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9-11: Benton in for Gregg, Andrew Destin, High School Football Spotlight · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 2: on Sam Darnold's hip gate. Hip injury, Mike McDonald said
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  Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon the news remains positive. Saying again, there is
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  Speaker 2: no fracture. However, he did say the team will need
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  Speaker 2: a bit more time before deciding whether Darnold might have
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  Speaker 2: to miss Some games, the Seahawks won't play again until
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  Speaker 2: September 20th at Arizona, but looking like Drew Locke will
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  Speaker 2: likely be the starter. We keep waiting on pins and needles. Julio,
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  Speaker 2: big three-run homer yesterday. Logan Gilbert, seven innings, a three-run ball,
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  Speaker 2: 11 punch-outs. Mariners beat the Rangers for what it's worth.
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  Speaker 3: 4-3.
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  Speaker 2: They took 2-3 in the series over Texas, but are
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  Speaker 2: So you're telling me there's a chance? Not really, but
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  Speaker 2: one in a million. You might know that movie, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. The M's now head to Sacramento to face
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  Speaker 2: the A's. For a three-game series tonight, 640, George Kirby
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  Speaker 2: against Jeffrey Springs. We know what happened last time for
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners hitters. It did not end well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Niners dominate team. The Rams last night at Melbourne, 27-7.
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  Speaker 2: So much for that plane ride. And all that rest
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  Speaker 2: about five hours before kickoff, it felt like. Brock Purdy,
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  Speaker 2: three TD passes. Mike Evans, Demarcus Robinson, Debo Samuel all
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  Speaker 2: caught them in the route. Matthew Stafford couldn't get anything going.
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  Speaker 2: Just 15 of 25 for only 155 yards. San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: facing Miami. And then the Rams, or pardon, week two,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams hosting the Giants as well. in week two.
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  Speaker 2: Huskies hosting Utah State tomorrow, 12.30. You can hear that
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  Speaker 2: including the great Elyse Woodward, Cam Cleland, and our own
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  Speaker 2: Dave Softy-Muller on the sidelines. Huskies coming off an Apple
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  Speaker 2: Cup victory last week, but we'll need to show a
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  Speaker 2: little more offensive consistency. The Aggies 0-1 after a stunning
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  Speaker 2: 29-17 loss to Idaho State. They are coached by, you
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  Speaker 2: might know this guy, Bronco Mendenhall, who's faced the Huskies
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  Speaker 2: as coach of BYU three times, winning just once. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Utah State, you know how many wins
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  Speaker 2: they have against Big Ten teams in program history? I
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  Speaker 2: can count them on one finger.
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  Speaker 5: One.
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  Speaker 2: your top backs as well. But first things first, we're
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  Speaker 2: still kind of clear in the air here from the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks win over New England two nights ago. Andrew Destin
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  Speaker 2: of The Athletic is going to be along with us.
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  Speaker 2: Very fun conversation I'm looking forward to coming up at 10.20,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to get into Sam Darnold and Drew
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  Speaker 2: Locke and the struggle that is within the initial grades
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  Speaker 2: here on OC Brian Flurry. Jadarian Price, after they got
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  Speaker 2: him out of the mothballs from roughly 10 months, he
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  Speaker 2: was good, but do you want more of him?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And did last night also tell us more about the
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  Speaker 2: Niners or more about the Rams? Travis Moger on the
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Mike. Hi, Travis.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to get to Andrew, but Rams, Niners,
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  Speaker 2: how about that plane ride for the Rams? How'd that
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  Speaker 2: work out? Not so great.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 7: Turns out playing a football game 24 hours after a
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  Speaker 7: 15-hour flight is not good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guess what? Newsflash. Jet lag exists. Do the Niners
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  Speaker 2: send the Rams a Christmas card for what they did
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  Speaker 2: to get ready for that game?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Andrew Dessen's going to join us here again,
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  Speaker 2: This is the rookie camp side that begins today. So technically,
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to be seeing guys like Joey Decord,
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  Speaker 2: Matty Beneers, Jared McCann. It's all rookies today through a
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  Speaker 2: few days this next week. They're going to go to
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  Speaker 2: Abbotsford to face the Canucks rookies as well this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But rookie camp is, I think, the beginning of a
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  Speaker 2: very important word. I'll get to that soon. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to not just define training camp, but where the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: one day ago at Kraken Community Iceplex. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: have that conversation coming up at 1045, which also revolves
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  Speaker 2: around how he gets ready and how much weight he's
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  Speaker 2: That's the important thing in being ready to face prime. pristine,
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  Speaker 2: and matured NHL competition. So the goal from the outset
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  Speaker 2: of rookie camp is NHL spots in his sight. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to get to Oscar Fisker-Mulgaard coming up at 1045.
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  Speaker 2: Then at 11 o'clock, I'm looking forward to this conversation
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  Speaker 2: because Greg Bell, very much a proponent, a backer, an
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  Speaker 2: advocate of high school football. I know where I was
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  Speaker 2: back in the days of Friday Night Lights. Issaquah and Liberty,
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  Speaker 2: come on down. The spotlight's on you coming up at
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  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock. Steve Valich of Liberty, Josh Brookshire of Issaquah.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get to that conversation. They'll join us
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  Speaker 2: live here in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. The genesis of
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  Speaker 2: football's next generation. is right here in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 2: So these are coaches, mind you, that are responsible for
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  Speaker 2: leading the charge here for the next generation and get
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  Speaker 2: them ready for the college ranks. So what goes into
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  Speaker 2: them as far as their heart and soul, the secret sauce?
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for this conversation. I know you'll want
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  Speaker 2: to stick around for this as well. That coming up
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  Speaker 2: for our high school football spotlight at 11 a.m. and,
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  Speaker 2: And again, talkbacks and texts as well coming up. A
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  Speaker 2: little before that, before we get to the football side
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  Speaker 2: of things here with Andrew Destin, today is the 25th
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  Speaker 2: anniversary of 9-11. And I think for many of us
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  Speaker 2: who were alive for this, you know where you were
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  Speaker 2: by this time when it happened. And it just seemed
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  Speaker 2: like the entire country was turned into upheaval. And if
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  Speaker 2: you were too born or if you were too young
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  Speaker 2: or not even born yet, You learned about how just
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  Speaker 2: a few seconds of chaos in the worst kind of
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  Speaker 2: way can just change the nation forever. And what was
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  Speaker 2: the deadliest attack in world history? 2,996 lives lost here
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  Speaker 2: from those attacks. And it not only just, I think,
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  Speaker 2: shook our country for several days and even for the future.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not going to get into the weeds of
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  Speaker 2: this because I guess we all know as far as
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  Speaker 2: ramifications on this. But I remember where I was back
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  Speaker 2: then 25 years ago. Travis, I bet you were as well, too.
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  Speaker 2: I was a student over at Azusa Pacific. The hat
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing right now. And I was in my campus apartment,
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  Speaker 2: totally unaware what was going on when I got up
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  Speaker 2: at 7 in the morning, got myself some college breakfast
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  Speaker 2: cereal out of the cabinet, fired up my roommate's Mac
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  Speaker 2: to look at the scores from the previous night. NHL
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  Speaker 2: training camp was getting underway. I'm dating myself, but we
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  Speaker 2: had AOL Instant Messenger back then. And I was getting
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  Speaker 2: on talking to a buddy who was a fellow hockey
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  Speaker 2: fan in the Los Angeles area just to pontificate on
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  Speaker 2: NHL training camps. And the response I got back from
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  Speaker 2: him was, how could you be talking hockey at a
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  Speaker 2: time like this? And I go, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, turn on the TV right now. I
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  Speaker 2: turned it on. I can't remember. My jaw hitting the
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  Speaker 2: floor as hard as it did at that moment. School
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  Speaker 2: shut down for three days.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, support.
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  Speaker 2: Groups, vigils, prayer groups, whatever. You know, we saw the
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  Speaker 2: effects as far as security measures. Just look at airport
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  Speaker 2: these days and how airports operate. But sports was paused
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  Speaker 2: for about five to seven days across Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, college football, the Ryder Cup, NASCAR. But yet
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  Speaker 2: when they returned, everyone came together across this landscape, unlike
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  Speaker 2: any other time, Travis, that I had ever seen. And
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  Speaker 2: we saw the World Series get pushed into November. We
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  Speaker 2: saw Sammy Sosa running out with the flag. The Mariners,
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  Speaker 2: they have their statue up now with Mike Cameron, Mark
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  Speaker 2: McLemore holding the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Flag.
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  Speaker 2: So I think for me, it's a pretty sobering day
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  Speaker 2: in the sports landscape, in addition to how we just
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  Speaker 2: move on and we just kind of digest and process
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  Speaker 2: emotional things with this for those physical losses as well,
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  Speaker 2: which was tragic. But it reminded us that sometimes sports
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  Speaker 2: takes a back seat here and sports is the toy
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  Speaker 2: department of life.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a, it was such a tragic day.
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  Speaker 7: And what I keep going back to is how everyone
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  Speaker 7: rallied together afterwards and the country came together and it
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  Speaker 7: was the most patriotic time I've ever witnessed in this country.
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  Speaker 7: And that, I mean, that was truly uplifting and, and
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  Speaker 7: made you realize that, you know, there is some humanity here.
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  Speaker 2: Left in people.
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  Speaker 4: And, uh, yeah, I, it was, uh, just tragic.
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  Speaker 2: It was even affecting, you know, even the, the pro
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  Speaker 2: sports that as far as lives who were lost, um,
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  Speaker 2: Ace Bailey, Mark Davis, who were Los Angeles Kings scouts
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  Speaker 2: were on one of those planes that crash into the
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  Speaker 2: twin towers. Those lives were lost and they were memorialized
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  Speaker 2: for the very first preseason game. with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: Kings just a few days later, and then they wore
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  Speaker 2: a patch on their jersey to honor them for the
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  Speaker 2: entire season. But it was a heavy day, the heaviest
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  Speaker 2: that I'd ever felt for one day for something that
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  Speaker 2: had this much, I think, weight. And it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those days where it just never leaves your mind whenever
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  Speaker 2: the calendar flips back to September 11th. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we all know where we were 25 years ago if
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  Speaker 2: you were around back then. And it's still very much
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  Speaker 2: a sobering reminder of just how much just things matter
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  Speaker 2: and how life matters as far as superseding sports, even
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  Speaker 2: for something like this. Again, Andrew Destin coming up in
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  Speaker 2: just a few minutes here. The Seahawks 1-0, but here's
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  Speaker 2: what I'm really curious about. Were they really at their best?
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  Speaker 2: And for all the talk that we heard about the
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  Speaker 2: Rams 17-0, there are literal sports columnists who predicted this,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting rabidly dunked on right now on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. With the Rams and You know, you
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  Speaker 2: can make the blame, you know, for travel and everything.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the Seahawks did all of this with an
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  Speaker 2: OC in his debut, didn't have his quarterback in for
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  Speaker 2: all but maybe, you know, it felt like two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: No Nicky Manwari, and it felt like Jadarian Price was
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  Speaker 2: just getting started. So until Sam Darnold's okay... And when
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  Speaker 2: he comes back, Hugh Millen brought this up just the
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  Speaker 2: other day, and I think it's a great point. How
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  Speaker 2: effective will Sam Darnold be given the nature of his
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  Speaker 2: hip injury? Because in case you forgot... Hips are a
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  Speaker 2: pretty important thing when it comes to mobility of a
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  Speaker 2: professional sports athlete. So how much juice can you get
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  Speaker 2: out of Drew Locke possible until it's finally Sam Darnold's
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  Speaker 2: time to return? I don't doubt that the Seahawks can
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  Speaker 2: easily win this division. I think we've seen again that
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  Speaker 2: the sum of the parts is greater here than just
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  Speaker 2: one guy. But again, you're trying to put this here
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  Speaker 2: to the test with QB2. And QB2 has his limitations.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're a Super Bowl team without Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 2: But how far can you get with Drew Locke? 49451,
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear from you on this. How worried
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  Speaker 2: are you about Sam Darnold right now? Will he come
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  Speaker 2: back after the Arizona game? I think he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to play. But then he's got about 17 days off
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  Speaker 2: here to finally get right and get right back here.
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  Speaker 4: So, again, 49451. Talkbacks.
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  Speaker 2: by the way. We haven't heard Moger the Ogre yet.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't heard one yet either, but I'm scared now.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody is out there waiting with a Mulgrew the Ogre
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  Speaker 2: impression for talkbacks. It's going to happen. And I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I've officially made it when somebody came on talkbacks
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  Speaker 2: and made fun of me. We welcome it. This is
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  Speaker 2: what we're all about here. Bring it on. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're all about here at this radio station. Andrew Destin's
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  Speaker 2: up next again here from The Athletic. We'll dive into
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  Speaker 2: all things Seahawks, Sam Darnold, Hipgate, the level of concern
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  Speaker 2: with that, and more. Andrew joins us next here at
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  Speaker 1: Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday with Greg Bell on
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  Speaker 2: Feels kind of like the mini-bye is underway right now.
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  Speaker 2: So Greg Bell is on a plane. Mike Benton in
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  Speaker 2: his chair for today. Beginning of next week as well
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. For you YouTubers, by the way, at right
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  Speaker 2: but have we begun to scratch the surface? How much
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  Speaker 2: more do you want out of the run game? How
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  Speaker 2: much are you waiting pins and needles on Sam Darnold's
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  Speaker 2: hip game? Talkbacks as well. iHeartRadio app, by the way, 1135.
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  Speaker 2: without its QB1 for most of the game and found
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  Speaker 2: a way to get it done against a New England
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  Speaker 2: quarterback that is right now taking his hits. And then
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  Speaker 2: some to talk about this, our friend Andrew Destin of
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  Speaker 2: The Athletic Now. on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Andrew, good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you. First off, congratulations on the new rule.
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  Speaker 2: How are you holding in there?
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  Speaker 4: Doing well, Mike. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be on KJR, and new roles
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  Speaker 3: treat me well. It's definitely very, very different from the
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  Speaker 3: AP gig, which I have nothing but good things to
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  Speaker 3: say about my time at the Associated Press, but it's
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  Speaker 3: really nice to continue to get to know the Seahawks better,
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  Speaker 3: to cover the team a little bit more closely, and
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  Speaker 3: build some of those reports with players, coaches, the team personnel,
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot. Really enjoying it so far. It's a pleasure
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  Speaker 3: to be here in the Pacific Northwest. I've loved my
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  Speaker 3: time here.
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  Speaker 4: Really enjoying the new gig.
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  Speaker 2: You got those new job vibes going, man. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you got to maybe have like a
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  Speaker 2: bone to pick with the schedule makers because you get
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  Speaker 2: through one game and it's like, what gives now? Many buy,
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  Speaker 2: like I get 10 days off now and like nothing
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: to do. So like, what do you do for 10
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: days off with this football team?
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's a great question. I mean, I think
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: if you're the Seahawks, right. You are totally, totally digging
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: into the film. And I wrote about this today for
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: The Athletic, specifically on the offensive side of the.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Ball, because let's be honest, right? It was not pretty
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday night.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: And that's not to slander anybody. And that's not to
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: say that it's an easy excuse to say, oh, well.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: The reason the offense didn't look great is because Sam
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Darnold was injured. I think it's a little bit deeper
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: than that. I think you're adjusting to a new offensive
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: coordinator in Brian Fleury. You've got a completely different stable
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: of running backs back there with George Helani, Emmanuel Wilson, and,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: of course, rookie Jadarian Price.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: There's just a lot of moving parts.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And, sure, having the continuity like all five offensive linemen returning,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Cooper Cupp and Jackson Smith and Jigba being back, A.J.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Barner being back, from that Super Bowl team last year.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: So when you ask me what do they do for
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the next 10 years, How.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Can we trim down on the mistakes?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, 10 penalties for 98 penalty.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Yards, you know, just across the board.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: It was a very sloppy game, which is to be
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: expected of a week one performance. But I think this
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: is a little bit more so than a typical team because, yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: it's your third offensive coordinator in three years. These guys
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: have to get used to a new system, which theoretically
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: should be relatively similar to Clint Kubiak's from last season
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: as a modern West Coast offense.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: But there's always nips and crannies. There's always nuances that
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: are different.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: And I mean, we kind of saw that play out
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday. And who's to say that Seattle can't remedy
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: that by the time they play the Cardinals on the 20th?
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks to Josh, Joe, the Seahawks are 1-0 right now.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: But to you, is there a feeling that the defense
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: earned this one in totality or Drake may have lost
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: this one?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That's a tough one.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give credit to the defense because, listen,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Drake May is an excellent, excellent quarterback.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I'm not here to listen to any of the sandbags.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: of the guy.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: There's a reason he was a runner-up for MVP last year.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not here for the discourse of the Patriots had
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: super easy schedule last year.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: None of that.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks defense is the best in the NFL until
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: proven otherwise. So I'm going to give credit to the
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: guys who really continue to show out and you don't
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: rack up three interceptions in a quarter, unless you're really
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: tricking the quarterback and frustrating him.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: And I know Drake may said.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: This, I wasn't in the locker room or for the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: press conference on this side, because it's covering the Seahawks,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: but you know, Drake may admitted that he was frustrated and,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: you know, got impatient and said, I'm going to try
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: and take shots downfield because I am sick of digging
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: and dunking it and methodically moving down the field and,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: that's a sign of a good defense right that's a
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: bend don't break defense that forces you into uncomfortable situations
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: and makes you really upset that you can't go deep
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: down the field so i'm going to give credit to
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: the secondary and frankly that's off to the defense at
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: large but the secondary in specific because you had so
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: many guys down with injury whether it was nick him
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and rory ty okada um you lost guys in free
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: agency like goby bryant like reek woolen The same way
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I was talking about the running back stable, this secondary
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: is totally different from last year. It's going to take
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: time to adjust. Maybe less so for that group as
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: we saw on Wednesday against the Pats.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, some of the words I heard were that
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Drake May was looking like a high school quarterback out there,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: dinking and dunking. And once he tried a big boy
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: NFL play, it just all fell apart. But this is
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: actually from Boston Sports Talk Radio. That's a crazy thing
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: where they're basically saying, eating him alive right now for
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: what happened two nights ago. But to your point, that's
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: what a great defense does is that it makes QBs
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: look like mortals. Andrew Destin joining us right now from
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the Athletic on the Beacon plumbing hotline to the Seahawks
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: QB situation. And there are a lot of 12s right
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: now still biting their fingernails over this Sam Darnold thing
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and hip gate. Andrew, as of right now, do you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: believe Sam Darnold plays in week three?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I would be shocked if he plays in week or
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: week two or week three, whichever it's going to be.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I would be shocked if they bring him back.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I don't think he'll play in week two.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: But I'm talking the week after.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I think regardless, we're not going to see him in October.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And frankly, I'll, you know, I'll be candid here. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: think a lot of that has to deal with the
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: schedule too. No disrespect to the Arizona Cardinals or the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Washington commanders, but these are not the teams. The Seahawks
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: are going to need to get through to get to
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the Superbowl, let alone the NFC championship game.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Um, It's September.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Why rush Sam back when the schedule has increased, right?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: It's 17 games, not 16 games. You already beat the
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: defending AFC champs. The schedule gets much, much tougher once
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: you get to October, once you get to November. This
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: early part of the season, I'm not going to say
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: that it's a cakewalk, but if you're going to have
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: your starting quarterback be banged up, better now than December
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: when you've got to play the Rams twice in three
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: weeks or four weeks and play the Philadelphia Eagles in
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: their place on December 19th.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: This is the time to sit, Sam. I don't believe
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: that it's going to be a serious, serious injury.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I take Mike McDonald at his word about the muscle
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: strain or muscle injury rather than a hip fracture or
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: anything of that nature. So I don't think we see
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: him in September. I'm pegging him to come back to
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the game against the chargers because that's the first really
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: tough opponent they're going to have um after those a
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: couple of more softer opponents i guess you could call
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the cardinals and the commanders.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Well until then it is drew lock come on down
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and he had one touchdown pass really could have had
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: two but except for that cooper cub td pass that
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: was called back so i mean i think andrew how
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: much did we learn about drew lock to digest what
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: he can do in the meantime possibly against the cardinals
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: possibly against the commanders.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to bring this back to a
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: question that I asked through lockers. I asked him post game,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: how has he changed as a starting quarterback since the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: last time he was a regular in the NFL?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: And he basically pointed to, there's not that pressure.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: There's not that urgency to push the ball downfield and
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: take risks and put the ball up for grabs.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: We saw that play out on Wednesday.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, save one pass on third down to start
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the second quarter when he threw it down the left
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: sideline and it was nearly picked off. I believe that
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: was a pass intended for Cooper Cup. Other than that,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Drew Locke made darn near every decision with the football
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: was a correct one. I think what we saw is
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: this is not the same guy who led the NFL
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: in interceptions with 15 of them in 2020. What we
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: saw with Drew Locke is the guy who... is in
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: his ninth year, is more polished as a passer, is
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: more calm and collected under pressure. I know, you know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald describes him as a cool and confident leader,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: like that quiet, calm confidence about him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: We saw that play out.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I think he has a very solid understanding of the offense.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I think he understands what is needed of him in
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: this role as the backup quarterback.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And to come in, he's not trying to light the
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: world on fire.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: This is not the same guy who was a second
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: round pick about a decade ago, who was asked to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: really help a struggling Broncos franchise. What they're asking Drew
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Locke to do is come in and be the point
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: guard spread it around all the different options and not try.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: To push downfield too much whether exposing defenses try to
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: expose that remains to be seen but for the time
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: being I'm expecting a more vanilla conservative offense that's what
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: we saw on Wednesday and I think that's something that
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: can be expected moving forward from the Seahawks.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: All right Andrew I gotta go there for just a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: second are you in the middle of traffic right now Uh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: that I would.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Be, I'm actually right across the street from the, uh,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: cracking facility.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Uh, I go to, Oh, we just miss each other.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Like two ships passing in the night.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Oh man.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I'm putting myself on blast
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: here for all the listeners, but I go to the
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: 24 hour fitness across the street. So, uh, that's what
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm doing. I hopped out of the gym so that
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I would not disturb the other patrons.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I know where you are. Yeah. I, I, that, that,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and I was going to assume too, it was, uh,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: The usual honk if you love Andrew Destin party going
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: on out there. Andrew Destin joining us here on the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Back on the tracks, you brought up
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Brian Flurry a little bit here. I mean, I think
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: a great way to... evaluate what an OC can do
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: maybe is to manage a game when things fall apart
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and to kind of quote Mike Tyson, everyone's got a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: plan until you get punched right in the mouth. But
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: his QB ones out like literally before the seats are
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: even warm. So what do we learn about Brian Flurry
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: through week one?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what we've learned most about Brian Fleury
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: is that he is a guy who's willing to adapt,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: and this is not necessarily going to be a generic offense.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And I don't think that was the expectation anyway, right? Like,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: he came from San Francisco, which we know under Kyle Shanahan,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: that's a very diverse offense that likes to try and
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: trick the opponent in myriad ways.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I think what we learned about Brian Flurry is that
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: he's not afraid of this moment.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: He's not afraid to call some gutsy plays on a
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: fourth and one, for instance, the 45-yard touchdown pass to Jackson, Smith,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: and Jigba. It would have been easy to go to
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the barnyard package and try and sneak A.J. Barner up
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: the middle. That's not what the Seahawks did. They let
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: it rip.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: So I think what we learned about.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Brian Fleury is that this offense is going to be
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: very similar to what Clint Kubiak ran last year. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: wrote as much in The Athletic today essentially saying that
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: personnel wise, it's going to be very similar. A lot
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: of 12 personnel, a lot of 22, um, a lot
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: of 11 personnel. It's going to be very similar to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: what could be acted last season, um, East West running
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: with the running backs, right? That's the plan is the
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: zone blocking scheme up front. So I think it's going
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: to be on the whole quite similar. What but a
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: touchdown pass, does Fleury rise to the occasion? Or is
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: this a guy who, you know, this was his first
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: game ever calling plays on offense at any level. Will
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: it eventually the lights get too big for him? Or
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: is he going to stay, as the players call him, stoic, collected, calm?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Is he going to remain all of those things in
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the biggest moments? Uh, that's what I'm most curious about
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: because I think the scheme itself, the offensive system is
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: more than adequate for the Seahawks to be a Superbowl contender.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: For all this talk that we heard that he's going to,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: you know, involve tight ends, you know, they're all, they're
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: a big part of the package here. I mean, AJ
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Barner had two catches for 13 yards and, you know, granny,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: you know, Brian Flurry is finding his sea legs as
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: far as how he's running things. But were you surprised
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: as far as AJ Barner's numbers?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yes and no.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I think it's more so a byproduct of they only
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: ran 48 plays on offense and half of those were
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: running plays. So you look at it, what was it?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: 18 of 26 for 18 of 26 for Drew Locke.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: So he went to Barner, you know, about 10, 15%
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: of the time. That's fairly in line with what Sam
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Darnold did last year. It was just more frequently that
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Darnold was racking up 280 passing yards or 300. It
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: was just a low scoring offense, not an offensive game.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: That being said, I do think they're going to try
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: and incorporate Barner more frequently. I think this is just
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: a byproduct of what is an issue for this offense.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: And it's not a bad issue to have necessarily.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Last year, it was so heavy on Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: It was so dependent on boom or bust. If they're
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: getting it to Smith and Jigba, the offense is moving.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: If not, well, it kind of stagnates a little bit.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So I think that moving forward, yes, Brian Flory would
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: like to get the Titans more involved, would like to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: get Cooper Cupp more involved, to throw the deep balls
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: to Rashid Shaheed. But the offense has a tendency to
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: lean back on what's comfortable and what works. And we
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: saw that with Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Again, the party here for Andrew Destin continues. Honk if
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: you love Andrew out there as he joins us on
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. This is a great soundtrack here
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: for this conversation, my man. You mentioned how things are
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: going to get a little bit more, I think, fluid
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: with how this offense will run things i go back
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: here to the run game because canines out of the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: picture charbonnet's not a big piece of this at all
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: till he's finally healthy but jadarian price they got him
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: out of the mothballs so to speak after not running
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: a football you know logistically for for 10 months in
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: game action and he gets 10 carries 52 yards do
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: you think that he gets the rock more in week two.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think absolutely.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I'm trying my best to get away from somebody who
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: clearly has no idea.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Please don't. Please don't.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: It's awesome.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: No, this is beyond obnoxious. No, I think Jadarian Price
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: is absolutely... I'm running outside of the parking garage. No,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I think Jadarian Price is going to get more reps,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: but it's going to come in time. I don't expect
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: him to all of a sudden become the bell cow
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: who's getting 20, 25 carries a night consistently. I think
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: what's much more likely is this is a guy who,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: as he continues to learn the offense, as he continues
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to get more and more time with the playbook, it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: going to be okay. Now you can start to incorporate
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: them on third downs. Now you can start to incorporate
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: them on those short yardage package situations. It's going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: come in time, but I don't think it's as easy
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: or apples to apples to say, Oh, well, because he
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: had a good first game. Now we're going to make
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: the rookie, the guy, and we're going to get them
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: 115 rushing yards game. I don't think that's going to happen.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I think they really liked George Lonnie. I think they
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: really liked Zach Charbonnet whenever he's healthy. So yeah, Jerry
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: and price immensely talented. Um, this is a guy who
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: probably starts at 115 colleges across the country.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: The issue was just, he.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Went to Notre Dame and coupled with Jeremiah love. Um,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I thought he really impressed. I thought Mike McDonald's really
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: pleased with him. I think the Seahawks at large were
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: really pleased with the offense in terms of their ability
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: to run the ball.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Um, on Wednesday price.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: So I'm not expecting that carry count to increase anytime soon.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: And it really wouldn't surprise me if he kind of
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: hangs around that 10 to 12 carries per game number
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: for the whole season. Because, honestly, that's the trajectory of
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the NFL. These teams do not like to use just
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: one running back. The days of Sean Alexander have long
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: since passed us by. The Marshawn Lynch's of the world,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: where they're getting 25 carries a game. I don't think
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: we're going to see that with Price. And there's just
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: so many different reasons to it, as I outlined.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, very quick before we cut you loose, Andrew. Rams
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: and Niners last night. I think we can put the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: theory to bed that you need to fly in about
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: five hours before a game to play in Australia. I mean,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I guess that's just me. Jet lag still exists here.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: But did that game tell us more about the Rams
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: being underwhelming or San Francisco as a team that we
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: got to take even more seriously?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I should be telling listeners this,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: but I did grow up in the Bay Area. I
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: did grow up a fan of the 49ers.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Please don't attack me.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I think what it told us, though, is that the 49ers,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: this is a team to be taken seriously as long
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: as that roster stays healthy. I mean, I think you
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: have to tip in getting all the way to the
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: NFC wildcard rounds, basically with half of a roster, with
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: no Nick Bosa, with no Fred Warner, without your top
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: receiving threat in Brandon Ayuk, who essentially quit on the team.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I think what we're seeing now is this is a
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Niners team that reloaded.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: They are much healthier.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: And listen, I said this actually to my father on
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: the phone the other day, is that I look at
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the NFC website, and it is probably the three best
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: teams in the NFL, however you want to slice it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks have the best defense. The Rams might have
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: the most top-heavy roster. And I think the Niners have
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the best offensive coach in the NFL. I just think
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: so highly of Kyle Shanahan and the system that he
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: has in place there in San Francisco.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: And I think that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: If they can stay healthy, if this roster that they
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: fielded for week one can go the distance or at
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: least go for much of the season, boy, that all
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of a sudden becomes a very dangerous 49ers team for
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks to have to reckon with this season.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, we all came from somewhere. Look at the Kosloff family, right?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: So you are forgiven. We appreciate you, Andrew. Hey, thanks.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Great stuff. We're going to get you back on down
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the road. But in the meantime, go enjoy some 10
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: days off here and finally some peace and quiet with
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: those horns out of the way.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: No problem.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: This is my one. Mike, thanks so much for having
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: me on. I will catch you.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: You betcha. Thank you very much. Andrew Destin joining us
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: here from The Athletic. Up next, we check in from
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Kraken rookie camp, Oscar Fisker-Molgaard. Is it NHL roster or
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: bust for him? That chat's up next here on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: with Greg Bell on your.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Home for the NFL.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Greg's back next week. Mike Benton in his chair. In
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the meantime, big thanks again to Andrew Destin of The
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Athletic for joining us. And again, 49451, what's your level
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: of concern with Sam Darnold? Do you need Sam Darnold
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: back by the end of September? 49451 Tacoma Dosh text line. Talkbacks,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: by the way, via the iHeartRadio app. But the attention
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: right now turns about 10 minutes north of us here
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to Kraken Community Iceplex. Training camp not officially underway, but
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: we're pretty much already there. Rookie camp underway today. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I mentioned one word earlier about how much this can
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: really define, I think, a big turning point for the Kraken.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: and the long-term future for what they have on this roster.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And that word's opportunity. Because we could be seeing as
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: maybe as much as eight players, all forwards, 23 years
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: of age or younger, make this roster. And in some cases,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: it really puts a spotlight here on a summer where
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: we heard the word aggressive. to overturn this roster with
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: proven talent. Unfortunately, swinging a miss on Jason Robertson. Unfortunately,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: we heard they were in for Robert Thomas, swinging a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: miss on that one, too. The Panarin thing was even
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: months before that. So, you know, I think going back
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: here to the Philip Grubauer situation and how much he
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: changed his game because of solutions a team found internally
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: with a new goaltending coach who went to Coachella Valley.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing says solutions sometimes like looking for those inside to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: solve your own problems. And for what is regarded right
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: now as one of the top pipelines in the NHL,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: they've got their work cut out for them here for
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: this season. But Berkley Catton, can he be a 70-
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: to 80-point guy down the road? Can Oscar Fisker-Mulgaard break
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: through on this roster? We'll talk to him in a moment.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Can Shane Wright, for all the drama we've seen around
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: his contract situation, playing time, can there be a rebirth
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: with him? As he's going to report here, according to
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: his agent for training camp, just this next week. Can
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Matty Beneers, who is still in that age range, also
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: go next level and hit maybe 70 points? A lot
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: of questions around this team right now. But again, the
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: word opportunity is front and center with the young guys
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: who are coming in. And for them, the road begins
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: today at rookie camp up in the Northgate section here
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: of Seattle. I talked with one of those guys who
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: could be getting a lot of opportunity. The name is
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Oscar Fisker-Molgaard. Get used to that name. Oscar Fisker-Molgaard. Could
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: it be NHL or bus for him to make this
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: roster in camp? Where is he at right now for
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: his game? Is camp underway with rookie campsite? He's a
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: big part of this. Here's our chat with him back
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: up at KCI.
• 37:32
  Speaker 10: First off, great to see you back once again. You're
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: looking good. Tell us more about the impact of summer
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: and how much that helped out your game as well.
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, obviously, summer is important in two ways. I mean,
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: both physically, but also mentally, you know, kind of, you know,
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: get away from hockey a little bit. I think that's healthy,
• 37:48
  Speaker 11: at least for me it is. So, you know, get home,
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: get to spend some time with friends and family, you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: something that you can't really do in season. So, you know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 11: just happy to be back home, but also, you know...
• 38:00
  Speaker 11: Really excited to be playing some hockey again. I'm looking
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: forward to these games this weekend.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Now, when we educate the new fans coming into the
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: building here, because we still have new fans coming in,
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: it feels like even into year six as well, there's
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: a way to explain all this where it kind of
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: has that, a little bit of a similarity of like
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: with the Seahawks too, with minicamp and main camp as well.
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: On the rookie camp side, the goal of rookie camp,
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: if you can lay this back out, you've done this before,
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: but this plus also two games in Abbotsford, ultimately what's
• 38:27
  Speaker 10: the end goal for you?
• 38:28
  Speaker 11: I mean, obviously, you know, the ultimate goal is always
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: to be able to make the team. I mean, I
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: feel good this year and obviously I'm happy to be
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: able to be in these two games, you know, kind
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: of get some, you know, game-like situations and, you know,
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: I can't be short this year. So you got to
• 38:44
  Speaker 11: be ready off the hop. That's what I'm aiming to do.
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: You're always just trying to prove yourself to yourself and
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: to others and go out there and do your best.
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: That's all you can do.
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: It's a precursor to main training camp where you'll be
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: in with a bunch of NHL veterans. That's when they
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: finally pop into things. It feels like it really gets
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: ramped up here. With those two games at Abbotsford, they've
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: got an American League team. You've been to the American
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: League as well. Does it give you an advantage as
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: far as where you're going to play to understand at
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: least the environment of what you're going to be dealing
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: with as well?
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I guess so. Again, you know, I
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: know a lot of the guys we're going to play against.
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: I've played with a bunch of the guys who I'll
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: be playing with this weekend as well. I feel like
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: it's a good tournament for the boys to also get together. Again,
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: for me, I see it as a good opportunity to
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: get going, really. I haven't played a game in a while,
• 39:38
  Speaker 11: so just to be able to get out there and
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: be physical, get those game-like situations in your system again. Again,
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: something that you... yeah, can bring into main camp as well.
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: That's hopefully going to give you an advantage.
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: Oscar Fisker-Molgar joining us here from rookie camp at Kraken
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: Community Iceplex. Before all this began, you have informal skates
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: where the veterans usually go out with each other, the rookies,
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: guys trying to move up the pipeline, go out as
• 40:07
  Speaker 10: well with each other. The difference in how those feel
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: versus what you're going to be fed in rookie camp
• 40:14
  Speaker 10: and also in main training camp, what's the difference?
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: I mean, obviously, you know, these informal skates, you know,
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: guys are coming in. Some guys might have been skating
• 40:21
  Speaker 11: all summer, some guys maybe not. So, you know, it's
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: just a good way to get here and, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 11: go out there, have some fun, you know, get some,
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: you know, get some puck touches, just kind of get
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: the system going a little bit. And then obviously, you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 11: once main camp starts, you know, and rookie camp also,
• 40:36
  Speaker 11: you know, it's for real again, you know, we're all teammates,
• 40:39
  Speaker 11: but at the same time, we're all, you know, fighting
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: for the same spot. So, It can be a special
• 40:47
  Speaker 11: kind of situation, but again, it's a lot of fun.
• 40:49
  Speaker 11: We're all here to eventually play for the Kraken, so
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: there's just a few spots available. So you're just trying
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: to do your best, and it'll be fun to get
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: out there and battle again.
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: That's where the word compete is. Extremely relevant. Doesn't matter where,
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: doesn't matter when. when you look back from this summer,
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: we hear a lot about players who wanted to make
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: the most of it and guys may be on different tracks.
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: Some might want to refine their skillset. Some might want
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: to refine their conditioning for you. Where did the summer
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: lend itself the biggest advantage for you as far as
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: where you're at now than say versus five months ago?
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: I mean, I think the biggest thing for me is,
• 41:31
  Speaker 11: is probably, uh, physically, um, I've been really, the past
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: two summers, I've had time to really work on getting
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: bigger and stronger. You know, this is a tough, both
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: the AHL and the NHL, it's a tough, two tough
• 41:43
  Speaker 11: leagues to play in, really physical compared to back home
• 41:46
  Speaker 11: in Europe. So, you know, you've got to be ready
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: for that. And then again, it's a lot of games.
• 41:51
  Speaker 11: So you've got to be able to perform every night.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: And that's what it's all about.
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: So, you know, just the physical aspect of the game
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: has been they're really important to me. So, you know,
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: a lot of working out and hopefully that's something I can,
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: you know, bring onto the ice as well.
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: What was your goal?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I believe he said 180 pounds was his goal and
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: he's just right about there with his conditioning. So Oscar
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Fisker-Mulgaard got a taste last year of NHL play and
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: he's a player who's got smarts over brawn, a playmaker element,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: as we mentioned earlier as well in our conversation, in
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: all situations kind of guy. So It's pretty easy here
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: to say that he could crack this lineup based on
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: how many spots are open here for young guys. He
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: feels ready. All that's left now is the prove-it phase,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: which is a few weeks of track here to stand out,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: where they've got some established centers already, top to bottom,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Matty Beneers, Chandler Stevenson. Shane Wright, et cetera, Freddie Gaudreau.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: So where does Oscar Fisker-Mulgaard fit in? Time will certainly tell,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: but many are saying he's got a great, and I
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: mean great, chance here to crack this lineup. for the
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Kraken for this next season, beginning on night number one
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: on October 1. More of that conversation, by the way,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: you can find that podcast via the Kraken Audio Network
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Quick break here, high school football. Again,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the spotlight back on that. We crank up the Friday
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: night lights. Up next on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
• 43:20
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• 43:22
  Speaker 2: All brought to you by Frostbrew Coors Light, as cold
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. The latest on Sam Darnold's hip, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the status update is as clear as mud. Mike McDonald
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: saying Thursday afternoon the news remains positive, though, saying there
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: is no fracture. However, he did say the team will
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: need more time before deciding whether Darnold might have to
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: miss some games. FYI, the Seahawks won't play again until...
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the 20th at Arizona, but looks like Drew Locke will
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: be starting that game after that massive TBD. Yesterday, Julio,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: big three run homer. Mariners beat the Rangers 4-3 for
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: what it's worth. M's are still six games back in
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the ALS, five games back in the wild card, and
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: time is a ticking time. Mariners off to Sacramento to
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: face the A's for a three-game series. And we revisit
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: again the pitching matchup where things really fell apart from
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: last Saturday. George Kirby on the mound for the Mariners.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Springs, who won, hit them through six innings last weekend.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: He's back on the bump here for... the A's. Niners
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: beat the Rams in Melbourne 27-7 yesterday. Niners host the
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Dolphins in Week 2. Rams get the Giants and the
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Huskies tomorrow take on Utah State at 1230. You can
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: hear that game right here on 93.3 KJR FM. Elyse Woodward,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Cam Cleland, Dave Softy, Mauler, and the whole gang will
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: be there for you. The Huskies looking to go 2-0
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: after beating Washington State in the Apple Cup last week.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: On to the show we go. All right, because this
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: is Greg Bell's chair. He is on an airplane right
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: now amidst the 10 days off the Seahawks have until
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: they get back out of here for week two. This
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: is still very much a passion for Greg amidst this
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: football Friday, we call it. And we go as deep
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: into the weeds as we can get here, even for
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: the high school football fun of it, because this is
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the next generation of football. brewing right here in the
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest. And the minds behind their development are ever
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: so important. It deals with how coaches prepare college-ready players
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: and even have players who are as young as sophomores
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: who are still learning to swim in the deep end,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: so to speak, without leadership. And that's important. So Greg's
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: very much in tune with this. I mean, I do
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of work as well with the state championship game.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to also jumping on the TV side
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: here for tonight locally for a game that will air
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: On TV for Snohomish and Glacier Peak. But it is
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: a pageantry of the lights that shine bright on Friday nights.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: But yet one game that's going to really stand out
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: won't be played tonight. It'll be played tomorrow. Liberty and Issaquah.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Learn those two names if you're not already a part
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: of those programs. Tomorrow night at 7 p.m. One's a
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: 3A team. The other is a 4A team. We're going
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: to dive into the weeds with this right now as
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline here for this
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: high school football spotlight. This is Steve Valich, head coach
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: on the Liberty side, three decades at the helm. Steve, hello.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: How are you?
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Thanks for having me on. Hey, great to
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: talk with you here. I'm going to just jump in
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: with your resume here. When you commit to something, I
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: don't care whether it's football. I don't care whether it's
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: in marketing. I don't care whether it's selling insurance, business,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: you're flying an airplane. 28 straight seasons really tells a
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: lot about, A, doing your job the right way, and, B,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: committing to it and the people that you affect year
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: after year. So for doing this now for your 28th
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: season at Liberty, it's a very, very incredible story. But
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I think to you, first off, what's changed about high
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: school football going back into the 90s versus now?
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: You know, it's interesting that you ask that. I think
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: whether it was 28 years ago or this year, you know,
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: teenage boys ages 14 to 18 are basically the same.
• 47:34
  Speaker 12: There's different issues they got to deal with. We never
• 47:39
  Speaker 12: had social media back when I took over in 1999.
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: But I'd say ages 14 to 18, there's never a
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: more important time or more formative time in your life
• 47:48
  Speaker 12: to have people outside of your parents who can help
• 47:52
  Speaker 12: speak into your life and help you live up. So
• 47:56
  Speaker 12: a lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I'm really curious about the social media component of this.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you opened the door for it because,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, Steve, I remember back when I was a
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: high school student in the late 90s, I mean, the
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: ultimate status symbol besides maybe a car was, you know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: maybe like your very first cell phone. We see kids
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: these days now who are I mean, as young as 10, 11,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: 12 years of age, they've got a handheld device that
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: you can easily communicate with. And then we get into
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: the social media weeds of this, not just from a
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: mental health thing, but also just from a time consumption
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and an attention span thing. So I think for you.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I heard this one time where a coach said, no
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: phones that walk through, period. No phones that walk through.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I've heard stories of other coaches for other sports, and
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I come from just on the professional working side, deep
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: into the hockey weeds of this. There are times where
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: players have to surrender their phones on the bus because
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: it's about a team-building component and just getting to know
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: the guy that's sitting right by you here. So how
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: does that change maybe, I think, in this day and age?
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: with how you learn, with how players operate, I think, socially, intellectually,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: how they communicate, and how you set those standards?
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: Well, number one, we're not a punitive program, but we
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: have a rule. If you have your cell phone out
• 49:19
  Speaker 12: at a football activity, it's 500 push-ups. And, you know,
• 49:26
  Speaker 12: the reason is that, you know, cell phones are great
• 49:30
  Speaker 12: and staying connected is great, but nothing's ever going to
• 49:32
  Speaker 12: replace eyeball to eyeball in person and learning how to
• 49:36
  Speaker 12: do that. And I think, you know, one of our
• 49:39
  Speaker 12: I would love it if we became the best in
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: the world at team building and helping our athletes develop friendships.
• 49:47
  Speaker 12: And I, that's going to always happen. Eyeball to eyeball
• 49:50
  Speaker 12: face to face in person. So I, you know, I
• 49:54
  Speaker 12: think there's a lot of battles that I can fight. Um,
• 49:57
  Speaker 12: fighting a social media battle is not something I can,
• 50:00
  Speaker 12: but I think what we can do with our kids
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: is help them experience what it, what it's like to
• 50:04
  Speaker 12: have real relationships that, um, That happened in person.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: When's the last time you had to give a guy
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: 500 push-ups?
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: Oh, we had one last year at team camp.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: I think he was injured, so he.
• 50:18
  Speaker 12: Had to do 500 sit-ups or something like that.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Nothing says conditioning just like getting after it no matter
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: what here. Joining us again, Steve Vallich in the Beacon
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Plumbing Hotline. He is the head coach of Liberty, and again,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: they'll face us tomorrow night as part of our high
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: school football spotlight right here at this hour right now
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: at this very moment on 93.3 KJRFM. I'm also very,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: very curious about changes to even coaching style versus back
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: in the day, where at some points you had coaches
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: who were very much all in on, I hate using
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: the word here, but kind of like a dictator type
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: of style where it's my way or the highway. But
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: we hear more and more about stories these days of
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: coaches who are trying to find a way to relate
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: to the players that They are coaching, and it's not
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: so much of a softening of the stance as far
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: as the endgame. It's just finding a way to get
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: them to respond. So to you, what worked then that
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: wouldn't work now as far as coaching philosophy?
• 51:20
  Speaker 12: Well, I think there's so much more access to... good
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: drills and everything that's out there. You know, it used
• 51:28
  Speaker 12: to be kind of secrets and maybe you'd connect with
• 51:30
  Speaker 12: a college coach or the high school coach and get
• 51:32
  Speaker 12: good drills or go to a clinic. So there's a
• 51:34
  Speaker 12: lot of good drills out there. And I, you know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: obviously I think I have a friend in coaching who
• 51:40
  Speaker 12: says a good rep is better than a bad rep
• 51:44
  Speaker 12: is better than a good stand. Meaning a bad repetition
• 51:47
  Speaker 12: is better than standing around. So, you know, we try
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: to maximize the number of repetitions we get. I think
• 51:54
  Speaker 12: all good programs do that. You try to have drills
• 51:59
  Speaker 12: that the game is the drill and the drill is
• 52:01
  Speaker 12: the game. So do things that are relevant and that
• 52:04
  Speaker 12: you're going to do on a Friday night in a competition.
• 52:06
  Speaker 12: And then I think we really try to be super
• 52:11
  Speaker 12: organized and efficient with our time so that the time
• 52:15
  Speaker 12: that we have the kids out there, that we're maximizing it.
• 52:19
  Speaker 12: And usually... You know, longer practice doesn't mean better practice.
• 52:24
  Speaker 12: You know, we want to have better practices. And if
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: it's an hour and 50 minutes like it was for
• 52:28
  Speaker 12: us yesterday, then maximize that time and make it as
• 52:33
  Speaker 12: impactful as possible.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Let's get into the definition of what's called cross-district play,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: and it revolves around a 3A team facing a 4A team,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: and there's some truth to how this works, and there's
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: some fiction or misnomers as far as what it represents.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: For the deep-minded folks in football, I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: but for someone who's just curiously getting into this and
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: learning about what this matchup means, it's a special matchup,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: by the way. Why is that special, and how does
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: that add to the flavor of tonight to you?
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: Well, you know, our kids, you know, the kids at
• 53:08
  Speaker 12: Issaquah High School and Liberty High School, they grew up
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: in the same community. They competed in youth sports together.
• 53:13
  Speaker 12: They know each other. That makes it special. You know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 12: Josh Brookshire and I are good friends. We've connected through
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: something called the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and have coached
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: a camp together there and done stuff together. So I
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: think it's, you know, it is, you know, I don't know,
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: the rivalry or whatever. I always think, you know, my parents,
• 53:33
  Speaker 12: fiercest competitions as a kid growing up were usually with
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: my best friend like that's who you fought the most
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: against and you battled and then you hug it up
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: at the end and you're still friends and I think
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: you know that's the essence of tonight and I've done
• 53:48
  Speaker 12: this for so long this is year 39 overall and
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: I don't think of the opponent as our enemy I
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: mean if we don't have Issaquah we don't.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Have a game and.
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: So I love high school football I love what it
• 54:00
  Speaker 12: teaches the athletes we have I love the life lessons
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: that are all a part of it. And I think
• 54:07
  Speaker 12: sometimes we can, you know, the rivalry is great, and
• 54:10
  Speaker 12: we're going to battle fiercely. But I think the beauty
• 54:13
  Speaker 12: of a game like this is at the end of it,
• 54:15
  Speaker 12: I guarantee you, Josh and I are going to hug
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: it up, wish each other the best, and, you know,
• 54:21
  Speaker 12: move forward.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Well, Bregan rides in the golf course for the next time, right?
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 54:26
  Speaker 12: Well, he's probably a better golfer than I am.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: Well, not probably.
• 54:29
  Speaker 12: I can guarantee you without even seeing him play.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: So, yeah.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: What's the lowest that you've shot? What's the lowest that
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: he's shot? You know what?
• 54:38
  Speaker 12: There's certain things I don't want to confess on air.
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: It's got to remain. That'll remain. I don't want to
• 54:45
  Speaker 12: ruin all my credibility.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. All good. All good. The matchup tomorrow night,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: how does Liberty view Issaquah?
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: They always play us well. We played the last couple years,
• 54:57
  Speaker 12: and it's just a physical matchup. They defend us well.
• 55:01
  Speaker 12: Two years ago, they beat us by a touchdown. Last year,
• 55:05
  Speaker 12: we beat them by two. So it's always a good matchup,
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: always competitive. We both had tough openers. We lost to Tumwater.
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: They lost to a really good Eastmont team. So, you know,
• 55:18
  Speaker 12: we're both looking to get back in the win column.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Finally here, give me your biggest, give me your baddest,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: give me your brightest one guy from Liberty or one
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: position group that somebody needs to watch tomorrow night.
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: Watch our defense. Our defense will fly around. Our secondary,
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: our linebackers up front. I'm just excited. Our kids, the
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: three words they wanted to have defined them were that they,
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: when you watch, you know, after a game, you said, man,
• 55:51
  Speaker 12: they're fast, they're physical, and they're disciplined. And what I
• 55:55
  Speaker 12: love about the, you know, the measurements that they've selected,
• 55:59
  Speaker 12: that you can watch film, you can watch a team play,
• 56:01
  Speaker 12: and you can say, check, check, check, or you can say,
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: you know, I don't know. So look for us to
• 56:07
  Speaker 12: be fast, physical, and disciplined. That would be the ultimate
• 56:10
  Speaker 12: for us in terms of how to evaluate our performance
• 56:14
  Speaker 12: tomorrow night.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Here's to great theater. Here's to what you face against Josh.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: And here's to fun bragging rights how it falls after
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: tomorrow evening here. But Steve, appreciate your time. Thank you.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: And appreciate you also for joining us as well.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: All right, Steve Vallis joining us here at the Beacon
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Plumbing Hotline. And we'll transition right now to the other
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: side for the Issaquah Eagles from the 4A level. And
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: a guy that Steve knows very, very well, he just
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: mentioned his name about a few minutes ago. That's Josh Brookshire,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: who's also helping open doors for those looking to take
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: their game next level here from this program at Issaquah
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: to the college ranks and refining expectations and also leadership
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: for a very, very young roster. Josh now joins us
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Josh, good morning
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: to you. How are you feeling about 24 hours before
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: game time?
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: Oh, thanks, sir, for having me on. Feeling great. You know, we...
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: got a young, excited group of guys, and it's always
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: great to get to go play a quality program like
• 57:16
  Speaker 9: Liberty and match up against what I think is one
• 57:20
  Speaker 9: of the best head coaches in the Northwest. It's a
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: good way to measure yourself.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Tell me about your relationship with Steve. He pumped your
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: tires pretty big about a few minutes ago, and it's
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: kind of like you mentioned that your biggest competition comes
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: from the guys that you know well, you're friends with,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: but what has Steve meant to you?
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: Steve has been a pretty incredible mentor to me since
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: I got out here. You know, me and my family
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: had never lived here really in the area until 2019.
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: And shortly after I got out here, Steve, um, unprompted
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: reached out to me and, uh, connected and has helped
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: me in a million ways, like so many ways. I, I,
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: I can't even account for all of them. Um, and,
• 58:02
  Speaker 9: and changed me personally, uh, in, uh, and I think
• 58:06
  Speaker 9: it makes everybody he interacts with a better person. So I,
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: I look forward to every interaction with him. And I,
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: I really look forward to playing against his team every year.
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: You know, we scheduled this game because you're friends, you're close,
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: you're similar in a lot of ways, you know, you're
• 58:20
  Speaker 9: dissimilar in a lot of ways. And I think it's a,
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: you know, we always look at football and sports as
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: an opportunity to find out who we are as people
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: and discover that about ourselves and then change it. If
• 58:31
  Speaker 9: we don't like what we see and, And so getting
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: to play against a team coach by Steve Valak every
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: year really forces you to look in the mirror and
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: decide like, Hey, are you doing stuff the right way?
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: And I love, I look forward to that opportunity.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Can you go back and think maybe as one of
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: the first moments that Steve made an impression on you
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: or an impact on you?
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, um, you know, a specific moment. I can't, I,
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: the first time I got to see him speak publicly,
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: I was at a, a local coaches event and, And
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: I'd talked to him a few times, and I knew, okay,
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: he's a good guy, Like it seems like cares about everybody.
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: But then when I got to see, and he got
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: to share his story and I, and then I got
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: to watch his kids play. Cause I do think that
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: that is a representation of who you are. That was
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: when I was like, Oh, this guy is the real deal. I,
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: you know, I need to, I need my game. I
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: need to listen when he speaks. And, and so I
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: can't really point to a specific moment. And I think
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: the thing that he does better than most people I
• 59:30
  Speaker 9: know is he's consistent and he's consistently great. So you
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: kind of get those moments over and over again.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: That's one of the intriguing storylines that leads us into
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night's game and a program that you took over, Josh,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: shortly before COVID. And you mentioned the time that you
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: spent elsewhere before moving out here to the area. Ultimately,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: what I really admire about the high school ranks is
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: that it's all about moving players up. Over the last
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: two seasons, correct me if I'm wrong, but roughly you
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: moved 20 players from your program up into college football.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: I think for me the question is, when you do this,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: who's got the most to gain on the road there?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Is it the parents, is it the coaches, or the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: actual player?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: I think it's kind of everyone. everybody has something to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 9: do with that process. And we have had a lot
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: of kids in the last couple of years. And I
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 9: treat that mostly to the fact that they love football
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: and they want to continue it. And it is really
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: a huge team effort to get that going.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 9: Cause there's a lot to getting a kid and getting
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 9: an athlete onto a college football roster nowadays. And it,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 9: the effort and the process to do so varies wildly
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 9: by the kid and the location and the goals. And
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: so it's really a kind of personal process.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: About the recruiting process of all of this. I mean,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I think so much of it is fascinating because it's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: not just one simple conversation where you've got a player
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: who's going to a college campus or a coach is
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: visiting a home and there's even now the day of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Zoom that's involved. It digitizes this whole process here in 2026.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: But I think down to the bolts of this, With recruiting,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: how much of this is talent? How much of this
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: is being a salesman? How much of this is film
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: preparation or academics or just finding the right fit at
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: the right level?
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 9: I think it's a little bit of everything. What I
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: try to relay to our kids and our families is that,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 9: you know, I came from small college coaching. These people
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 9: are betting their careers and their livelihood on you, and
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: you have to be a no-brainer. You know, it's not...
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 9: I try to tell them like our recruiting process and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 9: everything here is going to be based on honesty. I'm
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 9: never going to lie for an athlete to a coach
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: because I want the next one who's actually earned it
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 9: to be able to, you know, carry some integrity when
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: they get into that next building. And what I say
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 9: has to matter, you know, to these colleges or they
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 9: won't believe any of us. It'll hurt everyone that comes
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 9: after them. So that's the biggest deal is, and I,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: and I explained to them that when you get there,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 9: it's not going to be about your talent. It's going
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 9: to be about the talent that you're able to put.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: On the field.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 9: So if you're unavailable for a classroom reason or a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: personal reason or any other reason, you're unavailable and your
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 9: talents are relevant at that point. And so really it's
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 9: a holistic approach we take with the guys to get
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 9: them to understand, you know, you have to be a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 9: complete package. You have to be a no brainer. And
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: we start them on it really early. You know, we,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: they've got mandatory study halls here with us, weekly grade checks.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 9: You know, we, We start to train them on that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 9: idea and that model as soon as they.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: Get in the program.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Josh Brookshire joining us here at the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: He's the head coach of the Issaquah Eagles at the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: 4A level. And that ties into, I think, maybe with
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: the core values that you try to build these guys
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: up with. And Josh, one college hockey coach, I heard
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: him say this one time. If a recruit tells me,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: and this is wild, if a recruit told me he
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: wants to, say, win a championship... I don't pursue him.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: If he tells me I want to play in the NHL,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: then I'm all over that and he's in. So that's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: what the player is there for and it's development. I
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: think maybe it's one extreme way to kind of go
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: about this, but it's reality. So as far as you
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: are concerned, define Issaquah's success when it comes to college placement, academics,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: games that these kids get in, and how much winning
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: can point them in different and higher directions.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 9: Uh, that's a tough question. I, our success so far
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 9: has been on the fact that we have a lot
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 9: of great kids and families that love football and are
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 9: willing to do the whole thing.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 9: Like I had some time yesterday to write down everywhere.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 9: We put somebody in the majority of our kids go
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 9: on to high academic environments. You know, they're at Whitworth's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: and Willamette's and Carroll colleges and those kinds of places,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 9: but for the majority and Chapman's where, uh, and Carlton's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 9: where you have to be a great student and an athlete.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 9: And so I'd say our, our primary success has been
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 9: on building holistic kids who love the game and are
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: willing to work hard. And, you know, I tell them
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 9: that that's it all the time. If you don't love
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 9: this game, when you leave high school, it's a job
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 9: and it's not just your job, it's that coach's job.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 9: So you have to really, really love it. And I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 9: would say that that is what I Mark is our
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 9: greatest point of success is we've just had a lot
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 9: of kids who love football and love the process of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 9: football and and are willing to commit a significant amount
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 9: of time to it.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Tell me about the game tomorrow night here. What's the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: biggest challenge with facing Liberty?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 9: They are disciplined in their physical and Their systems are
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 9: really tight. You know you're not going to catch them
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 9: in bad game time management or situations management. You just
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 9: have to play straight football against them the whole time.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 9: It really comes down to who can execute at a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 9: higher percentage.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: I told Steve this, and he gave us his sales
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: pitch as far as the eyeballs that could be on
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: your game for tomorrow night. Give me here one guy
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: from Issaquah or one position group from Issaquah. Give me
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: your Your brightest, give me your baddest, give me your meanest.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Pick one guy or one position group that someone's got
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: to watch out for tomorrow.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: That's a tough one. We have a pretty talented, we think,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 9: and deep receiver group. But in a unique way, they
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 9: might be the best blocking receiver group we've ever had
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 9: when I was here. They're pretty selfless, hardworking. But in reality,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 9: our theme for this year with our guys is love
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 9: in the hunt. And we try to be in the
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 9: moment in every play. And so what I would expect
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 9: if you watch us as you see our guys is
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 9: they're not responding to the moment. They're trying to control
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 9: the temperature of the moment.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Well, Steve wouldn't go in on as far as his
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: golf game, but you want to lobby the kind of
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: bragging rights that you might have facing him on the
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: golf course?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: Steve would destroy me.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't played golf in.
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  Speaker 3: Probably five years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, hey, all the best to you and the
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  Speaker 2: least for this one, but certainly appreciate your time there, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: All the best again. Go get him, and thanks for
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  Speaker 2: the conversation.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for the time. Appreciate you guys covering the sport.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Josh Brookshire joining us here, head coach from
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  Speaker 2: You're going to go head-to-head from the sidelines, Issaquah and Liberty.
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  Speaker 2: That's all part of the spotlight here. And once again,
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  Speaker 7: Let me first say that Picking Friday is a lot
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  Speaker 7: more difficult because all the good games are taken at
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  Speaker 7: What I like is the Jags 7.5 favorites against the Browns.
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  Speaker 2: The Jags have been 13.
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  Speaker 7: Last season, they were 13 for 18 against the spread.
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  Speaker 7: The Browns are awful. Their best receivers might be rookies.
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  Speaker 4: I should know. X Husky. Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 7: So their best wide receivers are probably their rookies. They
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  Speaker 7: I'm taking Jacksonville negative minus 7.5 over the Browns.
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  Speaker 2: Jags over the Browns at minus 7.5. That's Travis's pick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's great that the Seahawks were able to
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  Speaker 5: rally without having their full armament of guys. And we
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  Speaker 5: saw the Rams falter. But no one's talking about the 49ers' defense.
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  Speaker 5: That is something that we're going to have to deal with.
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  Speaker 5: They're at full power. We faced them last year without
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  Speaker 5: them being at full power. It's going to take a lot,
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  Speaker 5: a lot to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's certainly a point being the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you've got Fred Warner who can still blow up plays. And, oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, there's a guy in the front named
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  Speaker 2: Nick Bosa. You heard of him? Is he pretty good?
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  Speaker 6: He looked pretty good last night.
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  Speaker 2: To more Seahawks reaction. 4-2-5. You know Drew Locke has
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  Speaker 2: some tangibility, as Sam Darnold does not. Drew Locke's actually
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  Speaker 2: very mobile and can scramble, and if they work that
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  Speaker 2: in with the other quarterback, can't remember his name. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's sarcastic or not. They can be
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  Speaker 2: really dynamic. Last name rhymes with NILRO.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently he didn't watch Hard Knocks.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Last name rhymes with NILRO. I don't know if we
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  Speaker 2: want to go that deep to see Jalen Milrow play,
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  Speaker 2: unless it's against the Pats once again. Hey-oh! Didn't Softy
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  Speaker 2: bring that up, a little bit of a burn against
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  Speaker 2: see how that works out right now. They beat him
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  Speaker 2: with Sam Darnold, got the ring, beat him with Drew
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  Speaker 2: Locke basically in week one. Let's try the Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 2: experiment here. 4-9-4-5-1 again. From the 2-5-3, I think the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks defense is better than last year, and they weren't
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  Speaker 2: at full strength. I think the offensive line is better
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  Speaker 2: than last year. I think the offense will be better
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  Speaker 2: than last year, and they're not at full strength. The
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  Speaker 2: rest of the league should worry about the Seahawks. I
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  Speaker 2: really want to see what this offense does when A,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold's healthy, and We get more reaction here when
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: he could come back. There's maybe even a guess that
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: they may save him for week five against who? The
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: San Francisco 49ers. Oh, boy. So is Sam Darnold healthy enough?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: Mixed in with. Is Jadarian Price ramped up? Mixed in
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: with as well. is Zach Charbonnet back in behind him.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: That's a game changer for me. Assuming nobody else is hurt,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: that's your offense that you want to look at when
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: everything is rolling. One here, HockeySide206. Call him Matty Beneers, soft, overrated.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, Mikey, you love him. Another below 500
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  Speaker 2: season incoming here from the 206. I'm sorry if you
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  Speaker 2: think that I have a little thing for Matty Beneers.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, is he got better last year Matter
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: of fact, as he went from second year, coming out
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: the Calder Trophy year, and he had that massive dip,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: 37 points, went to 43 after that, went to 50
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  Speaker 2: after that. May I encourage you to go Google a
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: name here? And he turned in one of the great
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: careers in NHL history, never won a Stanley Cup, but
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: came close, but yet, These were similar numbers he was
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: pumping out until later on in his 20s. Must I
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: remind you of the name Patrick Marlowe? Not bad. So
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: for Matty Beneers, I firmly believe, and from what I
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  Speaker 2: heard and what I saw as well, There was some
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  Speaker 2: work on the side to open more doors, unlock some
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  Speaker 2: creativity that was maybe locked up because he was so
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  Speaker 2: hyper-focused on being a defensive center. After he won the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Calder Trophy, the numbers will take a dip. But that
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: creativity is opening. I don't think 70 points is out
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  Speaker 2: of question to ask from him this year.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the caveat with this. I fully agree that you're
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: getting into a thing where, should he be your 1C?
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: It's pretty apparent from the word across the NHL, he's
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: an established No. 2 center on a Stanley Cup contending team.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: But right now, this is what you got. This is
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: who you have. I'm fine with Matty Beneers right down
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: the middle. You don't have to ask about his commitment
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: level anymore. You don't have to ask about how much
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: he shows up. Every guy will swear by him. For me,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: the big question is, can the weight go up now?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: Because that was where he was exposed last couple years
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: in battles along the boards. The face-off circle thing has
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: been figured out, it feels like now. But can he
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: put on more weight and can he maintain that weight
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: to really play with the big boys in the tall trees?
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  Speaker 2: And that's right toward the front of the net. Good
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  Speaker 2: stuff here. Again, appreciate you. 49451 Tacoma Dodge text line.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
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  Speaker 1: with Greg Bell on your home for the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Craig's back next week as he's taking a few days
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  Speaker 2: Mike Benton filling in for him. On the football Friday,
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  Speaker 2: we're just missing the NFL team out of the party.
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  Speaker 2: Are you out to Snoqualmie?
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  Speaker 13: It was Snoqualmie Casino, Hotel, and the Hawks Peak, which
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  Speaker 13: we got big goings on this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: We'll tell you about.
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  Speaker 13: Last week, they started college. This week, they started the NFL.
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  Speaker 13: So we'll tell you what they got going on up
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  Speaker 13: here at the Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel.
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  Speaker 6: Great spot.
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  Speaker 13: Lots going on this weekend, especially here in Hawks Peak.
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  Speaker 13: where we can watch the games. In fact, one of
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  Speaker 13: the things on one of the 60-plus televisions right now
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  Speaker 13: is a replay of the Rams and the 49ers.
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  Speaker 2: It's here in studio right now.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, and I can tell you, I'm enjoying it. I
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  Speaker 13: even know the outcome, and I'm still enjoying it again.
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  Speaker 2: It looks great out there. They packed the place in.
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  Speaker 2: I love the decor in the backdrop at kickoff. And
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're playing a game late in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: their time, it looks weird. But, I mean, all things aside,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams, I guess you can say that plane rides
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: right before kickoff don't work. They pulled this thing off
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  Speaker 2: pretty well, though.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I just, and I think there's a three-year deal
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  Speaker 13: in place I saw today to go back there again
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  Speaker 13: a couple more times. The toll it's just going to
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 13: take on teams is just massive. Like, it just is huge.
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  Speaker 13: I've never done that trip, but talking to people that have,
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  Speaker 13: it's really hard. Even if you're on these great planes
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  Speaker 13: and have everything there for you, I mean, just that is,
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  Speaker 13: you know, it's bad enough going to Europe.
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  Speaker 6: Especially if you're a West Coast team.
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  Speaker 13: But you're adding hours and hours onto that trip.
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  Speaker 6: It's just a lot, man. I don't know. I'm just
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  Speaker 6: not a fan of it.
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  Speaker 13: Never will be a fan of games not being played
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  Speaker 13: in NFL stadiums in the NFL. But I'm maybe just
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 13: the ugly American today.
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  Speaker 2: But then if you want to tweak this game again,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: when do you play it besides week one?
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  Speaker 6: Well, see, and that's the problem, Mike. That's the problem
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: you run into. Because.
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  Speaker 13: And, you know, the tradition of having the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 13: champion open the season on Thursday night football, if they're
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  Speaker 13: going to do this damn game, you're going to probably
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 13: end up having to play on a Wednesday. And, you know,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 13: every year the Super Bowl champion may end up playing
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  Speaker 13: on a Wednesday and then the Australia game has to
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 13: be on Thursday. And I just, I mean, it's been cool.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, certainly we've all enjoyed watching football this week,
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  Speaker 13: but I don't know. I just think it takes, I think,
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  Speaker 13: If you're really concerned about things like player safety and well-being.
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  Speaker 6: And all those things... I just don't know how you
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 6: can make that thing.
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  Speaker 2: See, I think at least it taught me as well,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: if you work for a pro sports team, always thank
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: your team travel guy. Because, I mean, I would hate
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  Speaker 2: to be someone working for the Rams right now after
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: seeing what Sean McVay said. We're going to do some
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: talking here to some people after this game. And I thought,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: oh boy, they're in one right now.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and that's the question too, Mikey, is like.
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  Speaker 13: Who made the ultimate decision to go when they did?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 13: Because all leading up to it, McVay and those guys
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 13: were trying to sound like the smartest guys in the world.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 13: They're leaning on their sports science. people, and I just
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 13: wonder how much do they say, hey, if we want
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  Speaker 13: to do this, does it make sense? And just hearing
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  Speaker 13: what they wanted to hear.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. End of the day, the good news
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 6: is the Rams, the super team, they lost.
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  Speaker 2: They got a pie in the face for getting.
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  Speaker 4: 17-0, right?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, and I don't know how much it had to
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  Speaker 13: do with the fact that they were traveled late and
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 13: what have you, but it probably didn't help. At the
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 13: end of the day, the other part of it is
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 13: Stafford looked like garbage, and the 49ers defense looked really good,
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  Speaker 13: even though they're missing a couple starters up front, and
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  Speaker 13: it was a big, big win for them.
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  Speaker 2: You think Sam plays this month?
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  Speaker 13: Well, I think you hope he plays in Washington. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 13: the Cardinals are awful, so that doesn't matter, right?
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't matter. I think negative. 01 % chance of
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, if he doesn't play?
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: No, I'm talking the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Their only chance to make the postseason if they were, say,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 13: like in the NFC South, which is the American League
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 13: West of the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: All right, buy us in some time. What you got
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  Speaker 2: coming up here, man?
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  Speaker 13: Big show Fridays are always big show for us during
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 13: football season. Our friend Greg Cosell will join us at 1220.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 13: Normally he gives us the update and the preview of
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 13: the games. and the Seahawks opponent and all that. This
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 13: week we're going to basically review it all because they've
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 13: already played. Well, I'm going to ask about the Rams too,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 13: especially Stafford and the offense. So we'll get to that.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 13: Greg Costello coming up at 1220. Danny O'Neill in the
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 13: 1 o'clock hour, his weekly visit. Lots to talk about
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 13: with the NFL and also with the Mariners. He wrote
• 1:20:25
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• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: They're still alive? They're still alive?
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 13: He said they quit. So we'll get to that with Danny.
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  Speaker 13: And then Rob Rang previews the college football weekend as
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 13: only he can at 2 o'clock. So As always, a
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  Speaker 13: real busy show and fact or fiction coming up at 235.
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  Speaker 2: Football funsies are coming here, man. Have a great show
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  Speaker 2: back there with the good friends of Snoqualmie. Ian's up next.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: Big thanks once again, Andrew Destin, Oscar Fisker, Molgaard, Steve
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Vallage from Liberty, Josh Brookshire of Issaquah. For Travis and
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  Speaker 2: in for Greg, I'm Mike. Ian's up next.
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  Speaker 4: See ya.