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Chuck & Buck 12-3 Hour 1: It's Humpday, bring on the Falcons! CFP ranking shakeups and another holiday is right around the corner! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: He's in gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen, behold in producing six
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  Speaker 1: one guard from Brighton, Illanois and former high school basketball
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  Speaker 1: stand What in the hell does that?
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  Speaker 2: Men jumped any conclusions?
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  Speaker 3: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
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  Speaker 5: openly admit I'm a fat, out of shape X athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 4: Five seven guard and a former college water polo national chimpion.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Ryan. What do you buy to Lado Casino Resort
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  Speaker 4: and Quilsea Creek draft KINI sports book where the action
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  Speaker 4: never stopped?
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  Speaker 7: Ready, there you go, Hey, good morning, Welcome in.
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  Speaker 3: It is Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 3: three point three k a r FM.
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  Speaker 2: Here on a.
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday, a home day and uh four Bucky Jacobson get
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  Speaker 3: away day here today. So we're going four hours as
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  Speaker 3: a show. Bucky not so much. And then it's.
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  Speaker 5: Off yeah to Paradise, yeap Home Springs look out.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've never been never been called California.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: I think the other way around? Oh is it Gakama
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  Speaker 5: is the palm Springs of Washington. But I guess that
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  Speaker 5: would mean tomato. Tomato probably is thin.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice.
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  Speaker 5: I've been there before. It's a little nicer than crack them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been there a much rather.
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  Speaker 2: You've been there a lot, haven't you?
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  Speaker 5: Actually?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? Like yeah, actually, because when I lived in California,
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  Speaker 8: my friend had my friend's parents had a house out there,
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  Speaker 8: so we would go there all the time.
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  Speaker 3: It's it kind of feels like an Ashley place. He
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  Speaker 3: was like, Bucky's going to an Ashley.
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  Speaker 6: Place, And I support that. I love that for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 6: I'm real jealous. I was thinking about sewing away in
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  Speaker 6: your suitcase.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's go, let's go. We're leaving at nine.
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  Speaker 6: Or I just like, get like a piggyback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can try that.
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  Speaker 5: That probably is hard to get a backpack, but we
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  Speaker 5: could give her a shot.
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  Speaker 3: Carry on just to carry on herself. Yeah, put a
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  Speaker 3: handle on her yeah, carry on. It has legs.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it walks itself.
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  Speaker 2: Put a tag with your address.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and then you're done.
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  Speaker 6: Good to go, and I'll lay in the overhead bin.
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  Speaker 5: Shush up, carry on, carry.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that will be the problem. I probably won't be quiet.
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  Speaker 3: He's not gonna fit again beneath your seat. And why
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  Speaker 3: does your carry on keep ordering drinks?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the other thing I was gonna say. And
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  Speaker 6: this carry on will.
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  Speaker 5: Drink yeah, uh, never mind. Imitation revoked.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, it was worth a shot.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you'd want to go. This is
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  Speaker 5: it could be mayhem. This is a buddy, my buddy Benny.
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  Speaker 5: He's he a p one. He's probably listening right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's his fiftieth birthday party. And there's like fifteen or
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  Speaker 5: twenty of us going down there. One house you're in
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  Speaker 5: a gold right.
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  Speaker 6: One house for that must be a mansion.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a tiny place, so you're gonna.
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  Speaker 6: Have to send a picture of it.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty nice. And yes, we're going to golf, a
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  Speaker 5: couple of days of golf. They're golf in three days.
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming back Saturday. I'm missing one day of the festivities,
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  Speaker 5: but I figured after two days my check liver light
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  Speaker 5: will be blinking, my body will be sore from golf
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  Speaker 5: and not recuperating afterwards, the opposite of recuperating afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Probably, So when you land then today to forty okay, perfect,
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  Speaker 3: you just hit that, you know, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: right before sunset you're settled into the place and you're
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  Speaker 3: off and running.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh cool.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say running, I mean drinking. Yes, yes, sprinting.
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  Speaker 6: And you're going on a.
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  Speaker 8: Perfect Bucky weekend too, because it looks like it's gonna
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  Speaker 8: be seventy degrees is like your prime temperature next week
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  Speaker 8: is gonna be eighty.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, picture.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect, friend, be perfect.
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  Speaker 5: I talked to another friend of mine that Ken that
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  Speaker 5: lives down there, and he's like, yeah, it's little chilli,
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  Speaker 5: you might. I'm like, eye, I have shorts and T shirts.
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  Speaker 5: I do I have a jacket? I wear one here?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you have shorts on in a day like today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well you have Washington for good. I have pants on today.
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  Speaker 3: But the convertibles if he knows that, convertibles. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: wearing these for now and then I'll and then on
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  Speaker 3: the plane riders zip them.
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  Speaker 5: Pant legs come off.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, strings go on nice and the party begins, and
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  Speaker 2: then it's on I.
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  Speaker 6: Got to coats to work yesterday. Meanwhile, Bucky wears shorts.
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  Speaker 2: Shorts.
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  Speaker 3: Based on that description of Bucky's outfit for the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it again, Happy birthday, Benny.
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  Speaker 2: Happy, you are welcome.
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  Speaker 6: We're sending Bucky he's your present.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Ashley and I will stick it out
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  Speaker 3: for all four hours. We don't have some exotic trip
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  Speaker 3: planned afterwards, and so we'll take it till ten o'clock today.
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  Speaker 3: And it is a hump day, and this is usually
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  Speaker 3: when we start sinking our teeth into the seahawks next opponent.
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  Speaker 3: We certainly have touched upon the Atlanta Falcons so far
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  Speaker 3: this week, but today we start to really crystallize our
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on this matchup. I don't even know what we
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  Speaker 3: did this. We did we even play this past weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't shut anybody out, did we?
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  Speaker 5: I think we did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we mostly shut out. That doesn't happen in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL very often.
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  Speaker 5: Usually we must have a pretty decent defense.
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  Speaker 3: I would damn I've already moved on from it. Otherwise
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  Speaker 3: maybe I would have known that. But the Hawks getting
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  Speaker 3: ready to take on the Atlanta Falcons, and we did
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  Speaker 3: mention this yesterday. It is the last of the games
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  Speaker 3: that you absolutely should win, even though it's on the
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  Speaker 3: road and without a problem. And then things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the way get a little tougher. Certainly
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  Speaker 3: certainly get tougher, and maybe you would even argue tough
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch for the Hawks, and so take advantage
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  Speaker 3: of this.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to slip up here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, not only the Atlanta Falcons look bad in
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  Speaker 3: the standings with their now what four and nine record
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  Speaker 3: that they have this year, but they also are playing
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  Speaker 3: their worst football right now, and it almost feels like
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  Speaker 3: they're absolutely just playing out the string.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they lost to the Jets last week.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost six out of seven since beating the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 3: and people were wondering if Michael Pennix and the Falcons
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  Speaker 3: were getting ready to take their next step, if finally,
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  Speaker 3: if it was coming together for a team that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people, especially fantasy football players, have been thinking
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  Speaker 3: should be better than what they've been the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, and instead they started playing poorly. Then Michael
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  Speaker 3: Pennix Junior gets injured. He is out for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousin steps in, and they have been as bad
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  Speaker 3: as any team in the National Football League. And I
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  Speaker 3: mean that they have been as bad as any team
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  Speaker 3: out there here in the last two three weeks of
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  Speaker 3: the NFL regular season. And so this is one that
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks just it's just put it under the you
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  Speaker 3: gotta take care.
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  Speaker 5: Of business here category. Yeah, there's no other way to
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  Speaker 5: put it. I mean, if you don't find a way,
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  Speaker 5: even though it's on the road. Now, the nice thing
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  Speaker 5: is that the Seahawks have played well on the road
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  Speaker 5: under Mike McDonald, So I'm going to put that as
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  Speaker 5: kind of a moot point. But if you can't go
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  Speaker 5: on the road and beat a team that is significantly
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  Speaker 5: less then and playing for significantly less than you are, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: then it would bring up a bunch of questions. Anything
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  Speaker 5: can happen any given Sunday. There's a reason everybody says that,
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  Speaker 5: and there's some truth to it. You don't you can't
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  Speaker 5: go out there and think that there's got to be
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  Speaker 5: some guys that on the other side that are going
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  Speaker 5: to be playing like their career depends on it. But
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  Speaker 5: at the same time, when you're in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: a season, you'd get smacked in the mouth. It gets
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  Speaker 5: tougher and tougher to get up when there's nothing really
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  Speaker 5: to get up for other than just to play out
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  Speaker 5: the rest of that game, and then you hope to
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  Speaker 5: recoup and get off to a good start the next game.
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  Speaker 5: So to me, it's start off the way that we've
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  Speaker 5: seen the Seahawks do it with stifling defense and the
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  Speaker 5: offense's going out there and putting up some points. And
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  Speaker 5: I have a feeling this team if they not roll
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  Speaker 5: over necessarily, But I think you could impose your will
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  Speaker 5: and make a statement well, and I.
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  Speaker 8: Think too you if you look at what was two
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  Speaker 8: weeks ago with the Titans, I think that they would
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  Speaker 8: say that second half wasn't great. And I don't think
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  Speaker 8: that we'd see that again because I think obviously the
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  Speaker 8: Atlanta is a better team than the Titans are. I
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  Speaker 8: would assume that they're I'm not sure that they might
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  Speaker 8: not be anymore. But you still you can't you let
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  Speaker 8: your foot off the gas. You can't do what you
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  Speaker 8: did against the Titans again. And I hope that they
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  Speaker 8: learned their lesson. I think they did well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a completely opposite quarterback matchup. You went
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  Speaker 3: from Max Brosmer making his first professional start ever to
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  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, who's made a million of them. And yet
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure this isn't an even more advantageous matchup
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  Speaker 3: for Mike McDonald's defense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 3: And Kirk Cousins has had a heck of a career
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  Speaker 3: and he seems like a heck of a guy, and
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  Speaker 3: he has gotten by with his you know, by being
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  Speaker 3: said sly and coy and you know, and he's overcome
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  Speaker 3: the odds. I think Hugh Millon said at numerous times
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  Speaker 3: he's probably the least physically gifted quarterback in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football League. And yet look at the career, look at
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  Speaker 3: the touchdown passes he's thrown, look at the yardage that
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  Speaker 3: he's racked up. But it is I can't remember the
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  Speaker 3: last time. I guess you got to go back to
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  Speaker 3: before he was a Falcon that he didn't look shaky
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  Speaker 3: on a football field. And I mean, like I'm not
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  Speaker 3: talking about for a game. I'm talking about like every
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  Speaker 3: single pass like he has looked like he is he's
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  Speaker 3: just not reading things the way that he once did.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe that is that he just you know, they
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  Speaker 3: say that, like Eddie George, for example, was a phenomenal
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  Speaker 3: running back, but they always said about him, he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have a step to lose, And when he lost his step,
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  Speaker 3: he was done. He went from MVP candidate to he
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  Speaker 3: can't play anymore as soon as he.
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  Speaker 2: Lost that step.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm and I kind of think that's what happened
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  Speaker 3: with Kirk Cousins. When he got to Atlanta, he was
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  Speaker 3: coming off that injury, he missed an entire season. They
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  Speaker 3: obviously put him in the starting lineup despite taking Michael
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  Speaker 3: Pennix Junior in the first round of the draft, and
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  Speaker 3: he looked like he had never played football before for
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  Speaker 3: practically an entire season. And so I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins really has it anymore. He can't he's not mobile.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever arm strength he had that allowed him to be
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  Speaker 3: successful in the National Football League, I think he's lost
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  Speaker 3: a step. So even though he's got gile and moxie
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  Speaker 3: and knowledge and know how and that certainly is a
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  Speaker 3: weapon at the quarterback position in the National Football League,
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  Speaker 3: the way Mike McDonald's defense has been just terrorizing fools
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  Speaker 3: here as of late, I'm not sure Kirk Cousins fares
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  Speaker 3: any better than Max.
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  Speaker 2: Brozmer this weekend, I wouldn't be surprised. You're right.
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  Speaker 5: I think that there's negatives on both sides of it. Inexperience,
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  Speaker 5: our zero experience or so much experience that you maybe
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  Speaker 5: have hit that ball. And you're right, before that injury,
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  Speaker 5: before he went into it, he was doing some pretty
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  Speaker 5: good stuff. He was kind of jumping around right Washington.
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  Speaker 5: In Minnesota, he was he was the guy that jumped
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  Speaker 5: around a bunch, but kind of was You would look
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  Speaker 5: up at the end of the year and like, it's
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  Speaker 5: having a pretty good year. Now that hasn't been the
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  Speaker 5: case since he's been in Atlanta and obviously lost his
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  Speaker 5: job to Michael Pennix. I mean, I just there's still
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  Speaker 5: this something in the brain that makes me think you
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  Speaker 5: don't sleep on it. Because they got a good running
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  Speaker 5: back in Bejon Robinson, Drake London is possibly going to
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  Speaker 5: be back this weekend. They got Kyle Pitts. Now, I
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  Speaker 5: can on the other side of the argument, I can say, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Drake London is not justin Jefferson and look
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  Speaker 5: what he did last week against this defense, or you know,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I could sit there and say, you know, TJ.
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  Speaker 5: Hawkinson could be just as good as Kyle Pitts, if
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  Speaker 5: not better, So maybe that he'll be a non issue
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  Speaker 5: as well. It just would be one where you you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure Mike McDonald's saying, we got to go out
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  Speaker 5: and still take care of business. If you take care
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  Speaker 5: of business and get Kirk Cousins rattled a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: I do think that unlike a lot lot of veteran quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 5: he is very He's very susceptible to be rattled if
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  Speaker 5: things start to go awry.
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  Speaker 3: And I know there are a lot of Husky fans
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  Speaker 3: that obviously are Seahawk fans that on one hand kind
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  Speaker 3: of glad that we're not facing Michael Pennix Junior and
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  Speaker 3: on the other hand, disappointed because that means Michael's hurt
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  Speaker 3: and maybe his career has hit a little bit of a.
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  Speaker 2: Speed bump here going forward.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about this before, it seems like a good
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  Speaker 3: time to talk about it again. I think they just
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  Speaker 3: really did this young man of disservice in the National
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  Speaker 3: Football League. He's shown flashes of oh wow, that looks special,
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  Speaker 3: just as you know, just as we thought that he would,
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  Speaker 3: but he's not been as consistent. And you brought this
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  Speaker 3: up a couple of weeks ago, those stories that were
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: leaking out about he was asked like, who do you
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: turn to when you're struggling offensively, goes no one.
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  Speaker 2: There isn't anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you not have a quarterback coach,
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  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator that's not in the ear of Michael Pennick junior,
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  Speaker 3: first full year, starting season in the National Football League
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  Speaker 3: every single time he comes off the field, and he's
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: stating publicly, Raheem Morris didn't hire a guy like that here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how does that happen.
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  Speaker 3: In the year twenty twenty five in the National Football League. Now,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he's exaggerating that. Maybe Raheem Morris would have a
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  Speaker 3: different story to tell. Maybe Michael Pennocks Junior, because I
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  Speaker 3: know they have an offensive coordinator and I know they
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  Speaker 3: have a quarterbacks coach there, maybe they would. Maybe they
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  Speaker 3: were offended, maybe they're angry to this day that Michael
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  Speaker 3: Pennocks Junior dared say that because they're constantly in his ear.
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  Speaker 3: But for a starting quarterback to make that statement seem
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  Speaker 3: just illogical, and a lot of people had their difficulty
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  Speaker 3: wrapping their head around it. I don't think Raheem Morris
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  Speaker 3: is going to make it through this season. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's just malpracticed that the Atlanta Falcons, who have
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  Speaker 3: invested so much money and so much draft capital in
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  Speaker 3: skill position apparently super talents like top ten picks for
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  Speaker 3: a wide receiver and a running back and a quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and don't have an offensive guru on hand that is
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  Speaker 3: maximizing the abilities. It's as if, no, we're gonna go,
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  Speaker 3: we'll score because of all that draft talent we drafted,
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  Speaker 3: and then let's make sure we stop people on defense.
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  Speaker 2: That's the focus of our No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: You have to maximize what you invested in, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think the Atlanta Falcons have done. Not only have
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  Speaker 3: they not done a good job, they have done as
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  Speaker 3: piss pour a job of it as you could even fathom.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, the idea of making all the draft
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  Speaker 5: picks that they did, Kyle Pitts's was up there as
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: far as draft picks goes. You've spent a lot of
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: your draft capital and acquiring talent on the offensive side,
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  Speaker 5: and then you basically give the chef that is supposed
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: to cook with those ingredients. You pick a chef that
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: doesn't that's not the meals that he cooks. Yeah, he
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: doesn't make a whole lot of more.
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  Speaker 3: We have drafted you a lot of steak here, Rahim, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I forgot to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I only make fried chickens. I'm a vegan. Yah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's that steak?
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  Speaker 2: Just put that off to the side, don't. It'll cook itself.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there's.
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  Speaker 5: Something to that. I will also say that there's something
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  Speaker 5: to you. You have got to be able to be
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  Speaker 5: coached by everyone that you come across, and that doesn't
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: that's not just coaches, that's your teammates, that's people that
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  Speaker 5: were there before, that's the alumni that you walk past
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  Speaker 5: in the rooms. You got to be able to absorb it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I think that Michael Pennix was able to do that
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  Speaker 5: and is able to do that. We watched him basically
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  Speaker 5: move from Indiana to here to you know, and then
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: onto the NFL, and he obviously was able to pick
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: up new stuff from new coaches once he got here.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: We witnessed that. So I don't think that he's uncoachable
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: mating stretch. I would say that, yes, there's some to that.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: And there's also some to he's you know, his first
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: full season, he was maybe making some mistakes that you know,
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: other rookie quarterbacks would make as well, and then unfortunately
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: got hurt to where now you're not getting to see
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: what it would look like for him to go through
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: the growth and figure out from the coaches and just
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: what he would do on his own as far as
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: what type of adjustments he would make to his own game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: I would just picture though, Yeah, every time he comes
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: off the field, like what you're saying, there's somebody that's
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: sitting with him on the bench looking at their little
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: Microsoft surface figuring out whether it was good or bad
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: that drive, looking through Okay.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: This is what you did, Well, this is what you didn't.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Oh look, did you see this? Did you see that?
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: Just because that's you know, everything moves so quickly, So
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: help him to expand on everything because that you, as
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: you said, you've invested so much.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know why they wouldn't do that.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's a shot at kirk Cousins, going back
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: to the maybe.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, kirk Cousin's been described as like the greatest
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: teammate and the greatest dude in the National Football League
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the last few years. But there's no doubt he was hurt. Yeah,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, his wife has admitted as much in a
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: reality television show that he was hurt that he.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Signed this free agent deal with Atlanta and they went.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Immediately out and drafted a quarterback in the first ten
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: picks of the first NFL draft where he was on campus. Yeah,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: and so maybe Kirk Cousins hasn't been a good backup
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: to Michael Pennick's junior.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: As well, but it has been. It is, it is.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: It has been a rudderless ship, and that ship has
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: crashed on the shores for the Atlanta Falcons. And they
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: don't even have a first round draft pick this year.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: It goes to the Rams for goodness sake, Thanks a lot, Falcons. Yeah,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: but you did so. It's it's kind of a mess.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, a couple of weeks ago even gave a
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: rise to the thought that, you know, the way Clint
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Kubiak and the Seahawks offense was humming, like is that
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: a marriage? This offseason, do the Falcons see that. I
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: think They're definitely going to get rid of Morris after
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: this year. I think they're definitely going to get an
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: offensive guy to come in there next year. So is rahem,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: excuse me, is Clint Kubiak somebody that would be on
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the radar of the Atlanta Falcons as their next head coach.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Then again, Clint Kubiak the last three weeks and the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: offense hasn't been as good a here in Seattle, and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: that's something that happened to him in New Orleans a
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: year ago as well. So there's something to read into
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: there also. But we'll talk about that topic as the
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: week progresses. But the Atlanta Falcons the matchup and certainly
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: a game that we need to put a w behind
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: this one and then get ready for that stretch drive
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: against some quality competition to see just how high up
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: the rankings the team can get. All Right, speaking of that,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: let's go ahead and find out what is on tap
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: for today's show.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: What's on to?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: What's on to?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: All Right? Seahawks head Atlanta Sunday at ten.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Greg bel joins US at seven o five this morning
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: to discuss the matchup. On a hump day, Thursday night
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: football will start the brand new week in the National
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Football League, and from fantasy perspective, a very huge week
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: for most people. This is the last week of the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: regular season. Dallas at Detroit tomorrow night is a fun
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Thursday night matchup. We'll play some Factor fiction today seven
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: thirty five. I was going to say it was Ashley's
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: last pick, but that's not true with Bucky's flying.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Away to the Benny Birthday Bash. So it was Bucky's
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: last pick.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Bucky's last pick yesterday, So Ashley I
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: have a couple more she'll pick today at seven thirty five.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: It's college football conference championship week. The championship games will
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: happen on Friday and Saturday. The big ones will all
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: happen on Saturday, so we'll certainly spend some time previewing that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Cam Cleveland's going to join us today at eight o'clock
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to recap the huskies regular season as it is now
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: cemented with an eight and four record. College football playoff
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: rankings came out last night, the penultimate college football playoff rankings.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Obviously some interesting stuff to pour over there, which we'll
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: do coming up at six thirty. It is National signing
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Day in college football, so time to bring in the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: dog man guys or guy in this case, Scott Eckland
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: will join US today at nine o'clock, we'll talk about
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: what you Dub has done in their recruiting off season
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and what might still get done today on National Signing Day.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Kalani Sataki has told Penn State, I'm staying at BYU
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: so it can happen. You can like where you are
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: and then coach your team that you can poured so
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: much into all the way to the end of the season.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: It's possible. I guess it's possible. You're just saying it's possible.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: College basketball, you Dub host UCLA tonight at eight o'clock.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Kraken and the Oilers will play tomorrow. Al Kiniski joins
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: US at nine to thirty this morning. And the Winter
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Meetings are just four days away, and yes, we will
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: spend a little bit of time kind of fantasizing about
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: who we could trade for during Winter Meetings week. But
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: coming up next on the show, we'll talk about the
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: latest from the college football playoff rankings selection. Sunday is
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: coming up. It's Chuck Inbox Sports Radio ninety three point three.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: K Paul for you to love this college football playoff
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: ranking drama, oh man, it is. It's really interesting right
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: now and for you that can't stand it and just
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: want to see the bracket and let's get some games going. Well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: you don't have much longer to wait. You only got
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: one more of these suckers. It's coming up on Sunday,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Selection Sunday.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I'm excited about that one. This one. I mean, I
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: like the conversations that are surrounding. It's just it's just
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: there's so much there's so much minutia, there's so much
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: stuff that goes into it. I was listening on the
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: way in today and they were talking about how basically ESPN,
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: you know, they're doing this to promote themselves and promote
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: the playoffs, and yet they're in bed with the SEC
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: and so then there's favoritism, whereas dudes this SEC need favoritism.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: They're already I think everybody gives them credit that it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: the toughest top to bottom, you know, maybe the most
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: talent filled conference out there. So there, so there probably
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: is some of that, but how much and does it
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: actually affect things too much or is it just the
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: way that it's supposed to be. It's just like, okay,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I just want to figure out who it's going to be. Hopefully,
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: you know, the team that I'm cheering for does wind
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: up on the outside, or you know, the chain I'm
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: cheered for doesn't wind up on the outside of the bubble.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: But we shall see.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the idea behind the committee is that
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it is supposed to be impartial. That's the whole idea
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: behind a committee. And Kirk Herbstreet and Nick Saban and
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: others have zero say over what's going.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: To happen in that room. That's the theory.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: It's probably naive to think that politics don't become involved.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And even if they don't, even if.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: It's perfectly crystal clear, it's the purest thing in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: history of sports.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: The nature of the sports fan is to think you're
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: getting all a favoritism to the team that's not mine.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: You know, that's just the nature of the sports fan.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Certainly always, I would think even more heightened today. But
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, Alabama got left on the outside
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: looking in for all the favoritism that they're supposed to
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: be showing.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: The sec they put SMU over Alabama last year.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: That's just a year ago, okay, And right now you've
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: got a chance where Notre Dame could end up getting
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: knocked out of this thing. Yeah, nobody's shedding a tier
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: because if you're not an Irish fan, you hate the Irish.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: But but there's a chance they don't even make And
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: that's as good a brand, might be, even a better
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: brand than Alabama when it comes to college football. Right,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: they had their own network deal before conferences had their
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: own network deals, and so I mean that's that's the
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: most sizzling brand in all of college football history. And
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: yet if BYU wins over Texas Tech, Notre Dame's out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: They're not making it into the College football playoffs.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, they just got jumped by Alabama last night
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: from ten to nine. So they are the last team
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: in at large. Wise, assuming that Virginia beats Duke and
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: the ten line is the end of the at large teams,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: eleven will be a conference champion, twelve will be a
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: conference champion. The ten spot is I mean, you're on
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: the bubble. That's as bubbly as it gets right there.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And if BYU beats Texas Tech, Texas Tech's not falling
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: out of this thing. Most likely it's going to be
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame because Notre Dame did not put anything at
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: risk because they're not in a conference.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Even Brady Quinn.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Said as early as a few minutes ago, we're going
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: to get screwed over because we've chosen not to be
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: in a conference. And if you're not going to be
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: in a conference, you have to be dominant against your opponents.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And as long as they continue to keep Army, Navy,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Stanford all.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Of their favorite little rivalries on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Their schedule and don't join a conference, they're going to
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: be viewed as not having to face the gauntlet that
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: SEC teams face weekend and week out and to a
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: lesser extent Big ten teams face weekend and week out.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think rightfully.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: So if you want to do the whole non conference thing,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: then you're gonna have to pay the price, because, yeah,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: you have a couple games in there. Usually that there
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: are good games that you kind of consider yourself like, okay,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: good job, you're going up against somebody tough there, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: then you have others where you don't end up playing
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: anybody that's of significance. And so it should be when
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: it comes out in the wash and your entire resume
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: is out on the table, then you should be it
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: should be a downgrade or a minus put beside that,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: and if you play yourself at ten and two to
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: where you're sitting on the bubble and somebody else gets
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: to go out and improve their resume, now it's odd
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: the whole conference championship. I do think I'm with you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I think that it probably is unlimited days because it
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: feels like you can benefit yourself but you can't really
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: harm yourself, or that that's what it seems that that's what.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: People are pushing for. I'm not sure that's true, but
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: there are people at ESPN who are pushing for that
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to be true. I'm not sure that is true.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't think that should be true.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: You actually gave got a shot to get into the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: tournament unscathed and you blew it. That should factor in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to me into the conversation if you are right now
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: being viewed as one of the teams on the bubble,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and Alabama, Notre Dame, BYU, and Miami are all considered
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and Texas are all considered teams on the bubble right now.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I heard Brady talking this morning two saying it's
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: got to be a lesson for Notre Dame, right ten
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: and two, isn't good enough. You have to be eleven
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: and one or better if you want to have a
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: chance at this. I think personally, Notre Dame probably doesn't
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: have to worry because last time BYU and Texas Tech
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: played buy you didn't show up.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: True, So but we'll see. You still have the Miami factor.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yep, you do have that, you know, and and Miami
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: is you know, they have a difference now because Miami
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: keeps inching up as Notre Dame keeps inching down. So
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: now you're ten and twelve. That's where you are in
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the latest college football playoff rankings. Two teams with identical records,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: one that plays in a conference, one that doesn't, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: one of them did beat Notre Dame head to head,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: even though technically Notre Dame doesn't have as bad a
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: loss as Miami does at home by double digits against Louisville. Okay,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: so and all of that factors in the committee will
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: never admit this. But what I think the committee behind
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: closed doors is secretly hoping for is for Duke to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: beat Virginia. And Duke doesn't make the tournament. So there
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: is this little wrinkle in the rules that the ACC
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: conference champion is not. The SEC conference champion is not
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: guaranteed a spot. It's the four. The best of five
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: gets in. But if the best of five is team
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: is ranked higher than one of the Power four conference champions,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: then you don't have to include all four of the
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Power conference champions. So Duke would have an eight to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: five record even with a win over Virginia. Right now,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: they're not even in, they're not even receiving votes. They're
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: not in the top twenty five right now. And the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: idea that they could leap James Madison, North Texas, and Tulane,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: who are all in the top twenty five because they
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: beat Virginia, I mean, Heather Dennich just said that's possible,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: but it's probably not going to happen. So that would
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: give the College Football Playoff Committee to the opportunity to
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: say we're going to keep the ACC conference champion in
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: or see me out. And that gives us the opportunity
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to put Miami in, so we don't piss off of
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the ACC by leaving the conference out entirely, we put
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: a better team into the tournament. We don't have to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: make this Notre Dame versus Miami decision. We'll put them
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: both in and that's the best world for us. BYU
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: loses to Texas Tech, that's the best world for us.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: That's the easiest world. That's where we take it in
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the shorts.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: The least from you know, from the public, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: telling us we're idiots is if that scenario unfolds, we
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: can justify that to pretty much everyone, including Duke.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: And to be honest, as much as I'm cheering for
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Miami to not get in, I don't know why. There's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: just really one reason I never heard that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael, I didn't.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: I mean I didn't used to really care, but now
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: I really don't like them. And so I mean that
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: because then you'd get what the winner of the Twulane
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: North Texas game would get in in that that twelve spot,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: probably right, And so to me that makes that makes
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: a bunch of sense. I think the whole goal of
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: this thing is to get the best teams in there, right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I mean I get that. I love the fact that
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: there is teams that James Madison that can have a chance, Right,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: But if it's like James Madison, considering who you play,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: you pretty much run the table, right If you're going
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: to be that Boise State. If you're going to be you,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: you can't afford to really lose anything. And so because
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: of the way lost something, yeah a loss, and so
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: to me, it's like, if you want to get in
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: and you're one of those big time underdogs, then you
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: got to just be like, we haven't lost, and so
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: you creep your way into the backside of this thing
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: because otherwise, yeah, you're talking about putting somebody like that
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: in instead of a team that you know has a
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: good a good resume.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if it's not great putting Texas in,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: leaving Texas out considering how great a schedule that they
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: opted to play this year, and putting a two lane
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: in with two losses.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I mean that it's going to be a conversation. Yeah.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: The idea behind having the group of five guaranteed spot
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't really to promote letting a ten.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And two team get in.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: It was to make sure that like an undefeated UCF
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: season never gets denied its opportunity to show if their
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: undefeated season was the real deal. I think we're not
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: going to have conference championships for much longer, and I
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: also think they will tweak that aspect of this going forward,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: where it's not a guaranteed spot for the Group of
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: five champion, it's going to have to go to a
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: team that is ranked at a certain spot, or you
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: can't have more than one loss, something like that. They'll
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: figure out a component. Yeah, yeah, and so I think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: that that will be weeded out eventually because, believe me,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: even if everything falls the Committee's way, they're still going
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: to have that conversation.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Of how could you put Tech on the outside.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: When they faced Ohio State at the beginning of the
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: air had the ball the face Ohio State at the
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: beginning of the year, and you're putting in ten and
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: two tu Lane. Yeah, that conversation, that will be the
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: conversation even if everything, all the cookies crumble the way
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that the Committee wants it to, because there's no way
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: to put Texas in right now.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, under the parameters that they're going with, that's probably
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: the way that it's going to go. And yet I
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: agree they'll tweak that the backside of those guaranteed getting in.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: You know, I know, we know just had Thanksgiving. I
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: know that people get sick of the holidays, but we
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: got another one starting on Sunday, so we better talk
• 32:39
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• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I also want to be acknowledged for the Winter Meetings
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: gift as well.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I don't think you've ever heard that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: No, I heard it all the time.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, anybody listening right now whose birthdays coming up
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: this upcoming week, they'll tell you every time. I just
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: get birthday gifts and I don't get Winter Meetings gifts.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I don't get Winter Meetings acknowledgment. So it sucks for
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: people that were born on a holiday.
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  Speaker 5: One of my sisters, Michelle, born in December before Christmas,
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  Speaker 5: and she would complain a lot because she likes to
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: complain about Yeah, it wasn't quite the same because it
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: was you know, still had their turkey hangover and then
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: they were looking forward to Christmas. She never though, mentioned
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: that the Winter Meetings were taking.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: There might be an atheist toward baseball. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: that's p I'm not saying that. Everybody.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: He knows that. They're people that just don't like baseball,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: you know, fools. Sorry, sorry about your sister.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: That's the case, then maybe they don't even acknowledge the holiday.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: But the Winter Meetings start on Sunday, and so I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: just want a public service announcement. Just because you've got
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: a loved one whose birthday falls during the Winter meetings,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: please separate the two. Give them winter meetings gifts, give
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: them a birthday gift. Don't make him feel like the
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: two of Blende.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: You know you're very thoughtful. Yeah, that's very thought.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Making winter meetings a holiday.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know they're not. It's not as great a
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: holiday as it used to be. I don't know what's happened.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I think we've lost our joy, but we just don't
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: see as much activity. But it has been such an
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: interesting off season to this point. I mean, we have
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: seen some fascinating moves from Sonny greg And traded to
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox, to the Marcus Simeon Brandon Nimo old
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: school veteran for veteran, not a player for prospects move,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: which is what we mostly get in the sport of
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: baseball now. But you know, we have too many left
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: handed veteran hitters and we could use a solid right hander.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: And then Texas is getting rid of a lot of
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: outfielders this year, and so they make the move.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I mean that that move was made a couple of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: weeks ago.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: We've already had the Josh Naylor re signing, We've already
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: had a big free agent signing and Dylan c So
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: the off season even though it does move it at
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: snail's pace compared to all the other free agency frenzy
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: can never call major League Baseball free agency frenzy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: No, No, it doesn't really get frenzied. I mean we'll
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: get in the spring training in there, it'll be seven
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: top guys, like, I don't know where I'm gonna go.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: It's like free agency far around is what it is. Yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: just farten around until the season gets here. Yeah, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: that doesn't have a good ring to it, terrible ring. Yeah,
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: hard to make a holiday about that part.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: And around free agency every time though.
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the song could just be fart noises, especially.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: When you get some really sophisticated like uh, you know graphics.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, free agency far.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: Around, and it's like we all, I don't think that
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: was going to get stolen.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: I don't think that idea is going to get stolen.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So uh, and even the Mariners are out ahead of it.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've already had a better off season we
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: had last off season with Josh Naylor re signing sounds
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: like Hora Polanco is certainly the next priority, and I
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: think that most people want that to happen, want that
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to occur.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: But there is a chance.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of names being floated around out
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: there trade wise heading into this week. That's really what
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the Winter meetings are about, to strike trades, because you've
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: got the general managers in the building all at the
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: exact same time. I mean, you can deal with the
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: free agent at any time, but when you were, you know,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: you're having drinks with aj Preller, why not strike up
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: a trade, right, you.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Know, maybe get Hi an extra tequila shot.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what you want? You double dipped in the avocado
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: real dip? Now will you give me? You know, Manny Machado.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna tell everyone that you're gross and
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: around dips.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. But there's a lot of names flying around.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Brandon Donovan of the Saint Louis Cardinals. I was gonna
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: spend a little more time on Byron Buxton, but we
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: don't really have it. From the Minnesota Twins. The Twins
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: apparently are shopping three star players, including two pitchers.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I'd be more interested in the hitter, but we'll see,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not really expecting anything from the Mariners big next
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: week beyond maybe Polanco re signing, But you never know
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: with this organization.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: That's for damn sure.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Well I'd be down with a little bit of an
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: addition there. I like the idea of Buxton. I know
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: you've loved him for years, and if maybe bring him
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: in and just let him DH. Hopefully you can stay
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: healthy doing that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Little DH little probably play some right field for you.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: That'd be a hell of an outfield.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean thirty home run guy, probably thirty
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: five last year.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: If he can stay healthy, he's a thirty thirty plus. Yeah,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: sign me up.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:34
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