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Ian Furness 10/7 H3: Corbin Smith, texticals and crosstalk with Softy! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that right now because Corbin
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  Speaker 2: Corbin Smith with us, joining us in the Virginia Mason
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  Speaker 2: Athletic Center. That's the way we.
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  Speaker 3: Go here on a Wednesday afternoon. I like these little
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  Speaker 3: face-to-faces we're doing here on these Wednesdays. This is good.
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  Speaker 3: This is good.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It beats the monotony of picking up a phone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot more personal. Plus, we're here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get, first of all, if we could, let's get
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  Speaker 2: the news of the day. You were in there for
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  Speaker 2: the Mike McDonald News Conference yesterday. So let's go through
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  Speaker 2: the news of the day. First of all, just get
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  Speaker 2: injury report first.
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 5: He is going to practice in some capacity today. So
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  Speaker 5: who knows if that's limited, if it ends up being
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  Speaker 5: a full participant. Mike McDonald reiterated twice that he is
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  Speaker 5: going to be doing something today with that ankle. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't sound to me like they're probably just being cautious
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  Speaker 5: more than anything. Ty Akata is going to practice.
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  Speaker 3: How big is that? Massive. It's massive.
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  Speaker 5: And the guys that have played have done a good job,
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  Speaker 5: but that's why A.J. Finley, who was in the locker room,
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  Speaker 5: so he clearly is back on the practice squad, that's
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  Speaker 5: why they made that move to cut him instead of
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  Speaker 5: cutting one of their running backs. Because Ty Akata, I'd
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  Speaker 5: be really surprised. I think that they could have tried
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  Speaker 5: to play him. last weekend, but it made sense to
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  Speaker 5: hold off one more week, get him a few more practices.
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  Speaker 5: But he should be, barring an unforeseen setback, he should
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  Speaker 5: be ready, and that's big.
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  Speaker 3: They need him in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just go back to two weeks ago without
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  Speaker 2: Okada and Love. What does that do to the Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald defense, what he wants to do?
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  Speaker 5: Look, I don't think it made that big of a
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  Speaker 5: difference in that game. I think in terms of how
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  Speaker 5: they use their safeties. Now, Julian loved the leadership aspect
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  Speaker 5: and the communication. That's the biggest thing you're missing. when
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  Speaker 5: you don't have him out there, or Ty Akata, who's
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  Speaker 5: now been in the system for a few years. It's
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  Speaker 5: just that connection with the defense, with the scheme, and
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  Speaker 5: being able to communicate it. Julian loves playmaking ability on
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  Speaker 5: the back end. Ty Akata's ability to come up and
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  Speaker 5: blitz and do some of the stuff that he can do.
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  Speaker 5: But I thought Rodney Thomas, I think he's played really
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  Speaker 5: well in these four games. I think he's done a
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  Speaker 5: nice job.
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  Speaker 3: And A.J.
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  Speaker 5: Finley, I know he gave up a touchdown in that game,
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  Speaker 5: but I've made this argument since that Commanders game.
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  Speaker 3: They did not lose that game because.
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  Speaker 5: Of their safety situation. It was because they turned the
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  Speaker 5: ball over and they gave up a bunch of points
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  Speaker 5: off of it. I'm not saying it's not a big deal,
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  Speaker 5: but when you play a team that has a really
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  Speaker 5: good quarterback, like the San Francisco 49ers have... with the
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  Speaker 5: weapons that they have, and the maestro that is Kyle Shanahan.
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  Speaker 5: That team just gets injury after injury, and they just
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  Speaker 5: keep on rolling.
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  Speaker 3: They keep winning. He's a top three head coach in
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  Speaker 3: the National Football League, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you were to rank coaches, let's just
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  Speaker 2: say who are the top.
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  Speaker 3: Four coaches in football. Three of them are in this division.
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  Speaker 3: And the other one's name is Andy Reid. Right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you could probably make that argument. Maybe Sean
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  Speaker 2: Payton's five.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think Clint Kubiak's making a run already. What he's
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  Speaker 5: doing in Vegas is really impressive. It's a very short
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  Speaker 5: sample size.
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  Speaker 3: Very short sample size. Okay. Triple option. Seahawks triple option podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, you, Rob Rang, and Robert Turbin, who knows
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about running backs. But you guys spent
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  Speaker 2: some time yesterday talking about the newest Seahawks running back.
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  Speaker 2: Before we talk about him and go down that road
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  Speaker 2: with Robert Henry Jr., who just picked up off the
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  Speaker 2: Commander's Practice squad, let's take a step back. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you guys hear about it on the podcast feedback,
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube and everything else, or Animal City Spectrum. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you're hearing a lot about it. Look at what
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker's doing. Look at what Ken Walker's doing. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Jadarian Price has hurt. He's been hurt a
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  Speaker 2: lot since he's been here. We're four games into the season.
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  Speaker 2: We're four games into his career.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: There's 14 million reasons why, along with JSN, Leonard Williams,
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Devin Witherspoon, et cetera, that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: spend 14 million on a running back. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: to the specific players, how would you describe the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: running back situation? Where it was, where it is, what
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  Speaker 2: it could have been, what it should have been, or
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  Speaker 2: what it is right now?
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  Speaker 5: Well, as far as what it could have been, they
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  Speaker 5: have been missing the juice that Jadarian Price provides. He
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  Speaker 5: clearly has a different gear than any of the running
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  Speaker 5: backs that have been on the roster. George Helani and
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  Speaker 5: Emmanuel Wilson. Wilson's playing really good football right now.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 5: He's got limitations in terms of the burst aspect. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's more athletic than most 230-pound running backs. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: he's got a pretty good accelerator for a player that size, and.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a little twitch to him.
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  Speaker 5: But his game is getting downhill, one cut, barreling over dudes.
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  Speaker 5: That's his game, and I love that kind of running back.
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  Speaker 5: But they haven't had that back that can provide the
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  Speaker 5: explosiveness with Price being hurt and the fumble issues that
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  Speaker 5: he's had. And that's one of the reasons you put
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  Speaker 5: Rashid Shahid back there. And look, they need to do
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  Speaker 5: that at least four or five plays a game moving
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  Speaker 5: forward because it just creates the things you can do
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  Speaker 5: in the passing game with that, too. We've seen him
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  Speaker 5: put JSN in the backfield and make catches. You can
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  Speaker 5: do so much. It creates a lot of conflict for
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  Speaker 5: the defense. But you're also not going to have him
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  Speaker 5: run the ball 10 times a game because he's 175,
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  Speaker 5: 180 pounds.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to break. You can't do that. So they
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  Speaker 3: needed to add....
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  Speaker 5: Some explosiveness, and some juice to that room, Robert Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 5: is going to be the guy that provides that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and I know that you love what you saw
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  Speaker 2: with him in college. I know Rob loved what he
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  Speaker 2: saw with him in college.
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  Speaker 3: Turbo had a fourth or fifth-round grade on him, too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so with that said, why was he an undrafted
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  Speaker 2: free agent, and why was he stashed in the commander's
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  Speaker 2: practice squad where Seattle was able to go grab him?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's two things here. One, he's not a
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  Speaker 3: big back. He's around 5'9, 3 quarters, and 199 pounds.
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  Speaker 3: I just laid eyes on him, and I thought the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. He's not a big guy.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the second thing is he has had
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  Speaker 5: some fumbling issues.
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  Speaker 3: But I will say this.
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  Speaker 5: Jadarian Price had a higher fumble rate than what he
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  Speaker 5: did at UTSA. So the commanders felt like they had
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  Speaker 5: a decent backfield there, and they just signed Austin Eckler,
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  Speaker 5: who has a much different skill set. He's a third-down guy.
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  Speaker 5: which that's not really Robert Henry's game. He can catch
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  Speaker 5: the ball, but he's not a prototypical third-down back. I
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  Speaker 5: thought he had starter-caliber skills coming out of UTSA, and
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  Speaker 5: this was not a good running back class overall. I
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  Speaker 5: had him as my eighth-best running back. I had a
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  Speaker 5: fifth-round grade on him.
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  Speaker 3: I was stunned, and Turbo was stunned.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about this right after the draft, like, why–
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  Speaker 5: why is this guy not drafted? And then we're like,
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  Speaker 5: why did Seattle act like, we're like, you could have
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  Speaker 5: drafted another running back late and I would.
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  Speaker 3: Have had no issue with it.
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  Speaker 5: But he told us today that he had a lot
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  Speaker 5: of correspondence with the Seahawks and they were a team
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  Speaker 5: that he thought might draft him and it just didn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: But he's, yeah, it's one of those mysteries. I think
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  Speaker 5: that because this was not a good running back class,
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  Speaker 5: there were some guys that kind of got caught in the,
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  Speaker 5: got caught in the weeds a little bit, and I
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  Speaker 5: think that led to some guys falling out of the draft.
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  Speaker 3: What did you get from your impressions talking to McDonald today?
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  Speaker 2: Is this guy going to be right in the mix?
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  Speaker 5: That's what I gathered from it. He made it very
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  Speaker 5: clear that they've had a strong evaluation of this kid
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  Speaker 5: throughout the entire pre-draft process. Then he talked about his vision,
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  Speaker 5: which his vision is really, really good. He's got that
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  Speaker 5: ability to go from first gear to third gear, then
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  Speaker 5: skip the second gear. His accelerator is elite. I don't
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  Speaker 5: care that he ran a 4-5-2-40. Like, Jackson Smith and
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  Speaker 5: Jigba ran a 4-5-3.
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  Speaker 3: Say that again.
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  Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jigba ran a 4-5-3-40-yard dash.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to say this.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that the same guy I just saw pull away
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  Speaker 2: in a game a couple weeks ago on a little
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  Speaker 2: fourth down play?
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  Speaker 5: The running back position, and Turbo and I have talked
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  Speaker 5: about this a lot, Turbo's even further down on it.
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  Speaker 5: I think the 40 is incredibly overrated. I look at
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  Speaker 5: the 10-yard split. That matters to me. And his was average.
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  Speaker 5: But when I watch it on film, it doesn't look
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  Speaker 5: like it.
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  Speaker 3: There are just some guys that are faster in pads.
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  Speaker 3: And Robert Henry Jr. is one of the guys.
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  Speaker 5: He had very similar change of direction agility scores to
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  Speaker 5: Raheem Mostert, who was the back that I had a
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  Speaker 5: comp for. And Raheem Mostert's best years, actually most of
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  Speaker 5: his career, was in a Shanahan-style offense, either in San
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  Speaker 5: Francisco with Shanahan or in Miami with Mike McDaniel. And
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  Speaker 5: he was incredibly successful as an undrafted back. I see
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  Speaker 5: a lot of Raheem Mostert in this kid, which is
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  Speaker 5: why I am... Look, mid-season acquisitions like this, you're usually like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: bottom of the roster guy. This one really has me excited.
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  Speaker 5: I think that he could be a guy that down
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  Speaker 5: the line can can give you some significant snaps and
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  Speaker 5: you you have to pay him three weeks as an
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  Speaker 5: active roster player you don't make that move unless it's
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  Speaker 5: a guy that you really really like.
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  Speaker 3: What what are the limitations of emmanuel wilson.
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  Speaker 5: I think that it's just it's the athleticism i mean
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  Speaker 5: he's not going to be a guy that's I think
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  Speaker 5: that he's got some of that traditional junkyard between the tackles,
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  Speaker 5: and I think you can win with guys like that
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  Speaker 5: in the National Football League, but he just isn't going
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  Speaker 5: to hit home runs with what Seattle wants to do offensively.
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  Speaker 5: With them being a team that wants to run that
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  Speaker 5: wide zone, they've got to have somebody that's got, and
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  Speaker 5: that's where Jadarian Price is supposed to be. He's supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be that electric playmaker that is going to be
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  Speaker 5: able to create and.
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  Speaker 3: Hit some home runs. They just don't have that on
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  Speaker 3: the roster right now with him being hurt, though. or
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  Speaker 3: they didn't have it on their roster, that's where Robert
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  Speaker 3: Henry can fit in here as a guy that I
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  Speaker 3: think he had six plays of 70-plus yards last year.
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  Speaker 3: He had insane numbers with explosives at UTSA.
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  Speaker 2: Did Mike McDowell give any indication on Charbonnet's? We didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear anything about Charbonnet. We did find out Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: from him that Charb's not playing this week, so we
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  Speaker 2: know that that's not happening anymore. Thursday still, if they
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  Speaker 2: were playing another Sunday game against the Broncos, I think
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  Speaker 2: that that would be circled.
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  Speaker 3: Such a short week. I just can't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he makes his debut against the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 5: and what a storyline that's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be.
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  Speaker 5: K-9 coming back to town, Zach Charbonnet back in the lineup,
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  Speaker 5: and those two going against each other as starters.
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  Speaker 3: That would be fun. There will be plenty of storylines
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  Speaker 3: in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Corbin Smith with us. All right, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 2: game this weekend. The 49ers roll in here. I had
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  Speaker 2: Derek Hall in here, and he downplayed it, downplayed the
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  Speaker 2: significance of the game. I listened to a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of Cooper Cup. He was a little bit more, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a big game. Mike McDonald, I'm sure, is
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  Speaker 2: telling you all the things, but what's the impression you
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  Speaker 2: get from this team, talking to the guys in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room about this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I talked to a couple of the linemen, and.
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  Speaker 5: I asked him, you know, what's the balancing act here,
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  Speaker 5: trying to treat this like a normal game versus, you know,
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  Speaker 5: understanding and embracing what this really is. And they all
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  Speaker 5: just kind of chuckled and, well, we're going to treat
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  Speaker 5: this like another game. But no, you can read my
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  Speaker 5: body language. Like, no, this is not another game.
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  Speaker 3: It's 49er. But not just that. I mean, this could.
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  Speaker 5: Decide the NFC West. Like, especially because the Rams aren't
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  Speaker 5: playing very good football right now. No. You fall two games,
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  Speaker 5: it would be a game and a half, but you
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  Speaker 5: fall multiple games behind the.
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  Speaker 3: 49ers at this stage of the season. It could be
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  Speaker 3: tough to overcome. You're 3-2, they're 5-0, and they have
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  Speaker 3: one game in hand on you because they've won. It
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  Speaker 3: actually would be two and a half games. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Which would happen, and last year that happened, and they
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  Speaker 2: were able to make it up. But you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing that every year.
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  Speaker 3: No. Go down there and have to. And let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: And you have a first-place schedule. They've got a third-place schedule.
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  Speaker 2: And when you went down there last year, and even
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  Speaker 2: the playoff game, they were missing guys named Warner, pretty
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  Speaker 2: good linebacker, decent, Kittle, et cetera. So a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things went right. And I'm not saying Seattle didn't deserve it. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to have to put yourself
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  Speaker 2: in that position. Let's talk about who they are, though,
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers. I'm talking to Derek Hall. It's a remarkable stat. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a record yet in the NFL or anything,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact that Purdy has not been put on
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  Speaker 2: his back yet on a sack is remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: It is. He's getting the football so dang fast. And
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  Speaker 3: that's a quarterback that's also... That's between the ears and
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  Speaker 3: the coordinator, isn't it? It's like a combination of... Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's the scheme.
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  Speaker 5: Mike Evans has added a dimension. I mean, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to admit, I thought Mike Evans' days as being a No.
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  Speaker 3: 1 receiver were done, but.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of proven me wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I know he's been banged up here and there this season,
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  Speaker 5: but like his presence with his size and his savvy, he's,
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  Speaker 5: they've had injuries in that receiving core and they just,
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  Speaker 5: they just keep and Debo Samuels come back and, and
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  Speaker 5: all he did is have the longest receiving touchdown. That
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  Speaker 5: wasn't actually a reception in NFL history a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they call Shanahan again, just the guy is a,
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  Speaker 5: he is a guru. He knows how to get his
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  Speaker 5: guys in position and, That offensive line, they're protecting them
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  Speaker 5: to an extent with how quickly they're getting the ball out.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to have to take away some of those
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  Speaker 5: early opportunities for Purdy. He's going to have to hold
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  Speaker 5: onto the ball some, which other teams have not been
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  Speaker 5: able to force him to do yet to this point.
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  Speaker 2: I almost feel like they've been keeping Christian McCaffrey in
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  Speaker 2: bubble wrap for bigger games.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously. He's at the stage of his career that you
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  Speaker 3: have to do that with him, too. I don't expect
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  Speaker 3: him to only have 15 touches.
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  Speaker 5: No, he's going to be much more heavily involved. They've
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  Speaker 5: got a good rookie running back in Kayvon Black.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a kid from Indiana. He's a really good player.
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  Speaker 5: So they've got their heir apparent waiting here in a
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  Speaker 5: few years if McCaffrey's no longer the lead guy.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: They've had injuries, but they've still got.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Now, I am curious, and McDonald kind of talked about
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: this a little bit, like, How do they handle their
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: personnel groupings without Kyle Juszczyk and how that impacts your
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: game planning as a defensive coach?
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about that, Corbin Smith.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that because, listen, the fullback is getting
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: to be dinosaur-like in the NFL for some teams, not
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: in the Shanahan offense necessarily. And it's one thing to
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: have a fullback. You know, Brady Russell fills that role
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: with the Utes out this season and stuff like that
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: every now and then. But Juszczyk is more than just that.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: He's an offensive weapon for them.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: He can catch the ball. He can run the ball
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: when you need him to. Not like he gets a
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: lot of carries, but he is a focal point in
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: that offense with his ability to catch, and he's a
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: really good blocker. He's a big part of their run game.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: How do they try to go about moving forward with
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: what they have? They're clearly not going to have anybody
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: in the roster that's going to be him.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: No.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: He's one of one in today's NFL. He's the closest
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: you're going to see to a John L. Williams-type guy
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: in today's league.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Good luck finding somebody else going to do that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering if we see more two-back sets where they
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: have Kalon Black and Christian McCaffrey out there together, which
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: we've seen Brian Fleury sprinkle in.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: That a little bit this year, too. Fleury's influence being
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan. Yes, exactly.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Let's flip to the other side of the football. Seattle's
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: offense led by Brian Fleury. While the 49ers have not
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: given up a sack, they're near the bottom of the
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: league in terms of sacks made.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Without Bosa.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: They don't have a great pass rush necessarily, but they
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: do have good linebackers and so forth. So what's the
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: challenge for Seattle's offense?
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're going to be facing a defense that doesn't
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: blitz very much. They don't pressure very much, but they
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: are really sound on the back end. And Cooper Cupp
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: was talking about this, like, There are teams that try
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: to disguise. The 49ers really are not one of those teams.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: They're kind of like, this is what we're doing.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: We're showing you what we're doing, but we're going to
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: do it really well, and we're going to make life
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: difficult for you. It is going to be on the receivers,
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: dealing with seven and eight guys dropping back in coverage,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: and Sam Darnold as well. You've got to be smart
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: with the football, which he's had a few turnover issues
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: these last couple weeks since he came back from his injury.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: You're going to have a lot of tight windows. that
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: you're going to have to throw into.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: You should have time, but you have to be able
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: to thread the needle and get the ball into tight
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: windows with that extra defender or two coming back in coverage.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: And so far, the opponents of the 49ers have played,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: including Matthew Stafford down in Australia, have not been able
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: to do that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Can we throw that game out, though? Yeah.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think that's the thing. You look at
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: who they've played and what they've done. It's like, well,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: they beat the Rams. Well, yes, they did.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: They did. They beat the Rams.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: But the Rams were idiots. Let's go one day before.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I put no stock in that game. The volume for
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: JSN is impressive. Do they need more from other guys?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yes and no. I mentioned this on our podcast the
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: other day.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: If you would ask me this question a year ago,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I'd be like, yeah, there's no way you can sustain.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But JSN is just different, man.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And you're not going to tell Sam Darnold to stop
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: throwing the ball when he's getting open.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: If he keeps.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Getting open and teams can't take him away, you throw
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the ball to him. And it just opens things up
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: for everybody else. But I will say this, I want
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: to see more with 15. I want to see Torrey
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Horton get more opportunities because every time he gets a
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: chance to make a play, he comes through. Durability's been
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: the biggest issue But when he's out there, he makes
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: things happen. He's got some early Jermaine Curse vibes going
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: on here where every catch he makes is like.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: First down or touchdown.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: He's just one of those guys, and he's far more
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: athletic than Jermaine Curse ever was. He's a legitimate 4-3 guy, 6-2.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: I want to see 15 get some opportunities, especially this game.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I think San Francisco's corners could have some trouble with him.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I'm still, you know, just when you look at the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: numbers this season, the number that jumps off in just
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: in terms of individuals. Yeah, JSN's got 32 catches and
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Cupps got nine.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: And then after that, the.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Drop-off is significant as far as the receivers. I guess
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Rashidi count as a receiver, but they use him in
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the backfield. They do different things with him. But Elijah Royal,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: one catch.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: That's been really disappointing. Just the tight end usage in general.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I expected a lot more, but some of it, I mean.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Barner's only got nine.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: There's one football to go around, and when JSN is gobbling. Again,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: you can say that's a yes or no thing, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: if he's getting open, I'm getting the ball to the
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: best receiver in the NFL.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: But they're only 31% on third down. It's not like
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: they're moving the football at a high rate, right? So
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: there should be an opportunity for somebody there if JSN's
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: not seeing the ball.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: But, yeah, I think Torrey Horton, Elijah Arroyo, I'd like
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: to see more opportunities for those guys.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see a little bit. I mean, A.J.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Barner has been getting a little more active. the last
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: few games. But I would like to see a little
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: more balance in terms of how they're distributing the football.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: But it's a fine balance because I'm perfectly fine with
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: JSN getting a 36% target rate when he's going to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: do what he does.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: What's your assessment of where Sam Darnold is right now?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: it's so crazy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: If you, if you have been checking in on social
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: media that you would, you would think that Sam Darnold
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: has been playing the worst football in the NFL.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you why. I mean, I get it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Drew Locke played great in week two, but you would
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: think Drew Locke was the one that led this team
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: to a Superbowl last year. The way that some fans
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: are like, they're just like, we're going to put two in.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: And it's like, I know Sam's thrown some picks the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: last couple weeks, but he's also got six touchdowns in
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: those two games. I just think he needs a little
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: more time in this offense with this play caller. I
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: know it's a very similar system, but it's a different
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: play caller. And I think that they're still working through
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: some stuff. You got to remember, he didn't play all
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: in the preseason. Then he gets hurt six plays into
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: the season opener. He hasn't had much work in game action.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I think he's doing perfectly fine.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Okay. Perfectly fine would also speak to you. This guy
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: on social media the other day, like, Seahawks can't win
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl with Sam. I'm like... Wait a second. What?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: They're like, as long as we have Sam in there,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: we can't win a Super Bowl. I'm like, my Wikipedia
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: page says that that is a lie.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I was thinking of the Maury, Jeff, where he's like,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that's a lie. Where were you last February, fella?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Come on now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, there's a very strong Drew Locke Yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: And I guess with backup quarterbacks, that happens. Always is
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the case. But it's really bad here. Well, because Locke,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: here's the thing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Darnold hasn't looked like he did last year necessarily. Now,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: he had no preseason games, played a couple snaps in
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: one game, then got thrown in the fire.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Boom, here we go. He's won a Super Bowl for
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: his team. He's fine. But then the other part is
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Drew Locke played great. Like, that's the other thing. And
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: he's so likable, too. I think that he's kind of
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: got that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: He's still got that swag that very few QBs in
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: the league have.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: So I think a lot of fans love that about him.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: His personality to me reminds me of Minshew. It's a Minshew.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You like the guy.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: He's easy to root for. It's cool I'm here. This
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: is awesome. I'll go out and play some ball, whatever.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: There we go, bro.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I'm going to sling the ball around a little bit.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: But he's been much more. The last few starts he's had, though,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: he's been so much better about protecting the football on
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: top of it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He's found that balance. And that's the perception. And he
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: would start.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, I've watched a lot of bad quarterback
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: play in this league this year. There are five or
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: six teams. Atlanta now with Pennix playing the way he is,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I can take them off. But there's five or six
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: teams that I'm like, Drew Locke would be head and
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: shoulders above.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: What you have.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: If you put the true sermon in the Tampa Bay
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Buccaneers $ 100 million quarterback room and said, would you rather
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: have $ 100 million Baker or Drew Locke right now?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I think Baker's a good quarterback, but that's the problem
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: with these quarterback prices. The middle class is getting paid
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: like they're elite by some of these teams, which I
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: don't think that impacts. I think Sam Darnold is going
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: to get that contract next year, and I think he's
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: going to be worth it. But I know there's going
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: to be a lot of fans like, why not just
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: pay Drew.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Locke to be our guy or whatever? All right, Seahawks
• 23:12
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• 23:14
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• 23:17
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• 23:21
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• 23:23
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• 23:43
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• 23:57
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• 24:32
  Speaker 3: local Drew. No AI? Oh, my God, no.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I've used AI like twice on my graphics.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That is it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Like 90% of my graphics I make myself. But even that,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: like it's graphics.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: We don't use AI writing. All right. Let's go do this.
• 24:48
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  Speaker 3: you listen to the podcast. Those guys do a great job.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break. We'll come back. Speaking of AI,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: we have a little bit of fun on our show
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: with this. Ashley will be calling it. Texticles? Texticles.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Texticles?
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's text that we're putting to music, so
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: it's like a musical with text.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Texticle.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: We're going to do this once a week, probably. If
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you send a text in to 49451, we're going to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: put it to music. What's our music choice today?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: We're going New Wave. New Wave. All right. That's coming
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: up next, 93.3 KGRFM.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: They hate Prisco, do they like that we won in.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Their stadium last year for the Super Bowl?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Do they like being made fun of for their kicker
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: trying to trick shot?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: He might be the weakest.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Moment I've ever seen in an NFL game.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, they don't like San.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Fran or the Niners, well... Do you have a treat
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: for them at Lumen Sunday? I John Lee trust Kenny Walker.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Anyone really think his health is going to hold up?
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: He's seemingly fathered, not Rick Saini Walker. He's better than
• 26:08
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• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Think he's running to prove something.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Anchorage. Hammy is coming soon I'm a Packers fan So
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I like that you guys gave Walker.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: Away I think it makes you work But I think
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: the fans are.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Pissed Because you guys claim to be.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
• 26:39
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• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Them away John Walker was a cap casualty after the
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl, plain and simple.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: You can't kick.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Everybody when you're at the top, and John Moore, Troy,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: John takes educated risk.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: He took a risk.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: And pushed it hard, but Marshawn and Jamal Adams, he said, oh,
• 27:02
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• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. I like it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Good job. We're going to start calling that segment. We'll
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: do it once a week. Basically, you took a lot
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: of the text and we make it into a song.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I was looking through the text. I can read half
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of them that I heard in there. A lot of
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: in John we trust. And that's not John Lund, by
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the way. That's John Schneider.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Right. That's John Schneider.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Not a lot of trust in John Lund.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Zero.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Nor should there be.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a name for that. I think
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: we're going to call it Texticals. Texticals. Like a musical.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:53
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  Speaker 3: All righty. All righty.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: All righty then.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Ashley, there's a couple big college football
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: games this weekend.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard. But probably none bigger than the one
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that will take place in Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of Kalen DeBoer?
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I've heard of him, yes. Bought him a big gift
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: basket once.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: He is good at coaching football. They didn't always think
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: that in Alabama.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: No siree, no siree. They are hosting... The University of Georgia. Kirby.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Kirby's coming into town. Not Kirby Moore. This Kirby actually
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: has won games. It's Kirby. Kirby's smart. Kalen DeBoer. The
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Battles of the Ks coming up this weekend. Did you know?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I'll ask you this question. When was the last Georgia
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: win at Alabama?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: That is a good question.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: 2018.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: 2018. Well, I'll give you a little hint.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: The last time that Georgia went into Bryant-Denny Stadium and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: beat the Alabama Crimson Tide, the quarterback for the Georgia
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Bulldogs that day, who threw a game-winning overtime pass, was
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: by the name of Matthew Stafford.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: He's been in the NFL since 1862. It feels like he.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Played against Bart Starr, does it not? It was 2007
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: was the last time they won there. Georgia has played
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: nobody this year. They're still ranked number two. Why are
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: they ranked number two? Because, wait for it, they're Georgia.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Keanu Russell's a stud. 11 touchdowns, 2 interceptions, 1,400 yards
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: passing already. Ah, By the way, the other thing that's
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: kind of cool if you're an Alabama fan, and, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: in my family, we have to be Alabama fans, Ryan
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Coleman Williams, who used to be Ryan Williams. You know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: remember he was just Ryan Williams? Now he's Ryan Coleman Williams.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: He's actually good at football again this year. Four touchdowns already.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Alabama at home. Favored by one and a half all
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: day long. Alabama minus one and a half against Georgia.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Fact, 4-9-4-5-1. I like it.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Kind of.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, fiction 49451. But I'm going Alabama minus
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: one and a half. Weather may or may not be
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a factor, but I'll go Alabama minus one and a half.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Fact 49451. If you disagree and you want to root
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: against Kalen DeBoer, then that just makes you a petty individual.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: And trust me, I know what it's like to be
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: a petty college football fan.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I am the king of it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I like Rudy against him.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Then it's fiction at 49451. You're trying to win a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: $ 1, 000 weekly prize, $ 10, 000 grand prize, courtesy of the Lucky
• 31:02
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• 31:06
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• 31:10
  Speaker 2: think Georgia's going to either win or not lose by
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: more than two points, then it's fiction, 49451.
• 31:18
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• 31:19
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• 31:24
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• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Game is at 4.30 on Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bryant-Denny.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Stadium on ABC. Going to be a good one. Going
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: to be a good one. Hopefully.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Going to be a good one. You root against K-1,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: though I get that. I would probably be the same way.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I would probably be the same.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Although I did enjoy the gift basket I bought him.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I like Kalen. I like him a lot. I like
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: his team a lot. I think it's almost laughable that
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: he's sitting there at 5-0 and 3-0 in the SEC
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and people are still giving him grief down there.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: He's still under pressure. It's like, what do you want
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: from this guy?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Come on now.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: He's doing a nice job. So there you go. Alabama,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: minus one and a half. Fact, 4-9-4-5-1. Disgrief, fiction, 4-9-4-5-1.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Big thanks.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: To Lucky Eagle Casino and Resort. Every day feels lucky.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: You know what we're lucky with?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: We get to talk to Dave Mahler every day at 245.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Isn't that a lucky thing? Don't you feel lucky when
• 32:29
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• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Anybody there? Anybody there on the other end? Lucky. Blessed,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: as Derek Hall would say. Do you feel blessed?
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I'm blessed.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: So much. How are you doing today? I'm blessed. I've
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: got to talk to Softie.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Softie will join us next. One more time. Alabama, minus
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: one and a half. Text FACT to 49451. Fiction, if
• 32:48
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• 32:51
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• 32:51
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• 32:55
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• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction, 49451 Alabama minus one and a half.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Softee is next.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: All righty then. All righty.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Here he is.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: You picked a good game to call last night. Holy moly.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: If you like rhubarbs and Donnybrooks.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was... Fisticuffs. Fisticuffs. That was not... I got
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: a message... I don't pick them.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: I know. I got a message from a buddy of
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: mine who said, and I quote, and I quote, because
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: unlike me, you love compliments. Ian's call, the Kraken-Brandon-Montour fight
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: last night ranks right up there with the famous, this
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: guy is drunk, but there he goes call from Kevin Harlan.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: I think that's a compliment.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Well, if... If your name is in the same sentence
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: as Kevin Harlan.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: That's right. Actually, wait a minute. He did put you
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: in the same sentence as Kevin Harlan. He said, Ian Stunk,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: I'd rather hear Kevin Harlan.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Well, most people would say that. Okay. I'm just kidding.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Including me. Including me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: My God. I mean, outside of that, holy moly.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Jeez, man. Yikes. I don't pick the games that John misses.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, that was not fun.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Usually he picks the games that he misses are the
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: ones where they wear the third jersey where you can't
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: see the numbers.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, is that really?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: It literally became a thing last year. It's like, I
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: text him once, I go, you know they're wearing the
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: third jersey. He goes, yep, I know. Have a good call.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, great, super.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: So he's got that kind of authority where he can
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: just walk out whenever he wants.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Forslund is, yeah, he's the man.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Okay, I get it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Hey, he's earned it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: He's earned it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: He's as good as it gets. So, yeah, it was
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: not a fun game last night. And why is your
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: TV up so high, Dave?
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: Because there's a fireplace.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: On the wall? God, I love social media. I love
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: social media.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: How about that? For those that don't know, and why
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: would you know, I put a photo of Ian on
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: my TV, on social media, on Twitter, and this guy
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: wrote back, why is your TV so high? Oh, because
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: it would cover the fireplace.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: If it didn't. Yeah, I'd rather it not melt.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: And it's already too hot to begin with when you
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: turn the fireplace on, so whatever bozo put that up there.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Well, that was the thing. First of all, how can
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: they tell it's that high? The picture doesn't. I don't know, man.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Why do people have to comment on everything?
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Do you agree with the post I put on Twitter
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: this afternoon? Did you see the last post that I made,
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: by the way?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Standby. I'm on your Twitter. It's called X now, by
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I call it Twitter.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. The one from two hours ago?
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, read that out loud.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: This is from Dave Softy Mahler.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Actually, see if you agree with this, by the way, too.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler, at SoftyKJR. You can follow him on Twitter.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Here we go.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: This app is exposing how dumb humanity actually is.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: The stupidity that walks among us is terrifying. You stupid idiot!
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Could not agree more. Might be the smartest thing you've
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: ever said.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: People think that's like some kind of a political statement.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: I'm like, no, no, politics.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: There's nothing political about that.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: Stupidity knows no affiliation. I will tell you that right now.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: None whatsoever.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Last I checked, dumb and stupid both cross the aisle.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: 100%.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: They're on the left. They're on the right. They're down
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: the middle.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: I constantly find myself asking, why am I talking to
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: somebody I don't even know who they are? I mean,
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: it's like... If you don't even use your name, I
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: could be yelling at a computer in Russia for all
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: I know. I mean, like, what am I doing with
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: my life, right?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: What's going on? Do you block or mute anybody? Mute.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Mute's the only way to go. Mute is the only
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: way to go. I do have a few hundred people
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: on my block list, but that has not been, I
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: have not used that tool in a while. I think
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: muting people is by far and away the way to
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: go because then they get on you and they think
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: that they're getting to you, but they're yelling at a
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: wall and they have no idea.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I probably have a couple dozen muted since I started
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: the new account.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: The new account.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I don't block because when they see the block you
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and it makes them feel entitled.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: I think that's exactly it. I think the mute button
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: is the greatest feature that Twitter has to offer. Not
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: even close.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It's fantastic. Your buddy Mike Silver blocks everybody. He tells you,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I'm blocking you. I'm blocking you. And people are like,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I don't care. Whatever. Whatever. Please don't block me.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Got to go start a new account and follow you,
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: I guess.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: So anyway, yeah. Well, how are you feeling about Sunday, man?
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: You feel good about the Niners and Hawks on Sunday?
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: Look at you. And the words of Mike Holmgren, ye
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: of little faith.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: No, I feel good.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I think, you know what, they've screwed around enough this year,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Seattle has. This is when you actually hit the switch.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: This is when you hit the switch, get it going,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: start spreading that ball around a little bit.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: This is when you keep your phones on.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: That happened yesterday. I swear to God, I turned it off.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: That is a fine.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: What is going on here?
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: It's fine. You're a professional.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: And the reason why I have that ringer is because
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: I can't hear squat.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: So I got to have it as loud as possible.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I got to have the old school, you know, what
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: do you call it? What's the old?
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like the rotary phone.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Rotary.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Thank you. I got to have the old school rotary phone, whatever.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Rotary.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: What the hell is a rotary phone? Isn't there a
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: club called Rotary? You think kids today have any idea
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: what a rotary phone is, by the way?
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Not a chance. Not a clue. So what do you
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: do on the sideline? Do you have, like, full headsets,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: or what do you use on the sideline?
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: I got headsets, and they're cranked all the way up.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: And a funny story, by the way, at the USC game,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: so if you know the Coliseum, the area where the
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Heisman numbers are, to the right, the open end of
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: the Coliseum. They have these suites that they set up with, like,
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: tents and all that stuff. And so I'm on that
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: end of the field, and I got to be honest
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: with you, this is, like, mid-third quarter. I got to pee, like, badly,
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: all right? I mean, I'm just pounding water. It's 100
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: degrees outside. And I got two choices. Either, A, go
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: into the porta-potties in the suite area or run all
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: the way down the sideline up the tunnel to the
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: bathroom on the other end of the stadium. So I
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: decide to go into the restroom, put my microphone down
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: on the table there by the sink in the porta-potty,
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: lie down. the door, do my business. And our engineer,
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Ashley Boer, who did her first game Saturday, and she
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: was awesome, by the way. Did a great job. She
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: can hear me taking a leak in the port-a-potty. Oh,
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: my God. Okay? Like a naked gun type situation.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Did you not turn the microphone off?
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: No, I did not. And then I realized, by the way,
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: after I was done with my business, that I didn't
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: know how to open the door and I was locked
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: in there.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm banging on the door, let me out,
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: let me out, let me out. Like my worst nightmare, man.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: I'm going to get locked in a porta potty during
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: the Husky broadcast. I'm literally this close from asking Ashley
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: to put me on the air to let Elise and
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Cam know on the broadcast that I'm locked in a bathroom.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: And then I finally figured out how to open the door.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: It was a different contraption. I wasn't familiar with it,
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: and it freaked me out.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: It's not a normal. They have different porta-potties at USC?
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: They definitely have a different lock on the door, and
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: I didn't know how to use it. I'm sorry.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Well, you knew how to lock it.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: I locked it from the inside, and there's like a
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: latch that you got to, you know, whatever. Just shut up,
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: all right? I locked myself in the porta potty.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I was dumb enough. And you left the microphone on.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: And I left the microphone on. It's a good thing
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: I was doing number one and not number two. I'll
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: tell you that right now.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Okay? Let's go to Softie on the sideline.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: Can you imagine?
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: That would have been terrible.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: The level of professionalism on the Husky broadcast, it just
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: exceeds all expectations.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: I think the Learfield guys would have said, yeah, that's
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: not our guy. That's not our man. It's like when
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Barry Ackerley brought in, that guy, was it Peter King?
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: Peter King did the old ESPN show, right, with Tony
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: Bruno and Chuck Wilson back in the day. Peter King
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: came in here for a tryout on KJR. 30 years ago,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: brought him in to put him on the air. Tom
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: Lee brought him in to put him on the air.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: And Peter King goes on the air. Not Peter. Was
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: it Peter King? Is that who I'm thinking of? No,
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: not Peter Vesey.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Peter King's like the sports host.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Not Peter King, the writer. I'm getting the guy's name
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: all messed up. He did a show with Tony Bruno
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: and Chuck Wilson on ESPN Radio on Saturdays. I know
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: who you're talking about. His name may have been Peter King,
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: but not that Peter King. So he comes into town,
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: goes on the air, and this is back when Barry
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: Ackerley owned the radio station and the Sonics. And Peter
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: goes on the air and decides to rip apart the
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: pay-per-view broadcast of Sonic Basketball that Barry Ackerley had just
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: launched in Seattle on the station that this guy owns.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: So Barry calls down to Tom and says, yeah, that's
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: not our guy. Not our guy.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, how'd the tryout go? Not good.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: He was one and done, by the way. One and done. Yeah,
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: Peter somebody got his name. It's killing me right now.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: He was very good on the air.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I can hear the voice, actually.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know who I'm talking about.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: All right. All right, well, on that note, what do
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: you got coming up? I'm glad we got that cleared up.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Is it Petros?
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: Petros, Kevin Harlan, Mike Florio, and then Larry Kruger is
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: going to be running his San Francisco mouth at 6 p.m.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: talking Niner Seahawks. Can't wait for that.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Apparently they don't like us down there. That's what Lund
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: told me today when I was on his show.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: You know what? If you had somebody who came into
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: your house and won the biggest trophy that American sports
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: has to offer on your field, you wouldn't like them either.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: No. And the last time you won, Joe Montana was
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: the quarterback.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: That's right. That's right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Have a good show, sir. All right, then. See you.
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: For the mild-mannered and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: Paddle Day saying so long, everyone.