Latest / The Ian Furness Show / Furness Show 12-2: NFL Power Rankings, Cougar Roundtable, John Lund
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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, what do we got going on to I
- 0:01Speaker 1: want to get up the Seahawks thing. I think tomorrow,
- 0:05Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be out there and get a
- 0:06Speaker 1: couple of interviews, do some stuff. So the power rankings
- 0:10Speaker 1: thing is fun. I do like power rankings are fun
- 0:13Speaker 1: because the NFL doesn't matter. Subjective college football matters NFL.
- 0:18Speaker 1: It doesn't because it's who wins. I'm I've believed in
- 0:22Speaker 1: the Seahawks team all year. I like the Seahawks team
- 0:26Speaker 1: a lot. I don't know if they're the number two
- 0:29Speaker 1: team in the NFL really, only because I do have
- 0:32Speaker 1: concerns about that offense, specifically the offensive line. I think
- 0:36Speaker 1: that's that's the concern.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Yeah, every teams though extensive conversation yesterday with you, by
- 0:42Speaker 2: the way, about about the guard position.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Yes as well, just the whole Yeah, I need to
- 0:50Speaker 1: see I need to see a couple now. Listen. Their
- 0:52Speaker 1: defense is solely doesn't matter, right, I think I Hugh
- 0:57Speaker 1: had a Heuan Softy and and f more at four
- 1:00Speaker 1: yesterday brought up you know, some of the some of
- 1:03Speaker 1: the least productive games that Sam Donald's had have come
- 1:06Speaker 1: in the last four weeks.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Yep, So.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I still believe in Sam first of all. And one
- 1:13Speaker 1: thing you'll never hear me doubt or question is the
- 1:16Speaker 1: decision to move on from Geno and go to Sam Donald. Ever,
- 1:20Speaker 1: I just I want to see that offensive line just
- 1:21Speaker 1: get a little bit better. I want to see Klint
- 1:23Speaker 1: Kubiak react to things like Brian Flore's blitz better. You know,
- 1:28Speaker 1: And I thought that, you know, in a twenty six
- 1:31Speaker 1: to nothing game, there's no reason to throw too much
- 1:33Speaker 1: shade at them. But it wasn't a great game offensively
- 1:37Speaker 1: at all, and the consistent ability to run the football
- 1:44Speaker 1: is still missing a little bit. I think the bigger
- 1:47Speaker 1: thing is is they're really missing Tory Horton. I think
- 1:49Speaker 1: they need that secondary threat. Rashid Shihet has not been
- 1:52Speaker 1: it yet. He's great on the punt returns, I mean
- 1:55Speaker 1: kick off returns. He's like, that's that's a I like,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if him just
- 2:01Speaker 1: on special teams is worth the draft picks. But I
- 2:05Speaker 1: do feel as if there's a powder keg there that
- 2:07Speaker 1: could change and flip a game pretty quick already has,
- 2:11Speaker 1: but come playoff time, all of a sudden, he houses one.
- 2:16Speaker 1: You know, Okay, you know, it's worth it. But but
- 2:20Speaker 1: I want to see more from him at the receiver position.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I want to see more than just jsn Aj. Barner
- 2:27Speaker 1: has been a revelation. He's been really good, like really
- 2:30Speaker 1: good for them at the tight end position. But yeah,
- 2:33Speaker 1: you're right, Anders, every team has blemishes. I'm not quite
- 2:37Speaker 1: sure what the Rams blemishes. Not quite sure what that is.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Deep at receiver. They got two absolute they got two
- 2:45Speaker 1: absolute hammers. They're solid at tight end. Kyron Williams is
- 2:49Speaker 1: a dude. Blake Korum has been really good in his
- 2:52Speaker 1: second year. Staffords the best quarterback probably in the league
- 2:54Speaker 1: right now. Sorry, I mean I know that Mahomes and
- 2:57Speaker 1: all them just look at just watch him. He's great.
- 3:00Speaker 1: And their defense is pretty damn good. Yeah, that's why
- 3:03Speaker 1: I'd say them probably won. And I think the Seahawks
- 3:05Speaker 1: have a shower for being number two, So I don't
- 3:07Speaker 1: think that's that far off. Where did the Patriots fall
- 3:09Speaker 1: into that?
- 3:10Speaker 3: No, I haven't played anyone.
- 3:12Speaker 1: I'm just saying, where do the Patriots fall into that?
- 3:15Speaker 1: Every time I want to doubt them, and I know
- 3:17Speaker 1: I made I made fun of the game last night.
- 3:19Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not watching this crap. And I ended
- 3:22Speaker 1: up watching it for a while, and then I flipped
- 3:24Speaker 1: it over to watch the Jets of the Sabers, and
- 3:26Speaker 1: I flipped right back because it was five to nothing.
- 3:27Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm done. Five to one.
- 3:30Speaker 4: I think they're fools gold to be honest.
- 3:32Speaker 1: I want to think that too, Jess, and I think
- 3:34Speaker 1: that's the it's it's a rational thought. It is. It's
- 3:38Speaker 1: a rational thought to have because look at them, like
- 3:41Speaker 1: they're the Patriots. No Belichick, no Brady, no bled So,
- 3:45Speaker 1: no Steve Grogan, none of that. I mean, it doesn't
- 3:47Speaker 1: matter you go back in time. But they just keep
- 3:51Speaker 1: winning and they're ten and two.
- 3:52Speaker 5: I'm not a Drake made doubterer, so I don't even
- 3:54Speaker 5: think that's the part that's like the other shoe will drop.
- 3:57Speaker 5: I don't think their defense is like that elite, you
- 3:59Speaker 5: know what I mean.
- 4:00Speaker 1: And they played ambulance. The team they played last night's awful.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Yeah it's it's awful, but they're they're there. But the
- 4:05Speaker 1: defense plays physical. Man, there a reflection to their coach.
- 4:09Speaker 1: They are reflecting their coach. So uh, all right, I
- 4:11Speaker 1: want to get just real quick. I mentioned college football.
- 4:14Speaker 1: M J and I were talking a moment ago. College
- 4:17Speaker 1: FOOTBA playoffs starts tonight. You know, he's talking about the
- 4:21Speaker 1: I said to remind him, I said, you might want
- 4:23Speaker 1: to talk to your friends down in Ole, Miss. But
- 4:26Speaker 1: the the the problems with the game right now, and
- 4:30Speaker 1: we're going to address this with Alex and MK in
- 4:32Speaker 1: a minute with the cook ground table. We'll get a
- 4:34Speaker 1: little bigger picture with them. I just the more I hear,
- 4:38Speaker 1: see and watch of Lane Kiffin, the more I'm absolutely disgusted,
- 4:42Speaker 1: and I'm disgusted that a guy like that is in
- 4:46Speaker 1: a position he is in. I'm more disappointed in something
- 4:52Speaker 1: that we've all across the country complained about for decades,
- 4:56Speaker 1: the lack of leadership in college football. Well, when is
- 5:00Speaker 1: an adult in the room going to stand up that
- 5:02Speaker 1: has the ability to do so and change it? Like,
- 5:04Speaker 1: when is that going to happen? You know? I joked
- 5:07Speaker 1: yesterday about the Softy plan, and Softy is not the
- 5:09Speaker 1: only one, but it's the legitimate, the biggest thing with
- 5:13Speaker 1: college football, the biggest issue, and Huffman's going to be
- 5:16Speaker 1: with us probably Thursday. I gotta figure out the time, Jess,
- 5:19Speaker 1: when's here Thursday? Because it's early signing day tomorrow, and
- 5:22Speaker 1: I'll talk to him about this because he's this is
- 5:24Speaker 1: his world. He lives in this. They changed the early
- 5:27Speaker 1: signing because, frankly, coaches didn't want to have to worry
- 5:29Speaker 1: about losing their players. They got a guy committed in
- 5:32Speaker 1: September and October, and they want to get that guy's
- 5:34Speaker 1: in signature on a letter of intent. Well, a letter
- 5:37Speaker 1: of intent don't really matter anymore because it's a different
- 5:39Speaker 1: world now. It's an il, it's I don't even know
- 5:42Speaker 1: what they call it. He'll explain it to his skin tomorrow.
- 5:45Speaker 1: But that's why they changed the letter of intent day
- 5:48Speaker 1: or commitment day to two. There's one now and there's
- 5:52Speaker 1: still the one in February. This one is the one
- 5:54Speaker 1: that matters more sort of, although with all the coaching changes,
- 5:56Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. We'll talk to Brandan about that. But
- 5:58Speaker 1: here's the thing, Like as Safty pointed out in his tweet,
- 6:02Speaker 1: and he's one hundred percent right, and other people have
- 6:03Speaker 1: said the same thing. We'll talk to Mandela Marle. It's
- 6:06Speaker 1: really not that difficult. The game has evolved and changed.
- 6:10Speaker 1: The reason that these coaches wanted to have and didn't
- 6:13Speaker 1: and want to have the calendar like it is is
- 6:15Speaker 1: because they want to have their players available for them
- 6:19Speaker 1: in their buildings, starting with offseason workouts in January and
- 6:22Speaker 1: a spring practice in March or April, and they have
- 6:26Speaker 1: to be in school for that. That means that you
- 6:29Speaker 1: have kids transferring and tapping out during a season, you
- 6:32Speaker 1: have coaches leaving programs in the middle of a playoff
- 6:35Speaker 1: or bowl season, what have you. And it really isn't
- 6:40Speaker 1: that difficult. You want to be like the NFL. You
- 6:43Speaker 1: want to be the NFL model. That's kind of where
- 6:47Speaker 1: players are getting paid, coaches are getting paid at zillion dollars.
- 6:49Speaker 1: You want to be the NFL model. Follow the NFL.
- 6:54Speaker 1: The NFL would never allow a coach to leave for
- 6:56Speaker 1: another school or another program in the middle of the season.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Never allowed players just to say, yeah, I signed an
- 7:03Speaker 1: NIL or NFL contract, They're the same damn thing now
- 7:07Speaker 1: and just tap out and go somewhere else in the
- 7:09Speaker 1: middle of a season. There is a time and a
- 7:11Speaker 1: place for free agency for coaches and players. Pro sports
- 7:14Speaker 1: do it. They've given you a template, they've given you
- 7:16Speaker 1: a model. Figured it out. Just figure it out. But
- 7:20Speaker 1: until then we're all going to complain and scream and
- 7:22Speaker 1: yell and talk about the ills of the game. The
- 7:24Speaker 1: ills of the game on the field aren't there. People
- 7:26Speaker 1: are watching, they're enthusiastic, they're loving it. The Super Conference
- 7:29Speaker 1: thing seems to be working, but there are issues because
- 7:32Speaker 1: every year a couple of schools and a whole bunch
- 7:36Speaker 1: of hundreds of athletes. Student athletes get screwed over. That's
- 7:39Speaker 1: how it works. Fix it. It's not that hard. We'll
- 7:41Speaker 1: talk about that with MK and Alex coming up.
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- 8:36Speaker 1: Time to check in with our Koug legends. QB one,
- 8:40Speaker 1: QB ten as he wore back in the day, Alex
- 8:42Speaker 1: Drink and of course the Pac ten sac leader there
- 8:45Speaker 1: he is, and Crystal Bruce MK is with us. Let's go, uh,
- 8:49Speaker 1: wrapping up the regular season, looking ahead a little bit
- 8:51Speaker 1: to the bowl season coming up and all of that,
- 8:55Speaker 1: and also the holidays upon us. So it's the glorious
- 8:58Speaker 1: time of the year. Be good to have the fellows
- 9:00Speaker 1: back with us. Our last regular scheduled visit this year.
- 9:03Speaker 1: We may do one after the bowl game to put
- 9:05Speaker 1: a bow on things, but let's just go and to
- 9:07Speaker 1: go through some stuff right now. Fellas. Great to have
- 9:09Speaker 1: you on Alex. They get the six win on Saturday,
- 9:12Speaker 1: do the Cougs. It's just big, Like I know, it
- 9:15Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a lot six and six, but that
- 9:18Speaker 1: was that was big?
- 9:19Speaker 10: Wasn't it huge?
- 9:20Speaker 11: I mean, look, there's there's something to I saw this
- 9:23Speaker 11: stat that popped up, and I think it's very indicative
- 9:26Speaker 11: of how people just thinking about Washington State football. You know,
- 9:30Speaker 11: Washington State it's been to nine bowl games, right in
- 9:32Speaker 11: the last ten years, not counting the COVID year. Right
- 9:35Speaker 11: in that time, USC has been to five, I think,
- 9:38Speaker 11: and UC has been to four. Right, So on the
- 9:42Speaker 11: West coast, you know, Washington State football has been as
- 9:45Speaker 11: good as anybody in the last you know, ten or
- 9:47Speaker 11: fifteen years. And I think that the yeah, the ability
- 9:51Speaker 11: to maintain that streak and continue that is super important.
- 9:54Speaker 11: I think also, right, like that was an important football
- 9:57Speaker 11: game with a lot on the line. So when you
- 9:59Speaker 11: talk about nineteen twenty twenty one year olds, it's that's hard, right,
- 10:03Speaker 11: It's easy to stub your toe along the way and
- 10:06Speaker 11: make mistakes. And I thought the coaching SAT did a
- 10:08Speaker 11: great job getting kids ready to go, and the kids
- 10:10Speaker 11: came ready to play, and there was never a doubt.
- 10:12Speaker 11: I mean it was it was over midway between the
- 10:13Speaker 11: second midway and the second quarter.
- 10:15Speaker 12: Yeah, this, I mean, this is how it should have
- 10:17Speaker 12: been the first time they played. And I was telling
- 10:18Speaker 12: everybody that they're going to oh man, it's gonna be
- 10:20Speaker 12: a one or two score games, Like it is absolutely not.
- 10:22Speaker 12: They had Washington State had a chip on their shoulder
- 10:24Speaker 12: and defensively hold him scoreless. For three quarters in a row,
- 10:27Speaker 12: like it's they had something, they're proven and walk around
- 10:30Speaker 12: on the sideline. I got to see sideline one. Jessman
- 10:33Speaker 12: down there in action. But I'm telling you, the feeling
- 10:36Speaker 12: on that sideline was how Washington State. That's the Washington State.
- 10:40Speaker 12: I remember, people are jumping around excited, coaches are going nuts,
- 10:44Speaker 12: the players were going nuts. They came to play.
- 10:46Speaker 1: What does that say MK about what Jimmy Rodgers and
- 10:51Speaker 1: his staff have done for this particular reason. That game
- 10:55Speaker 1: played the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Yeah, what's on the line.
- 10:59Speaker 1: We understand what's on the line getting a bowl game?
- 11:02Speaker 1: Alex mentioned it. I think it's Oregon, Washington. I'm thinking
- 11:05Speaker 1: of West Coast schools, Oregon, Washington, Utah. Believe the only
- 11:08Speaker 1: schools that have had that maybe have been in like
- 11:11Speaker 1: that same level right in terms of getting a bull
- 11:13Speaker 1: eligibility to do that, Alex, I mean, that's pretty good,
- 11:14Speaker 1: heady company to be in with those schools. So that's
- 11:17Speaker 1: big to get to that point. Big because what we
- 11:19Speaker 1: can we'll talk about in a minute what it means.
- 11:22Speaker 1: But it's a six you know, a five and six
- 11:24Speaker 1: team day after two days after Thanksgiving. Most of the
- 11:27Speaker 1: students aren't back. It's not like Apple Cup you come
- 11:30Speaker 1: back for. Like Apple Cup you come back for and
- 11:33Speaker 1: the alumni comes back for an Apple Cup. They ain't
- 11:35Speaker 1: coming back for Game two in an exhibition season against
- 11:38Speaker 1: Oregon State. So what does it say about what that
- 11:41Speaker 1: coaching staff was able to do with those players to
- 11:43Speaker 1: get them to that level You just talked about MK
- 11:45Speaker 1: Because there weren't a lot of people in the stands,
- 11:48Speaker 1: all of that emotion had to be coming from within,
- 11:50Speaker 1: and that to me is a tribute to what they're
- 11:52Speaker 1: doing there right now.
- 11:53Speaker 12: And you hit it on the head right there. Because
- 11:54Speaker 12: there wasn't a lot of people in the stands. There
- 11:56Speaker 12: was a lot of empty spaces out there, and I
- 11:58Speaker 12: think the coaching that did a great job of preparing
- 12:02Speaker 12: the kids, especially if you don't know, if you've never
- 12:04Speaker 12: been in a pullman, you know, in November or anything
- 12:06Speaker 12: like that, you got a lot of new players that
- 12:08Speaker 12: are coming back. But on the sideline, and Alex will
- 12:11Speaker 12: tell you this too, there's always an agenda or somebody
- 12:14Speaker 12: that the coaching staff is really pushing that week. So
- 12:16Speaker 12: this week is this? This week is this? Every single
- 12:19Speaker 12: player on the sideline, I heard them saying we're going bowling.
- 12:22Speaker 12: We're going bowling. So that just means that coaching staff
- 12:24Speaker 12: all week they got pictures in their scattery reports of
- 12:27Speaker 12: them going bowling. They got pictures of bowling alleys everywhere
- 12:29Speaker 12: like they had one that they had one thing on
- 12:31Speaker 12: their mind. I'm telling that defense, Ian, when I was
- 12:34Speaker 12: on the sideline, gave me goosebumps. They were flying around
- 12:37Speaker 12: with just hell bent on not letting them score. They
- 12:40Speaker 12: wanted to have this game as a skunk. That's what
- 12:42Speaker 12: they wanted. And defensively, it was just it was so
- 12:45Speaker 12: exciting to watch because the preparation and I tell my
- 12:48Speaker 12: son this all the time. When you're prepared, you're never
- 12:51Speaker 12: going to be nervous because you already know what's going
- 12:54Speaker 12: to happen. Right, It was just it was just awesome.
- 12:56Speaker 10: You know, Ian, it's super interesting.
- 12:58Speaker 11: I got to touch on this because it crossed my
- 13:00Speaker 11: mind as MK was talking and I heard in the
- 13:02Speaker 11: week leading up to the game, some of the some
- 13:04Speaker 11: of the seniors, particularly South Dakoast State guys like Matthew
- 13:07Speaker 11: Durance and Tucker Lards were talking and they were talking about,
- 13:10Speaker 11: you know, kind of what the week meant for them,
- 13:12Speaker 11: but how they were preparing for kind of the end
- 13:14Speaker 11: of their careers, and they used to term sowing the
- 13:17Speaker 11: seeds for the future that they'll never see the growth of. Right,
- 13:20Speaker 11: And I think back to when I showed up at
- 13:22Speaker 11: Washington State, and Washington State was a defensive mind and
- 13:25Speaker 11: football team, like that's what that's what we were. Offense
- 13:27Speaker 11: was a thing QVU, but like you know, the defense
- 13:31Speaker 11: in that era, right the Holiday Bowls season then into
- 13:34Speaker 11: six with MK, I mean, defense led the way more
- 13:36Speaker 11: so than offense did oftentimes. And I remember, you know
- 13:39Speaker 11: MK can speak to this. There used to be the seniors,
- 13:42Speaker 11: like the defensive backs used to pass it down to
- 13:44Speaker 11: the young guys and and the d line passed it
- 13:46Speaker 11: down to their guys, and there was this constant, like
- 13:49Speaker 11: constant passing down, sowing seeds of what the expectations were.
- 13:54Speaker 11: And with some coaching changes on certain sides of the
- 13:56Speaker 11: ball and different things, we lost that along the way
- 13:58Speaker 11: heading into seven, and then certainly that until my leads
- 14:01Speaker 11: showed up, right, And I think now you're seeing that
- 14:03Speaker 11: Jimmy Rodgers has a chance potentially to create that type
- 14:07Speaker 11: of culture that moves right from year to year to
- 14:10Speaker 11: year because what you don't want, obviously is that defensive
- 14:13Speaker 11: mentality we saw this year to change, right. I think
- 14:15Speaker 11: what you're hearing from the staff and the players is
- 14:17Speaker 11: that it's not gonna matter who's wearing the crimson and gray,
- 14:20Speaker 11: because they're gonna set the expectation of what it looks like,
- 14:24Speaker 11: particularly defensively, which I love.
- 14:26Speaker 12: And and and I'll follow with this too. Everything's about
- 14:29Speaker 12: a foundation, a strong foundation. I think people ask me
- 14:32Speaker 12: all the times, like what did you expect from Jimmy
- 14:34Speaker 12: Rodgers when he came to this season? And I don't
- 14:37Speaker 12: know if I expected everything that he's done this year
- 14:39Speaker 12: because coming into a new space that he is, especially
- 14:43Speaker 12: out of Washington State, that smaller community, I didn't think
- 14:45Speaker 12: he was gonna be able to get buy in that quick.
- 14:47Speaker 12: And I think he set the foundation for that going
- 14:50Speaker 12: into next year for these players.
- 14:53Speaker 1: I think it's a smk Alex. It's our Kuga roundtable,
- 14:56Speaker 1: not every Tuesday. Yeah, I think that's an important thing.
- 15:00Speaker 1: I mean, where we are in college football today right
- 15:03Speaker 1: now today across the country, you know, there's two levels.
- 15:06Speaker 1: There's the power four level, there's a group of five level,
- 15:10Speaker 1: but you know, and a group of five and all
- 15:12Speaker 1: this stuff, and we got all you know, and you
- 15:14Speaker 1: got the Lane Kiffins of the world that dominate the headlines,
- 15:17Speaker 1: and you've got all the stuff going on. What you
- 15:20Speaker 1: guys were saying there is important to me because, first
- 15:23Speaker 1: of all, I think, you know, the buy in has
- 15:27Speaker 1: to happen, and how things look today and probably not
- 15:30Speaker 1: how they're going to look in two years, right, Like
- 15:32Speaker 1: it's just different. It's just going to be different. But
- 15:34Speaker 1: Alex getting to a bowl game and I hear MK
- 15:36Speaker 1: talking about those guys, the message being sent, it probably
- 15:39Speaker 1: means a lot to some of those guys that played
- 15:41Speaker 1: in like the FCS playoffs too, like one and done
- 15:43Speaker 1: type of stuff. In the cold weather or wherever they
- 15:45Speaker 1: might be. Playing a ball game is a whole different world,
- 15:47Speaker 1: isn't it. Like it's a whole different world. So what
- 15:50Speaker 1: do you think those guys? How excited should they be
- 15:52Speaker 1: for playing in a bowl game wherever the hell it
- 15:54Speaker 1: may be, New Mexico, Memphis, wherever it may be.
- 15:58Speaker 11: I mean, these guys just seem like they like in football, right,
- 16:00Speaker 11: so they get another they get another three or four
- 16:02Speaker 11: weeks of practicing and playing. You know, the bowl game's
- 16:05Speaker 11: fun you get, you know, you get a lot of
- 16:07Speaker 11: stuff with it. It's kind of a fun week once
- 16:09Speaker 11: you get down there because there's events and you know,
- 16:11Speaker 11: there's not the you know, there's not maybe the pressure
- 16:14Speaker 11: of like an FCS playoff game, but it's kind of
- 16:16Speaker 11: a chance. Like for those seniors, it's like a very
- 16:19Speaker 11: enjoyable experience to finish their career win or lose. Right,
- 16:23Speaker 11: obviously they're gonna want to win, but you know, I'm
- 16:26Speaker 11: in that sense, I'm excited for some of these guys
- 16:28Speaker 11: to be able to experience that feel of it. It's
- 16:31Speaker 11: you know, it's gonna be, it's gonna be on ESPN,
- 16:33Speaker 11: it's gonna be or wherever like it's gonna be. It's
- 16:35Speaker 11: gonna feel like a big moment, right, And so to that,
- 16:38Speaker 11: to that degree, I think it's a great way to finish.
- 16:40Speaker 11: I would be disappointed for a guy like you know
- 16:42Speaker 11: Tucker Large or or you know Matthew Durance, Caleb Francell
- 16:45Speaker 11: if they didn't get that opportunity to like do it
- 16:46Speaker 11: one more time, you know, when they are used to it.
- 16:49Speaker 11: Coming from South Dakota State.
- 16:52Speaker 12: I think one thing I always look back at I
- 16:55Speaker 12: wish I understand how important a bowl game was at
- 16:58Speaker 12: that time, being like I came from you know, little
- 17:01Speaker 12: Rent in Washington at Liberty High School, and you know,
- 17:04Speaker 12: my senior year we go to the Roles I'm sorry,
- 17:06Speaker 12: my freshman year we go to the Rose Bowl. My
- 17:08Speaker 12: sophomore year we go directly to the Holiday Bowl. I
- 17:11Speaker 12: just thought that was a regular thing that just happened,
- 17:13Speaker 12: and I wish, I wish I knew the importance of
- 17:17Speaker 12: it to just take it in a little bit more.
- 17:18Speaker 12: But those were probably some of the best times of
- 17:20Speaker 12: my life, you know, going to those bowl games.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Well I think you know, mks you're describing it to
- 17:26Speaker 1: you know, everywhere every school treats a bowl game differently,
- 17:29Speaker 1: Like in every and the attitude in the locker room,
- 17:31Speaker 1: coaching staff, fan base, it's different for a bowl game.
- 17:34Speaker 1: I'm going to get back to the importance of it
- 17:35Speaker 1: in a second about the seeds that are being sown
- 17:38Speaker 1: that you guys brought up in a moment. But you know,
- 17:40Speaker 1: I think back, you know, last few years, our bowl
- 17:43Speaker 1: games experiences have been awful, Like they just have been.
- 17:46Speaker 1: It's like coaches leaving offense. I mean, Klay McGuire's I like,
- 17:50Speaker 1: I love clay Man. But you know our offensive line
- 17:52Speaker 1: coach having to call plays in a game, you know, O.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You know our strength and conditioning coaches running the sideline
- 17:58Speaker 1: last year, and you know all that kind of stuff.
- 18:00Speaker 1: A d line coach that stepped up who's a former Husky,
- 18:02Speaker 1: and man, I love him for that. But in Pete Calugus,
- 18:05Speaker 1: but you know, we we've lost. It's just it feels
- 18:07Speaker 1: like this year we might actually Alex have a legitimate
- 18:10Speaker 1: team out there. The Max Borgies of the world opting out,
- 18:14Speaker 1: which still goes down one of the greatest you know,
- 18:17Speaker 1: missteps ever for a guy like I mean, just not
- 18:20Speaker 1: only for the team but for him. Like last I
- 18:23Speaker 1: checked undrafted and cut from the XFL a hundred times. Dude,
- 18:26Speaker 1: go play in the bowl game. Put some tape out there,
- 18:28Speaker 1: you know, get Alex. You know, being a six or
- 18:31Speaker 1: seventh round pick is a lot better than being a UDFA, right, Like,
- 18:34Speaker 1: go out there, like all these guys opting out. I
- 18:37Speaker 1: don't think we're going to have that Alex this year.
- 18:39Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna have all these dudes opting
- 18:40Speaker 1: out this year.
- 18:42Speaker 2: No.
- 18:42Speaker 11: And you know, if you guys want to get really
- 18:44Speaker 11: big picture with it, you know, with all all the
- 18:46Speaker 11: things you talked about, it's happening in college football right now.
- 18:48Speaker 11: All the bad things about college football that we don't like,
- 18:50Speaker 11: right coach movement, coach movement in the middle of the
- 18:53Speaker 11: season or when they're on a championship run, like Lane Kiffin, conversation,
- 18:58Speaker 11: conversations about conversation about transfer portal before the portal is
- 19:01Speaker 11: even open and athletes are ready to go, you know,
- 19:04Speaker 11: backdoor nil deals to try and get players. Like all
- 19:07Speaker 11: the stuff right that's happening that that nobody likes about
- 19:09Speaker 11: college football.
- 19:10Speaker 10: But we opened that Pandora's box.
- 19:12Speaker 11: This Washington State football team, in my opinion, is all
- 19:14Speaker 11: that is good about college football.
- 19:15Speaker 10: The ZBC houses of the world.
- 19:17Speaker 11: They get a second opportunity to play at a big
- 19:19Speaker 11: school and prove they can do it right. The South
- 19:21Speaker 11: Dakota State kids that were all Americans and came to
- 19:24Speaker 11: the next level up quote unquote and show that they're
- 19:26Speaker 11: just as good and can compete with the best, right
- 19:29Speaker 11: the old Misses of the world, you know, the young
- 19:31Speaker 11: freshmen that are getting on the field, making plays and
- 19:33Speaker 11: doing big things that you know, the Christian Hillbourns of
- 19:36Speaker 11: the world, that stuck it out at Washington State and
- 19:38Speaker 11: you are going to get big opportunities. Like all of
- 19:40Speaker 11: that stuff, to me is what Washington State football is
- 19:43Speaker 11: all about right now, and I think it's all that's
- 19:45Speaker 11: good in football and has shown and kof fan should
- 19:48Speaker 11: be excited, has shown that it can win.
- 19:50Speaker 10: Right. You don't have to buy your roster. You don't
- 19:52Speaker 10: have to. You don't have to do it shady like.
- 19:55Speaker 11: You don't have to be you know, you don't have
- 19:57Speaker 11: to be a guy that's you know, snake in the grass.
- 20:00Speaker 10: To make it work.
- 20:01Speaker 11: You can just be a straight up, honest, good football
- 20:03Speaker 11: coach with good kids and win and compete at the
- 20:05Speaker 11: highest levels. And I think Washington State showed that this
- 20:07Speaker 11: year and was really close to having a really special years.
- 20:10Speaker 11: The ball downs is one way or the next.
- 20:13Speaker 12: Yeah, Ole Miss and Virginian game that those two change.
- 20:16Speaker 12: What does that season look like those two games? Right?
- 20:19Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I mean no one was cared about Lane
- 20:21Speaker 1: kiff and leaving right now because they probably wouldn't be
- 20:23Speaker 1: in the playoffs.
- 20:23Speaker 11: That's fun, you know, we would have saved the lane
- 20:26Speaker 11: a lot of headaches, just a few dollars bills bank account.
- 20:31Speaker 12: Fans or are going into the plans like man, at
- 20:34Speaker 12: least give him a little credit for the couple of
- 20:36Speaker 12: the wins.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what, but MKA, I think I
- 20:38Speaker 1: go back. I look at it on a much lower scale,
- 20:41Speaker 1: like a way lower scale. I mean, Wazoo wasn't competing
- 20:45Speaker 1: obviously for a national championship last year. But I can relate.
- 20:49Speaker 1: I think we all can relate. You know. The one thing,
- 20:51Speaker 1: you know, Mike Price left to go to Alabama, and
- 20:55Speaker 1: he's going to Alabama from Wazoo after taking our school
- 20:58Speaker 1: to two Rose Bowls. I mean, that's fine. I didn't
- 21:01Speaker 1: love the fact he coached that game necessarily in the
- 21:04Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Just as a fan, I kind of was thinking,
- 21:06Speaker 1: if you're out, you're out. Let DoBeS take over and
- 21:09Speaker 1: be done with it. But that's fine, that's it's water
- 21:11Speaker 1: on the bridge. But you know, Mike God has to
- 21:13Speaker 1: a lot of places, and and then you know when
- 21:16Speaker 1: when you know, when Leech stuck around for a decade plus,
- 21:19Speaker 1: I mean Mike could have left Alex How many times
- 21:21Speaker 1: could Leach have left? Probably four or five times.
- 21:23Speaker 11: Yeah, probably should have taken the Tennessee job when it
- 21:25Speaker 11: when it popped up to be honest with you.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean would have hit a better job.
- 21:28Speaker 11: Yeah to say that, but it's probably true, you know,
- 21:30Speaker 11: But yeah, he had he had his opportunity Washington State.
- 21:33Speaker 11: I think everybody agrees now in hindsight that you know,
- 21:35Speaker 11: we're all very grateful for the length of time that
- 21:37Speaker 11: coach Leech spent at Washington State.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:39Speaker 12: Yeah, he loved the community.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Yeah. But but I look at Kiffin and there's a
- 21:44Speaker 1: there's a Dickert in all our buckle quality to that,
- 21:48Speaker 1: like you kind of, I don't.
- 21:49Speaker 12: I don't know if you blame those two guys though.
- 21:50Speaker 12: I think Dickert hit the max that he was going
- 21:53Speaker 12: to get. I think he peaked, especially with everything that
- 21:56Speaker 12: happened with the pack and everything like that. His resume
- 21:59Speaker 12: was where is going to be?
- 22:01Speaker 1: He had Helm and MK, he had Healthyer. My problem
- 22:03Speaker 1: with it is for two straight years that guy was
- 22:05Speaker 1: on the job search and you look at the trajectory
- 22:07Speaker 1: of the program from middle of the season to the end,
- 22:09Speaker 1: and both years it went straight down to the side
- 22:11Speaker 1: of the mountain. Man. I hate to say that to
- 22:13Speaker 1: a pilot, but it went into the mountain, buddy, Like
- 22:15Speaker 1: it went into the mountain. You had you had a
- 22:19Speaker 1: quarterback and and O c that you know, good for them,
- 22:22Speaker 1: they got paid because the more MATERI plays, unless he's
- 22:24Speaker 1: gonna get paid to the next level, you know. But
- 22:26Speaker 1: those guys same thing. I mean, I look at that
- 22:28Speaker 1: last game against was at Wyoming last year, didn't score
- 22:30Speaker 1: the final three quarters, like like your heads, your heads
- 22:33Speaker 1: were elsewhere. So I understand fan base is being pissed.
- 22:36Speaker 1: What I like is I think we got a guy
- 22:38Speaker 1: here that doesn't mind small town America, that doesn't mind
- 22:42Speaker 1: you know where he's at. Yeah, and I think I
- 22:45Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I feel more bullish alex
- 22:49Speaker 1: On on the future now today. It's than I would
- 22:52Speaker 1: have ever thought I would have. You know, after say
- 22:55Speaker 1: that you Doug game of the North Texas games.
- 22:56Speaker 12: I think jim I think Jimmy wants to stay longer too.
- 22:59Speaker 11: I agree, Well, I think, I mean, I think, I think,
- 23:02Speaker 11: no matter what again, not to not to pull hoals
- 23:05Speaker 11: in it, like no matter what. I agree like at
- 23:07Speaker 11: six and six this season, seeing what we saw. I mean,
- 23:10Speaker 11: there was a culture reset at Washington State this this season, right,
- 23:13Speaker 11: there was a culture reset. This is not the air
- 23:15Speaker 11: raid anymore. These are this is not a soft football team.
- 23:18Speaker 11: These are gonna be physical, tough, defensive minded football teams.
- 23:21Speaker 11: There's gonna be balanced on offense. Like you got a
- 23:23Speaker 11: head coach that's gonna tell it like it is. You know,
- 23:26Speaker 11: he's gonna be honest with players, You're gonna be honest
- 23:27Speaker 11: with the media, like all those things.
- 23:29Speaker 10: That culture reset is fantastic.
- 23:31Speaker 11: The only the only place I'm gonna go just to
- 23:33Speaker 11: set up expectations is that Jimmy Rodgers will leave at
- 23:36Speaker 11: some point. They all do, okay, and like that's okay.
- 23:39Speaker 11: We need to we gotta everybody needs to get out
- 23:41Speaker 11: of the mindset at Washington State that we need somebody
- 23:43Speaker 11: that's gonna be at Washington State long term, or we
- 23:45Speaker 11: need players they're gonna stay four years.
- 23:47Speaker 10: Because they're not.
- 23:47Speaker 11: And that's okay, because you can win like that, you
- 23:50Speaker 11: build programs in this day and age, you can have
- 23:53Speaker 11: success and and it'll be great and everybody will enjoy it,
- 23:56Speaker 11: and we should. You know, thank the John Mattiers and
- 23:58Speaker 11: the cam Wards on their way out for their service
- 24:01Speaker 11: and and you know, happy Jake Tiggert found a different place.
- 24:04Speaker 11: And we're happy and lucky that we have Jimmy Rodgers,
- 24:07Speaker 11: and so I just think that's super important. But there's
- 24:09Speaker 11: no doubt Washington State football is in a better place
- 24:12Speaker 11: December second than it was December second of last year.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Yeah, I listen, I agree. For I was just talking
- 24:18Speaker 1: to my my wife's cousins in town. He's a traveling nurse.
- 24:20Speaker 1: He's an Alabama guy. Right, We're just talk about the
- 24:23Speaker 1: d of the day because he's like, man, do you
- 24:24Speaker 1: think the board might go to Penn Stana. I go, no, no, No,
- 24:27Speaker 1: there's like five jobs in this country you don't leave
- 24:29Speaker 1: and until they tell you to leave. Alabama's Alabama is
- 24:33Speaker 1: one of them. Ye, you know, but what you said
- 24:35Speaker 1: is true, Like, I don't think any of us have
- 24:38Speaker 1: those expected like if Jimmy leaves or when Jimmy leaves.
- 24:42Speaker 1: It's just because this thing's in a lot better shape
- 24:44Speaker 1: than it is at six and six too. I'll live
- 24:46Speaker 1: with that, and I'll live with what's going on in
- 24:49Speaker 1: the new pac twelve. Right, I think I think if
- 24:51Speaker 1: that Hell, I think if we're looking back, I'll be
- 24:53Speaker 1: this is this sounds nuts. If we're sitting here in
- 24:56Speaker 1: six or seven, I'll probably be retired. But let's say,
- 24:59Speaker 1: let's say we're just talking on our text chain. After
- 25:01Speaker 1: I'm long retired in six or seven years and and
- 25:03Speaker 1: I'm like, and Jimmy's still there, that's probably not a
- 25:06Speaker 1: good thing, like what happened in those six or seven years,
- 25:10Speaker 1: unless he just decides, Man, I want to be the
- 25:11Speaker 1: mayor of Pullman. I'm going to love him after me.
- 25:14Speaker 1: But but I think you're right. I think all those
- 25:16Speaker 1: because there's old missus going the damn playoff and they
- 25:19Speaker 1: lost their coach, like, and they're in the SEC and
- 25:22Speaker 1: they got all the money in the world. Alex right,
- 25:23Speaker 1: you were down there. They got all kinds of money.
- 25:25Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's good. Mkay. Were you I saw
- 25:27Speaker 1: you smiling there when he.
- 25:28Speaker 12: Was saying, you're not turning down ninety million dollars.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Oh I turned it down yesterday, buddy, Believe it or not.
- 25:33Speaker 1: The uh I saw you smile at Mkay. You love
- 25:36Speaker 1: the fact that's a defense first mentality too. I know
- 25:39Speaker 1: that that Araa drove you crazy for ten years, didn't.
- 25:41Speaker 12: It drove me absolutely insane? Ian But but listen, I
- 25:47Speaker 12: love what Jimmy's doing. The defense. We're we're literally, you know,
- 25:51Speaker 12: a quarterback away a quarterback and a receiver away from
- 25:54Speaker 12: doing some big things. I love zeb but he's not
- 25:57Speaker 12: going to be the guy.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Right Well, so let me ask alexrol like, wherever they go, Memphis,
- 26:01Speaker 1: New Mexico, wherever they end up going for a bowl game?
- 26:04Speaker 1: How how if if Alex Sprink was on the coaching staff,
- 26:07Speaker 1: how would you approach it offensively? Would you try to
- 26:10Speaker 1: get Dougger or Potter some some snaps? I mean, I
- 26:14Speaker 1: know Zebby, it's like it's his last game. You got
- 26:16Speaker 1: to start him and let him do his thing. But
- 26:18Speaker 1: would you use that at all as a jumping the
- 26:19Speaker 1: springboard for next year?
- 26:21Speaker 11: I mean, I think you could, and it wouldn't be
- 26:24Speaker 11: a problem. I also think if you don't, it's not
- 26:28Speaker 11: an issue either way, right Like I don't. I don't
- 26:31Speaker 11: like a quarter or two of snaps for Dugger or
- 26:35Speaker 11: Potter is not gonna be the difference in them finding
- 26:38Speaker 11: success the following year or not. If If anything, the
- 26:41Speaker 11: conversations more about if if Julian Dugger puts on tape
- 26:44Speaker 11: what he did last year in the bowl game, he
- 26:46Speaker 11: ends up somewhere else because everybody loves the tools he has,
- 26:48Speaker 11: or something.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Like that, you know what I mean, Like Okay, I
- 26:50Speaker 1: didn't think about that. Yeah.
- 26:52Speaker 11: Again, like, I don't know that would happen either. I'm
- 26:54Speaker 11: just saying, like, those are the conversations you're having. So
- 26:56Speaker 11: you know, look, I think you you run out Zebbe
- 26:59Speaker 11: obviously him do his thing, and if the opportunity presents
- 27:01Speaker 11: itself or you have a very specific plan to get
- 27:03Speaker 11: those other guys in, Like, yeah, get them in, But
- 27:06Speaker 11: I don't think it changes the trajectory of the quarterback
- 27:08Speaker 11: position at Washington State one way or the other.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Mkay. What do you want to see out of the
- 27:11Speaker 1: bowl game?
- 27:12Speaker 12: Uh? Well, one win?
- 27:14Speaker 1: Uh one.
- 27:14Speaker 12: I want to see myself and and sideline one on
- 27:17Speaker 12: the sideline and then and honestly, I just I just
- 27:22Speaker 12: want to see a clean game, you know what I mean.
- 27:23Speaker 12: I want to see a clean game. How that those
- 27:25Speaker 12: guys out there and have fun and end the season. Right.
- 27:28Speaker 1: I'm with you, all right, fellas, Listen. I've enjoyed this
- 27:30Speaker 1: again this year. Uh just a ton of fun having
- 27:33Speaker 1: you guys on every week.
- 27:34Speaker 8: Man.
- 27:34Speaker 1: And I get a lot of feedback from people, a
- 27:36Speaker 1: lot of Kook fans, especially especially them dudes over in
- 27:38Speaker 1: eastern Washington. My buddies are on the farm they sit
- 27:40Speaker 1: there and listen to the podcast. They've all figured out
- 27:42Speaker 1: how to use a podcast now, which is good, listen
- 27:44Speaker 1: to it later, which is cool.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Uh.
- 27:46Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's talk. Let's talk Shadai as they say, MK.
- 27:50Speaker 1: House buying. What do we got going on? Man?
- 27:52Speaker 12: The Marcus heating up right now. Rates are dropping. If
- 27:54Speaker 12: you want to buy, If you want to refinance, anything
- 27:58Speaker 12: mortgage related, really say related, reach out to Team Bruce,
- 28:02Speaker 12: Team Bruce Mortgage dot com.
- 28:03Speaker 1: All right, Alex, I got a kid that loves shoes,
- 28:07Speaker 1: so I gotta get on the website. What's the website?
- 28:08Speaker 1: Tell us about the shoe Osaga dot com.
- 28:11Speaker 11: We got a few hours left of our Black Friday
- 28:13Speaker 11: Cyber Monday extended sale, whole things, whole size, thirty percent off.
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- 28:26Speaker 11: the seventies before it went defunct. And so if you're
- 28:30Speaker 11: looking for a casual kind of retro runner, super comfortable,
- 28:34Speaker 11: check out Osaga dot com.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Love it, man, You guys are the best. Thank you
- 28:38Speaker 1: so much. Maybe we'll discuss things after the Bowl game.
- 28:41Speaker 1: But in the meantime, happy holidays to both of you
- 28:43Speaker 1: and your families. Thanks for committing to this every week.
- 28:46Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Go sell some shoes, Osaga shoes. Go
- 28:50Speaker 1: buy a house or refinance at Guild mortgage with our
- 28:52Speaker 1: guy MK plus a good thing. When you do that
- 28:54Speaker 1: with MK, you end up talking for like an hour. Anyway,
- 28:57Speaker 1: you might get like five minutes of mortgage it. It
- 28:59Speaker 1: gets done. He's good. And then you end up talking
- 29:01Speaker 1: for an hour about whatever he wants to talk about,
- 29:03Speaker 1: like Flying Goog football, whatever it might be, Liberty Patriots football,
- 29:07Speaker 1: who knows. So go get those shoes. Support my two guys.
- 29:12Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys more than anything I can say.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Go kooks.
- 29:15Speaker 10: Okay, Yes, go kooks, Go Kokz.
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- 30:06Speaker 7: Here we go.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Let's talk about this right now. Crack it off for
- 30:11Speaker 1: a couple of days. Need somebody to score goals, need
- 30:13Speaker 1: some help offensively. Still sitting in a playoff position, having
- 30:16Speaker 1: a very nice season, but they could use help offensively.
- 30:22Speaker 1: General manager Jason Botroll was meeting with the media today,
- 30:26Speaker 1: including our own Mike Benton. Take a listening, Jason, you weigh.
- 30:30Speaker 14: A pretty delicate balance in between trying to remain competitive
- 30:33Speaker 14: but also usher the younger kids, the younger players here
- 30:36Speaker 14: into the mix. So as we get deeper into the
- 30:38Speaker 14: season and this team is still as well in the mix,
- 30:40Speaker 14: how real do you think it is to be active
- 30:42Speaker 14: in the trade market for upgrades this year versus waiting
- 30:46Speaker 14: it out and going for it even more next offseason
- 30:49Speaker 14: when you have the cap going up and other factors
- 30:51Speaker 14: to play as well.
- 30:52Speaker 15: No, And the one thing I just I would push
- 30:55Speaker 15: back a little bit on. I believe our development helps
- 30:57Speaker 15: us win hockey games, and I think it's it's always
- 31:00Speaker 15: a fine balance of Hey, when does a player need
- 31:03Speaker 15: to be in the American Hockey League work and when
- 31:04Speaker 15: they come up National Hockey League, I think you see
- 31:06Speaker 15: a lot of our players, especially a guy like Ryan Winterton,
- 31:10Speaker 15: playing different roles penalty kill and everything like there, you
- 31:12Speaker 15: still want to continue to develop his offensive game. And
- 31:15Speaker 15: that's what I give our staff a lot of credit
- 31:17Speaker 15: behind the scenes, things that maybe our fans don't see
- 31:20Speaker 15: on game night, but on off days, just our staff
- 31:23Speaker 15: working with Ryan on his puck skills, working on is
- 31:26Speaker 15: offensive game in and around the net, but also through
- 31:28Speaker 15: video too. So I like that our staff continues to, hey,
- 31:32Speaker 15: how can Ryan help our team right now in the
- 31:34Speaker 15: nationalk League? How do we continue to work with Ryan
- 31:36Speaker 15: so he helps us down the road from there. But look,
- 31:39Speaker 15: it's a scenario that we're continuing to look at, you know,
- 31:42Speaker 15: in the trade market, on things that we can add
- 31:44Speaker 15: to our group and add different mixes to our group.
- 31:48Speaker 15: We have over the years certainly accumulated draft picks that
- 31:51Speaker 15: we we're certainly open to taking draft picks, but also
- 31:54Speaker 15: utilize them in different trades from the area. So it's
- 31:56Speaker 15: something that we continue to look at. But the one
- 31:59Speaker 15: thing I can to push back and one thing I
- 32:01Speaker 15: love that our coach staff is believed in is like, hey,
- 32:03Speaker 15: we develop these kids. That helps us win a lot
- 32:05Speaker 15: of hockey games, hopefully even this year.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Oh could I push back and watching pushing back on
- 32:13Speaker 1: my guy Benton, I will too. So Matti Vaniers has
- 32:18Speaker 1: three goals, he's your leading goal scorer. I'm sorry, check
- 32:23Speaker 1: that everly, I'm not all in terms of draft picks, Oh, okay,
- 32:27Speaker 1: got it, let's see. Yeah goals, Shane Wright has five,
- 32:38Speaker 1: Matty Beaneers has three, Janny Newman, who's played only fifteen games,
- 32:42Speaker 1: has three. Those your leading goal scores among your draft picks.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Young guys being developed, you need, you gotta find a
- 32:50Speaker 1: way to score goals, and it's just not happening with
- 32:52Speaker 1: this team right now. So I would push back bots.
- 32:55Speaker 1: I think, yeah, your young guy's development and good. You
- 32:58Speaker 1: just don't have a high end guy. In terms of offense.
- 33:01Speaker 1: You have really good hockey players, yes, really good hockey players,
- 33:04Speaker 1: but you've got a bunch of second and third line guys.
- 33:07Speaker 1: What Mikey was asking there, and I think this is
- 33:09Speaker 1: what a lot of fans and Andrew you helped me
- 33:11Speaker 1: out here tell me because I don't want to speak
- 33:12Speaker 1: for fans, but I'm gonna speak for fans, tell me
- 33:14Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. I think what fans want to see
- 33:16Speaker 1: is this team get aggressive and find the guy that
- 33:18Speaker 1: can put the puck in the net consistently, because you're
- 33:20Speaker 1: doing a great job at keeping the puck out of
- 33:22Speaker 1: the net. Yeah, your goalies are fantastic, all three of them.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Even though Murray's hurt goals against average before the last
- 33:30Speaker 1: two games, your goals against average was second in the league,
- 33:33Speaker 1: best second best in the league. You're scoring was thirty second.
- 33:36Speaker 1: There's thirty two teams, So I think, am I right
- 33:39Speaker 1: our fans wanting to see more people score? I know,
- 33:41Speaker 1: I'm out a text chain with you and some others.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Well I mean that.
- 33:44Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you have a lot of players where
- 33:47Speaker 5: that would be elevated if they had one of those
- 33:50Speaker 5: one or two of those high end players around them.
- 33:52Speaker 5: Right where if you're on at Dallas, a Colorado, a
- 33:55Speaker 5: New York, Vegas, those guys turn into fifty sixty seventy
- 34:00Speaker 5: point players because of the players that are around them. Correct,
- 34:02Speaker 5: But if you just try and build your roster with
- 34:04Speaker 5: those the supplemental players, which the Crack and I argue
- 34:07Speaker 5: you have done to this point right, they're not there.
- 34:10Speaker 3: You're not gonna get to that.
- 34:11Speaker 1: Point right, I'd make you can make an argument with
- 34:13Speaker 1: Jade schwartz out that your best offensive players are both
- 34:16Speaker 1: guys that play in the blue line bred and they are.
- 34:20Speaker 1: They're fantastic, yes.
- 34:22Speaker 12: But you need more than those guys.
- 34:23Speaker 1: So yeah, it'd be interesting. I'm sure practice has been
- 34:26Speaker 1: quite pleasant this week for those guys after being shut
- 34:29Speaker 1: out in two of the last three games. So uh,
- 34:32Speaker 1: Laine Lambert, man, he's always offty in Fain tomorrow to
- 34:35Speaker 1: three forty five. I'm gonna tell you, like this guy
- 34:37Speaker 1: has red ass all the way through. Man, he is
- 34:40Speaker 1: no nonsense. I like it. I like a guy, you know.
- 34:43Speaker 1: I we show video every every intermission coming back going
- 34:46Speaker 1: into the third period or second period and third period,
- 34:48Speaker 1: like we show like the locker room, and I swear
- 34:50Speaker 1: the last couple of times screaming it looks like there's
- 34:53Speaker 1: it's not even it's just like you could see this
- 34:55Speaker 1: like very emphatic, like getting his lineup card, not like
- 34:58Speaker 1: yeah I make it. Man, you got sometimes you got
- 35:01Speaker 1: to put the whip on the horse down home stretch
- 35:03Speaker 1: right and the way you go, uh pick and choose
- 35:06Speaker 1: but yeah, Lane's not content to sit there and say, hey,
- 35:09Speaker 1: we're good defensively, but that No, the next step is
- 35:11Speaker 1: that so good stuff by Mikey. I'm pushing back on you.
- 35:14Speaker 1: Botch don't be pushing back on Ben. Don't be pushing
- 35:16Speaker 1: back on Bell defender. Guys don't don't listens, as I
- 35:20Speaker 1: would say. Gotta be a response here, Johnny. Gotta be
- 35:23Speaker 1: a response here.
- 35:24Speaker 7: Who's gonna be responding.
- 35:25Speaker 1: I'm responding to the Bell, I'm responding. I'm responding. I'm
- 35:28Speaker 1: backing up my guy, the captain. No, I love Botch.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Box is great. He's very open. I appreciate that with
- 35:34Speaker 1: him as well. Okay, we'll rank come back check in next.
- 35:37Speaker 1: John Lund, the cockroach that is the San Francisco forty nine.
- 35:44Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Well, last came about power rankings, like what he thinks
- 35:48Speaker 1: about that, like just especially in the NFC. All things
- 35:51Speaker 1: NFL with line.
- 35:52Speaker 9: Next No from the Star Rentals Sports to us Jordan
- 35:58Speaker 9: ninety three point three JRFM Sports headlines.
- 36:03Speaker 1: Headlines brought to my frostpured course light, choose chill. Some
- 36:06Speaker 1: news coming out of Provo Salt Lake City, Utah, former
- 36:10Speaker 1: home of John Lund. Who's going to join us in
- 36:13Speaker 1: a second, any infants. Actually, they didn't let either one
- 36:16Speaker 1: of us live in Provo, nor would we want to
- 36:19Speaker 1: live in Provo.
- 36:19Speaker 4: Where'd you have to go?
- 36:21Speaker 1: We live north like, not in Provo. But news coming
- 36:25Speaker 1: out of Provo. Klonie Sataki appears to be staying at BYU,
- 36:28Speaker 1: giving a big old he wouldn't do this, but a
- 36:31Speaker 1: big old middle finger to Penn State University.
- 36:35Speaker 4: I like it.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Apparently they sold enough crumble cookies somewhere along the way,
- 36:40Speaker 1: and he's staying. He's sticking around, which is good. You
- 36:44Speaker 1: know what that's good for? What honestly good for college football?
- 36:47Speaker 1: I agree that I don't like BYU at all. I
- 36:51Speaker 1: really don't. No, I don't. The feeling's mutual, all right,
- 36:55Speaker 1: Patrice stick Down the Giants thirty three fifteen, Last night,
- 36:57Speaker 1: Monday night football. Jackson Darts first came back from injury.
- 37:00Speaker 1: He was okay, Drake May was better. Let's see what
- 37:03Speaker 1: else we got going on. Carter Hart making his debut
- 37:05Speaker 1: tonight for the Vegas Golden Knights. M okay, you do you, Carter.
- 37:12Speaker 1: Let's see what else you do? Vegas, Vegas, Oh Lake
- 37:15Speaker 1: and Tomlinson. Remember him starting guard for the c x LUs.
- 37:17Speaker 1: You're just cut today by the Houston Texas weird. All right,
- 37:21Speaker 1: let's get to John Lunt.
- 37:23Speaker 9: Welcome to Ean's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed. He's
- 37:28Speaker 9: a Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over
- 37:31Speaker 9: twenty five years. But don't let their age change your
- 37:34Speaker 9: opinion of them. John takes you through the Bay Area
- 37:37Speaker 9: and the NFC West and Dupe's it out with Ian
- 37:39Speaker 9: over the Niners and the Hawks. So let's unleash it
- 37:43Speaker 9: now with John Lunn. Here's Ian.
- 37:47Speaker 1: We'll get to one here in just a couple of seconds.
- 37:49Speaker 1: We're waiting to hear from him.
- 37:50Speaker 3: Answer your phone, John, Yeah.
- 37:52Speaker 7: You know it's.
- 37:54Speaker 1: I swear about the guy. He's like, he's you know,
- 37:57Speaker 1: you know how those you have these people that are
- 37:59Speaker 1: like really smart, yeah, but really stupid.
- 38:03Speaker 13: Yes.
- 38:03Speaker 4: I think a lot of people in the building into that.
- 38:06Speaker 1: I don't know, because the first part is being really smart,
- 38:09Speaker 1: So I'll to go back really smart but kind of
- 38:12Speaker 1: like the dumbest smart person in the room. You know.
- 38:14Speaker 1: That's that's our guys. And he's always been that way.
- 38:17Speaker 1: He's just kind of if he was hot and blonde
- 38:21Speaker 1: and a female we just say, you know, that's the issue.
- 38:23Speaker 1: But he's none of the above. Well he's sort of blonde.
- 38:25Speaker 1: But that's it. I'm done ripping them. We'll get to
- 38:29Speaker 1: the line here in a second. One was jess Or
- 38:31Speaker 1: Andrews can track him down. We'll talk Seahawks in NFC.
- 38:34Speaker 1: You know, we're talking earlier about the power strup Where
- 38:36Speaker 1: would you put Chicago in that mix? Because we're just
- 38:39Speaker 1: talking about the best teams in the NFL dot Com
- 38:42Speaker 1: Power rankings that they like. Where would you put the
- 38:44Speaker 1: Chicago Bears into that mix? At nine and three? Do
- 38:46Speaker 1: we believe in the Bears? Because I mean I want
- 38:49Speaker 1: to not believe in them. I don't think I can
- 38:52Speaker 1: believe in them, but that that record doesn't lie. Philadelphia
- 38:55Speaker 1: looks what massively flawed. Andrews was talking about that earlier
- 39:00Speaker 1: when it seems to flawed Philadelphia. I don't know if
- 39:03Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts can figure out that he's got two elite
- 39:06Speaker 1: wide receivers on his team, that's weird.
- 39:08Speaker 3: He just found a J Brown, I think for the
- 39:10Speaker 3: first time.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Which when you have that guy and this kind of
- 39:14Speaker 1: was the DK thing. Yeah, it was like, I don't
- 39:18Speaker 1: know if you call it a devil wide receiver or
- 39:21Speaker 1: how you want to guy wants the ball like he
- 39:25Speaker 1: has to. You have to get him the ball, and
- 39:28Speaker 1: you know hurts. I mean, DeVante's Smith been a little
- 39:31Speaker 1: bang up. The drop off for Saquon Barkley, and I
- 39:34Speaker 1: know Philip in the world of Philadelphia, it's great that
- 39:37Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's it's Lane. Johnson's her, Lane,
- 39:40Speaker 1: Johnson's her. What's going on? No, No, that's fine. A
- 39:43Speaker 1: lot of teams have problems there. Their drop off is
- 39:45Speaker 1: pretty significant. Tampa Bay beat Seattle. That's almost Notre Dame
- 39:50Speaker 1: Miami like there seemed to be a little bit better
- 39:52Speaker 1: right now though kind of flow. They're playing a horrible
- 39:55Speaker 1: division anyway, Green Bay. Maybe you're starting to hit it strive. Yeah,
- 39:59Speaker 1: I mean there's it's but then the team that just
- 40:02Speaker 1: still scares the daylights out of me in San Francisco,
- 40:04Speaker 1: which we'll get to here with John Lund here just
- 40:06Speaker 1: a couple of seconds. He joined us right now in
- 40:08Speaker 1: the be complteenting hotline. You know I was saying this earlier.
- 40:11Speaker 1: You know, you're you know London, like we all have
- 40:14Speaker 1: those friends like that are really smart, right, but they're
- 40:19Speaker 1: also but they're also kind of for me, but they're
- 40:21Speaker 1: kind of dumb. You're one of those smart dumb people.
- 40:24Speaker 1: That's what you are, like, cause you're a pretty smart
- 40:26Speaker 1: like I give you a credit. You're I've known you
- 40:27Speaker 1: for a long time. You're a pretty smart guy. But
- 40:30Speaker 1: you're kind of an airhead sometimes that's all that just yea, Yeah,
- 40:33Speaker 1: that's fair. Yeah, if you were hot, and if you're
- 40:36Speaker 1: hot blonde and a woman, that'd be awesome.
- 40:39Speaker 13: Yeah that's I'm far from that. I'm more of the
- 40:41Speaker 13: elephant man. Yeah, I could not be further from a
- 40:45Speaker 13: I am a human tee.
- 40:47Speaker 7: That's not hot blond.
- 40:48Speaker 1: That's pretty much true. Although you know what, I gotta
- 40:51Speaker 1: tell the story because I don't feel it. So you
- 40:53Speaker 1: did marry a hot blonde. She was what we called
- 40:55Speaker 1: the fan girl back in the day.
- 40:56Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's that old you know,
- 41:00Speaker 13: you don't blank where you eat. It's bad. It was
- 41:02Speaker 13: a bad idea. But yeah, we had, Like you said,
- 41:04Speaker 13: I'm not very smart.
- 41:05Speaker 1: We had the uh we had for everything. We had
- 41:08Speaker 1: the girls back back. That was back in the day
- 41:10Speaker 1: when you could do things like I don't know, Mitch's
- 41:12Speaker 1: bigger dance on the radio, and we had fangirls that
- 41:17Speaker 1: basically had just like Hooters girls like Halter tops and
- 41:21Speaker 1: went out with us and we did a remote down
- 41:22Speaker 1: in Portland with the fan. Yeah.
- 41:24Speaker 13: It was incredible because they wouldn't even they wouldn't even
- 41:26Speaker 13: talk to us on remote. No, these girls would be
- 41:28Speaker 13: signing like posters, calendar things like that, and like you'd
- 41:31Speaker 13: be like, I'm over here and there guys are like
- 41:34Speaker 13: were you Well yeah, it was really embarrassing because there's
- 41:37Speaker 13: no one hanging out with us.
- 41:38Speaker 7: Yeah, they just talk to the girls.
- 41:40Speaker 1: Married one of them, Yeah, you married one.
- 41:42Speaker 7: You married one.
- 41:43Speaker 13: Was really smart, it was really smart.
- 41:47Speaker 1: Really well, hey, listen, it went well for a day
- 41:51Speaker 1: or two probably. I mean, look, I got it.
- 41:53Speaker 13: I got a great kid out of it.
- 41:55Speaker 1: You got George a whole lot.
- 41:56Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, you know that's pretty good.
- 41:59Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
- 42:00Speaker 13: He's not that bright either, but you know it's okay.
- 42:02Speaker 7: We should bring that semester semester.
- 42:04Speaker 1: Well then, dude, more well, you're gonna get a raise.
- 42:08Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. It's the greatest the world. Yeah,
- 42:12Speaker 1: it's when they when that happens. Oh, it's it's so awesome.
- 42:16Speaker 1: It's like, oh, well, I love that.
- 42:17Speaker 13: I'm probably gonna do divorce number two at that point,
- 42:19Speaker 13: because you know, I would be like the money now
- 42:23Speaker 13: I'm here, because you're not listening, I'd be like.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Oh honey, I'm gonna I'm gonna circle back to what
- 42:31Speaker 1: I said at the start. You know, you know those
- 42:33Speaker 1: guys are really smart but also dumb. There you go,
- 42:35Speaker 1: there's another game example. All right, I love you, all right,
- 42:38Speaker 1: John Litten with us right now. So we were we
- 42:40Speaker 1: were talking earlier. It was in my headlines and uh
- 42:43Speaker 1: and we got brought up. I think it's you know,
- 42:45Speaker 1: it's fun because the NFL actually does determine who's good
- 42:48Speaker 1: by playing games on like college football. But you know,
- 42:51Speaker 1: we start talking about power rankings and things like that.
- 42:53Speaker 1: It's kind of fine. Rams number one, Seattle number two.
- 42:56Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with number t. I
- 42:58Speaker 1: think Seattle still has some have to prove. Are the
- 43:01Speaker 1: Rams the best team in the NFL right now? Despite
- 43:03Speaker 1: the loss to Carolina?
- 43:05Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I'm sure you watch that game. I mean,
- 43:08Speaker 13: Carolina just had a lot of things going right for him.
- 43:10Speaker 13: They are better than what we think. There's no doubt.
- 43:12Speaker 13: You know, Seattle's got to play them late. The Niners
- 43:15Speaker 13: struggle with them a little bit. They're a lot better
- 43:16Speaker 13: than you me. Everybody knows who Dave Canalis is. He
- 43:19Speaker 13: stopped through Seattle and he's a great motivator. I don't
- 43:21Speaker 13: trust Bryce Young, but that's not the question. The question
- 43:24Speaker 13: is the Rams. The only reason I think the Rams
- 43:27Speaker 13: are better than the Seahawks. And look, I like Sam
- 43:29Speaker 13: Darnold man, but he's making me a little bit nervous.
- 43:31Speaker 13: I think he's probably making Seattle nervous. If people are
- 43:33Speaker 13: being honest. Matthew Stafford, if he's on his game, which
- 43:36Speaker 13: he generally is, then they're really tough to beat. You
- 43:39Speaker 13: have the defense, the one thing that I think and
- 43:42Speaker 13: he played well against the Seahawks, but he did not
- 43:45Speaker 13: play well and as the secondary, they didn't play well.
- 43:47Speaker 13: Can the Seahawks attack the Rams secondary. That's what's gonna
- 43:51Speaker 13: come down to in that big game. Because Forbes, who
- 43:54Speaker 13: has been a revelation for them when they picked him
- 43:56Speaker 13: up from Washington, he was terrible in the Carolina game.
- 44:00Speaker 13: And they with those young receivers and they're big, they
- 44:02Speaker 13: got good size on them. You know, can Donald get
- 44:06Speaker 13: enough time in the pocket and make them pay because
- 44:09Speaker 13: everybody's got an achilles heel, and with Seattle, you know,
- 44:12Speaker 13: Donald's making me nervous. The defense is fine, can they
- 44:14Speaker 13: run the ball effectively enough? And you guys who had
- 44:16Speaker 13: a million conversations about that. The achilles heel for the
- 44:19Speaker 13: Rams is their secondary and as good as their front
- 44:22Speaker 13: seven in as good as they are getting to the
- 44:24Speaker 13: quarterback and creating chaos, if they don't do that on
- 44:26Speaker 13: a consistent basis, then that leaves their secondary vulnerable. And
- 44:30Speaker 13: that's why Carolina beat them on Sunday.
- 44:33Speaker 1: When is a team in your area gonna go away
- 44:35Speaker 1: like they're like our Midday guy brought this up, and
- 44:38Speaker 1: I agree. It's they're like a cockroach like you just
- 44:40Speaker 1: like you cannot kill them. They just are still there
- 44:43Speaker 1: nine and four. Like it's it's remarkable what Kyle's done
- 44:47Speaker 1: with that team. But I keep thinking they're gonna fall off,
- 44:49Speaker 1: and they don't.
- 44:51Speaker 7: Well I think they again.
- 44:53Speaker 13: I get it. I know where I am. So we're
- 44:55Speaker 13: talking to Seahawks man, So you're not gonna be you're
- 44:57Speaker 13: not going to agree with this. But if there's a
- 45:00Speaker 13: Coach of the Year, and Kyle Shanahan should be it,
- 45:04Speaker 13: and there just should be no question about it. They
- 45:06Speaker 13: have more money on the books. As far as players
- 45:09Speaker 13: not playing for them, they're paying people Shamuel thirty million
- 45:12Speaker 13: dollars not to play for them. The brand and Ayuk situation,
- 45:15Speaker 13: I'm sure you guys have stayed up on it. He's
- 45:17Speaker 13: a complete joke. You love the term dumpster fire, and
- 45:20Speaker 13: so do why that's what he is. Bosa is out,
- 45:23Speaker 13: warners out. All those different things are going on, and
- 45:25Speaker 13: yet and party has missed most of the season. All
- 45:28Speaker 13: these different things have gone wrong, and yet here they are.
- 45:31Speaker 13: And I don't know why, and I don't know how,
- 45:33Speaker 13: but they're they're just doing it defensively. I have no
- 45:36Speaker 13: idea what kind of wizardry Robert sala is kind of spell,
- 45:39Speaker 13: what kind of a you know, whether it's to deal
- 45:41Speaker 13: with the devil. They should not be playing this kind
- 45:44Speaker 13: of defense. I'd get at Shadura Sanders got exposed. He's terrible.
- 45:47Speaker 13: That's a horrible It's such an overrated story. But back
- 45:50Speaker 13: to what you're asking, I mean, they really haven't had
- 45:53Speaker 13: consistent performances from anyone outside of maybe Kittle, McCaffrey, Trent Williams.
- 46:00Speaker 13: Like there's a handful of guys. Everybody else is, you know,
- 46:03Speaker 13: a second third string player, young player. I don't know
- 46:05Speaker 13: how they're doing it, but it does illustrate, whether you
- 46:07Speaker 13: want to admit it or not, sitting in Seattle, that
- 46:10Speaker 13: Kyle Shanan is one of the top coaches in the league.
- 46:12Speaker 13: Whether he gets the award or not.
- 46:13Speaker 1: Yeah, he I mean he's on a remark. They've made
- 46:16Speaker 1: great personal decisions. I thought when they let Hufongo walk,
- 46:18Speaker 1: I thought that was a crazy move. I thought that
- 46:20Speaker 1: was nuts, like what you're doing. And I mean he's
- 46:22Speaker 1: starring for denverybody think.
- 46:24Speaker 13: Think about this. I don't mean to interrupt, you know,
- 46:26Speaker 13: but they got pissed. Everyone got upset because Greenlaw left.
- 46:30Speaker 13: He's done nothing in Denver. He's been hurt a lot.
- 46:31Speaker 13: How fun that we all knew, at least in San
- 46:33Speaker 13: Francisco that he was done all these different guys. You
- 46:36Speaker 13: saw Hardgrave for the Vikings. He was a big he
- 46:39Speaker 13: was an eighty million dollars signing by the by the
- 46:42Speaker 13: forty Nandersy. I think you have one good play in
- 46:44Speaker 13: that game against the Seahawks. He's nothing special. I mean,
- 46:46Speaker 13: they let a bunch of guys go. Deebo Shamuel is
- 46:49Speaker 13: fat and out of shape. They made the right decision
- 46:51Speaker 13: on him. So all these guys who were names who
- 46:54Speaker 13: used to be part of the glory days. So the
- 46:56Speaker 13: forty nine ers got released and everybody's up in ours
- 46:58Speaker 13: now and they even eight months at the same time.
- 47:01Speaker 13: But yet those guys have gone to other teams.
- 47:03Speaker 7: And they haven't done anything.
- 47:05Speaker 13: Funga has, in Greenlaw has and Deebo hasn't. Like that
- 47:07Speaker 13: whole group of guys that were a big part of
- 47:10Speaker 13: this rival between the Seahawks and the forty nine ers,
- 47:12Speaker 13: they let them all go. And I'm not saying all
- 47:14Speaker 13: the guys that they replaced him with have played well,
- 47:16Speaker 13: but the majority have.
- 47:18Speaker 1: That's that's the John Schneider formula two, right, I mean,
- 47:23Speaker 1: let Russ walk, let Gino walk, let DK walk. I
- 47:27Speaker 1: mean stuff like that. Let those guys go, don't you know?
- 47:30Speaker 1: And no, when to not sign a guy to a
- 47:32Speaker 1: second or third or fourth contract, whatever it might be.
- 47:34Speaker 1: And those are hard things to do, man, It's hard
- 47:37Speaker 1: to sit there and go, eh. I think. I think
- 47:39Speaker 1: like the DK thing is a great example. I know
- 47:42Speaker 1: they struggled with it, but you know, like he's he
- 47:46Speaker 1: just hasn't been the guy, everything's there, just has never clicked.
- 47:49Speaker 1: And now we're on team number two. Now you can
- 47:51Speaker 1: make an argument that he's had bad quarterback play in Pittsburgh,
- 47:54Speaker 1: but nevertheless it's team number two. They let him walk,
- 47:56Speaker 1: they don't have to pay him, and well and behold,
- 47:57Speaker 1: they got a guy that's probably a first team all
- 47:59Speaker 1: pH JSN has taken over. What when you watch Sam
- 48:03Speaker 1: Darnald the last few weeks, do you see do you
- 48:06Speaker 1: see red flags?
- 48:08Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 48:09Speaker 13: I mean what I see is kind of here. I
- 48:12Speaker 13: know this isn't the exact comparison, but I'm seeing a
- 48:15Speaker 13: little bit from what I saw Kaepernick from Kaepernick at
- 48:17Speaker 13: the end. And it don't get me wrong, Donald is
- 48:20Speaker 13: leaps and downs ahead of that. But what I'm seeing
- 48:22Speaker 13: is is that when he's getting pressure, and what forced
- 48:24Speaker 13: Kaepernick out of the league is none of the things
- 48:27Speaker 13: that happened off the field. It was that when the
- 48:29Speaker 13: rush came and they took away read one in two,
- 48:32Speaker 13: his eyes went down. The rush started to come down,
- 48:35Speaker 13: come in, and his eyes went down and he got nervous.
- 48:37Speaker 13: And what we're starting to see from Donald now is
- 48:39Speaker 13: that when the rush is coming, he's not keeping the
- 48:42Speaker 13: eyes downfield. He's not staying confident in the pocket. He's
- 48:45Speaker 13: getting the happy feed. He's doing those kinds of things
- 48:47Speaker 13: that that people complained about at Minnesota and one of
- 48:50Speaker 13: the reasons why they didn't re sign him was the
- 48:53Speaker 13: end of that year and they were like, can this
- 48:55Speaker 13: guy be relied upon? Look, I think that this is
- 48:58Speaker 13: such a good team and a good offense and Kubiaks
- 49:00Speaker 13: then these great things, and he's got the players around them.
- 49:02Speaker 13: They're going to be fine. But there is a bit
- 49:05Speaker 13: of what the Rams did not every team can do.
- 49:09Speaker 13: But putting that kind of pressure on him, he does
- 49:11Speaker 13: look skittish in the pocket and his effectiveness is gone.
- 49:15Speaker 13: Now I realize what Brian Flores is a hell of
- 49:18Speaker 13: a defensive coordinator. First of all, he's given Kyle Shannan
- 49:21Speaker 13: we just talked about. He's given Kyle Shannan a lot
- 49:24Speaker 13: of trouble throughout the years of his boots, packages and
- 49:26Speaker 13: different things that he does. So Brian Flor is a
- 49:28Speaker 13: little bit different. The Rams doing what they're doing is
- 49:31Speaker 13: a little bit different. But those are the kind of
- 49:32Speaker 13: teams you're going to see in the playoffs. And to me,
- 49:34Speaker 13: and you tell me if I'm wrong here, the expectation
- 49:36Speaker 13: level has grown with the Seax. A few told fans
- 49:39Speaker 13: at the beginning of the season, Hey, they'll win eleven
- 49:41Speaker 13: twelve games, getting in the playoffs, maybe get to the
- 49:43Speaker 13: second round. I think the Seahawks fans would be ecstatic.
- 49:45Speaker 13: But now the better you get, the more that the
- 49:48Speaker 13: expectations rise. And now with all the san you just
- 49:51Speaker 13: mentioned power rankings, I think people in Seattle are thinking
- 49:56Speaker 13: this is a super Bowl team. Well, I think there's
- 49:57Speaker 13: a lot of optimism and reason for that, but you
- 50:00Speaker 13: don't you have to question whether Sam Darnold can do
- 50:03Speaker 13: it against the better competition, because now you're looking at
- 50:06Speaker 13: a Rams team. You're not that Minnesota's got a great,
- 50:08Speaker 13: great defense, but Flora's is a great defensive coordinator. Are
- 50:12Speaker 13: are they going to be able to play this way
- 50:13Speaker 13: and be this good against the better teams in the
- 50:16Speaker 13: league who are going to shut down the long passing
- 50:18Speaker 13: game and say, Okay, you're gonna have to go fourteen
- 50:21Speaker 13: to fifteen plays eighty eighty five yards on them. Yeah,
- 50:24Speaker 13: and they do that consistently.
- 50:25Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 50:25Speaker 1: I think John Long with it. I think, you know,
- 50:27Speaker 1: he's got to prove it against I mean with Owen,
- 50:29Speaker 1: you know, lose to the Rams, lose the forty nine ers, right,
- 50:31Speaker 1: I mean, those are the those are your tests so far,
- 50:33Speaker 1: those are those are litmus tests. So you got to
- 50:34Speaker 1: be and frankly, if you don't beat you got to beat.
- 50:37Speaker 1: You gotta beat the Rams in two weeks because if
- 50:39Speaker 1: you don't, you're not gonna win the division and you'll
- 50:40Speaker 1: be a wild card team. Which is fine. I mean,
- 50:42Speaker 1: get in the playoffs, that's just the first goal.
- 50:44Speaker 13: But as long as you play the South, as long
- 50:45Speaker 13: as you play either Tampa or the Panthers, I guess
- 50:47Speaker 13: you should be okay. But I get your point, which
- 50:49Speaker 13: is you'd much rather just win the division right and
- 50:54Speaker 13: deal with the consequence of that, although, like I said,
- 50:56Speaker 13: I hate playing this game. The four or five matchup
- 50:58Speaker 13: is Tampa or the Carolina the if you're two or three,
- 51:02Speaker 13: you might get you might get Philly or something in
- 51:04Speaker 13: the first round, so you could play that game, but
- 51:06Speaker 13: you're My point is is that you want to do
- 51:08Speaker 13: this thing right and get as high of a seat
- 51:09Speaker 13: as you possibly can.
- 51:10Speaker 1: Well, the other part of it is too. If you're
- 51:12Speaker 1: Seattle and Green Bay and you know you got to
- 51:16Speaker 1: look back at San Francisco because I think what you
- 51:18Speaker 1: just said is key. You start looking at the matchups
- 51:22Speaker 1: right now. Your first round matchup would be the Rams
- 51:24Speaker 1: in San Francisco. How about that?
- 51:27Speaker 3: That's awesome?
- 51:28Speaker 10: Huh like that the Rams really?
- 51:30Speaker 13: Well, you'd be a Niners fan then, right, yeah?
- 51:34Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no yeah, no, no, no, no, you would
- 51:36Speaker 1: be because you think because you you'd rather take your
- 51:38Speaker 1: chances with as many you know, things go on and
- 51:41Speaker 1: gone well for San Francisco. Still take your chances there
- 51:43Speaker 1: as opposed as Matt Stafford. Yeah, you're that would be
- 51:46Speaker 1: the one matchup. Philadelphia Green Bay also a first round matchup,
- 51:50Speaker 1: and then Tampa Bay Seattle. Yeah, you're like, you better
- 51:54Speaker 1: finish fifth. Really you want to finish fifth because you're right,
- 51:57Speaker 1: even though Tampa Bay came up here and beat Seattle,
- 51:59Speaker 1: sales defense is way better now than it wasn't and
- 52:02Speaker 1: that I'll take that all day. I'm still I brought
- 52:04Speaker 1: this up with Andrews earlier. Do we believe it all
- 52:08Speaker 1: in Chicago? Like, like really can't? That's like that's a mirage,
- 52:12Speaker 1: that's that's that's the lake in the middle of the desert,
- 52:14Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah?
- 52:16Speaker 13: Well, here here's what I don't understand, and look, sports
- 52:19Speaker 13: doesn't always have to make sense. And it's not because
- 52:21Speaker 13: I'm not a Caleb Williams guy, But I don't know.
- 52:24Speaker 13: It's one of those things. They're kind of like Washington
- 52:26Speaker 13: a year ago. To me is that I like what
- 52:29Speaker 13: they do. They've got a lot of talent on that team,
- 52:31Speaker 13: but Cayle, at the end of the day, it's about quarterback.
- 52:33Speaker 13: Playing the playoffs. Caleb Williams is a sub sixty percent
- 52:37Speaker 13: completion guy. Now, I know that's a bit like batting average.
- 52:39Speaker 13: I understand that, but still, I just you know, he's
- 52:42Speaker 13: made plays and it's mattered all those kind of things.
- 52:44Speaker 13: I get it. I just think in the playoffs, the
- 52:46Speaker 13: smoking mirrors that's going on with the Bears right now,
- 52:48Speaker 13: that's just not gonna work. Now, well, I just I
- 52:54Speaker 13: just think you're gonna have a good defensive game plan
- 52:56Speaker 13: against him, and you're gonna say, look, we'll stop the
- 52:58Speaker 13: run and all these kind of things. You got to
- 53:00Speaker 13: make sure you beat us. And they do have some
- 53:01Speaker 13: talent around him. I'm not saying that they don't, but
- 53:05Speaker 13: I'm just simply saying I don't trust Caleb Williams. And
- 53:07Speaker 13: when you get into the playoffs and you're looking at
- 53:10Speaker 13: one score games generally three four point games. Is he
- 53:13Speaker 13: going to be able to, you know, take his team
- 53:14Speaker 13: down the field like he's been able to do in
- 53:17Speaker 13: the regular season plus the other thing, And look, you
- 53:19Speaker 13: can only play who's in front of you. I understand
- 53:21Speaker 13: that they haven't played the best schedule, just like New
- 53:23Speaker 13: England hasn't played the best schedule. So you know, we'll see.
- 53:26Speaker 13: But yeah, we are completely dismissing the Bears, and I'm.
- 53:29Speaker 1: Fine with that. Joe joining us right now. And we
- 53:32Speaker 1: move back to Sola for a second. In this day
- 53:34Speaker 1: and age in which all these coaches are leaving in
- 53:36Speaker 1: college and running around guys getting second chances. The job
- 53:40Speaker 1: he's done there this year, does he get a second
- 53:42Speaker 1: chance as a head coach in the NFL? I mean
- 53:44Speaker 1: he went to basically, you know, the the dungeon, the
- 53:48Speaker 1: purgatory of all things NFL before nobody can win there.
- 53:52Speaker 1: I mean, Aaron Glenn's finding that out right now, right,
- 53:54Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's impossible. And that dumpster fire of
- 53:57Speaker 1: us of an organization to use that term against right now, right,
- 54:01Speaker 1: I mean, it is, They're awful. I'm aware, Joe Joe
- 54:05Speaker 1: Willie named I think coming back anytime soon. Aware, this
- 54:09Speaker 1: isn't this is in the late sixties, this is this
- 54:11Speaker 1: is now. They're not good. Uh does Salli get a chance?
- 54:14Speaker 1: Because I think we'd all like to see him go
- 54:15Speaker 1: somewhere else and get the hell out of San Francisco. Yeah.
- 54:18Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, if you ever sat down to talk
- 54:19Speaker 13: with this guy, he is the Dictionary definition of leader
- 54:23Speaker 13: of men. He is just he is so good and so.
- 54:26Speaker 13: What I mean why I'm saying that is that when
- 54:29Speaker 13: he gets in a situation where he's interviewing, the owner
- 54:31Speaker 13: is just going to be, you know, very excited. Uh
- 54:35Speaker 13: you know, they're just gonna be like, oh my god,
- 54:36Speaker 13: we've got to hire this guy. So but here here's
- 54:39Speaker 13: the question, because I've talked to roberts All about this recently,
- 54:42Speaker 13: which is now he's got to be selected because, like
- 54:44Speaker 13: you said, the Jets, Jets are a complete dumpster fire.
- 54:48Speaker 13: I have no idea what anybody gets out of being
- 54:49Speaker 13: a jetsman. They won the Super Bowls in sixty nine.
- 54:51Speaker 13: What exactly do you get out of being a jetstory
- 54:54Speaker 13: toughness and resiliency, Yeah right, you can get that in
- 54:58Speaker 13: a lot of different ways. A I have a child
- 55:01Speaker 13: that'll treat all those that you don't need to be
- 55:03Speaker 13: a Jets fan. But anyway, that's a sidebar. My point
- 55:05Speaker 13: is is that now it's up to Robert Sala because
- 55:08Speaker 13: as bad as the Jets situation is, that was your
- 55:10Speaker 13: first chance, your second one better be right or you
- 55:13Speaker 13: may not get a third. So you look at a
- 55:15Speaker 13: guy like Mike Shanahan goes to Al Davis and the
- 55:17Speaker 13: Raiders stinks, goes to Denver win Super Bowls. You can
- 55:19Speaker 13: be a great coach, and you know Bill Belichick went
- 55:21Speaker 13: to the Browns before he went to the Patriots. It
- 55:24Speaker 13: happens all the time. But you better hit on the
- 55:26Speaker 13: second one because then then the league starts going, well,
- 55:29Speaker 13: maybe it's you. And so you know, there's a lot
- 55:32Speaker 13: of opportunities. There's gonna be a lot of opportunities in
- 55:34Speaker 13: this league, and I think that Salo is going to
- 55:35Speaker 13: be near the top for a lot of them. But
- 55:37Speaker 13: he's got to be selective in the job that he
- 55:39Speaker 13: takes because if you take a job like Mike McDonald
- 55:41Speaker 13: did in Seattle, there's a history there of being successful,
- 55:45Speaker 13: and so you're going to go into that situation thinking Okay,
- 55:47Speaker 13: I could be successful. You go to the Jets, you
- 55:49Speaker 13: go to the Giant. I could see the Giants wanting
- 55:52Speaker 13: to get him, because what happens a lot of times
- 55:53Speaker 13: is Brian Dables an offensive mind. What do you want
- 55:56Speaker 13: to do next time you want to go to defense?
- 55:58Speaker 13: A lot of times owners will go to the office
- 56:00Speaker 13: and of what they just had. So I could see
- 56:02Speaker 13: them saying, well, he knows what New York is about.
- 56:04Speaker 13: Let's you know, they've got some defensive pieces. But if
- 56:07Speaker 13: I'm Robert Solid, there's no way I go to the Giants.
- 56:09Speaker 13: It's just a dysfunctional organization. So long way to answer
- 56:13Speaker 13: your question, which is yeah, I think Solo will get
- 56:16Speaker 13: an opportunity, and if he wants a job, he'll be
- 56:18Speaker 13: out of this division, which is good news for everybody
- 56:20Speaker 13: else in the division. But now it's up to him
- 56:22Speaker 13: to be selective. He's not going to just jump at
- 56:24Speaker 13: any opportunity get Yeah.
- 56:25Speaker 1: I mean, is he Steve Spagnola or is he a
- 56:28Speaker 1: guy that can get is he Belichick and Carol or
- 56:32Speaker 1: what have you? Right? And you know, great coordinator that
- 56:34Speaker 1: should just stay a coordinator or do you end up
- 56:36Speaker 1: being a good head coach if as you say, you're
- 56:38Speaker 1: sitting across from a guy leader, a man, a guy
- 56:41Speaker 1: that can do all those things. And you know that's
- 56:43Speaker 1: that's good, all right? That yeah, which good. Get him
- 56:47Speaker 1: the hell out of San Francisco. Let him go someplace else. Yeah,
- 56:49Speaker 1: he can move on anytime. Maybe go somewhere in the AFC.
- 56:52Speaker 1: That'd be even better, all right. One tell people the
- 56:55Speaker 1: new ventures all things NFL you're doing these days.
- 56:58Speaker 13: Yeah, at PFB wire pro football Wire, So we handled
- 57:01Speaker 13: we handled everything across the board. So it's a Pro
- 57:03Speaker 13: Football Wire on YouTube, and then it's at PFB wire
- 57:06Speaker 13: on x and Instagram and all those different places. So
- 57:08Speaker 13: we put up all sorts of videos, different things, opinions.
- 57:11Speaker 13: We'll finished up the website, which I should have done
- 57:13Speaker 13: a long time ago, but I'm very lazy. Uh. And
- 57:16Speaker 13: so it's great at PSB wire. All teams all the time.
- 57:21Speaker 13: That's our logo, our slogan, all teams all the time.
- 57:24Speaker 1: I love it. Check it out.
- 57:25Speaker 13: That pretty good?
- 57:26Speaker 1: Yeah, who came up with that?
- 57:30Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 57:31Speaker 13: Everything in this business is stolen search sure as hell
- 57:33Speaker 13: wasn't made come up with anything.
- 57:36Speaker 1: I mentioned this before we were waiting for uh, Colonisaaki
- 57:39Speaker 1: probably stayed at Buyu. Apparently they sold some Crumble cookies
- 57:41Speaker 1: and the church said that aning out to keeping them there.
- 57:44Speaker 13: Imagine that, you know, they sold some Coke Cola stock
- 57:47Speaker 13: and then they ended up keeping them. What's amazing, Like
- 57:50Speaker 13: he was never going to leave. We both know this guy.
- 57:52Speaker 13: He was a pullback at the Buyu that he was
- 57:54Speaker 13: at Utah, the Strits coordinator, his all of his families
- 57:57Speaker 13: at b YU. Like, it's it's a different deal there,
- 57:59Speaker 13: plus recruiting for him versus returning. It's just a different deal.
- 58:03Speaker 1: Well, it's it's here's the thing that Penn stage job,
- 58:08Speaker 1: James Franklin winning ten eleven games every year, got fired.
- 58:11Speaker 13: And it wasn't good enough.
- 58:12Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like meanwhile, you're.
- 58:14Speaker 13: Get a good but just get a good buyout. Like
- 58:16Speaker 13: I mean, if I was James Franklin, I'd be on
- 58:18Speaker 13: an island. I'd never work again. But he wants to
- 58:20Speaker 13: go back to coaching at Virginia Tech. That's fine whatever,
- 58:22Speaker 13: But I mean he could have been like Brian Kelly
- 58:24Speaker 13: and just got fifty million dollars. So it's really not
- 58:25Speaker 13: a bad job because if you get fired, you get
- 58:28Speaker 13: fifty million dollars not to work, which is my goal.
- 58:33Speaker 1: How much would it take for me? It would only
- 58:35Speaker 1: take like five million if.
- 58:36Speaker 13: You exactly, somebody's gonna pay you not to work whenever
- 58:41Speaker 13: he goes. What's the best job in the world, paid
- 58:43Speaker 13: not to work?
- 58:44Speaker 7: The best job A lot of money.
- 58:46Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, that's the best of the world.
- 58:48Speaker 1: I don't have to go back. I'm gonna go back
- 58:50Speaker 1: and prove something to kJ R. I'm gonna work again. No,
- 58:53Speaker 1: I'm good, see.
- 58:55Speaker 13: Exactly, I'm gonna We're.
- 58:57Speaker 1: Gonna go down to Santa Clair and bother one. That's
- 58:59Speaker 1: what I'm to do. I'm gonna go down and bother you.
- 59:02Speaker 13: I mean, I know you. I know you say you
- 59:04Speaker 13: like the people you work with. But let's be honest.
- 59:06Speaker 1: Come, I only say that publicly, all right, imagine. Hey,
- 59:13Speaker 1: the worst thing is I don't want to think about
- 59:14Speaker 1: what they say behind my back before I get in.
- 59:16Speaker 13: Every day I've talked to him. It is not nice.
- 59:19Speaker 13: Would really hurt your ego, really hurt your feelings. But
- 59:22Speaker 13: I was sworn to secrecy.
- 59:24Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Nothing says it. Nothing says keeping a secret
- 59:27Speaker 1: like telling them one. All right, we'll talk to you soon.
- 59:29Speaker 1: Take care of my buy see you shut out the door.
- 59:32Speaker 1: There's there's our ugly blonde. She's gone just like that.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Her name is John. Okay, what are we at? We'll
- 59:38Speaker 1: take a break, come back, maybe check a text or
- 59:40Speaker 1: two if I can get the thing to work. Otherwise
- 59:41Speaker 1: Andrews will read a text or two, and then Jessamine
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- 1:00:42Speaker 1: of seconds before the window opens. I need I just
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: need to recap something real fast, just because why wouldn't
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: I when things are going well, Let's just take a
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: quick peek. This is the final week of the year.
- 1:00:55Speaker 5: By the way, standings are updated, so if you are
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- 1:01:00Speaker 1: Ninety three three. What's our website?
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- 1:01:21Speaker 1: There's been one. There's been one, two, three, four, five, six,
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: seven picks. Six picks made already today before Jess. One
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: pick's already in the books for the week that will
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: be a win by us. M Andrews. Give me update
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: the the winning streak we're on.
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: We are on an eight pick winning streak, all right.
- 1:01:40Speaker 5: So that's all of last week, this pick, and then
- 1:01:43Speaker 5: all of the week prior as well.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: So let's get to the pick, Jess, let's keep that thing.
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: Let's let's make it lucky number nine. What he got?
- 1:01:50Speaker 4: All Right, here we go.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: This is not even though there's three teams in New York, right,
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: this is not me rooting with my heart.
- 1:01:56Speaker 4: Okay, I'm not paid.
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: I can confirm there are three teams in the state
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: of New York yet, right, Jet's Giants.
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: The Bills two of them.
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: I have, you know, some personal affinity for Okay, I'm
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: going with the other one, the Bills minus five and
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: a half as they take on at home take on
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: Cincinnati this weekend. So Bills minus five and a half.
- 1:02:18Speaker 4: I think they're going to smoke them.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: Bills minus five and a half hosting the Bengals hosting
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: the Bengals. Fact four nine, four or five one? If
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: you disagree, fiction four nine four or five one.
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: What I'm just? I'm just and I and the pick
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: it's juicy.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson still out. I don't think Joe Burrow is
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: even close to being.
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: What he is capable of.
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: And well, one team's one team's four and eight and
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: the other one is eight and four something to play for.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: One team's kind of getting a little desperation mode, the
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: other one's or wine mailing it in.
- 1:02:53Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, and so I have to pick.
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: I think this feels like nine straight wins for US nine.
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: Have you updated the show or host Stanningxanders?
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: They are updated, not through yesterday's win, it's through last week.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: Just look and see what yesterday's win does for us.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: That would make US twenty six and thirty one, Just
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: for a point of reference, that would be one game
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: behind Softy and Dick. I bring that up for this reason.
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: It's interesting listening to their show yesterday and Jackson giggling
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: and googling all over.
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: Him, say, can they have a chance to catch Chuck
- 1:03:24Speaker 3: and Buck?
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: They better be worried more about not finishing behind us. Yeah,
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: we're one game back. This is a this is another win.
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: Is a very Jackson thing to do.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: It's hyper ventilating.
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: I think it's like the excitable part of it. Yeah,
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: yet he gets excitable.
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: And he should love the enthusiasm. They're jf But here's
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: the problem. You better worry about us, you know, shouldn't
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: be worried about Chuck and Buck. They'd have to run
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: the table this week to getch Chuck and Buck. There
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: are five games back and midday we got have a
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: little harder time catching him. They're three up on us.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: Actually they're two up on us after yesterday. What little
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: hard time. I think we're gonna get ourselves out of
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: the basement.
- 1:04:07Speaker 4: Man, I think so too.
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: And by the way, I just realized, I know no
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: one took my pick, but Chris took the opposite of.
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: Me, didn't.
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: I always end up picking the same game, except he
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: made the wrong choice early except Natty. Yeah, and at
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: the time he picked it was uh, yep, it was
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: a five point spread.
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: I got it five and a half. Pretty similar, But yeah, he.
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: Took difference because it pushes a fiction anyway.
- 1:04:30Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't matter.
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: Yeah, the hook doesn't usually matter. So oh, we like this,
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, Buffalo minus five and
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: a half against Cincinnati. Fact text four nine four or
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: five one. If you disagree, you'll text fiction to four
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- 1:06:35Speaker 3: I do that on purpose to kind of freaking out.
- 1:06:37Speaker 7: Oh I don't care, really.
- 1:06:39Speaker 4: No, that was actually the basis of the conversation.
- 1:06:42Speaker 16: You do it on purpose because you don't know what
- 1:06:43Speaker 16: the hell you're doing back there. Oh yeah, that too.
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: I mean, Andrews, it.
- 1:06:47Speaker 16: Took me like twenty years to admit that at this
- 1:06:49Speaker 16: radio station that I have no idea what I'm doing.
- 1:06:51Speaker 16: So they think for you, just admit it now. But
- 1:06:54Speaker 16: you started, they expect way.
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: Less of you. You started in his position sort of,
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: but you're an intern. I ran sports Fan Radio Network
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: on Sunday more so that's the question. Could you go
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: back and run that board right now.
- 1:07:07Speaker 16: Absolutely not No, No, I mean if you train you,
- 1:07:10Speaker 16: give me, give me.
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: A day, give me a day on that.
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: Thing, and I'd be fine.
- 1:07:15Speaker 16: The problem is if we if you and I knew
- 1:07:17Speaker 16: how to do that, no, no, no, If you and
- 1:07:19Speaker 16: I knew how to do that, no no, there's no
- 1:07:21Speaker 16: need for him.
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: There's kind of no need for her.
- 1:07:25Speaker 16: Well, there might not be a need for you anyway.
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: You're right, you're right. But the more jobs we can do,
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: the less people they.
- 1:07:33Speaker 10: Need around here.
- 1:07:35Speaker 7: I don't want I don't want to learn his job.
- 1:07:37Speaker 16: I don't want to put Anders out of a Gigy's
- 1:07:39Speaker 16: having a baby for crying out.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: No, we don't need to do man. No, And you
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: know what, Ask me again? Could I do Andrew's job?
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Okay, ask you this, absolutely, ask you this.
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: We could do your job, though. Could you do Jackson's job?
- 1:07:53Speaker 7: What?
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: What job is that?
- 1:07:57Speaker 12: What does he do?
- 1:07:57Speaker 6: Again? Here?
- 1:07:59Speaker 16: Hey, by the way, did you guys see who missed
- 1:08:01Speaker 16: the first drive that last night for the Giants?
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: Did he?
- 1:08:04Speaker 10: Yep?
- 1:08:04Speaker 17: Didn't play missed the first drive? Wait a second, No,
- 1:08:09Speaker 17: you guys not talked about I didn't know that. Go
- 1:08:14Speaker 17: to ESPN it's.
- 1:08:15Speaker 10: A huge story.
- 1:08:16Speaker 7: It's all over the place.
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: So he detrimental, all right, So it was so that
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: guy was right.
- 1:08:22Speaker 16: Well, I mean, we don't we don't know why he
- 1:08:24Speaker 16: was out there. I don't know who that guy is.
- 1:08:26Speaker 16: That Wesley Steinberg tell.
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: You were telling us that was like a I thought
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: it was a parody because Seth, he's not.
- 1:08:35Speaker 7: He's never heard of him.
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: He has no idea who he is. Hey, go cart
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: there it is there, it is all Now does it
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: say why ESPN? But in there that he was watching
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: porn in a.
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: Meeting the Disney owned channel.
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: Well maybe it was. Maybe it was Mickey and Minnie.
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: Who knows?
- 1:08:55Speaker 10: It was like anime?
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: Okay, I mean does that count as porn?
- 1:09:02Speaker 13: Yeah?
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm asking our porn expert, David Maller.
- 1:09:08Speaker 4: Does talk about anyway, Never updated.
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: Jackson walks in shake, looks at you and shakes his
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: head and walks out just what shakes his head like
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: like you're a child.
- 1:09:20Speaker 7: All I said, you got to defend me.
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: All I said is he missed the first drive. That's
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: all I said.
- 1:09:26Speaker 8: You did.
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: You did say that your guy took it to a
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: whole Yeah, it has been.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: It's been widely, widely shut down, and that is the
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: reason who.
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: Mike Mike Mike Kafka described as a coach decision, my decision.
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: That's it. Okay. Carter was asked after the game, why
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: was disciplined? Blank happens. I'm not going to go into details.
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: Blank happens, buddy.
- 1:09:49Speaker 16: Have the New York If there's anybody who would have
- 1:09:52Speaker 16: the guts, would be the New York media to say
- 1:09:56Speaker 16: a report that you were watching pornography in a meeting?
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: Is that true?
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: I mean, somebody had to have asked, as a very
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: New York media person.
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: There's like a million people there. How could not one
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: person ask?
- 1:10:08Speaker 7: Okay?
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: So he's also been suspended for the first drive in
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: previous games.
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: The correct So let's go to the New York Post
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: the taboys. That's right, That's what I.
- 1:10:17Speaker 16: Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna text my guide
- 1:10:19Speaker 16: to Tino. All right, he's the he's the giant reporter
- 1:10:21Speaker 16: for w F find out. I will ask him to
- 1:10:24Speaker 16: get to the bottom. This is a very important story here.
- 1:10:27Speaker 16: Is it true that Abdul Carter missed the first drive
- 1:10:29Speaker 16: last night because he was caught watching porn in a
- 1:10:32Speaker 16: team meeting.
- 1:10:32Speaker 3: Question mark a guy?
- 1:10:35Speaker 4: Huh, he's only a Syrian?
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: Yeah? Have you never seen? This is how he texts?
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: It's weird?
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: Why is it weird? I don't think it's weird to
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: hear your inner thoughts.
- 1:10:46Speaker 16: Somebody's got to hear them. I hear my thoughts all
- 1:10:50Speaker 16: the time because the voices in your head? Tons, how
- 1:10:53Speaker 16: many voices do you have in your head? Millions going
- 1:10:55Speaker 16: on at one time? To pick and shoose the one?
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: I wanted to decipher what comes out into the SERI?
- 1:11:01Speaker 16: You know what, whatever just flows out when the mouth
- 1:11:03Speaker 16: opens up. Man, I just like the show. At three o'clock,
- 1:11:06Speaker 16: people always ask me. They probably ask you the same question, Hey,
- 1:11:09Speaker 16: what are you talking about today?
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:11:11Speaker 16: I got a phone call from a guy at two
- 1:11:13Speaker 16: twenty this afternoon. What are you talking about? I had
- 1:11:15Speaker 16: no idea? Ask me now what I'm talking about at
- 1:11:18Speaker 16: three o'clock? Are you talking about?
- 1:11:19Speaker 7: I don't have any idea.
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: How many times you asked me that? Lord Daly?
- 1:11:23Speaker 4: You mean when I leave your voice, mas, just what.
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: Do you want to? What do you want to hit
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: on today? I want to I want to plan and
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: have a script and go across the street. We don't
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: do that. Have gotten to the point though that I thinking,
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: there's this laugh track for the morning show. A guy
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: has to put in there. Laugh here. Mike said, so
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: is that true?
- 1:11:40Speaker 7: You work there?
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: Is that true?
- 1:11:42Speaker 4: People's roles have been described as such at times?
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: Yes? Wow, yes, answer, that's a yes, that's a yes. Well,
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: listen the transcript laked like we saw.
- 1:11:53Speaker 16: Oh yeah, Danny, Danny put it Danny put it out
- 1:11:55Speaker 16: Daniel when you were on that show.
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: Yeah, you should know that.
- 1:11:58Speaker 12: How do you feel about that?
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: By the way, do we do what dark time in
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: your life?
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: I spent eleven years building up a reputation in this market,
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: which is stellar.
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: By then come over here and right down the tournament essentially, Yeah,
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: what happened to it?
- 1:12:12Speaker 10: Again?
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: Hey, tease your show?
- 1:12:15Speaker 12: What's coming up?
- 1:12:16Speaker 13: I don't know.
- 1:12:19Speaker 16: What's Today's Today Tuesday with the Hell Today, Today's the
- 1:12:22Speaker 16: Final Husky Hanks at four o'clock with Mario and Greg
- 1:12:25Speaker 16: talking about the loss to Oregon, looking ahead to whatever
- 1:12:27Speaker 16: ball game they're playing in. John Wilner will join us
- 1:12:30Speaker 16: on the show as well. The Fun with Audio and
- 1:12:33Speaker 16: we do have a couple of fun can you.
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: Just tackle the Abdual Carter story right off the get go.
- 1:12:37Speaker 7: For me, we just did.
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: I brought it up here because that's why I like
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: doing this segment, man, Because Jackson walked in right when
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: you spit your coke out and hurt anime porn, and
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: then he shook his head and walked away. He doesn't know.
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: He's disgusted. I want you to bring it up again.
- 1:12:52Speaker 16: I'll bring it up just for you, but for the
- 1:12:54Speaker 16: mild mannered and marginally objectionably Inverness this paddle day, saying
- 1:12:59Speaker 16: solong everyone