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Chuck in the Morning 9/18 H3: The Ocho, Drew Lock's Future & Big Ten Pickups · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: You know what we do. It's your Ocho, your eight
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  Speaker 2: top stories of the day, wrapping up the week, getting
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  Speaker 2: you ready for the weekend. It's a water cooler starter
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to do the whole weather conversation anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Because that gets old. Exactly. Trevor from accounting really
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  Speaker 2: gets on my nerves. Oh, Trevor's the worst. Football Fridays
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  Speaker 2: It is what's for dinner. And so let's get to it.
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  Speaker 2: Your eight top stories of the day. We will start
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  Speaker 2: with your world champion, Seattle Seahawks, who haven't played, it
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  Speaker 2: feels like, in a month and a half since their
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  Speaker 2: victory over the New England Patriots on opening night. and
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  Speaker 2: now they get set to take on the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: First road game of the year, first divisional game of
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  Speaker 2: the year. It will kick off Sunday at 125. Our
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks insider Greg Bell joins us nearly every day at 7.05,
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  Speaker 2: and this morning he broke down his key to the game.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm with you guys. Turnovers are the mitigating factor.
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  Speaker 4: When you have a defending Super Bowl champion against a
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  Speaker 4: last-place team that is starting over a quarterback and a
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  Speaker 4: head coach, The turnovers are the thing that make games close.
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  Speaker 4: If Drew Locke does his job, one, job one for
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  Speaker 4: him is don't turn the ball over. If he does that,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to win. They're probably going to win without
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  Speaker 4: allowing a touchdown. Again, until we come across an offense,
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  Speaker 4: which may be San Francisco in week four, week five,
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  Speaker 4: until we get them, I don't see an offense that
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  Speaker 4: can just habitually move the ball down the field. And
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  Speaker 4: last year, San Francisco couldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Do it either.
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  Speaker 4: Not at the end of the year. They got three
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  Speaker 4: points in Week 18, and they got absolutely bushwhacked in
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  Speaker 4: the division title game up here. So find me an
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  Speaker 4: offense that can get the ball at their own 20
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  Speaker 4: or own 25-yard line after a touchback and repeatedly drive 75,
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  Speaker 4: 80 yards for touchdowns on Mike McDonald's defense. There aren't
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  Speaker 4: many in the league right now the way the Seahawks'
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  Speaker 4: defense plays. Cardinals with Jacoby Brissett is definitely not one.
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  Speaker 4: Don't turn the ball over. You don't give up touchdowns.
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  Speaker 5: You win.
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  Speaker 2: That's Greg Bell from earlier. If you want to hear
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  Speaker 2: the entire conversation, do so at 933KJR. com on our Chuck
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  Speaker 2: in the Mornings podcast. Greg also asked him about will
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  Speaker 2: we go with more of a vanilla offense. Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, cannot wait to call a game with no restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: One Sam Darnold back and healthy and no restrictions, but
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden we're already with our backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a vanilla game plan in order to achieve?
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  Speaker 2: Because it sounds a little contradictory if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: say the whole goal here is to not turn the
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  Speaker 2: football over. As long as we don't turn the football over,
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  Speaker 2: we really don't see how the Cardinals can beat us
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  Speaker 2: because they're not going to score many points against us
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  Speaker 2: and then not be vanilla on offense. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: they're just going to run the football every single time,
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  Speaker 2: but you do need to put, if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: make an emphasis, Drew, don't turn the ball over. And
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  Speaker 2: that is the point of emphasis. It's the first thing
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  Speaker 2: he said when he was asked about operating the offense
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  Speaker 2: this week was, he's going to be, I got a
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  Speaker 2: great defense. Don't give them the ball. Don't turn the
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  Speaker 2: ball over. So I'm kind of thinking those go hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand. We're going to put you in a position
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  Speaker 2: not to turn the ball over, and then don't turn
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  Speaker 2: the ball over. Right. You do that, we're better man-to-man
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  Speaker 2: against the Arizona Cardinals and their roster. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: win this football game.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's some overlap in being able to have
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of more creativity offensively. That doesn't mean you're...
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  Speaker 3: pushing it down the field every single snap, right? But
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  Speaker 3: I do think there's going to be a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more than what we saw last week.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Greg's point about Brian Fleury actually has
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  Speaker 3: more comfort calling plays for Drew Locke than he does
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  Speaker 3: for Sam Darnold because Sam Darnold didn't play in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: He has that rapport already somewhat built up, so I
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  Speaker 3: think that's an underrated aspect of this game. They've already
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  Speaker 3: had a few games to kind of get each other's tendencies,
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  Speaker 3: so I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Running a vanilla offense. Running a vanilla offense, yeah. Because
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  Speaker 2: it's the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. Maybe the most fascinating thing that Greg
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  Speaker 2: brought up something we talked about yesterday on the roundtable,
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  Speaker 2: is how often are you going to run the football
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  Speaker 2: with Jadarian Price? So Greg asked Brian Fleury directly that question.
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  Speaker 2: He said, what you saw last week's probably going to
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  Speaker 2: be it. Around 10, 15 touches a game. So if
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  Speaker 2: people think that they're going to unleash... their rookie, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's going to occur. It sounds like they're
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  Speaker 2: going to keep his number of touches conservatively low for
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  Speaker 2: a little while. as he gets his NFL legs underneath him.
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  Speaker 2: Very skinny NFL legs. Yeah, well, very skinny NFL legs.
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  Speaker 2: But he did, Brian Fleury also said he has earned
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  Speaker 2: more reps moving forward. So I don't know, he kind of,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury said both things. Like, hey, that was deliberate
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  Speaker 2: in what we did in week one. He's earned more
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  Speaker 2: reps moving forward. We'll continue to bring him along and
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  Speaker 2: develop him in the right way. That's a direct quote.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if that means that continues to
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  Speaker 3: kind of raise it up a little bit, like Greg
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  Speaker 3: said earlier, or if we're going to kind of see
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  Speaker 3: exactly what we saw in week one.
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  Speaker 2: Kickoff 125 Sunday, Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals doing battle
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  Speaker 2: in the desert. Sam Darnold, of course, will not play
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  Speaker 2: in this game. The game will belong to Drew Locke
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  Speaker 2: in this contest. And there have been a few people
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  Speaker 2: that I really respect and admire that have accused me
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  Speaker 2: and maybe you guys by proxy of being loose with
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  Speaker 2: facts this week.
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  Speaker 4: Never.
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  Speaker 2: About Sam Darnold and his injury. Yeah. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to mention any names, but we had one particular analyst
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  Speaker 2: we're very dear to. We call him QB1. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to give you any more hints than that. And
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  Speaker 2: he gave us an anatomy lesson on the buttock yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And so it really did resonate. I'm like, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: If we're going to talk about Sam Darnold's unique butt injury,
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  Speaker 2: then we should probably hear from true experts on exactly
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with Sam's injury.
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  Speaker 5: Lookiest, meatiest muscle.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The gluteus medius muscle is a favorite test item. It
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  Speaker 5: arises from the dorsal ilium inferior to the iliac crest
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  Speaker 5: from the posterior gluteal line to the anterior gluteal line.
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  Speaker 5: The gluteus medius muscle forms the middle layer of the
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  Speaker 5: gluteus muscles. Got the maximus at the top, the medius,
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  Speaker 5: which covers the minimus.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that makes us sound more mature. Still, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear anything about the butthole.
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  Speaker 3: So, what if we have been reading this whole thing wrong,
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  Speaker 3: and instead.
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  Speaker 2: Of- Apparently we have. Apparently we have. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the point of all of this. We've been reading it wrong,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to be more grown up about it,
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  Speaker 2: and let's stop speculating about what the injury is. It's
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  Speaker 2: not what we were speculating about.
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  Speaker 3: What if when they say a unique butt injury, they
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  Speaker 3: don't mean the injury is unique? They mean the butt
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  Speaker 3: is unique. They say, man, Sam Donald has a unique butt,
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  Speaker 3: and he has an injury with that unique butt.
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  Speaker 4: He does.
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  Speaker 2: He does have a unique butt. Unique butt injury. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I see. I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just put the different emphasis on the word
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  Speaker 2: in the sentence. Well, anyway, I'm glad we clarified that.
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  Speaker 2: Is it, though? I feel more grown up about it.
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  Speaker 2: Do we?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And now we can proceed and not go down that
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  Speaker 2: road again. It's very clear that it is not what
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  Speaker 2: I was speculating about earlier this week. He didn't get
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  Speaker 2: his taffy pulled. All right. Nicky Manwari is not going
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  Speaker 2: to play this week, according to Greg. At least it's
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  Speaker 2: not looking good. And neither is Ty Okada. We could
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  Speaker 2: see Torrey Horton for the first time this season, although
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  Speaker 2: don't expect him to have some big whopping role in
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  Speaker 2: the offense. All right, let's move on. Thursday night football
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  Speaker 2: got week number two of the National Football League season
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  Speaker 2: started last night in Buffalo where the Bills just blew
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  Speaker 2: out the Lions. Cast in on third and six a
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  Speaker 2: moment ago. This is third and 11. Three receivers right
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  Speaker 2: of the line. Shotgun snap comes in at the waist.
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  Speaker 2: Allen pumps and throws. Flings it over the middle.
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  Speaker 7: Wide open at the 10. Joshua Palmer will skip into
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  Speaker 7: the end zone for a Buffalo touchdown. Allen just slipped
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  Speaker 7: it out of his hands. Nobody within 10 yards of
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  Speaker 7: Palmer who goes 43 to make it a 13-0 Buffalo lead.
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo rolled over Detroit 41-31. It felt like they could
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  Speaker 2: just call their number offensively so well. We continue this
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  Speaker 2: very unusual offensive explosion beginning to the 2026 season, and
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  Speaker 2: experts continue to blame it on the fact that teams
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  Speaker 2: don't practice tackling enough in the preseason. but that's all right.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. We can deal with some offense. We
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  Speaker 2: like offense, and the Bills certainly are executing at a
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  Speaker 2: very high level right now, and they are 2-0 on
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  Speaker 2: the year, and so off to a tremendous start. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen's playing just some fantastic football to start this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for me, very much so, at least
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  Speaker 3: in the first couple weeks, and for me, I was
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  Speaker 3: a little bit questionable on the Bills' ability to kind
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  Speaker 3: of jumped themselves into it being a Super Bowl contender,
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  Speaker 3: especially with Sean McDermott as their coach. It was like
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  Speaker 3: his conservative nature being a defensive guy wasn't necessarily holding
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  Speaker 3: them back. But I do think that it wasn't really
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  Speaker 3: they were kind of at odds with each other having
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  Speaker 3: the best quarterback in the league. But now with Joe Brady,
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  Speaker 3: even though I know he was calling the plays before,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like They know their identity is to lean
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  Speaker 3: into their best player. And it's looking really good in
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  Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It's very clear that Joe Brady was sabotaging Sean McDermott
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  Speaker 2: the entire time. That is not what I said. Saving
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  Speaker 2: his best plays for when he could be the head coach.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wasting my best plays while I'm an OC.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saving it for when I'm the coach. I got
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  Speaker 2: to get this guy out of here first and foremost.
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  Speaker 2: And then Josh and I are going to light up
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  Speaker 2: the world. Subterfuge. That's what we call that. Cincinnati at
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  Speaker 2: Houston might be your best early game on Sunday, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a good lineup. A lot better, I think, week
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  Speaker 2: two schedule than we had in week number one. Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: at Denver, I think, is your best afternoon game. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be watching Seahawks Cardinals. And then Sunday night, Indianapolis
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  Speaker 2: at Kansas City. Patrick Mahomes, a rare thing, weird thing
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  Speaker 2: they're doing this year in the National Football League and
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  Speaker 2: putting Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs on primetime a lot. Really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're really changing it up. Wow. I'm not used to that.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to isolate him. It's as if they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: highlight him and Travis Kelce.
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  Speaker 3: They're just going to rub the Kenneth Walker vibe right
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  Speaker 3: into Seahawks fans' faces.
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  Speaker 2: Item number four, we go to college football and what is,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, the most fascinating regular season matchup of
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  Speaker 2: the entire college football year. I am looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: this more so than even Texas versus Ohio State. It's
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  Speaker 2: the eighth-ranked team in the country, Ole Miss, taking on
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  Speaker 2: the seventh-ranked team in the country, LSU. And you know
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  Speaker 2: who LSU's head coach is. It's something about controversy following
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana college football people wherever they go, and Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: is the latest.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I like school, and I like football, and I'm.
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  Speaker 7: Going to keep doing them both because they make me
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  Speaker 7: feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just something about Louisiana college football, always controversial. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it just seems like Kiffin leans into it. He really does.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because of the passion he has for both
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  Speaker 2: school and football, like he just suggested. I thought you
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  Speaker 2: meant the passion for controversy. Oh, no, no. It just
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  Speaker 2: follows him. Just natural. Just a natural thing. He is
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  Speaker 2: the devil. Wow. Took a jump there. Jeez. You are
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  Speaker 2: the devil. You are the devil. Kickoff from Oxford is
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  Speaker 2: at 4.30, and I think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic game. And as I mentioned earlier, LSU is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a 10 in terms of ready to play
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  Speaker 2: this football game. But just like we saw with Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: last night, Detroit could have been as fired up as
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  Speaker 2: they possibly could have been for Thursday night football in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: But there was no way they were going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to match Buffalo being fired up. to introduce its
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  Speaker 2: new stadium, be in front of their fans. They just couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: There's just no natural way to do it. Same thing here.
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  Speaker 2: LSU is going to be a 10. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: be fired up to play this game. There's no way
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be able to match the intensity that
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss is going to approach this game with, considering
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  Speaker 2: their history with Lane Kiffin. And it will be in
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  Speaker 2: Oxford as well. So this is going to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Kickoff will be at 4.30. There is one other top
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  Speaker 2: 25 matchup, and that is 16th-ranked SMU. Taking on number 23, Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: That kickoff is at 1230, and the Cougs will be
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  Speaker 2: in action at 1230 as well. They are hosting Duquesne.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see Duquesne play a lot of football. No, you
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  Speaker 2: do not. I'm going to be honest about that. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't watched a lot of Duquesne football games in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You don't watch them every week? No, no, no. Rarely
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  Speaker 2: do they make it into the rotation. Meanwhile, Eastern Washington
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  Speaker 2: will be taking on UW tomorrow at 415. And Rick
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  Speaker 2: Neuheisel told us on Tuesday, he's with me. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even have to prompt him. This was his first take
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  Speaker 2: on how Washington needs to get its offense going.
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  Speaker 8: I think DeMond and the quarterback run game has to
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  Speaker 8: be more featured to help the rest of the run
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  Speaker 8: game rather than vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 8: And until they do that, I think they're going to struggle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Marcus was built like a brick house. Can
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  Speaker 2: you do it with someone as small as DeMond? Can
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  Speaker 2: you put that on him?
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  Speaker 8: You can. Marcus, we could run inside. You know, so
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  Speaker 8: on a beer, you're handing the ball off to the
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  Speaker 8: fullback and kind of takes it in there. And if
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  Speaker 8: they squeeze, Marcus keeps it. And now you're pitching off
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  Speaker 8: a player with the mom. You're you're going to want
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  Speaker 8: to make sure that.
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  Speaker 2: He's the the.
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  Speaker 8: Outside guy, almost the pitch guy. So the inside is
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  Speaker 8: the bigger player so that you keep DeMond from having
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  Speaker 8: too many big hits. But quarterback runs got to be
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  Speaker 8: featured in this if they're going to get this fixed
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  Speaker 8: because right now their running game isn't good enough to
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  Speaker 8: get them to the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Not even close the way that they've played offense so
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  Speaker 2: far this year. I brought this up quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: this week. Softee brought it up to Coach Fish yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and Coach Fish told Softee that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to just turn the running game over
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  Speaker 2: to Demond as well, and maybe it has something to
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  Speaker 2: do with the size. But, look, Lamar Jackson was a
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  Speaker 2: skinny quarterback coming out of college. He ran the ball 20,
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  Speaker 2: 25 times a game at Louisville. Yeah. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams is Lamar Jackson, but he's about as close
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  Speaker 2: as you've got in college football to Lamar Jackson in
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  Speaker 2: terms of his speed, his quickness, his twitchiness, and he
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  Speaker 2: can also throw the football. So, I mean, to me,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be careful about it. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to Marcus Tuiasosopo run him between the tackles all that much.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to feature him in the running game.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's time for that. And maybe Jed Fish, Anders,
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  Speaker 2: thinks it's time for that as well. But there's no
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  Speaker 2: way that he would reveal that he's going to do
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  Speaker 2: that before you actually play. Yeah, I wonder if there's...
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe he's saving it for Minnesota. Then that was
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  Speaker 2: going to be my next point. I wonder if there's
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  Speaker 2: an element of we're going to kind of wait to
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  Speaker 2: unlock that part of the playbook until we need it
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. It's still Eastern, even if you
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  Speaker 2: have a vanilla offense again this week. you should still
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  Speaker 2: be able to beat them, even if you have the
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  Speaker 2: offensive struggles you've had the last couple weeks. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's the element of we don't want to show other
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  Speaker 2: teams that we have this in our playbook. So I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: do think that that could play a factor in this. Well,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think they should run a vanilla offense this
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: week against Eastern Washington. They've got to prove to themselves
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: that they can play functional offensive football, and they've got
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a week to figure that out before the competition stiffens completely.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: tremendously and minnesota is not some great team out of
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the big 10 but they're better than anybody you've faced
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: so far yeah and so we need to see some
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: offense to feel better about where this team's going here
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year uh eastern washington uh
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: is the matchup and the dogs are favored by 43
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and a half points can they score 43 points 44.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Points and i would doubt it at this point.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah Sounders are going to be in Colorado tomorrow. The
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: match starts at 6.30. You can listen to it. I
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: think it's on delay on 9.50. No, it's stream. It
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: is stream. Oh, it's stream only. Okay, I'm glad we
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: were here for that. Brian Schmetzer was on with Softie
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and Dick earlier this week, and of course this team's
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: already had some offensive issues this year, and now they're without.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: The team's leading scorer, Paul Rothrock, another injury for the Sounders,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and this is a doozy. Dick asked Coach Metzer about
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: who's going to have to step up to fill in
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: for Rothrock's offense.
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: Well, we're going to have to get some from the
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: new kid, Caden Clark. Again, Paul Areola, who's an experienced guy.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: You know, I really like the young kids, Seba Gomez
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: and Peter Kingston. Peter Kingston was the one that had
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: the secondary assist on the goal to tie it up.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: It was a really well-crafted goal. Peter had got dribbled
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: by a couple of guys, played Jordan in. Jordan had
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: a big performance. Jordan got the ball across to Paul Areola.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: So a couple of subs that came on and did
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: the job for us in L.A., and they're going to
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: get more opportunity.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: All right, so what do you think? How big of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a loss is this? I mean, you haven't won in
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like three months. Yeah. And now you've lost Rothrock.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't be as big of a loss as it
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: is um because rothrock hasn't even had that great of
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a season but because of how thin you are offensively
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you're still relying on him at this point so i
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: do think schmetzer is a little more optimistic and i
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: think sounders fans should be a little more optimistic now
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: that you have a striker that can kind of get
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the most out of the little creativity that you have
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: on the field. Um, but make no mistake about it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Paul Rothrock makes them better. So there, it's just another
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: kind of, uh, bump in the road in terms of
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: their goal scoring ability. So, um, I, I think they'll
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: kind of shift some things around and it might actually
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: make some other players more comfortable. So they're able to
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: put them in positions to succeed, but you're missing one
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of your best offensive players for sure.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: The Mariners are also going to be getting Rocky mountain
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: high this weekend. Oh, God. It's my favorite song about
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: getting high.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That's what it's about. I didn't know that. You don't
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: like Puff the Magic Dragon? Yeah, that's another one. You're
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: not really fooling anybody there. Your little dragon song. Not
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: fooling anybody about your Colorado experience there, Jonathan. It's not
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: just about the elevation. Going up to the top of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the Rockies to see if my high gets better. That's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: what that song is about. First pitch is at 5-10.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu starts against Gabriel Hughes tonight. The Astros won
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: last night, so the Mariners are six games out of
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: first place with only nine games to play. They can
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: be eliminated this weekend. And it was the seventh item
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: on our eighth item Ocho, so obviously I'm not going
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to spend much time thinking about this. Tells you kind
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: of where the season is. Finally, and I am spending
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: a little more time thinking about this, even though it's
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: eighth on the list, but Kraken's preseason opener is tomorrow night,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: 6 p.m. That's in Vancouver, and that I know is
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: on 9.50 tomorrow.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: That's on 9.50. Yes, it is. Yeah, I got this
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: on lock. 6 p.m., they'll drop the puck, and yes,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the Kraken preseason is underway starting tomorrow. All right, coming
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: up next, more on the Hawks and Cardinals, more on
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke. I mean, this is not just a big
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: game for Drew Locke, the Seahawk. This is a game,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: huge game, for Drew Locke, the person. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 22:51
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• 23:16
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• 23:20
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• 23:28
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• 23:30
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• 23:37
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• 23:57
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• 24:01
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• 24:03
  Speaker 2: He started Pancake Friday around here, and he is committed
• 24:06
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• 24:10
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• 24:14
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• 24:19
  Speaker 2: stop being Pancake Friday guy, everybody's angry with you. It's true.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: So you really set like a high bar for yourself
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and Rich needs to. So let's just make a pact
• 24:31
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• 24:36
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• 24:38
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• 24:41
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• 24:43
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• 24:48
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• 24:49
  Speaker 4: No.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I said we need to be grown-ups. Okay. Yes. That's
• 24:52
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• 24:55
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• 24:58
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• 25:01
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• 25:05
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• 25:08
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• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I think you've started a nice little tradition.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: And I don't eat them a lot, but it really
• 25:19
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• 25:23
  Speaker 2: talk about Drew Locke and the Seattle Seahawks as Locke
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: will get his first start of the year. Of course,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: he played almost the entirety of game number one for
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks and helped lead them to a win.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: And now he's going to get the start against the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Cardinals on Sunday. And I do think he'll do well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and I do think he's going to start 2-0 on
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: this season. But we don't know when Sam's going to
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: be back. It could be as early as next week
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: against the Washington Commanders, the way that they're talking right now.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And so this little window is Drew Locke's, really, opportunity.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: And he might not get another one. I was going
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: to say it might be last opportunity. He's starting to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: get painted with the brush of you're just a backup quarterback.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's 30 years old. There have been guys
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: that hit their stride after the age of 30. Rich
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Gannon might be the most famous type that comes to
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: mind because he became an NFL MVP in his mid-30s,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: even though he was a career backup. So he still
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: has time. I would think he still has a lot
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: of good football. The fact that he hasn't played that
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: much has preserved his body. Um, but like Sam Darnold,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: like Sam Darnold's opportunity that he got with the Minnesota
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Vikings might've been the last chance for him to show people, Hey,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I can be your starter in this league. I can
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: do things. And then he comes here and wins the Superbowl.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to put any more pressure
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: on drew lock. I know he's not listening right now,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: but just from a football conversation standpoint, uh, These two
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: games could do a lot to revive Drew Locke and
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: his value with other teams. He goes 2-0, beats the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Patriots coming off the bench, and then goes down in
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Arizona and plays a really good game. And if he
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: has to play against the Commanders, he has a good
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: stretch here. I mean, this could make him a lot
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: of money. It really could. This is your opportunity. This
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: is your chance. And you might not get another one,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: You get to play with one of the best rosters
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League here for a couple of weeks.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Show us what you got, and who knows, maybe next
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: season Drew Locke actually lands a starting job somewhere.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: And I think specifically this game against the Cardinals is
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: a great kind of showcase for him because... Jacoby Brissett,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I would say, is on the bottom end of starting quarterbacks,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: or at least in that tier, the bottom tier of
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: starting quarterbacks in the National Football League. And if he
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: outplays them, there will inevitably be teams that come up
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and be like, hey. Drew Locke might be a better
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: option than someone like Jacoby Brissett. So if you're one
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: of those teams that's struggling to find the next quarterback,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: obviously Arizona's probably not going to be that team since
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they're trying to tank for Arch Manning or whoever in
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the draft. And there obviously will be that aspect of it, too,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: the draft and other younger quarterbacks. But someone's going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: look at Drew Locke. and see, especially if, if what happens,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: if what you said happens and he comes and outplays
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett and possibly next week comes and keeps the Seahawks, um,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: offensively afloat during these, these next couple of games, um,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I do think there's going to be a reality where
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: some team comes knocking and be like, hey, this guy
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: deserves one more chance. We just look at his other teammates,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, and someone that was given one last chance,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and then he went and won a Super Bowl the
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: next year.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Show us the growth, because it's not like Drew's not
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: been given the opportunity. That's true. He has had chances
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: in his National Football League career. He had them in Denver.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: He was named the starter in his second season in
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the National Football League. They were talking about handing that
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: job over to him. He went four and nine over
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: 13 starts. And then eventually the next year went oh
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and three in his three starts. And then they were done.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: They were done with the Drew Locke business. And then
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: we had the famous Russell Wilson trade. And then he
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: comes here and he was given an opportunity in camp. Hey,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you and Gino, go win that job. It was a
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: pretty famous bet around here. Gino versus Drew Locke. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: he didn't win the job. So he had an opportunity there.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: He went to the New York Giants and there were
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of injuries. uh, that happened to that bad
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: giants team in 2024. And so he had five opportunities
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: to start with the giants and went one in four.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: So he had pretty much, and then was a free
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: agent for a couple of years in a row and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: nobody even considered giving him right. Starting quarterback money. Yeah.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, there weren't even really offers made for to
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: lure him away as being a quality backup.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, the team that valued him most as a
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: backup were the Seahawks. And so I don't think there
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: was going to be another chance for Drew Locke to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: be a starting quarterback in the National Football League. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: obviously when Sam comes back, he loses the job once again.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: So you got this window. And I know he's not listening,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: so I'm not putting any pressure on him. But you've
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: got this window to really show what you can do
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: with a great team surrounding you, with a full week
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: of preparation, going up against a not-so-good Cardinals team. Show out.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: For yourself. Yeah, of course. Even if not for your
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: teammates or your fan base. Get selfish. Be great. Be
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: great on Sunday because this might be your last chance
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to prove to the National Football League, make me your
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: starter next year somewhere in the NFL. Pay me starter
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: money because I can do this. I can do this job.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think especially, like I said, who he's going
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: against is a perfect kind of litmus test for him.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: If you can outplay... someone like Jacoby Brissett, people will
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: look at that and be like, maybe we should be
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: thinking about Drew Locke as that kind of starting quarterback
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: over someone like Jacoby Brissett.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: And speaking of Jacoby Brissett, he has made that transition
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: from backup, career backup, to starter. New England was drafted
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: as backup. The Colts, he came in after Andrew Luck
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: was injured. Every point in his career, he became the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: starter in Arizona after Kyler Murray went down. And now
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: he's the starter.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: But on a team... That is rebuilding. That is going
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: to rebuild.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: But maybe that's all that Drew Locke really needs or wants.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett is going to have an opportunity this year.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: He's not playing for the Cardinals.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: No.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: He's playing for everybody else in the.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: National Football League. So it's kind of like a Jacoby
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Brissett versus Drew Locke.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like American Idol. All right, coming
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: up next, it's our Big Ten preview. We do it
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: every week. We're going to make some pickups. Sports Radio
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM. Oh, another big week of college football. And
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: every team in the Big Ten is going to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: active again. Every single one of them this Saturday. And
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: so it is time for our Big Ten preview, which
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: includes our Big Ten pickups. And we'll get right to it. First,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: your schedule. Oregon is playing tonight against Portland State. The
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Fighting Neal Lomaxes. Go Portland State. Yeah, I'm thinking. Yeah,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: if you think Oklahoma State pulled off a shocker, wait
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: until the fighting Neil Lomaxes get a hold of the
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Ducks tonight in Eugene. So go Neil Lomax. 7.30 start
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: tonight there. Tomorrow, the 9 a.m. games are Kent State
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: at No. 6, Ohio State. They were No. 1 just
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: a week ago. Buffalo will be at Penn State. They're
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: now ranked 14th in the country. And Akron's at Minnesota,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: who the Huskies will play next week. So 9 a.m.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: kickoffs there. 9.30 kickoff. Eastern Michigan is at Wisconsin to
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: take on... The Badgers at Camp Randall Stadium. Illinois will
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: be hosting Southern Illinois and not Edwardsville, you know, the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: powerhouse that produced such talents as Flack and Seguso and
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: yours truly. But SIU Carbondale, which of course produced such
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: talents as Ginny McCarthy and Steve Finley. All right, let's see.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: We've got Indiana. No, no, let's not go that far ahead.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Let's go to 1230. USC versus Rutgers. Travis Moger took
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: USC minus the 23.5 in Factor Fiction earlier this week,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: so he's expecting a blowout. I think we all are,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: as the Knights will host the Trojans at 12.30 on Saturday.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Michigan's hosting UTEP at 12.30, the Fighting Tyrese Knights in
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that matchup. Western Kentucky will be at Indiana at 1 o'clock.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Indiana ranked fourth in the country. Iowa hosts Northern Iowa
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: also at 1 o'clock. The 415 window is North Dakota
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: at Nebraska, Eastern Washington at Washington. My guess is on
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten Network, we'll watch North Dakota and Nebraska.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: That would be my guess based off of last week.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame's third in the country. They're going to host
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Michigan State at 430. Colorado at Northwestern at 430. That's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: a pretty interesting matchup right there.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Virginia Tech's at Maryland, also at 4.30, and then the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: night game will be Purdue at UCLA, a classic Big
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Ten rival game. There's a couple Big Ten games in there,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: actual Big Ten games. Yeah, Big Ten conference games. I
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: am looking forward to getting into conference play. Our fantasy
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: football league that we do every year doesn't feel real
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: until we actually start playing conference games. And so, Let's
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: update you on that. Ashley had the biggest week this
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: past week, and she took over first place in week
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: number two. She had 89.7 points, her number one overall pick.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith has lived up to his billing two weeks
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: into the season. 32.4 points was the high-scoring individual effort
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: of the last weekend, so she's up to 171 points.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Our listener team, we have a listener team this year,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: and that is Eric. and he's on the phone right now,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: so we'll talk to him in a moment. He dropped
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: off a little bit, had 61 points this past week,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: so he has 162 on the season, eight back of Ashley.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Anders had 60 points this past week. He is at
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: 148 overall, so 14 behind Eric. And then I actually
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: had a decent week with 70 points, but I had
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: such a bad week in week number one that I
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: am bringing up the rear. with a 122 score. So
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I'm a full 26 points behind Anders for third place.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: But it can all change quickly. We allow for one
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: pickup every week if you want to change somebody out,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: sub somebody out off of your roster. And Anders, you
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: do have the number one selection this week. Are you
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: going to make a change?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I've been debating it in my head even through the break. And,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: you know, I now understand your frustrations with the Darius
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Taylor experience.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it'll continue if you keep him. Every single week
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you'll be angry. You'll either be angry with him or P.J.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Fleck or, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The PR staff for not updating us on his actual status.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: What's going on here? But my main guy that I
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: would want to pick up would be Cam Edwards from
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Michigan State. However, they're playing Notre Dame, who I think
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: is one of the best defenses in the country this week.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if that really adds a ton
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm actually going to take the gamble and
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  Speaker 3: take Cam Edwards.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Even though he is. You were talking yourself out of that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: You talked yourself into that.
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  Speaker 3: I need someone who is just going to get the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He has 48 rushing attempts through the first two games
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  Speaker 3: of the season. which is more than almost anyone else
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: in the Big Ten. Michigan State has been kind of
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: a pleasant surprise offensively through their first couple games. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: know this week might be rough, but I'm playing the
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: long game here and hopefully getting a guy that's going
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: to be a really good player for... you know, the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: rest of this season. And even if they do struggle
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: against Notre Dame, I do believe they're going to try
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  Speaker 3: and get him the ball as much as possible. So
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get anything. I can't risk Darius
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Taylor just all of a sudden, oh, not playing this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm taking Cam Edwards as my pick this week,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: dropping Darius Taylor.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: All right. Ashley is arrogant. She's turned arrogant since she's
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: joined the Ian Furness show. She's in first place. She's like,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: my team's untouchable. I'm going to pass. I don't even
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: really need to do the pickups this year. So she's
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: passing this week. Man, how people change in such a
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: short period of time. Let's bring our listener aboard, Eric,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: who has already made a mistake with his pickups this season,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: at least based off of the results from last week.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: But he's ahead of me in the standing. So what
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: am I going to talk crap to Eric? He rejoins us.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Eric.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? How you doing, man? How you feeling?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, I wish last week went a little
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: bit better on my pickup. I'm a little disappointed, but,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: you know, second place, not the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Only eight out. Yeah, you're good. You're in good shape.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So are you going to make an ad drop this week?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're going to.
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  Speaker 6: Keep cycling this running back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe anybody has him, but I'm going to
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: I pick up Adja Boy from Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No, nobody has a single Purdue guy. All right.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: And you're going to drop Anthony Woods from last week?
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  Speaker 6: Dropping Woods from last week.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Is this going to be a weekly thing with you?
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: You're just going to just... a new running back just
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: to keep the roster fresh?
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: It might be.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: You've got to put the pressure on the other guys,
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: you know. But in a lot of the same way,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: I'm looking for the guy here, 38 touches through two
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: games with four tighties. I got to like that a
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Better than what that position produced for me so far.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: All right, man.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Well, it is now documented. It is in stone. So
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: good luck. And we'll talk to you again next week.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: All right. All right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Eric.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: We got to work on Eric's phone if he's going
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: to be on every week. Um, all right, I'm going
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: to make my pick and I got to do it quickly.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: So I am going to drop Trent Mosley. Not that
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I want to, because he's been fantastic and it's going
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: to be a star in college football, but he got
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: injured somehow, uh, last week and he's going to be
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: out for a little while and I can't take multiple
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: zeros not being in last place. So I'm going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: drop USC wide receiver, Trent Mosley, and I am going
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: to pick up Griffin wild, the wide receiver out of
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Northwestern who, um, is actually exceptional. And they have only
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: played one game so far this year, but he averaged
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: 34 yards a catch in that one game. And there's
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: a really good chance he's got an NFL future. So
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take Griffin Wild of Northwestern and drop
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Trent Mosley this week. So there you go. Those are
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: our pickups. And KJ Duff. The nation's leading receiver still
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: is not on a roster. This is insane. We'll do
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: it again next week. Coming up next, though, on our
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: radio program, it's X's and O's with Hugh Millen. We
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: do it every Friday. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.