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10-7 H2: 12th Man News w/ Gregg Bell, WWW & Reckless @ Breakfast · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 1: this is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so Joe Mixon's not going to be on
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  Speaker 2: the football team. What was revealed in that physical that
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  Speaker 2: scared the Seahawks off?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's related to a foot injury he had that
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  Speaker 3: cost him all last year in Houston. And the people
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  Speaker 3: I know in Houston that cover the Texans and have
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  Speaker 3: covered the NFL for a while say that it was
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  Speaker 3: very mysterious.
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  Speaker 4: The team wouldn't talk about it. Mixon wouldn't talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: There's all kinds of rumors as to how he got
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  Speaker 4: injured his foot. Nobody knows why he didn't play all
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  Speaker 4: last year. So that was the concern the Seahawks had
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  Speaker 4: when they tried him out. The way this works is
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  Speaker 4: guys have tryouts that get leaked by agents to teams.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, so-and-so's going to try out with the Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 3: then it goes well, and then the agent reports, well,
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks want to sign him. So the Seahawks told Mixon, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll sign you. You've got to make sure you take
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  Speaker 3: a physical and pass it before you sign the contract.
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  Speaker 3: That's standard fare in every sport in the world. So
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  Speaker 3: the agent just puts out, yeah, Seahawks are going to
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  Speaker 3: sign Joe Mixon and leaks that out. Well, in the
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  Speaker 3: case of Mixon, the passing the physical part was the
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  Speaker 3: crux of the deal, and he didn't pass it.
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  Speaker 5: Robert Henry is on the team. Will he play at
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  Speaker 5: all on Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: I would think so. He goes straight onto the active roster,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm expecting him to play. That's the NFL rules
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  Speaker 3: when you sign somebody off another practice card. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: Haven't officially announced that today. I'm expecting them to do
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  Speaker 3: that today before practice. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Do they have confidence, and maybe they're not revealing this
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  Speaker 2: to you, about a near return for Jadarian Price, or
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  Speaker 2: are we going to get to the trading deadline and
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  Speaker 2: that's what John Schneider saved his money for, is to
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  Speaker 2: go get a running back at the trade market?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he can't play until November 2nd. He's got to
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  Speaker 3: miss at least four games today. So November 2nd, the
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  Speaker 3: Monday night game against Chicago is the first game he
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  Speaker 3: can play. And that's right around what the deadline is,
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  Speaker 3: the 4th or 5th, so the first week of November.
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  Speaker 3: So it's about the same time. Snyder said in the
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  Speaker 3: pregame show Sunday on the team's radio network that they
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's going to be out for the season,
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  Speaker 3: but he said it was an upper rib injury that
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  Speaker 3: he aggravated by falling on First got in week two
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  Speaker 3: in Arizona, and L.J. Collier tackled him on a swing pass.
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  Speaker 3: And then he played hurt in Washington where he fumbled
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  Speaker 3: for the second time in two games. And then Price
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  Speaker 3: fell on it last week in practice on Wednesday. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't sound like it's a short thing. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: implication is perhaps it's a broken rib. No one's said
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  Speaker 3: that yet. They just keep listing it as chest. But
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  Speaker 3: if I had to guess, and this is totally guessing
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  Speaker 3: because no one specified the length, I would think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a little more than four weeks.
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  Speaker 5: A little more than four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So those two trains, since they're going to arrive maybe
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  Speaker 2: at the same time in the uncertainty, is that something
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  Speaker 2: you expect at this point, is to add a running back?
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  Speaker 2: Not just somebody off of someone's practice squad, but to
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  Speaker 2: go after a veteran running back before the deadline comes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it could be a signing, too. It may
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  Speaker 3: not be a trade. But they have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: draft picks, as we know, 11 of them. So they
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  Speaker 3: could trade next year's draft pick for a running back.
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  Speaker 3: If you're trading a draft pick, you're going to probably
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  Speaker 3: pluck somebody's starter or somebody who's playing off for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of snaps for another team. So, yes, they have
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  Speaker 3: the ammunition to do that. They have the cap and
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  Speaker 3: cash space to do that. We'll see if that's what
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  Speaker 3: they spend it on. He does it every year. He
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  Speaker 3: sets aside money, like you inferred. He sets aside money
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  Speaker 3: to make moves in the middle of the season. Recently,
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  Speaker 3: it's been for the line of scrimmage, and I think
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams on top of all that. But this is
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  Speaker 3: their most pressing need right now. They don't have a
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  Speaker 3: game-breaking veteran or veteran at all experienced back. Emmanuel Wilson
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  Speaker 3: had one 500-yard season with Green Bay last year, and
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  Speaker 3: veteran minimum contract, and he's now their starter. this is
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  Speaker 3: not gone the way they planned post-Kenneth Walker. Certainly they
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  Speaker 3: didn't think that Jadarian Price would have fumble issues and
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  Speaker 3: then be on injured reserve before the first month of
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  Speaker 3: the season was over. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you can follow Matt G. Bell's Seattle on X and
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  Speaker 2: been covering the Seahawks beat for the News Tribune for years.
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  Speaker 2: There's complete coverage available there at thenewstribune.com. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about this matchup against the 49ers. You do a
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  Speaker 2: very good job on your radio show of– having your
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  Speaker 2: national contacts provide texture to things, and then you always
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  Speaker 2: reach out to a buddy that has been following the
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  Speaker 2: team that we face for the upcoming week. Have they
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  Speaker 2: acknowledged in San Francisco and the national experts that you've
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  Speaker 2: brought on your show just how dominant the Seahawks were
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  Speaker 2: over the 49ers in those last two games last season?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and it's stuck in Kyle Shanahan's craw. And they
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  Speaker 3: are well aware of Shanahan in particular and his offense
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  Speaker 3: going nowhere in those two games, the week 18 and
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  Speaker 3: the playoff game. And it is on their minds this week, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And he's trying to counter the counter from McDonald, which
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  Speaker 3: means McDonald's going to have a counter to Shanahan's counter.
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  Speaker 3: And he's going to change. I think he's going to move.
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams is the key on the front, and McDonald
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  Speaker 3: thinks he's said optimistic as of Monday that Williams will
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  Speaker 3: play through that ankle injury he got at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the Chargers game. But moving him around, moving Byron
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  Speaker 3: Murphy around. I saw Byron Murphy line up as pretty
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  Speaker 3: much a defensive end in pass rush against the Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: They'll move those guys around. You're going to get the
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  Speaker 3: full Nick Emanuary experience, which Shanahan got last year, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what limited his offense. Of all the factors as
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  Speaker 3: to why the Seahawks held the 49ers to just three
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  Speaker 3: points in Week 18 to win the number one seed
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  Speaker 3: and then blow out the 49ers in the divisional round,
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  Speaker 3: It's because Nick Imanwari throttled George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey,
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  Speaker 3: when he catches passes, usually runs for first downs. Not
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  Speaker 3: with Nick Imanwari guarding him down on the flat. He
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  Speaker 3: immediately went down. I mean, Imanwari's tackling was superb. He
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  Speaker 3: broke up passes from Kittle down the field. It was
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  Speaker 3: a neutralizer that very few teams in the league have
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  Speaker 3: against the 49ers offense. and they're still doing it with
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  Speaker 3: McCaffrey catching passes, second-leading pass catcher this season so far.
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  Speaker 3: And part of the reason that Brock Purdy is a 70%
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  Speaker 3: passer is he throws quick passes into the flats or
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  Speaker 3: outside to Kittle and to McCaffrey, who then run for
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  Speaker 3: yards after the catch. There was no yak with Nicky
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  Speaker 3: McGorry last year. So that's the key is the full
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  Speaker 3: Nicky McGorry experience, which they were hinting last week against
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers. He played much more of the 2025 version
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  Speaker 3: than he did in his first two games of season.
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  Speaker 3: So I think those two factors are in Seattle's favor here. Still,
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  Speaker 3: the 49ers are rolling on offense right now. 11 touchdowns
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  Speaker 3: against one interception for Purdy. The number, Chuck, that stands
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  Speaker 3: out the most to me for the 49ers offense, they're
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  Speaker 3: converting on 57.5% of their third downs. 23 of 40.
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  Speaker 3: And that means they've probably been in a lot of
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  Speaker 3: short third and shorts. So can the Seahawks stop McCaffrey
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  Speaker 3: on the early downs and make those third downs longer
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  Speaker 3: where San Francisco is not converting 58%? You convert 58%,
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  Speaker 3: you're dictating field position, time of possession, you're putting defenses
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  Speaker 3: against the heels and having to defend scoring zones, and
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  Speaker 3: you're putting the other team's offense, even when you don't score,
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  Speaker 3: you're putting the other team's offense in poor field position,
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  Speaker 3: drive to field. So... Can the Seahawks shut them down early,
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  Speaker 3: limit Shanahan's playbook on third down, and not have Purdy
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  Speaker 3: have such an easy time of it on third down?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Purdy was actually playing really great football last year
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  Speaker 2: when he ran into Mike McDonald's defense at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season, and the Seahawks defense just erased that. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, every Seahawks fan needs to acknowledge the 49ers
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  Speaker 2: have looked better than the Seahawks so far this football season,
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  Speaker 2: but still... They were looking great before that 13-3 shellacking
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  Speaker 2: at the end of last season. And Purdy was looking,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Purdy led me to a KJR fantasy football title.
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  Speaker 2: He looked so good at the end of last season.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, when they faced the Seahawks, he had no answers.
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  Speaker 2: His stats were pretty much the same in both of
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  Speaker 2: those games that led to the 49ers elimination. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks got to play better, but the 49ers better come
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  Speaker 2: up with an answer for Brock Purdy facing Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 2: defense since last time they met.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were averaging 40-some points a game for a
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  Speaker 3: month or so before that Week 18 game down in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco. And they just had three points. That was it.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald hasn't had a full defense yet. He's just now
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  Speaker 3: getting Nicky Maury back. Julian Lowe's been injured. They haven't
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  Speaker 3: had Ty Okada yet. Okada returned to practice last week.
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  Speaker 3: There's a chance he may play this week. But they
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  Speaker 3: haven't been whole yet on defense, and this is their
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  Speaker 3: chance to be whole. maybe if Okada comes back. But
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  Speaker 3: now that Eamon Warrior is back, that makes all the difference.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other thing that's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 3: about the Seahawks defense this week is that Teron Diggs
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  Speaker 3: or is it Nehemiah Pritchard, but either one of them
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  Speaker 3: have to play well enough and get McDonald's trust enough
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  Speaker 3: So they can stay in dime, have Eamon Worry and
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  Speaker 3: Witherspoon inside. Especially against the Rams and the 49ers, McDonald
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  Speaker 3: wants to play Witherspoon inside. He doesn't want to play
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  Speaker 3: him as an outside corner. He wants to have him
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  Speaker 3: inside at nickels so he can affect more of the
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  Speaker 3: game against the running in the past. He can blitz
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  Speaker 3: Witherspoon more. I'm expecting him to blitz Witherspoon more than
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  Speaker 3: he did in the 49ers games last year. Think Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl with the Patriots who were overwhelmed by Witherspoon's blitzing.
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  Speaker 3: But in these two games in particular, against Shanahan and McVay,
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  Speaker 3: he wants Witherspoon inside. But you've got to have an
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  Speaker 3: outside corner you can trust, the extra outside corner. Diggs
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  Speaker 3: played nine snaps last week in his Seahawks debut. I
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  Speaker 3: think he may get more. Pritchett has held his own,
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  Speaker 3: and his tackling has improved. But I think if all
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  Speaker 3: things being equal, McDonnell wouldn't mind a former All-Pro who's
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  Speaker 3: healthy as being that extra guy to be able to
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  Speaker 3: put Witherspoon inside.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you want, on a scale from 1 to 10,
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  Speaker 2: you want the intensity to be an 11 against the
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  Speaker 2: 49ers this Sunday. And yet, you're coming off a game
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  Speaker 2: where you had 150 yards worth of penalties and 7
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  Speaker 2: foul penalties as well. How do you practice fewer penalties
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  Speaker 2: without taking out the energy for the game this week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, just don't be stupid. Don't headbutt someone 15 yards
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  Speaker 3: away from the play. Don't rodeo throw somebody out of
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  Speaker 3: bounds through the white border of the sideline. And don't
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  Speaker 3: even touch the quarterback on third and 24. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: those are the three most galling penalties of all of them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a two-yard pass on third and 24 and
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  Speaker 3: Derek Hall's hitting the quarterback. You shouldn't even touch him.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think you should count on your number one
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  Speaker 3: ranked defense to be able to turn away a third
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  Speaker 3: and 24, right? So it's plays like that that are
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  Speaker 3: easily eliminated. Selfish plays, as McDonald calls it. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to bench those guys. The players' union
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  Speaker 3: has really champed out on teams being able to find
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  Speaker 3: players for stupid plays. But those are findable offenses. And
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  Speaker 3: just don't do that, and they'd be better. They would
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  Speaker 3: have gotten off the field four more times against the
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  Speaker 3: Chargers had they not done stupid crap like that. So
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  Speaker 3: just don't do that, and you'd be so much better
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  Speaker 3: on defense. That's not even close to a 30-23 game
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  Speaker 3: if they don't have seven personal fouls and four drive-extending
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  Speaker 3: penalties for the Chargers. So I don't think this is
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  Speaker 3: as bad as it looked just because it's so preventable. Now,
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  Speaker 3: they can't go out and do it again. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: come on. Most of those were things that high schoolers
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  Speaker 3: would be benched for they just need to be a
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  Speaker 3: lot smarter than that.
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  Speaker 5: What do you got on the show today?
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  Speaker 3: We are going to talk to one of my Bay
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  Speaker 3: Area friends. We're going to talk to Matt Barrows, who
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  Speaker 3: has been a 49er writer since I was a Raiders
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  Speaker 3: writer for the Sacramento B. We were at the Sacramento
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  Speaker 3: B together 25 years ago. We'll talk to Matt Barrows
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  Speaker 3: of The Athletic about the 49ers and about Brock Purdy
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  Speaker 3: and about how healthy is George Kittle and why is
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  Speaker 3: this defense only allowing 16 points a game, third in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL right now, with all the injuries they've had,
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  Speaker 3: especially Nick Bosa not playing. We'll talk a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about the cracking last night. We'll talk about Ian Furness
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  Speaker 3: being on the TV call. I got a chuckle out
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  Speaker 3: of Ian Furness's call of Brandon Martour dropping the gloves
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  Speaker 3: with Stone. It was so nonchalant, such a hockey call. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to fight now. Oh, there's a right hand. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: he's setting them up. It was like, yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 3: part of the deal. Everyone expects it. We'll replay that too.
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  Speaker 3: It was funny.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite part about Ian is like so many broadcasts,
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  Speaker 2: play-by-play guys go higher when there's action. And he and
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  Speaker 2: Everett both go lower when there's like a goal or
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  Speaker 2: they just– And he scores!
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's Gus Johnson. And then there's Ian Furness.
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  Speaker 2: Score!
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great. I like that you score. Greater effect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That is true. That is very unique. It was
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  Speaker 3: fun to hear him on the play-by-play. He's got 15
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  Speaker 3: of those on TV this year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, my last minute with you. We're doing Roundtable tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to have Hugh tomorrow. So dream scenario,
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  Speaker 2: if you could have anybody fill in for Hugh, who
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  Speaker 2: would it be and who is the one person you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want.
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  Speaker 5: Us to book?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, not joking, Mike Holmgren.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I miss him.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I do miss him.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we'll try to get Coach. We'll see what
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  Speaker 5: we can do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Give me somebody that you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: host with.
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  Speaker 5: On a roundtable.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm. I have a couple that come to mind, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be offending anyone.
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  Speaker 2: And when you say anyone, you mean Anders?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. Anders is part of the furniture there.
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  Speaker 3: I know he'll be there.
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  Speaker 4: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, but is there like a former Seahawk player that
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  Speaker 2: you're like, nah, I don't want to do a round.
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  Speaker 5: Table with that guy again? Oh, he's going to be careful.
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  Speaker 3: Kenan Reynolds.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're right.
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  Speaker 5: You never liked Kenan Reynolds. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: I never liked Kenan Reynolds. He used to try to
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  Speaker 3: haze me and pull rank on me, and I had
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  Speaker 3: to remind him I outranked him. I was an 03 captain.
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  Speaker 3: He was an 02 lieutenant junior grade, and I reminded
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  Speaker 3: him of that quite a bit. We didn't get along, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: He was like Army, Navy.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like him. He didn't like me either.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, Craig, not liking someone?
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  Speaker 2: What's this?
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to call Keenan Reynolds. We'll see what
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  Speaker 5: we can do with Coach. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Have a good show. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Our Seahawks insider joining us. Again, follow him at gbellseattle
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  Speaker 2: on X or thenewstribune.com for complete. Seahawks coverage. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: we will do our round table tomorrow from 8 to 9.
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  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction's coming up at 7.35. Christopher's been thinking about
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  Speaker 2: it all morning long.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he has. Maybe all night long as well. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not sure. And we also have Waiver Wire.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday for you as well. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready for the biggest game so far this regular season.
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  Speaker 2: 49ers thinking they're all that. Coming in at 4-0. um
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  Speaker 2: and they've looked better than what the seahawks have through
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  Speaker 2: four games but we also all recognize what we did
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  Speaker 2: to them at the end of last season here in
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  Speaker 2: seattle even if 49er fans uh insist on being blind
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  Speaker 2: to it so here are my you got two different
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  Speaker 2: options take two different roads i'm not worried at all
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  Speaker 2: about the 49ers and here's why or i am very
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  Speaker 2: worried about the 49ers and here's why i like it
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  Speaker 2: okay so If you want to weigh in on that,
• 17:10
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• 17:12
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• 17:15
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• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Keep in mind, you only have 30 seconds to spit
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: your takeout. But weigh in on for our Mirror Mirror
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: segment at 8 o'clock, where I vow to be the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: fairest of them all. Even to 49er fans, I vow
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: to be the fairest.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Of them all.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And I've had a lot of fun ripping them over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm going to be a grown-up about this.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: But I'm not worried at all about the 49ers, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: here's why. Or I'm very worried about this game, and
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: here's the biggest reason why. Again, we're only looking for
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: one reason. Don't give me a mountain of evidence because
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: we don't have time for that in the Mirror Mirror segment.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: All right, so we'll do that at 8 o'clock today.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Waiver Wire Wednesday. Buy weeks start this week. Kansas City
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: is off. Carolina is off. That certainly affects my team.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: And so this is where you start playing those, okay,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I just need a running back fill-in for a week.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: And if that's the mode that you're in, like a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Will Shipley from the Eagles, even though I don't think
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: he's going to get a bunch of carries, I just
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: think he's going to get the most carries of the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles running back because they're down a Barkley and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they're down a Bigsby. Braylon Allen of the New York Jets,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: somebody that you pick up. Tyler Algier. This is Tyler
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Algier week, where Jeremiah Love's questionable in this game, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: you're just needing, you just want to make sure, I
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: at least need to get six, seven points.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: That's a Tyler Algier week.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson. They all have something in common. If you're
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: picking them up because you think they're going to help
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you win a championship, you can forget about it. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Can they help you squeeze out this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Brian Robinson Jr. from Atlanta is somebody you might want
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to pick up because if, God forbid, anything happened to
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Bajon and we don't want anything to happen to him,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he's just too fun to watch, then Brian Robinson Jr.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: behind that Atlanta offensive line is somebody that you could
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: plug and play potentially and could help you win a
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: championship the way that he looked on Monday night. Um,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: it's also a great time. People are going to start
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: getting rid of kickers and defenses.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Trust me on this one.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I don't like drafting kickers and defenses, but trust me,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I picked up Brandon Aubrey last year because somebody let
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: him go. And it was, it turned around my entire season.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: People will start dumping kickers and defenses because it's bye week,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: then you can pick him up if you've got some
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: depth room, and then you come out of the bye week,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: he never takes another day off, and you've got one
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of the best kickers or one of the best defenses
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League for the rest of the week.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: And then one more quick one.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Keon Coleman, he may have finally figured it out with
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen. They drafted him to be their wide receiver
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: one with Josh Allen. He has failed at that But
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: this week against the Patriots, he looked sensational. It looked
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: like they were on the same page.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: And he's available in our league.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: If he's available in your league and you've got room,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you might want to pick up Keon Coleman. He might
• 20:20
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• 20:23
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Kid's been mulling over this since 1994.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It is time for him to finally decide. what game
• 20:55
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• 20:57
  Speaker 5: What do you got for us, Christopher? Well, I asked you, gentlemen.
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• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Way to protect yourself.
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  Speaker 6: It's under my name, so don't have to worry about that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: I will take the Cowboys minus eight, favored by eight points,
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: at home versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'm not going
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: to add any spice to it because I did that
• 21:21
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• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins, after.
• 21:25
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  Speaker 6: So you know what? I'm just taking Dallas minus eight.
• 21:37
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• 21:39
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• 21:40
  Speaker 5: It's a cruel, cruel game, this gambling world.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: There it is.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Dallas minus eight at home versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: So they got a win by nine points.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Nine or more.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know if you're aware of this, but gambling... risky.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Really? Is that a.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Risky thing to do? You mean it's not a sure thing?
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: It's not. There's some risk involved.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And I do want to clarify as you're trying to
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: protect your heart back there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: He gave Anders and I two options.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: And we gave our opinion on the two options. On
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: which option was better. Right. It's not like we said,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: you have to take this Cowboys game.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Alright, so kids gonna go with the Cowboys Thursday night football.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: They are giving the Baker Mayfield lists Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: eight points. That does mean the Cowboys have to win
• 22:29
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• 22:33
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• 23:42
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• 23:45
  Speaker 2: playing factor fiction doesn't.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: That feel good Yeah, just try that on for size.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Walk around the room. Get a feel for it. I'm
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: going to do it right now. Yeah. It'd be better
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: if I get the facts, you know. Yeah, true. So, Cowboys,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: how about, you know, you handle business. Beat them by 20.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Just, yeah, make it easy on Kidd tomorrow night.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Do I be that guy and say fiction to the
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: game that I suggested that Kidd takes?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Do a 2-1, Anderson.
• 24:08
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• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Are you the I'm not worried at all? And here's why.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And I want one reason, the biggest reason, I'm sure
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you have several, but the biggest reason as to why
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you're not worried about the 49ers this week, or maybe
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: you're in the camp of, I am very worried about
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: this game and here is why. And again, same rules apply.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: One predominant reason why you would be worried about this
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: game against the San Francisco 49ers. So you can text
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: us your answers. You can use the talkback feature. You
• 24:55
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• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the fairest of them all coming up at 8 o'clock
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: with our latest Mirror Mirror segment. But right now it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: time to get reckless at breakfast. And so I want
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to talk about college football. Because what if I were
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to tell you, and this is very reckless, I admit
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it going in, Anders.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: What if I were.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Sorry, you're going 30 for 30 here. What if I
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: were to tell you that the Pac-10-12 will be back
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: in the near future? What if I were to tell
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: you that?
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I'd be very excited.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: You'd be excited?
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I would.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Would you believe it, though? Probably not.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just started thinking about this, listening to Petros
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Papadakis on the way in, and then Anders made a comment,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: are the Huskies really favored against Iowa this week?
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: And they are.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Three-and-a-half-point favorites against the 20th-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes, despite the fact
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that the fan base here is very disappointed with its
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: football team so far this season with its 3-2 record.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And it just kind of struck me. We're just a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: few years into this project of four biggest programs on
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the West Coast being in a conference that takes them
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: at minimum two time zones away, and in some cases,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: three time zones away to play a college football game.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: We've heard NFL teams struggle with this. Pete and Mike
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: McDonald don't seem to, even though our only loss was
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a 10 a.m. game against a bad team on a
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: rainy day in our nation's capital. But this has been
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: new enough, and we now have a college football playoff
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: which sort of decreases that we can't afford to lose
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: a game feeling that we've carried so long as college
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: football fans. But at what point, and I don't think
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it's that far away, are a couple of the bigger
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: coaches in our conference saying, I don't want to do
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: this anymore. We want to win a conference championship, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: we are having to travel five times a year, two
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: time zones, to play good competition. And in some cases,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: great competition, three time zones away. Right now, it's not
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: a big issue because the Huskies under Jed Fish have
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: not risen to the level of We're thinking national championship,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: or we're thinking first round bye in the playoff, or
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: we're thinking conference championship. We haven't allowed ourselves, nor should
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: we have allowed ourselves, to think about us belonging in
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: that conversation here in Seattle. But Dan Lanning and Ryan
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Day are two of the greatest professional crybabies we have
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: ever encountered.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: How long are they going to do this? How many
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: more years do you think if they lose a tough
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: game on the opposite coast against a really good, how
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: long are they just going to sit by and say, yep,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I'm really happy to be in this conference with that team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: At some point, don't you think we're going to start here?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: If Lincoln Riley and USC or Kalen DeBoer and USC
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: ever get the Trojans going again, or if Washington ever
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: gets going, how long before we're going to be like,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want to play these games anymore. I don't
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: want to travel all the way to play those games.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: If Iowa, who's played much better than Washington, if them
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: traveling here takes seven points away from their chances of winning.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: How much longer will it take before the real powerful
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: outspoken coaches start getting really squeaky about this? And I'm
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: not saying we'll never, I'm not saying we'll be out
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of the Big Ten Conference, but will they restructure it
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: at some point in the future to have a Pac-8 division?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Will there be a 20-team, 24-team Big Ten Conference? And
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: then there will be a pack eight division within that,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: that features Oregon, Washington.
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  Speaker 5: Um, USC, UCLA, UCLA.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Yes. Stanford's back. I mean, Stanford has become the worst
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: division one program in America.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Did anyone really.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Want that to happen in college football? I mean, Jim Plunkett,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: John Elway, Christian McCaffrey, Andrew Luck. They are the worst
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: team in division I Power 5 college football right now,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: and it's not even close. Did anyone want Stanford to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: get that bad, not named Cal? So will you eventually
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: get to the point where Ryan Day's like, I'll travel
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to that West Coast once. I'm not playing two really
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: good teams on the road every year. with with the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: big 10 title on the line or dan lanning says
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: i'm not going to ohio state and michigan and nebraska
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: northwestern if they're good yeah right i'm not doing that
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: all in the same year no we got to change
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: this thing it's not going to happen anytime soon but
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: i think maybe it will weigh on people eventually and
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: maybe we will get to the point where if there
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: is expansion again um of the two major conferences that
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: seem to be the only two that matter right now,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: will we eventually land with a Pac-8 division within the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Big Ten conference eventually that has Oregon, Washington, Stanford, Cal, UCLA, USC, Utah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and I don't know, BYU or something like that?
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Sorry, Cougs.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: No, yeah.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: I don't even think that's that reckless, to be completely honest.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: I think that's Very much in play for the near future,
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: but you would have to get to the point where
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: these coaches can complain all they want, even wins and losses,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: which may seem like that's the be all end all
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: for this stuff.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: The be all end all is the money, right?
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: It has to be feasible for both the conferences and
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: the schools to earn more money out of it. and
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: that's all that matters to them. So if, if they
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: find a way to appease both of those sides, I
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: do think that makes a ton of sense, but I don't,
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: I just don't know how that would work out. If,
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: if the Cougs would eventually be invited to the big 10, if, if, uh,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: I'm afraid, no, probably not. That's my point.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: So like, it doesn't make a.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Ton of Arizona state back. So you have the Phoenix market.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I just, you could bring Utah back. So you have
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the Salt Lake city market, you know, you can do that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Um, uh, but, But yeah, I mean, in the SEC,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: that's who you're measuring yourself against. Every single day, the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: SEC and the Big Ten are whipping out their members
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: and measuring it against the other one.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: I think mine's bigger today. That's what they're.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Doing and have been doing now for three years. Alabama,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: when they go on the road, it's just a bus
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: ride to Oxford. It isn't a seven and a half
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: hour flight to Maryland if Maryland ever.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Got good I don't.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Know we'll see but it did cross my mind like
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: if that's such a big factor how long before the
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Ryan days and Dan Lanning's of the world start saying,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do this anymore.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: They went to the Mick Cronin School of Complaining.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. He's quite the professor.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Mirror Mirror next. We'll talk about the 49ers
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and whether or not we should be worried about this
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: opponent this Sunday.
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