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Chuck in the Morning 8-28 Hour 3: The OCHO, preseason is almost over and college football is just beginning!`` · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Ocho. The best 12 minutes of
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Speaker 2: Letter Buck. Please drink responsibly. 8 o'clock hour here on
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Speaker 2: this Friday morning. Great to have you with us. I
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Speaker 2: think we're going to get like a little bit of rain.
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Speaker 3: The next couple of days.
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Speaker 4: Which i think is great yep been way overdue.
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Speaker 5: When we landed at sea tack the other day i
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Speaker 5: looked out the window and i was like i don't
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Speaker 5: think we're in seattle that is the brownest grass i've
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Speaker 5: ever seen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it's brown it's real brown i go out to
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Speaker 2: the park and you step take a step in the
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Speaker 2: uh near the like the baseball fields and like dirt
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Speaker 2: just flies up yeah we could use a little bit
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Speaker 2: of that so hopefully we get a little bit today
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Speaker 2: not a lot and we don't need a lot No,
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Speaker 2: I don't need it. A little bit tomorrow?
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Speaker 5: I don't want it to, like, take a wave. But,
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Speaker 5: I mean, at the same time, I wouldn't mind, like,
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Speaker 5: a rainy day.
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Speaker 2: I just don't want a rain delay tonight for the
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Speaker 2: Rainiers game.
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Speaker 3: No, not that. No, I don't think it's supposed to
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Speaker 3: rain until later tonight.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And then I don't want it to rain tomorrow because
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Speaker 5: I have to go to a beach party, so that
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Speaker 5: won't be fun.
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Speaker 2: So we can just schedule it.
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Speaker 3: You know, Sunday. I could go for a rainy Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Let's do a rainy Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll have some early Mariners baseball.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, great morning to you all. Happy Friday to you all.
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Speaker 2: We've got your eight top stories of the day. Recapping
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Speaker 2: what turned out to be a pretty busy week and
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Speaker 2: getting you set for a busy weekend as well. There
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Speaker 2: is a lot to turn our attention to. And we
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Speaker 2: will begin the Ocho, your eight top stories of the day,
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Speaker 2: by talking about game day. Seahawks at Chiefs tonight in
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Speaker 2: Kansas City, 5 o'clock kickoff. And this will close out
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Speaker 2: the preseason, thanks goodness. Seahawks starters will not have played
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Speaker 2: a single snap of the preseason once it comes to
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Speaker 2: a close. Tonight, Jalen Milrow is really the big story.
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Speaker 2: He is going to be asked for a second year
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Speaker 2: in a row in the third and final preseason game
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Speaker 2: to play quarterback for all four quarters. And you wonder
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Speaker 2: how much of it he will spend being drafted. chased
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Speaker 2: down by all of the Rudy Rudigers left in the
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Speaker 2: National Football League. Here is Greg Bell with us earlier
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Speaker 2: today talking about Milrow playing the entire game.
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Speaker 6: Jalen Milrow is going to play the whole preseason game tonight,
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Speaker 6: just like he did the third preseason game at Green
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Speaker 6: Bay last year.
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Speaker 7: I heard you.
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Speaker 6: Mentioning how he's going to get bludgeoned behind guys who
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Speaker 6: may not even be in the NFL on the offensive
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Speaker 6: line a day later. And some of that's true, but
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Speaker 6: some of that, the coaches also want to see how
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Speaker 6: he reacts to that. Because that's been his problem, is
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Speaker 6: how he throws and makes decisions under pressure in the league.
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Speaker 6: And he was not good at it again last week,
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Speaker 6: held the ball on a fourth down, a couple interceptions
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Speaker 6: when the passes were thrown behind receivers. He doesn't get
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Speaker 6: a chance in practices when he looks good in practice.
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Speaker 6: He didn't get a chance to get hit. And under
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Speaker 6: physical and mental strain of a guy coming at him
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Speaker 6: at 250 pounds, that's what's going to be tonight for him.
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Speaker 2: So, yes, that's the key attraction, the marquee attraction, I suppose.
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Speaker 2: Also with Greg, we talked about just how many roster
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Speaker 2: spots are on the line tonight. And I think a
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Speaker 2: pretty safe estimate is maybe two to three with, you know,
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Speaker 2: four to six guys vying for the last couple roster
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Speaker 2: spots here tonight. heading into the brand new season. And
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Speaker 2: of course, there are going to be some guys that
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Speaker 2: are going to be cut eventually. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 2: more in a moment. But you're also playing for practice
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Speaker 2: squad spots. to keep that dream alive. So there'll be
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Speaker 2: some stuff on the line, but we're going to get
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Speaker 2: to the end of three preseason games and not a
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Speaker 2: single starter will have taken a snap, including Jadarian Price,
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Speaker 2: a rookie that you know you're a little curious about.
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Speaker 2: Not just because he had the injury, but because you've
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Speaker 2: not yet seen him run behind your offensive line for
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Speaker 2: a meaningful snap. But Ashley, Mike McDonald is following the
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Speaker 2: path of Sean McVay and others, and we just are
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Speaker 2: watering down the amount starters are playing more and more
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Speaker 2: and more every year. And the Seahawks have gotten to
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Speaker 2: the point where not only are we not playing our starters,
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Speaker 2: my guess is they're not even going to expose backups
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Speaker 2: tonight after what happened to Jake Bobo, Bud Clark, and
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Speaker 2: Mason Richmond last week. I think that's where we're at
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Speaker 2: right now. It's just third stringers for four straight quarters,
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Speaker 2: charge full amount for tickets to get into the game,
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Speaker 2: and hello NFL preseason 2026. That's what it feels like.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's just, what, a showcase for guys who
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Speaker 5: might not make this team to hopefully get picked up
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Speaker 5: by another team or land somewhere.
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Speaker 3: It's just, it's lost its luster.
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Speaker 5: I was thinking back how it used to be where
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Speaker 5: it was the third preseason game was the one where
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Speaker 5: you saw your starters play the most.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: And that was the one you looked forward to.
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Speaker 2: And then you wouldn't play them in the fourth.
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Speaker 5: And then they wouldn't play in the fourth. Yeah, but
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Speaker 5: the third, it'd ramp up. You'd play a little bit,
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Speaker 5: a little bit. Then they played the most in the third,
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Speaker 5: and that was the one you cared about. And then
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Speaker 5: you had a break right before the season started. And
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Speaker 5: now it's like, I couldn't care less. I couldn't care less.
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Speaker 2: Which you would think would set off alarms for the
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Speaker 2: National Football League. I do think they will change it eventually.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get into that at 8.30. But for now,
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Speaker 2: we have a third preseason game to get through, and
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Speaker 2: I think that's the way we kind of feel about it.
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Speaker 2: And I don't blame Mike McDonald, by the way. I
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Speaker 2: think he's doing the right thing by not exposing anyone
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Speaker 2: at this stage. But it's a lot to put into
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Speaker 2: a game just to determine the last couple roster spots.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot to pour into a football field. That's
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Speaker 2: a lot of preparation and all that sort of thing
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Speaker 2: just to figure out the last two roster spots, which
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Speaker 2: you've probably figured out anyway.
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Speaker 5: Well, and it's just interesting, too, because we were comparing
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Speaker 5: it a little bit to the college game, right, and
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Speaker 5: that they don't have any preseason. And, yeah, you get to,
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Speaker 5: as Greg mentioned, have the advantage of that you get
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Speaker 5: to go on the trip and you get to prepare
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Speaker 5: for that. But college teams manage to do that just
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Speaker 5: fine without having an extra two or three trips to prepare.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I truly feel it's unnecessary. I do believe that
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Speaker 2: it won't be around. Any preseason at all won't be
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Speaker 2: around soon. We're going to talk about that at 8.30.
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Speaker 2: Kickoff from Kansas City tonight at 5 o'clock. Hugh Millen
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Speaker 2: with X's and O's at 9 o'clock today. And certainly
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Speaker 2: one of the things that we'll discuss with our QB1,
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Speaker 2: Leonard Williams, three-year, $ 90 million extension that he received yesterday
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Speaker 2: as the Seahawks wrap up for the next three seasons.
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Speaker 2: Another member, core member of their foundation. for this championship
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Speaker 2: that they've already achieved. The NFL weekend is a really
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Speaker 2: interesting one, and yes, the preseason games are part of that.
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Speaker 2: For example, the Rams certainly wanted to see their first-round
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Speaker 2: draft pick, the much-criticized first-round draft pick, Ty Simpson, play
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Speaker 2: a little more football, and once again, he impressed. Chargers
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Speaker 2: bring the house. Simpson has to get away.
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Speaker 3: Across his body, end zone, and it's caught! winning presley
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Speaker 3: on the run for the.
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Speaker 2: Touchdown uh rookie ty simpsons had a really good preseason
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Speaker 2: he was 18 for 23 yesterday and a 2018 win
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Speaker 2: over the chargers now i didn't watch i'm sure he
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Speaker 2: was playing second and third stringers but nonetheless so was
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Speaker 2: fernando mendoza the top draft pick and he struggled for
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Speaker 2: a second game in a row completing just 50 of
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Speaker 2: his passes and he threw another interception however new raiders
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Speaker 2: head coach clint kubiak we remember him Hi, Clint. He
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Speaker 2: isn't ruling out Mendoza as the Week 1 starter. I
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Speaker 2: don't know why he's keeping this alive. I mean, you're
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Speaker 2: sitting Kirk Cousins. I'm pretty sure you know Kirk Cousins
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Speaker 2: is going to start, but Clint Kubiak, I think, likes
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Speaker 2: to keep secrets from the media. In all, there are
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Speaker 2: 10 preseason games to be played tonight, each with storylines
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Speaker 2: packed into the thrilling I-Sure-Hope-No-One-Gets-Hurt action that we're in store
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Speaker 2: for for the next couple of days. The preseason then
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Speaker 2: ends Saturday with two final games. And then on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: like I said, this is a pretty interesting NFL weekend.
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Speaker 2: It's cut day on Sunday. And that means a lot
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Speaker 2: of players that don't make cuts are going to be
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Speaker 2: available to be grabbed by other teams. So maybe there
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Speaker 2: was too much depth. For the Tennessee Titans at running back,
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Speaker 2: and of course the Seahawks have too little depth at
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Speaker 2: running back, and so it doesn't mean that that player
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Speaker 2: you pick up off the waiver wire couldn't be an
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Speaker 2: impact player for you. He just may have suffered a
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Speaker 2: numbers crunch in his previous city. Every team is going
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Speaker 2: to be ready to pounce on waiver players after Sunday's cut,
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Speaker 2: and we could end up talking about a couple new
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Speaker 2: players on the Seahawks by Monday.
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Speaker 5: I will say that is one of the saddest parts, though,
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Speaker 5: is the people who make it through the waiver wire
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Speaker 5: and then get cut later because somebody else ends up
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Speaker 5: available that a team didn't expect, and you think, like, oh,
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Speaker 5: I made it.
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Speaker 3: And then the next day, find out.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't make it.
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Speaker 5: Okay, cool.
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Speaker 2: Man, I wish I wouldn't have eaten that cake Mom
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Speaker 2: made me.
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Speaker 5: That happened to a friend of mine after college, and
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Speaker 5: I felt so bad.
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Speaker 2: Also, Discipline Day is coming as well. That corresponds with
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Speaker 2: Cut Day. The National Football League is going to rule
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Speaker 2: on these Josh Jacobs, Puka Nakua, and some other offseason.
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Speaker 2: Rasheed Rice, stuff that happened in the offseason.
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Speaker 3: Terry and Arnold, too, probably, right?
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Speaker 2: Probably not yet. I think they're going to let that
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Speaker 2: go through the court system first. But that type of player, certainly.
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Speaker 2: But Josh Jacobs was charged with misdemeanor, battery, and damage
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Speaker 2: to property. And though he'll avoid serious punishment, I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: in the court of law, doesn't mean the league's not
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Speaker 2: going to suspend him for a game or four. So
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Speaker 2: that's going to happen sometimes. for those of you that
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Speaker 2: held your fantasy drafts already, it's a mistake because we
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Speaker 2: might find out Sunday into Monday that a few star players,
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Speaker 2: including Puka Nakua, might miss a game or two of
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Speaker 2: action because the NFL takes it seriously when you embarrass
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Speaker 2: the shield in the offseason more seriously than ever. And
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Speaker 2: they will weigh in and they will suspend guys, even
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Speaker 2: if the court of law does not punish them beyond
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Speaker 2: a slap on the wrist.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like any employer would.
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Speaker 5: Really. I mean, if you embarrass your employer or you
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Speaker 5: do something illegal. you run the risk of getting punished
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Speaker 5: at your job.
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Speaker 2: And then the NFL season begins in 12 days with
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Speaker 2: a world champion. Seattle Seahawks hosting the New England Patriots
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Speaker 2: on the first ever Wednesday night opener in NFL history.
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Speaker 2: As for the college football season, it starts tomorrow. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: what did you just say? Yeah, it starts tomorrow. The
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Speaker 2: college football season gets going tomorrow. If that catches you
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Speaker 2: off guard, you are not alone, people. I was sure
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Speaker 2: that it started next week as of yesterday, and I
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Speaker 2: am a sports talk show host. I follow sports for
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Speaker 2: a living. Pretty much scour sports websites like eight hours
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Speaker 2: a day. And yet, Ashley and Anders told me yesterday...
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Speaker 2: that it starts tomorrow. Week zero, I think they're still
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Speaker 2: calling it.
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Speaker 5: I think on ESPN it's listed as week one, so
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Speaker 5: I think they maybe got rid of week zero, but.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. They were still referring to it as
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Speaker 2: such this morning on that same network. But nonetheless, it
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Speaker 2: gets going tomorrow. Bill Belichick's North Carolina Tar Heels are
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Speaker 2: going to kick off the season against TCU at 9 a.m.
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Speaker 2: So we will have real football that counts in the
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Speaker 2: standings starting at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. If you want
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Speaker 2: to check out some Big Ten action, USC gets started tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I think they're the only Big Ten team in action tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I believe so.
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Speaker 2: Noon kickoff against San Jose State. And maybe the best
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Speaker 2: game of the weekend will be an ACC matchup between
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Speaker 2: NC State and Virginia. And that starts at 1230. So
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Speaker 2: what did you say? Eight, nine games?
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Speaker 3: Eight games tomorrow, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Eight games tomorrow. And then we are nine days away
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Speaker 2: from the Apple Cup. And yes, that's shocking to say anything.
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Speaker 2: Just on its face. It is. For the first time ever,
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Speaker 2: the Apple Cup will be played as a season opener.
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Speaker 2: For the first time ever, the Apple Cup will be
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Speaker 2: played on a Sunday. Jed Fish was with Softee and
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Speaker 2: Fane earlier this week and says there is no chance
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Speaker 2: the Huskies will be taking the Cougs lightly. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that there's something about rivalries, man.
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Speaker 1: I'm scared to death.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 5: I look at it as like we're one-on-one since I've
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Speaker 5: been here, so that's all I know. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Good answer, Coach.
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Speaker 2: I think that is a good answer. I think some
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Speaker 2: people were a little bothered by it, like took it
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Speaker 2: as scared to death as taking it out of context
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Speaker 2: like he's literally scared to death. But no, he's just
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Speaker 2: not going to one ounce take that game like that. No,
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Speaker 2: not after what happened in year one. Can you imagine
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Speaker 2: starting the season?
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Speaker 3: That's the only thing. I mean, people would be pissed.
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Speaker 5: You thought that people were mad when Huskies lost to
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Speaker 5: Montana or Montana State or whoever it was.
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Speaker 3: You lose the season opener to the Cougs, look out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you have high expectations, especially when this
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Speaker 2: gap between the programs is really supposed to take hold
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Speaker 2: this year since the Cougs are no longer, sadly, in
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Speaker 2: the conference anymore. But, yeah, that's the nine days we
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Speaker 2: are going to play the AP Cup. If you want
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Speaker 2: to hear that entire conversation, it was a great one
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Speaker 2: with Softy Dick and Coach Fish. It was earlier in
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Speaker 2: the week. I believe it was on Thursday.
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Speaker 5: Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday. Was it Wednesday's show? Yeah, Wednesday. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 2: That's right, because I was driving home from the ballgame.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday's show, so you can check it out at 93.3 KJR.com.
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Speaker 2: The Mariners will be back in action after a day
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Speaker 2: off yesterday. They will be in Toronto taking on the
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Speaker 2: Blue Jays. You remember the Blue Jays, right? The American
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Speaker 2: League Championship Series, the one that we thought we had
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Speaker 2: thanks to Gino Suarez?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Another 2-2. That's another fastball. It's driven the other way.
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Speaker 2: It's got a chance.
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Speaker 4: It's a grand slam.
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Speaker 2: Seattle is shaking. It was, too. The Mariners lead game 5, 6-2.
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Speaker 2: Second home run of the game for A.
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Speaker 1: Eugenio Suarez is an opposite field grand slam.
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Speaker 2: Bucky and I embraced.
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Speaker 3: I think I hugged everyone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a very... We're supposed to be unbiased
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Speaker 2: in the press box, but it was like a hug orgy.
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Speaker 5: Impossible not to be.
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Speaker 2: Boy, it really felt like we were going to the
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Speaker 2: World Series right then, too.
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Speaker 3: It really did.
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Speaker 5: And listening to that, because I kept all that crowd
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Speaker 5: noise for a reason. Because I just wanted us to
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Speaker 5: all sit in it for a minute and remember that moment.
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Speaker 2: That was a pretty good call.
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Speaker 3: I really hope we get back to the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: From a national guy, that was a pretty good call
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Speaker 2: of that moment. Pretty good capturing it. A rematch of
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Speaker 2: the 2025 ALCS starts tonight, and these two teams are
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Speaker 2: so closely matched, they both, together, decided to grossly underachieve
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Speaker 2: this year. I mean, those are two tightly matched teams,
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Speaker 2: are they not?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They meet for the American League title one year, and
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Speaker 2: then the very next year, they're like, we're in this together, right?
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Speaker 2: Let's suck this season for most of the year. What
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Speaker 2: do you say? And they were like, You're on.
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Speaker 5: And I think they hopefully made an agreement to both
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Speaker 5: suck until, like, September 1st, and then Seattle was, like,
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Speaker 5: keeping their fingers crossed behind their back. Right, right.
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Speaker 3: We're going to stop sucking on the 28th, okay, guys?
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Speaker 2: We had our fingers crossed the whole time.
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Speaker 3: We're only going to suck until the 28th, and then
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Speaker 3: we're going to kick their asses.
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Speaker 2: The Jays actually hold a half-game lead over Seattle in
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Speaker 2: the wild-card standings, but we're not really thinking about the wild-card,
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Speaker 2: where Toronto has no choice. They trail their division by
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Speaker 2: 15 games. The M's trail ours by just three. And
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Speaker 2: it could have been two, but the Yankees won't do
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Speaker 2: anything to help.
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Speaker 3: And you wonder why we don't like you, New York.
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Speaker 2: Ah, jerks.
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Speaker 3: Don't ask very much of you.
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Speaker 2: Yankees had a chance to win two out of three
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Speaker 2: from the Astros last night. They had their best pitcher
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Speaker 2: on the mound, or at least their... most well-known, Garrett Cole,
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Speaker 2: taking on the Astros, and the Astros worked them. 5-1
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Speaker 2: was the final score, so instead of a two-game deficit
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Speaker 2: heading to Canada to start the series tonight, it's a
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Speaker 2: three-game deficit for the Mariners. So here we go. First
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Speaker 2: pitch at 4-15 from Toronto tonight. Emerson Hancock, hey, that's good.
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Speaker 2: Feel good about Emerson Hancock starting for the Mariners. He's
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Speaker 2: been terrific all season long. Problem is, the Blue Jays
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Speaker 2: are starting not only their ace, but maybe a the
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Speaker 2: AL's ace this year, Cy Young candidate Dylan Cease, who
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Speaker 2: managed to blank the Mariners for seven innings on just
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Speaker 2: three hits back on July 3rd. So, people don't like
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Speaker 2: it when I say pitching advantage us, pitching advantage them.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so let's go kick their butts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go kick their butts. Meanwhile, the Mariners decided...
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Speaker 2: Once again, they're just not in the Geno Suarez business. Yesterday,
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Speaker 2: they had an opportunity on the waiver wire to claim
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Speaker 2: Geno Suarez and bring this back to Seattle. We all
17:50
Speaker 2: miss you as a musician.
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Speaker 3: But also, is it bad that I love that song?
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Speaker 2: I think most people like that song. Love Strong.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind.
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Speaker 5: Turning that into our Mariners winning song, even though we
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Speaker 5: don't have Geno.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we will.
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Speaker 3: Because how excited would you be to hear that every day?
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Speaker 2: At this point, what do we have to lose?
18:10
Speaker 3: We have nothing to lose, Chuck, and everything to gain.
18:13
Speaker 2: The Reds made Suarez available on the waiver wire. Whoever
18:16
Speaker 2: picked him up was going to have to eat $ 2. 5
18:19
Speaker 2: million for the rest of the season. For a guy
18:21
Speaker 2: that struck out 35% of the time this year, has
18:24
Speaker 2: actually been a liability defensively at third base. and unlike
18:29
Speaker 2: the previous year, is on pace to like 25 home
18:31
Speaker 2: runs instead of being on pace to more than 50
18:35
Speaker 2: like he was a year ago. Everybody in the sport
18:38
Speaker 2: passed on Gino Suarez yesterday. No one picked him up,
18:41
Speaker 2: so he goes back to Cincinnati unless they just want
18:44
Speaker 2: to wave him outright to give him a chance to
18:47
Speaker 2: get on a playoff roster, and then maybe we go
18:49
Speaker 2: through this entire process all over again. But the Mariners
18:53
Speaker 2: certainly seemed like the team who.
18:57
Speaker 2: Should have gone after Chino, considering the relationship that the
19:01
Speaker 2: fan base has with him, the relationship that the players
19:04
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse have with him, the coaching staff has
19:07
Speaker 2: with him. And his 7.05 OPS would be the fourth
19:13
Speaker 2: best in our everyday lineup. So it's not like he's
19:17
Speaker 2: just done nothing in a Cincinnati Reds uniform, but the M's,
19:21
Speaker 2: like everyone else, decided, no, we're good. We're good with
19:25
Speaker 2: Weston Wilson.
19:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
19:29
Speaker 2: So, no Geno Suarez, and I know that was a
19:32
Speaker 2: hope of a lot of people yesterday. Finally, Sounders are
19:35
Speaker 2: going to be in action against Chicago tomorrow at 1.30. Now,
19:39
Speaker 2: this game should be big enough, big enough of a
19:42
Speaker 2: deal that the Sounders have got to fix things if
19:44
Speaker 2: they're going to end up in the playoffs this year. Well,
19:47
Speaker 2: so happens that they pulled off a trade this year,
19:51
Speaker 2: this week, I should say, for a player who might
19:55
Speaker 2: change the fortunes of their entire season. Forget about just
19:59
Speaker 2: getting into the playoffs. Jackson Feltz was telling us yesterday
20:03
Speaker 2: that this player, Deion Jones, Jovalich is such a good
20:08
Speaker 2: player that he might instantly turn the Sounders back into
20:12
Speaker 2: an MLS Cup champion this year. Here's Jackson.
20:15
Speaker 7: He is a top five scorer each season in Major
20:19
Speaker 7: League Soccer, whether it's been for Los Angeles, whether it's
20:22
Speaker 7: been for Kansas City. This is a top-five offensive threat
20:27
Speaker 7: in this league, where when he gets the ball anywhere
20:30
Speaker 7: remotely near him, he can score with his right foot,
20:33
Speaker 7: he can score with his left foot, he can score
20:34
Speaker 7: with his head. He's 5'11, but he plays like he's 6'3.
20:38
Speaker 7: He's extremely physical and has so many different dimensions to
20:42
Speaker 7: his game. The thing with Jovovich is he instantly takes
20:46
Speaker 7: the Sounders from being, I think, a weaker offensive team
20:51
Speaker 7: to being an above-average offensive team. It's that dramatic. It's
20:56
Speaker 7: one of those moves where kind of what our circles
20:59
Speaker 7: of Sounder reporters are sort of saying right now is,
21:02
Speaker 7: all right, if Seattle had gotten into the playoffs, if
21:05
Speaker 7: they had come back from this long losing streak and
21:08
Speaker 7: they had snuck in, yeah, they might be able to
21:10
Speaker 7: win a series, but they just don't have the offensive
21:12
Speaker 7: horse's to get you any further. And it's gone from
21:16
Speaker 7: that to, oh, they could absolutely make MLS Cup. It's
21:20
Speaker 7: that dramatic of a shift.
21:22
Speaker 2: Wow, listen to that. Jackson Feltz will have the pregame
21:25
Speaker 2: tomorrow at 1 o'clock. Match starts at 1.30. Let's get
21:29
Speaker 2: a win. Come on now, let's do it for Dayon.
21:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it. Do it for Jackson and Anders.
21:33
Speaker 3: They need it, man.
21:34
Speaker 2: They really do need it at this point. I mean,
21:36
Speaker 2: right now, Anders is suffering through his son being blamed
21:39
Speaker 2: for Cal Raleigh's woes.
21:41
Speaker 6: Fairly.
21:41
Speaker 2: That's hard for a father. Fairly blamed. Barely lame. First
21:45
Speaker 2: time father. I heard that Austin Hurst has been pretty
21:49
Speaker 2: adamant about this. He's not going to take that insult
21:52
Speaker 2: lying down. And he said that while lying down.
21:56
Speaker 3: And taking a nap. You can't take anything he says
21:57
Speaker 3: seriously if you can't even sit up.
21:59
Speaker 2: I know. Six months old, already ruined in the baseball team.
22:03
Speaker 2: All right, finally, I want to mention this as well.
22:06
Speaker 2: KJR and the Kraken yesterday renewed their vows, so we
22:10
Speaker 2: have extended... Our relationship with the local hockey franchise, that's
22:15
Speaker 2: very exciting. I love being a part of the Kraken
22:19
Speaker 2: here as a member of KJR. Such great people over
22:22
Speaker 2: there and hopefully an improved hockey team this season. But
22:27
Speaker 2: even if not, it's just great to be a part
22:28
Speaker 2: of that. So I'm glad we were able to renew things.
22:33
Speaker 2: I guess the magic's still there. I mean, you always
22:37
Speaker 2: had a chance to break up, right? It's true. And
22:39
Speaker 2: we just looked in the eyes of one another and
22:41
Speaker 2: were like, we are still in love.
22:44
Speaker 3: And really more than ever.
22:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:47
Speaker 5: So in love, let's invite our friends to come and
22:50
Speaker 5: do this whole thing all over again.
22:52
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
22:53
Speaker 3: And watch us express our love.
22:55
Speaker 2: So, yes. Not only are we going to keep the
22:57
Speaker 2: marriage going, we decided to have a ceremony and renew
23:01
Speaker 2: our vows again.
23:01
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:03
Speaker 2: Happy to announce it.
23:04
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
23:05
Speaker 2: All right. Coming up next, when will the NFL kill
23:09
Speaker 2: the preseason? I think it's going to happen. Just a
23:12
Speaker 2: matter of when. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Hey, great
23:25
Speaker 2: morning to you. It is a Friday. We got Ashley Ryan.
23:28
Speaker 2: We got Chuck Powell with you. And we've got another
23:30
Speaker 2: preseason game coming up tonight, the Seahawks versus the Kansas
23:35
Speaker 2: City Chiefs to wrap up the preseason. So we'll certainly
23:40
Speaker 2: be breaking it down. I know I've been pretty critical
23:42
Speaker 2: of it all, just the entire preseason stuff throughout the
23:47
Speaker 2: course of the show today. I think so. I know
23:50
Speaker 2: a lot of people would disagree. I know Coach McDonald
23:53
Speaker 2: would disagree if he was listening, but it just reads like,
23:57
Speaker 2: the coaches, it's almost like an inconvenience for them. I mean,
24:01
Speaker 2: I saw the look on his face when Bud Clark
24:03
Speaker 2: went down, and that could happen in practice. He got
24:04
Speaker 2: rolled up on. That wasn't anything that a preseason game
24:08
Speaker 2: necessarily created, but it did create the stage for that
24:13
Speaker 2: last week. But I saw the look on his face,
24:16
Speaker 2: the anger of like, man, not another one that happened
24:20
Speaker 2: a week ago. And the fact that he hasn't played
24:22
Speaker 2: a single starter so far in the entire preseason, and
24:26
Speaker 2: I doubt we're even going to see second stringers tonight.
24:29
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty clear that they're leaning toward not
24:33
Speaker 2: wanting to coach preseason games anymore. Just the way it
24:38
Speaker 2: feels to me.
24:39
Speaker 3: I think the same thing.
24:40
Speaker 5: And I do think that in their mind, if they
24:43
Speaker 5: could at least even have one less preseason game, I
24:46
Speaker 5: think they'd be happy with that. I think it seems
24:49
Speaker 5: like a lot of production to do to pick the
24:53
Speaker 5: final two roster spots that could have probably been chosen
24:57
Speaker 5: in practice.
24:58
Speaker 2: Well, there's going to be a collective bargaining agreement coming
25:01
Speaker 2: up again for the National Football League. I mean, this
25:04
Speaker 2: happens every so often. And the NFL was told, the owners, oh,
25:10
Speaker 2: we're never going to do 17 games. And what happened?
25:12
Speaker 2: They went to 17 games. And now there's this feeling
25:15
Speaker 2: that it's inevitable that they're going to go to 18 games.
25:18
Speaker 2: And the players are like, no, no way we're going
25:20
Speaker 2: to go to 18 games. I don't know if... they're
25:24
Speaker 2: going to be able to sell them on. We'll take
25:27
Speaker 2: a preseason game away, and then can we do 18 games?
25:30
Speaker 2: Because now starters aren't even playing. Starters aren't getting exposed
25:35
Speaker 2: to preseason games whatsoever. So what I think the trade's
25:40
Speaker 2: going to be, and I've said this before in Reckless
25:43
Speaker 2: at Breakfast, and it feels like a good time to
25:45
Speaker 2: repeat it. I think what the future's going to be,
25:49
Speaker 2: no preseason games. I don't really see why they're so
25:53
Speaker 2: incredibly valuable. If we've got head coaches and the National
25:57
Speaker 2: Football League saying we get more out of joint practices
26:01
Speaker 2: in terms of preparation than we do these preseason games,
26:04
Speaker 2: I mean, that's another thing that tells you all you
26:06
Speaker 2: need to hear. Have two joint practices then, if that's
26:09
Speaker 2: the case. If it's doing a better job of getting
26:13
Speaker 2: you and your starters ready ready for the season, then
26:17
Speaker 2: just have joint practices. We don't need to do all
26:20
Speaker 2: this pomp and circumstance and get ready for it. And
26:23
Speaker 2: I hear what Greg's saying, and he's probably right. You
26:25
Speaker 2: want to practice traveling and the nutrition aspect, which was
26:29
Speaker 2: highlighted in just eye-popping fashion, by the way, in the
26:33
Speaker 2: latest episode of Hard Knocks. I'm like, really? That's how they're... wow,
26:38
Speaker 2: I just want their nutritionist. I don't even need to
26:40
Speaker 2: be a professional athlete. I'll just be a nutritionist. I
26:43
Speaker 2: just want their nutritionist out of this.
26:45
Speaker 3: I know.
26:46
Speaker 5: I kept thinking, gosh, they have a lot of food
26:47
Speaker 5: and they get reminded to drink a lot of water.
26:50
Speaker 2: And it's there right for them. Every turn.
26:53
Speaker 3: Everywhere you go.
26:54
Speaker 2: And the right kind of foods that they need to
26:56
Speaker 2: eat for the right kind of moments. So I was
27:00
Speaker 2: jealous of that. That I was jealous of. But But
27:05
Speaker 2: they've also, I mean, how long have you been traveling
27:07
Speaker 2: to football games? And how many more times are you
27:10
Speaker 2: going to travel to football games? Doesn't seem to me
27:13
Speaker 2: like it's going to be, the juice is worth the
27:15
Speaker 2: squeeze if you really have decided, we need to practice
27:19
Speaker 2: traveling as a reason to keep preseason games. That, to me,
27:23
Speaker 2: sounds a little bit silly. So I've said for a
27:26
Speaker 2: long time, I think that we will eventually, and I
27:28
Speaker 2: think it will be part of the collective bargaining agreement,
27:32
Speaker 2: as the trade, you give us an 18th game, you
27:35
Speaker 2: give us 20 weeks of football, regular season football, we
27:39
Speaker 2: will drop preseason games entirely. Maybe they'll still have the
27:43
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame game, like they'll just choose two teams
27:45
Speaker 2: to have a televised joint practice, I don't know. But
27:49
Speaker 2: I think they'll get rid of it entirely in exchange
27:52
Speaker 2: for a 20-week NFL season, and also, as I've said before,
27:57
Speaker 2: two Europe games per team. So, It's not just that
28:02
Speaker 2: they're going to ask for an 18th game. They're going
28:06
Speaker 2: to ask you to travel everybody once a year to
28:10
Speaker 2: Europe and stay for two weeks. That's what I think
28:12
Speaker 2: is going to eventually happen. And you'll have two bye
28:16
Speaker 2: weeks during the course of the season. That's 20 weeks
28:19
Speaker 2: of fantasy football for everyone. 20 weeks of gambling as
28:23
Speaker 2: opposed to 18. So you can think about the dollar
28:27
Speaker 2: signs that go with that and the amount of television
28:30
Speaker 2: revenue that you can generate with two extra weeks of
28:33
Speaker 2: regular season football.
28:34
Speaker 3: And meaningful football.
28:36
Speaker 2: Meaningful football. And I think that eventually is going to
28:40
Speaker 2: be the decision that's going to be made. So that's
28:43
Speaker 2: my vision for the future. Yes, a lot of us
28:48
Speaker 2: tolerate the NFL preseason right now, I don't think we're
28:53
Speaker 2: going to have to do that much longer. I think
28:55
Speaker 2: it's going to be a 20-week season, 18 games per team,
28:59
Speaker 2: two games in Europe, two bye weeks, one European trip
29:03
Speaker 2: per team, because you'll play them both while you're there.
29:06
Speaker 2: And I think that's the future of the National Football League,
29:09
Speaker 2: and it does not involve us ever having to preview
29:13
Speaker 2: a preseason game and wonder if starters are going to
29:15
Speaker 2: play ever again.
29:16
Speaker 3: Oh, and that would be joyous.
29:17
Speaker 5: I think it's funny, too, because the idea of them
29:20
Speaker 5: having to practice traveling and do all these things, well,
29:23
Speaker 5: they did that in college, right? And we just heard
29:26
Speaker 5: Jed Fish talking about how trained up the freshmen are,
29:29
Speaker 5: the first-year players are these days, and how they've got
29:33
Speaker 5: all this training and all this nutrition and all these
29:35
Speaker 5: things coming into college.
29:36
Speaker 3: So those guys are prepared for it.
29:38
Speaker 5: Why is it that when you go to the next
29:40
Speaker 5: level after you've done it in college you need more
29:42
Speaker 5: preparation to travel.
29:44
Speaker 2: Seems like a really flimsy excuse.
29:46
Speaker 3: It really does travel for.
29:47
Speaker 2: A joint practice yeah you know you still do your
29:50
Speaker 2: joint practice do that do a couple of those um
29:54
Speaker 2: but it seems like a really soft reason To keep
29:58
Speaker 2: doing this, we have to practice traveling.
30:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then for the Hall of Fame game, what
30:02
Speaker 5: you could do, you could move it so that it's
30:04
Speaker 5: the weekend before the season starts. And that's the first
30:08
Speaker 5: actual game. And then people would actually tune in.
30:12
Speaker 2: By the way, the NBA never practices traveling, and they
30:16
Speaker 2: travel all the time. See what I did there?
30:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was good.
30:21
Speaker 2: All right, coming up next. Dad jokes. College football season
30:26
Speaker 2: starts tomorrow.
30:28
Speaker 4: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Hey, it's Chuck and Ashley
31:02
Speaker 4: with you here.
31:02
Speaker 2: We've got X's and O's with QB1 Hugh Millen coming
31:05
Speaker 2: up here at 9 o'clock every Friday for the entire
31:08
Speaker 2: football season. We still haven't got the ABCs or the
31:10
Speaker 2: M's either and some pretty interesting things to discuss in
31:13
Speaker 2: that segment. And then we'll wrap up the show with
31:15
Speaker 2: booze news coming up as well. And then you just
31:19
Speaker 2: take four hours of listening to Chuck and Ashley here
31:23
Speaker 2: this morning and you're like, you know what? I'm going
31:25
Speaker 2: to go on a drive. Now that I've sat home
31:29
Speaker 2: Flew off work so that I could listen to four
31:31
Speaker 2: hours of the morning show. Now I'll just listen to
31:34
Speaker 2: Mike Benton filling in for Greg Bell on my drive
31:37
Speaker 2: to Tulalip Resort Casino and get in on a little
31:40
Speaker 2: early weekend action. How fun does that sound?
31:42
Speaker 3: Sounds like a genius move.
31:43
Speaker 2: You know, just get out there before it starts getting
31:47
Speaker 2: weekend crazy.
31:48
Speaker 3: Straight up genius.
31:49
Speaker 2: Establish yourself. That's right. Pick your favorite chair. At the
31:53
Speaker 2: DraftKings Sportsbook.
31:54
Speaker 3: And own it.
31:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, lock it in.
31:57
Speaker 3: Put a name tag on it so no one steals
31:58
Speaker 3: it when you get up to go to the bathroom.
32:00
Speaker 2: Sit down there at third base at the old blackjack
32:03
Speaker 2: table and don't move an inch. Yeah. Get your party
32:07
Speaker 2: started at Tulalip Resort Casino, but only if you want everything.
32:11
Speaker 2: Because Tulalip Resort Casino, boy, it's there for those who
32:15
Speaker 2: want everything.
32:15
Speaker 3: If you're scared of everything.
32:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
32:18
Speaker 3: Liven up a bit.
32:20
Speaker 2: EverythingTulalip.com. All right, let's talk about the college football season,
32:24
Speaker 2: which gets started tomorrow. I know, it's shocking, especially to
32:29
Speaker 2: some of us. But here it is. Here are my wishes.
32:32
Speaker 2: You want my wishes?
32:33
Speaker 3: I'm ready for your wishes.
32:34
Speaker 2: For the college football season, since it starts tomorrow. Number one,
32:39
Speaker 2: UW makes a leap under Jetfish. So we got to
32:43
Speaker 2: start with the local product, right? The flagship station's got
32:46
Speaker 2: to start with the local product. And I don't need... Actually,
32:48
Speaker 2: I don't need a tournament appearance. I don't need... I
32:52
Speaker 2: don't need a national championship. I don't need to operate
32:55
Speaker 2: in that high of an exaggerated fantasy world. That would
33:00
Speaker 2: be a big leap. considering half your schedule is filled
33:17
Speaker 2: with teams you absolutely should beat, as that big of
33:21
Speaker 2: a jump. What I'd like to see is 9-3, threatening
33:28
Speaker 2: with the chance that if you upset the right team,
33:31
Speaker 2: you're 10-2. You're 10-2 your playoff team in this conference. 9-3,
33:35
Speaker 2: probably not. I mean, that is probably the cutoff right there,
33:39
Speaker 2: because let's face it, that committee really doesn't do its job.
33:42
Speaker 2: They pretty much just look at record and that's about it.
33:46
Speaker 2: And so 9-3 probably won't get it done. But if
33:49
Speaker 2: you finish 9-3 and you are competing with Oregon and
33:54
Speaker 2: competing with Indiana and competing and maybe winning against USC,
34:00
Speaker 2: the best teams on your schedule for this upcoming season,
34:04
Speaker 2: to me that's progress because we haven't seen that out
34:07
Speaker 2: of a Jed Fish team so far. And it's only
34:10
Speaker 2: been two years. It's not like he's had a lot.
34:12
Speaker 2: And he had to rebuild it from scratch basically two
34:15
Speaker 2: years ago. But that to me is significant improvement. And
34:20
Speaker 2: that's number one. That's my number one wish. I'm not
34:23
Speaker 2: going to have to say Jed's got to make the
34:25
Speaker 2: playoff this year. But I think Jed, to feel great
34:29
Speaker 2: about the program's development and growth, we need to be
34:32
Speaker 2: knocking on the door of the playoffs this year. And
34:34
Speaker 2: I think that can happen.
34:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I do think the schedule lines up in
34:37
Speaker 5: our favor with the games that we have at home
34:39
Speaker 5: versus the games that we have on the road. Obviously,
34:41
Speaker 5: Oregon and USC being the two road games that are
34:44
Speaker 5: going to be really difficult, but you're at Michigan State,
34:46
Speaker 5: you're at Purdue, you're at Nebraska, you've got Iowa at home,
34:49
Speaker 5: you've got Penn State at home, you've got Indiana at home.
34:52
Speaker 5: So if you can win most of those games and
34:56
Speaker 5: at least make it close with Indiana, I don't know
34:58
Speaker 5: if Indiana is going to be as good as they
34:59
Speaker 5: were last year. I have no idea what to expect
35:01
Speaker 5: really from any of these teams right but I do
35:04
Speaker 5: think that you're at least set up in a way
35:06
Speaker 5: to have a pretty big jump from where you were
35:10
Speaker 5: at last year.
35:11
Speaker 2: Next thing, speaking of Indiana, I want them to win
35:15
Speaker 2: it all again.
35:16
Speaker 6: Okay.
35:17
Speaker 2: Again, because I'm saying UW winning a national championship, that's
35:21
Speaker 2: too much to ask. I'm not expecting that, not predicting that,
35:25
Speaker 2: not even fantasizing about that. So if we're not going
35:29
Speaker 2: to include the team you root for, and I don't
35:31
Speaker 2: think Illinois is going to get there either, then I'm
35:34
Speaker 2: going to say that I want Indiana to do it again.
35:37
Speaker 2: Because I am really enjoying... Kurt Cignetti didn't win the
35:42
Speaker 2: national championship and become arrogant. He was arrogant from the jump.
35:46
Speaker 3: He told people to Google him in his first press conference.
35:48
Speaker 2: And there's something now sort of very charming about how
35:53
Speaker 2: sure he was of himself. And he was right. And so...
36:00
Speaker 2: I would love to see them do it again because
36:01
Speaker 2: I know in Ohio State they're like, they can't do
36:04
Speaker 2: that again. I know in Oregon, we're going to overtake
36:10
Speaker 2: this conference. I know that Texas and Notre Dame and
36:16
Speaker 2: Georgia and the SEC and their arrogance, I just want
36:19
Speaker 2: Kurt Cignetti to slap them all down again. I want
36:22
Speaker 2: Mike Gastineau to celebrate another national championship this year.
36:25
Speaker 3: I mean, that couldn't happen to a nicer person.
36:27
Speaker 2: I think that would be phenomenal if Indiana won it all.
36:30
Speaker 2: All right, next thing that I'm rooting for, and this
36:33
Speaker 2: actually might be the thing I'm rooting for the most.
36:36
Speaker 3: Okay.
36:38
Speaker 2: Please, Ole Miss, beat LSU.
36:39
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, please. Please, please, please. Lane Kiffin is such
36:43
Speaker 3: a turd.
36:44
Speaker 2: And if you could beat that turd by 30.
36:47
Speaker 3: Why stop there? Beat him by 130. 130.
36:50
Speaker 2: I just want Lane Kiffin to fail at everything he does.
36:52
Speaker 3: Yes, and somehow he doesn't, and that's what makes him
36:56
Speaker 3: so aggravated.
36:56
Speaker 2: And yet, even when he does, he gets another chance.
36:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:00
Speaker 2: So that's another reason why I want him to fail,
37:02
Speaker 2: and I certainly want him to fail against Ole Miss. Please, please,
37:05
Speaker 2: if there's a college football god out there, please let
37:08
Speaker 2: Ole Miss beat LSU by 44 points.
37:10
Speaker 5: And then wouldn't it be great if Ole Miss made
37:13
Speaker 5: it to the college football playoffs and LSU didn't?
37:15
Speaker 2: You mean like last year? Yeah, except this time.
37:19
Speaker 3: He would be actually coaching the team that missed it.
37:22
Speaker 6: Yes.
37:24
Speaker 2: So, yes, that's a big wish of mine. I want
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Speaker 2: Arch Manning to be really good this year. I like
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Speaker 2: the Manning family. I take no joy in somebody that
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Speaker 2: didn't ask for all that hype, got all that hype,
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Speaker 2: certainly disappointed to a degree a year ago, did finish strong,
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Speaker 2: if you remember. And I would like to see Arch
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Speaker 2: have some success and then let the hype start all
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Speaker 2: over again in the NFL draft. But I don't think
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Speaker 2: it will be in the NFL draft, by the way,
37:53
Speaker 2: just to make a prediction. I think he's going to
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Speaker 2: return to college again next year. which is going to
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Speaker 2: be laughable, because this is what I said two years ago.
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Speaker 2: All of you that are already making him the No.
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Speaker 2: 1 pick, he's not going to the draft until he's
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Speaker 2: done with his four or five years of eligibility in college.
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Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, too.
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Speaker 5: I don't know why people were jumping to that, considering
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Speaker 5: the fact that you get paid, and he's getting a
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Speaker 5: lot of money being at Texas.
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Speaker 2: A lot. I want a defensive end to win the
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Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy this year.
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Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 2: I mean, most years I acknowledge that the quarterback should win,
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Speaker 2: and then there's a running back and the occasional... receiver.
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Speaker 2: But I want somebody to go Bobby Boucher this college
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Speaker 2: football season. I want somebody to have like 35 sacks
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Speaker 2: this year and just dominate from the defensive side of
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Speaker 2: the ball and win the Heisman. And not because they
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Speaker 2: play defense part-time. They were just a sack artist like
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Speaker 2: we've never seen before. That kid from South Carolina is
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Speaker 2: somebody that they say is pretty special. So I want
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Speaker 2: the MVP to be a.
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Speaker 3: Pass rusher this year. Can't wait for you to Pick
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Speaker 3: that in our college football draft.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to pick it, but I want it.
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Speaker 2: I want it to happen. And then finally, I would
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Speaker 2: like to see us avoid for the next nine months
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Speaker 2: or so another unnecessary monster controversy that we didn't see coming. Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, now you're just wishful thinking.
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Speaker 2: Can we avoid finding out that Michigan's defensive tackle is
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Speaker 2: really a thoroughbred? I hope so that he's been a
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Speaker 2: horse the whole time. And that he's been playing under
39:32
Speaker 2: the name, you know, Craig Jablonski. And has been dominating
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten. And we find out once he takes
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Speaker 2: off his helmet, he's really just a Clydesdale. Can we
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Speaker 2: avoid something....
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Speaker 3: Doubtful.
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Speaker 2: Super controversial. Can we just watch some football this year?
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Speaker 3: I think you have a better chance of a defensive
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Speaker 3: player winning the Heisman.
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