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Speaker 2: All right, Danny O'Neill joins us Dang Apostrophe. Thought we
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Speaker 2: would be talking a lot about a Seahawks playoff, running
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Speaker 2: the bye and maybe we'll get to a little NFL
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Speaker 2: in a second, But uh nope, Danny, You're Alma Mater
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Speaker 2: ruined all that. We've got to go down to the
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Speaker 2: Demon Williams Road. So that's what we're gonna have to
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Speaker 2: do today. My friend, how are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing very well and it is I don't know
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Speaker 4: it kind of epitomizes the state of college football right now.
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Speaker 4: It's not better. It's certainly entertaining and in a lot
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Speaker 4: of ways very much worse than what we've grown accustomed
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Speaker 4: to and grew up cheering for.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I read your columns all week. You had a
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Speaker 2: couple of different ones. Uh, let me. I want to
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Speaker 2: play this for you because I've got a lot of listen.
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Speaker 2: I don't have that much skin in the game outside
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Speaker 2: of it, So I guess a regional rival in state rival.
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Speaker 2: You know, Kugs don't like Huskies. Huskies don't like the Coogs,
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Speaker 2: and Huskies don't like the Ducks. We just don't like you, guys.
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Speaker 5: That's not true, Ian, I root for you guys when
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Speaker 5: you're not playing us.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I am annoying ass husky.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't listen. I can almost tolerate it from you,
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Speaker 2: most of most of the Huskies.
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Speaker 3: That say that.
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Speaker 2: I can't, but I don't have a ton of skin
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Speaker 2: in the game. I kind of sat back and watched
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Speaker 2: with great delight when he left and all the angers.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The name calling by many, including our three to seven
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Speaker 2: host uh and others, including the coach's wife going after
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Speaker 2: demon Williams, it's it's it's it seems by the way,
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Speaker 2: who still doesn't live here. I know the kids are
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Speaker 2: in school.
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Speaker 3: Stop it. Nobody buys that. Listen, nobody buys that. Nobody.
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Speaker 2: But let's let's just all this is going on, and like,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's a cougar's dream, like it's a
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Speaker 2: duck's dream. I love the Dan Lanning non answer answer yesterday. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, contract should be honor whatever.
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Speaker 6: I don't care.
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Speaker 2: Uh like for anybody to read into that that he's
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Speaker 2: really concerned about the Demon Williams situation is ridiculous. Come on,
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Speaker 2: he couldn't care less. But like, there's no way he's
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Speaker 2: coming back. And I remember and listen, I give Softy
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Speaker 2: hard time. He's got pretty good sources, he's pretty dialed
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Speaker 2: into Washington, and he was adamant from like ten minutes
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Speaker 2: after it happened up until four point fifty nine pm
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Speaker 2: yesterday that there's no way he's coming back. And I
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Speaker 2: think we all thought that because the bridge had been burned,
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Speaker 2: the only thing that Washington would try to do would
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Speaker 2: maybe try to go get some money back, right, I
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Speaker 2: think we'd all like that was that's your only thing, Like,
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Speaker 2: let's just go let's sue him, even though he probably
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Speaker 2: hasn't technically earned a dime yet at LSU. Let's sue
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Speaker 2: the kid and or force him not to play or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and then he comes back. I want to play this
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Speaker 2: from Hugh, a quick little one minute clip or so
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Speaker 2: from Hugh Millen today with Ashley and Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 2: this morning, and then I'll get your reaction as a
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Speaker 2: husky because he's a Husky alum. You're a Husky alum. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: your opinion to me matters, and I think it also,
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Speaker 2: I think you guys will have different opinions. I think
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Speaker 2: it also kind of sums up where we are right
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Speaker 2: now amongst your fan base. But here's Hugh Millen this
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Speaker 2: morning talking about DeMont Williams coming back.
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Speaker 7: He didn't have some kind of of like epiphany like,
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Speaker 7: oh I missed my my, my, uh, teammates, you know,
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Speaker 7: I'm really a Husky? What did I do all of this?
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Speaker 7: Like some people do that when they break up with
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Speaker 7: their girlfriend. Right, Oh my god, you know what a mistake.
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Speaker 7: He didn't have that. I don't think any of the
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Speaker 7: evidence points to that. The evidence points that that Washington
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Speaker 7: was the only place he could go, and so now
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Speaker 7: he he puts his tail between his legs and he
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Speaker 7: comes back to Washington, and I think it's an enormous
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Speaker 7: uh fracture of the locker room, the the the fan
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Speaker 7: base and what have you. And so so they're gonna,
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Speaker 7: you're gonna hear uh Jetfish say oh everything's fine, the
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Speaker 7: players are fine, and you know, and and they're gonna
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Speaker 7: they're gonna try and piss on us and tell us
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Speaker 7: it's raining. And I'm not gonna buy any of that.
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Speaker 7: And so, uh yeah, I got a really bad taste
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Speaker 7: in my mind, in my mouth, more so for the
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Speaker 7: circumstance why he's returning, as I just described.
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Speaker 2: All right, that is Hugh Millan. You can react to, Hugh,
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Speaker 2: give me your own thoughts. I just reading what you
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Speaker 2: wrote today. You're excited that are happy at LISTA demon
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Speaker 2: is coming back, So react to whatever you like. Danny.
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Speaker 2: The floor is yours.
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Speaker 5: So my opinion as a Husky fan is that this
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Speaker 5: is the best resolution for their football team in twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty six. You don't have to change at quarterback. It's
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Speaker 5: a team that's set up to be pretty good now.
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Speaker 5: The part that I will disagree with Hugh about is
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Speaker 5: about how this will play in the locker room, and
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Speaker 5: I come at this largely from my background as a
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Speaker 5: covering pro sport. I feel that players u themselves, even
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Speaker 5: guys that play for other teams, largely as coworkers, and
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Speaker 5: that when a decision like this or a negotiation like this,
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Speaker 5: even when it gets ugly, I haven't seen players hold
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Speaker 5: these sorts of decisions for these sorts of uncertainties. Guys
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Speaker 5: never got mad at Walter Jones because he helped out there.
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Speaker 5: Now it's college, we're talking about something different. There is
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Speaker 5: more sort of rivalry that's in there. It's not quite
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Speaker 5: as business like the player he's younger, but in general,
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Speaker 5: that's how I think this will be received within the
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Speaker 5: locker room. That they'll see it as our teammate was
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Speaker 5: doing what he thought was best for himself. He's decided
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Speaker 5: to come back. We're excited that that's going to be
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Speaker 5: the easier thing to overcome. The part where I do
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Speaker 5: agree and that I think Hugh gives voice to is
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Speaker 5: the Husky fans who look at this and say this
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Speaker 5: change is how I feel about him certainly and about
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Speaker 5: the sports in general. That this leaves me with the
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Speaker 5: feeling of what the hell just happened? Why am I
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Speaker 5: being asked to donate and up my donor nations and
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Speaker 5: do more than just buy tickets, because that's all part
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Speaker 5: of this. You've got to fund ANIL now, or you've
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Speaker 5: got to keep giving to the whatever campaign that Jean
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Speaker 5: Fish kicked off himself when he gave a million dollars.
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Speaker 5: And you're like, this is what I'm getting out of it.
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Speaker 5: This is what I'm getting out of this is that
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Speaker 5: the quarterback who was all set to be here announces
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Speaker 5: in the midst of a memorial service for a person
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Speaker 5: who was very important to the Husky athletic department, and
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Speaker 5: your most prominent athlete is announcing it, and then two
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Speaker 5: days later it fuck, he's just going to come back,
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Speaker 5: and he says, I apologize for the time. So I
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Speaker 5: think that part of it I agree with on Hugh
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Speaker 5: that I think he's going to have a Really he
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Speaker 5: just increased the amount of pressure and scrutiny that he's
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Speaker 5: going to face. And for some Husky stands, this is
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Speaker 5: going to change the way they feel about him forever.
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Speaker 5: That's not really how I feel. But I I'm also
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Speaker 5: more cynical and nehalistic about this whole thing that a
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Speaker 5: lot of Husky fans, of college football fans are I
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Speaker 5: see this as indicative of where the sport is at
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Speaker 5: right now. And I don't really have any doubt about
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Speaker 5: the process by which he came back. And it's possible
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Speaker 5: that Washington will get burned by this that they should
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Speaker 5: have just let him go, because if if this was if.
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Speaker 4: They had wanted a different quarterback, or if the if
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Speaker 4: the administration and coaching staff had decided that this was
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Speaker 4: a bridge too far, I think they could have just
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Speaker 4: told him, Okay, oh, we're not going to enforce the contract.
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Speaker 4: And instead the stance was no, we're enforcing the contract.
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Speaker 4: And his response was, well, in that case, I am
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Speaker 4: going to come back like, Okay, that's what we're doing.
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Speaker 4: So we'll see how it is out long term.
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Speaker 8: But it's certainly a huge map.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's one hundred percent. Andrews, do me fair.
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Speaker 2: Let me give give me any a call back. I
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Speaker 2: want to get a little better phone connection because I
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Speaker 2: go a few more minutes because I got something to
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Speaker 2: say in the meantime, Just give a rering redial up
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Speaker 2: and Danny if you could real quick, because I want
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Speaker 2: to and I think that's an interesting dynamic. You guys
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Speaker 2: are kind of on the same page, you and Hugh.
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Speaker 2: And this one I brought up in a just a
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Speaker 2: chat with some friends last night, one of whom is
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Speaker 2: a former UB student athlete, And you know, and I
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Speaker 2: just I said, I think it's kind of embarrassing. I
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Speaker 2: think it's an embarrassing embarrassing for the school because they
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Speaker 2: basically held the kid hostage. And and my friend says,
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Speaker 2: you know, listen, UB shouldn't be embarrassed. Was it would
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Speaker 2: do this exact same thing. It's not unique to you DUB.
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Speaker 2: The crazy thing is in many ways, this is unique
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Speaker 2: to the U DUB And maybe it's going to be
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Speaker 2: in the long run something that you know, ends up
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Speaker 2: being a precedent setter for you DUB that that or
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Speaker 2: for college football. Now we know that even though there
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Speaker 2: was a small lawsuit with Texas Tech, I believe it
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Speaker 2: was in Georgia with the linebacker that left Georgia, there
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Speaker 2: was a there's a precedent there. The Miami d dB,
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Speaker 2: there's a precedent there. This one was more harp high
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Speaker 2: profile because it was a quarterback and the money involved
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Speaker 2: was far far greater than the money involved with those
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Speaker 2: two players, and so you know when I told you know,
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Speaker 2: my buddies, Dani and you just back with us. A
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Speaker 2: friend we had a little gup chat last night. One
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Speaker 2: of my friends is a former student athlete. You have
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Speaker 2: I'm not a football player. Another he was a baseball player,
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Speaker 2: and I you know, we were kind of saying, dude,
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Speaker 2: you should be embarrassed. This whole thing's embarrassing. And he says, well,
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Speaker 2: waz would do the same thing and all that. I said, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, first of all, this is a unique situation.
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Speaker 2: WAZU didn't and hasn't been in that same situation. Not many,
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Speaker 2: no school really has before. But the thing that you
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Speaker 2: brought it up, you're bringing back a guy that announced it.
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Speaker 2: During the memorial service for Mia Hammett, the wife of
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Speaker 2: the coach comes out and publicly, I mean, just goes
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Speaker 2: after Demon Williams, Jedfish's wife.
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Speaker 3: Does you've got other people?
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Speaker 2: You know? I mean our own guy, so Offti went
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Speaker 2: right after him, called him a name I can't repeat
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Speaker 2: on the air on Twitter. I mean everyone's going at
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Speaker 2: and then it's like, yeah, come on back. Well he's
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Speaker 2: coming back because, as Hugh said, for one reason, he
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Speaker 2: didn't want to have to and probably I'm guessing more
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Speaker 2: like LSU didn't want to have to deal with a litigation.
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Speaker 2: They didn't want to have to deal with a lawsuit
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Speaker 2: or whatever would cost Washington. And this is what was
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Speaker 2: said on our air this week. Washington was gonna go
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Speaker 2: after him for money and after LSU for money, And
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Speaker 2: in the end Deman says, well, no, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 2: have that fight, So I'm just gonna come back to you,
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Speaker 2: Dub And like, I wonder, how bad do they really
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Speaker 2: want him back? Hell Dick Faine said on our air
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Speaker 2: yesterday at three o'clock, I'm driving a climate pledge arena.
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Speaker 2: We'll find a better quarterback than him. Two hours later,
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Speaker 2: it's like, well, let's restart the Heisman campaign. Like you
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Speaker 2: can't have it always, but maybe Danny, maybe this is
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Speaker 2: finally in college football there's a line drawn in the sand.
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Speaker 2: And even though it's a sport with no rules, maybe
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Speaker 2: now we know what a guideline is. Hey, if you
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Speaker 2: sign an nil deal, you can't you can't get out
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Speaker 2: of it. Like maybe this is the one thing that
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Speaker 2: comes out of this is there is a president.
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Speaker 4: Kind of it certainly was that the thread of it
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Speaker 4: is enough that in this case, it discouraged it from happening. Now,
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Speaker 4: the question that I have, and I'm not a contract lawyer,
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Speaker 4: and I'm not going to be someone that pretends on
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Speaker 4: Twitter to be able to go through the clauses of
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Speaker 4: these to determine it. But I think if Washington had decided, okay, fine,
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Speaker 4: the way you did this means we don't want you,
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Speaker 4: they could have just let him go. They could have
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Speaker 4: just said, Okay, we're not going to pursue it. They
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Speaker 4: made and this is this is gonna be on Jetfish.
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Speaker 4: This is he made the decision that it is better
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Speaker 4: to bring him back with all the baggage. It is
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Speaker 4: better to bring him back. It is better for our
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Speaker 4: football team in twenty twenty six to bring him back
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Speaker 4: with all this, And that's that's gonna be.
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Speaker 8: That's going to be on.
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Speaker 4: Him that he's got to make that calculation work. The
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Speaker 4: second part that you said, and I do think there
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Speaker 4: is some truth in this. Does this bring some order?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of.
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Speaker 4: But the problem is, and everybody in college football was
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Speaker 4: rooting for there to be a lawsuit, everybody else because
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Speaker 4: nobody wants to be the.
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Speaker 8: First school that goes through the wall. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 8: be the one to see because you're gonna get blood.
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Speaker 8: But it will establish, Okay, is this enforceable? What they
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Speaker 8: had before with nil payments?
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Speaker 4: Before this, what the terming is paid to play in
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Speaker 4: the house settlement was not enforceable.
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Speaker 8: You could not prevent a guy from getting paid.
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Speaker 4: It's why the kid is playing for Miami, Xavier Lucas
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Speaker 4: the cornerback who was at Wisconsin.
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Speaker 8: Would that have maybe.
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Speaker 4: But the other thing is, and this is where Look,
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Speaker 4: the NC DOUBLEA decided ten twelve years ago, whenever it
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Speaker 4: became clear that players were going to start getting paid,
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Speaker 4: that we're not going to even try to adapt. And
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Speaker 4: I believe that there is a concerted, conscious decision on
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Speaker 4: the part of both the NC DOUBLEA and whatever power
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Speaker 4: structure rises out. They're just gonna let it get as
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Speaker 4: crazy as possible to force people to step.
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Speaker 8: In, whether that's Congress or whatever.
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Speaker 4: They want it to get nuts. They want coach, swap player,
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Speaker 4: swap wife. Whatever is going to go on. And when
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Speaker 4: it gets really crazy, maybe somebody will come in and
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Speaker 4: then give them the teeth to start regulating again.
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Speaker 8: And until then you're gonna see nuttiness like this happen.
18:15
Speaker 2: Danie O'Neil joining us brought to my Northwest handling systems.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not a lawyer either. You're not a lawyer,
18:23
Speaker 2: you know, and and any of us you know. But
18:24
Speaker 2: you know what we can do is we can talk
18:26
Speaker 2: to lawyers. And hopefully this was not billable. I haven't
18:29
Speaker 2: seen a bill yet from Uh. You're gonna love this, Danny.
18:31
Speaker 2: I brought this up the other day and now it's
18:33
Speaker 2: even more true than ever before. There's a sonics connection here, sir. No, yes,
18:40
Speaker 2: you ready for this, ready for your I want to
18:43
Speaker 2: hear it. So you probably you probably met or dealt
18:46
Speaker 2: or talked to before. Our good friend Paul Schneiderman, attorney
18:48
Speaker 2: at law you dub graduate Seattle You Law School. Paul
18:52
Speaker 2: was the lawyer that was working with the same our
18:54
Speaker 2: sonics group for a long time. Uh and I, Paul
18:57
Speaker 2: and I remain friends in contact all the time. He's
19:00
Speaker 2: great guy. There's a cool podcast. I called him on
19:03
Speaker 2: Monday or whenever this Uh, whenever this happened. I said,
19:06
Speaker 2: what are the legal things? He goes, well, you know,
19:09
Speaker 2: not seeing the contract in front of him. You know,
19:11
Speaker 2: lawyers are like doctors. They don't want to diagnose without
19:13
Speaker 2: seeing stuff. But he said, in general terms, more than likely.
19:16
Speaker 2: And here's the Sonics connection in that deal that demand
19:20
Speaker 2: and others would sign there is you're gonna this is
19:23
Speaker 2: going to give you a PTSD, buddy, So just stand
19:25
Speaker 2: by right. There is something in there called the specific
19:29
Speaker 2: performance clause, which you can force someone to perform the duties.
19:35
Speaker 2: Sound familiar, Judge Peckman. That's the exact just that's the
19:39
Speaker 2: exact gist of the argument the city had against Clayton
19:43
Speaker 2: Bennett and the Sonics when they were trying to break
19:45
Speaker 2: their least. There's a specific performance clause that you have
19:48
Speaker 2: to fulfill, which, of course we never got a resolution
19:51
Speaker 2: on that. Big thanks to uh big thanks to our
19:55
Speaker 2: city of Seattle for bailin. But that's what Paul was saying.
19:58
Speaker 2: That's probably that probably is part of it. It You
20:01
Speaker 2: dub probably enforced the specific performance clause and says you've
20:04
Speaker 2: got to perform these duties or else, and the kid
20:07
Speaker 2: had wanted to come back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some of that, certainly. The one complicating and
20:13
Speaker 4: weird factor is none of these are contracts for playing.
20:17
Speaker 4: None of these are contracts that you have to play
20:20
Speaker 4: and this is my when.
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Speaker 8: We talked about what will it take to bring order
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Speaker 8: to it.
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Speaker 4: Eventually you're going to have to classify college football players
20:29
Speaker 4: as employees. You're not going to be able to get
20:32
Speaker 4: around it. And by saying that the marketing, because in
20:34
Speaker 4: this case it was And when you.
20:35
Speaker 8: Talk about specific formace.
20:37
Speaker 4: What Washington was saying is he the right to make
20:40
Speaker 4: money is exclusively ours.
20:42
Speaker 8: When it comes to demon Williams, and if he's.
20:45
Speaker 4: Not going to play for us, we still have all
20:48
Speaker 4: of the rights to how you make money, and we're
20:50
Speaker 4: not going to give those to anybody else. And we're
20:52
Speaker 4: going to sue you for the damages that come with it,
20:55
Speaker 4: and and that sort of question.
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Speaker 8: Eventually you're going to have to.
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Speaker 5: Designate and come up with Because this doesn't happen in
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Speaker 5: the NFL.
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Speaker 8: It just it just it doesn't happen in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: Why because there's a collective bargaining agreement. If you sign
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Speaker 4: a contract with one team, no other team is allowed
21:11
Speaker 4: to talk to you, let alone sign you. And that's
21:14
Speaker 4: just where this and by the way, coaches contracts should
21:16
Speaker 4: be the same way they are in the NFL. I
21:19
Speaker 4: to worry about Mike McDonald taking another job because they
21:22
Speaker 4: actually have like a reasonable system that's in place.
21:25
Speaker 2: Wasn't it. You and I had talked about this last week.
21:27
Speaker 2: If this was college football and this is Seahawks aren't
21:30
Speaker 2: to buy, all we'd be worrying about right now is
21:33
Speaker 2: not losing Adam Dirday or Clint Kubiak.
21:36
Speaker 3: We'd all be worried about.
21:37
Speaker 2: That is someone going to pay Mike McDonald a zillion
21:39
Speaker 2: dollars to leave the Seahawks before the playoffs start.
21:42
Speaker 3: That's how, that's how.
21:43
Speaker 4: Giants blue blood giants are a blue blood. They're gonna
21:47
Speaker 4: throw the moon at him. Oh, his former place, Baltimore
21:51
Speaker 4: loves him. They wanted him to replace John Harbot. Now
21:54
Speaker 4: they're gonna come after him, and that's his dream job. No,
21:56
Speaker 4: because it's a normal, normal logical setups him. He's the
22:00
Speaker 4: coach of the Seattle Seahawks and he's gonna be for
22:02
Speaker 4: the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 2: That's it's. I think we're the I don't think we're
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Speaker 2: at the tipping point now that I think of it
22:08
Speaker 2: more and more, Danny, I think this is just another
22:10
Speaker 2: little thing that's gonna happen and we'll move on and
22:13
Speaker 2: whatever it's, it's bad. I won't even get in the
22:16
Speaker 2: split fit, the split, the split fan base, because soft
22:20
Speaker 2: he brought out yesterday. That's a really good point by him,
22:22
Speaker 2: how the fan base is split. That's the only thing
22:25
Speaker 2: I can relate to as a Wazoo fan because we
22:26
Speaker 2: went through it in a far different circumstance. But Nick
22:29
Speaker 2: Rolovich split our fan base down the middle, and it
22:31
Speaker 2: was really bad for a while, really bad. You know
22:34
Speaker 2: what cured it, ironically enough, Jade and DeLaura, who Jed
22:39
Speaker 2: Fish had in a tampering situation in Arizona.
22:43
Speaker 3: You wanted.
22:46
Speaker 6: Because Dolaura got.
22:47
Speaker 2: Hurt because so so the if it come full circle,
22:52
Speaker 2: what brought our fan base together is Jade DeLaura winning
22:55
Speaker 2: an Apple Cup planning a flag over Sam Hewart who
22:58
Speaker 2: is over his skis, and then we all be we
23:01
Speaker 2: all bonded again as Cougars. And then Jetfish of course
23:04
Speaker 2: brought Jane to Laura on campus during sun Bul practice week,
23:07
Speaker 2: which is a bunch of a tampering cases you could
23:09
Speaker 2: ever have in your life. It comes full circle. So
23:12
Speaker 2: when I talk here about split fan bases, which Softy
23:14
Speaker 2: brought up, and I think he's right, there's a split
23:16
Speaker 2: fan base beating.
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Speaker 3: Oregon next year. Will cure all. I'll tell you.
23:19
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Speaker 8: I had pictures of Christmas trees on the sidewalk because
23:49
Speaker 8: I saw that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I did see that.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how you guys get rid of your
23:52
Speaker 4: Christmas trees.
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Speaker 8: We just pile them up on the sidewalks.
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Speaker 3: Here'll wait until somebody gets takes it around.
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24:03
Speaker 2: Once our daughter got our own house, we no longer
24:05
Speaker 2: had to get the We went to the artificial tree,
24:08
Speaker 2: so thankfully we don't have to worry about that. But
24:10
Speaker 2: I did see Christmas trees on the h on the
24:12
Speaker 2: curb side out at Maple Valley this week, but our
24:14
Speaker 2: good friend Nick Allen and others pick those up for us,
24:16
Speaker 2: so we're okay. Maybe they we should send Nick out
24:19
Speaker 2: there to help you guys in New York figure stuff out.
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Speaker 3: Danny, thank you. We'll talk to you next week. Danny.
24:23
Speaker 2: I promise we're going to talk to Seahawks NFL playoffs
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Speaker 2: next week. We'll do that on Friday. It's gonna be great.
24:28
Speaker 2: There you go. That's Danny O'Neal. Love talking to him
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Speaker 2: right now the Beacon Ploying Hotline by number forty two
25:02
Speaker 2: for your Seattle Seahawks, who came up with one of
25:04
Speaker 2: the biggest players of the year.
25:05
Speaker 3: We had a chance to talk to him earlier this year.
25:09
Speaker 2: I want to say, like maybe two months ago, might
25:11
Speaker 2: even have been after one of your first starts, maybe
25:13
Speaker 2: the first start in your career. Drake Thomas from the
25:15
Speaker 2: Seahawks is with us right now. Drake, how are you.
25:18
Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
25:19
Speaker 9: I appreciate you guys having me on the show.
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Speaker 2: Dude, I appreciate you coming on for the second time
25:22
Speaker 2: this year. Most of the time, when my great friend
25:24
Speaker 2: Rich Gonzalez from the Sea XPR Department says, you know, hey,
25:27
Speaker 2: can you go on with I fornat on kJ are
25:29
Speaker 2: the people are going to say no after the first time.
25:31
Speaker 3: So I appreciate you coming back on as return gas buddy, Yeah,
25:34
Speaker 3: no doubt.
25:36
Speaker 2: First of all, let's just congratulations NSC West title, number
25:41
Speaker 2: one seed, first round by You've had a chance to
25:45
Speaker 2: take it all in as a team before I get
25:47
Speaker 2: to you. But as a team, how you guys feeling
25:49
Speaker 2: right now after the last few days.
25:52
Speaker 9: I mean, we feel really good with where we're at.
25:56
Speaker 9: You know, we're sticking to our process. We're taking this
25:58
Speaker 9: week to get better folks in it on ourselves and
26:02
Speaker 9: cleaning up the things that we need to clean up.
26:03
Speaker 9: But we're in a really good spot right now.
26:07
Speaker 2: What do you think? I mean, Listen, it's a big
26:08
Speaker 2: accomplishment winning the Vision and getting that by getting that
26:12
Speaker 2: top seed, knowing you have to you can play at
26:14
Speaker 2: home all the way to the super Bowl if you
26:16
Speaker 2: can get to that point. What do you feel as
26:18
Speaker 2: a team? You guys, I know you're going to say
26:20
Speaker 2: you want to win the super Bowl, that's what it's about.
26:21
Speaker 2: But what do you feel? Do you feel that this
26:22
Speaker 2: is a pretty good accomplishment though?
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Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, you don't want to look past anything
26:29
Speaker 9: that you're able to do. You want to, you know,
26:32
Speaker 9: celebrate the wins and recognize what we've done, but also
26:36
Speaker 9: like the job really isn't finished. We haven't really done
26:40
Speaker 9: anything yet. Ultimate goal is just to go one and
26:43
Speaker 9: know every single week. So that's what we're focused on doing.
26:46
Speaker 2: Winning down there though, that had to be special in
26:49
Speaker 2: that building against that team, there is a rivalry. You know,
26:52
Speaker 2: you've been here long enough to understand that there is
26:54
Speaker 2: a rivalry with those two teams, the fan bases and
26:56
Speaker 2: everything else, and really it's kind of a three team rivalry.
26:59
Speaker 2: I think in this vision with the Rams thrown in there,
27:01
Speaker 2: as well, But winning in that building that had to
27:03
Speaker 2: be extra suite, wasn't it.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
27:06
Speaker 9: I mean it was a great win. We celebrated it,
27:09
Speaker 9: and it was a lot of fun. It was a
27:11
Speaker 9: fun game.
27:12
Speaker 2: How about for you, man like you made your first
27:14
Speaker 2: career start at linebacker we talked earlier, undrafted free agent
27:17
Speaker 2: coming out of NC State on September twenty fifth, made
27:21
Speaker 2: a start in the NFL for the first time for
27:23
Speaker 2: an undrafted guy. You've solidified yourself as a huge part
27:26
Speaker 2: of this defense, and then you come up with that play,
27:30
Speaker 2: the interception in the red zone that really kind of
27:32
Speaker 2: sealed the deal and got you, guys that division title.
27:36
Speaker 2: Walk me through that play and just even for you, Drake,
27:38
Speaker 2: what it meant personally for you for how far you've come.
27:44
Speaker 9: I guess going through the play, I'm playing, really, I'm
27:50
Speaker 9: one on one with the back and he breaks out.
27:53
Speaker 5: And I'm chasing.
27:54
Speaker 9: I'm in chase mode, honestly at that point, I'm just
27:56
Speaker 9: trying to make the tackle before he gets in the
27:59
Speaker 9: end zone. And then when I'm chasing it, ball pops
28:01
Speaker 9: up in the air and I just try to react
28:03
Speaker 9: and grab it. I feel like it wasn't really anything
28:07
Speaker 9: super special. Honestly, it fell into my hands and I
28:10
Speaker 9: was able to grab it, so I mean, but it
28:13
Speaker 9: was it was a really cool deal being able to
28:16
Speaker 9: come down with it, and I guess just seeing all
28:19
Speaker 9: my teammates reaction to it and seeing I guess the
28:22
Speaker 9: joy that everybody it brought, everybody on the sideline and
28:25
Speaker 9: realizing kind of what it meant in the game.
28:29
Speaker 2: It was really cool.
28:29
Speaker 9: It was awesome.
28:31
Speaker 2: That's that's the thing that jumps out at me is
28:33
Speaker 2: watching reaction of teammates when guys make plays in that
28:37
Speaker 2: lock Listen, you know how this city's on fire right now.
28:40
Speaker 3: Man, this city's going nuts for this football team. It's awesome.
28:43
Speaker 2: But part of what makes it fun is watching you
28:45
Speaker 2: guys as a team. How close are you guys? It
28:48
Speaker 2: feels like there's a lot of rooting for and cheering
28:51
Speaker 2: for each other. There's a lot of selfless plays out there.
28:53
Speaker 2: What's that room like, what's that defensive side of the football?
28:56
Speaker 9: Like I think you kind of just explained it's it's
28:59
Speaker 9: a lot of self guys that are just here to win.
29:02
Speaker 9: They take pride in doing their job and their part
29:05
Speaker 9: and whatever that looks like. For what it takes to win,
29:09
Speaker 9: and you know, we own our part of it. And
29:13
Speaker 9: then I think that comes to life on the field
29:15
Speaker 9: with how we're playing. We really care about it about
29:18
Speaker 9: each other.
29:18
Speaker 6: We're super close.
29:19
Speaker 9: We played for one another, and you see that, like
29:22
Speaker 9: I said, on the field with the way we're playing.
29:25
Speaker 3: Drake Thomas with us.
29:26
Speaker 2: A couple more moments we saw a few days ago
29:28
Speaker 2: Black Monday in the NFL coaches getting let go thro
29:31
Speaker 2: rough league guys like John Harbod that are well established.
29:34
Speaker 2: Your coach has established himself as something special in Mike McDonald.
29:38
Speaker 2: Now that you've really kind of solidified everything and where
29:41
Speaker 2: you're at with Mike and where this defense is number
29:43
Speaker 2: one scoring defense in the NFL this season, can you
29:46
Speaker 2: tell Seahawks fans what is it about Mike McDonald that
29:49
Speaker 2: separates him, what makes him special? Because as great as
29:52
Speaker 2: the players are, this thing doesn't work without the guy
29:54
Speaker 2: at the top. And it feels like he has really
29:56
Speaker 2: done a hell of a job.
29:58
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean his approach every single day throughout every
30:02
Speaker 9: single week. Say, probably his process is elite. The way
30:06
Speaker 9: he goes about things and the way he cares about
30:08
Speaker 9: our football team and pours you know, himself into this team.
30:12
Speaker 9: It's it's been really awesome, and it's been really cool
30:15
Speaker 9: to see him grow in a head coaching role. So
30:19
Speaker 9: he's he's the head of the ship, and I think
30:21
Speaker 9: you've seen him develop a really strong culture within this team.
30:24
Speaker 9: So it's been such a blessing to be a part
30:26
Speaker 9: of and I'm super thankful to be there be here
30:28
Speaker 9: doing this with everybody that I'm doing it with.
30:31
Speaker 2: It kind of feels too like Drake that he doesn't
30:33
Speaker 2: care where you were drafted or if you were drafted
30:36
Speaker 2: or where you came from. You know, you're a great
30:38
Speaker 2: example that tyle Cott is an incredible example that it's
30:41
Speaker 2: just you always your next man up stuff. But the
30:43
Speaker 2: coach has to believe in you, and it feels like
30:45
Speaker 2: he believes in all of you guys.
30:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean you you said it right there. Just
30:51
Speaker 9: there's a couple guys on our defense right now that
30:55
Speaker 9: weren't necessarily high draft picks or big time names. Joe
31:00
Speaker 9: is another one under after guys, So uh, it's just
31:03
Speaker 9: testimate to our coaching staff and providing opportunities to guys
31:08
Speaker 9: who they deemed ready for it.
31:11
Speaker 6: So it's really cool.
31:12
Speaker 2: Do you guys get a couple of days off, What
31:14
Speaker 2: do you do you gotta do you watch games this weekend?
31:16
Speaker 3: I won't ask you.
31:17
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get any boltimort material. You're not gonna
31:19
Speaker 2: tell me who you want to see. But what do
31:21
Speaker 2: you what do you do this weekend? And what do
31:22
Speaker 2: you do the next few days? Because I mean the
31:24
Speaker 2: bumps and the bruises after I think week by week
31:26
Speaker 2: was like ten weeks ago, eleven weeks ago. So what
31:28
Speaker 2: do you guys do and what do you do this weekend?
31:30
Speaker 2: What does Drake Thomas do this weekend in terms of
31:31
Speaker 2: watching games or even care hang.
31:34
Speaker 9: Out with some you know, family friends watching games, but
31:41
Speaker 9: really just mentally, physically, spiritually get myself ready to go,
31:46
Speaker 9: go make this run and get after it next week.
31:49
Speaker 2: So and you'll do that in front of the twelves
31:51
Speaker 2: at Loominfield. And I'm gonna tell you right now, you
31:54
Speaker 2: haven't experience with a home play It's been a long
31:56
Speaker 2: time since we've had a home playoff game with fans
31:58
Speaker 2: in Seattle.
31:59
Speaker 3: You haven't experiency yet, my friend.
32:01
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you right now, it's gonna be crazy,
32:03
Speaker 2: it's gonna be nuts. But you guys are going to
32:06
Speaker 2: be in for a treat when the twelve show up
32:08
Speaker 2: whenever it is next weekend. The meantime, thank you so
32:10
Speaker 2: much for joining us. Congratulations, well done, and let's talk
32:14
Speaker 2: is this playoff run continues?
32:15
Speaker 9: Thanks Drake Thomas, no doubt appreciate you guys.
32:19
Speaker 2: There you go, Drake Thomas. Caught up with him after
32:21
Speaker 2: practice or actually, yeah, after practice, and good to hear
32:24
Speaker 2: from him.
32:25
Speaker 4: See.
32:25
Speaker 3: Actually a couple of days off, we actually had a J.
32:27
Speaker 2: Barner on the pregame show for radio or for TV
32:30
Speaker 2: yesterday for cracking a J.
32:32
Speaker 6: Barner.
32:33
Speaker 2: Charles Cross, Gray Zabel, and Eric Salbert were at the
32:37
Speaker 2: game yesterday. Anders. I don't know if he saw that.
32:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty cool.
32:41
Speaker 2: See those guys up there, they're in the suite. They
32:43
Speaker 2: were high after that second goal. Huh yeah they were.
32:45
Speaker 2: They were fired up, man, they were. In fact, it's
32:48
Speaker 2: funny because Barner, he keeps tracking. We were talking to him.
32:50
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, I guess the boys were like he
32:51
Speaker 2: knew that the team was on a streak and and
32:53
Speaker 2: all that, and you know, it's it's fun.
32:56
Speaker 3: The fun thing about having a winter sport.
32:58
Speaker 2: That you know, we didn't have forever, you know, when
33:01
Speaker 2: we had the Sonics year, you see this. It's cool
33:03
Speaker 2: when you see the athletes when of the teams coming
33:05
Speaker 2: and supporting them. I mean, like cal Rawley's there all
33:07
Speaker 2: the time, right like he's I bet he's gone to
33:09
Speaker 2: ten games at least this year. And you know, Seahawks,
33:12
Speaker 2: we had Jake, Bob and some guys were there the
33:14
Speaker 2: other day on Tuesday. Those guys are there last night,
33:18
Speaker 2: you know, and then they go support the Mariners, you
33:20
Speaker 2: know as well, and vice versa.
33:22
Speaker 11: A lot of Storm support too.
33:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, Julio has been in a ton of games for
33:26
Speaker 2: the crack and two. So it's it's I like seeing
33:28
Speaker 2: those guys there. But yeah, they get a couple days off,
33:30
Speaker 2: they're letting loose a little bit and they can kick
33:32
Speaker 2: back and watch the games this weekend and we'll see
33:35
Speaker 2: what happens.
33:36
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens, all right.
33:38
Speaker 2: We'll do a daily power play coming up and then
33:40
Speaker 2: Rob Rang will join us at two o'clock. There there
33:43
Speaker 2: is actual college football on the field. It's not all
33:45
Speaker 2: in the in the courtrooms or with litigators or with lawyers.
33:48
Speaker 2: Right now, we'll talk to Rob Rang's been a while.
33:51
Speaker 2: Who are the guys to watch it tonight's game between
33:54
Speaker 2: Oregon and Indiana, and we'll look ahead at Miami as well,
33:57
Speaker 2: taking on the winner of that game. As far as
33:58
Speaker 2: we release of the NFL Draft, all that coming up.
34:01
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34:05
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Speaker 2: Alrighty, then it is time for the Daily power brought
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Speaker 2: you by Franzidis Squad to Caboda Kracking. Last night, eke
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Speaker 2: out a point somehow against I think one of the
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Speaker 2: top three teams in the NHL total in Minnesota. They
35:09
Speaker 2: are they are a wagon sale fit. Trailed to nothing
35:14
Speaker 2: in that game, came back score two and the third
35:16
Speaker 2: Adam Larson and Eddie beIN Ears tied it up. They
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Speaker 2: got to overtime and had an absolutely abysmal overtime, but
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Speaker 2: they got but they got the point. And honestly, if
35:26
Speaker 2: you would have told me with Boston and Minnesota the
35:28
Speaker 2: last two games on the home stand before you go
35:30
Speaker 2: out on the road for five, you're gonna get three
35:32
Speaker 2: out of four points, I'm signing up all day and
35:34
Speaker 2: every day right now. It's about stacking points in the
35:37
Speaker 2: in the playoff race. Seattle is firmly entrenched in the
35:40
Speaker 2: playoffs for now. Five game road trip starts in Carolina.
35:43
Speaker 2: That's another tough one on Saturday. Rangers awful. New Jersey awful.
35:48
Speaker 2: They should get two wins on Monday and Tuesday or
35:51
Speaker 2: Monday and Wednesday next week. They're in a good situation.
35:55
Speaker 2: They have yet to play the Kraken with a full
35:58
Speaker 2: lineup this year, and I don't think there's another team
36:01
Speaker 2: that can say that. I'm gonna get my producer Scott
36:04
Speaker 2: Malan on that because he is a rain man with
36:06
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, But I don't think they have
36:09
Speaker 2: not had a like they're and I'm talking top nine forwards,
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Speaker 2: top six defenseman. They have not had that intact for
36:17
Speaker 2: even one game this year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 13: I think I can't think of a certain instance where
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Speaker 13: something doesn't overlap.
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Speaker 2: Well Copple Cockle was hurt start of the year, yep,
36:25
Speaker 2: Jane Schwartz got hurts. Une Montour has been out twice.
36:30
Speaker 2: Montour and even if it was Montour not not being
36:33
Speaker 2: there because of the tragedy, the unfortunate death.
36:36
Speaker 3: Of his brother, and now he's hurt again. Schwartz has
36:38
Speaker 3: been out.
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Speaker 2: You just go through the list. Was out for a while. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's been They've been that way all year. By
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Speaker 13: Question Anders, Yeah, so I guess you kind of answered
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Speaker 13: it By the way, you talked about the Minnesota game,
37:14
Speaker 13: but you would a point gained or a point loss
37:17
Speaker 13: last night?
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Speaker 2: Point gained, Okay, yeah, okay, that's three on three. They've
37:22
Speaker 2: got Quinn Hughes, Capriso Boldie, Yeah, Fabril, I mean they
37:27
Speaker 2: got No, that's that's now. Riker and Maddie were made
37:31
Speaker 2: just horrible decisions in all the time.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
37:33
Speaker 2: But that's a point gain.
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Speaker 13: It is, And honestly, I think you said it well.
37:39
Speaker 13: I almost weirdly feel that Minnesota is a bigger threat
37:44
Speaker 13: to win the Cup than Colorado is. Personally, I think
37:47
Speaker 13: they are. I know Colorado is a wagon right now,
37:50
Speaker 13: but in terms of playoff hockey, I think Minnesota is
37:54
Speaker 13: more built for what wins in April and May.
37:56
Speaker 2: I would agree. I would agree. I think they might
37:58
Speaker 2: aveen't got their goaltending to despite the numbers. Nothing on
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Speaker 2: the jacket, nothing on the jacket.
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Speaker 11: I was just gonna say, you look fabulous, and I
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Speaker 11: was going to ask you if your producer dressed you
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Speaker 11: or if that was something that you brought on your own.
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Speaker 2: No, we have we work with the style team, Darcy
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Speaker 2: Camden and Tiff That was awesome and they they do
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Speaker 2: when we started the season they get make sure our
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Speaker 2: suits are were dialed in with yeah, they we I
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Speaker 2: don't dress myself, No I don't.
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Speaker 3: But let's clip that they.
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Speaker 13: Offered that outfit to you. What was your first reaction.
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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. Pride Night for the Kraken is
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Speaker 2: a really big deal. It's awesome and for me, as
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Speaker 2: to work for them. So when they came, so Pride's
39:22
Speaker 2: a big deal, and it's a really big deal the organization,
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Speaker 2: and they came to us and said, hey, you know,
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39:28
Speaker 3: I just kind of wore a tie.
39:28
Speaker 2: It was kind of flamboyant, right, And that's kind of
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Speaker 2: the whole thing, like we want to be flamboyant. We
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Speaker 2: want to be we want to represent the frankly and
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Speaker 2: We can represent the queer community. And it's a style
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Speaker 2: of choice, right, it is, it is and it's very
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Speaker 14: Happy to hear to you as well, buddy. And you know,
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Speaker 14: like you said, it has been too long. I'm eager
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Speaker 2: Let me and I'm gonna get to that. I don't
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Speaker 2: and I don't even know if the lead is anymore
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Speaker 2: in our world that we live in. Let me start
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Speaker 2: with this though, Toman Williams going back to Washington, you
45:59
Speaker 2: scout for the be See Lions of the CFL. He's
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Speaker 2: still you know, he's got to go back for at
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Speaker 2: least a third year before he could declare for any
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Speaker 2: draft and so forth, especially the NFL draft. Is DeMont
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Speaker 2: Williams an NFL prospect?
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Speaker 14: I think he's an NFL prospect, but a fringe one
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Speaker 14: at that.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 14: I think that we see some of these undersized quarterbacks
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Speaker 14: that have had some success in the NFL, obviously Kyler
46:23
Speaker 14: Murray being a prime example of that. Here in the
46:26
Speaker 14: NFC West Division at a similar size as Demon Williams.
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Speaker 14: But you know, some would argue that Kyler Murray hasn't
46:32
Speaker 14: been all that successful in the NFL, and so why
46:37
Speaker 14: is he Damal Williams. I see a guy that that
46:39
Speaker 14: doesn't have the elite arm strength as long as well
46:43
Speaker 14: as obviously lacking side.
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Speaker 6: Now, he is a jitterbug back there.
46:47
Speaker 14: I mean, he is very exciting in the open field,
46:50
Speaker 14: and so I think frankly that he is more of
46:53
Speaker 14: a Canadian Football League type of prospect, and still so
46:56
Speaker 14: strongly about that, in fact, that he is literally among
46:59
Speaker 14: the players who is on our exclusive negotiating list. But
47:03
Speaker 14: what that basically means is that we as an organization
47:06
Speaker 14: and the BC Lions believe that Demon Williams, when he
47:09
Speaker 14: is eligible for the NFL Draft, that he might get drafted,
47:13
Speaker 14: but that he is not likely to be able to
47:15
Speaker 14: stay in the NFL for very long and therefore might
47:17
Speaker 14: be might be available to us in the Canadian Football League,
47:22
Speaker 14: And so he is on our exclusive list. If he
47:24
Speaker 14: is going to go to Canada, then he would be
47:27
Speaker 14: you know, the property of the BC Lines, so to speak.
47:31
Speaker 14: Now this list is public. You can see all the
47:33
Speaker 14: different other prospects at BC Liones dot com or in
47:35
Speaker 14: the CFL's negotiation list. But my point is the in
47:39
Speaker 14: that I think that there's a lotful lot of Huskey
47:41
Speaker 14: fans out there who are just so upset with the
47:44
Speaker 14: young man. I have a different perspective on this, and
47:47
Speaker 14: now I just recognize that this is a nineteen year
47:50
Speaker 14: old young man who was trying to make as much
47:51
Speaker 14: money as he possibly can because the contracts available.
47:54
Speaker 6: In the CFL, or in the UFL.
47:57
Speaker 14: Or AAFL or anywhere else just not in We're close
48:00
Speaker 14: to the NFL, of course, and so I'm excited about
48:03
Speaker 14: the possibility of seeing the Marl Willms back in mont Lake.
48:06
Speaker 14: But at the same time, I also think that some
48:09
Speaker 14: of the vitriol that was out there about Demal Wiins
48:11
Speaker 14: making a decision for him and his family, I think is,
48:15
Speaker 14: you know, hate the player or hate.
48:17
Speaker 6: The game, not the player, so to speak.
48:19
Speaker 14: And I just think that he was basically caught in
48:20
Speaker 14: a difficult situation and hopefully things are going to wind
48:23
Speaker 14: up working out okay for him and for everybody else
48:26
Speaker 14: who gets kind of caught in Across here is this
48:28
Speaker 14: crazy nil era that we're living.
48:30
Speaker 2: In well I want to and I'll get to the
48:32
Speaker 2: games here in a second. But you brought up a
48:34
Speaker 2: great point because I think lost in all of this
48:36
Speaker 2: is that there are a lot of players in college
48:39
Speaker 2: football that now can make a lot of money, and
48:42
Speaker 2: there's a good decent chunk of those players that will
48:45
Speaker 2: never come close to making that money outside of college football.
48:49
Speaker 2: You just mentioned de Mon Williams. He's a short quarterback.
48:52
Speaker 3: He doesn't listen.
48:53
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray's case is certainly not going to help his
48:55
Speaker 2: because that's been a colossal failure the last couple of years.
48:57
Speaker 2: And he's not and he's not Kyler murh like we
49:01
Speaker 2: all agree upon that. I mean, Kyle Murray was the
49:02
Speaker 2: first over world draft pick in heismand Trophy winner and
49:05
Speaker 2: HEU Mail has got a great job of explaining the
49:07
Speaker 2: downside of Demon Williams and you know, against better competition.
49:10
Speaker 2: But if he has a chance to make four million,
49:12
Speaker 2: that's great. You'll never make that probably in pro football anywhere.
49:15
Speaker 2: And if you have a chance to make six million,
49:18
Speaker 2: same thing, even if you did sign a contract. So
49:21
Speaker 2: that part of it I do understand, Just just for
49:23
Speaker 2: real quick before we wrap this up, for clarity's sake,
49:26
Speaker 2: what's the top contract right now in the CFL.
49:30
Speaker 14: Oooh, that's gonna be closer to our own quarterback Nathan Rourke,
49:34
Speaker 14: I believe, is making right around a million dollars per season.
49:39
Speaker 14: And so again the the exorbitant contracts that you're seeing
49:42
Speaker 14: in the NFL. Charles Cross, of course, the left tackle
49:45
Speaker 14: for the Seahawks, got seventy five million guaranteed, you know,
49:49
Speaker 14: in his new deal. So it's just, you know, Apples
49:52
Speaker 14: to Orange is kind of comparison as far as the
49:54
Speaker 14: salary that players can expect if they're going to travel
49:56
Speaker 14: out north to play ball.
49:58
Speaker 2: We're gonna Rob Rang join us Chrissy for the pizza,
50:00
Speaker 2: will get into tonight's game in a second, looking back
50:02
Speaker 2: at last night's game, and some of the guys that
50:04
Speaker 2: are involved, let me first start with old miss. They're
50:06
Speaker 2: now done. Trinidad Chambliss. The NCAA for now has denied
50:10
Speaker 2: his request for a six year again, saying the proper
50:13
Speaker 2: paperwork wasn't submitted. There's going to be lawsuits and appeals
50:15
Speaker 2: and all that. But if his college career is indeed over,
50:19
Speaker 2: it sounds like he really wants to come back. What
50:21
Speaker 2: kind of prospect is Trinidad Chambliss.
50:24
Speaker 14: I think that he's more of a middle round prospect,
50:27
Speaker 14: probably a guy that's going to be drafted somewhere a fifth,
50:30
Speaker 14: sixth round. But because he played so brilliantly and throughout
50:34
Speaker 14: the playoffs, I think that definitely his stock is on
50:37
Speaker 14: the rise a little bit. It's similar to what we
50:39
Speaker 14: have talked about with Demal Williams. You just don't see
50:41
Speaker 14: the elite arm strike. Now he throws a beautiful deep ball.
50:44
Speaker 14: He's got great touch, you can just drop it in
50:46
Speaker 14: the bucket and again the poise and I talked about
50:50
Speaker 14: the before with Demal Williams, the maneuverability in the pocket
50:54
Speaker 14: to extend time and allow his receivers more time to
50:59
Speaker 14: create some space for themselves. Certainly Champlinson does a great
51:02
Speaker 14: job of that. But at the same time I think
51:06
Speaker 14: that that very clearly he is a guy. There's a
51:08
Speaker 14: reason why he's looking for a sixth year of collegiate
51:11
Speaker 14: eligibility because he is not currently viewed, at least by
51:14
Speaker 14: the NFL scouts I've spoken to as a top one
51:17
Speaker 14: hundred candidate. More, somebody who is at his best is
51:20
Speaker 14: going to be coming off the boards in the middle rounds.
51:21
Speaker 2: Well, you know what's wild about that? Is it is
51:23
Speaker 2: again we're talking about all this nil stuff again, there's
51:26
Speaker 2: a situation at quarterback.
51:27
Speaker 3: He can make more money in college.
51:29
Speaker 2: He knows that if he's a Day three pick, he's
51:31
Speaker 2: going to get the NFL minimum and a you know,
51:33
Speaker 2: buy by I guess the standards we live by today,
51:36
Speaker 2: a relatively small signing bonus, and yet he could probably
51:40
Speaker 2: quadruple that by coming back to Ole Miss along the way.
51:43
Speaker 2: Who are the best problem? You know what is it?
51:45
Speaker 2: Kewan Lacy? The running back? Is it Deshaun Strippling? Is
51:49
Speaker 2: it one of the defensive ends or tackles, one of
51:51
Speaker 2: the edges? Who are the best prospects for ole Miss?
51:54
Speaker 14: Now that it's over, Well, what's interesting is that Old
51:58
Speaker 14: Miss has a bunch of players that are are really
52:00
Speaker 14: intriguing NFL prospects, but in most cases underclassmen. Right, Like
52:05
Speaker 14: you mentioned the running back Kewon Lacy. I mean he's
52:08
Speaker 14: a true sophomore and he was a guy that was
52:10
Speaker 14: at Missouri before, wasn't going to ole Miss this past
52:14
Speaker 14: season with absolutely spectacular h five, two hundred and ten pounder.
52:19
Speaker 14: He has got electric lateral agility, his ability to bounce outside.
52:24
Speaker 14: We saw it last night, We've seen it throughout Old
52:27
Speaker 14: Missus playoff run and earlier in the SEC season. If
52:31
Speaker 14: he were available in this draft, I think that he'd
52:33
Speaker 14: easily be a top one hundred prospect, But unfortunately for
52:37
Speaker 14: those of the NFL's draft business, he is not yet eligible, so.
52:41
Speaker 6: He won't be out there.
52:42
Speaker 14: You mentioned uh design Stribbling in former Washington State as
52:46
Speaker 14: well as Oklahoma state wide receiver. I think he's more
52:50
Speaker 14: in that fourth or fifth round, but he's got legitimate
52:52
Speaker 14: NFL size six two to ten pounds.
52:54
Speaker 6: He's been approven. Uh you know the scorer.
52:57
Speaker 14: I think he has like twenty seven or twenty eight
53:00
Speaker 14: touchdowns over his five years of college football. But still
53:03
Speaker 14: that consistency as a as a touchdown score is something
53:07
Speaker 14: the NFL teams are going to like. I think it's
53:09
Speaker 14: gonna come down to how fast he actually is. He's
53:12
Speaker 14: he has good build up speed. It looks like four
53:15
Speaker 14: or five on tape. If he can crack the four fours,
53:17
Speaker 14: I think we had a chance to be a top
53:18
Speaker 14: one hundred prospect himself.
53:20
Speaker 2: Anybody who's been listening to us this year, do this
53:23
Speaker 2: every week every time we talked about Miami. You started
53:26
Speaker 2: and we started, and we ended with two guys, Reuben
53:29
Speaker 2: Bain Junior and a Keem Messador Matt Rob them two dudes.
53:34
Speaker 2: We're gonna see him play again next week. We'll talk
53:36
Speaker 2: to about the matchup next week when we get to
53:38
Speaker 2: the National Championship on mlkdis we'll do that next Friday.
53:41
Speaker 2: But yeah, you called it, you know, number four and
53:45
Speaker 2: number three, Bain and Messador, like, those guys lived up
53:48
Speaker 2: to everything we talked about all year.
53:49
Speaker 6: Didn't they They really did.
53:52
Speaker 14: I mean, they're just it's fun to watch. I mean, honestly,
53:55
Speaker 14: I think that there's some parallels in my mind between
53:58
Speaker 14: what the University of Miami is with just an incredible
54:02
Speaker 14: physically or incredibly physical defense and what the Seahawks are doing,
54:09
Speaker 14: you know where again it said defense is kind of
54:11
Speaker 14: leaving the charge. It's an underrated running game, and it's
54:14
Speaker 14: a quarterback that you know that that gets you excited.
54:18
Speaker 14: But at the same time, every time he throws the ball,
54:20
Speaker 14: you you kind of holds your breath a little bit,
54:22
Speaker 14: like what's going to happen? This could be unbelievably good
54:25
Speaker 14: or unfortunately unbelievably bad, and so that's one of the
54:28
Speaker 14: things that I think is really intriguing about the Miami Hurricanes.
54:33
Speaker 14: Ruben Bains, to me, is the most intriguing guy because
54:36
Speaker 14: if you just washed him on tape the college ball,
54:38
Speaker 14: I would argue that he has been the most dominant
54:40
Speaker 14: defensive player in all of college football this season. Ian
54:43
Speaker 14: At the same time, he's six foot three, two hundred
54:46
Speaker 14: and eighty pounds and I have not seen him in
54:49
Speaker 14: person myself yet, but the rumors are is that he's
54:53
Speaker 14: going to come in with like thirty one inch rms,
54:55
Speaker 14: which is very short for a.
54:57
Speaker 6: Guy at his size.
54:58
Speaker 14: That might push him inside defensive tackle in the NFL.
55:02
Speaker 6: And so that could push.
55:04
Speaker 14: A guy who on tape looks like you should be
55:06
Speaker 14: a top five pick into the much lower portion of
55:10
Speaker 14: the first round, perhaps even into the second round, which
55:13
Speaker 14: seems crazy considering how good he is. And Mesador is
55:16
Speaker 14: a similarly built player who has another challenge and that
55:19
Speaker 14: he's twenty five years old already as a red shirt senior,
55:22
Speaker 14: so he's going to be fighting the age battle here
55:24
Speaker 14: as well. So I think that Miami is terrific. I
55:27
Speaker 14: think they are absolutely loaded with top fifty caliber prospects,
55:31
Speaker 14: but at the.
55:31
Speaker 6: Same time they may not wind up being.
55:34
Speaker 14: As highly regarded on DRAFTKT as you might think. And
55:37
Speaker 14: watching the wain that Mario Christobal's team has basically been
55:40
Speaker 14: able to go through this run of the postseason.
55:43
Speaker 2: Now, what the hell messagor like, what do you like?
55:46
Speaker 2: COVID year two red shirt years? Get held back in
55:48
Speaker 2: third grade? What the hell? Man twenty five years old?
55:51
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the night's matchup. Are we
55:54
Speaker 2: seeing potentially the top two quarterbacks in the upcoming NFL
55:58
Speaker 2: draft going head to head for the second I'm in
56:00
Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner at Dante More.
56:04
Speaker 6: No question about it.
56:05
Speaker 14: They are the top two players in my mock draftics
56:08
Speaker 14: on at Fox sports dot Com right now might have
56:10
Speaker 14: Fernando Mendoza going number one overall to the Las Vegas Raiders,
56:15
Speaker 14: and then of course Dante Moore are going to pick
56:18
Speaker 14: later to the New York Jets. I just see these
56:22
Speaker 14: two quarterbacks as being about as different as you can
56:24
Speaker 14: possibly get and yet still be highly regarded quarterbacks. And
56:28
Speaker 14: you know, in the sixth to five, two hundred and
56:30
Speaker 14: twenty five pounds Heisman Trophy winning Fernando Mendoza. I just
56:35
Speaker 14: see a guy who is about as safe as you
56:37
Speaker 14: can get at the same time lacks the elite upside.
56:41
Speaker 14: You know, he does not have an elite arm. He
56:43
Speaker 14: has good mobility, and he is his best attribute might
56:47
Speaker 14: just be his brain rather than his size or his
56:50
Speaker 14: arm strength, just because his ability to read defenses after
56:55
Speaker 14: the line of scrimmage and then make adjustments as the
56:58
Speaker 14: plague goes on really is a testament to the fact
57:01
Speaker 14: that you know, he began his college career, you know,
57:05
Speaker 14: at cal Berkeley, a school that has very high academic standards,
57:09
Speaker 14: and when you listen to Mendoza.
57:12
Speaker 6: In interviews, you can just hear how articulate he is.
57:15
Speaker 14: He actually has kind of I had one scout tell
57:17
Speaker 14: me he's kind of a dork, and he's kind of
57:19
Speaker 14: chuckled when he said it. Don't use the comparison to
57:22
Speaker 14: Peyton Manning in that way. And he just isn't one
57:24
Speaker 14: of the one of the guys, so to speak. But
57:27
Speaker 14: my goodness is the intelligent and he is the need
57:30
Speaker 14: to again redefenses and later the football wherever he needs
57:34
Speaker 14: to go. That translates very well to the NFL, even
57:38
Speaker 14: though he doesn't have the eye popping physical traits that
57:42
Speaker 14: you might expect of a number one overall candidate, whereas
57:45
Speaker 14: Dante Moore, I mean he's just a baby. I mean,
57:47
Speaker 14: you're talking about red shirt sophomore here who has eighteen
57:50
Speaker 14: starts to this point his college career. The track record
57:53
Speaker 14: of quarterbacks who come into the NFL in with least
57:57
Speaker 14: twenty starts is not a very impressive one. And so
58:01
Speaker 14: that's the question of scouts have to answer with Dante Moore,
58:04
Speaker 14: is that how much of it is the talent around him?
58:07
Speaker 14: And how much of it does he have the maturity
58:09
Speaker 14: frankly to be able to get into an NFL huddle
58:12
Speaker 14: and be able to command then, but you see the
58:14
Speaker 14: mobility and more importantly, you see the arm strength and
58:18
Speaker 14: natural talent. He is, in my opinion, the most gifted
58:21
Speaker 14: passer in college football right now. But again, he is
58:25
Speaker 14: to run about an awful lot of talent, including along
58:27
Speaker 14: the offensive line, and that is eased his breakout season
58:33
Speaker 14: this year for Oregon Ducks.
58:35
Speaker 2: Dante Moore seems to listen, You're the guy I lean
58:39
Speaker 2: on you. But just I look at Dante More and
58:42
Speaker 2: say no, not yet, like not yet, and yet is
58:46
Speaker 2: it just are are more in Mendoza and maybe more
58:49
Speaker 2: more so Dante more than Mendoza. Are they those guys
58:52
Speaker 2: because it's such a weak quarterback class exactly?
58:57
Speaker 14: And that's I think that you articulated that beautifully because
59:01
Speaker 14: I just think that, look, quarterbacks are going to go
59:04
Speaker 14: early no matter what. And we talked about before, and Frankly,
59:08
Speaker 14: that was one of the reasons why I wondered if
59:09
Speaker 14: I wasn't on the air anymore, because I've been kind
59:11
Speaker 14: of poo pooing this draft class my own throat here
59:15
Speaker 14: as far as saying that, you know, don't don't even
59:18
Speaker 14: pay attention to this draft classcause it's not very good.
59:21
Speaker 14: It's it's an average class I think in general. But
59:24
Speaker 14: the quarterbacks are going to get pushed up because that's
59:27
Speaker 14: just the desperation of NFL teams. And as I mentioned before,
59:29
Speaker 14: we get to the Las Vegas Raiders and the New
59:32
Speaker 14: York Jets are gonna be taken early early, and they
59:35
Speaker 14: need help at the quarterback position. But we're talking about
59:38
Speaker 14: a player in Brando Mendoza that you know, frank I've
59:41
Speaker 14: struggled with the comparison form and one of the guys
59:44
Speaker 14: that I kind of keep coming back to is a
59:46
Speaker 14: less athletic version of Daniel Jones, and he of course
59:49
Speaker 14: reflected number six overall by the Giants and has had
59:53
Speaker 14: moments of brilliance. But at the same time, part of
59:55
Speaker 14: what makes him so effectively is because he is a
59:57
Speaker 14: good runner. Mendoza is not quite that good of a runner,
1:00:00
Speaker 14: and I think that he, liked Daniel Jones, will struggle
1:00:03
Speaker 14: if he's going to play a lot of games outside.
1:00:06
Speaker 6: He struggled in the meadowlands, and he.
1:00:08
Speaker 14: Had some more success in the Indianapolis Colts and Lucas
1:00:10
Speaker 14: Oil Stadium where he's protected by the stadium. I think
1:00:14
Speaker 14: that Mendoza may also struggle in that regard, And so
1:00:17
Speaker 14: I do think that this is a quarterback class that,
1:00:20
Speaker 14: you know, frankly, isn't that good. But teams are going
1:00:23
Speaker 14: to have to pay an extreme price if they want
1:00:28
Speaker 14: to use get one of these quarterbacks in this year's
1:00:30
Speaker 14: rookie class. And I just think that the expectations are
1:00:32
Speaker 14: going to be so high for these young men that
1:00:34
Speaker 14: I don't know that either one of them or any
1:00:36
Speaker 14: other quarterback in this class is going to be able
1:00:38
Speaker 14: to fulfill those expectations of being in an early first
1:00:41
Speaker 14: round selection.
1:00:42
Speaker 2: Rob rang Our Insider, Fox sports dot Com NFL Draft Insider,
1:00:47
Speaker 2: and we'll appreciated Vim for Elli's pizza brings you Rob
1:00:50
Speaker 2: on Fridays during the college football season, then again during
1:00:52
Speaker 2: the draft Uptick as we get closer to that, I
1:00:56
Speaker 2: lean on you for certain names.
1:00:58
Speaker 3: So I want to just look at one game tonight
1:01:00
Speaker 3: four thirty or so.
1:01:02
Speaker 2: ESPN ABC has it for everybody, the semi final game
1:01:05
Speaker 2: Oregon and Indiana down in Georgia at the Peach Bowl.
1:01:08
Speaker 2: Everyone talks about Indiana's defensive front.
1:01:11
Speaker 3: I get that. We just talked about more.
1:01:12
Speaker 2: I want to go the other side because I thought
1:01:14
Speaker 2: number ten and number forty four for Oregon were dominant
1:01:18
Speaker 2: against Sexast Tech. And we're two of the best players
1:01:21
Speaker 2: on the field despite the fact that Bailey and others
1:01:23
Speaker 2: on Texas Tech are damn good. And I know Indiana
1:01:26
Speaker 2: with Carter Smith their left tackle and their center Pat
1:01:29
Speaker 2: Coogan are pretty good upfront. So tell me about that
1:01:31
Speaker 2: matchup and some of those dudes.
1:01:33
Speaker 6: Well, we talked a little bit about it before.
1:01:35
Speaker 14: The University of Miami and Mario Christobal, you know, helped
1:01:38
Speaker 14: recruit some of these guys as well. To Oregon, and
1:01:42
Speaker 14: they played at that same type of physicality, and I
1:01:44
Speaker 14: have me know, disrespect to Dan Lanning, who is a
1:01:46
Speaker 14: brilliant recruiter and developer on his own right. I just
1:01:50
Speaker 14: think that that's a matchup that does bear watching. These
1:01:54
Speaker 14: are legitimate NFL prospects. Number forty four is Tatum Tuyot
1:02:00
Speaker 14: with three turning fifty five pounder, and he gets a
1:02:02
Speaker 14: little bit underrated because everybody focuses on the other guy
1:02:06
Speaker 14: across from him. Number ten, Matteo Uiaguilele. We've talked about
1:02:10
Speaker 14: Uliaguilele because of course he is the younger brother of
1:02:14
Speaker 14: the former quarterback dj Uiguilele, who played in college football
1:02:17
Speaker 14: forever and now is on the practice squall of Los
1:02:20
Speaker 14: Angeles Chargers. Matteo number ten has that parotypical size. He's
1:02:25
Speaker 14: six foot five, he's toured in sixty five pounds. He
1:02:28
Speaker 14: is a junior, but he plays at a graduate level,
1:02:32
Speaker 14: in part because his father is actually Oregon's defensive line coach,
1:02:36
Speaker 14: and so you do seem some more refined hand play
1:02:40
Speaker 14: and recognition from Mateo then you see from a lot
1:02:44
Speaker 14: of the defensive lineman his class man. He doesn't have
1:02:46
Speaker 14: the twitch of the elite pass rushers. He's not likely
1:02:49
Speaker 14: to be a top ten selection, but my goodness, I
1:02:52
Speaker 14: just love the physicality, the awareness, the consistency against the
1:02:56
Speaker 14: run and the pass that he plays with. And then
1:02:59
Speaker 14: Againt number forty four on the other side, as a
1:03:03
Speaker 14: similar kind of player in age is very physical, very tough, consistent,
1:03:08
Speaker 14: is effective against the run and the pass. He's both
1:03:11
Speaker 14: of those are players. Frankly, I think the Seahawks would
1:03:13
Speaker 14: like that. Mike McDonald specifically would like just because of
1:03:16
Speaker 14: the physicality and consistency with which they play. And then, oh,
1:03:19
Speaker 14: by the way, since you mentioned I or Indiana's offensive
1:03:24
Speaker 14: line in the center, specifically Pat Coogan.
1:03:26
Speaker 6: Coogan and ten pounds.
1:03:29
Speaker 14: He's a big guy at a center position. But Oregon
1:03:32
Speaker 14: has a lot of big guys along the defensive line
1:03:35
Speaker 14: as well. And another guy that along that defensive line
1:03:38
Speaker 14: that's going to make things interesting for Fernando Mendoza is
1:03:41
Speaker 14: big Amari Washington six foot three, three hundred and thirty pounder.
1:03:45
Speaker 6: He's number fifty two.
1:03:47
Speaker 14: He is a guy Ian. I'm not quite as high
1:03:49
Speaker 14: on him as I am. The defensive edge rushers and
1:03:52
Speaker 14: we talked about a moment ago, but a lot of
1:03:54
Speaker 14: scouts out there are really enamored with him because he
1:03:57
Speaker 14: moves very well for a big man. I am fascinating
1:04:01
Speaker 14: by the matchup between he and Indiana center Pat Coogan.
1:04:05
Speaker 14: I think that that's gonna wind up being one of
1:04:07
Speaker 14: the critical matchups that's gonna determine who wins this football game.
1:04:10
Speaker 2: Is I'm gonna throw a compet with Matteo as you're
1:04:13
Speaker 2: talking about him at sixty five, two sixty five, I'm
1:04:15
Speaker 2: gonna gets run all those things, maybe not bills.
1:04:17
Speaker 3: Is that a Derek hallcomp.
1:04:20
Speaker 14: Yeah? I think that's that's a solid comparison, because I
1:04:24
Speaker 14: like Derek Hall. I don't see the elite burst that's
1:04:26
Speaker 14: ever gonna get you a ten plus sacks, But my goodness,
1:04:30
Speaker 14: can he Can he set the edge and can he
1:04:33
Speaker 14: play the type of physical uh you know football that
1:04:36
Speaker 14: you're looking for that can? That just translates very well
1:04:40
Speaker 14: to the NFL. Like Derek Hall didn't have a lot
1:04:42
Speaker 14: of sacks in college, and Matteo actually had a better
1:04:46
Speaker 14: year statistically speaking last season than this year. But when
1:04:50
Speaker 14: you watch him on tape rather than just the highlights,
1:04:53
Speaker 14: the consistency that he plays with I do think that's
1:04:56
Speaker 14: gonna wind up translating to a second round selection, like
1:04:59
Speaker 14: we're see how Guy Hall a couple of years ago.
1:05:01
Speaker 2: Real quick, Rob, I will wrap it up this real
1:05:03
Speaker 2: fast and know you gotta go. Just the matchup tonight.
1:05:06
Speaker 2: Indiana kind of handled Moregan the first Summer round. Do
1:05:08
Speaker 2: you think it'll be different at all this time?
1:05:11
Speaker 14: You know, I think that that Oregon has the talent,
1:05:15
Speaker 14: UH has more talent. But at the same time, I'm
1:05:18
Speaker 14: just a huge fan Ofcruit Signetti and what he's been
1:05:21
Speaker 14: able to do. I keep looking at Indiana and thinking,
1:05:25
Speaker 14: where is the weakness in this team?
1:05:26
Speaker 6: And I don't see one.
1:05:28
Speaker 14: I don't see a lot of guys who are first
1:05:30
Speaker 14: round caliber players. You men have mentioned the left tackle
1:05:33
Speaker 14: Carter Smith. I think he's going to be the second
1:05:35
Speaker 14: player off the board for the Hoosiers. I love their receivers,
1:05:39
Speaker 14: and I'm a little concerned from Oregon's perspective. They've got
1:05:42
Speaker 14: some real attrician at the running back position. So I
1:05:45
Speaker 14: think this is going to be another classic game. And
1:05:48
Speaker 14: I just frankly trust Signetti's on Signetti on.
1:05:52
Speaker 6: Game day more than Dan Lanning on game day.
1:05:55
Speaker 14: The talent is on Oregon side and into coaching is
1:05:57
Speaker 14: on Indiana side, you know, putting me on the spot,
1:06:01
Speaker 14: I'm gonna go with Oregon because to me, talent always
1:06:04
Speaker 14: Trump's talent and physicality.
1:06:07
Speaker 6: I think Oregon has that.
1:06:08
Speaker 14: But I would not be surprised at all if the
1:06:10
Speaker 14: Indiana Hoosiers are winding up playing the National Championship Game.
1:06:14
Speaker 14: And I assure you, buddy, I certainly wasn't expecting that.
1:06:17
Speaker 14: I feel like this is a New Year's Eve joke
1:06:19
Speaker 14: in some ways, but there is nothing laughing matter it
1:06:22
Speaker 14: comes to Indiana Wishers. This is a really really well coached,
1:06:26
Speaker 14: well deed football team.
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Speaker 3: Thanks my friend, great stuff. I appreciate it.
1:06:30
Speaker 2: We will talk to you next week before the National
1:06:32
Speaker 2: Championship Game the following Monday, Sir.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, looking forward to as always. Take care.
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1:08:50
Speaker 11: You all looked awesome.
1:08:52
Speaker 2: We had fun and from.
1:08:53
Speaker 13: The fourteenth from the fourteenth five last night, I couldn't
1:08:55
Speaker 13: tell if I was watching Don Cherry or Ian.
1:08:59
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny.
1:08:59
Speaker 2: My wife said that when she saw it nice she
1:09:02
Speaker 2: knows when I grow well, and before before.
1:09:04
Speaker 3: We even went there and put it on.
1:09:05
Speaker 2: Uh. Don Cherry was, for those who don't know, is
1:09:08
Speaker 2: a flamboyant. He was kind of the John Madden of hockey.
1:09:12
Speaker 2: I would say that's probably the best way to put it.
1:09:14
Speaker 2: He didn't do in game like in game analysis, he
1:09:16
Speaker 2: was like between period, he's like, actually, a combination of
1:09:18
Speaker 2: Madden and Barklay is what he would be for hockey.
1:09:21
Speaker 2: That's what Don Cherry was. And then then he said
1:09:24
Speaker 2: some things he probably shouldn't say. And now he's no
1:09:26
Speaker 2: longer on TV, but he's old anyway, but he was
1:09:28
Speaker 2: very He wore the big flamboyant jackets and kind of
1:09:30
Speaker 2: that kind of Craig Sager before Craig Sager.
1:09:33
Speaker 11: Yeah, I always wondered what his closet looked like.
1:09:36
Speaker 2: I did get a text from or an email from
1:09:38
Speaker 2: a guy you know, saying, who you know, You're too
1:09:40
Speaker 2: old to be dressing like that. You're not Craig Sager,
1:09:43
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And I said, do you know why
1:09:45
Speaker 2: we were wearing it? I didn't say to every single intermission,
1:09:47
Speaker 2: but do you know why? And explained to him and
1:09:49
Speaker 2: he goes, oh, okay, you know what. It's a good
1:09:53
Speaker 2: example of it's a good example why we do pride.
1:09:56
Speaker 2: Don't judge right exactly so exactly like he did it
1:10:01
Speaker 2: for me, This gentleman did it for me.
1:10:03
Speaker 6: But he was very nice representation.
1:10:06
Speaker 2: It's exactly it almost it just underscores it right there, right,
1:10:10
Speaker 2: all right? What else we got? Let's see three six.
1:10:14
Speaker 11: Oh, I've been waiting to hear all day how Softy
1:10:16
Speaker 11: and Dick twist themselves into pretzels over this.
1:10:20
Speaker 2: Well, well they were on yesterday when it happened. You
1:10:22
Speaker 2: listen to the podcast. I listened to the podcast on
1:10:24
Speaker 2: my way home from the hockey game last night. It
1:10:25
Speaker 2: was good stuff. It's really good stuff. And I listened
1:10:29
Speaker 2: to Humeillan. In fact, I I you know, the KG
1:10:33
Speaker 2: hours on in the bathrooms at because the games we
1:10:36
Speaker 2: carry the games on the Climate Pledge. So like five
1:10:38
Speaker 2: o'clock I went to use the restroom and the dolesome
1:10:41
Speaker 2: tones of Humiling and Bavetimorrow and Richard el Fine were
1:10:44
Speaker 2: on in the bathroom. I should, it is, and I
1:10:48
Speaker 2: stayed in there longer and I should, and I was not.
1:10:50
Speaker 2: It was not like a session like normal. I was
1:10:52
Speaker 2: in there like just to do number one, not number two.
1:10:54
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, because well, because you you know,
1:11:00
Speaker 2: it's because Hugh Millan was on and like you know,
1:11:02
Speaker 2: the first lines out of huge mouth, I don't like it.
1:11:04
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, now I'm staying here for a while so,
1:11:06
Speaker 2: but I've actually listened to the podcast is up there.
1:11:08
Speaker 2: If you want to listen to those guys' initial listen
1:11:11
Speaker 2: what we do for a living. It's you know, what
1:11:14
Speaker 2: did what did Mike gass Ness, Sary or Kevin Clopper.
1:11:17
Speaker 2: I think it was. You know, we're working the Toys
1:11:19
Speaker 2: and fund department or.
1:11:20
Speaker 3: Something like that.
1:11:21
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, the sandbox, Yeah, the playground, the Reset.
1:11:26
Speaker 2: Toys and games.
1:11:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, toys and games.
1:11:28
Speaker 2: I think it was. I think gas was. Anyway, doesn't matter,
1:11:30
Speaker 2: we do sports. The challenge is when things happen and
1:11:36
Speaker 2: you you are on live radio and you are you
1:11:40
Speaker 2: have to give an instant reaction, instant reaction, and sometimes
1:11:45
Speaker 2: you probably say things you don't want to say or
1:11:47
Speaker 2: regret later, just the way it is. But that's what
1:11:49
Speaker 2: we're paid to do. And or maybe you want to
1:11:51
Speaker 2: take a step back. That's why I hate social media.
1:11:53
Speaker 2: That's why I hate Twitter, slash x, whatever the hell
1:11:55
Speaker 2: it is. And I I mean, you guys know, I'm
1:11:58
Speaker 2: barely on that thing anymore. I just don't like it
1:12:00
Speaker 2: because it just gets you in trouble. So, but those
1:12:03
Speaker 2: guys are instant reaction. On Tuesday when he left, their
1:12:06
Speaker 2: instant reaction yesterday when it came back on, I think
1:12:08
Speaker 2: like one.
1:12:09
Speaker 3: Was it five?
1:12:10
Speaker 2: Yesterday was at five? Yep, Tuesday was at sick or
1:12:12
Speaker 2: Wednesday was at six, Tuesday at six. Yeah, it's great stuff.
1:12:15
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's hard. You gotta instantly reacts. Now
1:12:19
Speaker 2: they'll they'll react to Jed Fish today three point fifteen.
1:12:22
Speaker 2: It's good get for Softy show anything else we need
1:12:25
Speaker 2: to read?
1:12:25
Speaker 11: Huh here we go three six. I live in Vancouver, Washington,
1:12:28
Speaker 11: but I work in Portland.
1:12:29
Speaker 2: I'm a huge U Dub fan.
1:12:30
Speaker 11: Today we had twenty sick calls at work ups drivers
1:12:33
Speaker 11: because of the ducks and the earlier start time. I
1:12:36
Speaker 11: didn't think I could hate the Ducks anymore than I
1:12:38
Speaker 11: already do.
1:12:39
Speaker 2: Gosiers. Wow, Well that's it. Therein lies the rub. Here's
1:12:47
Speaker 2: the thing on our radio station. I'm gonna give you
1:12:49
Speaker 2: guys the inside scoop. If Oregon wins, no one is
1:12:55
Speaker 2: gonna be happier than Mark James, even more so than Softy.
1:12:58
Speaker 2: You know why, because he can spend all next week
1:13:00
Speaker 2: talking about Miami Hurricanes football. Because Miami Hurricanes, for all
1:13:03
Speaker 2: you Husky fans, will be your favorite team in the
1:13:05
Speaker 2: history of man. Next weeks, two kids, they'll be taken
1:13:09
Speaker 2: on the ducks and left. Well for all the Husky fans. Again,
1:13:14
Speaker 2: let's remember, not everybody in Seattle proper listening to this
1:13:17
Speaker 2: radio station is a Husky fan. I know that we
1:13:19
Speaker 2: don't always remember that, but that's the case. But I
1:13:22
Speaker 2: would say the majority are more than fifty percent, for sure,
1:13:25
Speaker 2: more than sixty percent. And nope, dude, Husky fans don't
1:13:29
Speaker 2: want Oregon to win, right, so you're gonna want Miami
1:13:30
Speaker 2: to win next week. So you know what's gonna happen
1:13:34
Speaker 2: next Friday. If if, if, if Oregon wins, Softy and
1:13:38
Speaker 2: Mark James will have matching University of Miami t shirts on.
1:13:41
Speaker 3: Oh god, twinsies. It'll be twinsies.
1:13:45
Speaker 2: Next week, there'll be twinsies. I know Softie's gotten his
1:13:49
Speaker 2: queue of Amazon somewhere at Miami Hurricanes sweatshirt ready to
1:13:53
Speaker 2: be ordered in case Oregon wins one hundred percent he does.
1:13:56
Speaker 2: All right, we're good, all.
1:13:57
Speaker 6: Right, we're good.
1:13:58
Speaker 2: Yes, no, yes, yes, we're good. All right, Softy joints
1:14:02
Speaker 2: us next. All right, we're getting ready to put a
1:14:13
Speaker 2: wrap on things. It's no call me casino in hotel
1:14:16
Speaker 2: Hawk's Peak Sports bar and restaurant up here. Three point
1:14:20
Speaker 2: fifteen Jed Fish on with Softy and Faine, So that's
1:14:25
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes from now. Softy apparently is prepping for
1:14:29
Speaker 2: the interview, putting a massive amount of.
1:14:31
Speaker 3: Prep work.
1:14:33
Speaker 13: And now he's not.
1:14:36
Speaker 8: Well.
1:14:36
Speaker 2: He's known for his preparation. He's making sure he's got
1:14:38
Speaker 2: everything prepped up ready to go. This is a this
1:14:41
Speaker 2: is a massive mass. It's a pretty big day on
1:14:44
Speaker 2: the old Kjar. I mean, Mike McDonald on this morning.
1:14:47
Speaker 2: We even get to that with Chuck and Buck and
1:14:51
Speaker 2: talked about the guys that are all interviewing for jobs
1:14:53
Speaker 2: this weekend at dir Day is also interviewing for jobs.
1:14:57
Speaker 2: Could Kubiak interviewing for jobs? So so yeah, the head
1:15:00
Speaker 2: coach of the Seahawks on this morning at eight and
1:15:02
Speaker 2: the head coach of these Huskies of Orshington on at
1:15:05
Speaker 2: three fifteen.
1:15:06
Speaker 10: I don't know what you're whining about it between you
1:15:09
Speaker 10: and Drake Thomas on the show today, Man, what the heck?
1:15:12
Speaker 2: Right? Drake Thomas who stole the ball out of Christian
1:15:16
Speaker 2: McCaffrey's little hands, and uh yeah, finish off that game
1:15:19
Speaker 2: for it.
1:15:19
Speaker 3: I like Drake Thomas. Good dude, how are you?
1:15:21
Speaker 7: I'm good.
1:15:21
Speaker 6: What's going on?
1:15:24
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting up here at the casino wondering, uh,
1:15:27
Speaker 2: wondering what I should put wagers on this weekend? Who
1:15:29
Speaker 2: do you like?
1:15:30
Speaker 7: Who do I like?
1:15:31
Speaker 9: Uh?
1:15:31
Speaker 10: I like the Green Bay Packers to upset the Chicago
1:15:33
Speaker 10: Bears and come to town next weekend.
1:15:35
Speaker 6: That's what I like.
1:15:36
Speaker 10: But they're actually favored, so that really wouldn't be an
1:15:38
Speaker 10: upset technically.
1:15:42
Speaker 2: Let me see, let me let me roll something that
1:15:44
Speaker 2: your away for a second. All right, let me see,
1:15:46
Speaker 2: because you say that now I'm worried about the wager
1:15:48
Speaker 2: I did put in. I do believe as I checked
1:15:50
Speaker 2: my bet slip here. Oh, I already got the Packers.
1:15:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
1:15:54
Speaker 3: I'm agreeing with you, am I agreeing with you?
1:15:58
Speaker 10: That's a dangerous, dangerous danger is proposition there. But you know,
1:16:01
Speaker 10: I was having lunch today with my buddy Brad from
1:16:04
Speaker 10: the Twin Peaks Tuckwilla and talking about the Jaguars and
1:16:08
Speaker 10: Buffalo and the Patriots and all that, so I don't
1:16:11
Speaker 10: know it just yet. We've we've been talking the entire
1:16:13
Speaker 10: year about all the parody in the NFL and it
1:16:15
Speaker 10: just seems like maybe there's just one more kind of
1:16:18
Speaker 10: turn here where there's one more flavor of the month,
1:16:21
Speaker 10: one more flavor of the day in the National Football League. Man,
1:16:24
Speaker 10: So this just kind of doesn't it kind of feel
1:16:26
Speaker 10: like this is going to be a wild, crazy wild
1:16:29
Speaker 10: card weekend and a crazier wilder NFL postseason.
1:16:35
Speaker 2: Yes, all those things feel true, but we're not. I
1:16:38
Speaker 2: don't want to bury the lead. You brought in food
1:16:41
Speaker 2: from Twin Peaks.
1:16:42
Speaker 8: Did, and you're not here.
1:16:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, no, And I now I will say
1:16:48
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier I love wings. I'm a huge wings guy.
1:16:52
Speaker 2: I'm just huge guy, but I love wings. The Wings
1:16:55
Speaker 2: here at Stall qualm Me Casino, the Hawk's Peaks sensational.
1:16:58
Speaker 2: The Wings at twins Peaks. I'm might have snuck in
1:17:00
Speaker 2: there on Christmas Eve, little solo run after I finished
1:17:03
Speaker 2: my shopping. They're fantastic, absolutely fantastic at Twin Peaks. So
1:17:07
Speaker 2: I'm very jealous that you brought those in today.
1:17:09
Speaker 10: So yeah, well we'll save a few for you for
1:17:11
Speaker 10: next time.
1:17:12
Speaker 2: We've now how you feeling, Bud Like? It's been a
1:17:16
Speaker 2: it's been an up and down week for you. How
1:17:18
Speaker 2: you feeling right now.
1:17:19
Speaker 10: I feel good.
1:17:19
Speaker 8: I feel good.
1:17:20
Speaker 10: I feel like I've lost about four or five pounds
1:17:22
Speaker 10: just going through the ringer the last couple of days, mentally, emotionally.
1:17:25
Speaker 10: But you know, man, it's one of those deals where
1:17:28
Speaker 10: you just don't know how to deal with this. You
1:17:30
Speaker 10: don't know how to handle it, you don't know what's
1:17:32
Speaker 10: to come, because nobody's ever really been through this before.
1:17:35
Speaker 10: I was talking to a buddy of mine who's a
1:17:37
Speaker 10: big Tennessee football fan about the Nico situation and what
1:17:40
Speaker 10: happened down there with him before he took off to
1:17:42
Speaker 10: go to UCLA, And I asked, I asked this guy,
1:17:45
Speaker 10: if you know Nico had put his name in the
1:17:47
Speaker 10: portal and then decided to come back to Knoxville, what
1:17:50
Speaker 10: would Tennessee fans have said? And they said they would
1:17:53
Speaker 10: have trashed him, so they never would have wanted him
1:17:55
Speaker 10: back in Tennessee after he pulled the nonsense he pulled,
1:17:59
Speaker 10: you know a year ago when Josh Hipel was down
1:18:01
Speaker 10: there and just said the hell, will it go ahead
1:18:02
Speaker 10: and take off? So, I mean, fans are ticked. Fans
1:18:05
Speaker 10: are wondering about his loyalty. We did a poll on
1:18:08
Speaker 10: social media yesterday and into this morning, asking fans if
1:18:11
Speaker 10: they wanted to Mont Williams back at Washington. That's seventy percent,
1:18:15
Speaker 10: thirty percent yes. So he's just got a lot of
1:18:17
Speaker 10: repairing to do. There's a lot of damage control that
1:18:20
Speaker 10: needs to be done with the Mont Williams, with the
1:18:22
Speaker 10: fan base, and I just wonder if he can get
1:18:25
Speaker 10: it done right, you know, I wonder if he can
1:18:27
Speaker 10: get it done in his own locker room. I mean,
1:18:28
Speaker 10: you got, you know, one hundred guys in there, for
1:18:30
Speaker 10: God's sakes. I mean there's that to be some players
1:18:33
Speaker 10: that won't care, some players that will support them, and
1:18:35
Speaker 10: some players that will be you.
1:18:37
Speaker 6: Know, pissed off at what happened.
1:18:39
Speaker 5: Right.
1:18:39
Speaker 10: And I got a text yesterday from an ex Husky
1:18:42
Speaker 10: offensive lineman who said if he played with DeMont Williams
1:18:44
Speaker 10: the first game, he wouldn't block a soul.
1:18:47
Speaker 6: He would just like like like.
1:18:48
Speaker 7: Remember the Titans for crying out loud, dude.
1:18:50
Speaker 10: So there are people that feel that way, and there
1:18:52
Speaker 10: are people that are ready to support the guy. I'm
1:18:55
Speaker 10: just you know again, I'm I'm I'm I've gone from
1:18:58
Speaker 10: extreme anger ian about a situation to extreme uneasiness about
1:19:02
Speaker 10: the situation. I don't know if I would have brought
1:19:04
Speaker 10: him back. To be honest with you, I can't say
1:19:06
Speaker 10: for sure that I would. So we'll talk to Jat
1:19:08
Speaker 10: about that at three fifteen today.
1:19:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say I listened to your podcast yesterday
1:19:13
Speaker 2: and the way home from the hockey game, your your
1:19:16
Speaker 2: your five o'clock hour with when you guys found out
1:19:18
Speaker 2: he was coming back. And there's no precedent for this.
1:19:22
Speaker 2: There's none, so, like you know, for people to kind
1:19:24
Speaker 2: of compare, Oh what about this? I mean, Tennessee, there's similarities.
1:19:27
Speaker 2: We had a similarity with Rick. With Nick Rolovich, I'll
1:19:29
Speaker 2: be honest with you, right, because when he got fired,
1:19:32
Speaker 2: it's because you talked to I thought the most important
1:19:34
Speaker 2: thing you said, you split the fan base. When he
1:19:37
Speaker 2: got fired. Our fan base was split. Now it was political,
1:19:41
Speaker 2: COVID shots, all those things, and you know what, it
1:19:43
Speaker 2: was awful. It was awful until one thing happened. We
1:19:48
Speaker 2: beat you in the Apple com right, you guys beat
1:19:50
Speaker 2: Oregon next year. You know what, that'll bring you right
1:19:52
Speaker 2: back together. You beat Oregon and everything's going to be
1:19:55
Speaker 2: just fine. Trust me, trust me on that one. We're
1:19:57
Speaker 2: happy to help man. Uh, Jetfish three point fifteen. I
1:20:02
Speaker 2: don't know if you need to tease anything else. Man,
1:20:05
Speaker 2: you want to tease, that's it.
1:20:06
Speaker 6: We're good to go. Let's go.