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10-30 H1: What's On Tap, Biggest Threat in NFC & Success for UW Football · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Well, good morning to you all.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. It's Chuck in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: And you may be asking yourself on this wonderful football Friday,
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  Speaker 3: the day before Halloween, lots going on in the sports world. Man,
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  Speaker 3: where are the dulcet tones of Chuck Powell this morning?
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  Speaker 3: This is Anderson Hurst. I'm joined by Christopher Kidd as
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  Speaker 3: we are filling in the gaps for the Chuck in
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  Speaker 3: the morning show.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck's taken. A few days off for vacation, going home
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  Speaker 1: to see his family. Well deserved.
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  Speaker 3: That man works super hard and he's going to do
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  Speaker 3: the old. I'm putting all of the holidays in one
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  Speaker 3: to see the family. A bunch of different celebrations coming up.
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  Speaker 3: His mom's birthday, a bunch of different stuff. But he'll
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  Speaker 3: be going back home for a few days. So you're stuck.
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  Speaker 3: With Anderson Hurst and Christopher Kidd here on Chuck in
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  Speaker 3: the Mornings on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. I know the YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: you guys are just as disappointed. You don't get to
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  Speaker 3: see that handsome face that you normally get to see
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  Speaker 3: in that host chair. You're once again stuck with me,
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  Speaker 3: Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd. But we will try and keep going.
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  Speaker 3: the rig on the road here, so to speak, until
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  Speaker 3: Chuck gets back next week. But good morning, Christopher Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, my man? Doing good, Anderson. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing on this fine Friday football morning?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot going on in the sports world. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Week 8 started last night with Thursday Night Football. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we got a big Seahawks game coming up on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: a big Huskies game coming up tomorrow against Nebraska. And
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  Speaker 3: just so much to react to. The trade season is
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  Speaker 3: in full swing. We got a cracking game tonight. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is just the busiest time of the year. And
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  Speaker 3: as Chuck would always say, you know, October is the
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  Speaker 3: best month of the year if you're taking everything into account.
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  Speaker 3: The weather, every sports going on. We got NBA action
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  Speaker 3: that's just started. Obviously, the NHL, NFL is in full
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  Speaker 3: swing and baseball just finished its playoffs. And we are
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  Speaker 3: just about to finish one of the best months in
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  Speaker 3: the calendar. So, you know, it's I did. Something did
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  Speaker 3: dawn on me yesterday, though, as I'm thinking about, OK,
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  Speaker 3: we're filling in for Chuck Powell in the next few days.
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  Speaker 3: It is kind of interesting how he chooses to take
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  Speaker 3: this vacation the day before Halloween. So is there any
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  Speaker 3: thought in your mind that he's a vampire? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: let's put let's put two and two together here. He
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  Speaker 3: wakes up very early.
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  Speaker 1: I knew exactly. I wasn't even finished.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Because I know where you're going with this. He's leaving
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  Speaker 1: for Halloween to see his family. Yeah, come on. Something
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  Speaker 1: doesn't add up. Exactly, right? Something's a little, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say fishy. I'm trying to think of another word.
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  Speaker 1: Something's a little, I don't know, garlicky about this situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny you mention that about vampires, huh? Oh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I know a little thing or two. Not the, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll kind of keep you updated as our
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  Speaker 3: findings come out about whether or not Chuck Powell, the
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  Speaker 3: morning show host here on Chuck in the Morning, is
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  Speaker 3: a vampire. But until we come to that conclusion, we
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  Speaker 3: will try and keep things on the rails here on
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  Speaker 3: Chuck in the Morning, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Chris,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to start it this morning talking about the
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  Speaker 3: deadline because, man, it is just in full swing here.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like this year it started a little bit
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  Speaker 3: earlier than in years past. It feels like in years past,
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  Speaker 3: even though it has ramped up in action the last
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  Speaker 3: few years, it felt like that was maybe two or
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  Speaker 3: three days before the deadline. The deadline is November 10th.
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  Speaker 3: So we're still a good week and a half away
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  Speaker 3: from that being the case. But there's already been three
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  Speaker 3: massive trades. The Seahawks, of course, kicking it off, grabbing
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  Speaker 3: Quentin Nelson from the Colts. Then the same day, the
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco 49ers trading Bills. Back for DeForest Buckner, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is on their 2019 Super Bowl appearance team. And then
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  Speaker 3: just yesterday, Jeffrey Simmons going to the Chicago Bears, all
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC, by the way. So that'll be a
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  Speaker 3: whole interesting conversation there. Does it feel like to you, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: that it has kind of started earlier? Does that mean
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get more? Or is it like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we've already seen the three big moves of the trade deadline?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question. I think it's actually right on time.
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  Speaker 1: But to your point, I think usually teams are like,
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  Speaker 1: The day before, like November 9th. Yeah, exactly. That's when
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  Speaker 1: it really gets busy. But I think if you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to improve your team, why even wait, right? Why wait
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  Speaker 1: to the last day? Granted, relationships that Greg Bell has
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  Speaker 1: talked about with John Schneider, like he's– I'd be curious
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  Speaker 1: to go back and look at all the trades and
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  Speaker 1: where they were done prior to the deadline. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to bet John Schneider's not waiting up until that.
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  Speaker 1: If I had to guess and go back and do
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  Speaker 1: my research and say, oh, yeah, John was like a
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  Speaker 1: week ahead of it. He got what he wanted right
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  Speaker 1: then and there. He didn't wait until the last minute
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  Speaker 1: because he has those relationships. Not that these other GMs don't,
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  Speaker 1: but you get to see firsthand that John gets really
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  Speaker 1: good deals when it comes to these trades. He is money.
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  Speaker 1: When he makes a trade for a player, it works out.
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  Speaker 1: We have examples of one or two that might not
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  Speaker 1: have gone the Seahawks way, whether it be for injuries,
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  Speaker 1: you name it. But for the most part, John is money.
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  Speaker 1: When he trades for somebody, it's like, oh. It's legit.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to John.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just like adding a side piece, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like filling a sort of gap. It's like there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the best players on this team are
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  Speaker 3: via trade. You're talking about one of the key pieces
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  Speaker 3: to your defense, two of the key pieces to your
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  Speaker 3: defense in Leonard Williams and Ernest Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got Ernest Jones. Mike McDonald and him have a conversation. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: He said, okay, I got a guy playing for a team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We can get him. And they got him, and now
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  Speaker 1: he is one of the spines of the Seahawks defense,
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  Speaker 1: especially in that second level with the linebackers and the
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  Speaker 1: safeties and everything. Ernest is the man, right? He might
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  Speaker 1: not have the all pros and all the glamour and glitz,
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  Speaker 1: but he knows Mike McDonald's defense, how it needs to
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  Speaker 1: be run.
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  Speaker 3: And he goes out there and executes it. He is
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback of that defense. Yeah, I think he got
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  Speaker 3: gypped last year, by the way. At least should have
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  Speaker 3: had second-team All-Pro. You know, he doesn't care about that.
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  Speaker 1: I know he doesn't. He looks in that locker room
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  Speaker 1: and knows he's a leader. He's a Super Bowl champion. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's one of those type of guys. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to worry about, oh, did I get All-Pro?
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  Speaker 1: He knows what he brings to the Seahawks. And the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks love and respect what he brings to the team.
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  Speaker 1: So it works out just fine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you mentioned when we talked about the
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  Speaker 3: timing of this, Rashid Jaheed was pretty close to deadline.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the day of. Oh, okay. So
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  Speaker 1: that might be– I need to go back and look.
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  Speaker 3: From what I remember, Ernest Jones, I think, was like–
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  Speaker 3: three weeks before, because they were, like, desperate to get
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  Speaker 3: something in there.
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  Speaker 1: They had me and you playing linebacker, and it wasn't working. No.
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  Speaker 3: But then I think Leonard Williams was maybe a day
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  Speaker 3: or two before, the year before that. So I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: now Quentin Nelson, like, 10 days, 12 days before. So he's...
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  Speaker 3: To your point, he gets down to it. If he
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  Speaker 3: sees a need, there is an element of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you wait a little bit longer, you can wait
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  Speaker 3: to see how the market plays out a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and you maybe won't have to overpay. But the opposite
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  Speaker 3: could happen if you wait too long, then teams know
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  Speaker 3: you're desperate. and you end up paying more than you
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  Speaker 3: wanted to, right, in terms of trade capital.
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  Speaker 1: Or you miss out.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other thing that you mentioned that I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even think about. You get him for an extra week?
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  Speaker 3: You get him for a big game against the Chicago Bears?
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  Speaker 1: That could be the difference in the standings. It could
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  Speaker 1: be a win or a loss. It sounds crazy now,
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  Speaker 1: but when you go through that full schedule, and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we got this guy two weeks prior to the deadline,
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  Speaker 1: we played A, we played this team, the Rams, oh,
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  Speaker 1: then we followed up with the Cardinals, we won both games,
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  Speaker 1: 2-0 lead in the NFC West, We'll take that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to be maybe one-on-one because maybe we were
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  Speaker 1: missing one key part to your offense. Maybe he unlocks
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  Speaker 1: the run game, that is, with the newest addition of
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson. But for the most part, I think John
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  Speaker 1: just knows what he's doing, man. It's crazy to see.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to witness just because we live in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: so we're kind of spoiled. We're not worried like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: John's going to screw it up this year. We're like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: How's John going to make this team better? Is he
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  Speaker 1: going to go out and get a Tony Pollard? Is
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  Speaker 1: he going to go do, you know, everyone has their
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  Speaker 1: idea and guesses of who he goes and gets, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I saw any articles prior to Quentin
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  Speaker 1: Nelson getting traded that said, you know, guard could be
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  Speaker 1: a potential fit and he's going to go get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson or another player that fits the mold of
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  Speaker 1: what the Seahawks are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that. Yeah, well, Chuck and I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it a couple times on our show. Like, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: We're all talking running back. Watch John go get... Quentin Nelson, right?
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  Speaker 3: Especially as the Colts started to really struggle there. But
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  Speaker 3: it is funny also. Were you guys joking?
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  Speaker 2: Like, ha!
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah! Or were you thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of like, you know, maybe that ends
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  Speaker 3: up happening. But I didn't think it would actually happen.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that would be very John Schneider, though.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And it ended up being
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  Speaker 1: very John Schneider at the end of the case.
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  Speaker 3: I think Chuck was a little more like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: could definitely see this happening than I could. But it's...
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  Speaker 3: happy all the same um because it's it's an all
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  Speaker 3: pro in the middle of his career i think he
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  Speaker 3: could be here for another three or four years and
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  Speaker 3: at the top of his game if they end up
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  Speaker 3: wanting to extend and i'm sure they do um but
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  Speaker 3: even if you don't uh you get a draft pick
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  Speaker 3: back in compensation if you lose him in free agency. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's another home run for John Schneider. I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to see what he does. And Hugh mentioned this
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  Speaker 3: a couple times yesterday. And of course, since it is
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  Speaker 3: and I know it is a Washington State Beef Commission's
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  Speaker 3: football Friday, but because the Seahawks play on Monday, Friday
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  Speaker 3: is now Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Monday is then a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll get the the Hugh Millen Breakdown, he'll be
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  Speaker 3: co-hosting with me on Monday, leading up to Monday Night
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  Speaker 3: Football against the Bears. That'll be a fun show. And
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  Speaker 3: then Tuesday will be our classic Tuesday morning quarterback, shall
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  Speaker 3: I say, reacting to the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tongue twister.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you.
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  Speaker 1: Monday will be this, and then Tuesday is a Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Monday is a Tuesday, Tuesday is a Wednesday. It's Jim
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  Speaker 3: Harbaugh all over again. Thinking about the other trades besides
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  Speaker 3: the Quentin Nelson, it is funny how it's all in
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  Speaker 3: the NFC. One of them is in the NFC West,
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  Speaker 3: and they're all in the interior of the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot, man. You've got to have a
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  Speaker 1: stacked to win games. You've got to have a good O-line,
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  Speaker 1: and to beat teams defensively, you've got to have a
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  Speaker 1: good pass rush. Or you could have elite corners. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the two. See, to me, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a coincidence to you?
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  Speaker 3: Or were the teams, the Bears and the Niners in
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  Speaker 3: this case— reacting specifically to what Seattle did.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. But I would think you're right
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  Speaker 1: in that thought because this is the defending champs. And
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  Speaker 1: what do they have that a lot of teams don't have?
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  Speaker 1: They have an elite pass rush. The Seahawks have four
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  Speaker 1: really good guys that can rush the passer. Probably more.
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  Speaker 1: They have a unit, I should say. They have a
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  Speaker 1: really strong unit. All four of whoever's playing. Exactly. They
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  Speaker 1: can rush the passer. They can set the edge. And
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  Speaker 1: they don't have the blitz. Now... In certain situations, Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald loves to bring pressure, and that's Spoon, maybe Josh
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  Speaker 1: Jobe randomly. You can name everyone that he uses when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to pressures. Sometimes he'll just put nine guys
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  Speaker 1: at the line, confusing the quarterback. He doesn't know who's
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  Speaker 1: coming from what. Snap the ball. Oh, it's a five-man
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  Speaker 1: pass rush, but oh, your running back is trying to
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  Speaker 1: double-team a defensive tackle coming up the middle. Eamon Ward
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  Speaker 1: is coming off the edge. Now you get a sack.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't even a blitz. It was a pressure.
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  Speaker 1: But he puts everybody at the line of scrimmage. And
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  Speaker 1: these guys are so athletic and able to get back
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  Speaker 1: into the pass coverage that quarterbacks are just confused and rattled.
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  Speaker 1: Teams see that and they're like, OK, what can we
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  Speaker 1: do to try to mask that? They go out and
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  Speaker 1: get a DeForest Buckner. The Niners do. The Bears are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we can prepare. We're facing the Seahawks next week. They
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  Speaker 1: just got Quentin Nelson. We have an antidote. His name
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  Speaker 1: is what, Anderson? Jeffrey Simmons. Jeffrey Simmons, a guy that.
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  Speaker 1: according to Greg, and everyone else loves talking smack and
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Seahawks. I can't wait for that. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be a fun matchup in the trenches, and I expect
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks to handle business, be better than they were
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  Speaker 1: last week, per se.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so my question goes to, do you think they
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  Speaker 3: specifically addressed those positions because the Seahawks got better at
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  Speaker 3: the opposite position, right? Since the Seahawks upgraded at the
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  Speaker 3: interior of the offensive line, all right, we need to
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  Speaker 3: upgrade at the interior of the defensive line. Or do
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  Speaker 3: you think that was just like, hey, we were looking
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  Speaker 3: at that position no matter what, no matter if the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks made this move or not, that's who we were
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  Speaker 3: looking at to go get. And it just happens to
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  Speaker 3: be the same kind of opposite of what the defending
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl champions ended up doing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's probably to your second point. Just because, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one game, but you're looking at it for the
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  Speaker 1: long term, right? It's important to have them, but I
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  Speaker 1: think if they could have... If the Seahawks never got Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: I still think maybe the Bears go out and get
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  Speaker 1: a guy on the D-line. I don't know who's on
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  Speaker 1: their defensive front, but I imagine it's pretty decent. And
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  Speaker 1: now it just got even better. So I think for them,
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  Speaker 1: they were looking to bolster it no matter what. Even
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  Speaker 1: if the Seahawks didn't sign a Quentin Nelson because they
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  Speaker 1: feel that they need some depth there. They need a
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  Speaker 1: stud that can come in and create havoc and allow...
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  Speaker 1: other guys to be free with their one-on-ones and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: they can win their matchups. Because that's what it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to. The Seahawks have basically everyone can win. You
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  Speaker 1: double them, that just makes it easier for Nwosu. You
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  Speaker 1: can go through the list of guys where it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you do this thing, well, this guy's going to win. oh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to do this thing, well, Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 1: is still going to whoop your center's ass. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, what do you want to do here?
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  Speaker 1: And then, oh, you think you're running back and stop somebody? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to send Nick in to see if your
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  Speaker 1: running back is ready for that. How about that? There's
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  Speaker 1: just so many chess plays that are done within the
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  Speaker 1: offense and defense, and I think Mike McDonald, to Hugh's point,
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  Speaker 1: is just a mastermind at studying the tape, being prepared
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  Speaker 1: for what an offense is going to do, and calling
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  Speaker 1: the best play, putting his best guys in position to
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  Speaker 1: stop whatever the offense is throwing at you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also just have this weird feeling that
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider's not done yet at this deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Would it shock you? No, not at all. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: shocking if he doesn't do anything else. He'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: John's done. What the heck? It's November 10th, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: has happened. So I'm excited to see. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, it's just he has so many picks.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say he has 12. I knew he
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  Speaker 1: had 12 picks.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that includes the comp picks that
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  Speaker 3: he got from losing all the free agents this past
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  Speaker 3: year and then having the Vikings hire one of his
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  Speaker 3: assistant GMs. as their GM. But no matter what, he
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  Speaker 3: has a bunch of picks left. I saw something yesterday
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: on one of the talk and head shows, and they
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: were saying, man, now with this trade, the Indianapolis Colts
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: have like eight picks in the next draft. And I'm like,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: that's rookie numbers compared to John Schneider. This dude has
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: 10 or 12, and he's the defending Super Bowl champion.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I think they have 11 right now. Okay. All right.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: They got 11 now because I think they added one.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: For the comp picks, but then they lost two for
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the Quentin Nelson trade. So 11 would make sense if
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: that was the final number. But again, there's different reports everywhere.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: But I don't know, man. Let's go through those three
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: moves because we'll get to later in the show. What
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: other position you would want to upgrade? If John Schneider
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: were to make another move, maybe it's running back, maybe
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: it's receiver, maybe it's edge. A lot of people still
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: think you could go make this defense an all-timer, right?
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: If you add another piece to that, lots of Max Crosby,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Khalil Mattox.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I'd rather go with someone like Tui Poloto. Okay, Tui Poloto, yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Just a young, talented guy. Yeah. Bringing in an old veteran,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: it's great and all, but I think Mike McDonald, he
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: wants someone that's going to be there for at least
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: three to four seasons instead of a one-year rental, especially
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: on the defense. Not saying you can't do it, but
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I would go with a younger talent because, for instance,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Demarcus Lawrence, this is probably his last year. So why
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: would you bring in another Khalil Mack that's going to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: be out the following year? It's a great one-year rental
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: or maybe a good one-year rental. Instead, you can develop
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a young guy and he could be a cornerstone for
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: your edge for the next three to four years.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's the other thought process behind this trade deadline.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: It's not just for this year, right? That's the point
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: of these last four moves that the Seahawks have made.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: They would have thought, oh, you know, trading for Leonard Williams.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: He was, what, probably 28, 29 at the point when
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: they traded for him, maybe even close to 30 in 2023.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: And it was like, OK, you're getting a guy to
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: help your defense now for sure. But is he going
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: to be the guy moving forward? And they ended up
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: extending him, and he's still one of your best players
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: right now. Same thing with Ernest Jones. He was a
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: little bit different of a case because he was younger.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I think he was 24 or 25 when they traded
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: for him. And he's obviously been a key piece in
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: your defense for the last couple years. So that is
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: something that I think is in the mind of John Schneider.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: This isn't just a rental. This isn't just a team,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: a player to come in and help our team go
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl this year. This is to help
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: fill holes for for next year and the year after that.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You mentioned Demarcus Lawrence. I didn't even think about that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So me seeing a lot of talk about edge rusher
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: being an option for the Seahawks to go for at
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the deadline was kind of surprising. It's like, man, that's
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: one of the strengths of the team. But now that
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you say that, like, Probably DeMarcus Lawrence last year. That's
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: going to be something you're going to need. So that's
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: one way to address it. You could do it at
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: draft or you could do it right now and help
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: your team win this year and in years to come.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: So we'll discuss a little bit later on in the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: show what position you want to see upgraded if there
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: is another move in the works for John Schneider. Other
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: teams are reacting to what the Seahawks did. But first,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: let's get what's on tap for the rest of the show.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: with Chuck in the Morning on your home for the NFL.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Welcome back Chuck in the Morning. Chuck's on vacation.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd filling in the gaps for you
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: here on a beautiful Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday here.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: We got lots coming up on the show. But first,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about last night a little bit, Christopher.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: The Green Bay Packers winning 27 to 19 over the
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers. Another NFC battle, as we were talking about
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: last segment, other teams at the trade deadline upgrading their
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: rosters to in somewhat a response to what the Seahawks
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: have done and gone out and getting Quentin Nelson already
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: defending Super Bowl champions. It feels like there still is
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: a feeling of, hey, they're. It's kind of wide open here.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of opportunity. The Seahawks at 4-3 are
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: not necessarily blowing anyone away and really taking that defending
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl champion title and taking it out of anyone
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: else's court, so to speak. But last night, the Green
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Bay Packers, I mean, they really impressed me. I know
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: they only won by 8, but that game was definitely...
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: not as close as it seems on the scoreline. Uh,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: for the longest part of the game, it felt like
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers were about to run away with it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: They just never really got, had the chance to put
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: it away. Uh, And then the Panthers ended up kind
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: of making it a one score game pretty late, but
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: then ended up not being able to do much. Packers
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: defense has been getting better and better and better. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: that offense is starting to get really explosive. They got
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs back last night. They're going to get Micah
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Parsons back in the next couple of weeks. Are the
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers a threat in the NFC to you,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Christopher Kidd?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And the NFC? Sure, but... Are you worried about them
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: at all? Not really. They make too many mistakes. They're
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a team like fumbling last night, Jordan interception. And it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: not just the one game. Their sample size, I'm not
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: really thinking like, ooh, Green Bay, trouble. Yeah, no, I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: don't see it that way. I mean, they struggled to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: put Carolina away in the fourth quarter. Now, obviously, Carolina's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a good football team. They're They're going to not lay down, obviously,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: but I thought them being a better football team than Carolina,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: they should have capitalized on a lot more than what
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they put out. So with that being said, they could
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: be a threat. Like right now it's still kind of–
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: we're actually getting to the half point of the season.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I think they are who they are. The run game
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is a little iffy, but I'll give them a little
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: pass because– their best player just got back. Yeah. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: expect it to get better as the season progresses so
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they could get hot and in November and December, maybe
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it's a team you don't want to play, but right now, sure,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they're a threat, but to who, I guess, would be
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the question. Like, I don't think they're going to beat
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the Niners. Assuming the Rams figure things out, I don't
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: think they beat the Rams and I don't think they
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: beat the Seahawks. If they played any one of those
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: three teams, I think they'd lose. Now, if they play
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, the Panthers, you can go on and on. Like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: maybe Detroit, maybe they could win those games, maybe even
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: lose them. But I'm not right now. They're just kind
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of in the mix. Like, I think there's three teams
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that are like tier one. Okay. So who are those
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: teams to you? It'd probably be not probably it's the Seahawks,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the Niners, and maybe the Rams. So the NFC West. Unfortunately, like,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and maybe I'm too high on the Rams, but I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: think they're, they're a really good roster. They're just, they're
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: not playing good football and they still have an opportunity
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to prove that they can have a lot of injuries too.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I don't want... Everyone has injuries, Anderson. I think you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: pointed that out maybe on Monday. Like, everyone's dealing with injuries. Yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: after the Chiefs game, you're like, everyone's dealing with injuries.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You got to go out there and play at the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: end of the day. And the Seahawks have had their
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: share of injuries in the past year and even this year.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So let's not make excuses for a team that has
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: all these players. They're just not playing well. But I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: still think, looking at them, that when it's all said
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and done, they'll be right there for a spot. And... Yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it's the NFC West. They're the best division in the NFL.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: It is interesting, though, because, I mean, if we're talking
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: the biggest threat to Seattle in the NFC to kind
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: of dethrone them as defending NFC champions, obviously. Do you
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: think it is still the Rams?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I think it's the Niners or the Rams. Okay, okay.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: If you said, hey, Chris, you can't use that as
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a crutch. Who's your next team? That's where it gets
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: really difficult because I honestly don't think Too many, like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: NFC South, I don't think there's any team there that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh. Yeah, no, nothing there. NFC North, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: do not believe in the Vikings right now. I'm going
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to be honest. I think the Packers are the best
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: team in that division. Which is crazy. Maybe the Bears.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Bears. But that division is just disgusting. Like, yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the Vikings at 6-0, the Bears at 5-2, Lions 4-2,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and the Packers just won, and they're the fourth seed
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: right now in the division at 5-3. Yeah. So, yeah,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that division's, you know, good luck there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But if I had to, I might lean Detroit because
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they have play action passing. They have the ability to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: run it. Whereas, yeah, that's fine. If they can put
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: up 40 and they give up 37, guess who's going
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl? And they could put up 40.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff is in a rhythm where they have a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: run game with Jameer Gibbs, who's arguably the best running
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: back in the league. And then you have pass catchers
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and you have Laporta. They have weapons for Goff. and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: what they do to your point their defense stinks yeah
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: but if you don't turn the football over and you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: get the ball first and you score every time that
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: makes it tough but i do think mike mcdonald would
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: have answers like i'm not gonna sit here and act
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like it's gonna be a track meet yeah but that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is one team that i'm like they kind of have
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the the thing that you would need to beat seattle
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a good run game some pass catchers play action passing
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that bodes well to beating a team yeah Vikings, yeah, no.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You don't believe in them? I honestly don't. And we've
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: seen this story before. They were hot with Sam Donald
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a couple years ago. They were like damn near the same.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: They won 14 games. There it is. So this is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: kind of what we're seeing. And they can prove me
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: wrong and beat, you know, well, we'll just see what
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: happens as they get there. The Bears, they're okay. They're good.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is phenomenal. We've seen that. But I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the Lions and the NFC North is that team that
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, yeah, I wouldn't want to. That would
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: be a team that I think is challenging just because
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: they do one side of the ball so well. They
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: run the football, they can throw it. Jared Goff is
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: very comfortable. He knows his reads. I think it'd be
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a chess match. I think Mike McDonald would win, but
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that's one team where I'm like, outside of the Rams
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and 49ers, that's the one team where I'm like, you
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: know what? I can see it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That could be a fun matchup. that could be a
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: challenge for sure. To your point about the Vikings. I mean,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I'm just looking at their schedule here. Cause we said
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: the same thing about the chiefs, right? Where it's like, yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: they were undefeated, but who did they actually beat?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Uh, that week one was a big win. Uh, they
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: beat the Packers. Um, but that was when the Packers
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: really were not playing the same football as they are
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: right now. I think they've really improved the last couple
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: of weeks. Um, Jordan loves all the obvious, all of
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: a sudden found his groove. Uh, him and Matthew Golden
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: is like, Golden connection. Please pardon the pun. And then
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: they won 9-3 over the Bears in that weather game,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: and then Caleb Williams got hurt, if you remember.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Yep, hamstring.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: So, like, yeah, that's a good win, obviously. Later the
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: year goes on, but I don't really put much stock
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: in that. They beat the Bucs, they beat the Dolphins,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: they beat the Saints, and they beat the Colts.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you remember how they finished last year, right? What
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: was their record? They had like five wins? I don't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: even remember. They were bad. So they got a third
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: or fourth place schedule. And they're winning the games they
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: need to, which is good for them. But I do
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: believe when they start facing, when they face a Lions team,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: we can go on and give them predictions of who
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: they might lose to. But I think when it gets
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, I just don't think, what they're doing
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: is going to continue.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what about the Bears? Because I agree with you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I think the Niners are probably the main threat to
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Seattle in the NFC so far this season. But the
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: big question mark with them is just health. If they
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: stay healthy, I think they'll be one of the best teams.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And it should be them and someone like Seattle in
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the NFC championship game, if I'm being completely honest. Yeah,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I agree with you there. But the Bears, I feel like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: feel like they have a team. They feel like they
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: have a team. They feel like they have a chance
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to go and do something special this year. Caleb Williams
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: is playing at a... He keeps getting better every single year.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: He's playing more on schedule this year. Chuck's talked about
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: this in the week leading up to the game, that
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: it was... he was very much a Russell Wilson kind
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: of Patrick Mahomes ish sort of player where it's very
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: off script, uh, getting outside the pocket and making a play.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: He's been much better this year at playing on schedule
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: in Ben Johnson system. And that running game is elite, elite, elite.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: It's not like with the chiefs and Kenneth Walker, where
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: they have an elite player, the entire run game of
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the bears is elite. Whether it's Deandre Swift, that offensive line,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: the play calling all, is top-notch. That's actually the strength
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: of their offense, and that's what makes Caleb Williams so
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: dangerous this year. I'm a little bit like this is
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: a big test for both teams on Monday. I think
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: this is a huge Monday Night Football matchup, and if
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the Bears win this game, that kind of solidifies for
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: me they're one of the best teams in the NFC.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: If is a fifth. No, but I.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: And they just traded for Jeffrey Simmons, too, so that
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: helps their defense.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Their wide receiver unit I'm kind of like, okay, Luther Burden.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Playing well. He's playing well, but what about Rome? He
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be. Rome's been a little underperforming. Exactly.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm not really. As a fantasy owner, he's been underperforming.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Didn't mean to make that personal. But when I look
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: at the Seahawks DBs, they shut people down. I know
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Josh Job is undersized, but he does a phenomenal job.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I know he had a rough game against Mike Evans,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: but come on, guys. It's going to be a Hall
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of Famer. What do you expect? Not too many teams
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: have a guy that they can just be like, hey.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Go shut down number 13 over there. Don't let him
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: do anything. It's very rare. So I'm not going to
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: poo-poo on Joe's parade because since then, he's looked fine.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He's been doing really well. So that goes to show
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you that when they go up against the Bears, who
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: is their Mike Evans? It's not Luther Burden. He's more
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the Rashid Shaheed. You get downfield.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: It's Rome if you're talking about the same type of player.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: But to your point, he's underperforming.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: They haven't really needed him to do much, though. The
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: offense has been. And that's... If he has been doing
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: what he's supposed to be doing, I think they could
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: be 6-1, maybe 7. But I don't want to talk
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: about the what ifs. My point is I'm not too
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: worried about their receiving. Okay. Like they have a good
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: run game.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool. Mike Madonna might have an answer for that
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: with his front seven. It's the best run defensive football.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Those guys, they met Kenneth Walker and they held him.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: They shut him down.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. And now you're coming in with another team that
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: likes to run the football and use play action and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: all these other things. That's great. We'll be ready for
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: that too. But do you have guys that can beat
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the DBs out there as well? Because that's going to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: be important. And I don't think they do. Yeah, I mean,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm higher on... Luther Burden than you are.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I think he's a very good playmaker, and I still
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: think there's untapped.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: potential with so in terms of rashid jahid how would
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you is he better than rashid jahid in that aspect
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: yeah okay fair enough.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: He's i think he's better than rashid jahid for sure
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: uh and it's like it's a different role because he's
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: their number one guy and which is.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Crazy because it should be who you just talked about
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: it should be rome but you know something things happen
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it's just.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: A design of the offense i think more than anything
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: else it's like it's just a different type of receiver
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: rome's their big play down the field guy and Luther
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Burns is their possession against zone defense receiver.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: So that's something for me. And I think the biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing for them, I always thought.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears' offense was going to be good. Well, yeah,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they got Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's huge. He's one of the best offensive
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: minds in football. But it's the defense that has kind
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: of really surprised me this year. I thought that was
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: going to be a huge kind of missing piece for them.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: That's why I wasn't super high on them going into
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the year. They were one of the most hyped teams ever.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in the NFL coming into the season. And I was like, really?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: But that defense is not going to be very good.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And they've surprised me about how well they've played. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: think they relied last year on a bunch of turnovers.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And I was like, that's not super sustainable. You can't
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: rely on that to be the way you stop teams, right?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: It's just by getting a bunch of turnovers. Because what
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: if someone doesn't turn the ball over to you, right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: But this year, they've been much better in terms of
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: their run defense and their pass defense. So that's been
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the biggest thing for me.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And they don't have Kobe Bryant. What the heck? I know. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And they're missing guys too. Like we mentioned earlier, everyone
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: has injuries. But, I mean, that's going to be an
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: interesting matchup for me on Monday night. I think it's
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a big kind of test game for both teams. With Seahawks, okay,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: are you actually like that team? Did we actually just
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: put everything of the early season behind us after that
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Chiefs win? Or are we still going to kind of
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: struggle to get back up to speed to where we
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: thought we were last year? And for the Bears, are
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you legit? If you beat the Seahawks in defending champs
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: after a big win against the Chiefs, you're legit at
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: that point. All right, coming up next, maybe a team
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: that isn't feeling as well as the Seahawks, but they
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: did come off a big win against Purdue two weekends ago, actually.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: They're coming off their bye. Big game for the UW Huskies.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: What does a successful season look like at this point
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  Speaker 3: for the University of Washington? That's coming up next on
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  Speaker 3: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Welcome back to Sports Radio
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: 93.3 KJR FM. This is Chuck in the mornings. He
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: is on vacation for the next few days. So we
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: got myself, Anderson Hurst, and Christopher Kidd filling in the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: gaps for Mr. Powell as he goes home to see
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: his family.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: So we wish him well.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: It is a little bit of a coincidence that it
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: is the day before Halloween that he's going to do that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: So is Chuck Powell a vampire? Well, we'll find out
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: a little bit later on. We'll ask him about his
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: trip when he comes back and, you know, see if
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: there's anything suspicious there as we give him the little
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: third degree. The Seahawks obviously are coming up. It's a
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday, Monday Night Football coming
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: up on Monday. Lots going on in college football on Saturday,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: including UW facing Nebraska at 5 p.m. I asked the
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: question at the end of the last segment, what does
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: a successful season look like at this point for the
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: University of Washington? Because I think we can all kind
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: of put our expectations that most of us had going
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: into the season into on what a successful campaign would
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: look like away at this point. So right now, four
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: and three, your next five games include Nebraska, Penn State,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Michigan State, Indiana, and Oregon. It could be anything. It
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: could be, hey, just beat Oregon. That could be very
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: much a successful season at that point for UW. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: know how UW fans operate. It could be win three
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: of the next five and get to eight wins. Sorry,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: that would be seven wins and have a winning record.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: It could be winning out. If that's what you still
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: believe to be a nine-win team, you could win out.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Whatever you expect, Christopher Kidd, for the University of Washington,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: what is a successful season for them in the next
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: five games?
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, Nebraska, Penn State, Michigan State, Indiana, and Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: If my math is correct, I would say if they
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: finish 5-4 for me, I think would be okay. So
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  Speaker 1: they're 4-3 now. So they're 9-7 if my math is right?
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  Speaker 1: There's 12 games total. So that don't work.
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  Speaker 3: It would be, if they win all five games, they'd
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: be 9-3. If they win four of five, they'd be 8-4.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: If they win three of five, they'd be 7-3.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So they beat Nebraska, beat Penn State, beat Michigan State,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: lose to Indiana, lose to Oregon. That's what you think?
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  Speaker 1: That would be a success for them, I would say. Yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I think. Now maybe die hard or, like, screw you, Chris, undefeated.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I totally understand that. But I think you win these
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: next three games, that sets you up for not being
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That puts you in a position where, like, okay, you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: guys can go for something next year for sure. Because those—
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: But that's what you said last year. Well— it hasn't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: gone their way this year. I'm trying to be optimistic. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word I was thinking. The biggest thing is
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be a successful season with their eight
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and four record. Okay. So however, that comes like you'd
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: have to win for the next five. I think they
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: can do that. They can.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Oregon's not as good as they were in seasons past.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: And the other three teams are very gettable. So the,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: the one obviously is Indiana. They're, they're number 14.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: They're really good, but I think they can beat Nebraska. Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I think they can, too. They have a home game
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: against Penn State. And then Washington, Michigan State, that's going
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to be a tough one. But those are... Michigan State's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: not very good. I think they win that game. Those
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: are three winnable games right there. Oh, yeah. Indiana and Oregon,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that becomes... Indiana's a difficult matchup. We all get that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: But a win? Wow, my goodness. That'd be insane. At home? Yeah, so...
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: There we go. My math wasn't mathing. But yeah, I
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: think a final record of 8-4 I think is a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: successful season. Yeah, I think at this point, most Husky
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: fans would sign up for that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Seven and five would be acceptable at this point. Yeah,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Fair enough. I might be,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know, as a Coug, that's one win.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I get it. To me, it all comes down to
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: that Oregon game. Because I agree with you. I think, well,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess the Nebraska game, too. Because it's
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: a good team.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Win, win, win. That's not it. Three wins. Three straight wins.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Nebraska's good, man. No, they are. And that's why it's
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a very important game. And winning on the road. Yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Would be another confidence booster, especially after you beat Purdue
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: after a sloppy game prior to that against USC. So
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: with that being said, you take this game, Nebraska, get
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: that win. Okay, cool. We got Penn State. Let's handle
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: business considering.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: That should be a win. And then Michigan State should
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: be a win. And I'm kind of counting Indiana as
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a loss.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Really? I think a lot of people are.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: So this season to me comes down to Washington, Nebraska
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: on Saturday and then Washington.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Oregon at the end of the season in Eugene. That's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a rivalry one.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Those two games can really determine if you have a
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: successful season or not.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Eight and four. Where's your record at? I say eight
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and four.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I guessed nine and three at the beginning of
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: the year, and I was like, okay, I kind of
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: took that out of.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: They can't lose another game. I know, I know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: They'd have to win out. So I would take eight
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and four at that point. If they go one and
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: one in Washington, Nebraska and Washington, Oregon, they should be
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: eight and four.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: And, you know.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Probably not a college football playoff team at that point.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think most people have kind of taken
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that off of their mind. But that would really... After
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: how you started the season, that would put a ton
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: of momentum into the offseason. Especially if either Elijah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Brown or DeMond Williams, depending on who actually plays moving forward,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: end up being.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: like that kind of team. So, uh, hopefully that, that
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: kind of puts momentum into the program going into next year.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, we got headlines.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: We got Greg Bell, tons to ask him, uh, on
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: a Washington state beef commissions, football Friday, sports radio, 93.3
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: KJR FM.