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Chuck & Buck 11-11 Hour 3: Gene Steratore, Everett Fitzhugh and Jedd Fisch loves it here. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Here's Chucking Buck right now.
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Speaker 2: I was going to try to keep that a secret.
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Speaker 2: Now it's out, so Gene act surprised.
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Speaker 4: I'll pretend that I'm shutting my eyes. I'm closing my
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Speaker 4: ears right now, Chuck, I have no idea what you're
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Speaker 4: talking about. Good morning to you, Good morning, good morning everybody.
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Speaker 2: A great to have you with us. I want to
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Speaker 2: bring up something that we were just talking about, like
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Speaker 2: a couple of gambling scandals recently. And I know that
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Speaker 2: we I didn't warn you that where I was going
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Speaker 2: to bring this up, but I just want I would
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Speaker 2: imagine getting having gotten to know Gene Sterritor. There is
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Speaker 2: nothing in the world that would bother you more than
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Speaker 2: just anyone, even a rowdy fan, suggesting that you weren't
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Speaker 2: acting with integrity on the field with your calls and
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Speaker 2: that you were on the take. How much does it
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Speaker 2: bother you to hear that, not just about yourself, but
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Speaker 2: about all of your fellow officials. Is there anything in
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Speaker 2: the world that bothers you more than that accusation?
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Speaker 4: No, probably not to be really serious about it, Chuck,
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Speaker 4: You know, I mean, unfortunately, there have been situations. There
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Speaker 4: was a very large one with an official actually in
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Speaker 4: the NBA while I was actively officiating in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: You know it is it is exactly what you just said. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I do love these games. I'd love doing what I did.
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Speaker 4: I love the passion of sports. The integrity of the
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Speaker 4: game is really what I love the most. And that's why,
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Speaker 4: you know, I volunteered to assume the roles that I
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Speaker 4: was fortunate enough to have, because officiating is that projection
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Speaker 4: of integrity and keeping the game there that and then
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Speaker 4: when we have these blips and these human weaknesses or
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Speaker 4: whatever these situations create. Now where the conspiracy theorists have
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Speaker 4: a precedent to say, see, I told you so, the
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Speaker 4: game suffers. And if it's a player, if it's an official,
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Speaker 4: if it's a coach, it really doesn't matter, right, I mean,
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Speaker 4: once those spots take place, you've skilled the beast to
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Speaker 4: say all of these crazy things that are said because
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Speaker 4: of a couple of bad apples, right, and they're they're serious.
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Speaker 4: And look at the officiating world NCAA. When I worked
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Speaker 4: in college basketball, we had a you know, a very
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Speaker 4: large segment of our regional clinic was about gambling, was
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Speaker 4: about being approached or who to speak to or what
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Speaker 4: you think, maybe just a normal conversation about, Hey, I
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Speaker 4: saw you were at such and such place last night
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Speaker 4: and so and so it looked like he was limping
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Speaker 4: a little bit. Did you you know that? You know,
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Speaker 4: you would think that would be kind of normal airport? Right, Wait,
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Speaker 4: waiting for a playing conversation, It's not right. So you
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Speaker 4: do live in that world and you have to be
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Speaker 4: aware of it. And the National Football League naturally is
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Speaker 4: very adamant about all of those types of things. When
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Speaker 4: I actively officiated in the NFL, you were not permitted
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Speaker 4: in a casino period full stop. That's it, and never
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Speaker 4: in a sports book, even in the off season because
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Speaker 4: of that, and you wear that as a badge of honors.
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Speaker 4: So yes, it hurts. It hurts the games, It hurts
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Speaker 4: all of what we do. And you know, Chuck, I
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Speaker 4: do listen to you guys, not just on Tuesdays, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, but but but.
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Speaker 4: Through the week. And what you had just said earlier
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Speaker 4: was right. The prop betting is it seems to me
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Speaker 4: would be more inviting, right to that person that may
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Speaker 4: not want to throw a game, you know, because of
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Speaker 4: his feel for the team and all the other things, right,
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Hey, what if I just
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Speaker 4: throw ball three or ball one here? I can make
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Speaker 4: that back up. It's not a big deal. So it's
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Speaker 4: opened up a window to maybe convince yourself that I'm
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Speaker 4: really not infecting the integrity of the game. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 4: just playing with it a little bit. But I can
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Speaker 4: overcome that, you know. And I think we're in a
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Speaker 4: in a very delicate spot as a result of it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just don't like the idea that
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Speaker 2: you've got a buddy that at some point in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the game, I'll blow two free throws I'll
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Speaker 2: give you a wink. When you've got the bed in,
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Speaker 2: you'll put your hat in your lap. I mean, that
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Speaker 2: just is too dangerous. And you're right. I mean maybe
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Speaker 2: that's another element that you brought up that if you
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Speaker 2: think that I won't throw this from my teammates, but
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Speaker 2: no one will notice if I just make a little
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Speaker 2: money on the side. I think that's a phenomenal point.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's get into some of the things
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Speaker 2: that happened over the weekend. We had a couple of
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Speaker 2: things in the Seahawks games that you were actually on
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Speaker 2: the broadcast for so enjoyed hearing you on our Seahawks
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Speaker 2: broadcast this past weekend against the Cardinals. Uh sorry, not sorry.
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Speaker 2: We didn't give you a more competitive game to monitor
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Speaker 2: their gene.
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Speaker 4: You know, though, it's good fun. The team, guys, I'm
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Speaker 4: gonna be honest with you, man, it's the team is
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Speaker 4: really a good, solid football team. And I know what
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Speaker 4: the energy of the stadium brings when you're in that stadium,
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Speaker 4: and what the fan base really does do. And I
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Speaker 4: do think there's a couple of points there here or there,
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Speaker 4: not for any gambling purposes, but just just because of
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Speaker 4: the magnitude of the twelfth person and watching how they're executed,
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Speaker 4: how they're playing is a special thing, you know. And
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Speaker 4: you're up weeks every one, so that's a long season.
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Speaker 4: But what a great football team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they were back to back. They weren't back
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Speaker 2: to back plays, but we had twin plays that resulted
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Speaker 2: in a sack, fumble, touchdown. Ty Reese Knight got both
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Speaker 2: the sax and force fumbles. DeMarcus Lawrence got both the
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Speaker 2: fumble return and the touchdowns. Number one, have you ever
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Speaker 2: seen that, ever seen two plays that's similar from a
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Speaker 2: defense in a game? And then number two, you were
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Speaker 2: on the call. How close were either one of those
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Speaker 2: from being overturned?
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Speaker 4: Close? And I think those plays and I do think
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Speaker 4: replay And again I can harken back because I am
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Speaker 4: that long in the tooth when we did not have replay.
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Speaker 4: So when you were on the field, you were the
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Speaker 4: only person going to rule whether the player was down
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Speaker 4: or whether it was a fumble. And we used to
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Speaker 4: have the phrase like you have to sell the call
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Speaker 4: right because it was so close and you wanted to
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Speaker 4: get it right. And I do think that replay has
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Speaker 4: allowed those plays or officials to feel comfortable that my gosh,
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Speaker 4: that's just so close. Just let it play right, And
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Speaker 4: then we do look and yeah, they're close plays. They're
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Speaker 4: really framed by frame plays about possession or loss of
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Speaker 4: and down by contact you and we're leaving those plays alone.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes we leave someones that are a little too easy
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Speaker 4: to kind of stop, and we don't. But I do
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Speaker 4: think replace helped that. And to answer the first part
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Speaker 4: of it, I've never seen one player create the fumble
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Speaker 4: the other scoop and score and then to have it repeated.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the chat GPT I think is even
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Speaker 4: confused by the question because I was we were talking
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Speaker 4: about it in the studio like, don't I don't recall
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Speaker 4: that ever happening, you know, So a couple of one
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Speaker 4: offs there, which is kind of fun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, there was another thing in the Seattle game where
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Speaker 3: Jackson Smith and Jigbo was concussed and he had came
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Speaker 3: out and yet hadn't gone through like the concussion protocol
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Speaker 3: and the game was stopped and then all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden he tried to go back in there like, no,
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Speaker 3: you got to go through the protocol.
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Speaker 2: What is there?
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Speaker 3: Something is that on you guys? Or is there a
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Speaker 3: specific concussion guy on the sidelines. How are you guys
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Speaker 3: supposed to make sure they go through whatever it is
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Speaker 3: they're supposed to follow through with.
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Speaker 4: Well, there's multiple layers, Buck, and it's a great question.
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Speaker 4: If my memory serves me correctly, I do believe that
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Speaker 4: one of the players after the initial play there was
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Speaker 4: a start, if I remember correctly, they took a defensive
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Speaker 4: player out for that, and I believe that those people. So,
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Speaker 4: just to give you a little background, yes, officials are
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Speaker 4: asked that if they feel or they see something or
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Speaker 4: look at a player's helmet after a hit. A lot
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Speaker 4: of times it may not be the hit. It may
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Speaker 4: be the head hitting off the turf, but it's the proximity.
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Speaker 5: Of you being there.
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Speaker 4: And you know, I'm not a doctor, but if you
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Speaker 4: feel like that player looks woozy or just stumbling something
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Speaker 4: of that effect, something that would be rather noticeable, right,
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Speaker 4: and you're there to stop the game, and he's going
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Speaker 4: to be removed and checked and in this case the
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Speaker 4: defensive back that is stopt. They have what they call
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Speaker 4: an ATC spot er. I forget what the letters are
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Speaker 4: forgive me for that right at the moment, but there
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Speaker 4: is an individual in the stadium upstairs, rewinding the plays,
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Speaker 4: looking at the plays, looking on the field, and if
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Speaker 4: they happen to see something like that head hit in
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Speaker 4: a delayed reaction or a player stumbling after that that
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Speaker 4: wasn't caught, they wired downright to the officials on the
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Speaker 4: field immediately stopped the game. Stop the game, they'll identify
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Speaker 4: the player, and then that players removed. I know that
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Speaker 4: happened with the defensive back. The Smith and Gibber situation is,
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Speaker 4: I don't know that he played the next play, but
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Speaker 4: then he came back onto the field, if I recall correctly,
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Speaker 4: and then I think the ATEC spot I recognized he
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Speaker 4: was back on the field, and it may have been
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Speaker 4: them and looking at the first player the defensive player
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Speaker 4: situation that they also were looking at that play and thought,
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Speaker 4: looks like Smith and Jigger got a pretty good hit
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Speaker 4: there as well. And again I am speculating here, but
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Speaker 4: I'm assuming that's what may have occurred, and they have
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Speaker 4: stopped it and asked him to take a walk into
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Speaker 4: the tent and go through the protocol as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, does the ATC, which I think is Alcohol, Tobacco
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Speaker 2: and Concussions Agency, do they follow, well, did they follow
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Speaker 2: JSN up and down the sin of since that is
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Speaker 2: their job, do they make sure they go through the protocol?
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, that's not thorough enough.
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Speaker 2: And then they alert the official is that they also
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Speaker 2: monitor them once they're off the field, I guess is
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Speaker 2: the question?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think in this case, Chuck, he kind of
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Speaker 4: removed himself right, either strategy wise or it was just
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Speaker 4: a substitution that took place after a big play. I
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Speaker 4: don't know that he was examined at that point. I
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Speaker 4: know he wasn't officially examined because he had not entered
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Speaker 4: that tent and then had that private moment with the
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Speaker 4: doctor's trainers or whomever is inside there. So my assumption
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Speaker 4: isn't And really maybe they were looking at the sideline
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Speaker 4: and seeing him on that sideline and then tying that
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Speaker 4: I don't know whatever he was doing over there with
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Speaker 4: that play, and felt like, you know what, we're always
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Speaker 4: airing on the side of safety when it comes to
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Speaker 4: these rightly, so, so that may have been going through
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Speaker 4: their mind or maybe part of the observation prior to
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Speaker 4: stopping him.
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Speaker 2: Were you a two pump guy? Did you subscribe? I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you know the connection with Ricodowdell and
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Speaker 2: the Key and Peel Ski, but it's popped up in
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Speaker 2: the National Football League and that officials only allow one
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Speaker 2: pump with the hips. Were you a one pump or
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Speaker 2: a two pump official?
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Speaker 4: Pregamer on ten a m Eastern, and we talked about
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Speaker 4: the pumpgate, yeah, and what is allowed and look, I
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Speaker 4: I'm plugging. But we went back into the history of
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Speaker 4: what could have been the beginnings of this and believe
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Speaker 4: it or not Aaron Rodgers pulled a like a little
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Speaker 4: mini what would be the key and peel third pump
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Speaker 4: kind of movement if you've watched the skit in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 4: And then we had a digs that pulled it off
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Speaker 4: I think in week eight, which kind of caught like,
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Speaker 4: oh is that? What is that one? And then we
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Speaker 4: have moved forward as you you know, so aptly described,
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Speaker 4: and now we had to choreograph full key and peel
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Speaker 4: skin and I thought it was great when they interviewed
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Speaker 4: the player and he really thought the key and peels
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Speaker 4: ruling was like the NFL ruling, like oh no, no,
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Speaker 4: you're allowed to you know, just not three. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: but it does, you know, go back to the no
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Speaker 4: fun leg It falls.
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Speaker 6: In the sexual gesture category and we can't even have
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Speaker 6: a pump here, guys.
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Speaker 2: You don't even have luck, but.
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Speaker 4: You're not allowed any pumping at all. And look when
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Speaker 4: you got an older guy with a bad back that
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Speaker 4: if he had the pump three times like that, what
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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get three in and
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Speaker 4: two if I had, you want to throw my back out?
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Speaker 4: I got to call something on you that I'm jealous,
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Speaker 4: you know, So but yeah, I thought it was enjoyable
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Speaker 4: to watch.
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Speaker 2: Do you think they're do you think right now?
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Speaker 3: I know that they created a you know, the idea of, hey,
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Speaker 3: let's kind of get some of the taunting out of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's there's a you'll see it bount once
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Speaker 3: a week. It feels like somebody will do something in
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Speaker 3: a flaggerstone. Do you feel like it's working. They're trying
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Speaker 3: to get some of the taunting and increase the sportsmanship.
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Speaker 4: It is Buck, and it's of an evolving scenario because
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Speaker 4: the generations just continue to get more creative, and you know,
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Speaker 4: like it or not, there's generational gaps. Some things that
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Speaker 4: are hot and new in the twenty year old world
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Speaker 4: a fifty five year old person may not be aware of, right,
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Speaker 4: But no, there's there's a constant movement through that and
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Speaker 4: it's the dance that we don't want to be the
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Speaker 4: no fun like there is entertainment now more with this,
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Speaker 4: they have become more flexible than when I started. But
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Speaker 4: then there's also a platform and the respect of not
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Speaker 4: of all the viewers and the demographics of the viewers
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Speaker 4: that are watching. So sexual gestures, weapon things, brandishing, all
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Speaker 4: these things that have come about with his creativity of
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Speaker 4: the players and what's hot and new in their world.
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Speaker 4: You've got to constantly evolve with that and try to
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Speaker 4: work in that balance where yes, this is entertaining, but no,
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Speaker 4: this is not a message we want to send to
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Speaker 4: the next generation. So it is it is NonStop evolving, right,
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Speaker 4: And I think this is a good case of that.
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Speaker 4: This is a real good example of that.
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Speaker 2: Why why was Bradley Chubb flagged? I mean it made
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Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins fans pretty angry in the Bills game. That
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Speaker 2: didn't look very harmful at all. He was just kind
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Speaker 2: of walking away from a guy that he sacked and
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Speaker 2: did a little silly dance and got flagged. Was that
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Speaker 2: taking it too far? Or was that, in your opinion
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Speaker 2: aggressive on Chubb's part.
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Speaker 4: I think that's where we get into, you know, things
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Speaker 4: not black and white, and what subjectivity is and what
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Speaker 4: did you interpret by the uh the crawling over top
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Speaker 4: of the individual after the tackle and the proximity of
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Speaker 4: the body part store on another body part, and and
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Speaker 4: I think that's what I'm assuming that that's what they
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Speaker 4: that's what they interpreted there. Yeah, And I think in
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Speaker 4: the book it does say by the letter of the law.
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Speaker 4: After taking a player down, you roll off of them
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Speaker 4: because they don't want the players standing over top of
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Speaker 4: the opponents. Things of that nature. To me, yeah, it
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Speaker 4: happens quick. I've seen a lot of players that go
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Speaker 4: into the command or crawl right after they make a
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Speaker 4: big hit without bodies underneath of them. They flagged it.
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Speaker 4: And I think, if I'm really you know, reughing that
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Speaker 4: game and I see it, it happened so quickly, I
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Speaker 4: may have a quick conversation with the individual and no,
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Speaker 4: it's and preface it with I know you didn't mean
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Speaker 4: to do that or have it look like that, but
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Speaker 4: it could have looked like that, So let's try to
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Speaker 4: stay away from that move. But that's my guess again,
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Speaker 4: and I, you know, some of that speculat.
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Speaker 2: You know what, I think I saw an edited version
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Speaker 2: somebody that tried to control the narrative because it looked
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Speaker 2: to me I only saw the part where he was
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Speaker 2: sort of dancing away from him. I didn't even see
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Speaker 2: the part where he was crawling over the top of him.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, now now it makes a little more sense.
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Speaker 2: It probably just was a delayed flag. In that situation,
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Speaker 2: you weren't happening to be on the Seahawks Super Bowl
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Speaker 2: when Doug Baldwin did his silly thing in the end.
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Speaker 4: No, I missed that one was I was not part
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Speaker 4: of that. I was part of some of Marshawn's looks
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Speaker 4: of adjusting himself as he got to the one yard
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Speaker 4: line and would turn back to look at the field though.
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Speaker 4: So that was another creative play that started to happen, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean if we look back in history, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how did you I don't recall how you handled that?
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Speaker 2: How did you handle that?
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Speaker 4: Uh? What's the fifteen yard flag?
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Speaker 2: I think that seems appropriate.
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Speaker 6: Probably chuckle during commercial because you're a human. You know,
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Speaker 6: you don't have to be you know, this old crotchety
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Speaker 6: guy all the time I made it's a foul, and
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Speaker 6: then maybe we laughed when the cameras are.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, great stuff today. Thanks for zigging and
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Speaker 2: zagging with me through these topics today. Appreciate you, and
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Speaker 2: we'll do it again next week.
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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, have a great week.
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Speaker 2: All right. Jean staretur CBS Rules Analyst's Greatest Official and
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Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck. Thanks to BMW Seattle. Looking for a
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Speaker 2: out BMW Seattle, conveniently located between I five and I
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Speaker 2: ninety near the stadium. Appreciate Gene. He even was able
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Speaker 2: to roll with us on the Hinkel mccrinkleberry two pumps.
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Speaker 2: I think Michael Bennett brought that back for a little
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Speaker 2: while there as well, and he was doing that celebration
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Speaker 2: dance after his sex. I think he got flagged for it,
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Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, But I didn't realize no pumps
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Speaker 2: was the rule. You can't do one pump, forget two pumps.
18:08
Speaker 2: It's zero pump.
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Speaker 3: They let him do like quarter pumps, maybe even half pumps,
18:13
Speaker 3: quarter pumps maybe like uh well, no, don't don't do it.
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Speaker 5: No.
18:18
Speaker 2: Dalle was funny because he didn't pump at all. So
18:21
Speaker 2: he gathered everybody around and he did the hinkle mccrinkleberry
18:25
Speaker 2: stance in the in the end zone. Everybody was looking
18:28
Speaker 2: at him, and then he just ran off the field.
18:31
Speaker 2: All right, Everett fits, you will join us here on
18:34
Speaker 2: the other side. That's worthy. You know, a couple couple
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Speaker 2: pumps right there. Pumps. So we'll talk to the voice
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Speaker 2: next on kJ R. Here's Montour left side activates down
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Speaker 2: the wall.
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Speaker 5: Montour back man shot toward the goal, everly swatted it
18:47
Speaker 5: ve Seattle back to the line.
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Speaker 7: Here's Stevens has said Turler. Steven said, point five left
18:56
Speaker 7: in the third Seattle tie the game three wait and
19:01
Speaker 7: period number three.
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Speaker 2: Oh Iver fits you on the call. Saturday's unbelievable come
19:09
Speaker 2: from behind win for the Krack, And we'll get into
19:12
Speaker 2: it here in a moment with the voice himself Crack
19:14
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Speaker 2: to see the Crack and play November twenty sixth against
19:30
Speaker 2: the Dallas Stars. Joining us. Now, the man that made
19:33
Speaker 2: that call, Everett fits You, is with us. How unbelievable
19:37
Speaker 2: was that finish?
19:39
Speaker 5: You know what I think for where that game started
19:42
Speaker 5: to where that game ended. I mean typically after a
19:46
Speaker 5: game like that, you're start like that, you're hoping, I
19:50
Speaker 5: hope they can hold on. Excuse me, I hope they
19:53
Speaker 5: can find some kind of solace. But for them, the
19:56
Speaker 5: battle back in the way that they did that was
19:58
Speaker 5: a hard lot earned win. I mean, they they put
20:03
Speaker 5: they put a couple of really bad mistakes behind them from.
20:08
Speaker 4: That second period.
20:09
Speaker 5: They got back to their game, they got back to
20:12
Speaker 5: what made them successful, and they were able to eek
20:15
Speaker 5: out two points.
20:16
Speaker 2: You've never called a goal with point five seconds left
20:20
Speaker 2: in I.
20:21
Speaker 5: Honestly, I can honestly say, I'm pretty confident. I don't
20:25
Speaker 5: think I have. I've called a game with five seconds left.
20:29
Speaker 5: I've called the game, you know, obviously in the final minute,
20:32
Speaker 5: but with point five seconds, yeah, left on the clock.
20:37
Speaker 5: I mean, that was that was unbelievable.
20:39
Speaker 2: Their last second shots in basketball. But then again, there's
20:42
Speaker 2: not a guy standing in front of the goal. I
20:45
Speaker 2: mean there are walkoff homers in baseball, but there's no clock.
20:49
Speaker 2: I mean, for the only thing better if it had
20:52
Speaker 2: been tied and he did that, it was a walk off,
20:55
Speaker 2: skate off goal, yeah, with point five seconds. But that's
20:59
Speaker 2: in saying. To get that in there, I.
21:02
Speaker 5: Will say when I was in college, one of my
21:04
Speaker 5: one of my only ever basketball games that broadcasted, I
21:08
Speaker 5: forget who who Bowling Green was playing, but I had
21:12
Speaker 5: a buzzer beater and it sounded like Gus Johnson at
21:16
Speaker 5: the Indiana Penn State game over the weekend. You know, oh,
21:23
Speaker 5: I was, I was a falsetto. I was streaming.
21:26
Speaker 4: I was a.
21:26
Speaker 5: Nineteen year old sophomore.
21:29
Speaker 4: Losing my ever loving mind. I have no idea what
21:31
Speaker 4: I even said.
21:34
Speaker 5: That. That's probably about it. My my best Gus Johnson
21:38
Speaker 5: when I was and I was in college. That's as
21:41
Speaker 5: close as I've ever come.
21:42
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Fits they couldn't follow that up the next night
21:45
Speaker 3: when they when they went to Dallas, and and yet
21:48
Speaker 3: it's still good game, competitive game. To me, it feels
21:51
Speaker 3: like they're better. I don't know what the win loss
21:55
Speaker 3: record is on uh, you know, back to back nights.
21:58
Speaker 3: I know that last year. In the last couple of years,
22:00
Speaker 3: they haven't had a very good record when it comes out,
22:02
Speaker 3: but they look like they're more competitive even if they're playing,
22:05
Speaker 3: you know, the night after they had just played. Are
22:07
Speaker 3: you seeing the same thing or no?
22:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't talk about the record, Bucky and the
22:12
Speaker 5: in game two is of back to backs.
22:13
Speaker 4: We're gonna for that record itself.
22:17
Speaker 5: No, it's it's been a while, but I will say,
22:19
Speaker 5: and Al avert we're talking about this, that was that
22:23
Speaker 5: was definitely the best effort, the best game in game
22:28
Speaker 5: two of back to back that we've seen in over
22:32
Speaker 5: a year.
22:34
Speaker 4: And and honestly, I think Casey the Smith.
22:37
Speaker 5: For Dallas, he just was on fire, their goaltender, and
22:41
Speaker 5: the Kraken had every opportunity to score goals in that game.
22:45
Speaker 5: They had thirty plus shots on goal. They did everything right,
22:48
Speaker 5: but they ran into a hot goalie. The effort was there,
22:51
Speaker 5: the compete level was there. You didn't since from the
22:55
Speaker 5: Seattle from both teams, actually, because Dallas also played on Saturday,
23:00
Speaker 5: you didn't since any of the fatigue that you might
23:03
Speaker 5: get in game two of the back to back. Al
23:06
Speaker 5: even going so far as to say, and I agree
23:08
Speaker 5: with him.
23:09
Speaker 4: That it was it had a very.
23:11
Speaker 5: Playoff like feel to it. So you're right. I mean,
23:14
Speaker 5: this team has gotten much better in those situations. This
23:17
Speaker 5: is only the second back to back this season. They're
23:21
Speaker 5: gonna have eleven more so they're gonna have plenty more
23:24
Speaker 5: chances to get to get it.
23:26
Speaker 4: But for the record, the Kraken are.
23:29
Speaker 5: Now oh and fourteen in their last in game twos
23:35
Speaker 5: of back to back since last season, so the record
23:39
Speaker 5: obviously is not good, but last night was, hands down,
23:43
Speaker 5: bar none, the best game two back to back effort
23:48
Speaker 5: that we've seen in a year plus for Seattle.
23:51
Speaker 2: The Voice Eric fits You is with us every Tuesday
23:54
Speaker 2: at this time to talk some krack and hockey. The
23:56
Speaker 2: team back in action tonight at home against the Columbus
24:00
Speaker 2: US Blue Jackets, coming off a couple memorable games over
24:04
Speaker 2: the weekend. But Joey to Cord placed on the IR
24:09
Speaker 2: what I mean and the NHL I AR works a
24:12
Speaker 2: little different than other people's I are, so maybe explain
24:15
Speaker 2: the rules and just how serious this is for the
24:17
Speaker 2: team's goalie.
24:19
Speaker 4: So we haven't.
24:21
Speaker 5: We haven't gotten official word on Joey yet. Oh yes,
24:25
Speaker 5: when you place when you place someone on IR, that
24:28
Speaker 5: means they are out for at least four games. So
24:31
Speaker 5: it sounds like he's eligible to return on Saturday. Now,
24:36
Speaker 5: we don't know how.
24:39
Speaker 4: Severe the issue is.
24:40
Speaker 5: All that we know is that he did not travel
24:43
Speaker 5: with the crack into Saint Louis and Dallas is being
24:46
Speaker 5: evaluated for an upper body injury. We're hoping to find
24:50
Speaker 5: out more morning. Skate will be here about an hour
24:53
Speaker 5: and a half or so. And attentive team. So we're
24:55
Speaker 5: hoping for an update by then. If not, then afore
25:00
Speaker 5: the game tonight. Hey, you never know, right, things could
25:04
Speaker 5: be things could be great. He could be out for
25:06
Speaker 5: the next two nights and then and then we'll see
25:08
Speaker 5: him back this weekend. But we've got nothing official yet.
25:11
Speaker 5: I will say that Matt Murray and put Grubauer. I
25:14
Speaker 5: thought they they did a very very good job in
25:20
Speaker 5: in coming in winning games on Saturday for for Grubauer,
25:25
Speaker 5: and then keeping the Kraken in the game the entire
25:28
Speaker 5: night for Murray on Sunday. And for two goalies who
25:30
Speaker 5: have not played in two and a half weeks, they've
25:33
Speaker 5: come in and relief. This is their first true start
25:37
Speaker 5: since you know, games four and six of the season.
25:42
Speaker 5: So I think for Seattle, they they've got two goalies
25:47
Speaker 5: who are capable of winning in this league. You've seen
25:50
Speaker 5: it before. We all seen what Grubauer can do. Matt
25:52
Speaker 5: Murray's won a couple of Cups. He's trying to get
25:54
Speaker 5: back to a level that that he was in his
25:57
Speaker 5: past career. He came in this offseason in preseason and
26:01
Speaker 5: said this is the best that he's felt in ten years.
26:03
Speaker 5: So you know, I know the team is confident in
26:06
Speaker 5: both Goldies that have You're hoping for good news on
26:08
Speaker 5: Joey de Court, but when when you see ir, he's
26:11
Speaker 5: at least.
26:12
Speaker 4: Gone for four so that means he's out tonight.
26:14
Speaker 5: He's out on Thursday, and then hopefully we see him
26:19
Speaker 5: back on Saturday. But we've got no official work yet.
26:22
Speaker 3: All right, who's the what do we got to look
26:25
Speaker 3: forward to to night against the Blue Jackets? I mean,
26:27
Speaker 3: who's the guy that I need to be cheering against
26:28
Speaker 3: or watching out for while and watching?
26:31
Speaker 5: I mean, Carill Martenko is a superstar that I don't
26:36
Speaker 5: think a lot of folks give credit for because he
26:39
Speaker 5: plays in Columbus. You know, he has all the tools
26:44
Speaker 5: and all the intangibles of a great goal scorer, a
26:47
Speaker 5: great playmaker in this league. He's on an eight game
26:51
Speaker 5: point streak. He's got points in all but two games
26:53
Speaker 5: this season for Columbus. They are coming off of a
26:57
Speaker 5: very emotional over time I'm lost in Edmonton last night.
27:02
Speaker 5: They had a four to two lead in the third
27:06
Speaker 5: and then they ended up losing five to four on
27:08
Speaker 5: the road last night in Edmonton. So they're coming in
27:12
Speaker 5: in game two of their back to back. Their number
27:14
Speaker 5: one goalie, Elvis burs Linkins, is going to play tonight,
27:18
Speaker 5: so they saved him for the second go back to back,
27:22
Speaker 5: So it's not gonna be easy, I think the Kraken
27:25
Speaker 5: though they've had Columbus's number, they've won five of their
27:28
Speaker 5: last six, but their last meeting in Columbus last year
27:31
Speaker 5: they lost six too, So a lot of I think
27:37
Speaker 5: defensive structure is gonna have to be applied here tonight
27:41
Speaker 5: again because Columbus is a team that likes to push
27:43
Speaker 5: the pace, They like to rush up the ice. They
27:45
Speaker 5: a little bit loose, a lot like San Jose, but
27:48
Speaker 5: they don't have I think the same amount of skill
27:52
Speaker 5: and as San Jose has. But this is going to
27:55
Speaker 5: be another game where the Kraken cannot afford to sit
27:58
Speaker 5: back defensively and get into a track meet.
28:01
Speaker 2: By the way, you handled the call perfectly, having never
28:03
Speaker 2: been there before, that was an outstanding call. I didn't
28:06
Speaker 2: mention that when we play.
28:08
Speaker 4: Thank you, yeah, perfect, perfect, Thank you very much. Yeah.
28:11
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, So tonight Columbus seven o'clock, puck drops
28:16
Speaker 2: and Mike menton on the airwaves at six thirty. I'm
28:19
Speaker 2: assuming and we're ready to go and get this thing
28:22
Speaker 2: back on the right track. Correct, Yes, we are.
28:26
Speaker 4: Three game homestands starts tonight.
28:28
Speaker 5: We got Columbus tonight, Winnipeg on Thursday, another crack at
28:32
Speaker 5: the San Jose Sharks on Saturday, and then they're out
28:36
Speaker 5: of town for the next week. They go out east
28:38
Speaker 5: for Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the New York Islanders next week.
28:42
Speaker 5: So three big games here at home, and right now
28:45
Speaker 5: they're cracking, are sitting, you know, comfortably, I shouldn't say comfortably.
28:49
Speaker 5: They're in a playoff spot. Yes, it's only game sixteen,
28:52
Speaker 5: but I said this the other day. And you're getting
28:54
Speaker 5: to a point now in the NHL over the next
28:57
Speaker 5: four to five weeks that teams who aren't in playoffs
29:01
Speaker 5: bots are going to have to start going on these
29:04
Speaker 5: five to six to seven game runs. And if you're
29:06
Speaker 5: like Seattle, if you can continue taking four of every
29:09
Speaker 5: six points, if you can continue winning three out of
29:12
Speaker 5: every five games, I think you're still going to be
29:15
Speaker 5: in a spot where you're competing, you know, for playoffs
29:18
Speaker 5: and for seedings. So this next two weeks before Thanksgiving
29:22
Speaker 5: are going to be big for Seattle. Some good teams,
29:25
Speaker 5: some decent travel as well. So I mean it's it's
29:28
Speaker 5: it's a pretty big stretch coming up for the cracking.
29:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, holy parody. I mean what You're in a division
29:33
Speaker 2: of what eight teams and seven of them are five
29:36
Speaker 2: hundred or better Columbus there, Yeah, go ahead.
29:40
Speaker 4: I was just like they drew it up.
29:41
Speaker 5: Who saw the Anaheim Ducks on a seven game winning
29:44
Speaker 5: streak leading the division second place in the NHL, Right,
29:47
Speaker 5: the Edmonton Oilers. They do this every single year where
29:50
Speaker 5: they get off to a very slow start they then
29:53
Speaker 5: go on a ten, eleven, twelve game run and get
29:56
Speaker 5: right back into it. But you're right, I mean you
29:58
Speaker 5: got in the Pacific Division. Of the eight teams, seven
30:03
Speaker 5: of them are within a point or two of a playoffs.
30:06
Speaker 5: So this is this is the Paerry that I love
30:09
Speaker 5: as a fan is a broadcaster. It's nerve wracking because
30:12
Speaker 5: you love to you know, beat up in the playoffs.
30:16
Speaker 4: You know, you look at a lot of.
30:17
Speaker 5: Other sports where these teams jump out to multi game
30:22
Speaker 5: leads and then they hold on to it. But not
30:24
Speaker 5: this year. It's every game of the battle and needs
30:27
Speaker 5: to be needs to be won, especially this season.
30:30
Speaker 2: You the man, Thank you, sir. We'll talk to you
30:31
Speaker 2: next week.
30:32
Speaker 4: All right, fellas, actually have a good one.
30:34
Speaker 2: Ever fits you. The boys of you are Seattle, cracking
30:36
Speaker 2: right here on the flag Ship Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 2: point three k j r f M. Again puck drops
30:41
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock tonight, cracking at home, a Climate Pledge arena,
30:44
Speaker 2: taking on the Columbus Blue Jackets coming up next. Jed
30:48
Speaker 2: Fish is adamant. He was yesterday that he's not going anywhere?
30:52
Speaker 2: Do you believe him? Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 2: kJ r f M. Wonderful to see and he has
30:58
Speaker 2: that like Heimi March and he really gets in like this,
31:02
Speaker 2: we like to see you happy buckle. Yes. Yeah. We
31:08
Speaker 2: started the show today talking about Jedfish. He yesterday had
31:12
Speaker 2: his I don't want to call it the Raffael Palmero
31:15
Speaker 2: moment because Palmero was lying through his teeth, but he
31:18
Speaker 2: did have that podium moment where he was like, all right,
31:21
Speaker 2: enough of this, I'm not going anywhere, And so we
31:25
Speaker 2: started the show with it, had a really nice conversation
31:28
Speaker 2: about it. The conversation, of course, is going to continue
31:31
Speaker 2: no matter what Jed said yesterday, but we didn't play
31:34
Speaker 2: the actual audio, So here you go. Here's Jedfish yesterday
31:37
Speaker 2: at his press conference trying to shoot down rumors that
31:40
Speaker 2: he's not happy at Washington.
31:41
Speaker 8: I would say those lists are made by people that
31:44
Speaker 8: have no idea what's going on. Honestly, they don't know
31:47
Speaker 8: what's happening in our program. They have no idea how
31:51
Speaker 8: excited I am about the youth in our program. They
31:53
Speaker 8: have no idea how excited I am about the fact
31:56
Speaker 8: that we're playing six or seven true freshman No idea
31:59
Speaker 8: how excited I am about the fact that that Demon
32:02
Speaker 8: Williams I believe has a chance over the next year
32:04
Speaker 8: or two years after this to be one of the
32:06
Speaker 8: all time best quarterbacks that have come through this area.
32:11
Speaker 8: I don't think that they would know how I enjoyed
32:14
Speaker 8: coaching here, that we've spent a ton of money into
32:17
Speaker 8: building this program the way we want to build it,
32:19
Speaker 8: that I had a great hand in all the facilities.
32:23
Speaker 2: I was a big part.
32:24
Speaker 8: Of making the decisions on how we wanted to recreate
32:26
Speaker 8: this space, to give our players an unbelievable opportunity to
32:31
Speaker 8: have a recovery room that they never had, working on
32:34
Speaker 8: making sure that they have the best nutrition they could
32:36
Speaker 8: possibly have, give them great new meeting rooms, new office
32:38
Speaker 8: spaces for our coaches. I think, unfortunately what happens is
32:41
Speaker 8: they just want to tie coaches to lists, and then
32:44
Speaker 8: we have to sit there and defend it, rather than
32:46
Speaker 8: just be able to just tell our fans, like our players,
32:49
Speaker 8: our coaching staff, myself, my family, we love coaching at
32:53
Speaker 8: the University of Washington. And the ridiculousness of people that
32:56
Speaker 8: want to claim that because my wife and daughters are
32:59
Speaker 8: living in Arizona, because I have a sixteen year old
33:02
Speaker 8: who's been in five different schools in the last eight
33:05
Speaker 8: years to finish your high school, has anything to do
33:07
Speaker 8: with my decision, or the ridiculousness of just putting my
33:10
Speaker 8: name on a list just to do it. Only that
33:13
Speaker 8: does effect recruiting, It affects our team, it affects our staff.
33:17
Speaker 8: And my hope is that our players, our coaches, our
33:21
Speaker 8: families understand how much we love it at Washington.
33:23
Speaker 2: Jed Fish yesterday, I mean well said, and I hope
33:28
Speaker 2: it's true. I can't sit here and say I'm believing
33:32
Speaker 2: every single word of it, and that doesn't have everything
33:36
Speaker 2: to do with Jed Fish. I'm not sure that I
33:38
Speaker 2: would trust any head coach in college football. You know,
33:43
Speaker 2: maybe Dabosweeney. He seems pretty married to Clemson, and he
33:47
Speaker 2: seems to be pretty honest and genuine with his comments.
33:51
Speaker 2: But I don't know if I would take anybody in
33:54
Speaker 2: his spot for their word. There's a lot of smoke here.
33:58
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any I would just say
34:01
Speaker 2: if there is no fire, if he what he is
34:04
Speaker 2: saying is true, it really does stink for him. Now,
34:06
Speaker 2: maybe earned it a little bit bucky because he's bounced
34:10
Speaker 2: around and has been so proud of that sort of
34:12
Speaker 2: a vagabond of football. But yeah, his job is a
34:17
Speaker 2: lot more difficult if people are just attaching his names
34:20
Speaker 2: to this because he's moved around a lot, or because
34:24
Speaker 2: his daughter is with his wife and their other home
34:28
Speaker 2: still back in Arizona. It does make his job a
34:31
Speaker 2: lot more difficult, And so I feel for him if
34:34
Speaker 2: he's being truthful. Yeah, I'm with you.
34:38
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no way around it that it's more
34:41
Speaker 3: makes his life more difficult. Because you said it earlier
34:44
Speaker 3: that you're recruiting NonStop, whether it's recruiting new kids to come,
34:49
Speaker 3: or whether it's recruiting the dudes that are here to stay,
34:52
Speaker 3: or you know, transfers all over the place. It's just
34:56
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much that goes into it that
34:58
Speaker 3: with all of a sudden people cast a doubt as
35:01
Speaker 3: to whether or not you're going to be here. Then
35:03
Speaker 3: that makes it more difficult, that's it.
35:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, makes it so difficult to keep your guys and
35:08
Speaker 2: to lure others.
35:09
Speaker 3: Right, if somebody's on the fence of like, boy, I
35:12
Speaker 3: kind of want to stay because I'm because a coach, right,
35:14
Speaker 3: Like I want to be loyal to coach.
35:16
Speaker 2: I kind of want to stay.
35:17
Speaker 3: But the opportunity to go back to wherever at USC, boy,
35:21
Speaker 3: that sounds nice if that's home or something like that,
35:25
Speaker 3: then yeah, you start hearing rumors like this, and maybe
35:28
Speaker 3: they start entertaining the option of leaving a little bit more.
35:31
Speaker 3: I think a big thing too, is I think you
35:33
Speaker 3: know a lot of folks don't want to be used
35:35
Speaker 3: as a stepping stone, like you dubbed would be pumped about,
35:39
Speaker 3: you know, having another coach think that there's better opportunity
35:43
Speaker 3: out there to go somewhere else. Now Alabama to me
35:46
Speaker 3: and programs he's rumored to go to her Florida and UCLA,
35:49
Speaker 3: and I don't think those are better programs.
35:51
Speaker 9: Yeah, UCLA at this moment, Ucla, I would say definitely not.
35:55
Speaker 3: I would think a lot of people maybe would think
35:57
Speaker 3: that Florida is not that they're better right now. But
36:00
Speaker 3: I mean, to me, I think of the Gators as
36:03
Speaker 3: a true blue bud. But I think you dubs right
36:05
Speaker 3: there too, So to me, yeah, it's I just don't
36:08
Speaker 3: think the idea of the university not wanting I think
36:11
Speaker 3: the university wants him to be like, dude, put your
36:13
Speaker 3: roots down. Well, he did everything he possibly can besides
36:16
Speaker 3: make a promise a pinky swear. I'm not going anywhere
36:19
Speaker 3: I swear. Pinky swear actually bad.
36:22
Speaker 2: I'd trust him less. Yeah, if you pinky shore.
36:25
Speaker 9: Well, if he was up there, like I promise, this
36:27
Speaker 9: is where I want to be. I don't want to
36:28
Speaker 9: go anywhere else because you can't speak in absolutes in
36:30
Speaker 9: this day and age in college football. And I think
36:32
Speaker 9: at that point, okay, you are just saying the things
36:34
Speaker 9: you think we all want to hear, and then I
36:36
Speaker 9: wouldn't trust him at all.
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Speaker 2: it next and his thoughts on the entire college football landscape.
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