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10-15 H1: What's On Tap, Watchers Pt 1. & No Cliches · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: with us here on this Thursday. We're going to take
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  Speaker 2: it until 10 o'clock. That is four hours of entertaining
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  Speaker 2: sports talk programming. For you here on the show here today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it just dawned on Anders. I'm on a
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  Speaker 2: four-hour show now? I was just counting while you were
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  Speaker 2: saying that. Oh, jeez. Oh, I remember how Ian used
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  Speaker 2: to complain about three hours. Yeah, and then originally it
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  Speaker 2: was two.
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  Speaker 3: I'm twice as long as what I originally signed up for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I've said that a lot to people as well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm twice as long. Jesus. Have you really? Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've said it. Never had to prove it. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us. Christopher Kidd is here.
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  Speaker 2: Anders Hurst is here. My name is Chuck Powell, and
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot to discuss here on today's program
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  Speaker 2: because it is game day. Game day.
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  Speaker 4: Game day.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to Anders in his Leonard Williams jersey
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  Speaker 2: here today. I love that he's gone big cat on
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  Speaker 2: us for this upcoming season. So we've got all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things to talk about with the Seahawks and the Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night football from Denver, Colorado, which is really one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite places, settings to watch a game on television.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, it just really captures it. Interesting. And
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  Speaker 2: same thing with like Rockies games. It always looks so beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So it must be something about Denver. They must build
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  Speaker 2: the buildings right. You know what they say, when the
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  Speaker 2: air is thinner... The TV's better.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what it is? I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard that expression before. I think you just
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  Speaker 2: made that up. I think I did. It's must-proven to
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  Speaker 2: be true. It always looks so nice. It always looks
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  Speaker 2: so welcoming and inviting. And both the teams will be
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  Speaker 2: throwing some throwback jerseys up there on the screen for tonight.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a visual spectacular this evening.
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  Speaker 2: And two teams that are playing exactly not their best.
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  Speaker 2: at this point, but two teams still with really high expectations.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a fantastic game, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got all sorts of things and ways that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to discuss it here over the course of the next
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  Speaker 2: four hours. But I'll tell you this. I think sometimes
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  Speaker 2: with today's sports fan, because today's sports fan more so,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been around it for a while now, especially
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  Speaker 2: Sports Talk Radio. I mean, there was a time where
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  Speaker 2: as a Sports Talk Radio host, I mean, you could
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  Speaker 2: get by in your local market without knowing the entire
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  Speaker 2: roster of your football team. Not anymore. No, you cannot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You better know the roster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you better know the baseball team's roster. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think even more fans know the entire roster.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of fans know the entire roster now. And
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I mean, that's my favorite part of
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  Speaker 2: sports is the roster change. building and roster construction and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. But when you know that much about
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  Speaker 2: your team, when you're studying them to the point where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, who steps in, if Ty Okada
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  Speaker 2: has an injury tonight, you know, when you know what that,
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  Speaker 2: when you know what that will, uh, sometimes you do
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  Speaker 2: get sort of paralyzed by, uh, identifying all the weaknesses,
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  Speaker 2: all the warts, all the wrinkles. Oh yeah. And you
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  Speaker 2: sometimes forget other teams have warts and wrinkles too. Yeah. Like,
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  Speaker 2: and you almost, this really happens with the Mariners and
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  Speaker 2: they've owned some of it. Certainly they certainly did this year,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that there are a lot of Mariner
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  Speaker 2: fans that cannot live if there's what they consider a
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  Speaker 2: hole in the lineup. They just can't live with it.
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  Speaker 2: Or a platoon. How are we not better at third base?
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  Speaker 2: You know, every team deals with holes. So you get
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  Speaker 2: so focused on what you have and where you're ailing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that people take as much time, especially
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  Speaker 2: in baseball, to look at the national landscape. Not many
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  Speaker 2: people even watch national games. The ratings prove that, especially
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  Speaker 2: if your team's not involved. Right. And maybe you haven't
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of time realizing, oh, they have holes too. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they have warts. Oh. The Dodgers are old. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things that you're blind to if you're
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  Speaker 2: just focusing on your team. So I think about tonight's game,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people, Anders, are worried about the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks right now, and they're not the same team as
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  Speaker 2: they were a year ago, and where's the running game,
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  Speaker 2: and why are we undisciplined, and how could we be 3-2,
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  Speaker 2: and how did we lose to the Commanders? Um, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that really the Seahawks are in the exact
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  Speaker 2: same spot that they were a year ago when they
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  Speaker 2: went on to win the championship. And then you also
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  Speaker 2: worry about, oh, it's Thursday night football. We're on short rest.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't I see Drake Thomas limping during the game? Didn't
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  Speaker 2: he leave for a while? Oh, JSN's got an ankle
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  Speaker 2: and you worry about, and again, paralyzed by your own shortcomings,
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  Speaker 2: your own warts, your own wrinkles, your own, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: facial abnormalities, if you will, and you might have been blind,
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  Speaker 2: like I was blind, and all of a sudden I've
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  Speaker 2: got Adam Schefter comes on the television this morning as
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my show prep from home. Pat Sertan, Riley Moss, Hufanga.
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  Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman. Three starting members of the Denver Broncos secondary. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we knew John Coleman from the IR. Yeah. Three starters
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  Speaker 2: from the Broncos secondary are out for tonight. They are
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  Speaker 2: not playing tonight. Not unquestionable. Including the best corner, arguably,
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  Speaker 2: in the National Football League. And Patrick Sertan, we throw
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  Speaker 2: our guy into that conversation. The Patriots got a guy
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  Speaker 2: they throw into that conversation. But most people will tell
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  Speaker 2: you the best guy is Patrick Sertan. He's not playing tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And then, as a lot of people will point out,
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  Speaker 2: including someone on our show during our meeting, just go
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  Speaker 2: after the white guy. He's out too. We can't even
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  Speaker 2: pick on the white guy tonight in the secondary. Cause
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  Speaker 2: he's hurt too. Yeah. Yeah. So, so yeah. So the
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  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos like secondary is riddled with injuries and the
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night game did not give them time to heal
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  Speaker 2: up in order to play. If this was a Sunday game,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe one of those guys is good enough to play.
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  Speaker 2: Moss right now is listed as questionable, but Schefter just
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  Speaker 2: reported this morning he's not going to play in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Sertan doesn't have some season-ending injury. He's not on the
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  Speaker 2: IR or anything like that. Maybe by Sunday he would
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  Speaker 2: have been good to go. So we focus on... thursday
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  Speaker 2: night football having to face the broncos having to go
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  Speaker 2: to mile high short week oh jsn's not 100 all
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff we are we are in so much
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  Speaker 2: better position than what our opponent is for this thursday
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  Speaker 2: night matchup you lose three-fourths of your starting secondary during
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  Speaker 2: the course of a week and you got to face
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  Speaker 2: the best wide receiver in the national football league arguably
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  Speaker 2: yeah um Probably gives the Hawks a pretty decent advantage
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  Speaker 2: this evening. Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I do think Pat Sertan is the best corner in
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  Speaker 3: the game, by the way. We've seen him against us
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  Speaker 3: multiple times, and he continues to shut us down every
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  Speaker 3: single time that we face him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody does. He shuts everyone down. You're right.
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  Speaker 3: And he's kind of the catalyst to that defense. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what they'll look like and if they'll
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  Speaker 3: change scheme wise defensively to kind of accommodate if they're
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  Speaker 3: going to blitz more because they can't cover on the
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  Speaker 3: back end. I don't know what that's going to look
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  Speaker 3: like tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. But I think with the.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thought process of just focusing on your team.
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  Speaker 3: It's like an echo chamber. It comes with the social
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  Speaker 3: media world. And you're like, Oh my God, all these
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  Speaker 3: things are going wrong. But you've, then you don't realize
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  Speaker 3: that everyone deals with this stuff all year long.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: When you finally realize that it's like, okay, it's who
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  Speaker 3: is able to overcome those the best. And I think
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks have proven in the past that they are
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  Speaker 3: one of, if not the best team to overcome key
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  Speaker 3: injuries and stuff like that happening in Whether it's Sam
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  Speaker 3: Darnold going down in the first game, whether it's Julian Love,
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  Speaker 3: one of your most important secondary pieces going out. Ty
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  Speaker 3: Okada played his first game last week. So it's not
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  Speaker 3: like we haven't experienced something similar. It just hasn't happened
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  Speaker 3: all at once. But like you said, all of these
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  Speaker 3: teams deal with this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Seahawks are dealing with their own stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. There's no question about it. But when you
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  Speaker 2: suddenly are watching a preview of tonight's game and the
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  Speaker 2: entire list, is Bronx. who are going to be out. Inactives. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For this game today, you're like, you know what? We
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  Speaker 2: can focus on our issues or we can take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of their holes that they have that they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to fill by tonight. So, yes, from
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  Speaker 2: that standpoint, maybe the Hawks have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an advantage there. in their back pocket in the passing game.
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  Speaker 2: And we, of course, are still waiting for that Sam
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  Speaker 2: Darnold complete game. Of course. I think he's been good.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's another thing. We're looking at all the warts,
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  Speaker 2: and he's had a couple of obvious ones because of
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  Speaker 2: the bad interceptions. But he's actually, I think, been pretty
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  Speaker 2: good over the course since he's come back off the
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  Speaker 2: injury list. But we watch all the deficiencies. he's been
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  Speaker 2: better than Bo Nix has been. Of course. And Bo
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  Speaker 2: Nix is going through something mentally, which we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: at 7.05, that he kind of expressed to the media
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  Speaker 2: yesterday that, where he's talking about, I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you've got to stop overthinking this. This isn't about being
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  Speaker 2: more aggressive or not turning the ball over. If you're
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  Speaker 2: more aggressive, this is about taking the play given to
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  Speaker 2: you every single play. And if that is a shot downfield,
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  Speaker 2: that's a shot downfield. If that's a check down, that's
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  Speaker 2: a check down. That's the way you have to play
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in this league. And I think the same applies
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  Speaker 2: to Sam Darnold. Unfortunately, Sam's just had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: really ugly turnovers, and it makes you focus on the
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  Speaker 2: really ugly turnovers. I think I want Sam to play aggressively.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's been pretty good since he's been back.
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  Speaker 2: He was not against the 49ers, but we might have
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  Speaker 2: to give credit to the 49ers. They were vicious. They
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  Speaker 2: were hungry dogs. They played a terrific defensive game, and this,
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  Speaker 2: of course, will be the healthiest they'll ever be. Ever. Ever.
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  Speaker 2: So they probably won't be as effective the next time around,
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  Speaker 2: even when we face them. But, yes, we just get
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  Speaker 2: paralyzed by... seeing our own weaknesses and failures and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: don't take enough time to say, oh, we got a
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  Speaker 2: better off than them. Yeah. Like, oh, gosh, I was
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  Speaker 2: feeling sorry for us because Jackson Smith and Jake was
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  Speaker 2: limping at practice on Monday. They don't have anybody to
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  Speaker 2: guard him. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: But with those deficiencies in the other teams comes less,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, excuses. And I know coaching and players won't
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  Speaker 3: give excuses rarely, but. Uh, but in the fan bases
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  Speaker 3: that happens all the time, it's like, okay, well you
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  Speaker 3: better beat them now if they don't have three quarters
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  Speaker 3: of their secondary.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if that is going to play
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  Speaker 2: into today's or sorry. Yeah. Today's game. I, it is tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It is game day, but Oh, it's got to play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't mean you're going to win. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they still have a good team. They have
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  Speaker 2: a good roster. They're not only their secondary. Um, but, uh, certainly, uh,
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be a little exposed on the backside
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  Speaker 2: of things. All right, let's find out what is on
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  Speaker 2: tap for today's radio program.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Seahawks at Broncos, 5-15 kickoff. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on Prime Video, but they always will air it
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  Speaker 2: locally for you, for us, and it will be on
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  Speaker 2: Fox 13 tonight. So, yes, Aaron Levine and his flashcards
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  Speaker 2: will be on the set. I'm sure they will have
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  Speaker 2: some sort of Jeopardy game before— We're going to have one. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we are. I decided we're going to have one. I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about not having one today, but we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have one. He'll never come on again, though. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: think about this. Aaron Levine is undisputed best trivia person. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess Ken Jennings is from him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he's forever second place. But in the sports media?
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  Speaker 2: In the sports media. I mean, no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to run laps around anyone in
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  Speaker 2: a trivia contest. But we had him play beat Bucky,
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  Speaker 2: and he finished third. oh yikes yeah and he's can't
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  Speaker 2: get over it yeah every time i see him he
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  Speaker 2: brings it up like dude it was pop culture you
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  Speaker 2: admitted it's you know it's sports and pop culture you
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  Speaker 2: admitted that's not exactly your strength yeah but when you
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  Speaker 2: put him on the air and he's a big time star.
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  Speaker 1: And he doesn't you want him to step up don't
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  Speaker 1: you he wanted to step up yeah yeah i don't
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  Speaker 1: mind him finishing third but for him he's like what
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  Speaker 1: the heck man yeah I'm the star and I finished third?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If Michael Jordan came to town and we had a
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  Speaker 2: free throw shooting contest, he better win. Yeah, and I won.
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  Speaker 2: I shot 88 out of 100. He shot 86. You
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  Speaker 2: think Michael Jordan would be mad? He'd be like, run
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  Speaker 2: it back, young fella. He would not.
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  Speaker 1: It would not bode well for me.
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  Speaker 2: Do it again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, Jordan would probably like. humiliate you in life if
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  Speaker 2: you beat him at anything. I don't want to find
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  Speaker 2: out what he'd do to me. Let's just leave him alone.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to play one-on-one, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to play for money now. You can only shoot jump shots,
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  Speaker 2: because you're 6'6. And I'm going to dunk on you.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do that either. Yeah, I think you're right. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a really good point, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell Levine that the next time I see him. So basically,
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  Speaker 2: he's Michael Jordan, is what we're saying. Of the trivia world. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's Jennings. That's Ken Jennings. He came in third. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't beat Bucky. That kind of stung. Right, but it
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  Speaker 2: is a different thing. But still, if Jordan came to town,
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  Speaker 2: he better win any basketball contest that he has against
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  Speaker 2: Bucky Jacobson and Ashley Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: That's fair. Yes, that is fair. That is fair. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I was trying to give him a break, but
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  Speaker 2: I think Kidd pointed out, Levine, no, you don't deserve
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  Speaker 2: a break. You should have won. That matchup, you're a
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  Speaker 2: trivia expert no matter what the questions are.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You still should have won. That's your thing. Yes. Jordan's
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  Speaker 2: not going to come in here and lose to Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Ryan in any basketball game. Three-point shooting contest, nothing. He's
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  Speaker 2: not going to lose that. All right. NFL week number
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  Speaker 2: six should be NFL WEAK number six. That's a weak schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight's game is the best game. Without question, tonight is
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  Speaker 2: the best game. I mean, and it was pretty strong last,
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  Speaker 2: it was really strong last week, but, uh, kind of
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  Speaker 2: a weak schedule, uh, this week. And then of course, uh,
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  Speaker 2: four teams on by, uh, we won't focus on the
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  Speaker 2: weakness of it. We'll focus on the strengths of it
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: with Mike Sandoe today at nine 30. Meanwhile, the college
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: football week. Strong man. Are there a lot of good games, uh,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: this week in college football highlighted by Ohio state versus, uh, Indiana. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so week seven of college football coming up as well.
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  Speaker 2: For us here at KJR, UW at Purdue, Friday night
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: affair for the second week in a row. Softee will
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  Speaker 2: join us today at 725 Thursdays with Softee every week
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: here on the Radio Morning Show. Sounders fell in Dallas,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: so the winning streak is over. It's their first loss
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  Speaker 2: in months, right? Because they had the long winless streak,
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  Speaker 2: but they were at least tying some games along the way.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: And then they went on a winning streak, and now
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: they've tasted the sting of loss after last night's 1-0
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: defeat at the hands of Dallas FC, the fighting Matthew McConaughey's.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What happened? Like, what happened?
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this happens in soccer quite a bit,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: especially when you're playing the road. You can dominate a game,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: and then some things just don't go your way. They
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: created a lot of chances. They got goalied. That term
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: gets thrown out there in hockey quite a bit, but
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: it happens in soccer, too. You just didn't find the
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: scoring touch. There was a couple opportunities that you definitely
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: should have put away, and that didn't end up happening,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: and it ended up coming to bite you. So they
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: lose 1-0. That's kind of how it goes in soccer.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: We got Mike Evansed. Yeah, we did get Mike Evansed.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: And we got Mike Evansed. Sunday. Yeah, that's basically. That's
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the reason we lost that game. I mean, yeah. We
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: got to the fourth quarter and we got Mike Evans.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: We did get Mike Evans. Josh Jobe. Kraken have won
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: three straight all on the road. They'll be in Tampa
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: tonight and that's a different cut of steak taking on
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Lightning. So that puck will drop at
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: four o'clock tonight. But I asked this of Al yesterday.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Come back three and two because you've already won three.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Come back four and one. Come back 5-0 from the
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: road trip. Oh, that'd be great. The differences in emotions there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, are you satisfied right now? You don't need
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a win on the road? Another win in Florida? I mean,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: if you're thinking about just the road trip as a whole,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I'd be happy with 3-2.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Based off of everyone that you're playing. You're already fat
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and happy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: But I want to see the crack in. Because basically,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: like we've talked about yesterday, they've beaten the teams they
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: should have. And they've lost against the teams that should
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: be better than them. If they are able to pull
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: out one of these two games at least... against teams
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: that have championship aspirations, that would help kind of me
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: gain more confidence in what they are going to be
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: this year as sort of a litmus test.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So that's what I'm looking at. Yeah. I mean, when
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you started the road trip, you were going to be
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: really happy with three and two. Of course. Like really happy.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: But now that you're three and oh, and the worst
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you can be is three and two. I wonder if
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: you're going to be disappointed if you're flying home having
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: on four and one.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: No, not 4-1. You'd be really happy with 4-1. Excuse me,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I meant 3-2. Now that you're flying home.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Would you be disappointed with 3-2 now that you've won
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the first three? Anyway, they'll be in Tampa tonight. Much
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: different test for them, and it will start at four
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: o'clock WNBA playoffs start on Saturday. We are five days
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: from the NBA season and the major league baseball playoffs.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I'm not counting on anything. I'm really not.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not ever going to count out the Los Angeles Dodgers. Uh,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: but man, uh, it is good to see the Milwaukee
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Brewers up three and oh, it is good to feel
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: like they are just Simply the better baseball team. The
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: best team. With all that money that the Dodgers spend
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: on their team and all of those familiar household names
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that they have in that lineup versus really none on
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers, the Brewers are better. Yeah. Just better
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: than the Los Angeles Dodgers, and they are now up
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: 3-0 with a chance to sweep.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: L.A.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Today.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: In L.A.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: In Los Angeles. And all those faces of those sad
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Dodgers fans that showed up in the fourth inning and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: couldn't wait to leave in the seventh, in the middle
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: of the seventh during the stretch. To beat traffic. Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And then, oh, they've just gone through so much strife.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Terrible.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: With an owner that cheated and paid all of his
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: players with Monopoly money. Yeah. And then just so dejected. Oh,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: how can we beat this team? It's unfair. It really
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: is unfair. Oh, gosh. So unfair that they built a
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: better roster than us. Yeah. Rays and Guardians, by the way,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: are going to play at 10 a.m. today. They moved
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that up because of storms that are getting ready to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: come through Cleveland. Didn't have to worry about that in
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that IKEA that the Rays play in, but you do
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: have to worry about it in Cleveland today. And so
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: storms are coming through. They're going to try to beat
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the storms by playing an afternoon game in Cleveland. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: then the Dodgers Brewers will play head-to-head against Thursday night
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: football as the Brewers look for the sweep. Cole Young
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: was named a Gold Glove finalist yesterday. I think he
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: earned that. And Joe Espada was let go by the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Astros yesterday. Apparently he is also rumored as a candidate.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think a strong one. to be the Mariners'
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: next manager, don't hire the guy that your rival doesn't want. Okay?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: That's a good rule. Probably a good idea. All right,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: coming up next, I heard something very interesting this morning
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: on the drive-in, and it speaks to culture, and it's
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: a football guy, but it certainly made me think about
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: our baseball team. The Watchers, part one, coming up next,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. should also mention uh no cliche
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: keys to victory coming up later this hour it is
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: game day after all we also have factor fiction coming
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: up at 7 35 christopher kids pick today your chance
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to win some cash Our 12-man roundtable from 8 to 9.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: We're going to play the age game. Oh, we've got
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: all sorts of things planned for you today here on
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: this game day. Broncos, Seahawks tonight, 5-15. And I would
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: imagine you're going to get your fill. I mean, the
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: pregame starts right now. It already has started. It started
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: at 6 a.m. this morning.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're going to have tons of coverage.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Wall to wall, as they say in the business, until
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the game starts.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: All right, so I'm driving in, and I heard something
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: very interesting. I've been toying around with the idea of
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: doing sort of a Watchers series. I mean, I realize
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that there are a lot of people that are done
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: with baseball and only want to do football, and that's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: all they want to do. But I've been toying around. Like,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: there are four teams remaining in the Major League Baseball playoffs.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers on the brink of getting eliminated.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: We are just watchers. We don't get to participate this
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: year because our team failed. Right. But I was thinking about,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: can we do a series, like a four-part series, where
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: we look at each team and what it is that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you envy about that team, what you would like to
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: adopt of your own from that team. And so I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was going to start with the Dodgers because they might
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: get eliminated tonight, so... there's an expiration date, so I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: better get them in. And the obvious thing that comes
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: to mind is what you want is the payroll. That's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: what you want. Now, number one, that's never going to
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: happen here. Number two, we might have a collective bargaining agreement.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: We might lose a season just so we make sure
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: we don't have another team with this kind of a
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: runaway payroll ever again. And then, so the other thing is,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that obviously the star players the show haze and things
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: of that nature but that also ties into payroll but
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: i also was thinking like on my drive i really
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: like the dodgers culture yeah and that sometimes when you
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: have a bunch of highly paid players in the dugout
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: together ask billy martin and the new york yankees ask
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you know the oakland a's in the 70s who fought
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: over i mean they weren't making tons of money back then,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: but they fought over who should have the dollars. They
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: hated each other. Um, sometimes it can be a problem
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and it's not with them. I mean, that's, that's one
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: of the better club houses that you see. I mean,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: they even had Dalton rushing who might be the biggest
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a-hole in the entire sport. Yeah. And yet they managed
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: that as well. So, uh, Long way to say, I'm
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: already thinking about this. And then Mike Tannenbaum, who is
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the former general manager of the Jets and of the
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, was asked about what was his reaction to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a closed-door meeting that the Dallas Cowboys had this week.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Their defense. Their defense had a closed-door meeting. One of
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the best players, not even their captain, but one of
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: their better players called a closed-door meeting, closed the doors
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and get things ironed out. And they asked him, what
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: was your reaction as a GM if you had a
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: closed-door meeting like that? What would your reaction have been?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And he said, to me, it means my season's over, basically.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: He said, like, they're done. If you are five weeks
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: into the season and one side of your football team
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: needs to have a closed-door meeting, I don't have it
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: word for word, but he basically said, you're not going
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to fix the problem. And that would bother me to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: no end. And what he went, then went on to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: say is the things that you addressed in that locker
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: room as a defense should have been addressed throughout training camp,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: throughout the off season program. Those things should have been
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: like ongoing teaching moments that you should, that your best
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: players should have been leading the entire time. And if
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you haven't established your culture for, you know, to avoid
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a week five closed door meeting by one side of
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the defense, you're not going to fix it because you
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: all got together and did a rah-rah speech and called
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: each other out. And I couldn't help but think of
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson. And I couldn't help but think of Jerry
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: DiPoto and the culture issues that this team had this year.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And how many closed-door meetings did we hear that they had?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Quite a few.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then when they weren't having a closed-door meeting,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: what were fans saying? You need to have a closed-door meeting.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And I think back to spring training, and I think
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: back to the Bryce Miller comments that he made at
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the end of the year. I mean, he made comments, Anders,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: in September. Like, I think we're still holding on to
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: last year. What?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: What?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: What? In September. Not like spring training, not in the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: first month.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Of the season.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You have been failing as a baseball team for five
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: months and you still are thinking about your successes from
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: last year? So, to me, what I took for just
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: really ironclad confidence back in spring training truly was them
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: resting on their laurels. And where's the manager to make
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: sure that they're not? Where's the coaching staff to make
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: sure that they're not? Where are the team captains to
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: make sure that they're not? I mean, I'll say this
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: till the end of time. You can bury me. You
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: can put it on my tombstone. The Mariners should have
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: won in 2026. Here lies Chuck Powell. The Mariners should
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: have won in 2026. Honestly, they should be in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: ALCS right now. Knock on wood. And you have now
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: had the owner say he's embarrassed. The president say we
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: had a culture issue. The general manager say we have
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a culture issue. And they didn't get their arms around
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: that going all the way back to the offseason a
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: year ago. They were just sure they could roll out
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the balls again. And what a huge misstep. And where
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: was Dan Wilson? That would have been his primary job, Anders,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to make sure that that did not happen. And I
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: agree with Mike Tannenbaum. If you've gotten to the point,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a long season. You might need a
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: closed-door meeting at some point to fix if there's some
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: sort of internal issue going on. But you better not
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: have more than one. And if you're having one, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a fourth of the way through the season, then you
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: have done something horribly wrong in your mental preparation for
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the year. And I can, that's the only thing I
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: can chalk up this season. That's why it's on my tombstone. Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Is that you were not ready to be champions this
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: year you said the words but you didn't do what
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: it takes to become one heck.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: We we've talked and there have been reports not of
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: a closed door meeting but of leaders in the seahawks
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: locker room being like hey that's not seahawk football we
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: don't do those penalties uh like that kind of stuff
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: yeah and But big like cultural things like what you're
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: talking about with the Mariners and what's happening with the Cowboys,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: that can't be fixed in the middle of the season. And,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: you know, there is a balance of taking confidence of
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: what you've done in years past and wanting to do more.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Because I think one of the things that makes the
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Dodgers culture so good is they have that in inept like, yeah,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: we've been there, done that. no matter what situation we're in,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: even now down three, zero in the NLCS, they feel
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: like they still can just turn it on and, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: just be, be in the world series just like that.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: So you want to take confidence from what you've done
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: in the past, but just relying on that then to
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: just show up and be like, yeah, we did it
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: last year. So we should walk to the ALCS this year.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: We should walk to the division title this year. That's
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: kind of what it felt like the Mariners were relying on.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And again, That's the job of the manager. And that's
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the job of player leadership, which I think is lacking
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: a little bit, to be completely honest, in the Mariners
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: clubhouse to to like reset everyone's mind and be like, hey, yes,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: what we did last year, we're going to build on that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: We're going to take confidence from that. But we can't
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: just expect that to happen again this year. It's a
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: whole new season. We're zero and zero starting back in
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: March at that point. We have to go and do
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: it again, if not better, this year. And just like
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: kind of Mike McDonald was saying at the beginning of
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: the season, say, we're not running it back.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: We're running it forward. They were already working on it. Exactly.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: They were already setting the mindset, setting the tone. Now,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I say that, but the Seahawks have had a closed-door meeting.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean. The defense did get together. But
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: it was to fix one issue. You know, it was
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: to fix one issue. It wasn't to fix how we
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: play defense. Yeah, exactly. It wasn't to fix culture.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: It was, hey, guys, come on. We got to take
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: a serious look. We can't do this to ourselves. We
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: work too hard. We play too well to lose games
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: because we're playing after the whistle. So maybe I'm... changing
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: my narrative there a little bit, but I think there's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a marked difference between those two things. And just spending
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: money doesn't guarantee you anything and certainly doesn't guarantee you
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: a culture. I mean, look, the New York Mets spend
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: tons of money on Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto and
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: they hate each other. It's true. The Dodgers don't have
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: that in there. And the Mariners have a good clubhouse.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: They all like each other. That's not the issue. But
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the issue was.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And Softie said it all year long. Who's holding them accountable?
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Nobody.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Nobody was.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Because the culture was never set. And trust me, Justin
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Hollander will tell you, I don't know what it's like
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to be in a locker room. That's not my job.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: That's the general manager. And Jerry DiPoto never has valued culture.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: He is now. Yeah, he is now. He's tried now
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: in the last couple of years. But five years ago,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: he would have told you team chemistry doesn't matter. Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: He gets it now. So he has to be blamed
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: for that, too, for not understanding the value of that,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: the importance of that. And certainly Dan Wilson and a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: lot of coaches got fired because they did not establish
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: the right culture in the offseason for this team. Now,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: if we find out this team has, under different leadership,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the exact same disappointing season this upcoming year, then we
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: know the problem is the players aren't good enough. But
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: right now, the only way I can go to bed
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: at night is just chalking this season up to, man,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: did you let that get away? And there wasn't anyone
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to tighten the strings. And it should have been started
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: in the offseason. It should have been started the day
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: you got eliminated by the Blue Jays. Figuring out what
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: we got to do differently to get back here and
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: be better. And I don't think it was even considered.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I think roster spots were obviously considered. A lot of
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: things were considered. But I don't think culture even crossed
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the minds of anyone in a leadership position for the Mariners,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: and it's what cost them this season. All right, no
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: cliche keys to victory next on KJR. Cliche, what do
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: you got for us, Anders?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Tackle.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Tackle?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think that's considered a cliche.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: It might be.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Depends on how you explain this. Well, I don't think—
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Every team's got a tackle. That's true.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: But a lot of people don't go into the game,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: all right, here's what we need to do to win. tackle,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: but Bo Nix isn't going to be able to throw
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the ball that deep down the field. Um, it's going
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: to be a lot of short screens, quick slants, uh,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: The only reason I could see this team being able
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: to move the ball reasonably well against the Seahawks defense
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: is if they get a lot of yak. If you
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: don't let them get a lot of yak, you tackle
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: as soon as they catch the ball. They're going to
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: have to put long, sustained drives against the Seahawks defense.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And as we well know, that's very hard to do.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Tackle them as soon as they catch the ball. Boy,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: you totally redeemed yourself right there. That was really well done.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That was good. I'm like, that is about
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the biggest cliche I've ever heard. And then you had
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: a very good explanation for that. I like that. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: think you're absolutely right about that. All right, kid, what's
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: your no cliche key to victory?
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You've kind of touched on it all week, Chuck, talking
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: about how bad this defensive front is for the Broncos
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and how the Seahawks should try to establish the run game.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So with that, not a cliche, but I would say
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: using motion to influence the linebackers on the Denver Broncos,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: having different types of runs, counters, just making the defense
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: try to figure out what you're trying to do instead
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of just inside zone. So keeping the defense on their
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: toes with different types of run. Hell, throw number 22
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: back there a couple times.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Please!
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Where's the end around? Where's the jet sweep that the
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: 49ers did to us constantly? There you go.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So they should pull that out tonight and try to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: keep this defense on their toes that's already banged up.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: All right. I kind of like it. I mean, I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't think either one of these teams, I mean, I
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: think neither one of these teams can run the football.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Not right now. And so if you can establish, if
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: you can with your broken parts and downgraded running back rooms,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: figure out a way to run the football tonight probably
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: goes a long way. And so maybe you do have
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: to get creative. Maybe you just can't hammer and nail
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the thing. Maybe you do have to figure out a
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: creative way to get that going, but in a short week,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know how easy that's going to be in
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: a short week to, to do that. But all right.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I like both of those. I'm going to go with
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: something that I just kind of touched on at the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: beginning of the show. And that is along Anders point,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: like Bo Nix is going to throw the ball short.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: That's how they're going to operate tonight. They're not going
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: to try to test this defense down the field. They're
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: going to try to put together sustained drives and throw short,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: accurate passes and, and try to make this a muck
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: it up kind of game and hopefully win it by
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: three with their home field advantage. So I think that
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: plays right into Mike McDonald and the defense's hands. Go
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: ahead and play that way. I don't think you're going
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: to score points on us. And then on the flip side,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: because their secondary is so beat up, I think Sam
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: has the ability to have some explosives downfield. Let's face it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: This is a game that a lot of people had
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: circled as a loss at the beginning of the year.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I think I did too. I think this was one
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: that this is going to be tricky, but I just
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: can't see this team going three and three to start
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: the year. And so this is where you make up
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: for that commander's game. This is where you get that back.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: And I think you get it back because you're just
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: going to have an ability to make explosive plays tonight.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: where down the field with your passing game where I
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: don't see the Broncos being able to do that. So
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that's my, you know, cliche key to victory.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Coming up on the program headlines and also we'll talk
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: about that Bo Nix strategy. He's got a different mindset
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: coming into this game. We'll hear from him next on KJR.