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11-9 H1: What's On Tap, Wins & Tough Ones & Mike Benton Joins · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: Well, great morning to you all, and welcome into the
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  Speaker 4: radio program here on a Monday. It is Chuck in
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  Speaker 4: the Morning, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 5: Hope you all had fantastic weekends. Hope you all are
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  Speaker 5: ready for a full week of Chuck in the Mornings
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  Speaker 5: as we get things started here.
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  Speaker 4: Monday morning, quarterback on your way. All sorts of Seahawks discussion.
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  Speaker 5: A victory yesterday over the Arizona Cardinals, 17-3 is the
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  Speaker 5: final score, and we're going to come at it. In
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  Speaker 5: about a thousand different ways. We're going to come at
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  Speaker 5: it with teeth and elbows. We're going to be like
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  Speaker 5: a tornado through a trailer park. It is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 5: It is Anders Hurst. It is Christopher Kidd with you.
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  Speaker 5: Great Monday morning to you all.
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  Speaker 1: Anders, how was your weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fun weekend of football watching. Too much. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some weird weather, too, just thrown in there. So it
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  Speaker 1: actually ended up being like, okay, I feel good about
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  Speaker 1: sitting in my butt all day and watching football. So
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  Speaker 1: I love it when that happens. Instead of when it's
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  Speaker 1: super nice, I'm like, dang, I should be going outside. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when the weather cooperates with my football watching schedule,
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  Speaker 1: then it works out pretty well. When Mother Nature encourages laziness.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's when it gets really good. Thanks, Mama Nature.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. My butt is completely flat from four games
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  Speaker 5: of football yesterday consecutively. And then Saturday as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then Saturday as well, because there was a lot
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  Speaker 5: that couldn't be missed. I did get outside on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Saturday was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: Before the wind picked up in the late afternoon, I
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  Speaker 5: went outside for like four hours, and that was an
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  Speaker 5: awesome fall day.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. But you're right.
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  Speaker 5: Then once the real big game started to ramp up, Um,
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  Speaker 5: it was just an excuse to grab a beverage, go
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  Speaker 5: flatten your ass somewhere on a bar stools or on
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  Speaker 5: your couch cushions. Uh, and, uh, yes, it was a
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  Speaker 5: weekend of football. Well, great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: Um, yeah, if you're joining us and you're like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Uh, thought you were on vacation.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I came back last Friday. And he wasn't on vacation either. No,
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  Speaker 1: I was not. And that needs to be clear.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody thinks that I had time to get refreshed and
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  Speaker 5: relaxed and recovered?
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  Speaker 1: You're out of your mind.
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  Speaker 5: You've never spent time with an 81-year-old woman five straight
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  Speaker 5: days listening to her stories.
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  Speaker 1: I love her. She took care of me. She fed me.
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  Speaker 1: She clothed me. That's not true. I was going to
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  Speaker 1: say bathe. But, yeah, that wasn't relaxing.
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  Speaker 5: It's not really relaxing to spend your entire week with
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  Speaker 5: a person that can't hear and yet has a lot
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  Speaker 5: of philosophies on life and isn't interested in anything you
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  Speaker 5: have to say.
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  Speaker 1: You don't say, huh? That sounds extremely relaxing to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Well, let's get it going. We've got a
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  Speaker 4: lot to discuss here from yesterday. Seahawks win 17-3. over
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  Speaker 4: the Arizona Cardinals. And there is one major story that
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  Speaker 4: we'll certainly get to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one big.
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  Speaker 5: Takeaway from the game yesterday, but just to kind of, Anders,
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  Speaker 5: run through a few of the things that did happen
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  Speaker 5: in the game that are certainly noteworthy that we will
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  Speaker 5: be covering with you and Greg and others as the.
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  Speaker 1: Day goes along.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was just one of those type games
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  Speaker 5: that It kind of felt like, okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: let the defense win this thing, and no excuses. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we have to win this game. I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 5: a must, but we kind of have to win this game.
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  Speaker 5: We can't fall below. 500, and we can't allow the
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  Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals and Gardner Minshew to do that to us.
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  Speaker 1: So once again, they get off.
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  Speaker 5: The opponent scores some points on their first drive, and
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  Speaker 5: then Mike McDonald said, I see what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: No more.
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  Speaker 1: And that was it.
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  Speaker 5: And so three points allowed by the defense. Excellent job
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  Speaker 5: by the defense. Can't say that I'm also that surprised
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  Speaker 5: that it was that dominant of a performance. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks were trying to establish the run. They were trying
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  Speaker 5: to establish a between-the-tackles mentality that would go hand-in-hand with
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  Speaker 5: their defense. Zach Charbonnet is our RB1. Make no mistake
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  Speaker 5: about it. I mean, that was the idea going into
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  Speaker 5: the game. He started. He got the most carries. He
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  Speaker 5: was into the game at the end of the contest.
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  Speaker 5: Jadarian Price looks like he's going to be RB2. He
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  Speaker 5: had some great catches. Terrific receiver out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even realize his hands were that good. He
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  Speaker 5: had four terrific plays. He had more receiving yards than
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  Speaker 5: JSN yesterday. But 33 carries in the game. Very obvious
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  Speaker 5: what they tried to do yesterday is try to establish
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  Speaker 5: the run. And they believe that Zach Charbonnet is the
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  Speaker 5: guy that can move piles and move chains. And you
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  Speaker 5: were able to do it against the Arizona Cardinals yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you've got the horses. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know going forward. I don't know if this combination of
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  Speaker 5: Charbonnet and Price is enough if you're going to play
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  Speaker 5: this way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good enough to beat the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 5: And it's good enough to beat a few other teams.
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  Speaker 5: And certainly your defense is excellent. And you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to turn the ball over. That message is clear.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure what I see out of these
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  Speaker 1: two guys today.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be able to carry the ball 33
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  Speaker 5: times a game and win football games against good competition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was pretty impressed yesterday with both of them.
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  Speaker 1: More earlier on, I was more impressed with Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not as much out of the backfield, but as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, receiving. and getting a couple, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: touches however they can. It felt like a, oh, feed
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  Speaker 1: this guy and he's going to be the best playmaker
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  Speaker 1: we have that's not named Jason. It felt like that
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  Speaker 1: way through the first half and then maybe halfway through
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter. And then they just fed Zach Charbonnet
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. And, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's what the game plan kind of looks like, because
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely a heavier dose of Charbonnet out of
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  Speaker 1: the backfield. But Jadarian Price was kind of the guy
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  Speaker 1: to get the targets and, you know, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more in the short game, get it to him and
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  Speaker 1: get him out in open space. I agree with your statement, though.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to be enough against
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  Speaker 1: a really good team moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know you can beat a really good team
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  Speaker 5: playing that way. But when the tournament comes around... And
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  Speaker 5: it's all good teams that you're going to have to face.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're going to have to have a quarterback
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  Speaker 5: that can Sam Darnold it and win you a big game.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Drew Locke played poorly.
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  Speaker 5: But obviously the attack was we're going to establish the run.
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  Speaker 5: And we finally have our one, two running backs, whatever
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  Speaker 5: order you thought they were going to put them in yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: It was Charbonneau's are one and prices are two. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if it'll remain that way. But they came
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  Speaker 5: out against a bad team in a game we need
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  Speaker 5: to win, and they decided we're going to let the
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  Speaker 5: defense win this game, and we're going to run the
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  Speaker 5: ball come hell or high water, like they tried to
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  Speaker 5: do many times a year ago. And they pulled off
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  Speaker 5: the victory. But it is the Arizona Cardinals, and you
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  Speaker 5: put 17 points on a team that's been averaging 30
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  Speaker 5: points allowed per game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with that, before anyone gets super excited that
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  Speaker 1: the running game is back or anything like that, this
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  Speaker 1: is the team that Emmanuel Wilson had 92 rushing yards
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  Speaker 1: against in Week 2. So let's just put that in perspective, right?
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  Speaker 1: For those who were saying that the running back situation
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  Speaker 1: was alarming and it was like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: The people you said that about got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: yards on the ground against this exact same team in
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  Speaker 1: Week 2. Well, it's not a good defense. No, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: So you were able to win this way, and good
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  Speaker 5: for you. You took care of business. There was no
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  Speaker 5: white-knuckling in this contest. There was no on the edge
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  Speaker 5: of your seat. I didn't feel at any point during
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  Speaker 5: the course of the game that the Seahawks were going
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  Speaker 5: to lose to the Arizona Cardinals, so you got the
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  Speaker 5: job done. I'm just thinking, is that combination, is that mindset,
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  Speaker 5: is that game plan... going to work against the best
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  Speaker 5: competition in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure that it will. The officiating was horrific
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  Speaker 5: in this game. And I would say on both sides,
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  Speaker 5: but it was terrible. So for a second week in
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  Speaker 5: a row, pretty much the Gene Steratore conversation is going
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  Speaker 5: to be about the Seahawks Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Even though there were some other things. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: But tomorrow, we're going to talk about a lot of
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  Speaker 5: these bad, bad calls by the officials.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible calls.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And then the challenge and then the booth was just
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  Speaker 5: as bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like they were better on replay. No. What
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  Speaker 1: do you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, normally, normally, let's face it, normally when it
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  Speaker 5: goes their... You do expect, I mean, occasionally like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: maybe I think you're wrong about that, but maybe you
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  Speaker 5: didn't see enough. But most of the time, once it
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  Speaker 5: goes through the review process, we end up with the
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  Speaker 5: right call. We did not yesterday on a couple of occasions.
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  Speaker 5: And that is, that's head scratching. So that's something we'll
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  Speaker 5: get into a little bit today, talk more about it
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  Speaker 5: with Gene Steratore. But let's face it, the biggest story
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  Speaker 5: here facing the Seahawks is the quarterback situation. Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 5: did not play because of an injury. Drew Locke played
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  Speaker 5: despite an injury to his elbow. First time we've seen
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  Speaker 5: him play since week number two. 19 for 28, 175 yards,
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  Speaker 5: a touchdown. He wasn't asked to do too much in
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  Speaker 5: the contest, but he didn't turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 1: Asterisk.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get to that in a moment. He didn't take
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  Speaker 5: a single sack in the game, and he executed the
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  Speaker 5: game plan. And so from that standpoint, yes, Drew Locke
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  Speaker 5: got the job done yesterday. I'm glad he's on our
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  Speaker 5: football team. What a treasure we have at backup quarterback
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  Speaker 5: in Drew Locke. But he also suffers another injury, suffered
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  Speaker 5: an oblique injury, ran into the tent a couple of
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  Speaker 5: times in the second half, says that he's going to
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  Speaker 5: be okay. He's going to play against the Raiders in
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  Speaker 5: next week's contest. Mike McDonald didn't sound as confident last
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  Speaker 5: night after.
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  Speaker 1: The game was over.
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  Speaker 5: And Jaden Milrow, there is a chance, could end up
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  Speaker 5: being your starting quarterback against the Raiders next week. I
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  Speaker 5: would think there's a really good chance Drew Locke's going
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  Speaker 5: to be your starting quarterback. And I don't think we
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  Speaker 5: can completely rule out Sam Darnold. So maybe for the
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  Speaker 5: first time... In 11 years covering the Seahawks, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know who's going to start at quarterback next week between
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  Speaker 5: three different guys.
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  Speaker 1: Three, not just two. Not two.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, for most of my time here, it was
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  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson and one backup.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So there weren't even three guys on the roster that
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  Speaker 5: played the position of quarterback. For the first time, it's
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  Speaker 5: got to be in 11 years. I don't remember ever
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  Speaker 5: covering a team where I did have this wonder. Like,
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  Speaker 5: one of three guys could start on Sunday, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: not sure which one it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either at this point. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke, as you said, his performance was very reminiscent
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  Speaker 1: of the first Arizona game. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: similarities between the two games, to be completely honest. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just... I didn't come out with that game with
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  Speaker 1: a ton more confidence in him or, like, thinking there
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  Speaker 1: should be more questions as to who should be starting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when everyone's healthy. But at this point, it's
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  Speaker 1: just whoever it is. able to throw a football at
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  Speaker 1: this point, right? Because I don't think he looked 100% either.
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  Speaker 1: You could tell that Drew Locke wasn't really having the
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  Speaker 1: same zip on his ball or anything like that. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious to what they'll do and to see how
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  Speaker 1: he's able to get through this week. Well, there was zip.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give him that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he can throw the football. There's no question
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  Speaker 5: about it. It's just, this is the thing. This is
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  Speaker 5: the thing. And I think that we're now made aware
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  Speaker 5: of it because of the advent of social media. And
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  Speaker 5: I guess people have always been this way, but you
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  Speaker 5: never really got an idea what the masses thought until
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  Speaker 5: social media. And the bottom line is, if you really
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  Speaker 5: never believed in Sam Darnold, you've just spent the last
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  Speaker 5: year and a half convincing yourself that you're right. And
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  Speaker 5: the first opportunities that you've had to swing that door
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  Speaker 5: open and rush through with a quick reaction to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, you're looking for any reason, any reason
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  Speaker 1: at all, even with a Superbowl ring on his finger
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  Speaker 1: to try to figure out why Sam Darnold shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. And you were right a year and a
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  Speaker 1: half ago that.
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  Speaker 5: That, that is just, that's just, we're realizing that people
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  Speaker 5: want to believe in their own narrative because Drew Locke
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  Speaker 5: didn't do anything special yesterday. Drew Locke didn't play any
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  Speaker 5: better than what Sam Darnold has played. Yeah, he didn't
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  Speaker 5: commit a turnover, but he threw like five that could
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  Speaker 5: have been picked, including one that went right into the
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  Speaker 5: linebackers hands. I mean, it was a Sam Darnold special
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  Speaker 5: right into Collins hands and he pops it into the
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  Speaker 5: air and he ends up getting a reception out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But there were.
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  Speaker 5: Balls that he put in harm's way that Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 5: is having picked off this year. But Drew Locke came
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  Speaker 5: away unscathed without a turnover. He didn't take a sack.
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  Speaker 5: But then again, they were able to establish the run,
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  Speaker 5: which is something that Sam hasn't had the privilege of experiencing,
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  Speaker 5: quite frankly, this year. And I think Drew Locke was good.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Drew Locke's been good every single time
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  Speaker 5: he's taken the field this year. But the idea that
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  Speaker 5: so many of you are like, and then there was
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  Speaker 5: the other, played through injury, there's leadership.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that a lot yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Sam Darnold's been playing through injury every single snap he's
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  Speaker 5: played since he went down on the turf on what,
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  Speaker 5: the fifth play of the season he's been playing through
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  Speaker 5: an injury. And his teammates love him, and he's tough
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  Speaker 5: as nails. And I'm not saying that Drew is not.
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  Speaker 1: Drew is.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't think we saw anything from Drew Locke
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  Speaker 5: yesterday that we haven't seen from Sam Darnold, except the
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  Speaker 5: statistics suggested that he played a really clean game versus
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  Speaker 5: Sam's statistics that suggest he has turnover problems. And to
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  Speaker 5: a degree, he certainly does. He's been putting the ball
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  Speaker 5: in harm's way too frequently. But there were three, four,
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  Speaker 5: five passes that the Cardinals could have picked off yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: And so I don't know if the quarterback play was
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  Speaker 5: much different than what we've seen from Sam, other than
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  Speaker 5: the fact that Drew threw the ball a lot less
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  Speaker 5: than what Sam's been throwing the football.
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  Speaker 1: That's about the only difference that I saw. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: like we said last week leading up to the game,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Cardinals. This is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: second time he's faced him. drew lock and it's probably
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  Speaker 1: the worst defense you have on your schedule period and
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  Speaker 1: he gets to face him twice right sam donald didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to face him at all nothing but good teams
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  Speaker 1: exactly exactly so yes maybe the commanders sure and he
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  Speaker 1: tore him up believe it or not uh like that's
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  Speaker 1: that was one of his better games even though he
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  Speaker 1: did have a couple bad turnovers as well yes.
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  Speaker 5: But his throw to collins yesterday got picked and taken
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  Speaker 5: to the house where collins didn't catch the pass from.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. It's kind of a regression luck sort of
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  Speaker 1: situation about what if the defense makes the play or not.
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  Speaker 1: You actually get the turnover put on your statistics, which like...
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  Speaker 1: I said this also with Drew Locke. There is an
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  Speaker 1: element of OK against this type of team. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: feel like safer, quote unquote, with a guy that is
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  Speaker 1: going to put it in harm's way less often. It's
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  Speaker 1: just going to, you know, take what's given to him
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  Speaker 1: and we don't need him to go out and win
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  Speaker 1: the game. But eventually you're going to need someone to
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  Speaker 1: go out and win the game. Exactly. And that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be Sam. And I think Sam's just a
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  Speaker 1: better candidate. Correct. 100 percent agree. Yeah. Now, to beat
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, maybe you're better off with a Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he only plays against bad teams. Maybe that's the...
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Sam would love that, to be honest.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: He wants some stat padding as well.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: The other thing that I noticed was a lot of,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: just put Milrow in.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I come on.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: So there's another group of you out there that just
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: have convinced yourself, no matter what, no matter how much
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: evidence to the contrary, that the guy not playing is
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: a better option. I think just thought, I think some
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: people are just built that way. I mean, it happens
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: at baseball season too.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on now. Enough of this. You know, uh, yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Josh Naylor put in Rivas at first. Let's give it
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: a shot.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Leo Rivas. I like Rivas.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Utility guy. Yes.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Whoever's not playing, you're convinced is better than the guy
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: playing if he's not playing as well as you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Think he should be playing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Right. I mean, they have it right. The Seahawks have
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: it right. Mike McDonald, John Schneider, pretty good at what
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: they do.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: They've got it right. When Sam is healthy, he's the starter.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: We are very fortunate to have as good a backup
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: as we have in Drew Locke. And Jalen Milrow might
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: still have a future in this league, but there is
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: zero evidence that you want him playing in a game
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: that you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Kind of need to win.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Zero.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: So there's your quarterback room. First stringer, second stringer, third stringer.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Turns out Mike's got it right. Turns out he gets
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: a lot of things right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: You don't say. Super champion.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And yet I'm not sure which quarterback we're going to have.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Could be any of the three. against the Raiders next week.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's all of the three. My guess is Drew
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Locke's right. I'm going to be ready to go by
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: next week. I'm going to play through this oblique. I've
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: watched Sam play through these injuries before. It's my turn
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: to do it. I'm going to do it against the Raiders.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I'm going to give him two extra weeks because the
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: following week is a bye, and I'm going to get
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: him healthy, and then I'm going to hand the job
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: back to him. That's what I think is going to
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: end up happening, and Jalen Milrow will never start as
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: long as we are operating in a functional world. All right,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: the show.
• 19:27
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• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Monday morning quarterback with Hugh Millen from 8 to 940
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: this morning. Greg Bell will join us at 7.05, update
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: us on the Drew locker.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Injury situation. He went in with a bad elbow. He
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: comes out with an oblique as well. So we'll talk
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: to Greg about that at 7.05. This week, Raiders and
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: then a bye week for the Hawks, who are two
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: and a half games back of the 49ers. 49ers win
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: yesterday over the Raiders and did so in rather easy fashion.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Wins and tough ones coming your way at the bottom
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: of the hour, 630. Your scores from across the National
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Football League.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The NFL trading deadline is tomorrow.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: We'll spend a little bit of time on it today
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: and a lot of time on it on tomorrow's program.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: There's already been a significant trade this morning. The Jacksonville Jaguars, oh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Chris Kidd doesn't believe in them. But they got a
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: little more believable this morning. They traded for a guy
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: that might be first-team All-Pro safety this year.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: He's been playing really well.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Jesse Bates from the Atlanta Falcons is now a Jaguar.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Traded him this morning for a 2 and a 5.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: And I don't know why the Atlanta Falcons are bailing
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: on this season. They're in the race in the brutal
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: NFC South. But they have decided that Bates is probably
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: going to walk at the end of the year. Let's
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: get something for him right now. So Jesse Bates III
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: is now a Jacksonville Jaguar, the second-best defense statistically in
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: the National Football League. Just got a little bit better.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Monday Night Football, great one tonight. Buffalo at Minnesota. Are
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: you kidding me? Both teams are 6-1 on the year.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: And the Vikings, man, they're talking about all sorts of
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: trades before the deadline tonight. for a quarterback, maybe for
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: a running back. Fascinating next 30 hours in the National
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Football League as a lot of teams probably became more
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: aggressive buyers by yesterday's results. and a lot of them
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: probably became more aggressive sellers. We could have a very
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: active day and a half. College football, the Huskies rally
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: came up short at home against Penn State. They lose
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: at 28-25, could not get the ball back in the
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: fourth quarter. College football's brand new poll, a little more
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: shakeup with No. 1 Miami losing to Notre Dame Saturday.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Georgia's the new No. 1. Utah, undefeated, is now at No.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: 2 in the country. Notre Dame is 3-0. UCLA also
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: undefeated as four, and Miami falls to five. College basketball,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: UW's off to a 1-0 start. They will host the
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Fighting Jerry Rices of Mississippi Valley State tonight, 7 p.m.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: start there with the Huskies and Mississippi Valley State. Kraken,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: they are off until Thursday, and for a very good reason.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: They are traveling to Scandinavia, so they will be in
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Finland for their next game. It's part of the global
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: series for the NHL. They'll be taking on the world
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: champion Carolina Hurricanes. Really easy matchup for them. And Mike
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Benton's actually going to join us this morning, 6.45, to
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: discuss it. But coming up next on the radio program,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: it's a round of wins and tough ones. So look
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: at all of your scores in the National Football League
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: from yesterday on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I kind of like the Spanish flair to wins
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and tough ones. I really do.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I do too.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Give me some Latin music.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Should we say the whole thing in Spanish?
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I'm going to salsa while I give you the breakdown
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: of all the wins and all the tough ones.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So it turns out there was an equal amount.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a new thing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: All losses, Anders, as we've learned, are tough ones. Yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they are. All right, let's get to it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Your NFL scoreboard here on this Monday morning, and you
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: had to get up early with me to watch Cincinnati
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-17, the combination of Burrow to Chase.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I might, you know, I'll argue with a.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Bengals fan that JSN's the best wide receiver in the world,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: but there's no doubt that this is the best combination.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: quarterback to wide receiver in the National Football League. They
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: connected 10 times for 155 yards and a touchdown in
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: a 34-17 blowout of the Atlanta Falcons. Lost so humbling.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: The tough one was so humbling that the Falcons have
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: traded away their best defensive player this morning, Jesse Bates,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Meanwhile, Joe Burrow's playing as well
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: as he's ever played, and right there in the conversation
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: for most valuable player in the national football.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I think he's the best quarterback in football at this
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: point in time. I know Caleb Williams is wowing everyone.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: He didn't throw four picks last night, but Joe Burrow
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: right now is... He's as much of his team's offense
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: as any other quarterback, and he just is able to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: carry teams to victories.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Number one in touchdowns, number two in passing yards, first
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: in completion percentage, second in QBR, and number one in ratings.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: with quarterbacks who've thrown over 100 passes this year.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He's on fire, and he's better now than he was.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Earlier in the season. He is just flat out on fire.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Bengals are now 6-2 on the year. The Dallas Cowboys, man,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: it was looking grim. They fell behind the Indianapolis Colts
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: with less than two minutes to go, 23-20. The lowly
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Indianapolis Colts who've given up on the year. And they
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: almost beat Dallas, but Dallas does pull it off. CeeDee
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Lamb had 10 catches, 195 yards yesterday. It was a
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: day of a lot of sack numbers and No. 1
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: wide receivers going off throughout the National Football League. So
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: the Cowboys may have saved their season, or at least...
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Maybe at least pushed off their demise by winning 27-23.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: They improved to 4-5 on the year.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: The New York Jets, they've got a special player in this,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: David Bailey, their draft pick out of Texas Tech. He
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: had two more sacks yesterday at 7.5. He almost murdered
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes. 35-12, though, the Chiefs beat a bad Jets team.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Geno Smith had a sideline blowup due to frustration. Meanwhile,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes looked like he may have hurt his arm.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I thought for sure he was done.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I thought so too.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: And instead, he goes over to the sidelines. It must
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: have just gone numb on him or something, but he
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: didn't even miss a snap. Went back into the game
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: and leads the Chiefs to a 35-12 win. So Kansas
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: City snaps their two-game losing streak, which the Seahawks started
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: with a blowout victory. They're 6-2 on the year. Lions
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: are also 6-2, although I can't imagine anyone in Detroit
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: was impressed with what they did yesterday. 19-9 the final
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: score over the lowly Miami Dolphins. It was a defensive performance.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Gibbs didn't rush for 100. Goff didn't throw a touchdown.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: And it was the defense that held Miami to 228 yards.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe if you're in Detroit, that's what you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: were looking to see. You needed something to give you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: confidence on that side of the ball because you believe
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in that offense. So Detroit's kind of rounding out their
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: form a little bit, even though, like you said, it's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: not the most impressive victory. But seeing them do it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: from the defensive side of the ball will help.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Cleveland loses to the New Orleans Saints yesterday in overtime 23-22.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: This score was tied at six with five and a
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: half minutes remaining in regulation.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: What a game.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: And yet the final ends up being 23-22 in overtime.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Cleveland scores a touchdown.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: A fluky sucker.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: To Harold Fannin, who broke like 34 tackles on his
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: way to the end zone and then decided to go
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: for two. I heard a little bit of debate on
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: this this morning on my drive in. There is no debate.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: It was absolutely the right decision to go for two.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, you had a minute left on the clock.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: All you would have done is given them a chance
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: to beat you with a field goal. And in today's game,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: teams get the ball at the 35. They've got kickers
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: that can kick 65-yard field goals now. Why on earth
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: would you give the ball back to another team? They
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: went for two and went for the win, and I
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: say Todd Munkin 1,000% did the right thing.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: It just didn't work out. Totally agree. Totally agree, especially
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: in overtime. Teams are too good. Kickers are too good.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: You've got to take advantage when you can. Boy, the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Giants and Eagles both play ugly versions of football, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: yesterday the Giants won. 19-11, J.J. McCarthy left with an injury.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Joe Milton started and played the entire game at quarterback
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: for the stupid Philadelphia Eagles, because you really are stupid.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know what you're doing on offense.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: But the Giants win 19-11 to improve at 5-2-1 on
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: the year. The Eagles have lost seven straight games. Rams
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: 2013 winners over the Washington Commanders.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: This was close throughout.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: The difference being Puka Nakua, 14 catches, 150 yards, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: a touchdown. But he got injured on the last play
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: of the game, and it might be something of significance. Also,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Miles Garrett made his return and had three sacks. Certainly
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: his best game as a Ram. Yeah, and then we're
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: seeing it on the TV right now. With three seconds left,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels throws a check down when you're down by seven.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: It's an interesting call. They don't make a lot of
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: good decisions in Washington. Rams are 5-4 on the season,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: same as the Hawks. Denver, I don't know what they do.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I've never seen a team play football like this. Every
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: single week, they get outplayed for three and a half
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: quarters and then win in the fourth.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll must have some sort of voodoo magic on them.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Can you win a game in the first quarter? No.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Can you win a game in the second quarter?
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: No.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Third quarter?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: No.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, the fourth quarter.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: That is the 16th straight one-score game that the Broncos have.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Come out on top. That's crazy.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Uh they went over the panthers 26 to 21 and
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: they are seven and two on the year the los
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: angeles chargers are.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Oh and eight oh and eight they were super bowl
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: question marks with them coming into the season man.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Houston doubled them up yesterday cj stroud threw five touchdown
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: passes 44 22 the final score The Chargers are 0-8
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: on the year and now face the NFL trading deadline.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: How many guys will they move between now and tomorrow?
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Green Bay, 45-27 winners over the New England Patriots. Patriots
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: just gave this one away early. They had three interceptions
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: in the first half, four in the game, minus four turnovers. Meanwhile,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Jordan Love only needed two receivers. Matthew Golden and Christian
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Watson caught 335 yards worth of his 372 passing yards yesterday.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: And the Packers are now 6-3, flying high, and still
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: don't have Micah Parsons back.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't look now. That's going to be a dangerous
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: team in the second half of the year. Jordan Love's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: playing extremely good football. And I don't think there's a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the league that has a bigger gap between
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: when he's playing well and he's playing poorly than Drake May. Yeah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: that's true. Maybe Jordan Love. Yeah, true.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: I've been suckered in by thinking the Packers are great before,
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: and then they go on these long stretches. It's like
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: they forget how to play football, and then they can
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: beat anyone. Well, yesterday they demolished the Patriots by 18.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: San Francisco improved to 7-1. That's the best record in
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: the NFL. 38-17 winners over the Las Vegas Raiders. The
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Chicago Bears last night in a crazy game. That was
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: just That was just a carnival.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: There were bearded people, bearded ladies out there, and there
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: were two-headed women.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: People on stilts. Yeah, people on stilts. Pets' heads were
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: falling off. I mean, it was crazy.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: They were combined seven turnovers, 17 penalties, and somehow both
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: offenses ended up with 350 total yards.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what to make of it.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: It was like there was great offense, there was great defense,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: and yet both teams played horribly.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: That's a great explanation for what I saw as well.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. I really don't.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: 27-24, the Bears improve to 7-2 on the year despite
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: four interceptions thrown by Caleb Williams in the contest. And
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: the week will wrap up tonight in Minnesota. Two 6-1
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: teams will play on Monday Night Football, the Buffalo Bills
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: and the Minnesota Vikings.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: There you go. Lots of wins, lots of tough ones yesterday.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: One of these days... We're going to have nothing but
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: tough ones or nothing but wins. I'm sure of it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Eventually, we'll get to that point. Coming up next, we've
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: got to do something. We have to do something next.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: We've got a big week around here, and we're going
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: to start previewing it next on KJR.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: All right, joining us now on the radio program, we've
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: got a big week around here. We've got the Kraken
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: in action here on the flagship this Thursday, but this
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: isn't your regular old Kraken game. The team is going
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: to be part of the Global Series, so they are
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: in Finland as we speak, getting ready to take on
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the Carolina Hurricanes. On Thursday, we sent our best people
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: over there to cover it, including.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Our own Mike Benton, who now joins us.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Here on the radio program all halfway across the world.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mike.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: Good morning and nearly good evening to you, Chuck. It's
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: about 4.50 here, 6.50 there. What took you so long?
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Play some catch up now.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Don't tell me what happens later on in the day
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: because I like to be surprised, okay? How long have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you been there now?
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: It's been, I would say, about a little over 24 hours.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: So this all began literally after the Kraken versus Rangers
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: game on Saturday.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: So game at 2.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: P.m., done, and lickety-split, go right for the airport. Team charter,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: that's out early in the evening. So with the flight
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: and then the time change, number one, with the flight,
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: you're talking about roughly nine, nine-and-a-half hours away. But the
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: time changed, and you're talking about 10 hours on top
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: of that moving ahead. So we left at 7 p.m.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: at night, Saturday. When we touched down in Helsinki, it
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: was actually just past 2 p.m.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: On Sunday.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: So jet lag, needless to say, is rearing its ugly head,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: but we're kind of like almost out of the weeds
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: on that.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: What do you think of the place? Oh, it's great.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And we've only begun to... I think, scratch the surface.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: I think just on, you know, what the meaning of
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: it is, you know, the differences with, I think, architecture,
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: with culture. But we've had enough, I think, already to
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: kind of understand, you know, just I think how different
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: and unique and how, you know, fresh it is. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: just think from not just roaming around the city here,
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: but the cuisine. I mean, A lot of what you're getting,
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: I think, on the food scale side is fresh. I mean,
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Helsinki is known as one of the more healthier cities
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: in the entire planet, and not just for the cuisine,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: but just for the fact that I think there's a
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: different attitude around here with, I think, how people approach
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: their day-to-day life with driving, say, versus walking.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: There are a lot.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Of walking commuters here, if I can use that term loosely,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: to get from point A to point B. There's a
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: lot of mass transit also involved, but you can just
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: kind of take a walk around and just notice just,
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: I think, just how I think historically rooted a lot
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: of the architecture is. I think just what kind of
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: makes it special. And then to get to Vekaus Arena
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: on top of that, where this game is going to
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: be played here coming up on Thursday. We only began to,
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I think, explore the building for a few minutes. It's
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: only under, it's still kind of like in its transition
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: phase with getting the ice repainted.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: So again, I have a story up there on Instagram.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Piper Shaw, who's with us also, put something up.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: And I think it just shows just, I think, how
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: far away it is from this whole rink that's going
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: to be transformed is being close to completion here. But
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: they're already working tooth and nail to kind of get
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: everything laid in from the repainted lines, logos, because there's
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: a big transition going from you know, how a rink
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: looks in Finland versus how it looks for the North
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: American game, which is how the NHL is going to
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: present this. So the Kraken today skated on the practice
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: rink that's right next door, and it's known as the cave.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: It's actually a practice rink carved out under rock, about
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: 120 feet deep underground. You walk into the place and
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: go from the event level of the arena down some
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: stairs or the elevator and you get down to the
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: bottom floor and it's like walking through maybe what feels
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: like Disney's version of Indiana Jones.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: And going through the ride with like a lot of rock,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: you know, back and forth.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: And you're thinking that there's going to be this massive
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: ball that rolls right over you from the hallway here,
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: but it's pretty cool how they did all this with the,
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: with the, the Marvin of modern technology and the Kraken
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: spent about probably 35 minutes on the ice today at practice.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: A lot of the guys, uh, remarked just how cool
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: and unique it was. I was in the elevator with
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Vince Dunn and Philip Grubauer and they're in skates, but
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: this whole thing is lined on the flooring to actually
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: take your skates because if you have skates on cement,
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: that dents up skates, but this whole flooring is all
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: built to have skates go from ice to the ground
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: floor to the elevator. So they were in the elevator
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: with me in skates and they were just marveling just
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: how cool and unique this whole place is. So it's
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: a long way to say that we've reached different territory here,
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: but it really is special for a lot of the
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: players involved here in this, in these two games coming up.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to talk to you every day this
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: week leading up to the game. So we look forward
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: to that. But thanks for your time. Go out this evening,
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: go have some salmon soup and some sauteed reindeer. And
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: maybe we'll chat with you again tomorrow.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: A did you know thing, and this is funny for me,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: and I'll let you go with this, with where I
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: live in Seattle and where I am in Helsinki, I
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: actually have a seafood allergy.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. So I'm more on the.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Sauteed reindeer side than I am on the salmon soup side.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: So why did they send you to Finland? Yeah, exactly.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? Anders would have eaten a hell
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: of a lot of some salmon.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I'm here for the scenery. Come on.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Don't kill me in the process here with salmon soup
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: or nothing. The sauteed reindeer was good. We went out
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: last night as a crew broadcast-wise.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: And you know what? The reindeer burger is different.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. There you go.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I got too much respect
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: for Donner and Blitzen. All right, man. Enjoy yourself. We'll
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: chat with you tomorrow.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: You bet. Thanks, Chuck. Thanks, Andrews.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Mike Benton, the captain himself, he and Everett and Al,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: and it sounds like all sorts of folk over in
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Helsinki for Thursday's game, and that will be right here
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM with the pregame starting
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: at 8.30.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: On Thursday. So right in the middle of our show,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: did anybody clear that with me? Yeah. All right. Headlines next,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: plus Greg Bell, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.