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Chuck in the Morning 9/8 H2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, MacDonald can do it all and a Rangers preview. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I thought we've had really, really great practices. Did some
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: really good things today. I thought our intent was right.
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  Speaker 1: I think understanding how we want to practice on a Friday.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: It's Friday today. How we want to practice on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday with a lot of the guys that haven't been here.
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  Speaker 1: Just being aligned in terms of the speed. It's a
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  Speaker 1: combination of like a, it's not as crazy of a
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  Speaker 1: practice that we're looking for, but we're looking for high
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  Speaker 1: powered execution at the same time. So we're still kind
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  Speaker 1: of connecting those dots to a certain extent, which is okay.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the guys understand the week's not over.
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  Speaker 1: We still have opportunity to really nail some of these
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  Speaker 1: details that we want to get to going into the game.
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  Speaker 2: But very pleased with our.
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  Speaker 1: Intent, our attention to detail, but we're still not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some I's to dot and T's to cross,
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  Speaker 1: I think, before the game.
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  Speaker 2: Genius. Yeah, I didn't even know the day of the week.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: That would make today Saturday. What's he talking about?
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  Speaker 2: That was yesterday. Yesterday was Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, man. I don't work on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't even feel like a Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like a Monday. It felt like a
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  Speaker 3: Monday where no one else was at work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a three-day weekend, but it was on
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  Speaker 2: the back end of the weekend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Get it together, McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think all of that... Hype has
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  Speaker 2: gone to his head finally. No, it is just a
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  Speaker 2: strange week. Like, everything's getting mixed around. The NFL season
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  Speaker 2: starting on a Wednesday, Taco Tuesday on a Friday, Manic
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  Speaker 2: Monday on a Thursday, Freaky Friday on a Wednesday. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just all jumbled around this week. Hard to keep
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  Speaker 2: up with it all. But for Mike McDonald, I guess
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  Speaker 2: today is Saturday, if I'm doing the math correctly, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing McDonald math correctly. But he does have a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful mind. He is the John Nash of the National
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  Speaker 2: Football League. Russell Crowe will play him in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. We welcome you into the show. It is
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan with you here on this Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. And, yes, it is Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a Rangers preview coming for you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on this hour. Rick Neuheisel later on
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  Speaker 2: in the show. And a full-scale NFL preview coming your
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  Speaker 2: way at 8 o'clock since we are on the eve. finally,
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  Speaker 2: of the National Football League season. But before Greg Bell
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  Speaker 2: joins us in two minutes, let me rip through your headlines.
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  Speaker 2: They are brought to you by Frost Brewed Coors Light
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  Speaker 2: Cold as the Rockies. And we will start with the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League. It is the eve of the opener,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks versus Patriots tomorrow at Lumen Field. We get ready
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  Speaker 2: for the big battle. Devin Witherspoon, of course, got his
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  Speaker 2: big deal this offseason. We were expecting as an NFL
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  Speaker 2: community that he wouldn't remain the highest paid cornerback in
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  Speaker 2: the National Football League for very long because New England
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  Speaker 2: Patriots superstar Christian Gonzalez also has the same agent and
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  Speaker 2: is also at the same point in his career. And
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  Speaker 2: sure enough, Gonzalez has surpassed him as of last night.
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  Speaker 2: He is now the highest paid cornerback in the National
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  Speaker 2: Football League. But barely, Christian Gonzalez got $ 102 million guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon got $ 101 million guaranteed. So he didn't exactly
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  Speaker 2: blow that out of the water. Here's the really interesting
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  Speaker 2: part of the story. According to Adam Schefter just this morning,
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  Speaker 2: there was a very good chance that Gonzalez wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to play tomorrow night without a deal, without his new deal,
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  Speaker 2: that he wasn't going to risk that much money. by
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  Speaker 2: playing in a game for the Patriots if they didn't
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  Speaker 2: give him his new contract. So we came pretty close,
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  Speaker 2: according to one insider, of not having to face the
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  Speaker 2: New England Patriots' best defensive player to start the season
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night, but it looks like that problem has been
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  Speaker 2: solved for Mike Vrabel and the Patriots. College football, Huskies
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  Speaker 2: versus Utah State this Saturday. The Cougs traveling to Kansas State,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to play early Saturday, 9 a.m. our time.
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  Speaker 2: against the Wildcats. Of course, the big game in college
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  Speaker 2: football is No. 1 Ohio State versus No. 5 Texas
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  Speaker 2: in Austin on Saturday. Rick Neuheisel will join us today
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  Speaker 2: at 9 o'clock to preview it. Mariners did not play
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  Speaker 2: last night, neither did the Rangers or Astros, so the gross,
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  Speaker 2: disgusting standings in the American League West remain the same.
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  Speaker 2: Six games back with 18 games to play. and the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners will get their licks in on the Texas Rangers tonight.
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  Speaker 2: First pitch, 640. Left-hander Cody Bradford and his. 331 batting
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  Speaker 2: average against will take the mound for the Rangers. And
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  Speaker 2: right now it says the Mariners are undecided. It's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be Bryce Miller's turn in the rotation. I'm expecting
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  Speaker 2: that Bryce Miller pitches tonight, but I guess we don't
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  Speaker 2: know for sure. But first pitch, I do know this
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  Speaker 2: for sure, at 640. All right, let's talk some Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: football with Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 4: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man.
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  Speaker 4: This is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 4: with our own Greg Bell. Brought to you by Emerald
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we go, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Last night... Last night of sleep before the NFL season,
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  Speaker 2: before the true mania begins. And if I know the
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: Bell household, you're probably taking the family chopper tonight with
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Wendy to some exotic location to just spend the night
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: on a Caribbean island so you can get one more
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: fling in before the start of the year. Do I
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: got that? Do I have a nailed that for you?
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  Speaker 5: Sort of actually the fling if you can have flings
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  Speaker 5: after 30 years of marriage is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be on keep having flings greg.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be on thursday after the game we're
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  Speaker 5: going to go to hawaii and see our daughter we
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  Speaker 5: haven't seen since she's been stationed there in june so
• 6:03
  Speaker 5: yeah the seahawks are pretty much gone after wednesday night
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  Speaker 5: press conference on thursday with mike mcdonald and Another press
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  Speaker 5: conference Monday, and that's it.
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  Speaker 6: Until Wednesday of next week.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you. Did you clear this with us? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if this has been cleared.
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  Speaker 6: I just did.
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  Speaker 2: Consider this.
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  Speaker 5: I just did.
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  Speaker 2: Consider this clarification.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll be on my phone. If I decide to answer,
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  Speaker 6: you can call me. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I don't know. Nobody wants their phone
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  Speaker 2: in paradise.
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  Speaker 7: He'll love it when we're calling you at 4 a.m.
• 6:35
  Speaker 7: in Hawaii because it's 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: Here. Yeah, you don't want that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want that.
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  Speaker 6: Ashley knows.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want that smoke. Yeah, Ashley knows all too well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's get into it because the— Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: get ready tomorrow night to take on the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like the two highest-paid cornerbacks in the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League are going to be on the field together.
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  Speaker 2: And so Witherspoon and Gonzalez finally will settle their feud
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  Speaker 2: once and for all tomorrow night, Greg.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not sure they hate each other. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there was no doubt Gonzalez was going to play.
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  Speaker 5: This was just a leverage play by his agents. And
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  Speaker 5: as we talk about in the summer, they have the
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  Speaker 5: same agents, the original McDonald Winsports group. for both of them,
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  Speaker 5: and they were, as he should, how often is an
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  Speaker 5: agent going to have the two top corners at the market?
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  Speaker 5: He was playing them off each other and playing the
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks and Patriots off each other, and it's no surprise
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  Speaker 5: that because it waited until right before the opener that
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  Speaker 5: Gonzalez's deal eclipses in total value by a couple million
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  Speaker 5: and guaranteed by one million Witherspoon's deal. So I saw
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  Speaker 5: the reports and said, oh, Gonzalez may not play. Of
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  Speaker 5: course he was going to say that. He's not going
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  Speaker 5: to give up a game check. Players are not in
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  Speaker 5: the business of giving money back. He was going to play.
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  Speaker 5: He was just using the threat of not playing his
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  Speaker 5: leverage to get a deal done, and he got it done.
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  Speaker 5: What was interesting in New England is that Gonzalez was
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  Speaker 5: full go, participating all practices, face-to-face with A.J.
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  Speaker 6: Brown in training camp. He didn't do the hold-in deal either.
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  Speaker 5: That's something to be said for that these days, that
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  Speaker 5: Witherspoon and Gonzalez just were full go all training camp
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  Speaker 5: and still ended up getting their deals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Refresh my memory, and forgive me if I'm catching
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  Speaker 2: you off guard with this, but obviously, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: as good as any cover corner in the National Football
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  Speaker 2: League today, and the Seahawks have one of the best,
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  Speaker 2: if not the best, wide receiver in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: I know they played in the Super Bowl, but how
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  Speaker 2: did they attack JSN with Gonzalez in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: if you can recall?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he does travel some, more than Witherspoon does, more
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  Speaker 5: than Sherman used to with the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 6: But it wasn't exclusive.
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  Speaker 5: It was early in the game. I remember tracking it
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  Speaker 5: early in the game when Gonzalez was matched up against
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  Speaker 5: Smith and Jigba.
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  Speaker 6: And as the game went on, it was a little
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  Speaker 6: less so, less often.
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  Speaker 5: But I'd expect some more of that tomorrow night. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: not exclusively, but some of that. And I would also
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  Speaker 5: expect Rabel, being a defensive mind, to have something new
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  Speaker 5: for Smith and Jigba and Darnold tomorrow. And it could
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  Speaker 5: be more traveling with Gonzalez. But, yes, he's their guy.
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  Speaker 5: He's their main shutdown corner. And it would make sense
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  Speaker 5: to have him travel with Smith and Jigba a little
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  Speaker 5: more because the Seahawks and Brian Fleury.
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  Speaker 6: Are going to move No. 11 around, and that's a
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  Speaker 6: big part of their offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, JSN did just have four catches for 27
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  Speaker 2: yards in that game, of course.
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  Speaker 5: He missed what could have been about a 70-yard touchdown
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  Speaker 5: in the first drive, first or second drive, when Darnold–
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  Speaker 5: overshot him on a broken play, and Darnold still kicks
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  Speaker 5: himself for that.
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  Speaker 6: He overthrew him by like five yards, and it's a
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  Speaker 6: throw he usually hits.
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  Speaker 5: One of Darnold's motivations the entire offseason, the entire training camp,
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  Speaker 5: has been how he played in the Super Bowl. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: he didn't turn the ball over, but he was not happy.
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  Speaker 5: He took he said it took him a long time
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  Speaker 5: to even watch the tape of the game because he
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  Speaker 5: missed so many throws and everyone's oh you're a Super
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: Bowl quarterback you're now this pitch man for these he's
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  Speaker 5: like I haven't I didn't feel like I contributed to
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  Speaker 5: that win that was our defense That's really motivated Darnold
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  Speaker 5: for many months.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they didn't really need him that night, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. Of course,
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: you can follow him at gbellseattle and complete Seahawks coverage
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: at thenewstribune.com with their star beat writer, Greg Bell. All right,
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: let's talk about Ty Okada because, man, a year ago
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  Speaker 2: at this time, I'm like, you know, the thought of, oh, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's a nice little roster piece. Good for him for
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  Speaker 2: making the team. Now all of a sudden, without Nicky Manwari,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like, and Finn in their safety position without
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Bud Clark, all of a sudden we're worried Ty Okada
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  Speaker 2: can't play in a football game. So what's the latest
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  Speaker 2: on him? And we might as well fold Eamon Worry
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  Speaker 2: into that as well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's come a long way, hasn't he? There were
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  Speaker 6: only three safeties on the active roster, and two of
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: them are hurt.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't look like Nick Demon Warrior is going to play.
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: He hasn't had a full practice since the ankle surgery
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  Speaker 5: in July. And McDonald's not one to just, he's one
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: way to be coy with us publicly speaking about injuries.
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  Speaker 5: But when he wants to put guys on the field
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  Speaker 5: to play the game, he doesn't limit them. He would
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  Speaker 5: have them full go if he could. And Ty Okada
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  Speaker 5: not practicing at all with a hamstring issue. It's not
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  Speaker 5: like hamstrings are just something you take an ibuprofen and
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  Speaker 5: you go play. That takes a while, and if it's
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  Speaker 5: relatively new like it seems to be because Okada was
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  Speaker 5: full go through the entire preseason with the starters, that
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  Speaker 5: suggests that it could be a bit, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: think he's going to play either. Anthony Bell is the
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  Speaker 5: likely call-up, and Rodney Thomas, another likely call-up from the
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  Speaker 5: practice squad. Two veterans who have started in the league.
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  Speaker 5: Bell for the Browns at safety. Rodney Thomas started about
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: 26 games over four years for the Colts, not.
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  Speaker 6: In the last few years. at safety for them.
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  Speaker 5: McDonald likes his physicality with both of those guys. The athleticism,
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  Speaker 5: Thomas is more of a cover guy, athleticism on the
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  Speaker 5: ball guy, and the Anthony Bell is more of a thudder,
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  Speaker 5: a guy they like to bring down on the box
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: against the run. I still think, Chuck, that his answer
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: eventually during the game is going to be more three
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  Speaker 5: linebackers than we've ever seen Mike McDonald play, and that
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: means Tyrese Knight and Drake Thomas on the field with
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  Speaker 5: Ernest Jones.
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  Speaker 6: Which would take one of those extra defensive backs off
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  Speaker 6: the field.
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  Speaker 5: The danger in doing that is he really wants to
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: play Devin Witherspoon inside at nickel as much as he can.
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  Speaker 5: Blitzy more this year at nickel than from outside. It's
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  Speaker 5: just physics, or not even physics, whatever you call it.
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  Speaker 5: If you can blitz him from inside right off the
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: edge rather than on the edge corner out by the boundary,
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  Speaker 5: he can get to the quarterback more quickly.
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  Speaker 6: And if the Patriots try to.
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  Speaker 5: Run, Witherspoon's in the middle of the field instead of outside.
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  Speaker 5: But you need to trust extra defensive backs and third
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  Speaker 5: corners to do that. I'm not sure Trevon Diggs is
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  Speaker 5: going to be ready to play. They're trying to ramp
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: him up to do that, to come off the practice squad.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure he would come up in the issue
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  Speaker 5: of the two safeties that they had they were probably
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  Speaker 5: going to bring up, too, in the practice squad. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: not ideal, especially when starters haven't played since February that
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  Speaker 5: have this many injuries to them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, another physics equation that has changed is that the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots now have a new weapon in A.J. Brown, and
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  Speaker 2: he is just a muscle-bound, strong... you know, linebacker strong
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  Speaker 2: type wide receiver that they didn't have to defend in
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl a year ago. So what is the plan?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Devin Witherspoon's fantastic, but he's not exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: an A.J. Brown body type. Neither is Josh Jobe. And
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  Speaker 2: Nicky Manwari's probably not going to be on the football field.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the plan of attack against the Patriots'
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  Speaker 2: brand new weapon?
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  Speaker 5: I would envision the plan of attack is to overwhelm
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  Speaker 5: the Patriots' offensive line and just smother Drake May like
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  Speaker 5: they did in the Super Bowl. Because I don't think
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Drake May is going to be able to drive the
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: ball down the field. I didn't think it in February
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  Speaker 5: in Santa Clara, and I don't think it in September
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  Speaker 5: in Seattle, that Drake May is going to be able
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  Speaker 5: to engineer multiple touchdown drives on this defense. I think blitzing,
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  Speaker 5: I think DeMarcus Lawrence and Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 5: are huge parts of this game plan. Don't even let
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  Speaker 5: May have an opportunity to get the ball outside to
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  Speaker 5: brown down the field like he'd want to because he's
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: going to be swarmed. They're going to test this new
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: Patriots line. The Patriots saw the Super Bowl and said,
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: we've got to fix their offensive line.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: They drafted.
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  Speaker 5: They made moves there to change. They're going to test
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  Speaker 5: how those moves have paid off for them because that's,
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  Speaker 5: to me, the key to the game plan is just
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: come after May and pressure and pressure.
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  Speaker 6: And pressure him.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Belar, Seahawks Insider, brought to you by the Emerald
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  Speaker 2: Queen Casino. Big day, obviously, for Brian Flory. Hugh Millen's
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: been telling us throughout the preseason, I can't give you
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: an evaluation of Brian Flory, the play caller, until we
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: actually see him call plays in a regular season game.
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  Speaker 2: But what's the temperament from him? He doesn't strike me
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: as the type of guy that's going to be overwhelmed
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: by the moment, seems to have a pretty low heartbeat
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: out there, and I certainly know he's going to have
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: a good game plan. Mike McDonald wouldn't stand for it otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the temperament, as you can read it,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: from Brian Flores as he gets ready for his big debut?
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: He is even-keeled. He's got a really dry sense of humor.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: I asked him, who, if anyone, he's leaned on for
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: advice going into his first game ever as an offensive
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: coordinator at any level. And he said, unfortunately, the people
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: I would seek advice from aren't really interested in seeing
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: us do well. That's, of course, a nod to the
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: 49ers coaches that he came up with the last seven years.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: What people have forgotten is Brian Fleury hasn't even been
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: an offensive coach until 2020. He was a defensive coach
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: all through college, quality control in the NFL for a
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: couple teams, including for San Francisco in 2019. It was
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: in 2020 that Kyle Shanahan moved him to be an
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: offensive quality control coach, and then he became a tight
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: ends coach, and that's what he was doing the last
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: four years. But he's not only not been an offensive coordinator,
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: he's only been five years of an offensive coach, period.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: So this is a dice roll for the Seahawks, for
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: someone this unproven in this job, but they so believe
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: he's steeped in the outside zone in the Shanahan system
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: that they do run here in Seattle. and it worked
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: so well last year, that they see it as a
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: continuation of Kubiak.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: But you're right. He was right. He hasn't done it.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: And he's going to be on the field. He's told
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: us that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: He tried both in the box and on the field
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: in the preseason. He's going to call plays from the
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: field tomorrow because he wants to look into Sam Donald's
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: eyes and talk to them face-to-face instead of over the phone.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: But even that is new for him, and he has
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: to decide whether to do that or not because he
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: hasn't done it before. The mechanics of getting the play
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: calls in in time, getting it in well before the
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: 15-second cutoff of the speaker system and the quarterback's ears
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: so they can chat a little bit with Darnold about
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: the upcoming player, what the Patriots' looks are, all that's.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Going to be new for him.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: He did it in the preseason, but he did it
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: with backup quarterbacks. And he did it in practice, but
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: in practice, there's, like, nobody there instead of 70,000 people
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: on the defense trying to take your head off.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: This is different. And I don't think it's going to
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: go exactly.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: tomorrow as it will in December.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: It can't, right?
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: He's going to get much better at this by the
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: time the season's ending, but this is, I don't want
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: to use the word unprecedented, but I don't know too
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: many Super Bowl champions that have taken on a first-time,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: never-done-it-before play caller to turn the keys over to him.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Good news on Charbonnet yesterday?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, McDonald said that he looks awesome, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: everything he does is great. He's got his own timeline
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: that we're not going to share with you, but We
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: know that by NFL rules, that timeline can't be any
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: earlier than the first four weeks of the season. So
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: the first week-plus of October, he estimates four games to
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: be on the physical and able-to-form list.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: But awesome was the word that McDonald used.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: He's really been, throughout this whole process, the coach has
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: really talked and praised about the effort and the dedication
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: to recovery of Zach Charbonnet. They think he's going to
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: play sometime this year, maybe midseason. And when he does
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: come back, say it is end of October, he's not
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: going to be able to just step right on the
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: field and play. There's going to be a ramp-up period
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: for him, too. But all signs at least pointing positively
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: so far.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, what do you got planned for the show?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Or are you just planning out your Hawaii wardrobe and
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you don't have time to think of what you're going
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: to put on the show?
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's probably more of the case. Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: We're going to talk about this defensive back situation for
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks when Mike McDonald's plans are more about Brian Fleury.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Jessamyn will have her pick today. She's got the pick
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: of the factor fiction at 734.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Well, she dominated the fantasy draft last night, I'll tell
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you that much.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: I heard. I could even get a hold of her.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: You guys tied her up in fantasy land.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Although she does have four quarterbacks, which is a bold strategy.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, interesting.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I looked today.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, this part's real great. Then what
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: happened here?
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I think she's going to trade a couple. She's on
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: a scheme for you guys.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that the plan? Oh, she's always scheming.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Schemer.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: She's stevia. Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: We call her the good witch, you know, for a reason.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: We do.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: She does wear a white hat.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll be listening. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow on game day.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Happy Tuesday.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: in the Mornings. See, he knows it's Tuesday. Mike McDonald
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: trying to throw all the beat writers off. Can't fool
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell. He better wake up early in the morning.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Although, to be fair, I do remind him every day
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: what day it is. And I told him today.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I feel like today it's probably really welcome because you
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: know that Mike McDonald thinks today's Saturday.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I actually have a thought on Mike McDonald. There was
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a little pause after Greg's answer about Brian Flory. And
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: then I asked about Charbonnet. And it's because I was
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: thinking about going into something that had just struck me
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: about Mike McDonald. And I'm like, I don't think I've
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: got the time to even scratch the surface on this topic.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to introduce it on the other side.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to scrap what I was going to talk about.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, we have Factor Fiction. So I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: better get it in in four minutes because Factor Fiction
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: has a hard in. 7.35, we go Factor Fiction, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: it will be Ashley's first pick of the season. Next,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: it's Chuck in the Morning, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Hey,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: don't miss the football game tomorrow.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, there's a big one.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: There's a big one. There's a big one.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Very excited about it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't think you were going to miss it. Just
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: going to let you know that if you want to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: make the football game, but you can't make it to
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the football game, make your experience one worthwhile. Go to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Tulalip Resort Casino. They're doing a big watch party to
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: start the football season. Ashley Ryan will be hosting. It's
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: going to be outdoors in the beautiful Pacific Northwest weather.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It's going to be over 100 for Texas and Ohio
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: State on Saturday. While we're going to be basking in, like,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: 60-degree weather tomorrow night.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I think it's going to be, like, 73 is a
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: high for the day. So, yeah, just, like, high 60s
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: as you're going.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll be great.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just sit outside in a light little jacket with
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: some adult beverage in one hand and your betting numbers
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: in the other. And Ashley Ryan sitting on your good
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: left knee.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe not.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: That's not, okay. Well, anyway, I was just trying to
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: think of something.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: No, I like.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Just, you know, I wanted to spice things up. Wanted
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to get people out there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I like that you're willing to do what it takes.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So, watch party tomorrow. There'll be prizes. If you want
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to go to Tulalip Resort Casino and take in the
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Seahawks game like you've never taken one in before, great
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: opportunity for you. That'll be tomorrow night. And, of course,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Tulalip Resort Casino is there all the time.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You can just show up whenever you want. Ashley probably
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: won't get there with her in good knee until like
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: 4.30 or so.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Well, that's when the doors open.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: But I'll tell you what, my new favorite thing is
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: to go, if I have to be at a casino
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: or get to be at a casino for anything, go
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: a little early, play like five minutes of slots and
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: see what happens. Yesterday, won a hundred bucks.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: So I might do that again tomorrow.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Just don't bet all hundred. No, I'm not going to.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Put some in your pocket.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not going to. I'm going to walk around.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You got to wait and figure out what slot machine
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: speaks to you. And then you go sit down there
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: for a couple minutes and just see what happens.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's how you win.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That's how you win. That's right. And then you walk away.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction's coming up here in three and a half minutes.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: We'll nail it. Oh, we'll nail it. Ashley's pick coming
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: up here at 735. But I said I had a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: little bit of a thought on in and conversing with
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell. I was getting ready to ask him, has
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald ever. Do you think he would ever consider
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: because he was. Greg was telling a story about Brian
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Flory has more of a defensive background than he does
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: an offensive background, and now he's an offensive coordinator. I mean,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald is just, there is something to, you can
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: be a good offensive coordinator if you are raised on
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: defense because you are trying to figure out what worked
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: against you and what you have to stop. One of
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the reasons the Seahawks drafted Jalen Milrow is because Mike McDonald,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator, wanted him Because he told John, it
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: is a nightmare to prepare for guys like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And you have to spend practice time practicing to face
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: a guy that may not even play. Like, to add
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: that little extra element to it. So there's just a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: way the defensive guys can see offense. And if you
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: can sit down there with your offensive coordinator and tell him, hey, I'm...
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That's a terrible play because this is what I'm going
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: to do to stop it from a defensive standpoint. Do
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: something that I have a hard time figuring out. That's easy.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: And change it. Mike McDonald kind of operates that way.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And I do wonder if he would ever get to
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the point where he's mastered. And I'm not saying switch over.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I'm saying I'm going further. Would he ever be like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I can do it both?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, if anyone could.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if anyone could.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: And that's not anytime soon. I mean, he's still trying
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to establish himself like one world championship's not enough. But
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: if anyone could, like at his age and once, you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: they always say the game slows down the more experience
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that you get. I wonder if he ever would be like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I'll do the offense too.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bill Belichick in 2022 kind of did that. Like,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: He'd seen enough of success and been excellent at defense
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: for long enough, and they didn't have McDaniels. He was
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: head coaching somewhere else, and things weren't exactly ripping for
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: them with Matt Patricia and I forget who else he had.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And he did, for a period of time that season,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: start calling the offense back in 2022. I'm not saying
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it's ever going to happen. I don't know if there's
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: enough time in the day for that to happen.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: It would be a lot.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, if anyone could do it, you want
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: to talk about taking yourself to the next level, I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: going to call both the offense and the defensive plays.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Nobody's ever called the defensive plays in a Super.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Bowl, by the way.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And he did it last year. Can you imagine if
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: he's like, you know what? I don't really like the
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: way the offense is going. I'm going to call both.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Again, if anyone was going to do it, him or
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Sean McVay would both, either of them.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Just a thought. It just popped
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: into my head.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: I don't want it to happen because I want us
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: to have a great offensive coordinator where he doesn't feel
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: like he needs to do that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: But if you keep, like they always say about offensive coordinators,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: is that as soon as they prove themselves, then they leave. Yes, exactly.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: That's the best way to keep your offensive coordinator from leaving,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: is that you are the coordinator. All right, let's play
• 26:22
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• 26:24
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• 26:25
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  Speaker 2: It is back. Oh, it's back. Oh, and with a vengeance.
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• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Must have been nice for you. Some of us were
• 27:04
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• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thought I don't need to work today, and I
• 27:07
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• 27:11
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• 27:58
  Speaker 2: during the week. You get a pick right. You get
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: this pick right from Ashley. You go into the drawing
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: at the end of the week. You get four picks
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: right today with all the shows. You get four entries
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: into the drawing at the end of the week. You
• 28:11
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  Speaker 2: a close. It's fact or fiction. People love it. We're
• 28:17
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• 28:20
  Speaker 2: first pick of the football season.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Where are you going?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I feel a lot of pressure.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: For the first time you do it every year, you're like,
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: oh gosh, now I'm nervous.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: But I'm going to go straight to the game of
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the week. And that is Ohio State and Texas.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: The two playing each other in Texas. Last time they played,
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Ohio State won 14-7. The time before that when they played,
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Ohio State won 28-14. Fairly low scoring games. They've set
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: the over-under here at 48 and a half.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I think it's too high. I'm going to take the under.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Okay. Did a little research.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: I did.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: You're backing it up.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: Well, again, first pick, you've got to bring it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: All right. Under on Texas and Ohio State on Saturday.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: And again, the number?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: 48 and a half.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: 48 and a half. Okay. That's Ashley's selection. She's going
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: for the big college game. Biggest game of the year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: That's right. It is going to be huge. Yes. If
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you agree with that pick, what you're going to do,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: this is how you play the game. If you're new
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to it, you text FACT to 49451. And that means
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you think that the combined score of the Longhorns and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Buckeyes will be 48 points or lower. That's right. If
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you disagree with it and you think this is going
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to be a shootout to end all shootouts, you're going
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: to text FICTION to 49451. That's FICTION to 49451. FACT
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: or fiction, that's all we want to get from you
• 29:42
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• 29:46
  Speaker 2: one of those magical entries into the weekly cash prize
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: drawing at the end of the week. If you're wrong,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: try again the next show because we do give you
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: a pick every single show during the course of our
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: broadcast day. And your next opportunity to play comes with
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Greg and Jessamyn today at 1135. But Ashley's got her
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: first pick of the year in. She's going under the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: total of 48.5 points. Texas versus Ohio State. Fact of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: 49451 if you agree. fiction if you disagree all right
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: coming up next on the radio program we do have
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: a baseball team still alive even if barely uh the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: texas rangers will be in town and it's a bit
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: of an odd series and we'll preview it next on
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: kjr the showdown is back another draft coming your way
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: i mean it is the start of the football season
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: kind of draft season I mean, we do have to
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: draft a lot. We do have to draft a lot.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: We don't have any choice.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: Well, and I've also figured out the best way to
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: count down to the start of the football season is
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: to draft because I had to draft on Sunday, Monday,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: and I got another one tonight.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: And now we're drafting today. We drafted twice last week.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Let's go. It's what you do.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: That's how you count it down. I mean, it's pretty
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: much the best pastime in the world is to draft stuff.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: So we're going to do that at 8 o'clock, our
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: NFL preview showdown, where we're going to pick over and
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: under scores for the season win totals for the NFL
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: teams this upcoming year. It will serve as our league-wide preview.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Speaking of previews, the Mariners are still alive. I'm not
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: dead yet.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: He says he's not dead yet.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu pitched well Sunday. I'm feeling better. Pipe down.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I want to sing. Uh, the Texas Rangers are in
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: town tonight and it's not like they're lighting the world
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  Speaker 2: on fire. Um, they've gone five and seven in their
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  Speaker 2: last 12 games. They've got a really banged up starting rotation.
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  Speaker 2: And other than Jake Lats, they don't, they're not able
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  Speaker 2: to depend on anybody in their bullpen. Um, so the Texas,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: that's just it. Like I think that Houston will cooperate.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Texas, I think that Texas will cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to play much better than
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: 500 baseball the rest of the way, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they're going to play much worse than 500 baseball
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the way. So if you are going
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  Speaker 2: to pull this off, I mean, you really are going
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to have to seize the day every single day, like
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: a 15 and three run is going to be required
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  Speaker 2: just to have a chance to pull this thing off.
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  Speaker 2: But The two teams, because they are flawed, they give
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  Speaker 2: you that chance. The Texas Rangers are very vulnerable right now.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, they've scored... They've gone 5-7 in their
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  Speaker 2: last 12. And over that time, they have allowed 72 runs.
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  Speaker 2: That's six runs a game that they've allowed. And we're
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  Speaker 2: avoiding their two best pitchers. They're only two good pitchers.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob deGrom's not going to pitch in this series. And
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: left-hander Mackenzie Gore's not going to pitch in this series.
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  Speaker 2: So you get Cody Bradford, who we've already highlighted earlier today.
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  Speaker 2: Left-hander with six starts and a. 331 batting average against.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think that's eye-popping, against left-handers, and he's left-handed,
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  Speaker 2: so this is reverse split stuff, he has a. 419
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  Speaker 2: batting average against and 1,016 OPS.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, when you say 1,000, I mean, yikes.
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  Speaker 2: He turns everybody into Shohei Otani while he's hot.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait for that.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe we go ahead and, you know, not worry.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we go ahead and play Cole Young tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Against the lefty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's go ahead and do that. Then
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: it's Cal Quantrill. Now, he's actually been really good as
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: of late. 2.79 ERA on the season. Wasn't in their
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: starting rotation at the beginning of the year. As a
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, faced the Mariners earlier this year in
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: April as a reliever. Went three innings, gave up three runs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, back when we had hope.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I remember those days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But he's been outstanding in his last six starts
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  Speaker 2: with a sub 1.5 ERA. And trust me, it is
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  Speaker 2: without stuff. He is low 90s fastball. He is just
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: about weak contact, guile.
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  Speaker 3: Stuffless.
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  Speaker 2: He's stuffless. So another guy that should be vulnerable, but
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: even stuffless, he's been effective here as of late. And
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: then Kumar Rocker, who's the anti-quantril. with a 6-plus ERA
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: over the course of the last month and a half.
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  Speaker 2: He's not had a great season. A guy with a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: big name, but he hasn't had a great start to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: his career, and he's particularly been bad as of late.
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  Speaker 2: And so the pitching matchups work out well. They look good.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like a recipe for some offense from the Mariners
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: over the course of the next three days. Now, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Rangers have been hitting better, and the reason is Corey
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Seager is back to being Corey Seager again. Their best hitter,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: let's face it, but he's had a Cal Raleigh-type year. See,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Cal's not the only one that had this mysterious three-month-long funk.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: There were other struggles.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, a lot of them. At the end of June,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Corey Seager was hitting 182 with a 292 on base
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  Speaker 2: and a 667 OPS.
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  Speaker 5: 700s, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So 667, that's Corey Seager below okay. Then he missed
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: all of July with an injury. But since he's come back,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and it probably speaks to he's probably playing hurt, probably
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: trying to play through something. That's why he was struggling
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: so much. And I think that's probably what happened with
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Cal too for most of the first half. But then
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: when he came back in August, 284 with an 800
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: 808 actually OPS. And then in September, he's been even hotter,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: a 292 batting average with a 933 OPS. So Corey
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Seager's hot again. We got to be careful with him.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: So that's pretty much the matchup there. I mean, this
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: is not some world beater that's coming in here. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: know that they've had the Mariners number, like the Mariners
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: have had the Astros number, like the Astros have had
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the Rangers number for whatever reason this season. But if
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: this is foot in the ground time of the year,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: If this is, we still believe, if we're supposed to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: buy that from Cal and from Brian Wu, then okay,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: this is a team and these are some matchups that
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: if you need a sweep, you can get a sweep here.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: There's nothing great about this team. Hasn't been all season long.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Might not really be anything good about this team, especially
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: when Jacob deGrom's not on the mound. But you better
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: have a lead. Better not be trailing going into the
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: ninth because we will stand no chance against Jake Latz
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  Speaker 2: as their closer. So that's really the key to it
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: all is get the offense going against three really vulnerable
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: starting pitchers. And yes, there is a recipe here for
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: a sweep. It can be pulled off.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: So score early and walk Corey Seager. That's what I got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just be careful with course. If you score a lot early,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: then go ahead and pitch the Seager all you want.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But if, you know, if it's close, maybe just think
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: about walking him.
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  Speaker 2: And there's an odd thing about this series because there's
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: not just one, there are two day games.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Because of tomorrow night, the Seahawks playing their opener. They've
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: accommodated that for the downtown area. And so you're going
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to have two day games, um, one on Wednesday, one
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: on Thursday. So that's, that's so fun. That's a little
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: bit of a throwback. I mean, I'm, Old enough, hate
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to admit this, that I was around when the Cubs
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: didn't have lights and they played all their home games
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: during the day. That was in my lifetime. And there
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: are a couple of teams out there that play a
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: lot more day games than others. We don't play a
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: lot of them.
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  Speaker 5: No, we don't.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Usually it's at the end of a road trip or
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: a homestand when you're heading out of town. And so
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: we don't play a lot of them, but you're going
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: to get back-to-back day games on Wednesday and Thursday.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Are you going to do the doubleheader?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I am on Wednesday.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be fun.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I am.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just all day. Yeah. We'll see how I hold up.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be a long day, but it'll be awesome.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: A lot of coffee.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I think that'll be really fun.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I've already told the buddy, I said, if you want
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: a buddy to get... Blitzed with? Yeah. I'm not your guy.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: That ain't happening.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: No. I will be.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Driving home without any risk to anyone else on the roads.
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: So.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Are you sure you want to invite me to the opener?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Because if you want to have a lot of fun,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I might not be your guy. I might not be
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: your Huckleberry.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Fair.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the show, it's our showdown. It's
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the new green jacket draft. And today we're going to
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: preview the National Football League by choosing over-under win totals
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: for the season. Did we get our.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: participant oh yes we did okay he's got his information
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: to be studying
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: All right we've got our listener he's ready to go
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: um so far the listener has out drafted us two
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: drafts in a row so we'll see if that trend
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: continues next on sports radio 93.3 kjrfm