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10-19 H3: Steve Wyche Joins, K9 For MVP & CFB Expansion · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Hey, great Monday morning to you all. Welcome into this
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Speaker 1: radio program. It is Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. Anders Hurst is here. Chris Kidd is here.
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Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. And in a moment, we'll
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Speaker 1: be joined by NFL Network's Steve Weiss. He's going to
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Speaker 1: be with us as we discuss the NFL. A National
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Speaker 1: Football League Sunday that did not include the Seahawks. They played,
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Speaker 1: of course, on Thursday Night Football. So a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a different Monday show. Not our normal Monday morning
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Speaker 1: quarterback session. And he gives us a chance to reach
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Speaker 1: out to a talent like Steve Weiss. Get his thoughts
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Speaker 1: on the Seahawks and everything else going on in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League these days. Good morning, Steve.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Thanks for having me. How are you?
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Speaker 1: Great. How are you? All good?
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Speaker 2: I'm good, man. Great, crazy weekend on the college ranks,
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Speaker 2: NFL ranks. A whole lot of news popping off today,
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Speaker 2: so it's a busy time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to say that the NFL had a
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Speaker 1: wild week, but when you compare it to what the
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Speaker 1: college football Saturday was like, it was really tame by comparison,
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Speaker 1: don't you think?
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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It's that time of year, man.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's get your assessment. I'm sure everybody right off
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Speaker 1: the bat wants to know what Steve Weiss thinks of
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Speaker 1: the world champion Seattle Seahawks being off to a 3-3
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Speaker 1: start so far this year. So what are your 30,000-foot
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Speaker 1: view observations of our football team here in Seattle?
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they know it, if they want
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Speaker 2: to know what Steve Weiss thinks, but you're going to
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Speaker 2: get it anyway. They just don't seem settled. They just
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Speaker 2: don't seem settled yet. You know, the initial game was,
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Speaker 2: it was, it's a week one game, but then Sam
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Speaker 2: Donald goes out for a while. Drew Locke comes in,
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Speaker 2: Donald comes back and just hasn't looked overly comfortable. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I just don't know if this offense has settled in yet.
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Speaker 2: I mean, JSN is arguably one of the top two
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Speaker 2: or three best players in in the NFL, but the
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Speaker 2: offensive line has not looked like what it did last year.
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Speaker 2: And in speaking with some folks from around the league,
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Speaker 2: every one of them uniformly, man, do they miss Kenneth Walker?
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Speaker 2: The fact that they don't have a run game has
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Speaker 2: made it easier to defend things, to do some things
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Speaker 2: to Sam Darnold that they were doing before he kind
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Speaker 2: of had his resurrection in Minnesota and last year in Seattle.
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Speaker 2: So I think the lack of a run game, the
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Speaker 2: lack of a consistent second receiving option, the fact that
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Speaker 2: the offensive line just has not played like it did
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Speaker 2: last year, which could be in part because of the
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Speaker 2: lack of a run game, are some of the things
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Speaker 2: that are plaguing the offense and the defense was, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what they did last week was, was fantastic
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Speaker 2: against Denver. They look good. You know, they, they let
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Speaker 2: us in place here and there. I think the bigger
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Speaker 2: issues are offensively.
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Speaker 1: I think that's terrific analysis. I think that as from
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Speaker 1: a local perspective, somebody that's looked at this team close
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Speaker 1: under the microscope, I think those are all valid criticisms,
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Speaker 1: but I would also say on the back end of that,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really worried. And I think it'd be a
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Speaker 1: fool that wrote this team off. Would you agree with
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Speaker 1: that statement?
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Speaker 2: It's too early to write off teams like the Seahawks,
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Speaker 2: even the Rams. You can't write them off yet. They've
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Speaker 2: got plenty of time to correct things and get better.
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Speaker 2: In Seattle, they'll get it together. Let's not forget, they've
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Speaker 2: had some significant changes at key parts of their coaching
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Speaker 2: staff as well. Everyone's still kind of feeling that part
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Speaker 2: out too, especially with Darnold going down with the injury
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Speaker 2: in the early part of the season. Seattle's going to
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Speaker 2: be there. Their defense is going to keep them in
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Speaker 2: games every week. And they'll figure some things out, but
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Speaker 2: we'll see once Jadarian Price gets back if that changes
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Speaker 2: things with the running game. Because if it doesn't, then
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Speaker 2: they've got to be a little bit more creative in
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out ways to move the ball up
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Speaker 2: and down the field.
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Speaker 1: What's wrong with the 2-4 Los Angeles Rams as you
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Speaker 1: see it?
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Speaker 2: They don't look right. I mean, defensively, there have been
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Speaker 2: games where they've just gotten gashed. Yesterday against Arizona, the
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Speaker 2: offense just came out with no life. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: defense played well, but the offense was, it was not creative.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they have an identity. I don't think,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's Sean McVay trying to outsmart
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Speaker 2: people like, okay, I'm going to go 13 personnel this
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Speaker 2: game since it worked so well before. And I think
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Speaker 2: people aren't going to change up against it, especially when
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Speaker 2: you're playing Michael floor, who's been on your staff for
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Speaker 2: years and knows exactly some of your tendencies. They, they
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Speaker 2: just don't look right. They don't look explosive on offense.
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Speaker 2: They got schemed up. We do know special teams continues
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Speaker 2: to be an issue yesterday. They lose their kicker, you know,
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Speaker 2: who's 150 pounds and he's trying to make a tackle
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Speaker 2: on a return because the return coverage is, is terrible and,
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Speaker 2: So they're just not in sync yet. But again, this
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Speaker 2: is a team that goes through stretches like this every
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Speaker 2: year and figures it out. So you can't write them
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Speaker 2: off at this point right now either.
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Speaker 1: So can we give the division title to San Francisco
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Speaker 1: like so many people want to claim? Are you in
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Speaker 1: that boat that you think this divisional race is already over,
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Speaker 1: the way they look? They got a two-and-a-half game lead,
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Speaker 1: could be a three-and-a-half game lead over the Seahawks already,
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Speaker 1: and an even bigger lead over the Rams. Does it
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Speaker 1: look to you like that's an inevitability that the 49ers
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Speaker 1: are going to win the NFC West?
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Speaker 2: No. I mean, we're six weeks into the season. Out
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Speaker 2: of the way, Steve. No. I mean, people are going
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Speaker 2: to say, oh, the Houston Texans are out of it
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Speaker 2: right now. We saw this week the Houston Texans at
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Speaker 2: 2-1-4 could very much– come back and win this division.
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Speaker 2: It is way too early. There's two or three teams
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Speaker 2: we might be able to write out of it. Right now,
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Chargers, they've got no shot. You know,
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Speaker 2: with the way things are going with the Colts, and
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Speaker 2: now they're blowing out their general manager, they look like
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Speaker 2: they're out of it, but not completely. But other than
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Speaker 2: writing off two or three teams, there's no way you
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Speaker 2: can give anybody, you know, the crown this early in
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Speaker 2: the season, just takes one injury. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: NFL Network reporter Steve Weiss is with us. If you
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Speaker 1: want to follow him, you can do so at Weiss89
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Speaker 1: there on X as we do have a lot of
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Speaker 1: ground to cover in our conversation with Steve here today.
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Speaker 1: A lot of things going on in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to Ken Walker. I mean, here in Seattle,
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Speaker 1: we were big fans of him. We did wonder why
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Speaker 1: more of the load wasn't given to him when that
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Speaker 1: was what he was requesting. But At the time the
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Speaker 1: decision was made to move on from him, I mean,
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Speaker 1: there were people that disagreed with that, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think anybody saw what was going to happen this year
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Speaker 1: where the Seahawks running back room was going to be
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Speaker 1: in such dire straits and Ken Walker was going to
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Speaker 1: be on pace for 2,200 rushing yards after five games
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Speaker 1: in a Kansas City Chief uniform. Honestly, how did you
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Speaker 1: feel at the time that the Seahawks kind of moved
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Speaker 1: on from Walker and And what are you seeing now?
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Speaker 1: We all know that it looks like a big mistake,
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Speaker 1: but just how big a mistake does Steve Weiss see
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Speaker 1: it being?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, back when it happened, I think a
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Speaker 2: lot of us, be it media, be it football, people
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Speaker 2: understood it. I mean, very few teams extend their running
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Speaker 2: backs to mega deals. And as you know, as you
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Speaker 2: said in Seattle, he wasn't always the main guy. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he split with Zach Charbonnet. And Kansas City said, we're
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Speaker 2: going to make him our main guy. I don't even
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Speaker 2: think they expected him to be this effective. And Andy
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Speaker 2: Reid has never leaned on a tailback the way he's
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Speaker 2: leaning on Kenneth Walker. Right now, Kenneth Walker is the
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Speaker 2: MVP in the NFL. I mean, he has changed the
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Speaker 2: whole identity of that Chiefs offense. So, again, I think
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Speaker 2: the way things have shaken out, we can look back
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Speaker 2: in hindsight and say, hey, this was a mistake recently.
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Speaker 2: by Seattle. But at the time, again, you understood it
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Speaker 2: just because that's the dynamics of that position. It's the
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Speaker 2: dynamics of the way Seattle has handled that position. And
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Speaker 2: they would rather have put their money to the players
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Speaker 2: where they put it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone liked it, but you did
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Speaker 1: understand it. I don't think anybody liked the idea of,
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Speaker 1: Ken Walker, 24. Is he going to go to somewhere else,
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Speaker 1: especially the Chiefs, and become the player we all thought
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Speaker 1: he was going to be? And, man, if it isn't
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Speaker 1: happening right before our eyes. I mean, it's just been remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And the Chiefs are 5-0, for goodness sake, Steve.
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Speaker 2: They're 5-0, but, I mean, at the same time, you
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Speaker 2: look at what Seattle did with that money. You know,
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Speaker 2: they paid premium positions at wide receiver and at quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Those take up a lot of money. So sometimes you
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Speaker 2: have to give up. you know, a good piece to
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Speaker 2: pay players who again, play those premium salary positions like
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Speaker 2: Seattle did. So again, you understand it in hindsight, you know,
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Speaker 2: it leaves you a little head scratching, but I think
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Speaker 2: in hindsight or in, in, in foresight, you also say, well,
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Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigman, Devin Weatherspoon are really good players
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Steve Weiss is with us, NFL Network reporter here on
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Speaker 1: the radio program. You've mentioned the day's news. Could you
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Speaker 1: have ever seen the Chargers starting 0-6? I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of people foresaw that Chris Ballard was probably on
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Speaker 1: the hot seat, but for him to be written off
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Speaker 1: officially today, does that come as a surprise to you
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Speaker 1: at all?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's start with the Colts. Something had to change.
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Speaker 2: Something had to change there. A lot of people would
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Speaker 2: think it changed Steichen because you say, hey, what is
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Speaker 2: changing a general manager six games into the season due
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Speaker 2: for a team? It just gives him a head start.
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Speaker 2: His contract was up. Like you mentioned, he was on
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Speaker 2: the green mile coming into the season unless something miraculous happened.
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Speaker 2: This is probably a foreshadowing of what's going to happen
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Speaker 2: to Shane Steichen unless he can turn things around. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, Chris Ballard, he did some positive things, but then,
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Speaker 2: you know, the sauce gardener trade doesn't look great. In hindsight,
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Speaker 2: people will hang the Anthony Richardson decision on him. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't him. It was the owner, the late Jim Irsay,
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Speaker 2: who said Anthony Richardson is going to start before the
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Speaker 2: guy ever took a snap in the NFL. And just
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Speaker 2: some of the, you know, signing Daniel Jones to that
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Speaker 2: extension when he was hurt and he doesn't look great
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Speaker 2: right now. So a lot of things happen. But, you know, look,
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Speaker 2: when you lose, you do have an ownership kind of,
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Speaker 2: let's say, transition, a successor takeover. and fans now are grousing,
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Speaker 2: you could see something like this happening. And in terms
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Speaker 2: of the Chargers, nobody saw this being a disaster. I mean,
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Speaker 2: everyone thought that Mike McDaniels and his creativity was going
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Speaker 2: to be a perfect mesh with a stud quarterback like
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Speaker 2: Justin Herbert, and that's just been an absolute disaster. It
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Speaker 2: just hasn't worked. The offensive line injuries, again, it doesn't work.
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Speaker 2: And it's going to be real intriguing with them at
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Speaker 2: the trade deadline. And even with, with, with the team,
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Speaker 2: like the Colts, cause there's going to be some players,
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Speaker 2: a team shouldn't call about, I mean, why wouldn't you
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Speaker 2: call about Derwin James? Why wouldn't you call about Khalil Mack? Um,
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Speaker 2: and why wouldn't the chargers considering, you know, moving them if,
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Speaker 2: if things are looking like they.
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Speaker 1: Continue to look, but not Justin Herbert.
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Speaker 2: I would think teams would call on him, but there's
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Speaker 2: no way you'd give up on him. You're going to
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Speaker 2: change the coach and everything else before you change out
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Speaker 2: your standout quarterback like him.
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Speaker 1: The other big news today, Jalen Hurts is out for
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Speaker 1: the season for the Philadelphia Eagles. Can they possibly survive
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Speaker 1: this season in what's looking to be the worst division
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Speaker 1: in the entire National Football League right now?
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Speaker 2: First off, for Jalen Hurts, I know his agent, Nicole
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Speaker 2: Lynn put out the statement saying, Hey, look, both blood clots.
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Speaker 2: I know the team said they, they initially were superficial
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Speaker 2: and they moved. Well, I'm going to tell you where
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Speaker 2: they moved to. They moved to his lungs. Like this
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Speaker 2: is a serious deal. Yeah. Like this is something that,
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Speaker 2: you know, could potentially be fatal if not cared for.
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Speaker 2: So best wishes to Jalen hurts. I mean, well-being for
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Speaker 2: a young man is much more important than anything. And
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Speaker 2: in terms of the Eagles on the football field, it's brutal.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's, it's not just him. They've got injuries.
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Speaker 2: There's yet to be a position on offense that has
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Speaker 2: not either had an injury. You've had Lane Johnson retire.
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Speaker 2: It's a disaster. Look, most of this stuff is unforeseen,
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Speaker 2: but it is an absolute disaster. But like you mentioned...
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Speaker 2: I still think they're going to win the division. They
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Speaker 2: could still win the division. They could still win the division.
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Speaker 2: They didn't look horrible yesterday in that game. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't great, but I mean, Dallas....
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Speaker 1: They look better than Dallas.
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Speaker 2: They look better than Dallas. Washington competes, but it has issues,
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Speaker 2: and the Giants look like a disaster as well. The
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Speaker 2: NFC East right now is the comic relief in terms
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Speaker 2: of on-field product that the NFL really doesn't want.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the NFC North, every team in the NFC North
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Speaker 1: has a winning record between the Vikings being undefeated The Packers, 4-2,
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Speaker 1: seemingly have righted the ship and are getting Parsons and
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Speaker 1: Jacobs back here in the next week or two. Bears, 4-2,
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Speaker 1: with Caleb back. Lions, 3-2. Who's going to win this?
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Speaker 1: Who's going to survive this?
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Speaker 2: This is a division to watch. Because coming in, people
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Speaker 2: are like, Green Bay seems poised for a step back. Detroit...
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Speaker 2: It looks like it, you know, step back, Kayla, you know,
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Speaker 2: can Kyler Murray get it going, man? What a fun
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Speaker 2: division right now. What I saw Caleb Williams do yesterday
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Speaker 2: coming back with a purpose. My God, he looked as
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Speaker 2: dangerous as any quarterback. Look, I mean, he was fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Jordan love right now for green Bay is on a heater.
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Speaker 2: Their defense, their defense, the last couple of weeks has
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Speaker 2: looked really, really good. And Minnesota looks so dangerous because
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Speaker 2: Kyler is fitting in and that defense is is arguably
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Speaker 2: one of the most frightening defenses in the NFL. Detroit's
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Speaker 2: going to have to outscore everybody 40 to 38 to win,
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Speaker 2: but that's going to be the real fun division. I mean,
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Speaker 2: can Minnesota's defense keep playing at this level all season
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Speaker 2: long without injury? Probably yes, but man, Chicago with Caleb Williams,
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Speaker 2: and when they get their running game fully back intact,
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Speaker 2: looks like a very, very dangerous team.
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Speaker 1: And it's not the only division, Steve, with all winning teams.
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Speaker 1: Believe it or not, the AFC North, as you know,
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Speaker 1: also with all winning teams at this point. Any chance
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Speaker 1: Cleveland can keep this pace up? Can Todd Munkin and
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Speaker 1: the crew shock the world and win this division?
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Speaker 2: Why not? Why not?
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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say no.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, look, once the weather changes and some
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Speaker 2: of those games start being played in the mud literally
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Speaker 2: and figuratively... they've got the type of defense that can
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Speaker 2: keep them in. I mean, when you, when you look
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Speaker 2: at that division, they've got, you know, they've, they've got
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Speaker 2: the type of young players, a type of defensive front
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Speaker 2: and some guys in the back end that can keep
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Speaker 2: them in games when it gets ugly. I mean, their
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Speaker 2: offense is probably the most challenged, um, in that division
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Speaker 2: out of all those teams, you know, the Bengals can
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Speaker 2: light it up. We know Baltimore with Lamar can light
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Speaker 2: it up. So I w I would think, no, you know,
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Speaker 2: like you said, uh, But why not? I mean, that
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Speaker 2: division is brutal, but they've got some pieces. And those
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Speaker 2: young players, I mean, they nailed it when they drafted
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Speaker 2: Denzel Boston, the wide receiver. Man, is he playing well.
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Speaker 2: Casey Concepcion. Now they're getting Jerry Judy involved. So, again,
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Speaker 2: this is why, like I said earlier, you can't put
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Speaker 2: anybody in, and we can only count out two or
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Speaker 2: three teams at this juncture of the season. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll close with this, and we certainly appreciate your
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Speaker 1: time and your insight into all of these stories. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there are so many great storylines everywhere you turn. There's
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Speaker 1: a great storyline to discuss. in the national football league
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Speaker 1: so far this season but what is going to be
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Speaker 1: the defining story the rest of the way what will
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Speaker 1: be the most interesting thing this national football league season
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Speaker 1: from this point forward i mean uh is that a
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Speaker 1: rams team that i looked it up steve you can't
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Speaker 1: go undefeated when you start two and four that's a
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Speaker 1: fact yeah uh is that is it that storyline is
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Speaker 1: it um The world champions trying to figure out their
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Speaker 1: game is at the beleaguered NFC East and Jerry losing
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Speaker 1: his mind because he thought he had the team to
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Speaker 1: win and they look terrible. I mean, give me the
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Speaker 1: story that you think captivates us the most the rest.
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Speaker 2: Of the way. Well, I mean, I think it is
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Speaker 2: going to be kind of the thread of some of
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Speaker 2: these young quarterbacks carrying their teams. Can Trevor Lawrence and
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Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars, who got beat by Houston yesterday, can
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Speaker 2: he keep them going? Can CJ Stroud keep them going?
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Speaker 2: Can Jordan Love and Caleb Williams? I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: for as much as we're seeing some of these kind
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Speaker 2: of mid-career quarterbacks kind of not have their sea legs
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Speaker 2: right now. Can these younger quarterbacks for some of these
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Speaker 2: teams get their clubs over the hump? I think that's
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Speaker 2: the theme right now. I think that's what's exciting about
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Speaker 2: where things are with some of these clubs right now.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'd like to see is the next
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Speaker 1: big storyline. Commanders over 49ers on Monday Night Football. Think
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Speaker 1: you can make that happen? I think you can shake
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Speaker 1: things up for us a little bit there.
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Speaker 2: I talked about the young quarterbacks, Jaden Daniels. Say what
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Speaker 2: you want. He's a difference maker. He covers up a
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Speaker 2: lot of the commanders' flaws, so you never know.
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Speaker 1: All right, man. Hey, this was a pleasure. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We appreciate it. We'll bug
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Speaker 1: you again later this year because I don't think the
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Speaker 1: storylines are going to fizzle out.
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Speaker 2: No, they're not. Well, I appreciate you having me. You
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Speaker 2: guys have a great day. All right.
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Speaker 1: Steve Weiss joining us right here on the radio program.
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Speaker 1: from NFL Network, chief national reporter for NFL Network, and now,
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Speaker 1: of course, over on ESPN as well. So we appreciate
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Speaker 1: him joining us here today. It's interesting that he went
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. That was like the first thing on his mind.
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Speaker 1: We had a conversation, just the three of us, Friday night,
18:34
Speaker 1: with Kidd taking the Texans in Factor Fiction, and it
18:37
Speaker 1: turned out Kidd just doesn't believe in the Jaguars. You
18:40
Speaker 1: and I do. We do. I really do. I think
18:42
Speaker 1: they could be a Super Bowl team. I think Liam
18:45
Speaker 1: Cohen has done one heck of a job like creating
18:48
Speaker 1: a culture from, you know, let's face it, a franchise
18:52
Speaker 1: that was repeatedly the butt of a joke. I mean,
18:56
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever saw The Good Place.
18:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
18:59
Speaker 1: But every episode, there was a Jaguars joke in there.
19:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:03
Speaker 1: And a joke about people from Jacksonville. I mean, it
19:06
Speaker 1: was every single... You know, Ted Danson laughing at them openly.
19:11
Speaker 1: An angel. He plays an angel. And so... So anyway.
19:17
Speaker 1: I think that he's reversed the culture. I think they
19:20
Speaker 1: now believe he's turned Trevor Lawrence into probably one of
19:23
Speaker 1: the best six or seven quarterbacks right now in the
19:25
Speaker 1: National Football League. I want to tell you something. I've
19:28
Speaker 1: gotten to watch them the last two weeks because they've
19:31
Speaker 1: played the isolated London game. And because of our hours,
19:35
Speaker 1: I'm up at six o'clock on the weekends. So I
19:37
Speaker 1: got to watch him. He nearly cost them last week's game,
19:42
Speaker 1: and I think he did cost them this week's game.
19:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have some really weird clock management things. And
19:49
Speaker 3: then not going for an fourth down. Stole the words
19:52
Speaker 3: right out of my mouth.
19:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did the analytics person say, we definitely have to
19:58
Speaker 1: go for it here, and you just said, no.
20:00
Speaker 2: No.
20:03
Speaker 1: I mean, normally I listen to you guys, but right
20:04
Speaker 1: now I'm not going to. There was no advantage gained
20:08
Speaker 1: by kicking a 60-yard field goal. Had you made the
20:11
Speaker 1: field goal or missed it by going for it on
20:14
Speaker 1: fourth and four, it was going to be the same story.
20:18
Speaker 1: You were going to have to keep the Texans, who
20:20
Speaker 1: you gave a minute and had three timeouts left. All
20:25
Speaker 1: they had to do was get one first down, and
20:28
Speaker 1: they're going to be in field goal. That's the world
20:30
Speaker 1: we live in now in the National Football League. If
20:33
Speaker 1: you run a kickoff to a team because you think
20:35
Speaker 1: 55 seconds, they've got to go the full length of
20:38
Speaker 1: the field for the field goal.
20:39
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
20:41
Speaker 1: No, no, no. They get the ball pretty much at
20:43
Speaker 1: the 35-yard line, and you pretty much have to get
20:47
Speaker 1: to the 50 to be in field goal range today.
20:50
Speaker 1: 45 probably, but there are kickers that if you can
20:54
Speaker 1: get to midfield, you're in field goal range. Houston's got
20:58
Speaker 1: a really good one. So either way... you were going
21:02
Speaker 1: to have to keep them from getting a first down.
21:04
Speaker 1: Even if you missed it by going for it on
21:07
Speaker 1: fourth and four, or if you made the field goal,
21:09
Speaker 1: and of course they didn't stop them from getting that
21:11
Speaker 1: first down, and Fairbairn hits the game-winning field goal and
21:15
Speaker 1: you lose. Where if you go for it on fourth
21:17
Speaker 1: and four... Now, even if you don't finish off the
21:22
Speaker 1: drive and score a touchdown, you can melt all the
21:25
Speaker 1: clock away. At worst, go to overtime. And at worst,
21:28
Speaker 1: go to overtime because Little's going to make every kick
21:32
Speaker 1: wherever he is on the field. So they absolutely had
21:37
Speaker 1: to go for it on fourth and four there. And
21:39
Speaker 1: he decided to kick a 60-yard field goal instead. And
21:42
Speaker 1: they made it. But you saw what good it did you.
21:45
Speaker 1: You still lost the game.
21:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, and not that I hate it too much because it...
21:49
Speaker 3: Made me win my fantasy matchup this weekend.
21:53
Speaker 1: And it gave us a factor fiction win. It did.
21:55
Speaker 1: You're right. So, I mean, we liked that in the outcome.
21:58
Speaker 3: But if you're a Jacksonville fan, you're questioning that because
22:01
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence was driving up and down the field against
22:03
Speaker 3: the Texans defense. And CJ Stroud was driving up and
22:06
Speaker 3: down the field against the Jacksonville defense. Who would you
22:08
Speaker 3: want to win the game for you? Take all the
22:10
Speaker 3: analytics out of that. Who do you want to win
22:12
Speaker 3: the game for you? It's your offense, who's been really good,
22:15
Speaker 3: or your defense, who's been... Bat in that game. For me,
22:18
Speaker 3: I would want the offense to try and win the
22:20
Speaker 3: game for me.
22:20
Speaker 1: Period. It's simple math. Yeah. The advantage you gain of
22:25
Speaker 1: making a field goal is not that big of an advantage.
22:28
Speaker 1: The advantage you gain by converting on fourth and four,
22:31
Speaker 1: you are pretty much guaranteed you're going to go to
22:34
Speaker 1: overtime at the worst.
22:36
Speaker 2: Yes.
22:37
Speaker 1: And instead, they just opened the door, even with a
22:40
Speaker 1: made 60-yard field goal, to Houston getting one first down
22:44
Speaker 1: and being in field goal range game over.
22:46
Speaker 3: And the thing is, if you don't get the fourth down,
22:49
Speaker 3: that's basically where they started their drive anyway.
22:52
Speaker 2: Right?
22:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it doesn't make any difference. I don't think
22:56
Speaker 1: it gets factored in enough.
22:58
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
22:58
Speaker 1: The week before, he couldn't get a play in on time. Yeah.
23:02
Speaker 1: Like Trevor Lawrence sitting there reading his wristwatch for... seven
23:07
Speaker 1: straight plays and couldn't get a play called in time
23:10
Speaker 1: to make the snap. That nearly cost him the game. So,
23:13
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done a great job reversing the culture there,
23:16
Speaker 1: and they've got a really good team, and he deserves
23:18
Speaker 1: some credit. Get a clock guy. Come on now. Or
23:20
Speaker 1: an analytics guy. Come on now. Figure it out. All right,
23:22
Speaker 1: coming up next, we will talk more about the biggest
23:25
Speaker 1: story of the week. It is Ken Walker week, let's
23:28
Speaker 1: face it, on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
23:31
Speaker 2: Be it media, be it football, people understood it. I mean,
23:34
Speaker 2: very few teams extend their running backs to mega deals.
23:38
Speaker 2: And as you know, as you said in Seattle, he
23:40
Speaker 2: wasn't always the main guy. I mean, he split with
23:43
Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet. And Kansas City said, we're going to make
23:45
Speaker 2: him our main guy. I don't even think they expected
23:48
Speaker 2: him to be this effective. And Andy Reid has never
23:51
Speaker 2: leaned on a tailback the way he's leaning on Kenneth Walker.
23:54
Speaker 2: Right now, Kenneth Walker is the MVP in the NFL.
23:56
Speaker 2: I mean, he has changed the whole identity of that
23:59
Speaker 2: Chiefs offense.
24:01
Speaker 1: As Steve Weiss, just a segment ago from NFL Network,
24:04
Speaker 1: Ken Walker MVP. I don't think anybody thought that when
24:10
Speaker 1: the decision was made. And look, there was hand-wringing over
24:14
Speaker 1: that without question. Here you're getting to the offseason. Anders,
24:18
Speaker 1: you know you're world champs. You know you can't keep everybody.
24:22
Speaker 1: You identify, all right, well, JSN's going nowhere. Spoon's going nowhere. Murphy,
24:27
Speaker 1: the next year, we've got to make sure we can
24:29
Speaker 1: afford him.
24:29
Speaker 2: And....
24:31
Speaker 1: With a Super Bowl champion quarterback, you're thinking to yourself, well,
24:35
Speaker 1: we got to save 50, 55 million there. So where's
24:38
Speaker 1: the cut come from? We're not going to be able to.
24:41
Speaker 1: I was not surprised in the slightest. I warned you
24:46
Speaker 1: as a talk show host, you the listener, that John's
24:50
Speaker 1: not going to keep Ken Walker. Wasn't surprised in the slightest.
24:53
Speaker 1: There was an argument for keeping. Of course. And so
24:56
Speaker 1: many of us here at the station loved us and
24:58
Speaker 1: Ken Walker.
24:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:01
Speaker 1: But I wasn't surprised in the slightest. I had already
25:04
Speaker 1: set my mind to it. Walker's going to play for
25:07
Speaker 1: somebody else next year. And I think that there's, at
25:12
Speaker 1: the time, there were a lot of people that disagreed
25:15
Speaker 1: with that. But I don't think anybody thought that we
25:18
Speaker 1: would be six games into this season and confronting such
25:23
Speaker 1: a discrepancy. The guy that you got to replace him
25:30
Speaker 1: is not available, was benched for fumbling, Charbonnet still not healthy,
25:37
Speaker 1: and the running back room right now is bad. Meanwhile,
25:42
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, Ken Walker looks like when Terrell
25:46
Speaker 1: Davis was added to John Elway. The moment he put
25:50
Speaker 1: on that uniform. Who's this Terrell Davis guy in Denver?
25:53
Speaker 1: Because he might already be the best running back in
25:56
Speaker 1: the league, And that same sort of impact is being
25:59
Speaker 1: experienced right now in Kansas City. So, I mean, even
26:04
Speaker 1: the people that hated losing Ken Walker, Hugh Millen, didn't
26:09
Speaker 1: see this big of a discrepancy by the seventh week
26:12
Speaker 1: of the NFL season. No, absolutely not.
26:14
Speaker 3: And Greg saying, you know, MVP, I keep thinking, okay,
26:21
Speaker 3: that's a little hyperbolic, but is it?
26:23
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is. He is on pace
26:25
Speaker 1: for 2,200 rushing yards this year. No, he is the
26:29
Speaker 1: MVP of the league right now.
26:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just thinking about what you said about the
26:34
Speaker 3: Chiefs the last couple years, yes, they've still been, obviously
26:37
Speaker 3: last year, kind of outlier with Patrick Mahomes getting injured,
26:40
Speaker 3: but their offense has been kind of meh. It's been
26:43
Speaker 3: their defense that has really kind of taken them over
26:45
Speaker 3: the top. This was the missing piece, apparently. And that
26:49
Speaker 3: is kind of the true definition of an MVP for me.
26:51
Speaker 3: A guy that comes in and changes the entire team.
26:54
Speaker 1: Well, more impactful for us is this is the running
26:59
Speaker 1: back we thought we had.
27:01
Speaker 2: Right.
27:02
Speaker 1: A lot of people thought we had. And he wasn't
27:04
Speaker 1: that here.
27:04
Speaker 2: Right.
27:05
Speaker 1: I mean, I told my buddy who does Sports Talk
27:08
Speaker 1: Radio in Kansas City, I'm like, there were times in
27:10
Speaker 1: the last four years where I yelled at my television
27:13
Speaker 1: and I was a huge fan of Walker.
27:15
Speaker 2: Right.
27:16
Speaker 1: Like, Can you once run to where the play is designed?
27:20
Speaker 1: Do you have to change the play? And he did
27:22
Speaker 1: that for four years, Anders. And then in the playoffs,
27:27
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, some... How does the... Switch flip
27:32
Speaker 1: right before Charbonnet's out of the way.
27:34
Speaker 2: Right.
27:35
Speaker 1: He knows he's the guy. And all of a sudden
27:37
Speaker 1: we're given Le'Veon Bell with juice, serious juice. Like Le'Veon
27:42
Speaker 1: Bell was a great running back. People, he's kind of
27:44
Speaker 1: a butt of a joke now. He was a great
27:46
Speaker 1: running back. He was really good.
27:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:47
Speaker 1: But he was a great running back because of his
27:50
Speaker 1: running back skills, not because of his running back talent.
27:54
Speaker 1: Ken Walker was running like Bell in the playoffs, but
27:58
Speaker 1: with the juice that Bell never had. That's what we
28:01
Speaker 1: got in the playoffs. He was our best player in
28:03
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He rolled to a Super Bowl MVP. But
28:07
Speaker 1: there was still enough evidence. The mountain of evidence suggested
28:11
Speaker 1: he had not been that guy. Even when given the
28:14
Speaker 1: opportunity to be that guy, he was not that guy.
28:19
Speaker 1: I mean, he was 24 years old. maybe the light
28:22
Speaker 1: did go off. Maybe he did figure out a new
28:25
Speaker 1: running style and just in time for the playoffs a
28:28
Speaker 1: year ago. But the hardest part to fathom is Ken
28:31
Speaker 1: Walker was clearly telling John Schneider and Mike McDonald and
28:35
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll going all the way back to Pete. No,
28:38
Speaker 1: I can, don't take me off the field. I'm that guy.
28:42
Speaker 1: And yet his endurance was in question. His ability to
28:48
Speaker 1: stay healthy was in question, and his ability to actually
28:53
Speaker 1: run the play that was called was in question for
28:57
Speaker 1: four freaking years. So I'm just speaking on my behalf.
29:01
Speaker 1: As someone that loved Ken Walker, thought, you know, I
29:04
Speaker 1: made a prediction that he was going to have an
29:06
Speaker 1: 1,800-yard rushing season in his second season. That looked really bad.
29:11
Speaker 1: That looked really bad. That looked like a really dumb prediction.
29:13
Speaker 1: And now, here we are in year five, age 25,
29:16
Speaker 1: wearing a red uniform and not a blue uniform, and
29:20
Speaker 1: he's on pace for over 2,200 yards. So, you know,
29:26
Speaker 1: I'll be the first to tell you, I wanted to
29:29
Speaker 1: keep him, but I had already resigned myself to not
29:32
Speaker 1: keeping him, and I didn't flood these airwaves with anger,
29:35
Speaker 1: like outrage at the time. But right now, Him not.
29:40
Speaker 1: being here and the Chiefs having found their missing piece.
29:45
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason we're 3-3 and they're 5-0.
29:48
Speaker 1: And its name is Ken Walker.
29:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
29:51
Speaker 3: The thing is, I wonder how much of it is
29:53
Speaker 3: confidence and maybe getting into rhythm, right? Being like the
29:57
Speaker 3: guy that you can kind of work yourself into a
29:59
Speaker 3: game versus, okay, you get this drive and then this
30:01
Speaker 3: guy gets this drive and you just never find your footing,
30:04
Speaker 3: so to speak. So maybe that's why all of a
30:06
Speaker 3: sudden when he was the guy in the playoffs, he
30:09
Speaker 3: turned into what we all thought he could be.
30:11
Speaker 1: But the thing is.
30:13
Speaker 3: The running game during the year last year, during the
30:15
Speaker 3: year when you had both Charbonnet and Walker, it was
30:19
Speaker 3: not elite.
30:20
Speaker 1: You were looking like.
30:22
Speaker 3: You had a pretty okay running game. Obviously, you made
30:26
Speaker 3: the most of it with Clint Kubiak's play calling. But
30:28
Speaker 3: they were good enough that you were able to commit
30:30
Speaker 3: to it.
30:31
Speaker 1: Of course, yes. So that Sam wasn't throwing 57 times
30:34
Speaker 1: a game like he did this past week. Yeah, yeah.
30:37
Speaker 3: And then when Charbonnet went out, your running game took
30:40
Speaker 3: a massive step forward as a whole. I'm just talking
30:43
Speaker 3: about as a whole.
30:44
Speaker 1: For sure. And we discussed it in the playoffs. I mean,
30:47
Speaker 1: you said it outright that... Maybe the reason Ken Walker
30:51
Speaker 1: looks so good is because you've gotten Charbonnet out of
30:54
Speaker 1: the way.
30:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:56
Speaker 3: And it's weird that that effect has it because usually
30:59
Speaker 3: another guy would help your running game.
31:00
Speaker 1: But I don't know. He ran differently. He ran differently.
31:04
Speaker 1: He ran the play. He ran patiently and with juice.
31:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:10
Speaker 1: That's the way he started running once Charbonnet went out
31:12
Speaker 1: of the game. There were reasons to be maddened. By
31:16
Speaker 1: Ken Walker. By Ken Walker.
31:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:17
Speaker 1: And I think Mike McDonald was maddened at times. And
31:21
Speaker 1: there were many times last season with a crucial drive
31:26
Speaker 1: that he was jerked out of the game because Mike McDonald,
31:31
Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak, needed a running back that was going to
31:33
Speaker 1: actually run the play. And not somebody that was going
31:36
Speaker 1: to say, oh, that hole's closed. I'm going to try
31:38
Speaker 1: to run around everybody. So there were reasons. There were
31:43
Speaker 1: reasons that they didn't fight to keep him. And I
31:45
Speaker 1: think the primary one was just the, we're not going
31:48
Speaker 1: to invest that kind of money in the running back position.
31:51
Speaker 1: No matter who it is. We've got all these other
31:53
Speaker 1: positions to fill. Now, Greg's told us the Rashid Shahid
31:58
Speaker 1: signing was independent of this. They could have had Walker
32:01
Speaker 1: and Shahid back had they wanted to go down that road.
32:04
Speaker 1: They just did not want to spend that kind of
32:06
Speaker 1: money on a running back. So it wasn't either or.
32:10
Speaker 1: One or the other, yeah.
32:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
32:13
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with your reporting. That said, boy, we
32:16
Speaker 1: sure should have signed Ken Walker, even if it cost
32:20
Speaker 1: us not being able to afford Shahid.
32:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the whole thought process of you can't sign everyone, right?
32:26
Speaker 1: But that's hindsight.
32:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
32:28
Speaker 1: Pure hindsight. I'm confessing it. I'm admitting it.
32:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:31
Speaker 1: Because I was not outraged on the day that Ken
32:34
Speaker 1: Walker signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. If anything, I
32:36
Speaker 1: was resigned to he's not going to be here anymore.
32:39
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. All right, coming up next
32:41
Speaker 1: on the radio program, let's talk about college playoff expansion.
32:45
Speaker 1: We didn't get a lot of time to talk about
32:46
Speaker 1: it on Friday. And since we don't have a Monday
32:48
Speaker 1: morning quarterback session, we can circle back to it. But
32:52
Speaker 1: there was, oh, this is just such a dumb decision.
32:58
Speaker 1: We'll explain next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Oh, Chuck Powell,
33:16
Speaker 1: Anders Herson, Chris Kidd, DJ CK, doctor. There we go.
33:22
Speaker 1: CK Dre? Yeah. CK Dre, doctor of the turntables. There's
33:30
Speaker 1: new music choices and selections. Yeah, it's been different. Excellent.
33:34
Speaker 1: The show just has a different sound to it here today.
33:37
Speaker 1: Kind of impressive. Soundtrack of the Chuck Powell Show. Coming up,
33:40
Speaker 1: by the way, at 9 o'clock, and we have changed
33:45
Speaker 1: the green jacket to the showdown now. Whenever we preview
33:48
Speaker 1: a major sporting event, we always have a draft, and
33:51
Speaker 1: then it gives us a little bit of rooting interest
33:53
Speaker 1: during the course of the year, but also serves as
33:55
Speaker 1: a terrific preview to the upcoming event. Well, a major
33:59
Speaker 1: sporting event gets started tomorrow. The brand-new NBA season tips
34:03
Speaker 1: off with a tremendous tripleheader. by the way, on NBC.
34:07
Speaker 1: I mean, it's good stuff over there on NBC. You've
34:11
Speaker 1: got Boston at Detroit at noon, Philadelphia at New York
34:15
Speaker 1: at four against the world champion Knicks. So LeBron and
34:18
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown and the Sixers against the world champs. And
34:21
Speaker 1: then Oklahoma City and San Antonio at 630. I mean,
34:24
Speaker 1: you've You can't really pick it better than that.
34:26
Speaker 2: No.
34:26
Speaker 1: So that's what they're going to start the season with tomorrow.
34:30
Speaker 1: And we'll kick it off, tip it off, actually, with
34:33
Speaker 1: our NBA preview showdown style. And this year, now that
34:37
Speaker 1: it's the showdown, we do have a listener that participates.
34:40
Speaker 1: So if there is somebody out there that's got a
34:43
Speaker 1: great feel, loves themselves the NBA, wants to be a
34:47
Speaker 1: part of our showdown, there's no prize on the line.
34:50
Speaker 1: This is just you've heard us do these drafts over
34:53
Speaker 1: and over. and you want to be a part of one,
34:55
Speaker 1: and this is your favorite sport, and you're going to
34:58
Speaker 1: take us to school. You have your chance to prove it.
35:01
Speaker 1: So if you want to give us a call at–
35:04
Speaker 1: or actually a text at 49451 to express your interest,
35:08
Speaker 1: I did want to give you a little bit of
35:09
Speaker 1: time to do some work.
35:11
Speaker 2: Probably.
35:12
Speaker 1: Because we're going to draft in like 10 minutes.
35:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.
35:15
Speaker 1: But you probably need kind of a built-in knowledge to
35:19
Speaker 1: begin with. But we're picking– most wins, you know, four
35:23
Speaker 1: rounds of drafting four teams, each, uh, whoever has the
35:26
Speaker 1: most total wins at the end of the season wins
35:29
Speaker 1: the showdown trophy. So if there's something that's interest you four, nine, four, five, one,
35:33
Speaker 1: reach out to us, just said, Hey, yeah, I'm interested.
35:35
Speaker 1: I can take you guys all to town here. Uh,
35:37
Speaker 1: then do that. And then we'll, we'll make connections with you, uh,
35:40
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. All right. Um, let's
35:43
Speaker 1: talk a little college football playoff. I got to give
35:45
Speaker 1: a shout out. I mean, he didn't really say anything
35:49
Speaker 1: that I haven't said, uh, And I don't know if
35:51
Speaker 1: he said it more, certainly not more dramatically, but so
35:59
Speaker 1: effective and so efficient and so just matter of fact.
36:03
Speaker 1: His name is Michael Bratton and he was on with
36:06
Speaker 1: Paul Feinbaum. And this video has made its way around
36:10
Speaker 1: social media here over the course of the last three days.
36:13
Speaker 1: But Paul Feinbaum was asking him to respond to the
36:16
Speaker 1: news that it looks like we're going to a 24-team
36:18
Speaker 1: college football playoff. And Bratton just annihilated it. But in
36:23
Speaker 1: the calmest, most, like I get fired up. It's like, God,
36:28
Speaker 1: this is terrible. Yeah, my arms get moving. My voice
36:32
Speaker 1: starts cracking. When I get really fired up for something,
36:35
Speaker 1: I mean, I might be able to have the ability
36:37
Speaker 1: to lay waste to a particular sports topic, but nothing
36:42
Speaker 1: like this. This was just the pulse never even got
36:45
Speaker 1: above normal, and he just annihilated the idea of of
36:51
Speaker 1: having a 24-team playoff. Go look it up. It is
36:55
Speaker 1: definitely worth your time. And it is 1,000% gospel. It
37:00
Speaker 1: is the truth.
37:01
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Just delivered in the calmest, most rational way possible. And
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Speaker 1: it's an SEC guy.
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Speaker 3: That's the craziest part about all this, is it's coming
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Speaker 3: from where.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people believe one of the obviously one
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Speaker 3: of the conferences, but one of the main culprits or
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Speaker 3: the beneficiaries, I should say, of the new system will
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Speaker 3: be the SEC. Like it's going to be a lot
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Speaker 3: of those mid to, you know. very mid-teams in the
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Speaker 3: SEC that are going to be playoff contenders all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because everybody was pounding the table for a 7-5
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Speaker 1: team in the playoffs. Yes. That's what we wanted.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: We waited our entire lives for a legitimate college football
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Speaker 1: playoff tournament. We finally got one. We've been ironing out
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Speaker 1: the kinks, and there have been a few kinks, but
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Speaker 1: every year it's getting better. Every year it's getting closer
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Speaker 1: to being ideal, and we have decided, no, let's destroy
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Speaker 1: it on the other end. First, we wouldn't allow enough
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Speaker 1: teams in to have a legitimate method for determining a champion,
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Speaker 1: and now we're going to let all teams in, apparently,
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Speaker 1: 24 of them. So we're going to end up with
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Speaker 1: seven and five SEC teams going to end up making
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Speaker 1: this 24-field expanded tournament. And he's just talking about nobody's
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Speaker 1: clamoring for this. The players don't want it. No one
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Speaker 1: ever consulted with the fans whether they want it. This
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Speaker 1: is a total network money grab that, according to ESPN,
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Speaker 1: we're not even going to make that much more money
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Speaker 1: on it than we did before. And it's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: then why are you doing it? What are you getting
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Speaker 1: out of it? If it's not money, I mean, I
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Speaker 1: guess I could understand money since... We all realize that's
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Speaker 1: what everything runs on and greed is run out of
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Speaker 1: control in the modern day and you can't get enough money.
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Speaker 1: So if that's not the reason, then why are you
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Speaker 1: doing it when the players don't want it and the
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Speaker 1: fans don't want it? It's just so Arkansas, to his point,
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Speaker 1: Michael Bratton's point, can get in or Vanderbilt or we
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Speaker 1: make sure that Purdue can get in at some point.
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Speaker 1: Their statement is that we want more people with access
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Speaker 1: to the tournament going forward right it's like to Bratton's
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Speaker 1: point and it's the best one that he makes what
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Speaker 1: we've figured out with the 12-team tournament is we're having
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Speaker 1: a hard time figuring out how to get 12 teams
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Speaker 1: that are legitimate championship contenders. We've had way too many
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Speaker 1: blowouts in the first couple years of this. So we're
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Speaker 1: still trying to figure out how to best do the
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Speaker 1: tournament to satisfy 12 teams that are legitimate. legitimate invites
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Speaker 1: and now you've just doubled the amount. So we're going
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Speaker 1: to have at least 12 teams that have no business
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Speaker 1: being in contention for a championship that we're going to
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Speaker 1: put into the tournament. We're going to have another game
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Speaker 1: got another week of football, and for what? I thought
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Speaker 1: it was money. It's not even money? Then what the
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Speaker 1: F is it for? Because this is getting ready to
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Speaker 1: go down as the dumbest idea that college football has
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Speaker 1: come up with yet, and they right now rank with
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Speaker 1: three of the top five dumbest ideas in the history
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Speaker 1: of the world. Not just sports.
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Speaker 2: Not just sports.
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Speaker 1: In the history of the world. Yeah, I think that's
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Speaker 1: a fair assumption to make.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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