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Furness Show 1-23: Greg Cosell, Danny O'Neil, Rob Rang · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: where I would love to be right now. Instead I
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  Speaker 2: am here. Why because well, logistics work in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you are at the hawks Peak sports bar and
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  Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, Well I made it for Jamaine Curs's
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  Speaker 6: meet and Greek guys doing Blue Friday from my son
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  Speaker 6: up to sundown out here. It's awesome. There's a huge
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  Speaker 6: I might add is a nice touch. And I'm right
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  Speaker 6: outside the hawks Peak right now. I'm nestled in there,
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  Speaker 6: but wanted to come out and give you guys a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of the sound of what's going on here. People,
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  Speaker 6: every single person here that I've seen is wearing a
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  Speaker 6: twelve man, a Seahawks, anything that goes with Blue Friday.
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  Speaker 6: And it's great. And by the way, I cannot emphasize
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  Speaker 6: this enough that they have an all day happy hour,
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  Speaker 6: all day happy hour, and the highest price you will
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  Speaker 6: pay for a meal here on happy hour is ten
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  Speaker 6: dollars and that includes wings, scrips, pizza. Pizza is only
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  Speaker 6: eight dollars. I'm sorry, so you can go along. I
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  Speaker 6: actually tweeted out happy hour menu and it is all
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  Speaker 6: day long. Everyone's getting fired up for the Seahawks this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, also, I do want to mention
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  Speaker 6: this because Ian, you and I used to sit in
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  Speaker 6: the sports book and you know, they're smoking areas in
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  Speaker 6: the casino, the whole area right outside the Hawks Peak.
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  Speaker 6: And this is no no shade to anyone who likes
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  Speaker 6: the smoke cigarettes, but for those who don't want to,
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  Speaker 6: there's so much gaming on this side of the casino
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  Speaker 6: that is completely smoke free. Can't even smell it, and
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  Speaker 6: it is really nice for those who don't, you know,
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  Speaker 6: do partake in that sort of nicotine. So anyway, I
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  Speaker 6: am just having a blast up here. So thank you
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  Speaker 6: for having hockey tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Ian, Yeah, exactly. Well, hopefully you get a bite to eat.
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  Speaker 2: We'll check in with you later in the hour at
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  Speaker 2: some point. But are you get away T shirts? Have
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  Speaker 2: you already gotten out through all those Oh yes, I.
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  Speaker 6: Do have T shirts. R T shirts. Come find me
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  Speaker 6: in hawks Peak because I have some that i'd be
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  Speaker 6: very very happy to give away. I'm going to put
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  Speaker 6: them out on the table. Now just come find me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm right in the right hand corner at hawks Peak.
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  Speaker 3: Can't miss Jess.
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  Speaker 2: Go get a T shirt, swing on by and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the games this weekend. Up and still call me Casino
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  Speaker 2: hawks Peak Jess.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go a special NFC Championship game
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  Speaker 2: addition of Greg Cosell joining us right now thanks to
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  Speaker 2: Seattle Cider. We never know when these are gonna end, Greg,
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years they've ended with Week eighteen in
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  Speaker 2: the final game. But here we are. We've got an
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  Speaker 2: NFC Championship weekend. How are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing great. Yeah, we have. It's crazy. We have
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  Speaker 7: the Seahawks playing. It's beautiful. You know, they're playing on merity,
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  Speaker 7: and they're playing on.
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  Speaker 2: Merit because you are the great, great coach Sell. I
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  Speaker 2: can throw a curveball at you. We're gonna get to
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks and the Rams. In a second quick thought
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  Speaker 2: from you though, on the AFC game, which is before
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  Speaker 2: our game on Sunday, Nobo Nicks and so Stidham starts
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback against Drake May and New England. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like that's an uphill climb. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 2: you've even looked at tape this week. If you talk
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  Speaker 2: to anybody about Jared Stidham, have to go back three
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  Speaker 2: or four years, will you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here's what I did. I have Number one, I
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  Speaker 7: evaluated him coming out of Auburn, and then number two,
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  Speaker 7: I looked at the two games he started at the
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  Speaker 7: end of the twenty twenty three season. Because people may
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  Speaker 7: not know, but he has been with Sean Payton from
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  Speaker 7: day one. In fact, the first day of free agency
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  Speaker 7: when Sean Payton became the head coach of the Broncos,
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  Speaker 7: he signed Jared Stidham and that was the first day
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  Speaker 7: of free agency and at that point he really didn't
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  Speaker 7: know who his quarterback was going to be. So he
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  Speaker 7: obviously believes in Jarrett'stidham Now having said that, none of
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  Speaker 7: us know. So I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 7: say what he is going to do or isn't going
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  Speaker 7: to do, because none of us know, and that just
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  Speaker 7: becomes a speculative, pointless point of view statement. But I
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  Speaker 7: will say this, it's my personal belief that you will
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  Speaker 7: see a lot of the staple pass game concepts that
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  Speaker 7: they run. You'll see them in their normal, down to
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  Speaker 7: distant situations. And I don't believe he's going to try
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  Speaker 7: to hide Jared Stidham and not have him be a
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  Speaker 7: factor in the game. I don't think Sean Payton plays
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  Speaker 7: games like that.
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  Speaker 2: Just I mean, he's one of the great coaches of
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  Speaker 2: our games in the history, right, I mean Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, he'll get tested this week. That should be
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  Speaker 2: a fun game. That's again the noon Pacific time game
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  Speaker 2: and then three point thirty NFC Championship game. Greg, Have
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  Speaker 2: we talked at all about the Rams and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: yet this year? That's right, We've done that already twice,
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  Speaker 2: haven't we?
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  Speaker 7: Week eleven, Week sixteen, two totally different games. And certainly
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  Speaker 7: Week sixteen, the Rams put up over five hundred yards
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  Speaker 7: of offense, which is the most the Seahawks have given up,
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  Speaker 7: which was kind of an odd game. That was the
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  Speaker 7: game they won with a two point conversion, as I recall,
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  Speaker 7: thirty eight thirty seven. But yeah, no, there there's a
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  Speaker 7: lot there. I mean, we could probably talk about this
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  Speaker 7: game for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Well let's get let's get into it. Let's start first
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  Speaker 2: with we'll talk about the Rams offense. You just brought
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  Speaker 2: up the offense they put up against Seattle and in
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  Speaker 2: that Week sixteen game, and what they were able to
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  Speaker 2: do against the defense that frankly, most teams have not
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  Speaker 2: been able to do much against this year. Certainly in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks they haven't, whether it be
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  Speaker 2: Carolina or the San Francisco games period as well. What
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  Speaker 2: is Sean mcvaigh, What did he do in that game?
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  Speaker 2: What is he able to do against the Seattle defense
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  Speaker 2: that maybe some others haven't.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that was a big passing game at Stafford ended
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  Speaker 7: up with twenty nine completions for about four hundred and
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  Speaker 7: fifty yards, and that was the Puka Nakua game where
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  Speaker 7: he had twelve I think for two twenty five and
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  Speaker 7: all those inbreakers, those dig routes, which are staples of
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  Speaker 7: the Rams pass game. Those are things that you definitely
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  Speaker 7: have to defend and they'll have to defend it better.
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  Speaker 7: And you know the other thing about the Rams. And
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  Speaker 7: obviously people know about Stafford, he's likely to be the MVP,
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  Speaker 7: he's probably going to be a Hall of Famer. But
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  Speaker 7: I think the run game is overlooked. Now, let's just
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  Speaker 7: break that down a little more. In the two games
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  Speaker 7: that they played this year, the Rams have run for
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  Speaker 7: one hundred nineteen and one hundred and twenty four yards.
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  Speaker 7: Williams and Coream the two backs. They do not play together,
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  Speaker 7: so they've combined for over two thousand yards. I'm not
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  Speaker 7: sure a lot of people are aware of that. And
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  Speaker 7: against the Seahawks they ran pretty well. They've ran for
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  Speaker 7: one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty four yards.
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  Speaker 7: Now we know when you play Seattle you must get
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  Speaker 7: Williams and Murphy blocked. If you cannot block the two
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  Speaker 7: of them, you're not going to run the ball. We've
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  Speaker 7: seen that when they played the forty nine Ers, and
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  Speaker 7: other teams have been in the same situation as well.
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  Speaker 7: Because the Seahawks have the second best run defense in
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  Speaker 7: the league. So you know you're going to see a
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  Speaker 7: staple run concept from the Rams, which is duo, which
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  Speaker 7: is a very good run for both Williams and Korum
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  Speaker 7: because they're both really good when their shoulders are squared
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  Speaker 7: and they're going downhill. They're not really great zone runners.
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  Speaker 7: You got to get them going downhill. And the reason
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  Speaker 7: why duo is an effective run and whether it is
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  Speaker 7: or not this week, no one knows, but conceptually it's
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  Speaker 7: effective because you get double teams right off the ball
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  Speaker 7: on Williams and Murphy, and Murphy's really good stalemating double teams,
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  Speaker 7: but still it's better than blocking him one on one.
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  Speaker 7: So you know, I think that the Rams they're going
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  Speaker 7: to try to run the ball. Look, they stabilize their
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  Speaker 7: offense last week against the Bears by coming out in
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  Speaker 7: the second half and running the ball. I think they
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  Speaker 7: know that they need the run game to be somewhat
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  Speaker 7: of a factor.
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  Speaker 2: See I mean, I would assume other teams have used
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  Speaker 2: or tried to use duo against Seattle, but not as effectively.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong there, but that you know, it seems
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  Speaker 2: like a simple concept, but not many people have been
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  Speaker 2: able to do.
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  Speaker 4: It no well.
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  Speaker 7: And it is a foundation run for the Rams. It's
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  Speaker 7: not a foundation run for everybody. But there's no question
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  Speaker 7: that teams have not been able to move Williams and
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  Speaker 7: Murphy a whole lot. I mean, you know, we've talked
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  Speaker 7: about both those guys who don't need to reiterate. Certainly
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  Speaker 7: Seattle fans know about them, they know how well they've played,
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  Speaker 7: how dominant they've been, So you know that that's a
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  Speaker 7: big deal in this game and obviously the past. Look,
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  Speaker 7: it's not likely they're going to give up four hundred
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  Speaker 7: and fifty yards passing. Again, that was the way that
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  Speaker 7: particular game played out. It's not likely to happen. Look
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  Speaker 7: for the most part, Seattle plays at a two shell coverage.
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  Speaker 7: They play the second most for the season. They played
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  Speaker 7: the second highest percentage of nickel in the league for
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  Speaker 7: obvious reasons because of them, and worry whether you want
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  Speaker 7: to call it nickel or big Nickel. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 7: used in multiple ways, but he's essentially a Sam linebacker
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  Speaker 7: in their scheme. So they play nickel and dime. They
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  Speaker 7: don't really play bass. What will be interesting to see
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  Speaker 7: is if they stay with that one hundred percent, If
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  Speaker 7: the Rams decide to play a high percentage of thirteen
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  Speaker 7: personnel with three tight ends, I think they will because
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  Speaker 7: there's a significant pass element to the Rams in their
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  Speaker 7: three tight end offense. And I don't think that the
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  Speaker 7: Seahawks will switch to a five to two.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I could be wrong, but I think they'll want em
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  Speaker 7: and Warrior on the field because he can be a
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  Speaker 7: little bit of a tight end or eraser at times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna ask you about the thir
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  Speaker 2: They do run a correcting this with the Rams, great
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  Speaker 2: Cosale joining us. By the way, the Rams run a
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  Speaker 2: lot of thirteen personnel, right, they use a lot of
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  Speaker 2: They use three tight ends quite a bit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they do. They do. You know, it's it's odd
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  Speaker 7: because there have been games where they've done a ton
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  Speaker 7: of it, like, for instance, when they played Week sixteen. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: when they played Week sixteen, the Rams, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 7: they had eighty eight offensive plays in that game, which
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  Speaker 7: is unheard of, but they had fifty four snaps and
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  Speaker 7: thirteen personnel. Now that's an awful lot of snaps with
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  Speaker 7: three tight ends on the field. But that was a
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  Speaker 7: little bit of an aberration. But it's clearly a staple
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  Speaker 7: foundation of what they do, so you've got to be
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  Speaker 7: prepared for it. And they use the tight ends differently.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Ferguson is really their receiving tight end, and
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  Speaker 7: the thirteen personnel package Allen is mostly used as a blocker.
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  Speaker 7: Parkinson is kind You're familiar with him for being in Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: He's kind of a multi dimensional tight end. He certainly
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  Speaker 7: can catch and he can block. I mean, he's you know,
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  Speaker 7: in some ways, he's kind of like Barner. You know,
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  Speaker 7: they're not great tight ends, but they can do a
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  Speaker 7: little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Parkinson, it's good guy. I'm happy to see his success.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a terrific year, a breakout year, especially finding
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  Speaker 2: the end zone as well. I want to I know
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  Speaker 2: we probably have, but I don't recall, and so I'll
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  Speaker 2: go down this road again. I'd love to get your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on because people say this all the time, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious too, how the hell does pukin THEAKU would
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  Speaker 2: do it. He was the one hundred and seventy He
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  Speaker 2: was the one hundred and seventy seventh pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: He was a fifth round Day three guy. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if you scattered him guy that low
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  Speaker 2: in the draft. I don't know if you even scouted
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  Speaker 2: him coming out Greg because he was out low.
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  Speaker 7: He was hurt a lot in college. Yeah, and so
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  Speaker 7: therefore a lot of people and I don't recall evaluating
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  Speaker 7: him coming out because I think his last year he
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  Speaker 7: didn't play that many games, So I don't think I
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  Speaker 7: did him. But I think, look, he's a very very
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  Speaker 7: good receiver. Obviously, I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 7: say he's not very good. He's terrific run after catch,
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  Speaker 7: he's strong, he's competitive, he's physical. But this is a
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  Speaker 7: really well schemed offense that really understands. McVeigh is really
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  Speaker 7: good at attacking zone coverage. They've got really good routes
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  Speaker 7: to beat cover three, to be cover two, to be
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  Speaker 7: too high, and McDonald is you know, they play mostly predominantly,
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  Speaker 7: I don't see mostly predominantly out of a too high shell.
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  Speaker 7: Even when they pressure, they play a lot out of
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  Speaker 7: a two high shell. Now they will play out of
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  Speaker 7: single high, but they foundationally they play out of a
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  Speaker 7: two high shell, and they play top down and they
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  Speaker 7: try to prevent throws over the top. Now, McVeigh is
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  Speaker 7: just so good with his route design and route concepts
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  Speaker 7: that you know a lot of times balls are caught
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  Speaker 7: in voids and zones, and that's what the Rams do
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  Speaker 7: really really well. And Nikua is he becomes a function
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  Speaker 7: of that. He's a recipient of that. And particularly between
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  Speaker 7: the numbers. I mean in that second game when Stafford
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  Speaker 7: had the big game, he killed them throwing between the
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  Speaker 7: numbers at the intermediate levels. There's no question Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 7: is more aware of that than I. If I'm aware
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  Speaker 7: of it, you can be sure he's aware of it,
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  Speaker 7: and that'll be something that they will definitely look to
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  Speaker 7: tighten up.
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  Speaker 2: The great chess match between two great coaches the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: McVeigh and McDonald is a great co sale. Let's flip
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the ball, because we love timing
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  Speaker 2: in this world. In about I'm looking at my clock here,
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  Speaker 2: in about ten or fifteen minutes, Mike McDonald's going to
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  Speaker 2: walk to the podium over at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center,
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  Speaker 2: and when he does, we'll find out about the injuries.
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  Speaker 2: More than likely we're still with we think he said yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: The nice thing about the NFC Championship Week, Greg is
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  Speaker 2: that the media requirements are a lot more than in
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, so they've had to have him talked
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days, and he has been McDonald
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  Speaker 2: has been saying all along they believe Charles Cross will play.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about Jones and Mary Kites the third
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  Speaker 2: string left tackle, but all three of those guys didn't
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  Speaker 2: practice on Wednesday and Thursday this week. But again we're
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  Speaker 2: ten minute, fifteen minutes away from that happening. We'll assume
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  Speaker 2: that Cross is in. McDonald's been very optimistic about him
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  Speaker 2: this year, so let's we'll go working on that assumption.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: We're also working on the assumption that the Sam Donald's
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: okay with the ol bleak. This defense has given Sam
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Donald problems at least in terms of turnovers. What have
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: you seen on tape in that regard.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: Well, two quick things. Number One, I think Charles Cross,
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: and we've talked about him over the years. I thought
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: he improved significantly this year and we've talked about that
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: throughout the season. I think he was a much better
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: player this year, particularly in past pro So going back
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: to Donald, I think the biggest thing with Donald and
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: this is what teams try to do. I mean you
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: could almost go back to when the Wallace this slot
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: corner Wallace in week sixteen, and he won't play this week.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Is Quinton Lake's back. But when he returned the interception
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: for the touchdown, which I'm sure you remember till week sixteen,
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: it was a classic example of what teams try to
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: do to Sam Darnold. They try to show one look
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: pre snap and change it post snap. And that's exactly
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: what happened on the Wallace play. They showed a really
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: defined two man coverage look and it became cover two
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: and Donald it was double glance and Donald didn't read it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: He thought it was man, and so he threw the
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: slant route the glans out to Shaheed and instead of
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: while it's running inside with Kopp as you would have
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: if it was man, he sat in his zone and
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: therefore Donald threw it right to him. And I think
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: that's what teams try to do with Sam Donald. I
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: think if you you know, got coaches to really, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: on truth serum and to tell you what they think,
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: they would tell you that you can get Donald at
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: times by changing the look, you know, with late coverage rotation.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: And I think that's what teams try to do. Now,
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: does that mean it's going to happen, No, But that's
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: what you try to do. Now, then it all depends
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: on how a game plays out. I mean, look the
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: last couple of weeks, Donald, he threw seventeen balls this
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: past week, and I think what about twenty the week before.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: It all depends on how or two weeks before. I
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: guess it depends on how games play out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Look, if this game ends up being, you know, a
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: high scoring game or whatever, and he has to drop
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: back thirty five forty times, hey, so be it. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: that's what the Rams will try to do. I still
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: think you can attack the Rams corners. You know, you've
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: got to protect because they do have a really good
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: pass rush with their down four.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I think part of the reason he hasn't been
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: throwing the pass is because his team's been they've been
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: running the ball. You know, they've they've run the ball
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: very well lately. Just looking back in the last you know, however,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: many games here for Seattle, they're they're rushing yards. Greg
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: have been really really good. Uh and I mean one
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: eighty one sixty three, one seventy one, going back to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the last three games as a team, and you and
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I have been talking about this for for a couple
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: of years now, Greg ken Walker and nobody wants to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: see a guy get hurt. Sharboney getting hurt hurts their depth.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Halanis will probably be the backup on Sunday coming off
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the injured list. We saw him early in the year.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: He runs hard, good special teams play, can be a
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: guy that can block on third down or what have you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: But ken Walker getting opportunities and more opportunities. I feel
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like that's a good thing. The way he's running the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: ball right now. What do you see from the guy
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: we call K nine.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah. The thing about Walker that I think is critical,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: and we've talked about this over the years, ever since
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: he was drafted by Seattle, is I think he's hitting
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: it up inside better than he ever has because you've
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: got to gain yards. You've got to get hard yards.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: You know, you can't bounce everything.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Is he capable of bouncing, Sure he is, but just
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: get those tough, hard yards. And if it's first and
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: ten and you get four, it's second and six. If
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: you try to bounce and you lose a lot yard
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: at second and eleven, those are big deals. So I
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: think he's been doing a much better job. I guarantee
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: they've been working with him on that, and he's been
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: talked to about it. But you've got to hit it
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: up in there and get what's there, particularly in games
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: like this where every yard matters, you know, it's so
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: critical to get those tough yards, and he's done a
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: much much better job of doing that, I think over
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: the last three four weeks.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've told the story in the air before. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: think I've even told you. In his rookie season, there
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was a time when he was trying to bounce everything
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and trying to make everything a home run, and Pete
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Carroll talked to him. Pete Carroll talked about to us
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in the media about it. In a press conference. After
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the game, we were doing our postgame TV stuff and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I I interviewed Walker and I asked, because he looked
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: like a different back he was doing what you just said.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And he says, yeah, you know, Pete gun on me
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and I got to do this. He got away from that,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but he looks like he's gone back to it again.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: It's just it's probably, you know, human nature, right, that's
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: his natural instincts is try to hit a home run
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and bounce everything outside. But it feels like for him
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to be effective, he's got to do what you just said.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Well, as I've said before, he's a jazz musician more
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: than a classical ponist, so he's always looking to hitprovise.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that. JSN had a quiet week
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: last week. Now, Cooper Cup was the leading receiver, but
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: JSN had and he's kind of had a couple two
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: or three quiet weeks here and there along the way.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Our teams starting to try to take him away and say,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: make somebody else beat us, whether it be Cup or
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: or Rashid Shiheed.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: I think he got to be careful about that end.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: They just haven't thrown the ball a lot, you know,
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: So I think that, you know, it becomes a function
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: of the way games are played. You know, you can
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: go back to Week sixteen. Obviously I don't believe he
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: had a catch in the first half in that game,
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: but he ended up with I think eight for ninety six. Yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: when you watch the tape, they use him in multiple ways.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: He's used in motion. He's a pre snat movement guy.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: I think eighty percent of his routes this year actually
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: came from the outside as the number one receiver, But
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: he also lines up in the backfield, and I think
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: you'll see that this week as well. But I think,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: you know, when you throw seventeen times and you throw
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: twenty times, you know he's not going to get twelve
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: targets for the most part, you know, So I think,
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't think there's anything wrong with him,
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: you know, at all. I just think it's the way
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: these games have played out.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I'll wrap it up with this, Greg.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: The narrative is, if there's a weakness for the Rams
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: on their defense or their team as a whole, it
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: might be the secondary. Now, don't tell Sam Donald that
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: because he's on a lot of interceptions. You just articulated
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: how that happens a few times as well. But is
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: that still a part of their team that maybe you
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: could take advantage of if you're reading the defense correctly.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: I think the corners are, you know, I think because
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I think look last week, the two corners that played
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: the highest percentage of snapps for them were Williams and Durant.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: And again, neither one's a bad player, but I think
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: they're beatable players, and I think they will attack them,
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: you know. I also think if you can get Cameron
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Kitchens to be a post safety, and he doesn't always
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: play post safety. But if you can get him based
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: on your probability, tendency, play calling, all the things that
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: go into all of that, and you can get him
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: to be the post safety, I think you know that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: not the strength of his game. I mean, you look
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: back to the Bonner touchdown in Week sixteen, which was
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: kind of a misdirection throwback, beautifully designed play. You know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: they basically attacked Kitchens on that play and they got them. So,
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: you know, I think if you can do that, you've
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: got opportunities. Then it's what do you do with those opportunities.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Greg.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We're hoping in two weeks time that you're at the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and that Jessman is down there working as
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: your handler and you know, leading you around and mostly
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: leading you to us to talk about the Super Bowl
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks and the AFC champion. That's what we're
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: hoping for. I know you're hoping to see her because
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: everyone wants to see Jess and she would be down
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: there in a couple of weeks taking care of all
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of our needs, all of your needs, and whatever else
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: comes up.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: All right, Well, let's uh, you know, I did. We
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: did the matchup show today and I did pick the
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Seahawks to be in the super Bowl. So you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: let's let's see what happens.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Well, you just made more friends than you already had
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: up here in Seattle, So thank you very much. That's good.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Well, believe me, if I'm wrong, I will hear about
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: it on Twitter and I will be told that I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: a moron and an idiot, and it won't be the.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: First time, gig that never happens on Twitter. I don't
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. It's the most positive, it's
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the most impositive environment in the world. Like it's all positive.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: There's no negativity there. All right, we're gonna plan on this. Yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: we're planning on talking in two weeks time at the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Right, let's hope soy and and so you'll be there
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: if they're there.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Huh No, I'm not. I'm not.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I'm the one guy at the station that is not
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: going hockey.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got hockey and it'll be you know, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: went to the last two and in fact, I was
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: just with some of my friends at my old TV
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: station line last night. We had to get together. The
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Mariners had a nice little happy hour thing that we did,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: and we were there talking. I was talking to my
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: friends Aaron Levine and the crew there, and I said,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I got a little bit, as a kids call it, fomo,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: you know, missing out on the on something because I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: This will be the first playoff run.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I haven't been a part of it in a while,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: but my couch feels really comfortable on those game days.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I can tell you that right now.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: I can understand that.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And the beer's cold and it's a lot cheaper,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and I'm not working, so it's all good in that regard.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So I plan on talking to you in two weeks
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: because you predicted the Seahawk win and you're you're never wrong, Okay,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: so we're going with that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: All right. That sounds good, all right, Ian, thank you
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: so much.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Greg Cosell, we'll talk to him in the super Bowl.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Danny O'Neal joins us. Coming up next.
• 24:44
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• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Now here's the end with Danny O'Neill. Danny O'Neill, dang
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Apostrophy joins us.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Right now, all right, my friend, here we are, let's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: go here we are. Happy championship weekend, man, Happy championship
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: weekend to you.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty excited you've got a second straight weekend that
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: there's a rubber match within the division that NFC West
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: has been the best. And I'm not gonna say I
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: was rooting for the Rams. I wasn't, but there was
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: a part of me when they won that felt like, Yep,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: that's fitting. That's that's that's right, that's how this should go.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Two best games the regular season, in my opinion, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: you get a rematch in the NFC Championship game. Yet,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: that's how it's supposed to be.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: That's exactly how it's supposed to be. I should mention
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the game a full report.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I love this.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: You probably miss these days, Danny. Will we get two
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: practice reports for the Seahawks on a Friday before a game,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the preliminity one and the next one. But I can
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: tell people this that game status on the first of
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the two that will come out. Josh Jones questionable, Amari
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Kite doubtful. Those are the backup left tackles. Robbie Oots questionable.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: But Charles Cross and Sam Darnold do not have a
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: game status designation, so that's good news for that. So
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a little less drama perhaps than we had last week.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Danny, Yes, it has been. The Seahawks have been and
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: I'm wrapping my knuckles on my skull to knock on wood.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: They've been fairly healthy this year, with the exception of
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: for the past month, the most important spot on the
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: offensive line has been in turmoil. I mean the fact
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: that you've got your third strength. You're sweating the third
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: string undrafted rookie about him like e. That's not great
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: that he's not available, but that's been it. But look,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: everybody's beat up this time the year, and the fact
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: that Cross is ready to go is a very positive
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: sign given I was really worried when he went into
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the locker room. When he left the field of the
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: of the playoff game because big dudes in their feet. Man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: it is perilous.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I remember, remember we first found out what a turf
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: toe was years ago when Max Unger had it and
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: he was out for the year, and we're like, what
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: do you mean he's got turf to he's out for
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: What the hell's that mean? That seems weird.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: But as we found out later, turf toe has nothing
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: to do with the turf. It's just a dislocated big toe.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And when you're a big guy and you need to
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: push off on that kind of a bad injury. So, yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: you're right. A foot injury for Charles Cross not great.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: They keep saying all week that it was precautionary, the
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: game was over, he could have stayed in all those things.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: We'll never know what the truth is. But the big
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: news is.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: That he is going to play on Sunday and that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: because that would have been devastating. I mean, losing your
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: left tackle, especially when your backup swing tackle Josh Jones,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: is questionable. And I'd say that questionable is questionable at best.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: It seems like he's been hurt for a while.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Uh, you need Charles Cross. He's one of your most
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: important players he absolutely is.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: And the offensive line, which has been a source of
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: much consternation and concern, I'm gonna say it was adequate
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: this year. It might have been a downright at the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: very least average offensive line.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: For all those years we're looking at PFF and here's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: the here are the rankings of the offensive lines, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Seattle was always somewhere between twenty eight and thirty two.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: For years.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: It's been that way. Really, it's for like for years
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: and years it's been that way. But yeah, you're right
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: now now i'd say adequate. I mean, Bradford still seems
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to be kind of the weak link and all on
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the way, but you know, you can you can probably
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: live with that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: It's one game.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: He's been He's been picked on so much.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: There's there's a.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Highlight of here and you're like, let's me do it,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: And I know I know you had you have my
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: favorite on yesterday, Bruce Servant. Yeah, there was at one
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: point where he just Bradford just with on a block
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: missed it and Bruce just retweeted he must have his eyes.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Oh god. Well, yeah, Bruce was great yesterday. I feel
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: missed it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Bruce Srvin, you can go listen to it on the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app on the podcast page. He was a ton
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of fun to talk. Bruce is one of those guys
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that you never know what you're gonna get with them,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: but you're gonna get an answer, and you're gonna get honesty,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna get probably as raws as it gets
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: with with Bruce. But it was fun insight talking about
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: those teams. I'm I'm this is just me, Danny. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: kind of still bristle at when we're comparing this year's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: defense and this defense to the one that was basically
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the best of its era in the mid two thousand
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: and what. I don't know how we call that anymore,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: twenty twelve through through sixteen seventeen. In there, I bristled
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: that only for this reason, like like that bar's really high,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: and there's no need to compare somebody to that until
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they win a Super Bowl or do it for a
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: couple of years in a row.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Is my thought.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: That's one hundred percent how I feel that. It's just
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: let them be their own defense. It's their own group
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: of guys. It's a different coach, it's a different scheme,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: it's different players. Let them have their own run. They
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: deserve that opportunity, and I do think it will be
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: fun in a couple of years to look at it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: But look that that defense allowed the fewest points in
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: the league for four successive seasons. And that's not something
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: you can really compare it to right now. Because Seattle's defense,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: as good as it's been, it's it's really it's two
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: years under Mike MacDonald and they've showed incredible growth. But
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. Let them be their own group.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: The only listen, the only connection and Bruce talked about
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Bruce Servan talked about ystually, the one connection is Jared Reid.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: And you know, Jared Reid was the young guy, he
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: was the young buck in there. He's kind of that that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Now he's the alpha dog, he's kind of that leader.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: And and you know, kind of this is the standard. Listen,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom. You and I Knowlton, they.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Set the standard. They set up.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: They put a bar up there and and reaching for that,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: trying to get to that is great, but I think
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: it's almost disrespectful. We start now you have a different nickname,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and I know that we all know they.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Have a different nickname.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: But the bottom line is people want to compare it,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and I just think let's let's show that. Let's show
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that Legion to Boom a little more respect, all right, Like,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I love this team, this defense. It's fun to watch,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you said it, do it for a few years in
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a row. At the same time, let's let's not let's
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: not give these other guys that that that mantle yet. Man,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: that Legion of Boom was a special group. Let's it's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: going to take a while to get to that level.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: The other thing is that when you start doing that,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: you miss the things that are great about this defense. Yes,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: what's that this defense apart? In my mind are two things.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: And the first is that I've never seen a player
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: like Devin Witherspoon that's as slight as he is, that
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: tackles as well as he does, and does as many
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: different things as he does. And so when you get
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: fixated on he's nothing like Richard Truman, Like they technically
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: play the same position, but they're entirely different players. So
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: when you get caught up sort of comparing those two, well,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: you're missing what makes this defense great. And then the
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: second thing is what set the Legion to boom apart
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: was that they were able to play a base defense
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: with their three linebackers and four defensive backs against anybody.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: And that included the Saints when they camp Roland in
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: here with Aaron Sprolls and Jimmy Graham and it was
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: all these matchups, Yeah, Okay, Bobby Wigner is going to cover,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Darren Sprolls and kJ Wright can cover. They were able
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: to stay in that defense and kind of dictate things
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: because of that. This defense stays with five DB's in
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: large part because nick Eman Worri is an absolute freak
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: in his ability, his speed, his ability to cover deep,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: and then the way he comes up and hits that
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: he allows you to play with essentially two linebackers and
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: the flexibility that that gives them. Look, the San Francisco
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: forty nine ers did not have the running game they
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: usually do. They also played eight straight quarters against the Seahawks,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: could not score a touchdown, and Seattle never went into
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: a base defense. They were at least in nickel the
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: entire time. So when you start kind of comparing them,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: they are they're different entities and they do it in
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: different ways.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the you know, the the emon worry Cam Chancellor
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: comparisons that you know inevitably came. They came on draft day.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: On draft day when even Or gets picked, We're all like, oh,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: this is this the new Cam. Well, he's tall like Cam,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: he's a bigger defensive back like Cam. He hits, but
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: not like Cam, because nobody, unless your name is Steve Atwater,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: you didn't hit like Cam Chancellor. Like there's like it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: like that that list is is pretty short. But he
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: is physical and he's probably probably a better cover guy
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: right than Cam, Like he's probably yeah, like he does
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: he does other things. I mean Cam, Cam's biggest strength
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: at times was people were scared the hell out of them.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: He's they're scared of them, like I don't want to
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: go We're thirty one, Like we have to know where
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: thirty one is at all times. So they're different players,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: both great in their own rights. Same thing with Witherspoon
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: and Schirm and whatever else. You know, there are some similarity.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I think the one similarity Danny that I do see
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: and this this speaks to the brilliance of the coaching
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: staff for me, and also just the pure depth and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: that will get to John Schneider in the next segment.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: But it's the fact that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Really you didn't have elite, elite pass rushers in for
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom. I mean, Michael and Cliff both
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: got to double digits, but like ten eleven we're talking about, right,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Bruce Ervin had eight his rookie year. You know, this
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: same team, these guys have their leading sack guys are seven,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: but they got like five guys with seven sacks, right,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: so they kind of do it by committee.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: There are similarities.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: There, absolutely, and the fact that they're getting pressure from
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: across the defensive line Byron Murphy and Leonard Williams have
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: had absolutely huge years. And then you've got a group
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: of guys on the edge. And that was as Seattle
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: was able to the strength of the group was the group,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: and that's true for this team as well. And I
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: think some of that reflects Schneider's preference. He's I mean
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: they traded Frank Clark in part because he'd never bought
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: into that idea that you pay the twenty million or
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: whatever it is, that top flight path rusher on the edge.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: You'd rather have a group of guys that he can
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: rotate through and there have been some drawbacks to that,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: but I think also you see this defense in that one,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: they kind of show you the value when you do
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: get that sort of depth.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Let's do this, take you a quick break, will come back.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: You wrote about it. It was kind of cool yesterday
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: to finally, I mean finally see someone get their just reward,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and that would be John Schneider, Executive the year. We'll
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: talk about that and preview the Rams and the Seahawks
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: NFC championship game coming up Danny O'Neill more with Danny
• 35:51
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure you're all eager and willing to know Sam
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: did this week?
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: Did great?
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: H Everything's going to plan, let's put it that way. So,
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: but he's gonna play and take.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: It day by day.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: So Mike, Yeah, Charles, uh, practice today and same thing
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: as getting better, but he should uh, he should be
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: able to play.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald just a few minutes ago after walk through
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: practice whatever it is on this the day before the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: day before. So some good news on the injury front
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: and you'llneel back with us for one more segment. Danny
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I had to laugh, like coaches are gonna tell you
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: only I mean, he got asked a ton of questions.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I watched Chunk in the news conference in the break
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and he's just like, I'm not telling you like the people,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: what about George Halney? How much is he gonna play?
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Like I'm not telling you that. I'm asking that for
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: like stop. Like, but I like the games that coaches
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: have to play this time of the year because because they,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: unlike the regular season, they have to talk every day
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: during the week. And he actually met McDonald kind of
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: mentioned that. He's like, yeah, I got to talk to
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: you guys every day. And it's like, oh, I got it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: But I laughed because Sean Payton was asking Denver today
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: about about Jared Stidham and Danny. He says, I'm not
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: worried about study, I'm just worried about everybody else. Okay, okay,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: raise your hand if you believe Sean Payton with that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: one right, raise your hand please, if you believe he's
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: more worried about about Stitty than he is, or less
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: worried about him than he is about Alex Singleton and
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: and everybody else on that team. Stop it, Come on, Shawn,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: stop it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton is a really good coach, and he is
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: really difficult for me to watch. He makes me grind
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: my teeth. It's the slug no, yes, st stitty, like,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: come on, you haven't taking a snappoint year?
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Can we really go name with him?
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Can we really name with him?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: At that point, it reminds me of when the Seahawks
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: played Minnesota this year and Max Osmar got his first
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: start or Brosmer whatever his name was, whatb that giddy
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and all Kevin o'llkall. I'm not worried about him at all.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: He's men great to be fine. Okay, how'd that turn out?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Not very well? Okay.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: There are very things that I enjoy as much as
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: when you get a rookie quarterback who is completely over
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: his ski. I don't know how many people remember the
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: name Max Hall, but he was a rookie quarterback for
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals and washing him play and look, this is
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: the best of the best. And you're never gonna find
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: me to say that like someone who has made the
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: NFL is not good at football, like they are better
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: at what they do than anything I will try to do. However,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: there are times you see a quarterback that you're like,
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: that guy's not an NFL player.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: No, just just not.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: That was macdall and that was Max Brosmer. I do
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: think Stidham STIM's gotten arms?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Didty did he flinging around? Stitty? Stittyt he's got a fastball.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Stitty got a fastball. U Neil joining us. You wrote
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: about it about time. This Seahawks team is in the
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship Game on Sunday for a lot of different reasons,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: but it starts with the general manager and his staff
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: of personnel, guys and scouts putting this team together. The
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: drafts they've had the last three years have been sensational.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: The free agent acquisitions, the moves he's made, the decisions
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: he's made, He's hit on pretty much everything long overdue
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: for John Schneider, right.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: It is overdue, and I'm glad that he won it.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I think all of us believe he should have won
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: it in twenty twelve, and if not twenty twelve, then
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: at twenty thirteen, because if you look at the first
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: three drafts that he had in Seattle, the number of
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame caliber talent that he brought in, Richard Sherman,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Cam Chancellor in the fifth round, Earl Thomas Golden Tate
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: a second round pick. What they were able to do
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: with those draft picks, both at the top and the
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: bottom of the order. Not to mention the addition of
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Marshawn Lynch. But the thing for John is his role
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: or his importance. I think we who were close to
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: it know that he ran those drafts like that was
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Pete wasn't in there telling him who to pick, because
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Pete had final say. I think nationally it obscured some
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: of the credit and now there's just no doubt about
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Over the past two years. But even if you extended
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: to the trade of Russell Wilson, John has pulled the
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: right levers here and been able to get this team
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: back to the top of the conference, to the top
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: of the league, their game away, one win away from
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: the super Bowl, and he's he's done that as transitioning
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: from trading his starting quarterback twice and moving on from
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: the best coach in franchise history. It's remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: it's not just the draft picks, and it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the free agency acquire it. So those other decisions that
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: are just probably have to grind on you. We got
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to get well, I know for a fact, they didn't
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: grind too much on Russ. It was like, okay, we're done,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: but you know, just what do you do with the quarterback?
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: You have to have a quarterback? Gino, Yes, no, sign them.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Now there's there another alternative, Sam Darnold, let's go. That
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: was the Pete Carroll thing. He was in on the
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: decision at least was consulted and told by Jody and
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Bert and everybody, Hey, this is we're gonna do.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be the guy.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Uh probably had to kind of sign off on it
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: in a sense too, right, And so all those tough
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: decisions that come up he's been able to make to
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  Speaker 2: get done and just I mean, it's amazing where this
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: franchise is right now and the consent level of consistency
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Danny too. All right, let's talk about Sunday. I just
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: we kind of all talked about written about at nauseum
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: all week. But give me a couple of things that
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: the former beat writer for the Seattle Times of your
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks will be watching on Sunday.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I want to see how they're going to defend Poakua.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: I think that the last meeting, I think it showed
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: that as your player, as Devin Witherspoon, is that that's
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: probably not a match that you want to see a
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: ton NICKI, man, worry is bigger. I don't know how
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: you feel or how they're going to be able to
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: feel about matching him up more with Nakua. But I
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: want to see how they adjust because that was five
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: hundred and eighty one yards of total offense and Pukua
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Nakua basically did what he wanted. We've seen through these
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: two meetings that Seattle does a really good job of
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: defending the run, and that is something that I know
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: that they're going to feel good about. But how are
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: they going to accommodate or match up against against Niakula.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: That's the first thing, and then the second thing is
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: going to be a quot who gets pressure on the
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: other guy's quarterback. There's no secret about Matthew Stafford. If
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: you make him move, his effectiveness goes way down. He's
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: got a great clock in his head. He is able
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: to get rid of that. And you saw the last
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: game the last time they met, like he is someone
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: who is capable of shooting holes in your defense. On
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks side, Sam Donald is They're going to try
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: to continue to run the ball as they have been
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: by that question of was Sam Donald against this defense
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: over the two years, going back to the time last
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: year in Minnesota, this defense and that team specifically with
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Chris Shula calling the play, has had his number a
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: little bit. So is he able to remain composed? And
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna ask him to do a ton,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: but it might come down to one of those situations
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: it's like, okay, Sam, you got to put it on
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: your back. Is he able to avoid some of the
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: mistakes we've seen him make. It's amazing that these two
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: games decided by a grand total of three points. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: lost by two, then one by one, and they're minus
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: six and turnovers. If the turnovers even I think Seattle's
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: running away with this game. But then I put the
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: five hundred and eighty one yards a total offense, and
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: I think, I don't know. That's that's where it starts.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: The quickest way for Seattle to lose this game is
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: for Sam Donald to the under pressure and turn the
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: ball over.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Do you think next week we're talking about a Super
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Bowl for Seattle?
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Do I do? I feel I think watching how
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Seattle's played, and I looked at their team very much
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: through the eyes of hey, they've been this good in
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: spite of those turnovers and turnovers turnovers tell us what
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: happened in a game, but they don't necessarily predict how
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: you're going to play in the future. And that's been
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: something that was evident when I went and looked up, Okay,
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: teams that had a high turnover totals in the regular season,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: what happens when they get to the to the playoffs
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: and there's there's only a certain amount of carryover. Houston
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: is one of the best teams that not turning the
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: ball over. Chicago was one of the best teams that
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: turning the ball over, they also forced to kind of
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: take away. It changes in the postseason. So I don't
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: think the fact that Seattle had seven turnovers in those
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: two games against the Rams means that they're going to
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: turn it over three times. But that is the quickest
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: for things to get out of control. But I think
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: this team's firing on all cylinders. I think they look
• 45:22
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I would suggest. But Rob Rang joins
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  Speaker 2: us right now, brought to you by Ferrelli's Pizza. Rob,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: here we go. It is NFC title weekend. The foundation
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: was built for this team and the last couple of
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: drafts that you, me and everyone else at KJR have covered.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Let's kind of talk about that. John Schneider on Thursday
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: name the Executive of the Year in the NFL. Long overdue,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: but in Rob Rang's mind, draft analysts, our draft expert.
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  Speaker 2: Why is John Schneider the executive of the Year in
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: the NFL?
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  Speaker 8: I think, you know, for a variety of reasons. I
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: think that just personnel of the team, as you mentioned
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: in the drafts over the last several years, I mean
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: just hitting home runs. Sorry to mix my sports metaphors
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: here with Jackson Smith and Jay, but with Byron Murphy,
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: with Devin Witherspoon. I think those are obvious and everybody
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: has kind of talked about though. I think the choice
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: of Mike McDonald, the courage, frankly, to to trade away
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: an establish quarterback like a Gino Smith, Uh, you know,
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: one of the most popular players maybe of all time,
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: and this franchise's history. And DK Metcalf, who you know,
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: from a scouting perspective, to give up on a player
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: that has DK metcalf size and speed and explosive talent. Uh,
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: you know, we we all were teased with what he
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: could provide. But of course nobody accepts somebody very close
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: to the organization or as the general manager the organization
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  Speaker 8: is going to know what Dk Metcalf was like in
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: the locker room. And I think that, you know, it's
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: if they're improve it that he was at times more
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: of a minus than he was. In addition, I mean
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: we saw that with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and obviously all
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: the moments and where he allowed his emotions to get
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: the better of him when he was a member of
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks. So I just think that there's so many
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: different reasons why from a personnel standpoint, and I didn't
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: got into the you know, the free agent additions. Uh,
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: you know, I think the DeMarcus Lawrence is one of
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: the great moves in this franchise's history that that sometimes
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: gets overlooked because everybody focuses on on Sam Darnold or
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: on Cooper Cup. But there were just so many hits
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: and so few misses over the last couple of years,
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: and I think that's why that we have seen one
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: of the most remarkable, uh, you know, just evolutions of
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: a franchise. You know, the Seahawks didn't plummet the way
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: that a lot of teams that have a roster reset
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: due a lot of these clubs, they you know, they
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: wind up picking in the top five of the draft,
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: or they wind up, you know, finishing with three victories
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: or something like that. Over in course of the season,
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks were contenders really when it comes to wins
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: and losses every single season, and yet they went from
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: being an okay playoff possible team to obviously the number
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: one seed in the NFC, and you know, at this
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: point the odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Rob The thing that that for me, draft wise, that
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I think is important to is, listen, we know all
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: the great picks he's had over the last few years,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: and then even early in his career he had that
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: lull for a while. But if you look at kind
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: of where those picks, where most of them were were
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: later first round. John Steinder and his tenures twenty ten
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: has only had three top ten picks.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: He's had a six.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: A five, and a nine, And but I think what's
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: impressive and maybe I'm maybe I'm giving him too much
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: credit and this is just something that happens. But it
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: feels like there's guys that miss every year with top
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: ten picks. Russell o'coon at six, that was a hit,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Charles Cross at nine, that was a hit.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Devin Witherspoon at five definitely a hit.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: So when he has had the opportunity to draft high,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: John Schneider has hit on those.
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  Speaker 8: Picks, absolutely, and I think that is a huge part
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: of the foundation of these clubs. I mean, you just
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: think about, you know the fact that two of those
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: three were offensive tackles that wind up being true anchors
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: for this squad. And Devin Witherspoon, I mean, it's it
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: seems easy now because we're seeing the enthusiasm, the physicality,
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: the instincts of which he plays at I remember John
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: and Pete Carroll as well, just how much they gushed
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: about him moments after they made that selection, you know.
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: And it's funny because Christian Gonzalez, the other highly rated
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: corner of that class, you know, wound up going but
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: you know, eight ten picks later to the New England Patients.
• 55:08
  Speaker 8: He's also been a very good player, but he's been
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: a guy who has struggled a little bit with with durability.
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: I think that's one of the reasons why John and
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks have had the success that they've had, is
• 55:18
  Speaker 8: that they they have been willing to account for durability
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: and some of these players that maybe are very talented
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: but also can't stay on the field. They basically have
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: eliminated those guys or players that are very talented but
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: have off field concerns that they have stayed away from
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: some of those players. And obviously it's it's been kind
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: of talked about as if it's a negative, but the
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: Seahawks haven't been willing to invest very many draft picks
• 55:44
  Speaker 8: and quarterbacks, and quarterbacks have the worst boom or excuse
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: a bust rate of any position in the NFL. So,
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: you know, by perhaps being a little bit more patient,
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: a little bit more conservative, whatever word you want to use,
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: I think it's also allowed Seattle to kind of build
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: the foundation of the team rather than trying to reset
• 56:07
  Speaker 8: it with a quarterback that might be the resurrection kind
• 56:10
  Speaker 8: of a guy, the way that some of the other
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: NFL teams out there have swung and missed, so to speak,
• 56:16
  Speaker 8: at the quarterback position repeatedly.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think to Rob, if I look at this,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: his first two picks over the last three years, Zabel
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Emon Worri Murphy, Christian Haynes Witherspoon JSN. Let's go ahead
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: and take Christian Haynes out. He's a third round pick
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: and obviously hasn't found his footing yet. Derek Hall was
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: a second round pick, so was Zach Sharbonay same year
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: as Witherspoon in JIGBA. He's hit on those guys and
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: with the exception of Haynes, without all those players I
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: just mentioned specifically Exabel Emon, Worri Murphy, Witherspoon, JSN. Without
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: those guys, they're not where they are. On Sunday, talked.
• 56:55
  Speaker 8: About some of the free agents that they brought in,
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: and those are kind of like the icing on the cakes.
• 56:59
  Speaker 8: It took this from a U you know, a nine
• 57:02
  Speaker 8: and eight kind of a team, a ten and six
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: kind of a ten and seven kind of a team,
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: to the number one, uh, you know seed in the playoffs.
• 57:10
  Speaker 8: I just think that again that that's really the lifeblood
• 57:13
  Speaker 8: of any successful NFL organization is through the draft, and
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: and obviously it's it's a lot easier to hit on
• 57:20
  Speaker 8: those early picks. And you mentioned Christian Haynes. I mean,
• 57:24
  Speaker 8: the reason why Christian Hayines doesn't get more of an
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: opportunity is because another middle round pick, Anthony Bradbord, just
• 57:29
  Speaker 8: has beating him out. And obviously Gray's Abel game All
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: Pro votes in All Rookie Team, you know, it speaks
• 57:38
  Speaker 8: for itself. But I still believe that Christian Hayes can
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: be a quality player in the NFL. He's just getting
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: beaten out by another guy who's who's just bigger and stronger,
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: you know.
• 57:46
  Speaker 10: So I think that's that's something that we haven't yet
• 57:50
  Speaker 10: mentioned mentioned just in passing Mike McDonald and the decision there,
• 57:54
  Speaker 10: but the bringing in the Clinton Kubiak, John Denton, the
• 57:58
  Speaker 10: Rick Dennis, and the ad and Thurday, the retaining Carl Scott.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: It really is a testament to the entire organization and
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: everybody doing the evalue wading. John gets credit and he should,
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: but you know, all of their scouts, whether it be
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: the scouts who are doing the college side or the
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: pro side, they all deserve a lot of credit for
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: the success that the Seahawks are having.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Well, go back to twenty twenty two. That's when John
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Schneider got his his swagger back. Charles cross Boy, Mafe,
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, Abe Lucas Kobe Bryant, Reek Wollen, Tyreek Smith,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Bull Welton, Bull Melton, and Drake Young. Every one of
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: those guys except for Tyreek Smith is having a really
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: solid or really great NFL career. Tyreek Smith only played
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: in three games. He's been hurt banged up, kind of
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: coming gone. The Ohio State defensive end. Even Bull Melton,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: who's not here anymore, He's solidified himself as a big
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: part of what the Packers are doing. So yeah, Schneider
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: got it going. And here we are NFC Championship weekend.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: It is Rob Ranger's air draft analyst. I think we
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: can talk a little bigger picture here. College football season
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: has wrapped up the downside of last week. We all
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: know Zach Charbonnay got hurt. He's got an ACL that
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: screams nine plus months. Maybe we see him at the
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: start of September next year, but probably you're not going
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: to count on that. You're thinking probably best case Sharbony
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: is back in October, mid September, end of US September,
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: early October. So that leaves you with an interesting dilemma.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: What do you do with Ken Walker? I mean, we
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: saw last week what he's capable of. Do you bring
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: him back? What's the market going to be? Like, there's
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: a bunch of free agent running backs out there, And
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: i'll twist that in Rob with you as our draft analyst,
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: with what the running back class looks like in this
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: year's NFL Draft as guys start taking their Senior Bowl
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: invitations and we start getting to that point, what what
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: do you think direction they should look at? Should be
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Walker re signing or are there enough guys in the
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: draft they might be able to go down that route.
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: I always believe that they're running back is a position
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: you can find in the draft if you're offfensive line
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: and your coordinator calling the plays are are in place.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: And of course there remains to be seen. Krink Kubexkan
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 8: awful lot of interest out there from NFL teams to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: get a promotion to head coach. But I believe that
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: the canth Walker, the third deserves a significant pay raise.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: He's going to get that, whether it be by Seattle
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: or by another club. This is not a class of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: free agent running backs veterans that overwhelm you. So I
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: think the Kenth Walker has a chance to be perhaps
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: the you know, the highest paid running back that is available.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: And so there's quite possible that he is going to,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: you know, just earn so much interest that he may
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: not be in Seattle's plans because they, of course they
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: have to get under this remain under the salary cap,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: and there's a lot of other very talented players that
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: Seattle has that are going to be pending for agents
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: as well. Riek woll And is one of them. Drake
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: Thomas is one of them, Rashid Shaheed is one of them.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: And I would argue that those players, while maybe not
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: playing as flashy of positions that they might be, every
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: bit is important to the seahawks long term future, and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: play positions that are more difficult to find quality starters
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: than running back. Well, we all know the attrition of
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: the running back position, and this is as a decent
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: running back class. It's not one of the strengths of
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: this class. I would argue that last year really was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 8: a spectacular running back class and this one is.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: Not quite as good. The kid in at a.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 10: Mount Leg, Jonah Coleman, to me, is.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: Still one of the better running backs in this class.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: He reminds me a little bit of the back that
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: Sileg just brought up from the practice squad, George Halane.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: Joonah Coleman is not going to be waging until undrafted
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: free agency, But at the same time, I just think
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: that you can find quality backs that might be able
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: to help see O. Now again, the injury to Zach
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: Scharbaday basically or is going to force Seattle to be
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: much more aggressive than weighing, probably in to day three.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 8: But I do think that there are a quality candidates available.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 8: Jeremiah Love is from Notre Dame. Of course, we all know.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Who he is.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 8: He is the one true elite back in this class.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: In my opinion, He's going to be long off the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: board by the time Seattle picks I don't know, late
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: first round, possibly number thirty two overall. After that, I
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 8: think that you are going to be looking at, you know,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 8: some backs in the in the second to third round range.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: As I mentioned Joan of Coleman being one. There's a
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: guy that Trip excuse me, Chip Train him from Toledo
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: who is at the East West Shrine Bowl that I
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: think that the Seahawks are probably evaluating right now. It
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: came in at six foot, two hundred and twenty five pounds.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: He's got a frame very similar to Zach Scharbay and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: plays the same kind of physicality. Black from Indiana we
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: HEAs anybody who saw the National Champion game probably was
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 8: impressed by his size and physicality. Unfortunately, Miami's Mark Fletcher,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 8: who had a couple of very impressive runs. Is has
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: said publicly that he is playing on returning to school,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: and I assume take him out of his word, he's
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: got another gay basically to make that final determination. But
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: it does not look like an elite class of running backs.
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  Speaker 8: But that his one position, groupie, and that I feel
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  Speaker 8: like you always can find a quality player in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we told and we'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: as a draft gets closer, right, And I totally agree
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  Speaker 2: with you in that regard. I guess the only thing
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  Speaker 2: what we saw last week was a guy that was
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  Speaker 2: a difference maker. And when you have that difference maker,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: right rob like ken Walker was last week, that changes things.
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  Speaker 2: Like Kyrin Williams is a difference maker right for LA
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think.
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  Speaker 2: With what they want to do, they want to run
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  Speaker 2: the football, they got to have a guy. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't even like you know, I know you guys are
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  Speaker 2: really how you and my buddy Corbyn and stuff on
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  Speaker 2: on sharbon A And I like Zach Charbonette, but I
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  Speaker 2: think he's he's kind of a guy compared to say
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: what Walker can give you. So they've got some decisions
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  Speaker 2: to make along the way. Kenny McIntosh is on injured reserve.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: He's been out all year. He got hurt. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think they he was having a nice camp. They
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  Speaker 2: kind of liked him and like what he was doing.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: And we'll see Halani coming back. We'll watch him this
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  Speaker 2: week as well. Rob rang joining us. All right, before
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: we kinda go knee deep into next year, and we've
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: got Rob coming up here in the next few weeks,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: we can start doing our daily draft breakdown, Senior Bowl,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: all that fun stuff. Did Fernando Mendoza if there was
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  Speaker 2: any doubt at all, I'm assuming there's absolutely no doubt
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  Speaker 2: now that he is the He's the guy. He is
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  Speaker 2: the number one pick.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, certainly. The way I feel in every scout that
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  Speaker 8: I've talked to you, it feels the same way that
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  Speaker 8: there's You know, it's funny because if you look at
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: it from a micro perspective, you know, you really focus in.
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  Speaker 3: On one throw a one game.
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  Speaker 8: The way that Indiana protects Frando Mendoza definitely makes it
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  Speaker 8: a little bit easier on him. And not all of
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  Speaker 8: the throws, you know, translate directly to an NFL system.
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  Speaker 8: It's when you take that you take a step back however,
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  Speaker 8: and you just watch just how consistently he throws accurate footballs,
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  Speaker 8: that that in every game, that that he was on
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  Speaker 8: the road, that he was in a difficult spot, that
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  Speaker 8: he came through in shining fashion.
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  Speaker 11: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the way he took the game over with
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: the you know, fourth down run for the touchdown, showed
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  Speaker 8: his courage, showed his decision making, and of course showed
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: his his size and athleticism. And this guy is six
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  Speaker 8: foot five two and thirty pounds. He doesn't have the
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  Speaker 8: strongest arm you've ever seen. I've used the comparison to
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  Speaker 8: Jared Goffer or Dave Brown, even you know, a Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 8: even in the past. These are not guys who are
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  Speaker 8: considered among the absolute elite in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: But when you.
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  Speaker 8: Look at the rest of this year's quarter that class,
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  Speaker 8: and that there's just no comparison. I mean, my goodness,
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  Speaker 8: is heads and shoulders above everybody else. Alabama Ty Simpson,
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  Speaker 8: maybe because a desperation has a chance to jump into
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  Speaker 8: the first round this year. But I've used the comparison
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  Speaker 8: to the twenty ten draft class, and I'm showing my
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  Speaker 8: age here and referring to that. But that was one
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  Speaker 8: where Sam Bradford went number one. He was clearly the
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  Speaker 8: best quarterback in.
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  Speaker 10: That draft class.
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  Speaker 8: Tim Tebow slucked himself into the first round, but there
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 8: were fifteen quarterbacks that were selected that year and ten
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  Speaker 8: of them wound up going on Day three. That to
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  Speaker 8: me just shows how this draft class, also, I think,
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  Speaker 8: is going to play out. There will be a lot
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  Speaker 8: of quarterbacks selected because this is not that good of
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  Speaker 8: a class in the first place, and so general managers
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  Speaker 8: and scouting directors are basically say, heck, let's just roll
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 8: the dice on a quarterback, because if you do hit
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  Speaker 8: on him, then obviously that's going to help your franchise
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  Speaker 8: a lot more than say a backup guard in the fifth, sixth,
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  Speaker 8: seventh round. But at the same time, I think that
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  Speaker 8: Bernando Mendoza basically is going to be either the number
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  Speaker 8: one overall pick to the Las Vegas Raiders or Tom
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  Speaker 8: Brady and company are going to trade that selection into
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  Speaker 8: some other quarterback desperate team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I would tend to agree with you, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's any question about that.
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  Speaker 2: And uh can I mean, we got we got three
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: football games left and then we have all things NFL
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Draft and the second season Stars free agency, all those
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: fun things happen. Let's get your final thoughts as we
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: head into Sunday. Uh, what you and Corbin have been
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: talking about on the podcast, what you're thinking personally? How
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  Speaker 2: do you think this thing plays out Sunday with the Rams?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think that you surely have to acknowledge the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 8: Rams experience, you know, whether it be Sean McVay, whether
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  Speaker 8: it be Matthew Stafford, you know, their Devonte.
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  Speaker 10: Adams and and Kuka Nakua.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think it is good of a one
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  Speaker 8: to two punch to wide receiver position as there is
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  Speaker 8: in the NFL. At the same time, you know, I
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  Speaker 8: always come back to a couple of different factors that
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  Speaker 8: I think determine the result of a football game more
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  Speaker 8: often than not, and that is.
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  Speaker 4: Who is younger, who is faster, who is.
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  Speaker 8: More physical, who is healthier? And certainly at home helps
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  Speaker 8: as well. And of course all of those factors you
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  Speaker 8: know indicated the Seahawks are going to win. I think
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  Speaker 8: that this is gonna be another one of those nittin
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  Speaker 8: tech games, just you know, just because you're talking about
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  Speaker 8: two very evenly matched teams. I think the team that
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  Speaker 8: runs the ball most effectively is going to be the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 8: one that wins. I know that sounds like a cliche,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: but one of the things that fascinated me about Seattle's
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 8: two games against the Rams this year is that we
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 8: know how good the Seattle's defensive line is, and yet
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks were unable to record a single sack of
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 8: Matthew Stafford and either of the two games that they
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: played so far this season. I'm not saying that they
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 8: have to get a sack of Matthew Stafford in this
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: game either. What I do think is that the way
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 8: to get some pressure on Matthew Stafford is to gum
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 8: up the running game early on and then give yourself
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 8: an opportunity to earn the right to go after the quarterback.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 8: If the Rams are able to get three, four or
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  Speaker 8: five yards and give Stafford these third and two, third
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  Speaker 8: and three kind of flight of opportunities, he's not going
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 8: to keep the ball in his hands long enough for
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 8: the pass rushers to get to him. So to me,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 8: it's critical to gum up the running game for the Rams.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 8: Force Matthew Stafford to beat you on third and sixes
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: or higher, and that's where the Seattle pass rush and
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 8: that Luman crowd noise is going to wind up making
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 8: an impact. I had the Seahawks winning this game twenty six,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 8: twenty three, and I think the Seahawks are going to
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: go right on past the Rams into the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 8: and wind up beating regardless of who comes out of
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 8: the AFC, the Denver Broncos or the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you, Buddy, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Rob Rang Foxsports dot Com. Well, we'll let you
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: take a deep breath, and I'm not promising that we
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: are not gonna call you next week, but we're if
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: not next week, We're very close to the weekly positional
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: breakdowns for the twenty and twenty six NFL Draft, But Rob,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: we got to get through Championship weekend first and see
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: where that takes us.
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  Speaker 3: All right, my friend, looking forward to it, buddy. As always,
• 1:10:26
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  Speaker 3: This is why we do what we do.
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  Speaker 9: It's for weeks like this, for our community, for our city,
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  Speaker 9: for our for the twelves, for our guys to have
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  Speaker 9: this opportunity like that. Again, better than this. It's not
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 9: a cloud in the sky out there. It's the middle
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  Speaker 9: of January. It's light out past four o'clock. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: it's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Man, class half full. Mike McDonald right there.
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  Speaker 12: Baby, he was chuckling a bit at this press conference,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 12: was playing along with the little I can't tell you
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  Speaker 12: guys anything, but.
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  Speaker 3: He was smiling. I was like, yeah, I know, I
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  Speaker 3: can't tell you.
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  Speaker 2: He called Bob Candota Candata called him the A I bought.
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  Speaker 3: That was hilarious stuff there. That was great.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what, oh, what can you confirm? Yourn bops
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  Speaker 3: exactly exactly. Let's see what we got going on here.
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  Speaker 3: Got a bunch of texts, yep, oh, a couple of things.
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  Speaker 3: Just one thing I just want to mention quickly, Mas
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  Speaker 3: that big shot to the Mariners. Oh it was awesome,
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  Speaker 3: Ane little uh, kind of off the record, little fun
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: gathering yesterday for media members.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto, Justin Hollander and Dani Wilson among the others.
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  Speaker 2: Other Menori execs are there. But you know what was
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: fun about that is just kind of hanging out with
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: other people in our in the media. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this and I've worked in a couple of different markets,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: salt Lake, Portland here decent sized markets at least, and
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: salt Lake we had a really close group media wise,
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  Speaker 2: and people are like, why do I carry you in?
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: I'll explain why. Really close group there, And I think
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  Speaker 2: Seattle's kind of the same way. Most most are pretty
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: you know, we get along really well. So it's kind
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: of fun to see people you don't normally get to
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: seene their social setting.
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  Speaker 3: So it was fun. And like I've always said.
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  Speaker 2: You never know where're gonna work, you never know who
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: networking and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 11: But it was cool.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: It was cool to see I saw, you know, Brad
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  Speaker 2: Adam hung out with him for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Angie. Good to see them the.
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  Speaker 2: Great Rick Riz Yes, got nicest man in America. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: such a nice dude.
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  Speaker 3: I just man, I love that guy. Talk his here off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I'll say because it's just kind of
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: off the record. It's fun talking to Podo about hockey.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: He's a huge, huge hockey, massive hockey fan. He's like,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: comes up to me and not that I've always been
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: the nicest to him. So I'm like, oh, how's this
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: gonna go? And he's like, what's going on with Malonson?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Like why do they send him down? I'm like uh,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: And then we actually had a great conversation. And then
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: like twenty minutes later, I was sitting with you and Ashley.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, well I just got called back up.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: I walk over timing, I go Jerry just got really
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: good funny seeing another GM questioning what another GM's doing.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: And I say that he does it with all due respect.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: He's really close with Ron Francis, close and bots and
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. He's a season ticket holder. He'll be
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: there tonight. But it was so funny. What are they doing?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Jerry. We asked about all the about
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  Speaker 2: you that all the time true, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Sure he knows kind of the thought.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: Process A point, I go, Jarry, I have asked the
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  Speaker 2: same question about you've got a few times, like what
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  Speaker 2: do you do? Because I know, because I know, he's
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: a good sport, really good sports. So yeah, big, big
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: shout out to Tim Heavily and Alex and Jordan the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: rest of the crew down there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 2: Two more sleeps, two more sleeps. It's a day before
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: the day before Keith Miller, John shawers build a juggernaut
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: that does not solely dependent on a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: That's a rare and a good recipe for a good run.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: Go Hawks.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. I haven't really thought of it
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: that way before. You've got to have a good quarterback.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: Do you need to have a great quarterback in the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: NFL to win a championship? Probably not. Yeah, you know,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: like this is not bashing on Russ, but the Seattle
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Seahawks won a Super Bowl with a really good quarterback.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: Not a great quarterback, but a really good quarterback. Russ
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: at the time was really good. That's a top half
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: he was. He was a top ten quarterback. He's probably
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: might have been better than top ten, maybe top seven, eight, six, five.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but he wasn't, you know, sawing as
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer. Russ was good enough when they
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: needed him to go do something and win a game
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: or make a play or what have you. I mean
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: the twenty fourteen passed to Curse is a great example.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: He Also the thing with Russ back then was very resilient,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: Like he's cocky and has a huge ego, and that
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: probably came in a good amount of play because you
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: can make a mistake and bounce back.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'd always show the sideline of him, let's go,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: let's go, let's get.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: Pat right there.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in a much different way because it's less demonstrative.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: I think Darnold has some of those same traits that
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: you know, Sam doesn't seem to get rattled, which is
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: good because this week it's gonna be tough for it
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: at times. But Sam does that. But yeah, I think
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: he's right, like you don't. You're not dependent on Josh Allen, right,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, like those guys. The MVP quarterback I think
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: is when trying to Mahomes, Yeah, Pat Mahomes right, and
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: last I checked, Mahome de all take him out of it.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: They got eliminated by the day he got hurt anyway,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: but those guys are all out right. Stafford's a great quarterback.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, He's in there still, there's no doubt
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: about that. Drake May's too young in his career to
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: throw too many Accoletes out and then Stitty Stitty Denver.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 12: I love what Danny said about Champagne because it's so true.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 12: It's like there's more hate, hateful hate hate a bowl
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 12: coaches around the NFL, but like he just makes you
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 12: grind your teeth. He's tough to watch. I don't know
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 12: what it is, but totally agree with that assessment.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: For the key to c X victory is the CEEX
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: score more points in the Rams paralysis by analysis. I'm
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: a softy. I can't wait for this game be here.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not guys, I'm with you, and we have to
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: do an round table here about ten minutes and I'm like,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm I don't know what else I can say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. I'm done.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's we're good, right, just done, done done?
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  Speaker 12: How about this from Keith to in the two fire three,
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  Speaker 12: Love you Keith, thanks for listening. John Steiner has built
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  Speaker 12: a Juggernaut. I read, oh you did, okay, right, we
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 12: just talked about that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just
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  Speaker 12: didn't know what are you doing this one specifically on?
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  Speaker 12: Just look at other ones while you were reading that one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, total, Just moving Marcus the two six.
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  Speaker 2: not messing around. I can't read that about Sean Payton's mouth,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: but it is funny.
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  Speaker 3: I laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Let's see this is an interesting one.
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  Speaker 3: Six to three.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: I appreciate all the love for Devin Witherspoon. I also
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: loved him on the Seahawks, but sitting in that position
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: on draft, damn taking Jalen Carter. I'm sure John Shander
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: would agree, but I'm sure he was overruled by Pete.
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  Speaker 2: He'll never tell you the truth, but I bet he
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  Speaker 2: would rather have Carter, who's a game wrecker in the
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer if you coul stay in the league
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: long enough. But congratulations with s John Shanner will overdue.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, none of us will ever know. Yeah,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: but if any buddy was going to take Jalen Carter
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: with the issues and everything else, it would have it
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: would have been Pete Carroll Carroll. Yeah, that's what I
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: was thinking. Pete Carroll didn't care about that stuff. You
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: know that that that's like the least of Pete Carroll's worries, Right,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure if
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: I called Jalen Carter a Hall of Famer yet hasn't
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: been on the field long enough. Right, I'll take Devin Witherspoon,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: Murphy's fine, right, big Cat Leonard Williams. They're okay there,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: like that's not a ok Yeah, they're better than okay, yes,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: and deadline two all pros. Yeah, Devin, Devin Witherspoon makes anything. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're good. We're good analysis, paralysis by analysis. Somebody here
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: saying I'm with Softy. We're all with Softy. Huh, We're
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: always Softy.
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  Speaker 11: He's next.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 3: He is the host of the kge A R Roundtable. Now,
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  Speaker 3: why am I here?
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna be talking in fifteen minutes anyway. You know
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 5: we could do you and me right now. And Andrews,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: you want to be a part of this, that's fine too,
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  Speaker 5: Just tape and go well or that just let's get
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  Speaker 5: rid of all of our good stuff now and just
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  Speaker 3: I don't have any good stuff, buddy. You know you're right,
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  Speaker 5: You got the easiest job in radio. The good stuff
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  Speaker 5: is long ago. You really have an hour and forty
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  Speaker 5: five minute program every single day until I come in
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  Speaker 5: and babysit your ass.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So it's a great deal, great deal. I honestly
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  Speaker 3: what I what I need you to do is not
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  Speaker 3: say that too loud.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, the bosses. The boss isn't here today, by no,
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  Speaker 5: But there's we have a new boss. Yeah, he's not
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  Speaker 5: here either. Here. There's no bosses here unless you consider
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  Speaker 5: our NICs.
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  Speaker 3: In your boss.
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  Speaker 5: No, not really queen of the sales department here at
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 5: takes care of us.
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  Speaker 2: I know that, so I don't don't.
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  Speaker 3: She is also a husky too, so you know she's
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  Speaker 3: she's isn't she a Roosevelt rough Rider? I believe?
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  Speaker 5: So it's the home of Hugh Millen. Well, you know
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  Speaker 5: who her husband is. By the way, you know who
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: our inn Erickson's husband is. You know the name Barry Ericson.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 5: You're a dog fan. You're I mean you used to
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  Speaker 5: be a dog fan and fell on your head.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell happened there? Speaking of which,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: Speaking of which, why is that guy bothering us?
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: It just called the dog fan? That other guy we
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: want to sell. Her husband is the original Captain Husky.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Cool? I know that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a guy that rips up the mascots and
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 5: all that stuff and blah blah. So their son has
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 5: now taken over that role. Oh really, yeah, he knew
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: Admiral Husky. Admiral Husky exactly from the Buffalo Bells press release.
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  Speaker 3: I uh, coach did an admiral job when he was here.
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  Speaker 3: You idiots, are you kidding me? Do you think that
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  Speaker 3: you're not anybody appropriate this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, well, I don't want to get into
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  Speaker 2: proof reading stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you're talking about, trust me. I know. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it kind of seems like a lost art, right,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 5: And really, let's do somebody use AI now I'm gonna say,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: now with AI or chat ABC or whatever the hell it's.
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  Speaker 3: Called these.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even need to know how to spell. Yeah, no, okay,
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  Speaker 3: all you need to do is know how to speak
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  Speaker 3: into a microphone.
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  Speaker 5: There's literally like like I saw I swear to guys.
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  Speaker 5: I know this is off topic here. I saw a
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  Speaker 5: story the other day. Stuff for three exactly. There's there's
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  Speaker 5: some either elementary school, junior high or whatever. I think
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  Speaker 5: it was an Oregon, could have been California. Maybe it
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  Speaker 5: was the East coast. I have no idea where they're
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 5: actually now teaching kids calligraphy what yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What yes? And like cursives and things like that. Did
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  Speaker 3: you learn curses?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Years old? I'm talking like an eight year old kid. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we're there's no need for that. I asked why.
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  Speaker 2: I asked my daughter about that. Do you teach handwriting cursive?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: And she's a fifth grade teacher. They don't yeah, they don't.
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  Speaker 2: They don't.
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  Speaker 3: They will.
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  Speaker 5: Plus they all have the little iPads out doing some
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: school now and now we're all communicating with these what
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: do you call them? Gifts or gifts? Be a smartphone?
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  Speaker 5: Is it a different? It's a gift. It's again sure
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  Speaker 5: about that. It would be a j if it was positive.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of words start with a G that are
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  Speaker 5: pronounced G not G if it's a gift. If you,
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  Speaker 5: if your name is Jerry and you're Scottish, you may
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  Speaker 5: spell that g e r r Y.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, open up.
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  Speaker 3: Your horizons, Anders.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, but your horizons not your Horizonrizon Buffalo bills from
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  Speaker 2: the Horizon deal. I don't know what my Verizon. We
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  Speaker 2: like Verizon.
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  Speaker 5: There's actually a reasonable there's a reason why I dumb Verizon,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: to be honest with you, rob me blind. I was
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 5: playing like four hundred bucks a month for like two lines. Dude, Like,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: what hey, why is Harden standing out here? I don't
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 5: know anyway, what the hell was I talking about? So
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: the kids today you're talking to me saying gifts and
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: emojis and all.
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  Speaker 3: You know what this is.
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  Speaker 5: But basically now it is the twenty twenty six version
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: of hieroglyphics.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it is.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: Back in the day, ten thousand years ago, people would
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  Speaker 5: communicate by leaving messages on caves.
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  Speaker 3: Right, what was the alien prequel?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: Prometheus? Prometheus when they walked in and suicide. By the way,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: that's what we're doing.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: You can you can ask the movie stuff because you
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: know they do a movie podcast.
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  Speaker 5: He said, I don't know, but eight or nine little
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  Speaker 5: pictures to somebody. Oh, I can translate that. Bobby's gonna
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: be here at seventy wants pizza.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what the hell?
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: Nobody's even talking to each other more, man, it's always
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: about the picture, just like they did ten thousand years
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: Have I sent you any pictures today?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, you did. I liked it too. It's very
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: nice and I'll tell you about it later. I put
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 3: the pieces together. You know you won't. We are getting
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: loopy here. We need this game to get played.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: Many analysis the guy that said I was softy, and
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, damn it, I was softy too.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: I'm done.
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  Speaker 5: I just I don't even know what the guy said.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: What the guy said, No, he says, like too much.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 5: We could get this game. Just get your prediction in
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: for this because anybody were to give a damn at
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: this point. Honestly, No, we got forty eight hours to go,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: fifty hours and change to go until Sunday. How about
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 5: we just go off the air. We'll play some nice
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: relaxing music. Yeah, give away some prizes. Well, right, we'll
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: go to a bar, we'll have a couple of cocktails,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 5: and we'll see a Sunday.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 3: What have you not talked about?
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: You that thing?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, we haven't talked about Well, Sean McVay
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: still married, by the way, or he divorced or was
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: he ever married?
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: Weird?
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: No, he just had a kid.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: What the hell does that mean?
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: Him and his wife just had a baby the week
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: before the Seawa? Remember he was married, Remember the tuesday
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: they had the baby.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 5: If they married, see now, I don't know if it
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: was with their example you don't need to know how
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: to type, by the way, it might have been with
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 5: a girlfriend. But yeah, he's with uh Veronica Korman. My god,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: good for him?
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, see we have gun again. We're done. Do
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: we really have to do the wrong table.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 5: He'll be forty years old tomorrow, by the way, that's
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: his wife. Yeah, he's forty years old tomorrow and he's
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 5: coaching his sixteenth playoff game.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: It's crazy, and he's not he's forty.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 12: He's still like the fifth or sixth youngest coach in
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 12: the NFL almost ten years.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, McDonald's isn't McDonell the young Yeah?
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: So how old is Ben Johnson? Do we know how
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: old he is?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe Ben Johnson's just looking at how many playoff games
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: do you wid do?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: The thing?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: You just did him to go the series thing? And
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: Johnson is thirty nine? How many playoff games did Mike
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: homgrin coaching? This is great content. It's good. That's good,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: it's great content. We're done how many? How many? Four?
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: Twenty four? And this guy's already got sixteen at forty
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: years old. It's insane.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: Wow, anyway, and you know what you like now? It
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: needs it needs to stay at seven and he needs
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: to go seventeen and done.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: That's right, that's no more, no more, no more this year,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: no more than this year, sixteen and done retires. This
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: will be sixteen, Yeah, this will be sixteen On Sunday,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: he's I think he's ten and five, is that right?
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: So far?
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's good on the road too, which is kind
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 5: of crazy. So is McDonald's played this game in l A.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: Gina actually made that point today. Gina's got a lot
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: of things still be a Sea off home game. Yea,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: that's right. Gina said she thinks the Rams will win,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: doesn't doesn't doesn't trust donald uh in the game on Sunday,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: doesn't think McDonald's very good at home.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: That's a problem with him at home? What is her problem?
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: Thinks that McVeigh is going to school him. What. She's
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: very skeptical, probably because he's married to me. I was
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: just gonna say, like, like, but you're not that way
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: hawks or are you?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, I just not with the Hawks, I'm not.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 5: But with other teams. I think the more you love
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: a team, the more skeptical.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: Yet absolutely so you're not you. I think the Hoskis
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: will lose every game.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: Well you know what, hey, listen, there's president. There is
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: There is president for that. There is president for that
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: for them losing every game?
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: Did you know what?
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: I didn't think I needed to come in here for
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: this segment.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: We should just put the guy on the phone that
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: on the air, that was on the phone with you
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: a minute ago.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: God, have you heard I won't sell him out? Have you?
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: Have you heard that?
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: Or people upset about ticket prices. I haven't heard that
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: particular complaint. A mutual friend of ours Anders just called
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: and said, if you're seeing how much the Seahawks are
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: charging for tickets for this game, face value, like my tickets? Yes,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: normal price is like I don't know, one ninety. That's
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 5: not even resale though, No, that's just okay, So face value.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: They're asking for almost five hundred for this game on Sunday.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 5: And this this guy that called us, I think he
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: said he paid three point fifty.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're asking I think it was like eight
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: They jack them up big time, jack them up big.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: You know what.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: Honestly, let's let's be honest. The NFL needs the money
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: they do.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: They're broken, the sport about to be passed by the
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: mL last time in relevancy.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: All right, we're coming up with round roundtable. Can't wait? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just go to a break. Be back in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness, this is
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: paddle day, saying, so long everyone