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Ian Furness 11/4 H2: We react to the news of the day, Stewart Mandel talks CFP and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light. Cold
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  Speaker 2: as the Rocky. Seahawk News. Sam Darnold out with a
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  Speaker 2: quad injury. Suffered on the last drive of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Also suffered a cracked rib on the second play of
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  Speaker 2: the game. Status is week to week. He will not
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  Speaker 2: go on IR. Drew Locke, we're expecting to see start,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been dealing with an elbow injury. Remember, he
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  Speaker 2: has been the emergency backup quarterback. Inactive, technically, the last
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. Jalen Milrow will be the backup again this week.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald also saying they may add a third quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: No news in terms of updates on Charles Cross, Rasheed Shaheed,
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams, and other injuries too early in the week.
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  Speaker 2: For an update on them, we'll get the first news
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  Speaker 2: report coming up later today. The ones that matter really
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  Speaker 2: are tomorrow and Friday, so let's kind of wait and
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  Speaker 2: see on those things. I would say it's wait and
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  Speaker 2: see on Sunday too with Locke. That third quarterback thing's
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  Speaker 2: got me thinking more than that in a second.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, makes me nervous with an elbow.
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  Speaker 2: Kraken host Calgary tonight, CPA. Game time, 7 o'clock. Pre-game
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  Speaker 2: at 6.30 on 93.3 KGRFM. Calgary's not the same team
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken whooped up on the first couple weeks of
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  Speaker 2: the season. They have won 7 of 9, I believe
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  Speaker 2: it is, since then. That's fun. College football playoff rankings
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  Speaker 2: came out last night. Miami has won Georgia 2, Utah, Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: Alabama round out the top five. And coming up in
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  Speaker 2: just under an hour's time, the Mariners will introduce new
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  Speaker 2: manager Jason Kanzler, and we will carry that live. Here
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  Speaker 2: we go. We'll check in with Stuart Mandell here in
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  Speaker 2: about 15 minutes' time. Our weekly visit with our man
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  Speaker 2: from The Athletic, all things college football, The Audible podcast, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the college football podcast. Rankings came out yesterday, just real
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  Speaker 2: quick on that. These guys, I don't know what they
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  Speaker 2: were smoking in that room, but it was interesting. It
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  Speaker 2: was interesting for sure. It was interesting. It was interesting. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll also state the following. I like it. I like
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  Speaker 2: a little chaos. I like a little anarchy. Me too.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of that stuff is going to take
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  Speaker 2: care of itself this weekend. There's a lot of top
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  Speaker 2: 25 games and matchups that will kind of start shaking
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  Speaker 2: things out for sure. BYU, Utah at 9 a.m. BYU loses.
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  Speaker 2: They're out. Utah could probably afford a loss. They still
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  Speaker 2: need to probably win the Big 12 title game. Texas, Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: Texas could get knocked out with a loss to Missouri,
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  Speaker 2: I think. I say that I think because Texas, though,
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  Speaker 2: is a brand, and they're in the SEC, so maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: UCLA is unbeaten. They play Minnesota. They're right up there.
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  Speaker 2: UCLA is unbeaten in the Big Ten. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: How can that happen? Backup quarterback and all. Alabama, LSU. Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they can afford another loss. I know this. LSU
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  Speaker 2: probably can't. That's an elimination game for at least one
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  Speaker 2: of those teams. Ohio State, Oregon, that may be an
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  Speaker 2: elimination game for both. And you're saying, well, Oregon's still
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  Speaker 2: in it based on the college football playoff rankings. Which
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  Speaker 2: is crazy. They're still in it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, you go through the list. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff will get taken care of this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Great weekend in college football. Jason Kanzler in a conversation
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  Speaker 2: coming up in an hour's time. I've got conversation. It's
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  Speaker 2: the press conference with him introducing the new Mariners manager.
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  Speaker 2: Give us a little chance to take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 2: Because the biggest news of all today is, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold. Let me go back to what Hugh and
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  Speaker 2: I talked about initially in the last hour. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do it again. And Hugh's right. We cannot definitively
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  Speaker 2: say this, but I'm going to say it with great
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  Speaker 2: conviction and not as a fact, but great conviction as
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  Speaker 2: an opinion. Because I'm still seeing this out there. This
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  Speaker 2: is not some sort of, hey, let's bench Darnold. Let's
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  Speaker 2: bench our guy.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Let's bench Sam Darnold and put in Drew Locke. That's
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  Speaker 2: not what this is, guys. They wouldn't be... I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they'd be even... In fact, I don't know that...
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that they would be doing it even
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  Speaker 2: if Locke was 100%. And we all know Darnold struggled,
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  Speaker 2: has struggled this year. But I don't think they'd be
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  Speaker 2: doing it if he's 100%. But Drew Locke is not 100%.
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  Speaker 5: No, this is not an ideal situation for them to
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  Speaker 5: be like, yeah, you know what? Sam hasn't been doing
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  Speaker 5: as well as we want, and Drew did pretty well
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  Speaker 5: last time we played the Cardinals, so let's.
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  Speaker 3: Put him in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just do it. Yeah, you're out. Yeah, you're good. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's not the case at all. Because Drew Locke has
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  Speaker 2: been inactive the last two weeks. You saw him. He
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  Speaker 2: was the third quarterback, emergency quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was if he had to play. In the
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  Speaker 5: worst-case situation.
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  Speaker 2: If Milrow and Locke or Darnold were both hurt. So
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  Speaker 2: it's far from ideal for this team. It's far from ideal.
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  Speaker 2: The Locke thing, and that's why I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 2: you at the very end, if you missed it, it
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  Speaker 2: will be podcast later. I just wonder, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got a sore elbow. He's a quarterback. And Hugh had
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  Speaker 2: a great– some of those passes he made against Arizona, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's just ripping it. He's got a very strong arm.
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  Speaker 2: Like his arm talent is off the charts. Hugh's talked
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  Speaker 2: about that a lot of times over the years. And
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  Speaker 2: he can let her rip, as can Sam. But what
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing right now, or what we may see, is
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  Speaker 2: a different-looking Drew Locke on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're playing it safe, too, because you don't know
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  Speaker 5: how long Sam's going to be out, and you don't
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  Speaker 5: want Drew to hurt himself more.
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  Speaker 3: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But the good news is they don't run the ball well.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. That's a problem. That's not good, right? That's
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  Speaker 2: not good at all. So that's the concern. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have the run game. You're going to have to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to get the run game going. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: looking through here. They're rushed defense. They're 19th, so they're
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  Speaker 2: not great against the run. They're allowing more points per game.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Cardinals anybody else? But they've got also quarterback
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  Speaker 2: issues of their own. They're trading Jim Cody Preset allegedly
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  Speaker 2: to Baltimore. That's the report right now. We knew Gardner
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  Speaker 2: Minshew was going to start anyway. But we got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of storylines. And I would feel confident saying the following,
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  Speaker 2: that if you're the Seahawks, you're just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: to the bye week right now. Luckily you have two,
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  Speaker 2: what should be fairly soft landings, Arizona and then Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Now Vegas, maybe not as soft as you had hoped.
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak's got that team playing better this year, but
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  Speaker 2: you're still Kirk Cousins and company. Come on. Like, no,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't, no, they're not a contending team, but, The
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  Speaker 2: quarterback position, we're going to talk about this with Mandel
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  Speaker 2: in a second. It doesn't matter if it's big-time college
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  Speaker 2: football or the NFL. You don't have a quarterback, you're
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  Speaker 2: in trouble. I mean, look at Baltimore. They're desperate. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to trade for Jacoby Brissett. He got benched in
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  Speaker 2: the last game. By the Arizona Cardinals, he got benched.
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  Speaker 2: That's how desperate teams are for quarterbacks. So the Darnold
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  Speaker 2: thing is massive, and you've got enough issues as it is.
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  Speaker 2: And this story breaks today, and then on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed's still hurt. Leonard Williams still hurt. Charles Cross
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  Speaker 2: still hurt. You got a lot going on. We can't
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  Speaker 2: even make fun of the substation right now. Where's lunch?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, maybe this is our karma.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can make fun of it though. Did you
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  Speaker 2: see there that Brandon says I'm showing up on Friday?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Will the card key work?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to assume no.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan said today that he's moved on. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: no part.
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  Speaker 3: Of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like, oh, no, I've decided now I would
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  Speaker 5: like to come into work so that you can trade.
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  Speaker 3: Me or whatever it is, right? Isn't that why he
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  Speaker 3: would be going in?
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  Speaker 2: I wish he wasn't so bat-blank crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Because he could help this team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He could help this. Now, they're not going to help
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  Speaker 2: you by trading him here.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: That probably wouldn't happen. But maybe when he shows up,
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  Speaker 2: they'll just release him. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I maybe, and maybe that's why, but yeah, I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: imagine saying that to any employer in any profession. Like
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  Speaker 5: I haven't shown up to work for months, but I've
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  Speaker 5: decided I'm going to come in Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So you're welcome. I'll see you then.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. This is this, this season feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's on the, it feels like we're at a
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  Speaker 2: tipping point. I don't know about you guys.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a crazy season.
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  Speaker 2: Four, nine, four, five, one. It just, it feels like
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  Speaker 2: we're very much at a tipping point. And the odd
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  Speaker 2: part of it too was, as everyone was talking, we're
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  Speaker 2: going through this process. People wanted to see Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 2: They were pissed off. They were done with Sam Darnold, right?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What are you thinking right now? You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see an injured Drew Locke. You don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: that at all.
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: And the offense could be limited. You may actually have
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  Speaker 2: to lean on your run game. You may actually have
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  Speaker 2: to see if Jadarian Price, if they can get consistent,
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  Speaker 2: get some rhythm going in that. There's a lot here, man. Ooh, baby.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and that's the thing, too, is I think if
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  Speaker 5: you had this issue after the Kansas City game.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: You'd be thinking, Oh man, after we just won that game,
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  Speaker 5: that's such a bummer, but okay. I trust the way
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  Speaker 5: this team is playing. We can get through these games
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  Speaker 5: with drew. We can do it. You know, the defense
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  Speaker 5: can stop them, but the defense had a real hard
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  Speaker 5: time stopping Chicago. And I know that Arizona is not Chicago,
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  Speaker 5: but there's just so many questions and they're just getting,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're adding a new question.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like every day.
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  Speaker 5: So there's, Not that I don't have faith in Mike
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  Speaker 5: McDonald and not that I don't have faith in this team,
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  Speaker 5: but you can't look at it and say, like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: everything's nice and shiny and perfect.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Let's take a deep breath from that. One place
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  Speaker 2: things are never perfect, ever, college football. Never perfect. Not
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  Speaker 2: even close. Our guy, Stuart Mandel from The Athletic, The
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  Speaker 2: Audible Podcast, will join us coming up next. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to him. The college football playoff rankings, the rankings that
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  Speaker 2: actually matter, the first ones came out yesterday. There's already
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  Speaker 2: a ton of backlash from it. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: already sideways mad, even though a lot of this stuff will,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, take care of itself on the
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  Speaker 2: field in the next couple weeks. But we'll bring that
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  Speaker 2: to you next, 93.3 KGRFM.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Taking a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a break from the Sam Darnold injury, Drew Locke's sore elbow,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe we'll see the Jalen Milrow show this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows when the Seahawks host Arizona. Time to talk
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  Speaker 2: a little college football because this is the embarrassment of
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  Speaker 2: riches this time of the year, man. Some days it
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  Speaker 2: just gets handed to you. Last night, college football playoff
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  Speaker 2: rankings came out for the first time. There's a ton
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  Speaker 2: to talk about there. Incredible weekend of college football coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So our guy, Stuart Mandel from The Athletic, The Audible Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: joins us right now. Hey, Stu, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, Ian.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. We're wondering if we're going to watch Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Milrow play this weekend for the Seattle Seahawks in a
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  Speaker 2: real NFL game as opposed to a preseason game. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think about that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, well, it's funny you say that.
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  Speaker 6: It just also came out that Joe Milton is going
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  Speaker 6: to start in Philadelphia to, you know, just SEC– you know,
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  Speaker 6: where you would think they'd be like, where are they now?
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  Speaker 6: Former sec quarterbacks, apparently where they are is an NFL
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  Speaker 6: starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: That could be the case.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Milton from Tennessee and he was in Dallas for
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  Speaker 2: a while and, uh, they let him go. He's my,
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  Speaker 2: my understanding. I did a Dallas game for compass radio
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  Speaker 2: this year. And, uh, my understanding with Joe Milton is
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  Speaker 2: that work ethic and things like that aren't his strong suit.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the case with Miller. I'll say this with Jalen.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a chance to talk to him a number
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  Speaker 2: of times. He's, Great young man. He just needs, and
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  Speaker 2: he's got talent, and they've got four years to work
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  Speaker 2: with him. I don't think they were expecting it this week.
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  Speaker 2: It may not be him. It may be Drew Locke,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll monitor that situation. All right, Stu. So the
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  Speaker 2: college football playoff rankings come out last night. The made-for-TV event,
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  Speaker 2: courtesy of SEC partner ESPN. We may or may not
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  Speaker 2: get into that part of it, but it's funny. I
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  Speaker 2: heard you say in the podcast, and I kind of
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  Speaker 2: thought the same thing, Are these guys drunk, this committee?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? What's going on? What was your reaction
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  Speaker 2: last night?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it was wild. It was all over the map.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing that I'm, like, angry about. But, man, when I saw.
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State flash up there at number 12, I was like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 6: that's pretty shocking. And then right after that, Notre Dame
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  Speaker 6: at 11, I mean, I think I gasped. I'd never seen–
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  Speaker 6: I can't remember a team being that different with the
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  Speaker 6: committee than they are in the polls.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. And some of it, you know, you talked about,
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  Speaker 2: some of it will take place, will take care of itself,
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  Speaker 2: especially even this weekend with all the matchups. But let's
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  Speaker 2: go through it. Miami, number one, no surprise. Georgia, two,
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  Speaker 2: no surprise. Utah at three. Best win maybe is, what, Houston, right?
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  Speaker 2: But they're 8-0, so they're three, a Big 12 team.
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  Speaker 2: So you go ACC, SEC, Big 12. Indiana is four
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  Speaker 2: at 8-1. Their quarterback isn't very good. Alabama is number five.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go through the top five. Alabama has to be
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  Speaker 2: the biggest shock, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Not just where they're ranked, but how far ahead they
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  Speaker 6: are of Tennessee, who they got blown out by. There's
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  Speaker 6: no way to perfectly order those SEC teams. They all
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  Speaker 6: beat each other. But that was surprising because I don't,
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  Speaker 6: I don't really think of Alabama as one of the
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  Speaker 6: better teams in the country right now.
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  Speaker 4: Now they could go out and, and decisively be LSU
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  Speaker 4: this week and change our minds. But yeah, sometimes this
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  Speaker 4: is where you get.
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  Speaker 6: Such inconsistency from them because they Why is Alabama that high?
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  Speaker 6: He took Hunter Gerachuk because they have all these good wins.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they beat Kentucky, who's right behind them. They
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  Speaker 6: gave him a lot of credit for Mississippi State, who
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  Speaker 6: was healthy then. You know, Texas is obviously that high
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  Speaker 6: because of the strength of the schedule. But then, like
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  Speaker 6: you said, the number three and four teams are Utah.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say they have a signature win, though. They
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  Speaker 6: have a top 25 win. Indiana doesn't have any signature wins.
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  Speaker 6: So it's so inconsistent. It always is.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And, Stu, I guess Alabama's 2-2 against teams
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  Speaker 2: ranked in the top 25. So they haven't beaten anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the top five. And as you mentioned, the Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: part of it comes into play. So you look at that.
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  Speaker 2: is I know Saban still has an office in Tuscaloosa, right?
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  Speaker 2: Do they still think he's there? What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 6: Every single year, whatever their situation is, they always get
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  Speaker 6: the benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 4: And now you're three years removed from Saban.
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  Speaker 6: Um, What's really interesting about it to me is, like
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  Speaker 6: I said, they beat LSU.
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  Speaker 4: This kind of goes away. But let's say they lose.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's at LSU. Say they lose a close game.
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  Speaker 6: Let's say an overtime game. Now they have three losses.
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  Speaker 6: But you're going to drop them all the way for
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  Speaker 6: like they're going to probably still be in the top
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  Speaker 6: 12 next week.
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine you would drop them.
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  Speaker 6: Uh what eight nine spots for losing a close game
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  Speaker 6: maybe they will but it reminds me a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of the miami notre dame situation last year where the
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: first rankings end up boxing them in a bit.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Let me pop down a little bit because the next
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: one that that just jumps off the page notre dame
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: number four in the ap poll number 11 in the
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: college football playoff poll they're seven one are the irish
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: they host miami this weekend and i guess it's safe
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: to say That's an elimination game for Notre Dame, right?
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: That's an elimination game for Notre Dame, clearly. I think
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Oregon-Ohio State's now an elimination game for Ohio State because
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: if they lose their second straight game with their backup quarterback,
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: I think the committee has a reason to say this
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: just isn't a playoff team. One of the dilemmas of
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: the selection committee from the very beginning in 2014 is,
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: is it the best teams or is it the most
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: deserving teams?
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: And they'll always say, well, it's the best teams. That's
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: what it says, right?
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: But when we talk number of top 25 wins, schedule strength,
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: that is much more deserving. So when Hunter Juracek comes
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: out and says, well, why is Notre Dame 11? They
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: played one top 25 team and they lost. And they
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: have one win over a team with a winning record.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: And you say, oh, okay. Makes sense, right? But....
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: All the computer rankings think they're one of the best
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: teams in the country. They've blown out everybody else they've played.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Most of us think they are one of the, I'd say,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: five to eight best teams in the country, at least.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: So is it best or is it most deserving?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Well, and I'm going to get back to that in
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  Speaker 2: best will do. We're talking about the best here in
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: college football. You went that term, most deserving, best team,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: what have you. Was it three years ago now? Was
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it three years ago that Florida State was deserving, but
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: they weren't the best because they lost their quarterback? Mike
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Norvell says, yep, yep. That was the beginning of the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: end for me. And I look through here. There's a
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: lot of teams that, as we kind of go through it,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: now Indiana's quarterback, somewhat healthy but benched. UCLA starting quarterback
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: is out. Ohio State starting quarterback is out. And so
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you start kind of going through this list of teams
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: and Oregon has a backup that finally kind of came through.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Boise State's starting quarterback is out. So how much do
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you think the committee looks at that as well? Because
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: there's no doubt Ohio State and the other teams I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: mentioned might be different teams, although UCLA is still undefeated.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: The big 10 is a, is a mess with all
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: the quarterbacks and backup quarterbacks. And I think that's why
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: they will probably end up getting, I think three bids,
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: but maybe two, depending on how this shakes out. But
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: the weird thing about it is if he'd come out and,
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: you know, why is Ohio state that low? Well, we
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: saw them with their backup quarterback and they're just not
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: as good.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Right. People go, okay. But he really harped much more
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: on their defense. he, he, you know, Hunter Urchak, he
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: just talked way more about their defense gave.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Up all these big plays against USC and they didn't
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: look like the same team, which, okay, that is true,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: but that's the same defense that shut down Indiana and
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: beat Indiana on the road. And we're seeing Indiana at
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: four and Ohio state at what?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: 12.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: That's the inconsistency again.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Well, that's, that, that's the thing you kind of have
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to kind of ask you a hundred year check, by
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the way, the, spokesman of the committee lead here and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the one talking about it. I, you know, the Ohio State,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just find it fascinating. And this is
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: kind of why it's fun. It's a made for TV
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: event and people want to draw the line between the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: SEC's partnership with ESPN, what have you. This is sometimes
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: why college football is fun. It's honestly, it's what makes
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: college basketball fun in February and early March is going
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: through the bubble. Who's on the bubble? Who's got the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: quad one wins? This is a little bit, feels like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: this sometimes a little bit more subjective, but I'm just
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: fascinated by the fact we could have a college football
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: playoff here in 2026 with no Notre Dame again and
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: no Ohio State, Stu. Like that's a distinct possibility, right?
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: It's a very distinct possibility. Notre Dame is now Notre
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Dame's favorite at home against Miami. And, you know, I
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: think we're, we're now realizing, especially after the UNC game,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: that Miami's past defense is a big problem and could,
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: could be their undoing in South Bend with CJ Carr
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: and some good receivers, but Notre Dame's down two or
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: three of their DBs, and they're going against Darian Mensah
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: and Malachi Toney. I think the committee basically, going back
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: to last season, is done with, oh, but look at
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: the analytics. Look at how we blew out all these
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: bad teams. They just, hey, if you think you're a
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: playoff team, beat a playoff team. And I think this will,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: this will be their last chance to do that. So
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: it's an elimination game.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: You know, it's a shame, Ian. Next year won't be.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I know. Next year won't be.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Ohio State, Oregon won't be.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: These games are just for seeds.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's, it's, and that's, what's a bummer. I mean, you're
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: actually playing for something right now is what you should
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: be doing as well. Not just, yeah, I'm with you
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: a hundred percent, Stu. And I've gone back and forth
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: on the 24 and 12 teams, but I'm with you
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: on that. Let's talk about a team you just mentioned.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The Oregon Ducks come in at 23 in the college
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: football playoff poll. They're 5-3. Ducks, if they win out,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: they're probably going to jump up into that top, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: guess it would have to be top 11, right?
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: I don't know that that's a guarantee because you've got
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: all those SEC teams in front of them who are
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: going to play each other and get more top 25 wins.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: But definitely puts them in them. Like I said, I'm sorry.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: So you're saying there's a chance.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: There's a chance. There's a chance.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: There's a chance. And look that game.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: They were impressive against Northwestern, their offense and Dylan Riola
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: just came out and exploded and, And maybe that turns
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: out to.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Be an aberration.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: But if they continue that way, you know, the committee
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: has the discretion to say, OK, well, they struggled a
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: bit when they initially when they lost Dante Moore. But
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: they're clearly a much better team now. And so we're
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: going to rank them accordingly.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And USC is not dead by a far amount margin, right?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: They're not dead yet either.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: No, they're not dead.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: And obviously if they were to, I mean, they have
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: two more top 10 road games. They have to go
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: to Indiana. Obviously UCLA is not a far road trip,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: but you know, they're an undefeated team right now. So,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I mean, if they, if they went out, they're going
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: to the playoff. I don't think there's much suspense there.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: What would be fascinating is if they split those games
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: and they're nine and three and you're comparing them to
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: nine and three teams in the SEC, how that resume
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: would stack up. It's, I mean, not many teams will
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: probably have two top 10 wins. What they need to
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: root for is Ohio State to stabilize and not deteriorate,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: you know, keep the value of that win.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: We touched in on Stuart Mandel joining us on Audible
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and Athletic Audible podcast, TheAthletic.com. Touched in on last week,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: 9 a.m. Pacific time, 10 a.m. in Utah in Salt
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Lake City, Rice Eccles Stadium, BYU, Utah, BYU and Utah
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: are both battling for the Big 12 title, both battling
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: for a college football playoff spot. What's on the line
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: with this game, Stu? Besides the fact it's the Holy War,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and trust me, I've covered four or five of those things,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and I can just tell you it's unreal. It's absolutely
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: unreal in terms of the emotion.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: It's unreal, and now it's getting the spotlight it deserves.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I know it's thanks for the fans.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: There, but.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: You're getting a much bigger spotlight, a noon game on
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: ABC with not much competition versus, and I've been telling
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the fans there that you do not want that game
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: to be opposite Notre Dame, Miami.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Or LSU, Alabama. Like you're the game in that window.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Um, Utah, obviously committee is very impressed with Utah and
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: their number three. And if they win this game, I
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: think you're getting pretty close to wrapping up a playoff spot,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: win or lose in the big 12 title game. Um,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: after seeing what I saw last night, I think BYU
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: is suddenly in must win territory. I wouldn't have said
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: that initially because of the Notre Dame win, but.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: They lost at USCF.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: And if they lose this game, now you've got two
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: conference losses and you're behind both Utah and Texas tech. So, um,
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: it's not a must win because there's still a path
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: to the big 12 title game if they lose, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: it's not as clear. And I didn't come away from
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: the committee rankings last night thinking, Oh yeah, they'll definitely
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: get a second team from the big 12.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get, I'm trying to figure out the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: big 12 scheduling thoughts. Like, why is this not the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: last game of the year? Like it just, it's, I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: don't know. That's an odd thing to me. It's, it's,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: it's the rivalry game. You know, I mean, I know
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: when the, when the, When everybody went to the Big
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Ten from the Pac-12, the four teams at least, Oregon, Washington,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: that's the rival. They played the last game, USC, UCLA,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. BYU, Utah. And plus,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: maybe I'm just bitter, Stu, because it's going to be
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: 46 degrees and sunny. I need that game in a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: blizzard like I had to sit through a few times.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: That's what I need there for that one. But that's
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: just a hell of a game. It's going to be fantastic.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. The other games that kind of jump, Alabama-LSU.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Something will take care of itself there. If Bama loses,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: even though they're ranked as high as they are, they
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: still have three losses. Are they still in the college
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: football playoff conversation if they lose to LSU?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, definitely. I mean, now they put them number five, sure. Wow.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: By the way, look at Alabama's schedule after that. I
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: believe it's Vanderbilt.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It's a nothing burger.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: An FCS team and Auburn.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: as we learned last year with Notre Dame, just because
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: you're there now doesn't mean you're guaranteed to stay there.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: So maybe they are still in the top 12 as
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: of next week, and then they start to, you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: maybe the last second they fall back, but it's Alabama,
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: so I doubt it. I mean, they seem to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: tough on the.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: College football playoff committee. If they beat LSU, okay.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: But, you know, my concern for them is that Keelan Russell–
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: When he's on, he looks phenomenal.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: The Tennessee game, it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Couldn't have been much further from that, and you're going
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: to play a really good defense on the road. This game,
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: this matchup doesn't necessarily go well for Alabama, but at
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: the same time, LSU doesn't have a big win yet,
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: so let's see.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I would encourage people to listen to the Audible. Let's
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: do it, and Ralph and Bruce break down all the games,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: but a couple more I just want to touch in on.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Oregon-Ohio State. some thoughts on that because it's a, I mean,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: it's the battle of the backup quarterbacks. I think advantage
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: goes to Oregon, but you're playing in the big house.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Or are you playing in the horseshoe? I'm sorry.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: It's an impossible forecast. Which version of Oregon are you
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: going to get? You know, I think if.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: I think that was unusual performance by Ohio State's defense
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: last week. They hadn't given up big plays like that before.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: If they kind of get back to normal, they should win. But.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Who knows which version you're going to get of either
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: of those teams, frankly. They're kind of reinventing themselves on
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the fly.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: There's other great games, obviously, mentioned. We kind of glossed
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: over it, but Notre Dame hosting Miami at 430. That's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: just kind of the marquee game of the weekend. There's
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: so many others to take a peek at as you
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: look through there. I want to get to a couple
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: other bigger picture items. Let me start with Florida State.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: They fired Mike Norvell, the aforementioned Mike Norvell. He's out.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: A lot of names being mentioned. Uh, that speculation is
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: always fun, including our buddy, Jake Dickert, who's at Wake
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Forest right now. I'll ask you this though. How good
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a job is it? I mean, Florida state to me
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: is one of those Stu, it's one of those hammer programs,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't feel like that anymore.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: No, it's really taken a dent. They're heading toward their
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: seventh losing season in nine years. That's not something I
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: would have ever thought we'd say about Florida State. Clearly,
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: money is an issue there. I don't know how they're
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: going to afford this $ 50 million buyout. Now, I'd rather
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: have that job than any other job in the ACC
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: besides Miami. But if I'm, let's say, Manny Diaz from Duke,
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: who probably will get some attention in this cycle, or Dickert,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Would you rather have the Florida State job or a
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: mid-level SEC or.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Big Ten job?
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: And I think in this new age of college football,
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: you would say, I want to get to the SEC
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: and Big Ten. I've got a better chance to be
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: a regular playoff team and a national championship contender than
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I do at Florida State.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the thing, right? And this is how,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: maybe as good as a good example as anything, this
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: is how the landscape of college football has changed. Bobby
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Bowden in Florida State in that program is no longer
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: one of the marquee top five jobs in the country
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: or even probably a top 10 job, right? Like that's
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: how the landscape has changed, how dramatically it's changed over
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the years.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Even 10 years ago, Jimbo Fisher still had them, you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: nationally prominent. It's been pretty unbelievable how drastically it's fallen off. Now,
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: I feel like any program is always one great coach
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: away from being right back where they want to be. Heck,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Indiana with one great coach turned themselves into what Florida
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: State used to be.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: So it's not impossible by any means. But to your point,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: how attractive is it?
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Now, at this rate, right, as we get to the
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: end of the cycle here, If not a lot of
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: other jobs come open, it might be the best job
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: of the cycle. Certainly better than Maryland or Baylor. Now,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: if USC fires Lincoln Riley, I'm going to change my
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: mind to that, obviously. Or if there's something really crazy
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: like Michigan bails on Kyle Whittingham.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: But right now, there aren't a lot of jobs like
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Florida State that look like they'll be open.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a petty individual.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I'm a petty individual. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I took some– I had a chuckle. I had to
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: laugh a little bit. when Arbuckle got fired, Ben Arbuckle
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: by Oklahoma. And I guess mostly because I'm a petty individual,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: but man, how did that happen? That went from being
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: like this great, we're singing the praises of this hire
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: to all of a sudden, and Oklahoma's having second thoughts.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hear fans, I see stuff all over
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the place, like, why are we in the SEC and
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: all this? It's kind of a disaster down there for
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: our ex-quarterback, and now their ex and our ex-offensive coordinator.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember saying when the day that Oklahoma, Texas,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: the SEC news broke, I realized why they're linked together.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: But if I'm Oklahoma, I would, I mean, I think
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: they should have called the Big Ten.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: And say, hey, we're available.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Because they go from being the alpha of the Big
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: 12 to one of, eight blue blood type programs in
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: the SEC and.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: It's not going well, obviously.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: All I can say about the Ben Arbuckle thing is we, we,
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: we love to scapegoat the OC, but I do think
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: it matters who your head coach is. And now we,
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: we really know how good Jake Dickard is. You know, I,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: I guess it makes a little more sense why he
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: was so successful under him and not so much.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Under Brent Venables.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Who's really a defensive coach who doesn't know what he
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: wants to do on offense. He's just been cycling through OCs.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: They're trying to figure something out. Um, He's a defensive
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: coordinator and a head coach's job. And that didn't work out.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: But of course, the big mystery is what happened to
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: John Mateer. He also was never the quarterback we saw
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: in Washington State.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I always look back and I always thought I kind
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: of always felt as if they mailed in the two
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: of them kind of mailed in the second half of
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: the season. They both knew they were gone. And I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: go back to the final game of the year, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: they played Wyoming of all teams. And they lost 15-14
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and did not score after their first or second drive
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: of the second quarter and were shut out in the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: second half. And Mateer was not good. I mean, it
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: was just one of those games. And I'm like, there's
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: something not right here. There's something wrong. Maybe they just
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: were tapping out. But at the same time on that
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: November game, and, you know, maybe Arbuckle wasn't the smartest
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: guy in the room. But, yeah, you're right. Venables has
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to take some credit as well. But away we go.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Real fast before I go. Thoughts on what's going on
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: here with the Washington Huskies and the quarterback carousel with
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the Huskies. They got Penn State this week. It should
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: be a win. Penn State's not very good, but now
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: they're going. Last week we were talking about how nobody
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: liked DeMond here. It's all about Elijah Brown. Guess what, Stu?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That's not the case anymore.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, how about that? DeMond off the bench for the win.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: That was a good, that was a good win. No
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: question about it. I realized Nebraska, it's easy to make
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: fun of them, but heck their defense, I mean, Nebraska,
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: if nothing else, Nebraska had been pretty good on offense
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: all year. And then they ran into Washington and that
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: went away. So they have a chance to get some
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: momentum here going the next two weeks. Penn state's not
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: very good. Michigan state's terrible. But then you close with
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: two really big ones at Indiana and at Oregon and
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Right now, I wouldn't love their chances against those two teams,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: but maybe they continue to grow from here.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Stu, tell people about the Audible podcast. It's great this week,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: by the way. You've got all kinds of stuff up
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: there with the games coming up and everything else, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: also the Athletic. Go read Stu's mail back. It's fantastic,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: plus a recap. Tell people about the Audible.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: The Audible, you know, there's a huge weekend coming up,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: and we'll be live at 8.30 a.m. Pacific on Sunday
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: on YouTube at Audible Show. And you can always get
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: our episodes wherever you listen to podcasts, Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Stu. Thanks, Ian.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Stuart Mandel from The Athletic. We'll get back. We've got
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: much more to come, including the new Mariner Manager press conference,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock. More on Sam Darnold's injury and more, 93.3 KJFM.
• 33:11
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• 33:14
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• 33:17
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• 33:22
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• 33:26
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• 33:38
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• 34:17
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. I'm going to just say I feel bad
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: for our fans. These start times. And it's not the
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: team's fault. We're beholden to Canadian television, apparently. This is
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the second week in a row, Toronto last week, Calgary
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: this week, where the game should be, like we talked
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: about a lot, should be starting at 6.40 tonight.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. Weeknights, Monday through Thursday.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: But that's not the case because it's on Canadian TV
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and Blah, blah, blah. So it starts at 7. Anyway,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: we'll have that for you tonight on the Kraken Hockey Network,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Kong TV, Amazon Prime, and, of course, across the Kraken
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Audio Network with Captain Kirk of that enterprise. His name's
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton. 6.30 pregame. We'll go final meeting of the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: year with the Calgary Flames.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: What?
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Division rival? Are you done with them in November? Yes,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: that's the case. Hello, NHL. Nice scheduling. Maybe they just
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: didn't want to play late because, you know, the game
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: will start tonight at 9 p.m. in Alberta. Oh, man.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Because remember, Canada didn't switch. They did not fall back.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: So Canadian.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: So they have the same time zone in Calgary as
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: they do in Panama City Beach, Florida.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, that makes sense.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: But game tonight against Calgary, Seattle's 2-1 against Flames. They
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: had great success winning 6-1, 6-1 in the first two meetings, home-on-home.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the first game of the year, and then the home
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: opener in Seattle, both those 6-1 games. Calgary returned the favor,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: won 6-2 last Friday. Ashley, what did I tell people
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: last Friday?
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: You said that the Flames are not the same team
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: we played in the first couple games of the year,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: that they were a much better team than we faced
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: those first two times.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And that proved to be true.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I know, and I did this to you while I
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: was watching the game. Damn you, Ian, for being right.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I hate when you're right, root to me wrong. They
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: started out 0-5, they're 7-3 in their last 10 games since,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: including a win over Seattle 6-2 on Friday. They beat
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the San Jose Sharks 2-1 the other night. Dustin Wolfe,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the former Everett Silvertip, will get the start and goal
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: tonight for the Calgary Flames. And it'll be the debut
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: tonight of Matthew Wood for Seattle. He'll wear number 71.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: He was acquired in the Shane Wright trade. By the way,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Shane Wright did play last night, first game against Nashville.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Had relatively the same amount of ice time, 5-on-5, as
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: he had here. I thought that was a problem, Shane.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Apparently not. No shots on goal, no points. Not a something.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: But Matthew Wood will play tonight. I'm not sure who
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: he's slated with yet. I should probably know that since
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I'm calling the game, but we'll find out when we
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: get to the rink. Again, 7 o'clock drop of the puck,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and it's a 6.30 pregame show. But again, he'll wear
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: number 71. You know, the cool thing tonight is they're
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: wearing the remixed jerseys.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, they are. Did you see the one in person
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: in Rich's office?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I did not.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's in there.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: It's so cool. I did not. I did not. Oh,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Rich got one.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: That's nice.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Well, the station got one.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It says 933 FM or something like that.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they sent us a nice one.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I say us is... Being liberal, but sure.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: They sent one over here. Correct. I think they look awesome.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I've only seen the fronts. All I care about is
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: can I see the numbers? And apparently the answer is yes.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. It's not like the Abyss ones.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: No.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Which should be thrown into the Abyss, to be honest
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I like them, but not for an actual game.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: No, no. Right. All right, that's it. That's our Daily
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Power Play. We'll go crack and play tonight. By the way,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: tonight and then Saturday afternoon at home, and then boom,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: they head off to Finland.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Finland!
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton is going to Finland. That's a whole different story.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: We'll save that for another day. I don't know if
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: anybody's been notified about this yet, but the captain going
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: to Finland is a whole different set of circumstances and
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: a whole different set of problems. He is their problem.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: He's going to be.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, eating his salmon soup over there. Gentlemen, this
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: is great. Finland, I love you. Here we go. He'll
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: be having fun. All right, we'll take a break. Come back.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: We are moments away from hearing from the new Mariner manager.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Jason Kanzler will carry the news conference live next.