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10-26 H1: What's On Tap, Wins & Tough Ones & K9 Night · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Oh, happy Monday to you all. And it
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  Speaker 1: is a happy occasion. As the Seattle Seahawks dominated last
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  Speaker 1: night on Sunday Night Football. And we're going to break
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  Speaker 1: it down for you here this morning on Chuck in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Great to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us. And when I say us, I mean Christopher Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Anders Hurst. And I mean myself, Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: It is wonderful to have you with us. Hope you
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  Speaker 1: had a great weekend. Enjoyed the fall weather. All the football.
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  Speaker 1: All the fantastic. uh, things that, uh, happened here in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle over the weekend. And we're going to celebrate it all.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Mellon's coming your way on Monday morning quarterback, starting
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  Speaker 1: at eight o'clock today. Greg Bell will be with us
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  Speaker 1: of course, at seven Oh five. Uh, so happy Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning to you all. And, uh, certainly everybody, uh, who
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  Speaker 1: is rooting for the Seahawks is, uh, waking up a
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  Speaker 1: little skip in their step uh, here today, Anders, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this after that performance last night,
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  Speaker 1: 20 to three over the Kansas city chiefs. Um, anybody
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  Speaker 1: out there who is rooting for an NFL team to
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  Speaker 1: win the Superbowl that doesn't live in Seattle or follow
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks had a, Oh crap moment last night, because
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  Speaker 1: that was a reminder of the Seahawks are the champions.
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  Speaker 1: They have the greatest defensive mind in the sport, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to come through Seattle in order
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  Speaker 1: to beat them this year. So there wasn't anybody that
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch last night's performance that is a football fan.
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  Speaker 1: And probably has been spreading the same gobbledygook of, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really believe in them. They're a fluke team. They
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  Speaker 1: watch that game going, oh no, here they go again.
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  Speaker 1: Because that was one of those jot it down, like,
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  Speaker 1: look like a Super Bowl champ tonight. That was the
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  Speaker 1: complete effort that they have not put together yet. this
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  Speaker 1: season and was the most complete effort any NFL team
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  Speaker 1: has put together this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were waiting for that to happen, right? In
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  Speaker 3: the last few weeks, it was like, okay, is this
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  Speaker 3: the week the Seahawks are going to put together a
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  Speaker 3: complete game? Is this the week the Seahawks are going
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  Speaker 3: to put together a complete game? They did it on
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  Speaker 3: the biggest stage with their guy coming back into town.
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  Speaker 3: And man, that statement was made by the Seahawks last
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  Speaker 3: night on primetime. Everyone was watching and everyone definitely had
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  Speaker 3: a little bit Yeah, that's the Super Bowl champs right there.
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  Speaker 3: There's a reason why they are the defending champs. I
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  Speaker 3: know Chris Collinsworth last night, or Mike Tirico, actually, when
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  Speaker 3: they were saying, Chiefs, whatever, and the champs, this. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't even call the Seahawks by their name. They called
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  Speaker 3: them the champs. And it's deserved by how they played
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome. Yeah, and we got a lot to
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  Speaker 1: get to here today. We're going to try to get
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  Speaker 1: to as many of our thoughts here in this first
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  Speaker 1: segment as we possibly can. So, a lot of flowers
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  Speaker 1: to hand out. I mean, like I said, this was...
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  Speaker 1: I made this point on Friday. It's kind of musty.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was mathematically a must win, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that the team really needs to put together
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  Speaker 1: one of those complete games to remind them of who
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  Speaker 1: they are. And we saw that last night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't anything wrong with the performance from the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line did not allow a sack. Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: certainly had time. The running game was effective far more
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  Speaker 1: than Kansas City's, which we'll get to here in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: The tackling was sure. They bottled up the Chiefs' number
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  Speaker 1: one running game in the National Football League. Only one
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  Speaker 1: sack from the Seahawks, but ask Patrick Mahomes this morning
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  Speaker 1: if he felt pressured. I know Nick Emanuari played a
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  Speaker 1: great game. Greg did some coverage on that. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to him about that at 7.05. He was
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  Speaker 1: fantastic last night. I mean, to have a weapon that can,
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  Speaker 1: on one play, chase down Patrick Mahomes in the backfield,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the world's, you know, most fiendish leopard. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the next play, be covering their fastest
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  Speaker 1: receiver down the field on a fly. Are you kidding me? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We have that guy. That guy is number three. He
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  Speaker 1: is him. And he is unique. He is one of
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  Speaker 1: a kind. And Mike McDonald, you pair that with the
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  Speaker 1: greatest defensive mind in football and watch the magic those
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  Speaker 1: two can do together. Eamon Worry was fantastic. Ernest Jones
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  Speaker 1: and Tyrese Knight. So good. Bottling up the run. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they led the team in tackles. Derek Hall. Leonard Williams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams was fantastic last night. So I can throw
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  Speaker 1: out all the flowers, and hopefully we'll get to spend
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  Speaker 1: some time on all of these things in our four
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  Speaker 1: hours together. But, Anders, I mean, I can't start the show...
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  Speaker 1: I can't start the biggest topics of the show without
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  Speaker 1: pointing out two people. One I've already mentioned, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Mike McDonald is the greatest defensive mind in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And what he did with a few extra days to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the Kansas City Chiefs, and he's told
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  Speaker 1: us many times before, I don't like early season games.
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  Speaker 1: I need more tape. More tape plus three extra days
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  Speaker 1: to prep and... He took apart an offense that was
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  Speaker 1: taking apart everyone that it had faced. A guy that
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  Speaker 1: was rushing, going to rush for 2,300 yards, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: was on pace to rush for 2,300 yards coming into
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  Speaker 1: this game. That pace is not there anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was bottled up last night to the degree
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  Speaker 1: of 14 carries, 36 yards. I set the over-under at 75.
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  Speaker 1: I took the under Greg Bell took the under you actually, oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: I took the over. You couldn't believe that somebody would
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  Speaker 1: take the under. Not only was it under, it was
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  Speaker 1: halfway under 2.6 yards per carry. And then you sell
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  Speaker 1: out to stop the run, right? That opens you up
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  Speaker 1: and you're exposed to the great Patrick Mahomes who might
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  Speaker 1: be the quarterback of this generation. And Chris Collinsworth nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: Like there were two looks there. that Patrick Mahomes had
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  Speaker 1: on his face last night of, what can you do?
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing we can do. It's like there are 13
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  Speaker 1: guys in blue uniforms out here on the field. He
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  Speaker 1: had this look of, I don't stand a chance. We
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  Speaker 1: don't stand a chance tonight. And I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: it was a coincidence that Patrick Mahomes made a beeline
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  Speaker 1: for Mike McDonald to whisper in his ear last night.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is, That is fantastic. You guys are good.
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  Speaker 1: You are good, sir. Meanwhile, Ken Walker slipped off the
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  Speaker 1: field and didn't go shake a single hand of one
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  Speaker 1: of his former teammates slash friends because he did not
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  Speaker 1: have the night he wanted to have. Obviously, it was
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  Speaker 1: very clear he wanted to come back and show Seattle
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  Speaker 1: what they're missing out on. And instead, Mike dials up
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  Speaker 1: a game plan that shows Seattle, hey, we're all right
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  Speaker 1: without him. Don't worry. Don't fret. Hell, I'm even going
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  Speaker 1: to keep Emmanuel Wilson in the game to get exactly
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  Speaker 1: 100 yards on the night that Ken Walker is held
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  Speaker 1: to just 36 yards by me and my defensive players
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  Speaker 1: just to show you there's nothing to worry about. You
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  Speaker 1: can take your Ken Walker week and you can wad
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  Speaker 1: it up and throw it in the corner. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what he did last night. That's what he did. Without
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  Speaker 1: exposing the pass defense, he absolutely took out the number
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  Speaker 1: one weapon in the National Football League five games into
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  Speaker 1: this regular season. He is phenomenal. He is the greatest
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  Speaker 1: coach in the National Football League. I would not trade
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  Speaker 1: him for anybody. And if he's already sunk his teeth
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  Speaker 1: into this mission like that in week number seven, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: you better believe the rest of the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: had a oops, I crapped my pants moment. last night
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  Speaker 1: watching that game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned that the Seahawks had a couple
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  Speaker 3: extra days, and Mike McDonald loves that. You know who
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  Speaker 3: else had a couple extra days? In fact, more than that,
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  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs. They were coming off their own bye.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. They had their own extra time to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for this, and they still could not move the ball whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: That's Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, and Ken Walker. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I know they're missing a couple of their receivers.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, but.
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  Speaker 3: Who isn't missing pieces at this point? Obviously, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: would say the same thing about their running backs. They
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  Speaker 3: had their third string running back go for almost 100
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  Speaker 3: scrimmage yards last night.
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  Speaker 1: So that's over 100. Over 100. Yeah, you're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. He did.
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  Speaker 3: But I just I'm keep we keep getting more and
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  Speaker 3: more evidence that What you said is true. This is
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  Speaker 3: the best defensive mind and this is the best defense
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  Speaker 3: period in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: There's no one close. I'm sorry. 50 total yards rushing
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  Speaker 1: from the Chiefs last night. 213 total yards in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And believe me, they were doing like hurry up, mop
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  Speaker 1: up stuff at the end of the game as well.
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  Speaker 1: There was at one point where the discrepancy in yardage
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  Speaker 1: was like over 200 yards at one point. And so
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  Speaker 1: just remarkable. And then that leads me to the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: that has to be discussed. If Ken Walker was the
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  Speaker 1: MVP frontrunner, like so many people told us, going into
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  Speaker 1: that game because he was the best running back in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League to this point in the season,
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  Speaker 1: then JSN, starting this morning, is the MVP frontrunner. Because
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  Speaker 1: he is dominating the receiver categories like Walker was the
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  Speaker 1: running back categories coming into the game. The only difference
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  Speaker 1: is JSN built on his success last night so far
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  Speaker 1: this year. And Ken Walker's got his pushed out like
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  Speaker 1: a cigarette butt by Mike McDonald. Yeah. This player is,
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  Speaker 1: there aren't words to describe how good he is. And
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  Speaker 1: last night put it all on display once again. Nine catches,
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  Speaker 1: 150 yards. Targeted him 12 times. Targeted the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the receivers, what, seven, nine, 13 times. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Target him more. He cannot be stopped. He cannot be covered.
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  Speaker 1: He is perfect. He is the perfect football player. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Chris Collinsworth in his statements last night
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  Speaker 1: when he was giving Sam all the credit. Sam was
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  Speaker 1: great last night. He had that one interception at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the half, which was aggravating. But the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the game, he was great. And he threw two
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  Speaker 1: great throws down into the corner. But nobody in the
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  Speaker 1: league catches those passes except JSN. And you want to
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  Speaker 1: know why I say that? It's because nobody stays on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. No one is more committed to just making
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  Speaker 1: the catch and not making it look like Odell Beckham.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to do it one-handed. I've got to moss
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  Speaker 1: this guy. I've got to do it twisting. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to do it all. No, no, no, no. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to control my body to the point that no
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  Speaker 1: matter the throw that comes my way, I'm not only
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  Speaker 1: going to catch it, I'm going to catch it easily.
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  Speaker 1: And I am going to catch it with both my
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  Speaker 1: feet in bounds, even though I'm looking to the skies
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what's underneath my feet. And I
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  Speaker 1: am going to catch it. And this is the most
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  Speaker 1: important part. This to me is the most important part
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  Speaker 1: about those two, because Sam's throws were fantastic. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: Hugh's going to detail for us at eight o'clock, just
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  Speaker 1: how great, how difficult those throws, how perfect those throws were,
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  Speaker 1: but they still are incomplete passes. if jsn's hands aren't
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  Speaker 1: so just phenomenal otherworldly that they just stick yep two
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  Speaker 1: rainbow shots over a defender having to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: out of bounds knowing the end zone is near knowing
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  Speaker 1: the pylon is around their defensive guy right on my
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  Speaker 1: hip i don't care how perfect the throw was He
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  Speaker 1: had to stick the feet, and the ball had to
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  Speaker 1: stick Anders to his hand. If he bobbled it at all,
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  Speaker 1: those are incomplete passes. He only got two feet down.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he had extra steps after that. The
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  Speaker 1: timing of that was when the ball hit his hands,
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  Speaker 1: he had to catch the ball right then and there.
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  Speaker 1: Over his shoulder. Arcing play. Like... And then all of
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  Speaker 1: the other clever things that he does to get open
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  Speaker 1: and the run after the catch. I told you and Chris, what,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks ago, four weeks ago, you are watching the
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  Speaker 1: best receiver of your lifetime. And I think the nation
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  Speaker 1: got a taste of that again last night. And as
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  Speaker 1: I said to start the conversation... If Ken Walker was
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  Speaker 1: the MVP coming into that game because he was dominating
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  Speaker 1: running categories, JSN was dominating the receiving categories just as equally,
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  Speaker 1: and he showed up last night and had maybe his
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  Speaker 1: best game of the year. And that's saying something. JSN
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  Speaker 1: is the MVP of the national football league. As we
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning, we're going to talk a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cool things. I mean, sometimes some of the best
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  Speaker 1: sports talk radio are after a loss and trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what went wrong in a game. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the opposite of that. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a fun day because all we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do is hand out flowers and laud because of the
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  Speaker 1: complete performance that we saw from the Seahawks for the
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  Speaker 1: first time this season. last night, but make no mistake
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  Speaker 1: about it. In my, in my mind, the two guys
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  Speaker 1: that have to be put, you know, on the pedestal,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and Jackson Smith in Jigba, because they are
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  Speaker 1: the two best at what they do. And there is
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  Speaker 1: some stiff ass competition for both of them. There's some
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  Speaker 1: great receivers in the national football league right now. And
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  Speaker 1: number 11 is better than all of them. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not even close. And our head coach is It's better
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  Speaker 1: than all of them, and it's not close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for people that would think, okay, we're
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  Speaker 3: being a little hyperbolic with the JSN MVP talk.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm not. I mean, why would
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  Speaker 1: you even say that? How could anybody think that that's hyperbolic?
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  Speaker 1: We just spent an entire week hearing Ken Walker's the MVP,
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  Speaker 1: and he just outplayed him.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason why people thought Kenneth Walker was the
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  Speaker 3: MVP was because he came in and changed an offense, right?
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  Speaker 3: And he was dominating like we... hadn't seen that early
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  Speaker 3: in the season a running back in quite a while
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  Speaker 3: been been that good right you said he was on
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  Speaker 3: pace for 2300 yards or something well jsn he didn't
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  Speaker 3: have to transform this offense because he was already here
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  Speaker 3: but he's absolutely carrying it for and he has been
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  Speaker 3: all season long i get the seahawks may not be
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  Speaker 3: overall as an offense to the level that the chiefs
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  Speaker 3: were the first five weeks of their season but there
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  Speaker 3: is no guy in the NFL where you take that
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  Speaker 3: singular player out and the team is as big of
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  Speaker 3: a drop off or would be as big of a
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  Speaker 3: drop off as if you were to take out JSN
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  Speaker 3: from the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: I just think I, I, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's the MVP of the national football league
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  Speaker 3: as we wake up this morning on October 26. And
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  Speaker 3: that's crazy to think about. That's a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll probably end up being a quarterback. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it probably will. But I mean, when you
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  Speaker 1: win offensive player of the year, I know, and you
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  Speaker 1: play the wide receiver position and you're not a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And then the daunting task of, well, what would I
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  Speaker 1: have to do to ever get the biggest award out there?
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  Speaker 1: How would I get the MVP? That means you have
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  Speaker 1: to top an offensive player of the year season from
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  Speaker 1: the previous year. And he's not only doing that. He's
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  Speaker 1: blowing past the season that he had a year ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he is. With more attention paid to him than he–
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  Speaker 1: because everybody is out to stop number 11. I mean, he's–
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  Speaker 1: he's just– there aren't words. There aren't words. To describe
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  Speaker 1: how good of a receiver he is. And it was
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  Speaker 1: on full display again last night. So on Ken Walker night–
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, apparently NBC found out that Ken
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  Speaker 1: Walker was on our team last year. Really? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who spilled the beans. Cannot confirm?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to do some research. It seems like they really,
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  Speaker 1: really clung to that last night. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be the Ken Walker broadcast last night. That's
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  Speaker 1: what NBC was prepared to do, was Ken Walker was
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  Speaker 1: going to run wild on the Seahawks and get his revenge.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, they had features and vignettes and they
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  Speaker 1: had stats and analysis and they talked to his dad
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  Speaker 1: and they found out they had a weight room when
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  Speaker 1: he was two months old. And I mean, they, they
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  Speaker 1: were all about it. And then halfway through their Ken
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  Speaker 1: Walker party here shows up number 11 to say, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the best player on the field. And I always happen. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I tried to stick Delane on him last night.
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  Speaker 3: That didn't work either.
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  Speaker 1: And he's good. He's really good. He's going to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But number 11 is indefensible. Yeah. He is inevitable. And
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  Speaker 1: we saw it again last night. So anyway, we are
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  Speaker 1: underway here on this Monday. Let's find out what's on
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  Speaker 1: tap for the rest of the show.
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• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen will be with us from 8 to 9.40
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: this morning with a session of Monday Morning Quarterback. The
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: 4 and 3 Seahawks still are on the outside of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the playoffs looking in, believe it or not. But there's time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of time. They host the Chicago Bears on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. So another huge game, another huge stage,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and another team that wants to put its hat in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the ring for best team in the National Football League.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: The cocky Chicago Bears are going to roll into town
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: next Monday. and so it won't take long before we're
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: previewing that big matchup. This Monday, it'll be Dallas at Philadelphia.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: That's the matchup for tonight. I'll probably pick it in
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Factor Fiction at 735 today. 49ers and Chiefs fall from
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the ranks of the unbeaten. The Atlanta Falcons took out
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco 49ers. That leaves just the Minnesota Vikings,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the only undefeated team in the National Football League, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure many people believe in them. We'll cover
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that in Wins and Tough Ones, which is coming up
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: here at 6.30. Aaron Rodgers, after a Paris victory, went
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: off on the National. Football League yesterday. I don't know
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: if we'll get to it today, but at some point
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this week we probably should because, man, I believe in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: truth therapy. When someone hears the truth, no matter how
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: hard it is, they know it. Like, oh, you just
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: nailed me. And I think it does... I think it
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: is effective. I don't think the National Football League will
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: blink at it, but I think the National Football League
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: had to have heard those comments and like, he makes
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of great points. He kind of nailed us
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: on that one. Yep. Yeah. It's a little too close
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to home. All right, Aaron, you won this round. College football,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: BYU and Texas Tech both lost. They fell from the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: ranks of the unbeaten. On Saturday, Ohio State moved up
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to No. 2, and Oregon lost again. This time to Illinois. Oh,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Dan Lanning. Poor Dan. World Series resumes tonight. The Milwaukee
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Brewers are up 2-0, just two fantastic baseball games to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: start this series. with Milwaukee falling behind in Game 2,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: 4-0 in the first inning. No panic. Don't worry about it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: We'll chip away and we'll win. And they did. So
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers are just on fire. They're in Tampa
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: tonight to take on the Rays. Game No. 3, first
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: pitch at 5 o'clock. Former Ray Rocco Baldelli has removed
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: himself from the Mariners' managerial search. I mean, it reads
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like he was a pretty strong contender. But also keep
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: in mind, They don't want information to leak on this
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: managerial search. So whoever got leaked doesn't necessarily mean they
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: were at the top of the list. But it does
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: stir thoughts. There's no question about it. Like, why did
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: he pull out? Does it have anything to do with Jerry?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Does it have anything to do with the team? Does
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: it have anything to do with the organization? or does
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: he genuinely just not want to take his family from
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Florida all the way to the Pacific Northwest? That's what
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he cited. That's what he cited, but we'll talk about
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it a little bit later on in the show. WNBA
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Game 5 tonight in Golden State. That series is now
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: even at two games apiece, and the Kraken are off tonight.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: They lost Saturday, and they also lost McCann, their leader,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: for a long time. That's what it seems like.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: We'll kind of get more details as kind of things
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: come out, but that's a tough loss for them. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be hard to replace them.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we'll talk more about it tomorrow, probably. And
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: then just quickly, one last thing. Tonight is a sports equinox,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: they call it. This has happened, I think, only 33
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: other times in, I guess, in sports history. If I
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: read the graphic right this morning, that this is the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: 34th time that on one single day, all big four teams,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: leagues will be playing their sport. So the NFL has
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Baseball's got the World Series. The NHL's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: playing regular season games. And the NBA's playing regular season games.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool. October. All right. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the best month ever. Not even close. Second best month
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: ever for sports? October. They have the top two spots.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Number one and number two. All right. Wins and tough
• 23:06
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• 23:24
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• 23:28
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• 23:31
  Speaker 1: FM and all sorts of gooey good stuff to get into.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So let's start with yesterday morning, 6.30 start time in France.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback room showed up
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: dressed as Peaky Blinders, which I really didn't know if
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: that fit the theme. They're not exactly French. No. But
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you did look sharp. You all looked really good. You
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: looked really good. And the Steelers do come away with
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a 16-10 win. The real story was Rodgers putting the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: NFL on blast after the game was over. what they
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: do to players during the course of a season. We'll
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: talk more about that in the coming days. It'll be
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: an interesting topic midweek for us here on the show. Meanwhile,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: then the morning session games got underway. and the San
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Francisco 49ers were finally handed a loss, 29-20 to the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, who improved to 3-4. Three costly turnovers from
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy and company for the San Francisco 49ers, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey had a McCaffrey injury pop up again, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the running game wasn't the same without him because he
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: started that game like gangbusters. So here you go, Anders.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Here's the first loss. That's two consecutive weeks against teams
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: with losing records. They barely beat the Commanders. Should have
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: lost to the Commanders. Did lose to the Atlanta Falcons
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: pretty convincingly. And add another list to another veteran breaking
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: down player in Christian McCaffrey. Who knows if they'll even
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be available next week.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: First of all, thank you, Michael Penix. Even after he
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: leaves Seattle, he is still providing service to the Seattle
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: football fans here. But, yeah, I think just like that,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Seahawks are within two games of the San Francisco 49ers,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: which is crazy to think about.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: That's right. And who looks better? Right now? Right now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I think the Seahawks do. All right, Cleveland Browns improved
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to 5-2. They won 27-24 over the Tennessee Titans. All
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: AFC North teams are over. 500, and I'm not sure
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: any of them are good. No.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of the anti-NFC East, where it's like
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: they're all under. 500 and they're all bad. Yeah, well,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: at least that's true to their identity.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati won over Baltimore 35-13. The Bengals at halftime were
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: being shut out 13-0. Apparently, Jamar Chase went off on
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the team in the locker room, and I don't know
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: if that did it or if they just found something,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but they outscored Baltimore 35-0 in the second half. and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: rolled through the Ravens. So Cincinnati's 4-2, Baltimore's 4-3 on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the year. They're hoping to get Lamar Jackson back next week.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Colts, I'll give them this, they did play
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: really hard amid all of these trade rumors. It sounds
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like every star player the Colts have are being mentioned
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in trade rumors right now. There was even a really
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: strong Jonathan Taylor to the Seahawks trade rumor that popped
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: up over the weekend. Well, Taylor played hard. DeForest Buckner
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: played hard. All these guys, Quentin Nelson, have been mentioned as...
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: going to be out as the Colts start a rebuild
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they played hard but they just couldn't beat the undefeated
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings 16 to 10 the final score the Vikings
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: of all teams the only undefeated team left and like
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the AFC North.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody's buying it yeah I mean
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: you we know an elite defense can take you far
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: but I just don't know how far if there's not
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: really much else besides that so we'll see it we'll
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: kind of play see what ends up happening the rest
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins have grabbed a win, so they are
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: no longer among the win-less. They defeated the New York
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Jets yesterday by a final score of 28-25. The Tampa
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers have decided, well, not dead yet. They rose
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: up and destroyed Carolina yesterday, 43-13. The defense created a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: lot of offense for the Buccaneers yesterday. But certainly the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: team responded to having its leader back, Baker Mayfield wearing
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: some sort of engineered glove to help his thumb not
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: bend backward. It worked. Apparently it worked. I wonder if
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: it's illegal. It's a good point, actually. I wonder. 43-13
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: was the final score there, so the Buccaneers... in that
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: division have kind of climbed back into the race at 2-5.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: The New York Giants defeated the Houston Texans. As bad
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a loss for the Texans as it was a good
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: win for the New York Giants. 27-21 in overtime, the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: final score. And J.J. McCarthy. I mean, you want to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: talk about a conversation we need to have at length
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: later this week. How good Kevin O'Connell looks for getting
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings to 6-0? But how bad Kevin O'Connell
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: looks that he just totally, apparently misplayed this entire J.J. McCarthy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, they spent a huge draft pick on this guy,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: demoted him, put him in the doghouse, decided he was terrible,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: traded him for nothing, and now all of a sudden...
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He looks terrific with the New York Giants, and one
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of the hardballs is going to ride this guy maybe
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to a division title because they've got a bit of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a lead now.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've talked about that division is not very good.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what ends up happening. But he looked
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: great in his first start for the Giants. I mean,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: maybe a lot of it was he's not Jameis Winston,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: so that's a positive already.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos, 30-16 winners over the Arizona Cardinals. Bo
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Nix had a 62-yard run. I think that was music
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to the ears of... Denver Broncos fans who've been watching,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: let's face it, a very timid Bo Nix both throwing
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and running the football. We saw it firsthand, even though
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: somehow the Seahawks lost to that performance somehow. But the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Broncos are up to five and two. They've got the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs this week in a big game. The
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams defeated the Las Vegas Raiders and for
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the first time this year looked like the team they
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: were advertised to be. They had 200 yards rushing against
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the Raiders who have lost four straight games. Matt Stafford
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: didn't have to do a whole hell of a lot,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and the defense performed well as well. So the Rams
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: are 3-4, and Clint Kubiak, after that 3-0 start, also 3-4.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just like that, I think one week can make
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: a difference in the NFC West. The Niners kind of
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: fall back to earth a little bit. They've got to
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: get another injury. Seahawks and Rams both look like, oh, yeah,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: we're still pretty dang good teams at this point.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: One week can make a huge difference on a 17-game schedule.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And then finally, Detroit won over Green Bay 20-17, a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: game that, oh, man. Lots going on there. Poor Gene
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Steratore is going to get it tomorrow because that was
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: one of the most poorly– and I like the Lions.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Lions. I was too. But– Man,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the Packers got hosed a lot during the course of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that game. And then Dan Campbell's fourth down recklessness, of course,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: has been a major topic. I actually, maybe I'll use
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it for reckless at breakfast. Oh, okay. All right. I
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: actually kind of got what he was doing.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Like they had the ball on their own, what, 23,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: 24 yard line tie game late in the fourth quarter.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: But it was one of those, like, I want, the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: ball in my hands at the end of the game.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to try to go for it here.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: If I get it. Great. Boom. Yeah, great. That's exactly
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: what we're going to go for. But if I don't,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I'm giving them a short field and then I get
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the ball back. If I kick it away to them,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I don't get the ball back. Right. It's a one
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: score game no matter what. Yeah. There's a chance I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: don't get the ball back. So I think there was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: actually some merit to it. I know. It looks weird.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I know people think that it was insanity. But I
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: think there was some merit to it. But then again,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of insane myself. Keep being told that over
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and over by our listeners. Monday Night Football tonight will
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: wrap up the week. You can hear it right here
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: at Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Two 2-4 teams. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that we're looking at must-win because that division's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: so bad. But certainly these two teams are... in bad
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: directions right now. The Cowboys playing horribly. The Eagles reeling
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: from all of their injury losses. So interesting matchup. I'll
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: call it an interesting matchup, even though both teams are 2-4.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It's Dallas at Philly. All right, coming up next on
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the radio program, more on Ken Walker night. Sorry to
• 32:09
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• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker. It certainly was Ken Walker night. Boy, I'm
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: half surprised that Melissa Stark didn't have a I Love
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker t-shirt on. Might as well have. Last night.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Melissa Stark, you're a fine sideline reporter,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: but do you have to do every single time? Tell
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: me about the offense. Tell me about the defense. Is
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that all you got? Is that all you got in
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: your repertoire? It's all we got. We only need. Yeah. Anyway,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: it was clearly that Ken Walker was going to be
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the star of that broadcast last night. And Mike McDonald
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: put a quick end to that. 14 carries, 36 yards. Look,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: We did Ken Walker week. Certainly, one game does not
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: reverse the conversations that have been held to this point
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: in the season. He's a fabulous back who Mike McDonald
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: bottled up last night. And the Seahawks defense, they get
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit for it, too, it turns out.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah. The players themselves, yeah. Right. who the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: defense bottled up last night, and I know he's got
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: better days ahead, and I think that we'll always live
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: with this, should we have kept Ken Walker kind of thing,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: but it was awfully one-sided last week, and I was
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: part of that too, but I did try to at
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: least slip in some conversation about, hey, maybe we should
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: give John and Mike time, a little bit of time
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to see how this goes, and maybe... Maybe they didn't
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: blow this. Maybe we'll see in time that it was
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the prudent decision to make. And so we did have
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that sort of, oh, that's the other thing. Then we
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: had our Mirror Mirror conversation where we had a lot
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: of listeners that were in on that. Because the conversation
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: last week on Wednesday, Anders, was what should you do
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: now that you've accepted the fact that Ken Walker's not
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: coming back And the running back room does not look good.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And we had a lot of feedback from a lot
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: of people that came out of the woodwork to say,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: just calm down. We're going to be okay. Well, last night,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson rushed for 100 yards. He had 115 yards
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: from scrimmage. He was what you needed him to be.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: He wasn't spectacular, but he is what you needed him
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to be. And even though I think Ken Walker's got
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: great days ahead and we'll have this debate probably for
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the rest of time, certainly we got to see another
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: side of it. And I think there was no coincidence
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that they kept Wilson in long enough to get 100
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: yards rushing. It wasn't just so Wilson could get 100-yard
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: rushing day. I think that was Mike McDonald for John Schneider. Hey,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you've been taking heat for this. Look what we did.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: We held him to 36 and our third stringer to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: replace him rushed for 100 yards and And a night
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that he shared the same field with No. 9.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that wasn't a coincidence to get it
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: to that point. I'll put it that way. And it
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: shows that, yes, two things can be true. One, it's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: hard to argue any other way that the Seahawks running
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: back room would be better with Ken Walker in it
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. But it could still prove to be the right
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: decision down the road. Well, that's just it. I think
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: John Schneider and Mike McDonald will tell you that. But
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: their decision was... Our philosophy from a financial standpoint is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: that we don't invest in a ball carrier in that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: way because it's kind of like what John Stanton feels
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: about signing 30-year-old veteran free agents to monster contracts going forward.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: There's this expectation that we, yeah, maybe he's got a
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: couple more years in him, but if we're lining up
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: long-term contracts, Are we going to get the return on
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: our long-term investment by paying top dollar for a running
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: back when we think we can come up with a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: running game in other ways? And lo and behold, sharing
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the same field with your third string running back, your
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: second stringer, and your first stringer, both on the sidelines,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you end up outgaining them on the ground 3-1. Yeah,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and now.
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  Speaker 1: Would, would Emmanuel Wilson have five to one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. Yeah. Five to one. You're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Would Emmanuel Wilson have gotten a hundred yards feels facing
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks defense? No, I don't think so. So it's
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: not exactly an even playing field here, but that's kind
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: of the point, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't, you're not, you're not going to have to
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  Speaker 1: face your own defense. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, and I think a lot of the decision-making processes,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: it's not just, we don't value the running back position. It's, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we actually think we're pretty good at drafting running backs.
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  Speaker 3: So even though you're not, even though you're not, right.
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  Speaker 3: But they think they are. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Penny, pro size. Charbonnet was a reach in the second. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was. But they believe in their ability to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So they believe in their ability to find a running
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: game without paying top dollar for it. Top dollar in
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: terms of salary cap, yes. But top dollar wide receiver one,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: they obviously want to pay for it. Top dollar wide
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: receiver two. cornerback one top dollar Byron Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to get that, you know, The three-technique defensive
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: tackle that they've exhausted every effort to try to find.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: They've gotten Leonard Williams, and he's extended. Top dollar on
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Yep, they're going to be willing to pay that.
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  Speaker 3: To pay Nicky Manwari after last night.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Top dollar for a weapon that doesn't exist anywhere
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  Speaker 1: else on Earth. It's true. Yeah, we'll pay that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So... Their decision, and I know it wasn't an easy one, was, hey,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: he frustrated us at times. He never had that big
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: breakout year for us until the playoffs this past year.
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  Speaker 1: So from a financial standpoint, it's just like philosophically, we're
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: just not going to do that. That's where we are.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: That's what we're going to do. And so, look... I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: still think that we'll continue to have the conversation. I
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: still think Ken Walker is going to have a big
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: time year and we're going to end up wondering all
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: season long how much better the team could have been
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: this season had number nine still been in blue and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: not been in red. But at least we got to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: see the other side of it. At least we got
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to see an argument. That's a pretty good case that
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: they made last night. You know, maybe they didn't win
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the debate, but that's a pretty good case that they
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: made for their side of things last night. And believe me,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald wanted to make sure that everybody understood it
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: loud and clear. Outrushed them five to one, five yards
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  Speaker 1: to one last night. Yeah, that's Message received. Pretty, pretty,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: pretty good. Message received. All right, headlines next on Sports
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