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11-2 H1: What's On Tap, Wins and Tough Ones & Seahawks vs. Bears · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you here on a beautiful Monday
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  Speaker 1: the morning with Hugh Millen. And I can't wait. Hugh,
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  Speaker 1: how are you? Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Great to be with you guys. Yeah, we'll have some fun.
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  Speaker 3: Good to be with you, Anders. We've got Christopher there,
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  Speaker 3: so we can just yuck it up. A lot to
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  Speaker 3: talk about over the weekend, a lot to look forward
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  Speaker 3: to tonight. So we're just kind of in our virtual,
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  Speaker 3: I call it the virtual bar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess this early in the morning, we'd be
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  Speaker 3: having our virtual Bloody Marys and Bloody Screwdrivers and just
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  Speaker 3: hanging out, looking forward to the game tonight. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: And let's roll it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. If we're at a bar at 6 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think it's more likely that we are
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  Speaker 1: there still from last night.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say it's an airport.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, great, perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not be degenerates yet.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's for later in the show. So it's rare, Hugh,
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  Speaker 1: that we, you know, we're on a Seahawks game day,
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  Speaker 1: a big game versus the Bears, Mike McDonald versus Ben Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: lots going on there, that the first thing I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about, though, is the Huskies' victory
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  Speaker 1: in Nebraska. Because I think that's... So it's where we
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  Speaker 1: should start. Let's react to what's happened first, kind of
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  Speaker 1: go chronologically here in our mind's eye, as you like
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  Speaker 1: to say. And I struggle to kind of come with
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  Speaker 1: any other conclusion that this might be Jed Fish's signature win. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you could look at Michigan in that first year as well.
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  Speaker 1: um you know a couple of the bowl games obviously
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  Speaker 1: but I think this was a huge turning point in
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  Speaker 1: the season uh for them that now that they got
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  Speaker 1: that one which I think was very much up in
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  Speaker 1: question Nebraska's been a good team all year long they
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  Speaker 1: just have struggled to kind of close things out here
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  Speaker 1: in the last couple weeks but do you think this
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  Speaker 1: was uh Jed Fish's signature win uh in his tenure
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  Speaker 1: here in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: I do not um I don't think there's been a
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  Speaker 3: signature win okay um the You know, you could say
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  Speaker 3: Illinois from last year when I think they were ranked
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  Speaker 3: about 23rd. But then they finished with four losses and unranked.
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  Speaker 3: The reason I don't is because Nebraska, they're two and
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  Speaker 3: three in conference. They were unranked before you played them.
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  Speaker 3: With their current head coach, they have had a losing
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  Speaker 3: conference record. And in fact... for what it's worth, they,
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  Speaker 3: they have a losing conference record in every season over
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  Speaker 3: the last 10.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're, they're 28 and 57, uh, in the last 10
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  Speaker 3: years in conference. Um, that's a three 29 win percentage. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I, and again, Nebraska was unranked.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, I don't know. I mean, I suppose if
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  Speaker 3: Washington had a history like Kansas, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 3: Kansas basketball. I'm talking about Kansas football. Maybe we'd throw
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  Speaker 3: in the word signature, but I think Washington has accomplished
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  Speaker 3: too much through the years to be calling a win
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  Speaker 3: against an unranked opponent a signature win. If that's a
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  Speaker 3: signature win, that's a pretty disappointing... Tenure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If we're going to throw that term around, it wasn't memorable.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was awful on offense through with a
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  Speaker 3: minute and a half to go. You had three points.
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  Speaker 3: You'd you'd you'd punted on eight of nine possessions.
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  Speaker 1: That.
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  Speaker 3: An incredible play on fourth and 18. I won't detract
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  Speaker 3: from that. That was an unbelievable throw and catch. Was
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  Speaker 3: there some good fortune attached to that? You decide. You
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  Speaker 3: saw it. But credit Washington to win. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to discredit the win, but your question specifically to me
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  Speaker 3: is signature win. And my answer would be no. How
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  Speaker 3: about you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the way you frame that
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  Speaker 1: there is we have higher standards here at Washington. I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you on that one. I just I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to look back at the two plus years that
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  Speaker 1: Jed Fish has now been a head coach of Washington.
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  Speaker 1: of the Washington Huskies. And to me, this was probably
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  Speaker 1: of all of the victories that he's had, I guess
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  Speaker 1: the most impressive. Now, as you said earlier, maybe that's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the low bar that we've set for ourselves at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Hopefully that can be exceeded in the near future.
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  Speaker 1: There are opportunities for that later this year. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that, This was a huge kind of
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  Speaker 1: turning point in the season. Now you're right. The game itself,
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  Speaker 1: or the vast majority of it, looked pitiful on offense.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to start on the defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball to kind of go positive first.
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  Speaker 3: Before you do that, I draw a distinction. If you
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  Speaker 3: want to say the best win, that question mandates an answer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how impressive it is. And you also
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  Speaker 3: just used the word impressive, most impressive. So if you
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  Speaker 3: want to say most impressive win, best win, without really
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  Speaker 3: having looked at the slate, as I said, I think Illinois,
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  Speaker 3: you could say the Maryland comeback in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 3: might have been most impressive, but that was against a
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  Speaker 3: four-win Maryland team. I referenced the Illinois. So if you
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  Speaker 3: want to say best win or most impressive win. Again,
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  Speaker 3: something has to be at the top, regardless of how
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  Speaker 3: impressive it is, if it's the most impressive. You could say,
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  Speaker 3: what's the most impressive vegetable you have to eat when
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  Speaker 3: you're a kid? And you say, well, I guess broccoli.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean you're really impressed with broccoli. That's a
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  Speaker 3: good point. But signature win implies something else to me. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and it implies, uh, you know, a, you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: like Sarkeesian, um, beating USC, uh, you know, in, in,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's, you know, at home, um, the,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a ranked team, a top three team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think SC was ranked number three when, when.
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  Speaker 1: It was 2010.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 2010. I think they were number three.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah. And, or, uh, you know, uh, new Heisel, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, beating the Miami hurricanes when the Huskies had
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  Speaker 3: one first round draft pick, uh, come out that tunnel
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  Speaker 3: in Miami had 17, you know, and, and, uh, they
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  Speaker 3: were a top five team. I can't remember exactly the ranking,
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  Speaker 3: but those are the type of things you say, okay, whoa,
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  Speaker 3: signature win like that. That's something around which you build a, uh,
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  Speaker 3: a significant career at the university of Washington. Um, in
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  Speaker 3: no way do I put, Saturday's game in that in
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  Speaker 3: those kind of terms.
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  Speaker 1: Totally. I think I think I agree with you. I
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  Speaker 1: was just more looking at relative terms. So I think
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  Speaker 1: for sure, if you're you could say at this point
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  Speaker 1: that Jed Fish maybe hasn't had a signature win, but
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  Speaker 1: of all the wins that he has had, that that
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  Speaker 1: at least is on the list of the most impressive games,
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  Speaker 1: I think, for um, for his victories.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, you know, it was, it looked grim there
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  Speaker 3: for most of it.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 3: So, so, and, and certainly, you know, uh, the season
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  Speaker 3: low in yards. Um, so, so I, now if you
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  Speaker 3: want to say, start throwing out flowers, um, for sure
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  Speaker 3: to the defense, um, you know, I, I can't believe how,
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  Speaker 3: how bad they are on, at the quarterback position, Nebraska and, and, And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they think their guy is Pat Mahomes the
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  Speaker 3: way that, you know, they had him rush for 40
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  Speaker 3: or excuse me, 44 pass attempts. Like, guys, did you
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  Speaker 3: watch the Iowa tape?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Did you did you did you see like did you
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  Speaker 3: ever try and and and just get anything going downhill
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  Speaker 3: in your running game? But in any event, yes, there
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  Speaker 3: would be plenty of flowers for the defense.
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  Speaker 1: But but as.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways, I think I made my point.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, absolutely. And let's start with the defense here,
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  Speaker 1: because I look at Nebraska's offense, and you kind of
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it there. The last two weeks, they obviously had
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  Speaker 1: narrow losses to Auburn. Oregon and to Indiana. Both were
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  Speaker 1: ranked at the time, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember if Oregon was last week. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: had dropped just out. But obviously, Indiana was a top
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  Speaker 1: five team at the time that that happened. 17 and
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  Speaker 1: 14 points, respectively. Nothing to get super excited about. But
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  Speaker 1: they had put up like points against basically everyone else
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  Speaker 1: that they had played. It's obviously just a big gap
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  Speaker 1: in talent because they hadn't really played anyone up until
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  Speaker 1: that point. So I guess my question was, this was
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  Speaker 1: the first time we were going to see Nebraska against
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  Speaker 1: maybe not the upper echelon of the Indiana's and Oregon's
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  Speaker 1: talent in college football, but not the early season cupcake
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  Speaker 1: schedule part. So I was curious to see what they did.
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  Speaker 1: And Huskies defense stepped up to the challenge and made
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  Speaker 1: it look more like the Indiana and Oregon defense that
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska had faced in the previous two weeks. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you see defensively that they were able to have
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  Speaker 1: success against Nebraska and Anthony Calandria?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that their secondary just was really sticky
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  Speaker 3: and opportunistic making plays. And Calandria, those two initial interceptions, uh, well,
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  Speaker 3: all three of his interceptions were ghastly really from a
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska perspective, but, but we're not in Lincoln doing a,
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  Speaker 3: a post game show in Lincoln.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so, so the, yeah, the secondary was, they
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  Speaker 3: were balling and, and making plays their length, playing with confidence, uh, pressing, playing, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 3: playing the zone coverage. I, I think, I think you
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  Speaker 3: start there, uh, You know, you can't say it was
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  Speaker 3: a supreme accomplishment defending the run because Nebraska didn't really
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  Speaker 3: try and get anything significant going on the ground. So
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  Speaker 3: to me, I would just say, you know, all the
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  Speaker 3: components attached to pass defense were there. The schemes. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have the sense that there was an overwhelming
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  Speaker 3: pass rush presence. Sure. So, so, you know, and certainly
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  Speaker 3: that's a component that's attached to, to, uh, past defense,
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  Speaker 3: but the coverage aspect of it was the best part
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  Speaker 3: of the football team. Uh, you know, other than maybe
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  Speaker 3: the punter who once again is just, you know, um,
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  Speaker 3: one of the best, you know, he's emerging. I, I
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  Speaker 3: should probably see more, but he's one of the best
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  Speaker 3: punting seasons I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, but yeah, that would, that would be my, my response.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Just, um, Making plays on the outside, down the field,
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  Speaker 3: when there was no safety help. Making plays in the middle,
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  Speaker 3: where you have to play sound zone coverage, knowing... where
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  Speaker 3: to pass guys off and understanding where the pattern recognition,
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  Speaker 3: just a really heck of a game from that regard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And so what I'm hearing from you
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  Speaker 1: is you're probably more on the not impressed with Nebraska's
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  Speaker 1: offense side of things than impressed with the Huskies defense
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  Speaker 1: from that game. Is that kind of where?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you have to separate, you know, Nebraska
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  Speaker 3: had their typical body bag games at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: the year. So, you know, rankings can, can be deceiving.
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  Speaker 3: I think Purdue, uh, of, of anybody that, that I've seen, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that the last time I saw a power
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  Speaker 3: four team look that bad on defense, just where you
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  Speaker 3: just throw on the tape and you go, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 3: they look like they're playing with nine guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, was Purdue this year. And then you have to
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  Speaker 3: go back to Louisville from, uh, in the bowl game
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years back where you just go, Now,
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  Speaker 3: there's times where it's the opposite. You throw on the tape.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the Alabama and Georgia days, when they had
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  Speaker 3: things rolling, Washington played Alabama, and it just looks like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: they've got 14 guys out there. And it doesn't take
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  Speaker 3: just them. There's times where you get that impression. About 5%
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  Speaker 3: of the time, 95% of the time, it just seems
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  Speaker 3: like you're watching football. 5% of the time, there's outlier games.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought Purdue was that bad. Um, but, but, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so, so I think, uh, I think from
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  Speaker 3: the standpoint of, of looking at Nebraska's offense, I just,
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  Speaker 3: I think their quarterback and, and how they, they utilized him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, um, was just about as bad as it
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  Speaker 3: could get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's flip to the other side of the ball. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it gets really a tale of two stories here. It's
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  Speaker 1: the first, you know, All but one minute of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Not all but one minute. Probably the first three and
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  Speaker 1: a half quarters of the game. And then it's really
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  Speaker 1: once DeMond Williams comes in and it looks completely different.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the quarterback kind of comparison a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on in the show. But just offensively, what
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  Speaker 1: did you see that was just not working for the
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of the game so far?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think they couldn't really get anything sustained in
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  Speaker 3: the running game. You know, that's not surprising because that's
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  Speaker 3: the way they've been, I think, right now. Officially, the
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  Speaker 3: Husky offense, 95 yards per game rushing, is 18th out
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  Speaker 3: of 18 teams in the Big Ten and 135th out
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  Speaker 3: of 138. Did you get that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's the official– and for decades and decades forever, I think,
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  Speaker 3: they've added sacks. So you might be going, well, if
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  Speaker 3: they're last in the league in sacks, which they are,
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't that be reflective? Okay. Rushing sacks removed, they're 114.7
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  Speaker 3: yards per game. That's 17th in the conference, and that's
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  Speaker 3: 133rd in FBS.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: So they're kind of a junk show running the football
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  Speaker 3: on the season, right? Is that a fair description? And
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  Speaker 3: so they didn't really get that going. And then you
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  Speaker 3: had Elijah Brown. He wasn't able to find the quick
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  Speaker 3: windows that he had coming into the game. If you
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  Speaker 3: round to the nearest digit, the math was really clear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Elijah Brown... he had 60% of his passes out in
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  Speaker 3: under two and a half seconds. Okay, 6-0. And DeMond
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  Speaker 3: Williams had 40%. So the comparison was very easy. And
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  Speaker 3: so he thrived on getting rid of the ball early. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I think Nebraska did a good job of kind of
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  Speaker 3: taking away those quick throws early on. I think the
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  Speaker 3: first pass of the game, yeah, the first pass of
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  Speaker 3: the game, They're trying to hit a slant of sorts,
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  Speaker 3: a little glance over the middle. And Nebraska Corner just
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  Speaker 3: jumped it and by all rights should have had an interception.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 3: And so those type of RPO opportunities and play action
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  Speaker 3: opportunities kind of got shut down right from the jump.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And then the arm strength you saw– a real market,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just market, just lacking in arm strength in
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  Speaker 3: Eliza Brown. You know, I think that was more evident.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he couldn't drive the ball into holes when
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  Speaker 3: he was a tick late and he couldn't drive the
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  Speaker 3: ball to the outside or up the field. And so,
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  Speaker 3: so some of his physical limitations kind of were brought
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  Speaker 3: to light in terms of his athleticism and his, His
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  Speaker 3: inability to knife balls into windows. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: just made for a frustrating night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Just generally then, when DeMond Williams came in, were they
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  Speaker 1: doing something differently? Did a light kind of go on
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  Speaker 1: for DeMond? We'll get into kind of the quarterback comparison
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  Speaker 1: later on in the show, but... It obviously looked much
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  Speaker 1: better than it did with Elijah Brown just in that
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  Speaker 1: little bit that DeMond Williams came in and then led
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  Speaker 1: the team down to score.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you give DeMond Williams a lot of credit for
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: having his mind, his headspace correct. By all accounts, he
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: has been supportive of Elijah Brown. He hasn't pouted. He's
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: had his head in the game in the event that
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: he was going to play. I think Fish kind of managed–
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: DeMond the correct way through all of this. You know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: he told Eliza Brown, you're starting on Monday. I think
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: that's a good, that that's a good decision by Eliza
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Brown the entire week. But, but he told DeMond, Hey,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you're going to play the, you know, he kept him
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: engaged by saying that we're going to have a package
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: for you. And you saw that, that double pass. So
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: at least DeMond knew for sure that even if Eliza
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Brown was getting off, that he was at least going
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to play. So that probably, forced his attention, and then
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: he said, hey, make sure you're ready, make sure you're ready,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: and then called on him at the right point. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: think that the way that was all handled, I think
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: you give credit to both Jed Fish and DeMond Williams.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Totally.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: For how the decisions they made and the decision DeMond
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: made with his own attitude, right? That's a choice.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: But then when he came in, it appeared that Nebraska,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: having gone– three quarters with, with Elijah Brown just weren't
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: ready for that type of athleticism.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: And, uh, you know, I had a big run down
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: the left sideline and then on third and 14 got
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: 15 or 16 yards. Uh, you know, that, that was, uh,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: that was his own coverage if I have it right. Um,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: and they just, you know, in theory they would have
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: all eyes on him and, uh, and, and, and he,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: yet he just found, um, creases in that zone and
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: and his explosiveness was notable i'm sure all the nebraska
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: fans were like who's this new cat right because he
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: just you know he has juice that that not only
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: eliza brown doesn't have uh very few college quarterbacks in
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the big 10 or any other conference have that kind
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of juice.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Right and a big what fourth down conversion maybe his
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: third down on with his legs as.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Well the Yeah, that's what I was talking about, the
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: third and 14 when he ran it up the middle
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and then he went to the right side. And then,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you know, the third and 18– or the fourth and
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: 18 was, you know, the game's on the line. That's
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: damn near Hail Mary category.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: That's like a half a notch below a Hail Mary
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: in terms of the improbability. But you know what? If
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: you say, okay, what throw is it going to take
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and what catch is it going to take, and guys–
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: rise to that high of a level on a play,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: then you give them credit.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Um, I would hate to, uh, you know, it feels
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit like stepping up to a roll that will, and, and, uh,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: you know, putting a thousand dollars down on number 19
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and then rolling one ball.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, it's, it's, it's a lot, odds
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: are long there, but, um, but, but the execution was incredible. So,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: so yeah, yeah. But to answer your question, I think
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that you had a guy, a competitor that, that, through
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: everything that's happened to him, maintained the right mindset, kind
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: of played with clenched teeth. I mean that figuratively and literally.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly how you'd want him to be.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely looked like he was trying to prove
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: something when he went out there. And he made the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: plays when you absolutely needed him to. And the Huskies
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: get the win 17-10 versus Nebraska. They have a chance
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to really kind of do something great. have a better season.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I think most did a couple of weeks ago. So, uh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that hopefully they can kind of continue to do that.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more dogs. Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: But you know, okay. So, so you're going to go,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: you're going to go what? Seven and five.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I think there's, you know, I mean, I don't know.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, wake me up when, when, you know, something happens.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I agree. I just think in compared to where people
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: thought they were at, they, I don't know, maybe it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: wishful thinking and my hatred for Oregon, uh, They didn't
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: look great yesterday either, and they're kind of reeling. There's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for a win down in Eugene at the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: end of the year if you're really kind of playing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: good football by that point, and if your only loss
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: at that point is against Indiana, which I think most
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: people would chalk up to be a loss, then you're
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: at 8-4.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. So that's beating Penn State, beating Michigan State.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Lose Indiana. All right. So you're eight and four. You're
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: not you're not in the playoffs.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: So when you say compared to where they were, you're
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: going to have to establish a date.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Because because now I assume you mean after the the really,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you know, the start.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: After the Iowa non-conference. And then certainly after the Iowa game,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: that would have felt like the low point.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: So, yes, on that date. But what about, you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: you know, 4th of July or, you know, or, or
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: mid August or, or even Labor Day.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: No. Yeah, you're right.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Then you would have said, wait a minute, you're in
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: year three. No, no, this doesn't, this, this seems disappointing.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: We were nine and three last year, you know, played
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: in a, in a totally insignificant bowl game a year ago. So,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: so to have a step back from that, um, you know, I'm,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna, I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna dance with
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: you on the, on the, Hey, you know, that's going
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to be pretty good, you know, pretty good to make
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: a bowl game based on where you at.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Where you were at after Iowa was shocking.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Right. It's hard to remember what you thought this season
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: was going to be.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine a world that you either meet
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: or exceed the expectations that most Husky fans had going
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: into the season. Well, yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And, and when, when the head coach was told, Hey,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: year three, uh, um, Jim Owens won the conference, uh,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: year three, Don James won the conference year three, Chris
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Peterson won the conference.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And the head coach's reply was, well, if that was
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: the big 10, I, uh, I would be impressed. Now
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: you talk about squatting on those coaches and every player that, uh,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: played on those teams. Um, I wasn't on one of
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: those teams, so I'm not talking about myself, but I
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: know guys that were on that, those teams, uh, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: know guys that were on all three of those teams. And, um, And,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: you know, so to take a shot like that in
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: year three, the point is, OK, things ought to be humming.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm not going to be OK, even
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: even best case, reasonable blue sky, eight and four insignificant bowl. No,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm like I said, wake me up.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Year three was supposed to be more.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I think most Husky fans would agree with that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Let's let's find out what's on tap for the rest
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of the show.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: To Chuck in the Morning. Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd, and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we got a special guest, Hugh Millen, joining us for
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the four full four hours today as we're leading you
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: into Seahawks versus Bears. But on a 6.30 on a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Monday morning, we always do. Our NFL scoreboard segment, but
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: we don't call it NFL scoreboard. We like to keep
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the spirit of Dan Wilson in this house. So wins
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and tough ones, we call it. And let's start with
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a big game. Cardinals 33, Cowboys 30 in overtime. Gardu
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Minshew comes in for a struggling Jacoby Brissett and leads
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals to an improbable comeback victory. Hugh Millen, Cowboys
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: are 1-9 in their last 10 games versus the Cardinals.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole scaffolding is just coming apart for the Cowboys. And,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: you know, Jerry Jones slamming the desk on that field goal.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's as bad as it gets for America's
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: team to lose to the Arizona Cardinals up two touchdowns
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter to a backup QB. It almost
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: feels like rock bottom. And I don't think it's Dak
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Prescott's fault. But at some point, people are going to
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: turn their ire at him as well. So, yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's the way it goes. It's the way it goes
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: for that team. Let's do a little throwback game, why
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: don't we? Buccaneers 16, Falcons 0. And for the first
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: time since 1974, a team failed to complete a pass
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in an NFL game. And that team won, Hugh Millen,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers not completing a single pass en route
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to a 16-0 victory.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that sounds like rugby to me.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I'm glad I wasn't there, and I'm more glad that
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't play in it. I know Michael Penix was
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: kind of on the record, but I know he was
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: not fond of throwing a wet football. He came to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Washington because it was the best opportunity for his life
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: and his career. But he struggled three interceptions. And, you know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I think the best part of that game is that
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: eventually the clock got to double zero.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. Bills 36, Ravens 10. Lamar Jackson injures
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: his thumb on the first play from scrimmage. And even
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Stu Puntley gets hurt. So Ravens go to their third
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: string quarterback and they lose to the Bills.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a five and one Bills team playing
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: at home. And now it quickly turned into a September
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: college football body bag game. Like, oh, you mean we're
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: playing Eastern Michigan? Yeah. At that juncture, it was all
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: over but the crying. What looked to be a heck
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: of a matchup. And then now it's just another year
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: gone by. Now, Lamar Jackson, he's on IR. They said
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: it could be out for the year, I suppose. We
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: don't put all the dirt on the casket or on
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: the coffin for the 2026 season for the Ravens, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: it feels like they're in the coffin and highly unlikely
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: that they're going to be able to get to the
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl this year under Lamar Jackson, so that's another year.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the AFC North, Steelers 27, Browns 6. Steelers
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: keep Cleveland out of the end zone for the fourth
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: straight win as the AFC North race heats up.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this running back for Pittsburgh that's emerged,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, an undrafted free agent has just changed everything.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're running draws on third and 14 and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: getting 16 yards routinely. So, yeah, he has really changed
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the fortunes, and it just reminds you scouting is elusive
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: because he is a game changer in that division, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: he went undrafted.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Jags blow out. the colts 42 to 7 the colts
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: continue their spiral as more teams start to circle them
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for trades lots of uh jonathan taylor uh you know
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: rumors out there yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: And jonathan taylor was interviewed he said hey i was
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: part of the problem i didn't i didn't play well
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: right And in talking about just how humiliating and embarrassing
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: it is, I mean, that is a tough ask for
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: those players when you get rid of Quentin Nelson and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: DeForest Buckner. Essentially, the upper manager says, we don't believe
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: in you. We're not playing for 2026. Oh, by the way,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: now let's get on a plane and go down and
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: play a team in your division as quality as the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars. And go get them, boys. It's easy to
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: say after the fact you could see that coming, but, man,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: we should have seen that coming.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Raiders 38, Jets 33. If I were to tell
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you that going into yesterday's game, Kirk Cousins led the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: leading in passing touchdowns, which I had no idea was
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the case. He tosses three more in yesterday's win.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I would say, and I believe that Kirk Cousins has
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: got more out of a limited– physical traits and talent
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: for that position. He has got more productivity and more
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: good quarterbacking, if not always great, but he's got more
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: good to very good quarterbacking out of the most limited
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: skill set that we traditionally think of. Now, he's got
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: decent height, but he's a skinny guy, doesn't move great,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: doesn't have a strong arm. But he's very accurate. He
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: plays with anticipation. He's very smart. And I don't want
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: to say I marvel at his quarterbacking because he's not
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: that good. But again, his accountant would turn around and say, yeah,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I think he's pretty good. I think the guy's made
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: about $ 250 million in his career. And talk about a
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: fourth-rounder coming in the league with as I said, a
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: limited physical toolbox. He's got more out of less than
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: any quarterback I've ever seen.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of my most intriguing games of the day,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Lions 19, Vikings 15. One of the mysteries in the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: NFL this season is how to solve Brian Flores' exotic
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and high-rate blitzing. So the Lions' answer for that, Hugh,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: run the ball. That's what they did in the second half.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Run the ball. And Jared Goff is, now this wouldn't
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: be the, the week to really bring this up, but he's, he,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: he might be having his best season and, uh, and,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: and he, he was efficient and, and productive when he
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: needed to be, uh, when they were losing in the
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. So he's made the plays. Of course they
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: have Amon Ross St. Brown, but yeah, um, uh, a
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: great team win and, and, uh, uh, and, and the
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: offensive questions still remain that they, they, they were part
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: of that six and no Viking team. Like, Oh, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: don't know about this. You know, Kyler Murray, uh, I'm
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: not a believer in. And I think it all kind
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: of played out that way.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's rapid fire through a couple here. Bengals 43,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Titans 36. They show some fight, but Joe Burrell's 462
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and five touchdowns were too much. Rams 24, Chargers 9.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Chargers are still winless, and the Patriots survive a potential
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: trap game in Miami for a 24-19 victory. The one
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on here is the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Broncos come back 28-24 against the Chiefs to hand them
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: their second straight loss of the season after starting 5-0.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you were going to go Bengals. I
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: wanted to run it by you. How does 17 for 19,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: does this sound like a good game? 17 for 19
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: for 258 yards, two touchdowns, no picks, and a rushing touchdown.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Would that be a good game for a quarterback?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I think that sounds pretty good.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: That's what Joe Burrow was in the fourth quarter and overtime.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Alone. Yeah.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: And a perfect pass rating. I watched every play of
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the Denver game. You know, I think on some level,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Seattle handed Denver a blueprint. And even though Nix just struggles,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: since his second year, not only is he number one
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: in most game-winning drives and fourth-quarter comebacks, it's not close.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: This guy has an ability to just rise up, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: as improbable as it was, you'd say, wait a minute,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: maybe it's more probable than we think because Nix keeps
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: doing it. Hell of a goal line stand, unbelievable goal
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: line stand at the end. That's as good a regular
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: season football– as you're probably likely to request. In all fairness,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: that was a hell of a game.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Really felt like a playoff atmosphere. I was also watching
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of that game. And then on Sunday Night Football,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Commanders dominate the Eagles for their sixth straight loss after
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: starting the season 2-0. All right, coming up next here
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: on Chuck in the Morning, we're going to get the
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: classic question, where are your eyes going? We're going to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: ask that a few million coming up for Seahawks Bears
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back, Sports Radio 93.3
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Chuck in the morning here. This is not Chuck,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: believe it or not. He is on vacation for the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: next couple of days. So myself, Anderson Hirsch, Christopher Kidd,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and we got a special guest all day today for
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the show. Hugh Millen helping us break down Seahawks, Bears
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and Hugh. Just a couple minutes here. So I want
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you to help me set the scene for what should
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: be a fantastic matchup for the Bears and the Seahawks tonight.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Where are your eyes going? What are you looking for
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: tonight as the Seahawks look to continue their kind of
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: rejuvenation here after the Chiefs win?
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that the combination of head coach and quarterback,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: when you look at the Bears, I will argue is
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: they're the most arrogant team If you just said 50%
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: head coach, 50% quarterback, and they're both good at what
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: they do. So in many ways, it's justified. But compared
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: to Sam Darnold and Mike McDonald, there's no comparison in
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: terms of the humility scale. So you've got a guy,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, a week ago, Andy Reid came in here,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: and I think he just thought, hey, Chiefs offense against
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Seahawks defense. This coach, Ben Johnson, is like, no. Ben
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Johnson offense against Mike McDonald. And we'll get to more
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  Speaker 3: of that later. I've got some quotes from him that–
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  Speaker 3: not about Mike McDonald, but just about his nature that
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  Speaker 3: I might convince you. But I'm looking– so first of all,
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, I think, is the number one overall pick.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's in a category– with John Elway, um, and,
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  Speaker 3: and kind of once in a generation talents. Now he's
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  Speaker 3: only six, one and Elway was six, three. And as
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  Speaker 3: Mel Kiper said, quote, this is last spring. He goes, uh, well, well,
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  Speaker 3: that guy's not my number one of all time. Um,
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  Speaker 3: my number one of all time will always be John Elway. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but Caleb Williams in terms of what he
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  Speaker 3: does as an athlete and what, what he does with
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  Speaker 3: his arm talent is, um, is Elway-like. His explosive rate,
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  Speaker 3: that's passes of 20-plus yards or runs of 10 or
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  Speaker 3: more yards, 12.7%. That's behind only Josh Allen, who's number one,
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  Speaker 3: and Brock Purdy, who's number two. His scrambling out of
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  Speaker 3: the pocket, that is a concern we'll talk about. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: can we keep them in the pocket? Luther Burden, number 10,
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  Speaker 3: slot receiver. Usually when I look up a guy's height
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  Speaker 3: and weight, I've got a fairly good idea about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised often. When I looked up Luther Burden,
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was closer to 6'1, maybe even 6'2.
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  Speaker 3: He's listed at 5'11, but 208, thick dude.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays physical.
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  Speaker 3: Very explosive.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Now, he was supposed to be a first-rounder in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people's eyes. He went to the second round.
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  Speaker 3: I think he plays with a chip on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: He plays with violence. He's in the slot, 162 snaps.
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  Speaker 3: Out wide, 154. So he'll beat you from different areas.
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  Speaker 3: He's a load. And then also Colston Loveland, their tight
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  Speaker 3: end from Michigan, A.J. Barner's former teammate. Those guys over
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  Speaker 3: the middle, when you pair that with the, uh, play action,
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  Speaker 3: Chicago's play action, 80 attempts, that's number one. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: So the Seahawks have to be aware of the play
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  Speaker 3: action and not let the tight end get in behind
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  Speaker 3: you coming off of play action.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Or Luther Burden, those guys in the middle. So Julian Love,
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  Speaker 3: you're in competent hands there. I'm not just saying it's
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  Speaker 3: always a safety, but, you know, the linebackers on both safeties,
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  Speaker 3: Ty Okada in the area. But I think Julian Love
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  Speaker 3: will be key in the– in sorting that out. And
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  Speaker 3: then the other side, you know, I know we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do more of a breakdown. For sure. The thing
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  Speaker 3: that I'll be watching most on offense, quite honestly, is
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Quentin Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, what kind of running scheme? Quentin Nelson
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  Speaker 3: was in the press conference. He says, how is Seattle
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  Speaker 3: different from the Colts? I think one of the first
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  Speaker 3: things out of his mouth was everybody knows Seattle plays
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  Speaker 3: with the fullback. implying that that's different for him. What
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  Speaker 3: does that mean when Nelson's up? and he's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: he's run outside zone, he's run inside zone, he's run power,
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  Speaker 3: he's run counter, all the plays. Maybe it's not the
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  Speaker 3: same terminology, but he's run all the plays. He's run duo.
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  Speaker 3: He knows the plays. But if he's used to playing
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  Speaker 3: in a box count without a fullback, he might be
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  Speaker 3: thinking an extra tick. So does Seattle back off on
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  Speaker 3: their use of the fullback? I doubt it, but that
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  Speaker 3: would be something. And then how often do they call
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  Speaker 3: protections where now the center is going to, on a
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  Speaker 3: normal four-man front, do the center slide to the right
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  Speaker 3: and help Gray Zabel, who's got a bigger transition going
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  Speaker 3: from left guard to right guard? Can you call more
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  Speaker 3: protections where, again, the center, okay, four-man front, is the
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  Speaker 3: center turning to the right and the back to the
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  Speaker 3: left or vice versa? I would be inclined to have
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  Speaker 3: a good number of those pass plays with a protection
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  Speaker 3: where the center is going to the right. You're more
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  Speaker 3: likely to get the double team. And that's where Jeffrey Simmons,
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  Speaker 3: more often he lines up all over the place, but
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  Speaker 3: his number one position is defensive left tackle. And that
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  Speaker 3: would be lining up over the right guard. So So
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  Speaker 3: those are just some things. I know this is the
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  Speaker 3: short segment. Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have tons of time for a deeper kind of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: deep dive a little bit later on in the show.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But coming up next, we're going to chat with Greg Beller,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Seahawks insider. What's the update in the running back situation?
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear from the guy with the boots on the
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  Speaker 1: ground next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.