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Chuck in the Morning 9/2 H1: It's come to an end... sad. Mariners Morning After & high expectations for the Dawgs. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: On.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, great Wednesday morning to you all. Welcome into the
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  Speaker 3: radio show here on a home date. It's Chuck Powell,
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  Speaker 3: and it is Ashley Ryan welcoming you in to our
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  Speaker 3: radio show, our hearts, and our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Not our minds, though. You're not getting in there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Not again. No. Oh, the things you convinced me to
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  Speaker 3: do a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man. And I was listening to all those voices
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  Speaker 3: inside my head.
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  Speaker 2: Not making that mistake again.
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  Speaker 3: I really regret a lot of that stuff. Right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As I sit here today, I wish I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: done that, but... You know, the power of suggestion, I guess. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And you live and you learn, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: Right. That's what I think.
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  Speaker 2: So now we know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Whoopsie doodle.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. I'll never tie my aunt to a chair again
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  Speaker 3: in the basement.
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  Speaker 2: For the fourth time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, four times is enough. And that's kind of what
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  Speaker 3: my uncle told me.
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  Speaker 2: That's about when you learn the lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Uncle Dick was like, four times, I think, is enough, Chuck.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I see the light.
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  Speaker 4: And then you did it a fifth. Then he was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I told you four was enough. And you realized, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I need to start to listen to Uncle Dick more often.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then he got the authorities involved. Ugh. Anyway, it's
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  Speaker 3: a dark part of my past, and I'd like not
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  Speaker 3: to relive it.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry for bringing that up.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome into the radio program. It is Ashley Ryan. My
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  Speaker 3: name is Chuck Powell. We've got you until 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: here this morning. I'm going to tell you what's on
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  Speaker 3: tap here in a little bit. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things going on in the professional sports realm, also
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  Speaker 3: in our personal lives, which we're going to dive into
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  Speaker 3: in a little moment. As just a light way to
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  Speaker 3: start the show, I heard word that somewhere in Mill Creek,
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  Speaker 3: Somebody with the fall spirit decided to usher in the
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  Speaker 3: greatest of our four seasons here as humans. And so
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  Speaker 3: I would like to thank that person for, and maybe
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  Speaker 3: you did jump the gun a little bit. Maybe you did.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we weren't ready for your fall candles to be
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  Speaker 3: lit last night. I still have the air conditioner on
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  Speaker 3: in my house. Doesn't feel like fall to me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have it on. It wouldn't be my choice,
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  Speaker 3: but someone else has made that choice. And I was
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  Speaker 3: just thinking about, man, to be in Mill Creek and
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  Speaker 3: the windows open and a fall candle burning. I give
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  Speaker 3: credit to this person. Wonderful person.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like you were in my house, Chuck, because
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  Speaker 4: our air conditioner, actually, last week, we had someone come
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  Speaker 4: out to look at it, and they said, you need
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  Speaker 4: a new one. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So it has not been running. So we did have
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  Speaker 2: the windows open last night, and it got a little cooler.
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  Speaker 2: The breeze was a little.
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  Speaker 3: Cooler last night.
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  Speaker 5: It did.
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  Speaker 3: I think it dipped into the 50s last night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we had the windows open while we
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  Speaker 4: were sitting around, eating dinner, watching a show, watching TV,
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  Speaker 4: watching a game.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Apple cinnamon candle burning on the counter.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we went with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I thought pumpkin. I almost went pumpkin. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: It's all right. A lot of fall scents. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of aromas.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, I'm going to go with apple. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ease on into this fall thing. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. It was glorious.
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  Speaker 4: And all I kept thinking was, I bet the pumpkin
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  Speaker 4: candle really would have done the job better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm proud of myself because I normally light a
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  Speaker 4: fall candle the last week of August.
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  Speaker 2: So I waited until September 1st.
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  Speaker 3: Light a candle in the window.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that song, but I think I like it.
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  Speaker 3: CCR. I don't think it was about lighting fall candles. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Because I was like, I know the beat sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know there was a song about candles.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. Seems to me you live your life
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  Speaker 3: like a fall candle in the wind.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that is how I live my life. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was about fall colors and smells.
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  Speaker 2: And candles.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely about candles. That much we know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm proud of you. I'm happy. I'm glad it's
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  Speaker 3: almost here, and I hope that fall lasts forever this year.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be glorious?
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  Speaker 3: That's my wish. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella.
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  Speaker 2: That would be glorious.
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  Speaker 3: Well, great morning to you all as we get things
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  Speaker 3: started here, and we do have a lot to discuss
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  Speaker 3: here today, including we ramp up officially our preview week
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  Speaker 3: of the college football season. I know they had the
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  Speaker 3: week zero, but it really gets started this week, and...
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  Speaker 3: Both the Cougs and the Dawgs start their seasons on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So we wrap up. I mean, maybe that's why you
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  Speaker 3: had it. You had an apple cider cup candle is
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  Speaker 3: what you were thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's what it was. That's what it was. And
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  Speaker 3: we don't play in the pumpkin cup.
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  Speaker 2: No, my subconscious was fully ready for football. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: It might very well be what it is. Yep. You
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  Speaker 3: got Apple Cup coming up on Sunday. You're having a
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  Speaker 3: hard time getting into it because it's so weird. And
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  Speaker 3: then subconsciously, you're like, apple candle to start the fall.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe that will get me in the mood for.
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  Speaker 2: The game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And it did.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. Bring it on. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Apple cup.
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  Speaker 2: Apple cider cup party. Apple cinnamon candle cup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can't have a pumpkin cup. That's just weird. Sounds weird. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to start, though, today with our professional
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  Speaker 3: football team as the hard knock season wrapped up last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to give HBO a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe I haven't been paying attention last season. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: other people across the country haven't paid attention to our season.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that is where it's gone. Where it's really well crafted,
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  Speaker 3: but if you don't know the central characters... Well, maybe
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  Speaker 3: you're not interested. I don't know. Something about, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I used to live for Hard Knocks. Jackson and I,
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  Speaker 3: when I first moved here, did a Hard Knocks month
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  Speaker 3: where we went through the entire schedule for every team
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  Speaker 3: that the Seahawks played. We went through the entire schedule
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  Speaker 3: and did a little brief Hard Knocks thing on them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so I used to love it, couldn't wait
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  Speaker 3: for it. And then all of a sudden, year after year,
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  Speaker 3: I started to lose interest. There was something about it
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  Speaker 3: that just didn't have the same bite that that it
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  Speaker 3: used to have. And then suddenly the team that you
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  Speaker 3: follow and cover for a living is on hard knocks
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  Speaker 3: and you are forced to watch it because we know
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  Speaker 3: that it's going to be content on our radio show.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm so glad that I did because I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you've been doing such a good job and
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  Speaker 3: maybe I've unfairly treated you HBO, but whoever was in
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  Speaker 3: charge of this season, I mean, like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if other NFL cities were all that captivated
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  Speaker 3: by it. But I thought it was just beautifully crafted
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end. The producers did a tremendous job
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  Speaker 3: capturing the Pacific Northwest, capturing the Renton facility.
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  Speaker 2: Capturing Dino's.
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  Speaker 3: Dino's. Poor John's secret is ruined. Not that it was
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  Speaker 3: all that secret.
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  Speaker 2: No, but everyone's going to go to Dino's now.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, because they know he hangs out there all
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  Speaker 3: the time. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we've made references to
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  Speaker 3: it on the airwaves. I've heard Ian joke about it,
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  Speaker 3: Softie joke about it, but I think people thought we
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  Speaker 3: were kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: And now they know that he's there a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And putting together Seahawks strategies right there in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the restaurant, right over a bowl of tots. He's
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  Speaker 3: sitting there at Dino's pub. So, yeah, that was a
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  Speaker 3: part of it. But I just I think that it's
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  Speaker 3: just it was just really beautifully done from beginning to
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  Speaker 3: end and not over the top at all. And then
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  Speaker 3: sort of the subtle way that it ended. Um, the
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  Speaker 3: episode last night to wrap up the season. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it was just great. It really was. It was great.
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  Speaker 3: Well done HBO. And, and that's something I think that
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  Speaker 3: a Seahawk fan is going to treasure for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of your life. You get the, you know, the DVDs
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, whatever people still play today. I would imagine
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  Speaker 3: you want that as a Seahawk fan, as something that
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  Speaker 3: you can reference 10 years from now, 20 years from now.
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  Speaker 3: To remind you of this magical period in this franchise's
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  Speaker 3: history and the guy who really is at the center
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  Speaker 3: of that magic. Because, Ashley, they made it very clear,
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  Speaker 3: the producers of Hard Knocks at HBO, how incredibly impressed
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  Speaker 3: they were in our head coach. Because that was the
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  Speaker 3: bow that they tied on the entire show. season was
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, do they have a good one in Seattle?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the whole thing, I mean, and just pointing
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  Speaker 4: out the list, subtle differences in our organization that make it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, about the culture and, and make have made
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  Speaker 4: us successful. Just even going with the, we are a
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  Speaker 4: team of 70. It is not a 53 man roster
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  Speaker 4: and a practice squad. It is a team of 70
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  Speaker 4: with a ready squad. I mean, just those little things
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  Speaker 4: that make the make, the people want to be there.
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  Speaker 4: You see why players wanted to be here. You see
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  Speaker 4: why Derek Hall did not go out and wait, to
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  Speaker 4: see what the biggest contract he could get was he
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  Speaker 4: said no I want to stay here And I found
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  Speaker 4: myself sad it was over. I mean, I've really enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: getting to see– getting to learn more about the players
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  Speaker 4: that we all already love. And then, yeah, just with
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald because he has been kind of a mystery
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  Speaker 4: to a lot of us. And so getting to see
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  Speaker 4: that he is tough but so kind and, you know, is–
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  Speaker 4: Just the.
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  Speaker 3: Way that he described to his coaches, like– Hey, I
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  Speaker 3: want you to make sure that you deliver. Yeah. And again,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been watching it a lot in recent years,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe there's been a complete different change in the
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  Speaker 3: way that all coaches and organizations and general managers treat
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  Speaker 3: the 70-man roster versus the 53. Yeah. But the most
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  Speaker 3: intriguing part of that show... Because you always have to
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  Speaker 3: have happy moments and sad moments in order to feel
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  Speaker 3: like you had a true emotional experience, whether you've invested
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  Speaker 3: in a TV show or a movie or a documentary
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  Speaker 3: or in life. I mean, you've got to have those
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  Speaker 3: sad moments to truly appreciate the good moments. And really
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  Speaker 3: the center of that show when it started was the
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  Speaker 3: journeys that the fringe players went on to either make
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  Speaker 3: the team or not make the team. And so it
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  Speaker 3: was all about the Turk. And it was all about
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  Speaker 3: seeing whether or not that guy was going to get
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  Speaker 3: his Paula Abdul, you know, golden ticket to Hollywood. Or
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  Speaker 3: if he was in the group that was told by Randy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're not going to make it, dog. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what the show was. And now I've
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  Speaker 3: never heard it kind of put that way.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, and it started with that meeting with
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  Speaker 3: the coaches, with them telling them, hey, you make sure
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  Speaker 3: you deliver the message to them that whether they're on
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  Speaker 3: the 53 or the 70, that this is about their development,
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  Speaker 3: and we are not going to stop developing them as players.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a great thing. How many players
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  Speaker 3: went in there excited to be on the 70? Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And not just the 53. He had one guy that
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  Speaker 3: was like, I kind of wanted to be on the 53.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody else was over the moon because he sold that
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  Speaker 3: message from the beginning of camp, and he delivered that
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  Speaker 3: message throughout camp, and there is a reason why Hard
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  Speaker 3: Knocks showed so many exchanges between players. our coach, our
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  Speaker 3: head coach, and the players that were coming. Because there
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  Speaker 3: were a lot of them. Yeah. Usually you show like
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  Speaker 3: one or two, maybe three. There were like eight? That
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  Speaker 3: came into his office.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they were trying to show you, like,
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  Speaker 3: this guy doesn't miss a beat. He's not just on record.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't just deliver the same message to every single player.
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  Speaker 3: There is a unique relationship that he has with every
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  Speaker 3: single one of those guys that are coming into his room.
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  Speaker 3: And he is making them feel good about being on
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  Speaker 3: the 70 and being a part of the family. I mean...
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  Speaker 3: He's a superstar. He's a superstar. And HBO went out
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  Speaker 3: of its way to tell us that they feel the
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  Speaker 3: exact same way about him. Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he is an impressive person. And we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it this whole season.
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  Speaker 4: The way that he can be firm with guys when
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  Speaker 4: they've kind of screwed up a bit and make sure
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  Speaker 4: that they know they've screwed up, but also make sure
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  Speaker 4: that he's not changed the way he feels about them.
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  Speaker 2: That's a tough thing to do. And he handles it
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  Speaker 2: so well.
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  Speaker 5: And it was.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the line that sticks out to me last
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  Speaker 4: night when he was talking to all the coaches, when
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  Speaker 4: he was like, and we got to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: we're loving, what was it, that we're loving up on
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  Speaker 4: them or that we're, loving on them, something like, I
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  Speaker 4: just thought that was so, so cute, like so sweet,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because these guys are out there giving everything
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  Speaker 4: they've got, trying to make their dreams come true. And
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  Speaker 4: that shouldn't be overlooked by the fact that they do
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  Speaker 4: or don't make a team or they do or don't
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  Speaker 4: make a 53 man roster. And no matter what they've done, they've,
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  Speaker 4: they've come out and given their heart and soul for
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  Speaker 4: the last month and a half to this team.
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  Speaker 3: Something that often gets overlooked. Even I, at this point,
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  Speaker 3: and I watch sports as a fan. I watch it
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  Speaker 3: as a professional. I watch too much of it. I
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  Speaker 3: wonder when I'm 75 years old if I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: look back and say I threw my life away watching
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  Speaker 3: too many sports. I don't know. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to feel about how much I watch. But
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  Speaker 3: one thing that we often overlook, because I still catch
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  Speaker 3: myself watching believe it or not, and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if anybody else is guilty of it, thinking I'm the
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  Speaker 3: age of the players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I do. Yeah, I agree. And I have to remind myself,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I could be this guy's dad. In
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  Speaker 3: some cases, I could be this guy's granddad. And I
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  Speaker 3: have to pull myself. It's a completely different generation of players.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and I think that, yeah, they probably did
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  Speaker 3: get coddled, but whatever it is, compared to the way
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  Speaker 3: I was raised, The head coach, who's a generation older
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  Speaker 3: in most cases, in our case, a half, has to
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  Speaker 3: be able to relate to that group. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying be their friend. I'm saying how to get the
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  Speaker 3: most out of them. And they have to be aware
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  Speaker 3: of what their parents did, how their parents raised them,
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  Speaker 3: how an entire American generation decided to raise their children.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Mike McDonald's got it down cold. I mean,
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I got a promo of a prominent baseball analyst on
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  Speaker 3: our radio station right now on another show comparing our
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  Speaker 3: manager of our baseball team to a house plant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ficus.
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  Speaker 3: As critical as I've been of Dan Wilson, boy, that
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  Speaker 3: one takes the cake right there. And yet, compare him
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  Speaker 3: to what HBO exposed to us as Seahawk fans about
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  Speaker 3: our young head coach, Super Bowl champion coach, who hopefully
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: will be here for the rest of his career. I mean,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: it is night and flippin' day. And credit, I mean,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I already felt he was the most important figure in
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: all of this. As great a job as John's done,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: and John's been constantly killing it for three years. He's
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: an A-plus general manager. I still think this best thing
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: that he did in the last three years was hire
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, and I hate to say it, but I
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: think Mike McDonald's more important to this team than John
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Schneider is and its future, and I certainly, in watching
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Hard Knocks this year, don't feel any differently. If anything,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: that opinion has been bolstered five-fold because what I watched
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: and what clearly HBO saw... Mm-hmm. Out of Mike McDonald,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: they made it very clear as they were wrapping up
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: that show last night that the true superstar in this
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: organization is its young head coach. And message received.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can see the players' respect for him.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, take, for example, that Nicky Manwari conversation. He
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: didn't go in there just to shoot the, you know what,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: with his buddy.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: What, Ashley? Shoot the what? Breeze? Breeze.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: With his buddy, right?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: He went in there because he was having kind of
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: a hard time dealing with something and knew his head coach,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: who he respects very much, could kind of walk him
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: through how he should be handling it or could be
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: handling it. And he was like, hey, you don't have
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: to answer to anybody. You've got, you know, this is
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: your timeline, your recovery, your injury. But it wasn't like
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: the balance of the conversation didn't seem like, like, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: authority figure and person you know he's in charge of
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: it was a mutual respect from both sides while one
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: side is still clearly the authority i don't know yes
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: he balances it so well yes you.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Are the boss first and foremost yeah but if you
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: can have a relationship that borders on friends yeah if
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: if you're my boss and i also think you're a
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: friend which means you do have my best interest at
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: heart And not just your best interest at heart. Yeah, exactly.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, where I think Dan Wilson has every player's
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: best interest at heart, but he does not come across
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: as a boss. He's just one of their friends.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just one of the guys.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And that's why he doesn't get the same maximum output
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: from his group that Mike McDonald has gotten from his
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: in a really short period of time. Those guys love
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, but those guys, make no mistake about it,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: know that when they clock in, it is time to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: go to work. And that is the difference, and it
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: makes every difference.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely. It's incredible to watch. As I said, I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: sad it's over. Sad it's over.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I am excited, though, to get the season started. I've
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: had enough preseason talk, so let's go.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I'd just be kind of fine if they wanted to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: just show us the background of the team all year long.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
• 19:16
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• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We are one week from the start of the National
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Football League season and of course the World Cup. The
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: World Champions get to start that season. It'll be next Wednesday.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Seahawks versus Patriots. A Super Bowl rematch. Greg Bell will
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: join us today at 7.05 to discuss it. We are
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: just a few days away from the Apple Cup. That's right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: It's on a Sunday this year. It's starting the season.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Dogs versus Cougs. And we really do start ramping up
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: our coverage today. As part of our fall lineup this year,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: back for another season is the color analyst of the
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Washington Huskies broadcast, former Washington Husky tight end, the great,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the lovable Cam Cleland is back with us this year.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But he'll be at 9 o'clock this year, not 8
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: o'clock as he's been in the past. So Cam joins
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: us for the first official time of the football season
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: today at 9. And of course, we'll ask him about
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: breaking in his brand new partner. On Sunday, Elyse Woodward
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: will make history when she calls her first game as
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: the official voice of the Dogs on Sunday. Other college
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: football news, the SEC has doubled down. They are not
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: going to cave on pros coming back to college football,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: no matter how much Lane Kiffin throws a fit. I
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: was actually surprised. Coach Neuheisel kind of took Lane Kiffin's
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: side yesterday.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I was very surprised.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so I don't know. Maybe we're looking at
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: it the wrong way, but it's not going to change
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: my opinion of Lane Kiffin. I hope he loses spectacularly.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to the SEC and every opponent he faces this year.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: We will also have a college football season preview as
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: only we do it here in the mornings. Once called
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the Green Jacket Draft, now it reverts to its old form,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the Showdown, today at 8 o'clock to preview the college
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: football season. The U.S. Open continues early upsets in the U.S.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Open.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I mean early upsets plus early near upsets as well
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: as the No. 1 seed on the men's side was
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: almost knocked out last night. That would have been crazy
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: considering that Djokovic has already been eliminated as the four
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: seed overall. Stan Kroenke bought the Angels yesterday for $ 4
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: billion and already has Mariner fans worried that we now
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: have the worst ownership in the American League West, if
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: not the American League. And so we'll talk about that
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit later on in the show. But a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: primary topic on today's show is Mariners won last night
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: 9-6 over the Red Sox. They breathed hope back into
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: a few because both the Rangers and the Astros lost again.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: So you're five games back. You've actually scored 17 runs
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: in the last two games, which is like a bucket
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: of water to a....
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Thirsty horse.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to a thirsty horse, yes. That's a good way
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: to put it. But certainly the star of the show
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: last night was Laz Montes, who made his debut in
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: phenomenal fashion. For the Mariners, we'll discuss it all with
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Mariners morning after next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Out
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: of sight, out of mind kind of thing. Donnie D
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: would appreciate it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: That was close. I did not know that about Donnie D.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: And if we don't get together on this, he'll never
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: be a star on Blue Bloods. So let's just, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: hands in the middle on this. We got to have
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Donnie's back.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because if Donnie can't make it, then how the
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: heck are Marky Mark and Ted going to make it?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: When will Jenny McCarthy ever find love if we don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: come together on this one central point, people? Yeah, exactly.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: And then Masked Singer won't even be nearly as good.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you if it's good with her or
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: without her. I don't know either. Great morning to you all.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It is Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan with you. And
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: it is time for Mariners Morning After here on Sports
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Our recap of the previous day's
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Mariners game. And we actually do have a victory to
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: celebrate here today as the Mariners took it to the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Boston Red Sox. Nearly gave it away. Kind of nervously
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: came close to giving it away, but it was for
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: the most part. You win by three runs. That's a
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: pretty convincing win. No question about it. Brian Wu was
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: terrific in this game. He went six innings. He allowed
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: one earned run, seven strikeouts in the contest. So back-to-back
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: quality starts on the road for Brian Wu. He was
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: in control throughout, and that's despite having several different delays
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: in the game, including an umpire injury delay and two
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: long hitting innings as well for the Mariners. So Brian
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Wu gets the job done last night. But let's face it,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the star of the night, without question, making his major
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: league debut was the large and lovable Lazaro Montes. Another one, too.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Fly ball corked out to center field. It's flying away.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: It's a home run.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Light tower power inside Fenway Park. Lázaro Montes with an
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: absolute missile.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: His first major league home run is unforgettable.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: You got there eventually. Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I will say you saw how strong that
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: guy is because he did not.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, the way he swung that, it was like, eh.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: It's a great observation. He did not even get his
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: arms extended.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: No, it was like a little reptar swinging it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: 106 exit velocity over the center field wall, which is
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: pretty much the farthest home run distance to reach in
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, is the center field wall at Fenway Park. He...
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: hit a pitch on the inside, didn't get his arms extended,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: and still hit it easily out of center field, even
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: though Aaron couldn't tell for a really long time.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Really long time. We'll get there. We need to get
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: him the dinger. What is it? The dinger detective or whatever.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Dinger detector.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Impressive. Impressive. And, yeah, I mean, you kind of got
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: to see it all last night. And I know that
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: there were reservations about bringing up Montez because of his
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: high strikeout rate. If you're striking out that much in
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Arkansas and in Tacoma, then what are you going to
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: do against major league pitching? And he's going to strike
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: out a lot. I don't think there's ever going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: be a day that he doesn't strike out a lot.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But he would argue, and he has argued, I don't
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: think I'm just a power hitter. I think I'm a
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: complete baseball player. Now, he DH'd last night, so we
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: didn't see him play right field. He's not bad out there. Um,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: can be an adventure at times, but he's got skills
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: as a defensive player. He can move for how big
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: he is, but you saw offensively took a walk in
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: his first at bat, got an RBI single and a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: second bat that he drove through the infield, which kept
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: a rally going. And then he capped off, uh, his
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: wonderful debut, uh, by hitting the home run. And then
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: of course, you also got to see on full display,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the personality of this young man. I've been telling you
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: for two years. He might be the nicest person. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: this is on a team with Andres Munoz and Logan
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Gilbert and Emerson Hancock, for goodness sake. He might be
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the nicest person I've ever met. I'm not even kidding you. Like,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: my grandmas weren't this nice. And from the time I
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: met him, and I think that might have been three
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: spring trainings ago. It was at least two spring trainings ago.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And you saw the personality. You saw Randy Orozarena. That
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: was another great part of last night was... the Cuban
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: backgrounds of both of those guys. And clearly Randy took
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: a liking to Laz and he gets called up to
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: the majors, has this great day. And everywhere Laz was,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: there was Randy having fun with him, showed him how
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to hold the trident and play the guitar.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Clearly Randy gave him air guitar lessons.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: He handed that over to him. I mean, that's his thing.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And yet he was like, no, no, no, no, no.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I'm going to hand this to you. It was just,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: awesome last night.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: And there was part of me that was like, how
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: angry I was the night before, but that's the beauty
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: of sports, is that you can be angry with a
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: team that looks like its goose is cooked on what
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be a promising season, and yet the
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: sport has a way to reel you back in if
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: you're a baseball fan because of things like last night.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it is, I mean, how often do we
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: see a player make his major league debut or have
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: his first... major league home run in a losing effort
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: and it's like oh he doesn't you know they never
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: know if they should celebrate or what they should really
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: do and it's like everyone high fives but it's a
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: muted high five and for him to have had it
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: happen yesterday when they were offensively performing so well and
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: as a team performing so well and be able to
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: celebrate fully in that moment it was really cool it's.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Beautiful and baseball has this where others leagues really don't
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: have this um I mean, yeah, maybe you have like
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: a Thomas Rawls who comes out of nowhere, has to
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: replace Marshawn Lynch and plays really well. But nobody has
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: this like ranked prospect system. Draft picks come out of
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: the draft, first round draft picks, and you are expecting
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to see them play at the beginning of the year
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: on opening day in the NBA and in the National
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Football League. Hockey and... Baseball get to kind of roll
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: them out gradually. And so here in the midst of
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: this lowest point or highest point, depends on how you
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: look at it, of aggravation for this fan base, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: then you get to have that kind of night of
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Mariners baseball, which is centered around this big, giant, lovable... Dude,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: it was awesome.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: It really was.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I can't wait to watch it again tonight.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, and then we'll get sucked right
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: back into it. Brian Wu, as I mentioned, was the
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: other part of the story last night. He improves to
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: 10-9 on the year, six innings of excellent work. Here's
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Brian after the game.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, obviously, Toronto doesn't go the way we
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: want it to. But, yeah, you've got to turn the page.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: At this point, we've kind of got nothing to lose.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Go out and play free, give it anything you've got.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Take it one game at a time. That's all you
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: can really do right now. You can't look too far ahead.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: You definitely don't want to look too far behind. Just
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: handle business today.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Take it one game at a time.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: What did the offensive outburst help you, particularly on the mound,
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: just kind of set you to it at that point? Yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, it just gives you freedom to go and
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: attack and go right at guys.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: They're going to If they're.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Going to get back in the ballgame, you want to
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: make them win it. And yeah, it gives me freedom
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: to just attack. I'm trying to nibble or feel like
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: I need to pitch around anybody. It's just going at it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: This is three solid starts in a row on the
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: road for you.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you've gotten over that hump a
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: little bit and be able to bury that narrative a
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: little bit?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's just, you know, it's baseball.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: It is what it is. You're never really in it
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: or out of it. It's kind of, you know, I
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: could go back out and have another bad one. I
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: could have ten good ones in a row. It's kind
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: of just, how much can you just make it one
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: game at a time? I'm not making any narratives of
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: one way or another. Just do what you can to
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: win today's game.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: That's Brian Wu afterwards. And that's the only thing they
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: can do, one game at a time. And, of course,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: everybody sharing the sentiment. Or not everybody, but a lot
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: of people. Oh, maybe Laz Montez is the spark they've needed.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that a little bit later on
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: in the show. But the Mariners have a chance to
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: make it to two in a row. And I think
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of this road trip, the six games,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: I had a conversation with Softie about it. Like, three
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: and three, that's acceptable enough. Well, two and four doesn't
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: throw you too far off the map. So a chance
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: to win your last two of the road trip. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: you are facing Patrick Sandoval, who's not been good. He
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: is left-handed, though. But a 1.7 whip, I mean, that's
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: about as bad as you can have.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not great.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: And remain in a rotation for a contender. I mean,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: that's almost impossible to thread that needle. But that's what's
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: happened with Patrick Sandoval, the left-hander for the Red Sox. Meanwhile,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Bryce Miller, by comparison, a 1.09 whip. I mean, those
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: are two different worlds, and yet we know Bryce Miller
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: struggles here as of late. And the only reason he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: even in this game as the starter is because Emerson
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Hancock had to be placed on the injury list. Otherwise,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Bryce Miller would be operating out of the bullpen right now.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: So that's your pitching matchup, two struggling pitchers, and they
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: will go at it at a strange time today. Usually
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: when you have a day game on the East Coast
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: on a Wednesday or a Thursday, it's usually 10 a.m.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: They're starting it at 1. That's 4 o'clock Boston time.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank goodness.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why that is, but that is
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the case today. 1-10 first pitch, Bryce Miller versus Patrick Sandoval.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: And my apologies, the Rangers did win last night. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: don't know why I went. I saw that Jacob Latz
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: got the save. I don't know why I went to
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: bed thinking that both the Astros and Rangers lost, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: they didn't. But the Astros did. So you crawled a
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: game back closer to the American League West top. Five
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: games back right now as we get ready for today's game.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Greg Bell's going to join us at 7.05. More on
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Laz Montez in the 7 o'clock hour. But coming up next,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: the Apple Cup right around the corner. Literally right around
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  Speaker 3: the corner. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the fall wonder.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not the Apple Cider Candle Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it could be, though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, things are changing rapidly in college football, let's face it.
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  Speaker 3: So perhaps it could be. You're right. It could someday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we want to retire the Apple Cup since it's
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  Speaker 3: changing and morphing right before our eyes and turn it
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  Speaker 3: into the Apple Cider Candle Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that idea.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this. I don't know, something about doing
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  Speaker 3: camp coverage where it does kind of lure you into, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see that. Oh, I didn't know I should
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  Speaker 3: be so excited about that. I always say when we
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  Speaker 3: do spring training coverage, I always add like a couple
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  Speaker 3: wins to the Mariners total while I'm down there, my
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  Speaker 3: predicted total. When I do Seahawks, yeah, I usually tack
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  Speaker 3: one on at Seahawks camp coverage. I went into the
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  Speaker 3: Huskies thinking, man, I don't know about some of this
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  Speaker 3: hype that this team is getting this year. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what did we see last year that suggests they're ready
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  Speaker 3: to make some sort of leap in Jed Fish's third year?
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  Speaker 3: Then you go to camp coverage and you start seeing
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  Speaker 3: the players. You start hearing the analysis. You start feeling
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  Speaker 3: the buzz. And suddenly you do start to get sucked
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit. And I hope that it's real.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it's real for Coach Fish's sake, for Husky fans'
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  Speaker 3: listening's sake this year, for Softie's sake. Boy, Softie could
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  Speaker 3: really use it in his life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he could.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like the team to be even better than he
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  Speaker 3: thinks they're going to be. That would be great.
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  Speaker 4: Well, especially now that he's the sideline reporter for the Huskies.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He really needs it because that's... Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he needed in his life is more responsibilities
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  Speaker 3: on Husky games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. More things to stress him out.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, it did affect me. But I'd like
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  Speaker 3: to believe that not because I'm gullible or easily swayed.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to believe it's for the right reasons. The
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  Speaker 3: strength of the weakness of this team the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years has been its line play. Certainly was two
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  Speaker 3: years ago and totally understandable. Jed Fish was operating a
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  Speaker 3: program that he kind of had to rebuild. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Kalen DeBoer was like Sherman through Georgia. He won, he conquered,
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  Speaker 3: and then when he left, everything left with him. He
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  Speaker 3: burned the peach orchards behind him. And so Jed Fish
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  Speaker 3: kind of had to start from scratch, and he kind
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  Speaker 3: of admitted the offensive line is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: problem this year. I don't have linemen. It was better
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  Speaker 3: last year. But this year, it kind of feels like
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  Speaker 3: it's a big step forward for both the offensive line
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  Speaker 3: and the defensive line. Obviously, DeMond Williams Jr. is going
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  Speaker 3: to get the most chatter, the most attention, and he
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  Speaker 3: might represent the key to this upcoming season as the
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  Speaker 3: guy that handles the ball every single snap. But it
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  Speaker 3: is sounding very much like the strength of the 2020 season.
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  Speaker 3: six Washington Huskies is going to be up front both
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  Speaker 3: offensively and defensively, and that is a marked difference to
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  Speaker 3: the first two years of the Jed Fish era here
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  Speaker 3: at Washington, and I think it is grounds for being
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  Speaker 3: excited and thinking that this team could surpass your expectations.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Josh Pate, who's now apparently the voice of college football
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  Speaker 3: right now, says they are the sleeper team to watch,
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  Speaker 3: that they could wreck the entire plan this season in
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  Speaker 3: college football. They might be that team that is that
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  Speaker 3: secret agent that ends up being much better than what
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  Speaker 3: people are sleeping on right now. So Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: that hype is subdued, which is a great place to
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  Speaker 3: keep it, but it's real. And it's because Jed Fish
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  Speaker 3: has fixed his offensive and defensive lines heading into this fall.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and you look back to last season and half
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  Speaker 4: the problem was DeMond Williams not really having any time or,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and just getting, it was just ugly.
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  Speaker 2: It was ugly.
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  Speaker 4: The line, the offensive line was not doing what we
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  Speaker 4: were hoping they were doing. They were especially coming off
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  Speaker 4: of what we had with Kalen DeBoer to, have fallen
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  Speaker 4: that far back.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: We had a really good offensive line when the Huskies
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  Speaker 4: went to the national championship. But, you know, to have
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  Speaker 4: taken the huge step back they did and now to
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  Speaker 4: have been able to build it back up to the
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  Speaker 4: point where, yeah, unsolicited people we've had on are talking
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  Speaker 4: about how impressive this line is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I get started on Sunday. We'll get our
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  Speaker 3: first example of it. against the Cougs, and we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how it all goes down this year. But suddenly I
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  Speaker 3: am optimistic. I am feeling like, yeah, there's a chance.
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  Speaker 3: There's a chance for a playoff this year. We shall see.
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  Speaker 3: Headlines next, Greg Bell, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.