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Chuck & Buck 1-22 hour 1: We're three sleeps away! ICYMI Matt Hasselbeck & Can Stidham get it done? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Let's get a sound check.
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Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Welcome in to the radio program. It
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Speaker 7: is Chucking Back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 7: point three kJ RFM. Breakdown you with us here on
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Speaker 7: this lovely Thursday in the Pacific Northwest. My name is
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Speaker 7: Chuck Powell. Bucky Jacobson. The Bucky Jacobson is here, so
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Speaker 7: is Ashley Ryan. As we get things started here, over
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Speaker 7: the course of the next four hours, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 7: a lot of sports, but primarily football, as the Seahawks
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Speaker 7: and the Rams get ready to do battle on Sunday.
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Speaker 7: Here we sit on Thursday, Softy very relieved to know
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Speaker 7: that he only has to wake up and I'm assuming
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Speaker 7: he's already up three more times before his football team's
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Speaker 7: going to play for the Super Bowl. Do him a
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Speaker 7: lot of good over there.
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Speaker 6: I imagine he does seem a lot like my daughter
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Speaker 6: who's four.
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Speaker 2: He's a lot like her. Yeah, yeah, in a lot
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Speaker 2: of ways of a pill wears a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of dresses zomies and runs around the house like a
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Speaker 4: crazy kid.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, he does that far more than Grace does,
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Speaker 6: but yeah, similar. But they are also alike in the
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Speaker 6: fact that anything that she's excited about she counts down
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Speaker 6: with how many sleeps she has left anything? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 6: So when are we going on our daddy daughter day
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Speaker 6: on Saturday?
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Speaker 2: Oh, she looks encountered.
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Speaker 6: That's two more sleeps, two more sleeps, yep, yep, two
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Speaker 6: more sleeps.
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Speaker 2: That's right. So yeah, I think heard softiere.
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Speaker 4: Like, I would like to say that.
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Speaker 1: I think it's easier to keep track of things if
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Speaker 1: you if you do it that way by sleeps, because
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Speaker 1: it's I always wonder like am I supposed to count
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Speaker 1: the day I'm in right now? Or am I supposed
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Speaker 1: to start tomorrow? Like is it four days away? Or
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Speaker 1: is it three days away? It's sleep Yeah, if I think,
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Speaker 1: but if I think of it and sleeps, it's way
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Speaker 1: easier for me to figure it out.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, maybe Grace has figured out the key to
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Speaker 7: counting on something. Maybe half the population has been confused
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Speaker 7: for many years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we grow up and some of
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Speaker 6: how we learn how many sleeps it is until something
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Speaker 6: that we're excited about, And then you'll learn about the
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Speaker 6: calendar and the days and dates and all that, and
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Speaker 6: then you're like, you just totally screwed up the whole things.
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Speaker 6: Just how many sleeps until you get to where you
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Speaker 6: want to be?
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Speaker 7: It sleeps. I mean we are three days away from
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Speaker 7: seahawks and rams. Yeah, three sleeps away from seahawks and rams.
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Speaker 7: So yeah, it's grace math and it makes uh.
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Speaker 1: I like it.
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Speaker 2: And that's just the way it's been.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'll go towards it seems like it probably makes
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Speaker 6: sense because Grace does it. If you said that that's
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Speaker 6: how soft he does it, I'd be like, oh, well
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Speaker 6: we should maybe question that just a smidge.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I would probably limit the number of things
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Speaker 7: that my young daughter has in common with soft.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to try.
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Speaker 7: It's cute that there are few things they have in common,
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Speaker 7: but I think you need to draw there need to
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Speaker 7: be a lot more in the column that they don't.
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Speaker 6: Oh, there will be, trust you me. So the soft one,
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Speaker 6: my daughter will not be two peas in a pod.
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Speaker 6: That'd be hilarious, just like him.
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Speaker 4: We have her beat him next Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we can try that. She needs a meet him first.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's actually funny if she hasn't. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just dress her up like him and then let her
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Speaker 1: just walk.
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Speaker 6: Around and instead of saying trick or treat, you say,
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Speaker 6: for crying out loud, ye give me some candy?
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Speaker 2: Hey, pal.
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Speaker 7: Uh for crying out louder treat? Yeah. Well, we are
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Speaker 7: underway here on this Thursday, just three sleeps from the
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 7: Seahawks Rams again Sunday.
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Speaker 2: And man, what a matchup?
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Speaker 7: I mean, do you guys even realize I mean they
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Speaker 7: face They faced each other twice obviously this year.
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Speaker 2: I know you realize that. Okay.
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Speaker 7: And the points spreads, so both the times that the
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Speaker 7: team won, they didn't cover, even though the point spreads
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Speaker 7: were very narrow each time, Like I think the Seahawks
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Speaker 7: were favored by a point and.
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Speaker 2: A half they won by one.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, and so yeah and this
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Speaker 7: and the Rams I think were favored by three and
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Speaker 7: a half points and they won by two. Okay, So
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Speaker 7: this is Vegas saying throughout the season how close these
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Speaker 7: two teams are. This is two games played completely differently. Yes,
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Speaker 7: and they came down to the wire in each case
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Speaker 7: and came within three points total the two contests, and
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Speaker 7: yet even though the team won, they didn't cover.
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Speaker 2: I mean that.
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Speaker 7: And to top it all off, there's only one point
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Speaker 7: separating them in their two contests. This year, there's only
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Speaker 7: one yard separating them in their two contests. This year,
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Speaker 7: they gained a grand total over their two games one
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Speaker 7: yard separation in the two contests, despite the fact that
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Speaker 7: the two games were wildly different. The two games where
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Speaker 7: one team outplayed the other and lost, and then in
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Speaker 7: the second game Seahawks were outplayed by the Rams and won. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I just I mean, that just shows you out evenly
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Speaker 7: fought that they are, even though they are pieced together
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Speaker 7: differently and built built differently. And yes, both teams have
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Speaker 7: like the Seahawks have a good offense and the Rams
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Speaker 7: have a good defense, but the bottom line is the matchup.
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Speaker 7: That really is the matchup, even more so I think
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Speaker 7: than Stafford versus Darnold. Is the number one offense in
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Speaker 7: the National Football League versus the number one defense in
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Speaker 7: the National Football League in terms of points put on
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Speaker 7: the board per game, and that's what's going down. It
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Speaker 7: doesn't happen that frequently, not at this level, and usually
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Speaker 7: it favors the defense historically.
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Speaker 2: I'll let you know which is good for us.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, this is there are other aspects of the game,
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Speaker 7: and maybe it's their defense and our offense that ends
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Speaker 7: up deciding this thing. But in terms of man, where's
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Speaker 7: the great matchup? It's the Rams defense with their MVP
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Speaker 7: quarterback and a guy PFF has said is the best
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Speaker 7: player in the National Football League, Puka Nakua against Mike
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Speaker 7: McDonald's defense. And not only are they number one in
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Speaker 7: the National Football League in points per game allowed, they're
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Speaker 7: number one with a bullet if there's such a thing,
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Speaker 7: because they're certainly playing better now than they've played at.
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Speaker 2: Any during this season. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the idea of seeing which one of your strengths, right,
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Speaker 6: I mean, ultimately, I think the team that should win
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Speaker 6: it in whatever sport you're talking about is the one
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Speaker 6: that's the best all the way around.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 6: You can't have a crazy deficiency on one side of
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Speaker 6: the ball or the other. But it usually still boils
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Speaker 6: down to, Okay, what's this you know straw that stirs
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Speaker 6: a drink? What's the what's the thing that propels this team? Well,
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Speaker 6: the defense is what propels this team. The offense can
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Speaker 6: the offense has over the course of this season outscored
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Speaker 6: an opponent. I mean in the game that you were
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Speaker 6: talking about the second time that they met, where the
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Speaker 6: Rams were pretty much unstoppable at first, and yet the
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Speaker 6: Seahawks somehow found a way to you know, make up
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Speaker 6: a sixteen point deficit with half of a quarter left
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Speaker 6: to play. And so the offense did their part in
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Speaker 6: that one. And yet, Yeah, the idea of Sean McVay
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Speaker 6: kind of looked at as one of, if not the
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Speaker 6: most you know, talented offensive minds is as a head
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Speaker 6: coach versus what everybody's now recognizing is the most talented
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Speaker 6: defensive minded coach. And how they're units, both of them,
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Speaker 6: that's kind of what they're gonna live and die by.
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Speaker 6: How those units are gonna clash together. Yeah, if you're
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Speaker 6: saying it comes down to how many yards are separating
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Speaker 6: these two one one yard? Not how many yards? How
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Speaker 6: many yard are they separated by one? Okay, then yeah,
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Speaker 6: pretty evenly matched. And I think it's got to be
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Speaker 6: interesting to be in one of those buildings when you know,
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Speaker 6: in the playoffs, so much rides on every single play,
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Speaker 6: but with these two teams, it feels like it's even
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Speaker 6: the every play call. There's so much riding on it, right,
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Speaker 6: I mean you have to be playing chess, you know,
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Speaker 6: so many different times and then hoping that boy because
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Speaker 6: you make a mistake and call the wrong defense against
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Speaker 6: that offense or vice versa, it could turn into six
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Speaker 6: points real.
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Speaker 2: Quick and in a hurry.
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Speaker 1: And I can understand to you why people are nervous
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Speaker 1: about the defense going up against them, considering what the
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Speaker 1: Rams did in Game two. And you think, you know,
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Speaker 1: with Sean McVay doing his mathematics, I picture him kind
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Speaker 1: of like a beautiful mind. Yeah, yeah, you know, for
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Speaker 1: them to have been able to dial up five hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty one yards, that's you look at that and
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Speaker 1: think like, oh my gosh, yeah, that's that's that does
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Speaker 1: make me nervous considering it went from like two forty
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Speaker 1: nine to five eighty one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big difference from Game one to Game two.
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Speaker 1: But I I have so much faith in this defense
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Speaker 1: to not do that again.
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Speaker 4: And if you.
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Speaker 1: Look at the offensive output they had, they were only
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Speaker 1: one yard apart from Game one to Game two. Four
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Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen yards of total offense for the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: in Game one, four hundred and fifteen in Game two,
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Speaker 1: So they've been at least consistent offensively. Yeah, that's been
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Speaker 1: the big issue. So and I mean and and he
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Speaker 1: cut that in half in game two. So cut that
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Speaker 1: in half again in game agree with Yeah, yeah, cut
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Speaker 1: that in half again in game three, and assume that
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's not gonna come back out with a defensive
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Speaker 1: you know, output like you did last time.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the nervous about at all. Maybe there are reasons
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Speaker 7: to be as a Sea Hawk fan. I don't think that.
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Speaker 7: I know, I'm not. I don't think that you should be.
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Speaker 7: And the and the reasons are because of that Mike
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Speaker 7: McDonald beautiful mind.
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Speaker 2: We got it gon Nash too, Yeah we do.
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Speaker 7: And I'll just say, there's what one playoff game, So
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Speaker 7: eighteen games, you have eighteen games worth of information and
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Speaker 7: two times the offense had a better plan than his defense.
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Speaker 7: All right, this entire season, Tampa Bay and Los Angeles.
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Speaker 7: He was humiliated by the Tampa Bay situation, blamed himself
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Speaker 7: for it, and also admitted that I over coached in
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Speaker 7: the LA game. I made it too complicated. And so
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna go ahead, first of all, inside with the percentages.
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Speaker 7: Doesn't mean the Rams won't come out and have a
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Speaker 7: good day. I mean, that's the sports.
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Speaker 2: You never know.
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Speaker 7: But in terms of the percentages, I just don't think
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Speaker 7: that Mike McDonald, that can even happen to him again.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 7: And then the second thing is even within that game
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Speaker 7: where they they compiled all of those yards, they went
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Speaker 7: into halftime if you remember, and Kyrien Williams had been
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Speaker 7: running all over them. Yeah, and Mike McDonald got in
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Speaker 7: a half time and he was like, I know what
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Speaker 7: they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 7: And Kyraen Williams didn't do anything in the second half
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Speaker 7: after that. Now they in stopping Kyron Williams then couldn't
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Speaker 7: stop Stafford and Nakua and that combination. But you know,
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Speaker 7: the advanced scouting that you have at this point in
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Speaker 7: the year, the you know, having faced them two times
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Speaker 7: already this year and getting to face them a third time.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think that you're gonna shut them
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Speaker 7: down like you did San Francisco. I think they're too talented,
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Speaker 7: they're too healthy compared to the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 2: Mcveigh's too good. I mean, we're not gonna get it.
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Speaker 7: We're not gonna get a game where the Rams can't
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Speaker 7: figure out how to move the chains. It's not gonna
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Speaker 7: be a forty nine er game like we've seen the
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Speaker 7: last two times out. But I also am just as confident,
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Speaker 7: if not more so, that there's no way they're duplicating
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Speaker 7: what they did offensively the last time. And I think
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Speaker 7: that if you get that consistent offensive effort and you
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Speaker 7: don't commit more than two turnovers, I think that you're
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Speaker 7: in good shape. I think this game's probably going to
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Speaker 7: be played or in the low twenties. And I think
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Speaker 7: that Mike McDonald will.
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Speaker 2: Live with that. Yeah, Oh, I would think you'd live
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Speaker 2: with that. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: If you say twenty to twenty four points, you give
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Speaker 6: that up, then you should feel like you can go
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Speaker 6: out there, your offense can go out there. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I said yesterday, I have a lot of people brought
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Speaker 6: it up. I'm sure how quick this Seattle offense has
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Speaker 6: been able to strike over the course of the season.
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Speaker 6: I mean they've been able to put up points. They
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Speaker 6: did it even in that game that we're talking about,
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Speaker 6: where I mean they were getting out played and then
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Speaker 6: bang bang, all of a sudden, when it's thirty to fourteen,
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Speaker 6: they end up coming back and somehow tying it and
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Speaker 6: then win it in overtime. So I think the offense
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Speaker 6: is capable of doing it. You gotta slow them down
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Speaker 6: to some degree, and I think you need to do
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Speaker 6: it sooner then later.
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Speaker 2: I don't know for sure.
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Speaker 6: If I would want to let them get off to
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Speaker 6: a crazy hot start that you then have to make
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Speaker 6: an adjustment to because I think that the way in
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Speaker 6: which that second one went down, now everybody could say, well,
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Speaker 6: they shouldn't really won the first game. They got out
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Speaker 6: played in the first game, with the exception that Reek
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Speaker 6: Woland kind of that that catch by the tight end.
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Speaker 2: Now that was the San Francisco game. Oh that was
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Speaker 2: San Francisco.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, what was the There was something in the in
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Speaker 6: the crazy and the Rams game that I was thinking over.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the four turnovers, and he's still.
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Speaker 7: Almost won by a field goal, which is another thing.
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Speaker 2: Field goal. That's another reason why I'm not worried.
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Speaker 7: I mean, you've made four turnovers and still had a
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Speaker 7: chance to win the game if you know it was
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Speaker 7: a long field goal.
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Speaker 2: But you know, Jason Myer's been that good this year.
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Speaker 7: They had a chance, he had a chance even with
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Speaker 7: four turnovers. And then in the second game to have
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Speaker 7: given up five hundred and eighty yards, which is such
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Speaker 7: an outlier and one I mean, I just don't think
15:55
Speaker 7: Sam Donald's going to be that sloppy with the football
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Speaker 7: the national media scene to think. So, they think he's
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Speaker 7: that way every single game. Every time he wakes up
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Speaker 7: like he's buttering his bagel and he fumbles it into
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Speaker 7: the trash.
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Speaker 2: That's the way the.
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Speaker 7: National media sees him. But yeah, I'm kind of with Ashley.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Four turnovers in the first game, two in the second. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I could live with two. Yeah, I can live with two.
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Speaker 2: And I think you win on Sunday. Don't do that
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Speaker 2: anymore than that.
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Speaker 7: No, but if you can cut it down again to one, yeah, then.
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Speaker 2: I feel really good about the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I like our game plan that we started
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Speaker 1: with last week, Like just run the opening kickoff back.
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Speaker 2: That's a great game, that's a good start.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how we should do it every game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know why Harball Jay Harbaugh doesn't
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Speaker 2: do that. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I feel like if we would have implemented that.
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Speaker 6: Saving saving it for the last few games of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, so I think I think we're in good hands
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Speaker 1: with that game plan for sure.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. All right, let's find out what's on tap for
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Speaker 7: the show today.
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Speaker 7: Greg Bell's going to be with us, we think, and
17:33
Speaker 7: Hugh Mellen's going to be with us from eight to
17:35
Speaker 7: nine today.
17:35
Speaker 2: We do it every Thursday. Greg's all right, yeah, I
17:39
Speaker 2: believe so.
17:40
Speaker 4: I haven't heard anything else.
17:41
Speaker 1: I was thinking this morning, Oh, I wonder if I
17:42
Speaker 1: should check in with him, and I thought, you know what,
17:44
Speaker 1: he'd let us know if he was if he were not.
17:47
Speaker 7: He got a lot of love yesterday. That was really
17:50
Speaker 7: nice to see.
17:51
Speaker 2: Greg.
17:51
Speaker 7: You got a lot of fans out there. They really
17:53
Speaker 7: rallied to your support. I think somebody was even willing
17:57
Speaker 7: to give you their hand in case you lost it.
18:00
Speaker 7: It was Stan Darnold at the hospital yesterday. So hopefully
18:04
Speaker 7: Greg's going all right. He's going to be with us.
18:06
Speaker 7: We haven't heard that he's not so. Greg and Hugh
18:09
Speaker 7: combined forces eight to nine today to get you ready
18:12
Speaker 7: for the NFC Championship Game. The AFC Championship Game will
18:16
Speaker 7: be Sunday at noon. There are a lot of storylines here, unfortunately,
18:22
Speaker 7: and this is kind of the way it works, because
18:24
Speaker 7: the number one storyline is so massive. It's really all
18:28
Speaker 7: we've heard about. The Patriots versus the Denver Broncos, Jared
18:31
Speaker 7: Stidham replacing Bo Nix. We haven't yet discussed it. We
18:35
Speaker 7: will a little bit later on this hour. NFL News
18:38
Speaker 7: and Notes. Terry Pagoula, the owner of the Buffalo Bills
18:42
Speaker 7: and apparently the dummer of the members of the marital
18:48
Speaker 7: family of the Pagulas. I think the theme of the female,
18:52
Speaker 7: the missus Pagoula, is sign of the brains behind the operation.
18:55
Speaker 7: He's clearly not and she's sick, so he's sort of
19:00
Speaker 7: taken the reins and did not have a great press
19:02
Speaker 7: conference yesterday. And Bill's fans a bit unsettled right now
19:08
Speaker 7: after having fired Sean McDermott, who they liked, and now
19:13
Speaker 7: this guy's handling the replacement.
19:16
Speaker 2: I think that it was a very strange moment.
19:19
Speaker 7: So we'll talk about that with Sharkocherie later on in
19:22
Speaker 7: the show. Brandon Ayuk is not going to ever be
19:25
Speaker 7: a forty nine er again. That right from the mouth
19:28
Speaker 7: of John Lynch, the general manager, as that story took
19:32
Speaker 7: an ugly turn this year and the forty nine ers
19:35
Speaker 7: are done with the wide receiver Mike Sando's going to
19:38
Speaker 7: join us today at nine to thirty college football the
19:41
Speaker 7: twenty twenty sixth season. The countdown is on for that,
19:45
Speaker 7: and I think every single coach out there in America,
19:49
Speaker 7: whether you're taking over the reins of a program for
19:52
Speaker 7: the very first time, or if you're in your second
19:55
Speaker 7: year or in Jedfish's case, third year, Kurt Signett's really
19:58
Speaker 7: turned up the heat on all college football coaches that
20:02
Speaker 7: there is no excuse for you to need five years
20:06
Speaker 7: to build the program up. And so it's it's kind
20:09
Speaker 7: of interesting how that's going to impact ads across the
20:13
Speaker 7: country that maybe their expectations are going to rise. If
20:17
Speaker 7: Indiana can do it, why can't we do it? College basketball.
20:21
Speaker 7: You double lost to last night. Now, I'll say this
20:24
Speaker 7: for you, dub Man. Have they gone through the gauntlet?
20:27
Speaker 2: Yeah?
20:27
Speaker 7: They have. This Big Ten conference is really difficult, and
20:31
Speaker 7: they have faced three of the best teams in the
20:33
Speaker 7: conference here recently. Still, in order to show progress as
20:39
Speaker 7: a program, you need to win one of these occasionally.
20:42
Speaker 7: They lost last night at Nebraska to an undefeated team
20:45
Speaker 7: seventy six to sixty six. So there are two and
20:48
Speaker 7: six in conference play, ten and nine overall. They will
20:51
Speaker 7: play Oregon Sunday at noon. Cracking four to one winners
20:55
Speaker 7: over the Islanders. My goodness, that had to feel good
20:59
Speaker 7: for Lane Lambert and the group, really struggling as of late.
21:03
Speaker 7: Taking on a pretty good Islanders team and winning on
21:07
Speaker 7: the national stage. Who knows what that might mean for
21:10
Speaker 7: the team. Maybe they get back on track. But that
21:13
Speaker 7: was nice, four to one the final score there. They'll
21:15
Speaker 7: take on the Ducks here tomorrow at seven o'clock. Lakers
21:20
Speaker 7: dysfunction has become the big story, and the National Basketball
21:24
Speaker 7: Association a scathing essay on ESPN about how the Bus
21:30
Speaker 7: family has potentially ruined the Lakers. So that's something that
21:34
Speaker 7: if you want to read about it, we'll try to
21:36
Speaker 7: find some time to discuss we probably won't. And then
21:39
Speaker 7: from stove, another example of the Mets and Dodgers the
21:43
Speaker 7: only two teams playing this offseason, as the Mets pulled
21:47
Speaker 7: off a monster trade for an ace starter in Freddie
21:50
Speaker 7: Peralta yesterday, adding that to Bobaschett, Devin Williams, they weighed
21:56
Speaker 7: one other and Louis Robert, who they signed traded for
21:59
Speaker 7: early this week.
22:00
Speaker 2: It's as if they're.
22:01
Speaker 7: The only two teams playing stove baseball this offseason. So
22:06
Speaker 7: we'll maybe talk about that later in the show as well,
22:09
Speaker 7: but coming out next in case you missed it, a
22:11
Speaker 7: little bit from our conversation yesterday with the former quarterback
22:15
Speaker 7: of your Seattle Seahawks turned analyst, Matt Hasselback right here
22:19
Speaker 7: on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well,
22:38
Speaker 7: I don't know if you heard, but checking Buck added
22:41
Speaker 7: quite the asset to our postseason coverage this year every
22:45
Speaker 7: Wednesday at eight o'clock, number eight at eight. That's right,
22:48
Speaker 7: Matt Hasselbeck has joined us now three weeks in a row,
22:51
Speaker 7: and you will continue to join us every Wednesday throughout
22:55
Speaker 7: the postseason as long as the Seahawks keep advancing. That
22:59
Speaker 7: means four more conversations with Matt Hasselbeck, because of course
23:03
Speaker 7: we'll have to recap, and so that's what's Ashley Knox
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Speaker 7: on Wood. Yeah, every single time I say something like that.
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Speaker 7: So yesterday he was on with us. If you want
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Speaker 7: to hear the entire conversation, you could do so we
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23:18
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23:20
Speaker 7: minute conversation and it was delightful.
23:23
Speaker 2: But we're gonna go.
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Speaker 7: Ahead and isolate for those in case you missed it.
23:27
Speaker 7: Just a few of are just a portion of the conversation,
23:31
Speaker 7: and the quarterback portion of the conversation. This morning, we
23:35
Speaker 7: started with Sam Darnold, and I asked Matt Hasselback, who
23:38
Speaker 7: should know such things if he saw Sam favoring at
23:42
Speaker 7: all or the offensive coordinator, Clint Kubiak favoring at all
23:46
Speaker 7: Sam's oblique injury in that win over the forty nine ers.
23:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he was cautious early, which is understandable.
23:53
Speaker 3: You know, I think there was a sack in there
23:55
Speaker 3: where normally you'd see him just kind of cut it loose,
23:58
Speaker 3: maybe even throw it away, you know, and that's all
24:01
Speaker 3: part of it. I do think one of the things
24:03
Speaker 3: that was encouraging. It seemed to get better, not worse
24:05
Speaker 3: as the game went on. So that's that's encouraging. And
24:08
Speaker 3: I think, you know, the extra rest. I think it'd
24:09
Speaker 3: be also really interesting to read about and to hear
24:14
Speaker 3: how many reps Drew Locke gets this week. You know, like,
24:18
Speaker 3: if Drew lock is still taking a bunch of reps
24:20
Speaker 3: this week, then that tells you something. If it's uh,
24:23
Speaker 3: you know, business as usual and Sam Darnold's taking all
24:25
Speaker 3: the all the snaps in practice, you know, that tells
24:28
Speaker 3: you something else. But no, he had a couple of
24:30
Speaker 3: throws in that game that out route to the left
24:33
Speaker 3: hand side, that first big one that was huge, and
24:35
Speaker 3: then obviously the touchdown on the move to his left
24:37
Speaker 3: to JSN and back of the end zone. That was
24:40
Speaker 3: another one where it was like, Okay, we're good. He's
24:43
Speaker 3: got he's got the throws that he needs today, and
24:46
Speaker 3: and and and also I think he just played a
24:48
Speaker 3: clean game, you know, which is which is another thing
24:51
Speaker 3: you need to do when you have a defense playing
24:52
Speaker 3: the way that our defense is playing.
24:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, helps when you're up thirty five by the end
24:56
Speaker 7: of the game, certainly, I mean, how would he feel
24:59
Speaker 7: the following we I mean, since you've had this injury before,
25:02
Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe there's treatment that's done that you know,
25:05
Speaker 7: numbs it, so he's not feeling it as much. But
25:07
Speaker 7: when you wake up that next day and after practice
25:09
Speaker 7: again the next week, what did it feel like for you?
25:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing about this kind of an injury.
25:13
Speaker 3: It's really not a pain tolerance thing. It's just more
25:16
Speaker 3: about does the muscle work, you know, And that's that's
25:19
Speaker 3: the you know, I've I've played with some injuries that uh,
25:22
Speaker 3: you know that were like really really painful and you know,
25:25
Speaker 3: broken bones and stuff like that also, but this one
25:27
Speaker 3: is just like it's just like, no, I'm fine, I'm
25:29
Speaker 3: totally good, except for one thing, and that's kind of
25:32
Speaker 3: throwing a fastball.
25:34
Speaker 2: And and one thing I.
25:36
Speaker 3: Do know I can speak to this is that the
25:39
Speaker 3: athletic training sort of team that's in Seattle with the
25:43
Speaker 3: Seahawks is as good as it comes. And even on
25:47
Speaker 3: the orthopedic side, you share you know Ed Calphane, doctor
25:51
Speaker 3: Ed Calphane, you share a head orthopedic with the Mariners.
25:56
Speaker 3: So there were a lot of times with in my
25:59
Speaker 3: you know, injury, where I had someone who was really
26:03
Speaker 3: experienced in dealing with throwers, and that's not always the
26:07
Speaker 3: case on every NFL team, And so I do think
26:09
Speaker 3: that's an advantage that the Seahawks have and that Sam
26:12
Speaker 3: Donald in this case has Matt.
26:15
Speaker 6: I'm going to stay on the Sam Donald thing and
26:17
Speaker 6: just kind of because he see all kinds of analysts
26:20
Speaker 6: and talking heads out there that want to stick to
26:23
Speaker 6: this turnover issue that he has or whatever, and to me, it's, well,
26:28
Speaker 6: that's the risk that you take for the reward that
26:30
Speaker 6: you get. I mean, this team has been about as
26:32
Speaker 6: potent as anybody as far as being able to put
26:34
Speaker 6: up points quicken in a hurry throughout the course of
26:37
Speaker 6: the season. And so when you watch him, do you
26:40
Speaker 6: want more of a hesitation to make sure that you
26:43
Speaker 6: don't turn the ball over or do you want him
26:45
Speaker 6: just to rip it? And what did you see last
26:47
Speaker 6: week in the limited amount of throws that he made
26:50
Speaker 6: while the game was still somewhat up in the air.
26:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, well let's just talk about you know, all the
26:55
Speaker 3: games really, I mean, Buffalo lost because they turned the
26:58
Speaker 3: ball over, Chicago lost because they turned the ball over
27:00
Speaker 3: San fran You know, obviously you saw how they played CJ.
27:05
Speaker 2: Stroud.
27:05
Speaker 3: He's out in four interceptions in the first half. So
27:08
Speaker 3: like that is a formula, and that is a thing.
27:11
Speaker 3: But playing defensive and playing kind of scared, playing like
27:15
Speaker 3: you're at you know, a sixteen and a half year
27:17
Speaker 3: old at driver's head, Like, that's not the safest way
27:20
Speaker 3: to drive. It's not the safest way to play quarterback.
27:23
Speaker 3: The safest way to drive is to be a little
27:25
Speaker 3: bit aggressive, be be decisive, and you know, like in
27:31
Speaker 3: you know, cut it loose a.
27:32
Speaker 7: Little bit in a sense.
27:33
Speaker 3: And I think that's the same thing.
27:35
Speaker 2: For a quarterback.
27:36
Speaker 3: Throw whatever throw you want to throw, but throw it
27:38
Speaker 3: with one hundred percent conviction.
27:40
Speaker 2: Don't throw it like it's.
27:41
Speaker 3: You know, a grenade or like yeah, maybe you know,
27:44
Speaker 3: a bunch of people get hurt here, like or like
27:46
Speaker 3: it's horseshoes, like it's kind of close.
27:48
Speaker 7: It's not that.
27:49
Speaker 3: Like you need to be a confident, precise, have a
27:53
Speaker 3: plan thrower, and and if you do that, like good
27:57
Speaker 3: stuff happens, and even even sometimes an incompletion can happen.
28:01
Speaker 3: But this idea of like a fifty to fifty ball
28:04
Speaker 3: or like, oh, I got pressure in my face. I
28:06
Speaker 3: got to get the ball out of my hand, can't
28:07
Speaker 3: take a sack, Like no, it's not just that, Like
28:10
Speaker 3: you got to throw it somewhere with conviction. And then
28:14
Speaker 3: I do think there's this there's this saying that always
28:17
Speaker 3: always helped me when I had a good defense and
28:20
Speaker 3: I had a good punter, Like it's okay to let
28:23
Speaker 3: our punter punt. It's okay to give our defense a
28:26
Speaker 3: long field to defend. But what's not okay is to
28:30
Speaker 3: have a sudden change and give our defense a short
28:33
Speaker 3: field to defend and and not let our punter do
28:35
Speaker 3: his job. And in that mindset too, is like it's
28:39
Speaker 3: a it's a freeing thing to know, Like, hey, listen,
28:43
Speaker 3: if this series didn't work out, let our kicker kick,
28:46
Speaker 3: let our punter punt in. I'll get the ball again
28:49
Speaker 3: next next, next time around.
28:51
Speaker 7: It's number eight at eight. Matt hasselback with us throughout
28:53
Speaker 7: the postseason Wednesdays at eight o'clock right here on Chuck
28:57
Speaker 7: and Buck in the morning, let's talk about the other core.
29:00
Speaker 7: Matt Stafford's had an MVP year. He's forty years old.
29:03
Speaker 7: For goodness, sake, he's seen it all, he's won a
29:05
Speaker 7: Super Bowl. I mean, there's no chance. I don't care
29:08
Speaker 7: how good the defensive opponent is, that he's gonna wet
29:11
Speaker 7: himself on the field on Sunday or soil as armor
29:15
Speaker 7: and so. But have you had, I know, you've had
29:18
Speaker 7: that experience where you're getting ready for a big game
29:22
Speaker 7: and you watch the film and you put on the
29:24
Speaker 7: film of that Seahawks defense and the way that they
29:27
Speaker 7: played last week. What's Matt Stafford thinking right now?
29:30
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting how his season started, like
29:33
Speaker 3: he had a back injury and missed all a training
29:35
Speaker 3: camp and you know, he's almost forty and people were
29:38
Speaker 3: freaking out. You know, I was like, oh, this doesn't
29:40
Speaker 3: look good. Whatever he did, he looks like he's aging
29:43
Speaker 3: in reverse. This is the best I've seen him look.
29:46
Speaker 7: During a year.
29:47
Speaker 3: At the end of the year, you know, whatever alixir
29:51
Speaker 3: he's on, I need to get on it myself. That
29:52
Speaker 3: dude is aging in reverse and looking as good as
29:55
Speaker 3: I mean, he's the best year he's ever had, really,
29:57
Speaker 3: and so he's on fire. Last time we played game.
30:01
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think he's intimidated by this defense.
30:03
Speaker 3: You know whether he should or shouldn't be. I don't
30:05
Speaker 3: think he is, because the last time he played him
30:07
Speaker 3: in Seattle, he had no DeVante Adams and he threw
30:10
Speaker 3: twelve completions to Puka Nakua for two hundred and twenty
30:14
Speaker 3: five yards and touchdown like he had no issue.
30:17
Speaker 2: I don't think he's.
30:19
Speaker 3: I don't think he's, you know, necessarily concerned about it.
30:22
Speaker 3: I would say this though, if I'm the Seahawks defense
30:25
Speaker 3: and I'm watching him. He is a gun slinger, and
30:27
Speaker 3: there's a saying in quarterback rooms catch the ones he
30:31
Speaker 3: throws to you. If you just catch the opportunities that
30:36
Speaker 3: a quarterback throws to you with over tips and overthrows,
30:40
Speaker 3: you would lead the league in interceptions every year. So
30:43
Speaker 3: this is one of those games for the defense where
30:46
Speaker 3: it's not about batting balls down or celebrating when there's
30:49
Speaker 3: an incompletion. It's gonna be one of those games where
30:52
Speaker 3: when the ball comes our way and we have an
30:54
Speaker 3: opportunity with a gun slinging quarterback, we got to turn
30:57
Speaker 3: those incompletions into interceptions. And that that's what the mindset
31:00
Speaker 3: has to be. Because he is not afraid to throw
31:03
Speaker 3: it anywhere and he's proven that. He proved it last
31:06
Speaker 3: week in Chicago. Chicago had many opportunities to come away
31:10
Speaker 3: with interceptions and.
31:12
Speaker 2: The ball just hit the ground.
31:13
Speaker 7: Matt hasselback with us every Wednesday throughout the playoffs, number
31:17
Speaker 7: eight at eight Again, if you want to hear the
31:19
Speaker 7: entire conversation, it was a good one.
31:20
Speaker 2: From beginning to end. They've all been very good.
31:22
Speaker 7: So we've had an excellent edition with Matt Hasselbeck to
31:26
Speaker 7: our postseason coverage, So check that out at ninety three
31:28
Speaker 7: to three KJAR dot com. We'll of course talk more
31:32
Speaker 7: about the quarterbacks coming up on the radio program. We
31:35
Speaker 7: have our own quarterback joining us today from eight to nine.
31:37
Speaker 7: Twelve man roundtable with Hugh Millon and Greg Bell every
31:41
Speaker 7: Thursday at eight o'clock. But it's not every Thursday where
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Speaker 7: it's an eight conference championship round table. Darn right, Yeah,
31:48
Speaker 7: and darn right probably shouldn't be.
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Speaker 2: That'd probably be too much.
31:51
Speaker 4: We wouldn't get all hyped up every time.
31:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it would take the fun out of it.
31:56
Speaker 4: We'd feel like those teams that win it every year.
31:59
Speaker 7: Ye like begin if Goodell just announced like every week
32:03
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Speaker 2: That'd probably ruin an FC co.
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Speaker 4: Of it lose some spark, it'd just be Dusty all right.
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Speaker 7: Coming up next, though, we haven't talked much about the
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Speaker 7: it seems, in that game, and we really haven't had
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Speaker 2: Coach, I'm really hurt. Oh man, ah man.
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35:45
Speaker 7: never seen anybody kind of step into the saddle like
35:48
Speaker 7: he's going to on Sunday, on such a big stage,
35:51
Speaker 7: at such a big moment, and it's going to be asked,
35:54
Speaker 7: Bucky get us to the super Bowl.
35:57
Speaker 6: Kid, Yeah, yeah, I mean, the emotions of the game
36:00
Speaker 6: were crazy, and then you're like, oh my gosh, super
36:03
Speaker 6: happy sitting there, one step away from possibly getting into
36:06
Speaker 6: the getting to the super Bowl, and you see what
36:08
Speaker 6: the heck you can do at that point. And then
36:11
Speaker 6: all of a sudden like, oh, at first I thought
36:13
Speaker 6: it was fake, bo Nicks breaks his ankle, he's done
36:15
Speaker 6: for the year, Like, oh, come on, somebody bringing this
36:18
Speaker 6: is somebody trying to do that. And then all of
36:20
Speaker 6: a sudden you're like, Nope, that's that's the real. Adam
36:23
Speaker 6: Schefter's report and that's that's real. And so then you're like,
36:26
Speaker 6: now two press conferences Yeah.
36:28
Speaker 7: Peyton gave a press conference after the game, like and
36:30
Speaker 7: his coaching stuff, went in, showered, came back out and
36:33
Speaker 7: updated everybody crazy.
36:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it told him all was because he loved
36:36
Speaker 1: him so much he would just wanted to come back
36:38
Speaker 1: and talk to him more than first.
36:40
Speaker 2: Well, I think he couldn't.
36:41
Speaker 6: He knew he couldn't go in and even tell the
36:43
Speaker 6: team without it then leaking, and then it's the panic
36:46
Speaker 6: part of it, right. He wanted to get his hands
36:48
Speaker 6: around it to some degree, and it works to some
36:51
Speaker 6: degree because but then again you also have to realize
36:54
Speaker 6: he's going to say, hey, I believe in Jared Sidham.
36:57
Speaker 6: I believe now he was a highly after backup quarterback
37:02
Speaker 6: as far as so I mean that if if that's
37:04
Speaker 6: a thing, I mean, I think.
37:06
Speaker 2: There was a lot of people.
37:09
Speaker 6: There was more than just Sean Payton was interested in
37:13
Speaker 6: him and thought he could be a guy that could
37:15
Speaker 6: help you out if needed.
37:17
Speaker 2: Uh, that's it.
37:18
Speaker 6: I mean, I as much confidence as Sean Payton has
37:22
Speaker 6: and a lot of people in Denver are thinking, like,
37:24
Speaker 6: all right, this is it, Didy, we think you can
37:26
Speaker 6: do it. Go out and just I think you just
37:28
Speaker 6: need to manage the game. The defense is gonna have
37:30
Speaker 6: step up and play the way that it has majority
37:32
Speaker 6: of the season, and and you just don't lose it
37:36
Speaker 6: for us. Go out there and just make some plays
37:38
Speaker 6: here and there, but for the most part, take care
37:39
Speaker 6: of the ball. As much as there's more confidence now
37:44
Speaker 6: than right when I heard the news that Bonnicks was out,
37:47
Speaker 6: it still is one of those well, yeah, I kind
37:49
Speaker 6: of have to just recognize you're gonna say what you're
37:52
Speaker 6: as you're as a coach. Sean Payton's gonna say I
37:55
Speaker 6: believe in him. I believe it, because what are you
37:56
Speaker 6: gonna say, Well, that was a good season. We're kind
38:00
Speaker 6: of screwed now, yeah, I mean our backup, our offense
38:04
Speaker 6: at times barely did enough to win games throughout the
38:08
Speaker 6: course of the season with our starting quarterback. So now
38:10
Speaker 6: that we're taking this step back, at least maybe two
38:13
Speaker 6: steps back, we're probably screwed. He's not gonna say that,
38:17
Speaker 6: He's gonna say the other He's gonna say the other
38:18
Speaker 6: side of it and try to promote as much confidence
38:20
Speaker 6: as possible. But I mean, the dude hasn't thrown a
38:23
Speaker 6: pass in the NFL since twenty twenty three. I mean,
38:27
Speaker 6: he's got in a couple of games this year. I
38:29
Speaker 6: think only one game this year, because that's only it's
38:31
Speaker 6: as far as that's how many games they got ahead
38:33
Speaker 6: by a bunch tour. He just came in and took
38:35
Speaker 6: a knee. There was a few last year, but didn't
38:38
Speaker 6: throw any passes. I mean, it's all the way back
38:40
Speaker 6: to twenty twenty three is last time he threw a
38:42
Speaker 6: ball in an NFL game. Now, he's been practicing against
38:45
Speaker 6: the number one one of the number one one of
38:47
Speaker 6: the top defenses in the league for the last few years,
38:51
Speaker 6: and he knows the system. So we'll see how bad
38:53
Speaker 6: it is.
38:53
Speaker 7: I think of Jared Stidham, and you know, I mean
38:57
Speaker 7: I didn't dive I didn't dive into the film room
39:00
Speaker 7: this week to see I gotta remember, you know, I'm
39:04
Speaker 7: not you Millin, give me a break here. But but
39:08
Speaker 7: I don't ever remember watching Jared steam like, this guy's
39:11
Speaker 7: really embarrassing the sport as a backup quarterback that is
39:14
Speaker 7: filled in in the past. I also from his press conferences,
39:18
Speaker 7: I'm like, boy, there's a quiet confidence about this guy,
39:21
Speaker 7: Like there's there's really no wavering in the voice. He's
39:25
Speaker 7: not nervous. I mean this, he's never been in this
39:28
Speaker 7: role either, having to talk to the press about I'm taking.
39:31
Speaker 2: Over for the starting quarterback.
39:33
Speaker 7: One went away from the super Bowl and to be
39:35
Speaker 7: his calmed and relaxed even in that environment, he was
39:38
Speaker 7: no Fernando Mendoza. I'll tell you that now. There was
39:41
Speaker 7: no hyperactivity. It was just calm and you know, kind
39:44
Speaker 7: of like a silent assass and sort of confidence that
39:48
Speaker 7: that he carried himself with. So I'm not gonna sit
39:51
Speaker 7: here and try to, you know, sugarcoat this for you.
39:55
Speaker 7: This isn't obviously ideal, but I don't rule it out.
39:59
Speaker 7: Certainly Jared's didnam goes out there and gives the Broncos
40:02
Speaker 7: what they need to get the job done, especially when
40:04
Speaker 7: you played good defenses the Broncos.
40:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I don't know why I have a hard
40:09
Speaker 6: time still giving the Patriots the credit that they deserve.
40:13
Speaker 6: I mean, they were right there, like, you know, step
40:16
Speaker 6: for step with the Broncos for that number one seed.
40:18
Speaker 6: I mean they've played well. Drake Mayas has came out
40:20
Speaker 6: and decided to show everybody that in a year two
40:23
Speaker 6: he is capable of leading a team to a bunch
40:26
Speaker 6: of wins. But there's still is something about them that
40:28
Speaker 6: I don't necessarily I don't know why I don't have
40:31
Speaker 6: as much confidence in them as their record says I
40:33
Speaker 6: probably should.
40:34
Speaker 2: They're not intimidating.
40:35
Speaker 1: It seemed to come out of nowhere too. It's like
40:36
Speaker 1: it feels flucish.
40:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then again, everybody's not a lot of people
40:40
Speaker 6: think that about the Broncos as well. I mean, everybody's
40:43
Speaker 6: saying that the Super Bowl is the NFC Championship, basically
40:47
Speaker 6: implying that whoever comes out of the AFC is going
40:50
Speaker 6: to lose to whoever. And that's fine. People can think
40:53
Speaker 6: that I'll just right now take care of the business
40:55
Speaker 6: that you got to take care of. It feels like
40:58
Speaker 6: Jarrett still could do enough against them. Well, I feel
41:02
Speaker 6: less confident if it goes against a team like Seattle
41:05
Speaker 6: in the Super Bowl. Yeah, if they continue to play
41:08
Speaker 6: the way that they've been playing, I think that they
41:10
Speaker 6: would be undoubtedly big time underdogs in the Super Bowl.
41:13
Speaker 2: But it's I'm with you.
41:15
Speaker 6: I think that there's a capable, there's a way in
41:16
Speaker 6: which it could happen. And yet there's part of me
41:19
Speaker 6: it's like, dude, this really, this is what's going to
41:21
Speaker 6: happen right at the end of the season.
41:23
Speaker 7: I gotta be honest, though just quickly I was rooting
41:25
Speaker 7: for all of those rumors that started immediately after the
41:28
Speaker 7: game of Cam Newton to the Broncos that.
41:31
Speaker 4: For such a stupid thing, it.
41:36
Speaker 7: Would immediately have to become a Cam.
41:39
Speaker 6: Newton I would not be become a Cam Newton fan.
41:42
Speaker 6: I would want him the Broncos to win in spite
41:44
Speaker 6: of that.
41:45
Speaker 4: Clown to come in with a stupid hat on the
41:47
Speaker 4: next day.
41:48
Speaker 2: You would not.
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