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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's our eight o'clock hour here on this Thursday, Chuck
- 0:02Speaker 1: Pal Ashley Ryan with you. We got all sorts of
- 0:06Speaker 1: cool stuff to do before ten o'clock today, and we
- 0:09Speaker 1: won't go one step further without talking about tomorrow's big
- 0:12Speaker 1: matchup between the US and Australia, as it will be
- 0:16Speaker 1: the second match for both teams in the World Cup,
- 0:19Speaker 1: and this one just so happens to be held right
- 0:22Speaker 1: here in Seattle. It's going to be an ahem, I
- 0:24Speaker 1: tell you mayhem, absolute mayhem. And joining us now on
- 0:27Speaker 1: the program. I'm glad that he's going to be a
- 0:30Speaker 1: regular here throughout the World Cup. Former Sounders star Brad
- 0:34Speaker 1: Evans is with us right here on Chuck and Buck.
- 0:37Speaker 2: How are you, sir, I'm good.
- 0:39Speaker 3: I've been just glued to the television for nine hours
- 0:43Speaker 3: every day.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Is that is that true?
- 0:47Speaker 2: It is dead true. Yeah. Yeah.
- 0:49Speaker 3: It has been soccer NonStop all the time, in the
- 0:52Speaker 3: house or in the studio, whatever it may be. It's
- 0:55Speaker 3: kind of my dream, to be honest. It's just been
- 0:59Speaker 3: enthrawling so far in the first round.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Well great, So what is a soccer player like? I mean,
- 1:05Speaker 1: there are a lot of a lot of American sports
- 1:08Speaker 1: fans that one day nothing but draws, and people wonder, okay,
- 1:15Speaker 1: how really fun was that for people to have had
- 1:18Speaker 1: four draws in one day. What does it do to
- 1:20Speaker 1: an actual soccer player that loves the World Cup this
- 1:24Speaker 1: much to see four draws in one day?
- 1:28Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 1:28Speaker 3: Look, I mean soccer is soccer. And one day we
- 1:32Speaker 3: had a touchdown scored with Germany scoring seven goals. So
- 1:36Speaker 3: you kind of have to spread the wealth over the tournament.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Not every game is going to be seven to one,
- 1:40Speaker 3: and not every game is going to be nil nil.
- 1:43Speaker 3: You know, we're going to get surprises every single day.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I think the more captivating story is who is drawing
- 1:49Speaker 3: on those days. So if you take Spain versus Cape Verde, right,
- 1:54Speaker 3: you really break down the numbers. Spain is a massive country.
- 1:57Speaker 3: They've won World Cups, they've they've won the European Championships
- 2:00Speaker 3: multiple times, and then they're going up against a country
- 2:03Speaker 3: that has five hundred thousand people and they get a
- 2:06Speaker 3: result against them. There's more to the storyline than just
- 2:10Speaker 3: these draws. And then obviously you have Messi two nights
- 2:14Speaker 3: ago that scores a hat trick, who's arguably the best
- 2:16Speaker 3: player ever. And then Christiano Ronaldo is watching that at home, saying,
- 2:20Speaker 3: I got to go out and show up in this
- 2:22Speaker 3: game for Portugal, and they end up tying one to
- 2:25Speaker 3: one against a team that they should beat on paper
- 2:28Speaker 3: any day of the week. So it's really about spreading
- 2:31Speaker 3: the love here. And I had trepidation over thirty two
- 2:36Speaker 3: teams in this tournament versus forty eight now thirty two
- 2:40Speaker 3: in the previous iterations, thinking that it was going to
- 2:43Speaker 3: dilute the competition. And yes, obviously Germany gets a seven
- 2:46Speaker 3: to one result, but there's been some pretty big matchups
- 2:49Speaker 3: for big teams against smaller countries that are ranked number
- 2:52Speaker 3: three or four in the world, playing against a ranked
- 2:55Speaker 3: team at you know, seventy eighty whatever it may be,
- 2:58Speaker 3: and then getting a result against them, and in soccer,
- 3:02Speaker 3: you just cannot This is more like March Madness than
- 3:05Speaker 3: anything else in American sports, right You get a sixteen
- 3:08Speaker 3: seed coming in and blowing out a number one seed,
- 3:11Speaker 3: So that's the way that I look at it. Albeit
- 3:14Speaker 3: it's not a one game knockout. You get multiple games
- 3:16Speaker 3: to kind of stake your claim. So there's still a
- 3:18Speaker 3: lot of soccer left to be played. Tons more goals
- 3:21Speaker 3: will be scored. But for me, it's more of a
- 3:24Speaker 3: chess match than it is necessarily about, you know, every
- 3:28Speaker 3: game being seven to one and a complete blowout. I
- 3:30Speaker 3: don't want to see that.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Yeah, former Sounders star Brad Evans is with us. He's
- 3:34Speaker 1: doing analyst work as part of our World Cup coverage
- 3:38Speaker 1: here at KJAR as well, and so great to have
- 3:41Speaker 1: them with us here again today. So were you as
- 3:44Speaker 1: impressed with the US's first performance as the seemingly everyone was.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think they really showed what they can do.
- 3:56Speaker 3: You know, three years ago this sort of qualification kind
- 3:59Speaker 3: of started. Albeit the US didn't have to qualify for
- 4:02Speaker 3: this World Cup because they were hosting, but they still
- 4:04Speaker 3: played a ton of games. And during that time I
- 4:07Speaker 3: asked a lot of questions of this team because I
- 4:10Speaker 3: knew that they had the talent playing at some of
- 4:12Speaker 3: the best teams in the world, playing in the Champions
- 4:14Speaker 3: League every single year, but it seemed like every time
- 4:17Speaker 3: they came together, there wasn't really a team. I don't
- 4:21Speaker 3: think they didn't really play.
- 4:23Speaker 2: As that unit.
- 4:24Speaker 3: And you really can only have one guy that is
- 4:26Speaker 3: going to be your playmaker and the rest of the
- 4:28Speaker 3: guys have to do the dirty work. That's what Argentina does.
- 4:31Speaker 3: They let Messi doing everyone else. Every time they get
- 4:34Speaker 3: the ball, looks for Messi. And what I saw a
- 4:37Speaker 3: home opener in a World Cup was a team that
- 4:40Speaker 3: rose to the occasion. Most importantly, everyone showed up and
- 4:44Speaker 3: it wasn't about scoring the goals. It was on the
- 4:46Speaker 3: defensive side of things. For me, it was the sacrifice.
- 4:49Speaker 3: It was the balls in the air. Every single fifty
- 4:52Speaker 3: to fifty was a challenge, every first and second ball
- 4:56Speaker 3: they fought for to regain possession of the ball.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Paraguy's no slouch.
- 5:01Speaker 3: This is a team that had to qualify in a
- 5:04Speaker 3: region that had Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia, Argentina. They had to
- 5:09Speaker 3: get results against those big teams and they did and
- 5:11Speaker 3: then for the US to put four goals on them,
- 5:13Speaker 3: I was just more than impressed. The big question mark
- 5:16Speaker 3: is going to be without Polisic, which I don't think
- 5:19Speaker 3: is going to start or play. I think they're going
- 5:20Speaker 3: to have to save him for later in the tournament.
- 5:23Speaker 3: Can they get another resounding result against what will be
- 5:27Speaker 3: a really difficult Australia team.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not looking like Christian Pulisic is going to
- 5:31Speaker 1: play tomorrow. So what kind of layers of waves in
- 5:37Speaker 1: terms of impacting this team and its strategy is that
- 5:40Speaker 1: going to have?
- 5:42Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you know, anytime I played with the national team,
- 5:46Speaker 3: there were a couple guys that were kind of the
- 5:47Speaker 3: man and it was Clint Dempsey at the time. Maybe
- 5:51Speaker 3: it was Josie Altador who's a fantastic goal scorer. Landon Donovan,
- 5:55Speaker 3: Michael Bradley was another player.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Who was just a mainstay. He was the captain. All
- 5:59Speaker 2: those wore the captain's.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Armband, and there is something to be said about losing
- 6:04Speaker 3: your sort of captain, top tier player in a big
- 6:08Speaker 3: tournament like this. I think I would feel different if
- 6:12Speaker 3: the team was playing against in Argentina, Brazil or one
- 6:16Speaker 3: of the top ten teams. The fact that it's Australia,
- 6:19Speaker 3: which yes, I'm sure we'll talk about them, but this
- 6:22Speaker 3: team will have the ability to kind of move some
- 6:24Speaker 3: pieces in the midfields. I'm interested to see what Pochettino does.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Does he feature Christian rood On in the midfield as
- 6:32Speaker 3: more of a box to box and put Weston McKinney.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Out wide, who had played for Juventus in wide areas before.
- 6:39Speaker 2: But I'm not sure, just yet.
- 6:42Speaker 3: I think it will have an impact, But the bigger
- 6:46Speaker 3: storyline will be if Australia doesn't get a result against
- 6:49Speaker 3: the US. If the US does pull this victory out,
- 6:51Speaker 3: which they should on paper, I think it will speak
- 6:54Speaker 3: volumes to the team and saying, Okay, this is actually
- 6:57Speaker 3: a team. If we lose our star player, we can
- 6:59Speaker 3: still get a result in a big game here in Seattle,
- 7:02Speaker 3: which is going to be an insane crowd.
- 7:05Speaker 2: That will be the bigger storyline. Yeah.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Yeah, the US has said it's a long tournament until
- 7:10Speaker 1: it isn't you know, so, so yeah, it's going to
- 7:15Speaker 1: be interesting to see if he's going to lace him
- 7:17Speaker 1: up here tomorrow. All right, tell us about Australia. What
- 7:20Speaker 1: kind of an opponent is this for the US tomorrow?
- 7:24Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 7:24Speaker 3: Completely different than Paraguay. And that's what we love about
- 7:27Speaker 3: the World Cup. You get an opportunity to play teams
- 7:29Speaker 3: that you normally don't, Right. The US qualification group is
- 7:32Speaker 3: typically Central America, Caribbean and obviously Mexico and Canada, so
- 7:38Speaker 3: very similar styles of play in those teams. And that's
- 7:41Speaker 3: why I think we did so well against Paraguay. We're
- 7:44Speaker 3: kind of used to playing against that Central American we
- 7:46Speaker 3: call it tiki taka soccer. A lot of possession base,
- 7:49Speaker 3: a lot of skill based. But this Australian team is
- 7:52Speaker 3: really built much like the US is and I think
- 7:54Speaker 3: that's going to provide a pretty stern challenge. They're physical,
- 7:58Speaker 3: they're fast, they are brutish, and they are on a
- 8:02Speaker 3: mission to prove something. And you saw it in their
- 8:05Speaker 3: home opener up in Vancouver, a sea of yellow. The
- 8:08Speaker 3: Australian fans are gonna They're going to show up and
- 8:12Speaker 3: show out.
- 8:12Speaker 2: You know.
- 8:12Speaker 3: The one question they asked was are you going to
- 8:15Speaker 3: have enough beer for us to drink here in Seattle.
- 8:17Speaker 3: That's a real question that they asked because they are
- 8:21Speaker 3: much like Scotland and the UK. They've got that in
- 8:24Speaker 3: their blood and they support their teams with a little
- 8:27Speaker 3: bit of juice to help them and they're going to
- 8:30Speaker 3: bring But they're such great people, right and I think
- 8:33Speaker 3: they're The challenges they're going to provide are.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Defensively, they're big and strong.
- 8:38Speaker 3: A lot of them play obviously in bigger teams in
- 8:42Speaker 3: Europe and especially England in the Championship, but up top
- 8:46Speaker 3: they have some serious speed and the US back line, yes, athletic.
- 8:51Speaker 3: I think that's going to provide the US some challenges.
- 8:54Speaker 3: It'll be a noon game, it'll be warm her and
- 8:57Speaker 3: not too hot, but the Australians know how to play
- 8:59Speaker 3: in the heat. They're going to rise to the challenge
- 9:03Speaker 3: and it's going to be a fantastic game. Look, I
- 9:06Speaker 3: got to play in a World Cup qualifier here against
- 9:08Speaker 3: Panama about ten years ago and I've never experienced an
- 9:11Speaker 3: atmosphere like that. The whole stadium in red, white and blue,
- 9:16Speaker 3: and I expect the USA fans to show up and
- 9:19Speaker 3: show out, but there will be mass amount of Australian
- 9:23Speaker 3: fans that are going to spur their team on.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean Brad Evans professional soccer player. One of
- 9:28Speaker 1: the great things about being a professional soccer player at
- 9:30Speaker 1: your level, the level that you reached, is that you
- 9:33Speaker 1: got to do a lot of international traveling. So since
- 9:35Speaker 1: you brought up the subject if this was the Beer Cup,
- 9:39Speaker 1: who would be the who would be the country to beat?
- 9:42Speaker 1: Who would be your number one seed in terms of
- 9:45Speaker 1: beer consumption in the entire world?
- 9:48Speaker 3: Well, the Scottish, I mean they already I think Boston
- 9:51Speaker 3: ran out of beer when Scotland played there, so no
- 9:55Speaker 3: one expects these. It's just a different culture, you know,
- 9:59Speaker 3: and it does matter. And I think Peter tomas Alla
- 10:02Speaker 3: kind of said the word. They asked us, well, does
- 10:05Speaker 3: it have to be fosters everywhere?
- 10:06Speaker 2: Do we need to like? And they're like, no, beer
- 10:08Speaker 2: is beer, we don't care.
- 10:10Speaker 3: And I love that about the Australians. It doesn't matter.
- 10:14Speaker 3: They're not picky, they're not cheesy. But the Germans are
- 10:18Speaker 3: very picky.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Yeah we know that.
- 10:21Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean the Scottish it doesn't matter if
- 10:24Speaker 3: it's warm or cold. They completely ran that city dry.
- 10:30Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, I've put together a full ranking system
- 10:33Speaker 1: for it. Then, all right, so every team's played a match.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Now have you adjusted any of your long term forecasts
- 10:41Speaker 1: for this tournament? Did somebody look so good that you've
- 10:45Speaker 1: now had to consider them as a contender? Maybe even
- 10:48Speaker 1: the US? And you know, team like Spain that ends
- 10:52Speaker 1: up in a tie with Cape Verde, have you lowered
- 10:56Speaker 1: your expectations for them or someone else?
- 10:59Speaker 3: I think the first round it's really tough to kind
- 11:04Speaker 3: of gauge where a team is at.
- 11:07Speaker 2: With the opening game in.
- 11:07Speaker 3: A World Cup, everyone is playing at level A thousand
- 11:11Speaker 3: like it's their last game they'll ever play. Kate Verde's thinking,
- 11:15Speaker 3: if I put maximum effort into this game, play like
- 11:18Speaker 3: I never have before, we have the potential to get
- 11:20Speaker 3: a point, our first point in a World Cup ever,
- 11:23Speaker 3: and they did that. I don't think a team like
- 11:26Speaker 3: that can carry that on through the tournament. And like
- 11:29Speaker 3: you said, Spain on the flip side, they're gonna have
- 11:31Speaker 3: a lot of adjustments to make the more attacking. Spain
- 11:36Speaker 3: is a team that likes to keep the ball eighty
- 11:38Speaker 3: five percent possession. You have to do in soccer is
- 11:41Speaker 3: the ball ultimately has to go wide and you got
- 11:44Speaker 3: to swing in a ball so that you unorganize and
- 11:47Speaker 3: opposing his defense, and Spain didn't do that. They'll do
- 11:49Speaker 3: that in the second, third game, and as they push
- 11:51Speaker 3: on into this tournament, they have the ability to make
- 11:53Speaker 3: those adjustments.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Kate Verdet will play the way that they play.
- 11:58Speaker 3: I don't see them advancing out of the group what possibly.
- 12:01Speaker 3: And that's why the first round is a little bit
- 12:03Speaker 3: iffy for me. In the first game. I think the
- 12:06Speaker 3: true test of these teams will be now in the
- 12:08Speaker 3: second and third game as they get that stress and
- 12:11Speaker 3: that high off of the first game and.
- 12:14Speaker 2: See if they can replicate it. Most teams can't. The
- 12:17Speaker 2: US has the.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Opportunity to, potentially, if they win this game, finish first
- 12:21Speaker 3: in the group, and that's huge when you talk about
- 12:23Speaker 3: seeding for the next rounds. That will set them up
- 12:26Speaker 3: for success as we move on in this tournament. But
- 12:29Speaker 3: you have to get the job done on Friday.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Brad Evans, So yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
- 12:34Speaker 2: I just don't think anybody's really jumped out.
- 12:37Speaker 3: I think the biggest storyline for me so far has
- 12:39Speaker 3: been Messi and his ability to step up on the
- 12:41Speaker 3: biggest occasion and lead his team in what could have
- 12:43Speaker 3: been a trap game, much like a couple other big
- 12:46Speaker 3: top five, top seven teams in the world got into.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Let me ask you about Messi and look, Brad Evans,
- 12:53Speaker 1: longtime player, soccer expert genius, where I pretty ignorant, pretty
- 12:59Speaker 1: ignorant when it comes to the sport. And so we
- 13:02Speaker 1: were having Ashley and I this conversation the other day,
- 13:04Speaker 1: and I have a feeling I'm not the only one
- 13:06Speaker 1: that wonders about this, So you can spell it out
- 13:09Speaker 1: for us. I see Messi dominate a game like that,
- 13:12Speaker 1: get a hat trick score all three of the goals.
- 13:14Speaker 1: We already knew going in he is the best player
- 13:17Speaker 1: in the world, arguably maybe the greatest player of all time.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And so I wondered aloud on the air, and neither
- 13:22Speaker 1: one of us has an answer for it. You would
- 13:25Speaker 1: why wouldn't you just like triple team that guy? Why
- 13:28Speaker 1: would you ever allow him to get loose if he
- 13:31Speaker 1: can take over a game individually like that. I mean,
- 13:34Speaker 1: there's a big pitch, there are a lot of human
- 13:36Speaker 1: beings out on that field. So why isn't the strategy
- 13:40Speaker 1: just to make sure he doesn't beat you?
- 13:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty simple. You see it with Inner Miami
- 13:47Speaker 3: or any other team that he's ever played on. It's
- 13:49Speaker 3: not just about the goals. It's about his passing ability
- 13:52Speaker 3: as well. So you've got twenty two players on a field,
- 13:55Speaker 3: right minus the goalkeepers as twenty field players. If you
- 13:58Speaker 3: take two away or three away just to Mark Messi,
- 14:01Speaker 3: you're still talking about world class players on the field
- 14:04Speaker 3: for Argentina that can produce anything at any moment in
- 14:09Speaker 3: the game. Well, if you're talking about a competitive advantage
- 14:12Speaker 3: and you take three or two and put them on Messi,
- 14:16Speaker 3: you're down two guys on the field. You would really
- 14:19Speaker 3: think you would want a one on one defender with
- 14:22Speaker 3: Messi at all times keeping an eye on him. But
- 14:24Speaker 3: as soon as you take another player away from the defense,
- 14:26Speaker 3: and then another player away from the defense and just
- 14:29Speaker 3: try to almost box him in. It's kind of like
- 14:32Speaker 3: when Golden State was so good they could literally just
- 14:36Speaker 3: pass the ball around and they had unbelievable shooters that
- 14:38Speaker 3: were hot at all times. So yeah, you double team
- 14:40Speaker 3: steph Curree, don't let him shoot a three, but then
- 14:42Speaker 3: it goes to Klay Thompson and he drains at three.
- 14:45Speaker 3: It's pretty similar in soccer. As soon as you start
- 14:48Speaker 3: to think you can double team a player, it just
- 14:51Speaker 3: doesn't work out in the game. And that's why you've
- 14:54Speaker 3: seen Argentina, you know, win the last World Cup. You've
- 14:57Speaker 3: seen Inner Miami, you know, win an MLS Cup. Here
- 15:00Speaker 3: Barcelona do it all the time. And I asked myself
- 15:02Speaker 3: the same question. Messi pops up on the top of
- 15:04Speaker 3: the box freet It's like, how do you let this happen?
- 15:06Speaker 3: Or even England yesterday you got Harry Kane, the world's
- 15:10Speaker 3: best striker.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Right now, cornerkick.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Comes in and he's completely free and unmarked, and I
- 15:16Speaker 3: don't know the psyche of some of these teams. It
- 15:19Speaker 3: was my team and Chad Marshall was six ft four,
- 15:21Speaker 3: two hundred pounds. I'm always having him mark the best
- 15:25Speaker 3: player offensively on the field. I don't care if you
- 15:27Speaker 3: foul him on a corner kick. I don't care what
- 15:30Speaker 3: it is, but you have to take that player out
- 15:31Speaker 3: of the game. With a guy like MESSI is soccer,
- 15:33Speaker 3: IQ is just his role. He's able to go free
- 15:37Speaker 3: anywhere on the field. He's not really beholden to a structure.
- 15:40Speaker 3: That's what makes it really, really difficult.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I love that England's best player is Harry Kane. I
- 15:45Speaker 1: mean they literally are just naming their athletes there after
- 15:50Speaker 1: Guy Ritchie characters. He sounds like a Guy Richie character,
- 15:54Speaker 1: typical England. Yeah, exactly. All right, man, great breakdown. We
- 15:58Speaker 1: appreciate it and sounds like you're having a blast with
- 16:02Speaker 1: us this, so we're gonna bug you again real soon.
- 16:05Speaker 2: All right, yep, problems thanks you having all right.
- 16:08Speaker 1: Brad Evans joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
- 16:11Speaker 1: in the morning part of our coverage World Cup coverage
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- 18:36Speaker 1: By the way, I should mention this. Tyler Adams from
- 18:39Speaker 1: the US Soccer team was just interviewed on FS one
- 18:43Speaker 1: and he said, Christian will be ready, let's relax. End
- 18:48Speaker 1: quote talking about his teammate Christian Pulistic. I mean what
- 18:51Speaker 1: we're reading is he's not going to be ready, right,
- 18:54Speaker 1: and that they're playing it off like it's a long tournament.
- 18:58Speaker 1: No it's not.
- 18:59Speaker 5: Maybe they don't want us Australia to know yet. Maybe
- 19:01Speaker 5: little game, little matchmanship.
- 19:04Speaker 4: Can you say that because it's a soccer ship, yes,
- 19:06Speaker 4: soccer match and not a soccer game.
- 19:08Speaker 1: I think that's it perfectly said. But Tyler Adams says
- 19:11Speaker 1: he's going to be ready, don't worry about it. So
- 19:13Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, I mean, I get that it's
- 19:16Speaker 1: a long tournament, but you lose the wrong game, it
- 19:20Speaker 1: can be a really short term.
- 19:21Speaker 5: Yeah it can. It doesn't.
- 19:22Speaker 4: It's only as long as the amount of games you win.
- 19:24Speaker 4: Really right, you gotta we gotta get out of your
- 19:27Speaker 4: pool first.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Yeah, you need your best player for that. So so
- 19:30Speaker 1: we'll say we'll keep our eye on it. But Tyler
- 19:33Speaker 1: Adams is no doctor, but he says that he should
- 19:36Speaker 1: be fine. And also, I just want to point this
- 19:38Speaker 1: out before we get into Seahawks. So one series recap
- 19:41Speaker 1: because it'll tie in. Actually, I'm glad that I got
- 19:44Speaker 1: the explanation from Brad about why they don't double in
- 19:48Speaker 1: triple team MESSI and I kind of thought that's what
- 19:52Speaker 1: the answer was, is because goals are so hard that
- 19:57Speaker 1: you can't just leave a player right on the field.
- 20:04Speaker 1: But I don't know. In basketball, there are fewer players
- 20:07Speaker 1: on the court, it's a smaller surface, and they do
- 20:12Speaker 1: boxes and ones and doubles and triple teams and everybody
- 20:16Speaker 1: else triangles and twos to keep a Michael Jordan and
- 20:20Speaker 1: he's a great passer too, mess. Soccer players don't have
- 20:24Speaker 1: the market cornered on guys that can both put the
- 20:28Speaker 1: ball in the goal and pass it. I mean, Michael
- 20:31Speaker 1: Jordan was a great passer too, and that didn't stop
- 20:33Speaker 1: people from making sure there was always two guys near
- 20:37Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. And so yeah, I don't know if I
- 20:42Speaker 1: still buy that argument. But then again, I'm sitting here
- 20:45Speaker 1: saying soccer's been around for like three hundred years. Am
- 20:49Speaker 1: I really the first to have thought from double teaming
- 20:52Speaker 1: a really good player.
- 20:54Speaker 5: Probably not.
- 20:55Speaker 4: Somebody's probably tried it, and then other teams have watched
- 20:57Speaker 4: it and they're like, look, that didn't work. Yeah, you're
- 21:00Speaker 4: not gonna put Like we were jokingly yesterday, like, why
- 21:03Speaker 4: wuldn't you put five guys on MESSI? Well, obviously you're
- 21:05Speaker 4: not really going to put five guys on MESSI because
- 21:07Speaker 4: now you're leading too many people open. But a double team,
- 21:09Speaker 4: I would think you're at least keeping someone.
- 21:11Speaker 1: At least in his vicinity and then you zone up
- 21:14Speaker 1: everybody else. I mean, if the others are so inferior
- 21:17Speaker 1: in comparison to him, wouldn't you have the ability to
- 21:20Speaker 1: recover with like zone mentality? Again, I'm speaking from a
- 21:25Speaker 1: platform of ignorance, I admit it, But I don't know
- 21:28Speaker 1: if I buy No, that works in other sports, but
- 21:30Speaker 1: it wouldn't work in hours. I don't know if I
- 21:32Speaker 1: buy that.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we need to go play probably wrong.
- 21:34Speaker 4: We need to go play that FIFA game on video game. Yeah,
- 21:38Speaker 4: and we'll test it out. Yeah maybe maybe, although I'd
- 21:40Speaker 4: have to learn how to play that too.
- 21:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Same here, but baby steps.
- 21:43Speaker 5: Yeah, we got this.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Well, this does tie into our Seahawks to One series
- 21:47Speaker 1: recap yesterday. Mike Sando was our guest our analyst to
- 21:50Speaker 1: break down one key Seahawk player we talked about Cooper Cup,
- 21:53Speaker 1: and when you talk about Cooper Cup, you can't help
- 21:55Speaker 1: but talk about JSN. And jsn's just coming off an
- 21:58Speaker 1: all world like historic type season this past year, and
- 22:03Speaker 1: so again double teams, triple teams. You do wonder what
- 22:08Speaker 1: defenses with an entire offseason might do to adjust to
- 22:13Speaker 1: trying to control JSN. But we also have an NFL
- 22:17Speaker 1: history success that suggests that when you have a really
- 22:20Speaker 1: special wide receiver, it doesn't matter. He's still going to
- 22:23Speaker 1: get his catches, still going to get his touches, and
- 22:25Speaker 1: you're still going to focus on him in your offense.
- 22:28Speaker 1: And so Cooper Cup, you wonder how many more catches
- 22:33Speaker 1: he's going to get based on how teams plan to
- 22:37Speaker 1: defend JSN. And I asked Mike Sando about whether or
- 22:42Speaker 1: not he expects JSN to have the same success or
- 22:45Speaker 1: if teams will scheme to try and take that away
- 22:48Speaker 1: from him.
- 22:48Speaker 6: Oh yeah, everyone knew, you know, how good he was
- 22:51Speaker 6: last year, and there wasn't a real great plan to
- 22:54Speaker 6: stop him. I think he's a very difficult matchup for
- 22:57Speaker 6: people because he's such a good all round player at
- 22:59Speaker 6: the position and he's not reliant on any one thing.
- 23:03Speaker 6: But I think he's a great technician. I think he
- 23:05Speaker 6: has better speed than you know that he's probably given
- 23:08Speaker 6: credit for. He's got the incredibly late hands, you know,
- 23:13Speaker 6: where you kind of trick the defensive back into the
- 23:16Speaker 6: balls even arriving as long as he has late hand,
- 23:18Speaker 6: one hand goes out and you can still do that.
- 23:21Speaker 6: And then I think in today's game, you know, the
- 23:24Speaker 6: offenses do a very good job of moving people around
- 23:27Speaker 6: and getting matchups. You're you're not going to shut down Jasam.
- 23:30Speaker 1: Yeah, and I agree, And I don't know why that is.
- 23:34Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's a messy thing. Maybe maybe
- 23:38Speaker 1: no matter what you do, Jerry Rice was going to
- 23:40Speaker 1: get his catches, Jamar Chase is going to get his catches.
- 23:45Speaker 1: I mean, the defense knows they're trying to get the
- 23:47Speaker 1: ball to Jamar Chase. I think there are just some
- 23:49Speaker 1: special wide receivers that can't be taken away, and fortunately
- 23:53Speaker 1: we have one of those guys. And so my guess,
- 23:57Speaker 1: I mean, even last year when we were having converse
- 24:00Speaker 1: sations about we need to spread the ball around a
- 24:02Speaker 1: little bit more. We can't just be focused on JSN
- 24:05Speaker 1: and Sam Donald was.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Like, no, No, I like it this way.
- 24:09Speaker 1: No, No, the answer is no, I'm throwing it to eleven.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Whenever I get the opportunity, I'll say this. I mean
- 24:16Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, in my opinion, is either near the wall
- 24:20Speaker 1: or at the wall. And what he brings to this
- 24:23Speaker 1: team has a lot more to do with the intangibles
- 24:26Speaker 1: than anything else. But he can still catch the ball,
- 24:29Speaker 1: win thrown two and he knows how to separate just
- 24:33Speaker 1: by pure knowledge of how to play the position. I mean,
- 24:36Speaker 1: he's crafty and I love having him on this football team.
- 24:41Speaker 1: And I think I mean number one, I love having JSN.
- 24:44Speaker 1: That's the thing to love because you have one of
- 24:46Speaker 1: those not just wr ones, You've got like historic Hall
- 24:50Speaker 1: of Fame type wide receiver, and then everything else can
- 24:54Speaker 1: play off of him. I think we're going to see
- 24:56Speaker 1: more from AJ Barner this year. I think we're going
- 24:58Speaker 1: to see more double tight end year. I think you're
- 25:00Speaker 1: going to see more Robbie oots this year if he
- 25:03Speaker 1: can stay healthy. They would have used them more last season.
- 25:06Speaker 1: But what I really like about this receiving core, even
- 25:08Speaker 1: if Cooper Cup catches fewer balls and Rashidsha he doesn't
- 25:12Speaker 1: take the step forward that's worthy of seventeen million dollars
- 25:16Speaker 1: per year in addition to his return skills. I really
- 25:20Speaker 1: like the balance of the group that John's assembled. And
- 25:24Speaker 1: to have the crafty Cooper Cup and then to have
- 25:27Speaker 1: the speed demon Rashid Shahed, who even if he doesn't
- 25:31Speaker 1: catch the pass, you better respect him otherwise he's going
- 25:34Speaker 1: over the top. For six, to have Bobo who might
- 25:38Speaker 1: be the slowest receiver in the National Football League and
- 25:40Speaker 1: yet hands great hands and knows how to bring balls
- 25:45Speaker 1: down and especially in tight spots and especially in the
- 25:49Speaker 1: end zone. And then Tory Horton, who also has a
- 25:52Speaker 1: nose for the end zone. I mean, it's just a
- 25:54Speaker 1: nice array. I mean it's just a They're all so
- 25:58Speaker 1: different from one another, and I think you want that
- 26:01Speaker 1: in your receiving corps. Have the one superstar and then
- 26:05Speaker 1: just have a bunch of unselfish I can perform that
- 26:09Speaker 1: specific role for you. Going to go back to Jordan,
- 26:12Speaker 1: That's what the Bulls turned into. It was one superstar,
- 26:15Speaker 1: and even Scottie Pippen was a bit of a role player.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Maybe the greatest role player ever, but he was a
- 26:20Speaker 1: bit of a role player off of Jordan, and then
- 26:23Speaker 1: everybody else just had like a unique skill. Yeah, and
- 26:27Speaker 1: they won six championships off of that template.
- 26:32Speaker 4: Well, and it's I mean you're making the other teams
- 26:35Speaker 4: have to game plan for all of those specific people
- 26:38Speaker 4: and their specific I mean, you've got so many options. Yes,
- 26:41Speaker 4: you've got your big superstar, you've got the person everybody's
- 26:43Speaker 4: obviously that's the priority for their game.
- 26:45Speaker 5: Planning, right, is to stop JSN.
- 26:47Speaker 4: But you've got so many other options and things that
- 26:50Speaker 4: you're forcing teams to work for in order to play you,
- 26:54Speaker 4: in order to match up well with you. That it's
- 26:56Speaker 4: just I mean, they're just so smart and the way
- 26:59Speaker 4: they put this team together.
- 27:00Speaker 1: I guess that's the brad Evans answer. Go ahead and
- 27:02Speaker 1: focus all of your attention to the one shiny object.
- 27:05Speaker 1: But we can beat you in other ways. We can
- 27:08Speaker 1: cut you in other ways if you if you play
- 27:11Speaker 1: it like that, yeah, test us. Yeah, go ahead, all right,
- 27:14Speaker 1: it's a good, good situation coming up next, sup. We
- 27:18Speaker 1: get your questions at Sports Radio ninety three point three
- 27:20Speaker 1: kJ R f M. Let's get right to it. I
- 27:22Speaker 1: don't need to set it up. People know what it is.
- 27:24Speaker 5: People know what it is.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, classes actually getting used to her new classes
- 27:31Speaker 1: just them on her nose.
- 27:33Speaker 5: Yeah, they're yeah, they're okay, sup, Chuck. Have you talked
- 27:38Speaker 5: to Hugh about.
- 27:39Speaker 4: How he said if anyone thinks the NBA lottery is rigged,
- 27:41Speaker 4: they're just playing stupid.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Yes, we have talked about it, Yes, and he uh.
- 27:51Speaker 1: He of course said that it wasn't directed at me. Okay, sure, uh,
- 27:59Speaker 1: and he was. He's done a lot of research on
- 28:04Speaker 1: the topic and he is very well prepared. If I
- 28:07Speaker 1: went into a court of law with him, I would
- 28:10Speaker 1: lose the argument in a court of law. But then again,
- 28:13Speaker 1: I've said throughout the process, I can't prove it. I
- 28:17Speaker 1: just believe that the NBA lottery is rigged, and there's
- 28:20Speaker 1: enough evidence that I don't think anyone, even the brilliant
- 28:25Speaker 1: Hugh Mellon, could convince me otherwise. And believe me, he's tried.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I don't think anybody could convince me otherwise. So it
- 28:32Speaker 1: doesn't matter if I lost in a court of law,
- 28:35Speaker 1: because I have a feeling the NBA has an awful
- 28:38Speaker 1: lot of really high priced lawyers that could be really
- 28:41Speaker 1: slick in their presentation to throw me off their scent.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Truth of the matter is, I probably can't prove that
- 28:47Speaker 1: there are ghosts or alien life or bifoot or well
- 28:54Speaker 1: or Jesus Christ. And yet I believe in all of them. Yeah,
- 28:59Speaker 1: I don't think I could prove it in a court
- 29:00Speaker 1: of law, but I believe in all of them. So
- 29:04Speaker 1: just put the NBA lottery as rigged into that category.
- 29:07Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, you're gonna have to help me
- 29:10Speaker 4: understand this one.
- 29:11Speaker 5: Okay, from the two of six? What's from the two
- 29:14Speaker 5: of six? Sub ash?
- 29:15Speaker 4: Isn't the World Cup just like the Olympics and WBC two?
- 29:19Speaker 4: Aren't they taking away the Olympic charm?
- 29:21Speaker 3: Oh?
- 29:21Speaker 5: Okay, I get it. They're saying, like, is having.
- 29:23Speaker 4: The World Cup and the Olympics taking away from the
- 29:27Speaker 4: World Cup and the WBC taking away from the Olympics. No,
- 29:30Speaker 4: because is soccer in the Olympics. Yes, it is, But
- 29:34Speaker 4: I don't think it takes away from anything.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Well, I think every sport is obviously doing their own
- 29:40Speaker 1: individual world.
- 29:41Speaker 2: Event we have.
- 29:43Speaker 1: All of them are becoming global, and all of them
- 29:47Speaker 1: are featuring athletes from around the world these days, and
- 29:52Speaker 1: so there's a definite appeal certainly now in all the
- 29:57Speaker 1: sports too. Against your peers one a lot of time,
- 30:00Speaker 1: but one your peers. You would never face off against
- 30:03Speaker 1: Japanese best baseball players once upon a time, or if
- 30:07Speaker 1: you did, it was some random exhibition somewhere. But now
- 30:11Speaker 1: that they're all peers, now that we have this intermingling
- 30:14Speaker 1: in all of our sports, and now that Japanese players
- 30:16Speaker 1: are among our best baseball players and Croatian basketball players
- 30:21Speaker 1: are among the best in the world. Now to have
- 30:24Speaker 1: a stage that, outside the Olympics, you get to go
- 30:28Speaker 1: head to head, yeah, I think that. I think it's
- 30:32Speaker 1: a good thing. I won't go as far as a
- 30:34Speaker 1: great thing, and I don't really care if the Olympics
- 30:37Speaker 1: gets watered down anymore.
- 30:38Speaker 4: I was gonna say, also, I feel like the Olympic charm.
- 30:41Speaker 4: The Olympics have lost their own charm. It has nothing
- 30:43Speaker 4: to do with the WBC or the World Cup. Yeah, yeah,
- 30:47Speaker 4: I think it's an Olympic problem, sup show. What's up
- 30:50Speaker 4: with Network's canceling quality TV shows with a great casting
- 30:53Speaker 4: characters after one season? I hate investing eight to ten
- 30:56Speaker 4: episodes and then some nerd in a suit is like, nafam,
- 30:59Speaker 4: no more of this show.
- 31:01Speaker 5: Let good characters live. That's from the four to two.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Five Is he saying killing the shows or killing the carrots.
- 31:07Speaker 4: Killing the shows, and I agree, it is very annoying.
- 31:09Speaker 4: Now there's been a couple of shows where I thought
- 31:11Speaker 4: they were great. I watched a season and then you
- 31:14Speaker 4: just end.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Manhunter comes to mind. Now they had two seasons and
- 31:20Speaker 1: I'm like, and they left us with like a cliffhanger
- 31:22Speaker 1: at the end of the second and then this decided
- 31:25Speaker 1: never to make another one.
- 31:26Speaker 5: It's the worst.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Now, maybe they've gone back and made one. I think
- 31:30Speaker 1: maybe I saw some stuff on the old Twitter about that,
- 31:34Speaker 1: but I have not circled back. But I mean, I
- 31:37Speaker 1: thought that show was going to be my favorite shows
- 31:39Speaker 1: good being my favorite show, and then just kept waiting
- 31:42Speaker 1: for it and waiting for it and waiting for it.
- 31:44Speaker 1: So it's all about the financial support.
- 31:46Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one show that five Iron and I
- 31:49Speaker 4: watched that. It was like the two seasons were ten
- 31:51Speaker 4: years apart, so clearly, and we watched it, you know,
- 31:55Speaker 4: just recently. So I can't imagine after the first season
- 31:59Speaker 4: if I've watched it and then been so annoyed that
- 32:02Speaker 4: another one didn't come out, and then so excited ten
- 32:04Speaker 4: years later when another one came out.
- 32:05Speaker 5: It was like Hugh Laurie and a guy. Oh my god,
- 32:09Speaker 5: it was so good and now I want to find
- 32:10Speaker 5: the name of it because it's going to drive me
- 32:11Speaker 5: cr night manager. Yeah that was great. Yeah, those were
- 32:15Speaker 5: actually filmed ten years apart.
- 32:17Speaker 1: I haven't even seen the second one. I didn't even
- 32:19Speaker 1: know they did.
- 32:19Speaker 5: The same Oh they did a second one.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Okay, see now I've just major day. Yeah, okay, yeah,
- 32:24Speaker 1: that's worth us seeing again. But there's no accounting for taste,
- 32:28Speaker 1: like the masses, taste like Arrested Development is considered one
- 32:32Speaker 1: of the greatest comedies of all time, and yet it
- 32:36Speaker 1: didn't connect with a large fan base, so they got
- 32:41Speaker 1: rid of it, and then they brought it back years
- 32:43Speaker 1: later because really, Ron Howard was like, there's no way
- 32:46Speaker 1: this show's not good, right, I'm bringing it back to
- 32:49Speaker 1: prove that it's good, And then it didn't come back
- 32:51Speaker 1: nearly as good as.
- 32:52Speaker 2: What it was before.
- 32:53Speaker 1: More of them are. But yeah, there's no accounting for
- 32:55Speaker 1: the taste of all of the masses. Why some shows
- 32:58Speaker 1: are still on that are awful, and then why some
- 33:01Speaker 1: of our favorite shows are on for one season and
- 33:04Speaker 1: get canceled. I don't know.
- 33:05Speaker 4: I don't know to explain, No rhyme or reason. Yeah,
- 33:07Speaker 4: we did get some clarification, by the way, on our
- 33:09Speaker 4: soccer question there with the Olympics. Olympic soccer is either
- 33:13Speaker 4: you twenty one or you twenty three. We've got two
- 33:14Speaker 4: different answers. But you have a different player pool than
- 33:17Speaker 4: World Cups, so it's a different team.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't watch a lot of soccer, and I
- 33:22Speaker 1: don't really watch a lot of the Olympics.
- 33:24Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.
- 33:25Speaker 4: Yeah, uh step Chuck. This is Jeremy asking you. Did
- 33:28Speaker 4: you ever go to T Bone Steakhouse?
- 33:31Speaker 1: T Bone Steakhouse.
- 33:34Speaker 5: I couldn't tell you where it is or what.
- 33:36Speaker 3: No.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but that is ringing a bell. Did he
- 33:38Speaker 1: give me that advice? At one point told me to
- 33:40Speaker 1: go there?
- 33:40Speaker 4: Oh maybe I wonder where, Jeremy, you got a Texas
- 33:43Speaker 4: back and it seems.
- 33:44Speaker 1: Like somebody to give me the advice to do that. No,
- 33:46Speaker 1: I have not done that yet.
- 33:48Speaker 2: All right.
- 33:48Speaker 4: Yeah, and thank you to the two five to three
- 33:50Speaker 4: who says they like my new glasses.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Oh good, I do too, By the way, I think
- 33:54Speaker 1: they look really sharp. I appreciate it. All right. Coming
- 33:56Speaker 1: back on the other side, we got a little World
- 33:59Speaker 1: Cup up for you. We got a US Open update,
- 34:01Speaker 1: we got to get to at nine twenty, and of
- 34:05Speaker 1: course we've got some Mariners things to discuss, not just
- 34:08Speaker 1: Julio and his availability, but also the big ee Bank
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