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10-21 H4: Cam Cleeland Joins, Al Kinisky & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for the Huskies proudly presents our weekly visit
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  Speaker 1: with the dog's color commentator, Cam Cleland.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah, purple rain, let's go!
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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Warrior Injury Law, battle tested. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's Chuck in the morning with the former Husky tight
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  Speaker 1: end on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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  Speaker 3: When's the last time you watched.
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  Speaker 2: The movie Halloween, Cam? Man, that's a great question, Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: I think last year.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still like it?
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  Speaker 3: Because I hadn't watched it in years, and then I
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  Speaker 3: watched it as an adult. I'm like, man, I can't
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  Speaker 3: believe this movie is actually terrible. I can't believe this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we can't do that. You can't go back. You
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  Speaker 2: can't look at all those movies in those times and
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  Speaker 2: just be like, is it that Jamie Lee Curtis, a
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  Speaker 2: guy driving a really bad station wagon? I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was a really bad station wagon. He just mysteriously picked
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  Speaker 2: that one person.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting Jamie Lee Curtis with a station wagon.
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  Speaker 3: Come on now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no. I mean, you got to at least
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  Speaker 2: have a VW Bug or something. I mean, that doesn't help.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's worse. But that's, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: the time of the year to just go back and
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  Speaker 2: invest in all those movies. I mean, Friday the 13th.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all of it. Nightmare on Elm Street. You just,
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  Speaker 2: you have to invest in that. The Howling. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is just Silver Bullet. We're getting deep into those movies.
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  Speaker 2: You have to.
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  Speaker 3: I think Exorcist and Shining are still the best, the
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  Speaker 3: two best.
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  Speaker 2: And those were before. Yeah, no, they hold up.
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  Speaker 3: Those were like when we, I wasn't even allowed to
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  Speaker 3: watch those movies when I was a kid. So the
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  Speaker 3: ones that I actually was allowed to watch, like the
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  Speaker 3: Halloween Friday, the 13th Nightmare on Elm Street, I thought
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  Speaker 3: those were the best at the time. And then I
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  Speaker 3: got to be an adult and I went back and
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  Speaker 3: watched them. That was a mistake, Cam. I should have
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  Speaker 3: preserved that in my memory bank as wonderful. Not a big,
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I'm not a big horror movie guy.
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  Speaker 2: Never really have been, but I appreciate a good solid eighties, seventies.
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  Speaker 2: Those are, it's just, that's the heyday. Now it's just
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  Speaker 2: somebody sitting in the back of a, in the baseball park, smiling,
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  Speaker 2: trying to promote something. I'm like, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing. Some clown, some clown, some clown. That's a spider.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what? It doesn't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's another thing that happened when, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 3: for those young people listening, When I was young, they
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  Speaker 3: were still trying to sell clowns as being entertainment options
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  Speaker 3: for children. And then about 25 years ago, some psychiatrist
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  Speaker 3: did a study and basically clowns scare children more than
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  Speaker 3: anything on the planet. So now every horror movie features
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  Speaker 3: some clown standing around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: The clown. Who doesn't like a good clown? Obviously, I
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  Speaker 2: guess kids don't. Apparently no one anymore, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Cam Cleland is with us. I talk Halloween
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  Speaker 3: because Cam loves himself some Halloween, so we've established that.
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  Speaker 3: And he also loves himself some UW football and got
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  Speaker 3: back on the winning track last Friday. That was nice
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  Speaker 3: to see, and it was just kind of a complete game.
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  Speaker 3: We had a running game on Friday against Purdue, and
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  Speaker 3: it was a bit of a turnaround. Do you just
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  Speaker 3: chalk it up to the change of quarterback, or what
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  Speaker 3: else do you chalk up that performance to?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you go from the first play of the game,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'd start it. That's not the
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  Speaker 2: way I would start a football game with a pick.
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  Speaker 2: But I was pretty surprised when Jed won the toss
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  Speaker 2: that he said, let's put the offense out there. But
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  Speaker 2: it's gutsy because he wanted to have Elijah to get
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  Speaker 2: some momentum early. And the second interception, it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: The third one was not on him. But overall, 186
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  Speaker 2: on the ground, Chuck, that's what it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't rocket science. And then they flip the other
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  Speaker 2: end and just go, you held– Femi, he's a boy
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  Speaker 2: to 19 yards. A guy had 191 coming, 195 previously
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  Speaker 2: against Minnesota coming into that game. He held them under
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  Speaker 2: 100 yards on the ground. So you executed everything you
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  Speaker 2: need to do in football is control the line of
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage on defense, stop the run, and establish the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage. And you were able to run the football.
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  Speaker 2: And you made some good adjustments. And running the football
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  Speaker 2: is the answer to everybody's problem.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: As a football program. It is, it's, it's, it's equivalent
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  Speaker 2: to just having the cheat code written on the inside
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  Speaker 2: of your wrist that you never did. I never did in,
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  Speaker 2: in my geometry class in high school. But so all,
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  Speaker 2: all I'm telling you is, is that having Landon hatchet, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mentioned some stuff. I always do my
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  Speaker 2: quick three at the end of when I, when I
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  Speaker 2: process everything, Landon hatchet full time, his control of the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and communication was a big deal. Upgrade
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line. You were stable on the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line the entire time. Now, we do know that Garen
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  Speaker 2: Hatchett was sick. Like, he had the bad flus. He
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  Speaker 2: was horrible, but he was on the trip. So that
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  Speaker 2: meant you had to have not only just a stable
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  Speaker 2: whole group, but, I mean, Champ was at right guard
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  Speaker 2: the entire time. Now, I'm going to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: He's struggling. He's struggling a little bit with footwork. He's
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  Speaker 2: struggling a little bit with penalties. But he was stable enough,
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  Speaker 2: and the group was together the entire football game that
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  Speaker 2: allowed Trey Cooley and Brian Bonner to get runs early.
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  Speaker 2: And 21-27 for your quarterback. Elijah was efficient. The defense
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  Speaker 2: was good. And that was rough, man. It was rough.
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  Speaker 2: It was windy. It was cold. Somewhat of a hostile environment.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a really cool environment. Great atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a huge win after that depressing previous week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So what would your level-headed response be as someone that's
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  Speaker 3: been there, done that at the highest level possible to
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  Speaker 3: the number of UW fans that now just want to
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  Speaker 3: blame the entire season on DeMond Williams Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's a joke. I mean, I don't buy
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  Speaker 2: into that. I just look at it as this is
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  Speaker 2: a team. You win and lose a team. There are
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  Speaker 2: sparks to certain things, but I don't think when I
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  Speaker 2: watched What Iowa did to our defense, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that was DeMond Williams, right? Last time I checked, DeMond
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  Speaker 2: doesn't play defense. So when I go back to other
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  Speaker 2: games and other situations and look throughout the USC game
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  Speaker 2: and other things, if you have a great defense, you
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  Speaker 2: can play. You can stop and you can control in
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  Speaker 2: the run game. There's been no run game. So does
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams leading the team in rushing, did that– did
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  Speaker 2: prior to this week and I'm sorry leading the team
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  Speaker 2: in carries he was second in rushing yardage but not
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  Speaker 2: by much is the instability of the offensive line having
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  Speaker 2: a left tackle left guard play center getting your starting
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  Speaker 2: center who's a three and four year veteran come back
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  Speaker 2: was at Demond Williams now look there are certain things
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  Speaker 2: that I that Demond's skill set fit differently than Elijah
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  Speaker 2: But I also have to look. I'm not defending. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the part where it's, well, you're just defending.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking at it. It's like, no, I evaluate as
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  Speaker 2: an analyst, and I say this multiple times, the entire
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  Speaker 2: football game. And I break down the offense, the defense,
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  Speaker 2: the special teams, positions, and see that every football game
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  Speaker 2: comes down to about six plays. But when you get
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  Speaker 2: blown out at Iowa, that wasn't about six plays. That
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  Speaker 2: was losing the line of scrimmage on both sides. None
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  Speaker 2: of that. None of that was DeMond Williams. So was
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  Speaker 2: there an emotional spark? Potentially. Potentially. And that, that, that happens.
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  Speaker 2: What we see moving forward is the reason why I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an analyst and not the head coach. That's up
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  Speaker 2: the head coach's decision and how he feels, uh, which
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  Speaker 2: way he wants this program to go the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the season. And you have two competitive guys in a
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  Speaker 2: room and we will find out what coach fish wants
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  Speaker 2: to do moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, do you, would you rather answer it as what
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  Speaker 3: you think Jed Fish will do or what will Cam
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  Speaker 3: Cleland do if he were in that seat? Because that's
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  Speaker 3: the million dollar question. When the Huskies take the field again,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to be the starting quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I really, I mean, if you watched, we've all
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  Speaker 2: watched everybody pretty much that's out there that like sports
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  Speaker 2: has watched, uh, the Saban documentary, right? If we all
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  Speaker 2: got to the point, am I going to be the
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  Speaker 2: spoiler alert of what happens since it already happened?
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  Speaker 3: I've only watched the first two episodes, but I am
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  Speaker 3: loving it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite sports documentaries ever.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful. Wonderful. You can ruin it for me. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to say anything that hasn't. You can ruin it
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  Speaker 2: for me. No, I'm not going to. I don't need
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  Speaker 2: to ruin it for you, but because we already know
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  Speaker 2: the answer. So it's like the answers to the test.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We know there was a change at quarterback prior and
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  Speaker 2: a halftime going into the national championship with Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 2: and Tua Tungavaiola. We know that. the way Nick Saban
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  Speaker 2: talks about it, he says, I was processing this for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Okay. Almost, almost two months. He felt
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  Speaker 2: like he was processing that when it happened, but their
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  Speaker 2: defense was good enough. But in that point, when he
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  Speaker 2: made that decision, he put two in because they knew
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  Speaker 2: they had to adjust to the past. I'm now going
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  Speaker 2: to look at coach fish. I don't think he's been
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  Speaker 2: processing this for a very long time. This is my speculation.
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  Speaker 2: So there's, there's an evaluation of games. He needs to
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  Speaker 2: look at on film. Now that, There is stability in
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  Speaker 2: the running game. Am I telling you straight up that
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  Speaker 2: I think that DeMond can make some of the throws
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  Speaker 2: at Elijah? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just saying that. Is DeMond different in the
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  Speaker 2: pocket than Elijah?
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  Speaker 4: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Is Elijah more efficient on short, intermediate, decisive throws? 100%.
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  Speaker 2: But I also watched DeMond Williams do a great job
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  Speaker 2: in Maryland last year with a better offensive line and
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  Speaker 2: a better run game. I watched him play an amazing
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  Speaker 2: bowl game. Certainly, Wisconsin was brutal, but there were some
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  Speaker 2: games at home where I saw a great defense and
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  Speaker 2: a good run game and i saw a kid play
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  Speaker 2: really decisive so i've seen how he can play electrically
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  Speaker 2: so i don't have a definitive answer for you and
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  Speaker 2: that's why i don't have to i don't have to
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  Speaker 2: pick who the quarterback is that's not my job it's
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  Speaker 2: not i don't i don't have to do it i
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  Speaker 2: just get to watch it and sit back because there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of coaches out there's a lot of experts
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  Speaker 2: listening and on Twitter and out there that are just,
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  Speaker 2: this is what needs to happen. Well, okay, well, let's
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  Speaker 2: let the decision makers and let the chips fall with
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  Speaker 2: me and see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Cam Cleland is with us. Former Huskies tied in, of course,
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  Speaker 3: voice of the dogs is segment with us every week,
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  Speaker 3: brought to you by warrior injury law battle tested as
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  Speaker 3: the Huskies are on by this week and, uh, won't
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  Speaker 3: play again until Lincoln, Nebraska. Before I get to that,
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  Speaker 3: I want to ask, because as I'm watching the Saban documentary,
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  Speaker 3: I've had someone suggest that Saban reminds them of Don James.
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  Speaker 3: I never got to know Don James personally. I just
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  Speaker 3: moved here 11 years ago. You played for the man,
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  Speaker 3: for goodness sake. Are there similarities? When you watch the
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  Speaker 3: Saban documentary, does it remind you of Coach James?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. In my experience with Coach James, Coach
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  Speaker 2: James wasn't as demonstrative as Coach Saban was. Very handsy, talker, loud,
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  Speaker 2: chew out. It was more of, I've never seen somebody
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  Speaker 2: at 5'10, terrify 6'8, 350-pound men. I've never seen anybody
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  Speaker 2: control a room like And when I still remember when
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  Speaker 2: he was in my house and when I stepped in
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  Speaker 2: his office, the amount of respect that he just carried.
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  Speaker 2: He was honest. And my fast story is, even as
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  Speaker 2: I was a freshman, he used to have a tower. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: he had a tower. He would sit in the tower
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  Speaker 2: and he would take notes and he would oversee the
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  Speaker 2: entire practice. And here I'm just a useless freshman. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just a freshman. Nobody cares. Get your ass out of
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  Speaker 2: all the other, get your ass out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm walking off the field and, and coach James says, Hey, Cam,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and play seven and scout team stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to need you to finish different with your feet.
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  Speaker 2: And I need you to get up field and get
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  Speaker 2: to that next level. I was like, Holy crap. He
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  Speaker 2: saw me play seven on scout team. And I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, um, you can't, he, I swear to you
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  Speaker 2: to this point. He remembered my parents' names. In 2014,
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  Speaker 2: when I latched this, how's Gene, how's Camille doing? This
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  Speaker 2: is 30, 40 years later, he knew my parents. He
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  Speaker 2: was the most incredibly detailed man I've ever been around
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to coaching and a genius. And you
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  Speaker 2: get to see what Coach Saban says. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: gives him all the credit of what got him started, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: in being that way. So yeah, Coach James was, he
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  Speaker 2: was special. That's great. That is great.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so next game will be on Halloween, the
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  Speaker 3: holiday you like so much, in Lincoln, Nebraska, which is
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  Speaker 3: one of those places that truly does shut down all
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  Speaker 3: day long. Once upon a time, they used to be
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  Speaker 3: a powerhouse. It's been a while since they've been considered
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  Speaker 3: the best program, arguably, in the country. But when I
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  Speaker 3: grew up, that was Nebraska football. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: often you've been there, but how much are you looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to the experience of going to Lincoln, watching a
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  Speaker 3: game in that hallowed stadium, and doing it on one
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  Speaker 3: of your favorite holidays?
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  Speaker 2: No, I just hope that I can get enough candy
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  Speaker 2: on that day. I thought about just dressing up in
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  Speaker 2: my old football uniform and just walking around.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you do, don't dress up as a corn farmer
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  Speaker 3: because you'll just blend in and no one will think
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  Speaker 3: you're celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: That's not fun. That's not fun. No, I've got to
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  Speaker 2: be completely opposite. I've been to Lincoln a couple times.
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  Speaker 2: I never got to play there as a player. I
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  Speaker 2: certainly played Nebraska as a player. My fondest memory is
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  Speaker 2: watching that 1991 game. in the dark at night game
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  Speaker 2: and seeing that come back with Jay Berry down the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: that's incredible. And I've also seen absolute slaughters by Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: in Lincoln before of our Huskies. So I'm pretty pumped
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  Speaker 2: to get back there. Yeah, it is on my favorite
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  Speaker 2: holiday with there, but look, they're reeling. They got beat
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  Speaker 2: by Oregon. They should have won that football game, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've lost two games in a row. by
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  Speaker 2: fractions of points against two monster teams. You lose the Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: You lose the Oregon on the road. Now they're at home.
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  Speaker 2: So this is– they're gettable. Their coach is always a
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  Speaker 2: little bit nervous. I like their coach. I like everything
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  Speaker 2: about him. I like their quarterback, Calandria. He's athletic. He's fast.
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  Speaker 2: He's all over– he's a little Demond Williams in a sense.
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  Speaker 2: He's fast. He's all over the place. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: play really good defense. But now– The best part about
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  Speaker 2: this quarterback situation is, when it comes to Washington, is
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  Speaker 2: you have to prepare for two quarterbacks. Because if you're Jed,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way you're announcing anybody until probably Friday or
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  Speaker 2: maybe Saturday afternoon. You don't have to say anything. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to say anything. Now people are going to
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  Speaker 2: be spying at practice and see if they're splitting reps,
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  Speaker 2: but that might be a telltale sign. Who gets the
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  Speaker 2: more reps in practice? But I'm sure Jed will be
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  Speaker 2: very smart with that also. There's some strategery that needs
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  Speaker 2: to happen, but this is a big game road game.
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  Speaker 2: You got to get right. We don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know some of the injuries that happened to us with
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  Speaker 2: Trey and his shoulder. We're down with running backs. We got,
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  Speaker 2: but it's, it's, this is, this is football. This is
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  Speaker 2: the dog days of football where you grind it out
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  Speaker 2: and find a way to dig. And this is a,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see what this Husky team does. And I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm home feeling Chuck. That was a turning point game
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  Speaker 2: for this season. and we're going to see what the
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  Speaker 2: rest of these guys like to fight with the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the year.
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  Speaker 3: All right, last couple minutes, I want to ask you
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  Speaker 3: one last thing, and I just want to let you
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  Speaker 3: know that I feel, like, blessed that during the course
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  Speaker 3: of the week, I've got a national college football insider
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  Speaker 3: analyst named Rick Neuheisel who I think does a great job,
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  Speaker 3: and then I've got the local guy in Cam Cleland.
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  Speaker 3: I just think I've got the best college football guys
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  Speaker 3: going on a weekly basis, and yet I can't tell
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  Speaker 3: you the pain that I felt find out that both
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  Speaker 3: you and coach new heisel actually want a 2014 playoff
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  Speaker 3: in college football i know hurts my soul a little
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  Speaker 3: bit uh i would like for you to explain yourself
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  Speaker 3: mr cleland um here in the last couple of minutes
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  Speaker 3: so why on earth.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Do you want this dumb idea of a system that's
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a whole that's a whole thing at least i know
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: where you stand and i can appreciate it i really
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: can i can appreciate the fact that we need to
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: have 138 teams and only 12 get in. I appreciate
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: the fact that someone needs to argue that to me
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: over and over again. When there isn't one playoff system
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: in not only the world, you know what we should
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: do with the next World Cup? We should only have four.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: You know what? Let's just, I just want Argentina and
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I want Germany and France and US. You guys can
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: play in the seventh level down and you can relegate
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: out of it every year. Let's make that make sense.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Let's do everything we can to not locally and every
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: program have a shot. Here's my final comment with that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: This is where I look at it, is that even
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: when I was around and I played, there was a
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: time when someone told me, did you know they used
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to crown a national championship before they even played the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Rose Bowl? How dumb does that sound, Chuck? Oh, that
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: was the worst. That really happened. That's the worst. Texas
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: won a national championship before they even played. This is USC.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Before they even played. So we've evolved pretty good, right?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: We used to have a computer. Tell us if we
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: were good enough. Some guys on a computer that was
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: some nerds punching clock. Oh, that sounds good.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 100 years of disaster with the worst postseason ever.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And then we finally get a decent one with 12 teams,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: which is a good number. And now we're going to
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: go too far the other way. Because, Cam, there aren't
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: 12 teams that could win a national championship.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: There just aren't. 100% incorrect. Did you watch the bloodbath
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: last week? Here's the other aspect of this.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Anybody can win on a given Saturday.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Can you run the table? That's the point. College football
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: still needs hope. I have factual reality. I know if
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'm 6'5, and I'm blocking a guy that's 5'2, I'm
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: going to kick his ass every once in a while.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But David beats Goliath every once. Every one time, I
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: just need one stone. I just need hope. So if
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: you're Oregon State, and you're playing phenomenally, and you're Mike Riley,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and you're the 2001 team or the 2000 team, and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you beat Oregon, do you want a shot? Do you
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: want to know that you have a shot, or do
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: you want someone to say you were never good enough,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: you're never, ever, ever good enough as a fan base
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: and as a school? My always point is this has
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: been going on in the FBS. It happens in men's basketball.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: It happens in volleyball. It happens in every other sport collegiately, softball, baseball.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Why does football hold this so true to their soul?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: And if nobody's argument is actual factual evidence of what
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you think is right, because NIL has now made it
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: so players can be more, not only movable, but you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: used to have Alabama had four deep and four deep
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: was NFL talent because they went there because they wanted
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the next jump to the NFL. That's what guys want.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Everybody sticks their hand up at the power five level
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: thinking they're going to make it to the NFL. But
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: they only went to a couple programs because they thought
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that was the fastest way. Now they can get in
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the NFL anywhere. So they can get money anywhere. So
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: that spreads the talent. So that means... anybody, any team
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: at any point has a shot. Now, will it happen
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: every year? Probably not. But I just want hope because
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I like that idea of having hope. And I've seen
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it happen at the FCS level already and how successful
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: it's been for years and years and years. And to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: back that up, it says you still get dominance. The
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Dakotas have dominated, dominated with a 24-team playoff for years.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: They moved up this year. Teams want a shot at
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the big chance. And that's why I say it's important.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Over and over. All right. We're going to put a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: pin in this. We're going to have another discussion.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I want to continue this.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have a longer.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Discussion about this at a future date.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: This is a whole podcast.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. We can go deep. I will just dive deeper.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: An attack, an eviscerate. No, I'm not telling you. Hey,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm going to do?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go back to college. I'm going to
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: make this my master's. I'm going to do my thesis
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: on it, and I'm going to become a doctor. I'm
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: going to get my doctorate in why the college football
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: playoff should hold at 12. That's what I'm going to do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Well, you're just a radio.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Then you're going to argue with Dr. Powell on a
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: topic that you are just not educated as well.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I like this. You go ahead and you crap in
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: one hand and look in the other. See which one
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: fills up with more intelligence.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: All right, man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next week.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, my friend. Next time.
• 21:14
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  Speaker 3: Coming up next, Al Koniski is going to join us
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: on KJR.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, just look like one of those.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Put your feet up on the desk kind.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Of nights at the rink.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the Red Wings made things tricky.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: They scored three times in the third. Forced overtime. Nothing
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: was settled in the overtime. Go to a shootout. Kraken win.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Four to three in the shootout over the Detroit Red Wings.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: That's two points, people. Joining us now to celebrate two points, people,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: is the color analyst for your Seattle Kraken. As heard
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: last night on the call, Al Koniski is with us.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Al.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Chuck.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I'm doing all right. Doing all right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: What were you thinking as with seconds remaining in regulation,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the Red Wings had tied it up. As you were
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: going into overtime, what were your emotions, Al Koniski?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Well, my emotions were this is a team that looks
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: very different than the one that the Kraken played two
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: weeks ago and put six goals up on. This is
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: a team coming into the building with a lot of confidence,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and I'm not surprised They battled to the end. I
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: was disappointed they were able to get up on the board, but,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of lucky calls their way put
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: them on the power play, and they found the back
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: of the net, but good teams find ways to win,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and the Kraken did that last night.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what about the shootout? All of a sudden, is
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: it strength for the Kraken? Is there anything to that?
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Is it just kind of luck? The skills competition's been
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: kind to the Seattle team in the early part of
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: the season.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was an area of opportunity last year that
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the Kraken were struggling in and leaving points on the table.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Let's remember how close the team was to being in
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: the playoffs last year. So I think in an effort
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: to not leave those points on the table, a lot
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: of the guys took it on their own to go
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: figure out how to be better at scoring in the shootout.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: And better in the overtime as well, but specifically the shootout.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: And Lane Lambert talked about that in his postgame last
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: night that Now that the Kraken have a full-time e-bug
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: emergency backup goaltender, that goaltender can take hundreds of shots
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: after practice, whether it's breakaways or whatever. And he's part
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: of the reason why the Kraken have gotten better at shootouts.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: The guys are practicing this on a regular basis, specifically
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Nick Stroh and Bobby McMahon last night got it done
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: for the win.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Well, in my non-expert opinion, I would not do a
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: shootout without Bobby McMahon. He looks like he has a
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: true skill for this particular event.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a shooter. He doesn't see too many pucks
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: that he doesn't want to put on net. You know,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: when given the opportunity to go man versus man on
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: the goaltender, you want to put him in every time.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Where you put him, that's the strategy. But Lane Lambert
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: choosing a little bit later in the shootout to get
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: him down there and He found the back of the net.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: It was a huge goal.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: I have a man crush on Brandon Montour, Al, as
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: you well know. So just kind.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Of tell us.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Join the list.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Join the list. He carved his.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Name into the desk here today with a heart around it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: It's very true.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: B-M-A-H. Heart.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: So I'm just.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: Obviously, he missed the last game of the road trip
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: against Florida. The Kraken, you know, get blown out in
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: that one. He comes back against Detroit here. He scores
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: in the Kraken win. Besides the obvious, like, you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: he scores a goal and helps them win a game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: What does he bring and why is he so important
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: to this team? And, you know, talk about why he
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: is so important to come back after injury.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: All the obvious stuff is the offense he brings to
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the blue line. He quarterbacks the second power play unit. Obviously,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: he shoots the puck very well. The goal last night
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: proving that. But I think the intangibles are he's a
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: leader on the bench. He wears an A for a reason.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: His His personality can help you bring you up when
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you're down and settle you down when you're a little
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: bit too high. He's in keeping with the young guys.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of little things that he does when
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: he's not even on the ice that helps his team win.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: So getting him back in the lineup last night was huge.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Al Koniski is with us, color analyst for your Seattle Kraken.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Last night, Kraken win 4-3 in a shootout over the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Detroit Red Wings at home. Al and Everett on the call.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Dylan Larkin playing for Detroit. Obviously, he's not in a
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: good position with that organization. Is that somebody that maybe,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, if this start is real for the Kraken,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, he has the short list of teams he
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: would play for and Kraken are not on that short
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: list of teams, but do you think that maybe if
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: they keep their winning ways that that would be somebody
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: that makes sense for Seattle down the line?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's definitely on the list, and I have
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: to believe that he's somebody that GM Jason Botterill is
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: talking to Detroit about. Simon Edmonton's another one of Detroit's
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: defensemen that's kind of in the same boat. Lots of
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: conversations probably going on between Seattle and Detroit, but Everybody's
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: got to do their part. And last night I was
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: between the benches and during immediate timeout, Dylan Larkin came
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: over and wanted to see my stats. So, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: trying to do my part and show what a great
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: city this is and how welcoming we are. You know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I turned my book a little bit his way so
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: he could see. So hopefully that's going to move the needle.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Man, I hope that happens when we trade for him
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: and he says, you know, it was really my connection
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that I made with Al Koniski.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: He shared everything.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: His stat book with me, and I'm here because of
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: one man, really, and his name is Alan J.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Koniski.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: That three and a half seconds, you know, where we just,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you know, our eyes are locked. You know, and I
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: think that might be the difference maker.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Talk about man crushes.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, here we go. Dylan Larkin, Al Kaniski. Let's go.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: What about internal improvements? Berkeley Caton looks like he's taken
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: a huge step. What's been behind his just total confidence
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: he's looking like he's playing with on the ice right now?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it would be easy for me to
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: say player development, but, you know, everybody has the ability
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: to develop as a player. I don't care if you're
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Jordan Eberle or Berkeley Caton and Ripley Catton has taken
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a big step in the offseason through the training camp
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: and now 10 games in where he looks like he's
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: a different player. And I don't mean different in terms
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: of he's changed his game, but he's faster. He's more confident.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: He's shooting the puck well. He's settling in on that
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: line with Capococco and Shane Wright where they look like
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: they've been together for a while. And I think that,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: you know, he's looking like more of a leader out there,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: whereas he looked like last year more of a guy that's,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: you know, trying to fit in but just trying to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: find his way totally so yeah big big step forward
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: this year for brinkley cotton and i so far you
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: know again 10 games in he's looking to me like
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: he could be one of the guys that has the biggest.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Uh uh upside in his season you know i lived
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: in arizona for 15 years and i just watched the
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: coyotes just fail as an organization like just ownership wasn't
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: right fan base wasn't right stadium arena never got it
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: right and it and and then all of a sudden
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: they become the utah foot our hockey team and then
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: they even waited a year before they even named the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: team now they're the utah mammoth and it just feels
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: like everything they do has been right since they got
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: there um you speak to that at all about just
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: how important that structure is from top to bottom in
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: the NHL to go from wayward to, man, they seem
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: to have things solved. I bring them up because that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: the next opponent for the Kraken. What's the murmur around
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: the league that people say about how quickly Utah's gone
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: from a wayward franchise in Arizona to suddenly an organization
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: that doesn't seem to do anything wrong right now.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, a new franchise in Utah, obviously, but
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: from an existing player base, so very different than the
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Seattle Kraken or the Vegas Golden Knights, if you will,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: in terms of new franchises in the league. But this
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: is a group that's owned by Ryan and Ashley Smith,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and And they've given them the green light to say,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: tell us what you need to be a top team
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: in this NHL. And they've delivered and they continue to deliver,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: whether it's the facilities, whether it's, you know, what the
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: players need off the ice, they're getting everything. They're taking
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: away all the excuses. And I think that's a big
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: reason for why this team that, again, started as a
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: team in Arizona has now taken the next step and,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: They're coming to Seattle here Thursday against the Kraken, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: they're red hot right now. This is going to be
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: a big test. It's as big as the Kraken saw
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: on the road with Tampa Bay, Washington, and Florida.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: All right, Al.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, sir. Thank you for all
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of your legwork on getting Dylan Larkin to Seattle.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: We really appreciate that.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: We'll lock that deal down here, and you can thank
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: me later.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of guys get signed based off
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: good eye contact.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I've found.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: You got to give them the right, right, right.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: It's the key to everything. All right, Al, we'll talk
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: to you soon. All right, final segment of the show
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: as we get ready to wrap things off and hand
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: them off to Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre. But we
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: do have time for one last thing, so let's go
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: around the room.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Andrew, let's get it started.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: So we talked about Junior Caminero's home run celebration earlier today,
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: and I don't know if you guys noticed, but at
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: the very end of it, you know what he did?
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: He pointed to someone in the crowd and did a
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: very signature celebration, the Randy Rosarena.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: And he was pointing to Randy Rosarena. Because Randy Rosarito
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: was there last night. Or not last night. Two nights ago.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: I was.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: He was doing something.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: I didn't even.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he did that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I didn't put it together.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: If you rewatch it. And Randy was there. They showed
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: him a couple times. Tyler Glasnow was there. Brett Phillips.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: The kind of old... Yeah. The 2020-ish team that went
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: to the World Series. I don't know if, like, Snell
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: was there. That would have been interesting to see if
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: he was there. His teammate was. So, yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: I just... That kind of got me thinking. I was like, dang.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: I'm going to miss that guy. Because I... He's not
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: coming back.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: No, he's not.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: So it was cool that he was there supporting his teammate. And,
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: you know, it just reminded me of something.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I was like.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: Dang it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: We're not going to have that kind of aspect of
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: this team anymore. The Randy Roseran aspect.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Well, it does prove that there was at least one
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: guy that liked him in Tampa.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: True.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah. And he was.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Because I'm going to tell you, Yandy Diaz is never
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: going to do that in Randy's direction.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: No, he would not. Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Of all the guys to get on the wrong side of,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: if you're a Tampa Bay Ray, probably not the smartest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yandy.
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  Speaker 2: Yandy Diaz is enormous.
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  Speaker 6: He is yoked.
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  Speaker 2: And he's not even a power hitter. No. I.
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  Speaker 3: He is an enormous dude. He gets bigger every single year. Well,
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  Speaker 3: if he really loved Tampa so much, he could go
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  Speaker 3: back for like a third of the money. He could
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: get somewhere else, but I don't think that's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen either. I think he's going to go to Boston
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  Speaker 3: or the Yankees, one or the other. The Yankees desperately
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: need a right-handed hitter.
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  Speaker 6: And they like him, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Boston, it.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like a pretty good ballpark for his skills. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: it might be a little bit of an adventure him
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: playing the Green Monster as defensively.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but don't they hide left fielders there that aren't
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  Speaker 7: good defensively?
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes. I know they do that in Houston with the
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Crawford boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sometimes if you're scared of the arm. You have
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  Speaker 3: an advantage if you put somebody that really plays that
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  Speaker 3: wall well.
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  Speaker 5: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: Like Carl Yastrzemski once upon a time. You have an
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  Speaker 3: advantage because no one else is going to play it,
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  Speaker 3: should play it as well as your guy plays it.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a different than any other left field.
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  Speaker 2: All right, kid, what's your one last thing?
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  Speaker 6: Dylan Brooks. You got to love this guy.
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  Speaker 4: I do not.
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  Speaker 8: The reason why I love him is because he plays
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: into the villain role. I don't know if you guys
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: saw his latest ad that he released yesterday. It was
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: a shot at LeBron James because they have a feud
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  Speaker 8: that's been going on for years.
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  Speaker 6: One of the quotes that he has is LeBron's old.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: I poke bears.
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  Speaker 8: I don't respect anyone until they give me 40. So
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: yesterday he drops his new commercial.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Are you tired of hearing about the greatest basketball player
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  Speaker 5: of all time? Where he goes? What team is he
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  Speaker 5: playing for this season? What ridiculous new product he's endorsing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Then you need the King Blocker 9000 advanced breakthrough technology
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  Speaker 5: that will mute any mention of or as many nicknames
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  Speaker 5: like King's LB, The Chosen, Blocked. Sound good? It sure does.
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  Speaker 2: Visit the URL today. That is pretty funny. That's good.
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  Speaker 8: I just retweeted it. You can check it out because
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  Speaker 8: there's a video with it, and it's really well done.
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  Speaker 3: Was he blocking out him saying it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: So it's an example of what it does.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 6: You got it.
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  Speaker 8: The visual would have done it better, but we understood it.
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  Speaker 8: So that's my one last thing. Dylan Brooks diving into
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  Speaker 8: the villain role and just hating LeBron, and he loves
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  Speaker 8: doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to use this as my– I
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to use
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: this as my one last thing. Speaking of the villain role,
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  Speaker 3: I told Anders off the air– We're not that far
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: away from Wimby being a villain in the NBA.
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  Speaker 6: Ooh, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to end up being a heel.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I think he's already had it with American lifestyle and
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: American reporters. I think he likes his teammates. I think
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: he loves his teammates, loves his coach, loves his organization,
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  Speaker 3: loves playing basketball. But I think the whole NBA, American
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  Speaker 3: NBA thing, I think he started to sort of unravel
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  Speaker 3: at the end of last year. He was a jerk
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: to people at the end of last year, to the
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: point where Spencer Hawes and I ended up having a conversation.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, he's going to have to chill on that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: And he started this year. You'd think he'd be refreshed,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: and he already looks pissed off. Did he not look
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: pissed off to you last night? Now it might have
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: had something to do that he couldn't score.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe. Maybe.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: But he already looked like he had an edge to
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: him going into this season. Dude, the hype's only going
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: to get larger around you. The attention is, you're 7'13.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: People are going to pay attention to you. And if
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: you establish yourself as the best basketball player in the world,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: that comes with attention too. And not everybody's going to
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: ask you smart questions. You have to grow up a
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: little bit. Otherwise, I think he could be headed down
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the villain route.
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  Speaker 6: Totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if NBA's ever had, like, LeBron, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a villain in a lot of people's lives.
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  Speaker 6: But it took him a while to get to that point.
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  Speaker 6: He was just in Miami. When he did that special,
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: that's when he became a villain. He embraced it. And
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: then everybody loved him again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for us. Thanks for being
• 37:16
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