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Ian Furness 10/15 H1: It's Game Day! Ross Tucker and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: All right, headlines are brought to you by Frostbrook Coors
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  Speaker 2: Light Cold as the Rocky Seahawks kick off week six
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  Speaker 2: NFL action in Denver tonight, Thursday night football. Broncos without
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  Speaker 2: quarterback Patrick Sertan, safety Talaona Hufunga, Seahawks without Zach Charbonnet,
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  Speaker 2: Chaz Surratt, and Drake Thomas. It'll be Tyrese Knight who
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  Speaker 2: starts instead. Other NFL news, Jalen Hurts ruled out for
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  Speaker 2: Sunday's matchup with Carolina due to superficial blood clot in
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  Speaker 2: his leg. Seahawks aren't the only NFL team or CL
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  Speaker 2: team on the road today. Kraken continue their road win streak,
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  Speaker 2: hope to at least take on Tampa Bay. 4 o'clock pregame,
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  Speaker 2: 3.30 here on 93.3 KJR FM. Brewers have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to sweep the Dodgers and knock out the two-time defending
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  Speaker 2: champions of the playoffs. That'll be later on tonight. Game
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  Speaker 2: three of the ALCS underway right now. Cleveland leading Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: It's a 3-2 game, top of the seventh inning. They
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  Speaker 2: move that game up because of some weather, although it's
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  Speaker 2: beautiful right now. In Cleveland, Huskies looking for the first
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  Speaker 2: win in Big Ten play. They take on Purdue in
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  Speaker 2: West Lafayette. Tomorrow game time, 5 o'clock. Pre-game starts at
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  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock right here on 93.3 KGRFM. Let's get the
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  Speaker 2: show started. We are going to be jammed. We are
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  Speaker 2: getting all over the Seahawks and the Broncos. We'll just
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  Speaker 2: tell you that right now. Seahawks and Broncos are going
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  Speaker 2: to come at us right off the get-go.
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  Speaker 3: We've got.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Ross Tucker. We've got Steve Palazzolo. Tucker's coming
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  Speaker 3: up at 1220.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Palazzolo coming up today at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then we should also mention we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of Funston in today at 130. So 49451.
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  Speaker 2: We'll answer a few questions.
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  Speaker 4: Very short.
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  Speaker 3: Normally at 2 o'clock, obviously. No phone calls today.
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  Speaker 2: Dick Fane takes over at 2 o'clock so I can
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  Speaker 2: get ready for Kraken Hockey, which starts at 330 with
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  Speaker 2: the Captain Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 4: On the radio.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be over on the TV side. Might as well
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  Speaker 2: watch a little hockey before you get the football going, right?
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. Maybe get two screens up
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  Speaker 2: today as a Kraken try to go 4-0 on their
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  Speaker 2: road trip.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, how does that sound?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, two screens is like the story of my life. Actually,
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  Speaker 5: three screens. That's how we have it in our house.
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  Speaker 5: It's one big TV, and then we've got two TVs
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  Speaker 5: on a rolling cart that are stacked on top of
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  Speaker 5: each other.
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  Speaker 6: TV's one and two.
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  Speaker 5: The rolling cart, by the way, there so that we
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  Speaker 5: can move it out of the way if we ever
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  Speaker 5: didn't want it there.
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  Speaker 6: It has not moved one inch since we put those
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  Speaker 6: TVs there two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we.
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  Speaker 2: It used to drive Anders crazy when we were a
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  Speaker 2: one TV house, no streaming.
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  Speaker 3: And then when Kiefer.
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  Speaker 2: Graduated and is hanging out with us as he gets
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  Speaker 2: his career going, we became a two TV house on
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  Speaker 2: Sundays at least for NFL football and bring an extra
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  Speaker 2: TV that just sits there. Bring that one down, stream
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  Speaker 2: off the computer, and then get the big one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a two-TV Sunday for us most of the
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  Speaker 2: time when the Seahawks are. If the Seahawks aren't playing,
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  Speaker 2: there's no need for it.
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  Speaker 3: Just go red zone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Just go red zone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's what will be on all day Sunday,
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  Speaker 6: which will be nice. I can get other stuff done.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go two TVs on a Saturday, depending on who's
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  Speaker 2: playing college football.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do that. Got some good games this weekend. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: some great games this weekend. But this is it.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this yesterday, Ash, and our guy, Softy, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Every now and then, he uses my topics all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I give him stuff every day. I hand it to
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  Speaker 2: him on a silver platter, and I did it again yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is it's really simple. It was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's a code red if they don't win the Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night game against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: But the reality is it is.
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  Speaker 2: I hate one of the things in sports that drives
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  Speaker 2: me nuts, and you hear this all the time. is
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  Speaker 2: when people give you the, well, it's so early in
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  Speaker 2: the year, we're this, you know, da-da-da-da. In baseball, sure,
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  Speaker 2: it's early, there's time to make up for it. But
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  Speaker 2: we always point this out on our show, Ashley. We've
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  Speaker 2: done it the last, I don't know how many years.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll do it again next year whenever baseball decides
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  Speaker 2: it's going to start up, probably June 1st because of
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  Speaker 2: the TV situation. The games in April and May, they
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  Speaker 2: matter in baseball, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, they matter. You don't get bonus points.
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  Speaker 2: There's no, like, It's not like the three-point shooting contest
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  Speaker 2: where the one ball is kind of like different colors.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: September wins count the same as April wins. But in baseball,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit longer. Football is an absolute flat-out
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  Speaker 2: win sprint. And if your goal is to not just
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  Speaker 2: get to the playoffs but to win the division, this
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  Speaker 2: game tonight is a must-win. You cannot go to 3-3
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  Speaker 2: and be effectively with the tiebreakers. There's actually two tiebreakers
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  Speaker 2: right now, even with conference play. with the tiebreakers and
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  Speaker 2: everything else, you cannot be five, what would it be, three?
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  Speaker 3: It would be three games behind the 49ers. You just
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  Speaker 3: can't afford to do that.
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  Speaker 2: If that happens, honest to goodness, and I hate to
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  Speaker 2: be the doomsdayer because I don't think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think Seattle's going to win. But the reality is
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  Speaker 2: if you lose tonight, your chances at the NFC West
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  Speaker 2: are next to nothing. You're going to have to be
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  Speaker 2: really dependent and hoping that the San Francisco 49ers, Ash,
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  Speaker 2: fall on their face.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. You've watched them play. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: that's going to happen?
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  Speaker 5: Well, and that's the thing that I think is interesting
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  Speaker 5: because I think if it were the Rams leading the
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  Speaker 5: division right now, people would be a lot more freaked
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  Speaker 5: out because they think the Rams are a lot more.
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  Speaker 6: Of a difficult team and a tough competitor.
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  Speaker 5: But with San Francisco having the injuries history that they've
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  Speaker 5: had in the past, I think part of the problem
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  Speaker 5: there is that people just assume that that's going to
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  Speaker 5: happen again. So nobody's really as worried about it because
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  Speaker 5: they think, Well, it's San Francisco.
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  Speaker 6: They can't maintain this. They can't maintain this health. They're
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  Speaker 6: going to fall off because that's what they do.
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  Speaker 5: Whereas if we had the Rams on a 5-0 start,
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  Speaker 5: people would be a lot more panicked because they wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: think the Rams were going to fall off.
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  Speaker 6: So I would agree. Yeah, you've got to win this game.
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  Speaker 5: You can't build that or let that separation increase anymore.
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  Speaker 6: In the division.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not saying you don't have a chance at
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs, but we've seen how important winning the NFC
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  Speaker 5: West is.
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  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, for this team, it's just everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's absolutely, I mean, it is everything. And every trip
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  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, I don't think it's, it's not
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  Speaker 2: just a coincidence that every time this team's gone to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, they've had a home field advantage.
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  Speaker 3: It just isn't. I mean, and part of it is because,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of a little brief two or three year window
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  Speaker 2: here post-COVID, and that's kind of when it was, post-COVID,
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  Speaker 2: we had that little window after COVID, where home field
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  Speaker 2: advantage at Lumen was lacking. You know, remember that record
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  Speaker 2: for a while, Fane has it all asked, Dick has
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  Speaker 2: it off the top of his head because he did
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch on it.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll do that in crosstalk.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a stretch there for about two or
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  Speaker 2: three years where home field advantage in Seattle didn't mean
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  Speaker 2: as much at Lewin Field.
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  Speaker 3: But it does. It means everything.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Derek Hall told us that last week when
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  Speaker 2: we sat down with him at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.
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  Speaker 2: Home field advantage for the Seahawks is massive. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is, too, getting a bye. Like that's like,
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  Speaker 2: let's let the other reality is you want to have
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  Speaker 2: a buy in the first round and not have to
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  Speaker 2: play that extra game, that wildcard weekend. And right now
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  Speaker 2: it's not turning that direction. The good news is this,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm painting this kind of this dark picture.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is this, you know, the games that
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  Speaker 2: Seattle has lost this season, you can really, you could
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  Speaker 2: just point to one simple thing. They handed it to
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  Speaker 2: the commanders and they handed it to the 49ers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's really, that's it. I mean, Two losses by
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  Speaker 3: five points, right?
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  Speaker 2: And seven turnovers combined in those two losses and defensive
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns by the opposition in both teams, in both games.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you take either, just take either touchdown away,
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  Speaker 2: the pick six in Washington or the Helani fumble in
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  Speaker 2: the end zone, you win those games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can still, in fact, you could have
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  Speaker 3: survived with all the other turnovers.
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  Speaker 6: Which is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's the crazy thing. You could have.
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  Speaker 2: You just cannot keep beating yourself, and that's what this
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  Speaker 2: team has done in the losses this season.
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  Speaker 3: The other part of it is Denver can't.
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  Speaker 2: Stop anybody on the ground, so you've got to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to run the.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, I never thought I'd say these words out loud,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm going to say them. They really could have
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  Speaker 3: used Zach Charbonnet tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: They really could use.
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  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet tonight, period, end of story. They could have
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  Speaker 2: used him tonight, and I just don't get... It's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he'll play against Kansas City. I assume he'll play
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  Speaker 2: against Kansas City. These guys know more. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: these things. But boy, just one more week. Could you
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  Speaker 2: just have got Charbonnet in tonight? Because we know what
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson is. We know what Helani is. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel bad for Helani. He's just gotten abused this week.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it. I understand it. He's been everyone's
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  Speaker 2: favorite target. And he had the fumble.
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  Speaker 3: That happens.
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  Speaker 2: And if he would have won the game, he would
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  Speaker 2: have probably not. But everyone's looking at Helani. He's been
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  Speaker 2: put in a position that he shouldn't be put in.
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  Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. He's not a guy. He's
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  Speaker 2: not a lead back. And not even a number two.
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  Speaker 2: He's at best a three, but really he's a special team.
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  Speaker 2: He should have the role that Bayless Jones is probably
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  Speaker 2: going to have tonight, and that's a special teams guy.
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  Speaker 3: That's what his role should be. Right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you said too, though, he was put in a position,
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  Speaker 5: or he's been put in a position that he never
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  Speaker 5: should have been in being the lead back, but he
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  Speaker 5: was also put in a position in that game on
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  Speaker 5: that play that he never should have been.
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  Speaker 6: They should not have been trying to run the ball
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  Speaker 6: out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And then Donald's got to be better. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: ask both Paolo Zolo and Ross Tucker this. Do they
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  Speaker 2: have a Sam Donald problem?
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  Speaker 3: It feels so.
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  Speaker 6: Weird to think about. It feels dirty to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: His completion percentage is down from a year ago. His
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  Speaker 2: yards per attempt is down from a year ago. But
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  Speaker 2: the biggest issue is, and he always has been a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a turnover machine.
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  Speaker 3: We get that. We've seen that. But the bigger issue, Ashley,
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  Speaker 3: is simply this.
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  Speaker 2: He right now has had a bigger issue in terms
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  Speaker 2: of just the interception percentage. The rate of his passes
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  Speaker 2: being picked off. It's the last it's it's last in
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  Speaker 2: the nfl amongst qualified guys he's 29th 29 qualifiers and
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  Speaker 2: you know not every interception is the same you get
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  Speaker 2: hail marys at the end of the half that don't
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  Speaker 2: matter his every one of his picks feels like it's
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  Speaker 2: just egregious not egregious well.
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  Speaker 6: That pick six was egregious.
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  Speaker 2: Egregious but also like a backbreaker yeah right like It
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  Speaker 2: was laughable when it happened against the Chargers. Okay, Herbert
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  Speaker 2: throws a pick, and then the next play you throw
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  Speaker 2: a pick. Okay, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then you throw a pick the next week, the
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  Speaker 3: first play again? Yeah. Come on, Sam. So they're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to force it down their throat. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to run it.
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  Speaker 2: And Denver, just so you know, is 29th in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL in rushing defense. They're not good at stopping the
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  Speaker 2: run at all. So maybe you can get Wilson. And
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  Speaker 2: I guess maybe just it's Wilson downhill. They miss a
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  Speaker 2: lot of tackles during the Broncos, so maybe you can
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  Speaker 2: get going with that.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you could use Shahid more in a weird way, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just real quick on that, at no point
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  Speaker 2: was it a decision I don't believe. I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: there's ever a decision between Rashid Shahid and Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think Rashid Shahid was signed after Walker left, but
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  Speaker 2: I think the Walker, if you want to look at
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  Speaker 2: why Walker instead of, it's... Basically, JSN and Devin Witherspoon
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  Speaker 2: instead of. Now, the one thing we may look back
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  Speaker 2: on is also were they planning ahead for a Sam
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  Speaker 2: Donald extension?
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  Speaker 3: That's the one that we could come into play. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a long ways away from giving any criticism, throwing
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  Speaker 2: anything towards John Schneider and the Seahawks for not re-signing
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's had this great year.
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  Speaker 2: How the Chiefs are using him, my God, he's never
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  Speaker 2: been used like that. Under two head coaches and three
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  Speaker 2: or four offensive coordinators, He's never been used like that
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle. So I understand why they didn't re-sign him.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right with Rashid Shahid. He's got to get
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  Speaker 2: more touches. He has to have more touches. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's 20 total this year.
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  Speaker 3: Total, something like that. I mean, that's not enough.
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  Speaker 5: No, for how fast he is and everything, for what
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  Speaker 5: he could actually do if you're using him right.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, let's see it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, do you remember last week our conversation with Cosell
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  Speaker 2: about him? And Cosell brought up why are they not
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  Speaker 2: using him more like Debo Samuel?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. Right?
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  Speaker 3: And the body type is different. I understand. Debo's thicker
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  Speaker 3: and all that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Debo can kind of go between the tackles every now
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  Speaker 2: and then. We saw what happened when they did it consistently.
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  Speaker 2: He started to fall apart physically.
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  Speaker 3: He got beat up.
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  Speaker 6: He died last week, remember?
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  Speaker 4: And he did.
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  Speaker 3: He just collapsed on the field. It was like, oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to Debo?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he hurt his hamstring. Got it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he's face down, not moving.
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  Speaker 5: Most dramatic hamstring injury, Caleb Williams or Debo Samuel?
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  Speaker 6: Might be a tie.
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's a tie only because Debo didn't
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  Speaker 3: get carted off. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe it might still be. I think Caleb still
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  Speaker 2: has the belt.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a break. We'll come back. Don't forget, Steve
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  Speaker 3: Palazzolo at 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: I keep saying 2. It's our last hour, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking 2. Steve Palazzolo at 1 p.m. Funston for a
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  Speaker 2: quick segment at 1.30. We'll talk to Fane at 1.45.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next, Ross Tucker. He'll join us from Westwood
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  Speaker 2: One CBS Sports. We'll get a thought on the NFL
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: That's next.
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  Speaker 3: Now, here's Ian with Ross Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: All right, time to check in with a good friend,
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  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker. He joins us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline,
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  Speaker 2: Westwood One, CBS Sports. The Ross Tucker Football Podcast. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking NFL, we're talking football, we're talking to Ross Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: We do it on every Thursday, and we check in
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  Speaker 2: with Ross right now where he's getting ready for a
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  Speaker 2: game this weekend. He's got the Eagles and the Panthers,
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  Speaker 2: which we're going to get to in a second because
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  Speaker 2: some interesting developments there.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Hello, sir. How are you?
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Doing terrific, Ian. How about yourself?
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. We're... We're double dipping today.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: I just got to tell you, if people may think
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: it sounds different, we move locations. We're at the Kraken
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Hockey Network Studios, which double for about 18 other things,
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: and so I just got moved into a hallway. So
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping this sounds okay for everybody as we cruise along.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: I want to get to your game in a minute.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I don't want to bury the lead. I don't want
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: to mess around. Seahawks and Broncos tonight. Let me start
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: with our team here in Seattle. The running game isn't there.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: The running backs aren't there. We're not sure who it's
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: going to be tonight. Darnold's interception rate is the highest
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League. What's Ross Tucker's assessment of
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: our local defending Super Bowl champions here?
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what you're seeing is that they really
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: need a meaningful run game for this offense to operate
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: the way they want it to. And, you know, you
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: can go play to play and decide whether you think
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: this play was on the offensive line or there was
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: more meat on the bone and the running back didn't
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: hit it right. You know, we can have that conversation,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: but regardless, they just aren't running it the way they
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: need to for everything else to kind of operate off
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: of it. And I think most people would tell you that,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: you know, Sam Darnold, is not the guy you want
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: jumping back 40 times a game and having to throw
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: you to victory. So, you know, when they can get
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: these guys healthier and back out there and or, you know,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: if they elect to at some point maybe even trade
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: for running backs, depending on when they feel like these
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: guys will be available, you'd have to tell me the
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: latest on when they think they'll be able to play.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: But that's certainly the biggest thing jumping out is that
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: You know, there's a reason why Darnold, who's improved Super
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Bowl champion last year, but there's a reason why it
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: didn't go as well in a few of his first stops.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: It's because he's not the guy that you want in
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: obvious passing downs over and over again. He operates the
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: offense very effectively when you're kind of ahead of the
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: down and distance.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get back to the running backs in
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: a second. I'm going to stay with Darnold because that's
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: an interesting point. I was going to ask you, do
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks have a Sam Darnold problem, interception rate highest
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: in the NFL? But I think what you said is
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: maybe at this point in his career, we know who
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: he is. He can do some really nice things for you,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: but as you said, he can also hurt you. And
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: if you are too Sam Darnold reliant, if I'm hearing
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: you correctly, that puts you in a tough situation.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so listen, there's a bunch of quarterbacks like this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: I mean... there are only a handful that really you
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: feel like can take over the game with their arm
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: and maybe their legs, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. And,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: you know, certainly Patrick Mahomes, maybe Matthew Stafford. He's not
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: in that category. And I think he probably knows he's
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: not in that category. So if you're not in that
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: category or in the next group of guys who can
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: really play the position at a high level, when it's
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: within the structure of the offense and you're not asking
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: them to do more than what's there. And right now
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: what's there is not always as good as what was there,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: you know, last year, even earlier this season.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker joining us running back wise. Yeah, that's a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: question that's, there's a lot of things in there. Jadarian
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Price hasn't been healthy really since he got here. Uh,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: and then we look and see what, you know, obviously,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: so Charbonnet, I think we'll be back maybe for Kansas
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: city next Sunday night.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see. Um, he's close.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, watching him, you know, the little that we
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: get to watch him practice, he, he looks, you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: like he's close, uh, as well. One of the things
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I'm curious about from your standpoint, they've got Rashid Shaheed.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: They spent a lot of money on him. We know
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: what he can do in the return game. He's a
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: wide receiver, but I know you probably know the name,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Greg Cosell. You know, Greg mentioned us last week. He says, I'm, I'm,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Surprised they're not using him more like a Debo Samuel.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Not maybe between the tackles, not in the A-gap or
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: anything like that, but maybe more out of the backfield.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Could Rasheed Shaheed and his skill set be a help
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: for Seattle in the backfield, do you.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Think, Ross?
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: No question. And I think, especially with Flory's background... I
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: would think that, especially in this situation, they would be
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: wanting to use Shahid in that role. And that can help.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. But I would also say, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: feel like that's something that the Niners implement in the
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: offseason program and in training camp, and they have structured
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: as part of their offense, as opposed to just something
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: you're putting in and trying that week.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I'm not at Seahawks training camp. I don't know how
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: much time they've actually invested in that, in Shahid and
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: those type of things. And I think most of the
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: play action comes off of the base run game. So
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: they really want to be running the base run game.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: But also, like, Shahid's not the biggest guy. You know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: if you look at the body type for Debo Samuel,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Debo Samuel is thick. Devo Samuel is a powerful dude
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: in his core and lower body. That's not really Shahid,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: so you don't really want to run some of the
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: same plays with Shahid that you do with Debo.
• 19:53
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• 20:13
  Speaker 2: forklift yet, Ross?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: No, not yet. But I think the last week, oh,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: you know what? Last week when we spoke, I was
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: actually on the way to the airport with my wife.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: She came out to L.A. with me for last weekend's game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: So I was about to mention, like, all right, now
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: would be the time to ask my wife if it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: okay if I got a forklift. but I think she
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: was asleep. I think me talking about football with coaches
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: and with you, the whole drive to the airport put
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: her to sleep, so I didn't want to wake her up.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It's not a great endorsement for either one of us
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: in terms of what we do for a living, but
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that's okay. My wife doesn't know what I do for
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a living, to be honest with you. I've been doing
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: sports radio and hockey broadcasting for a long time, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: she asked me, what are you doing again tonight?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Just don't worry about it, hon. The check comes on
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: the 1st and the 15th. We're all good. Ross Tucker
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: joining us. It actually makes for a better marriage, I think,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: in some ways.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos, you look at their numbers, just their
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: basic numbers, you know, total defense, total offense. A lot
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: has been made about their offense and the play calling
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and Peyton taking it back and all those things and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Bo Nix. I want to look on the other side
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: of the ball. They have no Patrick Sertan tonight, no
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Hufanga back tonight. They may be missing another starting corner
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: as well. And their defense has had some struggles too.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But when you watch the Denver Broncos, tonight's opponent for
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, what are you seeing on both sides of
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the ball?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Well, defense is still pretty good and I'm impressed. You know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I did their game Sunday against the chargers and I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: kind of impressed by Abrams drain and you know, last
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: year's first round pick Jada Baron, those guys have played
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: pretty well. I mean, most teams don't have fourth and
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: fifth corners coming off the bench, making some of the
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: plays that those guys have made the last game and
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a half. against the Chargers and the Niners. So I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: think that the defense is probably the least of their
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: issues right now. You know, Benito probably hasn't been quite
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: as impactful without having Jonathan Cooper on the other side,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: who's on the commissioner's exempt list. Zach Allen is still
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Zach Allen, and that will be a matchup to watch tonight,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: number 99 in the interior against that Seahawks interior offensive line.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: But I think The one that's interesting to me is
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: now no Hufanga. So I'll have the key kid back there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: You know, it was one thing for it to happen
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: in game last week. I don't know if the Chargers
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: were able to make as many adjustments as they would
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: have liked. But now, knowing he's out, it's a short week.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I'd like to think the Seahawks would try to target him.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: You know, he's a very different player than Hufanga. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: they're down... you know, three of their top four or
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: five defensive backs, which, you know, should be something that
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks should be able to take advantage of in
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the passing game.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: A couple teams that are desperate for wins, no doubt.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to be three and three after six games.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: If you were in conference championship games like the Broncos
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: were last year or winning the Super Bowl like Seattle
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: was as well, but We'll see. I do want to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: tell you, your game is intriguing this weekend, too. Carolina
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: 2-2 coming off a bye. Philadelphia coming off just an
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: excruciating loss. They're 2-3, and now we find out that
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is out this week. He's got a blood clot,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and frankly, I'll be honest, I know a little something
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: about that from this past summer.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: That's no fun, and you've got to be really careful
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: with that kind of stuff.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: So, boy, how does no Jalen Hurts affect the game
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: this week for Philadelphia in the game you're doing with Carolina?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Well, it affects it a lot because... Right now, it
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: feels like they only have, I don't know, three starters
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: on the offensive side of the ball that started the opener,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: which is kind of crazy if you think about it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe four if you count Dontavia and Wicks, I guess,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: but that's not what you're looking for in week six. Plus,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: the whole Tanner McKee thing is super weird because he'd
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: always just played awesome in the preseason. They loved him
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: last year. He'd played pretty well any opportunity he got.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: They loved him last year, and then he didn't play
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: quite his best in week 18. Next thing you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: they bring in Andy Dalton for competition. Those guys are
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: splitting reps, and I don't know. I thought that they
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: just were trying to trade Andy Dalton or have the
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: flexibility to trade one of them, but then Dalton was
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: the backup the first few games through that pick against
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: the Bears. So that's a weird situation, to say the least.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I've always been a Tanner fan, and I think he'll...
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: be able to play pretty well, but he did not
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: have a great preseason at all. So I think the
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: jury's out. This is actually the worst preseason he had
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: in four years, which is hard to believe.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Ross, have a great call this weekend. I'll be
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: looking forward to that as well, and then we'll talk
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: to you next Thursday. Getting ready for, boy, wait for this.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Next Thursday, Ross will be talking about the Seahawks and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs and Ken Walker. and the Chiefs, and the Seahawks.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And all the buyer's remorse that every fan in this
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: town is having right now if the running game doesn't
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: get going tonight. We'll be talking about Walker a lot
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: with you next Thursday. But have a great call this weekend.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much. We appreciate it. We'll talk to you
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: next week, buddy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: That is our good friend Ross Tucker. Football podcast, of course,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you can find his stuff as well. CBS Sports, he
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is on the number two crew right now with CBS Sports.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: He's got a big game this weekend as well, of course,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in addition to all of that. Westwood One, you hear
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: him on the radio quite often as well. He's a
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: very busy man. We love having Ross on every week
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: as well. Interesting conversation there, Ash, with the Rashid Shaheed
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: situation with him. And I'm with him. When Greg brought
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: that up, I kind of thought the same thing. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: want to see Rashid Shaheed with more touches. Uh, that's
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: why offensive coordinators are paid a hell of a lot
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: more money than all of us are to figure out how.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: To figure out how to use him. But I just,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: there just has to be a way, right.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: To, to get him, to get the ball in his
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: hand more and just, you know, and have him become
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: more of a factor for this football team than we've
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: seen so far.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I would like to see, I mean, here's the thing
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: is right now, the, the way they're using him or
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: how much he's being used, it doesn't seem like enough.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: It does seem like he's got such explosive speed and,
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: can make things happen.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: So what's the harm in seeing what he can do
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: with more touches, right?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Well, and the thing is, and I hate to go
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: down this road, but I'm going to go down it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: anyway because it gets brought up all the time. And,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he's had nine catches and he's
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: had three carries. So take the special team stuff out.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But so nine receptions for Rashid Shaheed, 96 yards, Along
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: a 23. As far as running the ball, he's only
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: truly rushed the ball three times for 37.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: But he had that 28-yard touchdown. So 12 touches.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: On offense for Rashid Shahid. What I'm going to say here,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: it should not be dependent on this. But you invested
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: in him, so maybe there is a correlation. You spent
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of money on this dude. You spent a
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: lot of money to retain him. And the reason you
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: did is, sure, every now and then he's going to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: break one. Every now and then he's going to house
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: one on a kickoff or a punt return. And he
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: has a special ability that very few guys in this
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: league have in the punt and the kickoff game. That's
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: an art. Like there's a lot of really fast dudes.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: But guys are able to see and read. It's like
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: running the football, like where to go. He has a
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: special ability. But that's not what you– you didn't pay
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: him the kind of money you paid him just for that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: But you sure as hell paid him that kind of
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: money to have more than 12 touches on offense through
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the first five games.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: It just makes no sense. I would hope so.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: And this isn't.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Baseball where the GM's going to be calling down to
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator and saying, hey, put this guy in
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the three hole or put this guy and have him
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: back clean up. And we're paying this guy. That's not
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: how football works. I mean, Schneider's not tough. But at
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: some point, Schneider's got to be thinking, wait a second, man.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Like, Mike. And Brian, we paid for this guy. We
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: gave you this toy to use.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And I think back, Rashid Shaheed is such a different
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: dude and such a different personality than Percy Harvin. But
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: when they brought Percy Harvin here, they were never able
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: to figure it out. They were never able to get
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Percy to be Percy, outside of being nuts.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: It was that small thing.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: And violent and a lot of other things. But But
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? And I know there were
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: some injuries and things like that with Percy. He was
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: never really healthy. But they never used him. When you
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: have these types of toys, these unique guys have the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: unique skill sets, you have to use them.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I know Debo wasn't healthy the last couple of years.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: You know, Washington never used Debo like they should have.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: He wasn't healthy. But Kyle Shanahan finds a way to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: use Debo Samuel. So, I mean, you have the little,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: what do they call it in video games? You got
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the joystick, you know, like have them, you know, hit
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the ultra setting, whatever it might be.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: I just always hit A and B all the time.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Just hit all the buttons and see what happens.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, my video games are basically Pong. Yeah, break.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Uh, asteroids all on Atari.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Now you're just going a different route. See, there's no
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: greater video game in the history of man than a
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: 25 cent asteroids.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: There just isn't.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: It's just, and it's not even a debate. And if
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: anybody debates me on four, nine, four, five, one, I'm
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: going to block you forever. Cause asteroid, you, you, Now,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: if you want to go centipede, I might have a
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: conversation or Tempest.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: But outside of that, I'm not going down the road.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Asteroid's the greatest one ever.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Period.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: End of story. Don't argue with me on 49451. Please
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: don't do that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I can't wait for people to argue with you. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: want to see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: I know. The kids now, they're playing these video games.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I miss the days of going to the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Midnight Martin Magnolia after getting off work and putting 25
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  Speaker 2: cents in and having like an hour's worth of fun
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  Speaker 2: just sitting there doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good times.
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  Speaker 6: I had Atari. Missile Command was the best.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, life was simpler back then.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so simple. Life was so simple and nice back then.
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  Speaker 6: Video games were simpler back then.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: What happened to our world? What happened to our world
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  Speaker 3: along the way? All right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Don't forget, Funston coming up today at 1.30. But top
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: of the hour, we'll check in with our good friend
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Steve Palazzolo. We'll go deeper into the Seahawks and the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Broncos matchup tonight. Get your thoughts as well at 49451.
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  Speaker 2: All coming up here. on 93.3 KJFM.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Now, your daily look at the National Hockey League and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Kraken with Ian Furness.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Daily Power Play, your home for the Kraken,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJFM. 3.30 pregame tonight with the captain. Mike Benton
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: will be anchoring down in Network Central. 4 o'clock, drop
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  Speaker 2: of the puck, first of two meetings this year with
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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  Speaker 3: Truly one of the elite teams.
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  Speaker 2: In the NHL and probably, safe to say, the best
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  Speaker 2: coach in the NHL in John Cooper. The Kraken are
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: riding high right now, though. A three-game winning streak, 3-0
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  Speaker 2: on their current road trip, 4-1 on the road this
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: season for Seattle, 20-12. They have outscored their opposition on
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the road. Their only loss was in Edmonton. They lose
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: 2-1 in that game. So, I mean, it has been
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: an absolute, just a terrific start. to the season for
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the Kraken, at least on the road, and really overall
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: sitting at 5-2 right now. This is a different animal
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  Speaker 2: than they've seen. Washington, make no mistake, was a quality win.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: That's a good hockey team that they beat on Sunday.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: A lot of you guys may have been watching a
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: little thing called the Seahawks and the 49ers, but they
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: did beat Washington in the nation's capital on Sunday. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: then Philadelphia is a winless team. They beat them on
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday for their third straight win. Philadelphia also was a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: team that went to the second round of the postseason
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  Speaker 2: last season. They're just kind of, I would say, Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: they're the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 3: Of the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like, you were a good playoff team last year, and
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you're winless. Like, how is that happening? Like, what the
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: hell's going on there? So that's taking place as we speak. But, yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: it's game four of five on the road tonight here in,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I say tonight, this afternoon. Listen, you'll have plenty of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: time to get at least some hockey in before the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Seahawks start at five.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: We're giving you all the pregame you need for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Fane will continue that at 2 o'clock today. So we're
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: giving you all the Seahawks pregame you need. Listen to
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: a little Kraken, watch a little Kraken, whatever it is,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: as they get going. And then Saturday they're in Florida
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: for an early game against the Panthers to wrap up
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the road trip.
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  Speaker 3: And then back home.
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  Speaker 2: On Tuesday to take on Detroit, who they just saw
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: and they just beat to get the road trip going
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  Speaker 2: last week. So that's all coming up on this road
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: trip broadcast. Bobby McMahon's got things going a little bit
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  Speaker 2: right now. He's on a little bit of a heater.
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  Speaker 2: A couple other guys heating up. Grubauer's been fantastic. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: believe Joey Decord's in goal tonight, though, for Seattle lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Should probably be pretty similar to what it's been. All
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: four lines chipping in, and we'll see what happens. And
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I want to mention this, too, Ashley. I talked about
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  Speaker 2: it yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it again.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And can you make a note, because I forget stuff
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: a lot. Monday, we're going to give away tickets to,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I think it's to Tuesday's game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: And what we're going to do is I want, and if,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and so don't text in now, but on Monday we'll
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: do that. I want to give it to people that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: haven't been to a game before, or, you know, like,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: like you talked about kind of people that, uh, that,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe you have a special reason to go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Never been.
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  Speaker 6: And you have a really cool reason that you want
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: to go. That's going to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We want to get some new fans out there and, uh,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: and get them in the climate play dream. So that's
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: coming up on Monday. We'll get that done for you
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: So, uh, fun stuff going on, cracking, playing really well
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  Speaker 3: right now. Um, We'll see if they can keep it up. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I hope.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: I said I hope they can keep it up.
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  Speaker 3: I do, too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. It is going to be weird, though, that we're
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: going to have a weekend with no Seahawks football, no
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Husky football, and then after 12 o'clock on Saturday, really,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: no Kraken hockey.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That is kind of weird, isn't it?
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: It's weird. Strange. Weird.
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  Speaker 6: I might get stuff done.
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  Speaker 4: Nah.
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  Speaker 6: No, probably not.
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  Speaker 3: There's some other good college games.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, probably not.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm looking forward to, if I'm being honest?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to a little red zone on Sunday
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: with like a no-stress red zone. Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: It's kind of fun. Just watching fantasy stuff.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Because either I'll be, yeah, I'll be, yeah. So what
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: am I saying no stress? It'll be massive stress.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was going to say, wait a minute.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: It's massive stress, like right now.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Incredible stress as we speak. Two and three. I'm sitting
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: there like every NFL team. I'm sitting at two and three.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Speaking of that, Funston joining us coming up today at
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: 1.30 on.
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  Speaker 3: The radio show.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break, come back.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: We need a little Steve Palazzolo, don't we, from the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: 33rd team. Check the Mike podcast, all things NFL, especially
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Seattle and Denver. He's going to join us coming up next. 1.30, Funston.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Fane before we say goodbye at 1.45,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: all coming up on 93.3 KGRFM.