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Ian Furness 10/5 H1: Yeah, we have some concerns... both professionally and collegiately, plus the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
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  Speaker 1: Cold as the Rockies. Seahawks beat the Chargers 30-23, third
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  Speaker 1: win of the season. Wasn't pretty. Both teams combined for
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  Speaker 1: 30 penalties, 280 yards in penalty yardage, seven personal fouls
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  Speaker 1: on the Seahawks. More coming up. Sam Donald threw for
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  Speaker 1: only 168, had two touchdowns, but the interception. Manuel Wilson
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  Speaker 1: had a couple touchdowns. Seahawks defense forced a charge return
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  Speaker 1: to the ball four times, which is good. Leonard Williams
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  Speaker 1: ankle injury doesn't appear serious. Kraken, they like playing the Flames.
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  Speaker 1: If they could do that every night, they'd probably be
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team and a Stanley Cup contender. They still
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  Speaker 1: are a lot better, I can tell you that, than
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  Speaker 1: they were last year. Much improved team. They beat them
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  Speaker 1: 6-1 for the second straight time. Beat them Thursday in
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  Speaker 1: the opener, 6-1 last night in the home opener. Vegas
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  Speaker 1: is here tomorrow. Stay tuned. I'll tell you about something
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  Speaker 1: in a second. MLB playoffs continue. White Sox-Cleveland game two today.
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  Speaker 1: At 2 p.m., Chicago White Sox up 1-0. Tampa up
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  Speaker 1: 1-0 in the Yankees game, 2-5. Disappointing weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: local college teams. UW loses at USC 25-21. Wazoo lost
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  Speaker 1: to Fresno State 26-6. Here we go. It's a victory Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks get a win. Kraken get a win yesterday. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ignore what happened on Saturday for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: so we won't depress either Husky or Coug or any
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  Speaker 1: other fans out there. We'll move on. But we'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to that in a second. I do have a
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  Speaker 1: little college football thing I want to get to. Hi, Ash.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I was thinking as I rolled in today,
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  Speaker 1: came off of the old 5. What is it? I
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  Speaker 1: always get these ones confused. 518, 509 coming down the
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  Speaker 1: hill from kind of Tukwila Airport area coming down the
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  Speaker 1: old 509. And it was kind of clear and pretty
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  Speaker 1: nice from I-5 East. And then I rolled in and
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  Speaker 1: I look outside still and it's foggy. It feels like fall,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I think I saw something. Were
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  Speaker 1: you watching girls softball in the fog this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: How did they do that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had a fog delay on Sunday, which was
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  Speaker 2: delightful to just sit out there and wait longer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it was still really foggy when they started, but
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  Speaker 2: you could at least see the outfield fences.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So then they were like, okay, well, if.
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  Speaker 1: We can at least make— Well, can you see a
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  Speaker 1: fly ball?
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  Speaker 2: Well, luckily for softball, they play with a bright yellow— Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, baseball probably would have had more of an issue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. But they waited a bit. And then because our
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  Speaker 2: game yesterday was the first one of the day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they just were like, well, we got to just
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  Speaker 2: kind of wait. Then they delayed other games throughout the day.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, okay, now you're not starting for two hours.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, they wait everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: The joy of youth sports. I know.
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  Speaker 2: But we were home in plenty of time to watch
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks game, which was really.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. That worked out well. Yeah, it did.
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  Speaker 1: Cherish those times. They go by fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it was a really nice afternoon, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't complain there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I really enjoyed, I mean, people rip
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  Speaker 1: on AAU basketball all the time, but I loved AAU
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  Speaker 1: basketball because it's inside. Oh, yeah, there is that. There's
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  Speaker 1: never an issue. Now, there were other issues. Oh, there
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  Speaker 1: were other issues.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, lots of drama.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of drama. I'm looking at you, Rotary. Seattle Rotary,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at you guys for your drama. Uh-oh. Looking
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  Speaker 1: at you. You renegades running around wreaking havoc. Anyway, no, that's,
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  Speaker 1: that's the beautiful thing about basketball. It's like, yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: if the game and the thing with basketball is like
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  Speaker 1: basketball tournaments, you got a 10 o'clock game. It starts
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  Speaker 1: at 10 and it ends at 1055 or 1050. Like
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  Speaker 1: there ain't no messing around.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say this is the thing that I
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  Speaker 2: can't figure out about softball and that kind of drives
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  Speaker 2: me nuts. It depends on what tournament you're in and
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  Speaker 2: who's running it as to what rules you're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to play by.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, shouldn't we just have softball tournament rules
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  Speaker 2: and no matter if it's USSSA or.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whatever, whoever's putting it on, it just would
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  Speaker 2: make so much more sense if you didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you read that particular softball organization's rules. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a certain amount of game, and then if
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  Speaker 2: you're in a tie, and then some of them don't
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  Speaker 2: revert back. I mean, just the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's too much. Yeah, very too much. Very too much.
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  Speaker 2: My brain doesn't work that well.
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  Speaker 1: We do have Monday Night Football tonight. It's the Saints
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  Speaker 1: and the Falcons here on KJR, and it's 20 years after...
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  Speaker 1: one of the most iconic plays in NFL history for
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  Speaker 1: so many reasons. If you remember, I'll get into this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on, but it was the Steve
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  Speaker 1: Gleason punt block coming out of Hurricane Katrina and all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that had happened the year before. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that coming up. Of course, we have our
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  Speaker 1: own connection to Hurricane Katrina, which pales in comparison to
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  Speaker 1: the damage done. But of course, that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: little pieces to the Sonics leaving and going to Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City Puzzle. was Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans team
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  Speaker 1: being displaced for a year in the NBA. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: get Steve Gleason 20 years later, iconic figure in so
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  Speaker 1: many ways. So we'll get to that coming up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on as well. I mentioned 1240. So
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen at one. So we're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: daily power play at 1245. And I got a really
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  Speaker 1: fun thing we're going to do with that, a giveaway.
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  Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that. All right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very cool.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool. And the fun part about this is, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: is the judge, juror, and executioner of said thing.
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  Speaker 2: I love being powerful.
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  Speaker 1: But we will explain at 1245. All right? But it's
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  Speaker 1: a cool prize. I think you'll like it. So stay
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  Speaker 1: tuned for that coming up at 1245. And Mike Sando
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  Speaker 1: coming up at 2 p.m. today. All right. Well, we're 23%
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  Speaker 1: of the season. So not quite to the quarter poll
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  Speaker 1: because of the weird odd 17-game schedule we have now
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But anyway. For all intents and purposes,
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  Speaker 1: we're a quarter of the way through. So you can
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  Speaker 1: start making some judgments. You can start looking around and saying, good, bad, indifference,
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  Speaker 1: and how things are going. The bad would be the
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  Speaker 1: five teams that are still winless this season. One in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC, that would be Tampa Bay. They're 0-4. Miami, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: 0-4 in the AFC. You would expect that, right? Those
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  Speaker 1: teams are bad, and then Miami loses their best offensive weapon,
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  Speaker 1: and Devontae A-chan, so he's out for the year. The
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  Speaker 1: two that are surprising would be Tampa Bay, well, the three,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Houston, and the Chargers. All playoff teams, expected
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  Speaker 1: to be playoff teams, contending teams, all that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Houston specifically is a team, I mean, people expected them.
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  Speaker 1: They were one of a handful of favorites in the
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  Speaker 1: AFC in their own four. The Chargers we saw yesterday, 0-4,
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  Speaker 1: inexplicable on a lot of levels. The Harbaugh situation, Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel's offensive coordinator situation, losing Jesse Minter, all those things,
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  Speaker 1: they're a disaster. And then Tampa with Baker Mayfield and
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  Speaker 1: his $ 100 million contract, 0-4 as well, they're in trouble too.
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  Speaker 1: The teams, you know, you're sitting there with two losses,
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  Speaker 1: you're okay. I mean, you've got work to do, you're okay.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some teams, surprisingly, with a couple losses
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  Speaker 1: along the way. Denver at 2-2, although they've had a
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  Speaker 1: tough schedule so far seeing both the 49ers and the Rams. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: for their losses, you look at, uh, you look, look at, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they actually beat the Rams, right? Do they beat the Rams?
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  Speaker 1: Do they beat the Rams? Wait, why can I not
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  Speaker 1: remember that? That was last week, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they did. Yeah, I think they did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, but they're two and two. That's kind of surprising.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia 2-2, sneaks out of, oh no, wait, you just
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  Speaker 1: gave it away, Philadelphia, you dipsticks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they really did.
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  Speaker 1: 10-point fourth quarter lead, didn't take the field goal to
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  Speaker 1: make it a 13-point lead and then lose. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered since the Rams went down and scored anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown, but the Rams at 2-2, they're in pretty
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  Speaker 1: good shape.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, Broncos did beat the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I thought. But we can start making
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  Speaker 1: some judgments on teams, except for the one here. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious to talk to Hugh a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: can't figure this Seahawks team out. And here's why. I
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  Speaker 1: think the sign of a really good football team is
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  Speaker 1: you can play not very well and still win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was the case the first week
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  Speaker 1: of the season. I think that was the case. And
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  Speaker 1: that's just a weird opener. You get the banner going up.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of emotions, too, to start the season, right?
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  Speaker 1: Your defense, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're just a little bit more amped up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Drake May was Drake May, right? Whatever. He turned
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  Speaker 1: the ball over, and you end up finding a way
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  Speaker 1: to win. Week two, you played just a lethargic first
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  Speaker 1: half and then hit the switch in the second half
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  Speaker 1: and won that one going away. Week three, you just
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  Speaker 1: weren't good. Bottom line. Right, right. Just weren't good.
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  Speaker 2: And you still almost found a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: Almost found a way to win against an inferior opponent.
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  Speaker 1: And then yesterday against probably another... Well, not probably. They
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  Speaker 1: are an inferior opponent. You messed around. And you messed
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  Speaker 1: around all day. And you messed around in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: With 11 net yards in the fourth quarter. Like, you
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  Speaker 1: messed around all day, but you found a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: Which is probably the sign of a good team. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, your luck will run out. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: it will catch up to you. It did last week.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have a game like you did yesterday...
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  Speaker 1: this coming Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, not only
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  Speaker 1: will you lose, it may not be close. If you
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  Speaker 1: have a game coming up this week in which you
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  Speaker 1: have the amount of penalties, 14 for 150, hell, take
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  Speaker 1: four of them away. If you have more than seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight penalties against the 49ers, barring them having, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, much like the Chargers did, almost equal, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get your doors blown off. If your quarterback
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  Speaker 1: decides right after being gifted an interception on the first
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  Speaker 1: play of the game that he wants to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, you're going to get your doors blown off.
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  Speaker 2: It's so frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: All those things. But this is the difference, because we're
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  Speaker 1: getting to college football in the second segment. This is
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  Speaker 1: the difference between college football and the NFL. The parity
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL is such that you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: games like this that more than likely, more often than not,
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, the better team wins more often than not.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the parity and the maturity, the coaching, the players,
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  Speaker 1: all that. So you can overcome some of that. And also,
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  Speaker 1: it's harder to make kind of– you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: overreact with the NFL. You can kind of see it
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  Speaker 1: right there on the– you're not dealing with kids. You're
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  Speaker 1: not dealing with young people. You're dealing with grown-ass men.
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  Speaker 1: And you can make generalizations. You can make judgments. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the judgment is that Seattle hasn't played very
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  Speaker 1: well this year.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they're 3-1. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: They are, but I do get nervous looking at the
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  Speaker 2: schedule because, yeah, you've got primetime games and big matchups.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got 49ers at Broncos, home versus the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 2: home versus the Bears. And those are, with the exception
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  Speaker 2: of this weekend against the 49ers, those are all primetime.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Those are a big deal. You've got to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: show up, kind of, you know, on a national stage
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  Speaker 2: and I would just hope that we don't look like
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  Speaker 2: the team we saw yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the issue. Between penalty yards, everything else, for
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter for the Seahawks to go punt, punt,
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  Speaker 1: and then two kneel downs. But before the two kneel downs,
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  Speaker 1: when you literally just, I mean, it was 23 yards,
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  Speaker 1: minus 10 yards, punt the ball away, two first downs
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, that was it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they kind of went opposite, right? Because we've been
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  Speaker 2: talking about how slow they've started. And they came out
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  Speaker 2: and scored in the first half this time. And then
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  Speaker 2: it was like, well, now we just got to hang
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  Speaker 2: on for dear life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 21 points in the first half. You got a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown in the first quarter. You got two touchdowns in
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  Speaker 1: the second. But then you give up the field goal
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the first half. Just inexplicable, just
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  Speaker 1: dumb play, right? And I really want to lean on
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  Speaker 1: our quarterback, QB1 Hugh, at 2 o'clock. I'm a Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold fan through and through. I'm a big Sam Darnold fan.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't play in the first game, didn't play in
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  Speaker 1: the next one, obviously played last week, and again this week.
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Does he not look the same?
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't look... No, he doesn't look like he has...
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if he's playing tougher defenses, but
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke throwing for three touchdowns against Arizona... He looked good.
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  Speaker 2: He looked ready. And you kind of expected, okay, Sam's
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  Speaker 2: coming back from an injury, but he's been in preseason.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in training camp.
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  Speaker 1: He just looks like he's not confident or something. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy disparaging a Super Bowl winning quarterback who's
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  Speaker 1: probably in line for a massive contract coming up. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to know if there's any red flags that
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  Speaker 1: Hugh sees because he sees the game differently.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to see more from Sam.
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  Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, I do as well. it's hard when
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  Speaker 1: you can't run the ball effectively. And, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that there were some yards yesterday and, and Emmanuel Wilson, he,
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  Speaker 1: he literally, this is, this is truly grinding out 81 yards,
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  Speaker 1: like literally grinding it out with 81 yards on 21 carries,
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  Speaker 1: less than four yards a carry. He grounded out. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the explosiveness. Helani is the exact same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Seven carries for 18 yards. Long of nine. So if
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  Speaker 1: you take that line yard one out, it was really
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  Speaker 1: bad for him. Yeah. I mean, he had six carries
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  Speaker 1: for nine yards. Did Helani outside of the nine-yard burst.
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  Speaker 1: And I say burst with quotation marks. Losing Jadarian Price hurts. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I heard he got put on IR, I went, oh,
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  Speaker 2: come on.
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  Speaker 1: That was a Saturday treat for us. Yeah. Just in
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  Speaker 1: case you needed something on a Saturday, that was a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday treat for you. That, hey, Jadarian Price is on IR. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's fun. That's super. That's great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Super.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about what he sees. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know, and this is hardcore football, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about the routes that are being run, our guys
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  Speaker 1: getting open, JSN, quiet day, 5 for 76. But then
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  Speaker 1: after that, wide receiver-wise, Rasheed had a catch, Kopp had
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  Speaker 1: a catch, Horton had a catch. Three catches from the
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  Speaker 1: other wide receivers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where's Elijah Arroyo? AJ Barner. AJ Barner had three targets,
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  Speaker 1: one catch for 12 yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Arroyo would be more a part of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: There's just a lot there. There's just a lot to unpack,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll do that with hardcore football. But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good thing. The NFL is a results-based business.
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  Speaker 1: And with 17 games and not competing against 138 other teams—
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  Speaker 1: Like you do in college football, you can afford a
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  Speaker 1: few losses along the way. And you can maybe try
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  Speaker 1: to right the ship along the way. Seattle's a defending
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions. Maybe the target on their back is
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  Speaker 1: such that they're getting more and more people coming at them.
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  Speaker 1: Chargers are a weird team. I know they've got injuries.
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  Speaker 1: They've got some stuff going on. Derwin James not playing.
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  Speaker 1: They're broken. That's a broken team.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like it.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa's a broken team. You can look around the league.
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  Speaker 1: The good teams that aren't... Houston's got... I mean, can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine being in Houston? Can you imagine being there?
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  Speaker 2: No. I mean, people had them winning the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: this year, or at least going to the Super Bowl
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: for the AFC.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And they were like Seattle in this sense. They're a
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: defensive-based team. Here's the difference yesterday between the two. Both
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: teams had a chance to close out the game on
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: a final drive, final minutes. with the best part of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: their team on the field, their defense, allegedly. Seattle did it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Houston did not. So yeah, 0-4. God, can you imagine
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: if we're sitting here today, 1-3, 0-4 in Seattle? The
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: panic would be in the streets.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I would be panicking.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: But I think there's still reason for concern. I think
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: if you're going on the old scale, forest fire, whatever,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: we're not red, but we're certainly not green. We're probably,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: it goes with a green, yellow, orange, red. We're probably
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: in the upper reaches of orange right now because you're
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: not going to be good teams playing like you are.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. And I do think we're lucky,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: especially as Seahawks fans, like what you were saying earlier,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: you know, you're coming away with these ugly wins, but
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: you're still getting the win. Yeah. We're lucky that we're
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: able to be on that side of it and not
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the opposite way. Why are we losing these games? You know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: and what's wrong with this team? There's still plenty of concerns,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: but at least through these concerns right now, we're Somehow
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: pulling out the wins, but that's where, yeah, when you
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: look at that schedule coming up, that's where it gets concerning.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: We talked a couple weeks ago. I don't think we
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: mentioned it this week, but a couple weeks ago we
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: talked with our weekly visit with Greg Cosell. And one
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: of the things I asked him about was I didn't
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: think Seattle was a high-rate blitz team, and yet it
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: feels like when they're getting home a lot of times
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: it's on a blitz. And I bring that up for
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: this reason. Yesterday, we saw them bring pressure a lot
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and got to Herbert a lot when they did that. Yeah,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a lot. So we'll talk to Hugh about that and
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: what the risks and the rewards are because Brock Purdy
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: has yet to be sacked this season in four games.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Let that sink in for a second. Brock Purdy in
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: four games this year for the 49ers has yet to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: be sacked. Like, that's insane.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is absolutely insane that he has yet
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to be sacked this season. And that's got to be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a concern, right? He's only 22nd in the league in
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: pass attempts. So it's not like he's dropping back at
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a high rate, comparatively speaking, to the rest of the league.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But the fact that he hasn't been sacked yet, he's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: only thrown one interception so far this season. He's got
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: 11 touchdown passes. He's operating in a very efficient manner.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: They're spreading things around. Can you do what you have
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: been doing at times to get pressure? Like yesterday, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: just think back to the sack with Imanwari and Jones,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and Jones got the sack. I remember Imanwari's coming around
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the edge. So you're bringing those two guys. Can you
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: do that against San Francisco? We'll talk to Hugh about
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: really the risks, the reward of that, and kind of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: what he thinks in that regard. Because I think... Again,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: maybe you're just kind of messing around. You're getting shaken,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl hangover, cobwebs out, whatever it is. But
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel good right now.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't feel put together.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: No, no. Like yesterday, if you just kind of look
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and if you listen to, I'm sure if you were
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: at the game, you're watching with friends, wherever you were
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: consuming yesterday's game, you probably heard the following a lot. Wow,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they tried to give it away. Wow, they really tried
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to kick that one. Wow, they really are lucky to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: come away with it. You probably heard that a lot.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And you had a 17-point second-half lead. Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: You probably heard a lot of people around you go,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: when we didn't blow it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a game in which, with all that
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: being said, you should just be rolling.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: There shouldn't even be a question if you're going to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: win this football. It shouldn't even be a consideration. Um, at, at,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you know, at 27 to six in the third quarter,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: like that thing's over and you just muster a field
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: goal after that, the rest of the way, that guy,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: by the way, that's another issue. That's a whole nother
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: set of issues. Missed extra point. Yeah. the missed field
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: goal that didn't count as a missed field goal but
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that guy better get better too and i don't know
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what in the hell is going on with with probably
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: your best player in terms of just being consistent since
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: he got here michael dixon what the hell happened to you.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Dude yeah i don't i Those are two things I
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: never thought we'd be questioning or worrying about.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's very different than what we'll get to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: next in the college games for both Washington and briefly, mostly,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: most of the Wazoo stuff will be tomorrow when I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: have Alex and MK on. Although there is a common
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: denominator that is connecting Wazoo, Washington, Cal, and a lot
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of other teams across the country, which I'm going to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: get to in a second. But yeah, end of the day.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Great thing about the NFL. All that matters is if
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you win, there's no style points. There's no such thing
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as a bad loss. There just isn't. Like if there was,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: if this was college football, Washington would be a really
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: bad loss. Like you just lost to a group of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: six team is a power four team. And that's going
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to be hard to come back from if you want
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to make it to the playoffs. That doesn't happen here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They just look at wins and losses. It's as simple
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: as that. And so far, so good. But what's the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: goal here in Seattle? I'll leave you guys with this.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: What's the goal? It's very simple. It's to win the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: NFC West and to have home field advantage as long
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: as you can possibly have it. We all know the deal.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Four times the Super Bowl, all four times home field
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: advantage throughout. Every other time they made the playoffs, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: they have made the playoffs a lot over the years,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: they have not gone to the Super Bowl without home
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: field advantage. Doesn't mean they can't. Let me emphasize that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: It does not mean they can't. But actually, winning the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: division is imperative for this football team.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and why make it harder on yourselves, right? I mean, yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: it's not because if you don't have home field advantage,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you make the playoffs. It's not like, oh, you have
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: no chance.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: But why not try to do the thing that's going
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: to put you in a better spot? We'll talk about
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: some college football coming up next, 93.3 KGRFM. All right,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: welcome back here. We've got Hugh Millen coming up at
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock, Hardcore Football. So stand by for that little
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: fun giveaway I've got in which Ashley will determine the winner.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I feel so powerful.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Very subjective, but it's a very cool thing we're going
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to do on occasion on this show for a while.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Factor Fiction at 235 today.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, how about Factor Fiction for you?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Two-in-one week, right?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, Florida Mizzou didn't help me at all. No,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that was... That wasn't great by any stretch of the imagination.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: But as I glance down here, a three-in-two week, not bad. Nope,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: not bad. A four-in-one week for the show after us.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Dang it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Three-in-two week for the Greg Bell Show and a one-in-four
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: week for the morning show.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Hmm, Anders Owen, too. That's unfortunate. Ouch. That's unfortunate. That's unfortunate.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: That's too bad. I see Anders hasn't updated the standings, though.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Of course, because it didn't go well. And I do
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: see the one game they got right was Texas Tech-Colorado.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Did you see the tweet about the guy that found
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the Colorado playbook in a bar?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yes. God, so good.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: It was kind of a mistake.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: It was an interesting weekend for the state of Colorado
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: in college football. That, and then did you see the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Jim Morris situation?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Well, we got to find that. I'll get you the audio.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I saved it for you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Basically, he fired his defensive coordinator who then quit. Well,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: he took play calling duties away from his defensive coordinator
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the first quarter.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And then the guy quit in the middle of the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: first quarter.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, perfect.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And in the most Jim Morris-like way, a lot of anger.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: A lot of anger.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Which.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That's a stunning development. There's anger when it got, anyway,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: so we'll get to, we'll get to that coming up
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: here in a little bit. I mentioned, listen, college football weekend,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: interesting softy. I'm sure we'll have a ton to say
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: about the Washington USC game coming up at three o'clock today.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He was down there, somehow survived the heat. I got
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a guy I know very well, a coworker for the Kraken. He,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: he is a, he's one of the guys that does
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the comms on the sidelines and does a bunch of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it stuff and all that. Anyway, he, I said, how
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: bad was it? He goes, it was bad. He goes,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I'm at one point had to sit down. It was
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: so hot. There's no circulation in that building at all.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: As you well know, you've been there a zillion times
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in the LA Coliseum, but both teams played in it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: So that's not the excuse.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: But you think too, though, just a reminder for people,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: just because it's a hundred degrees outside, like that's a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: hundred degrees for you walking around. It's hotter on the field.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No breeze, nothing. It was bad, but it was
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: bad for both teams.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The weather wasn't the issue. But I'm saying, good for Softie.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: He survived it. I don't know how, but he did.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: He survived. Good for him.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Good job.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: He does a great job on the sidelines.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I say that publicly? Erase that quick. Take that out
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of the podcast.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, we just saved it. We're going to replay it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Is this your new promo?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my new promo, yeah. Please take that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: out of the rotation. So Washington's in a dilemma, as
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of schools are. And the dilemma is pretty simple.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Are you getting what you pay for? And I heard
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a term, and this isn't the first time I've heard it,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and this isn't groundbreaking, I'm not taking credit for it,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: but I've heard this term a lot. Donor fatigue. Donor fatigue.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And if you're a college football fan right now, you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: are being asked more than ever before to help subsidize
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: your favorite college football program. And it's something that there's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: been a lot of pushback on in some places. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: then there's other places. Most of the time we look
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to the SEC where they're like, no, man, whatever. That's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: all we got. Why donate to St. Jude's Hospital for kids?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We can donate to an 18-year-old to run the football. Yeah,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and then keep our team winning. And if you don't donate,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you are considered a bad fan.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You're considered a bad fan. And you get guilted by
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: many people. And that happens at every school. Yep. If
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you're not donating to the NIL world, if you're not
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: helping subsidize and pay these guys to go literally make
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: money that most of us can't fathom ever so they
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: can play college football 12 times a year, if you're
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not paying for that, you're a bad fan. The donor
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: fatigue comes in with buyer's remorse as well. What are
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you paying for? So I don't want to turn this
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: into a DeMond Williams thing. But he's the poster child
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: for it. There's actually a guy that may be even
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: worse in that regard, and that's JKS, the quarterback at Cal.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Freshman sensation last season. All kinds of vultures came swooping down.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Tosh LaPoi's coming in as the new coach. They're doing
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: all that. They're making the change. And JKS had a
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: hell of a freshman year, and now he's making over
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: $ 3 million in Well, what do you think Cal's getting
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: for that $ 3 million? A guy that got banged up
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in a game but was going to get benched anyway
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and didn't come back on Saturday. A team in Cal
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that is just kind of a disaster. They're not good.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: They're 2-3, but that belies what they really are and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: who they are. It's a bad situation. DeMond Williams making
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: 4-ish wins. Nobody really knows what these guys are making.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It's funny, Stuart Mandel did that great story, right, with
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of the guys from the Athletic a couple
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: weeks ago on what teams are spending. And I know
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: for Washington and the Big Ten, they're not at a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: spending level that they feel, and I'm saying they, Husky
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: fans and others feel, puts them in a place where
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: they need to be to be the top upper echelon
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of the conference. But in this case with DeMond, You're
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: paying him that much. Does that mean you're not paying
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: some other positions enough? There's no salary cap. There is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and there isn't, but by and large, there isn't. But
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: if you don't get what you're paying for, then what
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: do you do? Cal's not getting what they're... I'll even
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: go down the lowest level because they made a big
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: deal about this before the Apple Cup. Oh, Washington State's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: only paying their quarterback... $ 250, 000 or whatever it is. And
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I know what it is because we know a guy
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: who has a son who played with the kid last year.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Connect the dots if you like, but they know what
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he's making. Well, he ain't worth $ 250, much less $ 250, 000.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Caden Pinnock might be the worst quarterback in Division I football.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I should say in FBS football. He might be the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: worst quarterback in FBS. I would say FCS II, other
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Division I players, But that's not fair because he was
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the Big Sky freshman of the year last year. But
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I can tell you this. He wouldn't be the best
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the Big Sky in his second year. Kid
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: eight miles away. Was it Joshua Wood at Idaho was
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: better than him. He just knocked off the number one
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: team in the country with just a ballsy effort on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Friday night in the final drive and a two-point conversion.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Our guy's awful. Wazoo's quarterback is awful. And you're going
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: back and you're going to say, we need to pay.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Pay for what? The problem is this. It's twofold. One,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you get what you pay for or you don't. And
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: if you don't get what you pay for, it'll cost
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you an entire program. Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Because, yeah, you've paid that money and you're getting nothing
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You're not getting your money back. Yeah. Then you get
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the buyer's remorse and, or more importantly, you get donor fatigue.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Because if your school is spending money, especially quarterback, but
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: specific position or two, and you're not getting a return
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: on the investment, how do you go back and get
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that again? At some point, people are going to say, why?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: What am I paying for? Am I paying for two
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: conference losses, a one in three record at Cal, whatever
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it might be? Is that what we're paying for? Because
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I don't want to pay for that. Right. No other
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: sport does this. Like everyone's yelling and screaming about coaches'
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: salaries and transfers and this and that. No other sport
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: asks the fans to directly pay the salaries of the players.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: No other sport does that. I don't know why that
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: is so damn hard for people to understand how absolutely
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: screwed up this is because it's not fair to the donors.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It's also really not fair to the players because I'm
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: sure they're hearing it from all sides, right?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, yeah. I mean, now you're thinking of the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: actual pressure that's on you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And when I say it's not, don't bring up others,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: because you're still paying for a ticket. You can write
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a check for $ 30, 000 to help chip into the NIL deal.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You're still having to pay seat licensing and parking and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: food and concessions and ticket prices to go to the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: game as a fan. You're double dipping.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: This system is so broke. It doesn't mean players shouldn't
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: get paid, but the return on investment is right in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: front of our very eyes here in this town with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: them on. And rightfully so, they held him to his contract,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and rightfully so, they wanted to keep him because you
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: would think he would take that next step. Problem is,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: much like Russell Wilson, he never grew. He's still short.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Still short. Can't do anything about that.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Softie, I listened to a good chunk of the second
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: half driving home from the cracking game, and Softie said
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: it a thousand times. Not that many. A lot of times. Guys,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I'm looking right into DeMond's eyes. I'm looking down. He's
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: got this guy running open. He just probably can't see him.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: That's part of the problem. The other part he has
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to just progress. The part of the problem might be Jed.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll look at our guy. Again, $ 250, 000.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be $ 4 million. It can be
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: our guy making $ 250, 000. He has zero downfield threat. Easiest
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: team to play against in the country is Wazoo right
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: now offensively because their quarterback basically has what appears to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: be a junior high passing profile.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Like screen pass, quick out, if that, whatever. Maybe it's
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: on the receivers. I don't know. I don't know what's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: going to happen with the Protect College Sports Act. It's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: not without its flaws. There's no doubt about that. But
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I'm still a college football fan. I'll always be a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: college football fan. I love the sport. I'll watch anything. Hell,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I might watch Mac Attack. I've got a hockey game tomorrow. Seriously,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we've got Mac Attack tomorrow. We've got games Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: and Thursday. Five games on Friday. That's a whole different story.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: How dumb that is. All these conferences. I want to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: be a standalone game. Well, you're not a standalone game.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Like even on Friday, like you're not a standalone game. Right.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Like how, like, like that's the, the greed is crazy.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You know, like what's, what's a better game on Friday?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Is it BYU, Iowa state, or is it Iowa, Washington,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: or is it Florida, Louisville? It was probably, probably a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: toss up between Iowa state, Iowa, BYU and Iowa and Washington.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They're both playing on Friday.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Um, but more importantly, the, the, the buyer's remorse, the,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the donor fatigue, like I would have, first of all,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I have no desire to pay for another kid to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: go to college or.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Especially not one that you didn't part, like raise.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: And I guess that makes me a bad fan.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. It makes you a normal person in
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: a economy that everything's more expensive.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, Hey, I want to pay this guy. Cause,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but again, then you're so invested in it. What do
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you do?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Well, but, I think at some point fans should say, well,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: what is in it for me? Because, yeah, okay, I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: get to go to the game, but I can go
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to the game if I don't pay for the kid
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to go to the school.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Here's a good point, Ashley, because you know what? When
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you pay for tickets, when you pay for concessions, when
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you pay for a seat license, all those things, you
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: know what you're going to get. Yes. It's right there.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: When you pay so a guy can get a nice car,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: live in a nicer condo, eat Big time, you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: eat out, take his girlfriend, whatever it might be.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Live a better life than I'm doing, even though I'm
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: paying for it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: What's your return? Maybe you're good at football. Maybe your
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: team does well for 12 games and maybe has a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: playoff game in the college football playoff. Tell me, I'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: asking people, make sense of it for me.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, good. I thought it was just me. Nope, no.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Daily Power Play coming up. Hugh Millen at 1 o'clock.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Hardcore football at 1. By the way, Daily Power Play,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: really cool giveaway. Stand by for that next.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Left side, crack it onside, Matty Beneers, across.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And Miscavige scores!
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: The return of the Mac, back to the back of
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the net, he's got two tonight, and the Seattle crack
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: it on top by a 5-0 score.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Sorry Fitz, I stepped on your call there buddy.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: He'll forgive you.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: That's like pulling a, what's that knucklehead? Is it Zolak
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that does the color on the New England Patriots radio broadcast?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Scott Zolak. I've swapped. He's had him on a few times.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I was listening to their game yesterday. I'm going on
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a tangent here. My apologies. And the entire time the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: guy's trying to call the game, he's just talking. Perfect.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Just talking.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Telling his life story.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You're the analyst. Wait till the play's over. Analyze.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Add something.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I just did that to Fitz. My apologies, Fitz. Kraken
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: win it 6-1 yesterday over Calgary. They are now 2-1
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on the season. They beat the Flames 6-1 Thursday, 6-1
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: last night. Lost 3-1 on the weekend with an empty
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: netter in Edmonton. Bad break. Horrible break. A lot of
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you guys are probably watching the Husky game. I get it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Or you might be really pinning yourselves and watching the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Coup game. But Saturday night was tough. They played great.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Were right there. And a puck that was just getting
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: kind of dumped in goes off a shin pad of
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Connor McDavid and bounces right in front of the net
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and happened to be the best goal scorer in the league.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe in Leon Dreisaitl standing there. Weird. Nice little bounce. 2-1.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: And they scored late on an empty netter. But they're better.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know how good they are. Calgary's not good.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Vegas is here tomorrow. But I'm going to give them credit.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: They are playing faster. The young guys are better. Mackie
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Samaskevich is good. Fun to watch. Got a ton of speed.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Great chemistry with Matty Beneers. Berkeley Catton, we talked about
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: this last year, is going to be a star. Looks
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that part early on. Had a two-point night last night.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Joey was great in goal. But a big one tomorrow.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Vegas is in town last year. Stanley Cup finalists losing
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to Carolina in the finals. Western Conference champions. Nobody likes Vegas.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: They cheat. Correct. So they're going to be here tomorrow
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: for a new face-off time. Weeknights are now at 6.40.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Not 7, 10-ish, 7.08, whatever it was before, 6.40 to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: go into the game tomorrow. I love what they're doing.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: They actually did a lot of research on this, especially
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: with the baseball team. Remember the Mariners have done this, what,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: three years in a row, I think? Two at least.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: At least two. And if you look around baseball regular season,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of teams, like how many times did the
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Mariners start this year at 3.40 on the East Coast?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Starting before 7 has become more and more of a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: trend around pro sports, and it's a great idea. So
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the Kraken are going to start that tomorrow. We'll have
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the game for you. I think Benton is still on
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the air at 6. We're on the air on TV. Yes,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: we start at 6. Yeah, we have a little shorter
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: pregame at 6.30, but a longer postgame. So that's tomorrow.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So here's what I'm going to do. I told you
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Ashley is a judge, jury, and executioner. Here's what's coming up.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have some tickets a lot. Now, we
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: have Kraken Ticket Tuesday tomorrow. All the shows giving away tickets.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to have tickets to give away for
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a while. I want to get new fans in the building, Ash. Okay.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I want to get some new fans in the building.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: So here's how I'm going to do it. You're so
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: on the honor system. Very much on the honor system. Right?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, but I can also read through BS. 494501 is.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Our text line. I want to send two people. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: got a pair. One pair. Two tickets. I might have
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: told you something different earlier. Two pair. Or two tickets.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: One pair. One pair, two tickets total. Okay, so two tickets.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Two tickets. Okay. I'm going to send somebody to the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: game tomorrow. 640. Got to be there. That has never
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: been to a game before. So I want you to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: text Ashley and tell them who you're going to bring to.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Hopefully two people that have never been to a cracking
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: game in person.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: That's the goal.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Okay? And Ashley will read through your BS.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I will.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: So you don't have to get creative. Just say, hey,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm Ian. I've never been to a hockey game. I've
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: been to a couple of Silver Tips or Thunderbird games,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: but I've never been to Climate Pledge. I've never had
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go. I've been wanting to go. Whatever
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: it is. And you'll be able to read through it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: You can even say what you're most excited to see
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: at Climate Pledge.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. Maybe you've never been there even for
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: a concert.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Let's get you in the building and have you experience
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: what's the best building around. So 49451. We're going to
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: give away a pair of tickets tomorrow. If you don't win,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: make sure you go there anyway. Or watch on TV
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: or listen on the radio. All right. Got it? Sound good?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Got it. 49451.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: All right. And Ash. And oh, you also need to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: give me. Actually, you can call back. Can you reach
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: back to him? I'll need first and last name and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: an email. Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: You don't have to put it in the first part
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: because I'll just respond back to the text.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: First, last name, and email after we find out. And
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: if you need help deciding. No, you know what? I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: want this 100% on you. I don't want to get
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: yelled at.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: All right. You want me to get yelled at. I
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: just got yelled at by a guy who called and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: was like, why are you guys being so negative today?
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And then he didn't see anything wrong with the Seahawks
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: game yesterday. I was like, there were seven personal fouls.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: That wasn't a problem.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I blame the refs. Hang on. Nothing wrong? Let's see.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Let me see. 14 penalties.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I said, well, I mean, yeah, they beat
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: a crappy Chargers team.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: And they said, the.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Chargers aren't crappy.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty kind. I said, hey, bottom line
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: is they won. Yeah. But I think there is.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: A little bit. If you don't have some concerns going
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: into some of these big games, then you're kind of
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: burying your head in the sand.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It doesn't mean we think we're going to lose.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: We just need to be better.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Be better.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Play better. Yeah. 49451 for those tickets. We'll come back.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Check in with you, Mila, next.