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10-9 H2: 12th Man News w/ Gregg Bell, FoF & ABC's · 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, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday. How was the event yesterday? It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: It really was.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever seen Hugh break down film before? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we've heard it for years, but there really is something
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  Speaker 4: different to seeing him break down film.
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  Speaker 2: It's a spectacle. Everybody loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it was packed and well-received. It was very well-received.
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It was a good night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We'll do it again sometime. Yeah, you should see it.
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  Speaker 4: It really is kind of eye-opening. Like, you know, all
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  Speaker 4: those terms he's used over the years, and then you actually,
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  Speaker 4: there were like moments where he built up to something,
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  Speaker 4: and you're.
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  Speaker 2: Just like, oh!
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  Speaker 5: It's like the aha moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, it was really good. It was really good,
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  Speaker 2: but thanks for asking.
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  Speaker 6: People forget, I'm sorry, people forget, not only was he
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  Speaker 6: an NFL quarterback, and he does it for us all
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  Speaker 6: the time on the radio, he coaches and has coached
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  Speaker 6: high school kids, and I say kids, but a pretty
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  Speaker 6: high level of 4A football outside of high school and
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  Speaker 6: his sons. And so he has to relate that to
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  Speaker 6: an audience that, to say the least, may not be
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  Speaker 6: able to keep up with his expertise and his details,
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  Speaker 6: including ourselves and listeners. And, yeah, as intricate as he gets,
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  Speaker 6: he's very relatable.
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  Speaker 3: And I.
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  Speaker 6: Think often of him standing up in front of a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of 15- and 16-year-olds explaining it to them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Very good. Very good event. And we look forward to
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  Speaker 4: doing it again. So we just got to talk you
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  Speaker 4: into it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's dive in. Leonard Williams, he did not practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not reading that negatively into that. It sounds to
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  Speaker 4: me like, you know, he looks good on Wednesday. Why
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  Speaker 4: risk it? Why risk a setback on Thursday? He's going
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  Speaker 4: to be good to go on Sunday. But am I
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  Speaker 4: looking at that too optimistically?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think there's merit to that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's heading toward his mid-30s now, and it's
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  Speaker 6: not as though they would need him to practice. In general,
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  Speaker 6: players trend upwards in participating in practice before a game
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  Speaker 6: they're going to play, and often injury, then down. But
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  Speaker 6: he would be an exception to someone who doesn't have
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  Speaker 6: to practice on a Thursday to play on a Sunday
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  Speaker 6: for sure. It was notable that I saw him jogging
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  Speaker 6: pretty freely onto the practice field, and participating at the
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  Speaker 6: start of practice Wednesday, and then we didn't have him
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  Speaker 6: anywhere to be seen yesterday and then was listed as
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  Speaker 6: did not participate at all. So it was a step
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  Speaker 6: back compared to Wednesday. Is it a step back toward
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  Speaker 6: the game? That's going to probably be determined at 1
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  Speaker 6: o'clock today in the injury report. But he is important
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  Speaker 6: to them. A lot of the game plan for defense
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  Speaker 6: is his multiplicity along the defensive line, moving from nose
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  Speaker 6: all the way out to defensive tackle. A lot of
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  Speaker 6: what Byron Murphy does is predicated on how Leonard Williams
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  Speaker 6: does it next to him. And a lot of the 49ers'
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  Speaker 6: game plan offensively is how to block number 99. It
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  Speaker 6: is a big factor. His availability will be the news today, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a big, big factor.
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  Speaker 4: Ty Okada and Julian Love finally together again this Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: Looks like it. Two days in a row of full
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  Speaker 3: practicing for Okada. Those are his first days since August.
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  Speaker 6: And he had the hamstring issues since. So if Leonard
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  Speaker 6: Williams can play, this would be the full defense. The
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  Speaker 6: full defense as they envisioned it to start the season
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  Speaker 6: for the first time. And the full Nick Emanuari 2025 version,
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  Speaker 6: it appears.
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  Speaker 3: But now it's a big if with Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Are there any limitations at this point with Emanuari? Not
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  Speaker 4: just from the injury, but the rust? of missing a
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  Speaker 4: lot of training camp. Is it safe to say that
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  Speaker 4: he's now 100% the guy that we saw a year ago,
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  Speaker 4: or do we still have a couple weeks before we'll
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  Speaker 4: get that guy?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is.
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  Speaker 6: In retrospect now, you can see what McDonald and the
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  Speaker 6: training staff's plan was of the slow ramp up and
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  Speaker 6: gradually increasing his workload up to this game. It's not
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  Speaker 6: a coincidence that his first full, full go and nearly 100%
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  Speaker 6: of the snaps will be against the 49ers, a team
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  Speaker 6: that he single-handedly dominated the final two games of last season.
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  Speaker 6: And again, it's worth mentioning again, the only time of
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  Speaker 6: the three times last year that the 49ers beat the
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  Speaker 6: Seahawks was when Nicky Moore got hurt on the fourth play,
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  Speaker 6: season opener last year, and he wasn't there to shut
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  Speaker 6: down Kittle. He wasn't there to tackle Kittle. McCaffrey in
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  Speaker 6: the open field immediately after the catch and prevent yards
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  Speaker 6: after catch. Nine snaps against Arizona, only half the snaps
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  Speaker 6: at Washington, three-fourths of the snaps last weekend, and here
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  Speaker 6: we go with a full deal. That seems to be
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  Speaker 6: the obvious plan. And as I mentioned after the game,
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  Speaker 6: against the Chargers game, even Warrior said, I love this
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  Speaker 6: team for that and how they've done this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you've said many times, so, I mean, usually
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  Speaker 4: we save a key to the game for the end
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  Speaker 4: of the segment, but since we're talking about Eamon Worry,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you think that he, number three, is the
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  Speaker 4: key to this game for the Seahawks, right? You haven't
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  Speaker 4: changed your mind since earlier this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no. There's nothing that's happened between these two teams,
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  Speaker 3: between Tuesday.
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  Speaker 6: And Thursday, because, again, that's the one thing that these
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  Speaker 6: 49ers usually have an advantage over all of the teams.
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  Speaker 6: McCaffrey has a tight end who blocks like a tackle
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  Speaker 6: and catches like a wide receiver, catches and runs like
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  Speaker 6: a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 3: We heard on our show the other day.
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  Speaker 6: That Matt Barrow, 49ers beat writer for the Athletics, said
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  Speaker 6: that he was measured, Kittle was, at running 20 miles
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  Speaker 6: an hour last weekend. And that's coming off of a
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  Speaker 6: huge injury. So, Achilles, that on top of McCaffrey, McCaffrey
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  Speaker 6: has become what he is in a zillion-dollar running back.
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  Speaker 6: Because of catching in the flat and turning upfield and
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  Speaker 6: beating defenders to the edge and getting by or breaking tackles,
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  Speaker 6: turning four or five-yard passes into 15, 20-yard gains, he
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  Speaker 6: did not do that against Nicky Maury last year. He
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  Speaker 6: caught the ball and he went down because Maury.
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  Speaker 3: Was right on his hip.
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  Speaker 6: And there are singular players in the NFL who can
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  Speaker 6: do that, and he did it in two consecutive games
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  Speaker 6: against them.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us.
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  Speaker 4: Our Seahawks insider, of course, joins us most every day
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  Speaker 4: at 7.05 for the latest, greatest Seahawks information. They're getting
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  Speaker 4: ready for their biggest test of the year so far.
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  Speaker 4: The undefeated San Francisco 49ers rolling into town Sunday at
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  Speaker 4: Lumen Field. A 125 kick, and so we break it
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  Speaker 4: down for you here with our Seahawks insider on a
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  Speaker 4: football Friday. Brock Purdy's playing as well as he's ever
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  Speaker 4: played in his career. Even Seahawks players on the mic
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  Speaker 4: acknowledge that. I think the comments and the compliments given
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  Speaker 4: to him was how decisive he is, which, man, if
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  Speaker 4: you're facing a decisive quarterback, that might be the most dangerous,
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  Speaker 4: scary proposition to face in the National Football League. what
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  Speaker 4: is Mike McDonald what is he going to pull from
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  Speaker 4: from a year ago that he did so well to
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  Speaker 4: upset Brock Purdy's rhythm what new tricks might he have
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  Speaker 4: up his sleeve to try to get this guy off
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  Speaker 4: of his a game that he's displayed so far this
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  Speaker 4: season well.
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  Speaker 6: Chuck I think it's old tricks I think he's going
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  Speaker 6: to do the same thing he did last year and
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  Speaker 6: that's employ him and worry at all three levels and
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  Speaker 6: keep Witherspoon inside at nickel, which means almost exclusively dime,
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  Speaker 6: even in running situations, which could mean big rolls for
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  Speaker 6: Nehemiah Pritchett slash Trevon Diggs. I think Diggs is going
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  Speaker 6: to get more than the nine snaps he had last week.
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  Speaker 6: And they're going to roll with six defensive backs, Eamon
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  Speaker 6: Worry and Witherspoon highlighted in the middle of the field
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  Speaker 6: doing everything. And what they did last year in doing
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  Speaker 6: that was putting Purdy and the 49ers in long third downs.
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  Speaker 6: probably the key to Purdy's success is that he's in
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  Speaker 6: short third downs where he can run or he can
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  Speaker 6: pass for the first down, where Shanahan can put any
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  Speaker 6: play in the playbook in there. One of the things
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  Speaker 6: Seahawks players, Julian Love, I talked to him yesterday in
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  Speaker 6: the locker room, one of the things that they say
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  Speaker 6: about Shanahan's offense that is unique is that every play
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  Speaker 6: looks the same. They can't tell run and pass tendencies
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  Speaker 6: based on pre-snap formations and looks. Well, if it's third
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  Speaker 6: and nine, you know they're going to throw. no matter
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  Speaker 6: what the formation looks like. If it's third and two,
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  Speaker 6: you can't tell from the formation whether they're going to
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  Speaker 6: run or throw, and you have to then play it modestly.
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  Speaker 6: And a defensive front that has to play honestly against
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  Speaker 6: a run and pass with equal probability is a much
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  Speaker 6: different one than a third and nine defensive front that
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  Speaker 6: knows you have to throw. And that's when they've gotten
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  Speaker 6: pretty uncomfortable. They've pressured him. They've been able to rush
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  Speaker 6: and keep him from having a widened rushing lane so
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  Speaker 6: he can.
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  Speaker 3: Get out on them.
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  Speaker 6: Jaron Reed has talked about how they've really focused on
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  Speaker 6: rush lane discipline and not widening their gaps and trying
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  Speaker 6: to go around blockers but go through them, which is
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  Speaker 6: a McDonald axiom of everything he does with that team, through,
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  Speaker 6: not around. But the pass rush has to go through
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  Speaker 6: the linemen, not around. Through Trent Williams, which is not
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  Speaker 6: easy to do, not around. Because if you go around,
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  Speaker 6: then you've got these 405 size. wide lanes for Purdy
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  Speaker 6: to run through for a first down. But all of that,
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  Speaker 6: if it's third and nine, it's a lot harder for
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  Speaker 6: Purdy to take off. Because his probability of getting the
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  Speaker 6: first down is much less than his third and two.
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  Speaker 6: So the key is longer third downs. That's how they
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  Speaker 6: got them to three points in Week 18 and held
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  Speaker 6: them to six points in the division title game, or
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  Speaker 6: division playoff game last year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this running back room, I don't have a
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  Speaker 4: lot of faith that the Seahawks are going to be
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  Speaker 4: able to establish much of a running game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why that is, but.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of faith in it. You know why that is.
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  Speaker 6: It's a dude in the backfield no one's ever heard of.
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  Speaker 2: Right, okay. I do know why it is. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of faith in it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Emmanuel Wilson's had a couple good games, but
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  Speaker 4: I just don't have a lot of faith this Sunday
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  Speaker 4: that they're going to be able to get a ground
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  Speaker 4: game going. So, number one, How will they divvy up
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  Speaker 4: these carries, do you think? And then number two, if
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  Speaker 4: it's not working, how long before Brian Fleury abandons it
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  Speaker 4: and just turns the ball over to Sam? Will they
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  Speaker 4: give it two quarters, three quarters to the end of
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  Speaker 4: the game? Is there a breaking point where Fleury reaches where, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not just going to beat my head against the
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  Speaker 4: wall if we can't run against the 49ers defense?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the second thing first, we saw in Washington that
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  Speaker 6: breaking point was four minutes into the game. When Jadarian
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  Speaker 6: Price fumbled, they quit running. They ended up just 18
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  Speaker 6: runs and 45 passes in a game they were within
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  Speaker 6: one score of for much of the game. So the
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  Speaker 6: ripcord was quick. That's a precedent. But Washington's defensive front
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  Speaker 6: was doing what San Francisco often does, which is put
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  Speaker 6: teams at third and long in Your first question, I
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  Speaker 6: would not be surprised. I know he just got here,
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  Speaker 6: but Robert Henry Jr., who just got here on Tuesday
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  Speaker 6: off the Washington Commanders practice squad, to me is not
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  Speaker 6: only going to suit up, but I think he's going
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  Speaker 6: to carry.
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  Speaker 3: The ball and play.
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  Speaker 6: It's not like he just has been mothballed for preseason
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  Speaker 6: and the first month of season. He's been practicing every day.
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  Speaker 6: He just hasn't been playing. So he's in football shape
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  Speaker 6: for sure. And how much he can, maybe it's a
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  Speaker 6: part of the playbook. Remember, I was talking yesterday to
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  Speaker 6: Jimmy Charlo. He's the practice squad linebacker they signed last
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  Speaker 6: week after Buffalo released him. He's a West Point grad,
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  Speaker 6: so he and I talk almost every day about Army
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  Speaker 6: stuff and plebe stuff and marching and the whole West
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  Speaker 6: Point experience. But he was talking to me yesterday about,
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  Speaker 6: I asked him how it was going of learning the
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  Speaker 6: whole playbook because his head was swimming last year. And
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  Speaker 6: he said, you know what was cool, Greg, is, When
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  Speaker 6: you come in in the middle of the season, you
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  Speaker 6: don't have to know the whole playbook right away. You
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  Speaker 6: only have to know the game plan each week because
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  Speaker 6: they don't just give you a fire hose of the
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  Speaker 6: whole playbook. They give you the plays you're going to
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  Speaker 6: use in the game. So Robert Henry Jr. only needs
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  Speaker 6: to know the plays that are going to run against
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  Speaker 6: the 49ers.
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  Speaker 3: He just got here.
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  Speaker 6: They're not trying to give him the stuff they installed
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  Speaker 6: in June and July and August. So I think he's
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  Speaker 6: going to play more than some people do, and they
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  Speaker 6: need a faster compliment back. And they can't afford to
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  Speaker 6: line up their $ 51 million wide receiver and kickoff returner
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  Speaker 6: who weighs about 150 pounds at tailback more than a
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  Speaker 6: few times a game. So Rasheed will still be the
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  Speaker 6: novelty piece. They'll probably keep him, as Fleury explained yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: on plays that they aren't risking him injury. You don't
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  Speaker 6: see him going outside zone off tackle. It'll probably be
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  Speaker 6: pitch left, student body left, like it was against the Chargers.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm going to close with this this week
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  Speaker 4: since we've already discussed your key to the game. Something
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  Speaker 4: that struck me yesterday, I'm like, why have I not
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  Speaker 4: brought this up more this week? Maybe Ian has done it.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you've done it on your show. Maybe Softie and
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  Speaker 4: Fane have talked about it until they're blue in their faces.
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  Speaker 4: But I haven't talked about Brian Fleury much at all.
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  Speaker 4: The Fleury factor. in this game, him coming fresh from
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  Speaker 4: this organization over to the Seahawks. So how would you assess,
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  Speaker 4: without having seen it, the Fleury factor for Sunday?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm quite sure, probably starting with the interview process,
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  Speaker 6: that Mike McDonald in particular has been quizzing Brian Fleury
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  Speaker 6: about all he knows about the 49ers and the Shanahan
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  Speaker 6: game planning and playbook for the defense, for the Seahawks'
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  Speaker 6: defensive purposes. So this week just isn't all of a
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  Speaker 6: sudden him going, hey, use the coach to 49ers.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what you know.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure that started in January. So, yeah, he's an
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  Speaker 6: asset this week for sure. And, of course, Shanahan knows that.
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  Speaker 6: And they're going to have things that the Seahawks haven't
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  Speaker 6: seen before, including not on film this season, including that
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  Speaker 6: they didn't do again at all in the three games
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  Speaker 6: last season. But Fleury, I asked Mike McDonald about, judging
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  Speaker 6: his performance through his first four games, considering this. First-time
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  Speaker 6: offensive play caller, never done that before at any level.
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  Speaker 6: Not high school, not college, nowhere. And in fact, he
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  Speaker 6: was a defensive coach until just six years ago when
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  Speaker 6: Shanahan moved him over to the offensive side with the 49ers.
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  Speaker 6: First-time play caller, losing your starting quarterback in the fifth
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  Speaker 6: play of the season, losing your number one running back,
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  Speaker 6: and losing your starting guard.
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  Speaker 3: Go. That's his first month.
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  Speaker 6: And he said, He said, yeah, I never thought of
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  Speaker 6: it in that frame, but considering all that, I think
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  Speaker 6: he's done a hell of a job. He said what
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  Speaker 6: Fleury's best attribute is is poise and steadiness no matter
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  Speaker 6: what the situation. Jadarian Price fumbles for the second time
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  Speaker 6: four minutes of the game in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: On to the next.
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  Speaker 6: Darnold throws a interception for a pick-six touchdown. They lose
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  Speaker 6: for the first time in 10 months.
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  Speaker 3: On to the next player.
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  Speaker 6: He's very poised and steady. Darnold talks about it. There's
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  Speaker 6: no urgency in his voice or in his demeanor on
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  Speaker 6: the sidelines it become an asset that the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 6: play caller is not up in the booth when he's
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  Speaker 6: as calm and collected as Fleury is on the sideline
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  Speaker 6: that's why he's down there to relate to the players
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  Speaker 6: they love him they say he's exacting he's detail oriented
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  Speaker 6: he's smart they talk about how intelligent he is so
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  Speaker 6: far so good the things that are ailing the Seahawks
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  Speaker 6: offense is not Brian Fleury say those.
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  Speaker 2: In the building alright what do you got on the
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  Speaker 2: show today.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to talk a little bit about last night
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: and the Brian Schottenheimers in Dallas. That's probably the worst
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: loss of the Schottenheimer era, losing to a backup undrafted
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  Speaker 6: rookie quarterback at home, Buccaneers who are winless. We're going
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  Speaker 6: to talk about our weekly high school football focus this
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: week is going to be on Seattle Prep and Mercer Island.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Mercer Island won last night. It went to 5-1. Seattle Prep,
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Aaron Maul is a longtime high school football coach in
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: the area, has been around. Mercer Island's coach never played
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: the game and came up from an entirely different background,
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: and we're going to talk to both of them at
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: 11 and 11.15. Jackson Feltz is going to be helping
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: me out on the show because Jessamyn has gone to
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: Utah for tonight's Cougs game against Utah State.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Jackson's already up this morning. He's already tweeting about.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: The Huskies this morning. I got him out of bed
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: pretty early today, yeah, for his usual.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I hope he wasn't listening to the show earlier this hour.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Please tell me he was.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, were you roasting him? Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: We didn't roast him. Actually, I think I pretty much
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: propped him up.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Didn't help my life, I'll tell you that much.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Well, then for sure he was listening.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: We'll let it go, Craig. We'll let it go. I'll
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: inform you later. All right, man. Thank you. We appreciate it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Have a great show, and we'll talk to you on Monday.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: All right, happy weekend. Thanks, guys.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: All right, our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Maybe he did hear it, and maybe they'll spend an
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: entire segment on Greg's show talking about it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, something tells me that they won't, probably, even if
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: both of them heard it, considering both of their personalities.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But you never know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I could be surprised.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: All right, Factor Fiction coming up at 735.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Coming up next, breaking news for tonight's game between the
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Huskies and the Hawkeyes. So, yeah, I'm going to use
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: that as a teaser going into the break. So we'll
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: talk about it next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Well, we've
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: got some news. It is game day here on Sports
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Radio 93.3 KJR FM with the Huskies hosting the Iowa
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Hawkeyes tonight at 6 o'clock. Honks will start at 2 o'clock,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: and we have some breaking news in regards to that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: game at a very prominent position. This is something that's
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: been discussed throughout the course of the week. Hunter Brown,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: the starting quarterback. Hunter Brown, that's the Astros pitcher.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It's not the same name, is it?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think so either.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Anyway, the starting quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes is not
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: going to play tonight.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Hank Brown. Hank Brown, that's right. I knew it was
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: an H Brown.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Jeremy Heklinski is going to replace Hank Brown tonight for
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: the Iowa Hawkeyes at quarterback. Now, before you as a
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Husky fan, if you rejoice such things, okay, we just
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: diminished them at the quarterback position tonight. That should give
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: us a better chance of winning tonight. That's a pretty
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: important position. Apparently, everything that I've read this week about
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Jeremy Heklinski and this possibility is that this might be
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the smallest drop-off from starter to backup in the entire country.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: That Heklinski and Hank Brown went down to the wire
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: in training camp to try to determine the starting quarterback
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: for the Hawkeyes this season Brown narrowly won it and
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: of course Hawkeye fans have been on the train of
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: start Heklinski Heklinski put Heklinski in there we need Heklinski
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: and I don't know how anyone from Iowa under the
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: age of 50 would even know what a good quarterback looks.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Like um don't go along with your theory of them
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: being the most consistent team yeah it's.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Been a long time quarterback it's been a long time
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: since chuck long was under center for the iowa hawkeyes
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: i got a really long time uh and so i'm
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: not sure you really know what a good quarterback looks
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: like but Apparently the fan base has been clamoring for
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Heklinski to replace Brown all season long, and now they're
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: finally going to get to see him. I don't know
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: really much of the differences or similarities between the two
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: other than the size differential. Brown's like 6'4, NFL-sized quarterback.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Heklinski's 5'11. 200 pounds, and he's not really a runner.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: So this might be the smallest quarterback matchup in America
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: this weekend.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, DeMond Williams versus Hicklinski.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Combined less than 12 feet.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Because you know they've exaggerated their height so that it
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: looks better in the program.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: So this is like 5'7 versus 5'10 probably.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: And I just.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know. We're in a new era. So we'll
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: see kind of if any of them can see over
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: their lines.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. So.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: I guess Iowa fans have wanted this to happen, so
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: this just broke a few minutes ago that it is
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: going to happen. So this isn't a big shock or
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: a big hit to the Hawkeye faithful. They're actually going
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to be excited about seeing Heklinski operate their offense.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: So just passing it along.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Quarterback change for the Hawkeyes in preparation for tonight's game
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: out at the greatest setting in college football.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: All right, let's play some Fact or Fiction. We're set
• 21:31
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• 21:32
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• 21:52
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Well, Anders. You know, this is about picking up teammates.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: That's what Factor Fiction is all about from our perspective,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: from our side of the table. I mean, really, it's
• 22:03
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• 22:06
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• 22:09
  Speaker 5: That's really what matters.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: That's really what matters.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: But from our perspective, you know, we want to pick
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: up our teammates. Kit had a rough night last night.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, he did.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: If we're talking baseball terms, you let us off. You
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: got on base. Kit struck out. I got to drive
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: you home now.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to pick up Kit.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to pick up, kid. Kid, you got
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: any words for yourself? You want to say anything about this?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Never bet on the Cowboys again? Well, 58.3% of people
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: agreed with you. Yeah, that's right.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: It made sense. I'm not going to lie. Think about
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it this way.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Because I know you take a personal shock when you
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: don't get a game right, especially when it's a fact
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: or fiction style. But think about all the people you
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: made happy who picked the Buccaneers against you last night.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: You made a lot of people happy last night, kid.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Think about that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I'll take it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: You can't win them all, boys. He's trying to find
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: a silver lining at all.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Anders, who are you picking today?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Well, as tempting as your breaking news story was to
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: maybe go with that game, because it has not been
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: picked yet.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I thought it had been picked twice. Are you sure
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I don't think so. I see the under for the game,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: but I don't see one side.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, I do.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Softie picked it earlier.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Never mind. Yeah, that Husky game never gets past Softie
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and Dick on Monday.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: This is true.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: On Monday, yeah. And usually it's Ian who picks it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. To hedge, as he always does. But
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with the other hometown team, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Seattle Seahawks.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: They're minus three in the game against the San Francisco
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: 49ers over the weekend. If you listened to the 12-man
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: roundtable yesterday, you heard my prediction that I think this
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: could be a semi-blowout for the Seattle Seahawks. I want
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: to believe you. They get their most complete game of
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: the season. Greg just a little bit ago talked about
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: how Basically, their entire defense is here. It's for the
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: first time. Ty Okada, Julian Love, Nicky Minwari, all healthy.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Looks like Leonard Williams is going to play as well.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Hopefully he does. If that's the case, I believe in
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: the track record of Mike McDonald with his full asset
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: of tools against any Kyle Shanahan-led offense.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Let alone one that's a little bit banged up, has
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: a Christian McCaffrey that's really looked like he lost a
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: half step, as you mentioned earlier this week as well.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: And I just believe that Sam Donald, while yes, the
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: couple of turnovers that he has had have been frustrating,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I believe he's actually played really good football besides that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: And I think this offense can actually get some, at
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: least the pass game get going a little bit. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: think that with the Seahawks, win this game by at
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: least a touchdown, but they only need to win by four.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: So Seahawks minus three versus the San Francisco 49ers at home.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: The other aspect to this is the Seahawks are three
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: and one. The Niners are four and oh. The Seahawks
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: can't afford to go two games behind someone this early
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: in the season. So I think they are going to
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: be extra motivated, just as the Niners will be. Don't
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: get me wrong, but the Seahawks need to win this game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: I believe they will kind of even things up, at
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: least on the record side of things, against the Niners
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: this weekend.
• 25:17
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• 26:21
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• 26:24
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• 26:40
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• 26:44
  Speaker 4: ABC's at the M, Sports.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Kind of contracted by God.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: To make sure that every day we slip in a
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: little bit of it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Just a little bit. I mean, it is October 9th,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: so there is some pretty important baseball games going on
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some important games.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: And there's actually a really interesting baseball story that will
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: fit perfectly in our ABCs and DMs. Because this story
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: will certainly impact every team in Major League Baseball, including us.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: The local baseball squad.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: And so let's get to the ABCs of the M's.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: We left off with a letter U. U is for unconventional.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball has introduced some unconventional schedule changes for
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: the upcoming season as part of their push to try
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: to get a salary cap for the collective bargaining agreement.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: These are things that they're dangling in front of the players.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: These are three of many things they're going to dangle
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: to try to get a salary cap.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: They're going to try to.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Present a package of all sorts of changes that they
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: think will benefit the game and will benefit the Players
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Association as well in exchange for that big monster of
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: a change that they're wanting to get. One of them,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: one of the changes that they introduced yesterday is a
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: 154-game schedule, so lopping off eight games of the regular season,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: assuring that every team will get at least one day
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: off per week It might limit the number of Monday
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: night games the teams play and could pave the way
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: toward a Monday night showcase game for them a la
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Monday night football. Major League Baseball used to do the
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: same thing, so they might go back to that. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: the idea is to... We're going to shave eight games
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: off of the regular season, and that should guarantee that
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: a team... Every team gets a day off during the
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: course of the season every week. So this is one
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: of the things they want to dangle in front of
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: the players. And once upon a time, Anders, honestly, if
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: you would have messed with the 162-game schedule, I'd have
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: probably fought you. But since the steroid era... ruined all
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: of our record books, and Bud Selig didn't do anything
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: about it and should be in prison, rotting like the
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: criminal he is right now as we speak, since he
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: didn't do anything to protect our glorious, as baseball fans,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: record book that meant so much to us as baseball fans.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Now the records really don't mean that much anymore to anyone,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: and so... I'm actually for this. I'm actually for a
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: reduction in games. 162 is a lot of games to play.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: 154 is a lot of games to play. I don't
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: think we're going to miss eight games.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: No, and for a lot of people, I think they
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: would want it to go further than that. Now, I'm
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: with you. I think there definitely is something to be
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: said about the grind of a long baseball season, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: we've all talked about it, like, kind of the regression
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: to the mean, both positively and negatively. That can only
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: happen when you have a long season. So doing it
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: consistently throughout the entirety of a season is what makes,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: you know, really good seasons like what Cal had last
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: year so special. And I think kind of both giving
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: a little bit so that you have a couple more
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: off days here and there and at least one scheduled
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: every week, as you said. And I think that showcase
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: idea on Monday would be a great idea so that
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: everyone could kind of get a little bit more of,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: besides their own team, to follow a little bit. So, yeah,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I think the only downside of it would be the
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: kind of records side of things. But it doesn't matter anymore. Yeah,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: it's just.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're just not that important anymore. Like, we
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: don't even showcase them anymore. We don't even, like, look
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: at people who are on pace. And when somebody does
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: break a record, it's a footnote during SportsCenter.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It's really... Nothing that... I mean, you used to hang
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: on it. Trust me. You're not old enough to understand this.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: You used to hang on it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Like George Foster, I remember as a kid in 1979,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I'm eight years old, and he was on pace to
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: hit 50 home runs, and you hung on the box
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: score to see if he was going to get close
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: to 50 home runs.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: We don't do that anymore. We don't care about that anymore.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, Shohei had a season we've never seen before,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: but it was going to be impressive whether he played
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: in 154 games or 162 games.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: So.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I don't have a problem with it. As a matter
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: of fact, I think you should introduce it. And it's
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: still going to be a grind. It's still going to
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: be the long testing period.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: I think it's good balance.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You know, if it reduced to 120, yeah, maybe I'm
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: going to say something about that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: But 154, I think, is a good idea. Another thing
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: it will do is it will extend the playoffs a
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: little bit. You will have a seven-game divisional round instead
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: of the five-game divisional round that we just experienced. So
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: if you reduce a few regular season games, you get
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: a couple extra postseason games, which, of course, Major League
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Baseball will be all about. A couple of other things
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: that we do need to mention quickly, and I am
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: going to have to do it quickly.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: There was also– oh, gosh, where is it now?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Really quick on the division series. I like that idea.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: I think sacrificing a few games into the regular season
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: to get a couple extra postseason games will do a
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: lot of good. And, you know, it's just more important
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: games later in the year. I'd rather have it there.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I can't even– now I can't find it. I thought
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it was right here in the story.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: I have the damn story pulled up, and it only
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: mentions the actual shortening of the season.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: So that's all right.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: We can go to our other letter because I don't
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: have much time to talk about this anyway.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: V is for vote.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Steven Vogt kept his season alive last night as manager
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: of the Guardians. So if he is potentially on the Mariners'
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: managerial radar, they're going to have to wait a little
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  Speaker 4: while longer. And now with all the momentum in the
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  Speaker 4: world heading back home, Kind of feels like the Guardians
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  Speaker 4: are going to win this series now. So you're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to wait even longer, potentially, to see if
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  Speaker 4: Steven Vogt is even a possibility. He is under contract
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  Speaker 4: with the Guardians, after all. But a link to not
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  Speaker 4: only the Mariners, but to Seattle. He loves this region.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to think they would at least inquire
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  Speaker 4: about him and his availability.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it sounds like, from the links that we've seen,
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  Speaker 5: that that might be their first choice. If they were
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  Speaker 5: to pick anyone that... might have some sort of.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they've got to get credit for it. They identified him.
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  Speaker 4: He just had retired from playing, and they're like, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to be a great coach. Will you join our staff?
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  Speaker 5: And he was going to be their bench coach, if
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  Speaker 5: you remember, but he had already taken the Guardians job.
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  Speaker 5: They had offered it to him. So, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think it would be a great hire for the Mariners,
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  Speaker 5: but we have to wait a little bit longer because
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  Speaker 5: this season is still going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: There were a couple of other things I was going
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  Speaker 4: to get to, but we have flat run out of time. So,
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