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11-11 H2 12th Man News, Fact or Fiction & Reckless @ Breakfast · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, second hour here on this hump day edition
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell's going to join us here in about a
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Speaker 1: minute and a half. We'll get to his thoughts on
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Speaker 1: the new quarterback that the Seahawks now have. Suddenly we'll
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Speaker 1: latest anyway. Last night, Georgia's the new number one. Utah
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Speaker 1: is two. Bama is three, even though they have two
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Speaker 1: losses over undefeated UCLA at number four. And then Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame at five. The biggest surprise was that Indiana, without playing,
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Speaker 1: jumped or dropped from number four in the country to
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Speaker 1: number nine. in the country the NFL trading deadline wasn't
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Speaker 1: as busy as we thought but there were some moves
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Speaker 1: the 49ers added Keenan Allen the Chiefs added wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Josh Downs and the biggest move the quarterback Kirk Cousins
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Speaker 1: going from the Raiders to the Minnesota Vikings and that
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Speaker 1: means there'll be a different quarterback starting for the Raiders
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Speaker 1: this week against the Seahawks as Fernando Mendoza will make
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Speaker 1: his debut in the National Football League, the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick in the most recent NFL draft. Talk about
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Speaker 3: Morning, Greg.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Well, suddenly Mike McDonald's got a different quarterback to prepare for.
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Speaker 1: I guess that doesn't shake things up too much on
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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, but certainly you're going to have a different
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Speaker 1: type of quarterback, not just a different quarterback, but this
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Speaker 1: guy is quite different physically from Kirk Cousins. So what
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Speaker 1: do you think that's done to Coach McDonald's preparation for
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Speaker 1: this week?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think he's opened up the part of his
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Speaker 4: playbook that says pressure. And he's going to go to
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Speaker 4: every one of the blitzes and confusions. He's going to
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Speaker 4: show Mendoza stuff he never saw at Indiana in the
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Speaker 4: Big Ten. And this is just the standard playbook for
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Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback. You're going to get defense that gives
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Speaker 4: you stuff you haven't seen on film before. Mendoza's going
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Speaker 4: to study the Seahawks' defense. It's probably going to look
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Speaker 4: a little bit different with new stuff. that McDonald throws in,
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Speaker 4: he'll change the front, he'll put Nicky Maury at all
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Speaker 4: three levels, he'll move even Maury around from snap to snap,
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Speaker 4: so Mendoza and Clint Kubiak aren't sure where he's coming from. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's going to be a lot. They're going to try
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Speaker 4: to overwhelm the rookie quarterback. If I'm the Raiders, I'd
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Speaker 4: give it to Ashton Gentry about 35 times. Even if
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Speaker 4: he gains 35 yards, I'd keep giving it to him
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Speaker 4: to try to reduce McDonald just streaming pressures and blitzes
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Speaker 4: at Mendoza.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's about the pace Gent has been on for
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Speaker 1: a year and a half, about one.
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Speaker 4: Yard per carry. That's exactly right. He had like nine
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Speaker 4: yards a couple games ago.
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Speaker 1: You got to know Clint Kubiak a little bit. There
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Speaker 1: was a lot made online about his expressionless reaction to
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Speaker 1: the trade sitting next to the general manager who was
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Speaker 1: trying to explain why we're Moving on from Kirk Cousins
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Speaker 1: and activating the Fernando Mendoza mania this week against the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: What do you read into it? I mean, he's not
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Speaker 1: exactly some live wire to begin with, but did you
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Speaker 1: read that he looked disappointed, angry, frustrated?
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Speaker 4: No, I think he looks like that when his birthday
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Speaker 4: cake's coming to him and everyone's singing happy birthday. That's
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Speaker 4: just who he is. He's flat. He wants that persona.
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Speaker 4: I chuckled. I'm going to talk to Paul Gutierrez, a
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Speaker 4: friend of mine who covers the Raiders. He's been doing
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Speaker 4: it for a long time. He actually succeeded me at
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Speaker 4: the Sacramento Bee as Raiders beat writer when I moved
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Speaker 4: up here. And we were going to get a chuckle,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure, at 11 o'clock about that. Anyone who's dealt
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Speaker 4: with Kubiak at all knows that's his standard fare.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. You can
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Speaker 1: follow him at GBellSeattle on X and joins us most
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Speaker 1: every day at 7.05 to talk some Seahawks football. So,
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Speaker 1: you were right. Seahawks didn't do anything else at the
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Speaker 1: trading deadline. Do you think maybe they live to regret that?
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Speaker 1: I mean, are there some holes in this team that
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Speaker 1: should have been addressed at the deadline?
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Speaker 4: Well, just because you want to address one doesn't mean
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Speaker 4: you do. You've got to have the trades and the
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Speaker 4: people that want to trade with you and Take Caleb Downs,
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Speaker 4: for instance, the wide receiver that the Colts traded. The
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Speaker 4: Seahawks had already given two picks to Ed Dodds and
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Speaker 4: the Colts. It wasn't like they're going to give him
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Speaker 4: two more. Things like that. So, yes, they could have
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Speaker 4: used the wide receiver, but that didn't fit. They could
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Speaker 4: have used a lower-tier running back, but they think now
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Speaker 4: they have Zach Charbonnet coming off his most carries in
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Speaker 4: two years. And just a second game back from reconstructive
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Speaker 4: knee surgery, they've got Jadarian Price, their number one draft pick,
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Speaker 4: who they really yet haven't seen him unleash full go
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Speaker 4: in the offense. So they could have, but they weren't
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Speaker 4: going to extend themselves beyond what they already extended themselves
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Speaker 4: with Josh Schneider trading two picks to get Quentin Nelson.
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Speaker 1: So is this running back tandem of Zach Charbonnet and
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Speaker 1: Jadarian Price... going to be able to do in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs what Ken Walker did a year ago? And maybe
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Speaker 1: not spectacularly, but will they be able to hold their
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Speaker 1: own and not be the reason why the Seahawks didn't
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Speaker 1: win a back-to-back championship?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the plan. And that's why they drafted Price.
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Speaker 4: And the assumption they would get Sarbanet back at midpoint
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Speaker 4: or about this time, November, was realistic. So that was
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Speaker 4: the plan. This is why they let Walker go. Drafted
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Speaker 4: price to have him under club control for five years
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Speaker 4: the plan is now beginning it took half a season
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Speaker 4: and eight games to get here but now let's see
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Speaker 4: what it is and yeah if this if they were
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Speaker 4: right they will make the playoffs and do well in
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Speaker 4: it i think win at least one and get into
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Speaker 4: the second round matchup with the 49ers if they were
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Speaker 4: wrong they're in trouble because they have a starting quarterback
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Speaker 4: who has malfunctioned when he doesn't have a running game
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Speaker 4: so that's the key to the season to me They
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Speaker 4: have a defense they can depend on. Do they have
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Speaker 4: an offense that doesn't turn the ball over? And to
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Speaker 4: not turn the ball over, you've got to run the ball.
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Speaker 4: Run the ball effectively on first and second down, make
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Speaker 4: it third and two and three, all the things we
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Speaker 4: always talk about. Third and nine, Sam Darnold's a lot
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Speaker 4: different than third and two, Sam Darnold, and that's true
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Speaker 4: of almost every quarterback walking the earth. So they'd have
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Speaker 4: to have a running game. Their season depends on it.
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Speaker 4: Let's see if their plan works from here going forward.
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Speaker 4: I was surprised against the Cardinals the other day that
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Speaker 4: Charbonnet was the lead back, and Charbonnet got the 16 carries,
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Speaker 4: and he had the preponderance of touches and consecutive runs.
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Speaker 4: I thought that was going to be Price, and it's
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Speaker 4: because I thought Charbonnet wasn't as far back from 10
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Speaker 4: months removed from his surgery. So that's a promising sign
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Speaker 4: that they have Charbonnet back, and let's feature him, and
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Speaker 4: we've talked about his contract situation, and they need to
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Speaker 4: make a decision on him after this year, and they
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Speaker 4: still have Price, who they, as I said, really haven't
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Speaker 4: featured and was out for more than a month. We're
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Speaker 4: going to see if their plan works here really soon.
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Speaker 1: Wide receiver, too, has been another thing people have expressed
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Speaker 1: worry about. Rashid Shaheed doesn't look like he can fill
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Speaker 1: that role. Maybe Cooper Cuff's lost another quarter of a step.
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Speaker 1: this year. Is that something that you fear will rear
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Speaker 1: its ugly head, or do you believe that Shahid will
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Speaker 1: deliver on his promise?
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Speaker 4: I'm waiting for A.J. Barner to emerge as a key
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Speaker 4: component of this offense. We saw a glimpse or two
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Speaker 4: of it when he had two touchdowns in the barnyard
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Speaker 4: and the catch, and maybe it wasn't a catch in
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Speaker 4: the end zone. But I keep saying in training camp,
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Speaker 4: Brian Fleury was featuring the tight ends way further down
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Speaker 4: the field and way more often in the past game.
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Speaker 4: I haven't seen that yet in real games. So if
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Speaker 4: Barner could emerge, that could be your second guy. And
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Speaker 4: then you still... Darnold and Locke, but especially Darnold, will
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Speaker 4: still throw the cup on some third downs in the
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Speaker 4: slot that they can depend on him to get some
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Speaker 4: first downs in those situations. So I wouldn't totally discount
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Speaker 4: Cooper Cupp's impact on the scene, but it is reduced,
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Speaker 4: for sure. And he is at the tail end of
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Speaker 4: his productivity. Shaheed has not fulfilled what they've asked him
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Speaker 4: and what they expected when they re-signed him for $ 17
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Speaker 4: million a year, but now he's hurt with a knee
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Speaker 4: issue and looks like he won't play again this week.
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Speaker 4: So that becomes Torrey Horton's role. But all of the
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Speaker 4: second wide receiver stuff could become Mox Nix if A.J.
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Speaker 4: Barnum becomes the number two receiver, which... I think in
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Speaker 4: this offense he's capable of doing. Not to mention, they've
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Speaker 4: thrown the Jadarian Price quite a bit. I mean, quite
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Speaker 4: a bit. Four catches. But that's more than he had
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Speaker 4: ever at Notre Dame. And the way he made Cardinals
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Speaker 4: miss in the open field. he could become more of
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Speaker 4: a receiving threat too.
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Speaker 1: Anders, ask me off the air. I'll ask you. Brandon
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Speaker 1: Ayuk is out there. The Seahawks obviously overlooked all of
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Speaker 1: the red flags with Terry and Arnold. They saw a
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Speaker 1: talented player, and they weren't going to be denied getting
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Speaker 1: a talented player for cheap. You could probably get Brandon
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Speaker 1: Ayuk for nothing. Is there any interest in Brandon Ayuk?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure that John Schneider's calling Drew Rosenhaus and
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Speaker 4: seeing what it would take. Rosenhaus is going to do
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Speaker 4: his best to drum up as many suitors as he
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Speaker 4: possibly can and make it a bidding war and have
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Speaker 4: multiple options for his client. That probably all won't go
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Speaker 4: down until at least after November 23rd because the 49ers
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Speaker 4: have a roster exemption on him that they don't really
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Speaker 4: have to do anything until then. If I were the 49ers,
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Speaker 4: I'd hold onto him through the 23rd, so that would
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Speaker 4: give him... less time to sign with somebody else, be
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Speaker 4: it the Rams, who are down two top receivers, Nakua
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Speaker 4: and Adams, or the Seahawks. There are people I know
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Speaker 4: who cover the 49ers who think that Ayuk is spiteful
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Speaker 4: enough against the 49ers to maybe the Seahawks and the
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Speaker 4: Rams are his two top preferred destinations. Before a month
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Speaker 4: or two ago, I would have told you that Mike
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Speaker 4: McDonald would have paused bringing that issue into his locker room,
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Speaker 4: and you're right. He signed Terry on Arnold. So Maybe.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say I would expect it, but I wouldn't
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Speaker 4: be surprised. A soft maybe.
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Speaker 1: That sounded like a soft maybe to me right there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe is, and I wouldn't be shocked.
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Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Well, let's talk about the Raiders as
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Speaker 1: an opponent this week. Yes, obviously they're going with Mendoza
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Speaker 1: at quarterback. We've already discussed the Raiders. inability to run
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Speaker 1: the football that they've had since spending a high draft
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Speaker 1: pick on Ashton Gentry a year and a half ago.
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Speaker 1: What else has stood out about a 4-5 Raiders team
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Speaker 1: that has taken a little bit of a step forward?
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Speaker 1: They're far more competitive this year under Clint Kubiak, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like they can hang with the big boys,
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Speaker 1: and I include the Seahawks as one of the big boys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they are. Well, their offensive line has been a
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Speaker 4: problem for years, and that's been Gentry's big issue. He
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Speaker 4: has nobody... no lanes to run through cousins had 20
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Speaker 4: touchdowns and eight interceptions. That's what's walking out the door
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Speaker 4: to Minnesota. And so you're not going to replace that
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Speaker 4: in one week against the Superbowl champions, top rank defense.
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Speaker 4: You're just not. And especially in a quarterback's very first
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Speaker 4: NFL start. So they're, they're going to be behind in this,
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Speaker 4: but as John Spitek, the GM of the Raiders said yesterday,
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Speaker 4: we just decided when we got the offer yesterday morning
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Speaker 4: from the Vikings that Let's start our future now. Let's
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Speaker 4: just do this. And they are going to take lumps.
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Speaker 4: You can go all the way back to John Elway
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Speaker 4: and Peyton Manning and almost every quarterback, Drew Brees, every
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Speaker 4: top quarterback takes his lumps in his first few starts
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Speaker 4: in his first season. It's just the league. It's so
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Speaker 4: different than college. It's so different than Indiana and the
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Speaker 4: national title game. And as I said, McDonald's going to
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Speaker 4: show him stuff he's never seen before and stuff he
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Speaker 4: hasn't seen on film before. McDonald thrives in this stuff.
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Speaker 4: X's and O's advantages and just tricking offenses. Now he's
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Speaker 4: got a brand-new quarterback. The advantage swung way to the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks yesterday. They were probably high-fiving in the Seahawks headquarters,
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Speaker 4: this Kirk Cousins trade, short-term. So Mendoza may become excellent.
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Speaker 4: We'll see. But I don't expect him to be excellent
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Speaker 4: on Sunday. All right.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of quarterbacks, Drew's okay. What's the latest update on
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Speaker 1: Drew Locke's injuries?
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Speaker 4: Well, of course, yesterday was their day off, the player's
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Speaker 4: day off, so status quo for Monday in that he
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Speaker 4: will be limited in practices all week. I expect him
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Speaker 4: to be limited today. I wouldn't expect him to pick
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Speaker 4: up a football today and not throw it all. They
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Speaker 4: keep saying it'll probably be like last week when they
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Speaker 4: managed his elbow tendonitis. Now with the side oblique on
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Speaker 4: top of it, he's got two injuries. It's not like
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Speaker 4: the elbow tendonitis just went away. So I expect him
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Speaker 4: to barely throw this week, maybe in team drills tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: He'll be listed as a limited participant in practices all week,
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Speaker 4: and then full go to start with Jalen Milrow getting
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Speaker 4: one's reps again this week. And McDonald's already declared that
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Speaker 4: Sam Donald's out, at least through the bye with them,
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Speaker 4: expecting him to play. It's November 29th at the 49ers.
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Speaker 4: So it's suboptimal, yes. But an eight-year veteran in Locke
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Speaker 4: can do this. He knows the offense enough. He's done
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Speaker 4: enough reps. all spring and summer. It's just a matter
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Speaker 4: of actually just throwing to get the rust off from
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Speaker 4: game to game, and he doesn't need to do much
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Speaker 4: of that.
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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of veterans, happy Veterans Day to Greg Bell.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. It took me a while. When I
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Speaker 4: was in the Army and when I first got out,
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Speaker 4: I didn't really say I was a veteran because I
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Speaker 4: knew veterans who were served in wars and had been
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Speaker 4: deployed multiple times, friends and former roommates of mine. Those
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Speaker 4: are veterans. I served five years and was never deployed,
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Speaker 4: and I feel kind of cheap to say I was
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Speaker 4: a veteran, I'll be honest with you. But thank you.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate that. Well, we want to thank you. Happy Veterans Day.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Happy Veterans Day, of course, to everyone who
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Speaker 4: has served and served in the military and continue to
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Speaker 4: around the world.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for your service.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Including Ensign Sarah Bell, who's in the middle
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Speaker 4: of the Pacific Ocean today on a Coast Guard ship.
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Speaker 4: She's not yet a veteran, but she will be. All right.
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Speaker 1: What do you got planned for the show today?
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Speaker 4: We have Paul Gutierrez, Raiders beat writer, going to join
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Speaker 4: us from Las Vegas at 11 o'clock, and we'll talk
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Speaker 4: all about Mendoza and what he's seen with Mendoza. I'm
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Speaker 4: going to talk about Clint Kubiak, too, how he's been
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Speaker 4: as a head coach, if he has been as flat
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Speaker 4: and deadpan as he was with us when he talked
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Speaker 4: to us, and if he's like that with the players.
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Speaker 4: All indications are that in the locker room, he's actually
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Speaker 4: a different guy. He's rowdy and yells and screams and
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Speaker 4: leads and We'll talk a lot about that at 11 o'clock,
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Speaker 4: and we'll go more into Mike McDonald and all that
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Speaker 4: he's going to have up for Mendoza. It's going to
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Speaker 4: be a potpourri of misdirections and disguises.
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Speaker 1: All right. Sounds great. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it,
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Speaker 1: and we will talk to you again tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: All right, Greg Bell, he's coming up at 10 o'clock
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Speaker 1: with Jessamyn today, 10 to noon every day here at
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. And, of course, our Seahawks Insider.
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Speaker 1: You can follow him at GBellSeattle, and he's got pretty
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Speaker 1: much daily reports, complete Seahawks coverage for you at our website,
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Speaker 1: 93.3 KJRFM. KJR.com. All right, coming up next, a lot
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Speaker 1: of things to get done. We're going to play some
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Speaker 1: Factor Fiction. We also have a Waiver Wire Wednesday for you.
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Speaker 1: It's Chuck in the Morning, Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: let's get to our Waiver Wire Wednesday. These are some
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Speaker 1: pickups that maybe you should consider, especially now that we've
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Speaker 1: plowed through the NFL trading deadline and some things have
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Speaker 1: kind of changed. I gave you a couple warnings. Josh
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Speaker 1: Downs a couple of weeks ago, he's going to get
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Speaker 1: moved at the deadline. What if he gets moved to
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Speaker 1: an explosive offense with a great quarterback? Well, he was moved. Um,
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Speaker 1: I would imagine he got snatched up because everybody takes
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Speaker 1: my advice, right? Yep.
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Speaker 4: Right. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Um, but just in case maybe he's available in your, uh, league,
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Speaker 1: he might just become their number two wide receiver overnight. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Xavier Worthy
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Speaker 5: hasn't really been that like good this year.
19:03
Speaker 3: And he's hurt, and he's hurt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And even Rasheed Rice hasn't been that great. So, yeah,
19:09
Speaker 5: he's going to get some touches for sure.
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Speaker 1: Plus, you never know when Rasheed Rice will just, you know.
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Speaker 3: File bankruptcy?
19:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, just decide, you know, football's not my thing. I'm
19:18
Speaker 1: going to take up arts and crafts. Yeah. Jordan Tyson
19:22
Speaker 1: is another one that I said a couple of weeks ago. Man,
19:25
Speaker 1: there are people that write fantasy football articles that are saying,
19:28
Speaker 1: this guy, now that he's gotten his feet wet a
19:31
Speaker 1: little bit down the stretch— They thought he was going
19:34
Speaker 1: to be the best wide receiver out of this draft
19:37
Speaker 1: class and the one that was going to be able
19:39
Speaker 1: to impact the league the quickest. There are so many
19:43
Speaker 1: articles about people that write about this stuff that think
19:45
Speaker 1: he's going to be a difference maker. He might win
19:49
Speaker 1: you your league. were quotes being used. So if he's
19:52
Speaker 1: not picked up, you might want to pick him up.
19:54
Speaker 1: His teammate, Audrick Estime, suddenly looks like the New Orleans
19:58
Speaker 1: Saints starting running back right now. And with all these
20:01
Speaker 1: injuries taking place, man, you're just looking for somebody that's
20:05
Speaker 1: getting carries. The same thing with Corey Kiner of the
20:08
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Ramondre Stevenson and Travion Henderson are going
20:12
Speaker 1: to be on the shelf for a while. So even
20:14
Speaker 1: though you've never heard of Corey Kiner, and maybe when
20:17
Speaker 1: you watched him play the Seahawks, you weren't that impressed
20:19
Speaker 1: with Corey Kiner, Corey Kiner might be the number one
20:23
Speaker 1: running back for the New England Patriots for a little
20:25
Speaker 1: while here. I wouldn't advise you to try to figure
20:28
Speaker 1: out that Green Bay situation, though. There are like 17
20:32
Speaker 1: different candidates, and I wouldn't even be surprised if Josh
20:35
Speaker 1: Jacobs just wraps it up and Chubbs Peterson it and
20:40
Speaker 1: just decides to play anyway with a cast on his arm.
20:43
Speaker 1: I mean, you can figure out how to put the
20:45
Speaker 1: ball in the other arm, can't you? So I wouldn't
20:48
Speaker 1: try to solve the Green Bay running back situation. But
20:51
Speaker 1: another thing that happened with the Puka Nakua injury is
20:55
Speaker 1: that suddenly the Rams are down there wide receiver one
20:57
Speaker 1: and wide receiver two. Matthew Stafford's going to throw to somebody.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Kanata Mumpfield looks like the Rams' new wide receiver one.
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Speaker 4: Who?
21:06
Speaker 1: Because they did not add anybody at the trading deadline.
21:09
Speaker 1: So him or Tutu Atwell, or maybe both, are going
21:13
Speaker 1: to see their numbers increase.
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Speaker 5: I don't even know what to make of that situation either.
21:17
Speaker 5: Maybe look tight ends as well. Who's going to be
21:20
Speaker 5: that option for Stafford? Higby's available in our league. I
21:23
Speaker 5: think Parkinson's available in our league too.
21:26
Speaker 1: And then finally, the Minnesota Vikings probably got a little
21:28
Speaker 1: bit better with Kirk Cousins at quarterback, so... I don't
21:31
Speaker 1: think they're going to be available on the waiver wire,
21:33
Speaker 1: but maybe you try to slip in a trade for
21:35
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison right now or a TJ Hawkinson because he's
21:38
Speaker 1: Those guys should get better going forward. I have a
21:41
Speaker 1: feeling Jefferson's already taken.
21:43
Speaker 3: Really?
21:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I obviously slept on the Tennessee Volunteers last week, and
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22:21
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He says they might be in the national championship picture.
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22:44
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22:49
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22:51
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23:43
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25:21
Speaker 1: one coming up next, we get reckless at breakfast here
25:24
Speaker 1: on KJR. This is dangerous.
25:26
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:26
Speaker 1: It's like a chemical reaction. We're going to predict the
25:29
Speaker 1: future and get reckless in back-to-back segments?
25:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a thought experiment that has thought to be
25:37
Speaker 5: very dangerous in years past.
25:40
Speaker 1: People have advised against it.
25:41
Speaker 4: Yes.
25:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here we go. Let's get a little reckless
25:44
Speaker 1: at breakfast. And I'm going to get a little off
25:46
Speaker 1: the normal beaten path with reckless at breakfast. And I
25:49
Speaker 1: want to talk about Diana Rossini.
25:53
Speaker 4: Okay.
25:54
Speaker 2: Okay.
25:57
Speaker 1: I get it. I get everybody piling on. I'm actually
26:00
Speaker 1: for it. And I don't mean that anybody should be
26:04
Speaker 1: going too far with it, but if you chase her
26:06
Speaker 1: out of the business, I'm okay with that. The harsh
26:10
Speaker 1: criticism of her getting a job and getting back into
26:13
Speaker 1: the industry and on her first day acting like she's
26:16
Speaker 1: still a reliable, trusted source and then blowing her two
26:20
Speaker 1: tips that she gave yesterday, so she started 0-2 in
26:25
Speaker 1: her career without sleeping with head coaches and trying to
26:28
Speaker 1: become an NFL insider.
26:30
Speaker 4: Nice.
26:31
Speaker 1: And then... So, uh, and if you want to be
26:33
Speaker 1: angry at the place that hired her, I'm not surprised
26:36
Speaker 1: that somebody did and tried to get some cheap publicity
26:39
Speaker 1: out of it. Uh, yeah, feel free, jump all over it.
26:43
Speaker 1: And if you chase her out of the business and
26:44
Speaker 1: this look, I think she did an immoral thing. Um,
26:47
Speaker 1: she pretty much destroyed her own family and may have
26:50
Speaker 1: destroyed one to five others. I don't know, 15 others.
26:53
Speaker 4: I don't know.
26:54
Speaker 3: Who knows?
26:54
Speaker 1: I really don't know. Um, but truthfully, the reason that
26:58
Speaker 1: I want to run her out of the business is
27:00
Speaker 1: not because of infidelity. It's because she got her scoops
27:05
Speaker 1: through immoral methods. She doesn't deserve to be covering the
27:11
Speaker 1: National Football League. And if the National Football League really
27:14
Speaker 1: did daily support her like she claims, I think that's
27:17
Speaker 1: an embarrassment for the league. I think you should be
27:20
Speaker 1: distancing yourself from her, just like all the head coaches
27:24
Speaker 1: should be distancing themselves from her. Because even if you
27:28
Speaker 1: do just, I really liked her as a reporter. The
27:31
Speaker 1: moment she breaks a story and says you're the source
27:34
Speaker 1: or you're the subject matter, guess what's going to happen?
27:38
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to think you're sleeping with her. And she's
27:40
Speaker 1: earned that for the way that she conducted herself. So
27:43
Speaker 1: if you wanted to pile on Diana Rossini yesterday, go
27:47
Speaker 1: for it. There is a limit. Don't get crazy with it.
27:50
Speaker 1: But if you drive her out of the business, I'm
27:52
Speaker 1: all for it. I mean, I'm not going to do it,
27:54
Speaker 1: but I'm all for those sort of actions. That said,
28:00
Speaker 1: on the exact same day, I saw just as many
28:05
Speaker 1: social media posts criticizing Laura Rutledge for her interview with
28:11
Speaker 1: Josh Allen because Josh Allen refused to look her in
28:16
Speaker 1: the eye. Now, I don't know why Josh Allen refused
28:19
Speaker 1: to look Laura Rutledge in the eye. Maybe it's he's
28:23
Speaker 1: just that respectful of his wife and a beautiful woman
28:27
Speaker 1: was interviewing him and he didn't want anybody to know.
28:32
Speaker 1: that there was anything weird about that, and he ended
28:35
Speaker 1: up making it weird. Or, I don't know, I've dated
28:39
Speaker 1: plenty of jealous women in my life that don't like
28:43
Speaker 1: you looking at other women. Not that you should.
28:48
Speaker 4: Right.
28:49
Speaker 1: But a lot of them have taken it too far
28:51
Speaker 1: and twisted it. And maybe Haley Steinfeld gives him a
28:55
Speaker 1: hard time every time that he's in the vicinity. We
28:59
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't know why he did it.
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Speaker 3: Pure speculation.
29:03
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:03
Speaker 1: But for the criticism to be launched against Laura Rutledge
29:08
Speaker 1: on the same day that people are piling on Diana
29:10
Speaker 1: Rossini is so unfair. she was not dressed provocatively. She
29:17
Speaker 1: was dressed nicely and she's beautiful. There's not much she
29:22
Speaker 1: can do about it. She gets more beautiful every day.
29:24
Speaker 1: It's really strange. Yeah. But, and this is the thing
29:28
Speaker 1: I want to hammer home. She is excellent at what
29:32
Speaker 1: she does. I think her and Lauren Shahadi are the
29:35
Speaker 1: two best sideline reporters in the entire industry. And they
29:38
Speaker 1: just so happen to be easy on the eyes. But
29:41
Speaker 1: they are outstanding. They do their homework. They ask original questions.
29:46
Speaker 1: It's not Molly McGrath every single time. Molly McGrath, what
29:50
Speaker 1: about the offense? What about the defense? every single halftime
29:55
Speaker 1: interview with a head coach. Rutledge and Shahadi don't do that.
29:59
Speaker 1: They keep it light. They can be amusing. They can
30:02
Speaker 1: be funny. They're excellent. Also, Rutledge is one of the
30:05
Speaker 1: best studio hosts right now in the business. And so
30:09
Speaker 1: to spend time on a bash Diana Rossini day, Bashing
30:16
Speaker 1: someone because she's pretty and Josh Allen doesn't want to
30:20
Speaker 1: stare at her during an interview, and to criticize her
30:24
Speaker 1: and criticize her outfits and criticize the way that she
30:27
Speaker 1: dressed for the game that day, I think really is
30:31
Speaker 1: a backslide by a lot of people out there. I'm
30:35
Speaker 1: not surprised that social media, it's a cesspool, and yet...
30:41
Speaker 1: It just felt like there was more criticism against Laura
30:44
Speaker 1: Rutledge because she dressed nice and looked nice for a
30:47
Speaker 1: day at work and then went out there and did
30:50
Speaker 1: a damn good job at her office. And she got
30:55
Speaker 1: as much criticism because Josh Allen wouldn't look her in
30:58
Speaker 1: the eye as Diana Rossini got yesterday in a 24-hour
31:01
Speaker 1: news cycle. Or at least that's how it appeared to me.
31:05
Speaker 1: separate these two go after diana russini she's earned it
31:08
Speaker 1: laura rutledge deserved zero criticism for what she did on
31:13
Speaker 1: the sidelines with josh allen and i have no idea
31:16
Speaker 1: why people are piling on someone who is really good
31:19
Speaker 1: at their job and a credit to the industry.
31:22
Speaker 5: I just don't understand where it's even coming from what
31:24
Speaker 5: did she do that was wrong at all i i
31:28
Speaker 5: She was doing her job.
31:29
Speaker 1: Doing her job.
31:30
Speaker 3: It's not.
31:30
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:31
Speaker 3: These two things are absolutely incomparable.
31:34
Speaker 1: Well, they are incomparable. But the fact that on the
31:37
Speaker 1: same day that the same attacks are going on and
31:40
Speaker 1: it's like, no, no, no. One disrespected her profession.
31:44
Speaker 4: Yes.
31:45
Speaker 1: And the other is a credit to her profession. It
31:48
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what she looks like, whether she's a track,
31:51
Speaker 1: whether she's a 10 or a two, it doesn't matter.
31:54
Speaker 1: She's really damn good at what she does and did
31:58
Speaker 1: not deserve that yesterday. And, and so, uh, I, I
32:02
Speaker 1: just wanted to spend some reckless at breakfast time on
32:06
Speaker 1: slicing up. That is apples and oranges comparison.
32:09
Speaker 3: Totally.
32:09
Speaker 4: Totally.
32:10
Speaker 1: It's not even apples and oranges. That's like mutton and oranges.
32:14
Speaker 3: It's so true. That's like a table.
32:16
Speaker 1: That's like a, that's like furniture and oranges.
32:18
Speaker 4: Yeah.
32:19
Speaker 5: And again, I don't, I should say I'm not surprised,
32:22
Speaker 5: but I continue to be with these reactions on social media.
32:26
Speaker 1: I know it's social media and it's not everybody, but
32:29
Speaker 1: unfortunately this holds a lot of sway. In our industry
32:33
Speaker 1: and in people's lives, and man, on a day that
32:36
Speaker 1: people were going after Diana Rossini, for you to lump
32:40
Speaker 1: Laura Rutledge into that is a crying shame. All right,
32:43
Speaker 1: Crystal Ball is next on KJR.