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Chuck & Buck 12-3 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, will the calendar fix the issue? It's National Signing Day! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Come third and fourteen. He's got time.
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Speaker 1: Chuck it down.
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Speaker 3: Jones, get from behind, come us up, Lawrence starts, has
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Speaker 3: another turnover.
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Speaker 1: Who comes on top of it? So Marcus Lawrence tanks
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Speaker 1: in his twelfth year hi as Seahawks coming off a
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Speaker 1: twenty six. Nothing went over the Minnesota Vikings. But it
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Speaker 1: is a humpday, and so we put that in our
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Speaker 1: rear view mirror. It's all about the next opponent, the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, a Sunday at ten o'clock in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell's going to join us here in about a
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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, we'll get the brand new week of
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Speaker 1: the NFL started, and for many people out there, the
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Speaker 1: final week of the regular season in their fantasy leagues
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Speaker 1: as well, which I think is noteworthy heading into this week.
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Speaker 1: It'll be Dallas at Detroit. Should be a fun Thursday
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Speaker 1: night matchup to get us started college football conference Championship week.
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Speaker 1: There will be conference championship games held on Friday night,
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Speaker 1: but all the big boys are playing on Saturday, and
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Speaker 1: then on Selection Sunday, we will finally know the twelve
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Speaker 1: team field that will play on the second ever true
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Speaker 1: college football playoff tournament in the history of the world.
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Speaker 1: College football Playoff rankings came out last night, the penultimate rankings.
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Speaker 1: The most interesting thing that occurred was probably Alabama jumping
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame to the nine spot Notre Dame at the
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Speaker 1: ten spot, and so that puts Notre Dame firmly on alert.
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Speaker 1: They are on the bubble, there's no question about that.
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Speaker 1: The college basketball season continues for the Fighting Sprinkles here
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Speaker 1: in Seattle. UB will host UCLA, finally a nine Big
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Speaker 1: Ten college basketball rivalry that reminds us of a rivalry.
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Speaker 1: It'll be the Bruins and the Dogs tonight at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Cracking and Oilers will play tomorrow. Al Koniski will join
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Speaker 1: us on the show at nine point thirty to discuss that.
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Speaker 1: And we are four days away from another holiday. The
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Speaker 1: Winter meetings start on Sunday, and so get your decorations
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Speaker 1: All right, well it's humpday and now we really can
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Speaker 1: put these Atlanta Falcons in our crosshairsday here today it's
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Speaker 1: a struggling team right now, you might even argue a
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Speaker 1: struggling franchise. They do not have their starting quarterback healthy.
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Speaker 1: So the Seahawks once again we'll get to face a
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. But this one's a lot different than last week.
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Speaker 1: It's Kirk Cousins, who's about one hundred years older than
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Speaker 1: Max Brosmer, getting the start for the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And yet, Greg, when I watch Kirk Cousins, I think, man,
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Speaker 1: are you in trouble? His lack of mobility facing Mike
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Speaker 1: McDonald's defense the defense that Kirk Cousins probably hasn't seen before.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure we're going to see much different results
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Speaker 1: than what we saw last week against Max Brosmer. Tell
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Speaker 1: me I'm right or wrong about that.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure about that because the one thing
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Speaker 4: that the Falcons and Kirk Cousins have without Michael Pennix
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Speaker 4: out for the season injured, they have Bejon Robinson. And
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Speaker 4: he's a thousand yard rusher. He's nine hundred and ninety
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Speaker 4: five yard. He's a top five NFL rusher. In fact,
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks are going to face two top five NFL
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Speaker 4: rushers the next two weeks. Jonathan Taylor and the Holts
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Speaker 4: come in here next week. Taylor push number one in
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Speaker 4: the NFL and rushing, but Bjon Robinson is what makes
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Speaker 4: this a different challenge for the Seahawks. They're running game,
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Speaker 4: and the ability to run means that the entire game
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Speaker 4: won't be on Cousins in the quarterback like it was
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Speaker 4: for Brosmer and the Vikings, because the Vikings didn't I
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Speaker 4: haven't run all year and didn't even barely try to
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Speaker 4: run against the Seahawks. The Seahawks rushing totals and high
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Speaker 4: ranking and rush defenses large because teams don't do it.
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Speaker 4: The Seahawks have played from the front while winning.
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Speaker 2: Six of the last seven games.
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Speaker 4: So teams have abandoned the run early in games, and
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Speaker 4: when they have run, they haven't been able to do
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Speaker 4: much of it, and so there aren't a lot of
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Speaker 4: rush attempts against Seattle. That's going to change Sunday, and
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Speaker 4: he rushed twenty four times against the Jets, another one
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Speaker 4: hundred and forty two yard day. They lost at the end.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they were winning that game and they gave
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Speaker 4: up to the Jets in the Meadowlands. On Sunday, they
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Speaker 4: give up ten points in the last one point fifty
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Speaker 4: three to choke.
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Speaker 2: That game away. They lost by one against.
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Speaker 4: New England when they missed an extra point. They end
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Speaker 4: up cutting their kicker.
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Speaker 2: About that.
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Speaker 4: They've cut two kickers, by the way. They cut coup
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Speaker 4: after Week one when he missed a field goal late
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Speaker 4: in the game, and then they cut his replacement when
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Speaker 4: he missed the pat against the Patriots, the ten and
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Speaker 4: two Patriots, So they're on their third kickers Ingnzalez.
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Speaker 2: There's all kinds of problems. So it starts with the
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Speaker 2: quarterback not being there, Michael Pennix.
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Speaker 4: But I wouldn't overlook the Falcons as another shutout candidate
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Speaker 4: because of Robinson.
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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, well they got Robinson and then Drake Lindon
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Speaker 5: might be back, have Kyle Pitts. He there's weapons there.
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Speaker 5: And yet we're watching a dysfunctional offense. So what is
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Speaker 5: it that besides Beijon Robinson because typically or so far
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Speaker 5: during the season, Seattle's been fairly difficult to run against.
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Speaker 5: If they'd say they take him away as they're still
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Speaker 5: concerns if they don't have an effective run game that
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Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins and the rest of that offense could put
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Speaker 5: up enough points.
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Speaker 4: Well, there's concerns. I would think that we'll Seahawks score
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Speaker 4: enough points because the Falcons. We'll go on and on
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Speaker 4: about the Seahawks in their pass rush and they have
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Speaker 4: forty sacks and that's fourth in the league and they're
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Speaker 4: on pace for their second most sacks ever. We're talking
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Speaker 4: going back to Legion the boom Bays. Yet the Falcons
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Speaker 4: have more than the Seahawks do. The Falcons have forty
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Speaker 4: one sacks in twelve games. They blitz a lot, second most,
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Speaker 4: but we saw the number one blitz team by plenty.
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Speaker 4: Minnesota come in here and what they did in the
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Speaker 4: first half to cut to Sam Darnold four sacks the
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Speaker 4: season high in one half. Well, the number two team
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Speaker 4: in blitz is Atlanta, and they've completely changed their defense.
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Speaker 4: They've pass rush has been their big problem for years
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Speaker 4: down there. They've invested high draft picks, they've addressed in
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Speaker 4: new coaching staff, they've addressed in a brand new approach,
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Speaker 4: and now that blitz a lot. And we saw what
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Speaker 4: Seattle had problems with blitzing and then eventually fake blitzing
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Speaker 4: by Brian Flores and the Vikings last weekend. I think
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Speaker 4: that's the number one thing for Seattle this week is
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Speaker 4: shoring up their blitz protection and their blitz pass calls.
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Speaker 4: Cooper Cup talked about it after the game Sunday. He said, Hey,
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Speaker 4: if they're gonna blitz, we need to change schematically. And
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Speaker 4: I thought he was kind of shining a light on
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Speaker 4: Clint Kubiak when he said, if they're gonna rush from
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Speaker 4: the edge like that, let's get the quarterback outside. Let's
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Speaker 4: not run twenty yard routes, but maybe get used to
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Speaker 4: running three yard routes and turning your head quickly and
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Speaker 4: the ball arriving quickly. We started to see that later
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Speaker 4: in the second half after they adjusted, and Smith and
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Speaker 4: Jigua was a primary adjuster to those routes. But if
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Speaker 4: they blitz the same effectiveness, they're gonna bring blitz close
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Speaker 4: to frequency that Minnesota did.
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Speaker 2: But the Falcons do it as the.
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Speaker 4: Effectiveness they see twenty yard in routes by Smith and
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Speaker 4: Jigma because they won't have time to throw them.
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Speaker 1: Greg bellers with us our Seahawks insider, and you can
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Speaker 1: follow him at Gmail, Seattle and of course Thenewstribune dot com.
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Speaker 1: I mean here we said, I mean we nick picked this.
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Speaker 1: We uh we pour over it. And I wonder though,
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Speaker 1: as I'm nitpicking, as we headed to December here in
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Speaker 1: the stretch run of the season, is there a concern
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks offense. For Sam Donald, I mean the
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Speaker 1: last three games Rams Titans Vikings, he's completing sixty one
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Speaker 1: percent of his passes versus north of seventy prior to that.
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Speaker 1: For the season, he's been sacked five times in three games.
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Speaker 1: Prior to that, he was sacked ten times, and nine
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Speaker 1: games he's only thrown two touchdown passes. Here in the
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Speaker 1: last three weeks versus four interceptions. I mean, we saw
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Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak's offense in New Orleans a year ago start
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Speaker 1: like a house of fire and then was terrible in
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Speaker 1: the second half. So did the Rams or possibly Brian
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Speaker 1: Flores last week for the Vikings, is there any fear
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Speaker 1: that maybe they've shown the league the blueprint for how
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Speaker 1: to slow down Kubiak, Donald and the Seahawks offense.
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Speaker 4: Well, I would think that these upcoming teams are going
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Speaker 4: to copy the Vikings blitzing and then sake blitzing a lot.
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Speaker 4: I would say the Falcons, well, I know they're going
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Speaker 4: to do it because they blitzed anyway against everybody, and
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Speaker 4: then the Colts after it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think the Rams are going to change.
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Speaker 4: Anything in what they did in the first game because
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Speaker 4: they intercept him four times. But there is concern about
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Speaker 4: the turnovers for sure. And when he is hit in
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Speaker 4: the pocket, he often loses the ball. I mean that's
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Speaker 4: a problem because the quarterbacks number one job is to
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Speaker 4: secure the ball. Of all the thousands of things that
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Speaker 4: he gets paid millions of dollars to do, holding onto
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Speaker 4: the ball is number one and throwing it to the
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Speaker 4: right guy is number two.
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Speaker 2: But when you get.
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Speaker 4: Hit, you can't lose the ball. And with this offensive line,
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Speaker 4: you're going to get hit at times. And when you
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Speaker 4: do hit, go to the ground and take the loss
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Speaker 4: and have Michael Dixon punt instead of getting hit losing
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Speaker 4: the ball in first and ten at the other plus
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Speaker 4: eighteen that's happened a lot of times this season. Fifteen
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Speaker 4: turnovers in twelve games, second most only Tungo Vyova in
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Speaker 4: Miami with one more has.
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Speaker 2: More in the league. To me, that's the number one concern.
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Speaker 4: And he can say, wow, my job is to take
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Speaker 4: care of the ball. Well, what's causing that with the
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Speaker 4: blitzes and pressures And there was a back blindside pressure
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Speaker 4: that he didn't see and got hit in the back
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Speaker 4: and lost the ball for a fumble against the Vikings.
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Speaker 4: Those things, and yes, for eleven games they had only
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Speaker 4: eleven sacks, fewest in the league. Atlanta's going to do
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Speaker 4: what Minnesota did blitz But I.
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Speaker 2: Think now you're going to see the Colts next week.
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Speaker 4: And teams down the road perhaps changed their game plan
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Speaker 4: a little bit more and add some more pressure to
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Speaker 4: see if Seattle can combat that. We still have the
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Speaker 4: specter of an offensive line change we talked about a
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Speaker 4: couple of days ago.
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Speaker 2: That won't happen this week, it appears, but next week.
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Speaker 4: If Jensendell does come back, when he could be eligible
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Speaker 4: to come off of IR, there's a chance that he
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Speaker 4: could be either the new starting new old starting center
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Speaker 4: or the new starting right guard, which would change perhaps
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Speaker 4: over with Timmy or Anthony Bradford at right guard. They're
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Speaker 4: not the Seahawks aren't just thrown up their hands and
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Speaker 4: and okay, come blitz and we'll try to figure it out.
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Speaker 4: There could be personnel changes, not this week, but next
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Speaker 4: in that regard.
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Speaker 5: Gee, I think the Falcons play a three four a
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Speaker 5: lot like what the Minnesota Vikings do.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if they have the same you know,
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Speaker 5: jimmies and Joe's or the x's and those for that matter.
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Speaker 5: But is there something that you saw last week that
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Speaker 5: in that formation playing the three four that was part
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Speaker 5: of what creates the confusion for Sam Donald or just
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Speaker 5: the offense in general.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, when you have a three four, then your
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Speaker 4: pass rushers are more. You have one more linebacker, and
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Speaker 4: your pass rushers tend to be edge speed guys rather
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Speaker 4: than defensive line big guys, And you're right. Atlanta runs
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Speaker 4: a base three four usually, and their edge rushers their
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Speaker 4: speed guys. I mean even the veteran Leonard Floyd is
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Speaker 4: a speed guy.
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Speaker 2: That's so.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it is somewhat fundamentally different. Just because you have
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Speaker 4: fewer beefeeding guys up front.
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Speaker 2: That was a confusion issue.
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Speaker 4: There were many times in Minnesota game. There were many
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Speaker 4: times that the Seahawks offensive line were standing and waiting
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Speaker 4: on defensive linemen to rush, and they didn't rush.
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Speaker 2: They backed off, and.
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Speaker 4: Then Anthony Bradford and Abe Lucas a couple of.
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Speaker 2: Times would stand and wait and meanwhile.
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Speaker 4: Here comes the steaming inside or outside linebacker to the
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Speaker 4: opposite side, blitzing in while they were watching linemen stand
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Speaker 4: in front of him. That's a problem that started. Flora's
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Speaker 4: game plan was blitz early and then back off and
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Speaker 4: fake blitz, and then when they did blitz, don't send
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Speaker 4: everybody drop off the defensive lineman, so you're actually rushing
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Speaker 4: three or four often but standing and backing.
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Speaker 2: Up the defensive line.
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Speaker 4: It was a scheme that worked against Seattle. That Atlanta,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure is going to try and Indian's going to
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Speaker 4: try and They've got.
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Speaker 2: To figure it out.
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Speaker 4: Whether it's get the ball out quick more quickly, run
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Speaker 4: shorter routes, as Cups suggested, roll the quarterback out. Darnold
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Speaker 4: stood in the pocket quite a bit against Minnesota, taking
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Speaker 4: those hits and getting six passes knockdown. Cup made the
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Speaker 4: point of let's roll outside that pressure and see we
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Speaker 4: can run around it and not have the throws right
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Speaker 4: into the defensive linemen and the linebackers are jumping in
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Speaker 4: the face, but offensively. Yes, we are talking at length
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Speaker 4: today because that's the key, not just to this game,
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Speaker 4: but the rest of the season.
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Speaker 1: Our Shocks insider Greg Bell is with us, and I'm
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Speaker 1: reading this guy Greg Bell at the Newstribune dot com.
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Speaker 1: And is he Is he telling me that Mike McDonald
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Speaker 1: has more tricks up his sleeve in regards to nick
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Speaker 1: Emon Warri usage.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 4: How about nick Emon Warry as a defensive end, boy,
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Speaker 4: that's what he plays.
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Speaker 2: I went through.
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Speaker 4: Snap by snap, I just watched Demon Worry Monday and
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Speaker 4: he lined up seven times as a defensive end. One
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Speaker 4: time he lined up inside the tight end and outside
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Speaker 4: the defensive tackle or offensive tackle as a five technique
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Speaker 4: defensive end. He was mostly not. They call it nine
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Speaker 4: technique when you're outside the tight end way wide, almost
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Speaker 4: like an outside linebery. But he was on the line
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Speaker 4: of scrimmage as a defensive end seven times out of
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Speaker 4: his fifty snaps. And McDonald chuckled and said, we just
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Speaker 4: keep giving him stuff and he keeps doing it. And
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Speaker 4: they never did this, the Ravens and McDonald never did
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Speaker 4: this with Kyle Hamilton.
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Speaker 2: When they drafted.
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Speaker 4: Of course, even Worry in the second round traded up
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Speaker 4: seventeen spots to get him in May. They talked about
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Speaker 4: him being a Kyle Hamilton and do it everything. Well,
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Speaker 4: he's doing more than Hamilton. The All Pro as a
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Speaker 4: rookie and his eight games in remember he missed three
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Speaker 4: games because of the high ankle sprain he got on
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Speaker 4: the fourth play of the season. He's only played eight
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Speaker 4: NFL games. And they've got him playing post safety, nickel safety,
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Speaker 4: outside linebacker sometimes inside linebacker. Next to Ernest Jones. Is
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Speaker 4: the only two off by linebackers in the field. They've
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Speaker 4: got him playing outside linebacker, blitzing off the edge. They
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Speaker 4: got him playing outside linebacker dropping into the flat, and
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Speaker 4: now they got him playing defensive end.
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Speaker 2: When you look at the numbers.
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Speaker 4: Everyone says, well, Seattle's got the sub package at ninety
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Speaker 4: two percent there in sub package, nicol Or dying. It's
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Speaker 4: because of Nick gave and worry. But he and they
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Speaker 4: saved all these light box numbers that these analytics guys
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Speaker 4: talk about. The Steers don't play a light box. They
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Speaker 4: have a two hundred and twenty pounds safety who comes
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Speaker 4: to the line of scrimmage to play defensive end.
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Speaker 2: That's their light box. They have a light box in.
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Speaker 4: Terms of people see all Nick even wore He's safety
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Speaker 4: is on the field now, even while he's playing defensive end.
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Speaker 4: So it is fascinating to watch McDonald in real time
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Speaker 4: invent things to do with him. He said, we're making
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Speaker 4: it up on the fly. When they drafted him, they
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Speaker 4: said that they had no idea that he could play
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Speaker 4: defensive end, but they tried it in practice. It looked good.
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Speaker 4: They tried it in the game, look great. You're gonna
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Speaker 4: see it again in Sunday in Atlanta, and McDonald's were
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Speaker 4: just making it up as we go. He kind of
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Speaker 4: chuckled that there's nothing this kid can't do yet. His
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Speaker 4: speed is power, his awareness and his ability to learn
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Speaker 4: and willingness to learn it. It's really fun to watch
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Speaker 4: when I know we all tend to follow the ball
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Speaker 4: when we watch, specially on television, because the TV narrows
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Speaker 4: it to the ball. But people listening, if you're at
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Speaker 4: a game, person, put your binoculars or eyes on number
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Speaker 4: three and just watch three.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting to.
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Speaker 4: Watch him line up in a different place every snap.
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Speaker 4: He rarely lined up in the same place two snaps
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Speaker 4: and definitely not three snaps in a row against Minnesota,
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Speaker 4: and that's a headache for quarterbacks and offensive coordinators and McDonald.
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Speaker 4: That's half the purpose of doing that is so they
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Speaker 4: don't know where he's coming from.
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Speaker 1: That's fun. Yeah, and you're saying, we got this guy
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Speaker 1: for a few more years. Huh rookie.
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Speaker 4: He's under rookie salary for the next three and a
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Speaker 4: half years for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That that that trade and draft pick looks pretty good
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Speaker 4: right now.
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Speaker 1: All right, Greg, awesome stuff, Thank you man, We appreciate it,
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Speaker 1: and we'll do the roundtable tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: We will happy Wednesday. Thank you.
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18:20
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18:22
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18:26
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for the tournament seems to be ramped up, even
18:30
Speaker 1: more so this year than in the inaugural year of
18:32
Speaker 1: the twelve team format. So there are a lot of
18:35
Speaker 1: good things going obviously for college football right now, but
18:39
Speaker 1: there are few There are few things about the entire
18:44
Speaker 1: product that obviously need ironed out going forward. This Lane
18:49
Speaker 1: Kiffin mess, I mean, for goodness sake, a coach leaving
18:52
Speaker 1: his team after they finished the regular season and qualify
18:57
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. I mean, could you even iagine in
19:00
Speaker 1: an NFL coach doing that? Just hey, guys, got a
19:03
Speaker 1: better offer. I'm out of here again either, h Can
19:06
Speaker 1: you imagine a high school coach doing that? Oh? Yeah,
19:10
Speaker 1: there's really nothing. And yet in the college football world,
19:13
Speaker 1: here we've got Lane Kiffin, who guides ole Miss to
19:15
Speaker 1: this eleven and one season. He's beloved by his players,
19:18
Speaker 1: beloved by the community, beloved by the university for what
19:21
Speaker 1: he's done for ole Miss football. But this was his
19:24
Speaker 1: chance to get a slightly better job, and so he
19:26
Speaker 1: took it. And certainly there's a loud contingency out there
19:32
Speaker 1: that believes, Hey, this is not a Lane Kiffin issue.
19:36
Speaker 1: This is not a coach or player being selfish issue.
19:39
Speaker 1: This is a college football calendar issue. And as long
19:43
Speaker 1: as we can move National Signing Day deeper into the offseason,
19:49
Speaker 1: forget about it. We're still in the season and it's today.
19:52
Speaker 1: So long as we can move it out of the
19:54
Speaker 1: regular season and into the offseason, then we shouldn't have
19:58
Speaker 1: this issue pop up again. I don't know if I
20:01
Speaker 1: believe that, Bucky. I don't know that, but certainly that
20:07
Speaker 1: would help. And certainly it is ridiculous that we have
20:11
Speaker 1: National Signing Day today when we still have games to
20:16
Speaker 1: be played throughout the course of the post season now,
20:21
Speaker 1: and I think it's embarrassing that college football hasn't gotten
20:25
Speaker 1: out in front of this and time to save us
20:28
Speaker 1: from this Lane Kiffin issue.
20:29
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily know if I I'm worried about like
20:33
Speaker 5: this part of the count like the signing day, because
20:35
Speaker 5: typically that was you're getting kids that are in high
20:39
Speaker 5: school to sign with your team.
20:40
Speaker 1: Now, great, okay, sign up.
20:42
Speaker 5: You can come stand on the sideline and watch us
20:44
Speaker 5: through the playoffs or however whatever is going on. But
20:47
Speaker 5: there's most certainly, and it just like anything that there's
20:51
Speaker 5: problems in. It's probably not one thing that solves the
20:55
Speaker 5: entire problem, but I think an overarching let's just say
20:59
Speaker 5: that you're the hiring part of college football happens like
21:05
Speaker 5: it there's a dead period two weeks before the final
21:10
Speaker 5: season for your final your end of the regular season
21:15
Speaker 5: through the end of the playoffs. No, there's no college
21:19
Speaker 5: football hirings. All I'm getting at is I don't care
21:22
Speaker 5: where those dates are. Where you set the parameters, You
21:24
Speaker 5: just playing and simple set it to where everybody's playing
21:27
Speaker 5: by the same rules. Everybody's playing by the same rules. Now,
21:30
Speaker 5: it's just that there's so many different things that are
21:33
Speaker 5: going on where obviously in the lane given situation, it's like, well,
21:37
Speaker 5: if you're going to take this job, then we need
21:38
Speaker 5: you to be doing this early signing period for LSU now,
21:43
Speaker 5: and so that needs to be moved around or it
21:46
Speaker 5: just needs to be that. No, if you're going to
21:49
Speaker 5: take the LSU job, you don't get to just poach
21:51
Speaker 5: all of your players from your team. If you're jumping
21:54
Speaker 5: ship to go somewhere you think is better, then you
21:58
Speaker 5: don't get to make that decision. They don't have the contact,
22:01
Speaker 5: isn't there, They don't. None of that process starts until
22:04
Speaker 5: you're you've finished doing what you're supposed to finish doing
22:06
Speaker 5: for twenty twenty five. So something in the calendar needs
22:09
Speaker 5: to change. And it's not just one thing.
22:10
Speaker 6: I'm certain, Yeah, it absolutely needs to change, but I
22:13
Speaker 6: you know, some of the argument has been, well, it's
22:16
Speaker 6: based on or coincides with what the school calendar is,
22:18
Speaker 6: and you're trying to get kids into school and the
22:20
Speaker 6: right timing.
22:21
Speaker 7: Let's be honest. I mean, nobody's worried about.
22:24
Speaker 6: If a five star or you know, if a if
22:29
Speaker 6: the biggest recruit that has entered the portal misses the
22:32
Speaker 6: first two weeks of school, nobody cares of the second semester.
22:35
Speaker 7: So school has become the secondary thing to a jolt.
22:38
Speaker 6: It's always been a yel So you can't you can't
22:41
Speaker 6: rely on that to be the reason for your calendar anymore.
22:44
Speaker 7: Because we're past that.
22:45
Speaker 1: Well National signing Day, I mean ninety five percent of
22:48
Speaker 1: the players are already signed. Now some could jump ship
22:51
Speaker 1: and I guess that's the excuse Lane Kiffin is using.
22:54
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22:56
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22:59
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23:01
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23:03
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23:10
Speaker 1: Rick Newiel said yesterday. That's why lane Kiffin had to
23:15
Speaker 1: make this jump was because he had to get to
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Speaker 1: LSU before the signing day to make sure he didn't
23:22
Speaker 1: lose any recruits and maybe to steal a couple of
23:24
Speaker 1: recruits before the signing day comes to a close. Well,
23:27
Speaker 1: I would think that is easy to move that date,
23:30
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that easily fixes everything, because
23:33
Speaker 1: I think selfishness has come to rule college football, and
23:37
Speaker 1: I think everyone is in it for themselves, and especially
23:40
Speaker 1: the coaches, even more so than the players. So you
23:43
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23:46
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23:48
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Speaker 6: Well, and here's the thing is, I made this pick
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Speaker 7: Yeah that's what I said, minus the six and a half.
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25:36
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25:38
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Speaker 1: They should. They should take care of business, just as
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Speaker 6: Selection, well, thank you, and I like yeah it was
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27:28
Speaker 5: You did say, yeah, yeah, you saw the sign.
27:32
Speaker 1: The same saw the sign and they decided to fix it.
27:37
Speaker 1: That's good. I can imagine that.
27:39
Speaker 2: I get I.
27:42
Speaker 1: Would have stopped them from doing that, Chuck. No, I
27:45
Speaker 1: don't think that you would have.
27:47
Speaker 2: No.
27:47
Speaker 1: I'd have been like, do you see a sign?
27:49
Speaker 2: Chuck?
27:49
Speaker 1: I was the only freshman on a high school or
27:52
Speaker 1: on a college baseball team. What chance did I have
27:54
Speaker 1: of getting through that year?
27:55
Speaker 2: At a zero?
27:56
Speaker 1: That's a zero. The only chance that I had was
27:58
Speaker 1: that my sister also went to that college. He was
28:00
Speaker 1: three years older than me, and she's very cute, so
28:04
Speaker 1: they all wanted to be with her, right, so that
28:06
Speaker 1: was the only thing that was saving me. I kept
28:07
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, when am I going to get hazed?
28:09
Speaker 1: And then I said that stupid thing and.
28:13
Speaker 7: How often I could play that song?
28:15
Speaker 1: So yes, maybe it was my just rip the band
28:19
Speaker 1: aid off. Let's just get this out of the way.
28:21
Speaker 1: I love rock set.
28:25
Speaker 7: Must have been love.
28:26
Speaker 1: Did you guys hear what Chuck just said. Yeah, then
28:29
Speaker 1: they came up with a plan, and they came up
28:31
Speaker 1: with a plan. I got tied to the gurney, wheeled
28:34
Speaker 1: out the center field and the rain, and they hit
28:36
Speaker 1: fly balls at me. Oh fuck, Oh, you'd get in
28:40
Speaker 1: so much trouble nowadays. Nobody actually hit me. But they
28:43
Speaker 1: weren't actually trying to hit me, because I think they
28:46
Speaker 1: were accurate enough that they could have hit me, but
28:48
Speaker 1: they were just trying to hit it near me. Yeah,
28:50
Speaker 1: so that I thought it might hit me.
28:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, one could have hit you. One could have hit
28:55
Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you right now, I don't care
28:57
Speaker 5: how good you think you are.
28:58
Speaker 1: You're not that good. I don't think they were going
29:00
Speaker 1: to shed a tear if one or can hit me. Yeah, no,
29:03
Speaker 1: they would be okay with Yeah, I think so, but yeah,
29:05
Speaker 1: that would not be fun to be out there. That's
29:09
Speaker 1: a good one. I heard of that one, sou That
29:12
Speaker 1: is one thing I checked off my bucket list. I
29:14
Speaker 1: got hazed as a college athlete as a college freshman.
29:18
Speaker 1: One thing I never did get to check off my
29:20
Speaker 1: bucket list is I wish that I could have had
29:24
Speaker 1: a national signing day. I've always kind of enjoyed the process.
29:28
Speaker 1: I don't as much anymore, but I kind of I'm
29:32
Speaker 1: one of the few people out there that likes it.
29:34
Speaker 1: When we had the hats out and you put the
29:37
Speaker 1: hat on, and you chose your team, and you thanked
29:40
Speaker 1: everybody that got you to this point, and you hug
29:42
Speaker 1: your parents. I always liked that. A lot of people
29:45
Speaker 1: hate that, but I've always liked that. I don't like
29:48
Speaker 1: it as much anymore because it doesn't even feel like
29:51
Speaker 1: a commitment.
29:53
Speaker 7: They just pick one and then they change it five.
29:55
Speaker 1: Minutes later, keep the other hats in their duffel bag.
29:57
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we all remember our first girlfriend or boyfriend.
30:01
Speaker 1: They're the person we broke up with first, or we
30:04
Speaker 1: got broke up bye bye first, and that's kind of
30:08
Speaker 1: where college athletics is right now. You're not choosing a
30:14
Speaker 1: team today, You're choosing the first team you're going to
30:17
Speaker 1: leave today. Yes, yeah, it's your first X team. Yeah,
30:22
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Some of those kids stayed with the
30:24
Speaker 1: same girl all the way through high school, but let's
30:27
Speaker 1: face it, most of us didn't. And so today you're
30:30
Speaker 1: choosing the first team you're going to break up with. Yeah.
30:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's it sucks because, I mean I was
30:36
Speaker 5: never a giant fan. I mean I liked a lot
30:38
Speaker 5: more back then than I do now because at least
30:41
Speaker 5: it meant something. You signed a letter of intent and
30:44
Speaker 5: that was what it was period. That's who who you're with.
30:47
Speaker 5: And I'm not wholeheartedly against the kids transferring because basically,
30:52
Speaker 5: when we watch the coaches doing it, how do you
30:54
Speaker 5: expect them to be loyal to the program when the
30:57
Speaker 5: dude that got them to come there ump ship and
31:00
Speaker 5: go somewhere else. It's just so the whole thing is
31:02
Speaker 5: messed up in my opinion as far as how how
31:05
Speaker 5: guys are able to move around. But yeah, signing day,
31:08
Speaker 5: I think it's gone over the top now. I mean
31:12
Speaker 5: I see like buddies of mine, Like their kids are
31:15
Speaker 5: signing like to go to Blue Mountain Community College where
31:17
Speaker 5: I went, and like to have a big thing, like
31:20
Speaker 5: you know, the banner behind them, and it's it's like, dude,
31:23
Speaker 5: like you're going to Blue you I mean, this is
31:25
Speaker 5: not a giant step in the direction like you're you know.
31:29
Speaker 1: I mean, I I it's it's a lot. Now.
31:32
Speaker 5: If that's the biggest moment that they get to have,
31:34
Speaker 5: I don't know why I'm poopooing on it. I mean,
31:36
Speaker 5: it was the same path that I took, and so
31:39
Speaker 5: it just seems odd to me. There's a little bit
31:41
Speaker 5: of a glorification of certain things that I think gets overblown,
31:45
Speaker 5: and especially when there really is no true commitment to
31:49
Speaker 5: that letter of intent any longer.
31:50
Speaker 1: It's just kind of a it's a hollow thing that
31:52
Speaker 1: is really a big deal.
31:54
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, because there's no commitment at all in college sports,
31:57
Speaker 6: and I the half thing I used to like a lot,
31:59
Speaker 6: but I'll never forget when Terrence Ross sat down with
32:01
Speaker 6: his hats in front of him and picked up the
32:03
Speaker 6: U dub hat and everyone freaked out, and an hour
32:05
Speaker 6: later he was going to Kentucky m I.
32:07
Speaker 7: Was like, well, what was the point.
32:09
Speaker 6: We all sat there through that, and then all you
32:11
Speaker 6: had to do was walk away from the table, take
32:13
Speaker 6: a phone call from John Klapari and change your mind.
32:15
Speaker 2: Mmm.
32:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well it's not the same that he used
32:19
Speaker 1: to be. But today is National signing Day, it is,
32:23
Speaker 1: and so Scott Eckland is going to join us today
32:25
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. Bucky will be long gone by then.
32:28
Speaker 1: It will be in Palm Springs mode.
32:30
Speaker 7: He'll be sipping my ties all the time.
32:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:32
Speaker 1: I'll still be driving, so I'll be sipping anything.
32:34
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna be thinking about It's not about it
32:36
Speaker 5: on my way to the bathroom when don't we I'm
32:37
Speaker 5: gonna I might have a Malibu rum an orange juice
32:40
Speaker 5: on the plane.
32:41
Speaker 1: Mmm, just because it's you know, coconuty.
32:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was also real good Hollywood. You do vodka
32:47
Speaker 6: orange juice with a splash of crayon. It's a great
32:50
Speaker 6: breakfast drink.
32:51
Speaker 1: Sounds great too.
32:53
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:53
Speaker 1: So by like you dub the top twenty recruiting class,
32:56
Speaker 1: I mean there are different publications for it, but not
33:00
Speaker 1: at USC might end up with the number one recruiting
33:02
Speaker 1: class this year, which kind of came out of nowhere.
33:06
Speaker 1: All of us that have felt the program is declining
33:09
Speaker 1: beneath Lincoln Riley's feet. Well, he's rallying in the recruiting
33:15
Speaker 1: arena at least this year.
33:16
Speaker 7: And he's still got to coach them.
33:19
Speaker 1: They didn't have a bad year this year, not this year. Yeah,
33:22
Speaker 1: they were pretty good this year. Yeah, But yeah, USC
33:26
Speaker 1: has a chance to be number one. And as I
33:28
Speaker 1: said earlier, like ninety six percent of people have already committed,
33:31
Speaker 1: which is another thing. I mean, it's not what it
33:34
Speaker 1: used to be. They have to get their nil stuff
33:37
Speaker 1: in order, so they usually decide before they even start
33:39
Speaker 1: their senior years of high school. Now it's a financial thing.
33:43
Speaker 1: So very few players on the top three hundred list
33:47
Speaker 1: are even going to be making a decision today. But
33:51
Speaker 1: I'm sure some eyes to dot tease to cross for
33:54
Speaker 1: Jed Fish and the Dogs will talk about it today
33:56
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. Speaking of the Dogs, Cam Cleveland will
33:59
Speaker 1: join us next our final conversation of the season with
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