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Chuck in the Morning 9/10 H1: Phew, we won! Despite the win, we suffered a loss and why don't the National guys get it? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: you writing this down? No, I'm not. This is Chuck
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  Speaker 3: in the Morning. Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a win to start the season for the
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  Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks. They were winners on opening night at Lumen Field.
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  Speaker 4: That was quite raucous last night. 13-10 is your final score,
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  Speaker 4: and I promise I didn't do any cheering or yelling
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  Speaker 4: to preserve my moneymaker while I was in the stands
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  Speaker 4: last night at Lumen Field for the Seahawks victory.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't do any yelling or cheering?
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  Speaker 1: None.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no.
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  Speaker 2: How do you go to a game and not yell?
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  Speaker 4: Listen to my voice. It's like wrecked as it is. Like,
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  Speaker 4: what if I would have screamed and yelled? I got
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  Speaker 4: four hours to talk today.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I don't know how you do that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've never done that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Very easy for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't go to a game and not cheer.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I cheered. I mean, I did a lot
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  Speaker 4: of high fives.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You know, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: High fives.
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  Speaker 4: But it was mostly.
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  Speaker 2: The nonverbal cheer.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they said. That's what they said. Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not like most fans, Ash.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do know that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't kind of operate that way. But certainly
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  Speaker 4: it was exciting. There's no question about it. And certainly,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you do pull for, cheer for from the
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  Speaker 4: standpoint of, here's what I got to do. You know,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of fine.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 4: But even doing that, you had to raise your voice
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  Speaker 4: above all of that noise. And I typically don't go
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  Speaker 4: to a lot of games. Probably irritates some people out there.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you can go to all of them
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  Speaker 4: and you only go to a few? Yeah, that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of what I do. So it was a little bit
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  Speaker 4: outside of my normal comfort zone, and I had a
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  Speaker 4: great time. And thanks to my buddy Chris, who took
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  Speaker 4: me last night, and we had a great time. I
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  Speaker 4: loved it. And certainly, though, not exactly how I do things.
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  Speaker 4: Usually I got a stack of notes like this high.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I have one piece of paper, and it's not even
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  Speaker 4: finished being filled out. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: That is very different.
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  Speaker 4: So I think I'm going to lean on Hugh Mellon
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  Speaker 4: today for a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I listened to his postgame, and he has a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So did I. Yeah. I'm not worried about him having enough,
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  Speaker 4: but there might be one of these. I used to
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  Speaker 4: work with this guy by the name of Jim Brinson.
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  Speaker 4: I love Jim Brinson. Man, did he have great stories.
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  Speaker 4: How do you talk like this, buddy? Hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in here, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he talked like that all the time. And he
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  Speaker 4: would sometimes just, he'd start a show and be like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, buddy. H is going to talk now. And
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  Speaker 4: he would just like turn his mic off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 4: He was the host. He didn't bring a lot to
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  Speaker 4: the table, to be quite honest.
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  Speaker 3: Other than this.
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  Speaker 4: And so, anyway, I might pull a Jim Brinson today.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get the Monday morning quarterback, and I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks went 13-10. Here's you, Miller.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that that's kind of how it
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  Speaker 5: happens already. There are questions inserted, but it is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come on!
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you ask your questions, but then it is...
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  Speaker 5: Hugh for minutes at a time, so I think.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be fine. Yeah, I'm going to be fine. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to lean on him extra heavy today. So Hugh
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  Speaker 4: will be with us for Monday Morning Quarterback, and we
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  Speaker 4: certainly do have a lot to discuss. I will just
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  Speaker 4: say from a fan perspective, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 4: high fives. The noise, people can't really appreciate. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that if you're yelling, I mean this, if you
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  Speaker 4: are yelling, and almost everybody there is, If you are yelling,
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  Speaker 4: you can't appreciate— I don't think you can appreciate how loud
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  Speaker 4: it actually really is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you definitely can, because I've been— Okay, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying you can't appreciate it. What I'm saying is,
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  Speaker 4: when you're sitting there not doing it, and you're not
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  Speaker 4: exerting effort to contribute to the noise, there's a whole
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  Speaker 4: other level of appreciation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Trust me on this. You just said you can't
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  Speaker 4: go to a game and not scream.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't do it the whole game.
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  Speaker 4: So when you're sitting there and the place is going
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  Speaker 4: nuts and the decibel was, as you know, deafening, that's
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  Speaker 4: not news to any 12s out there. But I'm sitting
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  Speaker 4: there and I'm just kind of like laughing. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: this is incredible what they're generating here. And I was
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  Speaker 4: surrounded by a few Patriots fans, all of them on
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  Speaker 4: their best behavior. And at one point I kind of
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  Speaker 4: turned my shoulders and I look and there is a
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  Speaker 4: Patriots fan in the next row above me. And the
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  Speaker 4: look on his face when he finally, because he knew,
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  Speaker 4: he knew the reputation of the 12s. He knew the
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  Speaker 4: reputation of Lumen Field. And I turn around and only
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  Speaker 4: YouTubers and Ashley are going to be able to appreciate this.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the look I was getting. He was like,
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  Speaker 4: he could not believe. I mean, I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: many Patriots games he's gone to. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: many other NFL games that he's gone to. But it is,
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  Speaker 4: I think, a unique sound that that stadium and this
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  Speaker 4: fan base creates. And the look on his face of like,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you could just read his face. It was like,
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  Speaker 4: I know the reputation of this place. But here I
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  Speaker 4: am in my Patriots jersey on opening night, and I
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  Speaker 4: cannot believe that. the noise that is being made right now.
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  Speaker 4: It was awesome to see that guy, the look on
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  Speaker 4: that guy's face.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I bet.
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  Speaker 3: I bet.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to go home and tell all his
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  Speaker 2: friends about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there was definitely a wait till I tell people
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  Speaker 4: about this.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of mood.
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  Speaker 4: And then the guy sitting next to me, and he,
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  Speaker 4: younger fan, with his Gronkowski jersey. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 2: Is he smashing beers on his head?
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: He apparently did some smashing of beers earlier because I
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  Speaker 4: think that he got a little wasted because he was
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  Speaker 4: very talkative in the first half. And there was this...
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  Speaker 4: He was caught in between. He wanted to be so
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  Speaker 4: respectful to all the Seahawks fans, but he was also like,
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  Speaker 4: I paid a lot of money to be a Patriot
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  Speaker 4: fan today, and we talk trash. And so he was...
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  Speaker 4: there was this like split that he was between like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to talk my trash because that's what I
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  Speaker 4: want to do, but I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: everybody else isn't bothered by me. And so he like
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  Speaker 4: went out of his way to do this dance for
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  Speaker 4: the first half. And then he came back for the
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  Speaker 4: second half. And I don't know if it was because
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  Speaker 4: he drank too much. I don't know if somebody told
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  Speaker 4: him to shut up. I have no idea, but for
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  Speaker 4: the second half, he hardly said a word. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: at one point, And they were still winning for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the second half. And at one point I
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  Speaker 4: looked down and he literally was looking through pictures of cabinetry.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: On his phone.
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  Speaker 2: He decided that was the time to redecorate the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: I think he'd had too much to drink and didn't
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  Speaker 4: want to, you know, publicly. having a sickness. Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: think that's, he was gathering, like he had to concentrate
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  Speaker 4: on it. And then he kind of fought that off
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  Speaker 4: and then got to be a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: fan toward the end as they lost. Uh, but that
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  Speaker 4: was also a unique experience. Like, uh, man, you were
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  Speaker 4: awfully talkative earlier, buddy. And now you're just looking at
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  Speaker 4: fine cabinetry on your phone. Interesting. It's an interesting transition.
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  Speaker 2: That's quite the jump.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, great experience. It was great going as just purely
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  Speaker 4: a fan last night. And even though I do it
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  Speaker 4: a little differently, I certainly soaked up every drop and
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  Speaker 4: it was a blast.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 2: And you did the double dip.
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  Speaker 4: And I did the double dip. I did the Mariners
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  Speaker 4: during the day. I did the Seahawks at night and
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  Speaker 4: got to see two wins. 13-10 the final score last night.
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  Speaker 4: And so we're going to spend our four hours pretty
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  Speaker 4: much just talking about that. I'll explain more about that
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  Speaker 4: in a moment because there are a lot of big
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  Speaker 4: topics to discuss. And really, the biggest takeaway has got
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  Speaker 4: to be the quarterback situations that we faced last night.
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  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold getting hurt on the fifth play of the
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  Speaker 4: game last night. And not just hurt, but then when
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  Speaker 4: you found out hip injury, you're like, oh, geez. Then
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  Speaker 4: when he leaves the field immediately and he's not just
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  Speaker 4: in the blue tent, then you're like, oh, really? Five
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  Speaker 4: games into the season. And if you felt that way,
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  Speaker 4: imagine what Brian Fleury felt, first-time offensive coordinator, wanting to
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  Speaker 4: make a great first impression, not just on the fans,
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  Speaker 4: but certainly on his head coach, who's, even though very
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  Speaker 4: nice guy, Mike McDonald, very demanding of his coaches. So
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  Speaker 4: you know he wants to prove This is my opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: This is my golden moment. And now all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden I've lost my quarterback. I've lost some of my
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  Speaker 4: playbook for sure. Some of my aggression for sure. And
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  Speaker 4: now I've got to go with Drew Locke, who didn't
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  Speaker 4: get any reps, any reps leading up to this game
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  Speaker 4: didn't play at all in the third preseason game so
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  Speaker 4: certainly did he play.
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  Speaker 5: In the second one because didn't Milrow play most or
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  Speaker 5: at least most of the second even in the second.
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  Speaker 4: One yeah so obviously prepared from the standpoint of I
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  Speaker 4: know our playbook And he apparently, according to Drew after
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  Speaker 4: the game, had said that he did some of those
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  Speaker 4: mental exercises that Jason Garrett spoke about in Hard Knocks,
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  Speaker 4: where he would sit in bed and kind of go
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  Speaker 4: through the game plan. And that's something that he's either
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  Speaker 4: did before or adopted after Garrett spoke to them. So
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  Speaker 4: he said that he's been doing a lot of that.
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  Speaker 4: But other than that, I mean, Cooper Cup made a
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  Speaker 4: point afterwards so that we all know. What a difficult
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  Speaker 4: job that is. Drew Locke coming in off the bench,
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  Speaker 4: five plays into the season, hasn't had any practice reps,
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  Speaker 4: taking on a very good, maybe even great defense.
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  Speaker 2: In New England.
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  Speaker 4: They did go to the Super Bowl a year ago,
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  Speaker 4: after all, and they were coming out firing themselves last night.
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  Speaker 4: And for him to have orchestrated a really solid performance,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he had 113 quarterback rating last night. He
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  Speaker 4: was obviously far better in the second half than he
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  Speaker 4: was in the first half when he got his legs underneath.
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  Speaker 2: Right, which makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. And for him to play as well as
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  Speaker 4: he did, I mean, yeah, we're not going to time
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  Speaker 4: capsule this thing. Nobody's going to study the Drew Locke
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  Speaker 4: game for the rest of time. But in terms of
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  Speaker 4: what do you want to see out of your backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just a gutty, I'll do what I can.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do everything I can, guys. I have some limitations
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  Speaker 4: coming into this game, but I'm going to do everything
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  Speaker 4: I can to get us across that finish line. And
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  Speaker 4: 16 for 22, 187 yards and a touchdown. Drew Locke
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  Speaker 4: got the job done last night, so good on him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he did, and just– the idea to you think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as a backup, you're always prepared to go in,
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  Speaker 5: in any situation, but I guarantee you, there was no
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  Speaker 5: thought by anyone that drew lock was going to be
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  Speaker 5: in that game at all, let alone in the first quarter. And,
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  Speaker 5: and so for all of them to have made the
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  Speaker 5: adjustment too, because you know, the wide receivers you're catching
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  Speaker 5: from somebody you haven't been catching a lot of passes from. And,
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  Speaker 5: And then for Fleury to have adjusted things and obviously
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  Speaker 5: really figured it out in the second half, thank goodness.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty impressive, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, very impressive. Very impressive. I think I did hear
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  Speaker 4: Hugh in the postgame show last night saying that Drew
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  Speaker 4: Locke deserved a game ball last night for that performance.
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  Speaker 4: And so we'll get certainly Hugh's evaluation of that. On
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  Speaker 4: the flip side, you have the Patriots quarterback, which obviously
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  Speaker 4: is a big story this morning. I can't imagine how
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  Speaker 4: big of a story it is in Boston. here this morning,
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  Speaker 4: they think the world of him. I don't think he
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  Speaker 4: has many critics in Boston. Nationally, people do believe he's
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  Speaker 4: already elite and is only going to get better. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't, I mean, I took him on my fantasy
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  Speaker 4: team and I wasn't planning on taking a quarterback until
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  Speaker 4: like the 10th, 11th round. But he was there in
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  Speaker 4: the eighth, and I went ahead and grabbed him last night.
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  Speaker 4: Shouldn't have started him. Did. And now I'm suffering from it.
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of just purely football, he did a
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  Speaker 4: nice job of managing the first half of the game,
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  Speaker 4: taking what the defense gave him, didn't do anything spectacular,
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  Speaker 4: went into the lead at halftime with a 7-0 score,
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  Speaker 4: and the stat line looked pretty good. But Drake May
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  Speaker 4: has one problem in the National Football League. And maybe
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: we'll find out there's more than one. Maybe we'll find
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  Speaker 4: out there's only one problem that Drake May has. And
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  Speaker 4: it's Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big problem.
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  Speaker 4: That is the problem that Drake May had. I heard
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  Speaker 4: Hugh mention this as well. I don't mean to steal
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  Speaker 4: his thunder when he comes on at 8 o'clock. But
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  Speaker 4: Drake May had 10 interceptions last season for the entire year.
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  Speaker 4: And yet in the fourth quarter of the last two
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  Speaker 4: games he's played, the Super Bowl and then last night
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  Speaker 4: against the Seahawks, he's thrown five interceptions. Five interceptions in
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  Speaker 4: the fourth quarter alone. So 80 quarters last season, 10
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  Speaker 4: interceptions versus two quarters, five interceptions against Mike McDonald when
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  Speaker 4: he's had a time to adjust his defense in-game against
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  Speaker 4: to what the other team is doing. I mean, bottom line,
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots, I mean, they weren't lighting the world on fire,
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  Speaker 4: but they were moving the ball. They had the lead
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  Speaker 4: and we're operating our second half knowingly with our backup
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  Speaker 4: quarterback who hadn't done much by halftime. And Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 4: goes in with his beakers and his and his Bunsen
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  Speaker 4: burners and his potions and his eye of newt, and
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  Speaker 4: he gathers everybody and he makes his adjustments and pretty
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  Speaker 4: much just took away everything. Now, I know the Patriots
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  Speaker 4: had a drive at the end of the game, but
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  Speaker 4: he pretty much just said, everything that you had in
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  Speaker 4: the first half, you're not going to get in the
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  Speaker 4: second half. I'm going to confuse the hell out of you, son.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to give you looks that you think that
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  Speaker 4: you've come to trust, that you spent the offseason studying
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, thinking, well, I'll never fall prey to
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  Speaker 4: that again. And then you're going to prepare for us
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  Speaker 4: based on that game film that you had from the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. And you're going to think that you're making progress.
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  Speaker 3: And you were.
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  Speaker 4: You adjusted to what I did to you at the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. But I'm going to get to halftime and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to confuse the F out of you. For
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the second half. And it's not going
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  Speaker 4: to get easier the later the game goes. When the
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  Speaker 4: pressure ramps up, I'm going to show you looks that
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  Speaker 4: you think are this. They're not. They're that. And Hugh's
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  Speaker 4: going to be able to explain that better today, but
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  Speaker 4: I think he and I are both going to arrive
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  Speaker 4: at the same conclusion. Drake May's a really good quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he's not a great one. Not yet. He's a
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  Speaker 4: really good quarterback who has a Mike McDonald problem. And
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  Speaker 4: last night, Drew Locke gets a game ball. The Coastalers
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  Speaker 4: get a game ball, apparently. And Mike McDonald should give
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  Speaker 4: himself one. Because once again, our smarter-than-your-coach head coach went
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: into halftime and said, we're not giving up a lot, guys,
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  Speaker 4: but it's still too much. Here's what we're going to do,
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  Speaker 4: and Drake May's not going to beat us. And he
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  Speaker 4: ends up throwing three interceptions in the fourth quarter, all
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  Speaker 4: of them stupid. And the only thing you can say
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  Speaker 4: about somebody that was runner-up for MVP, at least this
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: is my conclusion, not being an expert, being in the
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: stands last night, not being able to pour over the
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: all 22, not that I would know exactly how to
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: explain it like you can explain it. But that's my conclusion,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: that Mike McDonald once again worked his magic His defense,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: he knows how to implement his weapons. And Drake May
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: got to the fourth quarter, thought he'd figured some stuff out.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: And Mike McDonald changed the map on him.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: I'm picturing Mike McDonald's game book. And it's like the
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: first quarter, solid defense. Second quarter, hang on. Third quarter,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: confuse the F out of them.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Fourth quarter, win it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Win the game. Each one's got its divider, and that's
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: how it's labeled.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I hope so. If not before, I hope so now.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I hope now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: That means he's listening.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: And then there's no excuse for the final interception. I mean, none.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I did get home to watch the game on the
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: replay on an NFL network. I didn't make it through
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: the whole thing, but then got to see the end
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: this morning. Um, and, and Chris Collinsworth went on and on,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: like just, you can't make that throw. You have a
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: field goal. You have a chance to tie. You got
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: to get that out of bounds. If you don't get
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: it to your receiver, you just can't make that throw.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: And so stupid pass by Drake may. But also great
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: play by Josh Jobe.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Great play.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, for a cornerback to have gotten both those
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: feet inbounds.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: That's what I was. Everyone was freaking out. And I
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: was like, wait, did he get him in? Did he
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: get him in? Did he get it?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I was like holding my breath till they showed the replay.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: It was like, okay, now we can celebrate.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Yes. I was given high fives. 995, 996, 997, 998,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: 999 around the area.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I also was like, hey, let's, I don't know if
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: he got in or not. Um, and then when they
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: finally showed it on the replay, cause I think a
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: lot of people were like.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was, I was like, just end the game
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and the game.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Don't go look at it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Nothing to see here.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: And then just beautifully just got, even the first foot.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: It looked like he had to contort himself to get
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the first foot down and then to like dot the
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: eye with the toe on the right foot. Um, fantastic,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: fantastic from Josh, Joe, not so fantastic from Drake may.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that Boston talk show is going to be
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: a lot different than ours, here today. But Seahawks do win.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I'm going to take a little bit of credit here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I warned you was going to happen.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: It wasn't the exact score, but I knew it was
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: going to be sloppy on both sides. I took the over.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Under.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Under. or excuse me, the under on my, I told
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: you from the very first Factor Fiction pick, I want
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: the under. I didn't take it on my first Factor
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Fiction pick, but we did yesterday. And so I'm demolished
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the under. But I warned you that's how the game
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: was going to be played. I wasn't surprised at all.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: And I'm also not surprised that the Seahawks found a
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: way that they got there. They win the opener 13
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: to 10. And as sloppy and gross as the game
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: was at times um it certainly was a thrilling way
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to start the national football league season and so uh
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: we'll take it one and oh on the year and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: we got four hours to analyze it let's find out
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: what's on tap.
• 20:49
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• 20:55
  Speaker 4: In What a night! What a night at Lumen Field.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Nice work, 12s. What a show you put on last night.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: What a show the Seahawks put on last night as
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: an organization. And even though the game was 13-10 final,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: thrilling evening. They hung a banner and they win the opener.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Coastal is in attendance for the 13-10 win. We'll have
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Hugh Millen on today from 8 to 9.20. If I
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: haven't promoted that enough, our QB1 with our first Monday
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: morning quarterback session of a regular season game. And that
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: will be today on a Thursday starting at 8 o'clock
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: and go until 9.20 today. Greg Bell will join us
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: at 7.05. And of course, we have a quarterback injury
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: to discuss. Sam Darnold lasts just a few plays into
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the season before a hip injury that has pretty much
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: everybody in Seattle worried about. And so we're going to
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: talk quite a bit about that. We'll hear from Mike
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: McDonald as well, his comments after the game last night.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: And he sounded optimistic. 49ers Rams will play tonight in Australia.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: And so another terrific evening of football that we have
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: in store for us. Major League Baseball only scheduled five
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: games all day long and no night games tonight just
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: because they want to avoid the power that is the
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: National Football League on its opening days. And so Rams 49ers,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: this is a terrific way to start the Thursday night schedule.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: No question about it. And Mike Sandoe will make his
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: debut of 2026 with us today at 930. College football,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Huskies taking on Utah State this Saturday. Cougs will be
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: at Kansas State, 9 a.m. That start for us. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: then the biggie, Ohio State versus Texas this weekend, the
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: first huge game of the college football season. Mariners did
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: win yesterday in the doubleheader, 3-2, the final score over
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: the Texas Rangers. And they did gain a game in
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: the divisional standings because the Astros lost as well. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: six games back with 16 to play. And they will
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: play against the Texas Rangers, Mariners-Rangers, one of those five
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: games today. And it's a day game. Back-to-back day games
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: in the middle.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Of the week.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: That is so weird. Yeah, it never happens.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: It never messes with my schedule.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Jake DeGrom will go for them. Logan Gilbert for us.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: So the third time this season that the two most
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: famous Stetson pitchers, sorry, Corey Kluber, are going to meet
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: this season. It's like they planned that. Yeah, they couldn't have,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: but yeah, it's as if they did. So DeGrom versus
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Gilbert today at 110. Now, normally is when I say,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: coming up next, Mariners morning after. And I know that
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: it's a tradition. It's really hard for me as a
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: sports talk show host trying to figure out what people
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: really want to listen to the next day, to have
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: an injured quarterback with an unknown future and us do
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a recap of a baseball game that probably isn't going
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: to make a dent. So I'm not going to do
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Mariner's Morning After today. Sorry about it. We'll talk about
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold next. We will hear from Mike McDonald, his
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: comments after the game. It's Chuck and Ashley with you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. I decided, even though I'm
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: not going to really do your traditional Mariners morning after,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I said we should play the song coming back from
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the break.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Because we're we're now we're celebrating to win. So it
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: is good vibrations.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: There you go. There you go. Mariners did win yesterday
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: by a final score of 3-2 over the Texas Rangers.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I am going to do the ABCs of the M's,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: but in a short segment later on in the program.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: But I don't know if I can justify recapping a
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: 3-2 game yesterday that really was attended by only Seahawks
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: fans yesterday. Yeah, as somebody that was in the stadium,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: it was pretty much just a lot of people that
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: were planning on going to the Seahawks game and probably
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: prepared for the doubleheader well in advance. And then ended
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: up going to a game that, you know, there's not
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: a lot of hope. There's not a lot of hope
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: in that building right now.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Let's just put it that way.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Understandable.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But hey, they got the win.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: It was a nail-biter.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Just like the Seahawks, they got the win. Doesn't matter
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: how you do it. You just get the win.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Kate Anderson was really good for six innings. Andres Munoz
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: closed it out and the Mariners do win. And they
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: did pick up a game with 16 games to go
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: on the Astros who lost last night. But yes, I
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: am going to make an audible. It is football season, right?
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I can call an audible at the line of scrimmage.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You can, you can.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Hard for me to recap a game, a Mariners game
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: at this point when your quarterback went down in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: season opener. So wanted to spend a little bit of
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: time talking Sam Darnold here. amongst us before Greg Bell
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: gives us the latest update at 7.05. Darnold goes down
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: with a hip injury. At one point, they were reporting
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: it was an ankle, a knee, and a hip. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: then I saw one report that says he's going into
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: evaluation for ankle, knee, hip.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: They just basically thought his leg fell off.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Turns out that it is a hip. And of course,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: when you hear that, if you're my age... You can't
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: help but think, oh, Bo Jackson.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: That's what he brought up in the postgame last night, too.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Whoa, hip injuries the way he landed. Jammed that femur
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: up into the socket. What damage done it? Talked to
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Dick Fane last night, who was great on the postgame
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: show as well. He was beside himself with worry during
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the game. but felt much better after they got an
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: update from Mike McDonald. Here's his opening statements at his
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: press conference last night.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Just a really special night to be a Seahawk man,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and just really, really incredibly proud of our team. Thankful
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: for the 12s. Just the amount of resilience. I mean,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: when you think about all the things going on, I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: think the fourth play we lost Sam, you know, first-time
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: play caller. I thought Fleury did a great job of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: adjusting on the flyer, off to staff. Drew Lochte deserves
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a gigantic shout-out for playing, you know, clean football and And, uh,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll improve our operation, truly everybody on board, but, um,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we have, we have, we can get so much better
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: very quickly. I think with, and with Sam, we got
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: some great news back. It's, uh, it's to say it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: good news right now. So it's, I know, uh, still does,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you know, our thoughts and prayers with Sam, we love
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: them and the guys, uh, really pulled through for him.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: And then defensive.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And I thought the guys really fought, you know, these
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: first games were tricky in terms of who's got answers
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: for what and all that. So I thought we played
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: incredibly hard.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Um, Stuck together.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Our staff did a great job of finding answers as
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the game went on. And Nehemiah Pritchett played a dynamite game.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, I'm just really happy for Josh. Just,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you know, playing all the way to the very last play, man.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It's really, really remarkable. So proud to get the win,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: but also understand it's the first game. And we have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a really great opportunity here to take our game to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the next level. But we talk about the 26 Seahawks
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and understanding our identity and who we are. I think
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that definitely revealed the type of team that we have.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: A resilient, tough bunch that sticks together. So I'm really
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: proud of the effort and just really proud to be
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a Seahawk today.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad Nehemiah Pritchett got mentioned in the very
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: first statement, the opening statement, without receiving a single question
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: that he wanted to make sure Nehemiah Pritchett Josh Joe
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: both got mentioned probably should have mentioned Julian Love too
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: because he was phenomenal last night in the game in
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: the opening statements but of course once the media horde
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: heard him say we got great news on Sam of
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: course the first question was what's the great news on
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Sam at.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: This point we were able to rule out a fracture
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: so there's some more tests to be done and so
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying when it's positive so I But
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I know we're still working through all that. But right now,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I think Fracture's out, which is great news.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: No Fracture.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Fracture, if I'm to understand this, and I am no doctor.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: What?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I have always called you Dr.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Chuck. Well, you know, that's just because of my style.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's just because of the flair that I bring
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: to life. Okay.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly why I think I do it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Dre understands. J- He understands.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, I see.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: You might not be picking up what I'm putting down,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: but a lot of the audience does.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: No, definitely.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: So I am no medical doctor, even though a lot
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: of people call me Dr. Chuck because of my style.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: um but a fracture we're talking like season ending and
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: potentially career ending that's what that's that's when he says
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: we got great news he's still probably gonna miss a
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: lot of time yeah Now, we're going to find out,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: and I'm sure Greg Bell's got some more information for
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: us at 7.05. He's probably going to miss a lot
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: of time. He's probably going to miss a chunk of
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: the season this year. But a hip fracture could mean, like,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: career's over.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a long, long, long recovery.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: So that's what he meant by great news. And, yes,
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: up close and personal, that doesn't sound like very great news.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Missed an entire game. I don't know when he's going
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: to be back. You don't have any news for us.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: But it's a lot better than having to walk in,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: meet with the doctors, and they're like, it's not good. Right.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: You don't want that message on opening night in defense
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: of your Super Bowl championship. So, fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: They're going to get some more information, more evaluation, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Sam's going to be all right. As good a job
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: as Drew Locke did last night, and I thought he
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: did a really good job under the circumstances, if not
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: a great job under the circumstances, you need Sam Darnold
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to win this year. To win at the level you
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: want to win. Period.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what I think, too.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: And it's so funny because all these people, and there's
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: a lot of people on social media who are like, well,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Drew Locke basically looks just like Sam Darnold. They're the
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: same quarterback. It's like, well, no, they're not the same quarterback.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: They're not out there doing the same thing. Drew Locke
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: did a good job to help this team get a win.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe a great job.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll give a great.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Job to give this team a win. But I don't
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: feel as confident in this team with Drew Locke. And
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: that's not a knock on Drew Locke. That's praise on
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Sam Darnold. I feel much more confident with Sam Darnold.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: It's a big blow.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: If Sam Darnold's going to miss some time. There's no
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: question about it. The national perspective on this team has
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: been so wrong. for a while, but I think this
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: morning driving in and listening to the various shows, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: think maybe now I understand why they're missing the boat
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: on the Seattle Seahawks. I'll explain that next. Sports Radio
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: 93.3 KJR FM. All right, Greg Bell is going to
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: join us today at 7.05 as he does most every day.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Latest on Sam Darnold and many other things, including his reaction,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: what he saw in the opener last night. A 13-10
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: win over the New England Patriots. Wasn't the prettiest thing
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: in the world, but it was certainly thrilling all the
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: way down to the wire. Josh Jobe with the big
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: interception of Drake May. Three interceptions thrown by the quarterback.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter alone last night, and so the
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Seahawks have started their defense of the crown with a
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: 13-10 win over the New England Patriots on opening night
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: in the National Football League, and everyone was watching. Every
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: single person out there that loves football was watching the
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: game last night, and I think sort of a light
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: bulb went off this morning because, I mean, I'm telling
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: you right now the national perspective, there are a lot
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: of good national guys. I think a lot of people
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: just throw the national analysts into a bag altogether. There
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: are a lot of national guys who do a lot
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: of homework and say a lot of great things about
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks and have the Seahawks in the proper perspective.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: But there's an awful lot of them as well, where
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: there's just not enough time in the day to invest.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: And they only watch us when we play primetime football.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: That's the only time they really watch us. And what
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: typically thrives for the Seahawks is is Mike McDonald's defense.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: And nationally, because people are a bit lazy, a high-powered
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: offensive team always draws more praise and accolades than a
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: team that's led by its defense. So much so that
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: you can have a great defense. Our offense was third
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: in scoring a year ago. And I don't think any
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: of the critics, any of the non-believers in the Seahawks
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: understand that. Yeah. We were third in scoring offensively a
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: year ago. Eighth in yards. Now, the defense helped us
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: score more.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: True.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Robbie, because of position, and Michael Dixon helped us score more.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: You know, stuff like that. Special teams.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: It all plays a part.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: All plays a part. But when you're only watching five
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: games of a team, And you see a game like
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: last night and it's 13 to 10 and you give
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: all the credit in the world to Mike McDonald and
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: his schemes, but you're not getting, giving credit enough to
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: how great the entire operation is moving at this point.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: And so last night was one of those. We lost
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: our quarterback in the first four plays. Our backup is
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: coming in without any reps and On this giant stage,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: and he's just trying to survive out there until he
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: can get into the rhythm, which he did in the
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: second half. But we still only put up 13 points,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: and that's never going to do it for a lot
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: of the national hosts out there. They look at it
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: as a team that is vulnerable, where we get to
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: see Mike McDonald every day. for the last three years,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: every game for the last three years. We know how
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: amazing the operation is. And in Mike, we trust not
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: just as a defensive mind, but as the runner of
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: an organization. The other people don't have that perspective. And
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: so I was thinking from this, look, teams can win
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: a championship. They can. And you might not believe that
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: that is legitimate. The Texas Rangers won a couple of
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: years ago a world title, and I spent the entire
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: postseason telling you this is not a legit champion. They
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: had the worst bullpen that has ever been on a
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: World Series champion. They were terrible. They were terrible before
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: that season. They were terrible immediately after that season. They
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: were actually terrible in the moment. But for whatever reason,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: they got on a roll, and they ended up riding
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: their weakness... to a championship that year. They got into
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, playoff caliber team, and they rode their weakness
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: into a championship. So you can, I think, take a
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: world champion and maybe not believe that that team was
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: championship worthy. I've done it before, so I'm not going
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: to criticize somebody for not believing that a champion, that
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: might have been a little flukish. It can happen. But
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: unless you've been following this McDonald story, this McDonald-Schneider story,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: this team, unless you've been watching them every day, which
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: a lot of them aren't, they clearly don't understand what's happening.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: And that's the flaw. I mean, it's just, I'm not
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: saying they're stupid, but they are ignorant. I'm not stupid,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: but when it comes to fixing cars, totally ignorant. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: have no idea how.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: To do it.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Couldn't even begin to bring it out. Yeah. And that's
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: what they're guilty of. They don't have enough exposure. They
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: don't have the exposure that we have to Mike McDonald.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: And so without that exposure, without seeing the daily operation,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: they see, oh, you got a really good defensive coach,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: but you win games sometimes 13 to 10. And that's
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: just not impressive enough to me. You're a fraud. You know?
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold led the Lincoln Interfractions last year. Okay, you
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: didn't dig one layer deeper than that to make your evaluations?
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Can you please just go one layer deeper than that,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: and maybe you'll have a different perspective on it? So
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: that's why. That's why they do these things. That's why
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: they irritate us. They just don't know. So don't be
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: angry with them. Pity them. Pity the ignorant fools who
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: are paid to talk nationally about sports that don't really know.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Cause they take the easy things that jump out at them.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Just like Sam Darnold saying, I don't feel like I
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: really contributed to that Superbowl win.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what he said, right?
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Right. Right. Right. So then they're all like, see, so
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: now you've got all these people see Sam. You don't,
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: you don't need Sam Darnold. It's like, well, hold on,
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: hold on, hold on. He was talking about that game
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: in particular. The defense was incredible.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Dominated to such a degree. Yes. I could have quarterbacked that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: But they take that. They're like, well, there you go. See,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: you don't need him.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: He doesn't, he's not any good. He, He even said
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: he didn't contribute. So has he really won a big game?
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's basically what they're saying.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: It's so laughable. You do have to just laugh it off.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Don't get angry about it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: No, it's not worth it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Just laugh it off. It's not worth it. Fools. I mean,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: you got to have pity for people. Like when you
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: see somebody that is trying to parallel park and they... Oh, gosh.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: You can be angry that they've gone 19 times and
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: they haven't changed the way that they're turning the wheel.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Or you can just pity them. That poor fool. Please
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: just don't hit another person with your car.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That's right. Or another car.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Greg Bell next. Plus your headlines on KJR.