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10-23 H1: What's On Tap, ICYMI & No Cliché' Keys · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: great to have you with us here on this Football
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  Speaker 2: Friday as we get things started. And we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things to discuss today. By the way, do
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  Speaker 2: you know that since you started working with me that
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  Speaker 2: I've injured my thumbs twice? Oh. Yeah. Didn't I tell
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  Speaker 2: you that was a side effect? Is that really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, does Ian have just nubs now from years
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  Speaker 2: of working with you? Is that what happened? That and
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  Speaker 2: for other reasons. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got a paper cut on this thumb earlier this week,
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  Speaker 2: and I burned this thumb, as you can see it
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube. On a Pop-Tart. The Pop-Tart story. The first
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  Speaker 2: week that you started. I don't know. There's something about
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  Speaker 2: you and my injured thumbs. What has two injured thumbs
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  Speaker 2: and two thumbs? That guy. This guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I write it in the contract and make sure
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  Speaker 5: that it gets in there that I have to have
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  Speaker 5: more superior thumbs than the person that I'm working with.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, well, you won. However it comes from that.
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  Speaker 2: I broke my thumb. It never did heal.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So you had me beat. You didn't have to keep
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  Speaker 2: injuring my thumbs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you had me beat from hello. You had me
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  Speaker 2: at hello. Yeah. I didn't have to add that clause
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  Speaker 2: in there, did I? Yeah, exactly. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be nasty about it. I'm sorry. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: rub it in. You got to make sure, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You and your perfect thumbs. You don't have to rub
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  Speaker 2: it in. So, I don't know. There's something about thumb
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  Speaker 2: injuries lately that I've been suffering, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: only thing I could do, my only choice, is to
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  Speaker 2: blame Anders. Okay. Right? Who else am I going to blame?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the deduction that I come to as well.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good to have you with us. We'll see if
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  Speaker 2: I can get through this with all 10 of my
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  Speaker 2: digits here today. We'll see. Four hours coming your way.
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  Speaker 2: What's on tap? We'll map it out for you here
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit. But on a football Friday, we,
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  Speaker 2: of course, are going to start with football, where... The
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks getting ready to take on Kansas City Chiefs on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night. And there is something, like, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: just started working with me. It hasn't stopped you from
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  Speaker 2: injuring my thumbs. But, you know, we're still getting to
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  Speaker 2: know one another. Of course. And one of the things,
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  Speaker 2: one of my pet peeves in the sports talk world
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  Speaker 2: are the sports talk show hosts who go to the
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  Speaker 2: must-win way too early. Way too early. In the season,
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  Speaker 2: way too early in the process. I mean, I have
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  Speaker 2: heard people say it in, like, the opening week. of
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  Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball season. Baseball. I'm not making that up. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God. This is a must win. Yeah, like, got
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  Speaker 2: to establish what you are. You got to win opening
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  Speaker 2: night of 162-game schedule. This is about as must as
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  Speaker 2: it gets. I've heard that from people in this industry before.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a pet peeve of mine. There is a
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  Speaker 2: moment in a season where, where mathematically it's not a
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  Speaker 2: must win but it is still it does feel like
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  Speaker 2: a must win it does happen i mean normally i
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  Speaker 2: reserve the must win talk for when you truly must
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  Speaker 2: win like mathematically if you don't win this you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to achieve your goal must win yeah but there
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  Speaker 2: are there is a moment in almost every season before
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  Speaker 2: you get to that elimination moment And it can come earlier.
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  Speaker 2: That's why when you use it, it can be so
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  Speaker 2: effectively dramatic. That's how much emphasis you're going to put
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  Speaker 2: on that particular game. But I feel way too many
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  Speaker 2: talk show hosts. And this is when we get accused of,
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  Speaker 2: you've never been in the locker room, have you? That's
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  Speaker 2: when we get accused by professional athletes because we go
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  Speaker 2: way too early to call something a must-win. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think Sunday night. Anders is a must win. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But there is something musty about it. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure what the must is. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: There is, there is a must here. It's not, you
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  Speaker 2: must win this game or you're not going to achieve
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  Speaker 2: your goals because as you and I, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we discussed it on air or off air yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Anders and I both believe that this team doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to win the division to to make it to the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I don't think this team is restricted to
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  Speaker 2: you can only win home playoff games. I agree. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's been better on the road since he took
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  Speaker 2: over in Seattle than he's been at home since he
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  Speaker 2: took over at Seattle. And if the Seahawks are playing
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  Speaker 2: as well as they were by year's end last year,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. I don't care where they play. If
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  Speaker 2: they're playing that well, they can beat any team. And so,
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  Speaker 2: from that standpoint, no, this is not a must win.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something must in there. Whether it's, you might
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  Speaker 2: have to win Sunday if you're going to win the division.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you might have to win this game if, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to track down San Francisco. But I
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  Speaker 2: think where the must is for me is at some
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  Speaker 2: point you must play Seahawk football. You must establish your identity.
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  Speaker 2: And this team, for how good it is and how
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  Speaker 2: well it's coached and how much those guys seem to
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  Speaker 2: be rowing in the same direction, they've been all over
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  Speaker 2: the board. through six games so far this season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They have lost games in very unusual ways for them.
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  Speaker 2: Can't keep the commanders out of your end zone. Marcus Mariota. Really?
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  Speaker 2: You can't keep him out of your end zone. You
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  Speaker 2: can't hold him to a field goal, even though you
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  Speaker 2: played well against them for most of the game. Um, you,
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  Speaker 2: even in your victories have not been impressive. The 20
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  Speaker 2: penalties against the chargers, right? 20 penalties against the Chargers,
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  Speaker 2: let a team back in the back door. Were tied
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  Speaker 2: at halftime against the Arizona Cardinals. Dominated them in the
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  Speaker 2: second half. Tied at halftime, though. Even back to week
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  Speaker 2: number one, barely escaped with a win in that game.
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  Speaker 2: A bad Drake may pass, and you wouldn't have. So,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, really, this team's played a good game yet.
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  Speaker 2: They've certainly not played a good four quarters yet. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point, and correct me if I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 2: because again, I'm not sure where the must lies, but
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  Speaker 2: it feels like this Sunday there is a must out there.
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  Speaker 2: But what is the must? Because I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: is you must win it to win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is you must win it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even sure if you must win it to track
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  Speaker 2: down the 49ers. But at some point, you must start
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  Speaker 2: playing You must establish your identity for the type of
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  Speaker 2: football team that you are. And we're now going on
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  Speaker 2: seven games. And it just feels like this is the
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  Speaker 2: perfect opportunity to do it. This is the perfect opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to just, we're going to play a complete football game
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  Speaker 2: for the first time this year. We're not resting on
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  Speaker 2: our laurels from a year ago. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be sloppy. We're not going to be stupid. We're not
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  Speaker 2: going to turn the ball over at ridiculous moments in
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  Speaker 2: the game. We're not going to commit penalties after the
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  Speaker 2: whistle because none of that was us a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: I know Sam Darnold led the league in interceptions, but
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  Speaker 2: not this way. Not the way he's turning the ball
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  Speaker 2: over so far this season. So I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to really define that, but to me it is at
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  Speaker 2: some point soon you've got to play a game that
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  Speaker 2: you can win or lose, walk away from like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that's Seahawks football, so it might as well be Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like the perfect time for it. I agree. It's
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  Speaker 2: the process versus results. Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 5: The result, I don't think, is the most important thing
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  Speaker 5: on Sunday, to be completely honest. You could be three
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  Speaker 5: and four, but if Sam Darnold looks like he's firing again,
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  Speaker 5: like the same Sam Darnold that we saw at the
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  Speaker 5: end of last year, and you get an assemblance of
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  Speaker 5: a running game with Zach Charbonnet back, I will feel
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  Speaker 5: much better about that. Even if you lose the game,
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  Speaker 5: then if you win it and don't have those things happen, right?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It's the process.
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  Speaker 5: We need to get back to that Seahawks football as
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  Speaker 5: you were just talking about there. And that's what that
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  Speaker 5: looks like. I will feel much better if that happens. Now,
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  Speaker 5: that's usually leads to wins. So that's why I want
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  Speaker 5: that to happen. But if for whatever reason, the process
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  Speaker 5: looks good, but the result doesn't show because there's Chiefs
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  Speaker 5: are a really good football team, you could still lose
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  Speaker 5: even if you place Mike McDonald football. I would rather
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  Speaker 5: have that happen. And that's what must happen, I think,
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  Speaker 5: on Sunday and not necessarily the win in and of itself.
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  Speaker 5: Not saying I don't want it, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think three and four dooms you. Probably not.
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  Speaker 4: In any way.
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  Speaker 2: Not even probably not. It does not doom you. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: seven teams are going to make the playoffs. There's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a 10-7 team that makes the playoffs. Might
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  Speaker 2: be a 9-8 team. Well, considering, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: a wild card, there's probably going to be an 8-9
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  Speaker 2: team that wins a division. There might be a 7-10
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  Speaker 2: team that wins a division. The NFC East has not
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  Speaker 2: won a game in two weeks. That's never happened before
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  Speaker 2: in NFL history. So I don't think it's a must-win
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  Speaker 2: that everything unravels without a victory against one of the
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  Speaker 2: best teams in the National Football League on Sunday. Mathematically,
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  Speaker 2: you can certainly come back from that, and certainly this
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  Speaker 2: is a tight-knit group, and you can rally from a
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  Speaker 2: 3-4 record. And look, I think people forget. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: where did they go? 11-1 in their last 12 games.
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  Speaker 4: A year ago.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you only need to go back a few
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  Speaker 2: months to find an example of this very team with
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  Speaker 2: these very players and this very coaching staff, for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, that went 11-1 to close out the year.
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  Speaker 2: Even 3-4, you know, you have 10 games left. You
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  Speaker 2: go 9-1. That's a 12-win season. Yeah. And you're in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs with two weeks to go. You know, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think that is, but if you have
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  Speaker 2: another game where it's like, man, Sam turned the ball
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  Speaker 2: over again, three times or my gosh. I mean, even
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  Speaker 2: with Charbonnet back, we rushed for 45 yards on 2.2
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  Speaker 2: yards per carry. My goodness. They only got into the
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  Speaker 2: red zone three times and they scored 28 points. Because
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  Speaker 2: they scored every time they were in the red zone
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  Speaker 2: and Sam threw a pick. If you have another week
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  Speaker 2: like that, maybe doubt does start to creep in. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you do start thinking, Sam's not going to come out
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  Speaker 2: of this. Maybe you do wonder if you can ever
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  Speaker 2: establish a running game, even with Price coming back somewhere
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  Speaker 2: down the line. Does that make sense to you? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'm reaching for it, but maybe it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: be Sunday night. But some point soon, Mike McDonald and
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  Speaker 2: this team have to play a complete football game. And
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the perfect stage for it. You
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  Speaker 2: are at home. You have the national audience. You are
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  Speaker 2: facing a great team. There is the Ken Walker element.
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  Speaker 2: Come out. Be the sharpest you've been all season. You've
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  Speaker 2: had extra rest. Be the sharpest you've been all season long.
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  Speaker 2: Come out and win a game. And if they do that,
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  Speaker 2: I think on Monday morning with a four and three
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  Speaker 2: football team. it feels to me like everything is there. Like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, now we're cooking. Now we're going. And now
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  Speaker 2: we're about to remind every analyst in the country that
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  Speaker 2: doubted this team a year ago, all season long, then
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  Speaker 2: had to eat their words at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 2: and then started this season by doubting them all over.
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  Speaker 2: And now they're mocking the Seahawks and calling them overrated.
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  Speaker 2: You know, to be able to shut that up If
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  Speaker 2: you're sloppy and you lose Sunday night, it gets out
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  Speaker 2: of control. You win, you end all of it. They
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  Speaker 2: just beat the Chiefs. They're 4-3. Why did we ever
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  Speaker 2: start doubting the Seattle Seahawks? That's the kind of night
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  Speaker 2: it feels like for me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Hugh Millen mentioned it yesterday on the roundtable.
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  Speaker 5: There couldn't be a much bigger difference between a win
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  Speaker 5: and a loss and how you feel about your team
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. At this point in time. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 5: For a 3-3 team. You either go to 3-4 and
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  Speaker 5: you really start to worry about some stuff, or you
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  Speaker 5: go to 4-3 and you just beat an undefeated team coming.
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  Speaker 2: Off a bye. Maybe that's where I got this little nugget. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because maybe that's where this germinated in my head where I—
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  Speaker 2: kind of spent all night long. It's a big fork
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  Speaker 2: in the road. There's a must here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the must is. I don't think,
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  Speaker 2: I know mathematically it's not a must. I, even a
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  Speaker 2: loss isn't going to eliminate you from the playoff picture
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that. But I think that's it. Like
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  Speaker 2: there's a big win between a win and a loss. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a whole different, not just what we
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  Speaker 2: talk about on Monday, but I think that's a whole
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  Speaker 2: different set of problems that Mike McDonald's got to get
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  Speaker 2: to the bottom of. Mid-season, if this team's gone seven
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  Speaker 2: games into the year, are under. 500, and haven't figured
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  Speaker 2: out a way to play a complete game to this point.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the thing that I try and wrap my
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  Speaker 5: head around, and it's hard because it's very natural for
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  Speaker 5: fans especially to And I know Mike McDonald tried to
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  Speaker 5: avoid this within the locker room in the offseason, but
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  Speaker 5: compare this year to last year. I realize it's the
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  Speaker 5: last team that we had that obviously won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot of the same players, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the same coaching staff, but there are differences to this
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  Speaker 5: team and last year's team. we should still see a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the similarities that we saw from last year's team,
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  Speaker 5: but just thinking, Oh, it's the same team. Like we
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  Speaker 5: should be able to do exactly like we did last year.
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  Speaker 5: I think maybe it gets taken for granted a little
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  Speaker 5: bit and just kind of accepting that this team is
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  Speaker 5: going to be different. They're going to do things in
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  Speaker 5: slightly different ways is, is going to be something where
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  Speaker 5: we're adjusting to as fans as to what type of
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  Speaker 5: football team this is in 2026.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I, I, But I would say to that, there
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  Speaker 2: are some things that should be the same. Absolutely. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And defensively, number one in yards allowed. I mean, defensively,
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  Speaker 2: the identity of this team, they are playing great defense
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  Speaker 2: this year, but there are peculiar things they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: year ago that need to get cleaned up that never
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  Speaker 2: happened last season during the Super Bowl run. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the giving up touchdowns every time a team's in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone versus holding them to the field goal. That's
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  Speaker 2: the nonsense after the whistle that we've seen far too
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  Speaker 2: much this year. And on offense as well, the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line was kept intact. Every offensive lineman has told me
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  Speaker 2: since the time I first interviewed Jackie Slater, It's all
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  Speaker 2: about cohesion on the offensive line and how well you
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  Speaker 2: work as a fist and not as individual offensive linemen.
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  Speaker 2: They should be better. This is a second full year together,
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  Speaker 2: all five of them. That should not be an issue
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  Speaker 2: this year. JSN is even better than he was a
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  Speaker 2: year ago, but we can't run the football. Sam Darnold's
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  Speaker 2: making careless errors in big moments. And those things seem
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  Speaker 2: little to me. Those things seem like they should be
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  Speaker 2: able to get cleaned up. I mean, the running game's
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  Speaker 2: not little. But those things should be able to get
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up. And so, to me, that's kind of what
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  Speaker 2: Sunday's mission is. It's not just to win the game,
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  Speaker 2: but it is if you play a complete football game
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  Speaker 2: for the first time of the year, the win will
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  Speaker 2: take care of itself. All right, let's find out what's
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  Speaker 2: on tap for the rest of the show.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Hugh Millen will join us for X's and
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  Speaker 2: O's today at 9 o'clock. Of course, talking Chief Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford is going to be back for this game.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet is going to be back for this game.
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  Speaker 2: How much he's going to run the football, we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll ask Greg Bell today at 7.05. Chiefs have injuries, too.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of get locked in on our side of things,
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  Speaker 2: but there was a setback this week for Josh Simmons.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: They thought there was a chance their left tackle could play,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and he's been put on the IR. Not only will
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: he not play in this game, he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: play for a while yet. Rasheed Rice, very unlikely to play.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: That's the Chiefs number one receiver when the world is
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  Speaker 2: right for Kansas City. So he's not, he's very unlikely
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  Speaker 2: to play as the latest report that I saw. He
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  Speaker 2: has not practiced all week long. He has a couple
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  Speaker 2: different injuries, including a knee that was added to the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: injury report just yesterday. And Travis Kelsey has been put
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  Speaker 2: on the injury list as well. I mean, sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: just do that, but this sounds like it's more than just,
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  Speaker 2: just throw him on the list, give him something to
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  Speaker 2: think about. It sounds like there's a little bit of
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: an ankle issue with Kelsey, so maybe he's a little
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: bit restricted on Sunday night, but we'll cover all of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: this as the show goes along. Today, Thursday night football,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears won over the New England Patriots last
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  Speaker 2: night 30-24. was the final score. All they had to do, Anders,
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  Speaker 2: was go for a touchdown on that last possession instead
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  Speaker 2: of settling for a field goal. Wasn't that the final?
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  Speaker 2: Do I have that right? I think I wrote that
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  Speaker 2: down from memory.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That was the final score? Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, 30-24.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if they had gone for the touchdown, we would
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  Speaker 2: have gotten our factor figures. Yeah, that's all they had
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  Speaker 2: to do, but they decided with— they did the whole, let's
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  Speaker 2: get the three now. Let's get the— When you're not
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: going to get the ball back, you're out of timeout. Like, okay,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I'm salty. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. Well, we'll play Factor Fiction
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  Speaker 2: today at 735. Chris Kidd was picked today, so that's
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  Speaker 2: coming up a little later. later on in the show.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Never trust the Patriots. NFL week number seven on Sunday.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: There will be a European game. Pittsburgh and New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: are in France for the 6.30 start. And then best
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: early game, I think Cincinnati at Baltimore. And then the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: best late game, Green Bay at Detroit. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks have the Sunday night game. College football week
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  Speaker 2: number eight, Ole Miss at Texas is your best game
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  Speaker 2: on the docket this week. Houston and Utah also a
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  Speaker 2: matchup of top 14 teams in college football this year.
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  Speaker 2: The Cougs are going to host number 21, Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: So big doings in Pullman. uh, this Saturday and UW
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  Speaker 2: is on by as Jed fish given more time to
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  Speaker 2: think about his, uh, jet, uh, demand Williams, a decision
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  Speaker 2: that has, uh, he has to make before their next
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  Speaker 2: game next week in Lincoln, Nebraska crack and went over
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  Speaker 2: the mammoth by a final score of five to three.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Let's go baby. Sweet win last night. Uh, they once
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: again blew a multi goal lead in the third period
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  Speaker 2: for a second game in a row. But once again,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: still pulled off the victory. So despite doing that, they've
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  Speaker 2: come away with the max four points. Mackie Samaskevich, who
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan calls Sammy Samaskevich, scored the game-winning goal, and
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  Speaker 2: then Goudreau with that empty netter. He's six goals. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: needs to pick that guy up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know how sustainable it is, but hey,
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  Speaker 5: you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Keep doing it. I almost said Johnny Goudreau. Freddie Goudreau,
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Yeah. Well, we'll find some time to talk
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: about that victory last night because it was a nice
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  Speaker 2: one over the Mammoth. WNBA game number four of the series,
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  Speaker 2: the finals, will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. Okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they could crown their champion at noon tomorrow. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: having tacos at noon tomorrow on a Saturday. Going against
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  Speaker 2: the big noon game in college football? It's very strange.
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  Speaker 2: I think they were having some scheduling issues. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: plan for them being in the finals, Atlanta. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: really plan for it. And so they had to find
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  Speaker 2: a place to play it. So they might crown their
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  Speaker 2: champion at noon on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Strange. Atlanta is up 2-1 in that series. World Series
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  Speaker 2: game number one tonight. Feels like it's been a month
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  Speaker 2: since we've last had a baseball game. Tampa Bay at Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be Jacob Mizorowski going for the Brewers, and Tampa
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  Speaker 2: is not throwing Drew Rasmussen. They didn't feel he had
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  Speaker 2: enough rest, so they're going to go with Nick Martinez
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  Speaker 2: as the game one starter. And Steven Vogt made it clear,
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  Speaker 2: I think, he made it clear. I think. I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to talk about this at 830 today that no,
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  Speaker 2: he's not leaving Cleveland. But more sounded to me like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I just haven't been contacted by the Mariners. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Stephen Vogt, a day after a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: rumors linking him to the Mariners kind of shot them down.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: but we'll discuss that later on in the program when
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  Speaker 2: we have more time. Coming up next, in case you
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  Speaker 2: missed it, Rick Neuheisel joins us every Tuesday. Had some
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  Speaker 2: really interesting thoughts about the UW quarterback situation, and so
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  Speaker 2: we always replay some Coach Neuheisel on a football Friday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let me start by correcting something. Sorry. Need to be
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  Speaker 2: on top of these things. You trust me to be
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  Speaker 2: on top of these things. It's a seven-game series now
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: in the WNBA Finals. I thought it was a five,
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  Speaker 2: so I thought that they were up 2-1. They could
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: clinch tomorrow at 10 a.m., but we were corrected on
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the text line. Sarah Spain may never forgive me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For not knowing. She might not have you on her
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  Speaker 2: podcast anymore. Or ever. Or would I ever. But, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's the risk that I now run. Yep. That she
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  Speaker 2: may never forgive me for not knowing that. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: there will be more WNBA finals beyond Saturday. So, I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Should have known. I forgive you. All right. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: a little college football here. Rick Neuheisel joins us every
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday at nine o'clock. It really is. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those segments that people stop me and say, man, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: love Rick Neuheisel on the station and on the show.
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  Speaker 2: And he's on twice. He's on with Softie and Fane
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  Speaker 2: once a week. He's on with us once a week.
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  Speaker 2: So we love having him on. So we always replay
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a little bit on a football Friday of what he said,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: just in case you missed it, because we don't, you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Sometimes 6 o'clock, our audience doesn't get to listen at
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock, and yet they want them some new Heisel.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: So we spent a lot of time talking about the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: officiating in college football, the college football playoff expansion. We
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: talked about the schedule for this week. But I think
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: on this Husky bye week, the portion of the conversation
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I want to replay for you was the portion about
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  Speaker 2: UW's quarterback. Huskies on bye. and it gave Jed Fish
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  Speaker 2: a little more time to try to figure out who's
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  Speaker 2: going to start for him at quarterback next week in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: I asked Coach, who should be the quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be Elijah Brown. I don't care. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's 21-27. I know there were three interceptions, but some
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  Speaker 4: of those could be because he's throwing it on time,
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  Speaker 4: and the receiver misread what the coverage is. All I know... 21-27.
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  Speaker 4: What was the other night?
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  Speaker 3: 28-39.
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  Speaker 4: And the ball comes out. He doesn't get sacked. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there is– and Jed Fish is a West Coast offense,
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  Speaker 4: you know, principal. All these NFL pass concepts that require
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  Speaker 4: timing throws. And I don't know how you take that
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  Speaker 4: guy out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a problem at Michigan. This is going
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  Speaker 4: to be a problem at Oklahoma. This is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a problem at Texas. You've got a high-priced quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: And he's not the best. And what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: You got to put the other guy in. That's the
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  Speaker 4: only way to play. But you have now absolutely taken
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  Speaker 4: a huge bite of the hand that feeds you. Because
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  Speaker 4: we're giving all these resources as you've asked, and you're
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  Speaker 4: not using them wisely because the guy that you said
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  Speaker 4: was that valuable isn't even your best guy on your team.
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  Speaker 2: It's a problem.
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  Speaker 4: It's what's wrong with college football. It can't go down
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  Speaker 4: this path because coaches need to show their teams that
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  Speaker 4: I'm willing to play the best players. I can't only
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  Speaker 4: play those who are being paid more because that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: make sense in a locker room.
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  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of Huskies fans, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we should have never brought him back. I've tried on
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  Speaker 2: our airwaves to defend Jed a little bit on this
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  Speaker 2: because he also sort of had to make a statement,
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  Speaker 2: we can't allow someone to leave us this way when
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  Speaker 2: we've had an agreement. So using hindsight, not using hindsight,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, was the answer to not, Bring DeMond back
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  Speaker 2: once he decided he wanted to go somewhere else?
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  Speaker 4: Before I answer that, what was the timing? When did
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  Speaker 4: Elijah Brown join the team?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I
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  Speaker 2: probably should know that.
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  Speaker 4: Because Elijah Brown was a Stanford kid. He transferred to Washington, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that he was on the team last year.
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  Speaker 2: No, he was not. No, I thought you meant this
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  Speaker 2: off season. I thought you were asking for the timing
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  Speaker 2: of this off season.
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  Speaker 4: If he came and there's only one portal. So he
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  Speaker 4: came in that same portal. If you don't know that
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  Speaker 4: you have Elijah Brown and your quarterback's getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: walk out the door and you have no idea if
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  Speaker 4: Elijah Brown's going to assimilate all this information and no,
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  Speaker 4: you have to protect your quarterback. I can defend Jed
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  Speaker 4: till the day, uh, to the dawn of time, right?
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  Speaker 4: Because that is your quarterback. You can't let him go.
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  Speaker 4: You got to recruit him. That's the job of the
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  Speaker 4: coach right now is recruit and re-recruit. Now it's also
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  Speaker 4: the job to pay the best player. And Elijah Brown
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  Speaker 4: is getting what Jed is teaching and he's getting it
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  Speaker 4: out of his hand, which protects the offensive line, which
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  Speaker 4: saves the running game, because now you're going to have
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: to stop those past concepts with two safeties. And when
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  Speaker 4: you play two safeties, your running game comes alive. And
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: guys like Trey Cooley can have 113 yards rushing, averaging
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  Speaker 4: 14.1 per rush. That happens because you can get it
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  Speaker 4: out of your hand. It all fits together. And DeMond,
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee this has been fantastic for DeMond to watch it.
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  Speaker 4: Whether or not DeMond can beat Elijah Brown and go
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  Speaker 4: out and play like Elijah Brown remains to be seen,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm not taking a hot hand. It's like telling
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  Speaker 4: the guy who's rolling dice in Vegas that And everybody's
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  Speaker 4: around screaming and hooting. He just says, I'm done. No,
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  Speaker 4: you're not. Get back in there. You're rolling. That's exactly
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  Speaker 4: what's happening here.
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  Speaker 2: Great stuff. Coach Neuheisel on DeMond Williams, Elijah Brown decision.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's kind of arrived at that conclusion that
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  Speaker 2: Elijah has to be the choice. But I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that will be the case. We'll see. We'll find
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  Speaker 2: out from Jed next week. On that front, but it
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  Speaker 2: does sort of highlight and, and yes, just to clarify,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was asking, when did Elijah come? Like
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  Speaker 2: what month? Yeah. Like did it, did he transfer before
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  Speaker 2: Demond made the decision and the back and forth with LSU?
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  Speaker 2: And we are assuming it was LSU. or after yes
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  Speaker 2: i i knew that elijah transferred in the off season
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: um but that's kind of the state of college football
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: because guess what washington's not the only program in the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: big 10 that's facing this exact same thing Michigan's paying
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Bryce Underwood, but he's not playing as well as the backup.
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  Speaker 2: Carr has been playing, and Carr's going to get the
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  Speaker 2: start against mighty Indiana. Isn't that funny to say? Mighty
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  Speaker 2: Indiana tomorrow at big noon. And this is happening kind
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  Speaker 2: of throughout the entire college football world. Nobody has that
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  Speaker 2: quality backup. Think about this. Let's just isolate on Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Once upon a time, there was a guy by the
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  Speaker 2: name of Tom Brady, skinny fart, played at Michigan, and
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  Speaker 2: he was the backup quarterback. They had a guy by
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  Speaker 2: the name of Drew Henson there, who, my brother, who
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: was a professional strength coordinator, Drew Henson also played for
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees at one point, believes is maybe the best
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: athlete he's ever tested. And Drew Henson was a huge name.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Brady was not. And had Drew Henson In the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: NIL period, if they operated the way we operate now,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way they would have ever benched him for
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  Speaker 2: skinny Tom Brady. And skinny Tom Brady would have been
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: angry and his chip on his shoulder would have taken
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: him to another program in the offseason. And then who
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: knows what the Tom Brady story becomes after that. Who knows?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: But this is where we're at. But another thing that
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  Speaker 2: the NIL and transfer portal era has introduced is something
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  Speaker 2: we talked about earlier this week. Nobody has quarterback depth.
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  Speaker 2: Very few have quarterback depth. Bingo. And that's sort of
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: even the playing field. I mean, there's a reason that
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  Speaker 2: Coach Neuheisel could not answer the question, who's the best
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: team in college football right now? Because you really can't
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: isolate who that team is right now. Ohio state's probably
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: not going to get Julian saying back for the rest
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of the season. I saw some television talking heads wonder
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: if they're even going to make the college football playoff. Now,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: once upon a time, Ohio state would have two, three,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: four or five star recruits backing up their starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: but not anymore. Cause that four or five star recruits like, yeah,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be at Ohio state, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to back anybody up. Not when I could start at,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rutgers or wherever and so that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: where we're at so there's some really bad things about
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: it but there are some sneaky good things about it
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: too if in fact you like the outcome not to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: be decided at the beginning of the year which so
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: often has been the case in college football because the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: powerhouses are just the powerhouse what a lot of people
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: have been asking for for a long time yeah and
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: we're getting it in a strange way and we're getting
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: it because of the thing that people hate about modern-day
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: college football. It's so weird. Isn't it weird? It's very ironic.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: That's why I brought it up twice this week. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, no cliche, keys to victory
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: on a Friday, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. I still
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear win the turnover battle. That is
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  Speaker 2: a cliche. You better explain why the turnover battle is
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  Speaker 2: not a cliche, if you're going to go with that.
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  Speaker 2: But anything that is not a cliche... your key, Anders,
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  Speaker 2: to a Seahawks win Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone's looking at the run game on both sides
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  Speaker 5: of the ball, and rightfully so, but I'm going to
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: look at getting pressure on Patrick Mahomes because I do
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: believe the Seahawks will at least somewhat bottle up Kenneth
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Walker more than he has been this far in the season.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: So the big question is if you're going to allow
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes to beat you in that situation. Isn't that crazy?
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Let's let Patrick Mahomes beat us and not Kenneth Walker.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: You got to make Mahomes beat you. And the Chiefs
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: are like, okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So my key to that aspect is if you get
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  Speaker 5: pressure on him, I believe he's still kind of working
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  Speaker 5: his way back from the injury.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: He won't have the full mobility. He's still mobile.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong. He won't have the full mobility
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  Speaker 5: that he's had in the past. If you dirty up
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  Speaker 5: the pocket, get pressure, especially in the middle of that
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  Speaker 5: defensive line, I think you will have more success. Get
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: pressure on Patrick Mahomes and maybe get a couple sacks.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what do you got for your no-cliche key
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  Speaker 2: to victory, kid?
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  Speaker 3: I would say for the offense, I'm going offense again here,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: make the Kansas City Chiefs defense defend all the field,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: and that includes using Rasheed Shahid more.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I think he only had one rush last week against
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the Broncos.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I think using him on jet sweeps, just making sure
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs are aware that, yeah, we got
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: to cover this full field. Don't make it easy on
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  Speaker 3: them by running the same plate over and over again.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Try to get creative. Make those linebackers have to think.
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  Speaker 3: Space it out. So if they can do that and
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: also mix in some shots downfield, because I know Rasheed had.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: A good deep ball last week.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: So if they can do that again and just make
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: sure the Chiefs are aware and covering the entire field,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I think that just bodes well for Sam Donald being
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: comfortable in the pocket and maybe a little bit of
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: run game.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So that's the hope there. You know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: that's very interesting because I don't necessarily want to come
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: down on Brian Florey six games into his being an
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. But it has not looked the way that
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to look. And look, he
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  Speaker 2: was without Sam for the couple of weeks, and so
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  Speaker 2: we thought, well, you can't judge him on the two
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  Speaker 2: games when you're operating with your backup quarterback, especially mid-game
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  Speaker 2: for the first one. And then, obviously, he's then without
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  Speaker 2: Price and was already without Charbonnet, so then he catches
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of break. Well, you don't have a
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  Speaker 2: great running back corral You can't get the running game
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  Speaker 2: going the way. But you're right. You use Shahid twice
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  Speaker 2: effectively as a tailback. Haven't seen him line up that
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: way since. We've not seen the jet sweep at all, which... Well, not...
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  Speaker 2: A couple of them. It's been... I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be a part of the game. Totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: And not just Shahid. It doesn't have to just be Shahid.
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  Speaker 2: It could be JSN. JSN, yeah. And that just keeps
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  Speaker 2: the defense on their toes because... Haven't used the tight
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  Speaker 2: end at all. Like, there's been no scheming to Barner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And to Q's point yesterday, very little scheming to Shahid
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  Speaker 2: in the pass game, in the downfield pass game.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to judge the OC six games into
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  Speaker 2: his season too harshly. And I know he's had his
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: hands tied behind his back a little bit. But then again,
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  Speaker 2: it just hasn't looked anything like I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: going to look this year. I'm going to go something
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty cliche. Run the damn ball. No. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be stop the run. Okay. And again, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to stop it cold. We know nine's playing too
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  Speaker 2: well for that. But in a lot of more ways
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  Speaker 2: than one, you need to stop the ball. 35 straight games,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks have not allowed a 100-yard rusher. So that's
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Ken Walker can't go off for a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: lot of reasons for the Seahawks. Can't go off against
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. But I think in terms of key for
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: the game, you've got to take something away. I think
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: this leans on your point a little bit. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to take something away from this offense. Because if he's
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  Speaker 2: running the football, that makes Patrick Mahomes even that much
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  Speaker 2: more dangerous. So to me it is, you've got to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: contain nine. And I know that's not news to Mike
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: McDonald and the defense. They know that's going to be
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: a key to this game. But if he runs wild,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you have a chance. Even if he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't run wild, if he's just very effective or effective,
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  Speaker 2: you got to keep him less than effective. You got
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  Speaker 2: to keep him 75 yards or under, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to win this game. Because if he's
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: running loose... then that makes Mahomes that much more dangerous,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Kelsey that much more dangerous, and that's not the kind
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  Speaker 2: of game you want to play on Sunday night. All right,
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