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Chuck in the Morning 9/16 H1: Arizona Cardinals on Tap, Mariners Morning After & Adam Silver · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Is anybody out there? We're live.
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  Speaker 1: Are you writing this down? No, something completely different. This
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  Speaker 1: is Chuck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Why, you.
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  Speaker 3: People are beyond human.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's get the game on. Oh, great morning
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  Speaker 1: to you. Welcome into the radio show. It is a
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  Speaker 1: hump day. Oh, the special hump day. It's special around here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I do love myself a Wednesday radio show. No question
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  Speaker 1: about it. Don't even ask me why. It's just something
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  Speaker 1: special about the day.
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  Speaker 2: Andrews Hurst.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like... Right in the middle of everything, and
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  Speaker 1: there's something magical about a Wednesday radio program.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Mondays are Mondays, but at least you get Monday Night Football.
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  Speaker 4: I personally think Tuesdays are the worst day. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: There must be something about that chair. Bucky used to
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  Speaker 1: say that all.
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  Speaker 3: The time, too.
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  Speaker 1: He hates Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 4: I hate Tuesdays. Even Mondays, you get to see people
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  Speaker 4: you haven't seen all weekend. There's Monday Night Football.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice. That's nice of you to say as a human.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but Tuesdays, it's just like, damn.
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  Speaker 4: All right, although novelty has worn off already, and we're
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  Speaker 4: still not even halfway through this week.
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  Speaker 3: Can we get this rolling here?
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  Speaker 1: All those people I missed over the weekend I'm already
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  Speaker 1: sick of. It's true.
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  Speaker 4: One day, dang it, let's get out of here. But
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  Speaker 4: I like Wednesdays, but not as much as Thursdays or Fridays.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. You've already ranked them. Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's good for me to know. Thursdays are
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  Speaker 1: actually probably my favorites. I might have to tread lightly
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 3: I might have to tiptoe around Andrew.
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  Speaker 5: Tuesdays.
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  Speaker 3: Learn more about it every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I love every single day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all. And when you get to my age,
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  Speaker 1: you too, you better learn to soak that stuff up.
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  Speaker 1: You better find something to enjoy about every day. So
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  Speaker 1: I try to.
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  Speaker 3: Use- You don't discriminate the day?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I really learned this in COVID. I would
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  Speaker 1: set for the unicorn and I, because we lived- you know,
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  Speaker 1: in quarantine for a little while, a long while. And
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  Speaker 1: I would set these appointments every single day so that
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  Speaker 1: I would have something to look forward to. And I
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  Speaker 1: could give her something to look forward to every day.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was just, it was a nice little payoff. Like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's Tuesdays. We do this on Tuesdays. And it helped
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  Speaker 1: us get through the grind of all of that. And
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  Speaker 1: now I just do that in my everyday life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I set something aside every single day to look forward.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a bunch of examples of things you
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  Speaker 4: did during COVID, like what you and me, anyone, that
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  Speaker 4: they now do every day because they started doing it
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  Speaker 4: during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of one for me, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure there's a couple in there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find one by the end of the show. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Another one is, yes, I I wear a mask everywhere
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  Speaker 1: I go.
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  Speaker 3: Is that by choice?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. I did not fall in love with that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this. This also stuck with me. There's something
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  Speaker 1: about people sneezing and coughing that still to this day,
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  Speaker 1: when someone in public sneezes, it has a different effect
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  Speaker 1: on me than it did 10 years ago. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even really, I'm not worried about it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Turn your head.
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  Speaker 1: But there is something that in that time that it
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  Speaker 1: struck such fear in me because I, the unknown and
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  Speaker 1: people can say, oh, you're stupid. You exaggerated. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But in the moment I had a high risk person
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  Speaker 1: living in my house that thought she was going to die. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I had to protect her. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: rarely went outside and I walked by the mailman and
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  Speaker 1: he sneezed near me. It had a different effect on me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And still to this day, it still has a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a different effect on me than what it
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  Speaker 1: used to. I used to never even think anything of it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you're alone.
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  Speaker 1: And now when somebody sneezes or coughs near me in public,
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  Speaker 1: it's like.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little....
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Are they sick? Should they be out here?
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  Speaker 4: No, you're not alone on that. I'm not even a
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  Speaker 4: germaphobe or have a high risk anything. It's just like
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  Speaker 4: a little head turn.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I have to think about that now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Bucky because Bucky... He's had that giant beard and
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  Speaker 1: he would always have things flying up his nose and
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  Speaker 1: he was sneezing constantly in here. And it was like...
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  Speaker 1: Don't get anything on me! The number of times I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: are you sick or are you just getting your beard
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  Speaker 1: up your face? I'm not sick! And he would get
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  Speaker 1: angry with me a little bit because he got tired
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  Speaker 1: of being asked the questions. But it just... That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of in me right now. I hope it goes away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But... it's still there a little bit. Not as bad
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  Speaker 1: as it used to be, but a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like now when I have to cough, I'm like, oh
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  Speaker 4: my God, are people going to look at me and
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  Speaker 4: think that I'm sick and irresponsible for being out in public?
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  Speaker 3: And like, it's just like... Oh, I'm much more careful
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  Speaker 3: about myself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like I'll go outside to sneeze.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In public, just so that people... Don't freak out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah. So I know it has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: effect on me. I don't know what the effect it's
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  Speaker 1: going to have on the person sitting next to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to put them through that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's made me more aware of others. That's for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, wasn't planning on talking about that today. Great
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  Speaker 1: morning to you all. I hope you have a sneezeless day.
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  Speaker 3: Sneezeless day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It is Chuck Powell, Anders Hurst, and Travis Moger
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  Speaker 1: with you here on this Wednesday. And we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ground to cover over the course of the
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  Speaker 1: next four hours. But one thing about hump day on
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  Speaker 1: this show, that's when we really start to look forward
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  Speaker 1: to the next Seahawks game. We are in football season
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  Speaker 1: and we're finally getting to some normalcy. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: feel like a normal football week finally. Playing on a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to start the year. It feels like it's already
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  Speaker 1: felt like a month since we played that football game.
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  Speaker 1: It does. And yet we still got a few more
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  Speaker 1: days to go, and I tried to hold off on
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  Speaker 1: getting too far into the weeds with the Arizona Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: but that ends today. Today we dive into it. Greg
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  Speaker 1: Bell's going to be joining us at 7.05, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to spend a couple of segments today, including this one,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for the Arizona Cardinals. And three things come
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  Speaker 1: to mind about this game. Number one, obviously, is our
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  Speaker 1: quarterback situation. And I know there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people since last Wednesday who have expressed, either on social
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  Speaker 1: media or on our text line, that they feel perfectly
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  Speaker 1: fine with Drew Locke as our quarterback and think under
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  Speaker 1: the right circumstances he could be just as good as
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I think that he's very talented. People forget
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold was the third overall pick, though, in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL draft. So no one has ever doubted Sam Darnold's talent. Like,
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  Speaker 1: no one. Now, his skills and ability, those have been questioned.
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  Speaker 1: And his knowledge and composure for the position... That's been
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  Speaker 1: questioned over the years. And then the results have obviously
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  Speaker 1: been questioned over the years. But here in Seattle, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to think that we feel, at least we feel,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has knocked some of those criticisms into the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl, for goodness sake. So when
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  Speaker 1: you lose the quarterback, the talented quarterback of a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion, one series into the season, Oh yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: changes things. That changes the outlook for the upcoming game.
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  Speaker 1: This is a drop-off. Make no mistake about it. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Drew Locke is a good, solid number two.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks will tell you he's the best in the league.
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  Speaker 1: That's them supporting their guy. I don't go that far.
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke's had plenty of opportunities to impress us as
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  Speaker 1: a potential number one, and he's never come through.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gotten a couple wins here and there.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotten the job done a couple of times, but
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  Speaker 1: he has a lot more proving to do than what
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold did when he arrived as the Seahawks quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to experience a drop-off. There's no
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  Speaker 1: question from the quarterback position, and that makes us more
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable because not only are we going with our backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: we're going on the road for the first time. Drew
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  Speaker 1: Locke's going to have plenty of reps this week, which
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have access to the previous week.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a positive.
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  Speaker 1: So great for Drew Locke. Great for Drew Locke, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody praised him for... You don't understand. He didn't have
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  Speaker 1: one rep, and for him to play that well, no question.
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  Speaker 1: He was really good last Wednesday. Under the circumstances, he
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  Speaker 1: was fantastic. But now, yes, you do get the more reps, Anders,
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  Speaker 1: but you also... The team prepares for you now. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The opponent prepares for you and what you do. And
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  Speaker 1: they are now going to study what does Drew Locke
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  Speaker 1: bring to the field and that Sam Darnold. What are
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  Speaker 1: his tells? What are his giveaways? What are his weaknesses?
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  Speaker 1: What can we attack? This isn't his first time in
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  Speaker 1: the league. We've got game film on him for the
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  Speaker 1: first time this season from last Wednesday, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a library of Drew Locke game film that we can study.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, he's going to get the extra prep, but
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  Speaker 1: so are the Cardinals in preparation for facing Drew.
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  Speaker 4: Locke's Yeah, I think the standard is different now, right?
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  Speaker 4: One of the things you just mentioned is under the circumstances,
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  Speaker 4: he had a really, really good game.
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  Speaker 1: Great game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really great game.
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  Speaker 4: If he had that exact same game against Arizona- we
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  Speaker 4: might not feel that exact same way because he has
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  Speaker 4: the preparation because he, we need him to, instead of
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  Speaker 4: just fill in for one game, it looks like it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be, you know, up to a month of
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  Speaker 4: drew lock. So that's going to be kind of, and
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  Speaker 4: we're always going to look at it instead of just
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  Speaker 4: that one game as a long-term thing. Cause that's just
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  Speaker 4: what football fans do. So even if he struggles and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, throws a pick, maybe a touchdown or, um
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  Speaker 4: not super efficient but the Seahawks kind of squeeze out
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  Speaker 4: a win obviously that's best case or not best case
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  Speaker 4: scenario but that that's a good scenario which Seahawks fans
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  Speaker 4: would sign up for just get the win right now
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  Speaker 4: exactly but there would be a lot of people saying
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  Speaker 4: man I don't know how long this Drew Locke starting
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback is going to be sustainable um but at
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  Speaker 4: this point he it I tend to think he is
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  Speaker 4: in the upper echelon of backup quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I do too.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the best.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the best.
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  Speaker 4: It's close. I think he's top five at the very least. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's backup quarterbacks. It is an important position,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not like you're talking about a starter, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: So I just think we're going to have different expectations
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  Speaker 4: for Drew Locke this time. And I know the Cardinals
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  Speaker 4: won last week. They're still viewed as... a lower end
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  Speaker 4: team in the NFL. So he should be looking to
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  Speaker 4: have some success and the Seahawks should obviously be looking
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  Speaker 4: to win this game. Because if you don't, That's a
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  Speaker 4: loss you weren't signing up to have. And I know
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  Speaker 4: the Rams are behind the eight ball with their injury situation.
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  Speaker 4: They're already 0-1. But the Niners are looking good. And
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  Speaker 4: this is, once again, looking like one of the best
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  Speaker 4: divisions in football. So you need to get every win
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  Speaker 4: you can. Well, let's talk about the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Because, you know, I'm not going to be persuaded by
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  Speaker 1: one week of football. I'm not going to come off
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  Speaker 1: of my predictions and feelings about these teams. I'm certainly
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  Speaker 1: willing to change my mind, and I'm certainly well aware
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  Speaker 1: that I will be proven wrong in many instances and
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  Speaker 1: being proven right in a lot of instances. My track record,
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  Speaker 1: I think, in projecting over-unders in our NFL green jacket
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  Speaker 1: draft suggests I'm pretty good at this. That said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to miss a few, but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: come off of any of my preseason predictions after one game.
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  Speaker 1: And that includes the Arizona Cardinals, who no one had
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  Speaker 1: high expectations for, most notably the Cardinals. And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to come off the prediction and think that
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  Speaker 1: because they beat the Chargers in week number one, 26
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  Speaker 1: to 14, that, oh, we got this one wrong. That's
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  Speaker 1: a contender. You know, I still expect them to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that they're prepared as an organization to
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  Speaker 1: be that. this upcoming season. That said, we have a
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback starting this week, and there is no way
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  Speaker 1: you take any opponent lightly in any NFL week, especially
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  Speaker 1: one that not only beat a favored team last week,
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  Speaker 1: they destroyed them. I did not watch this game. I
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  Speaker 1: spent more time watching Red Zone than I did, and
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  Speaker 1: I got sick of watching Red Zone after the early games.
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  Speaker 1: And I just wanted to focus on one game. So
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  Speaker 1: I just put it on the, or the two games
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  Speaker 1: that were available. So I just put it on the Eagles, um,
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  Speaker 1: and commanders game and watch that. And then I had
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings Packers on the second television. Um, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch much of this. I've only seen the highlights
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  Speaker 1: of the Cardinals chargers. So if anyone thinks that this
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  Speaker 1: was some flukish, Oh, they caught him on their heels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way you can catch any team on its
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  Speaker 1: heels in week one. There's no chance of that. And
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  Speaker 1: if so, then we got to really question Jim Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: as a coach. Yeah. Okay. The Cardinals took it to them.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals had 393 total yards to 268. They had
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  Speaker 1: 90 more passing yards with Jacoby Brissett than the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: had with Justin Herbert. They sacked Herbert three times. The
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  Speaker 1: Chargers sacked Jacoby Brissett once for no yards. They had
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  Speaker 1: 35 more rushing yards. Omarion Hampton and Mike McDaniel's offense
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be some special formula. They bottled him
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  Speaker 1: up for 12 carries and 43 yards. The Cardinals didn't
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  Speaker 1: even get the advantage of the officiating. They had 57
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  Speaker 1: more yards worth of penalties than what the Chargers did
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  Speaker 1: and still kicked the snot out of them. Still won
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  Speaker 1: by 12. If that doesn't get your attention... then I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure that you're living in this world. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you might be just in your own fantasy world. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Cardinals. We'll beat them for sure. That's the
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  Speaker 1: world that you're living in. In this real world, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is some information. They just beat the Chargers in
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  Speaker 1: every single way to start the season. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way on opening day to catch a team
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  Speaker 1: not ready, not fired up, overlooking an opponent.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way on opening day. There's no trap games
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  Speaker 3: in week one.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Everybody's fired up. Everybody's chewing through the walls. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: at a long preseason, a long training camp. Can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and see what all this hard work,
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  Speaker 1: see it pay off, see its first example of how
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  Speaker 1: it might pay off. And instead, the Cardinals absolutely destroyed
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers last week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I actually got to kind of watch a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of that game, knowing the Seahawks were going
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  Speaker 4: to play the Cardinals. So I tried to kind of
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  Speaker 4: really keep my eye on that one as much as possible.
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  Speaker 4: And it did not what you said in the box
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  Speaker 4: score represented what I saw on the field, too. It
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  Speaker 4: was a physical team where that didn't turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 4: Jacoby Brissett looked comfortable. Their defense looked like it was
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. Like there was a lot of aspects
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  Speaker 4: of the Cardinals that I was not expecting to see.
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  Speaker 1: Time of possession, 15 minutes more for the Cardinals. That
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  Speaker 1: is controlling the clock. Absolutely. Everything they set their mind
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  Speaker 1: to do, they did it against a team that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a Super Bowl contender.
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  Speaker 3: That's what everyone thought for a long time.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know when people are going to stop really
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: hyping up the Chargers because they never live up to
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: those expectations.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: That's another story.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: But, I mean, it's... I've always thought the Cardinals, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: last few years with Kyler, were on the doorstep of
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: becoming a playoff contender, not a Super Bowl contender.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Well, they were a playoff contender for a few years there.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: It always seemed like they could have taken that next step,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, this is the year I
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: don't think that that's going to be the case. Maybe
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: this is the year they end up doing that, because, like.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I said, they.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: We're not overreacting to week one. It's just one game.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: We're not going to change our expectations based off of
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: what we saw in one game. But you have to
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: be more prepared. You can't just think, hey, we have
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: a backup quarterback. We should be able to breeze through
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: this game because it's the Cardinals. That's definitely not the case.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: And I don't think Mike McDonald's thinking that way either.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: For the Chargers, in their favor, in their column, Madison
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Beer looked really nice. Yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look really cute. That's a positive for them.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That was a really cute top she was wearing.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Cute.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Cute, yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Why does she not?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she looked cute. And then the third thing that
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I think needs to be pointed out by this matchup,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and look, I'm not trying to send out any warnings like, oh, no,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to cause any worry. We should win
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: this game, even with Drew Lockett quarterback. But these are
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: things to be aware of. I promise you Mike McDonald is.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: The new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals is Mike LaFleur.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Pretty good first impression that first game out. And the resume,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that has been the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: mentor of the two best play callers, universally believed play callers,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: maybe Ben Johnson's in that group too, but he was
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: first under Kyle Shanahan. And then under Sean McVay, and oh,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, his brother is Matt LaFleur.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Who's also really good.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And so that's his tutelage right there. That's who he
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: has learned under. And even though Mike McDonald clearly has
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's number, I mean, Mike McDonald now finishes Kyle
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Shanahan's sentences. Kyle Shanahan can't even order dinner without Mike
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: McDonald knowing you're going to have chicken. I mean, he
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: has totally picked the pocket of Kyle Shanahan. Yeah. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that Sean McVay and that Rams team.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: He got them.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: They were lighting up the best defense in the National
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Football League in two of the three games. And unfortunately,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they were the last two of the three.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, they were.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They were pretty much doing whatever they wanted. And the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of those Rams. was Mike LaFleur. So Mike
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: LaFleur has got a pretty good book on Mike McDonald,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: like maybe better than anyone else in the national football league.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So again, I'm not trying to raise alarms. I'm not trying,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm worried about this or concerned about this.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to win. I think we're going
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to win in Arizona. And I think, cause I believe
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in our head coach, he's going to have them prepared,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: but there's no, there are plenty of reasons why To
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: make sure you are playing your best football on Sunday.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Because the Arizona Cardinals have kind of sent out a
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: warning shot to everybody else. Hey, we might not be
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the pushover you think we are. And we might not
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: be the best matchup for Mike McDonald and the Seahawks
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that everybody is assuming. So let's get ready. It's time
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: for big boy football. Can't take anybody lightly. You cannot
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: take this team lightly on Sunday. Let's find out what's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: on tap for the rest of the show.
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• 20:25
  Speaker 1: All right, kickoff at 125 on Sunday. Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It is hump day, so today is the day we
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: really start diving into this matchup, and we will have
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the 12th man roundtable tomorrow for the first time this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: football season from 8 to 9, Greg Bell and Hugh Millen.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Greg's back from Hawaii, so he'll be joining us today,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: back on his show as well, starting at 10 o'clock today.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So we'll ask Greg Bell about Sam Darnold's unique butt injury.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: So you're the one that laughed.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I did. You're the one that brought it up.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You were judging Travis and I yesterday, but you're the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: one that keeps giggling like a schoolboy. Yeah. NFL Week
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: 2 starts tomorrow, and what a game. Detroit at Buffalo.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Buffalo's going to show off its brand-new stadium. We'll play
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: some Factor Fiction today at 735. Also, Waiver Wire Wednesday
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is back for you, Fantasy. Geeks of which we are also.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: College football, Huskies versus Eastern Washington. The Huskies pretty much
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: have one week to figure out how to play offense.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Cam Cleland's going to join us at 9 o'clock today.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We're going to get his thoughts on that. He will
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: be joining us at 9 o'clock every Wednesday this football season.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We are also just a few days away from the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: game I look forward to the most. And I don't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: think there's going to be another one that tops it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss versus LSU on Saturday. Sounders Paul Rothrock is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: out for a team that has not won a match
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in like three and a half decades. It's not the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world to lose the team's leading score.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's not their best player, but he has been
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: their leading scorer this season. We'll get Anders' thoughts on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that later on in the show. Kraken camp continues. The
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: preseason opener, believe it or not, is this Saturday. National
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Basketball Association. Adam Silver announced a press conference yesterday just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to remind us here in Seattle that he's dragging his feet.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: He still does not have a decision. And as a
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, it sounds like the Las Vegas expansion
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: effort is the first and foremost thing on his agenda
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: right now. Maybe that's good news. Maybe that's because Seattle's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: house is in order, uh, but, uh, not exactly, uh,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: putting the pedal to the metal here, uh, Adam Silver
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: on making this announcement. And yes, we're all frustrated by that. Uh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: finally angels one over the Mariners last night, two to one,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it guarantees a losing season this year. in a year
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that Joe Sheehan described as the most disappointing season in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a century in Major League Baseball. That's what we authored
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: this year here in Seattle. We'll talk about the latest
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: failure next. It's Mariners morning after. Yeah, we're going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: do it. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Great morning to you all.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It is Chuck Anderson, Travis with you. It is time
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for Mariners Morning After, and yes, it is a sad,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: sad time in the season. I think it's setting in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to all of the players, all of the coaches, that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: what a failure this year has been. Last night, another
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: loss to the Angels, and we'll cover that first because
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: it is Mariners Morning After, our post-game show. The score
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: was tied at one. Mariners did tie things up at
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: one in the top of the sixth. Logan Gilbert pitched
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: really well last night, and yet he still blamed himself
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: for the loss. That's typical Logan, because after the team
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: rallied to tie the game at one, he goes out
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the sixth and gives up this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Gilbert fires home.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Muscled out to right center field.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Lowe got all of this. It is out of here.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, home run, Josh Lowe. Josh Lowe's home run
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: made it 2-1, and that held up. The Mariners scored
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: just one run on seven hits, struck out nine times
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: against a pitching staff that's not really striking guys out.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: From Ryan Johnson to Taylor Saucedo and on, that's not
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: exactly a lineup of strikeout pitchers, and we still managed
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to strike out once per inning. uh, and another, uh,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: bad loss to one, the final score. It cements a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: losing season for the Mariners who went into this year
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: as the favorites, heavy favorites to win the American league
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: West and a lot of circles, the favorites to win
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the American league. And as I said, I think it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was a soaking in, uh, to the players after the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: game that it is certainly over at this point, Logan Gilbert,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: very reflective after the game.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's really disappointing. Everybody knows that, um, I
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: think the most frustrating part is like we've kind of
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: been saying it all year and everybody thought it would
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: turn and play 160 games, things are going to turn
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: around because we know we have a good team and
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: just never really turned around and that's on us. Like
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: got to play better, got to execute and do what
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: we need to do. But it is pretty surprising that
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: we're at this point. Like I don't think anybody thought
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: we'd be here, but that's the situation we're in.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Will it take like after the season to really kind
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: of reflect it? figure out where it kind of went
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: so wrong, do you think?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Or do you have ideas now?
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think everybody at this point has been thinking
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: about it and stuff because I think there will be
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: some reflection and conversations that need to be had with players,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: with coaches, just everybody getting on the same page and
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: assessing what happened because this is the kind of thing
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: that can't happen and you can't let it happen again,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: but I It's baseball, but it's frustrating because I believe
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: we have the talent in that room, and a lot
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: of people in that clubhouse would say we haven't played
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: up to the standards that we set for ourselves. So
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: it's been frustrating all year.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert after the game last night, and it's about
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a five-minute little gathering there. That's Ryan Divish being very nosy,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: by the way. Prying. But it was like a five-minute gathering,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and there was a really dumb question that was mixed
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: in there that we don't air. But it was very
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: interesting later, as you could sort of see on Logan's face,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and Logan is just as pure a person as there is.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, he is just such a good young man,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and his teammates love him. And there are a lot
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of guys like him in that locker room. And that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: pitching staff, that starting rotation specifically, that's about as tight
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a group of teammates as you'll ever meet in all
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of your days. They love each other. They're like uncles
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to all their young children now. I mean, they are tight.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And as the question started being asked of Logan Anders,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you could see on his face, there was like this,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you could see him in the moment kind of realizing like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: This season was a failure. He even said it at
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: one point. It feels like I just got into the league,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and yet now it's been five, six years, and this
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: window that we all thought was so wide open for
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: us to win a championship and win it together, I
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: could win it with my brothers, might be closing. One
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of those starting pitchers is leaving this offseason. Two of
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: them might be leaving this offseason. And so when you're
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: young and you don't seize the opportunity, you don't carpe
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: diem this mother blanker. The next thing you know, you're
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: waking up and you're like, oh my gosh. my time
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: is done. I never got to win the championship with
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: my buddies, with my best friends. If I'm going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: win a world series, I'm going to be on another team.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Potentially it might be over. You could see it in
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: his face, him sort of realizing as the questions were
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: being asked, I might have one more start, two more
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: starts as a Mariner. And where I assumed we were
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: going to win a championship together and That might not happen,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and it's certainly not going to happen this year.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's one of the sadder parts
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: about why the end of this year... First of all,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: it's the first time really since 2020. Obviously, it's the
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: first losing season since 2020, but it's the first time
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: especially since 2020 that... We haven't at least gone to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: the last series of the season.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: First time in his career, which is another thing he
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: pointed out.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not playing for anything right now, really. At
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: least as a team, they're not. Individual stuff, we can
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: get into all that later. Yeah, I mean, you just
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: look at a team like the Baltimore Orioles, who thought
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: they were at the beginning of this huge window in 2023.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Good point.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: And the last couple of years, they've just fallen off
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: a cliff and they ended up selling. And now Ali
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Rutschman's gone. There's talks of Gunnar Henderson possibly moving on
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: as well. It's just like these windows close so quickly,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: which is why.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: That's why you have to take advantage when you have
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: them open. And I'm not saying the Mariners didn't do
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: that 100%. They could have probably done a little bit
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: better with that. But from a player's perspective, as you're mentioning,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: that's kind of the sad part about all this. It's
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: going to look like a lot different team next year.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: No Randy, no JP, most likely. You've mentioned one of
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: the starting pitchers. I mean, this team's going to look
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of the guys that have been here for
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: a while. Part of this run are not going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: be here next year.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Well, here's a little teaching moment for you. When I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: was a young man, there was this quarterback by the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: name of Dan Marino. Oh, never heard of him. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Dan Marino not only took the league by storm. I mean, honestly,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you've never seen anything like it. He changed the game.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: In his first full year starting, we thought we were
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: watching something that was... He was going to win five,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: ten Super Bowls. He's unstoppable. I mean, that's the way
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: everybody felt. And he made it to the Super Bowl,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: lost the Super Bowl in his first full year as
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a starter. And the entire conversation was, of course, he's
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: going to be back again. He never got back. Not
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: only did he not win one, he never got back
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, even though he was legendary, even
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: though he's still, in my opinion, without that, one of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the top five quarterbacks I've ever seen play. You can't
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: assume anything in this sport. You do have to seize
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the day. You might think, hey, I'm not going to
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: be a free agent for another six years. Look at
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: all this talent around me. Look at all these starting pitchers. Man,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they are my buddies. Oh, they're going to be in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: my wedding, and I'm going to have pictures of them
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with my baby. And then the next thing you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you wake up, and I might get traded this offseason,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and this is over, and we didn't accomplish our goal.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And I would say that about this team more so
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: than anybody. I think you did sit around waiting for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: it to just turn on its own rather than dig
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: your heels in, really assess yourself as an individual, a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: lot of you, and as a team. I don't think
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that the manager was there lighting the right kind of fires.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And this is a total waste of a season. It's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: beyond disappointing. It is embarrassing. You have embarrassed yourselves. This
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: will be an embarrassing season that you'll look back on
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: in your lives. I have a couple of embarrassing years
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in my career. I've had disappointing moments, certainly, but I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: have had a couple of years of embarrassment in my career.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Should have never taken that job, and I hope nobody
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: ever brings that up publicly. And that's the type of
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: season that they just had, and I hope that they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: never do get over it. Because It's one thing that
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: if your parents are disappointed, we wish you would have
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: chosen a different career path. We will wish you would
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: have done this. We wish you had done that. Why
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: didn't you take my advice on that school we wanted
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to send you to? It's another thing to go home,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: sit at the dinner table and your parents say, I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: am embarrassed to be your parent. Yeah. And that's what
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: they should feel. This was an, this was not just
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a disappointing year. This was a thoroughly embarrassing year for
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: everyone on that team, everyone in that front office, everyone
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: on that coaching staff, everyone under the ownership umbrella, every
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: single person in the organization. should be embarrassed by what
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: they put on the field this year.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, and even if this is just a
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: one-off and they come back and get back to the
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: playoffs next year, it still will be an embarrassment because
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: it's a huge waste of what should have been one
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: of the more talented teams in the American League in
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: a down.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: American League year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: So you'll still look back on this, even if it
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: doesn't set off a huge downfall, which I hope it doesn't.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, time to check in with
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the feet dragger. Yes, that's right, the galaxy's largest feet dragger.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I knew he was an alien. He's just from planet
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: feet drag. That's what Adam Silver is. Sports Radio 93.3
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: KJR FM.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: We have to rank different theme songs for, like, all
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the networks and the sports, because I have a clear
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: tier list. At some point we have to do that.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I know it's more of a summer topic, but, like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: all the Fox football. I don't know if we have to.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Sunday night football.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe we will. It might be fun. Yeah,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: you're right. Good point. I don't know if I.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: You don't have to.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if we're going to get an
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: edict from my heart. I mean, round ball rock is
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: just an American classic.
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  Speaker 3: It is an American classic. B-b-b-b-b-basketball.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And that skit is hilarious.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: We think we may just need the song. We don't
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: need the singer. All right, coming up at the top
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: of the hour, headlines. And Greg Bell is back from Hawaii.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: We cannot wait to ask him about Sam Darnold's unique
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: butt injury. So that's coming your way at 7.05. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: didn't laugh. Yeah, you didn't. Finally an adult in the room.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But let's talk about the ultimate feet dragger in sports,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver. I knew, I knew. I'd always been suspicious,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and frankly, I knew. That he was an alien from
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: another planet. And now I know. He is Feticus Von Dragamus.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Feticus Von Dragamus. From the planet Scuff Shoe. And he
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is descended upon our planet just to dangle carrots in
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  Speaker 1: front of us. I do believe eventually Thetacus will allow
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: us to dine on said carrot.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: But right now he is just enjoying watching us reach
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  Speaker 1: for something that just is beyond our arm length. Thetacus
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  Speaker 1: is an evil person. bastard from another solar system. He
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't look right in the face or eyes or head,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and yet he has control of our NBA destiny, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it certainly has gotten rather aggravating. Yesterday, he held a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: press conference, and I guess it was a press conference
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: just to announce that we're not going to punish the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Clippers any further, but he did. in his press conference,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: address potential expansion with both us and Las Vegas. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: he dragged his feet again, saying that there has been
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: more discussion surrounding the possibility, still calling it a possibility,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of expanding to Vegas and Seattle, stating that there are
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: several active groups in the bidding. He then said the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: next round of bids will be coming shortly, not providing
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: us a date, but that those will not be the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: final bids, just the next step in the process. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: yet said, yes, we should be able within the calendar
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: year to make this announcement. We should know everything before
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the year comes to a close, which is the, as
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: far as I'm counting, maybe I'm wrong, the third year
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in a row that he said this.
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's more than that, but I know it's been
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: three years in a row now that he said we
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: will know within the year. And his statement a year
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: ago was definitively, was going to happen within the year,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and then it didn't happen within the year. Right. So, yes,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this alien lord that is living amongst—
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's looked down to see if
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: he actually has feet. Maybe he just has, you know, tentacles.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I've seen that on Men in Black. Or he's just floating. Oh,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: maybe he's just floating. Maybe he doesn't even have feet.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: But if you check, they are certainly at least scuffed,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and it looks like they've been grounded to the ankle nub.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: by how long he has been dragging his alien feet.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I understand that he can't really say
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: anything definitive until they know for sure, but it's just,
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: it feels like we're just a broken record here in saying, like, look, like,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: when are we gonna have some sort of movement? It
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: feels like nothing has happened. Yes, they had the announcement
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: that they narrowed it down to Vegas and Seattle. That's
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: been the biggest thing that's happened in the last three
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: years with this. And still, to that point, they're still
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: going through bids. I think, to me, this is just one...
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: objective in mind, and that's to raise the price of
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: the expansion fee.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, why not just let Mark Walter buy them
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: both with fake money?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, why not?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: All we want is a basketball team. I mean, obviously,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: in our professional sports, it doesn't matter if the owner
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: actually has money to pay for the organization or the players.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: So just give us our team, and we'll figure it
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: out from there. Just sell them both to Mark Walter
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: and his Monopoly money, and we'll be good.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably don't want that guy running our team.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Come on, you don't want an owner who's in prison actively?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: That would be.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Kind of a novelty, to be honest. We could kind
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: of check in on him every once in a while,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: see how he's doing.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Right!
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Visitation!
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Visitation!
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would prefer not, but, you know, whatever.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: All right, you're just nitpicking. I am, I really am.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Do you want a team or not? All right, coming
• 39:02
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• 39:05
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