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9-14: Benton is in! Chris Fetters and John Forslund · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: Alright, good morning. Here we go. Headlines are brought to
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold expected to miss week two due to a, quote,
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  Speaker 2: glute injury, end quote, sustained early in last week's debut
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  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks season. Drew Locke, impressive. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: say impressive, by the way, over the Patriots last week.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks look likely to turn to him once again.
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  Speaker 2: They'll kick things off after a decent period of rest
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  Speaker 2: next weekend in Arizona at 125. The Huskies, does a
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  Speaker 2: win feel like a loss? As close as it got
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  Speaker 2: maybe this last weekend, they squeaked one out with a
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  Speaker 2: capital S over Utah State. 16-14, which went down to
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  Speaker 2: the final play of the game. Hail Mary fashion. DeMond Williams,
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  Speaker 2: 26 for 41, 249 yards in the air, 11 carries,
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  Speaker 2: 56 yards. Three picks by Gary Brusterhouse for the Aggies.
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  Speaker 2: Without those, how interesting would that have been to see
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  Speaker 2: where that game would have turned? Husky Honks will break
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  Speaker 2: it down tomorrow at four with the one and only
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  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler. As far as the Cougs, Jess, you
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  Speaker 2: have thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, no.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but I'll keep them to myself.
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  Speaker 2: So the answer is no.
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  Speaker 3: I do have many, many thoughts. We can get into
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  Speaker 3: that later. I will give a lot of credit to
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  Speaker 3: Kansas State, though, in that situation. Yeah, offensive line really
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  Speaker 3: did not show up. And Caden Pinnock got the bleep
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  Speaker 3: beat out of him. And I am impressed by the
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  Speaker 3: way he stayed in that game and still kept trying
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  Speaker 3: to make things happen. Defensively, we were missing our two
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterbacks. So I give them some credit there. And
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  Speaker 3: also Jalen Thomas was the star of the game with
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  Speaker 3: two picks. The first turnover of their entire season. I
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  Speaker 3: know we're only two games in. And then the other
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  Speaker 3: one was a pick six, which was the only points
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  Speaker 3: that they put.
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  Speaker 2: On the board. As articulate as you can state that
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  Speaker 2: for 34-7. losing to kansas state on the road i
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  Speaker 2: know that you maybe didn't want to talk about that
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  Speaker 2: but you couldn't have done it any better i think
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  Speaker 2: thank you speaking of things that hey we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the mariners stole defeat once again for
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  Speaker 2: the jaws of victory yesterday i think this last show
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  Speaker 2: maybe compared him to uncle skeeter i was already kind
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  Speaker 2: of going over the whole funeral proceedings about probably two
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of us were but we're not there.
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  Speaker 2: Yet One-run lead into the ninth inning. Andres Munoz, two-run
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  Speaker 2: walk-off homer to Lawrence Butler on a pitch middle-middle to
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  Speaker 2: seal the game for the A's. Second walk-off in three days.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners on September 14th. They're now five games back
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  Speaker 2: out of the AL West and six games back of
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  Speaker 2: the wild card. In other news, MLB announcing today Julio
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  Speaker 2: Rodriguez is the Mariners' nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award.
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  Speaker 2: That is baseball's most prestigious individual honor. across the major leagues. NFL,
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  Speaker 2: the only NFC West team to play yesterday. The Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: beat the Chargers 26-14. On to the show we go.
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  Speaker 5: The countdown is on.
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  Speaker 1: This is the countdown to Monday Night Football with Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to go into the open field.
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  Speaker 1: As we count you down to tonight's game at 515.
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  Speaker 2: AJR FM. Broncos and Chiefs coming at you, coming in
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  Speaker 2: hot at 515 as you just heard. Welcome. Greg's off
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  Speaker 2: today for just about a couple of more days in
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  Speaker 2: his chair today. I'm Mike Benton. Hello, YouTubers. 49451 Tacoma
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  Speaker 2: Dodge text line. Get on that right now. Jessamyn's back
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  Speaker 2: from her travels into the great plains of the Midwest
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  Speaker 2: and right behind the glass once again. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: Tornado Alley.
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  Speaker 2: Tornado Alley. Boy, you had an adventure this last weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I sure did. I sure did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Flew in to Kansas City, which is in Missouri, for
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  Speaker 3: those who don't know. And then drove about two hours
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  Speaker 3: to Manhattan, Kansas, which was a pretty cool spot to
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  Speaker 3: check out, to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Pullman of the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: The Pullman of the Midwest.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way I put it.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do in Manhattan, Kansas?
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  Speaker 4: Big on barbecue.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that as big as Kansas City. I
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  Speaker 2: don't close enough.
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  Speaker 3: They're just big on it. I don't know it well enough.
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  Speaker 3: It was my first time there. But I would just
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  Speaker 3: say there's barbecue. There's a couple of nice restaurants. And
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  Speaker 3: I know this is a really weird connection. But the
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  Speaker 3: head baseball coach went to Hofstra University.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where my dad coached. So met up with him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: But that's like not a regular thing to do in Manhattan, Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I blew through Kansas or Missouri was
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  Speaker 2: going through Kansas City. And this is like, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say about maybe 20 years, over 20 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: because I was working a baseball job, one of my
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  Speaker 2: first jobs out of college in the Midwest, Dayton Dragons,
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  Speaker 2: shout out, hello, Midwest League. But then when I got
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  Speaker 2: my first hockey job, in the minor leagues. It was
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  Speaker 2: back in California for the Stockton Thunder. And me, at
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  Speaker 2: 24 years of age, on my own, No significant other,
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  Speaker 2: no attachments, nothing. I was still years away from meeting
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  Speaker 2: the future Mrs. Literally, the whole transition period was just
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  Speaker 2: pack up the car. I shared a house with some
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  Speaker 2: buddies I met who went to Wright State University out
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  Speaker 2: in Dayton. Packed the car and said my goodbyes after
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  Speaker 2: the last game of the baseball season and said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: shipping out west again. So I went from Dayton into California,
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  Speaker 2: which was about only a two and a half day trek.
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  Speaker 2: So I cut off about 12, 13 hours a day.
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  Speaker 2: But in that middle of that was a stop for
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  Speaker 2: me in Kansas City. And I had to stop in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City because of the barbecue.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, and I did not spend so much time
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  Speaker 3: in Kansas City because the majority of my time was
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  Speaker 3: spent in Manhattan, Kansas.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, I did.
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  Speaker 3: Get myself some barbecue on my way back. It was
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  Speaker 3: an 11 a.m. local kick, which was 9 a.m. here
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  Speaker 3: in the Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: So here's a burning question. Burnt ends, pulled pork, or
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  Speaker 2: chicken with barbecue sauce on it?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a chicken person.
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  Speaker 2: You're a chicken person?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's a good call.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do the pig. I don't do the mammals.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There is a difference because Kansas City barbecue versus Texas
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  Speaker 2: barbecue versus Carolina barbecue. It's all different. Yeah, because it's
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  Speaker 2: all like seasoning. It's all sauced.
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  Speaker 4: And then also the sides can vary.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: As well.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. So I did have once I got back to
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  Speaker 3: we drove back, Frank and I. to Kansas City, Missouri,
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  Speaker 3: after the game, which is a two-hour drive, I got
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  Speaker 3: myself a little dinner, and it was absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: But also, you did this and barely made the plane
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  Speaker 2: on time with your cohort. Let's not bury the lead
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  Speaker 2: here on this.
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  Speaker 3: My cohort, Alex Brink, had a night flight out. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think I could ever make that flight, so I
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  Speaker 3: didn't book it. I had a hotel by myself for
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  Speaker 3: that night right by the airport, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Was like, we're going to make this.
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  Speaker 3: I dropped him off at the airport at 539 for
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  Speaker 3: a 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Flight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: And we had— there' s storms everywhere throughout this drive.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we had a lightning delay in the game.
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  Speaker 4: It delayed it by 45 minutes. 45 minutes!
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  Speaker 3: We would have been golden, because I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you watched the game— But the first opening drive was
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  Speaker 3: nine minutes by Kansas State, which makes it.
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  Speaker 4: Like it was like.
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  Speaker 2: And there's you checking your watch. Can you speed this
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  Speaker 2: up here? No, it was perfect.
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  Speaker 4: That runs out the clock.
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  Speaker 2: So it was even faster.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: First half and i'm like brink like i'm talking to
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  Speaker 3: him through my mic i'm like we're gonna be i'm
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  Speaker 3: getting you to that airport and we were gonna be
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  Speaker 3: so fine and um anyway yeah that 45 minute.
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  Speaker 4: Lightning delay really really.
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  Speaker 3: Uh put a stick in our system and we made
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  Speaker 3: it and so 5 39 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Dropping him off at the airport and he made his plane.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my.
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  Speaker 4: I was so proud.
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  Speaker 2: Onto the actual like gate or was he actually running
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  Speaker 2: to catch the plane Tom Cruise style? That's my last question.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's pretty illegal unless you're in the CIA
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  Speaker 3: and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, he made it before they closed the gate.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, you caught a plane. I caught a boat.
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  Speaker 2: I was out of the Huskies game against Utah State.
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  Speaker 2: And my goodness, There were some angry people inside Husky
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  Speaker 2: Stadium two days ago for Utah State. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get to Chris Fetters of Dogman 24-7. Been a
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  Speaker 2: while since we had a chance to talk to him
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  Speaker 2: on these airwaves here. But I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us learned a little bit more about the Huskies and
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  Speaker 2: what this 2-0 record means and how much of a
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  Speaker 2: mirage is it. I mean, you tell me, 49451. But
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  Speaker 2: I had never been inside a venue before that in
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  Speaker 2: a long time where the home team wins. And yet
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you walk out and it's a loss
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  Speaker 2: because you're just completely disgusted with how this game unfolded,
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  Speaker 2: how your QB played, how your running back played and,
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  Speaker 2: and how you let a team that was one and
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  Speaker 2: thirty one. May I remind you, 1-31 against Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: opponents all time have the ball in their hands with
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win the game on a Hail Mary play.
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  Speaker 2: Needless to say, I don't think that's how Jed Fish
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  Speaker 2: drew it up. And even Jed Fish's play calling has
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  Speaker 2: come under fire here for this one.
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  Speaker 4: That was a scouting game for me. We play them later.
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  Speaker 2: And they got blown out the week before.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And guess who's next here for the Huskies? You think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Washington, that's a cupcake. You're like, that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: They could give them a run.
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  Speaker 4: EWU is always tough. EWU is always tough.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, there's no gimmies on their schedule anymore,
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  Speaker 3: even though Utah State did look like one.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get cupcake teams, or so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: this is a warm-up period. But, I mean, for 2-0,
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  Speaker 2: it kicked the Huskies out of the top 25 for
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  Speaker 2: the AP side because they looked that bad. They're the
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  Speaker 2: number 24 in the coaches' poll. But is 2-0 really
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  Speaker 2: 2-0 in this case, 4-9-4-5-1? Because the anger inside Husky
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  Speaker 2: Stadium said... This was an offense that many concluded was inept.
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  Speaker 2: There's no running back. You had drop passes all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Desmond Roebuck drops like a 10-yard pass to
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  Speaker 2: the outside, and it sounds like your 8-year-old son just
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  Speaker 2: dropped a piece of fine china in the kitchen trying
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  Speaker 2: to take the dishes away. DeMond Williams was the only
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  Speaker 2: guy maybe supposedly making things happen, and even then it
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  Speaker 2: was a below-average game for him. So you put the
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  Speaker 2: game into Utah State's hands for the final drive. Not
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  Speaker 2: exactly how you drew things up right here. And let's
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  Speaker 2: just say Utah State pulls this out. Where does that
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  Speaker 2: rank maybe as far as the biggest upset losses in
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  Speaker 2: Huskies history? I mean, I go back and think of
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  Speaker 2: the Montana loss five years ago, the Dylan Morris game
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  Speaker 2: where he had three picks. Is up there with the
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  Speaker 2: Apple Cup of 1982 in Pullman. I mean, too many
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  Speaker 2: questions on this Jetfish team that's got way too many
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  Speaker 2: holes here. So we're going to get to Chris Fedders
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  Speaker 2: of Dogman 24-7 in just a bit. That comes your
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  Speaker 2: way in about a few moments. 1045, Jess and I
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  Speaker 4: We sure do.
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  Speaker 2: And did you watch this on ABC two nights ago?
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the most grand comebacks that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen in a long time. That was an amazing comeback.
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  Speaker 2: In Texas history, first time since I think 1950 that
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  Speaker 2: they beat a number one team on home soil. And yet.
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  Speaker 2: Who's at fault here, Holly Rowe or Steve Sarkeesian? Jess
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  Speaker 2: and I have got some perspective on this. We've done
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  Speaker 2: some boots on the ground. You do this basically for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, your other job.
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  Speaker 4: I'm 15 seasons in.
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  Speaker 2: I've done this before. It was my first job as
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe it? Preseason is upon us. So John Forslund,
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• 13:35
  Speaker 2: on Matty Beneers' reaction to Jason Robertson turning down the Kraken.
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  Speaker 2: And let's just say Matty Beneers told The Athletic in
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I was 50-50 last night. 50-50 last week.
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  Speaker 2: You're back on the horse, though.
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  Speaker 4: But I hedged because my team won.
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  Speaker 2: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Again, Mike in for Greg Bell today. Chris,
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  Speaker 2: great to have you. Hope you're doing well. And if
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  Speaker 2: I can ask you maybe to kind of compare football
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  Speaker 2: records to ice cream, and this ranges from like the
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  Speaker 2: most delectable vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream flavor, what have you,
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  Speaker 2: to something that tastes like rancid eggnog. Huskies at 2-0,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of flavor are we talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Rocky Road?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so you don't like a Rocky Road then?
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  Speaker 8: I'm not, I'm not a rocky road guy myself. I
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  Speaker 8: like the smoother flavors, but yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 5: It's, it's really, it's different.
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  Speaker 8: It's difficult for me to really assess it because after
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  Speaker 8: two games, the offense has been so bad, but the
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  Speaker 8: defense has been very, very good. So it's, you know,
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  Speaker 8: you try to look at this thing holistically and like, okay,
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  Speaker 8: the team itself.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: They're two and oh, they've got two wins. Everything seems
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  Speaker 8: to be fine on that score. Yet, obviously, everyone just
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  Speaker 8: wants to focus on the offense and just how bad
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  Speaker 8: it's been. And I took a look really quick this morning,
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  Speaker 8: and I figured it out that based on the amount
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  Speaker 8: of points that Washington has scored the last two games
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  Speaker 8: compared to the non-conference slate that they had last year, guys,
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  Speaker 8: they would have to score 127 points this weekend against
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  Speaker 8: Eastern to score the same number of points that they
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  Speaker 8: had in their three non-conference games last year.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to take the under on that.
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  Speaker 5: So just in case anyone's interested for.
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  Speaker 2: Those screaming hot takes, screaming hot takes here on this one. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're just saying that they have some work to do
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  Speaker 2: heading into eastern Washington. But I mean, I love the
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  Speaker 2: point that you made about the defense, because, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Gary Broasterhouse, you know, forced into three picks in that game.
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  Speaker 2: The defense takes care of the job with defending the
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  Speaker 2: Hail Mary in the very last play, though I know
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  Speaker 2: that we all knew that that's not exactly what the
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  Speaker 2: Huskies had in mind to wrap up a game like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yet a 2-0 team we're talking about is now kicked
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  Speaker 2: out of the AP Top 25 after winning for the
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  Speaker 2: first time since 2014, but do you think the fallout
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  Speaker 2: was deserved?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, 100% it's deserved. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 8: And if you talk to a man in that locker room,
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: they'll say it's deserved. You know, the offensive guys know
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: they're just not getting the job done right now for
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: whatever reason. And they've got this weekend to figure it out.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: And then obviously they've got to host Minnesota the following
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: weekend after that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: And then the thing really, really ramps up. I mean,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Minnesota is going to be tough.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: I know they took a big step back this weekend,
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: losing to Mississippi State at home. But, you know, don't
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: ever count out a PGA flag team. I mean, those
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: guys are definitely going to be ready to come and
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: play in Seattle. But there's no question that obviously the
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: panic stations are on.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: All the alarms are on for the offense.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: And everyone's trying to figure out, you know, where the
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: genesis is of the rot and everything else and what's
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: the problem.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: And I think it's just simply a matter it starts
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: up front.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: And once they figured out those issues, then I think
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: everything else kind of flows with that. But that being said, Mike,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: It's very difficult when you're DeMond Williams, and the first
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: game of the season, you lose your top two running backs,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: you lose one of your top three receivers, and then
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: the next game, you lose another one of your top
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: three receivers.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: It's just, you cannot... go.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Through an entire season losing your top skill guys when
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: you can't move the ball to begin with.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: That's an absolute death sentence.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you talk about losing skill positions, it
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: certainly reduces what DeMond Williams can do. As Chris Fetter
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: is joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: from dogman 24 7 but that combined the third down
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: struggles we saw the red zone problems the drop passes
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: he had drive stalling penalties as well so all that
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: factoring in plus the losses at the skill positions what's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: your biggest concern right now for the offense through two.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Weeks well to me it always boils down to execution
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: i i'm really first of all i'm not in any
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: way educated enough to be able to second guess jed
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: fish when it comes to play calling or any coach
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: when it comes to play calling i don't care if
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: you're an offensive coordinator if you're the head coach play
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: caller whoever you are i i'm not i don't work
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: at that level i just don't i look at what
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: happens on the field and what's happening is is the
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: execution just isn't there but it's also compounding when it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: happening at the most opportune moments. Like for instance, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: look back at the second quarter and I saw a
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: simple play where, you know, Demond Williams found Desmond Roebuck
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: down on field to get him right outside the red zone,
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: Utah State. I think it was around the 22, 23
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: yard line. And then that very next play on first down,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: they've got, they go back to pass again. And you've
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: got like a little simple stunt, a little twist on
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: the left side from Utah State going up against Washington's
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: most experienced offensive lineman in Gurren Hatchett and Drew as
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: a party. And they get absolutely abused and they sacked
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: them on and Utah State sacks Demond Williams.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Takes them out, and eventually they have to kick a
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: field goal.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: So when you're on the cusp of getting in that
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: red zone, you've got to attack.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: You've got to keep pushing further.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: And last week when it was Washington State, it was
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: penalties taking them out. Well, they solved the penalty issue
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: against Utah State. They had half as many penalties, 6-12
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: against Washington State. But the problem is they had other
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: things that were taking them out of field position in
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: inopportune moments, and that was really taking away their ability
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: to score.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Before I get to the defense, you mentioned how just
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: given the fact that just how much the offense has
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: looked just completely stale, the defense deserves their flowers. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I'll get to those guys here in a bit, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: just more on the run game, because with Jonah Coleman
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: out of the mix now, Trey Cooley, 11 carries, 23 yards.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Your biggest rusher this last week was DeMond, who had
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: 6.5 yards per carry. So what do you make out
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of the run game right now? Well, yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: No, I mean, if you take DeMond's numbers, rushing numbers,
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: out of it completely, Washington's running backs are averaging basically
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: 20 to 25 yards a game running the ball. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Jed Fish addressed this after the game, saying it's absolutely unacceptable.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: You cannot run.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: An offense when your running backs are only accounting for
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: roughly a third of what your quarterback is giving you
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: in terms of running the ball. And DeMond Williams, I
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: know he wants to get pigeonholed, or I know people
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: want to pigeonhole him as a dual threat guy, but
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: he really doesn't want to be a dual threat guy.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: He wants to use his legs to escape and to scramble,
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: but he wants to be able to start his– his
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: abilities as a pocket passer first and foremost, and that's
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: what Jed Fish wants as well. So when you take
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: all those things out of it, the run game has
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: been so ineffective. that it really has limited Jed Fish
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: to what he can do offensively down the field. He's
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: having to try to generate offense via little screens and
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: via little quick plays out to the flats and things
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: like that, which is just gonna frustrate fans even more
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: because he's like, why are they just.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Doing these little dink and dunk things? Well, those are
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: just extended handoffs.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: And he's gotta figure out a way to supplement the
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: game at the line of scrimmage with what's going on
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: down the field. And clearly, if they can't get anything
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: done at the line, That's going to affect everything going
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: on downfield, and that's kind of what we've seen already
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: through two games.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Someone suggested there's a confidence issue right now with DeMond,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and whether you want to believe that or not, do
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: you think that a better game or numbers are coming,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: whether it might be from a better run game or
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: just even less drop passes, simply put?
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: Well, it's interesting because I know a lot of people,
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: and this is every fan.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, I would do it too.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: You want to look at whether the quarterback is improving
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: or regressing and what have you, but they're all interconnected, right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, everything happens. The line of scrimmage is going
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: to affect what the quarterback can do. Having the available
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: skill players is going to affect what the quarterback can do.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: All I know is DeMond Williams is by far far,
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: by far, I mean, by a factor of 10, the
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: best offensive weapon that Washington has right now. And I
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: know that that's going to end up sounding like damning
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: with faint praise because Washington is so bad offensively. But
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: the simple fact is, is that if the skill guys
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: can't get open, if the skill guys can't produce situations
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: where they can beat blockers one-on-one, if they can't get
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: yards after the catch, if they can't do those types
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: of things to help the quarterback help them, then you're
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: basically just putting the quarterback on an island and it's
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: a jailbreak on every play and say, have at it,
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: see what you can do.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: So I understand it. On Dogman, we had a thread.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Going right, in fact, we have it going on right
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: now saying, is DeMond better than last year? And I
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: just simply find it so hard to to really create
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: a cogent argument for or against because everything is based,
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: what is affected by everybody around him affects him. and
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: vice versa it's like it's all whole it's all connected
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: and it's it's just really hard to break down one
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: individual performance when the whole thing is kind.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Of broken we're hanging out right now with chris fetters
• 24:46
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• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and defensively let's finally touch on these guys here chris
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it's pretty clear alex mclaughlin uh drove the bus nine
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: total tackles two sacks as well but who else gets
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: your flowers for for that day two days.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Ago Well, first of all, I think it starts with
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Ryan Walters.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: I think Ryan Walters put together a phenomenal, uh, you know,
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: game plans, both games, every defensive coordinator I've ever talked
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: to since starting this job, you know, back in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: late nineties to early two thousands, they've always told me, Hey,
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: the number one job of the defense to get the
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: ball back. And they, and they primarily want to get
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: the ball back via turnover. Well, Washington right now is
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: top three nationally in turnover ratio.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: They haven't given.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: The ball over at all, which is another thing we
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: need to talk about offensively. For as bad as they've been,
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: they haven't compounded their problems with those, with turnovers. But
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Washington's gotten six turnovers, two games, which is, you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Ryan Walters is like, if we can average three turnovers
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: a game, we're going to be in good shape.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: So we got to start with that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: And then secondly, I think they've been getting some pressure inside.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: I think that the defensive line has done a nice job.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: I'd like to see a little bit more with the
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: edge guys, but I think, you know, like a true freshman,
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: like Ramzan Fruin, Ramzak Fruin, he's getting into it. He's
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: kind of figuring things out. They eliminated a lot of the,
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: you know, the personal fouls, the unsportsmanlike type stuff when.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: They had it in the Apple Cup.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: I think they only had one in the Utah State game,
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: and I think that came after like 57 game minutes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: So that was a massive improvement.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: But yes, besides McLaughlin, you know, it was tough not
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: seeing Alenius Davis in there. But I thought that the
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: other guys like Derrick Conley, Derrick Coleman, Brusa, Deshaun Watts,
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Omar Khan, I think those interior guys really stepped up
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: and played a good job with Alenius not inside there.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: I would say also the inside linebackers really drive the
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: bus on the defense when you're talking about Jacob Manu, Budalukta,
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: X-Ray Alexander, Zadris Rainey-Soleil. Those guys have really, really played
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: well and have really kind of solidified everything that's going
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: on defensively. So, yeah, I think that's obviously the thing
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: that's keeping them afloat right now. But we thought that
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: defense was going to be pretty good. And for people
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: that don't know about Ryan Walters' history, Mike, He turned
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: a top 25, top 30 defense in Illinois in year
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: one when he was there to arguably the top defense
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: in the entire country the following season.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: So we've been talking about it. Can Ryan Walters do
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: the same thing at Washington?
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: Well, so far, they're clearly not the number one defense
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: in the country, but I think he can turn them
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: into a definite maybe top 10 if they start really
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: shoring up some things. And, you know, you've got to
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: avoid the injury bug. That's the hard thing. He lost
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: to Linnaeus Davis for a game. We'll see if he
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: comes back this weekend. You lose Emmanuel Carnley, one of
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: the starting corners against Utah State. We'll see if he
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: comes back for Eastern. We don't really know. Jed Fish
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: will tell us a little bit later on today in
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: his weekly press conference. But you just you have to
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: stay healthy in order to to really allow these guys
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: to tick and kind of do what they got to do.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Chris, let's go through the Huskies' remaining schedule here at
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: this point. Eastern Washington, then followed by Minnesota at USC,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: home against 18th-ranked Iowa, at Purdue, at Nebraska, home against
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Penn State, at Michigan State, home against Indiana, and then
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: at Oregon. So 11 games remaining. How many of these
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: do you actually make the Huskies the favorites?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I think they will be favored against Minnesota. I
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: do see that being pretty realistic.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Iowa could be more of a toss-up depending on what
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: we see with them and obviously what happens with Washington
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: when they go down to L.A.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Depending on the result of that, we'll see how that
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: line moves.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: At Purdue, even though it's an away game, I would
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: expect them to be favored against Purdue. At Nebraska, don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: think they would be favored, especially on, that's a.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Halloween game, Mike.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: Who knows what the House of Wars, as far as
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: I'm concerned.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: That could be an absolute disaster.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Careful if there's like a black cat in a ladder
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: like in the tunnel.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, black shirts, right? So you got that going.
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: And then November 7th, the Penn State don't necessarily see
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: them favored. But again, there's so many results in front
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: of them that we have to figure out that that
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: could end up being a pick-em game. At Michigan State, again,
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: another one, even though it's away, could be a pick-em,
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: could be a slight favorite.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: You don't know.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: The only two or the only three I would think
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: for absolute sure they're going to not be favored in
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: is at USC.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: At Oregon, the very end of the season, and then
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: at home against Indiana.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: I just don't think Indiana is going to stumble that
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: much in their remaining games tonight.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Be a favorite in that game.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: So, you know, three games where they almost surely won't
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: be a favorite, but then you've got five other games
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: where they're probably pick them or six games where they're
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: probably pick them or a slight favorites at the, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: maybe at the worst.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Do you think a 21-point blowout over Eastern Washington this
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: next week or more puts them back in the top 25?
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: It was funny because I know a lot of people
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: were looking at the relative thing of what happened with
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: Oregon losing and then Washington getting bounced as well from
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: the top 25. And I was thinking, because people are saying,
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: would a blowout win over Portland State kind of you know,
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: rehabilitate Oregon's kind of perception and everyone naturally like, no, no, no,
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: of course not. So obviously I don't think a big
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: win over Eastern Washington is going to rehabilitate anything as
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: far as Washington's concerned. But what I thought was interesting
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: is I thought I looked at Eastern Washington and I
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: looked at Bill Connolly's SP plus rankings. Cause he's the
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: one that does like everybody in the country, like all
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: 700 plus, you know, college football teams of every level.
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: And he had Eastern Washington, I think, at 188th ranked
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: in the country. And I think Washington's like 33rd. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: think he had Oregon 9th or what have you. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: I said, well, I'm kind of curious. What's up with
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: Portland State? Portland State's at 292th. So yeah, I don't think,
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: I think, I think Oregon's could suit up their coaches
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: and probably win that game. So I just don't see,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: I don't see a big, I don't see a big
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: win over Eastern Washington rehabilitate, rehabilitate anything. Now beating Minnesota
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: would absolutely get them back. Even like, even like a
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: three point win over Minnesota would get them back in
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: the top 25.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's any doubt about that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, finally, I hosted the Dog Man boat cruise heading
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: into Husky Stadium this last weekend, and it put folks
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: in a better mood once we went through the scoreboard
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and reminded them of who won the Oregon-Oklahoma State game. So,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think to you, Chris, how big a
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: blow and tell was that on Oregon?
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I just watched the highlights. Like, I
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: didn't watch the whole game.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: I just had enough time when I got home to
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: watch the highlights, because like everyone else, I was I
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: was at the stadium, obviously, for the Utah State game,
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: so I was pretty shocked when I saw the result.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: But then watching the highlights, I agree 100% with Dan Lanning, actually.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: I think that game could have been a lot worse
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: for Oregon. Because you look at their first couple things,
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: and then you look at the way they scored. Their
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: first touchdown was that 95, 96-yard interception return. And then
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: their next, and then their next touchdown was on an
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: interception that got him down to the one yard line.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: So they scored 14 points and they literally had one
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: offensive yards in both of those drives.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: So it could have been an absolute disaster. for Oregon.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: So I don't know where they go from there, but
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I don't cover Oregon. You'd have to ask an Oregon
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: guy to figure that one out.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you. We admire you. We respect you.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And certainly anytime we can get you back in these airwaves, man,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it's a better time here for us. So Chris, thank
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: you very much. Appreciate you. And for the good folks
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: still looking for more great bits on the Huskies, tell
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: us where they can find your work.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Dogman.com, D-A-W-G-M-A-N.com.
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: And Twitter at Chris underscore Fedders, F as in Frank, E-T-T-E-R-S.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: And go Kraken.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Go Kraken. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. We'll talk
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: to you then. We'll talk to you soon.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Frank.
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• 34:03
  Speaker 2: by the way, joining us from Dogman 24-7. Big thanks
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: to him. After the Huskies, again, narrowly escaped by the
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: hair of their chinny-chin-chin. How'd you feel walking out of
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the stadium if you were there? What were your thoughts
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: on the Huskies, as raging as they are or as
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: serene as they could be? 4-9-4-5-1, Takamadosh text line. But
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: better yet, I want to hear your talk back, so
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: get them into us right now. via the iHeartRadio app,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: hit the red mic icon, keep it under 30 seconds,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: and you're done.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Everyone knows on this show, I love them.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, Jess can't get enough of thumbing through these, and
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: they have left her in stitches before.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, they have.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Some of you impersonating some folks in this building.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Very, very creative.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. I enjoy it. Does someone have me
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: in them? I've heard me before.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I have heard you.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I've heard Furious Feltz or FIFA Feltz.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I've heard the captain.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I've heard FIFA. I've heard Ian. I think Chuck's been,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I think someone's done Chuck also. Someone definitely has done Softie.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: But we'll get to your talkbacks.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of softies that do come in.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I did want to go from the Huskies thing into
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: this next thing because Alyssa Charlson-Smith, who is a total
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: pro and also a friend of mine and you as well,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: couldn't have handled the Jed Fish postgame interview any better.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And Jed was in a very grumpy mood on Big
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Ten Network. But Alyssa, straightforward, clean, crisp, professional, cut right
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: out of the chase, read the room, and I thought
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: just laid out How 2-0 could still feel like there's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: a big old cloud kind of hanging over your head.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Direct stark contrast to what happened between Holly Rowe and
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkeesian. Did all of you listen to this at
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the end of the Texas-Ohio State game on Saturday night?
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: To tee this up for you, Texas is losing 20-3
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: at halftime. ESPN tried to get Steve Sarkeesian for a
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: walk-off with Laura Rutledge. And they didn't go to him
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: because by the time they cut to Laura, he had
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: already left. He had gone into the room. And she
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: basically was as transparent as it got, saying technical issues.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: She was up front with owing him an apology on
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: behalf of the network. Because, I mean, it's halftime. I mean, Jess,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: you would know for your job with Washington State. I've
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: done this also for the Winter Classic. You get a lock-off.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: It's expected that once that player or coach joins you,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: mic in hand, You are ready to go maybe in
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: about 15 seconds or less.
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  Speaker 4: It's their time, not ours.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: So you are running on borrowed time to get them
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: on the air and get them out because it then
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: begins to impede on what they have to do on
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: a professional level. Fourth quarter, Texas completes a historic comeback,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter. I'm shocked that
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: fans at Austin didn't storm the field, tear the goalposts down.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Like they did at Oklahoma State.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: But I guess, you know, then again, it wasn't a
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: massive upset. And plus, also, you give credit to, as well,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: great security they had. But you had Arch Manning singing
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: with the crowd. You had Matthew McConaughey mugging for the camera,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: cowboy hat in hand, 2% body fat. And then all
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: of a sudden they cut to Holly row right here
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  Speaker 2: with Steve Sarkeesian.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: We, we, we didn't cut into this like midway through
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: the intros. Let's this is actually the, the, the, the,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the entire complete interview when they said, let's go to
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Holly row. Yeah. Well, that didn't go exactly as planned.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: It did not.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Six whopping seconds of Steve Sarkeesian looking into the camera saying,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: hook him, and then Holly Roe gives him the side
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: eye and walks away. Texas said there were ESPN audio
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: issues again that led up to this. If you want
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: to believe it, yes or no, 49451. And Jess, you
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: do this every week.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: So.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: There's a difference in how you handle a postgame interview
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: versus halftime. The game's over. If you win, you've got
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: all the time in the world, apparently.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, you do, and you do want to go
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: celebrate with your team. I have, I mean, I worked
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: with Mike Leach, the longest coach that I worked with
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: as a sideline reporter, right? Um, he, I, when he
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: got the job at Washington state, there were games that
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: were going to be aired on ESPN. Now he had
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a big lawsuit going on against ESPN. And I remember
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I give way to television to do their interview first.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: If it's at halftime or post game, um, television gets
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: the way that's just how it is.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I do radio.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: And I remember, um, Joe Schad at the time was
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: working for ESPN, and he was doing a game.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: He goes, well, he's not going to talk to me.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Go for it.
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  Speaker 3: So I can understand because Steve Sarkeesian, with his past,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: has gotten raked over the coals by ESPN. So I
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: also understand why someone might be like, yeah, no, and
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: it might not be a Holly thing. It might be
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: a network thing. I have no idea. I just know
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: what I have dealt with in the past. But I've also...
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: been running down the sidelines. It was an ongoing joke
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: about how Mike Leach does not want to do these interviews.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: And I don't think that it's the worst thing that
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Coach wants to go celebrate with his team, but it's
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: also an opportunity for him to celebrate his team to
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: a national audience. And I think he missed that mark.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I do think he missed that mark.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: So who's in the wrong here?
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: 49451.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And I've done these before. In addition to my host job,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I did also walk-off interviews for the Winter Classic as
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: well on the radio side. When I step into the
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: play-by-play chair on the Kraken side, whenever it goes to
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: TV and John's out, we handle walk-off interviews live at
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the Kraken win. And they've been extremely gracious with waiting
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: for commercial break. They can easily just say, hey, we
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: gotta go. But Players are there literally waiting for us
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: to finish commercial break, and we cut right to them.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: They can't be any more gracious. If you're pro-Steve Sarkeesian
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: in this, you're thinking you went through this once at halftime,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: and now you've got to go through it again. You're
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: thinking maybe enough of this. But ultimately, what are you
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: accomplishing by acting like a nine-year-old on camera, just saying,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Texas fight, Texas fight, hook him, walk away? If you're
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: pro-Holly Rowe, she's got one job to do. But does
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: giving the side eye look into the camera maybe justify
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the moment, whereas she can gracefully get out of the
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: way with.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: How do you gracefully get out of the way?
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, someone's arguing, you know, hey, looks like
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: coach is fired up, wants to celebrate. Back to you, fellas.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Could that really have saved it?
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's what I do in those situations.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: And I can say that I've been stuck in them
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: several times and I do save it at the end.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: And that's just me.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I think maybe she was down there in a mosh
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: pit of a field rush also and might have been
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: sick of it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: And I'm not defending her.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know Holly.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Me neither. So I'm just trying to assess a situation
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: that I've been in before.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: And I always try to save it. So she could have, yes.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I know that context matters, but this is where I
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: just want to look at person A versus person B.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Could they have handled maybe this differently before? Yes, but
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: if this happens at halftime versus happening end of the game,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: it's different. I get that Steve Sarkisian's got a job.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: His window is tight. Postgame, I know that he wants
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: to celebrate, but as you said, and I fully agree,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Steve Sarkeesian, this was an opportunity for you to sell
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: your program on national TV, to sell this here to
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: the parents watching, students watching, recruits watching, sponsors also watching.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: We live in NIL. You had a chance to do
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: all of this and take the high road without getting petty.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: So I'm sorry. Steve Sarkeesian is in the wrong here.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: I agree. I agree. He just, it's a missed opportunity.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: That's the way I look at it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: And I mean, Like you said, we're in the NIL.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: We're in that era.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: And just celebrate your team. You know, he's had this
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: job for so long.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: He's been in the NFL. He's been in college football
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: for so long. And he's been at the higher ranks.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: He could do it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: And you could be as generic as you want. I'm sorry,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: if you've been in it as long as he has.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: You can be so generic.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Our team went out there and fought today. I believed
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: in them from the minute that we started.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: I just knew that we could do it, and go
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: hook them.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Let's go. A response I saw on Twitter, and it
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: was great. I mean, Holly's got a job to do,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: and he's got a job to do. Steve knows it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: But Steve could have taken literally two minutes and answered
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: one or two questions. You show your true character by
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: what you do with your power, and he's showing his
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: team that they can disrespect others because it just feels good.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You tell me 4945. 40 seconds.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: 40 seconds.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: That's all you got to do.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: What happened to the high road here? The guy who
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: knows the high road every time, John Forslund, we got
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: some thoughts, some prognostications, where the Kraken are at right now,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: and where do we feel about Matty Beneers' response to
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Jason Robertson saying no. John Forslund with Kraken Training Camp
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: coming up this week. He's up next on 93.3 KJRFM. Now,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: from the Star Rental.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM Sports Headlines.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Frostbrood Chorus Light, as cold as
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the Rockies. Sam Darnold looking like he'll miss week two
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: due to a glute injury. That, of course, sustained in
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: last week's. Debut for the season against the Patriots. Drew Locke, though,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: coming in as QB2. Impressive. And the Seahawks looking like
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: they'll go back to him once they get going against
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Arizona this next weekend at 125 with plenty of rest
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: in the rearview mirror. More injury updates. ESPN and NFL
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Network reporting Myles Garrett of the Rams will have arthroscopic
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: knee surgery and will be placed on IRS. Oh boy,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: oh boy, oh boy. Let's just say the beginning of
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: this season has not gone as planned for them. Huskies
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: over Utah State, of course, this weekend. 16-14 in a squeaker.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: That really shouldn't have been a squeaker. DeMond Williams, 26
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: for 41, 249 yards, plus also 11 carries for 56 yards.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Gary Brosterhaus threw three picks for the Aggies. And without that,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: where could that game have gone? Husky-Hompson. Again, we'll talk
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: about this more at 4 o'clock tomorrow here on these
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: airwaves with the one and only Dave Softy-Muller. Cougs losing
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: 34-7 to Kansas State on the road. Jess doesn't want
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: to talk about it anymore, though.
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I'm good. Mariners, probably don't want to talk about this
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: as well. Another blown lead in the ninth inning. Another
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: loss here to the Athletics after Andres Munoz threw one. Middle, middle,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and what do you know? Lawrence Butler walk-off to seal
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: the game for the A's. Mariners now five games back
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: of the American League West and six back of the
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: wild card. In other baseball news, Julio Rodriguez announced by
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball today he is a Mariners nominee. for
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: this year's Roberto Clemente Award, baseball's most prestigious individual honor
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: for major leaguers. In the NFL elsewhere, the only NFC
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: West team to play yesterday, Cardinals beat the Chargers. What
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: do you know?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: 26-14.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: On to the show we go. Okay, we're taking your
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: talkbacks here at the iHeartRadio app. Hit the red mic icon.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: You're done. I'm looking forward to any impersonations that might
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: come in here because the Mariners, let's just say, threw
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: one away into the L-bin yesterday. Huskies nearly did one
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: as well into the L-bin, but escaped by the hair
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: of their chinning chin chin. I've heard impressions of me.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I've heard impressions of Softie. I've heard impressions of Ian,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell as well. One man that can be never
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: impersonated and duplicated is the one and only John Forslund
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: via the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. We turn our attention here,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: of course, to Kraken Training Camp. Starting up this week, Johnny, hello.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing you. How are you?
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: Good to be back with you, and we're getting closer here.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Can't wait for this. I think you're in the car,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: so I'll try to stay with you as much as
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: possible here. But what's your best impression that you can
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: pull off? You ever do impressions?
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: You ever do impressions at all? Can you pull any
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: impressions off?
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: A lot of impressions, but that's going to cost you
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: a lot of money.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Come on, John.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: The first one's free.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I could try to do Howard Cosell and introduce
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: you to the public.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: It's not happening right now. That's a contractual arrangement.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you and get back into
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the broadcast booth with you, my friend. Great to have
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: you as Kraken Training Camp gets up and running here soon.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: You're going here, there, everywhere here via the East Coast.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: It won't be too long until we get you back
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: into town here. John, I first want to begin with
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: what we read in The Athletic from this last weekend.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And Mark Lazarus had a great piece asking Matty Beneers
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: during the National Media Day sessions if Kraken players took
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: the rejection like Jason Robertson's personally. And Matty Beneers immediately responded, yeah, absolutely, quote-unquote.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: And he said there's a tough rep about Seattle because
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: it's rainy, maybe it's a city, but guys love it
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: in Seattle. The guys that are there when the sun's out,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: it's beautiful, there's nature, a lot of things to do.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: So it doesn't feel good when you're on a team
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: and you try to get someone else and they don't
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: want to come. But at the same time, if you
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: don't want to be here, we don't want you anyway,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: end quote. Johnny, your reaction to Matty's thoughts?
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: Well, my reaction would be I'm happy to hear that
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: a player would take it personally. If you don't, there's
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: something wrong. But I think hidden behind all of that
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: is the team has to take it upon themselves to
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: be better so that they create a winning culture so
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: that players will want to come. And like I said
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: before on this subject, there's no reason for anybody that's
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: a fan to take a player saying no personally. Because again,
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: it works with the other teams that are in our market.
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: There's nothing wrong at all with being in Seattle. It
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: is a beautiful place. It is an exceptionally strong sports city.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: with passionate fans. But the players are responsible for what
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: happens in terms of wins and losses, and that's pretty obvious.
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: So if I'm Matty Beneers, I am taking that personally.
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: They're the only people that should because they are affected by,
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: in essence, being shunned by another athlete. So do something
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: about it now. Make your team better, start winning, or
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: at least show improvement and a direction which I think
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: for me, Mike, is going to be the goal of
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: this season, improving the direction and the identity so we
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: know exactly where the team is positioned to go moving forward.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: I think there's just been too many questions that have
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: clouded up where the team's at right now, and that's
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: the best thing that can happen. But for an athlete
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: to take it personally, I would hope so. I think
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: that's a pretty obvious standpoint.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: And this is on the heels here of an offseason
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: where they re-sign Bobby McMahon. They make a trade for
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Mackie Samuskevich. You get a tough guy, kind of like
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: a deep-in-the-weeds type of move with Curtis Douglas as well.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: And then more bodies going out the door here in
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Jaden Schwartz and Jamie Oleksiak and Ellie Tolvanen. So to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: the best of your ability and from what you read,
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: give us from what you saw develop here from this
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: past offseason, John, heading into this year.
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: Well, McMahon's the most important one, right? And I think
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: that's also pretty obvious. But the thing about Bobby McMahon
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: signing is that he is a player that committed to
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: stay in Seattle long-term. He is a player that played
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: under Lane Lambert and saw what the team was like
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: and said, you know what? I think I'd like to
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: re-sign there. So his representation went to work with the
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: team and they got it done. And that's exceptionally positive.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: But what I like about a player like McMahon is
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: he's He's in launch mode right now. So for him
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: to take this contract, this is a big step. He's
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: 29 years old. He's in the prime of his career.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: He can have an effect on where the team goes
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: by being at his best on a consistent basis. And
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: the only thing that's held Bobby back in the path
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: is his own inconsistencies and the fact that where he
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: was with his previous team in Toronto, it was very
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: hard for him to find a slot. There's no problem
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: with the Kraken for him to find a slot. He
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: is a go-to guy now for the first time in
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: his career. And because of that, I could see him
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: taking a big leap. Mackie Samaskevich is another player with potential.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: He's a 23-year-old guy that they gave up a couple
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: of draft choices with the Florida Panthers to get. He
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: was blocked in terms of where he wanted to go
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: depth-wise with his previous team. The block is no longer there.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: He's almost in the easy pass route on the highway.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: So he has a great move to accelerate his career
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: and play in a top-six role with the Kraken. And
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: if he can add some speed and some scoring to
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: the lineup, then he's going to replace the outgoing guys
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: in a big way with much more upside. To me,
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: I think the one area of concern that I'm concerned
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: about really is the back end. I'm a little worried
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: that they didn't do much in the offseason to solidify
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: their depth on defense. As of right now, depending on
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: who plays with who, it looks like Cale Fleury is
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: the number six defenseman. That's going to be an interesting situation.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: That's not a position that you look at any NHL team,
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: you're going to have to have consistency on your backend.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: And for the first time in kale's career, he's looked
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: at as being in a group of six at the
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: NHL level, not a seven or an eighth defenseman. So
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be interested to see how that plays
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: out either. through this training camp period as the season
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: starts to see how that goes.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Our friend and the great John Forslund joining us right
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline again with Kraken Training Camp.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: The main part of it opening up Thursday and this weekend,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: first preseason game. Unbelievable. It just snuck right up on
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: us here. John, I go back here to the forwards,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: and Jason Botterill said as many as eight forwards could
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: be here 23 years or younger. We talked about Matty
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: and him being fired up. He still fits in that window,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: but he's getting a bit older. Mackie Samaskevich fits in
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: that window. You still have Shane Wright, given how turbulent
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: this offseason was with the commotion between him and trade
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: destinations and where he fits. To you, what are real
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: expectations here for these young kids?
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: Well, they're going to get opportunities. So it looks like
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: management is, when they say things like that, they've opened
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: up a path. So that's the first thing that has
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: to happen. The second thing that has to happen for
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: a young player is trust with the coaching staff. So
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: management will open up opportunity or at least put the
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: narrative out there that this is going to be a
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: younger team and this is going to be a team
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: that's finally going to see what the prospect pool looks
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: like as it matriculates to the NHL level. But the
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: key is the trust between the set players and the coach.
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: And that's going to happen during an abbreviated preseason of
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: only four games. It's going to happen in the first
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: month of the regular season to see how it plays out. But, Mike,
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: if you take Shane Wright's case and just that one alone,
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: that's what has to evolve here. He has to be
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: trusted by Lane Lambert and hopefully for him a top
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: six role. at least a top-nine role. And if that's
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: the case, you know, does he play his natural position?
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: Has he improved in terms of winning face-offs? Can he
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: handle a 200-foot game defensively? Those are fair questions right
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: now that don't have a positive answer, in my opinion.
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: Maybe they play him on the right side. Maybe they'll
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: alleviate some of that defensive pressure of being a center
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: and play him on the right wing. Maybe they do that.
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: But if that happens, the last thing that has to
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: happen for Shane Wright is he has to produce at
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: the NHL level. He needs to be a point producer.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: So any seasoning or development is over for him, and
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: now he's had to handle some of the trade rumors,
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: and those are never easy, but it should kick him
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: in the seat of the pants and get him going
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: in the right direction. For the younger players, it's the
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: same thing, whether it's a Fisker-Volgaard or a Yanni-Newman Ryan Winterton,
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: Jacob Melanson, any of these guys that are going to
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: crack in that 23 and younger class, they have to
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: be trusted by the coach. And if they're not, the
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: Kraken still need to be competitive. They still need to
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: make a push. They owe it to the fan base
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: to be as competitive as long as they can to
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: try and sniff a playoff spot. So that's going to
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: be the catch-22. That's always the case. And it's always
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: great to lay it out on paper and say, hey,
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: it's going to be a great young team. Well, that's
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: a lot of nonsense when it comes to just words.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: The action time is now upon us. So we're going
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: to finally get to a training camp, finally get to preseason,
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: and then get to the regular season. And with a
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: schedule that calls for a major eastern road trip right
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: off the bat, you know, that's going to be a
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: tall order.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: And we're going to get to even, you know, the
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: guy who's maybe the best player or even I would
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: say definitely the best player in this pipeline. Not now,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: but maybe a year or two years down the road.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: And Chase Reed, because he's not here, because also he's
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: going to play college hockey over at Michigan State. And
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: many are saying a guy who could have been picked
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: top two, maybe even at one point was contending for
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: the number one pick in the draft, though that went,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: of course, deservedly so to Gavin McKenna. But there are
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: some high quality parts of his game that mirror others
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: who have been explosive. in this league on the NHL,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: and I'm careful saying this, but they talked about Cale
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: McCarr and some qualities, Zach Wierenski as well and some qualities.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: So the bottom line is, should things work out, you
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: have an absolute game-breaker that you have maybe in your
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: own back pocket developing right now on the back end.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: But to you, where should expectations lie for a player,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: especially on defense, as he heads into his first season
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: of college hockey?
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: Well, I think it's fair to say as we approach
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: year number six of the franchise, with all due respect
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: to Matty Beneers, Shane Wright, and others who have been selected,
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: and now Berkeley Catton, who hopefully will have a breakthrough
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: season this year, Chase Reed is the most legitimate of
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: all of those guys of the first-round picks that have
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: been selected by the team. And that's not... just my
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: dumb opinion. That's the opinion that I've been able to
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: gather from a variety of people that worked for other
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: teams that I've talked to in the summer. This is
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: a player that I think the fans should really be
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: excited about. And I wouldn't say that unless I believed it,
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: you know, so it's going to be great to see
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: him go to Michigan state and then earn his position of,
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: you know, when is the right time, you know, to
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: give him that chance. But when you have a right-handed
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: shooting defenseman that can move, that can play with some size,
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: that appears to be extremely dynamic, You know, teams covet
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: those things. And in the existence of the team so far,
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: you and I have talked a lot about, you know,
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: how do the Kraken get high-end players? And what have
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: we always said? You have to draft and you have
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: to develop those star players. You can't really trade for them.
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: It's hard. I guess you can. Some teams have been
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: able to do it, but a lot of different circumstances
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: go into it. And you cannot certainly sign up. an
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: unrestricted free agent all the time. That's going to deliver that.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: So this is a player that has that expectation. Now
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: he has to do it. He has to prove that
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: he can do it. And you never want to hurry
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: anybody into the national hockey league. So I hope they're
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: careful with them, but I think the runway is going
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: to be clear. So as long as he can do
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: what he needs to do this season, let's see where
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: the college year ends for him. And then go from there. Um,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: Porter Bartone with Philadelphia was able to do an unbelievable
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: climb from Michigan State last year right into a playoff
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: run for the Philadelphia Flyers. But he's at rookie camp
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: this year like everybody else, and he's going to have
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: to earn his spot. But I think we should have
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: some real excitement about Chase Reed. I think he's a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: legitimate blue-chip prospect that hopefully the Kraken can build around
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: for years to come.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Hey, Johnny, finally, just kind of getting back to the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: overall theme of player movement, especially in this day and age.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: You touched on free agency about a few seconds ago,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: but we've seen movement limited here because the pattern has
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: been guys are preferring to choose their own destinations. They're
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: making it public, and it usually boils down to about
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: the usual now three or four teams, including Vegas, Florida, Minnesota, Dallas, etc.,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: Many have pointed to the issue of too many no-movement
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: clauses in the NHL as compared to what Major League
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Baseball has, the NFL has, the NBA has. Do you
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: think that this league has way too many NMC's?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know about that. I'm all for it. I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: believe that when players earn an opportunity to be legitimate
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: NHL players, They should be respected in negotiation, and if
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: their representation asks for no trade or no movement clauses,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: they should get it. Now, I don't believe they should
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: be handed out like, you know, candy at Halloween. I
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: don't think you should just knock on the door and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: get a free piece of candy, and then all of
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: a sudden your league is cluttered with every single player
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: having some restriction. I think we're kind of approaching that point,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: but that's how management has handled the previous CBAs, which
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: expire in a day and a new one starts, you know,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: this week. You know, hopefully the reason why a lot
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: of these players now are trying to take their own
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: destiny into their hands is because the teams have gone
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: to players and said, hey, I know we've given you
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: a no movement and no trade clause in your contract.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: Will you work with us? Because guess what? We want
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: to move you. So it's a two-way street. You can't
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: have managements around the league asking players to waive a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: no trade and then expect the players not to kick
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: back and say, hey, I want to control my destiny
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: because I'm good enough and I want to go here
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: instead of just blindly following a contract that's going to
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: be to the detriment of my career. So I understand
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: it all. I think there's probably some common ground there.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: But I like the way the players are handling this
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: now in hockey. I think the time has come. Revenues
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: are up. Salary cap is escalating. And it's about time
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: they kind of say, listen, there's some things here that
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure of. And I want a new beginning.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 6: And the teams are going to have to adjust. That's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: the era we're in. That's the generation we're in. That's
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: where it's going. That's where the other sports are. And
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: hockey is just getting in line.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You're the best, man. Always on the go. Looking
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: forward to seeing you, though, very, very soon. And speaking
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: of Halloween candy, just for the sake of you joining
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: us here, I've got something for you. Maybe once you
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: get back in, what's your favorite?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know. I'm going to leave that up
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: to you because you're great at making all kinds of decisions.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I try because I say I just say whatever John does,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: I follow you.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: John, you got to be a full bar guy.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Full bars.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: A hundred grand, Twix. We'll make it work here. We'll
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: make it work.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: You guys can make that work very easily. Very easily.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, sir. Hey, safe travels back in here. We'll
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: see you soon.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: See you soon, guys.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Awesome.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That is the great John Forslund joining us
• 1:04:24
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• 1:04:27
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• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: The dogs.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 9: Well, God love them, but they suck. Is it a
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 9: race to see who's worse, the Mariners or the dogs?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: I hope not.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 9: But I don't think Jed is the right guy, and
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 9: I never have thought that. But you've got to give
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 9: him five years. You can't keep cycling coaches through. So regardless,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: thanks for everything.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: You guys are great.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: That's what you get here when you beat Utah State
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: by about two points.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: Luckily.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: You would have been feeling a lot, lot, lot, lot,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: lot better if you win 16-14 in November over Oregon.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Not in September over Utah State. But this is just
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: at least like a smidge that represents the anger that
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: I felt walking out of Husky Stadium.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: I wasn't angry, but I don't care.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: You were two time zones away.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, I was.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, but I got to find out about
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: what had happened, and I only do that for scouting
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: purposes because we play Utah State in their territory later
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: I would also argue that cheers from the stadium were
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: nearly as loud as the first touchdown when they found
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: out on the scoreboard Oklahoma State beat Oregon.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, that. Now, that was a game.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: Actually, I listened to that game on the Varsity app
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: on my way to... From Manhattan, Kansas to Kansas City, Missouri.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Got to hear the whole thing.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: Mike Bettin in for Greg Bell with Jessamine as well.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: We had some thoughts earlier on Sark versus Holly Rowe,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: but what about you?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 10: Holly Rowe needs to go away. You're telling me that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 10: you're going to make Sark, who just won the game,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 10: interview second? You're going to make him wait and wait
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 10: and wait for you to finish up with Ryan Day?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: I hope Sark never talks to her again.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: That is complete BS.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 10: On Holly Roe and ABC or ESPN, whatever. Go Sark
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 10: and get out of.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: Here, Holly Roe.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Good morning, my friends.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 10: You are misleading your entire audience. They literally made him
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 10: wait for the second interview, guys.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: They made the winning.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 10: Coach wait to go to his team.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: How unprofessional is that? You guys, You need to have
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 11: context in this interview. Ryan Day went first, the losing coach.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 11: Why don't you interview Steve first and then let him go?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: Come on, guys.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: You guys are missing the whole point here.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 10: You two are misleading your entire audience. They literally....
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Now, I can understand context matters, but this is how
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: the game works. It doesn't matter if it's football, whether
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: it's baseball, basketball, hockey.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: Usually.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: The losing team goes first. And usually these are also
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: prerecorded too, because they just want to be done with it.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: If you win, you're in a better mood.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: It's mostly live post game though.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: And it really depends upon the coach. And his level
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: of how long do you want to wait? Nine times
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: out of ten, these guys are totally fine with it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: The losing coach is going to the bus right now, right?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: There's no way that you are doing this other ways.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: That is the most likely scenario in which that happened
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: because I've been on the producing end of it and
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: I've been on the reporting end of it. is that
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: Ryan Day's like, now or never. And they're like, okay,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: we're going to get him. We're not going to not
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: get him.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: And the winning coach is going to be on the
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: field for a little bit longer.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: I totally get that. Context matters. I totally get that. Well,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: I'm giving context. There's also an audio technical issue. I
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: don't know if you believe what Texas said about ESPN
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: and their audio issues. I mean, are you just trying
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: to cover here for your head coach?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: Likely.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: Very likely. But again, the high road was just totally
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: thrown out the window here. It really turned petty and
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I've seen Holly do interviews, too, where
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  Speaker 3: coaches will lean in and be like, hey, what?
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  Speaker 3: It's not like they have IFBs in their ear or
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  Speaker 4: Did I just say in their beer? Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 4: I meant.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I think I said that by accident.
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  Speaker 3: But they don't have they can't hear what you can
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  Speaker 3: hear when we're.
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  Speaker 4: On the sidelines.
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  Speaker 3: We have things shoved in our ears. So we're only
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: hearing our own broadcast. The coaches can only hear what's
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: coming out of our mouths. And there's just something about
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: people clowning on her for that that bothers me, where
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: she was trying to do her job. And I don't
• 1:09:50
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• 1:09:53
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• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: get the heck out of there. And then Sark, yes,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: he did have to wait, okay? But he was going
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: to stay on the field and party. Sure, he might
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: have issues with the network. He might have issues with Holly.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea. But he had an opportunity.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Very quick, 49451 from the 801. Sark's off the wagon,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: was probably in a rush to get going. Quite a
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: few more here. Sark is wrong. Sark is wrong. 206
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: saying Holly was in the wrong. Why do you say
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: that she should have taken the high road or he
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: should have taken the high road but not her? It's
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: both a responsibility to take the high road in that situation.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Just come up looking a lot better.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that the only thing that made
• 1:10:42
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• 1:10:44
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• 1:10:45
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• 1:10:48
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• 1:10:52
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• 1:10:55
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• 1:11:00
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• 1:11:04
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• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: We already had him, but I want to know what
• 1:11:10
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• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: see anything. That from the 206, it's what you're going
• 1:11:16
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• 1:11:18
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• 1:11:22
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• 1:11:26
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• 1:11:29
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• 1:11:31
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• 1:11:35
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  Speaker 2: Can I tee up one hint? Because you mentioned electrifying.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just, you know, like, it's, they're just, you've
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: got to go 11-1 to finish 500th.
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  Speaker 5: Not a chance.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Not a chance. I mean, so 11-1 to finish 500.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: We'd love to see it, but not a chance.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, 11-1 to finish 500, and.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: That gives you maybe a chance at the AL West
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 7: if you finish 500, right? You go 10-2, you're 80-82,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: and then just go from there. The simple math would
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: tell you the Rangers– those are great. I'll bring this
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 7: up with the boys– Boston and Houston, right? Don't they
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: have a series coming up? Or is it Boston and Texas?
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 7: One of those two teams. Anyway, Boston's playing one of those.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 7: And it was written today by someone in the athletic.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 7: If you're Boston, you're probably better off. You might want
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 7: to lose those. Wild card three is a better option.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Lost a few guys. Low management. Wild card three is
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: better than wild card two in terms of your matchups.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Does anybody want Tampa Bay in the postseason?
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no. But yeah, yesterday was
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 7: a kick in the.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 7: You can figure out who had the worst weekend. Mariners,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 7: right there. I'm just going to go through a list. Mariners, Cougs,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 7: Husky offense. That was an angry stadium on Saturday. The
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 7: so-called improved Dallas Cowboys defense.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 5: That wasn't good.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: Do they have a defense? Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Like, we'd go through the list. That was Harbaugh's first
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: loss in week one, by the way. Or, wait for it,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: all you Husky fans, wait for it, Dan Lanning and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: the Ducks.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy!
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that was, like, who had the worst weekend there, right? Like,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 7: figure that one out.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: That's got to be up there with one of the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: most grueling Oregon losses ever. Oklahoma State said it's the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: biggest upset in history for the Cowboys. At least the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: radio booth said so. Yeah, I mean, that whole.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: It's bad.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 7: That's a bad line. I mean, Messamaker's a good quarterback.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 7: You saw him last year, Jess, when he was with Texas,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 7: North Texas, and Eric Morrison. But yeah, Oregon got beat
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: on both sides of the line of scrimmage, and I
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 7: just can't fathom that. Washington's offense is not good. Cougars
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 7: offense is awful and their defense is worn out. And, uh, yeah,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 7: the Chargers losing to, I mean, the Cardinals, what are
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 7: you doing? Aren't you guys trying to tank? Like, are
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 7: you going to bank on Jacoby? Now, maybe what they
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 7: did is they saw the game. Uh, they, they, Maybe
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 7: they went, well, I watched the Oregon game. We don't
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 7: want Dante Moore. I might as well wait for another
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 7: year to get our quarterback. I mean, I don't know.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: If you want to throw in a big old L,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: the production truck for the worldwide leader for the Sarkisian
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  Speaker 2: Holly Rothing. Yeah. Oh, boy, that was interesting. So he
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: blew him off at halftime. Yes. Because of technical issues.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: And Laura Rutledge owned up to it also. In fact,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: she said, we owe Sark an apology, yada, yada, yada.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to... Let's go behind the curtains. All right,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: for a second. We've done so already, but we can
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: even go deeper. Tell me that. Because you also don't
• 1:19:42
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• 1:19:43
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You tape the interview.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: Like, okay, I'll just say it. It was just weird.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: It was weird. If you watch a.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 7: interview on the Kraken Hockey Network between periods with Piper
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 7: Shaw and an assistant coach or player.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 5: Guess what?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: Those are not live. Those are live to tape. Same
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: goes for our pregame with Lane Lambert. But I'm talking in-game.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: In-game. Yeah.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Because everyone's in a rush.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 7: But Piper tapes that in the break after the period.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 7: You're telling me that ESPN couldn't do that with Sark?
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. There's more to it. So then Laura Rutland says,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: we owe Sark an apology.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 6: Yada, yada, yada.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: And then we get the postgame where apparently Texas said
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: there were technical issues again.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 7: Just the whole thing. You're bitter, you're mad, you're upset, whatever.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: And then all of a sudden things are great, so
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 7: you're elated and you're happy, and away we go, just
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: beat No. 1. Listen, this was a crazy weekend. There's
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 7: so much that went on. And then, of course, Week
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 7: 1 of the NFL season... I mean, how about the
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 7: Chicago Bears? We're going to go ahead and just... I'm
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 7: shocked Ben Johnson didn't go for two and try to
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 7: get to 60. I remember when the Rams were the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 7: greatest show on turf. I don't want to get ahead
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 7: of myself here, but this is like arena football level.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 7: I don't want to go Rams level yet, but it's
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 7: like arena football level. Well, yeah, and then you've got
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: to ask yourself what's wrong with the Carolina Panthers defense, right?
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Because... That was just, that was crazy. My boy David
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: Canales is in one right now.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 7: Colston Loveland didn't even get involved in the offense. He
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 7: might be one of the most dynamic tight ends in
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 7: the NFL, and he wasn't even involved. And they just,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 7: I think seven different guys caught a ball. And Caleb
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 7: did his thing running around. And DeAndre Swift did his thing.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: And that was great. Fun weekend in football.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Unreal. Unreal. The training camp is here, by the way,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: for the Kraken.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's coming. Like a tidal wave. Like a tidal wave.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: You ready?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 10: Nope.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: You ready? Also unreal. Hey, you got someone new joining you,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: by the way. Ashley, you're in there. Congratulations. Ashley is
• 1:22:01
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• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: If it wasn't going to be me. I'm so happy
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: that it's.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: You bailed.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, I did.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: I was like, I cannot stand this hostile work environment.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 7: For people that wanted to know, one day we're sitting
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: here and it's Anders and Jess and I, and we're
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 7: having a fun little time, the three of us. And
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: then lo and behold, the next Monday I show up
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: and Anders goes, it's just you and me. And I'm like,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 7: where'd Jess go?
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: She left us. Just left us.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: Yep, I did.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: She wanted to be off at noon. She's like, I'm
• 1:22:31
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• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: That's it. That's exactly what happened.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: And I said, well, okay. Well, I know where. And
• 1:22:35
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• 1:22:39
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• 1:22:41
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• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not an Arab, Sam. I think the common thread's Ian.
• 1:22:48
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• 1:22:50
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• 1:22:51
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• 1:22:52
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• 1:22:52
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• 1:22:54
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• 1:22:56
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• 1:22:58
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• 1:23:02
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• 1:23:04
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• 1:23:07
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• 1:23:11
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• 1:23:18
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• 1:23:22
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• 1:23:24
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• 1:23:26
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• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: I'm Mike. Ian's up next to you.