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Ian Furness 10/7 H1: Ian is live from the VMAC with Derick Hall, it's not JUST another game and how about this Jim Mora drama? · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light. Cold
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  Speaker 1: as the Rockies. Okay, we're here at Seahawks headquarters today,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Mike McDonald will speak in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. We'll be monitoring what he has to say.
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  Speaker 1: Greg will probably pop back in here in about 45 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: give you the updates on injuries, running backs. We've got
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  Speaker 1: like 17 of them now. I'm not sure who's healthy
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  Speaker 1: and who's not. We'll find out then a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on. All right. Rough night for the Kraken last
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  Speaker 1: night with the Vegas Golden Knights. Vegas scored early, often,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot. 5-0 lead. Seattle finally scored. End result,
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  Speaker 1: 6-2 loss. Kraken do play the Flames again on October 30th.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to look at the bright side.
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  Speaker 1: They start a five-game road trip on Friday in Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: John Rahm announced he's leaving Live Golf. Felt like this
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen. He made it official today. Liv
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  Speaker 1: is bankrupt, so that's probably a good decision on his part.
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  Speaker 1: Probably a fairly easy decision as well. Yes. They were
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  Speaker 1: hoping to keep Ron was Liv, and that would keep
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  Speaker 1: the tour alive, but everyone's jumping off this ship like
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  Speaker 1: rats off the sinking ship. At this point, there are
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  Speaker 1: no plans to alter the Georgia-Alabama game, but the SEC
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  Speaker 1: is monitoring the weather in Alabama, tropical storm. is turning
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  Speaker 1: into a hurricane, but hopefully by Saturday it'll be gone.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that's the least of anybody's worries is a
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  Speaker 1: football game, but for us here on Sports Station, we're
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  Speaker 1: concerned about that as well. Let's go. Here at the
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Mason Athletic Center, getting ready. Derek Hall's going to
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  Speaker 1: join us, Ashley. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: I love him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll talk cars, big trucks, and much more
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  Speaker 1: with Derek Hall here in just a short amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that conversation with Dee Hall. of your
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  Speaker 1: seattle seahawks so that's coming up probably in this first
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  Speaker 1: segment the next 15 10 15 20 minutes we'll see
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  Speaker 1: uh when they're going to be here so looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to having derrick hall pop in uh let's see just
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  Speaker 1: getting a text from the seahawks bear with me this
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  Speaker 1: is live radio uh we will text you when he
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  Speaker 1: is on the way okay perfect that's good so we'll
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  Speaker 1: uh i'll keep you updated on that perfect um yes
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  Speaker 1: very good right Okay, we've got a lot going on today.
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  Speaker 1: Big thing Seahawks-wise is let's find out about some health issues.
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  Speaker 1: 49 a week. By the way, Ashley, I just got
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  Speaker 1: off a half hour ago talking to our friend, John Lund,
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  Speaker 1: on his show at KNBR.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how was that?
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  Speaker 1: Let me read you the text he sent me afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Here it is. Seahawks fans, you'll be proud
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  Speaker 1: of me today. I went full-blown. I went full-blown softy. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome. 49ers are so pissed at you right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting a ton of texts and they hate you.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So you know what? I think I did my job.
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  Speaker 1: Did I do my job?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I kind of want to go find
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  Speaker 2: that audio.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. Well, KMBR, it'll be, I don't know how,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't have the high level of production
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  Speaker 1: like we do with my friend Ashley Ryan and others.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in poverty stricken Bay Area.
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  Speaker 1: They are. So we'll see how they're doing. No technology there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, he pointed out there, and this
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  Speaker 1: is a good point. We were talking just about when
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  Speaker 1: we did after some of the hijinks. Oh, just for
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  Speaker 1: a note, Seahawks fans, if you see any 49er fans,
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  Speaker 1: they hate being called the Niners, and they hate San Fran. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So if you say San Fran and Niners, they don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. They also really don't like it. I found
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  Speaker 1: this out today, too. They really don't like it when
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  Speaker 1: you make fun of Candlestick Park, their old home, and
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  Speaker 1: when you make fun of the fact that they are
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco 49ers, but they play in, basically, Tech
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  Speaker 1: World at Santa Clara.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like that either.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that part they should be made fun of.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about necessarily Candlestick Park. It was a
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  Speaker 4: legendary park that held up through an earthquake. But the
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  Speaker 4: fact that you're the San Francisco 49ers playing in Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 4: you should be mocked.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're next to Great America.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to give me a hard time about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like why the Seahawks got rid of Ken Walker. And
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  Speaker 1: I tried to explain to him because apparently they're very
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  Speaker 1: naive to these things down there in San Francisco. And
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, they're close enough to the
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  Speaker 1: Rams where the The salary cap doesn't matter to the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I try to explain to them the salary cap gymnastics
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  Speaker 1: that you have to play in this world of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Walker at 14, does that prevent you from doing
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  Speaker 1: something with Witherspoon or JSN or maybe down the road
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  Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold? For me to question, as I said
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  Speaker 1: to him, I said, for me or anybody else to
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  Speaker 1: question the acumen in terms of football and caps and
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  Speaker 1: everything else of John Schneider, who Last I checked, let
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  Speaker 1: me just double check. I'm at profootballreference.com here. Yes, two
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl titles under this general manager since he took
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  Speaker 1: over in 2010. That would be exactly two more than
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  Speaker 1: the Niners and San Fran have had in that period
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  Speaker 1: of time, Ashley, if you're curious.
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  Speaker 2: If you're keeping track.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because that's their big thing. Oh, you guys got
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  Speaker 1: rid of Ken Walker. Look what Ken Walker's doing. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. We all get it. We all see what
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  Speaker 1: Ken Walker's doing. We all understand. And I know fans
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  Speaker 1: are upset. I I don't know, is it something that
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  Speaker 1: really bothers fans? 4-9-4-5-1, what Ken Walker's doing. Or you
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  Speaker 1: just say, hey, in John we trust. I'll go with
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  Speaker 1: in John we trust. That's my thought. I'm going with
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  Speaker 1: John we trust. But maybe others are questioning it. And
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to question when Jadarian Price hasn't been healthy.
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  Speaker 1: And Zach Charbonnet, we knew he wasn't going to be healthy.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that wasn't going to be the case. So
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  Speaker 1: those things do happen. We understand all those things. So
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  Speaker 1: with that being the baseline... We knew that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you knew that you needed a running back. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: thought they had one in Price. He's been often injured.
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  Speaker 1: Sharps is pretty close. He's not going to play this week,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, unless Mike McDonald drops a bombshell here
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  Speaker 1: in the next few minutes when he's talking to the
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  Speaker 1: media and just in the room adjacent to where I'm
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  Speaker 1: at right now. You know, I think what they were
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  Speaker 1: hoping for is that maybe one of the young guys
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  Speaker 1: would show him a little bit of juice. Jakartier Wright,
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  Speaker 1: I think, is a guy that they were hoping would
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  Speaker 1: be that guy. Now he's on the injured reserve, on
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  Speaker 1: the practice squad injured reserve. Bayless Jones is what he is.
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  Speaker 1: George Helani is what he is. Emmanuel Wilson is a
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  Speaker 1: downhill runner, and he gives you what you need. I
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  Speaker 1: think Emmanuel Wilson is the guy that's given you more
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  Speaker 1: than you could have ever expected. There should be no
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  Speaker 1: criticism with Emmanuel Wilson, and really any of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing what they can. You know what they are.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Jadarian Price thing, and if he was healthy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we'd be having this conversation about Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't. I think if Jadarian Price had come
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  Speaker 1: in here and had been healthy since day one and
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  Speaker 1: did everything in minicamp and did everything in training camp
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  Speaker 1: and did everything in the preseason and into the regular
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  Speaker 1: season and hadn't fumbled, and the fumble's a different issue,
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  Speaker 1: but hadn't been hurt, the fact is the guy's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he missed for mysterious reasons, practices throughout August, and then
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  Speaker 1: now has this chest or shoulder injury that he's on
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  Speaker 1: the injured list with. That has caught, and then you
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  Speaker 1: look at Ken Walker, and what he's doing and he's
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  Speaker 1: on pace as jory told told greg bell yesterday he's
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  Speaker 1: on pace to have double the touches he's ever had
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  Speaker 1: is that sustainable that's the other question is that sustainable
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been so far right hasn't been no no i
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  Speaker 1: mean so i mean maybe it is maybe he'll be
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  Speaker 1: fine maybe he'll he'll end up with 400 plus touches
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  Speaker 1: this year and you know what i hope he does
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  Speaker 1: like like he's one of those guys that you know
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  Speaker 1: truth be told like a lot of times guys leave
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know how you treat this, Ash. Guys
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  Speaker 1: leave and I really don't care. You're not here anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily wish ill will on people, unless it's,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, a former Wazoo player. But he didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave because he wanted necessarily to leave. He left because
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  Speaker 1: he got a better opportunity. And so that's not in him.
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  Speaker 1: I hope Ken Walker has a great season. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the running back situation right now
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  Speaker 1: is certainly in flux heading into the most important game
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have the four most important games of
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  Speaker 1: the year, the Rams and the 49ers. So this is
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  Speaker 1: one of your top four games you have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about this season. And that's, that's a concern, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 4: And I, I mean, again, it's not like any of
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  Speaker 4: us should have been naive to think that the run
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  Speaker 4: game was going to be as successful as it was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, at the end of last year, coming into
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  Speaker 4: this year, knowing that we had a rookie who didn't
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  Speaker 4: carry the ball a lot and we didn't have Zach
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  Speaker 4: Charbonnet because, and didn't know when he was coming back
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  Speaker 4: off injury. But do I think that we're doomed for
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  Speaker 4: the whole season? I absolutely do not. I think that
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  Speaker 4: Jadarian Price is going to come back from his injury
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  Speaker 4: and be healthy. And by that time, Zach Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 2: Will be healthy.
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  Speaker 4: And then we'll have more of the run game we
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  Speaker 4: envisioned before the season started.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would tend to agree, too. Derek Hall, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is on his way in right now.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth-year player out of Auburn. Just really, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think he talked about it hard. One of the good stories, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, born premature, premature baby. And, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you have a gorgeous daughter who, is it today she's 12?
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  Speaker 1: She is 12 today. Happy birthday, Palmer, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hang on a second. I sent a, my friend
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  Speaker 1: Julie Barber with the PR staff, she said, headed her
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  Speaker 1: way in three minutes and I gave her, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I sent the emoji of thumbs up. It was thumbs down.
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  Speaker 1: She goes, oh, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: You're like, nope, wait, nope, sorry. At least you didn't
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  Speaker 2: send the middle finger.
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  Speaker 1: The bad thing is the middle finger is right there. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know how you have the most common emojis you
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  Speaker 1: use on a text?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I text guys like Softie and Lund all the time,
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  Speaker 1: that middle finger's right there. It's like thumbs up, middle finger,
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down. They're all right in a row. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been bad because Julie's one of the
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  Speaker 1: good people in this world. So I'm glad I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. She'd be like, oh, well, Derek Hall's not
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  Speaker 1: coming to see you after all. But, yeah, Derek Hall,
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  Speaker 1: you know, born as a premature baby and what his
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  Speaker 1: mom had to go through and all that. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: got this great contract. He's taking care of her. And
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that they are leaning on heavily. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm really curious to talk to him because– The fact
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  Speaker 1: of the matter is this. Brock Purdy's not been sacked
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  Speaker 1: this year. That's insane. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's happened.
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  Speaker 1: That is absolutely insane that he has not been sacked
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  Speaker 1: this year. So we'll get into that with him. Greg
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  Speaker 1: will pop in at 1245, and we'll hear what Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald had to say, did say. Corbin Smith at 2 o'clock,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: his weekly visit to Emerald City Spectrum and Triple Option podcast.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: We'll check in with Corbin. Corbin did a lot of
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: work draft-wise with Rob Rang. I don't know if people
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  Speaker 1: know that. The podcast they do is with Rob. So
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  Speaker 1: Corbin really tuned into the draft. He's got some thoughts
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: on Robert Henry Jr. He's the new running back the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks just signed from the Commander's Practice Squad, UTSA, 5'9, 200-pounder.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get some thoughts from him on that because
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see number 34. You're going
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: to look out there on Sunday, and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see a number 34. And he's going to be out
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  Speaker 1: there for Seattle, and we'll see what he's got going
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  Speaker 1: on too. So we'll get to that. And then Stuart
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Mandel will join us in the 1 o'clock hour. Ash,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from our guy weekly. college football visit. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on out in college football. Some
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  Speaker 1: big games this weekend in the Big Ten. I'll ask
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  Speaker 1: them about UW and Iowa on Friday. That's a... I think...
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  Speaker 1: I was just listening to their podcast. I mean, those guys,
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  Speaker 1: they were talking about Nebraska and the big games Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: has left on the schedule and games at Nebraska. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because Matt Rule's trying to turn things around. Stu, you know,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: somebody mentioned Washington going to Nebraska. And one of Stu's co-hosts,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman, just kind of laughed that off, saying... Washington?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man. And so I'm going to get his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on it. Because it's year three of Jetfish. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And their first real barometer game, well, their last two
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  Speaker 1: barometer games, Minnesota at home, but certainly at USC, they've failed.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get his thoughts on what's going on with that.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Georgia and Alabama this weekend. Texas playing host
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma. Really a huge game in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: And I never thought I'd say this. for two levels. One,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Big Ten game, and two, because it's involving UCLA,
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  Speaker 1: but UCLA playing Oregon is a big game this weekend
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  Speaker 1: as well. Yes, it is. Yeah, so, God, I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe I'm going to be rooting for the Powder Blue.
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  Speaker 1: What is wrong with me?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Can I just hope the field collapses and everybody just
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  Speaker 4: ends up with a concussion for the day? There's two
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  Speaker 4: Dusty and they can't play, so everyone gets an L.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: We'll take that. I, for so long, was kind of
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  Speaker 1: an Oregon guy because Washington hates them. And so that
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  Speaker 1: kind of made it fun to root for them because
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  Speaker 1: when they won, Washington was mad, kind of like when
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  Speaker 1: Washington wins, we're mad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But, but that's a, but yeah, so I'm, that's, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big game this weekend. There's Julie Barber. I was
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  Speaker 1: just saying, Julie, that as we're live on the air,
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  Speaker 1: that I can't believe I gave you a thumbs down emoji.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Hall sitting down right now. Derek, she said, Julie says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're on the way with Derek Hall right now. And
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  Speaker 1: I hit the emoji. I thought I was giving her
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  Speaker 1: a thumbs up and it was a thumbs down. Oh Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody gives that lady a thumbs down, do we?
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  Speaker 1: At all. Not at all, right? No, sir. Derek Hall
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  Speaker 1: is with us right now. Seahawk linebacker, pass rusher. I
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: haven't talked to you for a couple years, I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing, first of all? I'm blessed, man.
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  Speaker 5: I can't complain. Another year. Another year to get going.
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  Speaker 5: Another year to get better. Another year to produce with
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  Speaker 5: the guys. So it's been a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the game this weekend. I
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: do love our listeners. Loved hard knocks and loved hearing
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  Speaker 1: your story. And we've told the story before about, you know,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: when you were born and the challenges you had and
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  Speaker 1: your mother had and everything like that. And where you
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  Speaker 1: are today is remarkable. The other part of it was
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: the truck and the cars. Tell folks about the love
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  Speaker 1: of cars. People didn't see it. Your love of cars
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  Speaker 1: and vehicles and just the fact you work on them.
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  Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, we have a lot of vehicles.
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  Speaker 5: Jeep in the coast, cruise in the coast. So that's
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  Speaker 5: something I was always around, you know, having that opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to be around a lot of vehicles at a young age.
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  Speaker 5: And I got to college and started getting, you know,
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  Speaker 5: your college stipend or whatever every single month. And I
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  Speaker 5: didn't spend none of that. My first year, I saved everything.
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  Speaker 5: I bought my first truck. And from then, it's been
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  Speaker 5: rolling nonstop. So it's a passion. It's very addictive.
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  Speaker 1: But I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: It gives me something outside the ball to go relax.
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  Speaker 5: And I just enjoy doing it myself. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: save a lot of money that way. And you also,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, just get a way of escape. So
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  Speaker 5: I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: How many vehicles do you have? A lot. A lot.
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  Speaker 1: Are they all big? No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a sport car, too, or anything like that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I just recently bought a yours. So I do have
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  Speaker 5: a yours.
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  Speaker 1: What's a yours? A Lamborghini. Oh, okay. It wasn't brand new.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: You can afford it now, man. Bought it out of Texas.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: I still love the trucks, man. Trucks are my thing.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: It'll always be my thing. But I just wanted to
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: get into something a little different, so.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: I love it. I enjoy it, and I do have
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of vehicles. Derek Hall, some guys, they'll play golf,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: maybe cards, video games. This is your thing, though, right?
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Does it help you just kind of– the world you
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: live in right now, it's 12-hour days, the pressure, physically demanding,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: mentally demanding. Is this what just kind of helps you decompress?
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: It does, and it's not something that you can't do
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: like year-round. You can always find a shop. I'll go
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: out to my boy in Piala sometimes. you know, on Tuesdays,
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: on an off day, you know, for a couple hours
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: just to hang out, you know, tinker on something, play
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: with something, you know, just to get away, to decompress,
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: and I'll go back home, lock back in, watch a
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: little tape, so it's relatively accessible, you know, no matter
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: the space, no matter where you are, so I enjoy it,
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: but yeah, it's definitely my way, it's definitely my way.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Trucks, fishing, and hunting is what I do. I love that.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: When you go do that, I'm fascinated by this, because
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's really fun for people to think, hey,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: this is a real dude, right? Like, you're not just a,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: because you're in this town, Seahawks are on a pedestal, right? Like,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I was I was doing the cracking game last night,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: and Jalen was there, and Charles Cross was there. And
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: they show them on the big screen, and people go
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: on bananas, right? It's like Seahawks are a big deal.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: When you go down to your garage and hang out
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: with the guys in Puyallup, are you just one of
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the guys? That's it. That's it. That's all it is. And,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you know, you have a couple people. I mean, it's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: a regular generating business, right? Right, right.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: So they have regular people come in, you know, do wheels, tires,
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: you know, all this stuff done.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: You know, at times I do take pictures and things
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: like that. But for the most part, I try to decompress.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: I try to stay in the back, get out the way,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: keep the shop door closed. And we just hang out, man.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: We just kick it. We talk life, work on trucks,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: have a good time. So shout out to my guy, Abe, man.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Is this your upbringing?
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Is this where you're– because you're about– I mean, we
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: see you on the sideline. We see you on the field.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: You're at a 10, maybe an 11 out of 10 sometimes.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: But is this your upbringing, just like how your mom
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: brought you up and everything else? For sure, for sure.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: You know, my mom, she– everybody knows I love her.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: she's the ghost, she's my queen, she's everything, you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: she raised me the right way, and that's why I
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: try to, a lot of people think, oh, this is
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: how he is as a, you know, a normal person,
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: but off the field, man, I'm the most caring guy,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I love people, I'll give people the shirt off my back,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: it's what I enjoy doing, you know, I love giving back,
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I love just, you know, being that bright light, always
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: bringing joy, I'll be the same guy every day, you
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: ask me how I'm doing, I'll say I'm blessed a
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: thousand times, you know, it's just who I am, but
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: between the white lines, man, you just got to find
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: that place to be able to go to, and You
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: just got to find a way.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: To separate the two. What a great attitude. You're a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Seahawk now for a long time. What did that mean
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to you when they committed to you? You committed to them,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: but John Schneider and Mike McDonald and this group said
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: we're committing to Derek Hall. D. Hall is our guy.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: What did that mean to you?
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: It meant everything to me, especially knowing that Mike, so
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: funny story, Mike came in his first year and we
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: were out there OTAs. He didn't know nothing about me,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: knew nothing. He was like, bro, I like the way
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: you work and you're going to have a big year.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, wow, like, that's, that's, and then, I'm
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: talking about this within, like, the first two weeks, he's like,
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: I love the way you're working, you're gonna have a
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: big year, that year, eight, eight sacks, you know, whatever
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: the stats were, last year wasn't as much, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: very productive, affected the passer, but just couldn't get the
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: sack numbers right, so, you know, that, that, that said
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: a lot about them, you know, who they think I
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: can become as a player, where I'm continuing to grow,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: you know, this organization as a whole, I love it,
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm, I'm big on consistency, I'm big on,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: you know, being in the same place, not having too
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: much change, so, It's.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Perfect for me.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I love it here. You know, the way we work,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: the way we grind is different. But, man, I wouldn't
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: trade it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: For the world. I love Mike. I love John. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: love what we're doing and where we're going. We saw
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: in Hard Knocks, I mean, you take it to the edge.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And Mike wants you guys to take it to the edge.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: How hard is it to balance that? Not just so
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: much in practice. Training camp is different because it's– I'll
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: tell you this. Julie can tell you. From what it
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: used to be, like Mike Bennett and guys were getting
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: fights every single day. Like it's different now. The world
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is different now. Practice is a little different. On the field, though,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Mike wants you guys to push it right to the edge.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: That's that mentality of this defense. How hard is that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to balance?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's challenging, right? Because you want to
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: go as far as the rule book allows you to go.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: And it's also a point of going over the edge, which,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: you know, that happened a lot to us last week
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: against L.A. So it's coming back, correcting those things, figuring
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: out where we need to go. And guys help guys
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: along the way. You know, it's a situation where Whatever
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: the case may be, you know, we don't like to call. Okay,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: we're trying to do this and do that. You have guys,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: you have teammates coming up to you, hey, bro, calm down. Like,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: it's okay, let's move on, let's go to the next play.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: And it's just the fire, man. It's the fire, the love,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: the compassion, and the respect that we have for the game.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: And it's just trying to, like Mike said, like AD says,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: like our whole organization says, just playing right over the
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: edge but not falling off the cliff. So I think
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: that's something that we're continuing to do, continuing to grow
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: and figuring out how to do that. But it's a
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: very hard thing to do.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Derek Hall with us, Ian Furness here at the Virginia
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Mason Athletic Center for a couple more moments. This is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the week, though, you can't give them extra downs. This
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is not a team that you can give extra downs to, right?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's the message this week. For sure.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's every week. That's every week, right? We
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: want to play clean. We want to play dominant physical football,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: but in the cleanest way possible. So especially, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: with these guys. They're on a hot horse right now.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: You know, I don't think they've turned the ball over
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: to quarterbacks playing in the electric clip. You got one
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: of the best running backs, you know, in football. You
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: got one of the best O-lines in football, single-handedly one
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: of the best tacklers ever played a game, one of
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: the best tight ends. I mean, so they have guys
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: all over their, you know, their offensive side of the ball.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So it's about playing clean ball.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: You know, it's going out, trying to be consistent, you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: putting ourselves in the best position to go out and
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: be successful every single play while trying to play that dominant,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: you know, violent style, but also not going over the edge.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Derek, is this a bigger week than normal? I know
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: you guys, I mean, it feels like it because of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: who they are and the division. It's a divisional game
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and all those things. Do you treat it any different? Nope,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: none at all.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Mike came in today, did the same meeting he does
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: every single Wednesday. Hit the same pointers that we do
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: every single Wednesday. So, man, we just continue to go
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: with what's important now. You know, after I get done
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: with two, what's important? Get my body prepared to go
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: out and have a great practice. You know, have a
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: great practice to come back in, figure out what I
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: can do better, grow from the tape, and then go home,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: get some rest, lean into tomorrow, and come back and
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: do the same process that we do every single week
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, leading up to that game
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: on Sunday.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: How come Purdy has not been sacked yet? I don't know.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. The guy's elusive. He's a great player.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Let's start there.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: You know, he can run. He can make all the throws.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: You know, he does the pump fake. He does the
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: spin it out. He does all the things that make
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: it hard to be able to bring a guy to
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the ground. So for us, man, up front is going
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: to be continue to do what we do best, you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: pass rush, press the pocket, you know, try to limit
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: his throwing lanes in the middle, you know, be able
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: to compress the pocket in the middle, be able to
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: rush off the edge, you know, make sure we're doing
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: everything we can to keep this guy in the pocket.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Then when he does get off the spot, just be
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: relentless in rushing, you know, continue to pursue, continue to
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: plaster on the back end. You know, our coverage guys
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: are going to do their thing. We have to be
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: able to hold up our end on the front. to
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: just have the opportunity to get.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: This guy on the ground. How good is Trent Williams? Amazing. Amazing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to give respect where respect's due.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, he's been a pro bowler freaking probably
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: almost every year of his career, all-pro player, still playing
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: the game at a very high level, being able to
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: do all the things. So we've got our work cut
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: out for us, and I'm damn sure looking forward to it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up with this. This is the obligatory
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: fan question, but what– and I'll go back. You were
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: here in 2023. Correct. Pete's last year. Mm-hmm. And that's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: when I was still covering this team full-time. I remember
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: thinking that's the first time in forever, that December game
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: in 2023, where I felt like, wow, Lumen Field isn't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: what it used to be. They had a ton of
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: fans here. It just was weird. Then Pittsburgh a couple
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: weeks later, things have flipped back. The fans are back
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: at Lumen. Not that they left necessarily, but they're not
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: selling their tickets anymore. That's what Seattle does. You guys
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: go to Arizona, it's a home game, right?
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: It feels like that every game we go to, man.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Every game we go on the road. The 12s show
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: up and they show out. So that's amazing, man. We
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: have the best fans in the world. And just the
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: way they continue to show up for us is special.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I'll just let you say to them, what kind of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: difference can Lumen Field and the 12s make this weekend
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: against Brock Purdy and that team? Huge difference. Huge difference, man.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Bring the juice. Bring the noise. Continue to be loud.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Continue to do what you best, 12s. I mean, they
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: got that 12 name for a reason, man. It's like
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: a 12 player on the field. They bring the juice.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: They bring the energy. And obviously, you know, we have
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: to create negative plays and do things on the defensive
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: side of the ball. And, you know, ultimately all three
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: phases of the game include special teams, be able to
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: feed them plays, you know, get them loud, get them rocking. But, man,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: once we do continue to bring the juice in, we're
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing you all there.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I can feel all the texts coming in. People love
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: listening to you, man. Hopefully we can do this again
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: before the end of the season. I appreciate it. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: know you got your body ready and everything. These aren't
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: always easy to come in. Thank you, Julie. But thanks.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Can we do this again this year? Of course, man.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm really happy to. You're the best. And again, how
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: are you doing again? I'm blessed. I can't complain. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: love that. That's Derek Hall. We'll take a quick break.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Come back with more 93.3 KJR FM. Thank you. All right,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: we're back here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Big
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: thanks to the Seahawks. Great PR staff. My friend Julie
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Barber bringing in Derek. You know when you know it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a big interview. Yeah. It's not an intern bringing somebody in.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's Julie Barber.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That's when it's a big deal.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And people are like, who the hell is it? Julie
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: has been working here in the PR department with the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Seahawks for a long time. I don't want to age anybody.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: But she's been there for a long time. And she
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: is one of the nicest human beings on the planet. Um,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: even when you make her mad, which trust me over
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: my many years, I have at times, uh, but big
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: heart and one of the just best people in sports
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and certainly here. And, uh, yeah. And the players, I mean,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Julie brings them in. Okay, here we go. Like it's, they, they,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: they love her too. And so she comes rolling in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: there with, uh, with D Hall and man, what a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: good interview. What a great interview.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: He was fantastic.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Like he is, he's so well-spoken. You know, it's amazing.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I get caught up in it, man. I know Greg's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: kind of the same way a lot of times. And
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of football fans, they just want
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: X's and O's. Some of the stories are so good.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But I get caught up when I hear a guy
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: talk about his mom in those terms. It's just, I just,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it melts me, man. I'll be honest with you. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: knowing what his mom had to go through when he
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: was born. where they came from, where they are now. God,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it's just, it's a cool story, man. It's a really
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: cool story. And he's got a ton of talent. He's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: got a lot of character. I love the story about
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: him just going down to some, you know, a garage,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a mechanic shop down in, in Puyallup of all places,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: right down, you know, hanging out with the Chris Egan's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of the world and, and working on his truck in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the back. You know, can you just, I mean, this
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: dude is a, This guy is a star in this town,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and he's down there. He's got his overalls on. He's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: got a wrench in his hand, grease. I mean, that's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: just kind of a cool story because what do you
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: do to get away from football? Well, a lot of dudes,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: some guys play golf. A lot of guys play video
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: games if you're younger, right? Maybe you're playing with your kid,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. This dude's down there with wrench
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in hand hanging out in Puyallup and working on trucks, man.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It's a really cool story, man. It's a really cool story,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and it also tells you, Like, you know, you got
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to get away from whatever you're doing. And the job
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: out here, Ash, you know, you've been out, it's a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: long day. And the grind mentally is probably nearly as
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: hard as physical. Good story all the way around at
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: D Hall.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely fantastic.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, there's something special when you hear
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: someone who's, you know, so big and so tough and
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: does such a, you know, grueling job to then be
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: so gentle when talking about their mother.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It's very cool.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: It's awesome. And I just find it amazing because he's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: one of the most gregarious guys. When we see him,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you know, like he's walking on the field or like
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we're just kind of out here at the facilities. One
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of the guys always has a smile on his face,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: always says hello to everybody, all the media guys or
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: whoever's around. You put this dude between the lines and it's,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, he goes over the line. Let's be honest.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Like he got the penalty last weekend. You know, we
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: saw the stuff at Hard Knocks. remember it was two
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: years ago when he and Jaron Reed were at it
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on the sideline and Jaron Reed, but Jaron Reed's been,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: he's a mentor to the guy like that, you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and cause that was Jaron years ago. That was Jaron
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Reed years ago. And he had to have, yeah, Cliff
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and Mike had to pull him aside and say, Hey,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: big fella slowed it. But you know, he's the, the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: ability to turn it on and off is pretty amazing.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Cause not everybody has that ability, but, and they made
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a choice on him, his ability to set the edge
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: on the run and what he does. They made a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: choice basically is picking him over Boye Mafe and, And
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I think it was the right call. Okay, I want
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to just before, I think Greg's going to pop in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: here in about 10 minutes or so, and we'll get
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to all the latest on what's going on with the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Seahawks and Mike McDonald doing his, he's wrapping up his
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: press conference. So we'll get an update on some of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the injuries. We'll talk to Corbin coming up at 2
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: o'clock today. I did want to point this out. All
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: joking aside, we were talking with Lund today when I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was after making fun of San Fran and the Niners.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: We did talk about the differences between last year when
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Seattle just boat raced these guys in the playoff game
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and then this year. And there are at least six,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you could probably make an argument, seven starters for the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: 49ers that did not play in that game last season.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: George Kittle, Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, and I say also
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: guys that are now there. Mike Evans is there now.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is back with the team. Mike Hill-Williams. I mean,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys. It's a very different-looking 49er
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: team than we saw in that playoff game last season,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the divisional round. So I'm just amazed, and, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: let's talk into Derek Hall about this. I'm just amazed
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: at the stat that Purdy hasn't been sacked. Like, that's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: just a– like, you go into this game and think, okay,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: let's just get to Kurt Purdy. Let's put some pressure
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: on this guy. Let's make a move around. And it's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: not just the offensive line. We've talked enough times with
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Hugh over the years. The challenge with these guys is
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: just to, as they say, get them off his spot.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: But even off his spot, the guy is good on
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the run. He's good spinning. As Derek Hall said, he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: spins away. He's able to be elusive in the pocket.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He's not Lamar Jackson. He's not that guy. He's not
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: running around crazy. He's not Russell Wilson in his prime,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: which would probably be. Because there's a reason he was Mr. Irrelevant.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: He's not big, doesn't have a massive arm. He's athletic
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but not uber-athletic. But, boy, it just tells you that position, Ashley,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: is all about the smarts. You've got to have the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: physical traits and the physical tools to play in the NFL.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's also about
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: feeling the game and knowing when to get rid of it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: That's what makes Stafford good. Stafford's got all the physical
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: tools in the world. And then how many times do
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you see Matt Stafford? You think he's going to go down,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and the dude, he gets rid of the ball. just
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball, or steps away and gets
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: rid of the ball. That's what Purdy's like. So that's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a challenge this weekend. I will be shocked, and I'm
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: going to say it right now, I think Seattle gets
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: him down the ground at least a couple times this weekend.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It'll be the first time this year, and I think
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that's going to happen.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I really, truly do.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: When you asked Dee Hall about Brock Purdy not being
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: sacked at all, I feel like you could hear how
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: hungry that made him.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It's changing this weekend. Yeah, and I'm not going to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: say a guy's lying, but let's be honest. You can't
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: tell me this is any other game. No. You can't
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: tell me this is any other game.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I get that they would treat it that way on
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: their day-to-day business.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: That's what they're going to say publicly. Publicly, they're going
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to say that. Publicly, they're going to say, hey, Pete
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: used to do that. Don't be nuts. Every week's championship week. Okay. Pete,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: it's not. You're playing the... who would have been bad.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You're playing the Chicago Bears who have two wins this season.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: This is not a championship week. Let's get through it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: this week and worry about the Rams or the 49ers
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: next week. That's what that is. But he had all
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: those guys trained. They all said the same thing. You
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: know behind closed doors. You know behind closed doors that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: those Seahawks players and coaches are saying, this is a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: big one. Different level of competition than we've seen, for sure.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All due respect, Patriots is the best team they've probably
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: played so far. Uh, and, but this is a different
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: level of competition. This is a different beast this week.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And the ramifications are huge. It's a two game swing
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in the standings one way or the other. Uh, they,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they will overcome it last year when they lost, uh,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the opening game against the 49ers, able to overcome it,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: but it makes your job. And it's not that if
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they lose and go to three and two, it doesn't
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: mean they can't win the division. It doesn't mean they
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: can't have the number one overall seed, but it makes
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it a hell of a lot harder. A hell of
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a lot harder. Yeah. You know, and that's, that's what
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I told Lund yesterday. I, Bigger game, I think, for
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Seattle than it is for San Francisco because it's a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: home game. And the other part, Ashley, because this was
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: my trick question, if you like this, it's just any
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: other game. And then I asked him about, can the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: fans make a difference?
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: And then he's like, well, it's not any other game
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: for the fans. We need you guys to be really loud.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: No. And there will be 49ers. What is it? Is
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: it red and gold? Is that the colors? Yeah. Is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it actually red or is it some weird off?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I think, who cares? We don't need to worry about that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's red and gold. That's a great point. Yeah. There'll
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: be some of those fans in the stands, but this
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: is a weekend in which Seahawks fans, you guys get
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: after it. You'll make a difference. You can make a
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: difference in this game. There's absolutely no doubt in my
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: mind you can make a difference in this game. We'll
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: take a break, come back, hopefully check in with Greg
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Bell coming up. One o'clock, we're going to hear from
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Stuart Mandell, talk all things college football right here on
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KGRFM. Hi, we're back here at the Virginia Mason
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Athletic Center getting ready for 49er week. 49er week. Ashley,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: strap them up. Here we go. Oh, I hate them.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I hate them, hate them, hate them.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: 49ers suck.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Niners suck.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Niners, San Fran.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Go back to Frisco.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's awesome, though. It's a rivalry. There's no
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: rivalry for the Mariners. There's no rivalry. Kraken, not really.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe eventually there will be. I think it's just too weird.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the next Vegas game is going to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: be interesting. I'll tell you that. Yeah. But nothing there.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Mariners don't. I mean, Seahawks, it's 49ers and Rams. I
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: brought it up on Monday a little bit. I don't know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I think there is still more disdain in this market
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: for the 49ers. I really do. Yes, I would agree.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And I just popped in for a minute during the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: commercial break listening to Cooper Cup and He was a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: little more, yeah, this is a big game than Derek
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Hall was. But Cooper Cuff's got equity in the league,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and he can probably say a little bit more in
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that regard. Right. But, yeah, so it's good. Greg will
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: join us probably just after 1 o'clock, and we'll get
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the latest on injuries, running back situation, Mike McDonald, what
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: he had to say. Leonard Williams normally talks today. I'm
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: not sure if he did. We'll find out from Greg.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: coming up here in a couple minutes because that's a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: big question mark. I mean, Big Cat, they need 99
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this weekend. They need the big fellow. There's no doubt
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: about that. So we'll get that once Greg finishes up
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in the locker room here in a few minutes. He'll
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: pop back in, Corbin, at 2 o'clock. Stuart Mandel at
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: 120 today. I'm going to tee this up. I'll ask
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Stuart about this at some point during an interview today
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: when we have him on. This was one of the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: wildest things. And it's funny because when I popped in, Ashley,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: to the news conference there with Cooper Cupp, in the break,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it's the same room we were in when the Seahawks announced,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you know, that they were firing Jim Mora. And if
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you remember that whole situation, you know, he's here for one,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: he came here for two years, was like the coach
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: in waiting. Like they're bringing him here. Remember, it was like,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: he's going to be the coach. He'll succeed, Holmgren. So
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: they make it, Tim Ruskell and the Seahawks make him
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: part of Holmgren's staff. And not that Mike disliked Jim Mora,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: but it's like, You don't tell– this happened the first
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: year here when Ryan Grubb was kind of handed to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald as the offensive coordinator. It didn't work. And,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you know, Mike Holmgren has a Super Bowl championship. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, this is the guy that's going to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: replace you. That's cool. He's on your staff now. That's awesome.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Like how much fun is that?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And then Mora has a disastrous 2009 season because he's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: just a wing nut. Now, great coach. What he did
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: at UConn is remarkable. Like, it's remarkable what he did
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: at the University of Connecticut. That's a basketball first, second,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: men's and women's, and third and fourth school. They're not
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a football school.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, most people go and they're like, oh, we have
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: a football team?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: What, what, what? Are we FCS? No, you're FBS. You're
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Division IA. No, wow, who knew that? When does basketball
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: season start? But he turned that program around. The dude
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: can coach, but he is really emotional. And I've got
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to imagine probably really hard to work with. So I'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: ask Stuart. This is the day and age we want
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to fire coaches. Like Deion's on the hot seat. Arkansas
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: is going to make a change. Rutgers is going to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: make a change. There will be changes all across college football.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, Ashley's favorite coach. I wish. There's probably people
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: who want to see Jed go. But one of the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: things you don't see all that often is coaches quitting
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: or getting fired or what have you in the middle
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of a game. That's exactly what happened with Jim Mora
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and his It's amazing. And his defensive coordinator. They gave
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: up touchdowns in the first two drives to Oregon last week,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: or I guess UTSA, I should say. And guess what happened?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Next thing you know, this. Take a listen to Jim
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Mora postgame.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: We didn't see Tyson on the sidelines in the second half.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Did you like to make a change there?
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Tyson was relieved of his play-calling duties. He left the field,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: and he's no longer with this football program. That's a
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: permanent thing.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That is a permanent.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: So can he take over SDC then?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Kenny will be the primary play caller. He was put
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: in a very difficult situation tonight, and he responded well,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: and the players responded well. The very first play he
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: called as a defensive coordinator his entire life was a
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: sack-cause fumble.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So we're going to get better. We're going to get
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a lot better. He's a good football coach. Did you
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: anticipate that he would leave the field when he was relieved?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: That wasn't anything that I would ever consider. I just
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: relieved him of his duties as a play caller. He
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: made the decision on his own to leave the field,
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: and he is no longer with the program.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And I bring that up because I remember when we
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: were sitting here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, and
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: they announced the firings. um, and of Jim Mora after
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: one season and a big, big, I mean, especially at
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the time, a big payout, I think it was close
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to 20 million or something. They owed him or something.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It was crazy. And I remember being critical on the air.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd been here, what would it be? Three
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: years at that point. And I was critical on the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: air about it. And we're sitting in the, in the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: news conference. We're all listening to the, you know, Todd Lightwick.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: He's telling us, yeah, we're going to, we're looking for
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Duke head coach, blah, blah, blah. He's out. Well, more had,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: had spoken to the media at his end-of-the-season press conference
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: in that same room two days ago. So I just
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: walked into that same room, and it just brought up
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the memories of Mora getting fired. I remember Laiweke coming
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: up going, yeah, you know why he got fired. You're
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: here every week. And I'm like, yeah, okay, I guess
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I see it now. The guy's a wingnut. Like he
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: went off on Alindo Mari, of all people. Who, by
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the way, the kicker, was a team captain. Like a
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: team captain. And by kicker standards and specialist standards, very
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: well respected. Like I knew that. Very well respected in
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the room. Because I asked the question in the postgame.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in the Lumen Field in the postgame,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I guess, quest at the time. And I said, remember,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Mari had missed a couple field goals. But he was
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: kicking to the north, north end, the open end where
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the hawk's nest is. And it was a brutal day. Windy, rain,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: just swirling around. The weather wreaked havoc. And I said,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I said, you know, did the kicker, you know, did Demare,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you know, the weather play a factor into it? And
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: he snapped at me, and he's just like, you know, like, no.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And I remember that time going, okay, well, this guy's
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: losing it. You know, and then he lost it on
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: me on draft day three years ago. And I thought
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he was kidding at first, but I don't think he was,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: because he was on with Hugh and me on that
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Friday night when they drafted Christian Haynes. And he's like,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: you know, Ian, you got me fired. And I'm like,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: how did I get you fired? Yeah, like. We should
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: find that place sometime because it would probably go cool
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: with this audio. I'm like, Jim, you think I can
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: barely get into this building. How did I get you fired?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I love that he thinks you have that power.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought he was joking at first. I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: looked at Hugh, and I'm like, I don't know if
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: he's really joking. I don't know if he's really joking here.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: So he fired his defensive coordinator in the middle of
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the damn game. Well, he took play-calling duties away. Yes.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: You're a football coach in the middle of a game
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: at that level, and the head coach is undressing you verbally,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: which you know he was doing, and then you're like,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? I probably would have
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: walked away too. But I've never heard of that or
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: seen that before. That's insane. Yeah. Welcome to today's college football.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's college football. And I'll reiterate what I
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: said before. I think Jim Moore is a really good
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: college football coach. I mean, for a long time, remember
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the big thing was everybody wanted him at Washington. Everybody
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: wanted him to come here. And be the head coach
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: for the Huskies. When was that? Was that post-Sark maybe?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Maybe post-Tyrone right around that time. But, yeah, it's an
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: interesting dynamic.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: We'll take a break. We'll come back. We're going to
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: try to get Greg in here in just a few minutes.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: We'll get the latest on what's going on with the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Seahawks from Mike McDonald as they get ready to hit
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the practice field here in about 15, 20 minutes. We'll
• 39:47
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• 39:50
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