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10-14 H1: What's On Tap, ABC's & Lazy Takes · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, great morning to you all. Welcome into this radio
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  Speaker 1: program that we're going to call today, Chuck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. It is a Wednesday or
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  Speaker 1: a hump day edition. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell, Anders Hurst, and Christopher Kidd with you until
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  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock this morning. And, of course, we have our
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  Speaker 1: normal Wednesday lineup that is coming your way. And you're
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  Speaker 1: going to want to hear from all of them. But
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  Speaker 1: we first wish you a great morning here on this day.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the suit idea? I gave the suit idea,
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't do it. You didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I somehow put that past my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like the exact same outfit you had on yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just slight differences.
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  Speaker 1: Same hooded sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 2: Slight differences. I got my jeans on today instead of
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  Speaker 2: my sweats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you put pants on today?
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  Speaker 2: I upgraded a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I see. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: You're wearing the same vest as you do almost every day.
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  Speaker 1: That is not true. It's a jacket. It's not a vest.
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  Speaker 1: It's a jacket. Okay. All right. My goodness. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Or we're taking shots early.
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  Speaker 1: Kid, come on. Not defend it. Come on. It's 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Or 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: A jacket is not the same as a vest. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a part of my routine. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: should just wear sweats every day. I think we should.
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  Speaker 1: The sink thing was a little extra. But I understand
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  Speaker 1: where you're coming from. Come on, kid. Don't you think
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  Speaker 1: we would look sharp as a group if we all
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  Speaker 1: came in? Clean shave. I think Rich would laugh at us.
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  Speaker 1: What are you guys doing? No, he would think it
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  Speaker 1: would be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: He would want everyone else to do it. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Look at these guys. I mean, we got gold
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  Speaker 1: stars in our meeting yesterday. We were pretty much told.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to tell Tales of Seattle
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  Speaker 1: to school. But we were pretty much told by our
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  Speaker 1: boss we're the best show that there is on the station.
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  Speaker 2: I heard we're the best employees. That's what I heard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you heard something different, Chris, but pretty much got
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  Speaker 1: told yesterday that he doesn't care about any other shows
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  Speaker 1: but ours. We nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: We got A plus pluses, and I'm excited for him
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  Speaker 4: to now give us all.
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  Speaker 1: A vacation of our choice. No, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Damn it.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean someone else is going to cover our show?
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  Speaker 1: That's why we're so favored in the eyes of the boss.
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  Speaker 1: Because you show up. Yeah. Don't take vacations. Because I
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  Speaker 1: never take vacations. That's why. That's why we get A-plus
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  Speaker 1: grades all the time. Jackson, show me your ways. Fane,
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  Speaker 1: show me your ways.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'd rather be on the gets their
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  Speaker 1: vacation list than I would be on the told good
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  Speaker 1: job list. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Pat you on the back, but.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to come every day. Chuck, you haven't been
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  Speaker 1: sick in over two years, man. Thanks for your service.
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  Speaker 2: You're the best employee.
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  Speaker 1: Sick in two years. I've had one sick day in 11.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that backfired.
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  Speaker 1: Well done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's one sick day in 11. You think that's ever
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  Speaker 1: been pointed out?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: One sick day in 11 years. That's why you're the
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  Speaker 1: best employee, though, right? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: How much sick time have you accrued?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We can look it up in the break. I want
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  Speaker 1: to know now. Over 200 hours. The max amount? Yeah. Probably.
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  Speaker 2: Probably.
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  Speaker 1: Just take a month off because you're sick. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: okay with that. I get it. Yeah, I got sick and, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had to call in. Personal days don't count. I
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  Speaker 1: had to take a personal day one time. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just one actual sick day. And then I was going
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  Speaker 1: to take a second because I wasn't healthy and was told,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it from home. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And that was weird.
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  Speaker 1: Horrid that was atrocious because i couldn't turns out i
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it from home not to any level anyway
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  Speaker 1: but yeah i mean i'd hate for this to get
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  Speaker 1: out to ian or greg or softy or dick but
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  Speaker 1: yeah we were pretty much told yesterday we're awesome and
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  Speaker 1: you guys are all troublemakers.
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  Speaker 2: Can you clip that and send that to kjr programming
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  Speaker 2: so that everyone knows that's what he said that would.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely definitely sting a little more Just in the program
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  Speaker 4: notes after the show.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we're the number one team.
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  Speaker 2: The A team, dare I say.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much everybody's favorite. That's what I took from the meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, too.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I got. I get it that listeners all
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  Speaker 1: have their own personal opinions on what they favor. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so odd that every single person favors us.
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  Speaker 2: Including our boss.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good. It does feel good. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: feel bad. I like those guys. I care about those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I want to protect their future. But, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be lying if I didn't say it was great to
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  Speaker 1: hear we are every human being's favorite radio station.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just happy he didn't take us a grade down
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  Speaker 4: after my tasteless joke oh yeah our conversation not not
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  Speaker 4: just like whoa.
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  Speaker 1: That was even after chris totally insulted him so imagine
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  Speaker 1: what kind of great compliment we were going to get
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  Speaker 1: if not for you totally insulting the.
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  Speaker 2: Boss totally The thing is about that joke.
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  Speaker 1: Now I really want to go back in time and
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  Speaker 1: find out what he was really going to say to us.
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  Speaker 1: He had to temper it because you enraged him.
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  Speaker 4: He literally said that too, which is funny. I'm actually
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  Speaker 4: pissed off right now.
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  Speaker 1: He was going through something. You added something to it
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  Speaker 1: and we still got that compliment.
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  Speaker 2: Blowing reviews.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder what we would have heard if not for you
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  Speaker 1: jumping the gun a little bit. We might have been
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  Speaker 1: given money. Extra time off. My bad, guys. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ruining it for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a meeting today and I'll apologize. Anders could
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  Speaker 1: have gotten a new sweatshirt out of it. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: a lesson on how to tell a difference between a
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  Speaker 1: jacket and a vest. Think about all the things that
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  Speaker 1: we could have benefited from had you not insulted the
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  Speaker 1: boss at the beginning of the meeting.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, great to have you with us all as we
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  Speaker 1: get started here on this Wednesday morning. It is a
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  Speaker 1: hump day and I will go through what's on tap
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  Speaker 1: coming up for you here in a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: I know we've already kind of gotten ahead of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a short week for the Seahawks. And so it
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  Speaker 1: was obligated. We were obligated to get ahead of it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Hell, I'm bringing up the Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 1: on Monday morning. But we have a game tomorrow. It's
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  Speaker 1: already tomorrow. The start of the brand new week sneaks
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  Speaker 1: up on you. But we will be in Denver to
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  Speaker 1: take on the Denver Broncos. Just to kind of recap
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  Speaker 1: something yesterday that I said, not at this segment, because
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  Speaker 1: we talked, you know, because we have more to discuss
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  Speaker 1: on the Denver Broncos, but just to kind of One
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations that we had yesterday was just how
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  Speaker 1: similar the Seahawks are to this Denver Broncos team. And
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  Speaker 1: that is that they're both three and two. They're both
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  Speaker 1: defense first teams. They both have quarterbacks that have had
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  Speaker 1: to overcome injuries. Bo Nix was during the offseason rehabbing.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's was game number one, trying to get back
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  Speaker 1: on the field as quickly as possible. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: either quarterback's playing their best at this stage in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the teams are both three and two on
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  Speaker 1: the year. Both teams have great head coaches. Both teams
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  Speaker 1: have fantastic fan bases. And of course, we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with theirs in Denver on Thursday. Both teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to be wearing throwback jerseys. And both teams had
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  Speaker 1: huge expectations that I don't think have to go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: heading into this game. But both of these teams are
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  Speaker 1: facing the consequence of starting this season 3-3 on the year.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, a lot of similarities that go into
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  Speaker 1: the making of this matchup. and it feels a lot
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  Speaker 1: more important to both of those teams than I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was going to when the season began.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think both of these teams... I still feel
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  Speaker 2: like Denver, if they had Bo Nix healthy, probably would
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  Speaker 2: have been the team the Seahawks faced in the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl last year. And I mentioned how similarly, not just
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  Speaker 2: in terms of how this season is playing out, but how...
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  Speaker 2: They're built. It's very much their depth oriented, obviously, defense
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  Speaker 2: kind of first in terms of the roster. Coaches are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, well known for their scheming in one on offense,
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  Speaker 2: one on defense. One's a little more experienced than the
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  Speaker 2: other one. And both quarterbacks are a little bit underperforming
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  Speaker 2: to start the season, at least in terms of defense.
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  Speaker 2: what we expected from them. So this is a very
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  Speaker 2: kind of a turning point for, I think both of
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  Speaker 2: these teams coming into tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of gets you up to speed on
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  Speaker 1: where they've been to this point in the season. But
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  Speaker 1: new information, new analysis for you here on a hump day. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Broncos, I think they would tell you
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  Speaker 1: to a man that, man, we're three and two and
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  Speaker 1: we're lucky to be there. Their defense hasn't been as dominant. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: despite how you might feel about the Seahawks not playing
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  Speaker 1: as well as what they did a year ago, this
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  Speaker 1: team was three and two a year ago at this time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right now, as we speak, the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league in yards allowed.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, we're not number one in points allowed, but
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  Speaker 1: we are number one in yards allowed to this point
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  Speaker 1: in the season. And they're not even going yet. They're
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  Speaker 1: not even clicking. And as Mike McDonald has said over
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  Speaker 1: and over, I hate early games because I don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough tape on our opponent. And so by season's end,
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  Speaker 1: uh he'll catch up to that um and and and
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  Speaker 1: every single year that he's ever been a coach of
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  Speaker 1: a defense it's gotten better as the season's gone along
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  Speaker 1: uh denver you know They've got a very good defense,
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  Speaker 1: and I expect that we're going to see that on
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  Speaker 1: showcase starting on Thursday. But they're not playing as well defensively.
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  Speaker 1: Now they face some really good competition as what the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are to this point of the season. Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: is just not where he wants to be in his
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  Speaker 1: performance either. And one of the things, there's a reason
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  Speaker 1: that Sean Payton, by the way, another similarity, two head coaches,
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  Speaker 1: both of them call their own plays in their specialty area. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton just took those rights back from Davis Webb
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  Speaker 1: just a week ago, and he didn't exactly turn the
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  Speaker 1: offense around. But I mean, what we've seen out of
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix so far, and I think this is really telling,
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  Speaker 1: they like to throw the ball because they really don't
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  Speaker 1: have running backs. Another similarity to the Seahawks. Their running
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  Speaker 1: back room is a major question mark. So they throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball a lot more than they run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: They are 12th. Bo Nix is 12th in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League in pass attempts, but he's 21st in yards.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big drop-off. So what does that tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Not efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, it tells you that he's not throwing the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field. He's checking down. He's taking the
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  Speaker 1: safe pass. his yards per pass attempt, which is, Hugh
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  Speaker 1: Millen will tell you, a very telling statistic, a lot
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  Speaker 1: more so than turnovers in trying to figure out a
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  Speaker 1: winner because it suggests that you have a quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: takes chances downfield, takes chances on big explosive plays. And
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  Speaker 1: that was a big knock on Bo Nix going all
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  Speaker 1: the way back to Oregon. Will he threaten you downfield?
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  Speaker 1: And then You know, the Broncos convinced themselves this guy
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  Speaker 1: could be a Drew Brees type, and we can lean
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  Speaker 1: on that accuracy, that intelligence, that athletic ability that isn't
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson-like, but the movability is going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to extend plays, keep them alive, and that's where we'll
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  Speaker 1: get the explosives. eventually not because of his arm strength
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  Speaker 1: well so far whatever Bo Nix has done in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason and in the offseason getting ready for this upcoming
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  Speaker 1: regular season he's not comfortable nor is Sam Darnold in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion not after what I watched on Sunday but
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  Speaker 1: he is he's checking it down a lot he's 28th
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  Speaker 1: you know amongst NFL starters I mean he's down with
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  Speaker 1: Cam Ward and Daniel Jones he in terms of yards
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  Speaker 1: per pass attempt so far. So that to me suggests
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  Speaker 1: this is an offense that has run on the principle
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  Speaker 1: of don't turn it over. And this is an offense
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  Speaker 1: that does not have a running game. Therefore, they're having
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  Speaker 1: a difficult time getting stuck in the mud offensively, and
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  Speaker 1: they're just not taking the big chances downfield. I would
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  Speaker 1: think that's something Mike McDonald and the Seahawks defense would
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  Speaker 1: gobble alive. But it's a curious thing, this sports world.
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  Speaker 1: And you never know what's going to cut loose a player,
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  Speaker 1: what's going to unlock them. We know Bo Nix is
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. I don't know if we go much beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a pretty good quarterback who had a really
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  Speaker 1: good season a year ago. But right now, he is
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  Speaker 1: the most conservative guy in town. And I think I
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  Speaker 1: welcome that. On Thursday, because my guess is on a
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  Speaker 1: short week that Bo Nix against the Seahawks isn't going
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  Speaker 1: to finally discover his courage to throw the ball downfield.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's not going to have the he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to lead the league in intended air yards, as as
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  Speaker 2: he would always say. And I think, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: that plays into the Seahawks hands if it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of checkdowns and short passes. It relies on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yards after the catch from the offensive perspective.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks are probably the best, if not one of
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  Speaker 2: the best tackling teams in the NFL. So it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take consistently moving down long drives to drive the
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  Speaker 2: ball on this defense. And I just we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this multiple times. And this is even more so the
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  Speaker 2: case this week. Teams can't do that. As long as
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  Speaker 2: you give them a longer field to have to go
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  Speaker 2: down and create a touchdown drive on long 10-plus play drives,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of teams are going to have success
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  Speaker 2: against the Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they're going to have less as
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  Speaker 1: the season goes along. The factor that a short week
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  Speaker 1: will play on both teams... That remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it leads to really sloppy games. Sometimes it leads
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  Speaker 1: to high-scoring games. Sometimes it leads to low. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if there is a formula for what happens, but
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  Speaker 1: my guess is for two teams that are known for
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  Speaker 1: their defense, that have quarterbacks that aren't playing their A
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  Speaker 1: game right now, and I think understandably so, and two
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  Speaker 1: running games that aren't helping either quarterback either offense whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: my guess we're probably going to land on low scoring
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  Speaker 1: sloppy yeah thursday night football action um and you know
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  Speaker 1: uh and it might come down to who makes the
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  Speaker 1: fewest mistakes that might be where we end up uh
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night but it's going to be an electric atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: both teams are going to be wearing their throwbacks.
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  Speaker 4: As you wanted yeah you put that out there and
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  Speaker 4: you know 30 minutes later yeah they listen.
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  Speaker 1: To you yeah when uh I wanted them for the 49ers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: We would have won. We would have won if we
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  Speaker 1: wore the right jerseys. Everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: What do you guys think about the Denver Broncos going
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  Speaker 4: back and watching the tape and seeing how they use
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  Speaker 4: Mike Evans? Not saying Cortland Sutton is anywhere near what
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  Speaker 4: Mike Evans is, but height-wise, he could potentially create a
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  Speaker 4: challenge for No. 29 if they, you know, hey, let's...
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  Speaker 4: Let's try to get our big over there and do
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  Speaker 4: something similar.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'd probably try to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of that. But I also think Mike Evans made those.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Evans was covered on those plays. Yes, he was.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Evans made those catches because, number one, Brock Purdy
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  Speaker 1: threw that accurately, especially in the fourth quarter. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if Bo Nix is throwing that accurately downfield
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  Speaker 1: right now or ever. And then, number two, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if anybody. I mean, because Mike Evans is slow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, at this stage in his career, and he was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike Evans got by with that purely on guile,
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  Speaker 1: knowing how to position his body, knowing how to absolutely
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of his length over Josh Jobe's length, and
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  Speaker 1: kind of like boxing him out, like Dennis Rodman going
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  Speaker 1: for a rebound. Right. Kind of like boxing him out
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  Speaker 1: just to give him that angle. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: Sutton's got those skills, you know? I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: good receiver. Yeah, absolutely. He's not Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not Mike Evans' intelligence, know-how, skill set. So, yeah,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I think they'd be fools not to try it, but
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I doubt that they would have the same success, anywhere
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: close to the same success, because simply Cortland Sutton's not
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Mike Evans. And I would think that Josh Jobe learned
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: something about that play.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Grow a couple inches?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: It's hard to do in a few days. Yeah, I mean,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: if he cared. If Josh Jobe cared about the team,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: he will grow two inches before Thursday.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: You heard it here first.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I think it's a phenomenal point. Yeah. So, I mean,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: if you can't grow to 6'2 by tomorrow, Josh.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? Don't even show up at the bus.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Just stay home and have your mom, like, spoon feed
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you pudding. you know, if that's what you need, you know, yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Take a bath. We'll be fine without you, you know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: but you could show up at six too. And that
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: will prove to us that you really care about your teammates.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Seattle, about Seahawks football and what it takes to be
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a champion.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Putting it all on the line, you know, when you
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: need to add to your height, do it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: My grandma was five, like five foot tall. I think
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: maybe even under five feet tall. And, uh, She was always,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I can't reach that. I can't reach the cookies. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: want to get you a cookie. I can't reach it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And so I would always like, damn it, Grandma, grow.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Tired of this. Every time I come over, you're not
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: tall enough to reach something. You really cared. Yeah, you've had,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I haven't been here in two weeks. You haven't had
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: time to grow? All right, let's find out what's on tap.
• 18:36
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• 18:50
  Speaker 1: All right, so tomorrow, Thursday night football, Seahawks at the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Greg Bell's going to join us this morning
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: at 7.05. Yesterday, the Rams, they cut Mivas and found
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: out that Alaric Jackson was going to be suspended, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so they're going to be without Mivas and Butthead for
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. He is fat. College football, Huskies and Purdue are
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: going to play Friday night football this week. Cam Cleland
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: will join us today at 9 o'clock as he does
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday. Cam's had a pretty critical eye since last week.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Friday night. So we might get some razor sharp analysis today.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: No holds barred analysis today from Cam Cleland. College football
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: week number seven. It is loaded. I didn't even realize it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: how loaded it was until I started jotting down the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: games for the Rick Neuheisel conversation yesterday. And man, I'm like,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: how are we going to get all these games in?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: There are so many good matchups. Of course, the biggest
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: one will be Ohio State versus Indiana. Kraken won in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a shootout last night against Philadelphia, and so that counts
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: as two points. Flyers get a point out of it
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: as well, and they really needed a point. But the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Kraken win in the shootout, they've now won three straight. Yeah,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was their best game of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the year against maybe the worst team that they faced.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're right there with Calgary.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Even though they played Calgary in Calgary.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah. That's clear. That much is clear.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: That's very clear. I didn't even have to mention that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: But they get the shootout, which is not something that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: they've been good at over the years is winning in
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the shootout. But they get it. They get their two points.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And now we're on to Florida, where they're going to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: take on the Panthers and the Lightning before they return home.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: from a five-game road trip, which couldn't have gone better
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: than it's gone thus far. It's match day for the Sounders.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: They're in Dallas taking on the Fighting McConaughey's tonight. We'll
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: ask our soccer expert, Anders Hurst, about why the Sounders
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: have turned things around so easily, seamlessly here in the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: last few weeks. We'll do that later on in the show.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: WNBA final start on Saturday. That's Atlanta versus Golden State.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: NBA season starts in six days. Kids counting down. The
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: moments he eats a chocolate kiss every single day to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: get him ready for the NBA season. Like an advent calendar.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Almost there, baby. Very religious experience for him. And the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball playoffs last night, Tampa Bay and Cleveland
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on the main stage where the Rays did win over
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the Guardians 3-1 the final. to even that series at
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: one game apiece. I could live with seven games between
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: those two teams. Maybe the country doesn't care, but I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: think it's been some pretty entertaining baseball. I agree. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: then game three of the NLDS is going to happen
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: tonight in Los Angeles. Joey Otani will be in the lineup,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: it sounds like, for the Dodgers. They were thinking about
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: benching him. He's dealing with injuries. He says, I'm going
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to play, and they said, okay. Game three, National League
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Divisional Series tonight at 5 o'clock. This might even be
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: something worth going to the old pub for tonight. All right,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: coming up next, I've got to close out the ABCs
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of the M's. It'll be our final exit ABCs of
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the M's, sort of, to close out the season. So
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: we'll do that next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: wrapped it up with another round of ABCs. And that's
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: where we are today. We're at the XYZ portion. Now,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I am going to do a special ABCs for you
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: on Monday morning. Since we don't have a Seahawks game
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to recap from Sunday on this Monday morning. But this
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: will serve as our final ABCs of the season. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: know it makes at least Nick Allen one of the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: great listeners of all time. May Simms had when the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: ABCs go away.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Even if he's the only one. I
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: get sad. No ABCs to Mariners? It just means one
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: less little smidgen of baseball to talk about, which is
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite things.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Well, let's finish out the alphabet for the final time
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of 2026 in this form. And X is for ex-managers.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And look, I came in pretty hot on, man, if
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you're going to change the manager... and you're Jerry DiPoto,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and you've hired two different managers since being in charge
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: of the Mariners, and neither of them have had managerial experience,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: much less success as Major League managers, then I think
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to need to do this. If you believe
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you have a roster that should have won this year,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and not just their division, but should have really put
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: pressure on winning the World Series, if you felt that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: way and came as disgustingly short as you did, it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: seems to me like you can't just roll the dice
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: on some unproven commodity. So I thought for sure that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: this was going to end with them landing a proven commodity.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: But the more we think about it, the more you
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and I discuss it, the more it's looking like, man,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a difficult needle to thread because
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: there's really not anybody of age who who has championship
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: experience that is available. Joe Maddon has championship experience and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: is available, but he's a few years removed from sort
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of being chased out of the game. Right. Because he
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: was going too crazy with the gut. And he also
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a good relationship with Jerry, dating back to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Socia. So that's kind of out. And then if
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you start looking at those with some success and managerial experience,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: your list is like Brandon Hyde, Rocco Baldelli. And I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: think those would be okay. I think if I heard those,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right with that. But it's nothing
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that's going to blow you away. Alex Cora says he's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: not going to manage next season. That's somebody with experience
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and championship experience. But he's already turned down the Phillies,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and his reasons, I don't want to manage. I need
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a break. So it doesn't sound like he's a candidate.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So it's really looking to me, Anders, like we're going
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to end up with another gut feel. And maybe it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: not a Dan Wilson. He's been part of our family.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: We think we know him. We think he's got what
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it takes. Or Scott Service. He's been my buddy for years,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and we've been in the same organization. Maybe it is
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: somebody completely outside. That they have not honed or been around.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: That does provide different eyeballs on the product, but I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: starting to think that it's not going to end up
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: being a manager with Major League Baseball managerial experience because
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the list of guys is just way too short, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's all that impressive.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: No, it's not, and.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: They did say in their end-of-season press conference that managerial
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: experience was something they're looking for, but I don't think
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: that means it has to be someone with managerial experience.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Well, they said that. Yeah, they said that. Jerry said that.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They're going to cast a wide net, and yes, they'll
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: be looking for guys with managerial experience, but they are
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: not going to absolutely be held to it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Right, right. So someone like Kai Correa, who is the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: current Mets... Bench coach is getting a lot of hype.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: For some reason. I don't know why. The only team
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: more underachieving, arguably, than the Mariners.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: And it's not just this past year. For like three
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: years in a row now. I don't know.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I do believe there are hidden gems in the world. But.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It would be an interesting choice.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Also, wouldn't the team that has very high expectations and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: it shows by their payroll, wouldn't if he was that
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: touted as the next guy, wouldn't he have been hired there?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Who knows? I don't know.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: But there's other names as well.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: People are spitballing. People are just trying to find the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: next good young manager. I mean, we saw a lot
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of them hired this offseason that we've never even heard of.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if anyone did a runaway great job, but...
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You might want to expect it to be outside the box.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Someone you haven't heard of maybe.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe isn't the best way to go when you have
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: such a precious, fragile commodity. I mean, if you're saying
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: this team should be a World Series contender and you
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: are the right manager and culture away from it getting there,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to go with some just absolute, unknown, unproven commodity seems
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: very risky because But now I'm starting to wonder if
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: we have a choice in the matter. Yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And you've gone on record saying this might be Jerry's
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: last chance.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: So this is a very important hire. Why is for
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a year to forget? Let's face it. I mean, we're
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: wrapping up the alphabet. There was no year to forget
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: in Mariners history like this one, at least in my
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: 11 years. To have that high of expectations, I might
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: argue the best roster that they've had since 2001. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: even that season, I don't know if anyone was going
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: into that year predicting 100 wins and they had 116,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for goodness sake. I mean, this was a team that was,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: we're winning the World Series this year. To a man!
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And to fall that far short, I mean, it is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: a year to forget. might not have a season next year.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: It might be disrupted. So, I mean, this one's going
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to be painful for a long time.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even 2002, after the 116-win season where they missed
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, they still won 93 games.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So you can't say that was like— And those.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: 90s teams, mid-90s teams, were incredibly talented.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So good.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So good.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I agree. I think in terms of where
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: you expect it to be versus where you fell, this
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: is probably the biggest gap.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Finally, and this is sad, single-tiered. Here we are, our
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: last letter of 2026. Z is for Zeus or Zion or,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you know, Zohan. Some god. I don't even think that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: was Adam Sandler's best, and he's had a lot of
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: bad ones.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But whoever it is that you pray to, you might
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: want to get some praying in if you want baseball
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to start on time next year. I don't think that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to. My hope is that they only take
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit of our season away from us next year.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: This is going to be a landmark collective bargaining agreement.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I do believe that the owners and the commissioner are
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: on the right side of this. I think we do
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: need a salary cap in the sport to grow the sport.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And so I think they're on the right side of it,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: but I also know this Players Association, this is the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: one thing they have vowed before Zohan, never to cave on.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: So we'll see if they can convince them that this
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: is in the best interest of them as players and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the growth of the game and to future generations, like
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen and the gang convinced NFL players to That
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: this is in our best interest. It will grow the game.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Way back when, and it did. And the National Football
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: League is now king of kings. So that's the task
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: at hand, I sure hope. Whatever time we miss next
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: year is a very limited amount of time, but I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: fear that it's going to be a lot.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, too. And there's even question of
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: whether there's going to be a season period. And the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: fact that that's even a part of the conversation is scary.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: As someone who loves baseball and really thinks that the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Mariners have a chance to bounce back next year with
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: this roster and whoever they choose as a manager, that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: could all be for naught if they don't even have
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: a season.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And let's face it, we're all scarred right now. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: know there are a lot of people, why are we
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: even talking baseball? I don't want to think about it
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: until the spring. But there are a lot of people
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: that are very interested in the offseason as well. And frankly,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: we've always satisfied that. But we might not have the normal.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: We might not have a stove podcast this offseason. We
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: might not have a spring training trip. It might not
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: happen again. In February, when we always go down there,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of things. There are
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: going to be times this offseason where I'm sitting there
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: with phantom winter meetings trade limb. And I can feel
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the fingers tickling, and I'm going to look down, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I have no arm. I have no limb. And I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: can still feel my fingers. It's there. I know that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be analyzing a trade right now. Where's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: your crystal ball? But we can't do it, and we're
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to do it, I think,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: for a while. We'll see how much can get done
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in the month of November when the World Series comes
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to a close. I think certainly the manager will be
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: hired in the month of November. I think that would
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: be insane not to hire the manager before December 2nd
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: because if you are locked out for a while, you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: at least want your manager in place so that he
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can start analyzing as much film as possible to get
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to know the roster that you have.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: You could have some sort of positive outcome from it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I will say that it's going to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a sad offseason and it's going to feel really bleak.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And by the time we get to next spring, I'm
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: not expecting that we'll be talking baseball again. as early
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: as we are practiced to. All right, coming up next
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: on the radio program, the 49ers winning the West has
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: become the laziest narrative in all of sports. We're going
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to discuss it next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Headlines coming
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: up at 7 o'clock. Greg Bell at 7.05 here this morning.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: By the way, Al Koniski will be joining us today
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: as well. He didn't mention that in What's On Tap.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: He'll be with us today at 9.30 to talk some
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: crack and hockey. And in the meantime, if you don't
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: have plans for this weekend, man, Anders and I just
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: found out just how wonderful a stay at Tulalip Resort
• 33:35
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• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. And then just kick
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: back and relax, for goodness sake. Maybe spend a couple
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of nights there this weekend. The rooms were fantastic. It's
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the first time I've stayed at the casino overnight. The
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: rooms were fantastic. My only regret was that, man, I
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: didn't get enough time in my room. I didn't get
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: enough time to explore because we were only there for
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: one night and we were doing a little bit of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: work on both ends of it as well. But man,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it made me salivate for days. being able to do
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it on my free time, my personal time, so I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: can just enjoy the casino.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I wish we got a little bit more.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I think it's a perfect little weekend spot. The room
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: theme is really nice. I like kind of the native
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: aspects of it. It's so cool. I liked it a lot.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: More of everything at Tulalip Resort Casino. All right, we're
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: going to do Mirror Mirror. It's a new feature here
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: on the radio program on Wednesdays, and that's your opportunity
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to weigh in on a given subject. And this is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: today's subject. I think The 49ers winning the West is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the laziest analysis possible out there. And I'm hearing it everywhere.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I am actually hearing people who cover the Seahawks yesterday
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: resigning themselves to, all right, well, wild card's fine. You know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: like it's over. Like the NFC West has been decided
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: because the San Francisco 49ers are off to a 5-0 start. Well,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we'll get into all the details in Mirror Mirror, but
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that's where I'm the fairest of them all, and I
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: want you and your input at 49451, or you can
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: use YouTube, or you can use the talkback feature at 933kjr. com.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Tell me why you think the NFC West is over.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Your number one reason. I don't want a mountain of reasons.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I just want the biggest reason, or why you think
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: it isn't. and then we will replay your thoughts coming
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: up at 8 o'clock, and I vow to be the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: fairest of them all. I'm even going to vow to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: be fair to the San Francisco 49ers, but just to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: give you a brief preview, it's hard for me to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: just wrap my head around a waving of a white
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: flag five games into a 17-game season. when we just
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: experienced this one year ago, like I don't even have
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to go deep into the annals of history and dig
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: around and try to find, is there any evidence that
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: we can come back from this, that we can dig
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: out of this giant crater?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: It's not that big of a crater.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: It's not, it's not a crater at all. I mean,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: we're on flat ground with this thing. Um, We can
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: just go back a year ago. You do know that
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the 49ers were 4-1? I mean, a game difference. 4-1
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: at this time a year ago with a win over
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the Rams and a win over the Seahawks already under
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: their belts?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Okay. And the Seahawks a year ago at this time,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the world champ, your world champion Seahawks were three and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: two and coming off an ugly loss to Tampa Bay
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: where we started wondering, oh, maybe this defense isn't as
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: awesome as we thought it was. Baker Mayfield kind of
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: toyed with it. And that was at home. Like that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: was just a year ago, three and two. And there
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: are two things that we know as fact here in
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the last few years. Mike McDonald's teams get better as
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the season goes on, no matter where he's been, either
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: as a coordinator or as a head coach all three seasons.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: We've been better at the end of the season than
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: we were at the end of week five. And all
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of Kyle Shanahan's teams get more injured as the season
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: goes along.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Those two things are indisputable. And they've already got the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: most injuries in the National Football League. They can't handle
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: many more. And yet, by the time we meet them again,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: my guess is that that list will be a little
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: bit longer. And my guess is that the Seahawks will
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: be playing a little bit better. And then by the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: end of the year, when it really matters, my guess
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: is their injury list will be a little longer. And
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks will be playing a little bit better. And
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: don't think that the 49ers necessarily have the Rams number
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: every time they play either. Yeah, there's a trend there,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: but the Rams beat the tar out of them the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: second time they played them a year ago, and I
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: would imagine they're going to do it again. So we'll
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: talk about it at 8 o'clock with Mirror Mirror, but
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts in on why you feel the NFC
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: West has already been decided and why. or why there's
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: no way anyone should jump to that conclusion and your
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: best reason why. Mirror Mirror at 8 o'clock every Wednesday
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck in the Mornings. But Greg Bell
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: joins us nearly every day at 7.05. He's coming up next. KJR.