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Chuck in the Morning 9/17 H2: Jadarian Price, Softy & ABC's of the Mariners · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Happy Thursday to you all. Great to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us as we roll into our number two of Chuck
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  Speaker 1: in the Mornings with Anders Hurst and Travis Moger. We
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  Speaker 1: do have Softie joining us a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: this hour. We're going to play some Factor Fiction today
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  Speaker 1: at 735, and I'm also going to squeeze in the
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  Speaker 1: ABCs of the M's. That's got a lot to do
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  Speaker 1: in one hour. We're like the Army up in here.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot done before 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 1: More than most people do all day.
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  Speaker 3: It's true, especially on this radio station. Yeah, we're really
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  Speaker 3: hard workers.
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  Speaker 1: We also have your headlines. That's how we start every
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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock hour. They are brought to you by Frost
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  Speaker 1: Brewed Coors Light. Cold as the Rockies. That's funny. Anders
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  Speaker 1: and I were just talking about the Colorado Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we were.
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  Speaker 1: When we came back on the air, and I was
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  Speaker 1: making this gesture again. All right, let's get to your headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks Cardinals, they're going to play. This Sunday, yeah, it's on.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals, Seahawks both off to a 1-0 start. We
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  Speaker 1: know that Sam Darnold is officially out for this game,
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  Speaker 1: so Drew Locke will be getting the start against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk about this with our 12th man roundtable today.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Greg Bell not going to be with us
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  Speaker 1: today because he will be with us for a full
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  Speaker 1: hour coming up at 8 o'clock with Hugh Millen. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you've got to be tuned in for that.
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  Speaker 1: It's our first one of the football season. Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: football gets week number two started, and it is a dandy.
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  Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions will be in Buffalo to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Bills. The Bills get to debut their brand new stadium. Fans,
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  Speaker 1: of course, fired up for this. The Bills are going
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  Speaker 1: to be fired up for this. It's a reason why
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  Speaker 1: they've gone from a four-and-a-half point favorite to a five-and-a-half
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  Speaker 1: point favor during the course of the week. Anders, of course,
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  Speaker 1: has taken the Lions and the points in our Fact
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  Speaker 1: or Fiction contest. Not a lot of people agreed with you, though?
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: 46%, so it's not like no one, but everyone else
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  Speaker 3: is in the 70s or 80s.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are way too trusting.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that about Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. 7.35, we'll play some Factor Fiction here again today.
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  Speaker 1: College football, Ole Miss versus LSU on Saturday. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's a game I'm more looking forward to watching.
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  Speaker 1: And I will have some absolute rooting interest. I want
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  Speaker 1: the Rebels to win by 90. So go Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you couldn't root for Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: unless you are from Baton Rouge or your last name
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  Speaker 1: is Kiffin. Sam Leavitt might not play in this game,
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  Speaker 1: at least according to LSU. They listed him as doubtful
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  Speaker 1: on the injury report this week, even though they didn't
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  Speaker 1: list a specific injury. So many people think that Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin is just playing some gamesmanship here, and that Sam
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  Speaker 1: Levitt's going to be fine, but you never know. We
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  Speaker 1: shall see once Saturday rolls around. Huskies are going to
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  Speaker 1: take on Eastern Washington. Thursdays with Softee coming your way
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  Speaker 1: a little later on this hour. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: happen here in the next couple of minutes like it
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  Speaker 1: did a year ago, but he's got a new time
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  Speaker 1: for us on Thursdays, so we'll chat with him at
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  Speaker 1: about 7.20-ish here this morning about the Huskies, who are
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  Speaker 1: 43.5-point favorites. against Eastern Washington. Considering how bad the offense
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  Speaker 1: has been so far this year, that seems like a
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  Speaker 1: pretty high number. Sounders taking on Colorado Saturday at 6.30. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the Kraken will play their first preseason game of the
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  Speaker 1: year on Saturday at 6 o'clock against the Vancouver Canucks.
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  Speaker 1: And the Mariners won last night over the Angels. 7-2
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  Speaker 1: was the final score. Cal Raleigh, two hits, three runs
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  Speaker 1: batted in in the game. But the win seems like
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  Speaker 1: Far too little, far too late in the process. Houston's
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  Speaker 1: even cooperated. Had the Mariners just done their job in
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento and in Anaheim, maybe we'd be getting excited right
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  Speaker 1: now about what's happening in the American League West because
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  Speaker 1: the Astros have done their part here down the stretch
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  Speaker 1: against far better competition. They've lost four of five games.
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  Speaker 1: They will play Kansas City tonight. Meanwhile, the Mariners are
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  Speaker 1: off tonight. The gap is still five and a half
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  Speaker 1: games and almost impossible to overcome. I think they're like 0.03%
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  Speaker 1: chance of making the playoffs at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Just makes the A's and Angels series that much more frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the entire series season actually that much more frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to cover some topics with ABC's of the
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  Speaker 1: M's a little bit later on this hour. at 745.
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  Speaker 1: So great morning to you all. It is terrific to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. And we got a football game
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. One of these two
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  Speaker 1: teams going to start the season 2-0. At the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year, we thought for sure that was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the Sam Darnold-led Seattle Seahawks that would be
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  Speaker 1: starting 2-0. But it's going to be Drew Locke starting
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  Speaker 1: in this game for the Seahawks. And that obviously changes
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  Speaker 1: the outlook a little bit. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: But the expectation is that the Seahawks are still going
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  Speaker 1: to win. They are still, what, four-point favorites the last
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  Speaker 1: time that I checked against the Arizona Cardinals. And it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see. I think there were
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  Speaker 1: already people coming off of that win against the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: which seems like a month and a half ago, last Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you use Jadarian Price more, especially with your
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback in the game? I mean, he looked so good.
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  Speaker 1: He had burst. Why on earth did you need to
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  Speaker 1: bring George Helani in for as many touches as he got,
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  Speaker 1: even though he didn't get that many? Price, in his
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  Speaker 1: rookie season, needs to be the guy right now, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he only got 12 touches in the opening week. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke's not the only person person that didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for life without Sam Darnold. Neither did Brian Fleury.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that there is an expectation that with
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  Speaker 1: a full week of practice, that maybe the game plan
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  Speaker 1: could be more suited toward Jadarian Price on Sunday. And
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  Speaker 1: that I don't think we're ever going to get Jadarian
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  Speaker 1: Price to the stage of 20 touches or more or uh,
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  Speaker 1: at least on a regular basis. I think it'll be
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  Speaker 1: an outlier number, but certainly I think the number's going
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  Speaker 1: to go up. I think you're going to look at
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  Speaker 1: 15 to 20, uh, this week against the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: And I would imagine that's going to be a point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis for them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think the big thing for me is like, cause
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  Speaker 3: you saw a similar situation with the Cardinals actually with
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Love and Tyler Algier.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but I think the big thing there is because
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Algier has always been known as a could be
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  Speaker 3: easily a 1A, 1B situation wherever he's gone. They had
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  Speaker 3: the same situation when he was backing up B. John
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  Speaker 3: Robinson in Atlanta, for gosh sakes. So he's come and
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  Speaker 3: now done the same thing to their, what, fourth overall
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  Speaker 3: pick in Jeremiah Love here. There's the rookie factor, but
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  Speaker 3: there's just not much behind him. That's the big thing
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  Speaker 3: for me. If you had Zach Charbonnet healthy, I would
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  Speaker 3: be much more willing to be like, OK, understand you
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  Speaker 3: kind of want to ease him in. You want to
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  Speaker 3: keep him healthy, kind of alternating drives, certain situations. You
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  Speaker 3: want to go with the other one. But to me,
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  Speaker 3: at least until Zach Charbonnet is back. I don't see
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  Speaker 3: anything besides pass protection that Jadarian Price does worse than
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  Speaker 3: George Helani. And I think he'd catch the ball at
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  Speaker 3: a backfield at a similar level. Obviously, he's a more
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  Speaker 3: talented runner. We saw that against a good Patriots defense
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  Speaker 3: last week. I want to see more to that. And
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  Speaker 3: I think if the Seahawks are going to hit their
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  Speaker 3: ceiling as an offense, it's going to be with Jadarian
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  Speaker 3: Price having 80%, 85% of the snap share. and the
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  Speaker 3: touches of all the running backs.
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  Speaker 1: I think that sounds very logical on its face. And
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  Speaker 1: it seems to me he should have carried the ball
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  Speaker 1: more against the Patriots. And it seems to me that
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  Speaker 1: he should be the focal point. And it seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that George Helani is only used in certain situations.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be a situational running back for this
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  Speaker 1: upcoming season. But I will say this, if we don't
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  Speaker 1: see it on Sunday, if he is limited again to
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  Speaker 1: 12 to 15 touches. I don't think we should be
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  Speaker 1: angry about that. I don't think we should panic about that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we spent a season a year ago with them.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Walker nursing a foot injury and he wasn't getting
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  Speaker 1: as many carries. And we were wondering why is Charbonnet
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  Speaker 1: seemingly being used more at times than Walker. Walker's clearly
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  Speaker 1: the more talented back. We spent an entire season talking
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  Speaker 1: about that. And lo and behold, We get to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and Ken Walker looks as fresh as he did all
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  Speaker 1: season long. Jadarian Price has not carried the load since
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  Speaker 1: high school. There might be with him, hey, we're not
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  Speaker 1: only making him our starter. He's going to play a
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  Speaker 1: 17-game schedule this year as opposed to a 12, and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get thumped like he's never been thumped
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  Speaker 1: before in his entire life. You're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: trust us on this one. We're not going to turn
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  Speaker 1: him into Earl Campbell overnight. We're going to let Chadarian
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  Speaker 1: Price be our featured back, but we're going to mix
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  Speaker 1: in Emmanuel Wilson, and we're going to mix in George Helani,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't wait to get Zach Charbonnet back. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want this guy at Week 12 to have had
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  Speaker 1: more carries than he's ever had in his entire NFL career,
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  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden we've got a broken-down No. 1.
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  Speaker 1: one running back and we have our most important games
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  Speaker 1: of the season to play so if we get to
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals on Sunday and he finishes the day with
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  Speaker 1: 11 carries for 54 yards and three catches for 17
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  Speaker 1: yards I don't think we should be angry I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we should panic I think we should trust that
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald may know exactly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the way you describe that makes me
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  Speaker 3: think of the comparison to baseball. It's a very Kate
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  Speaker 3: Anderson situation, right? Or even more, Brian Wu, I think,
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  Speaker 3: is even a better comparison, where a guy has not
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  Speaker 3: pitched this many innings before. He's on a pitch count, basically,
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  Speaker 3: for Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 1: And for no other reason, you don't know how he's
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  Speaker 1: going to react to 17 games. You don't know Brian
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  Speaker 1: Wu coming off an injury who has an injury history
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  Speaker 1: if he's ready for 33 starts. And not just 33 starts,
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  Speaker 1: but 100 pitches per 33 starts. So I think there's
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  Speaker 1: an element of this that's at play right now. Ken
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  Speaker 1: Walker went to Kansas City and signed a $ 15 million
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  Speaker 1: deal with the promise, we're going to give it to
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  Speaker 1: you every single time. We've now paid that money. Jadarian
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  Speaker 1: Price is in his first season of his professional career,
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  Speaker 1: having not been the starting running back for a football
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  Speaker 1: team since high school. And I think they probably are,
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  Speaker 1: even if it frustrates you, going to slow play, giving
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  Speaker 1: him too many carries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's easy to just be on the
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  Speaker 3: couch and be like, man, that guy looks way better
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  Speaker 3: than that guy. Why isn't that guy playing more often?
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  Speaker 3: But you've got to... Play the long game. Play the
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  Speaker 3: long game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a long game. It's a long season. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of abuse that Jadarian Price is going to take
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't even realize at this point. And we
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  Speaker 1: wanted Ken Walker, his healthiest for the playoffs, and it
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  Speaker 1: paid off.
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  Speaker 4: It did.
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  Speaker 1: We want Jadarian Price as healthy as come Christmas Day
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  Speaker 1: when we face the Rams two times in three games.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, we are breaking a little early.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: This is a little breaking of protocol here. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what? We will move heaven and earth for Dave
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  Speaker 1: Softee Mahler to feel welcome and at home and loved.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to join us Thursdays with Softee, not at Softee.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 4: Now back to.
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  Speaker 1: be without checking in with our guy Dave Softy Mahler?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to face a world.
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  Speaker 3: Where we don't check in with our guy Dave Softy Mahler.
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  Speaker 3: I think that place would be morbid.
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  Speaker 4: Dark. Yeah. It would be a better world for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I couldn't disagree more. I couldn't disagree more.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I get to sleep in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You did get to sleep in. I hope you took
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it. I hope that you and Mrs. Mahler
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  Speaker 1: had two minutes of just sweet, sweet love this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we sure did, man.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure who it was with, but it was
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  Speaker 6: with me.
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  Speaker 4: You can ask her next time you see her, by
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  Speaker 4: the way.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, who would not want to wake up next
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  Speaker 6: to this man?
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  Speaker 4: You should see me right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I am looking.
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  Speaker 1: What are you wearing?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I got my red mesh shorts on that I
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  Speaker 6: was given by the airline in the Cayman Islands when
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  Speaker 6: they lost our luggage about five years ago. I got
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  Speaker 6: my Crocs on. Everybody's got their morning pair of Crocs, right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I got those on, and I got some,
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  Speaker 4: let's see, what do I got?
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  Speaker 6: I got a Seahawks t-shirt and a gray hoodie on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so now that you know what I'm wearing, what
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  Speaker 4: are you wearing?
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  Speaker 1: I got a halter top on and a sarong. What
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  Speaker 1: are you wearing? And a chef's hat.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I came up with a new name
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  Speaker 4: for this show. What is it? And I think you
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  Speaker 4: got to go with it.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 4: You just got to embrace it.
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  Speaker 6: With Ashley now working on the Midday Show and Anders
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  Speaker 6: and Travis now with you, I think it's pretty damn
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  Speaker 6: obvious what we're dealing with here.
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  Speaker 1: What are we dealing with?
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  Speaker 4: It's a sausage fest. Oh, geez. Yeah. The morning sausage fest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 4: Breakfast sausage fest. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Jimmy Dean's.
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  Speaker 4: Why not? I mean, it's right there for you. What
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  Speaker 4: are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't your show called that? You've got three guys
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  Speaker 1: on your show. Why isn't your show called that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, because I just consider my show to be above
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  Speaker 6: that type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 1: You do operate on a higher moral plane. I would
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  Speaker 1: never ever.
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  Speaker 4: Work at that level. Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 1: Sophomoric content never seeps into the Softie and Dick show.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. What'd you say, Dick?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: You got any wiener jokes? Dick?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think any wiener jokes ever make it to
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  Speaker 1: the Softie and Dick program.
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  Speaker 6: All I've heard out of you for two days, and
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  Speaker 6: most of it comes from my wife. My wife gets
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  Speaker 6: in the car before me on the way to work.
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  Speaker 6: You should hear Chuck. He just keeps talking about Darnold's ass.
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  Speaker 4: Every single day. Thank you, Softie. Out of control.
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  Speaker 6: My favorite drop, though, I got to tell you guys,
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  Speaker 6: when Dick's not around, it's just like me and Jackson
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  Speaker 6: or me and Hugh.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.
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  Speaker 2: That's so great.
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  Speaker 4: You know what movie that's from?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's from Ghostbusters. Attaboy.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. Anders is lost. Travis might have a shot.
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  Speaker 6: It's because Anders is like 11. He has no idea
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  Speaker 6: what the hell we're talking about, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your guy, though. I'm your guy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's good to be on the Breakfast Sausage Fest.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well.
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  Speaker 4: Love you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good to have you, so pull up a bratwurst,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and let's talk some Husky football.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, God, do we have to? Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if they're going to convince us that they're
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  Speaker 1: ready for Big Ten play, I need an offensive explosion
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday. Can we count on that against Eastern Washington?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know, but even that, is that really
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  Speaker 6: going to make you feel better? I mean, honestly, like
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  Speaker 6: it's Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: It made me feel better than if they win 20
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  Speaker 1: to 15.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think this is one of those days coming
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  Speaker 6: up on Saturday where you really can only lose, honestly.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't mean like literally, right? Like I'm not
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  Speaker 6: talking about losing the actual game itself on Saturday. But
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  Speaker 6: if they go blow Eastern's doors off on Saturday, that's
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  Speaker 6: what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: They're supposed to blow Eastern's doors off. I mean, when
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: the season.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Began, if I told you back in August that we
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: were getting to week three and we were dying to
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: see some offense and that we were going to all
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: of a sudden walk home and feel great about this
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: Husky football team because they scored 55 on Eastern, you
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: would have thought you're nuts. They're supposed to be doing
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: something like that. I mean, the defense so far against
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Wazoo and Utah State, they're supposed to be.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Shutting teams like that down.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: So I just don't think anything that we've seen so
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: far should change our attitude about what the season was
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: supposed to be all about. The season was supposed to
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: be all about Washington challenging for a CFP berth. That's
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: what this whole thing was. That's why they started the year.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: 17th in America. The season was all about, hey, we're
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: not going to really know anything until we get to
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: week five against USC. So all of a sudden the
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: goalposts are moving. The standards are dropping because the Husky
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: offense looks terrible against Washington State and Utah State. So,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, look, I guess you can avoid potential like
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: nightmare disaster scenario by putting up 70 on Eastern. I
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: don't know if they have the capability right now, guys,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: to do that against anybody.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Did you see the line for the game? It's like
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: 43 and a half.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: I mean, like, is Vernon Adams walking through that door?
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Is Cooper Cup walking through that door for Eastern? I mean,
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure if I see Eastern scoring a lot
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: of points on Saturday, but, I mean, heck, if they
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: score 13 points, I mean, you know, UW's looking at
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: having to score, you know, 60 points or so.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: To cover the spread.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's crazy right now with the way this
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: offense is playing. So, I don't know, man. I'm just
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: going to stick with my original thoughts. We're not going
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: to really know much. about this football team until they
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: play at least Minnesota next week and then probably USC
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the week before. But right now there's a scary movie
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: starting in the Big Ten for me, and it's freaking
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: me out.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Is there that big of a drop-off from Quade Carr
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and Jaden Lamar to Cooley, or has this offensive line,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: which was sort of being featured as the strength of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the team heading into this season, are they maybe not
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: as good as what we thought?
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I think there's a big drop-off
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: from Adam Muhammad, Jordan Washington, and Jonah Coleman to Quade
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Carr and Trey Cooley and those guys. There's a massive drop.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I mean, they don't have that guy on their roster
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: right now. They got number four, but he's got a
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: neck injury and he's not playing right now, right, in
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Jordan Washington. So that to me is the issue, that
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: you've gone from three guys that you felt pretty good about,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: two guys that you felt pretty good about like halfway
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: through last year replacing number one, When he eventually moved
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: on and then Adam Muhammad started asking for more money
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: and the coaching staff got a little bit irritated with
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: him and they decided to part ways. I mean, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: saw Adam Muhammad barely played in the Boise State game, guys.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: He was almost benched for the L.A.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Bowl.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Like, we barely saw him in that game. So we
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: should have known something was up in L.A. And then
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: obviously Adam Muhammad went to California and Jonah's in the
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: NFL and Jordan Washington's banged up. So these are not
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: supposed to be the guys that you're relying on. Is
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: there a big drop from Trey Cooley to Brian Bonner?
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, probably not. That's why I don't really feel
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: great about it, even when those guys are healthy. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: think even when Quade Carr and Trey Cooley were healthy,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: they had a hard time running the ball. I mean,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: you saw that against Wazoo, right? And then you see
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: both these guys with, you know, with, what do you
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: call it when you put your, a sling, sorry. With
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: their arms in slings, you know, pregame, you know, against
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Utah State. So, I mean, Chuck, Trey Cooley's been in
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: college football for like six years now. He's on his
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: fourth different team. There's a reason why he's moving around
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: that much. I was talking to Greg on the pregame
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: show last Saturday, and I made some comment about Trey
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Cooley as like the number nine running back coming out
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: of high school in the country.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: And he looks at me and says, what country? I mean,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: it's like, come on, man.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Like, these guys just, they don't have that guy. They
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: don't have that guy at running back, and they may
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: not have the guy at wide receiver either. The offensive line,
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: I think, is going to get better when Landon comes back.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: But they've been a disappointment. I mean, let's be honest.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: They got three guys in there so far in Champ, Tlailea,
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Cole Dietrich, and then Cody Green, who had never started
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: a game at UW until this year. And they kind
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: of look like it a little bit. They look like
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: five guys that haven't played a lot of football together.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: So I'm hopeful that when Lanning comes back, this thing
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: looks different.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Could you Lamar Jackson at Louisville this thing with DeMond
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Williams where he's getting like 15 design runs a game?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Or is he just not big and strong enough that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: durable to be able to withstand that?
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I think that's the concern, man. And that's the concern
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: we've had since he's been here. that the more you
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: run him, the more he's going to get banged up, right?
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, Lamar Jackson is a much bigger guy than
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: DeMond Williams. And I get your point, right? We're talking
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: about just making his legs the focal point of the offense.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Of the run game, yeah. Right, totally.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: But, you know, I mean, again, when you do that,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: it's going to be easy to key on those guys.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I don't think they want to do that because, number one,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: they don't want to get the guy hurt. And then,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: number two, I think DeMond Williams is a really, really
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: good runner. But is he Michael Vick? Is he Marcus Tuyasosopo?
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Is he Jake Locker when he was at UW as
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: a runner?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: We haven't seen that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Is he on that level?
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I mean, we've seen flashes of that. But what we
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: haven't really seen yet is a game or multiple games
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: where Jed Fish just says, the hell with it. My
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: best offense is DeMond Williams improvising. And I think that
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: is correct, that that is their best offense right now.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: But that's not a formula for winning in the Big
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Ten every single week.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: How do we gauge this defense? Because it's looked great,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but against the competition that it's faced, are we sure
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that it's great?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Wait until they go to USC.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: All the answers come that week. Have you seen that
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: hot shot tight end they got down there at USC?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Wait until they play them. Wait until they go to
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: the Coliseum. I mean, look, do I think that the
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Husky defense will be good enough?
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Because I think Ryan Walters is a hell of a
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: defensive coordinator. I think they have a lot of talent.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: The freshmen that I've seen in Jones and DCB and
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Ramzak Thruen, they haven't looked over their heads at all.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Not one time have I watched those guys play this
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: year thinking they don't belong out there. But it's only
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: been two games against Wazoo and Utah State. So we'll
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: see what happens against USC. We'll see what happens against
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: some of the better competition they play throughout the year.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: I think they're going to be the focal point of
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: the football team. They will be the strength of this
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: football team. There's no question about that. But will they
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: be losing games.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: 24-10, 21-17?
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Will the offense be able to pick it up if
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: the defense, God forbid, gives up 20 points or more
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: in a Big Ten game. I mean, they didn't give
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: up more than, what, 24 the entire year last season.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: That came in the last game of the year against
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Oregon in the regular season. So I really like this
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: defense a lot. Do I like them enough where the
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: offense can stink all year long and they can get
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: away with it?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: How are you feeling about Sam Darnold's unique butt injury?
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Uh, better now that I've been educated about has took
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: us on your show. I can tell you that right now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: I'm still trying to figure out.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Is it a glute? Is it a tendon? Is it
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: a glute tendon? Like what the hell are we talking about?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think we know the whole story.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Softie. What's your, what's your theory? You can pick
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: up what I'm putting down. Which hole?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not even kidding you. I think that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: they're being quiet about it because it's like an embarrassingly
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: rare thing. injury that's what i think happened yeah well.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Like and they don't know how to treat it like
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: what would that what would that look like honestly.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Well i don't know i don't want to describe how
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it looks.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying to know andrews what the hell he's talking.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: About i mean it's a unique butt injury what do
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you think wouldn't they tell us what that might be
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like uh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Haven't they said it's unique though haven't they told us
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: it's a unique injury yes what does that even mean.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I think he stretched part of his butt I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that's their way of saying we don't want to tell
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you exactly what it is because it's kind of.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Embarrassing?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: But how is it embarrassing? Everybody has an ass. We
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: all have an ass.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: How would it be embarrassing? It's not if you injure
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: your cheek, but.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: You think it's a little bit further in the middle?
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I honestly... That's Chuck's theory here.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's an MCL.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: It's a medial.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Wait, just hang on a second.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Hang on just a minute here. Let me just make
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: sure I know what the hell you're talking about.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: You're telling me that he strained his butthole.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm just wondering. You guys are
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of buttholes. Thanks, Mike.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: All right. I didn't even know that you could strain
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: that area. That's what I'm saying. That's the point. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: know you can strain it when you get my point, right?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Well, you know the saying, tear you a new one, right?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: All right, give me 30 seconds of promotion.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: See, this is what's happened to this radio.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: This is so true.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It's gone downhill.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: You see, man, the responsible women leave the show, and
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: then the idiot guys take over.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, I would love to be having this conversation with Ashley.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: I would love to be having this conversation with Ashley.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: All right, man. Huskies football this Saturday. What time are
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: we starting the honks?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I think noon. I think noon.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: It's one of those stupid, weird 4.15 kickoffs, right? Which
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: turns into 4.18. So I think we're on the air
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: at noon on Saturday.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, sir. Appreciate you. We'll talk to you soon.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: All right, guys.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: If you get any more information about Sam, man.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I will.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I'll pass it along.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:31
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• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to week number one results. There are liars. And yet,
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• 27:18
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• 27:22
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• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he did.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: The defense tackled worse than anyone else in the National
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• 28:01
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns are considered to have a very good
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• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and I think the Denver Broncos are going to take
• 28:27
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• 28:29
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• 28:33
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• 28:37
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• 28:41
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• 28:42
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• 28:45
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• 28:53
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• 28:58
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• 29:01
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: The only thing I'm worried about here is the Broncos like,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: all right, guys, that was not us week one.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Let's wake up.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I think Bo Nix has been a relatively slow starter
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: for the most of his career, but that could continue
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: in week two. But I do agree with you that
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville is for real, and I do think they have
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: a really good chance to win this game outright.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I like the pick.
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  Speaker 1: Plus two and a half. Jacksonville at Denver. Fact to
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  Speaker 1: roundtable at the top of the hour. So I got
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we've got your ABCs of the M's.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, I know that it feels like you're just
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  Speaker 1: playing out the string at this point. Even they act
• 31:04
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• 31:07
  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, there's some really juicy topics and the alphabet
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  Speaker 1: knows that. Oh, yeah. So we left off of the
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  Speaker 1: letter N. We didn't even get to the letter N
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  Speaker 1: yesterday because we ended up doing Mirror Mirror for an
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• 31:23
  Speaker 1: N is for Naylor. We have to talk about it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you win a game 7-2 and yet the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: entire internet blows up. with people, Mariner fans, furious at
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the way Josh Naylor taunted Zach Netto on his way
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: back to third base and in taunting him wasn't quick
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: enough amid the taunt. to get back in time to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: not get doubled off third base. I mean, of all
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the people that I've had a problem with in terms
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of their approach to this season, because I really, you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I think at times it's looked like this team doesn't care.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I really do believe that this team cares. And they
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: are devastated by the fact that they've played so poorly.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: And they know that they've wasted a season with a
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: very talented roster. Of all the guys, Anders, that I believe...
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: did kind of check out, it's Josh Naylor. And it's
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: not always. It's just intermittent. He just sometimes kind of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: gives me the impression I don't really care right now.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: And the next inning, he might. Yeah, and it's not
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: just on the field or in all the base paths.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: It's his at-bats, too. It's completely different than what we
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: saw last year. A guy that would battle at the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: plate a bunch, he's just swinging at the first pitch,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: hoping to put it in play and... just grounding out
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: to second base or maybe gets through every once in
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: a while. But it's, yeah, you can't help but think
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that he got his money in kind of his coast
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: at this point.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, there is, I mean, Austin Hedges famously now
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: said nobody likes you in the game against the Guardians
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: earlier this year. And that's somebody that they used to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: play together with the Guardians. It's also somebody that works
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: out with Cal every offseason. I thought that was significant
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: when he said that. I'm not trying to stir some
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: sort of hornet's nest here, but for him to use
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: those words, and it looked like it bothered Josh a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: little bit. He wanted to fight him. I think Josh
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Naylor might not be the teammate we thought that he
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: appeared to be last season. There have been a lot
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of stories that have come out about him being just
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: odd And it's not that he's a bad guy, but
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think that inconsistent, like, I'm going to do everything
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: it takes to win one moment, and then the next moment,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to look like I don't care, that might
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: be part of his personality. And it might be something
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that is out of his control, for all I know.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, we are in a world where we're aware
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of you know, conditions like that now.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and of all the kind of weird individual moments
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: of the season, whether it's Julio throwing the ball into
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: the stands when there's two outs, whether it's Randy literally
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: not even running to go catch a foul ball, I
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: think this one struck a different chord with me, personally,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: because it's lack of focus, while inexcusable, it's also like, okay, well,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: that happens sometimes. This is more like, hey, I feel
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: like I can taunt you like we're playing the angels
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: on September 5th, 16th when we're both out of it,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: but I can tell you, yeah, but I can still
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: taunt you.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Cause that's who I am.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: You're not in a place to do that, dude. Look
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: at your season. Look at your team season. It's just
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: that I can't like it rubbed me extremely the wrong way.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people, I will present a mild defense. Okay.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I think he was arguing that he thought Netto didn't
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: catch the ball. I think that was his argument so
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that he nonchalanted it back because in that case, he
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: would have had to have been tagged. And so I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: think that was his defense. And I think Dan Wilson
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: bought that defense. Otherwise, that was the moment to say,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: get out of the game.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, if there was a moment to say that's enough.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've watched you play lackadaisical first base at times.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I've watched you take lackadaisical at-bats at times. I've watched
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you loaf down when a ball was booted on what
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a double play, and you didn't hustle it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And I've forgiven you everything, but I'm not going to
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: forgive you this. Go sit down. Go sit down for
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the rest of the game. We're going to have a
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: talk as soon as the game is over. So, obviously,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Dan bought the excuse that he thought he'd trapped.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Of course he did. Of course he did.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: But it's something, and... Man, it felt really good when
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: this team re-signed Josh Naylor in the offseason, and now
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that was a mistake.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, 206, personality aside, Naylor's leading the team
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: in hits and is second to Randy in average. This
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: is why batting average is one of the most flawed stats.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: He's hitting 270, yes, but he has 10 home runs,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: and he... has a slugging percentage that is 50 points
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: worse than he has had since 2022. Worse than his
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: worst year since 2022. This is just, it's a guy like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: we didn't pay you to be a single sitter.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: We paid him to provide power, to drive in runs,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to play a solid first base, which at times he hasn't.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Other times he's been spectacular at first base. And I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: certainly thought we were paying somebody that was... that the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: players liked and that he liked being here and that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: we were going, because at times he's the guy that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: will punch through the wall to score the run.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, he will.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And then at other times, I mean, the lackadaisical first
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: place that he, first base that he played earlier in
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the season where everything was just some sort of nonchalant
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: hot dog show. was one of the things that I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: think put this team in the hole. And I'm not
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: going to try to bury the guy, but it has
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: been a source of frustration this year, and that play
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: last night was symbolic of the Josh Naylor we have
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that I didn't think that we had.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: And I think it reverberates the rest of the team.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I think it does.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: O is for Akimoto. I brought this up yesterday at
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the tail end of the show. I wanted to bring
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it back up again.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Man....
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: This guy's at 32 home runs with the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: We had a chance to get him on the cheap.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know why the Japanese superstar import went for
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: so cheap in the offseason this year, but both he
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and Morikami did. I, at one point in the offseason, said,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: get them both. But, you know, I love Japanese players.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you do.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So I wanted one of them. We didn't get either
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of them. And I know Murakami's run into some strikeout issues,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: but that was expected. I also might argue that Murakami
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: is the reason, the biggest reason, why the White Sox
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: are in playoff contention right now. Meanwhile, Okamoto, how good
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: would he have looked on our roster at a really
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: reasonable price that John Stanton shouldn't have balked at?
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: At a position that you've needed all year long. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I get it, you're bringing in Donovan to play that,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: but you can foresee that he was going to be
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: injured for the entire year, but Even that, like, you're
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: asking him to play a position that he hadn't played
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: very much. So having some sort of cover and a
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: guy that's had a proven track record in Japan, obviously,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: of playing that spot and, you know, obviously he's a
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: really good hitter.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I agree. It's a missed opportunity there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And then I will end it there. I was going
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to squeeze one more in, but I think it's too
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: big of a conversation. And I do not want to
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: be late for our first roundtable of the season.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: We'll pick up the ABCs of the M's tomorrow. That'll
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: still be a fresh topic. My pee. My pee. Burning
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a hole through my pocket.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Now you guys have to guess what it is. What
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: is the pee that Chuck is thinking about?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You might think I gotta go pee, but I don't
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: gotta go pee right now. I can save it till tomorrow.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I can hold it.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. All right.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: 12-man roundtable is now.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: next.
• 39:30
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