh he's the ultimate.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Y player like he's the big giant uncle that showed
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: up to play at the y yeah and nobody took
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: him with their first three picks playing skins and shirts
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and then he went out there and dominated every single
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: fool that's that's who he is and he just.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Keeps proving it and he's so nonchalant he's just like
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: you know i just do a behind the back pass
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: you know yeah I'm like, can you have some excitement?
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Act like you did something cool. He's just like, no,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I'm just playing ball. I love it, though. But after
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the season, I'm going to go back to my home
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: country and be with horses.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: And not like basketball, surprisingly.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just the opposite of what you would expect
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: from a guy that's arguably the best passer of all time.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I think he's a bit of a genius. I think
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that he gets the calculus of it, the geometry of it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: He understands it like Gretzky. That was Gretzky. They always
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: said Gretzky... He was so great because he saw three,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: five passes ahead. Before, yeah. Most people could only see one. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: If any.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he's John Nash. He's the beautiful mind where all
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the shapes are all floating around in his head, and
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: they just come together more quickly for him. I think
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: he's a basketball genius. I really do.
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  Speaker 4: 206, the whole NBA season is the NBA preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 4: Is that Greg Bell?
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, is that Greg Bell?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell watches as much Game of Thrones as he
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: does the NBA. All right, I am going to close out.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, tonight the Dodgers are taking on the Braves,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and I'm rooting for the Braves because I just don't
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: want to see the Dodgers win, so I'll root for anybody,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: not the Dodgers or the Yankees, in the playoffs at
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: this stage. But it is, you know, for as much...
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: As people wanted to give the American League a hard
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: time this year, because there really weren't but three or
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: four teams that seemed record-wise deserving of even making the playoffs.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: You realize the Atlanta Braves, with their 94 wins, got
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to the playoffs, and right now they have one pitcher left. Literally.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: They have one pitcher.
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  Speaker 4: It's Chris Sale and everybody else.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Sale and then a bunch of guys that
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: are playing weird roles, and they're just trying to patchwork
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: their way through games right now. Tyler Molle is a
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: pretty good pitcher, but he wouldn't make our rotation.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And our rotation wasn't even as good this year as
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: it's been. So the Atlanta Braves are tied with the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Dodgers right now. Come on. Two wins away. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: From the National League Championship Series. And they have one pitcher.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: They've won a series already. And they have one pitcher. Now,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: they've got bullpen guys that are pretty good. Fuentes and Iglesias.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Iglesias is good.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Pretty good. But it's crazy. It's crazy the attrition that
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: you go through in a baseball season and where you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: end up. I mean, the White Sox right now are
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: a win away. From their first series win, clinching win
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: at home in 126 years. Think about that.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: It's always been on the road.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No one alive who has seen a Chicago White Sox
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: team clinch a series, and that could happen tomorrow. But
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: they're another team. They are just patching it together. It's
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: rather interesting to study. It really is.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Managers, this is where they earn their money.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Baseball, man. It's the best.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Coming up next,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: it's Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.