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Chuck in the Morning 9/15 H2: Mike Sando, Ken Walker Talk & Mike Macdonald on Manningcast · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock hour here on this Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Palander's Hearst, Travis Moger with you. We enter hour
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  Speaker 2: number two. We are a little bit away from Mike Sandoe,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to be joining us at a special time
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  Speaker 2: this week here on a Tuesday. Filling in for Greg Bell,
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  Speaker 2: who's off to Hawaii, and Mike can't make his 9.30
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  Speaker 2: segment this week. So this seems like a nice little
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  Speaker 2: exchange here. So you'll get the treat of hearing Mike
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  Speaker 2: Sandoe this morning. in the normal Greg Bell segment. But
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  Speaker 2: let me get through 30 seconds of your headlines here
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  Speaker 2: before we bring Mike aboard. The Chiefs last night behind
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker's 173 yards rushing. You heard me right. 173
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  Speaker 2: yards rushing on 23 carries. He also caught three balls
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  Speaker 2: and scored two touchdowns in the game. They just steamrolled
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  Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. 31-10 was the final score in that contest.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold has a unique injury to his butt. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if Anders appreciated where my mind went,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems to me odd that they wouldn't explain
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  Speaker 2: to us what the exact... I think we can take it.
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  Speaker 2: What's the exact injury to Sam Darnold, and how long
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  Speaker 2: is he going to be out Um, it's killing us
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  Speaker 2: not to know college football. Huskies take it on Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Washington this weekend. Kraken camp is underway and the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: fell five and a half games back with 11 to
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  Speaker 2: play losing to the angels last night by a final
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  Speaker 2: score of six to four. Joining us now on the program,
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  Speaker 2: our NFL insider from the athletic so much to discuss
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  Speaker 2: with our guy, Mike Sando.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing? You ever had a butt injury?
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  Speaker 2: I actually have had a hip injury in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and it cost me my health for my entire senior
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  Speaker 2: year of high school basketball. So I know that that's serious,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know. Are they covering up? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is this like an embarrassing injury that Sam suffered? Is
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  Speaker 2: that why they won't give us specific details?
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  Speaker 4: So, look here. You ever sit at the gate when
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  Speaker 4: you're going to fly and they know the plane's not
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  Speaker 4: going to fly, but they just give you the news
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  Speaker 4: a little bit at a time. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like, Hey, uh, you know, it keeps getting moved back,
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  Speaker 4: but pretty, but you're actually, it's actually going to be
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  Speaker 4: a longer injury than you think. I don't know. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: is that what it is?
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it's probably, you know, it's a short term injury.
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  Speaker 4: And then after two weeks, they tell you it's another
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  Speaker 4: two weeks. I mean, who knows? Uh, And they may
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  Speaker 4: not know how fast he's going to come back. Some
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  Speaker 4: of these injuries are really straightforward. Let's just say for
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  Speaker 4: sure it's an unusual injury, right? I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: anyone knew when it happened that it was a hip.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it looked like an ankle or something, right,
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  Speaker 4: when he was limping. So there's clearly– I don't think
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  Speaker 4: from the start they're trying to mislead anybody. I think
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  Speaker 4: it is a weird injury. So it could have a
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  Speaker 4: weird timetable. Unlike– okay, if you do this type of
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  Speaker 4: an ankle sprain, it's two weeks usually, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's certain things that it's a very straightforward time. This
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  Speaker 4: may not be as straightforward. So, you know, if it's rare,
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  Speaker 4: you don't really have a timetable as easily because you
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  Speaker 4: don't have the reps of other people having it.
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  Speaker 2: What was your evaluation of Drew Locke and his performance
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  Speaker 2: coming off the bench in game one?
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  Speaker 4: I think it was better by the end of the
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  Speaker 4: game than it was during the game because their operation
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  Speaker 4: was sloppy. I think that's one of the first things
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  Speaker 4: that Mike McDonald said after the game was we got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of room for improvement. There were delays of
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  Speaker 4: games and two guys moving, and some of those things
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  Speaker 4: are related to having a new quarterback come in. I
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  Speaker 4: know some coaches– In the league, we're like, could he
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  Speaker 4: wear a book on his wrist? You know, it was
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  Speaker 4: like the biggest wristband play sheet you've ever seen. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be better. I think it
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  Speaker 4: was good enough to win. I don't think it was
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  Speaker 4: super clean. I think it'll be better for him now
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  Speaker 4: with some practice. And shoot, it was great they were
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  Speaker 4: able to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, and then that blending the two, this team
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  Speaker 2: obviously has goals of repeating as world champions. And that
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  Speaker 2: probably means, you know, you've won the division and gotten
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  Speaker 2: home field advantage. And so that goal has been stated.
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  Speaker 2: That's out there. You know, the division is going to
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  Speaker 2: be difficult. How long do you feel the Seahawks can
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  Speaker 2: afford to be without Sam Darnold?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think if he misses a month, that's totally,
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  Speaker 4: they can still win. If he missed four games, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: couldn't they just be three and one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so. You know, they're so good on defense.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're well coached. I wouldn't really worry unless
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  Speaker 4: you heard Darnold was going to miss the first half
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  Speaker 4: of the year or something like that. Then I think
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  Speaker 4: it could really affect your standing in the division and
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  Speaker 4: all of that type of thing. I think they're built
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  Speaker 4: to survive it for a shorter period of time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the strangest injury that you ever covered?
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  Speaker 4: That I've ever covered? Yeah. Oh my gosh. So, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I can't say who the player was. I remember, I
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  Speaker 4: remember when, uh, this is, it's going back a long
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  Speaker 4: time ago. This is even before Holmgren. Okay. So Dennis
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  Speaker 4: Erickson was the coach and there was a player on
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  Speaker 4: the team, I believe had a back injury. And back
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  Speaker 4: in the, back in the day, then they didn't obviously
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  Speaker 4: stream every press conference. So you actually had like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: on background type conversations that, The coach might come off
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  Speaker 4: the field. There'd be four or five beat writers, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and you could have an honest conversation and he knew
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  Speaker 4: you weren't going to just totally burn him. And there
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  Speaker 4: was a player who had a back injury that I
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  Speaker 4: believe was, you know, he was injured during a sexual act.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Was a thing. And so obviously that didn't make it
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  Speaker 4: into the injury report. And I don't think any of
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  Speaker 4: us wrote that thing, but we appreciated the honesty. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he said, hey, you're going to show up on the
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  Speaker 4: back injury here. And we all sort of laughed at it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and whether that was maybe it was even maybe,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe it was even wilder than that. And
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  Speaker 4: that's just what the player was saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he was willing to admit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember that one being kind
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  Speaker 4: of funny. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least with Sam's unique injury to his glute,
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  Speaker 2: we know how it happened. So at least we've got
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  Speaker 2: that covered. Mike Sando is with us, our NFL insider.
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  Speaker 2: Normally joins us Thursdays at 9.30. He had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of conflict with his schedule. Greg's in Hawaii. We
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  Speaker 2: just thought, how about making a little swap here this week?
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  Speaker 2: So Mike's up and early this morning joining us here
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  Speaker 2: at 7.05. Talk about the National Football League. All right,
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  Speaker 2: so a little bit painful, no doubt, for Seahawks fans
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  Speaker 2: to watch Ken Walker look that good last night. Even
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  Speaker 2: if the Seahawks fan... believes, hey, you got difficult decisions
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  Speaker 2: to make trying to keep a world championship team together
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  Speaker 2: when you're in a salary cap league. Still, to see
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker maybe play his best game that we've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen him play last night and look like the ingredient
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  Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs have been missing, that wasn't easy
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  Speaker 2: for a Seahawks fan to watch.
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  Speaker 4: It was awesome for him. I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of excitement around Price in Seattle, the rookie, and he
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  Speaker 4: was close to, I thought he was very good in
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  Speaker 4: the first game too. I think he's going to be excellent.
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  Speaker 4: So I think over time it's going to be fine,
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  Speaker 4: but yes, that was an awesome performance by him in
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  Speaker 4: a big, you know, big first game. They're opening against
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  Speaker 4: Denver and their quarterbacks, you know, not all the way back.
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  Speaker 4: He's wearing that brace and stuff. And for them to
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  Speaker 4: win the game that comfortably was largely because of him.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was, I thought it was really great
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  Speaker 4: for him. I think if you've, you know, followed Ken
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  Speaker 4: Walker's career, you know, As a person, you kind of
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  Speaker 4: rooted for him to do well, and I thought he
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  Speaker 4: was great.
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  Speaker 2: What do we make of that lopsided affair?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just one week, but are the Chiefs back? Are
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos in trouble?
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  Speaker 4: I think some of these storylines that just percolate the
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  Speaker 4: whole offseason get thrown back in your face in the
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  Speaker 4: first game. The Rams were the greatest team ever. Well,
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  Speaker 4: guess what? The 49ers are going to play in the game, too,
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  Speaker 4: and they match up well with them, and they beat them. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys are going to talk about the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: in the offseason. Well, they got slapped in the face
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  Speaker 4: by the Giants, another team in their own division. So
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  Speaker 4: I think I put it into that category of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what builds up in your mind over the course of
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  Speaker 4: an offseason about the Chiefs' decline and Mahomes injuring all
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  Speaker 4: of this gets bigger than it actually is. And then
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  Speaker 4: you get sort of slapped back into it with the
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  Speaker 4: first game of the year and you realize– These teams
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  Speaker 4: are a lot of cases closer in quality than you
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  Speaker 4: thought in the offseason, and stuff can happen. So I
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  Speaker 4: think we still need to see Kansas City offensive line
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  Speaker 4: the whole year, Mahomes the whole year, receivers the whole year.
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  Speaker 4: For all we know, this could be as good as
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  Speaker 4: they look.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Sando is with us, our NFL insider here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: And again, very difficult to judge anything after one game,
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  Speaker 2: but first impressions of with the Seahawks facing the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: this week, a 1-0 Cardinals team, and then an 0-1
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  Speaker 2: Chargers team who had huge expectations and seems like there's
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot of questions already.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I totally agree with you. I think the
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  Speaker 4: Chargers lack depth, and I also believe that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I put this in my conversation, on Monday, just talking
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  Speaker 4: to coaches that, you know, for all the talent Justin
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  Speaker 4: Herbert has, he's not a super fast processor of things.
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  Speaker 4: So now you've got him in this offense with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of intricacies and things, and is he going to
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  Speaker 4: need some more time to get good at it? And
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  Speaker 4: no one wants to give him time because everybody feels
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  Speaker 4: like This guy gets pumped way up there, and I
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  Speaker 4: want to see it right now. But I could see
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  Speaker 4: him getting a little better in the system over time,
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  Speaker 4: as long as their depth doesn't hurt them too much.
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  Speaker 4: And it is an issue. The Cardinals, I think, are
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  Speaker 4: in a different situation because everybody would rather have Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 4: But one thing about Jacoby Brissett is I think he's
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  Speaker 4: a finished product, polished pro quarterback who has a lower ceiling, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but knows how to play. And I thought the contrast
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  Speaker 4: was really with Kyler Murray, who went to Minnesota and
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know how to play. If you look at Kyler Murray,
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  Speaker 4: I wrote this in my column as well, the quarterback's
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  Speaker 4: first two jobs are protect the football, protect yourself. What
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  Speaker 4: does he do the first play? He throws an interception.
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  Speaker 4: What does he do later in the first quarter? He
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  Speaker 4: dives forward and gets smashed. Jacoby Brissett, to me, he
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  Speaker 4: may throw an interception, but he isn't going to not
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  Speaker 4: know how to play. No one's going to question him
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  Speaker 4: about studying like they have with Kyler Murray. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's somebody that a team can rally around a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: and then his weaknesses and stuff will be exposed over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the whole year. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 4: necessarily a whole-year starter, but they're not going to just
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  Speaker 4: completely suck right out of the gates with him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with the Cardinals having won against a team that
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  Speaker 2: some were describing as a Super Bowl contender this year,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams having lost... I mean, they were thought to
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  Speaker 2: be the greatest team ever assembled and now are without
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  Speaker 2: Myles Garrett for four weeks. And now Aaron Donald's got
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  Speaker 2: to figure out the only reason I was coming back
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  Speaker 2: was to play with Myles Garrett. Now he's gone for
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  Speaker 2: a month. 49ers looked as good as anybody in the
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  Speaker 2: opening week. I mean, they dominated the Rams and the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks with a backup quarterback figured out how to beat
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  Speaker 2: the AFC champions. So whatever someone's opinion was about the
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  Speaker 2: NFC West, 10 days ago, what should their opinion be
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  Speaker 2: about the four teams today?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. The things change quickly in this league, right?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what it is. And it can, it
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  Speaker 4: was going to change for the 49ers too. They're going to,
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  Speaker 4: they're an older team in a lot of places that
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  Speaker 4: have injuries and they could, you think Christian McCaffrey is
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  Speaker 4: going to play the whole year after leading the league
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  Speaker 4: in touches last year?
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: So just relax because this thing's going to play out
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  Speaker 4: over a long period of time. And you, you just,
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  Speaker 4: The key is that Darnold wasn't lost for the whole year.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you have one of those types of
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  Speaker 4: injuries where Brock Purdy misses 10 games or Stafford's going
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  Speaker 4: to be out, then it really is going to doom
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  Speaker 4: your team. But for the most part, there's going to
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  Speaker 4: be ebbs and flows for the season. It's not going
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  Speaker 4: to go exactly how you thought, but don't come off
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  Speaker 4: of your opinions going into the year either. It's a
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  Speaker 4: long year. Your opinions could still be right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I'm going to stick to them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: come hell or high water. I'm going to stick to mine.
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  Speaker 4: I know, you're always right in it. if it goes
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  Speaker 4: a different way, I mean, then, then, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: was just wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, well, let's talk about the Chicago bears because
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  Speaker 2: that was very impressive. I mean, a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson says our goal is to be the highest
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  Speaker 2: scoring team in the national football league. And I just
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  Speaker 2: thought that was just a terrible mistake, um, to announce that,
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  Speaker 2: to make yourself a target, to put those kinds of
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  Speaker 2: expectations on your team. And then lo and behold, they
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  Speaker 2: score 60 points damn near, uh, uh, on the opening day,
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  Speaker 2: it's as if he's called his shot and now I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of impressed by it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I'm impressed. So I think the number one thing
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  Speaker 4: as a coach is you gotta be yourself. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's Ben Johnson. You know, he kind of reminds me
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of Mike Martz. Remember Mike Martz from Rams?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And there's just, but I think that Mike Martz was
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  Speaker 4: way more into, uh, the offense and playing aggressively offensively.
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  Speaker 4: I do believe that, uh, I do believe that Ben Johnson,
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  Speaker 4: coming out of Dan Campbell's sort of tree, has a fuller...
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  Speaker 4: He's into more of the defense and the special teams
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  Speaker 4: and the whole operation. So I think he's a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good head coach. But man, I was surprised he didn't
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  Speaker 4: go for two to get 60, actually, given the attitude.
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  Speaker 4: That's sort of a Mike Martz type of way of
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  Speaker 4: doing this thing. And so.
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  Speaker 4: I think he'll love it if you're Chicago, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is what Chicago's needed. They have not had offense there.
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  Speaker 4: And now their coach, remember last year, he ripped off
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  Speaker 4: his shirt in the postgame locker room when they won
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  Speaker 4: at Philly. I mean, I kind of, I think it's
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  Speaker 4: real with him.
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  Speaker 2: What is the most real thing about week number one?
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  Speaker 2: Because we can be deceived very easily by week one results,
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  Speaker 2: but what is something that happened? Maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 2: unexpected that you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: That might be legitimate. Whether that's the Giants, they looked
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  Speaker 2: actually well-coached for the first time in a decade on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night. What or the Baltimore Ravens offense being unstoppable.
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  Speaker 2: You use your imagination. What's something that happened that some
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  Speaker 2: people find a little unlikely, and yet you think, no,
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  Speaker 2: you might want to get used to that?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one. Well, I was going to say
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  Speaker 4: Buffalo winning, but I think we knew they were good.
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  Speaker 4: How about New Orleans playing it close to Detroit? Because
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  Speaker 4: that was one thing that when I did the survey
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  Speaker 4: in the off season of all the coaches and executives
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  Speaker 4: on the quarterbacks for the quarterback tiers project. If, if
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  Speaker 4: anybody had played Tyler Shuck, their quarterback, those people were
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  Speaker 4: high on him. And then a bunch of the league
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  Speaker 4: hadn't really played him and they just sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they need to see it. But I thought coming back
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  Speaker 4: from whatever it was, 21 down and he was throwing
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  Speaker 4: lasers in there, you know, and taking hits. I like him.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that they really almost should have won
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  Speaker 4: that game at Detroit and And so I thought that
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  Speaker 4: was a little bit of a wake-up. That whole division
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  Speaker 4: is 0-1, the NFC South. But I thought New Orleans
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  Speaker 4: showed me something.
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  Speaker 2: Is Detroit Buffalo the best game of week number two?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you don't have them ranked at this point,
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  Speaker 2: but my goodness, do we have another great Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: matchup this week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it. I love that game because I
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  Speaker 4: think Detroit was fortunate to win, and I think Buffalo
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  Speaker 4: really went out and showed maybe they should be the
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  Speaker 4: number one team in the AFC. So that one's definitely– High. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not seeing another game on there. I mean, Minnesota-Chicago
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  Speaker 4: is interesting to me. I think that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a fun one as well. But yes, Detroit-Buffalo, very, very good. Also,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: another one I've got circled. What about Green Bay at
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: the Jets? Green Bay is losing with these big leads
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: and stuff. If they were to lose to the Jets,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: look out. What do you mean, look out? They're not
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: going to fire Matt LaFleur, but I think they just
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: extended his contract. But I think the way they've lost
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: five or six in a row dating the last season,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: They had a record-setting loss from leading by whatever they
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: were leading by, like 12 points and lost by 17.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: It was in the timeframe that it happened was unique,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: maybe in the history of the game. And I think
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: their whole offseason was about finish. We got to finish.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: And when you come out and have that one mantra
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: blow up in your face in a spectacular fashion like
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: it did, like the Jets are going to be a
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: better team. So I think that's just one that's a
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: fun game to me. to see maybe the Packers go
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: there and are too much offensively. But their offensive line
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: is an issue in a bad way. And so I
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: want to see them.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, look, you're pretty good as an early riser.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Nice work here today.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: How about that? They say when you get older, you
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: can get up earlier. Yeah, what time do you get
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: up normally?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: What's your average time, wake time?
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I stay, well, it depends on game day Sunday. I'm
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: in the office by 6 a.m., but usually I try
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: to not get up until the 7 o'clock hour. Okay.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: You know, for me.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I thank you for getting up a little earlier,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: joining us here today. Great to chat with you. The
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: NFL never sleeps. Neither does Mike Sando. Everybody knows that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: So appreciate you.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Thank you. All right.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Mike Sando joining us right here on Chugging Buck in
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the morning. You can follow Mike at Sando NFL on Twitter.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: And of course, get your subscription to The Athletic as well. Mike,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: always doing great stuff. And we love having him on
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: as our NFL insider normally joins us Thursdays at nine 30.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: So we won't be doing that this week, but we'll
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: replace some of this. If you're just joining us just
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: now and you're like, Oh, I miss Sando. Oh, well,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: we'll replace some of it for you coming up this
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Thursday at nine 30, but always great to have him on.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Greg will be back with us tomorrow. He'll be back
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: from Hawaii in his normal slot. And we have our
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: first round table of the year coming up on Thursday
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: at at 8 o'clock with Greg and Hugh Millens. We're
• 19:00
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• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That's right. Get on the horn. Oh, Anders participated.
• 19:11
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• 19:15
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• 19:20
  Speaker 2: coming up next on our radio show, we're going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: play some fact or fiction. It is Anders Pick. Also,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: we have some fact or fiction news to pass along
• 19:29
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• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Fourth and one.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Handoff under center. goes to the running back walker runs
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: laterally 40 far sideline 50 chase to the 40 down
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: the sideline 30 20 10 5 touchdown kenneth walker took
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: it Outracing the chasing defender. 60-yard touchdown run. And the
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Chiefs have gone up early in the third.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: 20-7.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: The electrifying Kenneth Walker.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: The great Kevin Harlan on the call. Westwood won last night.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't play the position better than Ken
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Walker played it last night. I mean, it was the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: perfect blend of speed, quickness, power, patience. You know, he
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: broke 11 tackles. He had a 60-yard breakaway touchdown. He
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: caught three balls. He scored two touchdowns on the night. Anders,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you can't play better football than that. I mean, that
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: was exquisite running back play last night, and his first
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: act as a Kansas City Chief, or his first act
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: as not a Seahawks.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it just continues his stretch of, if he's
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: by far the guy, he doesn't have a timeshare or anything.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: He's shown that he can when he's healthy, again, that's
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: a big when he's healthy, he could show that he's
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: one of those top-level running backs. It was really fun
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: to watch, to be honest, and I think it's a
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: perfect situation for him to be in.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of great running backs in the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: league right now, and a lot of great ones on
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: opening week. Junior Gibbs had a big week, Bajon Robinson,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, a lot of guys had great weeks. Nobody
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: had a better week than that guy. That was, I mean,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: that's time capsule stuff. You can't play the position better
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: than that, than what he played at last night for
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs. It could be one of those, like,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: grimace kind of years as seahawk fans to like watch
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: chiefs games like you got your hands over your eyes
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: like oh there he goes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Again and then compare that to if rashid shaheed does
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: anything because that's really who they chose to pay over
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: ken walker that's a good point so yeah it's not
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: jadarian price really versus kenneth walker it's it's rashid shaheed
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: because that's the guy you decided to pay and.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: You're right you're right watching ken last night was like
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: watching an ex-girlfriend Checking her Instagram and seeing that she's
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: got a new boyfriend. She got a promotion at her
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: job and she's going on yachts.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: She looks great. And then your current is like, we
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: feel pretty good about you.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: You're stable.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think. We don't know. I guess what you're
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: trying to say is, Ken Walker, you look so good
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: in love. You're a chief now. It's easy to see.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Factor Fiction. And you're welcome. I have
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: decided this year that I don't want anybody stressed out
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: over my Factor Fiction picks. They'll all be done by
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the third quarter. You'll know whether you've won or lost.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And apparently, you're going to lose a lot if you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: go with me. That's three straight. But I've had four
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: picks so far. I'm one in three. And I haven't
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: picked one close yet. They've all been blowouts.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: So.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm getting my feel. Getting my feel for things.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I need a couple weeks to understand the teams. This
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: happens every year. Don't you panic, new member of the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: morning show.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: We're going to be just fine. We have won two
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: straight titles in Factor Fiction.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: As a show. So, no pressure. But if I start
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: picking poorly, it's probably your fault.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: That's fair. That's fair. That's completely fair. I kind of take,
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean, coming from the show I'm coming from,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: We haven't done so well in the last few years.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: You can say it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: You have. In terms of our record, yeah. I won't
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: say that because I don't want to throw anyone under
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: the bus.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Ian? Sure.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: It's always the Canadians' fault, isn't it? But, you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: we're kind of It's a super team. We're the Rams
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: of fact or fiction.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, is that what it is?
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I think that's what's kind of going on here.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're saying that you and I are.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: But hopefully we don't pull a Miles Garrett and now
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Aaron Donald might not play in week two. We'll see
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: what happens.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Takes a little bit for us to get going.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Really good point. We are a super team and there
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: should be no stopping us this year. Except when you're jet-lagged.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what happened.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Is that what happened to week one? We went to Australia.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I've been playing through injury.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: People don't even realize that because I keep it to myself. I, too,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: have a very unique butt injury.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: There you go. All right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: We have a winner, too. Our first winner of the season.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Dennis Bracey from Amanda Park, Washington. Congratulations. The first $ 1, 000
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: has been given away for Factor Fiction. It's a first-time
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: winner for him. I called him yesterday. I always say this.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: One of the favorite parts of my job is to
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: call the winner... uh, every single week. And then of
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: course the grand prize winner at the end of the year. So, um, Dennis, congratulations.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Good stuff. Um, you could still continue to win every
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: single week. We give away a thousand dollars, um, whether
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: that's picking, uh, hopefully fact with our picks and that
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: gets you a point, uh, depending on how we do
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: and then fiction on every other pick, because I think
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: we're going to run away with this title.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Look at that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Now he's calling his own shot. Uh, so, uh, P.S.,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Rich Moore, Purple Sheet, he had never even heard. He's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a Washington guy, didn't he? I haven't even heard of
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Amanda Park, Washington.
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I looked it up. There's like 100 people that live there.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Pretty cool. 120 or something like that?
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: 120?
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And yet, Dennis, look at him. They'll probably put a
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: statue of him up in Amanda Park somewhere.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Probably the biggest accomplishment anyone from Amanda Park has ever had.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Probably in the middle of the park at Amanda Park.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: There'll be a statue now of Dennis, week one Factor
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Fiction winner. All right, let's play some Factor Fiction.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: We're set to go.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Glad you're with us.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: It's your shot at our weekly $ 1, 000 and the $ 10, 000
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• 25:48
  Speaker 5: It's Fact or Fiction.
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• 25:55
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• 25:57
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• 26:02
  Speaker 2: First official pick of the morning show for Anders Hurst.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Let's make it a good one.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I had a really good pick in mind, and I
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: refreshed to make sure the odds. were the same and
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: they changed pretty drastically. I think they just hadn't updated
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: from the open. So I'm going to play the game
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: the right way. I'm not going to stick with whatever
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: I had and just say, oh, you know, the odds
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: that I saw were that. No, I am playing the
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: game with integrity. Well, you're the rulemaker, so if you don't,
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: we're all screwed. That's very true. I have to hold
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: the standard here. I'm going to take, kind of go
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: chasing here with my pick that didn't win last week.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: And hopefully they show an improvement in week two. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: still believe the Lions are a really good football team. Defensively,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: they were up 21-0 against the Saints yesterday. They were
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: cruising to a big victory. It looked like I was
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: going to be 2-0. But they just, as Mike was
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: mentioning at 7 o'clock... The Saints kind of rolled back,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: and they probably ended up really playing better at the
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: end of that game and should have won. They just
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: went for two and didn't get it. I still believe
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: the Lions are one of the best teams in the NFC,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: and they're playing against the Bills on Thursday night. You
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: mentioned that. Great game. They are four and a half
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: point underdogs at this point. Now, the game is in Buffalo.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: So there is that kind of going on the road factor.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And it's the Bills' new stadium. It is the Bills'
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: new stadium. Now, everyone's impressed with how the Bills looked
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: offensively against Houston. I was not as impressed with how
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: they looked defensively against what was supposed to be a
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: pretty struggling Houston offense. So I believe that this game
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: is going to be high scoring. The total is pretty high.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: I'm going to stay away from that, though. I just
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: think the Lions are going to, at the very least,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: keep it close defensively. and have a chance to win
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: it at the very end of the game. I'm taking
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Detroit plus four and a half at Buffalo on Thursday
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Night Football.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: All right, there is your pick. If you agree with
• 28:00
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• 28:04
  Speaker 2: win by five points or more in order for Anders
• 28:08
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• 28:09
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• 28:43
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• 29:29
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk to— we' re actually not going to talk
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: at all. We're going to let Mike McDonald do the talking.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: He was on the Manning cast last night. And a
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: really interesting interview with Mike McDonald. That's about as far
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: as I'll go with it. But again, plus four and
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• 30:16
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• 30:20
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• 30:29
  Speaker 2: We also have Travis Moger with us. Gene, at 8
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: o'clock for the first time this football season, and we
• 30:34
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• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in the program. One thing
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: that we do is mic on the mic here on
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: this show every once in a while, Mike McDonald. And,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: of course, it always begins with Mike McDonald music. And
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: last night, Mike McDonald appeared on the Manning cast in
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the middle of the Manning cast in the fourth quarter.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: And we saw a little bit of a different side.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: We saw kind of the goofy side. We saw how
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: he reacts to being made fun of. They were showing
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: pictures of his. when he was in high school and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: he was a goofy looking sucker.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you that much. He looks like a nerd.
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: In a good way.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And he was asked about, you know, did you know
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that there's another Mike McDonald? And of course, yeah. He's like,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: of course I know that there is. There wasn't a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: substitute teacher that I had when I was a kid
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: that didn't remind me of Mike McDonald, the singer. He's
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the Doobie Brothers. So now all of a sudden, I
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: feel like Mike McDonald's substitute teacher. Because I'm always reminding
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: people that there's another Mike McDonald. So that was part
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of the conversation last night. He also was trying to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: converse while watching a football game and while watching his
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: former running back run wild on the Denver Broncos. We
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: just grabbed a portion of the Manning cast last night
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: when Mike was on in the fourth quarter.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: You said you're maybe the most awkward guy in the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: history of America. My question is, Mike, have you not
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: met Eli before tonight?
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: Well, I think I'm going to live up to that
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: feeling maybe by the end of this segment.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: So I'm trying my best.
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: I don't even understand the joke there, Pate. I don't
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: even get it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Talk about what the Chiefs got in Kenneth Walker because
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: they didn't have much of a run game last year.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: The Broncos didn't have to worry about the run game,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: didn't have to worry about play action. Just talk about
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: what he's able to do, what the Chiefs got.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Well, this is a scary highlight right here.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's really all three downs, Pate.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: You can see him run between the tackles here.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: We saw him bounce the run for the 60-yarder earlier.
• 32:48
  Speaker 11: You know, he's got great hands. He can run a
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: really diverse route for you out of the backfield. You know,
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  Speaker 11: the Chiefs have a great screen game. All that stuff
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  Speaker 11: comes to life with him out there. They always have
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  Speaker 11: something in the red zone to.
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  Speaker 4: Keep you off balance. And it seems like he's a
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  Speaker 4: great fit, so I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 9: Mike, I've got to ask you.
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  Speaker 7: Peyton is, you know, he's talking about the timeouts are
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: only for the offense as kind of a defensive-minded.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, what are your thoughts on this?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know if you guys agree, but Drew
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  Speaker 8: took one yes the other day on, like, second and four,
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  Speaker 8: I think.
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  Speaker 4: And I would have taken when our operation was slow.
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  Speaker 5: But, like, I gave him the look, like, hey.
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  Speaker 8: Man, like– Only I like to take timeouts around here.
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  Speaker 11: I get it.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry about that. I don't know if that would have
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: flew if you guys were playing quarterback for us.
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  Speaker 5: I do like the banter between Peyton and Eli. Like
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: on the Manning cast, them giving each other crap all
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: the time is probably the best part about it, to
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: be completely honest.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: It is, and the interviews might be the worst part.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I love listening to them break down football, but there's
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: no like.
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  Speaker 2: Rhythm to the interviews. They're just all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: They'll ask a football question and then Eli will do
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: a series of trivia questions and ask about Peyton trivia.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like no rhythm to it whatsoever. Um,
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  Speaker 2: it's fun. Uh, we did get some stuff out of coach, uh,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: last night. We got some fun Harbaugh stories from him, uh,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: last night, but from a news perspective, Certainly seeing him
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: sort of sheepishly react to Ken Walker's night last night,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: it was pretty telling. Like, his words really didn't tell
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: much of a story. He just kind of gave the
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: company line, like, what a great player that Kansas.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: City Chiefs got.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, happy for him, da-da-da-da.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Neither manning kind of pinned him down like hey because
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: he comes on my show in that situation i'm like
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: what are you thinking about your former seat probably could
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: have used some of this the other night you know
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: and they didn't press him on that and they also
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: didn't press him on the sam darnold injury question yeah
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: which maybe he said beforehand don't.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Ask i'm sure especially with how secretive the seahawks are
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: being with that that it's a unique buddy it's very unique.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: That's the most secretive you could be.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah he had a travis moger injury Come on. It
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: came naturally, okay? It wasn't even like I was trying
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: to name it that or anything. But I do think
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: that you can almost tell in his answer, he's like, yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: they got a special one. Really good player. Good route tree,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: can do everything in the red zone, all that stuff.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: And you could tell he was really biting his tongue
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: not to say, I wish we had him. You know
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: what I mean? I don't know if he.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Wanted to go that far, but certainly the head coach
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks comes on the Manning cast. already agreed
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: to that long ago before Kenneth Walker was going off.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: And now he's watching for three quarters, his former Superbowl
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: MVP running back, like having the game of his life.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: And he knows in the fourth quarter, I'm going to
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: go on this show and be asked about this. They
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: didn't pin him to the wall with anything. Um, and,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: and so he just kind of kept it as it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: a really good player, right?
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And, and that's about as far as it went from
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: a breaking news perspective. Um, He did say that he
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: intends someday to relinquish his defensive play-calling duties. He also
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: admitted that sometimes he misses plays during the game because
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: he's back talking to his defense, which was interesting. But yeah,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: he said that at some point he'd like to just
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: run the operation and not call the plays defensively. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: if you keep having success, I don't know who on
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: earth you're going to trust to I mean, as much
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: as he likes adding dirty, there's no way that he
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: trusts adding dirt. Adding dirty was allowed to call defensive
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: plays in a preseason game, and he wasn't comfortable with it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: So when you're that good at it, and it's the
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: biggest reason why you're a Super Bowl champion, I don't know.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: When push comes to shove, I don't think he'll ever
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: give it up. I don't think Holmgren would have ever
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: given it up either.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Well, it's funny because we saw that last night. Sean
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Payton relinquishing his offense. It didn't look so good. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And like the guy, that's what he's known for is
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: offensive play calling Sean Payton. And I was very surprised
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: that he ended up making that decision to just be
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: the kind of the CEO type.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: You know, he changed his mind this week, just to
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: warn you.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised considering how they looked. But like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: you know that when, when you know a coach as
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: a schemer, as a guy, like play calling is this thing,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: there are the, the Dan Campbell's and the, the, John
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Harbaugh types where they're just like, yeah, they're just a leader.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: They're the guys that call timeouts. They kind of have
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: a pulse on the team, but then they get their
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: play callers. Mike McDonald's not that. He's very much a
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: play caller. For how much success he's had, I hope
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: he doesn't relinquish it ever. I say don't do it ever.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Don't overthink it. You're great at it. Just keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if someday he doesn't say, I
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: want to try offense. Because I'm that much of a genius.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: I'm so good at what's against it that I could
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: do the opposite side as well. All right.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Coming up, speaking of geniuses, man, you can't spell genius
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: without gene. Gene Steratore is going to be joining us.
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