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10-29 H2: Bears vs. Seahawks, Softy Joins, Fact or Fiction & Showdown Update · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, second hour here of this Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 1: Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. That's Chris Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: That's Anders Hurst. My name is Chuck Powell. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. Softies joining us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on this hour. We'll play Factor Fiction at 735.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, our first ever showdown ceremony will take place today.
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  Speaker 1: at 7 45 but let us begin our hour with
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  Speaker 1: your headlines brought to you by frost brewed cores light
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: cold as the rockies thursday night football gets the brand
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  Speaker 1: new week of the national football league started as the
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  Speaker 1: green bay packers are going to be taking on the
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  Speaker 1: carolina panthers tonight of course it will build up to
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  Speaker 1: the seahawks versus bears on monday night football as the
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  Speaker 1: grand finale to week number eight of the National Football
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  Speaker 1: League season. The college football season enters week number nine,
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  Speaker 1: as the Huskies and the Huskers will do battle on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night, start time, 5 o'clock there. Jed Fish still
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  Speaker 1: mum about who's going to start quarterback for him in
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  Speaker 1: this game. We'll talk to Softee about that coming up
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  Speaker 1: at 725 here today. WNBA Finals, game number six today.
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  Speaker 1: We could have a champion crowned in the WNBA if
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  Speaker 1: they can find a place to play the game. Really
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  Speaker 1: disrespectful that you might have a clinching championship and the
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  Speaker 1: city of Atlanta was not prepared for it, don't have
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  Speaker 1: a gymnasium for them to play in, so they have
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  Speaker 1: to do it at 9.30 in the morning. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: 12.30 their time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But 12.30 in the afternoon on a Thursday, they might
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  Speaker 1: crown a champion. And then they apparently need that facility
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  Speaker 1: that they're using. So they're going to have to hurry
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  Speaker 1: them off the court and let them celebrate in a
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  Speaker 1: practice gym.
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  Speaker 3: What do we got, adult swim coming in?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it really does peg the disrespectful meter. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: if they're really not accommodating you What does that say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: College basketball season starts on Sunday. The Sounders, they lost
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  Speaker 1: last night to the Houston Dynamo. They'll be at Vancouver
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  Speaker 1: Sunday for a 1.30 start. Kraken with a big win.
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  Speaker 1: We just discussed it. 5-4 over the Maple Leafs. Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Montour with the game-winning slappy from the right side with
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds left in regulation for a nice Kraken win.
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  Speaker 1: They'll next play tomorrow night in Calgary against Calgary. The Mariners'
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  Speaker 1: managerial search is down to two. It continues, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: now that the season has come to a close, we
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  Speaker 1: could get an answer very soon. Maybe we'll even see
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  Speaker 1: some activity before Major League Baseball shuts things down on
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  Speaker 1: the date of December 2nd. I'm not sure how teams
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  Speaker 1: are going to approach their off-seasons, quite frankly, because in
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  Speaker 1: this collective bargaining agreement, all the rules might change for
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  Speaker 1: how rosters are built. We could have a salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: That changes everything, everything about how teams are going to
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  Speaker 1: build going forward. And so we are without answers right
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  Speaker 1: now as to how baseball is going to proceed. We
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  Speaker 1: are without answers as to when we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: the next baseball game But if this is the last
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  Speaker 1: game for a while, the Milwaukee Brewers have given us
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  Speaker 1: a show the last few weeks. World champions. They celebrated
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  Speaker 1: last night. Had to do it in Tampa. But there
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  Speaker 1: were more Brewer fans there than Tampa Rays fans, I
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  Speaker 1: do believe.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounded like it. And then afterwards in
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony, it looked like it. It's just... I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they stuck around in Tampa this long. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why they're building them a new stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: They have terrible fans. So the team with the better
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  Speaker 1: fans won, and that I'm happy about. And the better
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  Speaker 1: team won, and that I'm happy about. And even though
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  Speaker 1: I think Kevin Cash is great, I think Pat Murphy's better.
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  Speaker 1: The better manager won. The better culture won. Congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers. This isn't some Cinderella story. They've been
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  Speaker 1: really good for a really long time, and this year...
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  Speaker 1: They reached greatness. That is a great baseball team. They
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  Speaker 1: were the best baseball team in Major League Baseball this year,
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  Speaker 1: whether people wanted to recognize them or not. And I
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  Speaker 1: was thrilled for them that they celebrated with Wisconsin their
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  Speaker 1: first ever championship.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, big win for them. I think they've been the
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  Speaker 4: best team in the regular season the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: years that finally took the step in the postseason this year.
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  Speaker 3: So good for them.
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  Speaker 1: William Contreras, MVP, could have been a number of guys
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  Speaker 1: that got it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cooper Pratt, Aaron Ashby.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Choreo even.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of really good options.
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  Speaker 1: He set a record. Most hits in a five-game World Series.
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  Speaker 4: There were a couple records. I think Pratt had the most...
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  Speaker 4: Most consecutive at-bats where he got a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Six.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in World Series history. So just a historically good
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  Speaker 4: team in Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. And I did not realize how much
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  Speaker 1: beloved William Contreras was on that team, but very clear.
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  Speaker 2: I love him.
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  Speaker 1: Very clear that they all love him. That's a fun
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  Speaker 1: team to watch. Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers. All right,
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  Speaker 1: those are your headlines. They are brought to you by...
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  Speaker 1: Cross-brewed cores like cold as the Rockies. Normally, this is
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  Speaker 1: when we hand off to Greg Bell or introduce Greg
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  Speaker 1: Bell into the conversation. But Greg's not going to join
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  Speaker 1: us until the roundtable.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear him later. Don't worry, 7 o'clock, Greg Bell fans.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Become 8 o'clock, Greg Bell fans. Exactly. He
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  Speaker 1: and Hugh roundtable. We do it every Thursday from 8
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  Speaker 1: to 9. So, in the meantime, I mean... Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should throw a different sport in here, but it feels
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  Speaker 1: like Seahawks-Bears is so big. We already talked about the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers in our first segment of the show. It kind
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  Speaker 1: of feels like we leave the 7 o'clock hour with
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  Speaker 1: a Seahawks topic. This is another fascinating coaching matchup here
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  Speaker 1: for Mike McDonald. as he now faces Ben Johnson, who
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  Speaker 1: these two guys were at the exact same time free agents,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. They were two of, if not the
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  Speaker 1: two hot names, the offensive-minded guy, the defensive-minded guy. We
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  Speaker 1: have had confirmation that the Seahawks were interested in Ben Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive guy, and the Chicago Bears are happy they
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  Speaker 1: got their guy. But of course, Seahawks fans have to
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  Speaker 1: be happy that they got their guy as well to
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  Speaker 1: go the defensive route. When a lot of people were
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  Speaker 1: asking for an offer, including myself, wanted an offensive-minded head coach,
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be the trend in the National Football
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  Speaker 1: League right now. You want that offensive-minded guy because when
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  Speaker 1: the defensive-minded guy hires an offensive coordinator... And he has success.
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  Speaker 1: He always leaves where you can always keep that offensive-minded guy,
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  Speaker 1: and you might be able to keep your defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: for longer. It's just a few things out there that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people believe that they want an offensive-minded
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  Speaker 1: head coach. But if you're going to go the defensive route,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well get the best one in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the best one. Not just now. I think, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: The best one that I can remember in a long
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  Speaker 4: time since probably Bill Belichick retired, to be completely honest.
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  Speaker 4: So pretty dang cool that we got that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's an argument to be made that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's very early in the process.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: The best ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The makings of the best ever. To have won a
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  Speaker 1: championship in his second year, the track record of improving
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  Speaker 1: whatever defense that he takes on and by its second
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  Speaker 1: year with him is ranked number one in pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every statistical category. In this particular case, as a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: he's shown more than just being a defensive mind. He's
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  Speaker 1: obviously a great leader of men. He's a great organizer
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  Speaker 1: of philosophies. And there was even a conversation that I
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  Speaker 1: thought worth exploring where some people threw out the suggestion
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  Speaker 1: that being 3-3, believing that Sunday night's game was important
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  Speaker 1: not to fall to 3-4, that Even though he's got
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  Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, then Mike McDonald might have inserted
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  Speaker 1: himself a little bit more in the offensive game plan.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 1: During the course of a couple of extra days worth
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  Speaker 1: of preparation. I know that with Ryan Grubb, there were
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  Speaker 1: many moments where they sat down, the two of them,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike McDonald was like, well, if you do this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to do this to you. So do
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  Speaker 1: something else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And Ryan Grubb was like, well, wait. Okay, what if
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  Speaker 1: I do this? No, no, I'm just going to do this.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine playing chess with your own guy on your
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  Speaker 1: own side. And that's what you do. That's what you've
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  Speaker 1: got to do. But to have that ability as an
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, to be able to make sure the defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: the genius that is your boss, I mean, maybe some
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  Speaker 1: people don't take that well. I don't know if Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Grubb did or not. Clint Kubiak seemed to excel in it.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know how you wouldn't embrace that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how you wouldn't, oh my gosh, what a
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  Speaker 1: weapon I've got at my disposal. I think I'd be
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  Speaker 1: running in there every single time. Hey, if I do this,
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  Speaker 1: what would you do? I think that's how I would
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  Speaker 1: approach it as opposed to waiting for my boss to
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  Speaker 1: come to me and say, okay, let me see what
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  Speaker 1: you got. Well, here I'm planning on this play. Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that because I'll just do this to you.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm going in there and say, if I
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  Speaker 1: did this to you, what would you do? Oh, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: All right. End the game.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm simplifying it, but I would certainly use that weapon
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  Speaker 1: to my advantage. And maybe he did participate in that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But obviously, Chicago's not shedding a tear.
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  Speaker 1: They feel like they've got a guy who's on par
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  Speaker 1: with Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan in the conversation for
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  Speaker 1: best offense of mine. And I'll say this because I
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit wrong about Ben Johnson. I thought
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  Speaker 1: there was some arrogance to him. I wasn't sure he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a great leader of men. and
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  Speaker 1: yet he's done nothing but win since he's gotten there,
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  Speaker 1: and the defense has gotten better since he's gotten there
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive-minded guy. And people get this twisted about
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. They think anybody who is an offensive genius
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  Speaker 1: is throwing the football all over the yard, and he will.
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  Speaker 1: He will throw the football all over the yard. But
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  Speaker 1: he and Shanann and McVay, Greg's right about these three,
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  Speaker 1: they are run-first guys. Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson's a run
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  Speaker 1: first guy. When he was with the Lions, it was
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  Speaker 1: all about Gibbs and Montgomery. And then Goff had the
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  Speaker 1: luxury of playing off of that. And certainly he had
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  Speaker 1: some very interesting schemes and plays that he had designed.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly he likes to threaten people down the field.
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  Speaker 1: And the one goes hand in hand with the other.
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  Speaker 1: But we're facing Caleb Williams. He gets all the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, when facing Ben Johnson, you
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  Speaker 1: better be prepared for a 2-3 running back attack because
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  Speaker 1: he's going to try to establish the run against you.
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  Speaker 1: That's really where his bread is buttered. Yeah, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: take it a step further. I think their running game
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  Speaker 1: is superior to the Chiefs, who we faced last year.
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  Speaker 3: Last weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I think Ken Walker is the better running back than
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  Speaker 4: DeAndre Swift, but the running game as a whole is
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  Speaker 4: better in Chicago. So this is, I think, a bigger
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  Speaker 4: test for that. Can we stop the run and force
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  Speaker 4: Caleb Williams to beat us rather than stopping Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 4: and forcing Patrick Mahomes to beat us that we had
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  Speaker 4: last weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Think about what Mike McDonald has done just this year,
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  Speaker 1: as if he has any more proving to do. He
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  Speaker 1: has faced the 49ers, Broncos, Chiefs, and Bears in the
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  Speaker 1: last four weeks. That's Shanahan, Payton, Reed, and Johnson. That's
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  Speaker 1: four of the considered five best offensive minds in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Two of them older and heading to the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: And then Shanahan's kind of in the middle. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got the younger guy who looks to be the
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  Speaker 1: new hotness out there. That's who he's faced in four
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  Speaker 1: straight weeks. And I know, I know Seahawks gave up
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  Speaker 1: 32 points against the San Francisco 49ers. But if you
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  Speaker 1: recall through three quarters, he had completely bottled them up.
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  Speaker 1: What they found in the fourth quarter, maybe it was fatigue.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a Kyle Shanahan trick or two.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was Mike Evans. Maybe it was simple because
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  Speaker 1: he was being covered. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Just throw it to him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Josh Jobe was up in his grill. He
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  Speaker 1: was just taller. Yep. He could just get higher.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And Purdy was throwing accurate throws to him, and he
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  Speaker 1: had more time, and that might have had to do
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  Speaker 1: with fatigue. But through three quarters, once again, Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: had just absolutely stymied the 49ers. The Broncos, they put
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  Speaker 1: 17 points on the board. More like a three. That
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  Speaker 1: looked more like a three-pointer.
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  Speaker 3: How many short fields?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they did nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: With Sean Payton. And I know Bo Nix isn't clicking
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  Speaker 1: just yet, but they did nothing against the Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 1: And then the story tells itself with a 20-3 final
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  Speaker 1: score against the Kansas City Chiefs. And now he's going
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  Speaker 1: to get tested by Ben Johnson. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: you went one and two in those games, but I
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  Speaker 1: would argue that Mike McDonald beat every one of those
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinators.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All of those legendary offensive minds, I'd say he got
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  Speaker 1: the better of them in all three of those games. 49ers, Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: and Chiefs. Mike McDonald's defensive mind, I think, reigns superior
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  Speaker 1: over the opponent's offensive genius.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I think the defense of Mike McDonald, which is what
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  Speaker 4: he's in charge of... at least that side of the ball,
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  Speaker 4: got the better of the offense of those other teams.
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  Speaker 4: It was just other factors in the game. And obviously
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  Speaker 4: he's the head coach. He's not just the defensive coordinator, right?
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  Speaker 4: So there are other factors that go into this. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: the defensive Mike McDonald beat the offensive all four of
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  Speaker 4: those legends. And, you know, Sam's responsible for at least
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  Speaker 4: one of those two losses.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe two.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe his involvement this week, maybe him just tweaking
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  Speaker 1: a few things that he saw through his defensive lens.
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  Speaker 1: That could help Brian Flory. We certainly saw the best
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  Speaker 1: version of Sam that we've seen so far this year
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday night. And we've got some running back help
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  Speaker 1: on the way as well. So, yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 1: this has been quite the fascinating stretch for Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: These four offensive gurus. We throw genius around too frequently.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that. Probably at any given time, there's
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  Speaker 1: only at most two geniuses in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me which one it is. Probably Reed and Shanahan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just got the... Done for longer?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe we throw it around too much,
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  Speaker 1: but those four guys are at least in that... If
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: there's two spots for geniuses, they're at least, right now,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: they're holding roses. They haven't been eliminated by The Bachelorette
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  Speaker 1: at this point. They inevitably are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: be eliminated by her, but right now, those four guys
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  Speaker 1: and Sean McVay are comfortably holding roses. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, as the show begins. And he faces Sean McVay
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  Speaker 4: twice this year, later in the year. So that'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Mike McDonald and the defensive minded bachelorette, the bachelorette
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  Speaker 1: that loves defense. She's already called it. I'm in love
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  Speaker 1: with that guy. I'm marrying him. I'm having babies with him.
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  Speaker 1: That guy knows defense. Everybody else can go home. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: show producer.
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  Speaker 3: No need for all the drama.
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  Speaker 1: There's no need for any drama. You can take those
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  Speaker 1: roses and you can throw them away. That's my husband.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking him.
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  Speaker 3: I'd marry him too.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Softie's next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Oh,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that's Softie music if I've ever heard it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a detective movie. It does. Inspector Gadget. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Mahler on the case.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Did I see you right there making an Inspector Gadget movie?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God, really?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Like a live-action Inspector Gadget, not a cartoon. Really?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: If you could turn one... How about this for a question? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: If you could turn one cartoon or video game from
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: your childhood into a movie, which one would it be?
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Into like a real movie?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know why this came to mind because I
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: really didn't watch it much, but I'd like to see
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: how they made Voltron work with like a real– Vanguard. Yeah,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: how about that?
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Could they make that work with today's technology? They could
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: probably make that look pretty cool.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Probably. They could make anything work with today's technology. I mean,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: who knows if you're even you right now. You could
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: be an Autobot or whatever. Although we are guaranteed human
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: here on iHeart, so I guess we have to technically
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: be human beings.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Technically.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Because we're guaranteeing it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Not all my parts, though, are human.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Not really.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Doctor finally gave permission for the surgery. That's right.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Just want you to know that. Got a Neil Scott
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: situation going on here.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Don't even get me going on that. Holy moly.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Would you like to know what that discharge is? Tune
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: in tonight, 7 o'clock. Neil! Stop! It's a family show, pal.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Come on! Ah, the one, the only, David Softy Mahler,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: our guest here. It's Thursdays with Softy. All right, I
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: got an interesting thing I want to post. Maybe you've
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: discussed it a lot with Dick this week. I don't know.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Show us how much you listen, by the way. Thanks, pal.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: All of this, Elijah Brown or DeMond Williams Jr., does
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Jed possibly cop out on this and just share the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: quarterback job this Saturday in Lincoln?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about that. We talked about playing them
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: both at the same time, which Jed did that on Saturday.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Not a lot, but a couple of occasions when Will
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Rogers was here. He had Will Rogers and DeMond on
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the field together, but that was kind of more when
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: DeMond was just strictly a backup and there was no
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: real kind of established role for him, I guess, at
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: that point. He was a true freshman and, hey, we
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: want to get the kid. Who was the guy? Was
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: it Chris Leak that played with Tim Tebow in Florida?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Remember when Tebow was a freshman, they'd bring him in
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and let him run the ball, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: So kind of that scenario. I don't know if he
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: does that now. I think Jed Fish fancies himself as
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a professional football coach that's running a professional system in college.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And that's not what they do in the NFL, right?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: They don't do that kind of rinky-dink stuff in the NFL.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: So I'd be a little bit surprised if he did
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: it Saturday versus Nebraska. But let's face it, guys. I mean,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: they need a win, right? They need to get some
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: wins here and get some good vibes going over on Montlake.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: So I would be in favor of it. Whatever it
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: takes to get a damn win, just do it. But
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that's in his DNA, man.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Uh by the way that's another topic chris leaks on
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the neil scott show this week so.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: There you go yeah talking about discharge uh all right
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: so so gross if by chance.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I lead you there you drink okay you drink you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: drink heavily uh all right so if they do go
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: with demand Right. What kind of reaction is the fan
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: base going to have?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Before or after the game?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Before.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Or during the game?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Before.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think you got to worry about during.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lot of red
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: shirts you're going to be seeing there.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I think before, I think people are going to be pissed. Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: That's the sense I get. I mean, I don't know.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you think? I mean, you're hearing
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: from Husky fans just like I am. The sense I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: get is that people are ready to move on.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And they were ready to move on when Elijah Brown
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: went and put 38 up on Purdue. And I realize
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: it's just Purdue, and they're not a great defense. They
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: did play pretty well against Minnesota, who beat us, by
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the way. So they do have some ability. But I
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: think you got to a point with this offense where
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: they were so bad where you just needed to look
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: competent against somebody. and they did that against Purdue, and
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I think you just kind of got to ride the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: hot hand, and clearly they were a different offense. They
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: were way more efficient with Elijah Brown. Yeah, he was
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: throwing some picks, but I think you can excuse that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: for a guy that was making his first start in
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: college since he was at Stanford. Doesn't really have a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: lot of reps with these guys in practice. Doesn't know
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: them as well as DeMond does. Doesn't have that chemistry,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: so I mean, if that happens again against Nebraska, then
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: we got a, you know, bigger question, but Yeah, I
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: think if they go with number one on Saturday, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: people are going to be upset. I mean, the problem
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is there may not be a lot of time for
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: people to have a reaction, Chuck, because we may not
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: find out who's starting until an hour before the game
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: when we see who's taking those first reps.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking he's going to play them both. That's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: what I think he's going to do. Hey, I've got
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: some breaking news I'll get your reaction to.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears just acquired Jeffrey Simmons, the defensive tackle
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: from the Tennessee Titans. Big names being moved at the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: trade deadline.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Is he playing Monday night, you think? Probably, right?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think so, yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: How about that? How about Quentin Nelson versus Jeffrey Simmons?
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Who had that on their bingo card 48 hours ago?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And what are we going to do if Jeffrey Simmons
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: whips his ass on Monday night? What's that reaction going
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to be like?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think he will.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think he will either. I'm just asking the question.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: The other side of it is Quentin Nelson whips his
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: ass on Monday night, and he pancakes him a couple
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: times at the game.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess if.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Quentin gets his ass whipped, you've got time to trade
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: him again. Exactly. Let's get rid of him. Deadline's still
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: two weeks away.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Never should have let Christian Haynes walk, man. I'm telling you,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a major mistake to let him walk to the Dolphins. But, yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think this game is scary, right, for
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. I mean, if you're Ben Johnson
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: and Caleb Williams, you think you're on the come, right?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, you barely lost the Rams game last year
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: in overtime. Was that game in Chicago, by the way,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the playoff game last year? I think it was.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So they were this close to playing the Seahawks in
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game. Well, a lot of times teams
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: that lose games like that. They take that next step
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the next year like we did back in 2012 against Atlanta.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Remember that?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And then beat the Niners the next year in the
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship. So this is a team that they're going
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to come to Seattle thinking this is going to be
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: a game where we're going to measure out how far
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: we've come. This is a huge measuring stick for the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Bears in this game. I think Caleb Williams is amazing.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I think the Bears' defense is better than people give
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: them credit for. I'm curious who plays at running back,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and if they do play, how effective are they? coming
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: off the injuries for us. So, look, I'm not sitting
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: here saying the Hawks are going to lose the game.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I would still pick the Seahawks to win, but my God,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a hell of
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: a game on Monday night. Oh, yeah, it's going to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: be great.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: McDonald versus Johnson alone is worth the price of admission.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I heard what you were saying earlier about that,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and I totally agree. I said the same thing yesterday,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: that that, to me, is the matchup. That's the matchup,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: because I think McDonald, and I'm with you a thousand percent, guys,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: is the best thing this franchise has going right now.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: No disrespect to John Schneider, but Mike McDonald's culture and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: his defensive mind, I mean, I'll put him up against
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: any coordinator, any play caller, any day of the week.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: You know, people don't talk about that much from last
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Sunday's game. He kicked Andy Reid's ass. Yeah. Kicked his
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: ass in that game. Now, Reid was out a couple
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: of players, obviously, but... Man, McDonald versus Ben Johnson, two
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: guys that the Seahawks were considering for the head coaching
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: job in Seattle. How close did they come to actually
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: hiring Ben versus him? And now they're coaching against each
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: other on Monday Night Football. This is awesome.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. By the way, the Titans get two
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: first-round picks and a fourth-rounder for Simmons.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Wow! Wow. They're in win-now mode. They're going for it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: They're going for it before Caleb Williams starts making $ 60
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: million a year. They're going for it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: All right, in our last minute here, let's just give
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: me some keys to a Huskies victory over the Huskers
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Saturday night.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to pull the Dick Baird. Stop the run.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going to force these guys to throw. What about
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the kicking game? The kicking game. Damn him. They're 95th
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in yards per completion on offense, Nebraska. So I think
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: if you can stack the box, and I'm not even
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: sure if you need to stack the box, but everybody
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: talked about how great those linebackers were, obviously, and they
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: got some guys that are banged up now, but if
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you can force these guys to throw, man, and take
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: away that run, put them in third and long, second
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: and long, You know, Nebraska, I don't know if you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: guys have seen this stat, but they're number one in
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the country on third down defense at 19%. I mean,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they are ridiculous. So I think points are going to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: be at a premium in this one on Saturday. They
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: put the Skull and Crossbones on the field for Halloween night.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a blackout at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I haven't been there in 30 years. Last time we
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: were there, we got beat like 55-7, got our ass
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: kicked with, hey, coaching linebackers that day, by the way.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: There's a story I think I've told you guys before
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: that they're down like 45 to nothing, and they get
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a three and out late in the fourth quarter, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Baird's on the sideline doing a jig and celebrating. How
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: great is this? Oh, three and out. Lambright looks at him.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: It's 45 to nothing. So I'm hoping for a better
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: result this time. But, yeah, I think if you could–
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: this Calandria guy can run, man. He's averaging about 65
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: yards a game on the ground, and he's number three
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten in total offense. So I just
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: think you've got to just take away that running game
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and make these guys throw.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Honks at one.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Honks at 1 o'clock. I'll be in Lincoln. Greg and
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Mario back in Seattle. And then I believe, I believe
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: this has not been totally confirmed. I think Mike Benton
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: might be hosting the postgame show.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: That's a big mistake. How about that?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's a big mistake. Big mistake by the network.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I just like to bring on guys that make me
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: look good.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Well, then it was a great choice. Great choice.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, brother.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: All right, guys. See you later. Thanks, Softie.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: There he is, David Softie Mahler, joining us here for
• 26:46
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• 26:50
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• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm not picking the Thursday night game. Anders, Chris,
• 27:16
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• 27:18
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• 27:21
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• 27:27
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• 27:36
  Speaker 1: You know, so that they can watch. I didn't want
• 27:38
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• 27:40
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• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Now that Greg Bell's thrown down the gauntlet.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Seriously.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll do that on Monday. I'll pick the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Monday night game. But I'm not going to pick the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Thursday night game. I'm going to actually pick something that
• 27:50
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• 27:54
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• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And then I'm going to explain myself. I'm going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: take the Cincinnati Bearcats at home getting six and a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: half points against undefeated Utah. Cincinnati plus six and a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: half at home against undefeated Utah. Interesting. That means Utah's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: got to win by seven points or more in order
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: for me to lose this prediction.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Here's why. I believe gambling is more about the psychology
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that goes into games than anything else. I believe in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: things like letdown games. Rivalry games. Revenge games. I believe
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that stuff matters. This is the classic trap game right here.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Utah's coming off a big national television. One of two
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: top 25 matchups in the country. Stage to yourself victories
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: over Houston. And guess who the Utes play next week?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The BYU Cougars. Their chief rival. Another team that believes
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it's going to go to the college football playoff. This
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: might be the biggest Utah-BYU matchup in 25, 50 years. Oh, yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe ever.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So in the meantime, in between Houston and BYU, Trappatina,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a couple Cougs, I've been there. You don't get to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: face some patsy. You're facing Cincinnati. Cincinnati, who beat undefeated
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech one week ago by 13 points when they
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: were 10 and a half point underdogs we've got classic
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: trap game versus classic giant slayer mode right here that's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: what we got going on So you're going to give
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: me six and a half points and the game is
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: going to be played in Ohio and Utah is already
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: licking its chops about facing BYU next week. I believe
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the psychology of this game completely favors the Cincinnati Bearcats.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Give me Cincinnati plus six and a half.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: At home against the Utah Utes. Yeah, I mean, it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: surface on the surface. It's like, man, like. You talk
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: and win by seven and still feel... But I love
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: the reasoning behind, especially the giant slayer mentality of the Bearcats,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: because that is a skill. Like, 100%. Like, there are
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: teams that are like that that just are.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Teams that spoil the spoiler team so to speak right
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: that are spoiling good seasons and that absolutely has been
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: the case for Cincinnati so far this year so I
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: love the pick I think this is going to be
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: a good one so their.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Biggest game of the year is against Utah this week
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Utah's biggest game of the year is next week against
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: BYU so they're facing too good of a team to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: face in a trap week give me Cincinnati uh if
• 30:51
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• 30:55
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  Speaker 1: Or I'll wreck that.
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• 31:54
  Speaker 1: That's what'll happen.
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  Speaker 3: Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Uh-huh.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And so we've had a few of these drafts to
• 32:00
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• 32:05
  Speaker 1: as our Major League Baseball playoff preview showdown draft has
• 32:10
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• 32:13
  Speaker 1: think it's only fitting that, You whippersnappers learned from the
• 32:18
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• 32:22
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• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Sing it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Sing it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I don't want to rub it in.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing enough, I think.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: What do you think, Anderson? Nah, he needs.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: To bask in his glory because it might be one
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: of the only few he gets this year.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Oh! From the top ropes. I'm not looking very good
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in the other ones. I'll be honest with you.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Might be the last one I.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Win in a while.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: So enjoy this one! I'm going to. I won the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: first one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you did.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: History was made. It's only right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, kid.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's right. But, uh, yes uh the chuck
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: team was kyle schwarber willier abreu nice effort bud uh
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: but my third and fourth round picks won me the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: uh showdown draft we went for total bases we drafted
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: players in the major league baseball playoffs and really nobody
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: wanted to hear a major league baseball draft that point
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the hurt was too fresh it was fresh of the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: mariners officially being eliminated um from the equation but um
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Jackson Churrio got me 26 total bases. Jose Ramirez got
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: me 28 total bases. So my team had 63. Anders,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you did finish second. You went all in on the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: guys that were playing in the wildcard round, and then
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you ended up not having many guys left at the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: tail end of the tournament. You had 45. David, our listener,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: we've included a listener this year. He ended up with
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Junior Caminero remaining, so he was the only person that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: had a chance to track me down. Came up a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: little bit short there, bud.
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  Speaker 3: Should have known.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You know what? You're going to wrestle with grizzlies.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: He'll learn. Don't worry.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: He'll learn.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe you stick to those puppies you got there in
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the backyard. But yeah, you ran into a mama grizzly.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: But 43 points for David and Chris. did not fare
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: so well, but he is leading our Kraken draft so far.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: He's got 39 points there so far. I have 33,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and you and Donnie, our listener, have 32, but everybody's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: right there. Everybody's in the running right now. It is
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: amazing how many Kraken players have scored and have produced
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: this year the exact same amount. Um, it's crazy how
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the wealth is being distributed. Like our point system is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: two goals, two points for a goal and one point
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for an assist. And take a listen to these. Eberle 14,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Montour 13, Katton 14, Samiskevich 13, Stevenson 13, 12 for Kako,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: 11 for Dunn, 11 for McCann, who's out now for
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: a while, 10 for Evans, 10 for Beneers. Uh, That's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: like over half your roster right there. Everybody's contributing to
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the success right now. It's just that they're contributing at
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a higher rate to kids' team. Yeah, thank you. It's
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: like the Mike McDonald formula for their D-line, but for
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: these guys here.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good. Yeah, all right. I like the sound
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: of that. I'm sure the Kraken fans love it, too.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Let's go Kraken.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there you go.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: It's a big reason why the Carolina Hurricanes won the
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Stanley Cup last year.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: It's depth scoring.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, depth scoring. Well- Let's see more of it, so
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: that I keep it going. But this sucker, oh boy.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Look at that. Okay, we get it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Mom is so proud.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: He needs to bask in it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Mom is so proud right now.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I kind of want you to take that on the
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: flight now. I kind of do too.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I want to record that interaction. If you get in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the airport, yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Sir, you can't.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: What do you mean I can't?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And I'll say, no, I can't check it. It's a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: valuable award.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: You should know me. I'm the one who won the
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: first showdown draft.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. Uh, sir, as a matter of fact,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: how have I not been upgraded to first class? What's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the holdup?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: No, you're looking at me like I brought a bomb
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: on the plane. All I did was bring my showdown trophy.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No big deal.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Uh, nothing to see here.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: What's that movie? When would that be hilarious though? If
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I was there and then everybody all flight long was like,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: what is that?
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: It's a showdown. It's a showdown.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I want it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: No big deal. You know, was it meet the parents
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: when he was on the plane and he said, bomb.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I forget. Yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: That came to mind when you was like, is that
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: a bomb?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You can joke about that in a movie or on
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: your radio show. Don't joke about that.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Don't do it.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I kind of like the idea. I mean,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Do it, Chuck. I know you want to.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: But I'm in love with the idea of it just
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: sitting there.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I think you should show it to your family. Yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: you got to try it, Chuck.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Just try it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Please do.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe finally mom will be proud of me.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: This is the one thing.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: She's calling my Aunt Shirley. Well, he must have done
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: something special. The trophy's really large. I'm going to try
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and FaceTime you to show you. He won't show it
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: to me up close. I'm not sure it's of quality.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: But it's a large trophy, Shirley. It looks like the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: boy's finally starting to straighten his life out, and we
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: thought he didn't have a chance. Anyway, how's your knee?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Did you fall down the stairs again? I have a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: lot of family members who have fallen on stairs and
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on slick sidewalks and stuff like that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Must be genetic.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Is it? Maybe.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I hope not.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's too early to check our NBA scores. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: then too complicated to check our college football and our...
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: And when I say complicated, it's buried in my papers
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and I can't find it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: It's not that the scoring is that difficult or anything.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Right, right. It would be really easy.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Turns out it would be simple as can be. I just,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it'll take longer than I have to try and find it.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, it's 12th Man Roundtable time.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Eight to nine, we'll have Greg Bell, Hugh Millen. We
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about. We got Quentin Nelson
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to talk about. We now have Jeffrey Simmons, who was
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: acquired by the Bears just this morning to face the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Seahawks on Monday night. Isn't that crazy? We got that
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to enter into the conversation. We've got McDonald versus Johnson.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: We've got this stopping of Caleb Williams. Oh, man, there
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: is too much to discuss with our experts, but we'll
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: do as much as we can next on KJR.