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Chuck in the Morning 9/11 H1: How bout those Rams? Mariners Morning After & ICYMI Neuheisel. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: It's our first official Football Friday of 2026. I know
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  Speaker 3: off on a football Friday. We've got you for the
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  Speaker 3: next four hours. It is great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 3: And it was wonderful this morning to see so many
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  Speaker 3: of you celebrating by driving 10 miles per hour under
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  Speaker 3: the speed limit.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I saw one guy almost get in two accidents
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  Speaker 5: in about 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Was he driving too slow or too fast?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he was just driving like a moron.
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  Speaker 5: He was in a lane, and then the right lane
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  Speaker 5: that was going onto the freeway, it was all in
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  Speaker 5: a line. And he was like, well, but I'm in
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  Speaker 5: this lane, and I want to get over, so you
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  Speaker 5: have to let me over.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't, I'll just come in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the worst one of them all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That guy.
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  Speaker 1: That guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and your red truck. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: See?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And there's only one of you out there with
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  Speaker 2: a red truck.
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  Speaker 1: That drives like that. He knows.
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  Speaker 2: He knows. It hurts. It hurts right now. You're getting
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  Speaker 2: called out on radio. We don't know your name.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably Chad.
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  Speaker 2: Chad.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Chad and the red truck. Doesn't obey the rules
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  Speaker 3: of the road. Doesn't respect the other motorists.
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  Speaker 2: Sure done.
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  Speaker 1: Sure done.
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  Speaker 2: Sure done.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it? I've never said that that way, but
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  Speaker 1: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to stick with it.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Don't do it again, Chad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And if you continue it, I don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen to you.
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  Speaker 1: No one does.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go on this Football Friday, and we have
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  Speaker 3: a lot to discuss. And let me just start off
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  Speaker 3: by saying... The Rams!
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  Speaker 5: Wait, how does this affect them going undefeated this season?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to pull it off. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't say. You don't say.
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  Speaker 2: You don't say. That is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I mean, I'll cut to the chase.
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoy being right about sports. And frankly, I'm
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  Speaker 3: wrong more than I want to be. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be right all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to predict things.
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  Speaker 3: I think I got a pretty good ratio compared to others.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm still wrong way too much.
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  Speaker 2: Way too much.
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  Speaker 3: For my liking, I like to be right. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you do this for a living. You have strong opinions.
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  Speaker 3: You throw them out there and you want to feel
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  Speaker 3: the next day like, yeah, I had.
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  Speaker 2: That figured out.
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  Speaker 1: Nailed it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why sometimes I do tell you when I'm right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I also will tell you when I'm wrong. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true. This is the first time in a
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  Speaker 2: long time that I will be happy to be wrong
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  Speaker 2: about two different things.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I am happy to be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: About the 49ers being bad this year or hitting the
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  Speaker 3: wall this year if it means that I'm wrong about
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  Speaker 3: the Rams being as good as we all thought they
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  Speaker 3: were going to be. Because that is hilarious. The fact
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  Speaker 3: that we have spent an entire offseason Building them up.
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  Speaker 3: Like we might be watching, let's face it, the greatest
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  Speaker 3: team that has ever been assembled.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to go undefeated, people have said.
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  Speaker 3: Even the New England Patriots, when they went undefeated and
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  Speaker 3: should have finished the season undefeated.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that team?
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  Speaker 3: The Brady-Randy Moss team that trucked everybody during the season
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  Speaker 3: and somehow lost to a good but not great Giants team.
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  Speaker 2: In the Super Bowl? That team?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't start the season with the hype that this Rams
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  Speaker 3: team is getting. And it's not just the talking heads
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  Speaker 3: on the national programs. It's not just the local talk
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  Speaker 3: show host who might be a little bit worried that
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  Speaker 3: the Rams just added Miles Garrett and Trent McDuffie and
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Donald, who didn't play last night. Yeah. Um, It
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  Speaker 3: was Vegas reacting to everyone in America. They don't set
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  Speaker 3: those lines because they think the Rams are that much
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  Speaker 3: better than everybody else. They set those lines because that's
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  Speaker 3: how many people hurried to bet on the Rams. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to come out even on it. That's how
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  Speaker 3: it works in Vegas, you know? And so they are
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  Speaker 3: reacting to the nation's reaction to how the Rams have
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  Speaker 3: built their roster. So we have just experienced probably the
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  Speaker 3: greatest hyped off-season team.
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  Speaker 2: In NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, 100%.
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  Speaker 3: Even the mighty Chicago Bears of, you know, the great
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  Speaker 3: that almost went undefeated, that many people still believe is
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  Speaker 3: the best team ever assembled, did not start that season
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  Speaker 3: with the hype that this team received prior to yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So To go to Australia, and who knows how big
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  Speaker 3: of a factor that that travel thing was.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: But to just absolutely get slapped by a division rival
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  Speaker 3: on a neutral field on a beautiful, picturesque, 66-degree day
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  Speaker 3: in Australia, or as Ryan Roland Smith calls it, I
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  Speaker 3: guess that's how I should start pronouncing it.
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  Speaker 2: He would know.
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  Speaker 1: And they were in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: He would know. So to get slapped down like that,
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  Speaker 3: to have that, to have so many people discussing, will this.
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  Speaker 2: Team go undefeated?
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  Speaker 3: That's the question that we were discussing starting the season.
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  Speaker 3: And for that to have been pushed out before you
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  Speaker 3: even lit the cigarette, Oh, man, that is hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: It's just hilarious is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Wear it, Rams. 27 to 7. The undefeated thoughts are over.
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  Speaker 5: And thank you, by the way, for doing that quickly
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  Speaker 5: because it is funny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, as you started out by saying.
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  Speaker 5: When you're wrong, if you're going to be wrong about both,
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  Speaker 5: but you didn't say they were going to go undefeated.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those people got proven wrong real fast.
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  Speaker 2: But I did say they were going to be, you know, 14-3.
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  Speaker 2: And I still.
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  Speaker 5: Think they're going to be a good team. But I
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  Speaker 5: think they went about this whole trip the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they read into some of their
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  Speaker 5: hype and thought, like, look at all these people we've got.
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  Speaker 5: We're just so good. I was looking at the stat
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  Speaker 5: sheet last night because I was like, gosh, I don't
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  Speaker 5: even remember seeing Miles Garrett do anything. And I looked
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  Speaker 5: at the stat sheet, and he didn't. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 5: that is... I mean, if you're a Rams fan, you've
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  Speaker 5: got to be pretty disappointed in that. And he said,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not 100%. I've got to get healthy. But... I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't hear anything except he had swelling in his knee.
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  Speaker 5: There had been no deals made about Garrett's knee and
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  Speaker 5: not participating and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Truth is, I don't believe him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I do either.
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  Speaker 5: But I went through their defensive stat sheet like four
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  Speaker 5: times because I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, how am I not seeing Miles Garrett on here?
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even have one tackle.
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  Speaker 5: No, he didn't even have one tackle.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. A non-factor in the game.
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  Speaker 3: And then offensively, Matt Stafford had 155 passing yards. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't even finish the game. They put Simpson in in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter with like three minutes to go. So
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  Speaker 3: he didn't even finish the game. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 3: just a dud. I mean, it was, they got trounced
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  Speaker 3: by the San Francisco 49ers. And maybe we should worry
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  Speaker 3: about that a little bit. I will say if the
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco 49ers can stay healthy, yeah, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be really dangerous. I just don't think they can. Not
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  Speaker 3: that they will or won't. I just don't think they can.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one of the reasons why I don't think
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  Speaker 3: the Rams are going to have a good season this
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  Speaker 3: year or the 49ers are going to have a good
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  Speaker 3: season this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that.
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  Speaker 3: That they don't have talent, they do. It's just older
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  Speaker 3: talent that somehow can't stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and even the younger talent got injured twice last night.
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  Speaker 2: So, yes, when they're completely healthy, they're a dangerous team.
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  Speaker 3: And... it's not like they lost to Prairie View A &
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  Speaker 3: M in Australia last night. But they just got smacked down.
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  Speaker 3: And there was really nothing to their performance. And so
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  Speaker 3: you do wonder, what did we get wrong? What did
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  Speaker 3: we analyze wrong? Or was it just a stinker? Did
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  Speaker 3: you start the season and you just had a bad
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  Speaker 3: game and you'll fix it.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll be better going forward if you're the Rams?
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe the 49ers just had a great game and
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  Speaker 3: maybe they won't be as good going forward. All of
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  Speaker 3: those things are up for consideration after one week of
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  Speaker 3: football in the National Football League. But you do have
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  Speaker 3: to wonder, how badly they might have missed with their
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  Speaker 3: calculations on when to get there.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the thing that's shocking to me, hearing that
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  Speaker 5: they sent 15 staffers there over the last two years
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  Speaker 5: to test things and see what works the best.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what? And that's what you came up with,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the performance that they put out there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked by that. They were that bad.
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  Speaker 2: What are the staffers doing? Are they playing football when
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  Speaker 2: they go over there? I don't believe so.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of how jet-lagged they were.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing to be a tourist and take your
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  Speaker 3: laptop over there. Did they play a pickup game against
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  Speaker 3: a few.
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  Speaker 2: A few blokes from Melbourne?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. How did they judge it? How did they judge,
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  Speaker 3: here's how you should play a football game. This is
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  Speaker 3: how much rest you need between the time that you
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  Speaker 3: land and the time.
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  Speaker 2: You go to the field.
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  Speaker 3: So we don't know. Like I said, maybe it is
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  Speaker 3: the Rams aren't as good. Maybe the 49ers are great.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they just had a bad game. Maybe the 49ers
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  Speaker 3: had a great game. I mean, we don't know. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Could be any one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: But it's hard not to think when one team logically,
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  Speaker 3: because this is logic, logic dictates that you would get
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  Speaker 3: there early, get the jet lag out of the way,
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  Speaker 3: get adapted after a 15-hour flight, and then a week,
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  Speaker 3: 10 days from then, you should be adapted and ready
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  Speaker 3: to play a football game against the best team ever assembled.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't feel like logic. to kind of be smarter
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  Speaker 2: than the room, try to be smarter than the room.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to send scientists over there to see
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  Speaker 3: how jet lagged they are and whether or not they're
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  Speaker 3: more effective right off the bat, you know, versus having
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  Speaker 3: time to adapt to it. And so it did not
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: make sense, but there've been a lot of things about
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  Speaker 3: science that, you know, don't make sense. There are, I mean, we, we,
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  Speaker 3: You know, for example, we went our entire lives thinking
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: that we were supposed to eat everything on our plate.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden we found out as adults,
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the things that led to obesity in
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  Speaker 3: this country.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're not leaving until your plate's empty.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we were supposed to use plastic bags at
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  Speaker 3: the grocery store to save the trees, you know. And so, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I guess if everybody's saying that we should do this.
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  Speaker 3: And then we found out that the plastic bags are
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  Speaker 3: the thing that is choking out the environment and potentially
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  Speaker 3: killing the trees. You know, so there are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things in our lifetimes that we've had to question. Wait,
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  Speaker 3: have we been doing that the wrong way the entire time? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you've taken science. You've taken scientists. They've examined the problem.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we did get it wrong. Maybe it does make
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  Speaker 3: more sense. Maybe you can prove to us that you
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  Speaker 3: outrace the jet lag and you play right away. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm open to it. Doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't
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  Speaker 3: feel like what you should do, but I'm open to it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you show up and you get destroyed? You
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  Speaker 3: play that badly?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a really crazy, Bad calculation. It feels
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: like somebody's going to get fired over that decision. Not
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Sean McVay, but any of the nerd-o-rama, the people that
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  Speaker 3: did the calculus to figure out what's our, how can
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  Speaker 3: we maximize performance being.
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  Speaker 2: A globe away and having.
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  Speaker 3: To play a football game after a 15-hour flight? How
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  Speaker 3: can we maximize performance? Okay, here's how we do it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't suffer jet lag at all. We just get
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  Speaker 3: off the plane and go straight to the field, which just.
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  Speaker 1: On its own. First of all, it doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 5: No, it doesn't make any sense. But you and then
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  Speaker 5: they went on and on about the plane and all
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  Speaker 5: the live flat seats and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 5: But no matter what kind of plane you're on or
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  Speaker 5: what you're doing, if you're on a five hour flight,
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  Speaker 5: when you get off that flight, you're tired. And if
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: you're on a 15 hour flight, when you get off
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  Speaker 5: that flight, you're tired.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: It's not even a jet lag thing. It's a travel thing.
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  Speaker 5: And the fact that you don't sleep as well on
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  Speaker 5: a plane and they left it in, you know, at
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: night so that they could sleep on. I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: just can't figure out how two teams full of smart
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  Speaker 5: people came up with two such drastically different ideas for
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  Speaker 5: what would be the best.
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  Speaker 1: Option for them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's just it. They overthought it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they thought that this was good. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: get an advantage. And believe me, it wasn't just some
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  Speaker 3: lazy decision. Like they forgot to book a flight. Nope.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this was thought about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, years in the making.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thought about, considered over.
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  Speaker 3: They brought their smartest people in the room. They probably
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  Speaker 3: hired outside consultants that they thought were smarter than their
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  Speaker 3: own smart people that could weigh in on this.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the.
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  Speaker 3: Conclusion that they've drawn. And maybe it didn't have anything
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  Speaker 3: to do with the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But they certainly looked sluggish.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to ignore it.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't play well on either side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Sean McVay is being accused of having designed and coached
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  Speaker 3: his worst game of his entire career. That's what the
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  Speaker 3: talking heads were talking about last night.
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  Speaker 2: And into this morning.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really hard to believe after that that the
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  Speaker 3: Rams made a good decision, that that was the right
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  Speaker 3: decision to make, was to not get there early. Because
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  Speaker 3: they did not look rested. They did not play well.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe that has nothing.
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  Speaker 2: To do with it.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they just got outplayed by another team that's healthy
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's, well, not healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Healthy for them.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Healthy for, by their standard, healthy for them.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Their best players are healthy. We'll put it that way.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: And maybe that's that case, but it certainly looks like
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: a failure. Their plan to go over to Australia. And
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: they apparently, was it Greg that told us this? Handpicked
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: their opponents?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they wanted to play the Seahawks, and they were like, no,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: you're not playing the Seahawks to start the season in Australia.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they handpicked their opponent. They actually chose to face
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: one of the best teams on their schedule.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because what someone was saying was the thought was
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: because the Rams don't really have a home field advantage.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: So take out... So play on a neutral field against somebody,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know how that helped. I don't know. The
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: whole thing's bizarre to me.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: It really is.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: But the result, laughable. Comical.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Rams 27, 49ers 7. That's your final, and the football
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: season is well underway. Let's find out what's on tap
• 17:46
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• 17:48
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• 18:04
  Speaker 3: So we get our opener on a wednesday we win
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: that sucker 13 to 10 then we get thursday night
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: football first thursday night football game of the year and
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: terrific matchup even though it turned out to be a
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: lopsided affair and so here we are on opening week
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: of the national football league season and.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: We still have opening sunday to wait to.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah and there's i mean look i i don't
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: know if i even like starting the season on a
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: thursday much less a wednesday um but what i do
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: know that i love is the first nfl sunday of
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: the year even if the seahawks aren't playing even if
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: there aren't as many great matchups as i thought there
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: might be on sunday uh still that magical first sunday
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: it's one of the best Individual days of the entire year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Yep, it is.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I'm very excited for it. And I have nothing going
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: on on Sunday. So I will be parked in front
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: of that TV.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I already told the unicorn. I'm like, all right, here's
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: what I have. And so we mapped out the whole weekend.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, and it started with Sunday. I will
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: be doing nothing. I will not be helping you with anything.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Sunday is first NFL Sunday. And I will not leave
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the chair.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: So save your criticisms.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it ain't happening on Sunday.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Buffalo at Houston is a big game early. I guess
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the best game in the afternoon is Green Bay, Minnesota.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe some would argue Washington, Philly. I just don't think
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Washington is going to be very good this year. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: then the Sunday night game will be the Dallas Cowboys
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: against the New York Giants.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Tua is out.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: He got hurt in practice yesterday. And so it won't
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: be Tua starting against the Steelers. It won't be Michael
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Penick's starting against the Steelers. They're going with Cooper Rush now.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: That's where they landed to start the season. So Falcons
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: at Pittsburgh with really their QB3 to start the year.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm really glad I made that fact or fiction pick yesterday.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Speaking of Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers just decided to air a
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: everything out yesterday in a podcast, I think with his teammates.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Did I see that the right way?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't see who he was on with. I just
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: saw what he was saying.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Man, he called out ex-girlfriends and called.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And fiancés.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an interesting choice by him to just
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: sort of sit down and just call people out from
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: his life on the start of the season.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: So interesting. But every teammate loves the guy. It's interesting.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: also yesterday had his court date and he did plead
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: no contest to misdemeanor charges so i don't think josh
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: jacobs is gonna serve any heavy sentence handed down by
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the law um it just matters whether or not the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: national football league is going to how they're going to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: treat him and i really don't know the answer to
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: that sam darnold uh that's the big story here we'll
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: treat it as such today he is going to be
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: out for week number two against the cardinals at least
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: that is the report right now Will he be out
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: beyond that?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: We don't know.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: College football, Ohio State will take on Texas at 4.30 tomorrow,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: our time. It is certainly the best game of the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: college football season to date, and it might be the
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: best regular season matchup of the entire year. College football
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: also here locally. Huskies hosting Utah State at 12.30 tomorrow.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Cougs at Kansas State. That will be at 9 o'clock
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning. Sounders facing the LA Galaxy.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Alexia's on Orion's belt.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Saturday at 7.30, that matchup in Los Angeles.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: The Kraken, they start camp tomorrow. That's crazy. On a Saturday, too.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Why on a Saturday?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you let us hype that up a little bit?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Build that up a little bit. I would think, yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Mariners take two out of three from the Texas Rangers.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: They do remain six games back, though, and only 15
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: games to play. We'll recap that game next. Mariners morning
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: after back this morning on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: We didn't do any baseball yesterday, and that doesn't set well.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: With us all the time.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I was nervous about it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a daily.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Commitment to a couple of things, but just didn't seem
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: warranted yesterday. But that didn't mean I was going to
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: dismiss this stuff for two straight days.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Come on now.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: It's Mariners morning after. It is our Mariners postgame show,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and we do it almost.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Every after every Mariners game.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about yesterday, a second straight day game.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: That never happens at T-Mobile during the middle of the
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: week against the Texas Rangers. A chance to win two straight,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: a chance to win the series. I don't think that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: really enough right now. You got to start sweeping, folks.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You got to go on some sort of magical heater
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: if you're going to possibly track down the Houston Astros
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: with now just 15 games to play. But a winning
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: streak has to start with one and then.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Two, right?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Can't get 12 without winning two straight. And so the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: team does get the job done yesterday. Now, it wasn't
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: looking good. Logan Gilbert versus Jacob deGrom. Logan wasn't bad.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Jacob deGrom was perfect. He retired the first 15 batters.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Of the game.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: But because he was so dominant, he was throwing a
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: lot of pitches. Can't.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: When you strike out 12 guys, you have to throw
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: at least 36 pitches, as it turns out.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Is that how that works?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So when you are battling through five perfect innings and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you struck out 12 guys by the end of the sixth, well,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: your pitch totals run up. He's got an injury history.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And so usually the Rangers get him out sooner than later.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And they took him out after six innings, even though
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: it didn't look like we were going to get a
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: hit off of him with three weeks. to try and
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: get a hit off of him. And then you bring
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: in Jacob Junis, who's had a pretty good year, but man,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: when you go from facing Jacob deGrom to facing Jacob Junis, oh.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: That's a different Jacob right there.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same first name, different last name.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: It looks like slow-pitch softballs coming into you. And the
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Mariners took advantage as they scored four times in that inning.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: The big hit, a Julio Rodriguez home run. that put
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: them up 4-3, a three-run shot. So it was a
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: hit by pitch, and then it was a dribbler single
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: by Dom Canzone, and then a clean base hit from
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Cal Raleigh, then the three-run homer for Julio Rodriguez.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So at that stage, it's 4-3.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Let's zip forward to the ninth inning for our highlight,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: because this is kind of a rare highlight here. I mean,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: we've seen three-run homers before, but what do you do
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: with two on, up one, with a really slow batter
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: at the plate, who hits a ground ball over second base,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and Cole Young wasn't sure, can I get to second
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: in time in order to get the force out? And
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: if not, I better throw to first just in case.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: It's the 2-2. Ground ball. He lets it go past him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Right to the back of foot race.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And he's out at second base.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Ball game over.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: The Mariners win it. And they take the series two
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: games to one.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: The Rangers want to challenge. Heads up play by Cole Young, though.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: He threw that ball to first base.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Beat Berger.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Knewing the runner.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So even if this is overturned, this game's going to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: be over regardless.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Out by a mile at first base. That was an
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: excellent decision by Cole Young. It really was. Very strange play.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Evan Carter can fly. He's on first base. Jake Berger
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: is titanically slow. And so the surer out was to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: first base, actually.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But then Cole Young was smart enough in the moment
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to be like, what if I throw it away? The
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: surer path.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Is to go two steps to second base, but the
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: surer out in terms of the base runner and the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: timing is at first base.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to do both.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to take any chances.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: And to make that decision in the heat of the moment,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to try to get Carter out, even
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: though we only need one out, and I'm going to try.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: To throw Berger out. And he got them both out.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: But that was a really interesting way to finish a game,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and good on Cole Young.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really smart play.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: And the throw that he had to make to first
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: base was not an easy throw. He had the runner
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: sliding into second, and he's jumping over him. I mean,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: the whole thing was very impressive. Yeah, I'm going to
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: try to get them both out, and hopefully I get
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: one of them out.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And he ended up getting both of them out. Yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: he did.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So great play by Cole Young, and the Mariners do
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: win 4-3 as the final score. Logan ends up getting
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: the win out of that. He struck out 11 himself,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: but he allowed three runs over his seven innings. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: then it went Gabe Spire and Andres Munoz for the victory.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: So Logan also made a tremendous play in this game yesterday.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It made all the top 10 highlight reels yesterday. So
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: he pitched well. He beat his mentor. I don't think
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: he really is his mentor, but his predecessor at Stetson,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Jacob deGrom. And he made a gold glove caliber play
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: as well in the game.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: He had a lot to discuss afterwards.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: It's always tough going through a game like that or
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: a little stretch where you feel a little bit off. Um,
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: but I think the game went better today, but I
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: also felt like I was in a better spot, delivery movement,
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: like pitches, repeatability. So, um, I think we're headed in
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: the right direction. Cal did a great job. I thought with,
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, a lot of stuff sequence, the challenge on
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: Seager to get the strike, um, the pass balls, just
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: weird stuff. But he, he, uh, definitely did a great
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: job there, but I think I was just, I don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: know what it is. moving a little better, maybe. It's always, like,
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: very small, slight adjustments, but I think we did a
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: better job this week.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: I was hoping you'd ask that, yeah. Had a couple
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: people make remarks. Hopefully I'm in the running, so we'll
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: put that in the highlight tape.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: It's usually not good. They give me a hard time
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: for never staying on my feet during a full game,
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: so it happened a few times today, but It worked out,
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: I'll take it. Julio got the huge hit when we
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: needed it. The offense doing what we needed to do
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: against the bullpen. Great plays just all the way around,
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: team win.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: How much of games like these kind of come down
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to that chess match.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Of like Cal scouting in your match?
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Because you guys have played.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Each other so much.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: Definitely, yeah, a lot of matchups. And as the game
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: goes on, it's big to talk to the catcher and
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: coaches about what we're seeing, what we're feeling. Certain pitches
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: are going to be working, but you also want to
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: throw little wrinkles in with a change up or an
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: early splitter or whatever it may be. So I think
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: we did a good job of being just unpredictable enough
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: and Cal did a good job with that. But yeah, it's,
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: it's tough when you keep seeing each other.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: Bullpen did great too. Got to put that in there.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: He's so incredibly likable.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I know. Just great.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And he takes more crap than anybody, but he dishes
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: it out too.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: That's the best kind of person though.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You can take, dish it and take it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: And, and the thing about him is like, I don't
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: know why I always think about this about him i
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: pity the fool that ever tries to pick a fight
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: with logan gilbert in the bar with his teammates because
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: i'm telling you they will they love him so much
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: on that team they will beat the piss out of
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: somebody that ever threatens their guy. They make fun of
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: him constantly.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they can.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: But anybody that messes with that guy, I weep for
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: them because they're going to get their butt kicked by
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: 25 other professional athletes.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: And Pete Woodworth will be the first one throwing haymakers,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: by the way.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert with a win. Munoz with the save. 4-3.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Mariners take out the Texas Rangers. They play again tonight,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: at least the Mariners, not against the Rangers. They'll be
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: in Sacramento tonight. To take on the A's didn't work
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: so well when we faced the A's the last time.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: There is no choice. You pretty much got to win
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: them all.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: So save a, you know, if you don't just run
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: the table, I'm not sure there's going to be a chance.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: So it's a hard thing to try to pull off.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: But then again, they've dug their own grave here. First
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: pitch is at 640. It'll be Jeffrey Springs, the left-hander
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: who has failed against every other team in baseball but us.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: And then George Kirby will go for the Mariners' first pitch.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: There at 640.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: So baseball tonight, there's still a chance, but six games
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: back with 15 to play, and Houston's actually playing pretty
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: good baseball right now.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: They're not cooperating themselves.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm about to have a talk with them. Oh, good.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, in case you missed it,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Rick Neuheisel joins us every Tuesday, and we replay some
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: of it for you on Friday. So that's coming your
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: way next. We'll talk about Texas and Ohio State with
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: our college football insider, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Ah, yes.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Opening week slash weekend of the National Football League season. College, oh,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: they've already been after it. But every Tuesday, Rick Neuheisel
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: joins us here on the program. And even though we've
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: had a week zero and a week one, Week number
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: two is going to feature the best game so far
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: this season, matchup-wise anyway, and maybe the best one regular
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: season game of the entire year going forward. Rick Neuheisel
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: was with us Tuesday, and we broke it down, or
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: he broke it down for you, Texas versus Ohio State.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: Well, both are obviously much more experienced than they were
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: a year ago at the quarterback position. So I think
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: it can be more of an offensive game than it
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: was in the 14-7 game that we watched a year ago.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: And both coordinators will feel more comfortable taking more shots
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: down the field, which will be entertaining to watch. You know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: if you're just judging the statistics, and both teams were
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: wildly impressive in victories over Ball State and Texas State, respectively.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: But if you look at the numbers, it looks to
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: me like Ohio State has a little bit of a
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: head start in running the football and defending the run.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: Texas gave up more yards than they wanted on the ground.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: Will Muschamp, the new defensive coordinator, is not going to
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: be pleased with that. They'll be better this week, especially
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: with the excitement of a game against a team like
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Ohio State and the magnitude of the contest. But if
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: I'm leaning right now, even though they're on the road,
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: I'm going to lean Buckeyes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Buckeyes.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, boy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: But it's a slight lean. Matthew McConaughey would like a
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: word with you, by the way.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: All right, so Ohio State, Texas. You've got Michigan, Oklahoma
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: on Saturday as well.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, Michigan's not off to a great start in the
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: court of public opinion. So do they have much of
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: a shot here against Oklahoma and the Sooners?
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  Speaker 7: You know, they do because they have a defense, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: that's Kyle Whittingham's baby. And they're going to have a
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Michigan versus everybody mentality again, given what's happened over the
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: course of this week. Thankfully, they still have those sweatshirts
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: from a couple years ago, and they'll be ready to
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: wear them again. I think it's like a 13-10, 13-7 game.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: I've got to see John Mateer take over from the
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: pocket and show that he can throw the ball and
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: make all kinds of plays. And until I do, I
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: just think Oklahoma's going to be a little bit pedestrian offense.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: They're absolutely blue bloods on defense. Venables is one of
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: the best in the business, but so too is Kyle
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: and his defensive staff. So I think it's a low-scoring game.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: And while everybody's going to think Oklahoma's going to blow
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: them out, I think it's going to be really close
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Mateer's all body-builded up.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's... Exactly what you would encourage
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  Speaker 3: from your quarterback. But I mean, he's like Schwarzenegger out
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: there right now.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know that he has all the throws.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: He's kind of, to me, a fastball pitcher, which means
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: he should come in in the ninth, you know, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: close things out. The Eraldis Chapman of the world. I'm
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: not sure he's got all the trajectory throws and all
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: that kind of stuff. But he's a fabulous player, a
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: fabulous competitor. And his legs, whoever, whichever quarterback runs for
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: the most yardage might be the quarterback that wins.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Rick Neuheisel, earlier this week. Going to hear the entire interview.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Do so at 933kjr. com. We, of course, talk Huskies with
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: him and all sorts of things. So that's available to you. And,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: of course, he joins us Tuesdays at 9 o'clock. You
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: saw John Mateer. You saw the photos of John Mateer.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: I did.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: He's, I think, been working out.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he looks like John Cena, for goodness sake.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: And he's very proud of it. He won't put his
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: shirt on. No.
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  Speaker 5: Although, I will say, if I was working out that
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: hard and looked like that, I probably wouldn't wear any
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: clothes either.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would too.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'd go to the grocery store without a shirt.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: They'd have to tell me, sir, put your shirt on.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: They'd point to that sign, no shoes, no shirt, no service.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: So then I'd just take my pants off.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Show off the quads.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I'll put my shirt on. But you're really disappointing a
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: lot of people in here.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of people who want to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: see this.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: I mean....
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I do think sometimes when people are like, I'm going
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: to get an even better shape and they start falling
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: in love with how they look as opposed to whether
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: That's good for athleticism. If that's good for your athletic performance,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: there's a reason why a bunch of quarterbacks don't end
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: up looking like Hulk Hogan out there.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they kind of got more dad bod than.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Well, they want to be long and limber, and they
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: don't want to be short and compact. They don't want
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: to shorten their muscles. Pitchers, there's a reason pitchers are
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: built the way that they are, the Logan Gilberts of
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the world, because you want to be flexible. And I
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: think quarterbacks are similar, but quarterbacks also take a beating.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: So you do need to get to the gym. You
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: do need to be muscled. You need to be strong.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: But there are some athletes.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: You don't need to be ripped. Yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: There are some athletes that I think start seeing the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: results and they like what they see in the mirror.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And then they want to double down on that. John
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Carlos Stanton did that for a long time. And it's like, yeah,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: you look phenomenal. I'm sure all the ladies at the
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: beach love you, but you keep getting hurt every year.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: And it might have something to do with you not
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: being athletically muscled and just being, I want to go
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: to the beach muscled. So we'll see if it works
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: out for John Mateer. To me, he looks too muscled.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: He looks too bulky at this stage of his career.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: But we'll see. Michigan's got to deal with him this weekend.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Headlines are next. No Greg Bell today. He went to Hawaii.
• 37:46
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• 37:50
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