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10-14: Short week for Seahawks, Kraken win and Parker Gabriel of the Denver Post · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Happy Wednesday. Thanks for joining us on KJR.
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  Speaker 2: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Corzine. It is
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  Speaker 2: cold as the Rockies. The Seahawks continue to cram a
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  Speaker 2: week's worth of preparation into three days. Really two and
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  Speaker 2: a half because they're leaving this afternoon after practice to
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  Speaker 2: play the Broncos in Denver tomorrow night. Zach Charbonnet not
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  Speaker 2: expected to play. Coach Mike McDonald says the full injury
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  Speaker 2: report will be out at 1 o'clock. Our time or so,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks will announce it, or Mike McDonald will, whenever after that.
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  Speaker 2: Not expecting much beyond. Jackson Smith and Jigba has been
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  Speaker 2: on the injured list for the practice as limited, but
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  Speaker 2: they haven't practiced. Those are estimations. They have not been
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  Speaker 2: on the field practicing. They've been walking in sneakers and T-shirts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what you do on a short week, usually, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've said it before. There are guys who
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  Speaker 2: are not even able to walk correctly yet who are
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  Speaker 2: going to have to play tomorrow night. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: NFL gives us for Thursday night football. The Houston trash
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  Speaker 2: cans owner announced today that Joe Espada is not going
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  Speaker 2: to return as Houston manager. That was becoming obvious. So
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  Speaker 2: they weren't fooled by the trash cans winning the AL
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  Speaker 2: West with a 500 record. This news comes one day
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  Speaker 2: after the news that the Mariners had asked Houston for
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  Speaker 2: permission to speak to Espada to replace, potentially replace, Dan
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  Speaker 2: Wilson as Seattle's manager. Espada's contract with Houston ends this month.
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  Speaker 2: Mariners second baseman Cole Young named the American League Goal
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  Speaker 2: Goal finalist. I think back in April we already named
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  Speaker 2: him the MVP of the Mariners this season. He was.
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely was. Phillies are keeping Don Mattingly as their
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  Speaker 2: manager for 2027. He was the interim manager into the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs this year. So it can take him off the
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  Speaker 2: list of a Mariners potential manager. The Kraken are now 5-2,
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  Speaker 2: 3-0 on their five-game road trip. They led 2-0 after
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  Speaker 2: two periods at Philadelphia last night. They allowed the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: Flyers to tie them. They played a five-minute scoreless overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Then this happened to end the penalty shootout.
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  Speaker 4: Here's McMahon.
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  Speaker 2: Here's McMahon. Left-handed shot. Scored his third of the season
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the game. McMahon, left side. He's got speed.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the middle. Shoots. Scores! Bobby McMahon, the winner!
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  Speaker 2: On his stick.
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  Speaker 5: And the Seattle Kraken survive and advance out of Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: It's a 3-2 win in the shootout. Well, why not?
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  Speaker 6: Why not the guy that's the shooter on this team?
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  Speaker 6: Why not the guy that got the scoring started tonight?
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  Speaker 6: He gets the scoring ended here with the shootout winner.
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  Speaker 2: Kraken win, 3-2. Everett Fitzhugh, Al Kaninsky on the call
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  Speaker 2: right here on your home of the Kraken. 93.3 KJRFM
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  Speaker 2: last night. Not pictured or spoken to in that clip.
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  Speaker 2: Philip Grubauer. Man, was he on it in overtime and
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  Speaker 2: in the shootout. Was he our number one goaltender? I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk to Ian about this. Between the end
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  Speaker 2: of last season and the start of this season, Grubauer
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  Speaker 2: has been really good.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as he got healthy, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I know Joey Decord starts openers and kind of has
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  Speaker 2: the billing as the one, but Grubauer, he ain't going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Next up for the crack in tomorrow night, Tampa. That's
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  Speaker 2: right here on 93.3 KJR. So here comes the hard
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  Speaker 2: part of the trip now. Tampa Bay and Florida back-to-back
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  Speaker 2: to end it. Washington Huskies play at Purdue Friday right
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  Speaker 2: here on KJR. It's like we have sports on here
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  Speaker 2: or something. The Huskies are likely to be without quarterback
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams, a rib injury for the guy they gave
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  Speaker 2: $ 4 million in NIL money to for this year and
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  Speaker 2: has lost three straight Big Ten starts. Number two, Elijah
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  Speaker 2: Brown is on track to start for the Huskies Friday
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  Speaker 2: at Purdue, 5 p.m. right here on 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: That 5 p.m. means probably the Husky honks start at what, 1, 2,
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  Speaker 2: something like that? Pre-game show? I should know that.
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  Speaker 3: The pre-game show is four hours ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: 1 p.m. Lunchtime, Husky honks, Husky tailgate pre-game show.
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  Speaker 3: And they do a fabulous job, even though they wear purple.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that's very generous of you to say, Ms.
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  Speaker 4: Coogs.
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  Speaker 2: They are really good. Speaking of Jessamyn's Cougs, Washington State,
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  Speaker 2: 1-5 on the season, play Saturday at Oregon State with
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  Speaker 2: a new quarterback, a freshman, redshirt freshman. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: ask you in a second when the headlines are done
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  Speaker 2: why it's not somebody else. Major League Baseball playoffs, the
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  Speaker 2: Rays even their American League Championship Series at a game
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  Speaker 2: apiece by beating the Guardians last night 3-1 in St. Petersburg.
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  Speaker 2: On to Cleveland for Game 3 tomorrow afternoon. The Brewers
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  Speaker 2: and Dodgers resume the National League Championship Series this evening
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  Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium in L.A., Milwaukee, surprisingly, up two games
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  Speaker 2: to none. Now on with the Wednesday show. Greg Bell,
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  Speaker 2: Justin McIntyre with you on 93.3 KJR FM. Seahawks are
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  Speaker 2: a little later this afternoon, so in the studio today.
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  Speaker 2: One day before I fly to Denver for Seahawks, Broncos
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  Speaker 2: coming in tomorrow for KJR. I'm going to put my
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  Speaker 2: stories that you used to see at the News Tribune
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  Speaker 2: before they just closed.
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  Speaker 3: We got content, folks.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to put my game stories, my videos up
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  Speaker 2: going to get Seahawks content front and center, videos, my
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  Speaker 2: game stories from Denver tomorrow night when the Seahawks play
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos in Thursday night football. I'm happy and proud
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  Speaker 2: to do that, my debut for the website. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to boost that thing up a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we will.
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  Speaker 2: Check that out. Jessamyn and I with you from 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: to noon before Ian Furness will join us. I think
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  Speaker 2: Ian's up for like an hour today or so. Or
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  Speaker 2: has he got a couple hours?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 9: Tomorrow. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Today is a regular day for us.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Cracking our on in a different time zone tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So, yes.
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  Speaker 2: On the East Coast. That's right.
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  Speaker 9: But today is a full regular day.
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  Speaker 3: You get all of Ian and all of Softie.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Softie Muller and Dick Fane at 3 until 7.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have Factor Fiction at 1135, your chance to win
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  Speaker 2: $ 1, 000 from the Lucky Eagle Casino and Hotel. What I
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  Speaker 2: was going to ask you before you go down the
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  Speaker 2: show today, my son asked me last night. He's a coug,
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  Speaker 2: of course. Just graduated a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Go Cougs.
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  Speaker 2: What about that Pitt guy, Julian Duggar? He's still on
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  Speaker 2: the roster.
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  Speaker 4: He is.
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  Speaker 3: I see him on the sideline every single week.
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  Speaker 2: So why is the redshirt freshman who just got there?
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  Speaker 9: I think, and this is just me not being a coach,
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  Speaker 9: and my overview of it is that they have specific
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  Speaker 9: things that they like from Julian Duggar. And I have
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  Speaker 9: wanted to see what he can do on the field,
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  Speaker 9: but they design specific packages for him in certain down situations.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that they don't.
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  Speaker 9: View him as much as they do Eshelman as someone
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  Speaker 9: who should be dropping back and passing the ball. That
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  Speaker 9: is my assessment. I, unfortunately, because I live over here,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not at practices. And even if I was, there's
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  Speaker 9: certain limited things I could say if I did see things.
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  Speaker 9: But I think that they recruited Eshelman for a reason.
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  Speaker 9: And they're both young. They were both very young. And
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  Speaker 9: so which one do you put in? Well, you also
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  Speaker 9: give Eshelman a weapon in potential packages you could put
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  Speaker 9: in for Duggar in this situation because that is how
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  Speaker 9: they have used him very sparingly. But that is how
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  Speaker 9: they have used him. They have not used him as
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  Speaker 9: their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: A special package of plays for him. But the way
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  Speaker 2: college football is now, they probably need to come up
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  Speaker 2: with more plays for Duggar to keep him. He's from
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and he's in Pullman, Washington. He's from Ben Hills
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  Speaker 2: High School in Pittsburgh. I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 3: They're both young, and they have availability.
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  Speaker 2: Owen Eshelman is from Norman, Oklahoma, home of the Oklahoma Sooners.
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  Speaker 2: He's in Pullman, too. But the way it is now
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  Speaker 2: for college football, you have to re-recruit the guys you
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  Speaker 2: just got on your team to keep them on the roster. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And so we'll see what Duggar does for the Cougs
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  Speaker 2: now that they're switching quarterbacks. Not to Duggar, the redshirt
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  Speaker 2: sophomore we've had for a couple years from transfer from Pitt.
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  Speaker 2: It's Owen Eshelman who's going to start instead of Caden Pinnock.
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  Speaker 2: At the Beavs on Saturday.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, just that's what I mean is that, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 9: let's not put this guy into pressure because Eshelman doesn't
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  Speaker 9: necessarily have the skills that Julian Duggar does in those
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  Speaker 9: package situations.
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  Speaker 3: So it actually provides a weapon.
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  Speaker 2: So you're expecting to see them both on Saturday?
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  Speaker 9: Not in the quarterback position. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 9: see majority Eshelman.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: But I do know that Julian is available for those plays.
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  Speaker 9: Like we saw, even though it was only one play,
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  Speaker 9: it was successful at Utah State.
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Brown is the No. 2 quarterback for Washington. It
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  Speaker 2: sounds like he's going to start at Purdue on Friday
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  Speaker 2: night because of the rib injury to DeMond Williams. And
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  Speaker 2: we heard from Hugh Millen, former Husky quarterback, on how
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  Speaker 2: maybe even without the injury, Elijah Brown should be starting.
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  Speaker 2: 28 of 39, 250 yards, three touchdowns at The second half,
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  Speaker 2: a second half plus, he played a little more than
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  Speaker 2: half the game after DeMond Williams went out with the
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  Speaker 2: rib injury against Iowa after the Hawkeyes were just boat
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  Speaker 2: racing the Huskies up and down Husky Stadium Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: At least after Brown came in, it was somewhat respectable
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  Speaker 2: after that. They ended up losing healthily anyway. But now
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  Speaker 2: they go to Purdue, trying to avoid a fourth consecutive
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten loss. That's on Friday here on KJR. On
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  Speaker 2: the show today, the Seahawks. Sam Darnold went up to
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  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury, the offensive coordinator, after the Seahawks lost to
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers last weekend, and the quarterback told the offensive
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  Speaker 2: coordinator what he would like to do for this week
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  Speaker 2: in the plays he would like to run in Denver.
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  Speaker 2: He has a request to the offensive coordinator. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about what that request was, why he said it,
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  Speaker 2: what Brian Fleury's reaction to it, and we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: that changes tomorrow night's results on offense. Darnold, five interceptions
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  Speaker 2: the last three games. What did he ask his OC?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. You'll hear from the quarterback. You'll
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  Speaker 2: hear from Brian Fleury as well. We'll talk about the
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  Speaker 2: Kraken and where this start is in franchise history after
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  Speaker 2: seven games. You'll like what you hear about that. 11 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go to Denver. We're going to talk to Parker Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: a friend of mine, Broncos beat writer for the Denver Post.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to tell us about Denver's side of tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night's Seahawks game. What's up with Bo Nix and the offense?
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  Speaker 2: I was at a Denver radio station yesterday, and that's
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  Speaker 2: all they were talking about was Bo Nix and the
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  Speaker 2: offense and short passes and under 60% completion rate. He's
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  Speaker 2: averaging like... five yards an attempt. It's the lowest in
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  Speaker 2: the league. Chuck Powell and I were talking about that
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  Speaker 2: at 7 o'clock this morning. A lot of the same
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  Speaker 2: problems in Denver that there are in Seattle. A running
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  Speaker 2: game that's not working, running backs that no one's heard of,
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  Speaker 2: and not supporting the quarterback. And the quarterback suffering because
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  Speaker 2: of it. 11.30, we'll read back your text on the
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  Speaker 2: 49451 Tacoma Dodge text line. Of course, to talk back,
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  Speaker 2: on our website, 933KJR. com, at the top of those pages
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  Speaker 2: is a red microphone button. You press that button, you
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  Speaker 2: can leave a 30-second or shorter voicemail message, and Jessamyn
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  Speaker 2: McIntyre will play that back in its entirety. No matter
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  Speaker 2: what you say. You sing in the shower, she puts
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  Speaker 2: it on. Hey, hold on.
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  Speaker 9: There's not a no matter what you say clause in this.
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  Speaker 2: Please be. Well, it was in taste.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, content wise, but it was in taste.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's a low bar is my point.
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  Speaker 9: Hey. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because you love the voices.
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  Speaker 9: I love the voices and I love the creativity people
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  Speaker 9: come up with.
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  Speaker 2: Singing.
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  Speaker 3: I like the impressions.
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  Speaker 9: I like the songs they come up with because they
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  Speaker 9: get very creative.
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  Speaker 4: So creative.
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  Speaker 3: And also, just your straight-up opinions as a fan. I
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  Speaker 3: love those, too.
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  Speaker 2: She does edit them. I just chide her. She does
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  Speaker 2: listen to them before we put them. We have FCC
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  Speaker 2: rules around here.
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  Speaker 9: There are plenty I haven't aired, okay? Make it appropriate.
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  Speaker 4: 11.35 again.
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  Speaker 2: Then Ian will join us at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: second hour to tell us what he's got on his
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  Speaker 2: show today. The first text for the 49451. How concerned
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  Speaker 2: are you about Sam Darnold, your Super Bowl quarterback, with
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  Speaker 2: five interceptions the last three games since he's come back
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  Speaker 2: from that glute injury? He has the highest interception percentage
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. What's that mean? That means the percentage
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  Speaker 2: of his throws that have been intercepted is the highest
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  Speaker 2: in the league right now.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he's thrown fewer than a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks because he didn't start one game and missed most
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  Speaker 2: of the opener after a glute injury on the fifth
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  Speaker 2: play of the season. Conversely, Drew Locke has one of
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  Speaker 2: the highest and best interception rates, and he has not
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  Speaker 2: thrown one. Zero percent in the two games he played,
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  Speaker 2: and he was brilliant. Let's just say it. He was really,
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  Speaker 2: really good in those two games. which is why there
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  Speaker 2: are some people on the text line yesterday saying, let's
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  Speaker 2: bench the Super Bowl winning quarterback eight months after he
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  Speaker 2: won the big game and put in Drew Locke. The
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  Speaker 2: way it's going right now, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: That is not going to happen tomorrow. Sam Darnold will
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  Speaker 2: be the starting quarterback. What concerns you about Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 2: at this point? We posited yesterday that he is suffering
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  Speaker 2: by this anonymous who's behind door number three running back
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  Speaker 2: situation they have. Man, is that, I mean, when you
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  Speaker 2: think about it, When they made that– okay, let's even
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  Speaker 2: go back before they made the decision. When Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 2: was running wild in front of you and me in
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  Speaker 2: Santa Clara in February, and in that night, if you had–
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  Speaker 2: we talked, you and I both went up to Walker
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  Speaker 2: after the game. I knew Walker wasn't coming back. He
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  Speaker 2: told me that throughout the season. He told me that
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  Speaker 2: four days– basically he told me that four days before
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  Speaker 2: the game. But when we're sitting in that– and if
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  Speaker 2: I told you, okay, by week five of the Seahawks'
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  Speaker 2: coming season, in eight months, Jessamyn, We're going to have
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson, Robert Henry Jr., George Helani, and Velas Jones Jr.
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  Speaker 2: are going to be our running back options in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: You would have probably said there's a problem there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You would have said, who's Emmanuel Wilson? Like I would have.
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  Speaker 2: You would have said, who is Robert Henry Jr.? George
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  Speaker 2: Helani is a special teams player who comes in on
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  Speaker 2: third down sometimes to pass block. And Velas Jones Jr.
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  Speaker 2: has not played. He's been on the practice squad. That's
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  Speaker 2: what you would say because that would have been a
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  Speaker 2: fact eight months ago. Yet those are the guys that
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  Speaker 2: are the now pillar of what is supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: the foundation of this offense, the running game.
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  Speaker 3: This is definitely a hindsight situation.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we're not expecting the injury to Darian Price. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And then we're still waiting on Zach Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But there was not an expectation in February that Zach
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  Speaker 2: Charbonnet would be playing by the 1st of October. Not
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  Speaker 2: in my mind. No way. Eight months from reconstructive knee surgery.
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  Speaker 2: And they put a lot. Let's face it. They put
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  Speaker 2: a lot on Jadarian Price. That went big stock on him.
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  Speaker 2: They said, OK, we're going to let Walker walk to
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City. We're not going to pay him 14. That
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  Speaker 2: was a philosophical decision. 14 million a year. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about that. And I don't disagree with that at all.
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  Speaker 2: given the history of running backs and injuries and the
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  Speaker 2: cost-weighing analysis of that, the risk-reward of giving someone $ 14
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  Speaker 2: million at an injury-prone position in the sport with the
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  Speaker 2: shortest career span. Sure, that's an organizational philosophy. Get it.
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  Speaker 2: But they put every egg into the Judarian price basket,
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  Speaker 2: at least until Charbonnet comes back. And again, that's assuming
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Charbonnet is just plug-and-play when he gets back on the
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: field full go. And that's not a fait accompli. You
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: can't assume that someone– in less than nine months after
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: reconstructing his knee at a running back position where you
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: cut every play, is just going to walk right in
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: and start and 12 rushing touchdowns again as last year, right?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: This was a dice roll by John Schneider and Mike
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: McDonald at running back. For cost purposes, long-term, yes. Short-term,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: it was a dice roll. And so far, it's come
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: up craps on the Seahawks' offense. And my view of
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: this is it has had an effect and a negative
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: one on Sam Donald in the entire team. This team
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: at his best, which we saw over the last three
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: months of last season, when it runs the ball, They flourish.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: That's when play action works. That's when Darnold has time.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: That's when Smith and Jigba can run the longer routes.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: That's when defenses have to play them honestly. Right now,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I don't care what the numbers say. They had that
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: outlier game against Arizona when they ran for 160 yards
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: and 91 from Wilson, and Price played half that game
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: or three-fourths of that game before his rib injury. Throw
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: that out. The Cardinals stink. The defense, San Francisco's defense,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Denver tomorrow night, they're not respecting Seattle's run game. Those
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: guys that are rushing the edges and trying to come
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: after and succeeding and pressuring Darnold, they're not honoring the run,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: especially on longer third downs that Seattle has because their
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: running game is not consistent enough to make it shorter
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: third downs. Chuck always teases me about my run and
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: stop the run philosophy. Every time he asks me what
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: a key to a game is before the game, I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: always say run and stop the run. But it's the
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: trickle-down effect of the run game in the NFL. I
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: know the NFL is a passing league. I know that
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jig was the reigning offensive player of
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Defensive championships.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Stopping the run and running the ball controls everything. It
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: controls down and distance and controls field position. It makes
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: it third and three instead of third and nine.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: And time of possession.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Time of possession. Rest your defense. Where's down and offense.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I've said this before. Even if the Seahawks don't score
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: on drives, if they have a running game that gets
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: them to midfield, then Michael Dixon pins them inside the
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: 10-yard line, and the Seahawks play defensive football like they
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: did Week 18 in San Francisco, like they did in
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl 60. They kick from midfield, and they say,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: go ahead, offense. Try to move 95 yards on us
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: for a touchdown. It's not going to happen. But if
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: you don't have a running game and you're punting from
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the 30, it's a whole different deal. And that is
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: what the value of this running game is to the
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Seahawks offense. Field position, playing defensive position, field position football.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: When you hear the word complementary football, they say that
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: all the time and it drives me nuts because it's
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: such a vague old term. It doesn't really tell you anything.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: What they mean is that the offense puts the defense
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: in a position to win the game and the defense
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: puts the offense in a position to win the game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: And the anti-complementary football, putting the defense in a position
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: to lose the game, is turning the ball over. The
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: turnovers are coming from the lack of a consistent running
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: game and from the running backs dropping the ball. That's
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the offensive. That's the Seahawks problem in a nutshell. Now,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: it's not a debilitating problem because if they don't drop
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the ball, they're going to win the game. We've talked
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: about this.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Also that, yeah.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: If they don't turn the ball over with this defense,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: they're going to win. Let me just stay off the top.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: If they don't turn the ball over tomorrow, they beat Denver.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And then if they don't turn the ball over, they
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: beat the Chiefs. I know they're undefeated. They'll beat them.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: And the Bears are coming after it. If they don't
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: turn the ball, they'll beat the Bears too. When they
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: don't turn the ball, find me a game in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: last three years.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: What was the.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Stat you had? 21-1? 21-1 when they either turn it
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: over one or zero times under Mike McDonald. 21-1. Them's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the facts. They're 9-10 when they turn it over two
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: or more times in a game. And I know it's
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a simplistic thing to say, well, turnovers decide football games.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: But for this team, because of the defense, how good
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: it is, that's how important that statistic is. So when
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you hear things like Darnold saying, like you'll hear him
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: here in the next segment talk about taking care of
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the ball, he knows if I don't turn the ball over,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: we're going to win because of the way our defense
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: is playing. 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line. You're
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: part of the show with that. Well, what concerns you
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: about Sam Darnold? I just laid out for you my
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: theory of what's going on. We're going to talk to
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lalji at 11 o'clock. Excuse me. We're going to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: talk to Parker Gabriel. We're going to talk to Farhan
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: today to tape him for tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Parker
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Gabriel in Denver. We're going to talk about some similar
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: problems with Denver's offense and Bo Nix. That's going to
• 19:32
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• 19:38
  Speaker 2: We'll talk Kraken again today. We'll talk more about the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Huskies playing on another Friday night for the second night
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in a row. Stealing the high school... Sports showcase thunder
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: from the kids that are playing. Friday night. Two really
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: big games in western Washington in high school football this week.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Eastside Catholic and O'Day. That's probably the biggest.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Puyallup and Sumner down in the South Sound. Two big games.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: We're going to have Eastside and O'Day's coaches on our
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: show on Friday night. Monty Kohler is, of course, the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, the winningest coach in high school football
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: history in Washington. It's a little harder to get him
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: on the phone. We're trying to get him on the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: phone on Friday. That's what we're going to be trying
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: to do for Friday.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I'll just tell him his opponent's doing it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: That usually works.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I could do that. I've worked a lot of Coach
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Kohler's games, and I could do that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: That could be a motivator because we do have Eastside
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Catholic already booked for Friday. Up next. You'll hear from
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold on what he told Brian Fleury after the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Seahawks game against the 49ers on what he would request
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the play caller do. And you'll hear the play caller's
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: reaction to that on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back. Greg Bell
• 21:18
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• 21:22
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• 21:25
  Speaker 4: At 11 a.m.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Today, we're going to talk to Parker Gabriel, the Denver
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Post Broncos beat writer, about what's going on in Denver
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: with their offense. Bo Nix, an under 60% passer, throwing
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the shortest passes in the league. Fewest yards per attempt,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: just over five. And their defense, by the way, has
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: given up 145 yards per game rushing. Something else I
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: noticed about the Broncos, they fumbled the ball ten times
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in four games. Five games. Ten! They've only lost three,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: but they're dropping the ball. They're putting it on the ground,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and you know the Seahawks know that's that. You know
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald and the defense know that that's going on.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: If anyone knows it, it's definitely McDonald's.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: On the Seahawks offense, Sam Darnold and his play caller
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: say the goal for the Seahawks in their pass game
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Thursday in Denver is to be more decisive. What's that
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: look like? For Darnold, that means throwing the ball more
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: quickly after the snap. Since his return from injury in
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: week three, that glute injury, when he started at Washington,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Darnold's average time before throwing is 3.25 seconds. That's the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: longest in the NFL among qualifying quarterbacks who started more
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: than a couple games.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Shout out O-line.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: His average time to throw last season, 2.86 seconds. He's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: gone from 21st in the league in time to throw,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: meaning getting it out among the top 12 in the league,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the quickest 12 throwers in the league, to the worst
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: one in terms of holding onto the ball. Number one,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: he's the longest time to throw in the league since
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: he came back from that injury. Darnold knows this. He
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: talked about this yesterday.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, you know, first of all, I gotta
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: do a better job of, you know, getting the ball out,
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: moving on in progression, stuff like that, so.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know, um, there's that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: And then obviously there's a lot of other factors that
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: go into it. But for me, like, I'm just, I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: worried about myself and how I can, you know, continue
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: to be as decisive as I can be on the field.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Sam, Hoop said that one of your best qualities is
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: your ability to have a short-term memory.
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: And kind of just move on.
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: Has that something, is that something you've always had or
• 23:24
  Speaker 13: do you.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Develop in some way?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Um, it's not something I always had.
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: Um, I think just some of the experiences that I've
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: had in my life being in the NFL, college, high school,
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: like you know, just things maybe not going a certain
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: way and just learning over time that there's a lot
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: of things that are out of my control. So just
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: having that short-term memory and knowing that you can't change
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: anything in the past is always a good reminder as well.
• 23:48
  Speaker 14: The turnovers have been kind of team-wide as well. Is
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: there any worry at all that it becomes something that
• 23:53
  Speaker 14: you guys think about or, you know, they kind of
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: come in bunches kind of thing and it's hard to.
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: No, yeah, I think for us it's... There's a sense
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: of urgency. I think that term... you know that phrase
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: like sense of urgency it's been thrown around a lot
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: the last couple days and it's true you know there
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: needs to be a sense of urgency to get better
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: and have ball security um for me personally like i'm
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: just i'm going to continue to try to be as
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: decisive as i can be and and go through my
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: reads and trust what i see trust my feet all
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: those things um but yeah can't have turnovers um you
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: know it's you got to protect the football in this
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: league and um if you don't you'll pay.
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: What's Brian's demeanor been like this week, and what's the
• 24:32
  Speaker 15: gist of his message to you guys offensively?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been great. You know, he's been the same.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Nothing's changed. You know, for us, it's just, again, it's
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: just about turning the page and understanding that we have
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: a really good defense we're going up against Thursday night
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: and getting as prepared as we can be to face them.
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: Wanting to turn that page, how much does the short
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: week maybe help.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: In that way?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Do you just want to get back out there? Yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: no doubt. no doubt.
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: I think it definitely helps, you know, getting to play
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: a game on Thursday is always fun. So in front
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: of everybody too, um, there's nothing like it. So we'll
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: be ready to.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Go.
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: Part of, uh, you know, getting early down success is
• 25:12
  Speaker 14: a little bit more success in the run game. Uh,
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: are you seeing, you know, potential there for things to
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: start getting a little more productive?
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's, I mean, it all kind of
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: works hand in hand, right? Like For me, on first
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: and second on pass game, I got to get the
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: ball out. When I get the ball out, then all
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: of a sudden defenders are thinking about what pass plays
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: might be coming up and then all of a sudden
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: we're running the football. The run game, the pass game,
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: it complements each other. I think if we just all
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: continue to detail everything out and for me, just continue
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: to make quick decisions and feel really good about them
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: and trust my feet and all those things, we'll continue
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: to to see, you know, ourselves grow in the pass
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: game and the run game. Yeah, yeah, there's a great
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: balance to it, right? It's the old, you know, John Woodenism,
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: be quick but don't hurry kind of thing. So, yeah, it's,
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: you know, understanding when something might not be there, still
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: give it a chance because it's in the progression, but
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: understanding when you might move on. And I think if
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: I just continue to or if I do a better
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: job of that moving forward, I'll like where I'm going
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: to be head forward.
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: You guys are seeing more cover zero this year than
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: you did last year. It's a chance for some explosives
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: as well. If you control the turnovers, do you see
• 26:41
  Speaker 14: some potential for explosives to come out of it as well?
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think any time you control the turnovers, everything
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: else gets better. That's really the thing we're focused on
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: is Just taking care of the football. And I think
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: that's the main thing that we're focused on. But at
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: the same time, you know, we're just going to continue
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: to play fast as well.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Sam, what stands out about Denver's defense specifically?
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, first of all, they got really good players.
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: And they got a really good coaching staff over there, Vance.
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: Vance and that coaching staff do a really good job of,
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: you know, making sure that they all, you know, They
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: do a lot of things in the back end. They
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: do a lot of pressures, a lot of different coverages,
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: but they're all on the same page. I would assume
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: they make it very simple.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: For the players.
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: It's a great scheme, and I know we're very excited
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: to be able to go up.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Against that defense.
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: Again, like I said, just really good players all around
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: with a really good scheme, and all the players are
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: smart players that make it come to life.
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: When you have a couple weeks of donut go exactly
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: what you want, where do you start?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Do you go back to mechanics?
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Do you go to film?
• 27:50
  Speaker 14: Do you go, like, where do you start to kind
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: of get back to center?
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, I think for me, it's, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: it's easy to overthink things, you know, when you start,
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: when you're not having as much success as you'd like,
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: so I think for me, it's just continuing to do
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: what I do, and, you know, continue to trust the process, like,
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: I'm not You know, I'm not doing anything different in
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: the week that I did, you know, last year, the
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: weeks prior. So just continue to do my process. Obviously,
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: a short week makes it a little bit different. But
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: just trust the process and understand that, you know, there's
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: things that I got to do differently on the field, right?
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: And understand what those mistakes are and not make them again.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: And I think it's that simple.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Is trusting the.
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: Process easier now because of the success you have had
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: the last couple years?
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like I've just found a good rhythm
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: within my process, to your point. But again, I feel
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: like I've always said this, but going and finding that
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: process was always a challenge. And now that I've found it,
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: it's just continuing to trust that and what we do
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: throughout the week to get ready.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion quarterback Sam Donald yesterday talking about the
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: fact that he has five interceptions today. in the three
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: games since he returned from injury. Two of them on
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: his first drives of the game against the Chargers in
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: his very first throw and in the first third down
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: against San Francisco last weekend. Both into coverage, both short
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: and outside. He's saying he's got to come off his
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: reads quicker, be more decisive. So how is Brian Fleury
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: going to help him? He's the new play caller, first-year
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: play caller for the Seahawks, offense coordinator who was a
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: tight ends coach for the 49ers. First year in the job.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: He's still learning Darnold, too. Darnold did not play in
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the preseason. Of course, he did practice with Fleury calling
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: his plays every day in training camp, but still. Fleury
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: is still learning Darnold, too. And Fleury had this to
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: say about Sam Darnold in the offense yesterday.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: I heard from Sam about being more decisive. Mike McDonald
• 29:49
  Speaker 14: talked about being more decisive. That's a word, but how
• 29:52
  Speaker 14: do you actually get the quarterback to be able to
• 29:54
  Speaker 14: do that?
• 29:55
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, it's something that he identified right away
• 29:58
  Speaker 16: coming off the field that we were able to talk
• 29:59
  Speaker 16: about over the last 48 hours, and it's relying more
• 30:02
  Speaker 16: heavily on plays that we have a lot of experience with,
• 30:05
  Speaker 16: both through training camp and through the first couple weeks,
• 30:07
  Speaker 16: that he's comfortable making swift decisions and progressing through, so
• 30:11
  Speaker 16: we're going to lean more in that direction.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Is that easier to do? It's a short week anyway?
• 30:16
  Speaker 16: Yeah, it would be the formula anyway, going into a
• 30:19
  Speaker 16: short week a lot of times, but just definitely given...
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: You know, the feedback that he gave to me and
• 30:23
  Speaker 16: kind of the direction we're going right now, it just
• 30:26
  Speaker 16: makes sense.
• 30:26
  Speaker 14: What is that balance for any quarterback to make quick
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: decisions yet be patient in terms of?
• 30:34
  Speaker 16: Yeah, you want to play the play, you know, not
• 30:36
  Speaker 16: assume that something is going to happen based on the
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: information you're gathering pre-snap. There's an element of that to
• 30:41
  Speaker 16: any good football player, but you actually do have to
• 30:44
  Speaker 16: play things in sequence as they occur in real time.
• 30:46
  Speaker 16: And so you can anticipate all you want, but just
• 30:49
  Speaker 16: be decisive, but, you know, play it the way it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 16: meant to be played.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Third down numbers haven't been read like the last few weeks.
• 30:56
  Speaker 14: How much of that is the execution on third down
• 30:58
  Speaker 14: versus what's happening first and second down?
• 31:00
  Speaker 16: That's a combination of both. I mean, obviously we can
• 31:02
  Speaker 16: help ourselves by being in a little bit more manageable situations.
• 31:05
  Speaker 16: We can, you know, avoid some of the negatives by
• 31:07
  Speaker 16: penalties and, you know, we've taken a few sacks or
• 31:10
  Speaker 16: given up a few sacks in some inconvenient situations. So,
• 31:14
  Speaker 16: that would help us significantly if we were in more
• 31:16
  Speaker 16: manageable third downs, and then we can just do a
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: better job at every level of executing when we are
• 31:20
  Speaker 16: in those bad situations.
• 31:21
  Speaker 15: What was your view of the first interception on Sunday,
• 31:24
  Speaker 15: and do you think maybe that highlights the challenge of
• 31:26
  Speaker 15: playing decisively but also.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 31:29
  Speaker 16: Yeah, we had built the route to go out there,
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: and Renardo did a great job playing it, so ideally
• 31:34
  Speaker 16: you can see the leverage he's taking and the fact
• 31:36
  Speaker 16: that he's squatting at that distance and progressed down to
• 31:38
  Speaker 16: one of the checkdowns and just keep the chains moving.
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: He was trying to be aggressive to get the first
• 31:42
  Speaker 16: down in that situation. The check down might not have
• 31:44
  Speaker 16: moved the chains, and he has a sense of urgency
• 31:46
  Speaker 16: to be better on third down as well.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: So I understand the throw for sure.
• 31:49
  Speaker 16: But playing it a little bit safer is something we've
• 31:53
  Speaker 16: been talking about.
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: When the run game is struggling, what kinds of things
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: can you do to help the offense just work a
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: little bit better, work more efficiently?
• 32:01
  Speaker 16: It's just kind of leaning on things that we have
• 32:04
  Speaker 16: a lot of experience in. If the run game is struggling,
• 32:06
  Speaker 16: there's a lot of different reasons that might be happening.
• 32:08
  Speaker 16: It could be because of a different front that we
• 32:11
  Speaker 16: weren't expecting to see.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It could be a lot of pressure or movement.
• 32:13
  Speaker 16: So it's really kind of identifying what the issues are
• 32:15
  Speaker 16: within the game and then trying to get to stuff
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: that we feel confident is a better answer than what
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: we had maybe planned ahead of time.
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: In a week where it sounds like you're not really
• 32:23
  Speaker 15: practicing anything close to like a normal practice, how do
• 32:26
  Speaker 15: you really work on the ball security stuff?
• 32:28
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, just be mindful about it. You're obviously
• 32:31
  Speaker 16: not going to be able to work through it in
• 32:32
  Speaker 16: a walkthrough setting, but it's just having the mindset that
• 32:34
  Speaker 16: we're going to protect the football at all costs and
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: at the expense of maybe not avoiding a tackle or
• 32:40
  Speaker 16: breaking a tackle or being able to run through contact
• 32:42
  Speaker 16: the way you want to. And, you know, it's just
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: something that you have to continue to emphasize until it
• 32:45
  Speaker 16: gets time.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: That's Brian Fleury, the new first year, I should say,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: not quite new anymore. We're in October, week five, week six.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Offensive coordinator, Brian Fleury. Interesting to me, Jessamyn, that he said,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: we're going to go back to the place from training
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: camp that Sam Darnold really likes and is comfortable with.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: Well, I like that, that he's convinced you know, conversing
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: with the quarterback and what he likes.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Not the plays that they're designing for the Broncos defense
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and how Denver plays the plays that Darnold likes from
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: back in July and August. That's what they're going to see.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: If you believe what they say, that's what they're going
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: to see tomorrow. Now there's a competitive advantage to saying
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: that as well, because now Sean Payton and his defensive staff,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: they hear this. They have people who watch these press conferences.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: What's that mean? Are we going to see plays we
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: haven't seen on film yet? Maybe. And the Seahawks would
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: love the Denver Broncos staff to think that's what they're
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: going to do.
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: I mean, we've used the word chess match so many times,
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: but it is constant.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: It is constant, and it's in so many different subtle ways,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: including this. But it's interesting that Darnold went up to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Fleury after the 49ers game and said, let's go back
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to the plays that I really like from training camp.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to those. And Fleury says, that's what
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: we're focused on this week. So we'll see tomorrow night
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: what those plays are. I suspect the first third down
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: will be the favorite third down play that Darnold ran
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: in August. I suspect that the first scripted dozen plays
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: or so, they keep it very close to the vest
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: on how many of those plays they script. But the
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: beginning of the game, first 15 plays or so, Bill
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Walsh style, probably going to be some of the favorite
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: plays we saw in training camp in Renton. Regardless of
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the opponent, not what Denver's defense plays, but what Darnold
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: likes to do best. And let's see if that makes
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: him more decisive when he's throwing the ball tomorrow. Sure
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: would help if he had a running game and somebody
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: who can run the ball consistently without dropping it. 49451,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: your reaction to hearing the quarterback in the play caller
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: saying they're going to get simpler, they're going to go
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: back to the way you like the most, and that
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Darnold's trying to be more decisive. Up next, your Kraken
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: are off to a historic start for seven games in franchise.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I know the franchise history is only six years.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: That's still a thing.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: It is still a thing.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: It's still a thing.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And man, did I like some Philip Grubauer last night.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Not just for his saves, not just for his glove.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: He's got some feist in him. He was showing it
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: last night to the Flyers. It was fun. We're going
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: to talk a little bit of hockey because we've got
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a team here at home with a Kraken on KGR
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: that's Doing quite well, thank you, to begin their sixth season.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Cracking next, Parker Gabriel from Denver. The Denver Post beat
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: writer of the Broncos. We'll talk about the Denver side
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks-Broncos matchup tomorrow night. 1135 Factor Fiction. Your
• 35:31
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• 35:35
  Speaker 2: All that's coming up before Ian Furness joins us and
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: tells us what he's got going on on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Here's McMahon. Left-handed shot. Scored his third of the season earlier.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: In the game.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: McMahon, left side. He's got speed. Back to the middle. Shoots. Scores!
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon, the winner! On his stick.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: And the Seattle Kraken survive and advance out of Philadelphia.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: It's a 3-2 win in the shootout. Well, why not?
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Why not the guy that's the shooter on this team?
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Why not the guy that got the scoring started tonight?
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: He gets the scoring ended here with the shootout winner.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: Kraken win, 3-2.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: That was Everett Fitzhugh and Al Kaninsky from Philadelphia last
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: night from South Philly. And the Kraken beating the winless
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Flyers. I love saying winless Philadelphia Flyers growing up
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: as a Pittsburgh Penguins guy right outside Pittsburgh. They hated Flyers.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: 2-0 lead early last night. Flyers fought back to tie
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: it at 2. They went to overtime. Scoreless overtime thanks
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to a couple of really nice plays saved by Philip Grubauer.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And then in the shootout, Grubauer looked like he knew
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: exactly what the Flyers were going to do before the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: winner right there that you heard from McMahon and Now
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: they go to Florida for the tough end of this
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: five-game road trip. They're 3-0 on it, the Kraken are.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: They play now at Tampa Bay tomorrow, never a picnic.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: One of the best teams in the NHL. And then
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup champions from a couple years ago, Florida
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Panthers and their whole system and their lockdown defense and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the neutral zone and all of that. That's their back-to-back
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: task for the Kraken before they come home now. Tampa Bay, Florida, back-to-back.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I heard Chuck actually ask Hal Koninsky on my drive-in today,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: could they dare go 5-0 on this road trip and
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: beat both Tampa Bay and Florida? They're 5-2 after seven games.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: That's the best start in franchise history after seven games.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Last year, through nine games, there were five wins, two losses,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: and two overtime games with two overtime points. That was
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: their best start through nine games. Through seven games, five
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: and two, And that's the best start in the six
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: seasons of Kraken hockey through seven games. And so a
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: little bit of, well, the Calgary Flames, which you keep
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: playing the Flames. Well, that's not entirely true. But it's
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: true that Philadelphia is not one of the greatest teams
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: in the league. Detroit on the road was a big win.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: And Washington, the Capitals, you win on road ice against
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the Capitals while Ovechkin scores. That's something, too. Then last night,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: it was really cool. Billy Otovinan, 24-year-old defenseman, scores from
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the high slot. His first goal, I don't know if
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: you were watching the game, Jessamyn, those of you listening,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you were watching the game, but
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: on the Kraken TV side, they showed the trainer behind
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the bench. Did you see that? When Otovinan scored, they
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: took the puck, and he put athletic tape around the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: side of the puck, and he was writing in a
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Sharpie the goal, the date, the time, and all of
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: that for Otovinan to keep. Do you know who helped
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: create that goal? Matty Beneers. Matty Beneers was in front
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: of the net like he was some 225, 30-pound guy.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: He's only 180. I know he's 6'2, but he's only
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: 180 pounds, and he doesn't hit you as a big
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: enforcer-type throw-your-body-around guy. He set the screen in front of
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Ladarda that allowed the goal. The goaltender couldn't see it,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: and Odovinan scored the second goal for the Kraken. Beneers
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: last night. Last night was the first game I really
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: watched the Kraken play because I've been so busy with
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks and other things that have gone on in
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: my sports writing career the last week or so. But
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: last night watching the game, it struck me, and I'm
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: going to ask... Mike Benton and Ian Furness this, but
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Beneers was four-checking the hell out of the Flyers. I mean,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: just all over the place. I know he only has
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: three points through seven games, and he's not been the
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: scorer that the Kraken may have hoped when they drafted
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: him and made him the youngest face of the franchise,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: but I don't know that I... When I watched the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Kraken last year, I don't know that I saw Beneers
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: as aggressive in the four-check and standing in front of
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: goaltenders and screening them like he was last night. I mean,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: he looked like a pill, like this big... hulking dude
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: last night the way he was playing. I was really
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: impressed watching the forechecking by Matty Beneers, and I'm interested
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: to hear from those who watch the Kraken all the
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: time if that's something new or it's an emphasis for
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the Kraken. What else is an emphasis is to be
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: a little more tough, just to be feisty. We've heard
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Lane Lambert talk about them to be more competitive in
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: just plain feistiness. And how about Philip Grubauer last night?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: That was fun.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I am a big fan of Gruby, man. I really am.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: And I know that they are.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: In a wealth of riches when it comes to the
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: goalie situation. But Gruby coming back last year and then
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: doing what he's doing right now.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I love to see it.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Zegers last night was trying to get him under Grubauer's
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: skin from the start of the mat. I mean, it was...
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: From the drop he was trying to get after him.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: And you saw in the second period when Zegers takes
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: a shot. He curls up in the right circle. He
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: takes a shot that Grubauer saves and Grubauer, instead of
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: just dropping the pucker, handing it to the linesman, he
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: tossed it to Zegers because they'd been going at it
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: for a period and a half by that point. And
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: then Zegers shot it back into Grubauer and Grubauer cross-checked
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Zegers right under the chin. It was great.
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: Reminds me of Remember the Titans, to be honest, that, oh, oh,
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: that's a bad man when they put in sunshine at
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: quarterback and he goes, let him through. And then he
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: gives that evil stare. Yeah, that's what groovy reminds me
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: of in that situation.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: That was my favorite play of last night. My favorite
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: action of last night. And it was after the whistle.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Grubauer and Zegers got unsportsmanlike minors for it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: So what?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: It's like offsetting penalties in football.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Big deal.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: You've set your message. Don't mess with me. Don't mess
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: with me. And to the Kraken's credit, it wasn't just
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Grubauer going after Zegers. About three guys did after Zegers.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Grubauer cross-checked him. That was great. That's something that Lane
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Lambert has talked about this team needing more of, and
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: we saw it last night in Philadelphia, Broad Street bullies
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: and all that. I know they're not the Bobby Clark
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: 1970s Flyers, but that was great to see. I'd add
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: 49451 to you Kraken fans out there if you watched
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the game last night. I like Grubauer. He's a number
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: one goaltender to me. I know Joey Decord, younger, probably
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: the future, definitely the future. There's been talk about trading Grubauer. Grubauer,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: between the end of last season and now, has really,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: really turned it on. And I don't know. It's tough
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: to say he isn't worthy of being a number one goaltender.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I just loved what he did. That crosscheck made me.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: That was great. It was like football on ice. I
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: really appreciated that.
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know. It's kind of good because I think
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: we've been wanting a little bit more of that physicality
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: on the ice and a little bit more of that attitude.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: But when you got it coming from the goaltender.
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: That was awesome. That is great.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Football on ice. Now let's go to football on grass.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Back to Denver where the Seahawks are going to be tomorrow.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to fly there tomorrow morning for KJR. We're
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: going to talk to Parker Gabriel, the Denver Post beat
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: writer on the Broncos and what their struggles have been.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: They're 3-2-2. A little urgency from both teams tomorrow night
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: on this matchup. Parker Gabriel and the Broncos from Denver next.
• 43:24
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• 43:29
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• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star-Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJRFM Sports Headlines.
• 43:47
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• 43:49
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• 43:51
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• 43:55
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• 43:58
  Speaker 2: But they're headed in today after practice to play the
• 44:01
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• 44:05
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• 44:07
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• 44:10
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• 44:14
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• 44:19
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• 44:22
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• 44:24
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• 44:27
  Speaker 2: to Espada to replace Dan Wilson potentially as Seattle's manager.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Espada's contract with Houston is ending this month. Also this morning,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: the Mariners found out that their second baseman, Cole Young,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: has been named as a finalist for the American League
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Gold Glove. I still think he was the team MVP.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I know a couple of the text lines said Randy Rosarino,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: but the all-around play of Cole Young, who barely missed
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: an inning, and I'm talking defense, base running, just smart play.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I'm just happy for him to get the opportunity.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Hitting. Phillies are keeping Don Mattingly as their manager for 2027,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: so take Donnie Baseball off your list of being a
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: potential Mariners manager next year. Kraken 5-2 now. 3-0 on
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: their five-game road trip. They beat Philadelphia on a penalty
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: shootout goal by McMan. Next up at Tampa Bay tomorrow
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: right here on 93.3 KJR FM. Then they finish at
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Florida before they finally come home. Washington Huskies play on
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Friday here on KJR at Purdue. They're likely to be
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: without quarterback Devon Williams. Coach Jed Fish said his rim
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: injury is likely to keep Williams out of the start
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: in West Lafayette on Friday. That means number two Elijah Brown,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: who was stellar coming off the bench against Iowa last
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: week in the Huskies' third straight Big Ten loss. Elijah
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Brown going to start at Purdue. Friday right here on KJR.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Purdue just beat Minnesota, which beat Washington. Washington Day Cougars
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: are 1-5. They play Saturday at Oregon State. That's where
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Jess and McIntyre will be. They have a new quarterback
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: starting for them, a redshirt freshman.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Owen Eshelman. New era, I guess.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Caden Pinnock to the bench. Eshelman comes in.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: New play caller in Kirby Moore.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: And then now new quarterback in Owen Eshelman.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: They have some changes on the Cougars' side on offense.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball playoffs yesterday. The Rays even their American
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: League Championship Series at a game apiece by beating the
• 46:11
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• 46:14
  Speaker 2: ALCS in the National League Championship Series is 2-0 Brewers.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: How about that? Over the Dodgers. Game three is in
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium tonight where the Dodgers have to get off
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: the deck, although if any team could come back from 3-0,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: you think it might be the L.A. Dodgers with two
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: of them at home? Tomorrow night in Denver, the Rocky Mountains.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing fall has arrived in the Rockies, like 45,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: 50 degrees, rain. I know Colorado. I know Parker lives
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: there more than I. My wife's from CU Boulder, and
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I've been to Colorado so many times. It can be 85,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: 90 degrees one day and 30 degrees and snow in
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the next. That's how Denver is in October. April and
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: a lot of the time of the year, Parker Gabriel,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Denver post beat writer covering the Broncos joining us in
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: the beacon plumbing hotline. Hello, sir. Thanks for joining us again.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: And am I right on my weather forecast? Are we
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: going to have just cool crisp weather? Is there going
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: to be some particip precipitation in the air?
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's no surprise that your sources are spot on.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was 85 two days ago.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: And right now, I'm looking at the thermometer. It's 46 and, like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: missing at the moment. So it sounds like rain overnight
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: and tomorrow morning, but maybe at least not actively raining
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: by the time the game starts tomorrow night.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Okay. So there's your weather report from Denver for you
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: from Parker Gabriel. News and weather at 7. Parker, let's
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: talk about Bo Nix in the offense for Denver. He's
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: a sub-60% thrower, and he's throwing at like five yards
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: an attempt, the lowest in the league, among the lowest
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: in the league. Usually when you're throwing so short passes,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: they're a little more accurate than 59-some percent. What are
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: you seeing with Nix? He's been answering some questions this week.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: What's going on with Bo Nix in the offense, you think? Yeah.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: They just really haven't been able to produce a lot
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: of plays down the field, and it's a little bit...
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've seen what offenses get into a rut.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of everything that can go wrong
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: will go wrong. Right now, I think for Denver, where
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: they've had too many penalties, they've been in long yardage situations,
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: the running game hasn't been very efficient, and then when
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: they do get a good look, then... you know, more
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: often than not, um, you know, Nick's just hasn't hit it.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: So there's been, it's been pretty interesting. I wrote about
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: this last night, actually, you know, Nick's has, uh, been
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: fairly um revealing i would say or at least he's
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: talked a lot of words about just feeling like he's
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: a little bit caught in between you can sort of
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: hear it almost like the center monologue the last two
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: weeks when he's been at the podium of wanting to
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: be aggressive and feeling like you go into a game
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: with an aggressive posture and then it just sort of
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: that doubt creeps in about you know, they've played really
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: good teams. They're in a lot of games. Don't turn
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: the ball over. And he just is, you know, more
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: than anything. I mean, I don't, maybe there's some residual,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: you know, worry about the ankle or something, but by
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: and large, it just feels like he's a little bit
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: twisted up between the ears in terms of trying to find,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: you know, a, sort of zen state between being aggressive
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: and playing safe and smart.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask the same question I've been asking
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: ourselves and asking the Seahawks this week at Seahawks headquarters.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: How much would a running game help your quarterback? It's
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: obvious it would, but It's J.K. Dobbins or Busted appears
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: in Denver. Dobbins only has 200-some yards in five games.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: And then nobody else has more than 15 carries on
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: the team through five games. What's going on with the
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Denver run game?
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy who put the week two win against Jacksonville,
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: which by the end of the year I think is
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: going to look like a really good win, even though
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: it was in Denver, the guy who put that game
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: on ice is a guy you'll be familiar with up
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: that way, Jonah Coleman, the rookie from Washington. And then
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: they put him on injured reserve with a high ankle
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: sprain the next week, and he Part of it was
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: the timing of this game. This is the fourth game.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: He'll miss. He's eligible to come back next week. I
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: think they just weren't 100% sure. It didn't look like
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: a four-game injury, but with the fourth game being on
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: a short week, it's not really four weeks. They played
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: it safe. They put him on injured reserve. No one
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: said this, but I have to wonder if they regret
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: that a little bit because that he's had looked so
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: natural between the tackles and Dobbins hasn't looked as explosive
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: and hasn't been as explosive as he was last year.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: And so, yeah, they've really, they've really sort of been
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: hurting in the run game. Now they got it going
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: a little bit in the fourth quarter against the chargers
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: to put them away last week. And for his, much
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: of a train wreck of the chargers are the defensive
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: front's pretty good. So that, that was maybe a positive sign,
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: but Sean Payton always says the two things, the two
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: best friends of a quarterback are a good run game
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: and a good defense. And the Broncos have like 0.75
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: out of two of that at the moment.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: So good. I'm glad you brought up Jonah Coleman for
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: our Husky fans. So it sounds like he's going to
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: come back and it sounds like maybe the high ankle
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: sprain isn't the type that he might have to ease
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: himself back in. You think he plays in 10 days
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: in the Broncos next game?
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think he'll jump. You know, he wasn't
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: handling a real heavy workload. He played more against Jacksonville
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: in Week 2 because Dobbins was dealing with some muscle
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: spasms in his legs. But I think they want to
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: get a good long look at what that looks like
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: because all through training camp, they really liked how decisive
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: he was and the way he got north and south.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: And then You know, the running backs coach told me
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: he's he's butt thighs and shoulder pads and not much else.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: And that's tough to tackle. And so they they really
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: like what it looked like. And they liked it even
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: more when they saw it, you know, live and in
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: color in the regular season. And so I think he
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: jumps back in and they see what what he can
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: do for the running game in a pretty substantial way.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: That's Parker Gabriel. He's talking to us from Denver, the
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Broncos beat writer for the Denver Post. He's talking about
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman, the rookie running back from the Washington Huskies,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: who's on injured reserve so he will not play tomorrow night.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: The final of the four games he'll miss for Denver
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: on IR when the Broncos host the Seahawks tomorrow, 5-15
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: on Thursday Night Football. The run defense for Denver, it
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: jumps out at me they're averaging 145 yards allowed per
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: game near the bottom 10 or so in the league.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Any concern that that's systemic or is this just early
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: in the season? You're playing a first place schedule there
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: in Denver.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I honestly, like, even though the numbers don't look great,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of concern. I mean, the
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: worst they played by far was week one against Kansas city.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: And they gave up well over 200 yards and they
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: missed 28 tackles according to next gen stats. So they
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: haven't done that since they've been a better tackling team
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: and the chargers, the chargers put up a good number
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: last week. Come on, if it all had a 42
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: yard touchdown where the tackling issue crept up again, but
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: I don't, Overall, it's a team that's had one bad
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: outing and given up a couple of big plays. I
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: don't think they're a bad run defense. Now, At the moment,
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: this will be the sixth game that they've been without
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Jonathan Cooper, who's facing a felony assault charge and is
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: on the commissioner's exempt list at the moment. And he's
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: their best run defender by far at the edge position
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: and one of their best run defenders overall. And so
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: I think you've felt the impact of that. They haven't
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: been an elite group like they were overall last year.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: But in general, I think they've settled into being a–
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: pretty good run defending team and one that should get
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: better over the course of the year if they get
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Jonathan Cooper back at some point.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: So many similarities between the Broncos and the Seahawks. Same record,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: same problems on offense, running game with a kind of
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: a potpourri of running backs and no one taking the lead,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: and veteran defensive starters on the commissioner's exempt list. I mean,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: you can go all the way down the list on
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Arnold here in Seattle and You know what has not
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: come up, so leave it to a Seahawks beat writer
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: on Seattle radio to bring it up. Nothing has come
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: of the Graham Benzinger, Mike McDonald comments about Sean Payton
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: this week. Maybe it's because it's been three or four
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: weeks now, but what was the fallout from that? We
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: saw Payton's public comments, but what do you think about
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: all of that inside ball stuff that got released and released?
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Of course, Benziger shouldn't have put it out. We know that.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: And Mike McDonald got burned by that. But from here,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: it was that Mike McDonald said, I really respect Sean Payton.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: I've come to be friends with him in the team
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: meetings and the league meetings. And we get along great.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: And Payton said all the right things after McDonald called him.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: But from where you sit, how do you think that
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: sat there in Sean Payton and in Bronco land?
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: It wasn't wild about the fact that it came out
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: and we had heard not, not to that extent, like it,
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: but there were a couple of things that like made
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: a lot more sense here. Once it did. One was
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: the fact that beginning in 2025, the Broncos really sort
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: of tightened the screws on, on, on fans and attendance
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: at games and what they could shoot and what they did. And,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: and we asked around about like, Hey, why is this?
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: And we, It was just that sort of general, well,
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of teams are worried about their
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: plays getting, you know, filmed or ending up on social
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: media or whatever. Not so specifically that. And it's interesting, like,
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: I think they just kind of got wind of it
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: over the course of the season. You know how it goes. Like,
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of connections, you know, player to player,
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: team to team, teams, workout players that have been in
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: other places and training camp over the course of time.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they ask about that along the way. So
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of ways they could have found out.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: The thing about Sean is if anything bothered him about it,
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: my guess, it would, it would be that it was about, um,
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: the elevator scene that mcdonald you know like that he
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: explained about yeah how he sort of bowed up and
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: then it didn't come up like the rest of it
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: like to be frank like sean's put his foot in
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: his mouth and said stuff he shouldn't so many times
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: over the course of his career that like i really
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: don't think he was he was all that mad about
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: that element of it i think it was just more
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: of the like you know now you're dealing with this
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: week one or whatever it was and that sort of.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Thing It's always something between these two teams, Russell Wilson
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: and the Super Bowl.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Parker Gabriel, the Broncos beat writer from the Denver Post
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: joining us. We like to have the newspaper writers on
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: our show because there are fewer and fewer of them.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: That's right. The beat writers. So hats off to you, sir.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Who's more? With the newspapers, as you know well, Greg.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know more than I've ever known here in
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: the last week or so, Parker. I know. Appreciate that.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, from your seat, from when you
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: look at Seattle, and then you compare it to the
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: team you cover, who do you think is more desperate tomorrow?
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: They're both 3-2. They're both division champions that went to
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: the conference championship games. At 3-2, who do you think
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: is more desperate tomorrow?
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Good question. I don't know that either team has to
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: be really desperate, but I guess I would... I guess
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I would say Seattle. I mean, it just seems like
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: ultimately there's more contenders. Even though the AFC West is good,
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: the NFC West clearly so far this season has been
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: better and is shaping up to be a monster. And
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: not only that, but the Broncos, they closed their season
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: the last three weeks they play Buffalo, New England, and
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: then the Chargers, which at the beginning of the year
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: looked like a rough stretch. It still does, maybe minus
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: the Chargers part of that. But the first six games...
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: it has been a beast for the Broncos. And so
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: that it was, I think all along, not like Sean
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Payton would step up to the podium and say this,
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: but like realistically, you can look at their schedule and say,
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: and we did when it came out, like if you
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: get through the first six at three and three, you're
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: really in fine shape. They've got a chance to make
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: some hay. The middle of their schedule is a little
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: bit softer. They play Kansas city in a couple of weeks,
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: but literally like pretty much every bad team on their
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: schedule is between the end of October and mid December.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: So it's, This is like, in some ways, I think
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: the Broncos are, it's not exactly a house money game,
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: but they've already done what they really sort of baseline
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: needed to do over these first six weeks. They'd love
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: to be four and two. But if you're talking about
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: like winning a division, it's going to be tougher for
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Seattle from three and three, I think, than it would
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: be for the Broncos from three and three.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: That's an interesting point, Parker, because yeah, you got like,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: not just the mini buy, but you got a full
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: on buy after the Seahawks because you're at Arizona.
• 58:36
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Which I think is subterranean. I just saw them in person.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Then you do. You're at the Chiefs at home. You're
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: at Carolina versus Las Vegas, at Pittsburgh versus Miami, at
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: the Jets, then Vegas, and then the three games you mentioned.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: The Buffalo game is on Christmas right before the Seahawks. Same,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: like three hours before the Seahawks are playing San Francisco
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: on Christmas. Anything surprise you? Anything we should know about
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the Broncos that you didn't expect that you've seen through
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: six games that have jumped out at you?
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, the biggest one is that they just have
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: not figured out a way, um, to get Jalen Waddle involved.
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: He had the one big game against Jacksonville. And besides that, it's, uh,
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: three of the nine lowest single-game totals of his career receiving,
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: including all his time in Miami, obviously, and four out of,
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: I think, the 18. I mean, he had 100-plus yards
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: against Jacksonville, and he's at 35 or less in every
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: other game they've played so far this year. And not
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: only is he not producing, but neither is Corlin Sutton.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: And so it just is a part of the larger—
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: you know, set of problems they're having throwing the football. But,
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: you know, it's funny, like Greg, you were saying all
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: of the similarities between the two teams so far, the
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: one major difference is that, you know, Seattle's got the
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: best receiver on the planet and the Broncos have a
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: couple of guys that they think are really good, but
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: they've done really almost nothing so far this season.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Parker, you're the man, man. You know your stuff. You
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: explain it really well. I love your stories. I love
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: the fact that you're a traveling newspaper beat writer when
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: there are so many fewer of them. Keep doing what
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: you do. I appreciate your time. I'll say hi to
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: you tomorrow in the press box. Thanks, man.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, Broncos beat writer. Yeah, we
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: got to stick together. Newspaper beat guys. They're like dinosaurs.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: You see them on the side of the road, you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: think it's Jurassic Park or something. There's so few of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: us anymore.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: Well, I just appreciate the in-person record of what has
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 9: happened rather than just AI spitting things out.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I had a whole tirade to my– I
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: taught yesterday afternoon my graduate students at the University of Washington.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: They should know.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: In the athletic leadership program. And, yeah, I told them
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: AI is modern plagiarism. It is, though.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: It's just sourcing.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 9: But I think that– not to go back into it,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 9: but the.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: Thing is, where is it sourcing from?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly. There's an original source somewhere who's getting ripped off
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: and not getting any recognition, not any pay or anything.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: I know I'm biased. I just took my job I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: had for 21 years, so I'm a little bit biased.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't call that biased. I just say you're being honest. Yeah.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Up next, we'll go to the Tacoma Dodge Tech. There's
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: a great one on there already. I'll just say it right. 206,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: is Graham Benzinger the honorary captain for Seahawks Broncos tomorrow?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, boy.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: I wonder if he would ever show us. No, he
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: doesn't do that. He doesn't cover games.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: If he shows up anywhere near Mike McDonald, it might
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: go down. You'd think he bowed up about Sean Payton.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a bridge very, very firmly burned.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: We'll play back your talkbacks if we have any on
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: the Tacoma Dodge text line and our 933kgo. com website. We're
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: open to more. Jessamyn will play those back. 1135, I
• 1:01:51
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  Speaker 2: for us. 206, Charbonnet is massively overrated. Rushing TDs are
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  Speaker 2: I was about to do the over-under. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be beautiful, like 60 to 70 degrees kickoff and sunny
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  Speaker 2: in Provo.
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  Speaker 9: I've been all over the country, and I was just
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  Speaker 9: in Utah last weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It was just perfect.
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  Speaker 2: That stadium, you've been to Provo.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been to BYU twice, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I covered UW at BYU in one of Sarkeesian's first games,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, where he was the quarterback. And it was
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: It was opening in a mountain.
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  Speaker 2: The mountain is right up behind the stadium. It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: The Wasatch mountains right there. Utah is also pretty, but
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  Speaker 2: the mountains aren't right, right there at rice cycle stadium.
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  Speaker 9: But no, but all three of the stadiums that I've
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  Speaker 9: been in, in the state of Utah, I don't know
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  Speaker 9: if they planned football around that or something, but they're
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  Speaker 9: all gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all the population is saddled up against the West
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  Speaker 2: slope of the Wasatch mountains. I mean, outside of that
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  Speaker 2: area of Utah, there's nobody you got to, Arches and
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  Speaker 2: Moab and all that down south. Talk about beautiful country.
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  Speaker 2: Southern Utah and the national parks that are down there.
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  Speaker 2: i went to moab and i couldn't believe it yeah.
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  Speaker 9: It's it's unbelievable and i grew up in um forested
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  Speaker 9: national parks and state parks i should say and i've
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  Speaker 9: been to multiple but uh out here when i was
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: when i first moved out here i was working an
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  Speaker 9: nba game uh down in salt lake city and i
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 9: got flown out there three days earlier all i had
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 9: to do was go to shoot around a couple days
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  Speaker 9: so i had the whole entire day to myself, and
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  Speaker 9: I went to Moab just to see it.
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  Speaker 11: And I'm like, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe actually plan a trip here.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the text line, 49451. BYU plus 10.5 is
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  Speaker 2: they that pays college athletes? Who makes the decision on
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: pay on the college side? Is there a bonus money
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: left for someone like Elijah if he does really good? Okay,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: good question. A lot of the money goes through revenue sharing,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: which comes out of the athletic department's revenues. They have
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: to earmark, this is by now rule, by court rule
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  Speaker 2: and by the NCAA's policy, that schools use up to
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  Speaker 2: $ 20. 5 million this past year, and it's going to go up,
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  Speaker 2: of department money On teams, and they can spend that
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  Speaker 2: however they want. They can do 90% of football, which
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  Speaker 2: is what most people do, 90%, 95%. They could do 80%
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  Speaker 2: on football and 20% on basketball. They can do 8%
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  Speaker 2: on basketball. They can do any percentage they want. At
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  Speaker 2: the University of Washington, they actually fund their volleyball program
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  Speaker 2: and their softball program with revenue sharing because that's how
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  Speaker 2: good they are in those sports, and they want to
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  Speaker 2: keep it good. At least that's the last I heard
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: when I was– I still teach there, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'd heard. But the percentage of how much they give
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  Speaker 2: to football is up to each school. Then on top
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: of that, the delta and where the haves become the
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: havers is the havest in the Big Ten and the
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  Speaker 2: SEC is the NIL money on top of the revenue share,
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  Speaker 2: which is a free-for-all still. They said they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a clearinghouse and a bunch of rules. It's not working.
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  Speaker 2: It's a free-for-all. And that's where the money is just
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: open to open bidding. So Washington is lagging behind in
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  Speaker 2: spending on their teams because they don't have the donors
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: just handing over blank checks like they do in the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: SEC or at Ohio State in Michigan. That's the problem.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: There's too many other things to do in Seattle. And
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: people are saying, well, OK, you just had me hit up.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: You hit me up for four million dollars for DeMond Williams.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: Now we're 3-3 and Williams has lost three straight. He's
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: not even on the field. You're going to hit me
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: up again for another quarterback in a year or two.
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  Speaker 4: I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go buy another yacht or I'm going
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: to buy another house in Lake Chelan or up at
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: Whistler or I'm going to give to the Seattle Symphony
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: or whatever. That's the difference between here and Baton Rouge
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: and Tuscaloosa. In Baton Rouge and Tuscaloosa, the boosters are
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: just ATMs. The athletic director and the coach goes, hey,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: we need another quarterback. Okay, here's another million-dollar check. And
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: that's how LSU buys everybody in Alabama and Florida. That's
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: how it works in that part of the country. Not
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, Washington. And to me, that's the fundamental difference.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: That Washington's trying to run with those big boys, but
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: they don't have the funding mechanisms like the SEC and
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten schools do. Not to mention the fact
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: that Washington... They still have money, though. Of course, compared
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: to Washington State and Oregon State.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a lot.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: They're on the half side. That's why they went to
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten, so they could stay on the half side.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: But they're half of a half because they're only getting
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: half the Big Ten revenue that the rest of the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: schools are because that was the agreement when they jumped
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: in with Oregon is that you could only get a
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: half share until 2030, through the end of this decade.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: So they're playing with one hand tied behind their back
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: as far as roster construction and paying rosters. So when
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: you hear Jed Fish complain about we don't have enough money, well,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: that's because your school joined at half rate. They're getting
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: half the revenue of everybody else, and you're asking the
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  Speaker 2: money people, the private donors of the Huskies, to pay
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: the freight.
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  Speaker 3: Right, to subsidize.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: To try to subsidize and make up that delta. And
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: they're saying, wait a minute. We haven't been to a
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: bowl game. Well, a bowl. We haven't been to the
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: college playoff in a few years. Get back to me
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: when you've got a roster worth paying for. That's the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: yin and the yang of the whole thing.
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  Speaker 9: And it's going to continue, and it's not just in
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  Speaker 9: our state.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: And the line between the haves and the have-nots is
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: going to get thicker because there are a lot of
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: schools and a lot of donors of schools that are
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: going to say, I'm out. No more. I just did
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: this for a quarterback, and now he's gone. That's the summation.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit cold, but that's just exactly how
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: it's playing down on Montlake from where I sit and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: what I see. Up next, Ian Furness will tell us
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  Speaker 4: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want that pick. There's still the over-under there.
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  Speaker 2: I hate doing those.
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  Speaker 3: I never do that either.
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  Speaker 2: From the text line, someone asked where I'm reffing this weekend.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: I've got Liberty against Chris Carson's Redmond team. Liberty High School.
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  Speaker 2: My man, Steve Vallick. Yes, Steve Vallick. Have you been
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  Speaker 2: to a game out there?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to a sub-JV game there. The Is it
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  Speaker 2: Friday night?
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  Speaker 4: It's at Liberty.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: Is it Friday night? Friday night, 7 o'clock. I think
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  Speaker 2: one of the better atmospheres in baseball football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's Liberty's home. I know it's Liberty's homecoming,
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  Speaker 2: so that'll be fun. Take care of my guy, Valak,
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  Speaker 2: will you? I will. He's a great man. He sounds
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: like he doesn't need to be taken care of. He
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  Speaker 2: does pretty well on his own.
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  Speaker 12: He does well. He runs a great program. And the
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  Speaker 12: Friday night lights at Liberty High School are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sweet. I'm fired up. They are awesome. And Liberty's
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: got a really good team. Don't go hungry.
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  Speaker 12: Because they have a great, like they got the burgers
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  Speaker 12: cooking and it just, you walk.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: In and you're like, oh, this is awesome. Yeah, it's fantastic. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My kid was a ball boy for him for many years.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: It was fun.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it was, yeah, it was, I love this program.
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  Speaker 12: I love what he stands for. It's everything that high
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 12: school football should be. You know, he's a great man, man.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great to hear. I'll be looking forward to meeting him
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: and Andy Miller and I are going to be doing
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: that game with a five-man crew out at Liberty High School. Good,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: good deal. And they're good this year? They're really good.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: They have one loss. They look like they're ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the players. The Redmonds won win, so that would be
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: a big upset for them.
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  Speaker 12: We had one of the best games we did on
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 12: KJR in one of the best games we did in
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  Speaker 12: terms of play-by-play when we were doing semifinals and finals
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  Speaker 12: back in the day at the Tacoma Dome. And Valek's
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 12: team went down to the Tacoma Dome, and it was
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 12: like the Friday after Thanksgiving. And they played Bellevue, I
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 12: believe it was, and beat them on a last-second finish.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 12: 50-yard field goal in the dome.
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  Speaker 14: Wow.
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  Speaker 12: And the crazy thing was, A, I mean, you're beating
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 12: that team. But two, I think they lost to them
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 12: earlier in the year, but was it Bellevue or no, somebody,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 12: maybe it was Linden or somebody because I think they
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 12: were still 2A. But nevertheless, the kicker, like he didn't
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 12: have a kicker. And Steve knew he needed a kicker.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 12: And he went and talked to a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 12: because this boy's soccer is in the spring. And he
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 12: found a kid that would kick. And I had a
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 12: few guys out there kick, and this guy was really good.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 12: And his parents wanted no part of football.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 4: None.
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  Speaker 12: Sounds like my wife. And he said, I promise. He
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 12: doesn't have to tackle. He won't have to hit. Nothing
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 12: like that. And then the kid ended up hitting an
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 12: unbelievable field goal to win it. They went to the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 12: championship game, and they lost to Abe Lucas- Archbishop Murphy.
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  Speaker 12: So that would have been 2A.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: And it was, is it Kyler Gordon?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Like they had dudes. They had two NFL players on
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 12: their team. A little hard to beat them, but it
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 12: was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Fun stuff. Abe Lucas just gave back to his school,
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  Speaker 2: Archbishop Murphy. They have a sports performance and nutrition center
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: and weight room and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Named him as his family.
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  Speaker 4: Very nice.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: He's still got a sister that goes there.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: He told me.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, good.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: I haven't written that story yet.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to write it for what I was
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  Speaker 2: going to write it for. I'll be writing for the
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  Speaker 2: I'll be writing from Denver on the KJR website, 923KJR.
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  Speaker 11: Com.
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  Speaker 2: Did you figure out how to get into it yet? Yes,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: finally got that up. Let me ask you real quick.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: Matty Beneers last night impressed the hell out of me
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: with forechecking, screening on Ota Vinen's first career goal. And
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: you're saying you think this is a buy-in. Yeah, I
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: think it's a total buy-in.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 12: But it's also Beneers being a great all-around player. Beneers
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 12: is a really good player. He's not an 80-point guy.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 12: Which is what guys want. People want to see a
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 12: top pick, right? You just need good players sometimes. He's
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 12: a really good player. He's terrific on the four check.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 12: Everyone's paying the price. If you don't pay the price,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 12: you don't go to the front of the net, you
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 12: don't stick up for your teammates, and you don't buy
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: into what Lane's selling, then you're not going to be
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 12: long for this world.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: And the proof is the record right now. 5-2 heading
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: to Tampa tomorrow. What do you got on the show today?
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: We're busy. We're jammed.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 12: We've got our friend Stuart Mandel will join us early on,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 12: so we'll get to that. Our Cougs are with us
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 12: as well today. I was not going to let them
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 12: go the week after what happened last week. I've had
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 12: a lot of, oh, I want to get here from Alex. Yeah,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 12: quarterback change. We'll get to all that.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: Ask him why the Pitt guy's not playing.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: And, oh, Duggar? He can't throw. That's a simple answer.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: He can't throw.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 12: It's a quarterback. You're not running Butch Contreras' offense. If
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 12: he was at Bellevue back in the day with Butch,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 12: he'd be fine. He ain't running Butch's offense.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: No single wings? No double wings?
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 12: And we had no show yesterday. We had this weird
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 12: week with all the short shows with the Kraken playing.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 12: We've got to take our medicine. Lund's usually on Tuesdays.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 12: Lund's going to join us at 1220 today from the
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 12: Bay Area.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to wear that one, huh? We have to
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: wear it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: We have to wear it. Yes, you do. Let him
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: stick his little chest out there.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: We are the turkey leg in this situation.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: We are.
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  Speaker 12: So we'll talk Seahawks and NFC West with Lund at
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 12: 1220 today.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 4: Yay.
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  Speaker 2: will be on during the show tomorrow with Jessamyn between
• 1:28:51
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