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10-7 H3: Mirror Mirror, Robert Acuna Jr.?? & Kraken Crushed · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you like it is. If
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  Speaker 1: it hurts, it hurts. Maybe it cuts like a knife.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it does.
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  Speaker 2: Stab, stab, stab. Maybe it hurts more because it's so fair.
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  Speaker 1: Well, usually I'm a big believer in truth therapy. You
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  Speaker 1: know when somebody's said the truth about you.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're crying at the end of this segment
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  Speaker 1: and you're a 49er fan, it's because you know it's true.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we could use talkbacks today at 933KJR. com.
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  Speaker 1: We can also use text today, and we can use YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to hear from both types, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: fan that is worried about the 49ers matchup this Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to know your biggest reason why. And
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  Speaker 1: then the Seahawks fan is not really worried at all,
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  Speaker 1: strangely enough. against the 4-0 49ers, and I want your
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  Speaker 1: biggest reason why on that front as well. So two
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  Speaker 1: different types of calls, two different types of feedback is
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  Speaker 1: what we're looking for, and I promise to be fair
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  Speaker 1: no matter what we get. What do you got back there, kid,
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  Speaker 1: on the talkback?
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  Speaker 3: Mirror, mirror on the wall, Chuck's the fairest of them all.
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  Speaker 3: And why I am worried is the quarterback play.
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  Speaker 1: Stay in the left lane. Don't listen to her.
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  Speaker 3: You have Brock Purdy playing in an MVP clip, and
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  Speaker 3: you have Sam Darnold throwing unreasonable, unseasonable, ridiculous interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me why I.
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  Speaker 3: Shouldn't be worried.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's a fair point. I think through
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  Speaker 1: four games, Brock Purdy's played about as well as he's
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  Speaker 1: played all season long. I think through two games, Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold has shown a little bit of rust and has
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  Speaker 1: thrown at least two bad interceptions. One of them hit
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  Speaker 1: a helmet, two bad interceptions. But I don't think Sam's
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  Speaker 1: played poorly. I think he played the way that he
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  Speaker 1: needed to play on Sunday and And other than the
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  Speaker 1: bad interception in his first game back, he played really
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  Speaker 1: well in that game. So I don't think we have
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback here that's playing poorly, but certainly if you're
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  Speaker 1: measuring the two, I mean, Brock Purdy's leading all of
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  Speaker 1: the MVP early season polls, nonsense polls. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why we're even talking about the NFL MVP after four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: but we did it after one week. Why wouldn't we
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  Speaker 1: do it after four weeks? So I'm going to totally
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that, 49er fan. Your quarterback looks like he's playing
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  Speaker 1: a lot better football than our quarterback at this stage
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  Speaker 1: of the season. That said, Brock Purdy was playing great
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  Speaker 1: football last year when he faced Mike McDonald, and he
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  Speaker 1: put three points on the board in a game the
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  Speaker 1: 49ers really had to have. And then in a playoff
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  Speaker 1: game where it's elimination, right, He put together a game
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  Speaker 1: with the exact same statistics and the team scored six points.
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  Speaker 1: So even when Brock Purdy's playing great football, which he
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  Speaker 1: is right now, it still doesn't mean he's going to
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  Speaker 1: have an answer for Mike McDonald and his defense. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's drawn up. And that old film room, for
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy to try to digest, he's ended up throwing
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  Speaker 1: it up all over the field in the last two
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  Speaker 1: times they've played. And believe me, he was just as
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  Speaker 1: hot going into that 13-3 loss last season as he
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  Speaker 1: is right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even if Brock Purdy right now is playing
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  Speaker 2: better football than Sam Darnold, it's about this game specifically, right?
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  Speaker 1: We don't, like.
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  Speaker 2: Really don't care what he does the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: season besides when he plays against the Seahawks. And so
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  Speaker 2: the question is whether you think Brock Purdy will do
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  Speaker 2: better against Mike McDonald's defense than Sam Donald will do
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  Speaker 2: against the Niners defense that doesn't have Nick Mosa.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of a little banged up in the secondary
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  Speaker 2: as well. They played well there, too. They have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they have. But I still would take honestly, even right now.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that you said being true, talkback person, stay in
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  Speaker 2: the left lane.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great call.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that you said, I still think Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 2: more likely to have more success against the Niners defense
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  Speaker 2: than Brock Purdy is against Mike McDonald's defense. Because he
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  Speaker 2: just has not shown any sort of... I think our
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  Speaker 2: second talkback will answer everything. Oh, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to the talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm very, very, very worried about the 49ers defense.
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  Speaker 3: The Seahawks have zero run game. I don't care what
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  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson did last weekend. He had two nice runs
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  Speaker 3: for touchdowns. That was great scheming by the OC. The
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  Speaker 3: guy is a slow poddler. And Fred Warner is going
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  Speaker 3: to eat him up. He's going to eat him up.
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  Speaker 3: And so Sam's going to have to throw for about
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  Speaker 3: 45 passes. Sam's going to have to need to get
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  Speaker 3: about four touchdowns to win this game. I'm very worried.
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  Speaker 1: Very worried.
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  Speaker 2: Run game for me is where I– I'm thinking more
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  Speaker 2: like Brock Purdy, Sam, probably a wash. Whoever has a
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  Speaker 2: better day, that's great. But I think the Niners have
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  Speaker 2: the advantage in the running game versus the Seahawks. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't found that rhythm yet.
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  Speaker 1: Do they, though? Yes. Do they, though? Yes. Christian McCaffrey's
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  Speaker 1: three games last year. 3.1 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 2: Versus the Seahawks? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: 2.9 yards per carry. 3.2 yards per carry. His big
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  Speaker 1: output was 69 yards. That was back in game number one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that play. 23 yards in game number two.
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  Speaker 1: 35 yards in game number three. So I'm with you, 1,000% caller.
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  Speaker 1: And look, there's no way. I mean, they've played better
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  Speaker 1: football this season. They look like the better football team.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks have not played a good game yet. Not for
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  Speaker 1: four quarters. They played great in the second half against
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. And even though statistically they rose to the
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  Speaker 1: occasion in Washington, obviously they did not play Seahawk football
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  Speaker 1: and allowed when the commanders were moving the football, they
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  Speaker 1: allowed them into the end zone far more than we
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  Speaker 1: expect our defense to allow an opponent like Washington to
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  Speaker 1: have that kind of success. And then played fairly well.
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  Speaker 1: against the chargers for two quarters two plus quarters but
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  Speaker 1: obviously didn't finish well 49ers have finished well all four
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  Speaker 1: games uh 49ers have just played better football to this
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  Speaker 1: point in the season and one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: certainly we have to be concerned about is whether or
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  Speaker 1: not i mean we were concerned we had the full
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  Speaker 1: complement of running backs that john and mike put together
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  Speaker 1: for this year and we clearly don't have that we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a charbonnet back yet We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: have Price. So, yeah, I think that's an absolute legitimate concern.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get the running game going? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know if they can get theirs going either.
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey does not look like he's having much of
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  Speaker 1: a season. He might have finally reached that point in
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  Speaker 1: his career where he's lost that proverbial half-step. They're wondering
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  Speaker 1: the same thing in Philadelphia about Saquon Barkley. The only
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  Speaker 1: person that we don't wonder that about is Derrick Henry
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  Speaker 1: because he's going to run for 1,500 yards every year
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  Speaker 1: until he's 75.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I would just add Chuck that I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the Not the ability to run it effectively. It's about
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  Speaker 2: just running it because that opens up what? The play action.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where the Niners are really, really effective with
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  Speaker 2: George Kittle. You can name all the guys that are
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  Speaker 2: even bringing Deebo back. So I'm imagining he's going to
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  Speaker 2: get a bunch of reps in the back foot as well,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like what you saw with Rashid Shaheed getting
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  Speaker 2: a toss. That's what Deebo can do. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just giving them— And he's, by.
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  Speaker 1: The way, fit again, which is really disappointing. He looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was a fat bastard last year. Yes, he was.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I got to find that drop from
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  Speaker 2: from what's it called? Austin Powers.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I'm going to eat your baby.
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  Speaker 2: I think just having the presence of being able to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll be successful at it, but I
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  Speaker 2: think when they're worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I mean, I don't think either team's going to
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  Speaker 1: run the ball that much. It's going to be who
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  Speaker 1: sticks with the run and can at least keep you honest. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're asking me, mirror, mirror on the wall,
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  Speaker 1: who's the fairest of them all, I will say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on paper, the 49ers look like they've got a better
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  Speaker 1: chance of establishing a run against us. the way that
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  Speaker 1: we've played. I mean, the Chargers were able to do
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  Speaker 1: it in the second half. I think just looking at
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  Speaker 1: the percentages, Anders, they've got a better chance of establishing
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  Speaker 1: the run against our defense than what we have against theirs.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, I don't think either team's going
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  Speaker 1: to run wild on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: No, and if you're going to bring up Debo as
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  Speaker 2: part of the running game for San Francisco, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is an absolutely fair point, that's been one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons they've had a little bit more success offensively,
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  Speaker 2: bringing him back as part of that, then we can
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  Speaker 2: use Rashid Shaheed as part of ours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Which we've all talked about many times in the first
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  Speaker 2: couple of days of this week as well. So I
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  Speaker 2: do think, yes, you're right. Even with Christian McCaffrey's lack
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  Speaker 2: of success against the Mike McDonald defense, I still believe
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  Speaker 2: in that track record more than the Emanuel Wilson's, George
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  Speaker 2: Halani's and whatever else they throw out there.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. For sure. And that's just totally fair. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the Seahawks are the best run defense in the league.
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  Speaker 2: So they more than anything else, they could stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's again, it's all about this game specifically, not
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  Speaker 2: what they do against everyone else. So I think, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that is probably I'm more worried about that than I
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  Speaker 2: am the quarterback. I still don't think that's a huge
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  Speaker 2: reason to be all like the Seahawks team. should be
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  Speaker 2: losing this game or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very worried. I'm not very worried about it, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that it is the element that gives you
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  Speaker 1: the most concern. I agree. Alright, what do we have
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  Speaker 1: on the text line? Mirror, mirror wants to hear from
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  Speaker 1: the texters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me refresh here really quick, get a couple
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  Speaker 2: more in here. 206, I'm worried because the 49ers have
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  Speaker 2: been circling this game since last year's playoff loss. They've
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  Speaker 2: built their team around beating.
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  Speaker 1: Us what did they change all that much brought back
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  Speaker 1: debo samuel yeah thinner debo samuel right no seriously i'm
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  Speaker 1: not i'm asking like honestly i don't what did they
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  Speaker 1: change all that much from last season.
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  Speaker 2: I this year honestly don't know i i I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: doubt that if someone were to tell me that, but
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  Speaker 2: I just am trying to think about what the evidence
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  Speaker 2: of that is. Yeah, I mean, I think— I think
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  Speaker 2: Raheem Moore is the defensive coordinator. Guy with Asala, he
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so is Asala. Asala's a good coordinator. He's just
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  Speaker 1: a terrible head coach, unfortunately. But don't you think they
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  Speaker 1: had the Rams circled? I mean, I know we knocked
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  Speaker 1: them out of the playoffs, but, I mean, they played
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  Speaker 1: the Rams to start the season. I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: they were overlooking the Rams. Yeah. Because they had the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks on the schedule for week number five. Mike Evans,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's old. They brought him back, too. They
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  Speaker 1: brought him in. Mike Evans?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg Cosell loved the Mike Evans, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: even healthy. Yeah, he's banged up. He's banged up. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here's where I push back on that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a really big game for them, and they really
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  Speaker 1: do want to settle the score. They got embarrassed by
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks twice in must-win sort of scenarios. Certainly the
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  Speaker 1: playoff game was a must-win. So they've got a bearish choice. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely they should have that circled on their calendar. But
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  Speaker 1: I think they do anyway. Just like I think the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks have the 49ers circled on their calendar anyway. And
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  Speaker 1: there is, I mean, as much credit as I want
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  Speaker 1: to give to emotions playing a part in sports, I
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  Speaker 1: told you a couple of weeks ago, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that LSU is going to be up for the Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss game more than Ole Miss is going to. There
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  Speaker 1: are just some scenarios. And maybe we won't be able
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  Speaker 1: to rise to that occasion because we weren't the team
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  Speaker 1: that got embarrassed. But I can promise you, after that
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  Speaker 1: 13-3 loss, you circle the playoff game. And when they
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  Speaker 1: met up in the playoff game, it was even more lopsided.
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  Speaker 1: It was 41-6. Yeah. For goodness sake. Both of those
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  Speaker 1: games got circled, too. And they got dominated on the
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  Speaker 1: football field. They're going to be healthier. That reason hasn't
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  Speaker 1: come up yet. I would imagine it is going to
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  Speaker 1: come up. They're going to be healthier right now than
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  Speaker 1: they were at the end of last season. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's something to worry about. But even if we lose
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  Speaker 1: this game... I do believe they're going to be unhealthy
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  Speaker 1: whenever we play them again because they just have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that can't stay healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you think the Niners may be more up
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  Speaker 2: for this game than the Seahawks, I don't— I can't
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  Speaker 2: even get on board with that because the Niners have
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  Speaker 2: played better this season, so they will be feeling better
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  Speaker 2: about themselves going into this game. Mike McDonald, we saw
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  Speaker 2: how pissed he was in a press conference after they won.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they will be. I'm saying I guess
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  Speaker 1: I could give myself to that thought.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Revenge versus....
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a little different edge to that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, you embarrassed me, and I have got to fix this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's fair.
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  Speaker 2: Versus we embarrassed you, let's see if we can do
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  Speaker 2: it again. But the Seahawks themselves will be like, we
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  Speaker 2: need to play better. We're not coming in like we
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  Speaker 2: think we own the world or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 2: that kind of leans into our next text, 253. I
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  Speaker 2: am worried the Seahawks don't play with discipline and they
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  Speaker 2: extend opponents' drives with knucklehead penalties. That and the Niners...
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  Speaker 2: are fairly healthy for once. So adding in the health factor.
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  Speaker 2: That was one game. It was one game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give them a mulligan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a problem that persists? No. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: How many penalties did they have against Washington? I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to remember. I don't even think it was five.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll go look. They just played a different version
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  Speaker 1: of un-Seahawk-like football. That was allowing touchdowns instead of field goals.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think penalties was the big problem. It
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  Speaker 1: was in this... particular game but i don't really sense
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  Speaker 1: that that's an ongoing issue.
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  Speaker 2: Um okay they committed nine penalties in their weekly loss
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  Speaker 2: that's what i thought too it was two two weeks
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  Speaker 2: in a row but i mean like you said different
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  Speaker 2: situations different way of not playing seahawk football.
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  Speaker 1: It's on my radar of like are we really gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about this i mean think about what
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  Speaker 1: you're up against you've got to get the message home
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  Speaker 1: this week at practice we can't do that We can't
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  Speaker 1: play after the whistle. We can't make those stupid calls.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, I want you to be as intense as
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  Speaker 1: you've ever been. I mean, that's going to be the message.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to try to take the.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, there's a line between aggression and stupidity. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that we were stupid on Sunday. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you have to get rid of your aggression
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  Speaker 1: to rid yourself of the stupidity. But when you are
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  Speaker 1: We are not committing those penalties. Maybe you just somehow
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  Speaker 1: take a little bit of that sting out to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're not playing after the whistle. We're not
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  Speaker 1: throwing people out of bounds and stuff of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't, yeah, we can't play that poorly and
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  Speaker 1: win this game. We can't play as poorly. Seahawks can't
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  Speaker 1: play as poorly as they did against the Commanders or
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers and beat the 49ers. I will give you that.
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  Speaker 1: So we play that stupid again, we're losing. Or if
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  Speaker 1: we give up all touchdowns and don't hold the 49ers
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  Speaker 1: drives to field goals or punts, we're going to lose.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking at that as some sort of pandemic
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  Speaker 1: that has swept through the clubhouse for the Seahawks. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really... perceive us as being a penalty-prone team or
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  Speaker 1: a team that can't slow down a drive. They just
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  Speaker 1: don't have that perception yet. But I'll at least say this.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the radar because it is two straight weeks
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  Speaker 1: of uncharacteristic Mike McDonald Seahawk defense. They haven't played badly.
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  Speaker 1: Just uncharacteristic elements of the way that they've attacked the
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  Speaker 1: last two bad opponents. And it won't be a bad
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  Speaker 1: opponent this week.
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  Speaker 2: And it's weird because that almost makes me feel better
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  Speaker 2: going into the game because I know that Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: wants to fix that and I know that this team
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  Speaker 2: is bought into everything that he's trying to sell so
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be more hell-bent on making sure that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen in this game more than maybe if they had
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  Speaker 2: played clean football four great quarters in the last two
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  Speaker 2: games I don't know maybe.
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  Speaker 1: That's just me everybody sounds worried We've had all worried
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  Speaker 1: talkbackers and texters.
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  Speaker 2: I was literally about to say one on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good. 206.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about the 49ers because McDonald is Shanahan's daddy.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: There you go. I like it. Oh, yeah. Believe me.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's true. If they're in the same room, McDonald does the,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you know, hushes him, like cuts him off. Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: You know, that's the, you know. He's just one of
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: those guys. Let's put it this way.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: When they're around each other, do you know how many
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: two-for-flinchings Kyle Shanahan gets caught doing? Just like, hey, Kyle. Two-for-flinching, bud.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's like the big brother.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And yet the little brother.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, have a great day. Two-for-flinching, Kyle. I don't know
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: why you're so jumpy. I don't know why you're so nervous.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: What are you worried about?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. We're just out here playing football. It's just
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: one coach. Ah, got you again.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Already ahead of you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: There you go, buddy. Seem a little agitated here today. Oh, yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's got his number. And so, but I'll
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: say this. I'm worried that Sean McVay's got Mike's number.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Because that's the last two times we faced them. Max
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Stafford just lit up the screen. But. What I watched
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: at the end of last year, and it's not like
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: in that first game when you were completely healthy, Trent Williams,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that you put 30 points up on. You scored 17.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: 17.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Three games. 17, 3, and 6. The offensive genius that
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is Kyle Shanahan. And Greg told us at 7.05 that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it is a big deal for Kyle Shanahan. He is
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: trying to solve the problem that is, why does Mike
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: McDonald own my ass?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's a big problem for him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm a little worried about the game. There's no
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: way not to be. Mirror, mirror puts everything else aside,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: all the boastfulness and everything else.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: They're 4-0 or 3-1. They're playing better football.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: But I do think they have a lot more to
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: prove than what the Seahawks do on Sunday. They've got
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to prove that Mike McDonald's not in Kyle Shanahan's head,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: not in the huddle with his offense. And so prove it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Prove it. Take it from us. Take it from us
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: at home. Take it from us at Lumen Field on
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a beautiful Sunday fall afternoon. I'm going to take the
• 19:04
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• 19:06
  Speaker 1: without bias. I think that's somebody that watched these two
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: teams play three times last year and the evolution of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that matchup and can't imagine that you're going to have
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of answers for the Seahawks a few short
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: months later. With pretty much the same personnel on the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: field on both sides. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Great stuff.
• 19:27
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• 19:30
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• 19:35
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• 19:40
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• 21:06
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• 21:37
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• 21:40
  Speaker 1: don't know what this offset is. I don't even know
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: how to approach off-season talk with the Mariners. There's going
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to be a lockout, strike, something. And we're going to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: miss part of next season. And there could be, whenever
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we do play Major League Baseball again, completely different rules
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  Speaker 1: that govern spending in Major League Baseball because that's what
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: baseball's after. This is what baseball's willing to sacrifice maybe
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a half a season, maybe a full season in order
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• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and the players have been adamant for a century that's never.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Going to happen.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So we're going to have a stoppage. We're going to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: miss some games. And we might have different rules for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: how teams can spend going forward, which will change, of course,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the complete outlook of every team in Major League Baseball,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: especially the Dodgers. And I would think especially... Teams like
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, for example. On both ends. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: certainly the Mariners. It would affect. But in the meantime,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Jerry said, we don't have any choice. We've got to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: approach this offseason like we're going to have a season
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and like we're going to have the exact same rules.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And so as we venture into this offseason tepidly, a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: lot of people are throwing around a lot of names.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: And one of the names people keep throwing around is
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Elie De La Cruz. Good for you. You've recognized one
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of the five most talented athletes in the history of baseball.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You're sharp. Well done. He's phenomenal. He's also three years away.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He's not a free agent until 2030. The Reds have
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: no interest in trading Ellie Dela Cruz. None. And whatever
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you heard at the trading deadline was somebody spitballing on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. And some of you took that as, oh,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they're looking to trade Elliott. And they were never looking.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: It would have been like, it would be like us
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: seeking to trade Cal after last season. Just nonsense. So
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Ellie Dela Cruz is not going to be a Seattle Mariner.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: He's going to be a Cincinnati Red next year. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: eventually he's going to be something other than a Cincinnati
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Red because he's already made it very clear. I'm going
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: for the money. There will be no hometown discounts when
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the time comes because you've made me wait a long time.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: 2030 is a long time away.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: That's three seasons. Not to mention they haven't won either.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't mean to rain on your Ellie Dela
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Cruz party plans, but what was going to happen is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you weren't going to get him and then you were
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: going to blame Jerry and ownership for being cheap.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Sounds about right.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's what was going to happen. This is what you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: do as Mariner fans. You set yourself up for LA
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Dela Cruz, LA Dela Cruz, even though he's never available.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And then if you don't get him, you're angry at
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the organization. But I'm going to give you somebody that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: will make you very excited and yet has a lot
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of holes in his game right now and a lot
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of holes in his personality. But if ever there was
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a time, this might be the time to jump on this.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr. Ronald Acuna Jr. is coming off a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: season where he was okay.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: For his standards.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: For his standards. He was once again, Anders, very unavailable.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He's only had two seasons where he's played over 119
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: games in his entire career. Now, one of those two,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he went 40-70 and won the MVP. He's only 29
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: years old, so 28, I think. 28, yes. An incredible talent.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: You'd be getting him in his age 29 season. But
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: not only is he unavailable from a health standpoint, when
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he's on the field, let's face it, he doesn't try.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Most of the time, he doesn't try. And even in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, Braves fans have had enough of watching Ronald
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Acuna Jr., who tried his ass off in the WBC
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: for his country, but when being paid... millions of dollars
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Braves, picks and chooses when he wants
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to hustle. Braves fans have had enough of him. I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: would imagine the organization's had enough of him. He has
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: two one-year team options at $ 17 million on the table.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: That's a salary, Anders, that won't scare off John Stanton.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You could get him in a trade for a fraction
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of the price you would have had to pay for
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: him three years ago when people were throwing around Acuna Jr. rumors,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: when the Atlanta Braves were actually thinking about trading Acuna Jr.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and should have. So you could get him for a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: price tag that Jerry and Justin could live with. And
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: then you've just got to figure out the manager who
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: can convince Ronald Acuna Jr. to play hard. Because if
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he plays hard, there's no doubt that he has the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: talent to be as special as anyone in the game.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: He's shown it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: He's shown it before, but he hasn't shown it for
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: four years. So is that worth the gamble to you?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could even get out of it two
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: team options at $ 7 million. That means if he's a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: complete and total flop bust, you can just say goodbye
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to him after this year. You made a $ 17 million
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: investment in a potential $ 50 million player.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And if it doesn't turn out, it doesn't turn out.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But maybe for a team that's looking for a right fielder,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: looking for a spark, looking for a right-handed hitter, this
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: kind of makes sense to me. If ever there was
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a time to try and weasel in on the Braves
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and see if you can get Ronald Acuna Jr. to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: play up to his potential in potentially two free agent-type seasons...
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe now's the time to go get him.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot of things to like
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: about it. I, in general, am more often than not
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: willing to take the risk with these types of players
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: that have all the talent in the world. But that
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: might backfire. And it might not be the best type
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of locker room presence, so to speak. Everyone said that
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: about Randy when they traded for him as well. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: we saw some parts of... We saw some of it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Some of it with Randy. I didn't think it was
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: ever a huge deal where it was like... oh my God,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: everyone hates him sort of situation, right? That might be
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the case with Acuna. I think there was some heavy
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: duty eye rolling.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: But he played with more passion this past year than
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: any player on the team.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: And why is that?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: In the second half.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And why is that? Because he was playing for his
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: contract more often than not.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And at this point in time, Acuna, maybe one of
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the reasons he hadn't been trying that hard, so to speak,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: is because he had already signed his contract. He was
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a couple years out from being to that point. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: feels like he's underpaid. I shouldn't have signed that deal.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Which he is underpaid.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Which he is underpaid.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I feel like this is a very similar situation,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: except a more talented player, even more so than Randy.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: So you could get two years, maybe more if you
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: want to re-sign him, if he ends up being just
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: a complete home run, comes and changes his entire outlook,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and plays 150 games a season. Or maybe you just
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: get two years of him and then have someone else
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: overpay him. And you're getting probably the two most prime
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: years of his career, age 29 and age 30 seasons.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Right.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: As he's trying to get money for a contract. So
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: he has all the incentive in the world. And for
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: a guy that literally, like you said, has had one
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: of the best offensive seasons that we've seen in the
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: last 10 years.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: In 2023.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Well, you'd be getting somebody that would be going to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a new fan base. And nobody wants to make a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: bad impression with a new fan base. So that would
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: spark him a little bit. New eyeballs on the problem.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: He'll have it. new manager. He'll have a new offensive coordinator.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: He'll have new teammates. And you're right. You're two years
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: away from him playing for a contract. You might get
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the best version of Ronald Acuna yet in two years. Now,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: he is a headache. I mean, nobody likes the guy
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: or should like the guy that just chooses when he
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: wants to hustle and when he doesn't want to hustle. Right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And we saw a little bit of that with Randy,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: but we didn't see it in the second half of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: this past season as he was playing for a contract.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: But this is somebody that this kind of makes sense
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to me. This might be the time to get him.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And then I would let him walk. Yeah. He's not
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the type of guy that I want to invest a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: lot of money. I mean, if Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I made my money, I gave you good years in
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the past. Why should I keep giving you good years?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Then this guy's definitely going to do that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So use him for two years. Try to get the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: best two years out of him as he's trying to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: prove to the world how much money he should be
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: paid and then let somebody else pay it in 2029. Plus,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: we don't even know what the paying rules will be. Right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: While he would be a Mariner, potentially. Good point. This
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: might be the one. You want a big splash move
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: for the offseason? You want to get the fan base
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: fired up, no matter if he's only had two healthy
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: seasons in his entire career?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: This is such a talent that that would get the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: fans fired up. Yeah, 796 OPS in what was a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: down year for him. For sure. Honestly, if he did
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: that again this year, I'd take it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's also a guy that won't even hustle
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, which is a huge red flag. But, but, but, but,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: money talks. It's true. So if you get him, he's
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: got two one-year options.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And like I said.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And so you just like see if you can get
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the best version of him and then let him go.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Let somebody else pay.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Or if it's a one-year disaster, let them walk. Don't
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: pick up the team option.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Now it's all about what you give.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Up for them.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the biggest question.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, man, this cracking season's off to another
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  Speaker 1: from now to talk about Friday night's affair against the
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• 32:39
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• 32:39
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• 32:46
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• 32:47
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• 32:53
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• 32:57
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• 33:02
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• 33:02
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• 33:07
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• 33:08
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• 33:10
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• 33:13
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• 33:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, it's worked out better than the Kraken
• 33:18
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• 33:21
  Speaker 1: so what do you take from all of this? Two
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: games in, dominated Calgary in Calgary.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I don't get over that joke.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Played really well against Edmonton or fine against Edmonton. Lost.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: That's a really good team. And then just gets smoked.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we had Everton on just yesterday and he's like,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: if you can win this game, you know, and kind
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: of quiet all of that opinion about how this is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: just the same team all over again. If you can
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: win this game. Well, not only did you not win it,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you got smoked by one of the best teams in
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the NHL. So what do you make of all this?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I honestly don't know if the Kraken are good, but
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I do know the Calgary Flames are bad.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: So that's one thing. There is something to be said
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: about winning the games that you're supposed to win. We
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: all know we had that talk about the Mariners. If
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: they had just won the games they were supposed to
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: win down the stretch, they'd be in the playoffs.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So, yes, like it happens more regularly in hockey than
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: it does. It does. You're right. You're right about that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: If you if you're the better team, you should win, period.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Like more often than not. That being said, like the
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: two games against Edmonton and Vegas in two different ways
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: are exactly why everyone has their opinion that they do
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: about this crack and roster. Number one against Edmonton, even
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: when you play really well defensively, you actually kill off
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of their penalties. And the goaltending was better
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: than you would expect it to be. You just can't
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: generate anything offensively when you're kind of under the pressure
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: of you need to do that. And then against Vegas,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: it's like.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: You got slapped around.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got slapped around, a physical team. And you
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: answered the bell with a couple fights here and there, which,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: you know, that's been an issue in the past that
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they kind of just wilter over and fold over and
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: accept the beating, so to speak, the Kraken have in
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: years past. And they didn't do that this time. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I just noticed a big gap in talent more than
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: anything else between Seattle and those two teams that they face.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: And look, Edmonton and Vegas, they might be the Two
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: best teams in the Pacific Division. In fact, I think
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: they are the two best teams in the Pacific Division.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, the shots were even. Face-offs even, for the
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: most part. Both had five power play opportunities in the game.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Same amount of penalties. I mean, it kind of reads
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: like it was an evenly fought game.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: But if you watched it... It was five to nothing
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: at one point. If you watched it, it was not.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: You can look at a lot of stats with hockey...
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: The shot total can tell you one story, but you
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: can take a lot of just half-ass shots at the
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: top of the zone and just kind of.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Just a night of half-ass shots. Exactly.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Exactly, right? But I just see a big talent gap.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: And that's what we've been saying for a long time.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: If they don't get 110% of their potential out of
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: every single player on this roster, this is what it's
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: going to look like.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Well, we are talking about two of the best teams
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: in the league that they've faced in their two losses
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and maybe the worst team that they've defeated in their
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: two victories. Cam Clevel will join us next. Big night
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this Friday night at home against the Hawkeyes. Sports Radio
• 36:37
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