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11-6 H1: Welcome Back Chuck, Jason Kanzler Audio & No Cliche Keys · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: As part of our relentless coverage of the NFL... This
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  Speaker 1: is football! This is football!
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  Speaker 2: This is a Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday.
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  Speaker 1: This crowd is going nuts!
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  Speaker 2: with Chuck in the Morning on your home for the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR-FM. Oh, well, great morning to you all.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome into the show. It is Chuck in the Morning,
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. And like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck is back. Yes, I like it. God, good. Anders
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  Speaker 1: Hurst is here. Chris Kidd is here. I didn't listen
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  Speaker 1: to one second of the radio program other than the
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  Speaker 1: segment I was on during the course of the last
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  Speaker 1: five shows, but it sounds like all went well led
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  Speaker 1: by Anders Hurst. About as well as you could hope. Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah. Nothing blew up? No disasters? No,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't burn the place down.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't cause any divorces in the office?
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  Speaker 1: No, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because there are a lot of bad marriages in
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  Speaker 1: our office. Yeah, seriously. Been wanting to point that out
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  Speaker 1: for years.
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  Speaker 3: But it is great to be back. If you're wondering,
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  Speaker 3: why did you come back on a Friday? That was
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  Speaker 3: strategic as well. We're not supposed to take time off
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  Speaker 3: during the football season, but because of our summer without Bucky,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't take any time off at all. when all
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  Speaker 3: the other hosts were taking their full 18 weeks, I.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't taking any time off at all.
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  Speaker 3: And so I told my boss, I'm like, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to have to take some time off during the football season.
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  Speaker 3: And I've not been home to see my mother for
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  Speaker 3: her birthday, my entire adult life because of sports. And
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  Speaker 3: so I would like to do that this year. So
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  Speaker 3: that was the reason that we did that. But I
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  Speaker 3: only wanted to miss football. one full week. So I
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  Speaker 3: took last Friday off. I didn't want to cut into
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the cycle. So I know I missed
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  Speaker 3: so much. And I knew I was going to miss
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  Speaker 3: a lot. I mean, I knew from the beginning when
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  Speaker 3: I signed up for the time that I took off
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  Speaker 3: that I'm going to miss a Monday night game that
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  Speaker 3: was going to be spectacular, at least on paper.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, you could read the tea leaves.
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  Speaker 1: You probably.
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  Speaker 3: knew the manager was going to get hired in that time.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see the Kraken trade coming, but we do
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  Speaker 3: have a lot to catch up on, obviously, and so
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to get going with that.
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  Speaker 1: But yes.
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  Speaker 3: Back, back after a week, back on a Friday. And
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  Speaker 3: I also kind of like tucking that in. You come
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  Speaker 3: back and you'd work one day and then you get
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  Speaker 3: two more.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a quick little come back and.
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  Speaker 1: Then, you know, get the weekend again. And then you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: full ramp up now. I'm not even kidding you. I
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  Speaker 1: got home because I hate traveling. Yeah. Not being somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: I like being somewhere else. The act of traveling.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like going to and from. It's probably the
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  Speaker 3: thing I hate the most in life.
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  Speaker 2: And, and then.
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  Speaker 3: I did not take a vacation. Let's be very clear
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  Speaker 3: about that. I took time off.
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  Speaker 1: To see my family, and that is not a vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Not the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: I was in southwestern Illinois dealing with unseasonably warm temperatures,
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  Speaker 3: rain every day sideways, couldn't even sit on a patio
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  Speaker 3: and write or read a book.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Because the weather was so bad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and then spend time with family and there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: vacation-y about spending time with family. Um, now that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean I didn't have a great time cause I did.
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  Speaker 3: I had an excellent time.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but it was sort of a check, check, check, check,
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  Speaker 3: check those boxes kind of trip.
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  Speaker 1: We had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of laughs, but I came back
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not even kidding you. I'm walking around the
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  Speaker 3: streets of my community. walking to Thursday night football, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you, Anders, it felt like I'd been
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  Speaker 3: gone a year.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just there at my Thursday night hole,
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  Speaker 3: Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 1: The week before. Yeah, the week before. I didn't miss
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  Speaker 1: a single week of it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like I'd been gone a year. It really did.
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  Speaker 1: It was the strangest feeling. And one week, just one
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  Speaker 1: simple week. I don't know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Does it feel colder since you came here? Does the
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  Speaker 5: weather change?
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  Speaker 1: No. It just felt like, man, I haven't walked these
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  Speaker 1: streets in a long time. Because so much has happened
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  Speaker 1: since then, maybe? Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe family just takes it out of you. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I do not feel refreshed from my trip away. I
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  Speaker 3: can promise you that.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I had a great time. This was not
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  Speaker 1: an R & R situation. No, this was not one
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  Speaker 1: of those.
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  Speaker 3: And then a long day of travel, because anywhere you're
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  Speaker 3: traveling to or from Seattle feels like forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, so maybe that had something to do with
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  Speaker 1: it as well.
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  Speaker 3: And then of course you get off the plane after
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  Speaker 3: eight hours of flying, uh, and you have three traffic
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  Speaker 3: snarls on your way home. I mean, that's a normal
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  Speaker 3: drive for me. That's the normal, not from the airport,
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  Speaker 3: but the four Oh five is a normal drive for
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  Speaker 3: me to Woodinville.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't even remember the last like stoppage that
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  Speaker 1: I had. And I had three. Does that not always happen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're so relieved. I just can't wait to get home.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to get home. Just want to get home.
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  Speaker 1: I want to just wash the airplane off of me.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take a shower. Then I want to relax.
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  Speaker 3: And then I want to get back into my routine
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  Speaker 3: and watch some football and get ready for the show tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: And sure enough, it was as if God was trying
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  Speaker 3: to F with me.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just when people travel that he chooses
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  Speaker 1: to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: To be completely honest. I think he does, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He's like, you know what? You think you're going to
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  Speaker 5: get this great experience? You're at least getting something that's
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  Speaker 5: going wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And you think it's so funny, don't you? You're like,
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  Speaker 1: we are your aunts, and you are holding a magnifying glass.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're so clever, and you just laugh with
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  Speaker 1: your angels. You and your divine rights. Yeah, you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: up there like, watch this guy. Look what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do to this guy. Oh, man. He thinks he's
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  Speaker 1: home free. Watch what I do here. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, we've got a lot to catch up on.
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  Speaker 3: I've got things to catch up with. You and Chris,
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  Speaker 3: see how things went last week.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get to it all.
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  Speaker 3: But obviously, there are a lot of big sports topics
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  Speaker 3: that have happened, and they coincide with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: big events that are happening this weekend, including the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: coming off a loss to the Chicago Bears. And not
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  Speaker 3: one of those games, Anders, where.
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  Speaker 3: You walk away from it feeling like we were the
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  Speaker 3: better team. It wasn't that kind of game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I went into that game thinking that the Seahawks were
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  Speaker 3: the team to beat in the NFC, if not the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League. And there's no way to have watched
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  Speaker 3: that game and come away feeling like they are. The
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  Speaker 3: Chicago Bears just looked better. And they were physical. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think any team could out-physical the Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 3: they did on Monday night. I mean, the hits.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the hits that Sam Darnold was taking. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Bears were just flying around. And then for them
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  Speaker 3: to have as much success offensively. Of course, they started well.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody starts well. The first couple possessions, you usually score
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  Speaker 3: against Mike McDonald's defense.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's it.
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  Speaker 3: But this was the one case where the Bears were
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  Speaker 3: actually better later in the game. they were even earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the game which also speaks to how well they're
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  Speaker 3: coached and what a good roster that they've put together
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  Speaker 3: and now they added jeffrey simmons who was a menace
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  Speaker 3: in his very first game uh as a chicago bear
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  Speaker 3: with his orange sleeves um and there's no way to
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  Speaker 3: get around it i mean the seahawks have work to
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  Speaker 3: do forget the four and four record you matched up
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  Speaker 3: at home coming off a dominant win over a good
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  Speaker 3: team in the Kansas City Chiefs, and another team that
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  Speaker 3: maybe was a little bit hungrier to prove that they
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  Speaker 3: should be on the top of the hill came in
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  Speaker 3: here and beat you pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Much in every facet of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you did have chances to get back in,
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  Speaker 3: and there were certainly some things to hang your hat on,
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  Speaker 3: but there's no doubt they were soundly defeated. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if there's been a game this year where I
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  Speaker 3: came in afterwards and thought, And they've got four losses.
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  Speaker 1: But I think in those first three losses, I really
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  Speaker 1: felt like, yeah, you won.
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  Speaker 3: But you're not better. You're not better than the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first time this year I'm like, that
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  Speaker 3: team's better than the Seahawks right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 5: And even Hugh, after the game, was like, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if they're the better team, but they were better
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  Speaker 5: on that night, for sure. It's not like the deserving
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  Speaker 5: team or the team that lost deserved to win, like
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  Speaker 5: you just said. And the thing that kind of caught
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  Speaker 5: my eye was his analysis is, remember when The Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: beat the 49ers in Week 18 last year, and he
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  Speaker 5: said the Seahawks out 49ers the 49ers. That really stuck
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  Speaker 5: with me because for so long, the 49ers were like
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  Speaker 5: this kind of. They were the standard that everyone wanted
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  Speaker 5: to get past in terms of the style of play,
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  Speaker 5: especially I think the Seahawks really tried to match that.
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  Speaker 5: And they were able to get over the hump and
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  Speaker 5: it led them to a Super Bowl. He said after
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  Speaker 5: the game, the Bears out Seahawks, the Seahawks. And to
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  Speaker 5: be honest, I agree with him. And the physical nature,
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  Speaker 5: as you were saying, the ability to stick to the run,
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  Speaker 5: even if it wasn't extremely successful from a yardage perspective,
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  Speaker 5: but it led to everything. else being successful offensively. Adjustments
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  Speaker 5: throughout the game, as you were mentioning, just there were
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  Speaker 5: so many aspects of that game where the Seahawks were
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  Speaker 5: second best. And it's unfortunate that, you know, we're sitting
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  Speaker 5: here at four and four now.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that if they meet up again, it
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  Speaker 3: won't be a completely different story. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 3: a trading deadline. We've got guys that we need to
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  Speaker 3: get healthy. We have a second half of a season
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  Speaker 3: where Mike McDonald's entire track record, even when he was
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  Speaker 3: an assistant, his teams always got better. In the second
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  Speaker 3: half of the season, it's happened both his years here.
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  Speaker 3: So he's two for two in pulling that off. So
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  Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks will get better. And you never
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  Speaker 3: know if the Bears get worse. You never know what
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  Speaker 3: injury toll could be taken on Chicago the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the way. So it could be a completely different story.
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  Speaker 3: If the two were to meet again in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was one of that. That's first time
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  Speaker 3: in a long time where I'm like, oh, we're not
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  Speaker 3: as good as them right now. We are just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like the 49ers won the game.
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  Speaker 1: Right. I don't know if they outplayed the Seahawks. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears outplayed the Seahawks. 100%. On Monday Night Football.
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  Speaker 3: And so now you get ready to get well against
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  Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals, which is not the cakewalk. at all
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  Speaker 3: that people sort of viewed the Cardinals as when the
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  Speaker 3: season began. They've won some games this year. They've beaten
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  Speaker 3: some teams, some talented teams so far this season. So
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  Speaker 3: this is not a layup by any stretch, but it
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  Speaker 3: is your opportunity to get right back.
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  Speaker 1: On the winning track.
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to have to do it with your
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  Speaker 3: backup quarterback, Sam Darnold is out for this game. I
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people want him to be benched
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  Speaker 3: at the quarterback position. I don't rank among you, but
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  Speaker 3: I will say that Drew Locke starting what we saw
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  Speaker 3: earlier this year, you've got to feel good about it.
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  Speaker 3: He played well in his limited amount of time to
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  Speaker 3: start or to play. at quarterback for the Seahawks this season.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously it's been a while since we've seen him go.
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  Speaker 3: He's got an injury of his own that he's dealing
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  Speaker 3: with right now. Um, but he's going to be the
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  Speaker 3: guy that you hand the keys to the car and.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to drive it. Well, otherwise you're going to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're going to end up in the ditch.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to drive this car well, because the Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: can take some things away from you. Um, but it
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  Speaker 3: is nice to have that backup quarterback that you do
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  Speaker 3: feel can win games for you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the story came out earlier that Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 5: was probably playing through something the entire Bears game, and
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  Speaker 5: that would kind of explain a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's tough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he plays through a lot of pain, but he
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  Speaker 5: didn't look 100%.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel much better. I mean, we're seeing a
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  Speaker 5: lot of backup quarterbacks. We saw one last night. I
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  Speaker 5: don't feel much better. I couldn't feel much better about
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  Speaker 5: where the Seahawks are in terms of if a quarterback
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  Speaker 5: were to get injured than anyone else. across the National
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  Speaker 5: Football League, right? So that's the guy you, he's already
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  Speaker 5: gotten you a win against this team, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: So hopefully he's able to repeat that, what was able
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  Speaker 5: to make him successful earlier in the year, even if
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of things that are different right now
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  Speaker 5: than they were in week two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And what's interesting is since Drew Locke has played, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our show sort of became the fulcrum of a conversation
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  Speaker 3: about possibly trading drew lock. Would there be a scenario?
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  Speaker 3: And this was the conversation. Would there be a scenario
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  Speaker 3: when you got closer to the trading deadline? And this
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  Speaker 3: is the last game that the teams will play this
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  Speaker 3: week before the trading deadline, where you feel good about Sam,
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  Speaker 3: you have a commodity and drew other contenders lose their
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks right before the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a market for him.
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  Speaker 3: And you could get an offer that you might not
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  Speaker 3: be able to pass up just to preserve your backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: There is a scenario out there where that could happen. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that scenario did unfold. I mean, there are plenty of
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  Speaker 3: teams right now that are contenders who've lost their quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if the Ravens are waking up this
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  Speaker 1: morning convincing themselves that they are contenders at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but they obviously addressed their quarterback need by getting Jacoby
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  Speaker 1: Brissetti just wasn't healthy enough or wasn't ready enough to
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  Speaker 1: play last night. But, you know, they are.
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  Speaker 3: A team that wants to remain in contention and obviously
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  Speaker 3: needed a quarterback. The Minnesota Vikings have come out this
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  Speaker 3: week and, and pretty much said they're looking for a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback before the trading deadline, which was a team that
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  Speaker 3: was the team that I brought up weeks ago when
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  Speaker 3: we discussed this very issue. So everything in terms of
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  Speaker 3: would you trade, would you, could you be tempted enough
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  Speaker 3: to trade drew lock before the NFL trading deadline? All
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  Speaker 3: of that stuff fell in place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But unfortunately, from the Seahawks' point of view, they need
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke right now, which is why you should have
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  Speaker 3: waited until the trading deadline because you could potentially lose
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  Speaker 3: your quarterback as well. And it's not like Sam's going
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  Speaker 3: to be out for a long period of time. But
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  Speaker 3: suddenly we have this, not only do you need him
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  Speaker 3: right now to start for you because you can't trust
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  Speaker 3: anybody else. Mm-mm. there is at least a conversation. If
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  Speaker 3: he plays well, does he replace Sam?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, and Sam contributes to this conversation because he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: played as well as he did a year ago. And so, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: everything kind of fell in place. We might be looking at,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we might've been looking at a, we'll trade
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  Speaker 3: you drew lock for Derek Henry.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, if the Ravens didn't trade for Jacoby Brissett, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Right, but maybe they did come knocking. You don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe John's like, I can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I need Drew. Yeah, that's a good point. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it would have been something like that. Maybe there
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  Speaker 3: would have been a deal with the Minnesota Vikings. I
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  Speaker 3: guess we'll never know. To those that were absolutely opposed
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  Speaker 3: to this, that's a good example of something.
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  Speaker 1: That just happened. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then yeah, it, it's, you know, it behooves you to
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  Speaker 3: have held onto both of your quarterbacks because you needed
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  Speaker 3: drew for this week and who knows how many weeks
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  Speaker 3: going forward. And if he does go out there and
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  Speaker 3: light the world on fire, suddenly you might have a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback controversy in your house.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And so it's, it is strange. I was thinking about that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Everything fell in place to possibly
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: make this conversation come to the forefront, except the Seahawks
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: ended up with the injured starting quarterback as well, who's
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: not playing well enough to make you feel good about
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: just going with Sam the rest of the way.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: And that was what a lot of people were adamant
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: about when we had the discussion initially, is, hey, I
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: like that security blanket of Drew Locke in case something
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: else happens to Sam Darnold. We have a guy that
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: we trust. And I think you do at this point.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: And I'm very curious to see how he does coming
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: off his own injury. Hughes mentioned multiple times that this
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: is a different situation than week two. Drew Locke's coming
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: off his own injury. He was just weeks, days, really,
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: away from the training camp and preseason where he was
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: getting a lot of the ones reps. That has not
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: been the case up until now. So I'm very curious
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: to see how he performs this week.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Which is why today I bring up, should we trade
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold? I'm kidding! After all that! It's a joke! Kidding!
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It's going to make you uncomfortable! Oh, man. Don't clip that.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And don't put it in a promo. Right, don't put
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: that in a promo. Should we trade? Same time?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Football Friday program.
• 18:27
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• 18:43
  Speaker 1: All right, Seahawks Cardinals, 125 on Sunday.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Drew Locke to start. Sam Darnold out with an injury.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Hugh Millen will be with us again today. We've been
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: using Hugh quite a bit here as of late, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: he is our QB1.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He is always ready.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: He is cocked and ready to provide top-tier analysis, X's
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: and O's with Hugh today at 9 o'clock. The Hawks
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: injury report, it's a thick one this week for the Cardinals.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Greg Bell will be with us at 7.05 to update
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: us on everything.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Also give us his.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Keys to victory, which we will wrestle ourselves at 6.45 today.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Thursday night, football started the week in the National Football League. Jacksonville,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: 33-10 winners over the Baltimore Ravens. The Jaguars, not just 6-2,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they are dominating pretty much every team that they face today.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: They have won four games by 23 points or more
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: this season. It's only the fifth time this century that
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: a team has done that. And so Jacksonville's kind of
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: sending a message out there that they are real contenders.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: The NFL trade deadline is in four weeks. days, which
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: is something we should kick around. These are going to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: be the last games before the NFL trade deadline does occur.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And so this will tell a lot.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: That might be the most fascinating aspect of week nine
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: of the National Football League because the overall schedule is
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: pretty W-E-A-K. There's not even a game to watch in
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: the early phase.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Not really. In the 10 o'clock game. Not really.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out. I always do this
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: every Friday. What's the best game? I mean, is it
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Philly and the Giants?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: If that's it. I think that's the best game of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the early games. I think I agree with you, unfortunately.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So it's a.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Weak schedule, but there's so much conversation to fill the
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: gaps as teams are trying to determine once and for all.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: how much to sell, whether you're sellers, all of that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be fascinating between now and Tuesday.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: College football week number 10, completely the opposite. Massively strong lineup.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Seven top 25 matchups in week 10 of the college
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: football season. There won't be a better Saturday this year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, there will be one.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: There's more at stake, and we're getting into the college
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: football playoff. But in terms of the great matchup. We
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: won't even see this kind of Saturday in the college
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: football playoff.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: So you've got all sorts of games that we'll go
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: over in the Ocho today at 8 o'clock. Huskies host
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Penn State, of course, on Saturday. That game will kick
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: off at 1230. It's going to be a very busy
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: day here at KJR because you've got Kraken Rangers at
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: 2 o'clock on Saturday, and you've got Sounders and LAFC
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: on playing at 4 o'clock on Saturday. So a sneaky,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: busy day for sports fans here in Seattle, but for us,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: like one of the busiest days of the year. So
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: all of that going on, those are your headlines. That's
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: what's on tap. Coming up next, I haven't had a
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: real swing at this Jason Kanzler hire, so we will
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: discuss it on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I fondly remember coming here when I was with the
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: team that shall not be named. What distinctly stands out
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: to me is this atmosphere is electric. Maybe I'm misremembering,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: but I remember I think that electric factory was even
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: like a thing that was used. And I think one
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: of the things that excites me among many things is
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: that I would like to ride the lightning with this
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: team and this city.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Now, in terms of the players, I think it's extremely exciting.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: This is a young group.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: They are talented.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: This is a good team already, and they have the
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: potential and the talent to be an excellent team.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: That is the voice of Jason Kanzler, the new Mariners manager.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Anders was kind enough to have me on last week
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: and talk about it a.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Little bit on the show.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But certainly we haven't had a chance, the three of us,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: to discuss this at any great length. Me coming back
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: to the show here today gives us that opportunity to
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: roll back our sleeves a little bit and talk about
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: it in a couple of different spots. That particular clip
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: about Kanzler... was the one that's getting the most run.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I could give a damn about the fact that the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: team that cannot be named. I don't know why that's
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: bothering people so much. I don't know why it would
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: bother Astros fans, and I don't know why it would
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: bother Mariners fans. That was his way of addressing, yes,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I came up in an organization that used.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: To be rivals with you. That's all.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to address that elephant in the room,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to try to do it in a
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: cute fashion, funny fashion, and just kind of laugh it off.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's his way of endearing himself to fans.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: So I don't know why that bothered. I don't know
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: why that's the thing that kept resonating on social media
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: this past week. I'm far more interested in the other
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: aspects of how he intends to manage this baseball team
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: for this upcoming year. And him, let's face it, Anders...
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Getting the most out of the players, that is it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, that is the job. Because this is an
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: organization that said, in firing Dan Wilson, we are blaming
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: this on Dan Wilson and the coaching staff and the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: culture because it did not establish what we believe was
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the atmosphere to get the most out of players we
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: believe in.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: We were expecting to win a World Series.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: We stayed with them for the entire year to try
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: to make that happen. But we're not going to take
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the blame for this. We're keeping our jobs, so we're
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: not getting blamed for this. But we pretty much have
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: one shot with this team of proving that. And maybe
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: they've got more time than that, Anders. Maybe they're not
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: on the hot seat, Jerry and Justin. There is a
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: world where that's true. But for me?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And I've been somebody that has backed Jerry. I have
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: been somebody that's backed Justin, as everybody knows. And I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: was somebody this year that had Dan Wilson being dismissed
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: quicker than anybody, at least in the media. Fans were
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: ready to get rid of him earlier, for sure. But
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I obviously put a lot on Dan Wilson's The Problem.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: This past baseball season.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Um, and so with that being said, Jason Kanzler rides
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: into town with zero experience. This is quite the roll
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: of the dice that they are making here. He has
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to get the job done now.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Not next year, not the following year. No, you can't
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: keep dangling that carrot. He's got to get the job done. Now,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Jerry DePoto said after the season, uh, based on our
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: lack of playoff success since I've been here, it would
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: be justified that I got fired. And so when you're
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: making the statement that we've got the team to win
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and the reason we didn't win is because we had
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: a group of guys that were not being held accountable,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: that weren't being taken to task when they were not
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: performing as champions. playing championship-style baseball. We didn't have a
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: group of coaches. We didn't have a group of adults
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: telling the kids, you can't play in those sandboxes.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Stop eating cat turds in the sandbox.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: We had coaches that were afraid to tell the guys
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: that those are cat turds and they don't belong in
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: your mouth. And so they are changing the culture more
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: than anything else, but in terms of it paying dividends... Anders,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: it has to work in 2027. If we even have
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: a season in 2027, it has to work immediately. Or
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: now all of a sudden you don't have another way
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to tell us that it's culture or it's coaching or
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: that it's holding.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Players to a higher standard.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: This was your chance to find the guy who Create
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: the culture that you see in your head that will
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: get the most out of the players that you've assembled
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that you think are championship worthy.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: This is it. This is the guy.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: You've chosen a guy with zero managerial experience to get
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: that Herculean task done for a franchise that has never
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: been to.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: The World Series. That's a lot.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: But there is no other outcome that is acceptable. You win,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and not necessarily a World Series... But you win with
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: this group.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You win a.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Bad division, which is probably going to be weak again
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: next year. Or other heads have to roll.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Period. Right.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: You can't have a third different manager and say that
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: it's the manager that's the problem.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: That's where it's like, okay, what's the common denominator here?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: This core of the roster has basically been... In its
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: window with three different managers. At the end of Scott
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Service's tenure, the entirety of Dan Wilson's tenure, and now
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: with Jason Kanzler. And the fact that they are going
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: with this guy that no one knows anything about. I
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: tried to find any sort of analyst that knew anything
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: about this guy and what he brings to the table,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: and there was nothing.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: There is no way to evaluate him as a manager
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: of a major league team.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: There is no way to do it. It is a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: complete roll of the dice.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: On a guy that they feel understands culture and organizational symmetry.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: That is what they are relying on. That's what they
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: believe is the solution. And it is a big risk.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: And that tells me that I think they think it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: their last chance to. Because they could have gone with
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: a safe hire, a safe quote-unquote hire with Joe Espada, right?
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: A guy that has experience, a guy that has won divisions.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I like this one better. I do, too. I frankly do.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I do, too.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Because Espada wasn't going to do anything for me. It
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to do anything for the fan base. He
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to do anything for your PR game. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you might as well go with the gut feel. I mean,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: they've had a gut feel on Steven Vogt.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And then just decided.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson was the safer choice because everybody likes him.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And so if your job's on the line, if my
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: job's on the line, I want to go out my way.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I want to, even if it doesn't make sense to me.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: The fan base. I mean, they didn't hire Jason Kanzler
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to lose. I can promise you that. They hired him
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: because they believe that what was broken this year, he
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: can fix. It is an organizational, cultural decision. It is
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: not based at all. I mean, it's a little bit
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: of a thumbing your nose that anybody can manage.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of that. There is. It's a
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: little bit of that. That job's not that hard.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Well, especially since this is now the third guy that
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: you've hired with no experience.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: We're going to put the pieces in place. And as
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: long as he doesn't screw up our pieces, he can
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: figure out how to make a pitching change.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Hopefully.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not as easy as it looks, apparently. To some people.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Looks easy to me from my couch, but that's one
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: of the things he's going to have to adjust to.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Baseball's a slow-moving game. Football fans point that out all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the time. It looks slow.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: We've done things to speed it up. But when you're
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: making those decisions, it moves fast. And that is something
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: that Jason Kanzler does not have a handle on. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: he better be, I don't even know how you practice
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And you don't have a lot of time to figure
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: it out. I've heard the comment online or read the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: comment online, and I think it's absolutely accurate. This is
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: not a roster for on-the-job training.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: No.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: This dude's got to hit the ground running. He better
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: figure out how to make a pitching change. He better
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: figure out how to have your bullpen up and ready
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: to go when you need to go to them. He
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: better figure that stuff out. Dan got worse at it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Over two and a half years, he got worse.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: How do you get worse? No idea. Absolutely no idea.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: At the feel for making pitching changes.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: So I don't think it can get worse than how
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: he did it, but you better not be bad at it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: And if you are bad at it, you better get
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: good at it really fast because you are here to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: win the World Series. Never been a manager before in
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: your life, but you have been hired to win a
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: World Series with this roster.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And nothing else.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying for the first year, but
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: not making the playoffs is unacceptable. Yeah.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Unacceptable for him, for Jerry, for Justin. for the whole operation.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: It's unacceptable to miss it again. That's what this statement
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that they're making is saying loud and clear to us.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: We didn't have the right culture. We didn't have the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: right organizational symmetry. This is somebody that is going to
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: get that for us. And then our work to assemble
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: this roster will speak for itself. He will get the
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: most out of these guys as opposed to the least,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: which is what we saw a year ago.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: We'll talk more about it later on in the show
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: coming up next though. We do it every Friday. No
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: cliche keys to victory on sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Um, and then I'll be back the whole week next week.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not. Really?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Slipped in there on a Friday after a few days off. Um,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: it's great to be back. And, uh, thanks to Anders
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: and kid and Hugh, uh, for holding down the fort
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: here in the last week.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: But, um, We're back.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Kind of get back into the flow of things. It's
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: a Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday, of course. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: one of the things we do is our no-cliché keys
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to victory. And we need a victory. Seahawks taking on
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals at home Sunday, 125.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Anders, what's going to be the key to this? And
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: don't give me a cliché.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: I'm weirdly going to give the same one as last week.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: but it's not a cliche, and I think it's one
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: of the reasons they lost last week.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: If you're going to give it every week, it could
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: turn into a cliche. That's fair enough.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: If I turn it into a cliche, that's going to
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: be something that we have to address down the road.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: But I think two weeks in a row is okay.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: First down, get ahead of the chains. Get ahead of
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: the chains. Way too often, Sam Darnold found himself in
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: 3rd and 9th, 3rd and 11th. against the Bears. If
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: you are able to either run the football, get a
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: good play action game going early in first and second down,
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: staying ahead of the chains, then I think that will
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: set you up for third and twos or not even
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: having a third down in that specific series. So that's
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: why I think getting ahead of the chains, successful first downs,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: are going to be a super important key to this
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: game with Drew Locke under center.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Interesting, because mine's going to be downs too, but it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: not first down. Oh, kids, what's your no cliche key
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: to victory?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: So we already know that Locke has beat this team once,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: and they did a phenomenal job, but the offense has
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: not looked or been the same since then. So for that,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's time to understand that Locke's dealing with
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: a little something with the elbow. Yes, he's come out
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: and said he's good to go, but Don't ask Locke
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: to carry this offense. Let's see if they can actually
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: help him with a, I don't know, decent to mid-run game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: A run game? That would help. Interesting. It's kind of cliche.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not done. I'm not done.
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  Speaker 4: Ask him to distribute the football and take advantage of
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: what Arizona actually gives him.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Don't try to force anything.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: So I think if he can do that, and you're
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: not asking Locke to carry this entire offense and just
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: throw it 36 times, and they're able to take advantage of, again,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: what Arizona's giving them defensively, I think that bodes well
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: for this offense to have some light.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I think it's very fair. I don't think it's cliche
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: to say you've got to run the football. You've got
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: to help him out. This Cardinals defense is last in
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the National Football League in points allowed.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: You should be able. I've always said it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think balance in football is we run five times,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: we pass five times.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: To me. balance in football is you can run when
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you need to run. Right. And you can throw when
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you need to throw.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: And this team needs to run the football. Okay?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So you've gotten Price and Charbonnet back from their injuries, a.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Little bit of wet feet there, got the feet wet.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's a cliche at all to say, hey,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: we have to run the football this week.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: No excuses.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: We have got to have a successful running game to
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: take pressure off of Drew Locke.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: So I don't mind that at all.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Might sound a little cliche, but I think it applies
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: to this situation. I'm going to go with third downs,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to go with their third downs. Minshew's
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: going to give us some Mariota vibes this week.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's crafty. He's tough.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: He finds a way to make plays and moves chains,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: but they're down Jeremiah Love. Minshew's not a top 32
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: quarterback in the world. They're going to be in third
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and long a lot. And if he somehow Mario Mario
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: does this thing against the Seahawks and finds ways on
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: third and eight and third and nine to move the
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: chains out of just pure guile, then all of a
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: sudden the Seahawks do become vulnerable.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: So I think that they're going to stop the run.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I think the Hawks are going to stop the run.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I don't think Minshew's going to light it up, but
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: if he Mario does it and figures out a way
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: to move chains when it feels like you've got him
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: pinned in, then suddenly become vulnerable to a loss to
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a team that's figured out how to win some games
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: against some good.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Competition so far this year. Right.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: So that's, that's going to be my no cliche key
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: to victory is you need to be great on third down.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Defensively. All right, coming up next, Greg Bell.
• 37:36
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• 37:38
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