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Chuck & Buck 10-31 Hour 1: What are the Seahawks hiding? What's happening with MLB hiring and our No Cliche Keys to Victory! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: Saber responsibly. Even on this blessed, blessed day, not only
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Speaker 2: is it Friday, it's Halloween Friday. Ashley grew a mustache.
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Speaker 4: Over cal Rawly Morning Show producer in an atmospheric river.
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Speaker 2: Wow, look at that. You really went all out.
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Speaker 4: I really did?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Blown, yes, close the second five I was like, I
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Speaker 4: can't smile it all.
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Speaker 2: And here I thought that the game plan was to
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Speaker 2: dress down. You did both.
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Speaker 4: I did both. Well, I told you guys, I was going.
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Speaker 4: I was inspired by the idea of being someone being
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Speaker 4: someone Okay, good stop, the plan of being cal Rawly
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Speaker 4: as a morning show producer dressing down in an atmosphere
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Speaker 4: river Wow, yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Might have to stand up. I don't know if I'm
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Speaker 2: getting enough.
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Speaker 5: Of the worst nugeen.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh, she.
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Speaker 5: Looks like a Thursday night football player. Cal Rawly dressed
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Speaker 5: is a Thursday night color rush Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: It's a multi You've just covered every part of the
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Speaker 2: spectrum here.
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Speaker 6: How do you people grow these? It's although I do
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Speaker 6: think I have it up my nose basically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's real. Well, yours is artificial attached. Usually mustaches
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Speaker 2: are just part of a person's face.
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Speaker 6: I think you do have a valid point there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so there's that.
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Speaker 6: There is this So I had it too high up
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Speaker 6: on my mouth.
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Speaker 5: If I went from never having one to having the
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Speaker 5: one you have to it'd be uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah overnight, Yeah, it's different. Leasers didn't itch while it
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Speaker 2: was growing in, that's true.
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Speaker 6: I didn't have to go through all the growing pains
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Speaker 6: of it.
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Speaker 2: Well, good morning everybody, and happy Halloween. Yes, as a
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Speaker 2: show back on Monday, PS thought it would be such
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Speaker 2: a great idea for us to wear costumes and then
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Speaker 2: put out photos. He's always trying to get us to
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Speaker 2: do social media, and Bucky and I are always like no, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: And so he's like, man, you got to dress up.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Halloween's on a football Friday, and we were
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Speaker 2: just tossing it around, uh, you know, kind of a
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Speaker 2: brainstorming session, and I just threw out there like, well,
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Speaker 2: while everybody else is dressing up, maybe we should dress
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Speaker 2: down for Halloween. And I think maybe this is something
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Speaker 2: that could catch on that the kids their Halloween is
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Speaker 2: dress up. You know, they have so much fun doing that.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile the adults have to spend so much energy trying
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Speaker 2: to come up with the perfect costume for the kids
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Speaker 2: that they're exhausted to come up with their own costume.
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Speaker 2: And so, uh, maybe this is something that we'll catch on.
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Speaker 2: We just decided we were gonna dress down. We're just
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Speaker 2: gonna wear pajamas to work here today, and so we're
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Speaker 2: doing it. We're all in our onesies here on Halloween Friday,
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Speaker 2: so here we go.
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Speaker 5: Great idea ps because we're on radio.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I will say thanks for the suggestion of
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Speaker 4: dressing down because it was real easy to figure out
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Speaker 4: what to wear it at. Yeah, and I'm I'm actually
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Speaker 4: warmer right now than I usually am.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to be in this very long. This
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Speaker 5: thing is hotter than don't agree.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to watch a look at Bucky's
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Speaker 2: bear chest apparently zipping up.
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Speaker 5: Pretty soon, it'll be off almost sitting here with no shirt,
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Speaker 5: I have an out.
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Speaker 6: I have a tank top. I could take mine off.
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Speaker 6: You could wear my tank top.
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Speaker 5: You brought a pair of shorts and shirt, my normal
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Speaker 5: attire that I wear. Yeah, this one has footies too,
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Speaker 5: But if I put those on, then I even then
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Speaker 5: I even sweat more.
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Speaker 6: It does look like it's a very like a valure.
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Speaker 6: It's very Yeah, it's like it's almost like a blanket.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, snuggy. Yeah. And he's got like monogram initials over
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Speaker 2: there left breast.
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Speaker 6: Pretty fancy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 5: This was my first endorsement here at I heart back
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Speaker 5: for me. Yeah. If I had to say on the
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Speaker 5: ad that they're so comfortable, they are very comfortable.
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Speaker 6: I think I remember hearing you do those, but they're
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Speaker 6: just so hot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the onesie is warm. I think that's kind of
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Speaker 2: the idea there. You don't remember when were anything else,
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Speaker 2: but mine was more like yours. Yours is just like
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Speaker 2: looks like T shirt material, not this fluffy blanket. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: yours looks thicker. Yeah, and mine's warm enough.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's more like kids they have like their fluffy Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's like what kids.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this. I think Bucky was feeling
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Speaker 2: less than himself wearing this this morning because I always
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Speaker 2: come in and we always and it's strategic, like our
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Speaker 2: hello is just very brief. Yeh. I've told Bucky when
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Speaker 2: we first started, I'm like, I don't like to talk
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Speaker 2: too much in the morning because I don't want to
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Speaker 2: give any good stuff away. I want our initial reactions
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Speaker 2: and conversation to be on the air, no matter what
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Speaker 2: we're wearing, or what we're doing, or how our lives
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Speaker 2: are going, whatever the case may be. Just a little
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Speaker 2: thing that radio people have done for a long time,
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Speaker 2: especially mourning people, and so usually it's just a hey,
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Speaker 2: what's up. What's up? Today? Bucky's what's up was a
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Speaker 2: lot deeper than normal what's up? Yeah, it was a
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Speaker 2: lot deeper. Yeah, yeah, oh it was. It was subconscious.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like I'm feeling a little bit like a
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Speaker 2: kid right now, and so I think I think it
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Speaker 2: was more so.
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Speaker 5: I got this eight years ago, put it on one time,
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Speaker 5: started to melt it, then went in the closet and
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Speaker 5: hasn't been touched since. And then I put it on today.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, but I knew it was warm. I
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Speaker 5: didn't realize how warm it is. I forgot over the
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Speaker 5: last eight years. So I think what you heard was,
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Speaker 5: oh man, this is hot. What's up? This is I'm
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Speaker 5: smoldering in this thing right now.
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Speaker 6: Excellent.
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Speaker 2: The only segment. So if anybody wants to take a picture,
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Speaker 2: we're going to have.
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Speaker 6: To take a picture where we're going to get in trouble.
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Speaker 6: And we did this for nothing.
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Speaker 2: Not for nothing. Actually we're starting a new trend.
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Speaker 4: No I like that, but I'm saying, we did it
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Speaker 4: what the boss told us to do for nothing.
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Speaker 6: You have to at least get credit for doing what
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Speaker 6: he told us.
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Speaker 2: He's not even in town right now, so we can't
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Speaker 2: even hear this segment.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, better be dressed up or down.
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Speaker 2: We better provide some pictorial evidence that we did something
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Speaker 2: as a show for Halloween Friday. Before I get naked,
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Speaker 2: before Bucky strips down right, I could.
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Speaker 5: Be a strip. I could be a guy in a
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Speaker 5: onesie that strips strip.
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Speaker 2: A gram that'll that'll go over well. A households tonight.
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Speaker 5: As you're on radio find for everybody except for YouTube
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Speaker 5: on our radio program.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea. You just take like
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Speaker 2: we weren't, weren't worm kind of music with you as
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Speaker 2: you're taking the kids trigger.
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Speaker 5: Shoulder, Actually you want to shoot one of these bad boys.
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Speaker 2: Another thing, little sidebar that is kind of funny is
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Speaker 2: for some reason, as Bucky was like unzipping his thing,
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Speaker 2: because Buggy doesn't have a belly button. Oh, I was
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Speaker 2: thinking for some reason, I'm like, wait a minute, you
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Speaker 2: don't have nipples.
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Speaker 5: What are your showing?
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Speaker 2: And then I remember that, Oh no, it was the
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Speaker 2: belly button. Yeah, a little nipples. I am sans belly button.
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Speaker 2: But for a second, across my mind like why are
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Speaker 2: you show I don't want to see your nipples chest
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Speaker 2: That would look weird, looks normal?
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Speaker 5: No nips?
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Speaker 6: What if you didn't have either of them?
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Speaker 2: We would think that Buggy's actually just an android, not
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Speaker 2: really ab been fooling us for years, which does transition
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Speaker 2: neatly into today's first sports topic of the day. Because
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Speaker 2: it is Halloween, the Seahawks will play on Sunday. It's
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Speaker 2: not like they're playing tonight. But I think they've been
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Speaker 2: a part of a little bit of a masquerade so
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Speaker 2: far this season. I think that we've gone half a
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Speaker 2: football season through the bye week, and we've talked about
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Speaker 2: all sorts of things with this football team. Sam Darnold
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Speaker 2: having a great year, JSN has probably broken through to
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Speaker 2: the top tier of wide receivers in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's defense gets praise every week that doesn't include Tampa.
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Speaker 2: Uh So we we've covered a lot of different angles,
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Speaker 2: and for whatever, I think that this maybe other shows
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Speaker 2: have been doing this thoroughly. I think this show's may
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Speaker 2: be falling a little bit short. Even with our analysts
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Speaker 2: in talking about how infrequently Sam Donald has been sacked
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Speaker 2: this year, we are currently I mean, you could argue
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Speaker 2: well fewest sacks in the National Football League. Sam's Denver.
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Speaker 2: Denver's the only team. Boonex is the only quarterback that's
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Speaker 2: been sacked less than Sam Darnald so far this season,
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Speaker 2: so nine times. That's it. Sam Donald's been sacked nine times.
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Speaker 2: Consider how much it has been discussed in the last
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Speaker 2: decade plus the Sea Hawk offensive line issues and how
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Speaker 2: terrible this offensive line was, and if you'd give Geno
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Speaker 2: Smith more time than need look, look the results that
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Speaker 2: you could potentially have. Russell's just running for his life
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Speaker 2: at all times. And I'm not here to discredit that criticism.
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Speaker 2: Over the last ten years, there was something to it.
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Speaker 2: The offensive line wasn't great, But I think what you're
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Speaker 2: seeing this year is it really does And I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying all of it, but there's a large percentage of
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Speaker 2: sack totals comes down to whether or not the quarterback
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Speaker 2: knows how to get rid of the football and how
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Speaker 2: quickly to get rid of the football and on time
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Speaker 2: to get rid of the football, And even if the
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Speaker 2: play's not there, I'm still going to get rid of
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Speaker 2: the football because I'm not going to take a sack. Look,
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Speaker 2: I think the offensive line is improved. I think grays
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Speaker 2: Abel's having a really good year and has been a
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Speaker 2: terrific addition to this team. But you really think Gray's
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Speaker 2: Abel just adding a rookie guard out of some tiny
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Speaker 2: college has been the reason why the Seahawks don't get
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Speaker 2: sacked anymore. We don't have sacks anymore. No, it's part
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Speaker 2: of it. I mean he's obviously contributed to that. The
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Speaker 2: system with Clint Kubiak. Yeah, that's a significant portion of
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Speaker 2: this equation as well. I think he is coaching to
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Speaker 2: get rid of the football quicker and certainly something Greg
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Speaker 2: talks about all the time, the establishment of the running game,
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Speaker 2: no matter if it's working. That's contributed certainly. But I
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Speaker 2: think the main issue is and has been Gino and
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Speaker 2: Russ not getting rid of the football. That's why he
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Speaker 2: had fifty sacks last year. I mean maybe, yeah, the
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Speaker 2: offensive line wasn't as good and the offensive system maybe
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Speaker 2: not as sharp under Ryan Grubb, but Gino Smith's still
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Speaker 2: getting sacked. I mean he has twice the number of
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Speaker 2: sacks that Sam Darnold has this year with the Las
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Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders. So what's the common denominator there. It's that
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Speaker 2: we got rid of a quarterback that holds onto the
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Speaker 2: ball too long, and he didn't hold on the ball
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Speaker 2: as long as Russell did. Yeah, right, I mean Russell's
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Speaker 2: abilities overcame some of that, especially early in his career,
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Speaker 2: but he was terrible at getting rid of the football,
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Speaker 2: and Gino wasn't much better. We've got a quarterback that's
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Speaker 2: getting rid of the football for goodness sake, and so yes,
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Speaker 2: offensive lines improved. Yes, Clint Kubiak system I think does
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Speaker 2: help a quarterback not get sacked getting rid of the football.
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Speaker 2: But mostly it is Sam Darnold being aware enough of
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Speaker 2: the pass rush and understanding how important it is to
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Speaker 2: get rid of the football. That's why we're not getting sacked, right.
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Speaker 5: I think that the I mean, I'm with you that
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Speaker 5: I think that is the predominant reason as to why
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Speaker 5: you're sitting as well as you are, And that's statistical
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Speaker 5: category is because of the quarterback getting rid of the balls,
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Speaker 5: not waiting so long to either decide there is nothing
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Speaker 5: and you dirt it, or you throw it out of bounds,
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Speaker 5: or you just throw it near somebody but away from
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Speaker 5: trouble because he's covered. I think that's it. I do
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Speaker 5: think a gray is able. You adding one guard because
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Speaker 5: I think the other guard is still kind of a
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Speaker 5: weakness for you. But you can help one week spot
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Speaker 5: if you just figure just say that more often than not,
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Speaker 5: if there's somebody a decent pass rusher in the middle,
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Speaker 5: you can send your center over to help one of
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Speaker 5: these guys if you don't have to send it to
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Speaker 5: one side, and you can more often send it the other.
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Speaker 5: Plus Abe Lucas being back, there's help. I think that
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Speaker 5: the line is better, but I don't think the drastic
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Speaker 5: drop from one of the worst offensive lines, which is
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Speaker 5: what they've been called for years, because yeah, Russell Wilson
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Speaker 5: was always wanting to make some spectacular play, make something
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Speaker 5: out of nothing, when sometimes the best play is just
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Speaker 5: take nothing, and then it's still second and ten, not
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Speaker 5: second and twenty two. And same thing.
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Speaker 2: With well take four yards, take a profit. Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: don't go broke taking a profit.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think that. I mean, I'm with you.
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Speaker 5: I think the main reason why they're looking good in
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Speaker 5: that situation isn't because the offensive line is some drastically
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Speaker 5: different thing, right, I mean, you essentially have eighty percent
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Speaker 5: of it was here last year, you have one new thing.
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Speaker 5: Did they just get from one of the worst to
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Speaker 5: now one of the best offensive lines?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 5: Because of Gray's ab Yeah, No, I think you got better.
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Speaker 5: I think he's able makes it better. I think that
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Speaker 5: having only one spot that maybe you would deem as
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Speaker 5: a weakness, and maybe it's one and a half. If
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Speaker 5: you don't think Jalen Sundell's some super world beating center, Okay, fine,
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Speaker 5: you still have those two together that can say, hey,
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Speaker 5: it's not like they're usually sending somebody at every offensive lineman.
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Speaker 5: So it's kind of a team thing. But most importantly
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Speaker 5: is the quarterback making good decisions and saying I'm not
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Speaker 5: going to put myself in the situation where not only
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Speaker 5: do you get sacked, but then you got the strip
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Speaker 5: sacks and you've got all kinds of just bad things
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Speaker 5: happen if you hold onto the ball too long.
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Speaker 4: It is interesting because it seems like, yeah, with the
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Speaker 4: offensive line with Sam Darnold, everything that they're doing is
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Speaker 4: just solid. But isn't When you're watching the game, you're
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Speaker 4: not thinking it's spectacular. Right, So nobody has gone from
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Speaker 4: the preseason thinking like, oh, here we go again. You know,
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Speaker 4: we have we really addressed our offensive line issues. It
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Speaker 4: seems it's what six years or longer that we've had
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Speaker 4: all these problems, and so you're watching every game, I'm thinking, well,
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Speaker 4: this is a solid, like we're playing. We're a solid team.
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Speaker 4: There's nothing that has stood out to seem exceptional. I
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Speaker 4: know you can't take me seriously and so that, but
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Speaker 4: that's what I think is so interesting because then to
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Speaker 4: hear you say the stats on the sacks, I mean,
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Speaker 4: you never watch the game thinking like, man, just another
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Speaker 4: dynamite performance by the offensive line, and Sam Donald, it's
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Speaker 4: just another solid performance.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's just dramatically improved, yes in that area, and yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give the offensive line some credit, and
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give Clint Kubiak some credit, but I
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Speaker 2: think most of the credit goes to Sam Donald. It's
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Speaker 2: just like stealing bases in Major League baseball. Now, you
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Speaker 2: can't just look at cal Rawley's throw them out percentage
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Speaker 2: because so much of that has to do with how
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Speaker 2: close the pitcher, how good or bad the pitcher is
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Speaker 2: at holding on runners. I mean, it's something that has
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Speaker 2: been u under reported for years, and that is really
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Speaker 2: it probably has more to do with the pitchers and
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Speaker 2: how well they hold runners on first base. But every
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Speaker 2: time that statistical sack category comes up, it's not just
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Speaker 2: an offensive line stat And yet we've hung every so
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Speaker 2: many people and I say us because I've tried to
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Speaker 2: fight the good fight. So many people have tried to
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Speaker 2: hang every single sack. Our offensive line stinks, and I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's what has been So I think they
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Speaker 2: that they've been parading around as villains, and here on
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Speaker 2: Halloween they actually get to take off the mask and say, see,
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Speaker 2: we're not that bad of an offensive line, right, we
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Speaker 2: haven't been as bad as you think we've been. Maybe
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Speaker 2: we've been not as we're not as good. We haven't
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Speaker 2: been as good as we want to be. There was
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Speaker 2: an issue there, but we're not nearly as bad as
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Speaker 2: you think we've been. And now we have a quarterback.
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Speaker 2: And do you think that it's you know that that
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Speaker 2: gets rid of the football? Anythink we just Gray's Abel
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Speaker 2: got added and just poof, we've turned into Now we're
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Speaker 2: an excellent offensive line, well of the worst to one
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Speaker 2: of the best. Yeah, it doesn't happen that way. Just
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Speaker 2: like with throwing out runners, it's not just sometimes the
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Speaker 2: catcher doesn't have a chance. A lot of throwing out
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Speaker 2: runners has more to do with the pitcher not holding
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Speaker 2: you on than the catcher throwing down the second.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean I think that's just speaking in
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Speaker 5: absolute pretty much cross the board, not just in sports,
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Speaker 5: but in sports most definitely that they this sucks, they
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Speaker 5: can't do it, They're not ever going No, there's so
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Speaker 5: many things that go into it, right, whether it's okay,
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Speaker 5: you could upgrade a position or two or three, or boy,
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Speaker 5: you were running with your second tackle, your second best
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Speaker 5: right tackle, which typically we understand how important tackles are.
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Speaker 5: That's where the best edge rushers are coming off of,
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Speaker 5: so kind of important to have your best two guys
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Speaker 5: out there more often than not. Otherwise it's only going
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Speaker 5: to compound the weakness on the inside if you're sending
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Speaker 5: help out there and they're running stunts and now they're
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Speaker 5: going against another weak spot in your in your line.
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Speaker 5: But yes, I think that most certainly play calling and
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Speaker 5: a quarterback understanding that my best punting the ball or
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Speaker 5: or you know, throwing an incompletion and having second and
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Speaker 5: ten and then maybe even third and ten is not
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Speaker 5: the worst thing that can happen.
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Speaker 2: So a lot better than second and twenty one.
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Speaker 5: And it's a whole of a lot better than getting
19:26
Speaker 5: sacked and you know, they strip it away and next
19:29
Speaker 5: thing you know, they got a short field and some
19:30
Speaker 5: points on the board almost automatically.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
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Speaker 2: Halloween showing.
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Speaker 6: What's on TEP.
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Speaker 5: What's on TEP?
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Speaker 2: All right, Seahawks Commanders Sunday Night Football. We will have
19:44
Speaker 2: the National Stage five point twenty on Sunday against the Commanders.
19:48
Speaker 2: Greg Bell's going to join us today at seven o
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Speaker 2: five to discuss at Hugh Milling at nine o'clock with
19:52
Speaker 2: x's and o's, and coach Holmgern will be with us
19:54
Speaker 2: at nine thirty. Greg will also update us on some
19:58
Speaker 2: key injuries at seven o five as well well, and
20:01
Speaker 2: the big rumor with the Seahawks that Boye Mafe may
20:04
Speaker 2: be playing his final game as a Seahawk this Sunday,
20:07
Speaker 2: as he could be the guy that the Seahawks move
20:10
Speaker 2: at the trading deadline. Thursday Night Football. The Baltimore Ravens
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Speaker 2: one of the Miami Dolphins last night twenty eight to six.
20:17
Speaker 2: They are now three and five on the year, and
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Speaker 2: their schedule gets really soft here over the next six weeks,
20:25
Speaker 2: and so there's a reason why they've never not been
20:28
Speaker 2: the favorite to win the AFC North. And they kind
20:31
Speaker 2: of reminded us of that last night. Kansas City at
20:34
Speaker 2: Buffalo highlights Week nine of the National Football League season.
20:37
Speaker 2: That'll be the afternoon game on Sunday. Week number ten
20:41
Speaker 2: of the college football season will not feature the Huskies
20:44
Speaker 2: there on bye, but it will feature the Pac twelve
20:46
Speaker 2: championship game. Washington State and Oregon State will play tomorrow
20:50
Speaker 2: at four thirty Sounders in Minnesota. United won't play their
20:54
Speaker 2: second match of the playoff series until Monday. The college
20:58
Speaker 2: basketball season also starts on Monday. There will be one
21:02
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty nine games played Monday in college basketball.
21:07
Speaker 2: I think that's what I HI layd up this morning.
21:10
Speaker 2: So lots of college basketball activity obviously on Monday, and
21:14
Speaker 2: tonight is the first chance that a team could win
21:17
Speaker 2: the World Series. The Toronto Blue Jays are up three
21:21
Speaker 2: to two on the Los Angeles Dodgers, and so they
21:24
Speaker 2: need one win out of two at home in Canada
21:28
Speaker 2: to claim World Championship status. It'll be Yama Moto versus
21:33
Speaker 2: Gosman tonight. That is your pitching matchup, and we'll have
21:37
Speaker 2: some time to talk about that a little bit later
21:39
Speaker 2: on in the show. Speaking of Major League Baseball, I
21:43
Speaker 2: realized that this isn't a top of mind story. But
21:46
Speaker 2: I am so curious. I don't have an answer to this.
21:49
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that Bucky does. I don't know how to
21:52
Speaker 2: explain what's happening in the MLB manager hiring cycle, and
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Speaker 2: so I want to talk about it next Sports Radio
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Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM. She has a costume on.
22:02
Speaker 2: It's thematic, it's very complicated, a lot of layers to it,
22:05
Speaker 2: and she, like Bucky and I, dressed down. The difference
22:09
Speaker 2: is her onesie is not unzipped to her navel.
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Speaker 6: No, it's actually all the way. Oh it's not even
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Speaker 6: all the way to the top.
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Speaker 5: I'm well, mine's not zip down to my navel either,
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Speaker 5: have one right right?
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Speaker 4: Which we did get a text from somebody that was like,
22:21
Speaker 4: instead of a picture of your costumes, can we get
22:23
Speaker 4: a picture of Bucky's no belly button?
22:25
Speaker 6: We can't just skip past this.
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Speaker 2: Sure, that's tirely up the bucket. That sounds really invasive.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm not get in trouble. It's close to
22:33
Speaker 5: a d pic, you know what I'm saying. Oh, where
22:36
Speaker 5: it's kind of where it's supposed to be, kind of
22:40
Speaker 5: like the spot where my belly button it used.
22:42
Speaker 6: To be what happened to your belly button?
22:45
Speaker 5: Well, it was made in a Petri dish, Superman and
22:48
Speaker 5: Wonder Woman, Okay, and then I swim around and here
22:52
Speaker 5: I am. So you only need that if you have
22:55
Speaker 5: a numbilical cord, and when you're made like I was made,
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Speaker 5: you don't have them.
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Speaker 2: There you go, unvarnished truth right there.
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Speaker 4: I really should have believed that I'm gonna tell everyone
23:09
Speaker 4: Happy Halloween.
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Speaker 2: All and so we got we got a lot of
23:13
Speaker 2: ground to cover today. Man, I'm just looking at the rundown.
23:16
Speaker 2: There's some really cool stuff coming up on the show today.
23:19
Speaker 2: But I've got to talk about this here today because
23:23
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have an explanation. I try
23:26
Speaker 2: to think about these things and come on the air
23:28
Speaker 2: and try to have reasons why odd things happen. But
23:33
Speaker 2: this managerial cycle that is happening in Major League Baseball,
23:37
Speaker 2: here are the guys that have been hired. Skip Schumacher,
23:40
Speaker 2: Kurt Suzuki, Tony Vatello, Craig Albernaz, Blake but Terra, and
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Speaker 2: Derek Shelton. Now, if those don't exactly sound like household
23:49
Speaker 2: names to you, there's a good reason they're not if
23:52
Speaker 2: you were like, oh, I don't remember them managing anywhere, well,
23:55
Speaker 2: you would have had to been a pirate fan the
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Speaker 2: last five years to have heard of Derek Shelton and
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Speaker 2: Skip Schumacher did win National League Manager of the Year
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago with the Marlins. But that's
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Speaker 2: six hirings this offseason, a combined six and a half
24:11
Speaker 2: years of managerial experience. So that's strange enough to begin with.
24:16
Speaker 2: Now add on to that, Bucky, the fact that I
24:19
Speaker 2: thought we were moving in this direction of kind of
24:23
Speaker 2: awakening like some more old school baseball. I mean, this
24:27
Speaker 2: entire postseason, every single analyst, including Bucky and Ryan Healy
24:31
Speaker 2: here on Kjar has been telling us the Blue Jays
24:35
Speaker 2: are getting there because they do a lot of the
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Speaker 2: old school the way the game is supposed to be played,
24:41
Speaker 2: putting the ball in play, not striking out, you know,
24:43
Speaker 2: playing good defense. I mean, that's how you're supposed to
24:47
Speaker 2: play the game. And they're playing it better than anybody
24:50
Speaker 2: out there right now, and here they are on the
24:52
Speaker 2: verge of becoming world champions. And I don't know the
24:57
Speaker 2: strategies of these four new comers. Suzuki Vitello Albernaz and Buttera.
25:02
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're steeped in. All I know
25:05
Speaker 2: is that they're very young, thirty three to forty seven,
25:09
Speaker 2: with a combined zero games as a manager in Major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball. So how do you explain when all analysts
25:18
Speaker 2: are saying we're going to start moving back toward old
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Speaker 2: school methods, and yet all of the managerial hires are
25:25
Speaker 2: fresh raw fruit, picked straight from the orchard. Not a
25:29
Speaker 2: single one of them has ripened.
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Speaker 5: Right, Well, yeah, I mean I think that I think
25:36
Speaker 5: that all of them would probably check the dual box
25:39
Speaker 5: that is, okay, are you open and do you understand
25:43
Speaker 5: the analytics? Because we're never not going to use those enrectly?
25:46
Speaker 5: So right, So, you just think new guys coming in,
25:49
Speaker 5: regardless of whether they have a little bit of experience
25:52
Speaker 5: like Skip Schumacher does, whether they have college experience like
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Speaker 5: the Vittello guy does, that they're also probably board with
26:00
Speaker 5: the analytics.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: You're young, you when you first started to think about
26:04
Speaker 5: being a manager, the analytics were already in the game.
26:06
Speaker 5: I played with Skip Schumacher. I can tell you this.
26:09
Speaker 5: He is an old school player. He's he was an
26:11
Speaker 5: old school player. I think that I think that is
26:15
Speaker 5: where you're going to go with him. I think he's
26:17
Speaker 5: probably the Kurt Suzuki Japanese guy. Right, what do we
26:22
Speaker 5: when you watch Japanese players, Well, he's American, right.
26:25
Speaker 2: I mean he's got a Japanese I mean obviously his family, right, Japanese.
26:29
Speaker 5: But he plays the game with the same type of
26:33
Speaker 5: I want to check all the boxes, right, Like I
26:35
Speaker 5: remember watching him play. He wasn't a guy that was
26:38
Speaker 5: trying to swing all or nothing. He was a guy
26:40
Speaker 5: that tried to hit, you know, obviously being a catcher,
26:43
Speaker 5: he was a general back there understood how you have
26:45
Speaker 5: to manage a game from you know, standing back there,
26:48
Speaker 5: being the only one facing out towards the field. I
26:51
Speaker 5: think that there might be when I just look at
26:54
Speaker 5: this group, while I don't know him, you have a
26:57
Speaker 5: what's his name Murphy with with Milwaukee. Now, they that
27:01
Speaker 5: team didn't do very much in the postseason, but they
27:05
Speaker 5: were the best team as far as record goes throughout
27:07
Speaker 5: the regular season. That's a college thing where it's like, okay,
27:11
Speaker 5: if you can bring a little bit of the college
27:13
Speaker 5: is typically more old school then a lot of the
27:16
Speaker 5: Prima Donna, you know, big time professional baseball players are
27:20
Speaker 5: allowed to be managed in the big leagues, and so
27:24
Speaker 5: to me it kind of feels like, wow, we don't
27:25
Speaker 5: know them. That it might be all of these guys
27:28
Speaker 5: might check those two boxes where you have to be
27:30
Speaker 5: open and understand the analytics and be willing to use those,
27:34
Speaker 5: but also moving towards a little bit more of the
27:37
Speaker 5: complete game and maybe moving away from the idea of
27:40
Speaker 5: launch angle being paramount to your success.
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Speaker 2: I don't know enough about their backgrounds. It just seems
27:46
Speaker 2: to me that we seem to be moving toward a
27:50
Speaker 2: you know, an era of Bruce Bochie getting hired again
27:53
Speaker 2: and Bob Melvin being hired repeatedly, and even Dan Wilson,
27:58
Speaker 2: even though he didn't have any managerial periods, it was
28:01
Speaker 2: sort of this, we need to bring some old school
28:03
Speaker 2: back in and now here we've got this wave of
28:07
Speaker 2: the newest school. Now, maybe they are new guys with
28:10
Speaker 2: old values. I don't know that, but it I guess
28:15
Speaker 2: is that it's probably a lot of young guys that
28:19
Speaker 2: are thinking about what the future of the baseball game,
28:22
Speaker 2: a game of baseball is going to be played. I mean,
28:25
Speaker 2: the Fotello's just really strange. That's the first no major
28:29
Speaker 2: league experience at all managers since nineteen eighty for goodness sake,
28:33
Speaker 2: that is just so. Here's my best guess, and I
28:36
Speaker 2: only have like twenty seconds to discuss this, but my
28:39
Speaker 2: best guess is I watch Kevin Sitzer work with the Mariners,
28:44
Speaker 2: and I watch somebody that is just so supportive. You're
28:49
Speaker 2: doing the right things. I just wanted you to emphasize them.
28:54
Speaker 2: You know, he's just like so supportive and hands on.
28:58
Speaker 2: I don't know these individual's personalities either, but I think
29:03
Speaker 2: this is a recognition of today's athlete does not want
29:08
Speaker 2: to be scolded. Today's athlete does not want to be
29:12
Speaker 2: you know, uh ed scheft. Today's athlete wants to be
29:18
Speaker 2: coddled and taught. It's not like they're they want they
29:22
Speaker 2: don't want to just they work hard. Mariners players work hard.
29:27
Speaker 2: They are terrific with their preparation. But I think that
29:31
Speaker 2: today's athlete has to be managed differently. And I think
29:36
Speaker 2: Kevin Seitzer not only brought some tremendous value in terms
29:40
Speaker 2: of his hitting knowledge to this team this year, but
29:43
Speaker 2: the way the soft touch that he brings to the field.
29:47
Speaker 2: Even Dan, I mean Dan's an old school minded baseball guy.
29:52
Speaker 2: And yet Dan Wilson's very gentle person, very supportive person,
29:57
Speaker 2: never throws this guys under the bus. I mean, we
30:01
Speaker 2: made fun of how many of his press conferences and
30:04
Speaker 2: it's because I'm not going to give you what you want.
30:08
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the most vanilla answer ever,
30:11
Speaker 2: because I'm never going to actually tell you what I
30:13
Speaker 2: think about a player, because I'm going to protect them.
30:17
Speaker 2: And I my guess is that's what they're trying to
30:21
Speaker 2: tap into with these managerial hires. It's people with some
30:25
Speaker 2: terrific knowledge, but more than that, it's people that have
30:30
Speaker 2: a gentle touch and really are relatable to young players,
30:34
Speaker 2: to today's players, and they know exactly how to stroke
30:38
Speaker 2: them and how to criticize them while stroking them. Yeah,
30:42
Speaker 2: that's my guess. That's my best guess, because I can't
30:45
Speaker 2: figure out how you can go through a managerial cycle
30:47
Speaker 2: and four out of six guys in an era where
30:49
Speaker 2: everybody is saying we need to go back to old
30:51
Speaker 2: school baseball because that's what's going to start separating teams,
30:56
Speaker 2: and then you hire four out of six guys with
30:58
Speaker 2: zero managerial experience, and not only zero manager experience, never
31:02
Speaker 2: even heard of three of these dudes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean, I think you've got to go
31:06
Speaker 5: back to old school baseball, and I think these guys
31:08
Speaker 5: all will be doing that. Well, I mean, I don't
31:11
Speaker 5: know them either, but I'm guessing they will all be
31:13
Speaker 5: doing it. But you can't go back to the old
31:15
Speaker 5: school demeaning your players, not being supportive. So you have
31:19
Speaker 5: to be able to do both of those, and you
31:21
Speaker 5: encompass the analytics and how you treat guys, and there's
31:25
Speaker 5: a lot that goes into it. I think that these
31:27
Speaker 5: this is probably this is probably the avenue they're trying
31:30
Speaker 5: to go towards.
31:31
Speaker 2: No cliche keys the victory. Next on KJR, wave them
31:35
Speaker 2: around like they just don't care.
31:36
Speaker 5: I just made that up. Yeah, no catch, that was
31:40
Speaker 5: a Lewis song years ago.
31:43
Speaker 6: That's original thing.
31:44
Speaker 2: That's original stuff right here this morning on Chuck and Buck.
31:48
Speaker 2: There is no way that every hip hop artist from
31:52
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty through modern day uses that.
31:56
Speaker 5: There's no chance. I never heard that from them.
31:58
Speaker 2: All right, it's for no cliche Keys to Victory, Seahawks
32:02
Speaker 2: taking on the Commanders this Sunday night, of course, No
32:05
Speaker 2: cliche keys to Victory. Pretty self explanatory. I need a
32:08
Speaker 2: key to victory, bucket. But please don't give me a cliche.
32:11
Speaker 2: Don't tell me winning the trenches. Don't tell me all
32:14
Speaker 2: three phases. Give me something specific that is going to
32:18
Speaker 2: be the key to the Seahawks winning Sunday night.
32:21
Speaker 5: Keep playing statistically like the best run defense in the game.
32:27
Speaker 5: I mean statistically, I think they're number one as far
32:28
Speaker 5: as amount of rushing yards they've given up. Outside of
32:32
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray, the haven't played against a bunch of running quarterbacks,
32:35
Speaker 5: and he had a decent game against them running the football. Now,
32:39
Speaker 5: you ended up winning, so it didn't cost you. But
32:41
Speaker 5: if you let him and Bill krossky Merritt get loose,
32:45
Speaker 5: you could be in for something now. So you just
32:47
Speaker 5: have to keep doing what you've been doing. I think
32:49
Speaker 5: to stop the run, I think you should be fine.
32:51
Speaker 2: Stopping the run, Yes, will be the key to the victory. Ashley,
32:54
Speaker 2: what's your no cliche key to victory?
32:57
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say they have to keep just playing football.
33:01
Speaker 4: No. I think it's the thing that we've been talking
33:03
Speaker 4: about over and over and over. We keep hearing about
33:05
Speaker 4: that this run game has to take off for the Seahawks,
33:09
Speaker 4: and we haven't really seen it take off yet, and
33:12
Speaker 4: I would like to see not I mean, Zach charbonays
33:15
Speaker 4: coming and he's done some things, but I would like
33:18
Speaker 4: to see ken Walker actually be the focal point. I
33:22
Speaker 4: would like to see the pressure be off Sam Darnold,
33:24
Speaker 4: and I would like to see JSN have a standard
33:29
Speaker 4: number of you know, receptions, because the run game actually
33:32
Speaker 4: finally did the thing that it seems like year after year,
33:36
Speaker 4: even under different coaches.
33:37
Speaker 6: I understand, we talk about it and it never happens.
33:40
Speaker 2: I tell you this, if they get the run game
33:42
Speaker 2: established Sunday that they are winning, yeah, I'll say that.
33:46
Speaker 2: I think they can win without that. I think that.
33:50
Speaker 2: I just think this is man. I think the Seahawks
33:53
Speaker 2: should win this game by double digits, even on the road.
33:57
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:57
Speaker 2: I mean they are just the healthier team. Yeah, the
34:01
Speaker 2: younger team, the team playing better football right now. They've
34:06
Speaker 2: had a they've had a bye week, and the Commanders
34:09
Speaker 2: have a short week. They don't even have a full
34:12
Speaker 2: week of rest and recovery from this. Their quarterback is
34:17
Speaker 2: playing hobbled. Our quarterback is on the top of his game.
34:21
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I mean, certainly, again, we're not
34:24
Speaker 2: going to speak in absolutes. There's certainly a way that
34:26
Speaker 2: the Commanders win this game on Sunday. But I think
34:30
Speaker 2: I circle this as a game where the Seahawks should
34:34
Speaker 2: handle it easily. I really do. And so I even
34:38
Speaker 2: got a kick. I'm gonna go with my no cliche
34:40
Speaker 2: keet of victory. Dana Orlowski. The other day on NFL Live,
34:45
Speaker 2: he was trying to search through all the stats to
34:47
Speaker 2: try to find a way that the Commanders could beat them.
34:49
Speaker 2: Oh wow, So he's trying to figure it out, and
34:52
Speaker 2: he's going through all of the Seahawks defensive stats and
34:55
Speaker 2: now they're top of the league and most everything out there,
34:58
Speaker 2: and he, like, I guess if they struggle in one area.
35:02
Speaker 2: The statistics say that the Seahawks do struggle against hurry
35:08
Speaker 2: up offenses for whatever reason. Interesting, and the Commanders love
35:12
Speaker 2: to run with Jayden Daniels hurry up offense. So I'm
35:17
Speaker 2: just gonna follow dan Orlowski's lead, because, like him, I
35:20
Speaker 2: don't really feel that this is a matchup that the
35:23
Speaker 2: Commanders win. And so if there is something that specific
35:27
Speaker 2: that one of the better analysts in the sport is
35:29
Speaker 2: pointing out, then I'm gonna go ahead and say, yeah,
35:31
Speaker 2: all right, if we do truly struggle with that and
35:34
Speaker 2: haven't improved in behind the scenes in a couple of weeks,
35:38
Speaker 2: and they truly are excellent at that, then maybe that's
35:42
Speaker 2: where they beat us. But so I'll go ahead and
35:45
Speaker 2: name that as the key. As long as you don't
35:47
Speaker 2: let them dominate and hurry up offense, then the Seahawks
35:50
Speaker 2: should win the football game.
35:51
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I like that.
35:53
Speaker 2: There you go.
35:53
Speaker 6: See that seems very uncliche and very specific.
35:57
Speaker 2: It's the opposite of cliche.
35:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would like for you.
36:00
Speaker 6: Mine was like for a lot of cliche.
36:02
Speaker 2: NFL analysts to write that down. Yeah, Alexi Lawless, you
36:07
Speaker 2: could write that down to yeah, yeah, all right. Coming
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Speaker 2: up next, Greg Bell will join us plus your Headline
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M