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Ian Furness 10/29 H2: M's news, O-Line changes & more, Steve Palazzolo and Quenton Nelson meets the media. · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the star reynolds sports desk your 93.3 kjrfm
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  Speaker 1: sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: All right headlines are brought to you by frostbrew coors
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  Speaker 2: light cold as the rockies trades keep on coming seahawks
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  Speaker 2: of course added quentin nelson a couple days we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: more about that in a second niners added added uh
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  Speaker 2: divorce buckner as well well today the bears said yep
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  Speaker 2: this is it we We're not going to be left
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  Speaker 2: out of this party. They had a defensive tackle, Jeffrey Simmons,
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  Speaker 2: and a 20-28 fifth-round pick from the Titans in exchange
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  Speaker 2: for two first-round picks and a fourth-round pick as well.
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  Speaker 2: Massive move. Oh, yes, by the way, the Bears are
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  Speaker 2: that team that's here on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Football against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson will play left guard for the Seahawks. Gray
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  Speaker 2: Zabel moves to the right side. Kansas City Chiefs have
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  Speaker 2: made a move of their own. They signed kicker Justin
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  Speaker 2: Tucker to the practice squad. I'm just going to leave
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  Speaker 2: it at that.
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  Speaker 5: Good commentary on it. I think that's all you need
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Leave it at that. Kraken got a big win last night.
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  Speaker 2: They gave up a couple goals in the third period.
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  Speaker 2: Left 4-2 after two. Gave up a couple. Tying goal
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  Speaker 2: comes late with 90 seconds left. Austin Matthews. But Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Montour says, nope, I have no interest whatsoever. None, zero,
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  Speaker 2: zilch in going to overtime. So he scored with 32
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  Speaker 2: seconds left. Gives Seattle a 5-4 win over Toronto. Next up, Calgary. Tomorrow, 4.30, pregame,
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  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock, drop of the puck with the captain and company.
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  Speaker 2: We have a new World Series champion. Milwaukee Brewers capture
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  Speaker 2: the first title in franchise history. 4-1 win over Tampa
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  Speaker 2: in Game 5. Highlight of the night came during the celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Brewers manager Pat Murphy told Jake Bowers, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be a rich mother blanker. Just remember when you're on
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  Speaker 2: the horse blank Yankee team and you're all playing for yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Just remember the way we used to do it here. Yes, right, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't leave. Can the brew crew keep it together?
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out. Mariners decline the option on Bryce Miller,
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  Speaker 2: but despite what you may see, Bob Nightingale and others, right,
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  Speaker 2: he is not going to free agency. He's still under
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  Speaker 2: club control. That was a big miss. All right, here
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  Speaker 2: we go. All right. Two o'clock, two o'clock hour, one
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  Speaker 2: o'clock hour here on 93.3 KJR FM. Big win by
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken last night. Big moves by the Seahawks this week.
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  Speaker 2: Victor Robles, I think does become a free agent though, right?
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  Speaker 2: I do believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 5: Him, Rosarena, JP, Hobie Milner, of course, and Taylor Ward.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at like, Why the hell would the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners not tender a contract to Bryce Miller? Well, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have to. They just go to arbitration, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you want to move him, you move him, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do we hear anything about him? Did he have off-season surgery?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't hear anything. I don't think he did. I
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  Speaker 5: think it was just Naylor and Cal, right? Or was
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  Speaker 5: it Naylor? I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Naylor. Naylor actually, when he did, Naylor was on
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  Speaker 2: the pregame show for us with the Kraken last Saturday
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  Speaker 2: at Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a, uh, he had like a splint
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  Speaker 2: or kind of like a brace on his wrist. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: when he was talking to Chris Egan and Allison Lucan
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  Speaker 2: that day, by the way, that was a cool interview.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of want to play that at some point.
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  Speaker 5: You should, we should.
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  Speaker 2: Very likable dude. Very likable dude.
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  Speaker 5: I like him a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and, and then it just makes sense now. You're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he was hurt all year. Why were you playing with
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  Speaker 2: a wrist that needed surgery?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you could see some, sometimes when he'd swing,
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  Speaker 5: you could tell it was bothering him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like, what are we doing here? What are
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  Speaker 2: we doing? Uh, We're going to check in with Steve
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  Speaker 2: before Paolo Zola. We'll also hear from Quentin Nelson this
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  Speaker 2: hour and get his thoughts on coming to Seattle. Coming
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  Speaker 2: to America. Coming to Seattle and what that means to him.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised. I don't know about you, Ash.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised. Mike McDonald was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's our left guard and Gray's going to
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  Speaker 2: move to the right side. I guess it's probably not
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  Speaker 2: a huge secret. We all speculated that. I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: were some dummies out there going, well, I think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to move Gray's able to tackle and maybe move
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  Speaker 2: him to center in the middle of the season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with three days of practice. Like, come on, give your
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  Speaker 2: head a shake.
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  Speaker 4: Like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think I was just mostly surprised that he would
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  Speaker 6: say what was happening ahead of time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I, I, I mean, they're not over sharers usually.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's kind of obvious, but you know what? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, yeah, you want to go get Jeffrey Simmons?
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  Speaker 4: Screw that.
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  Speaker 2: We're putting Quentin Nelson at left guard and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Gray's able, our first round pick last year is going
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  Speaker 2: to right guard. Let's go bring it on toe to toe.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go. Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I, I think there's some bravado and some
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  Speaker 2: machismo involved in some, sometimes with stuff like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you know, it's, you know, he kind of downplayed
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  Speaker 2: the Simmons thing, whatever, a little bit. That's what, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Did McDonald, but you know, deep down, they're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's go. Let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's, that's, It's not a sport for the weak-hearted
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  Speaker 2: at all in any way, shape, or form, which is good. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: interesting day. We'll see what the injury report looks like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't trust anything said in a news conference about
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  Speaker 2: injuries until I see an injury report, which this week
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  Speaker 2: the one that matters is coming out Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of well-hidden during the midst of college football on Saturday. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's also Halloween Saturday too, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: It is, and then we change our clocks back.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you get to go out, trick-or-treat, eat more candy,
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  Speaker 6: like an extra hour's worth of candy.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we.
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  Speaker 2: Fall back on Sunday, right? That's right. You know when
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  Speaker 2: we needed the fallback?
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  Speaker 7: When?
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  Speaker 5: We needed the.
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  Speaker 2: Fallback when we're playing these dumbass European football games on Sundays.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. It's like the one week we don't
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  Speaker 5: have anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the week after they stop those games. Now
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  Speaker 2: we have, I mean, that would have been nice for
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  Speaker 2: us on the West Coast. As opposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you wake up at, you know, I'm old, 7, 7.30, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: You wake up and it's like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that. It's already 13 to 10 and my
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  Speaker 2: fantasy player has done nothing. Always been carted off the
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  Speaker 2: field or whatever. Give us an extra hour then.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, East Coast people would like it too because
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  Speaker 6: then their Sunday night football game, they feel like it
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  Speaker 6: ends earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: They get that longer day.
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  Speaker 2: That is very, very true. Well, you know, British Columbia,
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  Speaker 2: our neighbors up north, they're not moving their clocks.
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  Speaker 5: What is up with that? That's so weird because I
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  Speaker 5: was listening.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you know this, but I was
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  Speaker 6: running the board for the Sounders game last night and
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  Speaker 6: very thrilling stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And I was listening to Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: How many goals were scored? One.
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  Speaker 5: One total. One total goal in the first half by
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  Speaker 5: the other team.
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  Speaker 6: And I was listening to Jackson, though, talk about the
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  Speaker 6: Sounders playing Vancouver. And he was like making sure that
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  Speaker 6: people knew this game is actually moved. It's now at
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  Speaker 6: 1230 because they don't change their clock.
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  Speaker 5: So I guess it was.
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  Speaker 6: Supposed to be at 130. But now it's at 12.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Or was it supposed to be at 11?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah. British Columbia is not doing the
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  Speaker 2: daylight or the standard. They're staying on daylight savings time
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  Speaker 2: year round.
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  Speaker 5: It's just so weird that people can just decide these things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe it was all of Canada. I was asking.
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  Speaker 2: It might be Canada as a whole. Okay. It might
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  Speaker 2: be Canada as a whole. But I know BC. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So like it's even though you can drive straight north.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Get to the Peace Arch or Pro Tip, go to
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  Speaker 2: the truck crossing, which is a little, just peel off
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  Speaker 2: to the right before you get to the Peace Arch,
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  Speaker 2: always a shorter line. But you drive all the way
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  Speaker 2: up there and you haven't gone east or west. You've
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  Speaker 2: just gone north.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And now they have a different time zone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's basically like we're now the northwest equivalent of Alabama
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  Speaker 6: because depending on where you are in Alabama, they're in
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  Speaker 6: different time zones.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Well, and the goofy thing,
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  Speaker 2: Florida is kind of the same way. Yeah, it's so weird.
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  Speaker 2: Northwest part of Florida. But yeah, Ash, I think that
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  Speaker 2: what we showed is sometimes people up north are smarter
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  Speaker 2: than us down here. Because everyone down here that you
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  Speaker 2: hear from, people, most people, no, maybe you're not. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't want to put words in your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: I hear a lot of people just saying, can we
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  Speaker 2: just stay on daylight savings time?
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  Speaker 6: I think, this is probably unpopular, I think we should
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  Speaker 6: just stay on standard time. Because as much as I
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  Speaker 6: don't like it that it gets dark at like four
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  Speaker 6: something in the afternoon in the winter. I don't really
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  Speaker 6: think it doesn't need to be light till 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 6: at night in the summer. And it gets, if you
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  Speaker 6: stay on daylight savings, it's not light till like almost
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  Speaker 6: nine o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So I'd rather have it light at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning. I'm okay with that. We just stay
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  Speaker 2: on one.
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  Speaker 5: Just pick one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Just pick one.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what we're going to pick is do this. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to take an early break. So I want to
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  Speaker 2: get to Palo Zolo and I want to get to
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson. So we have a lot to get to
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  Speaker 2: in this hour. All right. Quentin Nelson, the Seahawk. New
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  Speaker 2: left guard. We'll hear from him coming up in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But first, Steve Palazzolo. Check the Mike podcast. Also the
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  Speaker 2: 33rd team. He's on there with Cosell and Hugh Millen.
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  Speaker 2: He'll break down all the traits. It's not just one.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Jeffrey Simmons going to the Bears. We've got
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  Speaker 2: DeForest Buckner going to the 49ers. We've got Seahawks picking
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  Speaker 2: up Quentin Nelson. We also have a great Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: game tonight with Carolina and the Green Bay Packers tonight
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  Speaker 2: as well. And what all this means for everybody, what
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  Speaker 2: were his impressions of the Seahawks, especially offensively, against the
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs on Sunday as they get ready to take on
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  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football. That's coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Now with Ian, here's Steve Palazzolo.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's check in with our good friend Steve Palazzolo,
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  Speaker 2: 3013 Check the Mic podcast. I'm at Seahawk headquarters here
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  Speaker 2: at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center where I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the reaction was today. They made the first move,
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers made the next move, and then today the
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  Speaker 2: 49ers made the next move. Chicago Bears make the next move. Steve,
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  Speaker 2: it's a whirlwind right now. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great.
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  Speaker 4: The AFC South is just a feeder system for the NFC.
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  Speaker 4: That's all it is. AFC South's feeding all these good players.
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  Speaker 2: That used to be what we used to call the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners out here when they would be trading Randy Johnson
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  Speaker 2: away or Mark Langston or Ken Phelps or whoever along
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  Speaker 2: the way. It's just, hey, you know what? You've got
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  Speaker 2: to know when to hold them. You've got to know
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  Speaker 2: when to fold them. Let's just go through chronological order
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  Speaker 2: of all the moves that have happened, and we'll break
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  Speaker 2: them down. Let's start first with Seattle. They pick up
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  Speaker 2: Quinton Nelson from the Colts who started their fire sale,
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  Speaker 2: and they pick up a guy that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: best guards, if not the best guard, in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts on what they did there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Quentin Nelson. So good. I mean, I love this
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  Speaker 4: move for Seattle. People need to, first off, we need
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  Speaker 4: to like recalibrate when it comes to this player going for,
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  Speaker 4: you know, only a third or a third and a
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  Speaker 4: fourth or third and a fifth in this case. It
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  Speaker 4: is only a half year officially of Quentin Nelson that
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  Speaker 4: Seattle's buying, but you get the benefit of, hey, he's
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  Speaker 4: going to hit this, he's in his contract year. You
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  Speaker 4: might be able to re-sign him if they really want
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  Speaker 4: to think long-term. I am intrigued by the long-term prospects
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  Speaker 4: of Quentin Nelson, who's still, you know, 10 plus years
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  Speaker 4: into the league or 10 years in the league, but man,
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  Speaker 4: he's still playing extremely well. Linemen age pretty well in their,
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  Speaker 4: you know, early to mid thirties. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: Seattle has a chance to get, one of the best
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  Speaker 4: guards locked up for the next couple of years next
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  Speaker 4: to Charles Cross. And you've got Zabel there and you've
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  Speaker 4: got Abe Lucas, and you might be able to really
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  Speaker 4: solidify the offensive line for, for a few years now. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's rare in the NFL to say, Hey, we're, we're
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  Speaker 4: good at four or five spots, you know, over the
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  Speaker 4: next three years. So that's like from a long-term perspective,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a possibility, but technically it's a short-term
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  Speaker 4: move to, to bring him in, to shore up the,
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  Speaker 4: the weakness of, on the offensive line, which is right guard.
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  Speaker 4: I'm assuming Zabel's moving over there. There could be some
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  Speaker 4: growing pains switching sides. Now, that's not the easiest thing
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  Speaker 4: in the world when you talk to offensive linemen, but
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  Speaker 4: for Nelson in particular, the guy can run any scheme
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  Speaker 4: from a run-blocking perspective. He brings great power to the table.
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  Speaker 4: You can run behind him in a gap scheme. He
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  Speaker 4: moves well for a zone scheme. He's one of the
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  Speaker 4: better pass protectors. Excellent player. It might take some time
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  Speaker 4: to figure out communication and everything up front for the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line, but you know, on paper, it looks like
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  Speaker 4: a great move.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, you know, and I'll just say this, we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it all week, just our experience here with John Schneider,
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  Speaker 2: when he makes these types of moves, it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 2: He makes these moves and in season and with one
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  Speaker 2: exception recently in the last four years, that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Roy Robertson Harris or whatever his name was when they
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  Speaker 2: were massively desperate. But, you know, when you look through,
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  Speaker 2: it's Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones, Rashid Shahid, and now Quentin Nelson,
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  Speaker 2: it never happens without the possibility or the plan to
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  Speaker 2: sign the player long-term afterwards on an expiring deal. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm, you know, we're, we're, I think just the
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  Speaker 2: past history would tell us we can learn from history, right?
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  Speaker 2: That you can say, okay, well, what are they going
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  Speaker 2: to do? They're going to make a move. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to sign this guy long-term and they're going to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or the next contract and, and keep them here.
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  Speaker 3: That's, that's what they've done in the past.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there was a wink wink or some sort
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  Speaker 2: of conversation with an agent that took place to make
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  Speaker 2: sure he was interested in it, but he comes here,
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  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, playing still at a very high level.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: What separates Quentin Nelson from other guards.
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: In the league? I mean, it goes all the way
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: back to when he was at Notre Dame. I remember
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: watching him as a redshirt freshman, and he immediately popped
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: on film. And it's like, the guy moves well, he's
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: got incredible power, finish, and he just looks like a
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: future all-pro guard. And it wasn't a secret. And that's
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: why he goes number six overall. He never really regressed
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: or anything like that. That's what he looked like. As
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: soon as he hit the field at Notre Dame. And
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: when you're watching, you know, certain guards, you're like, Hey,
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: this guy should be in his own scheme. Or this
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: guy has got great power, but he doesn't move well enough.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Or he's not as good in pass pro doesn't move
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: his feet, whatever. Nelson just does it all. He just
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: does it all extremely well. So you're not limited schematically.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: If you put them in Kyle Shanahan system, he'd do fine.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: If you put them in the Patriots downhill running system,
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: he would be great. So I think he's scheme agnostic.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: He can do whatever he needs to do. And he's
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: one of the better pass protectors. And then you just
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: add the experience factor. And so much of today's NFL
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: is about communication and unpacking. Think about what Brian Flores
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: is doing, putting eight guys up on the line of
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: scrimmage and trying to figure out who's coming from where.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: I know Nelson just played against Flores last week, and
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: they only scored 10 points. But still, the veterans can
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: do a better job of unpacking today's blitz concepts, blitz,
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: blitz concepts, stunts and twists and everything that you have
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: to handle. So I think Nelson's good at everything. And
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: so that's why he's a, you know, an all pro
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: type of guard who's still playing well, you know, still
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: not showing that he's slowing down, moves well, has the
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: same kind of power. And I think that's, you know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: why you feel safe bringing in a guy like quit Nelson,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: especially for a third and a fifth.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: More than likely you mentioned it. Gray's able moves to
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: the right guard position. We, We won't know. As we
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: speak right now, the Seahawks are getting ready to hit
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: the field for practice on what would be their normal
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Wednesday with the Monday night game here on a Thursday.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: But they're getting ready to go out there and we
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: would expect Zabel goes to the right side, plays right guard,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: and Bradford goes to the bench. You mentioned the transition.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Let's just start with those two guys. For those who
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: don't know, Steve used to work for PFF and now
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: with the 30-13 and the Check the Mic podcast, but
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: You know, we still look at the numbers. I don't
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: know what Zabel's are. I know that Bradford, you know,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: even in the one limited sample size, you know, and
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: PFF over the years has not been kind to Anthony Bradford.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: So does it just make sense to go with the
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: first round pick Zabel at right guard here for now?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it does. I mean, Bradford's had some
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: struggles in pass pro, you know, go back to when
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Gino was there and everything. And look, I know they
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: just won a Super Bowl. Bradford is the right guard.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: It's not like they can't do it. But I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: they're better with Sable at right guard, Quinn Nelson at
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: his spot at left guard. O-linemen, it'd be good to
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: maybe ask an offensive lineman specifically, but they're really sensitive
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: about switching sides. More so at the tackle position than guard,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: but it's the same idea. It's like the only position,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: like you're more reactive when it comes to pass protection.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: And when you're reactive, it's all about get to your
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: spot as quickly as possible and you you just, if
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: you're a right guard or a left guard, like you're
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: just doing it the same way every single time. So
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: now you're flipping that to the other way. It might
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: take some time because if you're off by half a step,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: like you can get beat in the NFL. And so
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: that's why I think the flipping of sides is a
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: little bit more challenging. And if you do that for
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: say a Nelson late in his career, you know, you're,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: you're making them worse, you know, before he gets better
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: and you might be risking injury. Like there's so many
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: things to, to figure out there is able, if you
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: go back to when we were at the senior bowl,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: watching him, he's taking snaps at center. He's playing guard.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: He's playing tackle. The NFL liked him as, Hey, he
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: could play any of five positions if needed. And so
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: he might have an opportunity to, to show that, Hey,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: we're going to go over to right guard, you know, same,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: same assignments, essentially just everything's flipped. So I think that
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: does make the most sense, but it's, it's not as
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: simple as say like a pass rusher switching sides because
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: the alignment has to be in the same spot with
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: the same footwork over and over and over again, run
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: game and pass game. And so it could take some time,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: could take some time from how you see things, you know,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: think of like a second baseman moving to shortstop, the game,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: like the angles are different. But I think over time,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Zabel at right guard just makes the most sense.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Steve, then later in the day, I mean, the dust
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: had not even settled. The ink had not dried on
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that particular trade. And then boom, our friends, the San
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Francisco 49ers down the road, they go ahead and say, well,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: we're going to bring back DeForest Buckner and make that
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: move and bring him into the fold. So let's get
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: some thoughts from you on what you guys have discussed
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: with the DeForest Buckner move.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I'm a huge DeForest Buckner fan. He's getting a little
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: bit older as well. He was drafted way back in
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: 2016 by the Niners. It was a fascinating move by them.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: They got four years out of Buckner back then and
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: then traded him for a first-round pick, which I thought
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: was good business at the time. They just were unable
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: to directly replace him. But they got four years out
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: of him. They got a first-round pick back, tried to
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: replace him with Javon Kinlaw. Buckner goes to the Colts,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: has four, five, six more excellent seasons. Very good, consistent player.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: He's 6'7, plays like it, bats passes, disruptive pass rusher.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: He's been extremely durable, started to get nicked up a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: little bit these last couple of years, but he was
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: usually a guy that you could depend on for 800
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: to 1,000 snaps on the defensive line, which is a ton.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: You know, you're looking at like 50, 60 snaps a game.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: And so he's just a really good player. I think
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: he immediately becomes their best defensive tackle. it puts a
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: little bit less pressure on a rookie Grayson Halton, who's
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: shown some flashes, of course, a couple of weeks ago
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: with the big play in the end zone against Seattle.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: They've got an intriguing group of pass rushers there. They
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: have Keon White and his power. They have Nick Bosa
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: coming back at some point. They have rookie Romello height
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: with his burst off the edge. They have second round,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: first round, second year, first rounder, Michael Williams, who's also
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: long and difficult to block. So it just, it adds
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: depth to their defensive line, but also a dependable playmaker.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: And it just, it, you know, they're one of those
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: defensive lines that you could say, Hey, they're rolling six
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: to eight deep right now in a, in a difficult
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: to block rotation. So it does make the Niners better.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: And Buckner has just been a really good player and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: he looked like he was done in Indy. You know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: it sounded like he didn't want to be there anymore.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: So even a rejuvenated DeForest Buckner, I think helps that
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: much more for the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: so then. So then we get up this morning here
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  Speaker 2: on the West Coast, and before we even have a
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: chance to have a second cup of coffee, Steve, we
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: find out that Seattle's opponent on Monday, the Chicago Bears,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: are saying, well, let's hold my beer. You got Quentin Nelson.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: We're going to stay in that AFC South, and we're
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: going to go out and get Jeffrey Simmons because, you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: why the hell not, right? So let's get some thoughts
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: on that one.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh man, a monster move. It happened right in the
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: middle of our show. We were live, so we had
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: to stop and talk about this and figure out, is
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Simmons going to play this Monday? How quickly can you
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: get him acclimated to the Bears? It's an interesting one
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: for the Bears as well. I don't think on paper
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: their defensive line is anything special. Montez Sweat's been a
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: good dependable player. I think they're lacking juice off the
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: edge overall. I think their defensive tackles are okay. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: then they made a curious move before the season to
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: trade Gervon Dexter, who is in year four, second rounder,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: who's a pretty good player for them. And he goes
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to Atlanta and he's having a really nice season and
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: they re-signed him long-term. So you could stack up the
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Bears defensive tackle group on paper and say, yeah, it's
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: bottom 10, probably in the NFL. And if you watch
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the Bears, they've done a really nice job getting pressure
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: on the quarterback, but they've been blitzing to do it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: They've been doing a really nice job Just getting after
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: the QBs with five and six rushers. So now you
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: had Jeffrey Simmons to the mix. You know, not a
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: lot of people have watched him in Tennessee the last
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: couple of years. He's been maybe the best defensive tackle
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: in the NFL. I know NFL executives, I think in
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: one of the polls this off season had Leonard Williams
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: number one. I think there was another poll out there
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: that had Jeffrey Simmons number one. I would have probably,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: you know, they're close. I think Simmons has been the
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: best defensive tackle in the NFL these last couple of
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: years and he's had his best seasons overall. the last
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: couple of years as Tennessee has been winning three games.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: So he's a guy that moves up and down the scrimmage.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: You could put him over the guard. You could put
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: him over the center. He's an excellent run defender. He's
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: got incredible strength and he rushes the passer extremely well.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: So you have to account for Simmons. I think he
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: adds a very good playmaker to that defensive line. I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: still in his prime. So he's playing his best football,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: he's disruptive, he's a three-down player, and he instantly gives
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: the Bears somebody that needs to be accounted for when
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: they rush four. And I think it puts a little
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: bit less pressure on their back seven, don't have to
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: blitz as much, can trust their pass rush. Simmons is
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: an absolute game-changer.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we would assume he plays Monday, although, I mean, again,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: he gets traded on a Thursday, so he won't even
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: be able, the earliest he'd be on the field for
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Chicago would be Friday, which would be normally a Thursday. Okay.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I sound like Jim Harbaugh back when he was with
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the 49ers on Mondays and Tuesdays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays. But, yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: so he would be out there. Probably safe to say,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, Nelson's been in the building for a couple
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: days here in Seattle, even though today's really kind of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: their first main practice day. We would assume Nelson plays.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: We would assume, I mean, we're talking about a defensive lineman, right?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: You know, hand on ground, go forward, make a play, right?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be that difficult to get him in the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: lineup on Monday.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: That'd be my expectation. It's so funny that they were
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: playing each other two weeks ago, Titans versus Colts. you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Simmons and Nelson and, you know, they've been battling in
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: the AFC South the last few years and everything. So
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I love that, you know, now they're in the NFC battling,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe it's an NFC championship preview monster game,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Monday night football. It's going to be a lot of fun.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I would expect Simmons to at least get
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: in there and play. I will see how, how the
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: rotation works, but he's an impact player and it does,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: it does give the bears the ability to change their
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: game plan, play a little bit more coverage on the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: backend and protect their secondary.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, worrying about JSN. That's a good point, because you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: say that, and the first thing I thought of is,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: because if you're Chicago, your biggest concern is what? JSN, right?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And so all of a sudden, this allows you to
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: maybe concentrate more on him, correct?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: And they don't have the corners. Jalen Johnson's having a
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: terrible season. He would be the guy on paper the
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: last couple of years. You'd say, hey, he's a pretty
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: good corner. He was the highest paid corner for a
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: minute a couple of years ago. He's coming off a
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: rough game against the Patriots. He just hasn't had a
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: good season overall. I don't trust anybody. I mean, I
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: was impressed with Montsour Delane last week. I'm over there like, hey,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Chiefs fans, you got a star in Delane. He was
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: right there with JSN, who's just too good. And Donald's
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: putting the ball right on him. So yeah, I don't
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: think the Bears have anybody that you really trust to
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: slow down JSN. It might give them the ability to,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: deploy some more resources his way, even as early as
• 24:34
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday with Seahawks and the Chiefs. It was an
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: impressive night for the Seahawks defense. Now they've got a
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: A different challenge, but a big challenge nonetheless. Caleb Williams
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: playing at a high level. Ben Johnson against Mike McDonald.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift probably isn't Ken Walker, but they absolutely stuffed
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker. Better receivers probably for Caleb Williams, and Patrick
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Mahomes has a throw too. So let me get your
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: feel and what you guys are talking about as far
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: as this matchup on Monday Night Football coming up.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I love all of it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I love all of it, especially that side of the ball.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's going to be must-see TV because the Bears,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: the story for the Bears for me is Ben Johnson,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: great play caller, Caleb Williams, great playmaker, and how is
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: that going to work? And we're a year and a
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: half into it now, just about, and I think you're
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: starting to finally see the combination where Caleb Williams can
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: always make great plays outside of structure and just out-athlete people.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: By the way, I've been so impressed with Caleb Williams' athleticism,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: just his speed. He is as fast as any quarterback
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: to the edge. When Imanwari tracked down Mahomes the other night,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: it was like, whoa, I know Mahomes is coming off
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: an ACL, but he usually doesn't mistime those things. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Caleb Williams is as fast as any quarterback. If it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Imanwari trying to track down Caleb Williams this week, Caleb
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: might win. It's this level of Ben Johnson's play call
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: against an elite defense, Mike McDonald on defense. But then when,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: will Ben Johnson win some of the play calling battles?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Will he be able to scheme open some open throws?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: But then when he doesn't, will Caleb Williams be able
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: to create as an athlete with a cannon for an
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: arm who throws on the run as well as anybody
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: in the league. So I just love this matchup because
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: it's both schematic, but it's also backyard football and, and can,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: you know, cause the bears, the bears are at their
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: best when they have a little bit of both. and
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Seattle's good at stopping both. Seattle's really good at keeping
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the pocket. McDonald's defenses have been great at
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: that through the years, you know, keeping their pass lanes
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: and just not letting the, you know, the running quarterback
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: crush them, but they're also good at taking away first
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: and second reads. And so I think it's a great battle.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: It's going to come down to, I think if Caleb
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Williams is going to have success, it could be an
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: ugly game for him. But if like, he just makes
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: a couple special throws, we might wake up Tuesday and
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I don't want to, you know, Seattle doesn't want to
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: hear this, but You wake up Tuesday morning, it's like
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: he went 15 of 30 but made two or three
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: special plays that helped lift the Bears. That's a possibility,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: but he's capable of doing that even if Mike McDonald
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: in Seattle wins the majority of the reps, which is
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: certainly a possibility. That defense is so good.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Out here in Seattle, we're wondering what happened to the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Roma-Dunze experience. We know he was hurt a little bit
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: last year. But it looks like it's burden and the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: tight ends and obviously the running game of DeAndre Swift
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that they're more reliant on right now. But also it's
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: scary to me because we also know that Roma Dunze
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: and that experience could hit a switch too, right?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's still fine. He hasn't been great,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: but I think when you look at, once again, Ben
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Johnson and his offenses, Amon Ross St. Brown was the
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: high-volume guy, and Sam Laporta, and the Bears will have
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: some equivalents where it's Luther Burden moving around and working
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: out of the slot, and Colston Loveland as the mismatched
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: tight end. But every now and again, back in Detroit,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: they'd have Jamison Williams go off on the outside. Well,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Adunze is capable of doing that. He had some big
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: plays the other day. He had a drop in the
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: end zone and offensive pass interference, but He had some
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: big plays, including the 39 conversion that Caleb Williams had.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: So every now and again, they have to go to
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the outside receiver, which is a doomsday. I think he's
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: maybe not dominating at the catch point the same way
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: you saw him and walked in and maybe assumed that
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: he could do at the NFL level, but it's been fine.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: So I think he's been a good complementary piece. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: just think when you look at the Bears, Loveland has
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: a chance to be one of the better mismatched weapons
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: at tight end in the NFL. And Luther Burden, when
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: you see him with the ball in his hands, it
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: just looks different. He's faster. He's quicker. He's a big
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: play threat every time he touches the ball. So the
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Bears have to work their pass game through those guys.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: But Adunze is a really good number three type of
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: option for that offense.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: One more for you on this game, and then I
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: want to get quickly to Carolina Green Bay tonight. Thursday
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Night Football right here on 93.3 KGRFM. 5-15. Just the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: other side, Sam Darnold did throw the egregious interception in
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the end zone. That's the Sam Darnold experience, I guess.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know, Emmanuel Wilson ran
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: for 100. We don't know what the status of the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: running backs is. We thought Charbonnet was going to play
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: last week. Obviously, he didn't. But JSN is still the key.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: They did get.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Barner more involved. So what do you think about the
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: matchup between the Seattle offense and Jeffrey Simmons, perhaps, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: that Chicago defense?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was so impressed by Seattle's offense. It was
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: only 20 points, but it was one of those, yeah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: you don't throw the end zone interception. It's going to
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: be 23. It might be 27. It was like to
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: beat a Spags defense, you've got to win on third down.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: You've got to make some tight window throws on third down,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: and Sam Donald did that. And so that's why I
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: think you look at that performance and say, man, that
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: was good to see. If you're a Seahawks fan, Donald
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: making huge, tight window throws. The two scrambles that he
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: had were incredible. I'm sure you were holding your breath
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: watching him reverse field a couple times, but he did
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: a nice job getting just enough. So I thought it
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: was good to see Donald get the playmaking back. Get
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: some confidence back, throw the ball down the field. Yeah,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: there's a mishap in the end zone. And when you're
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: playing the Chiefs, you think, oh, boy, let's remember that play.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Did they just take three points off the board and
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: give Kansas City a field goal attempt? So you still
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: want to avoid those plays. But that was, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: finally had an interception that, you know, wasn't in their
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: own territory, too. So it didn't set up the well,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: it ended up in their territory, but there was no
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: time left. Anyway, it was good to see. I was
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: most impressed by the run game, though, because the Spags'
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: defenses are usually really good at stopping you on first
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: and second down and making you hit those third and longs,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: and I thought Seattle's run game certainly got going. The
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: breakaway run toward the end, I thought they did a
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: really nice job of just picking up three, four, five
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: yards at a pop and helping Donald stay on schedule
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: a little bit more, even though he had to complete
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: a bunch of those third and longs. So I thought
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: it was a good overall offensive effort. One of those
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that's better than the 20 points would indicate, and you
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: certainly want to lose the head-scratching interception, but Donald and
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: JSN were on point for sure.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Last one for Steve Palozo, 33rd team. Also check the
• 31:06
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• 31:08
  Speaker 2: game for you right here on 93.3 KJFM. Carolina 3-3.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: They're the tallest short person in the NFC South as
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: it stands right now because everybody else is below.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: 500.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And Green Bay is 4-3. They've got a winning record,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: but they sit in last place in the NFC North.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It's a key matchup tonight.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Thoughts? Are you making a Bryce Young joke? That's not
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: a Bryce Young joke. No, I'm just kidding.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: It was not a Bryce Young joke, but now I.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: See that you can't.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Carolina.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: has been really good in five out of six games
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: for the most part. They got smoked last week. Everything
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: was bad. They did a nice job last year of
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: bouncing back though. Bryce Young's having an excellent season was
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: awful last week. Their past protection has been an issue.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Green Bay can't run the ball at all. Josh Jacobs
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: might help that a little bit. Jordan loves playing pretty well.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: He's had some of those Donald S Donald S decisions
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks, but it's one of those
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: outside of that love is really kind of feeling it really, really,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: getting the ball down the field, throwing the ball at
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: a high level. I think we have a chance to
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: see some points on both sides. Packers defense has been
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: sneaky good, which surprises me. I was not expecting them
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: with Micah Parsons out. They're missing Edger and Cooper. They're
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: missing maybe their two best players, but they've been playing
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: a really good defense the last couple of weeks. So
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: I think Green Bay is trending in the right direction.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Tough loss last week to Detroit. Carolina, I think they'll
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: look much better than they did last week. I think
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: we see a really competitive game. And maybe a lot
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: of points with both quarterbacks overall playing pretty well for
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the majority of the season.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Steve, I'm literally standing, and I am actually standing, here
• 32:35
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• 32:40
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• 32:42
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• 32:46
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• 32:49
  Speaker 2: short jokes aside, it should be a fun game tonight.
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• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Russ opened the door for all the six foot and
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• 33:45
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• 33:47
  Speaker 2: we weren't sure who was playing left guard, but now
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: we know, Mike McDonald telling us. Yes, indeed, it is
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: going to be. Quentin Nelson speaking of Quentin Nelson let's
• 33:55
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• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Nelson you.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Know the reaction I gotta admit was like a little
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: bittersweet um formed a lot of great relationships and in
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: the great community there um but definitely excited for this
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: next chapter being here in Seattle um I mean just
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: driving in and then the couple times I've played here
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: it's a beautiful state um a really cool city uh
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: all the nature here is sick um And then getting
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: to meet some of the guys, everyone's been super welcoming
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: already and the coaches as well. And everyone, it's.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: A family here.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: The equipment, the trainers, it's been a great day and
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: a half so far.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Your name had been out there in rumors, but were
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: you still surprised that it happened or were you anticipating
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: that something might happen or were you thinking?
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: I was just controlling what I can control, which is
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: being my best every day and doing my best on Sunday,
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: leaving everything up to God.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: You scored a touchdown as a fullback and did a
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: keg stand celebration. I know it got called back, but
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: have you thought about talking to Brian Fleury about fullback
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: reps at all?
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: I have not, no. I've got to learn this playbook.
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: I've got to do a lot of other stuff before
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: ever even considering that. What's that?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: What is Fleury's scheme like for you?
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: How is learning that compared to what you've been doing
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: for eight or so years?
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: It's a lot of the same stuff, just different terminology.
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: And yeah, a lot of different terminology. So I'm just
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: trying to learn that. Coach Q and JB have been,
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: I mean, we met a lot all throughout the day
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: yesterday and are just pouring everything into me. So really
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: appreciate them. And also Sundell stayed around, which was nice.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: He was there with me all night last night, answering
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: any questions I got.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: So How late?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: I was just going to say the guys here have
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: been great so far.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: How late are we talking last night?
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: It was late, yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: You played with Julian Love, and there's a couple other
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: Notre Dame guys here.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I guess, does that help a little bit, leaning on
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: some of them?
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Jay Love, you know, he's already come up to me.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: He's asking how my family's been since the Notre Dame
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: days and saying, like, anything you need, you know. If
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: your wife needs to hang out with anyone, I could
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: give her my wife's number and all this stuff. So
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: it's awesome.
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: You just got married this past summer, right? And how
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: is that, to have that go on and then going
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: all across the country?
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: It's business. It's business as usual, man. It's awesome.
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: You met her in Indiana, right?
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: And you went to school in Notre Dame, of course.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: The jarring transition of being two days in Seattle after
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: such formative years in your life in Indiana, how, what
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: kind of, how long will that transition take and how
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: real life gets into this? And what a big factor is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: That for you?
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Um, I mean, I, I'm not really letting it affect me. Um,
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: I'm looking at this as a new opportunity, um, and
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: something I'm really excited about, uh, And, you know, it's
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: great to have all those memories and years spent in Indy. But,
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: like I said, I'm excited for this. It's awesome over here.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: What was your reaction today to seeing Jeff Simmons get
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: traded to your next opponent after years of battling him
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: twice a week?
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, he's an amazing football player and competitor. And, yeah,
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: I was like, man, can't get away from this guy. So....
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: It'll be another battle, uh, against him this week.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Would you describe your, your play?
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: Not so much about who you personally are.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, the type of guard that you are, what
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: are some of the tangibles you think you bring?
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: Um, I don't know. I, I think I just like,
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: what you can expect is to get my absolute best
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: every day, um, at work. And, um, on the field
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: as well. Uh, I think I can move pretty well. Um, I, uh,
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: I feel like I could do any like kind of scheme,
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: whether that's like gap or inside zone or outside zone pulling, uh,
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: whatever it is, uh, we can get it done.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: You obviously can be a free agent at the end
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Do you come here hoping that, you know, you can
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: stay here for a while or what are your kind.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Of thoughts on that?
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: Haven't really thought about it. I'm just, uh, you know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: excited to be here and kind of do my best and,
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: control what I can control.
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: You played the Seahawks last year. Um, what did you
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: see preparing for that team? What was it like to
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: face them? And what was your general impression of the Seahawks?
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: Uh, I saw two stud D tackles and I mean,
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: the D line is just a filthy, um, the D
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: ends as well. And then, uh, I don't think I
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: gave the linebackers enough credit, like going into the game. Uh,
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: they definitely earned my respect, um, the way they were
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: coming downhill and hitting. Um, so, uh, Yeah, it's a
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: great defense, and it was a challenge playing against them.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: I think the fans here generally know how good Byron
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: Murphy and Leonard Williams are, but you're the one that
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: has to try to block them in the past. What
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: is it like trying to deal with those guys? Murphy
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: doing the drop knee thing that he does, and what
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: kind of special things that they bring to the table?
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty impossible to move him from my experience.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And then Leonard, not.
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Only is he just like a physical and just like
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: alpha of a D tackle, but his technique is and
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: the way he's able to get his hands inside is
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: really impressive. Both of their pass rushes, as well, for
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: being as good as they are in the run game,
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: they're really good in pass rushing situations as well. They're
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: not just one-dimensional.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: New Seahawk left guard, Quentin Nelson, his first meeting and
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: conversation with the media here. At the Virginia Mason Athletic
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Center is where I sit right now. We just saw
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: him walk out on the field a moment ago. We'll post,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: once we're able to, once practice is over, we'll post some,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I guess, a video of him walking out. We'll post
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: that on our social media channels, and you can take
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: a peek at it. He looks the part, Ash. He
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: looks the part.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I did like, too, though, he was wearing, like, a
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: backwards visor.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I can tell you this, when he walked out of
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: the locker room, he just looked like he's pissed off
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: at the world. But you want him to be pissed
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: off at the world on Monday. That's what you want.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: That's kind of what you want.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:47
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• 41:17
  Speaker 11: I think he will probably play better as the season
• 41:19
  Speaker 11: goes on. I don't know if he'll come out playing
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: his best. I think the more he gets used to it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: But I also think he's just so accomplished. And I
• 41:26
  Speaker 11: don't think that the system is going to throw him.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: For a curve.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to hit the ground running.
• 41:31
  Speaker 11: I'm a little more worried about what Graze Abel does
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: in his first.
• 41:35
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