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10-29: NFL trade bonanza, Brewers win the World Series and Farhan Lalji · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning from Seahawks headquarters in Renton. Headlines are brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by Frostbrook. Coors Light. As cold as the
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  Speaker 2: Rockies or choose chill.
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  Speaker 3: I think we could do all of it when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to Coors Light.
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  Speaker 2: Choose as cold as the Rockies. I guess maybe you
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  Speaker 2: could say that too. But no, as cold as the Rockies,
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  Speaker 2: choose chill. Both of them work for Coors. Frostbrook, Coors Light.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks are back on the practice field after three days
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  Speaker 2: off it. Full preparations now for the game Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: against the 5-2 Chicago Bears. We may not find out
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  Speaker 2: until game time what three-time All-Pro guard Quentin Nelson's arrival
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  Speaker 2: means for Gray Zabo, Anthony Bradford, maybe center Jalen Sandell
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  Speaker 2: in the interior of Seattle's offensive line. That offensive line
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  Speaker 2: has a new task as of about three hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears made today's big NFL news. Chicago's getting All-Pro
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons from Tennessee. sending the Titans two
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  Speaker 2: first-round picks in a trade. I can't think off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head ever a defensive tackle commanding two
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  Speaker 2: first-round picks in a trade. Very few defensive players command
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  Speaker 2: in the last generation.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I heard the morning show just saying that
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  Speaker 4: they're going for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. Jamal Adams is one of the only
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  Speaker 2: defensive players in the last, I could think of, in
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  Speaker 2: a while, and that didn't work out too well for Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: of course. But now Zabril, Nelson, Seahawks interior, the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line have to face One of the best defensive tackles
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  Speaker 2: in football. 11 sacks last year as an All-Pro. They
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  Speaker 2: are hands full with the Chicago debut of Jeffrey Simmons
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  Speaker 2: on Monday night in Seattle. The Kraken blew a 4-2
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  Speaker 2: lead on Toronto when the Maple Leafs scored an equalizer
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  Speaker 2: with 90 seconds left. Then with 30 seconds to play,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour did this.
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  Speaker 5: Faceoff to his right.
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  Speaker 2: Off the draw.
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  Speaker 6: Here's Montour.
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  Speaker 2: Walks in. Shoots. Scores!
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  Speaker 6: Brandon Montour!
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  Speaker 2: Our Ian Furness on the Kraken Hockey Network. Great call. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great batting. Matty Beneers won a crucial
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  Speaker 2: faceoff there in the Toronto zone and then a pass
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  Speaker 2: across from McBain. That was just a great play. And
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  Speaker 2: Montour walked into the middle of the faceoff circle and
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  Speaker 2: beat low block side Bobrovsky to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: 5-4.
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  Speaker 2: Kraken win again. They finish the homestand 3-1 next on
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  Speaker 2: Friday at their favorite Calgary Flames. You get Flames twice
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  Speaker 2: in a week here coming up. Sounders, meanwhile, down at
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  Speaker 2: the stadium in Soto, lost 1-0 to the Houston Dynamo
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  Speaker 2: last night. The World Series. Listen to what it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like right now and last night in Milwaukee. The 2-1 pitch.
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  Speaker 7: Ground ball, second base.
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  Speaker 2: Terang has it. Goes to first. The wait is over.
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  Speaker 5: The Brewers have won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: They have done it.
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  Speaker 5: This relentless bunch who nobody gave a chance to at
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  Speaker 5: the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine, Jeff Levering on Brewers Radio, happy
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  Speaker 2: for him, happy for the people of Wisconsin. After 57 years,
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Pilots slash Milwaukee Brewers are the World Series champions. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the franchise that started at Sixth Stadium, down where the
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  Speaker 2: Lowe's on Rainier Avenue is right now, became the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: Brewers in 1970, and now they're the first First time
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  Speaker 2: ever world champions, Milwaukee Brewers. They beat the Rays four
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  Speaker 2: games to one, finishing it off last night in St. Petersburg. Man,
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  Speaker 2: they were great. They were the best team in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season. And then in the postseason, they went 11-2.
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  Speaker 2: They only lost two games throughout the entire postseason, including
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  Speaker 2: sweeping out the mighty Dodgers. That's what the Brewers, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most impressive postseason runs in a minute. College football,
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Huskies play at Nebraska 5 p.m. Saturday on
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  Speaker 2: a Halloween night game. Jet Fish keeping everyone guessing whether
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Brown, DeMond Williams is going to start at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn's Washington State Cougars are going to be down in
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  Speaker 2: San Diego to play the Aztecs at San Diego State
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  Speaker 2: 4 p.m. on Saturday. Now on with the Thursday show.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Morrison, return of the back on 93.3 KJRFM. Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell's out at Seahawks headquarters. That's me. Jessamyn McIntyre, that's her.
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  Speaker 2: She's back in Elliott Bay Studios in downtown Seattle. Hello, ma'am. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And Mark Morrison is going to have to return to
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  Speaker 3: the MAG at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 3: Because I am going to get him on this damn show.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn's going to track him down and get us. An
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  Speaker 2: ode to him pretty much every day. Mark Morrison's return
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  Speaker 2: to the MAG from the 1990s. That's why we play that.
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  Speaker 2: Ensign Sarah Bell in the U.S. Coast Guard, one of
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  Speaker 2: her favorite songs. Man, the trade deadline is until November
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  Speaker 2: 10th in the NFL, but already two massive all-pro guys traded.
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  Speaker 3: Both teams going for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when they trade in the NFL, it often is
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  Speaker 2: big stars lately in the recent years. The Seahawks make
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  Speaker 2: their annual midseason John Schneider upgrade with Quentin Nelson, the
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  Speaker 2: all-pro left guard, to begin the week. And then this morning,
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  Speaker 2: the Bears get the guy that for the last few
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  Speaker 2: summers and even a couple seasons that they've played the Titans,
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks linemen have had a lot to say about
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  Speaker 2: how good Jeffrey Simmons is. When we were in Nashville
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  Speaker 2: for the joint practice, it's two of the last three
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  Speaker 2: summers we've gone back to Nashville when the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 2: had joint practice with the Titans. And the guys come
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  Speaker 2: off the field talking about Jeffrey Simmons. And I think
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned to you, Jess, when we were doing the
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  Speaker 2: show from Nashville, that Jeffrey Simmons was woofing at the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: saying that they were tapping out, it's too hot, Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl champs, huh. He was kind of mocking them, constantly
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  Speaker 2: chattering in the two times they've had joint practice with them.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the Seahawks have played the Titans the last
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  Speaker 2: two of the last few seasons as well. And Simmons
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  Speaker 2: has been a problem in every one of those games.
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  Speaker 2: He had 11 sacks last year as a defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 2: which is really, really good. Yeah, he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: really a new challenge for Seattle as of this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and their game plan has changed. And John Benton, Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line coach and the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: they're ripping up some of the things they were trying
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  Speaker 2: to do protection-wise to now fortify the interior. I think
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  Speaker 2: it underscores the fact that Quentin Nelson is going to
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  Speaker 2: get ramped up really quickly to play. I can't see
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  Speaker 2: him not playing just because he doesn't know all the
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  Speaker 2: playbook here in five, six days time before the game
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  Speaker 2: on Monday night. The question remains about Gray Zabel. Do
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  Speaker 2: you move him to right guard, which he has played
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  Speaker 2: more than left guard in his North Dakota State past?
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  Speaker 2: That seems to be the move, which would move Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Bradford out of the starting lineup. Is Bradford on the
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  Speaker 2: trading block between now and November 10th deadline at would
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  Speaker 2: make sense to me. Not sure what his trade value
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  Speaker 2: is in the league. We were on the Seahawks roundtable, 8,
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  Speaker 2: 8 o'clock, with Chuck and Hugh Millen and Anders, and
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  Speaker 2: Hugh was reciting all the PFF numbers about how lowly
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  Speaker 2: ranked Anthony Bradford is. But he's still a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: champion who's in his 20s and had been a four-year
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  Speaker 2: starter in the league with a lot of tape for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of personnel teams, personnel staff to review. I
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  Speaker 2: think he would fetch something, and that's John Snyder. That's
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  Speaker 2: probably what he's doing right now is to see him
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  Speaker 2: potentially what he can get for Anthony Bradford. Remember, this
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  Speaker 2: week they also released Christian Haynes, who has started five
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  Speaker 2: games when Bradford was on injured reserve until just last week.
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  Speaker 2: But Haynes is no longer here. He's put on waivers.
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  Speaker 2: They probably are going to try to sign him back
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  Speaker 2: to the practice squad. I haven't seen that that transaction
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  Speaker 2: has actually happened yet. But that's a possibility as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we haven't seen the other move either with going elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be Quentin Nelson on
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  Speaker 2: the left, and they'll keep Sundell at center and put
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  Speaker 2: Gray Zabel back to right guard, which he played a lot,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot, but more than left guard at North
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  Speaker 2: Dakota State. His senior year, by the way, at North
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  Speaker 2: Dakota State, he was a right tackle. He had thousands
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  Speaker 2: of snaps in his college career at tackle, and then
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  Speaker 2: they moved him inside to guard here in the NFL. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: lots to talk about with these trades. I mean, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, this is a showcase game of all-pro
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  Speaker 2: interior Lineman on Monday night in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I love a battle in the trenches.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm just watching football to watch football and I
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  Speaker 4: don't have any skin in the game, which I do,
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  Speaker 4: I want the Seahawks to win. But if I'm just
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  Speaker 4: watching a football game, take any fanhood or working out
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  Speaker 4: of it, battle in the trenches is what just lights.
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  Speaker 3: Me up inside.
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  Speaker 2: Football coach's daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just love it. I like a good Mike
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  Speaker 4: McDonald managed game.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's brilliant that they have JSN for all the sparks,
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  Speaker 4: but if you just give me a 6-3 game where
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  Speaker 4: I get to watch good defense, I am so satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to be interesting because two guys
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  Speaker 2: that are brand new to their systems, but have both
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  Speaker 2: been in this league for eight years each. It's 16
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  Speaker 2: years of NFL experience. They're going to play. It's not
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  Speaker 2: like they need to have X amount of days or
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  Speaker 2: weeks or whatever to get acclimated to a game plan.
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  Speaker 2: They'll give them enough that they can figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a new language. It's like learning, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as Hugh Millen said this morning on the roundtable, it's
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  Speaker 2: my house and mi casa. That's kind of how different
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  Speaker 2: languages are. It's the same meaning but just different words. Yeah, thanks,
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  Speaker 2: Ian Furness texting in. I was elsewhere yesterday afternoon. Christian
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  Speaker 2: Haynes was claimed off waivers. by the Miami Dolphins who
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  Speaker 2: have their own problems on the offensive line. So because
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  Speaker 2: he has starting tape, there was some value there for
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  Speaker 2: the Dolphins. Of course, the Dolphins have their own problems,
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  Speaker 2: including on the offensive line. So, yeah, Christian Haynes weighed
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  Speaker 2: by the Seahawks, as we claim, by the Miami Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: And Anthony Bradford is now, it seems, the odd man out.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. As we talked about yesterday with Ian... I
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  Speaker 2: don't expect to go out at practice today and just
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  Speaker 2: be handed the game plan on the interior line and
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  Speaker 2: see what's going on and who's starting where. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't expect at noon when we talk to Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: out here at Seahawks that he's going to just reveal, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: here's what we're planning. We'll ask him, but I doubt
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  Speaker 2: he's going to let the Bears know on a Thursday
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  Speaker 2: before a Monday game. who's starting guards and centers are
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  Speaker 2: going to be. But that's the big focus on this game.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, they have two All-Pros who weren't
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  Speaker 2: on either roster at the beginning of the week are
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  Speaker 2: going to often be against each other. Simmons with interior
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  Speaker 2: playing off the guard, either inside, outside, shoulder of the guard,
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  Speaker 2: and now one of those guards for the Seattle, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson, the All-Pro, three-time All-Pro. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about Quentin Nelson and Simmons and how rare they are,
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  Speaker 2: both rare in the trades and rare at how they've
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  Speaker 2: been already at their respective positions in the first eight
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  Speaker 2: seasons in the league. The Seahawks, of course, now have
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  Speaker 2: an extra day. They played on Sunday night against the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 2: and then they play Monday night here against the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about what Mike McDonald's done in
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  Speaker 2: the last 12 months when he has an extra day
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  Speaker 2: or three or ten to prepare. He has had seven
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  Speaker 2: games in the last 12 months since the loss to
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay in early October, which actually was also on
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  Speaker 2: an extra day. It was a Sunday game after a
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  Speaker 2: previous Thursday. He had a 10-day break before that. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to hear my questions and Mike McDonald's answer when
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  Speaker 2: I asked him, what does he do with those extra days?
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  Speaker 2: What do those coaching staff focus on? How much does
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  Speaker 2: he get the players involved, or does he leave them
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  Speaker 2: out of that process? And why have they had so
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  Speaker 2: much success? I've got numbers to back up my claim
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  Speaker 2: here about the last 12 months when Mike McDonald has
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  Speaker 2: extra time. He absolutely throttles offenses. Think Super Bowl. And
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  Speaker 2: go back even before that. They're absolute boat races when
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's defense goes against an offense when McDonald has
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  Speaker 2: more than the standard six days between games. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. 11 o'clock, far and lousy, TSN Canada, the
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  Speaker 2: NFL guy. He's actually going to be here at Seahawks headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: We'll interview him live in person, which we don't often
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  Speaker 2: get to do, but that's because he was down here
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  Speaker 2: last night to cover the Maple Leafs for TSN playing
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken, and he stayed over, and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be here at Seahawks today. We'll talk to him live
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  Speaker 2: here at Seahawks headquarters at 11 o'clock. We'll go around
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: the NFL. We'll talk about the Jalen Hurts situation that
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: we talked about with Jory a couple days ago and
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  Speaker 2: his opinion on what should happen with the league, with
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  Speaker 2: the union, how involved they may be. We'll talk about
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: the Raiders. They're in free fall now. They were 3-0,
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: of course, and everyone's singing the praises of Clint Kubiak,
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  Speaker 2: first-time head coach. Now they've lost four in a row,
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  Speaker 2: and Kubiak's answering questions about whether Kirk Cousins is going
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  Speaker 2: to remain the quarterback or they're going to bring in
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  Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza, but Yeah, the bloom is off the rose
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  Speaker 2: of Clint Kubiak's debut as a head coach in a
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick time. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: Ed McCaffrey, his dad. Wow. The 49ers, yeah. Christian McCaffrey,
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  Speaker 2: the running back for the 49ers and the injuries. Now
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  Speaker 2: they're starting to come back up to the 49ers. McCaffrey's
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  Speaker 2: banged up in Atlanta. Mike Evans is out now or
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  Speaker 2: was out the remainder of that game that they lost
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  Speaker 2: the first of the season. The 49ers lost. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about Farhan's view of what he's been saying all along
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  Speaker 2: was the big problem and the big concern in San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco is all those guys staying healthy again. The Niners 6-1,
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks 4-3. Jessamyn, I brought this up this morning
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  Speaker 2: with Chuck, but you look at the Seahawks' schedule. In 4-9, 4-5-1,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: you can chime in as well on the Tacoma Dodge
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  Speaker 2: text line how you feel about this. If they can
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  Speaker 2: have the same defensive performance or even something like they
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  Speaker 2: did against the Chiefs on Monday night against the Bears
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  Speaker 2: to win this game, Then they've got Arizona and Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas back-to-back, and then they're bye. That could be a
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  Speaker 2: four-game winning streak to 7-3 heading out of the bye
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  Speaker 2: to the 49ers on Thanksgiving weekend. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: show you what happens when he gets bye weeks and
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  Speaker 2: extra time, what he does, including to the 49ers in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs last year. So all of a sudden, what
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  Speaker 2: was doom and gloom and chicken littles here in the
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  Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest last year, last week, excuse me, That throttling
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  Speaker 2: of the Chiefs has really changed the hue of the
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  Speaker 2: season here.
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  Speaker 3: It absolutely did.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL's weird that way. Baseball, yeah, they play every day,
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  Speaker 2: but there's 162 of them, and one win doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: change the swing of your season.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But man, does it do that in the NFL and
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  Speaker 2: college football.
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  Speaker 6: It does.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's different between those two as well, because there's
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  Speaker 4: no style points in the NFL. A win is a win.
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  Speaker 4: The record is the record. In college football, throughout the
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  Speaker 4: times that we've seen change, style points actually matter because
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  Speaker 4: there's a committee that gets to say they like a
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  Speaker 4: team better than the other one.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to get into a committee to impress
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  Speaker 2: to get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: And– But the NFL, you just put up one in
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  Speaker 4: the win column each and every week when you can.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is, the fans are a little bit different.
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  Speaker 4: And the style points that they put on for the
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  Speaker 4: fans this past week, oh boy, they are back on.
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  Speaker 2: They are. And the tone has completely changed around here.
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  Speaker 2: And a win against Chicago on Monday night would be,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe five and three heading into games against
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  Speaker 2: Arizona at home. At Las Vegas, then the bye. They
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  Speaker 2: will be favored, and heavily so, in both of those
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  Speaker 2: games to go to 7-3 heading to San Francisco. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about are they playing for a wild card,
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about that last week with Farhan. Maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not. I mean, they get first things first. This
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  Speaker 2: is a tough task with Caleb Williams completing 71% of
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  Speaker 2: his passes coming in here with Ben Johnson, the number
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  Speaker 2: one ranked rushing offense in the league. And now Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Simmons from Tennessee over to the Chicago Bears offensive. Think
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  Speaker 2: of Quentin Nelson, right? He's in the AFC South banging
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  Speaker 2: into Jeffrey Simmons twice a year for how many seasons?
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  Speaker 4: Eight.
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  Speaker 2: Last eight, both of them came in the league at
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  Speaker 2: the same year. And now he's traded to Seattle. He's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: at least I don't have to block Jeffrey Simmons anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And then two days later, the Titans trade him to
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the Bears. Yeah, you got to do it in your
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: first Seattle game, actually. Sorry, Quinton.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to talk about chess. The rest of
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: everyone is playing checkers in that. That was a very
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: strategic move. Probably not directed at Quinton, but it was.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Definitely a strategic move. Oh, you got that? Guess what?
• 16:33
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• 16:34
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: It was almost like a I see you're Quentin Nelson.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I'll raise you Jeffrey Simmons.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's more like poker.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: And now they'll play each other in Lumen Field on
• 16:45
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• 16:49
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• 16:56
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• 16:59
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• 17:02
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• 17:04
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• 17:10
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• 17:13
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• 17:16
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• 17:19
  Speaker 2: back to the NFL at 11.35.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, it's getting late in the week.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, slim pickings, right?
• 17:24
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• 17:27
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• 17:41
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• 17:42
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• 17:44
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• 17:47
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• 18:47
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• 18:50
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  Speaker 3: I am up today.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about the unpopular pick you had the other day.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Was that Jets?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't, actually.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: It was the Titans plus 10 at the Bengals.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: That's right. And the Titans just traded Jeffrey Simmons, and
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: so it goes for Tennessee.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, that hadn't happened when I made that pick.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: But about 54% of you agreed that I was wrong.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: 56%, I should say.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: 56% of people fictioned.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Well, like you keep saying, you got somebody $ 1, 000 on
• 20:44
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• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Rude to be wrong, why don't we?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Rude to be wrong. Exactly. Two big trades in the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: NFL this week, and they both involved teams playing each
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: other Monday night at Lumen Field. The week began with
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson, the six-time, okay, let's just lay it out.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Six-time All-Pro, if you count second-team All-Pros, which no one
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: around the league really does. three-time first-team All-Pro, eight times
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: in the Pro Bowl, six times in the Pro Bowl,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: excuse me, in the first eight years in his eighth
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: season right now. The left guard from the Indianapolis Colts,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: captain of the Colts from Notre Dame, met his wife
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: in Indiana, and the Colts' interim general manager, Ed Dodds,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: who was a former Seahawks executive and scout for John
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Schneider here in Seattle for six years through 2016. Ed Dodds,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: in his first move since taking over for Chris Ballard
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the fired GM in the Colts, his first move is
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to deal with his old boss, John Schneider, and send
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the Colts probably best player along with Jonathan Taylor, but
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson, their captain, to the Seahawks this week to
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: be the new left guard here in Seattle. In the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: last 50 years, this is what Hugh mentioned on the roundtable,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and I wrote it down because it was really interesting.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: In the last 50 years, the only guy drafted higher
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: at guard than sixth overall that Quentin Nelson was drafted
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: out of Notre Dame by the Colts eight years ago.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: The only guy, college guard, who played guard his entire
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: time in college. I'm not talking like James Carpenter, who
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: was a college tackle in Alabama, and the Seahawks drafted
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: him in the first round to end up playing gardens.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I'm talking college guard, true guard. The last guard drafted
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: as high or higher than Quentin Nelson, the guy the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Seahawks just got, Bill Fralick. I mean, that's a long
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: time ago. Pit All-American, former teammate at Atlanta. Of Hugh Mellon.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Three-time first-team All-Pro for Quentin Nelson. Do you know that's
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: as many All-Pros, Jessamyn, as Steve Hutchinson had in his
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: entire career?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I did read those stats, yes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: And if you could put someone in the same category
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: as Hutch.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: A Hall of Famer. And now Steve Hutchinson had a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: huge hand in drafting Gray Zabel. He scouted him, went
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to the Senior Bowl on the Seahawks' behalf. the Seahawks
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: had him as a consultant, basically, for John Schneider and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the scouts and personnel, and it was a huge recommendation
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: of Steve Hutchinson to draft Gray Zabel. Since then, the Seahawks,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Hutchinson hasn't been working as daily and as intimately with
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks in the last year or so, so to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: my understanding, he didn't have anything to do with this trade.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I think this had more to do with Ed Dodds'
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: relationship with John Schneider and vice versa, but Man, this
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: guy in his first eight years, Quentin Nelson has as
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: many All Pros as Steve Hutchinson had in his entire career.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: The other Steve Hutchinson link to this trade, which I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: find interesting because I covered this story, the number one agent,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the CAA has a ton of agents, of course, and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson has three agents, in fact. But his lead
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: agent is Tom Condon. Where have we heard that name
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: in Seattle before? Those of us who have been around
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a while.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I've heard it plenty of times.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Tom Condon. was the agent who put the poison pill
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: clause in the Steve Hutchinson free agent contract that got
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: him leaving Seattle, and that's why he ended up with
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. Tom Condon, that guy, who was dealing with
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Ruskell and Mike Holmgren at the time when the Seahawks
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: were trying to bring back Steve Hutchinson and didn't use
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the franchise tag and use the transition tag, that whole fiasco,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and Tom Condon was Hutchinson's agent and the poison pill.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Remember that whole thing? I had to write that for
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the Associated Press at the time. I got here. He
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: had to play a minimum number of games in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: state of Minnesota or whatever. I had to engineer it
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to go into Minnesota. It was absolutely absurd.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It was one of the most engineering I've ever seen
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: done with a contract. And I got here after that
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: had already happened, but everyone was still sour about it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There are people who still, when you hear Tom Condon,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: are like, ah, poison pills, sneak out and do it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: He did his job. He did his job well.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. That's the agent's job, right? To get
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: his guy max value and to get paid. And he
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: did from the Vikings. And that's why Steve Hutchinson left
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. Still ended up being a Hall of Famer,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: of course. Well, Tom Condon is the lead agent for
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson. I found that ironic, if nothing else. Now,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Simmons this morning traded from the Tennessee Titans, who
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: are going nowhere again, to... The Chicago Bears, who are
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: going somewhere. The Bears are 5-2, well, two games now,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: one and a half games behind the undefeated Minnesota Vikings.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: The Bears have already played the Vikings, lost 9-3 to
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: them September 20th. That was the day that Caleb Williams
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: injured his hamstring on a goal-to-go play in the fourth quarter,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and the Bears only ended up scoring three points that day.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: They've also scored seven points in their other loss against
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the Packers. That was also a game Caleb Williams did
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not play because he missed three games with that hamstring issue.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Beside those two games, the Bears offense has just lit
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it up. And now they've got Caleb Williams back. The
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: first game back for Caleb Williams after his three-week absence
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: with the hamstring issue, he went 30 for 36 against Atlanta.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That's how well he's playing. He's a 71% passer this season.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: He was 58% last year. Remember we talked yesterday to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Tribune's Ben Briggs. the Chicago tribunes beat writer
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: for the bears. And he said, that was job one
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: for Ben Johnson, tasking Caleb Williams this year to be
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: a more accurate thrower and to not just take deep
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: shots all the time, but to take what defenses give
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you and check down, or I'm going to run shorter
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: routes for you. Have receivers open for you short, take them.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And he is 71%, five touchdowns, one interception. He's gotten
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: 12 sack 12 times this year, but as Ben told
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: us yesterday, seven of those sacks have come since he
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: come back from the injury. which suggests that perhaps he's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: not taken off to test that hamstring. He's been sacked
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: seven times the last two games in the Bears' wins
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: over the Falcons and the Patriots last Thursday night. The Patriots,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the Bears, excuse me, have the rest advantage in this
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: game big time because they haven't played since last Thursday
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: while the Seahawks played on Sunday night against the Chiefs.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: But back to Simmons. When the Bears gave up two
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: first-round picks, to the Titans today to get Simmons. The
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: last time we around here know about two first-round picks
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: for a defensive player, of course, was Jamal Adams when
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Snyder sent two number ones to the Jets. That did
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: not work out at all. And Hugh was reminding us
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: this morning on the roundtable, when the Seahawks did that
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: for Adams, there had only been four or five times
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: in NFL history that a defensive player had been traded
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: for two number ones. Now it happens again this morning.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Excuse me. That's how good Jeffrey Simmons is. Also in
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: his eighth season, all pro last year, 11 sacks as
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: an interior. He's not one of these defensive tackles that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: often goes out to end. Teresa Walker, a friend of
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: mine with the Associated Press in Nashville, and I were
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: talking about Jeffrey Simmons and the usage, and he primarily
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: does stay three, five, maybe five technique outside the guard sometimes,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: but basically stays inside. So that's going to be the
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: challenge for the Seahawks interior offensive line. Jalen Sandell, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: we assume Quentin Nelson on the left, and Is that
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: what you would do, Jessamyn? Put Gray Zabel on the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: right back where he was in college?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I think that he can rotate on the interior. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: just wouldn't pop him outside.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't put him at center and I wouldn't pop
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: him outside. I don't think that there would be that
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: much of a problem with him going from one side
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: to the other on the interior at guard. And I
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: think he's massively talented and probably could run every position
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: on that line. But for my comfort level, I would
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: want to see him On one side or the other
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: of the guard position.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: The center position is the only one he didn't play, Zabel,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: at North Dakota State. Sundell was the center when Zabel
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: was there. They were, in fact, college roommates. We talked
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: about that at the Super Bowl in January. But the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: only reason that NFL people even think about Gray Zabel
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: as a center is that scouts ask him to play
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: that at the Senior Bowl. In Mobile, in January 2025,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: he practiced there all that week at center to give
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: teams an option of projecting him as a center if
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: they wanted to draft him. The Seahawks drafted him to
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: be a guard even though he was a right tackle
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: his senior year. He started 17 games his senior year
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: at right tackle. He also started at left tackle, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: he also started at right guard more than left guard
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: while at North Dakota State. And in fact, that versatility
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of both outside guard tackle positions on both sides was
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: another attractiveness that a lot of people had, including the Seahawks,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: had Zabel rated so highly. But he has not played
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: center in a college or NFL game. It would be
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a big task, would it not, to ask him to
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: go to center in the middle of a game week
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: just because Quentin Nelson has showed up? that all of
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: a sudden you're going to now become in charge of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the protection calls and syncing your audibles with the quarterback,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, and all of that in the middle of
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a game week. Yeah, Zabel's sharp, but that's adding a
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: lot to his plate in a short amount of time
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to assimilate that, and I don't know that that would
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: do Sam Darnold and the offense any favors either.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm with you as well. I'm with you
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: as well. I just want to see how Quentin lines up.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: That's it. We're not going to find out. Maybe during
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: warm-ups on Monday night.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Monday night, about 35 minutes before kickoff is when I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: expect to find out if indeed it's Nelson at the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: left guard and Gray Zabel at the right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: That move sounds solid to me.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I think so. That doesn't do any favors for Anthony Bradford,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: but they would not have traded for Quentin Nelson if
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: they wanted Anthony Bradford to be here beyond this year.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Let's face it. We talk about Those midseason trades that
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Snyder has made, he's re-upped every one of those guys
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: on expiring contracts. The reason he was able to get
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams from the Giants is that Williams is on
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: an expiring contract. Same with Ernest Jones, who was in
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: a rental situation after the Rams traded him to the Titans.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Same with Rashid Shaheed last year in the final year
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: of his deal with the Saints. And now the same
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: with Quentin Nelson in the final months of his $ 80
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: million deal with the Colts. He doesn't make those trades
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: without knowing from the agents what the price is going
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to be to retain him. You give up two picks,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: even third and fifth round that Snyder did in this deal,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you intend to have him for more than just a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: couple months. So the die has been cast on Anthony Bradford.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Can they move him before the trade deadline November 10th?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe net a sixth, seventh round pick, maybe? I see
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of you on the text line, 49451, talking
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: about the comp pick the Seahawks could get if this
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: is a rental and Quentin Nelson leaves after this season,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and that's true. He would command a third-round pick as
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a comp pick, and that would recoup the third-round pick
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: you're giving to the whole reason you got the Colts
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to make this trade as a third-round pick. But, again,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: they didn't make this trade just to get comp picks.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They made this trade to have a potential Hall of
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Fame card that you're able to exclusively negotiate with in
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: those contract games after this season. So that's where it
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: seems to be headed if the precedent holds for what
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: John Schneider has done recently. 49451, I see Seahawks on there.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I see should Eamon Worry spy Caleb Williams this week?
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: We will talk about that at 1130. 1135 is Factor Fiction.
• 32:31
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• 32:37
  Speaker 2: There's seven days between games this time instead of six.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: A Sunday night game to the following Monday. And I'm
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: going to outline for you what Mike McDonald has done
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: in the last 12 months. when he has extra days
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: to prepare for an offense. You're going to like these
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: numbers and trends, and you're going to hear from Mike
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: McDonald when I ask him about this and what he
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: does with those extra days. Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada. We're
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: going to go around the NFL with him in person
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: here at Seahawks headquarters at 11 o'clock. All that's coming
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: up from Renton and Seahawks headquarters on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre, Ian Furness is also here at
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Seahawks headquarters because the Seahawks are first big full practice
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: day on the field preparing for Monday night's game against
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears. A really compelling game here in week
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: eight of the NFL season, which begins tonight on KJR
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: at 515. The Thursday night game this week is Carolina
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: at the Packers in Green Bay at Lambeau Field. Carolina
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: is having big issues, especially on defense. The Packers are
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: starting to right themselves after being pretty wobbly, including on
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: defense to begin the season. The Panthers at Packers tonight, 5-15,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: is the Thursday night game to start NFL Week 8.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And the final game of NFL Week 8 will be
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Monday night at Lumen Field. The 5-2 Bears against the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: 4-3 Seahawks, who are coming off a Sunday night game
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: to a Monday night game. So quick radio journalism math.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Sports writer math tells you that's an extra day. Eight
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: days between games, six, seven.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I love radio math.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Radio math, seven days between games instead of six. There
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: are some interesting numbers about Mike McDonald when he has
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: his defense an extra day to prepare for an offense.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: This has happened seven times in the last 12 months.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Since they lost to Tampa Bay, when you remember Sam
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Darnold near the end of a shootout game, Throws a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: pass off the defensive lineman's helmet. It's intercepted. Hands the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Buccaneers the winning field goal. That was actually a Sunday
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: game after a previous Thursday game, a 10-day minibuy. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: so this week I asked Mike McDonald because I was
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: looking into the game since Tampa with extra rest. The
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Seahawks said this will be the eighth game in the
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: last 12 months they've played with more than the normal
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: six days Sunday to Sunday. Seven games in the last
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: 12 months. They are 7-0. I'm going to run down
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the list of those games. They played Houston a Monday
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: after a Sunday game, the same situation they are this
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: week against the Bears. They held the Texans to 254
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: total yards and 19 points. They had Washington last year
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: after a bye week, their bye week. You remember that game.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: 38-14 on a Sunday night. They held the Commanders at
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: 290 yards. Last year in Carolina... They came in after
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the previous week they had played on Thursday the Rams.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Remember the big Rams game, the crazy two-point play with
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Charbonnet picking the ball up like a rock and found
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the street.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Being a very polite person to return it to the
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: ref with his foot inbound.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I should say in the end zone.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a Thursday night game. And then they
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: played at Carolina a couple days after Christmas the following Sunday.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: So another 10 days. That game against Carolina, a playoff team.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: They held the Panthers to 139 total yards, beat them 27-10.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: The playoffs, of course, after they won Week 18 in
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Santa Clara, they got the first-round bye. They got number
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: one seed in the playoffs. When they played the 49ers
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: after a bye two weeks off, 236 yards allowed and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a 41-6 win. Super Bowl, of course, the bye week
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: between conference title games and the Super Bowl. I'm going
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: to say 331 yards for the Patriots, most of them
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: in garbage time at the end. That was a blowout. 29-13,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't even that close. The Seahawks absolutely manhandled
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Drake May and the Patriots' offense. This season, remember, they
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: had the Wednesday night opener, the first Wednesday game in
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Seahawks history on September 9th. They didn't play again until
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: September 20th on the Sunday. The following Sunday at Arizona...
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: The Cardinals got 151 yards, 31-7 Seahawks win. And it
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: didn't even play that well, turning the ball over, fumbled
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: by Janarian Price and so on. And then this past weekend,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: that was 10 days off. Because remember, the Seahawks played
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: that awful game in overtime in Denver on a Thursday night.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: They didn't play again until the following Sunday night, 10-day break. Chiefs,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, number one rusher in the NFL, Kenneth Walker,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: 213 total yards, 11 first downs. Three points by the Chiefs,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the fewest Mahomes has ever had in a Chiefs start
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in his entire career. Seahawks win 20-3. In the seven
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: games the Seahawks have played the last 12 months with
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: extra rest, McDonald's defense has held opponents to 230 total
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: yards on average, and the score average, 29-10 Seahawks. Yeah,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the Bears had the rest advantage from playing the previous
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Thursday and now flying out for a Monday night game.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: But you give Mike McDonald extra time, and he goes
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to work on other teams. When I asked him about
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: these numbers and this trend, this is what he said.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Your team's had extra time. We have the bye week,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: the mini bye. You've performed really well. The team's performed
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: really well. What have you learned in maybe the three
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: years as a head coach how to utilize extra days? Like,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: do you have one extra day this week? What do
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: you focus most on? Funny you say that.
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: I immediately thought of the Tampa game last year. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: think that was coming off a Thursday game.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: It only takes X amount of time to get ready
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: for a game. So how you allocate the rest of
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: the time is important. But like when we've, when we've over,
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: when we've overdone it, we've probably gotten mentally taxed and the,
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: and the week is drained. And that was, that's really
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: just the solution for us. So that's, that's kind of
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: the philosophy that we've been going off of.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: So is it off a self scout?
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Is it for recovery?
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Is it, skill development, do we need to get away
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: from each other?
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: I just try to make the best decision for our
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: team on how to use that time the best.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Do you insulate the players from the extra time prep
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: that maybe coaches are doing and then present them a
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: normal week after that, or do you involve them in
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the extra day work stuff?
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: I think it changes based on what season of the
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: season you're in. Normally that is kind of the rule
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: of thumb. is like I said it's like we've learned
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: that you know if we have a great quote unquote
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: Wednesday great quote unquote Thursday Friday Saturday we can put
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: a great plan together and play great football sometimes it
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: takes more than that but felt like we've fallen short
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: more often than not if we've tried to overdo.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: It That's Seahawks coach Mike McDonough my questions to him
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: on Monday because I was thinking ahead that I'm going
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: to be writing a story for 923kgr. com about The Seahawks
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: under McDonald when they have extra time to prepare for
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: an opponent. They have an extra day this week because
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: they played Sunday night against the Chiefs and now playing
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: the following Monday against the Chicago Bears, who today, if
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you missed the news, acquired all-pro defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: from the Tennessee Titans. They've given the Titans two first-round
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: picks in exchange for the all-pro who had 11 sacks
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: last year as an interior defensive tackle. It looks like
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: he will go against... The Seahawks All-Pro they traded for
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: from the Colts this week, Quentin Nelson, in a battle
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: royale on the interior of the line of scrimmage on
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Monday night at 520. Five and two Chicago Bears against
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: the four and three Seattle Seahawks. We're going to talk
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: about this with Farhan Walji next. TSN Canada, our weekly
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Thursday at 11 o'clock guest about the NFL, all things NFL.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the Jalen Hurts situation. Clint
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Kubiak's Raiders losing four in a row. Some more injuries
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to veterans in San Francisco. And what he would do
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: with three guards and two spots with the Seahawks. His
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: opinion on the Quentin Nelson trade. The Jeffrey Simmons trade
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: as well to the Bears this morning. All that's coming
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: up with Farhan Lalji next from TSN Canada at 11 o'clock.
• 40:59
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• 41:01
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• 41:06
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• 41:17
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• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJRFM
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Sports Headlines.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Hello. Happy Thursday to you. Headlines from the Virginia Mason
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Athletics Center Seahawks headquarters are brought to you by Frostwood
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Coors Light as cold as the Rockies. I'm here because
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks are back on the practice field today. Quentin
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Nelson in the building practicing for the first time today.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: The all-pro guard traded from the Colts to the Seahawks
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: will be on the field today when the Seahawks prepare
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: for the 5-2 Chicago Bears on Monday night. May not
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: find out until game time like 30 minutes before when
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: they're doing pregame warm-ups whether they're It is going to
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: be Nelson at left guard, Gray Zabel at right guard,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford to the bench, I think. People asking about
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: left tackle, I think. I know, the reason they have
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Josh Jones, the veteran swing tackle on the roster, is
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: for this situation. I don't see Zabel moving out to tackle,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: although he did play there at North Dakota State as well.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: We'll hear from Mike McDonald. We'll ask him questions. You'll
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: hear the no answers at noon, our time right during
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Ian Furness' show. Now I'll pop in with Ian and
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: tell him what Mike McDonald didn't say. Bears made the
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: big news in the NFL today. They got all-pro defensive
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: tackle Jeffrey Simmons from Tennessee sending the Titans two first-round picks.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Two first-round picks for a defensive tackle. Can you think, Farhan,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: of a defensive tackle commanding two first-round picks? That's a lot.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, when you look at what Buckner got, yeah,
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: you're not getting that.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: No. Yeah, that's crazy. There's some historical significance to that.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: So now it's going to be Nelson against Simmons like
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: it's the AFC South again. Here's Nelson thinking he got
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: out of the AFC South, didn't have to deal with
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Simmons again. Now he's going to get him on Monday
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: night for the Bears. Kraken last night blew a 4-2
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: late on Toronto at Climate Pledge Arena. And then the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Maple Leafs scored with an equalizer with 90 seconds left.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Then with 30 seconds left, Brandon Montour took a face-off
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: win by Matty Beneers and put it under the blocker's
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: side of Bobrovsky. 5-4. The Kraken beat Toronto last night
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: to end the homestand 3-1. Next up at Calgary, their
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: favorite whipping post from early in the season on Friday night.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Calgary.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Calgary, as some say. Can you say Calgary if you're Canadian?
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: No, you get kicked out of the country.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, I thought so. The Sounders lost 1-0 to the
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Houston Dynamo at the stadium in Soto last night, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: after 57 years, the Seattle Pilots are World Series champions. Yeah,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I know, they're the Milwaukee Brewers now, but they started
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: as the Pilots in 1969, played at Lowe's on Renier Avenue,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: 6th Stadium. They beat the Brewers slash former Pilots, beat
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays four games to one last night.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: First time in 57 years of the franchise's history they've
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: won the World Series. They lost only two of 13
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: games this postseason, including sweeping the mighty Dodgers out of
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: the National League playoffs.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: Is there a parade here?
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: They should. They should have it right down over near,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: right past the Lowe's. That's where the stadium was.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Or right past T-Mobile.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Because you're not going to have one. It's far on.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Dropping balls. Just bombs on the Mariners. The Mariners taking
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: strays for the Pilots. Brewers winning the World Series. Farhan's
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Washington Huskies are playing Nebraska. Whoa. 5 p.m. on Saturday,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: and the Washington State Cougars are playing 4 p.m. on
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Saturday at San Diego State. Jessamyn's pulling me out of
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: this going to Farhan music, so that's why you get
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that music. Farhan Lalji is here in person. Thank you.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: TSN Canada's NFL analyst. He joined us every week at
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: this time. He's usually on a phone somewhere that Virginia, Linden, somewhere.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: But now he's looking right at me, so no phone.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: He joins us, I'm not going to say in the
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing Hotline, but he joins us every Thursday to
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: talk about the NFL. First of all.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: Hey, wait, before we get there, with the Huskies playing Nebraska.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 45:05
  Speaker 9: I'm seeing all these posts about the back-to-back series in
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: the 90s.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: That's right. So. The loudest game ever played.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: Loudest game ever played. But here's the, here's a little sidebar.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: True story. I bought a Husky seat cushion that day
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: at that game. I was at that game.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Saturday night game.
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I was always impressed with just how nice
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: the Nebraska fans were. Like, that was always the thing, right?
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: Even when you go there, they applaud the winning or
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: the opposing team. And they were in a block. There
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: was a block of red in the stadium that was
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: Nebraska fans. But I bought a seat cushion, which I
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: have to this day.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Really? Where is it?
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: It's in my car. Like, I just keep it in
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: my car.
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: And I have used that seat cushion, which is just
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: as cushiony as it was in 1992. For every one
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: of my children's sporting events.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: I'm telling you. This is like miracle cushiony fabric. This
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: is miracle foam. It hasn't ruined or anything like that.
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: You know, old man yelling at clouds. They don't make
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: them like they used to anymore. This is the definition
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: of they don't make them like they used to.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: Because I've had it for.
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: Like, what, 35 years, and it has kept my ass
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: comfortable for 35 years.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: That was back when Husky Stadium had those old wooden benches.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I had to get one.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Exactly. You used to have to rent them, I think, right?
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: I think you could, and if you rented it, they
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: would just leave it in that seat for you, in
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: your seat, and then you could get up and leave,
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: and they'd eventually pick it all up.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: The loudest game ever played. If you don't know what
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about, and you're not old enough, it was
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: from 1992. Ron Franklin and Mike Godfrey, the former pit
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: coach in the ESPN crew, Adrian Karsten was on the
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: sidelines with a noise meter, and it was breaking all
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: these records for recorded football sound on a rare Saturday
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: night game. They brought in Musco temporary lights to have
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: a Nebraska-Washington game.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: First night game at Washington.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: At Husky Stadium.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you for reminding me. It was the first night.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: They brought in temporary lights, and, yeah, it was like
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: 29-14 or something. They took it to Nebraska.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: 133 decibels. Really? I think that's what it was, yeah.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: It was loud.
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: They don't get that loud this year, but maybe if
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: they can pull out another win here after the Purdue win,
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: maybe they would.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: If Elijah Brown's a quarterback, who do you think he
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: goes to? You know what?
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: Good for Jed for kind of messing around until the
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: end of it. I think he'll use them both, but
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: if he doesn't play Elijah Brown, it's a fireable offense.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like it's ridiculous.
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: DeMond Williams has regressed so badly this season, and I
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: get that it was Purdue and the week before, you know,
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: Iowa's calling off the dogs in the second half, but
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: There is no question. Brown gets more out of this offense.
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: He gets the ball out of his hands earlier. There
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: is no world where DeMond Williams should be starting.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: And he can see over the middle.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, and that, yeah, it's been an issue.
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: Like, we always knew DeMond Williams was great against bad teams,
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: couldn't function against Oregon and Ohio State. You hoped he
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: had taken that step this year, but then he couldn't
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: function against the average teams. It's time to move it forward.
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: You know, and especially after what happened last year. Like,
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: if he had a good year this year, he would
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: have transferred out in a second.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: So, like, what are we even talking about here at
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: this point?
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lalji weighs in on Elijah Brown. He's in Lincoln
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: on Saturday.
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: Softie agrees.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I think everyone does. Yeah. I think you're right. I
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: think it's kind of obvious.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: You've got to protect your $ 4. 5 million investment, I guess.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: What do you make of the Bears, who are already 5-2,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: and they're chasing down the Vikings, making a splash move
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: for Jeffrey Simmons?
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a big one.
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: And, you know, they wanted to force Buckner earlier, right? Like,
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: they made a pitch for him. This makes them better.
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: I think their defense has done a lot of good
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: things this year, but that's been the one spot. They've
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: got edge guys. They've got guys at the second and
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: third level, but that interior push is the thing they needed.
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: That division has become so competitive. Coming into the year,
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: you knew it would be competitive. You just didn't know
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: what the high end of it would be. Now when
• 48:42
  Speaker 9: you look at Minnesota being undefeated and Green Bay finding
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: its game again, it's going to be competitive. I think
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: every piece matters. I think all four teams in that
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: division are going to make more moves between now and
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: the deadline to try to improve. But he makes them better,
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: and their D's been solid all year.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: And the Packers are going to win tonight, pick up
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: another win. I would think so. At Lambeau Field. All right,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks' big move. Quentin Nelson, rare for a guy, this,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: a perennial All-Pro, a perennial Pro Bowl player, to move
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: in the middle of a season like this. What do
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: you think the Seahawks do? And in my mind, they
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: don't make this move. John Schneider doesn't make this move
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't think he can re-sign Quentin Nelson.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, and you've written about it, right?
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: Just the history of whether it was Leonard Williams or
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: whether it was Ernest.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: Jones or Rasheed Shaheed. He signs these pending guys, gets
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: a look. Dwayne Brown way back. Yeah, and is able
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: to make these decisions. So I'm sure there have been
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: some conversations.
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: But when we talked about this a couple of weeks
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: ago and names like Jonathan Taylor and Saquon Barkley were
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: being thrown out as potential Seahawks ads. You know, you
• 49:43
  Speaker 9: and I both agreed that this was the logical move
• 49:46
  Speaker 9: because it could make the run game significantly better. And
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: you kind of got to ride it out and be
• 49:51
  Speaker 9: patient for a couple of weeks until Charbonnet and Price
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: gets back. And I think that's what they've done. And
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: we'll see which of those two backs gets back this week,
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: if potentially not both of them. But he's going to
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: make that run game exponentially better. I mean, the fact
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: that Anthony Bradford came back and made the offensive line
• 50:07
  Speaker 9: a little bit better, but There's a massive gap between
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: Quentin Nelson and Anthony Bradford. So it's just a question
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: of whether or not they're comfortable flipping Zay Grable or
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: Gray Zabel this quickly, right?
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Like, you know, I mean, he can do it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: He's in the middle of, yeah, not even halfway through
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: his second season.
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, like he can do it, but can he do
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: it in a week? That's the question for me, but
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: he makes them a lot better.
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: My goodness.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Everyone in the league was hoping they would trade.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson to them, and Ed Dodds does it with
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: his former boss.
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: And let's not forget, we want to be critical of
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: Sam Darnold, and rightfully so, but he took five game
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: sacks back-to-back, or five sack games back-to-back. Some of that
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: was on him hanging onto the ball too long, but
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: some of that was offensive line needing to be better.
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: This makes Sam Darnold better. It doesn't just make the
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: run game better.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. I mean, they had Christian Haynes starting
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: those games, including at Denver.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: He's third in the league in pass-pro win rate, right?
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: As far as pass-rush reps as the snaps are concerned.
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: I mean, whether it's run-blocking or pass-blocking, this guy's a
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: top three lineman in football.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Let's hold back Roma Dunze when you look at the
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Bears and you see them on offense.
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: You know, I think that when you look at Chicago's offense...
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: They haven't really.
• 51:27
  Speaker 9: Like, I think they want to be explosive, and I
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: think with Caleb Williams, they will be explosive. That's just
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: how he plays the game. He's learned how to play
• 51:34
  Speaker 9: underneath when needed, but in his DNA, it's to push
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: the ball down the field. And I think within all
• 51:39
  Speaker 9: of that, they're trying to figure out who those guys are.
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: They put up, like, 59 points that first game, and
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: they didn't have a big-time receiving performance in that game.
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: They just spread it out a lot.
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: And Odunze... is second on the team in receiving behind
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: Luther Burden. Burden had a really big game last week.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: In yards, yeah.
• 51:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, in yards, which kind of elevated him. I think
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: the one thing with Roma Dunze, you know, and we
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: remember what he did when he played at Washington, and
• 52:05
  Speaker 9: he was such a great contested catch guy. And he
• 52:09
  Speaker 9: could do more than just win contested catches, but that
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: was the big thing for him, and he hasn't necessarily
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: found that ability at the NFL level.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: My comparable.
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: for Roma Dunzian when he, when he went through the
• 52:20
  Speaker 9: draft process was I thought he could be Mike Evans, right?
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: Fast enough, but not a burner, a savvy route runner
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: for a guy that had that kind of length. Cause usually,
• 52:27
  Speaker 9: you know, you don't expect that from long guys, but I,
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: I really felt that that contested catch thing would translate
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: really quickly when he got to the NFL level and
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: it hasn't happened.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: I think Caleb Williams will give him that opportunity.
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: When you look at the throws that he made late
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: in the game, uh, the last game, he made two
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: catches very late that kind of kept them going. Um,
• 52:45
  Speaker 9: difficult catchers they weren't high point contested but they were
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: throw behinds in tight spots and you know and he
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: trusted Odunzi to make those plays and I so I
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: just think that as Williams has come back the last
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: two weeks as this offense becomes balanced I think Odunzi
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: is going to find his place in it does it
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: lead to a big contract which he could potentially get
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: after this year I don't think so but I think
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: that I think they're going to want to keep him around.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Farhan's point about how spread out the Bears receiving distributions.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Luther Burden's got 35 catches to lead the team. Then
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: it's Loveland to tight end for Michigan, 26. Raymond's got 26. Adunze, 24.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: And then the tailback, DeAndre Swift, has 22 catches. Adunze
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: is averaging 16 yards a catch, but no touchdowns.
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: Well, and then you look at Colt Komet out for
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: the year.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 53:30
  Speaker 9: That's going to open up some more opportunities as well. Like,
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: I don't know that they're going to just try to
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: plug and play with another tight end. I think it
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: might mean some underneath receiving opportunities for some of the
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: outside guys.
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: And I think that.
• 53:40
  Speaker 9: between that, condensed formations, which we saw a bit more
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: of in the last game after Komet got hurt, I
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: think that's going to open some opportunities up for Odunze.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: And you're right.
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: He's just got to get more targets, and I think
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: that'll come. He's a lot better this year. I think
• 53:53
  Speaker 9: he almost took a step back here, too. I think
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: he's really kind of propelled.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: He had a leg injury at the end of last year.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: We talked to Ben Biggs, the beat writer for the
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Chicago Tribune, who said he doesn't think he really got
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: back from that last year, and that hampered him. The Vikings, 6-0,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: the only undefeated team in the league. Brian Flores, I mean...
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: What can you say about what he does on defense?
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: But this offense can't even score 20 points. How sustainable
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: are the Vikings? You think the bears or the pack
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: or the lions chase them down in the north?
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not sustainable. They're like, there's no way. And look,
• 54:22
  Speaker 9: the defense is great. And what's the biggest thing the
• 54:25
  Speaker 9: offense is doing. They're not turning the ball over.
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: So it's wild.
• 54:29
  Speaker 9: When you look at the historical comparables in terms of
• 54:32
  Speaker 9: where they stand for six and O teams in terms
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: of just getting nothing done offensively, I thought Calum Murray
• 54:37
  Speaker 9: would be, would be better.
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: And you know, they're, There's some metrics that I think
• 54:41
  Speaker 9: he's showing he's doing some good things at play-action game,
• 54:44
  Speaker 9: and they're trying to figure out how much under center
• 54:47
  Speaker 9: is good for him. I think they want to be
• 54:48
  Speaker 9: under center more, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the
• 54:50
  Speaker 9: best thing for him.
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: Gets him closer to the line.
• 54:53
  Speaker 9: I know you do that to open up play-action shots,
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: but it keeps him in the pocket a bit more
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: than necessarily he wants. So, yeah, I don't believe it's
• 55:03
  Speaker 9: sustainable what they're doing offensively. I think eventually this division
• 55:06
  Speaker 9: is so good, somebody's going to catch them. They can't
• 55:08
  Speaker 9: keep winning like this. I would imagine if they don't
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: lose this week, it'll happen against San Francisco and Mexico City.
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: In a couple weeks here, early November.
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: Can we go to that? Is there a way? Seahawks
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: are off.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: We should.
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: Let's go.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I didn't accept Seahawks by week that week.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll take Wendy. We'll take Mary. Let's go. Family siesta.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: That would be a trip.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: All the writers I know that have gone to the
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Mexico City game say that they've been sequestered in the hotels.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: They won't even let them out. I know.
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: And to be honest, I actually had the conversation with
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: our producers, and they were a little nervous about it.
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: just the safety down there, and they canceled one of
• 55:39
  Speaker 9: our soccer trips for the same reason.
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: So, hey, I'd go.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: I'd go too, for sure. 49ers, they're on a bye week.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: They're going to get healthy. There's talk that Bosa's going
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: to come back after the bye. You mentioned they got
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: the 49ers coming up. They got the Raiders first after
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: the bye. McCaffrey injured in the Atlanta game, their first
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: loss of the season, came back and finished that game.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Mike Evans is out. Is this what you said back
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: in the summer, that the injuries are catching up to them,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: or you think they've got a nice enough cushion where
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: this isn't going to hurt them?
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: Well, what's their actual cushion?
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: Well, two games plus a... Yeah, like we say it's
• 56:13
  Speaker 9: two and a half, but that was a three-point victory.
• 56:14
  Speaker 9: So if Seattle beats them by four, it's a one-game cushion.
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: Like that's all that is. It's actually a half-game cushion
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: in reality. So I think it's there for Seattle. I
• 56:26
  Speaker 9: know we talked earlier and thought, okay, you know, maybe
• 56:29
  Speaker 9: this isn't that time, but... Injuries are going to catch
• 56:32
  Speaker 9: up to them. It's just a matter of time. That's
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: how it works. And I think they really worked towards
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: this bye week. Mike Evans, I think it's easy to
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: make the decision when you can get a two-for-one rest week, right,
• 56:43
  Speaker 9: one week before a bye. I think Nick Bosa was
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: close to coming back last week, but they said, you know,
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: one more week will bye us too.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: And that's what they've done.
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: You know, Debo Samuel, I think they're optimistic they're going
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: to get him back after the bye. Demarcus Robinson could
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: potentially come back for them.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: So we'll see.
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: But I just think they're going to be operating on
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: a knife's edge all season when it comes to these injuries, right?
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: In the meantime, I think they're trying to build some depth.
• 57:07
  Speaker 9: When you look at the first month of the season,
• 57:11
  Speaker 9: McCaffrey's numbers were increasing, but they got black and the
• 57:16
  Speaker 9: other running backs involved a little bit more. They're not
• 57:18
  Speaker 9: as dynamic. They can't do as many things out of
• 57:20
  Speaker 9: the backfield and formationally. as a guy like McCaffrey can,
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: but this is the type of injury he always has.
• 57:26
  Speaker 9: It's always muscular. He's just so tightly bound that this
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: is Christian McCaffrey.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: It's who he is.
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: It's funny, both the Rams and the 49ers had the
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: exact same issue. A bunch of 30-somethings, you're trying to
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: manage through injuries. It happened in camp, and it's hurt
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: the Rams early. It may hurt the Niners late.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: And now they get another veteran, DeForest Buckner, who started
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: his career with the 49ers. He, I wouldn't think, will
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: have the impact of Simmons, but How much does that
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: make Bosa coming back, Buckner rejoining the team? Are they
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: reloading for a run? It looks like maybe this year
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: only run with a bunch of veterans on defense again.
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that's the hope, right?
• 58:02
  Speaker 9: And Trent Williams said as much, that this is our
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: chance to go for broke. And when you look at
• 58:06
  Speaker 9: that defensive line, yeah, they had the five sacks against Seattle,
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: which was ridiculous that Seattle allowed that to happen because
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: they've got one.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Of the worst pass rush win rates of any team
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: in the league. And when you look at the players that.
• 58:17
  Speaker 9: Got sacks, I think four of them were first-year players,
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: and they weren't like, highly regarded, you know, big name guys.
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: And all of a sudden they're making Sam Darnold's life hard.
• 58:25
  Speaker 9: So they needed a guy like this. You need a
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: guy that can, you know, draw double teams, get easier
• 58:31
  Speaker 9: matchups for the rest of their D linemen. Because what
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: we saw as Seahawks fans in that game, that's not
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: who the 49ers defensive line is.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: They need this.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: The Buckner's 32. He had four sacks in seven games. Yeah.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: The Colts and the Colts aren't going anywhere this year.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: You see the 49ers make another move. Lynch is like
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Snyder in that he makes midseason moves. Where do you
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: see the 49ers' potential weakness that they need to fix?
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: I think they need receiving help.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: And as good as Mike Evans is when he's healthy,
• 59:00
  Speaker 9: you're going to be holding your breath with that Achilles
• 59:02
  Speaker 9: strain all year. You know, and I don't think they
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: envision Debo Samuel as their number two, right? But now
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: when he's in the lineup, he is that guy. So
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: do they believe that getting Demarcus Robinson and some of
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: these guys back is enough? They might, but I think
• 59:16
  Speaker 9: that's where they probably need the most help. And, you know,
• 59:21
  Speaker 9: they're banged up a little bit in the secondary as well.
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: You know, Ephesians Prysock finished the last game. They cut
• 59:26
  Speaker 9: Jones to make room for Buckner. So depth in that area.
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: might be a bit of a concern for them as well. So,
• 59:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, we came into the year thinking
• 59:33
  Speaker 9: their biggest need was pass rush, but I think receiver
• 59:36
  Speaker 9: and corner might be some areas that they could supplement.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: That stribling injury may end up hurting them in the
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: long run by the end of the season. Raiders, the
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiaks were 3-0. Now they're 3-4, and Kubiaks answered
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: questions about Fernando Mendoza. Yeah. What's going on there? Do
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: you just start Mendoza and begin the era now?
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
• 59:53
  Speaker 9: Like, I don't think they're going to punt on it
• 59:54
  Speaker 9: this early, right? You've lost four games in a row.
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: You're 3-4.
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: I think you wait a little bit longer. I think
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: you kind of owe it to the guys in the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 9: room right now to say, hey, look, we could do
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 9: a little bit more and see if you can get
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 9: your head above water and stay in the race. But
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: by week 10, right, I think at that point, I mean,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 9: if you continue to lose a couple of games here,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: let's say you're 4-6 through 10 games, I think at
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 9: that point you know you're out of the playoffs and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 9: you make those moves. But, you know, Kirk Cousins hasn't
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: been the problem.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: No, he hasn't.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's playing at a pretty good level.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 9: So I understand why you would make that decision because
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 9: once you're done with this year, it's all about giving
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 9: him as much as he can handle going into next
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: year and make it easier for him. But, you know,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: I think getting five or six games of that late
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 9: in the year is enough, but we know who's going
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 9: to make that decision, right?
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: It's going to be Tom Brady.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Tom Brady will make the call when he thinks that
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: it's time.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: It'll happen. It's true. The Raiders upcoming, they got at
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: the Jets this week.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: So you win that game.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: But then at San Francisco versus the Seahawks at home
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas on November 15th at Denver at Cleveland,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: and Cleveland's suddenly a division leader. Cleveland, of course, playing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers this week. By the way, I'd throw
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: it in at the end here before we let you go.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Browns for real. And can the Steelers be this new
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: offense with a 42-year-old quarterback? They're actually pushing the ball
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: down the field now.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't see that continuing in Pittsburgh.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 9: As good as their defense is, I think at some
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 9: point you're going to reach the limits of what you
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 9: have with, you know, an Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf-led offense, right?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 9: So, yeah, I mean, in the end, I think Cincinnati's
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 9: going to be that team, and.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: We'll see what Lamar Jackson looks like when he comes back.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: What's going on with Lamar Jackson? Something reports in Baltimore
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: he didn't want to play.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 9: Well, yeah, he's got the high ankle, and so, you know,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: we know those injuries can linger.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: We know Lamar Jackson.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 9: Like, there's certain players and certain quarterbacks that if you're limited,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 9: you can still be effective.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson can't.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: I'm not saying Lamar Jackson can't throw the ball from
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 9: the pocket, but it's the threat of the run that
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 9: gives him the time he needs to make plays from
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: the pocket. He has to have all of his skills
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  Speaker 9: available or he's going to struggle. Look, I'm not inside
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 9: his body. He has been a long healer. That has
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: been a reputation for him. He's been banged up before.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 9: In the end, when I look at it, I was
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 9: surprised Cincinnati started as slowly as they did. I think
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: they're eventually the team that's going to win that division.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 9: I think the second half of the last game, they
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: were trailing going into that, and they looked so good
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 9: if they can carry that over.
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  Speaker 6: To me, they're the team in that division.
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  Speaker 2: Ravens really miss Harbaugh. I think that the whole culture
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: there has changed. It's so different.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's funny because some young guys can come in.
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  Speaker 9: And immediately get a level of buy-in like Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 9: did here.
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  Speaker 6: But I think Harbaugh was their franchise player.
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  Speaker 9: As good as Lamar is, don't misunderstand me, it's It's
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  Speaker 9: the relationship the two of them had. It's all of it.
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  Speaker 9: And you see the difference he's making immediately with the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they've got a flawed roster.
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  Speaker 9: They've already used three different quarterbacks, but he's making a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 9: significant difference there.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Giants may end up being the NFC East. They're going
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: to host a playoff game. With J.J. McCarthy?
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  Speaker 4: J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy. Wow. It's great to have you in person. Good
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  Speaker 2: to see Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada, NFL guru.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: See you there. Yeah, let's go to Mexico City.
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  Speaker 8: See you.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings and Patriots.
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  Speaker 6: I'll buy you a Corona.
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  Speaker 2: At least. At least. At least. Yeah, let's do that. Farhan,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: great to see him again in person. Thanks to our Leafs.
• 1:03:35
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• 1:03:36
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  Speaker 2: We were joined by Farhan Lalji last segment. A couple
• 1:04:45
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• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Greg today? 360 asking that. Yeah, Farhan Lalji joins us
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: from TSN Canada. He's the NFL guy who's at all
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: the primetime games all across the country. They send him
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  Speaker 2: to Kansas City and Denver quite a bit, too. Comes
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  Speaker 2: He's actually a member. I think we've mentioned this before, Jessamyn.
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  Speaker 2: Love that. He was a coach, a youth and high
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: school coach in British Columbia for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 2: Then he gave up coaching. He's still helping in high
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: school coaching near where he lives in Linden as more
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• 1:05:26
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait to watch that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. He's this quarterback who can wing it
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: and also can run. He had like 150 yards rushing
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  Speaker 2: last week in their game in Virginia. He's at a
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  Speaker 2: 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line. That's a 425.
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  Speaker 2: Must be a long time listener. Thank God we don't
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it was much better in person regardless of
• 1:06:01
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  Speaker 3: But yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 425 also, another 425 has asked, do I think Crosby
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: or Mack? Leo Mack, Max Crosby on the Hawks radar.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: I know Max Crosby is like the favorite fan guest
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks' next acquisition.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to make a mid-lower tier running
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: back type move. This name keeps popping up because they
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: had a tryout with him during the summer. Think Najee Harris.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: He's got injury history, yes. He's coming off an Achilles
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: tear he had with his only season with the Chargers.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: The Giants just released him right after having him be
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: a starter, and he only got a couple carries in
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: the game he was supposed to start. But he would
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: be available at next to no cost, next to no risk.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: If it didn't work out and he didn't prove healthy
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: or whatever, you release him. Think those kind of deals.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: A former four-time 1,000-yard rusher with the Steelers. I think
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: you may see something like that. And then, like we said, Jessamyn,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: it also depends on when Jadarian Price and Zach Charbonnet
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: come back, which could both happen on Monday night. I'm
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: going to ask Mike McDonald again, hey, is Derion Price
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: practicing today?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: No, I'm sure he'll be forthcoming. Probably not.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Probably not. Yeah. But he is eligible to come off
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: the whip. Price has missed the four games, the minimum
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: you need to miss before you can come back from IR,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: and he has missed those four games now. And, of course,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Charbonnet is on the active roster. His 21-day practice window
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: ended last week. He's on the active roster but was
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: less inactive on the game day against Kansas City on
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: Sunday night. Chip in Olympia, friend of the station, friend
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: of the show. Do they keep Bradford for O-line depth
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: while Cross recovers from his high ankle injury? The Seahawks
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: and Mike McDonald haven't confirmed it is a high ankle injury.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: That's been reported by Ian Rappaport. Rappaport's saying Cross would
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: miss one or two games. McDonald wasn't going to say
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: that either. Some of that is gamesmanship, of course, to
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: keep Chicago guessing. I think Josh Jones is going to
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: start a left tackle on Monday night against the Bears.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: That's why they have Josh Jones here. He's been a starter.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Part-time starter with the Ravens, starter with Texans before they
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: got him. And last year at the end of the
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: season when he needed to fill in when Cross got
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: banged up, Josh Jones was really good. Jones came in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: at the end of the Chiefs game replacing Cross who
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: missed the second half. I think they're going to stay
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: with Josh Jones. That's his job. That's why he's here
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: rather than, say, move Gray Zabel out the left tackle,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: which he has played at North Dakota State. You're definitely
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: not going to move the future Hall of Fame guard,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson, to left tackle. Yeah, no.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: I like that. Keep the interiors on the interior.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: 2-5-3. Why didn't the Seahawks put Eamon Worry on Mike Evans?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Because Mike McDonald doesn't put even Devin Witherspoon matched up
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: one-on-one on guys. Why does he not do that? Because
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: then that would take Witherspoon and Eamon Worry out of
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: all the other jobs they do on the defense.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: We saw number three all over the field.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Exactly. If you devote Eamon Worry to, say, Roma Dunze
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: on Monday night, which they wouldn't do. but if you
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: did do that, then you've taken Eamon Worry out of
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: all the other jobs that the offense has game-planned against
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: and all the other looks that McDonnell likes to throw
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: him in. A defensive end, an inside linebacker, a Sam linebacker,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: a post-safety, a nickel-slot corner guarding Xavier Worthy down the field.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: If you devote Witherspoon in a similar vein, if you
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: devote Witherspoon man-to-man on their best receiver, yeah, maybe he
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: takes their best receiver out, but then Witherspoon's not blitzing
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: from the edge on nickel blitzes. He's not in run support.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's all kinds of ways that McDonald likes.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: The bottom line is McDonald wants to dictate the offenses.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: He does not want an offense having a number one
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: receiver and saying, I'm going to put my best guy
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: in dictating offense. okay, we're going to have to put
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: our best cover guy on this receiver.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: He controls the game. He controls the game.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: He uses this term, and his players do all the
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: time too. We want the chalk in our hands when
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: the play begins, meaning we're the ones to dictate, we're
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: the ones to make the last move that the offense
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: has to react to. That's in a nutshell what Mike
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: McDonald wants to do, and to me that is the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: primary reason he doesn't devote one guy to man-to-man coverage
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: on him. Another team's best receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Makes perfect sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: thinking the other day? You're implying that I should be
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: picking only college games for the same reason you only
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  Speaker 2: You're on the sidelines, and you're technically a Washington State
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  Speaker 2: University employee, are you not? Or at least Learfield.
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  Speaker 3: Play fly. Play fly. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And there's the difference.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn picks NFL because she's affiliated. Maybe we'll use it
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  Speaker 2: that way. Affiliated with Washington State University and WSU football.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be on the sidelines in San Diego against San
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  Speaker 2: Diego State and Washington State on Saturday. So she goes
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going J-E-S-S, Jess?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not this week.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm going to leave them alone just for
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: a little bit. But I am staying within the division
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: because I'm going to Bills minus three as they host
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: the Ravens this weekend.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: Whoa. Yeah. One of the marquee matchups of the weekend. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us why.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I looked at the different games that each team
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: has played, right? And I went through and it makes
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  Speaker 4: total sense to me that it is a negative three spread.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: Like that's a pick them, right? They're getting three at home.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: That means that it's anyone's.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: But when I look at some of the differentials and
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  Speaker 4: knowing how difficult it is to play in that Buffalo stadium,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have seen the people
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: jumping off of RVs into flaming tables or not. But
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: that is a contentious stadium to play in. And with
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: the Bills' success so far this year, I don't think
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: the Ravens are going to cut it. I just looked
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: at their loss to the Browns earlier this season. That
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: was a three-point spread. They lost hard to the Ravens
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: last week. I mean, the Bengals last week, I'm sorry. 35-13,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: and they were at home. I think they're flailing. And
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: for me to look at that and see that it's
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: only a three-point differential, yeah, give me that.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Give me that.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: So we talked about the Lamar Jackson issue and maybe
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: even the leadership issue and the vibe issue and the
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  Speaker 2: culture issue now that Harbaugh is not in Baltimore anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So here come the Ravens into the new stadium in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: The Bills flying high. Coming off the rested Bills team
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  Speaker 3: Mention that too. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. I'll have the final pick of the week. Again,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: tomorrow is our high school football focus. We do that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: every Friday. Now we're getting into the playoffs here. We're
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: like in week nine already.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: I know. It goes by so fast with high school.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: It does. It's crazy.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: Because it's like you'll get halfway through the NFL season,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden they're in playoffs and
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  Speaker 4: championships in the high school realm.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow we're going to talk to Shane Keck, head coach
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• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that replaced– the post-Otton era, the legend down in Tumwater
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• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: our high school football focus, our weekly visit of high
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: school football focus. I'm at West Seattle tonight, the Southwest
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Athletic Conference right across from G-Cell. West Seattle is playing O'Day,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: one of the final Metro League regular season games. I'm
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: officiating that one. Tonight at 7 o'clock. Then tomorrow I'm
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: going to be at the King Co. Crown Division Championship game.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Mount Sai is hosting Bothell. I'm looking forward to that.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Mount Sai and Bothell are going to be officiating that
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  Speaker 2: game tomorrow as high schools head toward the playoffs. Back
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• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: more before we head to break. 708, can we keep
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford for death for offense? Of course they can.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: He's still under contract. If we can't trade him, they
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: definitely will. But I think the Nelson acquisition shows that
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: they weren't now planning to re-sign Anthony Bradford. His contract
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: ends this year. After this season, I should say.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of people wondering if he'd be a trade
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 4: piece for a rental for anybody.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: But I think, I mean, the trade deadline hasn't happened yet.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: But I don't know what the value they're looking for
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: would concede at this point.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: I agree with the 425 who says you don't trade
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: for a Hall of Famer and then move his position.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Nelson 100 will be in the lineup at left guard.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: You said that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I totally agree with that. 206. Even
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: when they were 3-3, I thought the Seahawks were the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: best team in the league. Just the turnovers being the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: equalizer on paper that made them not look like that.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: Defense world beaters just need Darnold to not throw those interceptions.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: That happens. We catch San Francisco and have a shot
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: at the one seed since Minnesota inevitably trips up. Excuse me.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: All good. Still battling the cold.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and those things last. Those things last. I'll get
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: you some holes.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Exactly. 425 says John Schneider has also lost players to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: free agencies saying they underestimate the market. Yes, he has.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: including Kobe Bryant most recently. Mm-hmm. Why didn't– oh, we
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: already answered that one. Up next, Ian Frenes. He's with
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: me here at Seahawk Headquarters. He's going to tell us
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: what's on the show next on 93.3 KJRFM. Hi, welcome back.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre, and now Ian Furness joining you
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: at Seahawks headquarters before the Seahawks practice today. And the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: first time that we're going to see the new all-pro
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: left guard. Yeah. Let's go, huh? Let's go. Let's go. Hey,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: big win for the Kraken last night. I mean, that's
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: a brand-name win. I know Toronto scuffled last year or so,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: but they were off to a decent start.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 7: They've been really good.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been really good.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 7: So it's a nice win.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Nice win. You can't script it any better. I think.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: Is it just me, or Bannier's winning the face-off there
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: in the end of regulation to set up the winning
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: goal for Montour? Have they gotten better at face-offs?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Has that been like an inserted effort?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 7: I'm assuming so, but they've gotten better at it.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 5: And it was, Montour talked about it after the game,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 5: it was not a set play, but it was something
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: they had structured. You know, when Toronto, you know, played
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 5: it how they wanted to, they cheated and, you know,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 5: Eberle got in, I mean, You give Monty a chance
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 5: to walk in from 15 feet out and wind up
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 5: and let her rip.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 7: There's not many guys who are going to stop that.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 7: It just worked out perfect for him.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 7: You don't want to blow a third-period lead.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: But if you're going to do it, you might as
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: well just answer with a 30-second left goal and send
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 5: the crowd home in a frenzy. So it was fun.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Ian was on the call last night on the Kraken
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: TV set, if you missed him. When the puck comes
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: across from Eberle and you see the shots forming before
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: he even shoots it, How do you keep yourself from
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: getting a little too amped up or too premature before
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: you actually say what happened?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 5: I guess you've done it enough times over the years.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: you're kind of reading the play, you know, like you read,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: I was reading, I was thinking that, I mean, a,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: he could blast at home. He could a, B miss
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 5: the net or C I'm thinking more rebound. So you
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: kind of build it up a little bit, but then,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, he just, he stepped into that thing and
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 5: it was good night.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 6: It was awesome.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 7: I listen at that point as a play by play guy,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 7: all you could do is screw it up.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Well, less is more, right? Right.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 5: And I can, on TV, it's a little different than
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: whatever it has to do on radio, but on TV,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: I lay out. We have an incredible production team, and
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: hopefully you can hear and feel it at home, the crowd.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 7: And JT does a great job of letting it lay
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 7: out as well.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Do you guys go like the hand signals?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 7: No, he was down between the benches. We have a
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 7: good feel for each other. We've worked enough together.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: This is the first time he's been between the benches
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: when I've been upstairs, but We have a pretty good
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: feel for each other, and I know when he's going
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: to jump in. He knows when I lay out that
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: he can go, or if not, I'll just pick it up.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: But on a goal call, what I've really always appreciated
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: about him, and even when Edzo was doing it, I hate,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: as a fan of sports, I hate when the analyst
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 5: jumps in over, A, the play-by-play guy, but, B, let
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: the crowd breathe, man.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Let it.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 7: That was a great crowd last night.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of Toronto fans there, and you scored
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: 30 seconds left after the deflating goal to tie it
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: up with 90 seconds left. Yeah, I thought, like I said,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: the only thing I could do at that point is
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: screw it up. And luckily, I didn't. But, yeah, and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: then JT did a great job. He jumped in when
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 5: he needed to and talked about the play itself. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 5: what an analyst does is just say what happened. He
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: talked about what happened, like how it happened. He does
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 5: a great job.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: You know what I thought JT also in that last
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: sequence was really good about? Explaining what a pro play
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: it was to just put the shot on net from
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: the blue line to force the faceoff that even started
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: that whole sequence. Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 7: Get an offensive zone faceoff.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: Just pluck it in there and make Bobrovsky have to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: glove it and you get the faceoff at 37. I
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: was going to pull it out. I've got the.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 5: My game note, I saved it. I'm going to put
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: it on social media later. Matthew scores. So I go
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: to the page in the game note packet with the
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: overtime records, and I had the red highlighter out, and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: I highlighted.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 7: It, and it was sitting in front of me. Didn't
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 7: need to use it after all, which is nice, yeah.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: When's your next TV gig?
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 7: Next Wednesday, I do Calgary.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: And then I think then John takes over for a bit,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: and then away we go, yeah.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 7: John's got tomorrow, and I got next Wednesday, and then
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 7: he's got next Saturday, and then they go.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: To Finland, so.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Kraken, the pace slows a little bit here. They only
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: play from Friday and then again on Wednesday. Thank God.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'll be honest with you. I have gas
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: And now we've got to find out what happens here today.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. We're going to get a lot of information.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: Let's handicap this. Yes.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: You ask me the question.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: I'm Mike McDonald. Well, there's a couple issues he's going
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: to be ducking on.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 7: Do the Quentin Nelson.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: So, Coach, you've got Quentin Nelson. What's that mean for
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: Gray Zabel? You've got three guards for two spots. How's
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: that going to shake out?
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 7: Well, we'll just wait and see.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: We'll be on the practice field later today, and we'll
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: figure out what we're going to do. I think by
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: the time we get to Monday, we'll have a pretty
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 5: good plan, but right now we're just kind of working
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: through it.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: And I'll look at him, and I'll have no follow-up,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: although I should be prepared for getting nothing. I should
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: have a follow-up.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: That's exactly it. Let's see how close that is tomorrow.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Is Quentin Nelson going to be your left guard coach?
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: We're not sure.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: He would say maybe this. We're not sure. He would
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: probably say maybe.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: Like, we're just getting, Greg, we're just getting on the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: practice field today. You know, we'll be out there for
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: the first time here this afternoon.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: We'll see what he's got. You can't see any of it,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: so you won't know.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: You know, you'll see on Monday. But, yeah, we've got
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: to work through, figure that out. We've got, you know,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: we've got Gray. We've got Anthony. We've got Quinn. We've got,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: we're in a good situation right now. We just don't
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: know what we're going to do.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: You said Janarian Price could be coming back this week
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: from 21-day window could start this week. Is Price practicing? Well.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: Probably, but we're going to work with the medical guys.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: If he's ready to go, then we'll get him out there.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: We've got a few days to figure that out. I
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: know what you're trying to do, Greg, but I'm not
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: going to give you that answer.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while, he does throw that in.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: That's true.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: Just as a little kick at the way out the door.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: What do you got today besides imitating Mike McDonald?
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: We're going to check in with Emanuel Wilson. He's going
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: to stop by here sometime in the next 20 minutes
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: or so.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: The accidental starter, 100-yard rusher.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: Good for him, man.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Good for him, right?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: Let's get him, man. And, you know, we'll ask him.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe he'll give us some tricks. There you go. They've
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: had a walkthrough. There you go. A little end run.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: That would work.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: I didn't think they'd give me anybody on the offense.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: I was surprised. So we'll see.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 7: I don't think they'll give us anything.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: But we'll ask him. Please ask.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: Hey, you know what?
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: There's a role for him here.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, there is.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be short yardage back.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 7: And so we'll talk to him about everything. I mean,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 7: what a huge game Monday, man.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: And then all about, let's just, what has happened over
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: the last two days is insane.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 7: I was listening to the start of your show today.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: It's like, it's hold my beer.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 7: Two all pros.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: It is. It's like one up on each other, and
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: now they're going to play against each other. It's going
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: to be a cross line from each other.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: It's just insane, man.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: It is insane.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 7: And then, you know, the 49ers go, hey. Forrest Buckner,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: four sacks from the inside.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Four sacks in seven games.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 7: Two interior defensive linemen traded in the last two days.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, that is. You know how the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Seahawks do it. We're probably going to get Quentin Nelson
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: in some press conference or media setting today.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I did ask. I think that's what they did.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: Ian Furness is up next, 12-3. His Factor Fiction pick
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: will come at 2.35. Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre. We'll do
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: it again tomorrow. Ian's up next from Seahawk Headquarters. Thanks
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: for the text. Thanks for the no-talk backs. Jessamyn's still
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: kind of sour about that.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: I'll get over it.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: We'll see what we can do.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 7: We'll talk about that.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Ian's up next on 93.3 KJR FM.