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Ian Furness 10/19 H1: Walker's return vs Sam's struggles... Sam's still the guy and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: All right, headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light,
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  Speaker 2: cold as the Rockies. Monday Night Football tonight, 5-15 here
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  Speaker 2: on KJR. NFC rival 49ers try to remain unbeaten. They
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  Speaker 2: are 5-0, trying to go to 6-0. They probably will.
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  Speaker 2: They take on the Commanders of Washington. They're not good,
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  Speaker 2: except for when they played Seattle a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Niners remain undefeated. Washington looking for its second win of
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  Speaker 2: the season. That's amazing to be Seattle. Speaking of the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: head coach Mike McDonald making it clear. Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 2: his guy. He'll speak again today at 3 o'clock. We'll
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  Speaker 2: hear a little bit about what he said on Friday
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  Speaker 2: coming up in the first hour of the show today.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy news out of Philadelphia. Jalen Hurts, Eagles quarterback, will
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  Speaker 2: miss the rest of the season. Blood clots, then turned
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  Speaker 2: into multiple blood clots in his lungs. He's on blood thinners,
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to participate in football activities for at least
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  Speaker 2: three months. Huskies got their first win in Big Ten play.
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  Speaker 2: They beat Purdue 38-11. 26 in West Lafayette on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Brown threw for 300 yards, three touchdowns, three picks.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear from Jed Fish today if he says anything significant,
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  Speaker 2: which I doubt he's going to say who his quarterback
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  Speaker 2: is because he's got two weeks to prepare. We'll keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on that just in case.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know he's going to get asked it.
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  Speaker 2: He will get asked it. Saturday night in Florida, tough
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  Speaker 2: for the Kraken. They got blown out by the Panthers 8-3,
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  Speaker 2: but they're back home. They went 3-1-1 on a five-game trip.
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  Speaker 2: Great road trip. Back home tomorrow, Detroit. 6 o'clock pregame
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  Speaker 2: right here on i3. 3 KJR FM. Let's go. The countdown
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  Speaker 1: This is the countdown to Monday Night Football with Ian Furness.
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  Speaker 1: As we count you down to tonight's game at 5.15.
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  Speaker 2: I should mention, too, in the headlines, new number one
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  Speaker 2: in college football, it's Miami. They're 6-0. They move up
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  Speaker 2: a couple spots and take over that top spot after
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  Speaker 2: Indiana drops down and Georgia drops down and Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: drops down, all with losses. Five of the top seven
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  Speaker 2: teams in college football had a loss on Saturday. And
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, Miami has beat nobody except for Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 2: BYU beat a really good Notre Dame team, we think,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe that shouldn't have happened because there might have
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  Speaker 2: been a second left on the clock. Ah, college football,
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  Speaker 2: we love you. We love you so much.
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  Speaker 3: It was probably that clock that's in the back, though,
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  Speaker 3: that was at zero.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is not the first time that we've
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  Speaker 4: had the one second left on the clock issue.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't it feel like we just, that's right, we did
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  Speaker 2: six weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this just happened.
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  Speaker 2: We just had that happen in Ann Arbor. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's also going on as well. As I mentioned, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Jed Fish does speak at 1 o'clock. They will monitor
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  Speaker 2: what he has to say, as I'm sure he will
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  Speaker 2: be asked about it along the way. Ashley Ryan is here.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Furness with you. We're going to get to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff today, including Hugh Millen with Hardcore Football
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  Speaker 2: at 1 p.m. today. We'll spend an hour with Hugh.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go a little broader, I think, with Hugh.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a weekend. We've all had a weekend to
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  Speaker 2: digest what happened on Thursday night. We had such a
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  Speaker 2: short show on Friday. We were on for an hour
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  Speaker 2: before it Husky pregame started, so we got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to kind of dive into. Your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns,
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  Speaker 2: 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line. We love the
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  Speaker 2: talkbacks as well. Absolutely love those, so we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: some of those for you. And the talkbacks are good.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get a lot of Seahawks conversation in today, too.
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  Speaker 2: You want to chime in about quarterbacks in college, feel free.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Softy will tackle that coming up at 3 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: with Fane.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you're probably feeling better about a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in college right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's odd, Ash, is I, because our entire
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  Speaker 2: state's about quarterbacks right now. It is. Sam Darnold, he's
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  Speaker 2: still going to remain the starter. I don't think we all,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the rash knee-jerk on Friday morning reaction is
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night, Friday morning with Sam, we'll start there, is
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  Speaker 2: he's got to go.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like, go back to Drew Locke. Seattle's great with Drew Locke, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all take a deep breath. You realize
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  Speaker 2: that that's not how the NFL operates.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's not how the NFL operates.
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  Speaker 3: You don't just bench a guy, then bring him back,
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  Speaker 3: then bench him, then bring him back.
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  Speaker 2: He won a Super Bowl for you last year. He
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  Speaker 2: led you to your highest scoring offensive output in franchise history,
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  Speaker 2: albeit they played an extra game at 17 as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to 16. But they did. All those things happened. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he turned the ball over a lot last year, but
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  Speaker 2: he always was able to bounce back and rebound from those.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not going to make that move.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Probably at 1230 today, in case you missed it on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a great little five minutes of Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, myself, I think Brady Henderson's the other voice
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  Speaker 2: you hear asking him on the conference call on Friday
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  Speaker 2: about just everything, including the offensive line, which is a
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  Speaker 2: problem right now. We're uttering the words, can't wait for
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford to be back in the lineup. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're saying. We're saying that actually out loud right now.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford, who's been absolutely eviscerated in this town for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years. The weak link, allegedly, on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line now, it's like, wow, without Anthony Bradford,
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  Speaker 2: this team is nothing. That's part of the problem. Let
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  Speaker 2: me get back to the Seahawks in a second. Because
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting how reluctant coaches are to change the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it's financial. Sometimes it's bigger picture. Sometimes it's resume-based.
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  Speaker 2: But all three of the big football teams in this state,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks one, Huskies two, and then A distant third right
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  Speaker 2: now is Wazoo. But they all have the same question,
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  Speaker 2: who's our quarterback? Well, at Washington, it's DeMond Williams, but
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  Speaker 2: he's hurt. So Elijah Brown comes in, three touchdowns, three interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: but looks good despite the interceptions in that game. Leads
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  Speaker 2: them to a win on the road against a team
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  Speaker 2: that just boat raced a team that beat you earlier
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  Speaker 2: this year in Minnesota the week before. But everything looked
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  Speaker 2: better with Elijah Brown.
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  Speaker 5: It did.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is, You pay a quarterback $ 4 million, named
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  Speaker 2: Devon Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: So how does that equate to what your decision-making process is?
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  Speaker 2: Are you willing to make a move? I'm guessing when
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  Speaker 2: he's healthy, he's back. But we'll see. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: fought to keep this guy here in your program.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but I do think they fought to keep the
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  Speaker 4: guy here in the program because they didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: set a precedent that they weren't going to.
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  Speaker 3: It was, I mean, yes, they wanted him. But I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was also about the principle of the entire.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The principle and the Big Ten didn't want to set
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  Speaker 2: that precedent. But truth be told, they felt like this
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  Speaker 2: guy's worth that kind of money.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. Or they wouldn't have offered it to him.
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  Speaker 2: And the other guy was a Stanford guy that was
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  Speaker 2: just okay there. But he's a good backup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I give Jed Fish credit because in
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  Speaker 2: today's college football, you want to have a quality backup
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  Speaker 2: if you think you're a team that is going to
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  Speaker 2: do something special, contend for a college football playoff spot.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's going through right now. Fahey is the guy
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  Speaker 2: that they thought would be number... Well, in reality, he
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  Speaker 2: should have been the number four guy. He's now number
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  Speaker 2: one because number two is at Louisville. Number three is
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  Speaker 2: a five-star that got paid more than Fahey did, who's
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  Speaker 2: now going to start with Julian Sane out.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what the hell? It's easier to make a
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  Speaker 2: guy two and make another guy three because you never
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  Speaker 2: think the other guy is going to get hurt. And
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  Speaker 2: they weren't ever going to have a problem with Julian saying,
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  Speaker 2: except for wait, he got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So now what do you do? Texas is going through
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  Speaker 2: that with Arch Manning. Can you bench Arch Manning? Can
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  Speaker 2: you really, if you're Steve Sarkeesian, can you really bench
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  Speaker 2: Arch Manning?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you can. I just, I mean, people
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  Speaker 3: will lose their minds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I agree. He should be benched though.
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  Speaker 2: He's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not the only one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the problem with that is that they put together
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  Speaker 2: a roster with a bunch of guys getting paid big
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  Speaker 2: money around him.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at Wazoo, we pay a guy pennies compared
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  Speaker 2: to what those other guys we just talked about are making.
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  Speaker 2: But Caden Pinnock came in, he's making his package is
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  Speaker 2: worth somewhat or reportedly around a quarter of a million. $ 250, 000. Car, condo, blah, blah, blah, cash,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. He starts the first games, what, six
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  Speaker 2: games of the season, whatever it is, and He's awful. Like,
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely awful.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be great, though, to make $ 250, 000 to $ 4
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  Speaker 4: million and not be good at your job?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Very good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be great to make it in general,
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  Speaker 4: but especially when you don't even have to be good
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  Speaker 4: at your job.
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  Speaker 2: Just not be good at all at your job.
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  Speaker 3: Just like, eh, well.
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  Speaker 2: And not have to worry about losing your job until
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  Speaker 2: he finally does. And they put the freshman in. Eshelman's, like,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't take a quarterback. I mean, Alex and MK
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  Speaker 2: and I are going to go at it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit tomorrow because I think there's a lot of differing opinions.
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  Speaker 2: I also don't think the defense is that good. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: worried about, oh, are we going to lose Trent Bray,
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  Speaker 2: our defensive coordinator?
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch the game? Have you watched any of
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  Speaker 4: the games? I do know at least Oregon State put
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  Speaker 4: up a lot of points against you guys on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: They left Jesse Legree open on a couple of deep
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  Speaker 2: balls that you just are inex... But Ashland's better. So
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  Speaker 2: then you ask yourself, Kirby Moore, are you just really
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  Speaker 2: bad at talent evaluation? Well, if that's the case, that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem.
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  Speaker 5: Or.
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  Speaker 2: Because you and the school had gone to donors and said,
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  Speaker 2: we need to get a little bit of money for
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  Speaker 2: this guy. He was the Big Sky Freshman of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: We think we can get him on. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: getting a quarterback's not cheap. But we think we can
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  Speaker 2: get this guy from the FCS level. Maybe he'll, as
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  Speaker 2: a freshman of the year, maybe he'll be really good
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll lose him. But that's fine. We get
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  Speaker 2: him for the one year, the first year of the Pac-12.
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  Speaker 2: He stays in the day. He never got pulled until
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  Speaker 2: he didn't start this week. And you have to ask yourself, what?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Like, why? They're all very different circumstances, but they're all
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  Speaker 2: intertwined with the same thing. The quarterback position in this
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  Speaker 2: state is an absolute mess.
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  Speaker 3: Sure seems to be.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get back to the Seahawks for a second,
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  Speaker 2: shall we?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's.
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  Speaker 2: Because the other two, one of them, the team's got
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  Speaker 2: one win, they're going nowhere. The other one, they're off
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  Speaker 2: this week, and again, we'll hear what Jed says at
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  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock. And then the other one is, let me
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  Speaker 2: just start with the reality of where Seattle is, because
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  Speaker 2: we brought this up briefly. We didn't have a ton
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  Speaker 2: of time on Friday. Let's just go with the reality
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  Speaker 2: of where the Seahawks are. They are, make no mistake,
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  Speaker 2: playing for a wild card berth. Now, they'll never publicly
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  Speaker 2: say that. They just, they can't. But they're not playing
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  Speaker 2: for the division anymore. The fall that San Francisco would
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  Speaker 2: have to have would be, I can't, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan's not going to have that kind of fall.
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  Speaker 2: Even last year when they had the injuries, they found
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  Speaker 2: their way into the playoffs. Like, they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: fall off. Because you need them to lose. You can't
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  Speaker 2: just win your games. You need them to lose.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And you need them to lose at least four or
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  Speaker 2: five games, depending on what you do in the second
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  Speaker 2: game against them. Well, does this team look like it's
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  Speaker 2: going to lose four or five games? Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: Not right now.
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  Speaker 2: Not based on their schedule.
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  Speaker 4: No, and especially all the things you heard even going
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  Speaker 4: into the season and through the season. Oh, this guy's injured. Oh, no, look,
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  Speaker 4: now this guy's injured. It's been a joke, and yet
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter to them.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. And they're going to be 6-0 after
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  Speaker 2: they boat race Washington tonight. And so you're playing for,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, that's the first part of the equation
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  Speaker 2: for Seattle. You are playing for a wild card spot.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you're playing for. And you're going to try
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  Speaker 2: to do something that is done rarely, in this sport,
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  Speaker 2: and that's go back-to-back Super Bowls. Well, you've never gone
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  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl as an organization when you haven't
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  Speaker 2: had home field advantage in the playoffs. It's never happened.
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  Speaker 2: When they've gone, 05 season, 13, 14, last year, every
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  Speaker 2: one of those times, they had home field advantage. They
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  Speaker 2: won the division and had home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And a bye, by the way. The last three times, right?
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  Speaker 4: That helps.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember if 05 there was a bye or not.
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  Speaker 2: My apologies. It's... That's 21 years ago, so you can
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  Speaker 2: tell me, but you get the point. So you'd have
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  Speaker 2: to play wild card, division, conference, three games, more than
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  Speaker 2: likely all three on the road to get to the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. It has been done and teams have won it.
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  Speaker 2: You as an organization never have because you're very reliant
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  Speaker 2: on a home field advantage. So that's the first part
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  Speaker 2: of it. The second part of it is where this
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  Speaker 2: team is, the reality of where this team is right now.
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  Speaker 2: The second part of that is you got to look
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  Speaker 2: around the rest of the conference and Greg and I
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  Speaker 2: just went through this. Minnesota's 5-0. Chicago and Green Bay
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  Speaker 2: are both 4-2. You and the Rams, because I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to take anything in the NFC East, that's just an
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  Speaker 2: absolute dumpster fire, and the NFC South is the same way.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just look at you have the three wildcard spots.
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  Speaker 2: So you have Green Bay, Chicago, Seattle, Rams. Those are
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  Speaker 2: your four And I will just say one of whoever
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  Speaker 2: doesn't win the NFC North. Because Minnesota, Green Bay, and Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: right now, Minnesota, Green Bay, Chicago would all be in. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: Detroit's also 3-2. They had a bye week this week.
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  Speaker 2: So we talked about how great the NFC West is.
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  Speaker 2: The NFC North right now is better. So you have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about every team in that division. You have
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  Speaker 2: Chicago here on Monday Night Football two weeks from tonight.
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  Speaker 2: That has now turned into an incredible... Well, it's a
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  Speaker 2: massive game. It would have been a massive game anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but now it's really big.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because that could be a tiebreaker game for you. Two,
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  Speaker 2: this week. This week. Now you have the Kansas City
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs at 5-0, rolling into town, a plus 57 point differential.
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  Speaker 2: They've only given up 83 points in the five games.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the Ken Walker situation. Yeah, that's fun.
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  Speaker 2: Which will be the talk of the town all week.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go down the road a million times.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're a Seahawks fan of any way,
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  Speaker 2: of any form, any level of Seahawks fan, you would
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  Speaker 2: have liked to have seen them keep Ken Walker, right?
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  Speaker 2: We all would have liked to have seen that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially what he's doing right now.
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  Speaker 2: They made a decision that they were not going to
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  Speaker 2: value that position and Ken Walker specifically, that player, to
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  Speaker 2: the level financially that it would have taken to keep
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  Speaker 2: him here. They've made that decision over the years. They
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  Speaker 2: just don't prioritize, at least in terms of second contracts,
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  Speaker 2: big contracts. Even when they had to go through the
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  Speaker 2: song and dance with Marshawn, it's not something they like
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  Speaker 2: to do. And I say that's a John Schneider thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's a John Schneider thing. Now, listen, there's not a
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  Speaker 2: perfect GM in the NFL. There just is not a
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  Speaker 2: perfect guy. It doesn't exist. I mean, there's people criticizing
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  Speaker 2: the Rams right now, unless need, because Miles Garrett hasn't
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  Speaker 2: played yet. He's been hurt. And Jared verse and Cleveland
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: are sitting there at four and two leading their division.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And there's like, oh, he was the heart and soul
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: of that defense. He was the engine. He was the motor. Well,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: he's not miles Garrett, miles Garrett's first ballot hall of famer.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: So they've traded for that. That didn't work out yet.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: No, it definitely hasn't.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald's been just okay.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Hasn't been nearly the record that we thought he was
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: going to be coming in.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: So every GM will make mistakes along the way. This
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: one is hard because it's just in your face every week.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: But I don't want to call it a mistake. In
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: my mind, it's a decision they made. We're five, six
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: games in, depending on which team we're talking about. And
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker could end up having this incredible MVP caliber season.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: And you know what? For him, good for you. You're
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: a damn Super Bowl MVP. I don't usually root for
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: guys when they leave our organizations here. If it's a
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: baseball player, football player, I'm in the minority here. I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: didn't root for Kevin Durant. I didn't care. No, I mean...
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I never had a... Also, he was here one year,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: the worst year in the history of the team, in
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: terms of they were leaving, they did nothing.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like a harder one, too, though, because
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: he had to go to Oakland.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: It wasn't his choice. Yeah, it wasn't his choice. But
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I just don't root for guys when they leave most
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: of the time. When Malcolm Smith left and got a
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: better contract, I was okay with that. You know what, Malcolm?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Damn Super Bowl MVP.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should get a better contract.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker, Super Bowl MVP. You root for him. Not
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: this week. This week's going to be hard because he's
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: going to be in your face. Right there, up close
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and personal. Leading the league in every category imaginable for
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: a running back. But to me, that's not the story
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: this week. The story is Sam Darnold and the lack
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: of a running game. We'll have Sando on at 2
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: o'clock today. There is... I mentioned this to Greg. Sando
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: had a thing in his column today. It was incredible.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold's only had Jadarian Price on the field for
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: 13 plays when he threw a pass. There's... And I
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: know there's a big debate on play action. Is it
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: run dependent or not? Blah, blah, blah, and all this thing.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You don't respect Seattle's run game at all right now
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: for the opposition without him in there. So I think
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: there has to be a correlation because there's no respect
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: for it. Emmanuel Wilson can't get to the edge. George
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Helani is George Helani. And Bayless Jones is a converted
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: wide receiver.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: It looks like a joke a bit at this point.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: It does. It's just they can't run the football. So
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: how much of that Sam's issues are on that? Well,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Sam still makes bad decisions. So you've got a lot
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: going on for a defending Super Bowl champion, a team that,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: by the way, won 10 games, Mike McDonald's first year,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and then won 14 last year. Mike McDonald and John
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Schneider should get all the grace in the world. They
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: should get all the patience in the world. But that's
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: not how sports work. So people are mad right now.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: We're very mad in this town. I don't know, Ashley.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I know the storyline this week. I know the storyline.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It's Ken Walker's coming back. To me, the storyline is
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold. It's as simple as that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I think both are equally important to us, especially because
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold is the one that concerns us the most.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Is he going to get corrected? Is he going to
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: get righted?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Are we going to have the same turnover issue that
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: we've had, especially against an undefeated team?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: But then I also understand because the run game is
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: so bad and it makes Sam Darnold's issues even greater
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: that you have to at least acknowledge what would things
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: be like if Ken Walker were still here.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And that's, yeah, see, so that, and that's, it's a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: good way to put it because to me it's, it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: two things. One, It's the sideshow window dressing, eye candy,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: however you want to say it, storyline of Ken Walker returns.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Having an MVP caliber season against the team to decide
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: not to re-sign him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, he's going to show them they should regret it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And he downplayed it yesterday in the postgame. He's just like,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: we've got to look at the film from tonight, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I'll worry about the CX later this week. And he's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: a pretty understated guy anyway. He always has been. So
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I don't expect– it's not like some guys become– now,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: if he scores a touchdown, I'm sure he'll celebrate in
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a meaningful fashion, but that's not usually who and what
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: he is personality-wise. But that's nothing– you can't control any
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: of that now. That's out of your control. What you
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: can control and what you do have to worry about
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: is what's in front of you, and that is the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: quarterback a problem. That's the bigger issue right now because
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker's not going to determine whether or not the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Seahawks go to the playoffs.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Right, and you're going to keep having the Sam Darnold
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: question as long as he keeps throwing picks.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: And God, just based on his career, he's going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: keep throwing picks.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Right, and so can we overcome it? I don't know.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Last year, obviously we could, but when you don't have
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: a run game, it makes it very hard.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: College football, you can kind of be one-dimensional. That's one
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: of the big differences between college football and the NFL.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You can kind of be one dimensional. Now it may
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: not be something that's always sustainable. I mean, Mike Leach
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and the air raid offense. I mean, we saw, especially
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in a lot of apple cups when the weather went South, well,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: you can't run it. Well, what are we going to do?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Cause you can't throw it in the snow. Right.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: So then, but, but you know, most weeks, if you
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: have this incredible scheme and Mike had it, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: with the air raid and other guys have over the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: years too, You know, Lavelle Edwards when he was at
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: BYU and had those. I mean, that's kind of where
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: it all started. You could be a little more one-dimensional.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: You know, some of the great Big 12 teams of
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the past when we had the Big 12. You could
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: be that, like the old Big 12 or the Southwest Conference.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: You could run the wishbone offense and just run the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: ball down people's throats and didn't have to worry about
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: throwing the ball at all. That's not how it works
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. You have to be able to have
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: both sides of the offense working. And if this team's
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: going to go to the playoffs, if they're going to
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: be a playoff team, Sam Darnold has to be good.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: And as long as there's no Jadarian Price, and we
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: don't even know how good Jadarian Price is going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: be because we haven't seen him.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But let's say Jadarian's good. Maybe not great, but let's
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: say he's good. Well, Sam just has to be really
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: good then. If Jadarian Price is great, super. I don't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: think we can make that determination. So Sam Darnold's going
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to have to be a hell of a lot better
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: if this team's going to go to the playoffs. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: if they do, they'll be going as a wildcard team.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And it's not a must-win mathematically, probably in a lot
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: of ways because it's a non-conference game. It's not your
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: biggest game. Your biggest game in the next two weeks
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: is Chicago. Conference game, team that could be a wild-card
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: team if they don't win the division, etc. But, man,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: you lose this week, and you fall to 3-4? Oh,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: my gosh.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's... Oh, and especially if you lose and
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Ken Walker runs all over you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I don't think what happened with this defense.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think so either. I think you're right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: That would just be like the double.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Let's have that happen. That'd be tons of fun.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yay. Okay.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Good times. Um, let's do this. We come back. I thought,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's really good to listen again. We didn't
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: really even get a chance to react on Friday. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: know you weren't here. It was Jess and I did
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a wind sprint, uh, leading into Husky pregame. So we
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: didn't really get to react to the conversation that Mike
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: McDonald had with a bunch of us on Friday. Usually
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: he is most of the time is game, the day
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: after game, press availability is Monday at 3, 3.30. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: on Friday, because they played Thursday, he spoke, and Greg
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Bell and myself were on that call. You'll hear some
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: of the comments that he had to say about Sam
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Donald and the rest of his team, including the offensive line,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: coming up next. All righty, welcome back. Text line is
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: angry today. He is angry today. He, she, it. Text
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: line is mad.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Frustrated.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Very mad. It's hard winning Super Bowls. Apparently. Hard being
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: a fan of the defending champs, but the bar is
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: high here.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: The bar is high. Mike McDonald on Friday, in case
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: you missed it, a good five minutes here of his thoughts.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: This was after he had had time following the game
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: on Thursday and following his local show he does on
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Friday morning. He had some time to kind of figure
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: out what's going on, and we had some time as
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the local media, including myself. You'll hear my voice. You'll
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: hear Greg Bell's voice. I think Brady Henderson from ESPN
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: with some thoughts from Mike McDonald as they move ahead.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Mike, on the.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Last interception, what did you see looking back on it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and how would you just describe your confidence level right now,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and Sam and us, also his confidence level, because it
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: feels like that's pretty important for that position.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a similar answer to what I
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: told Brian, was I think there's things that we can
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: all do to help Sam play better football, and we
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: trust Sam, we believe in him, and we feel like
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: he's definitely part of a solution, you know, in terms
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: of us playing better football on offense and at quarterback.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks-style offense that we all envisioned when.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Hi, Mike. You say Sam's the best chance for the solution.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: You believe he's part of the solution. What about Sam's
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: game makes him the solution?
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: What are the traits that you're now trying to draw
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: out and attack that you're not getting right now?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: The guys have been here over the last two years.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: We just won a world championship with them. We believe
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: in the guy. We see him every day. We see
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: what he does. We see the plays he's been able
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: to make. We see the actual talent. All those things.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: That's where my mind is.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Are you concerned, or is it just still six games
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: into a 17-game season, and you're confident this will fix?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I don't like using the word concerned.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I think there's a sense of urgency to get better
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: in several areas of our football team. A lot of
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: those are on offense, on basketball, operationally, how we're protecting
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: the quarterback, how we're running the ball. There's line items
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: on defense. There's line items on special teams. I really
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: do believe, Greg, that these things are within our control
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: of things that are on the input side of the
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: equation of how we do things throughout the week, what
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: we do throughout the game. To me, I wouldn't say
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: it's exciting, but that does get you going knowing that, hey,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: there's a solution out there and I.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Believe in our people. I believe in our ability to.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Solve problems and work through issues. The whole go through,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: not around, that's a real thing that I really do
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: believe in. I think we're always optimistic that we're going
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: to be able to find solutions. However, you have to
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: do an honest process. You have to go through those things.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: You can't just kid yourself in times like this. I'm
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: confident we're going to be able to do that and
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: A big part of this weekend is going to be
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: allocated to really continuing and making that process better.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: Hey, Mike, another one on the quarterback play. I realize
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: there are different opponents, and there was maybe one or
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: two players that were playing while Drew was playing.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: But what do you make of the fact that it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: Was across the board, it was just so much cleaner
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: when Drew was in there, no turnovers, I think only
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: a couple sacks in those two games, despite largely the
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: same players around him?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I respect the question.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I think, um, to make it like a one for one, Hey,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: this one, this is the same and this is different
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: and it's one person. I don't, I don't think that's, uh,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: I don't think that's doing the whole thing justice. There's
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: definitely more to the equation. Um, you know, what we called,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: how we got to it, that certain thing, you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: maybe the process for drew, um, how he catered the game,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: you know, to his skill set. All those things are
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: part of the conversation as well. But I understand the question,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: but I think there's more to it than just who's
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: playing quarterback.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Mike, your comment last night about the quarterback is getting
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: hit too much. Is that just cumulative? I mean, everyone
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: looks at the offensive line at that point and says, well,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: it must be the offensive line. It's outside of Anthony,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the same guys as last year. Is that scheme related?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Is that quarterback holding the ball too long related? Just
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: kind of elaborate on that because it feels like all
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: these things we're asking you is kind of coming back
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to that same issue. Yeah. Like I.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Hope, I hope you understand like when you have, when
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: you have, when you have like, at least I believe this,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: when you have, when you have things that you want
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: to improve on your team. So right now we're talking
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: about takeaways and we're talking about getting the quarterback hit
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: and we're talking about the run game. We're talking about
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: red zone defense. You know, we're talking about the return
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: game on special teams. Like these are areas that we
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: want to improve, right? If you just, point to a
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: person or a position group it's like that's not how
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: football works man it's a team game and we spend
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: a lot of time with a lot of resources like
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: like like investing in the process and how we make
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: these things come to life on game day and so
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: it's not it's never just like a one person or
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: one group thing now could you say hey look this
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: group or this person needs to perform better in their
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: responsibility head coach included absolutely and that's how we operate
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: here but Could the offensive line, can they step their
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: game up?
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: But just to point it on the offensive line, I think, again,
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: same thing with the takeaways with Sam. Does Sam bear
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: responsibility for taking care of the football? Do our runners
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: take care of responsibility for fun with them all?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: But it's a team game, and how we set our
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: game plans up and how we execute.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Falls on all of our shoulders.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: So that's how we choose to look through it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: You know, and that's why I asked him if it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: was cumulative. And I thought of that this weekend. I'll
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: bring it back to college football for a second because,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you know, Texas has Arch Manning, who gets paid a
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: lot of money, has endorsement deals and all that, a
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: very high-profile player who's playing awful this year. Well, they also,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: like Mike said, we're investing in all these other things, right,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: which is true. Like if you think about what they
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: did in terms of investment of the offensive line or
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: resigning Cross and Lucas, You don't have to worry about
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the other guys. You're going to have to make a
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: decision on Bradford at some point. This is last year.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: But the offensive line, investing in JSN, a first-round pick
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and a running back. And that's what Texas went out
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: and spent $ 3 million each on a running back and
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a red zone target at wide receiver. It's not paying off.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: So your investments are multiple. It's not just the quarterback position.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Here in Seattle, that's the case too. But you can
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: certainly get the impression, you hear Mike McDonald, he'll speak
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: again today, this afternoon at 3.30, but you get the impression,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: it doesn't take much to figure out, they're not making
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a change of quarterback. And that's not something he even
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: considered making, a change of quarterback.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: No, he kind of scoffed at it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Very much so. And this is after he had time
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: to digest everything, and it's not a knee-jerk reaction. Because
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: if you're going to do that, you'd probably go back,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: look at the tape, by then he'd already watched the game. Back,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: the tape. And if it was something so bad and
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: just like... But that's not the case. There's a lot
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of things in play here. But Sam's decision-making, and that's
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the one thing I really want to get into hardcore
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: football with with Hugh again, just out of my own
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: morbid curiosity, I just can't fathom how you turn the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: ball over, put the ball in harm's way in overtime
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: when you're already close to field goal range.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the only thing you have to do is just
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: be smart with the ball and keep it safe.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: That's it. Like.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Anytime he can pass the 50, that's basically all you
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: need now with the legs these kickers have.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Especially in Denver.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So I just, for the life of me, I can't
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: fathom how he did that. Now, if you would, I
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: don't think, maybe he will tell me otherwise, just I've
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: watched back, like we all have a million times. That
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: was like one time he wasn't being pressured. Like out
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: of pocket. Just made an absolutely awful decision. You know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Alex Brink said last week, and we're talking about, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Caden Pinnock over there, but he had a great point.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: He goes, Like quarterback, at the end of the day,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the ball is in his hand last. Ultimately, it's in
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: your hand last. You ultimately are the guy that dictates
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: yes or no, good or bad. The ball is in
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: your hand last. That was a great line that Alex had.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: It's true. And when the ball is in your hand
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: last and then it ends up in the other team's hand,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: as it did in Denver, that's a bad thing. That's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a bad thing. But we'll get into that with Hugh
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Millen Hardcore Football coming up here at 1 o'clock. Come back,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: do a quick Daily Power Play, then check in with
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Hugh Millen, 1 o'clock, 93.3 KDRFM.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Now, your daily look at the National Hockey League and
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Kraken with Ian Furness.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Daily Power Play earlier today. We've got Hugh
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Millen on for the 1 o'clock hour. Hardcore Football coming
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: up in just a few minutes. Oh, we've got a
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: lot to talk about with Hugh, but let's get a
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: little Daily Power Play in. A couple things.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: One.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: They're back home, finally. Finally, tomorrow.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: That was a long road trip.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Nine games so far this season for the Kraken. They're 5-3-1.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: And just went 3-1-1 on a road trip out east,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: which is really good. One of the better starts in
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: franchise history. They kind of landed on a thud note
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. That's a good day to have it happen.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: You've been watching college football, so you don't have to
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: endure it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: And then there was a day in between that and
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: coming into work, so we didn't have to think about
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: it today.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But they played great. They had a great road trip.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Make no mistake. I'm going to tell you guys about this.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: This is very cool. Start your night in the deep
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: with Seattle Crack and Happy Hour. I didn't even know
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: they were doing this. I work for the team. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: should probably know these things. Enjoy $ 3 draft beers and
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: $ 3 hot dogs for the first 60 minutes after doors
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: open at all Monday through Thursday home games. So that's right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: The first 60 minutes after the doors open, the early
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: bird gets the beer and the hot dog. plus an
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: incredible night of hockey, go to scuttlecracking.com for more information.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: So I believe the doors open at 5, if I'm
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: not mistaken.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Either at 459.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: So get there and you get, I mean, $ 3 beers?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? That's 1986.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking, I just turned 21, I think.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: So that's a great deal. And again, the game starts
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: earlier tomorrow. They're back home, taking on Detroit, 640, drop
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: of the puck, because they're doing kind of like the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Mariners did, the Monday through Thursday weekday games, by and large.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: will be 6.40 drop of the puck. Thursday, I think, 7,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: because it's on national TV. But by and large, 6.40,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: so get there early. Kind of noticed that the last...
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: We've had two home games as it so far, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: the first one was a Sunday. The second one was
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: a 6.40 drop of the puck, and I noticed that
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: people were still coming in. As the anthem's ending, people
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: are still coming in outside. We're getting used to it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: It's fine, but it's good. And the good thing is, normally,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: you would get home earlier. That particular night turned into
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a gong show, if you remember. So...
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: The game itself actually went three hours, so it wasn't that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, that's coming up tomorrow. Ashley, I think
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: what I'm going to do, I believe I have tickets
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: for tomorrow's game to give away. Oh, nice. I'm going
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to wait until right before crosstalk, so after our other
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: text at 2.40 today. Okay. Okay? I'm going to wait
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: until then. Producer's discretion who gets them, but I'll give
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: you a little heads up right after we do Factor
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Fiction at 2.35 today.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: But the key is we want you to have never,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: we want it to be your first Kraken.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I want someone to go in there that hasn't been
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: there before.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Trying to build new hockey fans.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe your kids haven't been. I'll take that, too.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: And the last time when Alshie came up with a
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: great group that went there, and hopefully they had a
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: great time, and so we'll do that as well. So
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: that's coming up. And then tomorrow is a Kraken Ticket
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Tuesday on the entire station. Yes. We're giving away tickets
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: every hour throughout the day on Kraken Ticket Tuesday. But
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you my seats for tomorrow, coming
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: up at 240 today. All right? And they're good seats,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: lower level. You'll love them. You'll have a good time.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And get there early for the $ 3 beer and $ 3
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: hot dog. If you're bringing the family, $ 3 hot dog,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: let's go.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Talk about an inexpensive family night out.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: That changes everything. Don't even pay for tickets. Don't pay
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: barely anything for beers. Away you go. Have fun. Yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: so that's coming up tomorrow. Again, I mentioned to Greg,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I kind of laughed. It's like they weren't 3-2 on
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the road trip. They were 3-1-1. And that one point
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: makes a big difference in hockey. Hockey is a... If
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: you want to call it the loser point, whatever you
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: want to call it, but it makes the difference, especially
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: when you're battling for a playoff spot late in the year.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: But they've played really well this season. Benamontor is still out.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he's going to play tomorrow. He
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: did not practice today, is my understanding. But Seattle sits
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: in third place in the Pacific Division. That would be
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: a playoff spot right now with their 11 points with
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: a 5-3-1 record. We're kind of seeing a little separation here.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Teams that are good, teams that are not. Chicago, not good. Vancouver,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: not good. Calgary, not good. How about the LA Kings?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: 0-4-2 on the season. Yikes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think they expected that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: And wait, I thought everyone was saying that Seattle, nobody
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: wanted to go there. You want to go to LA?
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: It must be hard being in LA. You don't have
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: a winning baseball team anymore.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: You went to school there.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: The weather, I'm sure, is fine.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, I like having seasons, so I didn't really
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: like it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: I didn't like it when it was like 65 or
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: 70 and Santa's coming down the street in a parade.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: And I guess maybe if you're a pro athlete, you
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: could live a lot of places.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I always just felt like if I was in L.A.,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: if I wasn't living on the beach, I'd want no
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: part of that place. Yeah, it's true. Like no part
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of cities that I would want
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: to live in before L.A.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Like a lot. A lot.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't ever want to go back there and live.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: And I lived like a mile from the beach my
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: last year living there.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Was it Manhattan Beach?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I lived in El Segundo, so just north of
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Manhattan Beach.
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I loved it. It was a cute little neighborhood. That
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: was great.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: But that was the only year out of living there
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: for nine years that I was like, yeah, I could
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: live here.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. No thanks. Yeah. And now you're old four
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and two. And what's their baseball team up to? When
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: does the World Series start for the Dodgers?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Not for them. It's going to be like at least 2027.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe 2028.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: That's your daily power play with a little baseball sprinkled
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: in there as well.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: But their football team's doing... No, no, wait.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: Boy.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Hey, their one football team? Damn.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about the Harbaugh coach team.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That is an absolute disaster going on right now. Yes,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: it is. An absolute.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I'm here for it.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so here for it. I am so here
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: for it. I have such a dislike for all things
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Chargers because, to me, they're the same as the Oklahoma
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: City Thunder. They're the exact same. You left a market
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: that you were beloved in, that loved you, and you
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: went to L.A.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Where you would be second fiddle, if that. Really, probably fourth.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Probably behind USC, UCLA, and the Rams.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, what is it there? It's Dodgers.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: K-5th.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Lakers.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: They're falling further down.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: USC football.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: And then everything else.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, the Rams aren't even ahead of USC
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: and UCLA football-wise, and then the Chargers are behind the Rams.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Very true.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Very true. All right. That's good. We'll take a break.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Come back. Don't forget, we've got Kraken Ticket Tuesday tomorrow. Sorry.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Almost forgot. Kraken Ticket Tuesday tomorrow. When we come back,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Hugh Millen, Hardcore Football, next.