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10-30 H2: 12th Man News, Fact or Fiction & Kraken Trade Ideas · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Last night, the Packers beat the Panthers 27-19 on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: Night Football, including Christian Watson going to the hospital, coming back,
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  Speaker 1: and then coming back onto the field and putting over
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  Speaker 1: 100 yards receiving. That was pretty impressive watching that last night.
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners make a few roster moves, including picking up
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  Speaker 1: the player option on Andres Munoz, but declining the player
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  Speaker 1: option's of Bryce Miller and Victor Robles. Despite what you
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  Speaker 1: may have seen yesterday on Twitter from Bob Nightingale, Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Miller is not a free agent. He is under club
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  Speaker 1: control through the 2030 season, but it does mean that
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  Speaker 1: Victor Robles' time as a Mariner seemingly has come to
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  Speaker 1: an end.
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  Speaker 2: He will become a free agent.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of memories. for that man there. Kraken Flames tonight
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  Speaker 1: They go on the road in Calgary tonight against the Flames.
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  Speaker 1: The Flames have actually looked a lot better the last
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  Speaker 1: week or so. So An interesting test for the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: to see if their early season dominance against Calgary will continue.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a few updates at the VMAC yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: so who better to talk about them than our Seahawks insider, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Greg Bell, good morning, good sir.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Anderson. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you hopping on this morning with us. Again, this
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  Speaker 1: is Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd on Chuck in the Morning,
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: We have our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell, joining us here.
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  Speaker 1: Just right off the bat, what was your first impression
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  Speaker 1: of Quentin Nelson yesterday as he spoke to the media
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  Speaker 1: for the first time?
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  Speaker 4: Man, he's just this no-nonsense mauler guy. He's huge. He's
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  Speaker 4: like 6'5. He's got really long arms. And he just
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  Speaker 4: looks like he's all business. He strutted out onto the
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  Speaker 4: practice field for the first time. Like he was walking
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  Speaker 4: into a WWE ring. He was just, it was, he
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  Speaker 4: just is a, he's just a mauler. That's what he
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  Speaker 4: looked like. Yeah. He plays like it too. But, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he talked about how he was surprised how he had
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  Speaker 4: been in Indiana for so long in Notre Dame and
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  Speaker 4: then eight years at the Colts and, all the friends
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  Speaker 4: he had, but that Ed Dodds, the former Seahawks executive
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  Speaker 4: and scout under John Schneider called him in the day
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  Speaker 4: before the trade and says, there are multiple teams calling
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  Speaker 4: about you. Here's where it might be going. Could be Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: We'll let you know. And then the next day they
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  Speaker 4: told him you're going to Seattle and the fans, they
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  Speaker 4: see the football player on the field, but there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot more to it than that. Of course, when you
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  Speaker 4: get traded in the middle of the season, his wife
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  Speaker 4: is remaining back in Indiana and, She sounds like she's
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  Speaker 4: going to be there the rest of this season. That's
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  Speaker 4: an adjustment for him. Brand new city, finding a place
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  Speaker 4: to live, a bunch of new teammates trying to show
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  Speaker 4: him the offense and the locker room and where to park.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough when you just get up. Yeah, they're well, well,
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  Speaker 4: well paid. $ 80 million contract he's finishing right now. But
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  Speaker 4: it's still real life stuff that he deals with in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of getting ready to play a game on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: He will start. Mike McDonald made that clear, and he
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  Speaker 4: will play left guard. And the news of yesterday is
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  Speaker 4: that McDonald said that Gray Zabel will slide from left
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  Speaker 4: guard to right guard, where he last played as a
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  Speaker 4: freshman in college at North Dakota State. And the odd
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  Speaker 4: man out is Anthony Bradford. And that's just the way
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  Speaker 4: the NFL business goes. An all-pro that could be a
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Famer arrives, and someone's got to sit, and
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  Speaker 4: that guy is Anthony Bradford right now. So change... For sure.
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  Speaker 4: Change for Nelson, change for Zabel, change for Bradford, change
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  Speaker 4: for the interior of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean, it's funny how we go from
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  Speaker 1: one week of, man, we miss Anthony Bradford, we need
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  Speaker 1: him back, and then he plays his first game in
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  Speaker 1: a while, and the Seahawks look much better with their
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  Speaker 1: running game against the Chiefs, to, okay, now we bring
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  Speaker 1: in an all-pro, and you're the odd man out now.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that mean for Bradford? Are the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: trying to trade him, or are they still have plans
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  Speaker 1: for him moving forward?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, he's a good depth piece, obviously, a
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  Speaker 4: four-year starter. But a four-year starter as a Super Bowl champion,
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  Speaker 4: I would think John Schneider will try to shop him
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  Speaker 4: and see what he could get for a late-round pick, perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: I know that PFF rates him very lowly, and I
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  Speaker 4: know that a bunch of people have GIFs or whatever
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  Speaker 4: they call it, memes, whatever it is about missing blocks
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  Speaker 4: on the Internet. The Seahawks coaches like his physicality, and
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  Speaker 4: I think there would be a market for a late-round
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  Speaker 4: pick that they could, I mean, a four-year starter still
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  Speaker 4: in his 20s, Yes, on an expiring contract, but a
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl champion, four-year starter, I think teams would be
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  Speaker 4: interested in listening to that. And I would suspect by
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  Speaker 4: before November 10th, John Schneider will try to make that move,
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  Speaker 4: and if not, he'll have a depth piece.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so for Quentin Nelson, is it just plug and play?
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  Speaker 1: Do they have to change anything with the offensive game
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  Speaker 1: plan for a guy that has been there for five
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  Speaker 1: days leading into the game?
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  Speaker 4: They'd probably have to run left more. I would.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would too.
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  Speaker 4: We asked Mike McDonald when he was defending against the
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  Speaker 4: Colts so many years in the AFC with the Ravens
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  Speaker 4: what the Colts' offense, what he noticed about with Quentin
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  Speaker 4: Nelson at left guard, and he said that they ran
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  Speaker 4: left a lot and Jonathan Taylor ran left a lot. No,
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  Speaker 4: Nelson's the one who's going to have to change. He's
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  Speaker 4: learning a brand new system. He said it's completely different.
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  Speaker 4: They run more outside zone, different terminology, but he's a pro.
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  Speaker 4: He said that Jalen Sandell, interestingly, stayed way late into
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  Speaker 4: the night on Wednesday night, the first day he got
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  Speaker 4: here to Seattle, to crash course and teach him offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what you want in your center, some leadership there.
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  Speaker 4: But the change is from Nelson, not from the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: They'll do what they've been doing in outside zone, and
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  Speaker 4: he'll block that more than he did with the Colts.
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  Speaker 4: And away they go. They're not going to wait. There's
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  Speaker 4: no acclimation period. He's playing Monday night.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go.
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  Speaker 6: From the outside view, it seems like Bradford's just been
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  Speaker 6: a good team player. Did you get a chance to
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  Speaker 6: chat with him at all yesterday about this decision and
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  Speaker 6: moving forward?
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  Speaker 4: No, he wasn't in the locker room during the period
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  Speaker 4: before practice. In fact, he was limited in practice. He's
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  Speaker 4: had the knee issue since the start of the season.
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  Speaker 4: He just came back off injured reserve last week. I've
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  Speaker 4: talked to him quite a bit since training camp, and
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  Speaker 4: we've had him on our show, and he talked about
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  Speaker 4: how he knows his contract was ending and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: hadn't offered him one. Man, he and his wife and
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  Speaker 4: his young child, they would love to stay in Seattle
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  Speaker 4: and wanted to stay here forever. That obviously has changed.
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  Speaker 4: So now you've got someone in their mid-20s with a
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  Speaker 4: young child who doesn't know where his next paycheck and
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  Speaker 4: next team is going to be. That's jolting. So I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't surprised that he wasn't exactly forthcoming and available yesterday. This,
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  Speaker 4: of course, is the business, but he's still on his
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  Speaker 4: rookie contract. And Bradford's a guy who started since almost
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  Speaker 4: day one here as a rookie when they drafted him
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  Speaker 4: in the middle rounds from LSU a few years ago.
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  Speaker 4: This is a big jolt for him, too. And... I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he understands if you bring in an all-pro, you're probably
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  Speaker 4: not going to be able to compete with that playing time-wise. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to be terribly disappointed, obviously. And Mike Donald
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  Speaker 4: talked about how difficult it was and how he did
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  Speaker 4: talk to Bradford, how he loves what he's done for
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  Speaker 4: him here, still loves him, and this is the business
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  Speaker 4: of the league. It's often cold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what does this mean for Sam Darnold? Because
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people just label the interior
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  Speaker 1: of the offensive line, the guards, as run blockers first,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously the tackles as more pass blockers. But
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  Speaker 1: how much will this help in pass protection for Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold moving forward? And do you expect maybe kind of
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  Speaker 1: a breakout, I should say, for Sam Darnold in the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 season after this move?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it can only help, man. Plays get ruined if
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  Speaker 4: the guards and center get beat on pass protection because
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  Speaker 4: that's the immediate threat, right? If you can't block the interior,
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  Speaker 4: then the quarterback, the shortest distance to the quarterback is,
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  Speaker 4: of course, right over the center. And if the guards
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  Speaker 4: and center fail, the play's ruined, interception, fumbles, sack. There's almost,
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  Speaker 4: think about how many times there's up the middle pressure
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  Speaker 4: and the play succeeds. So that's how vital it is
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  Speaker 4: to be pass protecting inside. The guards and center have
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  Speaker 4: to be Or else your offense can't function. So now
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  Speaker 4: they have what's reputed to be the best left guard
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  Speaker 4: of his generation. I mean, the Tar Heels feel pretty
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  Speaker 4: good about that. Now, we'll see. There will be an
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  Speaker 4: adjustment for Gray's A. especially because he hasn't played at
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  Speaker 4: that position for, what, five, six years now, second year
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  Speaker 4: in the league, going back to his freshman year in college.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the same players on the other side. And
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  Speaker 4: so he's just got to flip his brain and the
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  Speaker 4: numbers and words that one thing on the But it's
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  Speaker 4: not the same. So, yeah. And by the way, the
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  Speaker 4: Bears just acquired Jeffrey Simmons.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So if there's any problem in the interior offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to find out right away Monday night. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: It is funny that Simmons and Nelson went two times
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  Speaker 4: a year every year for eight years in the AFC South.
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  Speaker 4: The Colts and the Titans play in the AFC South.
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  Speaker 4: They've each played eight seasons together. So that's 16 times,
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  Speaker 4: barring injury, that they've played against each other in a
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  Speaker 4: regular season. When Nelson got traded, you have to think
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  Speaker 4: part of it. And he said this yesterday. He's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: at least I don't have to face Jeffrey Simmons anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And then a day later, Jeffrey Simmons is following him
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  Speaker 4: to Seattle to play Monday night in his first game.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, what the hell? I can't get rid of
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  Speaker 4: this guy. Jeffrey Simmons is the best defensive tackle against
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  Speaker 4: the best offensive guard. That's the showdown on Monday night.
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  Speaker 4: They're playing for brand new teams on Monday night. Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everyone talks about continuity with the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Three out of five positions, I should say, not players,
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  Speaker 1: but positions will be new. Is there any sort of worry,
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  Speaker 1: even though you upgraded? I think everyone would agree you
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  Speaker 1: upgraded in terms of the talent level. But for this
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  Speaker 1: game specifically, three out of the five positions will be new.
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  Speaker 1: No Charles Cross at left tackle. Obviously, Quentin Nelson coming
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  Speaker 1: in at left guard, which moves Gray's able to right guard.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any worry or like concern level for just
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  Speaker 1: the continuity level going into Monday night?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure. I mean, you're right. Continuity is very important
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  Speaker 4: on the offensive line. It's something John Benton has been
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  Speaker 4: trumpeting since training camp about having. He told me in summer,
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  Speaker 4: you know how rare it is to have a Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl champion team return all five offensive linemen, starters? He
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  Speaker 4: said that most of those guys want to go get paid,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes other teams pay them. And this is rare.
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  Speaker 4: And now it's not. It's not what it was, and...
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  Speaker 4: This is why they had signed Josh Jones a couple
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  Speaker 4: years ago to be the swing veteran tackle who has
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  Speaker 4: started in the past. McDonald confirmed yesterday it will be
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  Speaker 4: Jones if Cross can't play, and it looks like Cross
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  Speaker 4: won't be able to play at left tackle. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it is different. And there's a reason why there aren't
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  Speaker 4: hockey line changes on an offensive line in a football game.
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  Speaker 4: You want five guys the same in concert the entire time.
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  Speaker 4: It's an obvious talent upgrade. Continuity takes a backseat here
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  Speaker 4: for a week or two, and we'll see how much
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  Speaker 4: that catches up to him, especially with Simmons in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of it.
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  Speaker 5: So Rasheed Shaheed did not practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: What does that look like on Sunday if Rasheed Shaheed
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  Speaker 6: is actually out? What are they going to do at
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  Speaker 6: the receiver position? Because right now all I think of
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  Speaker 6: is JSN, JSN, JSN, Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to be a little flippant here, Chris,
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  Speaker 4: but this is just the facts. If Rashidi doesn't play
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, will anyone notice? Because it's not like he's
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  Speaker 4: actually been ripping it. And it's not like Darnold's been
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  Speaker 4: throwing to him every down.
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  Speaker 5: Two fair points.
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  Speaker 4: He's more valuable to them than that, of course. But
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  Speaker 4: in terms of impact, it's scant right now. Torrey Horton
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  Speaker 4: will take over the role. He was both in kick
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  Speaker 4: returner and extra wide receiver. They may go multiple tight ends.
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  Speaker 4: They could do that. Eric Saubert played a really good
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  Speaker 4: game against the Chiefs, including Block, and he just absolutely
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  Speaker 4: crushed his guy on the 21-yard Emmanuel Wilson touchdown run
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  Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. So I could see them doing that.
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  Speaker 4: I could see them doing a little more two running
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  Speaker 4: backs and putting Brady Russell more in eye formation and
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  Speaker 4: having only two wide receivers on the field. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: until teams find a way to do what no one
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  Speaker 4: can is limit and cover Jackson Smith and Jigba. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure it matters who the other wide receivers are
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  Speaker 4: right now. That might not be a sustainable way to
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  Speaker 4: live the rest of the season, but right now, who
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  Speaker 4: else would you rather Darnold be thrown to? I don't
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  Speaker 4: want any targets going anywhere else if I'm a Seahawks fan,
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  Speaker 4: the number 11, so I don't really care who the
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  Speaker 4: other wide receivers are. That's, of course, no way to
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  Speaker 4: build a game plan, but that's the beauty of what
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  Speaker 4: Smith & Jigba's done the last two seasons. It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: matter what the defensive game plan is. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: what inside-outside leverage at the snap. It doesn't matter. Cloud coverage,
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  Speaker 4: safety over the top, whatever. Press, dropping off. He's open.
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  Speaker 4: He finds a way to get open. He puts his
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  Speaker 4: defender on the back when the ball's arriving, and he
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  Speaker 4: adjusts to the ball exquisitely. So the only answer to
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  Speaker 4: your question is I'm not sure it's really going to matter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, what about the running back position? Because
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  Speaker 1: I think this does matter. Who's playing? What have we got?
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price practicing or not? Sounds like Zach Charbonnet has
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  Speaker 1: been a full go. Who's playing, and what do you
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  Speaker 1: expect the rotation to be at this point?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's some gamesmanship here going on between McDonald and
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  Speaker 4: the Bears. He's not publicly proclaiming that Charbonnet is going
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  Speaker 4: to return. Charbonnet has practiced fully now, four practices in
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  Speaker 4: a row, three last week, one yesterday, but he has
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  Speaker 4: yet to play. So I'm not so sure his full
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  Speaker 4: participation in practice is indicative that he's going to play yet.
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  Speaker 4: McDonald's saying this is part of the plan and the
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  Speaker 4: ramp-up and the acclimation, and they're obviously going beyond 21
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  Speaker 4: days because he's still less than nine months removed from
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  Speaker 4: a reconstructive knee surgery. So while it may seem like
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  Speaker 4: Charbonnet is delayed, in the bigger picture, he's not exactly behind.
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  Speaker 4: Eight to 12 months is actually usually the recovery time
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  Speaker 4: for that Price was designated to return off of injured
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  Speaker 4: reserve to practice. That's the first step. So he has
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  Speaker 4: a 21-day practice window like Charbonnet's that began yesterday. It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't look like Price is going to need all that
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  Speaker 4: 21 days or maybe even not much of the 21 days.
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  Speaker 4: If I had to guess, Anders, I think Price plays.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming off of much less of an... I mean,
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  Speaker 4: easy for me to say, but an upper rib injury
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  Speaker 4: is much different than a reconstructive knee. Right. So... They're
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  Speaker 4: probably not going to need all 21 days and maybe
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  Speaker 4: only three practices to play. Your guess is as good
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  Speaker 4: as mine, and I'm out there every day about Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't say it's a disappointment if he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: play again. We've got to keep in mind he's only
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  Speaker 4: nine months out. I will say this, though, and we've
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  Speaker 4: talked about it. Every game he doesn't play is one
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  Speaker 4: fewer chance for him to audition to get a new contract.
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  Speaker 4: It's overshadowed in all this is this is the final
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  Speaker 4: year of Charbonnet's deal. Right. And... He is feeling the
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  Speaker 4: urgency for sure. When we talked to him last week,
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  Speaker 4: I was pretty sure he thought he was going to
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  Speaker 4: play Sunday. So there's a chance, a pretty decent chance,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to get Price and Charbonnet on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think there's, now that I think about it,
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  Speaker 1: do you think there's any gamesmanship for the Seahawks here
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  Speaker 1: trying to, like, hold them out for as long as
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  Speaker 1: possible to try and lower his value so they can
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  Speaker 1: get him on the cheap in the offseason?
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe. Yeah. And Snyder's history, of course, is he
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: doesn't re-sign free running backs. He goes and drafts another one.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: So part of the thinking of Price was that he
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: was going to be their long-term option, of course, not
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: just for this year, but going forward. And maybe they
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: wouldn't re-sign Charbonnet. But you're right. The market for Charbonnet
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: isn't exactly robust right now. It hasn't been on the
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: field in nine months. So they value Charbonnet, obviously. They
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: want to see him on the field to see what
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: he's like post-surgery. It's just don't just walk on out
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: and start playing again before they make that decision. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, excellent information. Appreciate you joining us this football Friday morning.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: What do you got coming up on your show later today?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: We got our weekly high school football focus. We're going
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: to go to Glacier Peak High School and down to Tumwater.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Two powers in their respective classes getting ready for the playoffs.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: We'll talk to the coaches at 11 o'clock and You're
• 18:19
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  Speaker 4: And Seattle will get to hear all of them from
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  Speaker 4: Quentin Nelson. And he's no nonsense, man. He's a meat
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be listening at 10 o'clock. Thanks so much, Greg.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. Happy Friday. Happy good weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, you too.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: All right. That is Greg Bell. So great to have
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Chuck in the Morning.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: This is not Chuck on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Chuck's taking a few days off, going back to his
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: home to be with his family. Very well deserved. We
• 19:31
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• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he's a vampire or not. We will interview him and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: see if there's anything, you know, suspicious because, you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: already looking at his schedule and, uh you know how
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: early he stays up and you know leaving the day
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: before halloween is a little suspicious to me so we'll
• 19:54
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• 19:56
  Speaker 1: here um but before we get to factor fiction in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a few minutes here I know that the NBA can
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be a testy subject here in Seattle, but I am
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: trying to do my due diligence as a sports fan,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: knowing that it's hopefully... on the horizon that Seattle is
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: getting an NBA team back here in the next few years.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get myself back in the league.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I was a big fan in the 2010s during the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Steph LeBron, Spurs, KD, all that drama kind of period
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was just fantastic, must-see TV for me. I've definitely fallen
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: out during the 2020s a little bit, so I'm trying
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to pick myself back up into the NBA world. So
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: who better to kind of get me up to date
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on what's going on in the NBA? I catch the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: national games every now and then, but I want the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: storylines across the league. So I'm going to call you
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: our NBA insider, Mr. Christopher Kidd. You're going to give
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  Speaker 1: me an update on what's going on in the NBA.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: What has been kind of the big storyline in the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: early part of the first couple weeks of the season?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Outside of injuries, I don't want to poo-poo that and
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: talk three minutes of injuries, but I would say.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Luka MVP right now.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I know Chuck makes the joke about MVP discussions for
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: the NFL shouldn't start until like week 15, week 14,
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: I think he said. But we're doing it with JSN
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: three weeks ago when it was like week four or five.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Same with the NBA. It's very early, but Luka's out
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  Speaker 5: here hooping.
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  Speaker 2: He's hooping.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: He had 52 against Utah with like 10 assists. He
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: is a scoring machine. He's controlling the Lakers offense, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: he looks comfortable doing it. And they have pieces around
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: them where they could do something. They're not going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: win a championship, but they're going to surprise a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: of people, especially maybe Lakers fans.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: They were probably like, oh, throw this season away.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: We've got to prepare for 2027, 2028, where it's like, oh,
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: we can actually compete. Their defense might not be great,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: but they have pieces. Well, Luka can score. This is
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: about Luka. Luka, he is looking good. And they can
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: be dangerous when he's playing this aggressively.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: And if other guys can do other things, it just
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: makes this team a little interesting as opposed to the
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Lakers won't do anything.
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  Speaker 5: The Lakers are going to do something.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It seems like there's some surprisingly good teams to start.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: The year as well. Remember I told you Houston, they
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: have a point guard now. Yeah. I figured they would
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: be really good. And KD, he's looking fine.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: But other guys are stepping up as well. Opron Sen Goon,
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: he looks really good. He doesn't need to carry them, right? Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: last year it was carrying. Now they have a guy
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: that can run the point, set up the offense, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: when you have someone that can do that, it just creates–
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: it allows for Kevin Durant to do what he does,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: which is come off the ball, catch and shoot. Maybe
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: one time he does bring the ball up the court
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: and just score, but they're flexible now.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: They have that ability. The Spurs, they're looking back to form.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: They're looking dangerous.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: They're looking like a team that's going to win 50-plus
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: games and do it with rather ease because Victor is just–
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Impossible to stop. When he locks in and plays basketball,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: I don't know how many guys can really go up
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: there and compete with him and make it a tough
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: challenge for him. Then Toronto, I know they lost Kawhi,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: but quietly, they're making some noise over there in the East.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Kawhi-ately. Quietly.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Kawhi-ately.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: See, that's what you did there.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: So those are just some things that I'm noticing in
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: the NBA a week in.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What about our friends to the South in Portland?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: They just lost their first game last night. Seems like
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: John Moran's been a good fit for them.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Been a great fit. They're another team that, oh, Portland
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: doesn't look too bad. Yeah, right? They were okay last year.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Didn't they almost make the play-in? There you go.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: They have talent. They just needed some leaders. And bringing
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Dame back, I think, is that one leader that's like, yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: we can do something special here.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: So let's do it this year. They bring in Ja Morant,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Dame being that leader for Ja, I think that's going
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: to be huge for this season as he matures and
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: grows and So I think Houston, to your point, is
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: another team that is okay. They can be a fifth,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: sixth seed, continue to stay healthy and play the way
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: they've been playing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: They should be a fun team to watch throughout the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: regular season. What about surprisingly bad in the Miami Heat?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: What's going on there, man? They just won their first game.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: I'm not worried about the Heat, man.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: You're not?
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I picked them in our NBA win draft.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: It's personal, but you're only five games in, buddy. Like
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I told you, if we get to 30 games and
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: they're sitting at, 14 and like 16, okay, Anderson, you
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: have a little argument there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: But I wouldn't worry too much right now. They're going
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: to go on a run. They're figuring things out.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: It's really tough to just grab and pluck guys and
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: put them and plug and play.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: It's a little more difficult, especially in the NBA, right?
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Especially you go and get a guy that's doing the
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: same thing that Bam's doing, which is power forward. They're
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: both not ball handlers or anything. So relax, Anderson. They'll
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: be fine.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: All right. All right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The Knicks also just won their first game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: I'm not worried about them, but I think they're in
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: a tough division in the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Boston looks good.
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• 25:08
  Speaker 6: They got a challenge, so it won't be as, oh,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: clean sweep through the East. They're going to be tested
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: as they should be, the defending champs.
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• 28:30
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• 28:34
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• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Maybe you think we are.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Let's talk some cracking coming off a huge win against
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Toronto on Wednesday. You know, Brandon Montour, the overtime or sorry,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it wasn't overtime. It was the very end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: The game winning goal. Classic Montour slap shot. This team
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: is playing good hockey right now. They're beating the teams
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they're supposed to. The only teams they're really losing to
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: so far this season, I would say, are absolute Stanley
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Cup contenders. And I'll list off their losses and you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: tell me if this is a really good team or not.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's the Oilers. It's the Golden Knights. It's the Lightning.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It's the Panthers. Those are the only in the wild.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the only five losses the Kraken have this season.
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  Speaker 1: All five of those teams could easily tell themselves that
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  Speaker 1: they're in the Stanley Cup. conversation so uh everyone else
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the crack has played they they've beaten uh including wins
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: over the maple leaves the mammoth who everyone thought was
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: going to take a huge step this year the red
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: wings who have played really good hockey as of late
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: um so with the jared mccain injury that's at least
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: 10 weeks that means we're looking at probably beginning of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: 2027 early january of 2027 For him coming back. That's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a big piece to this team who at this point
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: has shown they have the pieces, they have the type
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of hockey players to be a playoff team this year.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: It would, I think, do a lot for fandom, for....
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Themselves kind of validating that they're doing the right things
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: right now in terms of the process. Yes, a lot
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: of the reasoning that the Kraken are playing a lot
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: better right now is coming from internal development. I understand that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Mainly Berkeley Catton and Shane Wright, both those guys, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: think playing together has really helped them out a lot.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: You're looking at players like the fourth line. Freddie Goudreau
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: has been fantastic. Ryan Winterton playing with him. Um, you're
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: getting big performances from Brandon Montour, which was always expected. Uh,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Mackie Samaskevich, the new guys come in and I think
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: has done his role really, really well. He hasn't necessarily
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: raised the ceiling of the Kraken, but he's a perfect
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: piece to slide in basically on any line that you
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: need him to. You can play on the top line.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: If you need him to, he can play, um, on
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the third line with Kat and right. If you need
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: him to, but right now he's slotted in with Chandler
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Stevenson and Mackie, uh, or sorry, and Freddie could row, but, uh,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There also has been some underperformance. You're looking at someone
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: like Bobby McMahon, Matty Beneers. They have not gotten to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: at least the point tolls that you expect them to.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I still think Matty's doing a ton of work in
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the defensive end of the ice that goes unnoticed, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that's a huge part of his game. But I think
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it's worth to start thinking about trade season for the Kraken.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I know it seems like the season just started. We're
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: basically a month in at this point.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: And....
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: You need to kind of adjust on the fly.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: We just talked about with the Seahawks that they kind
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of get ahead of the game. More time with your
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: trade target means you're upgrading your team earlier in the year.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: It means you could be getting more wins out of it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Think about if the Kraken traded for Bobby McMahon earlier
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: than right at the trade deadline. Now, I realize that
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: it's hard to do that sometimes because a lot of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: these teams that do have trade pieces are Maybe don't
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: know that they want to trade them yet. They still
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: have the belief that they could be a good hockey
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: team moving forward. There are rare instances where you already
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: know that team's not very good. Looking at you, Calgary.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Looking at you, Columbus. That's basically kind of looking at you, Philadelphia.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe Philadelphia can work themselves back into it, but I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: highly doubt it. But everyone else basically in the NHL,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: maybe Chicago, but they're not really in trade away mode.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: They don't really have a ton of pieces I don't
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: think you'd want. Um, but there are some teams out
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: there who will end up being, you know, in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: selling mode by the time the trade deadline comes that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: may be not in that mode right now. And that's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: kind of a big shoe that you need to drop.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: But I do think it's worth having the conversation of
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: where the Kraken need to upgrade. Maybe we're not even
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: talking about specific players, but we should be looking at positions.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: We've already seen one blockbuster trade in the NHL. It
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: was the Connor Hellebuck. Actually, Yeah, one blockbuster trade. It
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: was the Connor Hellebuck move from Winnipeg to the Devils.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I think that makes the Devils really good. It also
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: takes one of the, if not the best goaltender out
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of the Western Conference and puts them in the Eastern
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Conference and basically puts Winnipeg in a tough position like, hey,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: should we be selling off some pieces? But I still
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: think the number one need for Seattle is a scoring winger.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: And you could say you got that in Bobby McMahon
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: last year at the deadline. I still like the move
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and I like the move to bring him back. But
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I think Bobby McMahon's best role on this team would
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: be like a second line, second power play guy, depth
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: scoring guy should not be asked to carry the mantle anymore.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: with scoring 40 goals, uh, in a season, 50 goals
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: in a season, you can expect him to score 20
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to 30.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Um, but him being the guy that you're relying on
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: for goal scoring, um, I think he can do it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I love his game. I love
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: how he shoots the puck. I love how he gets physical.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I love his speed. Um, but I still think you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: need to add to that top end a little bit more. Um,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Philadelphia and trying to look at their
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: roster because I don't think they'll be in a position
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to really compete this year. They have a kind of
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: mixture of really young guys that they're probably not going
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to get rid of. And then some veterans who could
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: absolutely be a piece on another team. I'm looking at
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Travis Konechny, who right now is on IR. I'm looking
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: at Owen Tippett, also on IR right now. But both
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of those guys don't believe, I don't believe, have long-term
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: injuries anymore. both of those guys would instantly improve this
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: team's goal scoring. I believe you have a lot of
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: playmakers on this team already. Berkeley Catton's a great example
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: of him breaking out into that role this year. I
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: still want to see him higher up the lineup. If not,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: maybe not even moving his line, but move that line
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: higher up. Have them be in the 17, 18 minutes
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a night instead of the 14, 15 minutes a night.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: But....
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jordan Eberle is a fantastic playmaker. That's one
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of his strengths. I think Matty Beneers is an underrated playmaker.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Chandler Stevenson, that's his game, right? But they need more finishers.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And I think if Shane Wright truly breaks out, that's
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the kind of role that he'll end up playing. But
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I think a goal scoring winger needs to be the
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: first thing the crack can do.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: At the deadline.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And I realize that's what they did last year with McMahon,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: but I think they still can find more in that
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: market this year. And I don't think they should wait
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: until the deadline to make those moves. You've already seen
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a couple massive moves happen. You can find pieces, you
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: can find teams that are willing to move some things,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: whether it's for prospects, whether it's for draft picks, whatever.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's going to be the way forward for
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Kraken. I have faith in this defense core. I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: know there's been a lot of talk with Simone Edvinson
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in Detroit. He's requested a trade. That would be a
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: good addition. Don't get me wrong. I would love to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: add him to this team. I just don't think that's
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the biggest need for this team. He's a good defensive defenseman.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I think this team still can add to its goal
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: scoring a little bit and really kind of put the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: ceiling on top. Because right now, they're getting it done
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: with depth scoring, and that's fantastic. That's how we got
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs in 22-23. A lot of guys just
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: filling their roles, doing a good job up and down
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the lineup. But if you're able, and we're seeing this
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a little bit now, one or two injuries kind of
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: change those roles a little bit, move guys higher up
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the lineup than they really should be, that's when things
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: start to change a little bit. If you're able to have...
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit more on the offensive ceiling, you can
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: go through some slumps. You can, um, kind of withstand
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: some injuries on that front. So, uh, uh, all that
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: being said, it's a positive start to the season. And
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the fact that we're even talking about a possible addition
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to the cracking at this point. is a great start
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: for them. Hopefully they can get the win tonight in
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Calgary and continue that momentum. All right, coming up next,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: we talk to Greg Lewis, one of the Husky honks.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: We're going to discuss all things Huskies and Corn Huskers. Huskies, Huskers,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: as Chuck would always say. What are we doing with quarterback?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: What's a successful season for the Dawgs moving forward? We'll
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: ask Greg Lewis, coming up next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.