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Furness Show 9-10: Seahawks win week 1 vs Pats, Ross Tucker, Brandon Funston · The Ian Furness Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. Seahawks yesterday. I'm going
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: to be blunt, honest. That was such a strange game,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: not just because of what happened with the injuries. The
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: whole Wednesday football thing was odd. I found myself really
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: kind of, I don't know, it was like we're down
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: at Jimmy's. The atmosphere was great, but they had the
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: baseball game and that back and forth. It just seemed weird.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Didn't seem like football was starting. It felt in some
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: ways to me, one person, like a preseason game. And
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: then the game starts and you're like, okay, I guess
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: it's a real game. Well, then it became very real.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: A handful of snaps in when Sam Darnold gets hurt.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Then it became very, very real. Darnold limps off after
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: getting sacked. And you're like, oh God, what is this?
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: What is this? Then it became real. It no longer
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: felt like preseason training camp or anything else. It became like,
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: oh God, where's your season going to go? The initial diagnosis,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: if you missed it all today, it's relatively the same
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: as last night. No definitive timeline, not as bad as
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: they could have feared it to be. At least that's
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  Speaker 1: what we think. He speaks at three o'clock. Hopefully by
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: then some more clarity because by then you're looking at
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: 22 hours since the injury and the, hey, we're waiting
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: on CT and MRI. Let me just give you something,
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: a little pro tip here. NFL teams don't wait for
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: CTs and MRIs. They get them done. They get them
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: done fast.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: So you're saying he knows already.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: They know.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: They know.
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  Speaker 1: They know. How much will they disclose at 3 o'clock?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But they know. It doesn't sound.
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  Speaker 4: As....
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Bad as it could have been.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It sounds like they got good news right away.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: But sometimes that also comes with other, because here's a problem.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: I learned this with knees and everything else the last
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: couple of years. He's got a knee. Got a knee.
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  Speaker 1: You can't, x-rays don't tell you about ligaments and tendons
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: and things like that.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: That's why you got to get the MRI.
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  Speaker 1: So let's wait and see. We'll see what they end
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  Speaker 1: up doing, but I just, it's a little scary for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get in and we'll talk to Ross here
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  Speaker 1: in just a And we've got plenty of time in
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  Speaker 1: the 1 o'clock hour to get back to it. I
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: did a hit with your buddy John Lund today.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: My buddy?
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: Your buddy.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: John Lund. And one of the things I discussed with him,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: and I just mentioned this to Greg, John Schneider does
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: not like drafting quarterbacks. But after the Trevon Boykin situation,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: he's always wanted to, and even before that, he always
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: had kind of a quality backup. Tavares Jackson, Matt Flynn
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: ended up being a backup. Matt Flynn was a backup.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be a starter. He
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: ended up being a backup. Then Jafaris Jackson, they brought
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: him back for the Super Bowl seasons. So the late T-Jack.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Geno was a quality backup. In fact, make an argument,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: a lot better backup. Well, he's a good starter the
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: first year, and then he got a little Geno slash
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  Speaker 1: Russ in him. But good quality backup. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: a team that thinks you're a playoff team and a
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: contending team every year, you better have a backup quarterback.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: And those guys are hard to find. Mac Jones is
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: a backup in San Francisco, and I was talking to
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Lund about that, and he said, really good backup, like
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: a really good backup. I'm not so sure if they
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: would have the same success in L.A. with Simpson and
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: who's the next? Stetson Bennett. Stetson Bennett. They'd be in
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they would.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe Simpson would be the guy at some point if
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: Stafford got hurt. Point being is this. That's why you
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: have Drew Locke on your roster. is for last night.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: You have Drew Locke on your roster for last night.
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  Speaker 1: And he ends up being, I would just say, very
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  Speaker 1: efficient at times. A couple mistakes, the red zone, taking
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: too much time when you were about to punch it in.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: You know, the penalties killed this team. They had 10
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: penalties last night. That was just a slot. I mean,
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: I wish we were still doing hard knocks because I
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: bet McDonald was sideways.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Especially at halftime. But Locke, 16-22, 187. 113 passer rating,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: quarterback rating. I always forget which one's which, ESPN or
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  Speaker 1: that one. But anyway, 113 rating, which is really good. And,
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: of course, he was helped out by JSN. 45 of
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: his 122 yards receiving came on a fourth down play.
• 4:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it just felt like a quiet eight for
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: 122 and a touchdown for JSN.
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  Speaker 2: That is good. So good, man.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Like, people just, it's, you know, he's not a diva.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: He's not an A.J. Brown look-at-me guy.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not getting the ball, I'm pouting D.K.
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  Speaker 6: Guy.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get a lot in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't get a lot of targets. And this dude
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: is just an absolute baller.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: He's a demon, man.
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  Speaker 1: One more quick thought, and we'll get into more of
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  Speaker 1: this with Ross, and then we'll get into more in
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  Speaker 1: the 1 o'clock hour. What a hell of a roster
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  Speaker 1: construction you can have when your biggest plays were made
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: by guys by the name of Rodney Thomas and Nehemiah Pritchett,
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  Speaker 1: and Josh Jones. You expect it from Julian Love. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you do. But those other dudes, those other dudes came
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 2: The legion of whom?
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, and that's what, that's also, that's also the brilliance.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: It's the brilliance of Mike McDonald. It's the brilliance of
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald. Put guys in positions to succeed. Make no mistake, guys,
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: that was a huge win last night. Wouldn't have been
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: a game, wouldn't have been a season wrecker. but it
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: makes your season a hell of a lot tougher because
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: we'd articulated yesterday what the schedule looks like coming up,
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  Speaker 1: and now your quarterback's hurt. For however long he's out.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Last night was so big on so many levels. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so great win by Seattle. Your thoughts. We'll get to
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: your thoughts today. 49451, that is the Tacoma Dodge text line, 49451.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: I might even read a couple of those in the
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: 1 o'clock hour. Love it. And maybe get a talk
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: back or two in. All you have to do is
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: go to the iHeartRadio app, read Microphone, speak. But I just.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: A strange game with a lot of storylines. Turns out
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: really well for the local team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know what your first thought is from
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  Speaker 2: last night. Yeah, 49451.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Talk back, too. Let's get some voices on today. And
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: you know what? We'll do this. Let's get back. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to Ross Tucker. CBS, Westwood One, NFL analyst. Can't wait
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: to do this every week. He's next.
• 6:29
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 6:34
  Speaker 7: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
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• 6:48
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. Eddie Inferness with you on this
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  Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon, day two of the NFL season upon us.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have the game for you tonight. Rams, 49ers, courtesy
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: of Westwood One. Seahawks, 1-0. They'll have a one-game lead
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: over either the 49ers or the Rams when it's all
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  Speaker 1: said and done tonight. Down under, I say tonight for them.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at it. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: like that? Positive.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Back on July 24th. Not July 24th. April 24th. Day
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: two of the NFL draft, after day one, Jadarian Price
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  Speaker 1: selected by Seattle. I had not had this gentleman on
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  Speaker 1: my show in a couple years. One of the best
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: analysts in the game, Westwood One, CBS Sports. They jumped
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: on with us that day when we were out at
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: Seahawks headquarters at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. And my
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: great producer, Jessamyn, says, man, that'd be fun to get
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Ross on more often. Well, lo and behold. Ross Tucker
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: is joining us on a weekly basis this year thanks
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: to Northwest Handling Systems. He is the host of the
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Ross Tucker Football Podcast, NFL color analyst for both CBS
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  Speaker 1: and Westwood One. You can follow him on social media
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  Speaker 1: at RossTuckerNFL. He's got the Bills and Texans on Sunday.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: And for his first weekly visit of the year, we
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  Speaker 1: welcome in Ross Tucker to the show. How are you, sir?
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 8:04
  Speaker 4: I am fantastic. That music just got me so pumped up.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: We had a game last night and obviously that was
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: a crazy game on a lot of levels, especially for
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks. Not all wins are created equal. That was
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: a massive win for the Seahawks. And yeah, I'm actually
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: on my way to the airport right now to fly
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: to Houston. I've got Bill's Texans on CBS, which should
• 8:31
  Speaker 4: be an awesome game in and of itself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to last night's game and get
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on tonight's game as well as that game
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  Speaker 1: that you have on Sunday, which is one of the
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: best ones of the weekend, Bills and Texans. First of all, congratulations. Ross,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: we've been hearing you on our station on Westwood One
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: for years, CBS as well, on TV, and now with
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Ian Eagle. As someone named Ian, who has called Ian
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: most of his life, I guess if you're a Hall
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: of Fame broadcaster like Ian Eagle, you can call yourself Ian,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: even though it's spelled Ian like the rest of us.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: But congratulations, all joking aside. He's one of the best
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: in the business, and good for you, man. What a
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: great opportunity. You've got to be excited about this year. Oops,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: did we lose Ross?
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: Hopefully you guys can hear me.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: I'm in a bad area.
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: Do you guys still hear me or no?
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just got you back. Yeah, we just got
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: you back. I was just saying congratulations on the new gig.
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I heard everything you said. I apologize. I'm
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: in the middle of nowhere driving to the airport. But no,
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: I'm thrilled, man. I think Ion is as good as
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: anyone that's ever done it. I don't think that's hyperbole.
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: You know, we've done, I don't know, 20-some games together
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: on the radio, primarily Thursday nights, but sometimes some playoff games,
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: you know, some holiday games. So I'm just thrilled that
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: more people are going to get a chance to hear
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: what that sounds like because I have an absolute blast
• 9:52
  Speaker 4: doing games with him. I like doing any game. It's
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: why I do this for a living. But in particular,
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: when you do it with Ian, it's really, really fun.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch on Sunday. All right, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a massive win last night. And coaches that lose game
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: one will say, hey, it's just 1-17, it's a long season, blah, blah, blah,
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: all those things. Everybody else wants to say, hey, great
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: getting off to a 1-0 start. Ross, when you were
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: watching last night, you see Sam Donald go down, Drew
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Locke comes in, Seattle's offense is scuffling, Drake May for
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: a while looked pretty good, looked like a different offensive line,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: things were all going New England's way. When you say
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: big win for Seattle, why is that, even though it's
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: just game one?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, not only did your starting quarterback go
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: down on the first series, but then you also had
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: a double-digit deficit. you know, to come from behind against
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: the team that played in the Super Bowl, that won
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: the AFC, that a lot of people think is going
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: to be really good again, to not just, you know,
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: win the game, but to lose your quarterback on that
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: first series, to be down double digits. And I would
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: just say the mental fortitude to keep playing, to keep battling,
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: to believe in your backup. Listen, I've been on teams where,
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: you know, we didn't really believe in our starter that much,
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  Speaker 4: let alone our backup. So to believe in Drew Locke
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  Speaker 4: as much as they clearly did and for him to
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  Speaker 4: make the plays he did and for the defense to
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  Speaker 4: step up like they did, it just, you know, and
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: you can say it's only one of 17. I assure you,
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: in week 17 and 18, when we're looking at, you know,
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: the standings and the playoff race, That game's going to
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: make a major difference in the seeding for both the
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Seahawks and the Patriots.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we agree here, no doubt about it. The backup
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: quarterback thing, yeah. playing in the league, you know what
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: it's about. I mean, there's 32 starting quarterbacks, and you
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: said it, not all 32 teams believe in, much less
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks 33 through 64 along the way. Seattle's kind of
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: had that philosophy we mentioned earlier. Tavares Jackson, Geno Smith,
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn, now Drew Locke for his second stint. It
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: feels like John Schneider-Ross doesn't like drafting quarterbacks. He's only
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: drafted three since 2010. But he sure likes to have
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: a good insurance policy, and I think we saw why
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  Speaker 1: last night. It feels like that's one of the underrated
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  Speaker 1: things in the NFL is to have a guy that
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: can step in if your starter gets hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I do the Eagles preseason games, and
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  Speaker 4: they put a high, high value on not only backup quarterback,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: but they probably care more about their third quarterback than
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: any other team in the league. I mean, it really,
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: really matters to them to make sure they have players
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  Speaker 4: a three that they feel comfortable with. And I don't
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: know how good Jalen Milrow is, but a lot of experience, Alabama,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of physical ability. I kind of liked the
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  Speaker 4: idea of if he had to go in a game,
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  Speaker 4: I tend to think he would do pretty well at
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: this point, having been there for a couple of years
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  Speaker 4: and been primed and ready. But if I had this correct,
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  Speaker 4: I think I heard them say that drew lock signed
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: a two year, $ 5 million deal. I can look that up,
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  Speaker 4: but if that's the case, that feels like a steal
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  Speaker 4: for John Snyder. I mean, to have a guy with
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: Locke's pedigree, Locke's physical ability, and Locke's experience, and to
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: have him for $ 2. 5 million a year. I mean, right now,
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  Speaker 4: veterans with his experience get like $ 1. 7 million. So he's
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: not even making that much more than what the minimum
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: makes There are backups in the league that get $ 7, $ 8, $ 9,
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  Speaker 4: $ 10 million. So that feels like tremendously valuable for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out later today at 3 o'clock more on
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  Speaker 1: Darnold's injury, but it sounds like Locke will be the
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  Speaker 1: guy against the Cardinals here in a couple weeks. Ross
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Tucker joining us right now. Ross, the other side of
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: the coin, and I'd love to get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: where you fall on this, because there will be narratives
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  Speaker 1: across the country that while the Seahawks battled back and
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: they made the plays, and I like to credit guys
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  Speaker 1: with interceptions, but there are a lot of people saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: Drake May kind of lost the game with his three
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  Speaker 1: picks and certainly the decision.
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  Speaker 4: At the end.
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  Speaker 1: How would you evaluate Drake May and what the Patriots
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: did in terms of self-inflicted wounds?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the last one in particular is just totally unacceptable.
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  Speaker 4: But I would say none of them were really good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Drake May's a really smart young man, but
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  Speaker 4: it just feels like for whatever reason, he didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a great appreciation for or understanding of the situation. You know, you're,
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  Speaker 4: you're up double digits. You're going against the backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: They're not doing much against you. Your defense is playing
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: really well. I really have no idea. You know, the
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: first interception was basically a jump ball, pretty much in
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  Speaker 4: a double coverage, totally unacceptable. The second one, okay, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe he's trying to drive the ball middle of the field.
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  Speaker 4: Still not a great idea. And then the last one
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  Speaker 4: is just unacceptable. It's year three for him now. He's
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  Speaker 4: been starting the whole time. I mean, he almost won
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: the MVP last year. You just cannot make that decision.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: You cannot make that choice. I still haven't heard, was
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: he trying to throw it away? He didn't throw it
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  Speaker 4: away enough. Was he trying to give Matt Collins a chance?
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: He didn't throw it. I mean... Whatever it was, it
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: was like bad, bad.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: It was– I mean, you're Seattle. You're just hoping, okay,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: let's get to overtime at that point, and then he
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: gives you that gift. By the way, credit to Josh Jobe, right?
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: That was a hell of a catch by the cornerback
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the end zone, toe-tapping, getting his
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: toes down. And there were questions, Ross, about him. Like,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: they made the decision to let Reek Wollin walk and
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  Speaker 1: keep Josh Jobe, pay him a little less than they
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: had to pay Reek Wollin. And in the end, you
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: know what? It looked like that's at least day one,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: week one, game one, right decision to keep Jobe.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it certainly felt like, you know, Joe played well.
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  Speaker 4: I was thoroughly impressed by the Seahawks secondary, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to not have Okada or even worry. And not only
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: the way Joe played, but Nehemiah Pritchett. Yes. I barely
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: even know who this guy is. That guy played his
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: butt off. I mean, I, I, I know very little
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  Speaker 4: about him in my mind. He hasn't played that much.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Maybe I've just missed it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: No, you're right.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: But it's like he went out there and played, I thought, awesome.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: And it was clear that the Patriots were trying to
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: target after him, and he was up to the challenge,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: which was huge.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. He hasn't played a lot. There's a
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: lot of concern. Well, listen, it doesn't take an expert
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: even like you. I can sit here not being an
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: expert and say, well, they're going out looking at Terry
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and Arnold. They brought in Travion Diggs on the practice squad.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They brought in the Avery Smith kid from off of waivers.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: They traded a light pick for him from the Chargers,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: who was an undrafted free agent. There is no doubt
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: they had concerns about their secondary, and Pritchett stepped up
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: in a big way, and this is his third year, too.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: They did try to do that. I want to ask
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you a schematic question, just in a sense. One of
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the things that we were watching the game, and I
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: was watching with a couple ex-college linemen, small college linemen,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and we're watching this thing, and the insistence on blitzing
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon yesterday, and the fact that the Patriots did a
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: hell of a job picking it up, early at least,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and Devin wasn't getting there. They kind of were left
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit out to dry a few times. What
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: were your thoughts on what Mike... I don't want to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: criticize Mike McDonald. Let me get this straight, Ross. I'm
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not criticizing Mike McDonald. I'm asking you the question of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: were they doing too much with Witherspoon trying to blitz
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and get in the backfield?
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: You guys still got me?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: We got you now. Yeah, we got you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, sorry. They... I listen, I think Mike McDonald's fantastic.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I thought he was fantastic since he was in Baltimore.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I would talk to him before the games. Nobody even
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: knew who he was. I knew he was a D coordinator,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: but he's young looking, had the hat. And I would,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: you know, I would just chat. I came away very impressed.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: There's no doubt in my mind that Josh McDaniels was
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: a step ahead of Mike McDonald last night. There's no doubt.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many times, did they bring Witherspoon and
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: the Patriots were running a quick screen behind it, right
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: where Witherspoon was coming from. It felt like the Patriots
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: had a bead on what they found the Seahawks defense
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: wanted to do. It's actually surprising to me and pretty
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: impressive that they only gave up 10 points considering the
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: fact that I felt like on some level, McDaniels, especially
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the first three quarters, McDaniels was ahead of McDonald. He
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: had a really good feel for what McDonald was trying
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Ross Tucker joining us, brought to you by Northwest Handling Systems. Ross,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the last time we talked to you, and we kind
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of set this thing up, it was right after the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Seahawks had picked Jadarian Price, the running back out of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. We had not seen him play in the preseason.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We didn't watch him a lot even at training camp.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He was kind of being kept a slow play, I
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: guess would be the best way to put it, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: they're just kind of making sure he stays healthy. He
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: only carried it 10 times, but he carried 10 for 52,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and when he did carry the ball, there was a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: little bit of a wow factor. What'd you think of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: how Jadarian Price ran the football?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Well, there's no question. He's got some legit juice. You know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: when you're watching a game, you can see if one
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: guy looks faster than the other guy. You can see
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: if one guy looks explosive and Price has some serious
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: juice to him. You know, it's funny, what's he number
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: eight or number nine or whatever he is, you know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: It looked like Kenneth Walker on some of those runs.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: You know? I mean, on some of those runs, I
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: was like, wait, did they get Kenneth Walker back again?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Because there's a similarity to the explosiveness that both those
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: guys possess. And it really jumped out to me. Even
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: from the first run, I thought it was encouraging. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: was a little surprised they didn't play him more. A
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: little surprised they didn't give him the ball more. I think...
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: It seems like maybe they don't trust him yet on
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: third downs, whether it's the blocking element or the route running.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: And so you've got to be careful with that because
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: you don't want to be a tell where they're just
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: running the ball when he's in. He's only in to
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: run the ball. But for right now, there's no question
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: he looks like he's got some legit explosiveness.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You've got to agree, as a former lineman, his ability,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and I just look back, his first carry as a Seahawk,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he goes 13 yards and kind of slid to the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: left and waited. He was patient. He found the hole.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: If you're a lineman, you've got to love a running
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: back like that, right, that sees what you're doing, able
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to read the hole. Isn't that a huge part about being–
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys are running 4-4s or whatever and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: on the hoof look pretty damn good, but it's that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: part of it, the football sense and knowing where to cut,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it felt like that guy really kind of gets that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what's not fun? When a guy is
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: 220 and runs a 4-3 or 4-4 right in your
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: face because of their vision. And they don't see it,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: and they can't feel it. I always tell people the story.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I started the last seven games for the Cowboys in
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: 2002 at left guard, and that was the year that
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Emmitt broke the all-time rushing record. And the thing about Emmitt,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: when people ask me about him, I'm.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Like, well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: He was small, but he was slow. Guys, he always
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: got yards. I have no idea how he did it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: We might have been the worst off the league. We
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: were not good. I graded out the highest in six
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: of those seven games, which tells you just how bad
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: we were. And, you know, he still found a way
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to get yards. He just knew the nooks and crannies.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: He knew how to set up blocks. He knew how
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: to It's almost like dodgeball. Dip, dodge, duck, dive. I mean,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: it was impressive. It's one thing that Emmett never gets
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: enough credit for is just how elite his vision was.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And we saw flashes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I think everyone in Seattle is saying the same thing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: More Jadari in price, and George Helani is a warrior,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and he gives you everything he's got, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: them for bringing us Ross all year. Ross, before I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: let you go, here in Seattle, everybody can sit back
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and enjoy a 1-0 start. A win last night is
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: crazy and unlikely and wild as it was with everything
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that happened. And now we get to watch our two
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: favorite friends, the Rams and the 49ers tonight down under
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in Australia. Give me your thoughts on what you're expecting
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to see tonight.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, when you brought me on, you were
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: talking about the game, and you said that the Seahawks
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: will have a one-game lead over one of them. That's wrong.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: You guys need to root for a tie tonight.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. That's a good point.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, you almost got a tie last night. It
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: should have gone to overtime last night. You guys need
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: to root for a tie tonight. That would be ideal
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: for you. By the way, how perfect is it that
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: a former offensive lineman is being sponsored by Northwest Handling
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  Speaker 4: handling systems. That's me. You know, the Niners, I'll never
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: understand their injuries. It's so brutal. Kittle's going to play,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: but how effective will he be? I saw some video
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: of Bosa. I don't know if he was trying his
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: hardest or not, but he didn't look great to me.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: They're already thin on the D-line, and then they lose
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: their starting D-tackle. Alfred Collins in Australia on Monday to
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: a torn Patel attendant when they were already thin there.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Let me just tell you, the number one position where
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: you don't want to be thin, D-line. D-line. If you
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: watch the last two Super Bowls, the teams that have
• 25:07
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• 25:11
  Speaker 4: are the teams that really go far. The Niners just
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: don't have that. So it might be okay today and tonight,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: and they might win the game tonight, but over time,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: that's just going to wear them down. They're going to
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: have to find a way to get somebody else in there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: By the way, when you do come out here sometimes,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you're doing a game here this year, we'll get you
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually trying to figure out if I can get
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• 25:41
  Speaker 4: a forklift?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: We'll check with those guys.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I want a forklift. I would love to see my
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: wife's reaction if a forklift showed up at our house
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: and was just in the driveway, just a forklift. And
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: she's like, what's going on with the house? What's, Like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: who was here? I'm like, oh, no, I got one.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I did a deal. I got a forklift. That would
• 26:02
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• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Hey, Eric Gordon, if you're listening, Eric Gordon from Northwest
• 26:06
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• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Ross Tucker. Ross, final quick thought from you. Your game
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, one of the premier games this weekend. Buffalo,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: new head coach, same quarterback. Houston, great defense. Seattle Seahawks
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: defense-like and high expectations there. What are you expecting?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Well, it should be an awesome game, I'm hoping, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the Texans really have the Bills' number. I mean, the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Texans have taken it to them the last couple years.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: There's no way around it. So the Bills better have
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: figured out something different or something new. Otherwise, it'll probably
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: look like it did the last couple years.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Have fun. Are you still doing the other stuff, Stu,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the front page, the newspaper thing? What are the coolest
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: things if you're looking for a gift? What else is–
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and you've got the podcast. Tell us what you've got
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: going on besides CBS and some Westwood One.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course. Well, Ross Tucker Football Podcast is daily,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: 26 minutes or less. People love it. Greg Cosell, NFL
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Films legend, was on today. He'll be on tomorrow again. Certainly,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: I've got the Even Money NFL Betting Podcast, which is
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: super popular. The College Draft Podcast is college football betting
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: for people that are into that. And then, yeah, MyFrontPageStory.com. Evidently,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the two most popular months for weddings are September and October,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: which I think is crazy and should be illegal. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: evidently a lot of people get married during football season,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: which means a lot of you have an anniversary coming up.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I can assure you that MyFrontPageStory.com will be the best
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: anniversary gift she has ever gotten. Just go check it out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: You have a story written about how amazing your significant
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: other is for your anniversary. She will cry. You will
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: win MyFrontPageStory.com.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I love it. My daughter's going to get married here
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: sometime soon, I think in the near future, and it
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: better not be in the fall. Like, it better not.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I've got this gig. I do crack and hockey games.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Basically mid-September through April. You've got all summer. You've got May, June, July, August, man.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, Ross. That should be damn illegal. Greg Cosell, too.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I love the fact you have him on. He joins
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: our show every Friday. He's going to be on with
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: us tomorrow, so one of the best out there. Ross,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: safe travels down there to Houston, and we'll talk to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you next week, sir. Thank you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Sounds great. See you guys.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get that forklift out to him. Yeah,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I would love that. Let's get that out there. All right,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: we'll come back with a wrap on hour number one
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: after the Seahawks' big win next.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: He can tell you it will come down to the wire.
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  Speaker 8: It will.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited that I'm already 0-1. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: By half a point.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: By half a point.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And Chuck's 1-0.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Did he have the under? Yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: God.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You know what, though? I'll take the L and the win.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I'll take the Seahawk win and I'll take the L.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: If you had to sacrifice a fact or fiction win
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: to get the Seahawks win.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: All day, every day.
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: Every day.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: You know, Ross mentioned how big a win it was.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And I think that's an interesting perspective, a guy coming from,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you know, that's a national guy. That's a huge win
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: for Seattle. And I think devastating loss for the Patriots
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: because the unthinkable last interception. You have a chance. The
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: ball is in your hand to end the game. That's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the thing. The ball is in your hands to end
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the game. And at worst, you're going to overtime. You're
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: well inside field goal range. At worst, you're going to overtime.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And instead, your quarterback makes that play. I've got to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: give Job credit, though.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That was, because I don't know how you, when you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: were watching it, we were all watching and we're like, ready?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, and I'm like, did he catch it?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And we'll play some of the Kevin Harlan highlights from
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Westwood 1 coming up here at 1 o'clock today, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: nobody does it better than Kevin. Like, same thing. Like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you'll hear him say, did he catch it? He caught it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Was he inbounds? That was a hell of a toe tap, man.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Great catch.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Like, just remarkable. As bad a decision, and as bad
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a throw, and as bad as Drake May was in
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the second half, down the stretch, give Josh Jobe credit.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And how about Rodney Thomas?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The tip to Pritchett for the interception? Yesterday... People are like,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: who the hell? We were questioning it. Corbin was on
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: with me yesterday.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: We're like, this guy over D'Anthony Bell?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why is D'Anthony Bell not playing? Well, you saw,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and Corbin actually did mention it. I should say we
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: questioned it, but he answered it pretty quick. As he
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: pointed out, Rodney Thomas had a lot of starts in
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the NFL in previous stops, Cleveland specifically. So he's played.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: He's played football at this level in the league. Not
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: for a defense like this, not on a stage like
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that necessarily when you're playing back there. But it was
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a Cleveland or Baltimore? Indianapolis, sorry. But nevertheless, guy goes
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: from the practice squad to that. Pritchett goes from a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: guy they had. And I think the old, he uses
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the term true serum all the time, and it's so true.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: But I think the true serum thing here is worth mentioning.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: If you had the true serum, and you asked John
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Schneider and Mike McDonald, Adam Derday, About Nehemiah Pritchard, they'd
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: say before last... Yeah, we got a lot of questions.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That's why we went out and gave up a draft
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: pick next year for a guy that the Chargers were
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: going to cut. That's why we brought in Trevon Diggs,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: although he didn't play last night. He's still on the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: practice squad. That's why we are taking a chance on
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Terry Arnold. We have questions about our cornerback's position. Well,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Job answered one of them, and Nehemiah Pritchard another as well.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you're talking about from the Patriots' perspective, I mean...
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: The narrative is just going to continue about both Drake
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: May and them, about the lack of being able.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: To do it against good teams.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: And that is why it's devastating for them, because they
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: have a much harder schedule this year.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Ross Tucker said something really interesting there.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Far be it from me to ever criticize Mike McDonald.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But I think we all had the same question last night,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that, because I thought it was
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a really interesting answer from Ross. And the fact that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: they were able to overcome something is even better for
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks case yesterday as well. We'll do that here
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: from Kevin Harlan. You know, Sarah's at 1.30. And, oh, yeah,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Brandon Funston coming up at 2 p.m.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Today.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: 4-9-4-5-1.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh Jacobs. Not guilty, right? Bled not guilty.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: No, pled no contest.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: No contest in the misdemeanor. So now it's try to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: get it done early, which is saying you're guilty.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And if you're a fantasy guy, tonight's a big night.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dudes in that game with these
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: two teams. All that coming up.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: Now from the star reynolds sports desk your 93.3 kkrfm sports.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Headlines headlines are brought to you by frostbrook cores light
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: cold as the rocky seahawks win the first game of
• 34:21
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• 34:25
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• 34:28
  Speaker 1: arnold uh injured his hip after the first drive not
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: expected to be out long term but he will be
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: out we'll find out more three o'clock with the news
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: conference from.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: At least one more week has been confirmed.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one more week. He's not going to play against Arizona.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Could have been worse.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Could have been way worse. Actually, I'm going to hold
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: off on that. I want to hear a definitive thing
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: at 3 o'clock. Like, there's too many times in sports,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's like, oh.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like, I don't know. They wouldn't have said.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They got good news yesterday if they didn't get good news.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It wasn't fractured, which is good. It doesn't have anything
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to do with the ligaments or anything else, so that's
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the problem. Also in the NFL, Josh Jacobs, Packers running back,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: put in no contest and misdemeanor charges of battery and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: criminal damage to property during an appearance Thursday in court.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he's coming back right away for you fantasy people,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: but we'll see. New England Patriots wide receiver A.J. Brown
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: believed to have suffered a high ankle sprain last night,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and tonight, Thursday night football on Netflix. Stand by for that.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: We've got the 49ers and the Rams down under. They'll
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: kick off at 10 a.m. Friday morning, which is 5
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: o'clock here in Seattle on the West Coast for those
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: two teams in Australia.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Sunday's a Monday, Monday's a Tuesday.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Monday's a Tuesday, Tuesday's a Wednesday. The Rangers won Game
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: 2 of the series against the Rangers 3-2 yesterday. Game
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: 3 is today. We did the math. We'll get into
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: this with Eno Saris at 1.30. So 16 games left. Anders,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: 16 games left to go. To be a 500 team,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: they need to go 13-3 the rest of the way.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: To go 82-80?
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: We're literally at an NFL season now.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: 82-80? Yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Let me do my math. That would be 14-2, correct?
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Yes. Unlikely.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I would say yes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 36:24
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• 36:27
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• 36:33
  Speaker 1: 49451, I'll maybe check a couple texts this hour because
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to be with Factor Fiction now. We don't
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: have as much time for texts and talkbacks as we
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: used to. Factor Fiction coming up at 235. Oh, I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: didn't mention this. I should mention this. Ezzie Magbigor for
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the Storm suffered a torn ACL during the FIBA World Cup.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: She's going to miss the rest of the season. She's
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: their team captain, one of their team leaders. That's brutal.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: That's too bad. They've had a tough enough year as
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: it is. More importantly, torn ACL now. September.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: What is that, 12 months?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: It's at least 10. So not good news for her.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: It would get well soon. That's a bummer in an
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: international competition.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Tank for Juju.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Tank for Juju, absolutely. Tank for Juju. Okay. Before I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: get back to the Seahawks, before I get to Texas,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: we're here from Kevin Harlan, and we're going to play
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a little soundbite from Ross Tucker that I thought was
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: really interesting from our conversation with him at 1220 today
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: after the Seahawks win yesterday, 4-9-4-5-1. Your thoughts there? What
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: are we doing tonight? Are you subscribing to Netflix or
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: are you just going to go pirate it somewhere? What
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: are you going to do?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm going to try and find a
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: local watering hole.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I told you, man. There's shows on there worth watching.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: There's no way.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: There's shows on there worth watching. How much is Netflix
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: a month?
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: It's probably like 15 bucks a month now.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you're making the big money now. That
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: should be no problem.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Staying with ads, $ 8.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: 99.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: It's actually not that bad.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not bad. What do you subscribe to?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just got Hulu. You're a streamer.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I just got Hulu Live TV. So that gives you everything.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It doesn't give you Netflix. It doesn't give you the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: game tonight.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: But it gives you everything else.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I will be streaming tonight.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, you will.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Ian Furness, the streamer.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: So proud of myself. So proud of myself. Ross is right, though. Yeah,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: a tie would be great. It's unlikely.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Leave it to the. football linemen to bring up ties.
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: Ties.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Give me a tie. Give me a tie tonight. Give
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: me a tie.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I also could tell your question about Jadarian Price was
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: coming from a Kiefer side of things. He very much like, hey,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: offensive linemen love blocking for this guy.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: How he runs, how patient. Well, it's all the things
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: we heard. And yesterday we had Cosell on preview. Greg's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: going to join us, by the way, tomorrow to kind
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: of look back on the game. Can't wait for that.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Greg Cosell was talking about just the gliding.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And he saw that. Yeah, he kind of compared him
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to Sean Alexander. He's not as big or as thick
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: as Sean. And I totally, when I watched yesterday, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: saw that comp 100%. And then the explosiveness. And that
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: first run was... That first run was just such a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: thing to whet your appetite as a Seahawks fan. Like,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: 13 yards, waited, found the hole, way he went. It
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: was really cool to see.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Just give me more of him.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen. We had George Helani on during training camp,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: and I really liked the guy. I love the story.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I love undrafted free agents. Not just make a team once,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: but carve out a career. And that's what he has done. Like,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: he's done that. But there's just no... no doubt whether
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: it was Walker last year even to a certain extent
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Charbonnet and definitely Jadarian Price he didn't have the same
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: juice these guys have but they trust him and I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: did you know we were talking about the last night
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: watching the game with all the boys and I was
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: like yeah they asked about Helani in the two minute
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: offense Walker was never in the two minute offense It
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: was never one. In fact, a lot of times, I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: think I look back, I don't know how much Lynch
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: was in a two-minute offense with Pete. A lot of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: times that was Robert Turbin or somebody like that. So
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: everyone has their role, but I want to see more
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price. He had 10 carries for 52 yards.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: A couple catches, too.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Two catches. So he ended up having 12 touches when
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: it was all said and done. There's something there. There's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: something there.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Give me 20.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Give me 20 a day. Or 20 a game.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: 20 touches? Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: 16 and 4?
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Something like that?
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, he caught both catches. Nothing burgers. I mean,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: his long catch was four yards. But still, he caught
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the ball.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Get a little music for me. A little NFL music.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I don't have the Westwood one.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Just give me some NFL music. CBS is fine.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Perfect. You've got to go back and forth.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Equal opportunity here on this station.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I think we all agree. I think we all agree
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: that Kevin Harlan's as good as there is in calling,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: whatever he calls. Guy running on the field, an NBA game,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: an NCAA tournament game, or anything in the NFL. He
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: was on the call last night for Westwood One. You'll
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: hear Westwood One's coverage tonight of the Thursday night football
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: game and Sunday night football and Monday night football. We
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: have all the Westwood One games coming up for you
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: here on KJR. Let's start with, God, what a play.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, what? We were talking about this before the
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: show today. If we want to just give a little
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: love to JSN for a second. This dude is... I
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: don't understand how you can be the Offensive Player of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: the Year, and yet, I don't know if the word
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: is underappreciated. He just flies under the radar nationally.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, Mike Tomlin literally said his name wrong twice
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: in the pregame show.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Exactly, yeah. Because Mike Tomlin just called guys by their number.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: That's number 11. I thought Mike Tomlin was really good, though.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: He was. I liked him.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I thought he was really good.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Besides the JNS.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Chris Collinsworth was god-awful. I thought he
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: was just like.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: You're not a Collinsworth guy.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I just don't think he did his homework.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I think he knew everything he needed to know and
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: then some about New England. And I'm not, listen, I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: not the guy, because I know people years, I'd be
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: covering a game and I'd see stuff on Twitter, I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: hate Joe Buck and I hate Troy Aikman, I hate
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: all those guys. I'm usually not that guy. I just
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: feel like Collinsworth just really didn't do his Seahawk homework.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I think he watched a couple episodes of Hard Knocks
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and that was it. Because it was, he knew everything
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: about the Patriots. And that's a hard thing to do,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to know both sides. But I just thought he was...
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I thought Tomlin was a star, though. And I was
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: never a Dungy fan. I never liked what they did
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: on the set with NBC. It looked a lot better
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: this time. It looked better. Yeah, I thought Tomlin was great.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: But I mentioned JSN. He just kind of... He had
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: five catches in the first... Five targets in the first half.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: He was there. But with a backup quarterback, you're like, eh.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So the Seahawks are facing... a 4th-and-1 after Emmanuel Wilson
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: got stuffed on 3rd-and-1 at the New England 45. So
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you're not kicking a field goal there. You're down by 7.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: It's a 10-3 game. What do you do?
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: 4th-and-1.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, they dialed up this little ditty. Here we go.
• 42:54
  Speaker 11: 45-yard line in New England. Fourth and one under center lock.
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: Fakes the handoff.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Throws a pass.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: Caught. 40-yard line.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Breaking the tackle.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: 35-30.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: It's Jackson, Smith, and Jigba.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: 15, 10, 5.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Touchdown.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Touchdown, Seattle.
• 43:11
  Speaker 12: 45-yard catch and run by the explosive Jackson, Smith, and Jigba.
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: Fourth and one.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: An extra point will tie early.
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: In the fourth.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Is he good?
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: So good, man.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: If you were in the stadium last night, 4-9-4-5-1, that
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: feels like one of those moments that you have maybe
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: a couple dozen times a year at Lumen Field where
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the place feels like it just could crumble to the ground.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Like just absolutely crumble to the ground. The other one
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: where it felt like the place might crumble to the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: ground was later in the fourth quarter, Seattle holding on
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to a 13-10 lead. We're destined for overtime. If you're lucky,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Seattle's getting to overtime, we're thinking. Third and five at
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the 16. Drake May, third and five at the 16.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: All you need to do is get to fourth down
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: if you don't get the touchdown because you'll kick a
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: field goal and go to overtime. Here's what happened.
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: If you don't get it here on third down, you
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: take the three and go to overtime. Third down five.
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: Patriots down by three. 26 seconds to go. Shotgun snap
• 44:22
  Speaker 11: to May. Moved down to the pocket. Throws a pass.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: End zone.
• 44:26
  Speaker 12: Intercepted in the end zone. Was he inbounds? Intercepted by Jobe.
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: Seattle has picked off May. They've done it again. The
• 44:42
  Speaker 12: defense of Seattle has.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Done it again.
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: Drake May has thrown his third interception in this quarter.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And he was inbounds in the end zone. And Seattle
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: is going to win it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: Wow is right.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: That was one of those plays where everybody in Seattle
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: is collectively holding their breath.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Because you see the catch and all you're wondering were
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the two feet inbounds. And they were. Hard to tell
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: on the opposite side, too, right? Really hard to tell.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: And really, it doesn't matter. I mean, yeah, it's extreme.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: And where that broadcast location is, it's impossible. It's also
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: impossible to read numbers from where he's at.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: The cool thing is there's some video online, I think
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Westwood won's Twitter account, that the National Radio booth, they've
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: got a bunch of booths, but one of the ones
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: they use often is right next to the visitor's coach's box,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and you can see the Patriots coach's All kind of
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: get up.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: They're pissed.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Put their headsets down and start walking down towards the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: elevator to go downstairs. Ball game. Josh Jobe. Little Jobe Jail, baby.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Jobe Jail.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: You can't escape Jobe Jail. You can't escape Jobe Jail.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: You cannot. A legion of whom? Josh Jobe, Nehemiah Pritchett,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Rodney Thomas.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, Matt Collins, maybe put some shoes on next time.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: That might help you. You weirdo.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Freak, put some shoes on next time.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: He made some plays, though.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Eh, they scored 10 points.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: They scored 10 points.
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, that just is
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a massive, just a massive play by Job Jail and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks secondary. I mean, again, your heroes, Job Jail,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Nehemiah Pritchett, Rodney Thomas. You expect it from Julian Love.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Just incredible, though. Absolutely incredible. Great
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: call by Kevin Harlan. CX went at 13-10 when it's
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: all said and done. Ross Tucker on with us. He'll
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: join us every Thursday. I should mention that Kevin Harlan
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: and Kurt Warner, who you heard as a voice at
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the start there, Kurt Warner was on yesterday with Softie,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: but Kevin Harlan's on every Wednesday with Softie during the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: football season. I think Wednesdays or Thursdays? He might have
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: just said on yesterday and it's Thursdays. We'll find out.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: I think it is Wednesdays normally.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Is it Wednesdays?
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Great Kevin Harlan on with him every week. but Ross
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Tucker's joining us every week this year, brought to you
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: by Northwest Handling Systems. We had him on earlier today.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: He's the number two, and I didn't want to pump
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: it up. Listen, reality is he's the number two guy.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He got bumped up a spot because Tony Romo's a knucklehead,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: but he's working with Ian Eagle. He's a great analyst.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: You hear him on Westwood one all the time, but
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: he's doing the TV with it. He's got the Houston-Buffalo
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: game this weekend. So we're talking to Ross on our
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: first visit, and I think a lot of us were thinking,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: were questioning, and again, God, it's so weird. Mike McDonald's
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: a genius, far be it from any of us to
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: question him. And it's always funny because 99.9% of the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: people that are in sports radio or a sports fan
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: or sports media or do a podcast or anything have
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: never played the game and certainly have never called a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: game as a coordinator, a play caller, offensive or defensive coordinator.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: But sometimes there's something that's like universal, right? that everyone's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: asking themselves. And that was the case last night. Devin
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon just got paid a zillion dollars. And he is
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: arguably your best defensive player. He's paid like that. And yet,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: all night, well, for about three quarters of the night,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: they're sending him. We'll talk about this with Greg Cosell tomorrow.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to spend some time with Greg Cosell on
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: this and get his thoughts. But Here comes 21, here
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: comes 21, and they're picking it up every time, and
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: they're dumping it off. And we're like, what the hell, man? Like,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: why is, are we going to change something? Mike, what
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: are we doing? And, again, questioning Mike McDonald feels like
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: one of the dumbest things you could do in sports media.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: It really is. But asking someone who does know the
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: sport about that seems to make a little bit more sense.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Here's Ross Tucker last hour.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: There's no doubt in my mind. that Josh McDaniels was
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: a step ahead of Mike McDonald last night. There's no doubt.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many times did they bring Witherspoon and
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: the Patriots were running a quick screen behind it right
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: where Witherspoon was coming from? It felt like the Patriots
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: had a bead on what McDonald and the Seahawks defense
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: wanted to do. It's actually surprising to me and pretty
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: impressive that they only gave up 10 points, considering the
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: fact that I felt like on some level, McDaniels, especially
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: the first three quarters, McDaniels was ahead of McDonald. He
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: had a really good feel for what McDonald was trying
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: So we'll ask Greg about that tomorrow because what changed
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter? Three interceptions. And I'll go back
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: to a year ago, that 49er game. Me and others,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: not just me, foolishly questioned a couple things in that
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: first 49er game last year. Mine was like, hey, you're
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: in a defensive coach. You're kind of like, let's play
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: tough guy football. You're kicking field goals and punting. And
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: not going for it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that's odd. And they lost that
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: first game. Just kind of felt like they were out
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: of sync the entire time. And I know it's the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: first game. But here's a pro tip for you. Wait
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Wait for it. Here's the deal. 32 teams in the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: NFL are playing their first game this weekend.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that?
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? But I remember last year we
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: had that question. So they're 0-1-1. Well, then they just
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: end up going 14-2 the rest of the year.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Pretty good.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say good.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Pretty good. Yeah.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: He figured it out. Maybe Mike McDonald just doesn't like
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: first games. But it just seemed odd last night. And
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: then when it mattered the most, his defense, whether it
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: was his doing, his scheming, Adin Derde, whoever it was,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: his defense stepped up. And I'm going to go down
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the road of this for a second. I want you
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to jump in here in a minute, Anders. But I'll
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: go down this road. For me, I know Drake Mays
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: getting just killed across the country. And the two decisions,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: the Pritchett interception and the Jobe jail interception, just seem
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: inexplicable and just moronic on his part. At the same time,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the players have to make the plays. And Seattle's players
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: didn't make the plays. So I want to give Seattle
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: some credit there. I want to give Jobe credit for sure.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Great catch, great toe tap, everything about it. He was
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: blanketing Matt Collins. Again, easier to cover a guy because
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: he didn't have shoes. But you got that going on.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: And then the Pritchett-Roddy Thomas interception. Like, that was it.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: That might have been even worse. If not for the
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: fact that, you know, time and score and all that.
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, the situation.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: That might have been a worse play.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Because Joe made just an incredible play, but.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: It was double coverage.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: But I want to give the Seahawks credit and Mike
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: McDowell credit for that. You got a thought.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I totally agree with Ross Tucker with
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: his take that, at least from the play-culling side of things,
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: Josh McDaniels was ahead... of Mike McDonald. And you could
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: tell that was a game plan for the Seahawks. They
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: knew it worked in the Super Bowl. They blitzed Witherspoon
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: quite a bit. And it got to Drake May. He
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: wasn't great at handling the pressure. But they did a
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: much better job this time, the Patriots did, in handling that.
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: But I almost take more positives from yesterday in the
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: fact that Mike McDonald was out play-called by his opposition,
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: but they only scored 10 points. And that goes to
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: tell you that coaching is more than just play-calling. It's
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: putting guys in position to succeed. Now, some of that
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: is having the right play call, ready to go. But
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: at the same time, your other guys, if the blitz
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: doesn't get home, you have to execute one-on-one on the
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: back end. And the guys absolutely did that. They made
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: the tackles when they needed to. And no one got
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: beat over the top. It was really the only time
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: they did was the flea flicker. And Drake may still
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: under through that.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: And I hated that call, by the way.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I hated that call. You just under throw a ball.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: It's stupid.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was Job, too, right? It was Job,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I think it was, yes.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: It was Job. And he looked back. He went back
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: for the ball, and the receiver goes in. I kind
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: of hate that. If it goes for you, you love it.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: If it goes against you, you hate it.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I just hate the penalty enforcement in the NFL. You know,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I hate the fact that it's spot foul and all
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: that stuff. But yeah, no, listen, when it had to happen,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the defense stepped up. And I think, and we'll get
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: your thoughts and takeaways here as the day goes on
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: as well. We've got to get to it in a minute.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: But one of the things that, you know, Ross talked
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: about what a big game it was, what a big
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: win it was for Seattle. I'll add one other thing.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: You know why it was big? Because they didn't play well.
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: They didn't play well. And yet, not playing well, they
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: still held the Patriots to under 300 yards of offense
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: and to 10 points, based a lot on the turnovers.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: But not playing well, they did those things. Like they still,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: the upside is massive. Now we'll get to watch two
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: teams tonight. And let's be honest, if you're the Patriots
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: or the Seahawks, That is not a soft landing.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: That is a hard, hard game to start the season with,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: and that's yet what they had to do. And so
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: let's see what tonight looks like and the rest of
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: the weekend. But you didn't play great. You still found
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: a way to win. You've now won 11 straight games,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: including playoffs, dating back to last year. And a lot
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: of those games we think about are like what we
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: just saw. Like, just how did that happen? Oh, he
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: picked up the ball at the goal line and walked in.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: That's weird.
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, Rasheed Shaheed. Rasheed Shaheed looked tentative.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: And yet they won the game. A couple of big
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: plays by Cooper Cupp, too.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I just, I mean, God. Like one guy, two guys,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: maybe JSA makes that catch. But, I mean, my God.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Just throw it up for Cooper. Let him go grab
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: with one arm. Make a play. Just make a play.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not putting up 10 catches and 130 yards anymore.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: No, make a play.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: But I'll make a play. I'll just go make a
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: play that other human beings can't make. Yeah, incredible night.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to, we'll talk a little baseball
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: for a second. Don't forget our guy Funston coming up today,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: 2 o'clock. Let's go. A lot of questions, I bet,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: concerning Sam Darnold. Do you pick up Drew Locke? Do you?
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Coming up at 2 o'clock.
• 55:28
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• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Eno Saris, the Athletic Rates and Barrels podcast. Joining us
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Take a little
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: break from Seahawk conversation after the big win yesterday. We'll
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: get to your texts at 49451. Your thoughts on last night.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: here before the hour is over, but Eno, thanks for
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: joining us. How are you, my friend?
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: I'm doing great.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Better than our baseball team here, it appears. If you're
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: doing great, that's significantly better than a team that has
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: to finish 13-3. to end the season in the final
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: 16 to finish just at 581-81, which I'm guessing will
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: not be good enough for a wild card. Maybe it
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: would be good enough for the AL West. Kind of
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: doubt it. I know you guys talked about it on
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the Rates and Barrels podcast. What do you guys see
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: with this team?
• 56:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think they needed to turn it on earlier
• 56:55
  Speaker 13: than this. In the past, you've seen just about one
• 57:00
  Speaker 13: pennant race that has any hope for them, which is
• 57:04
  Speaker 13: the time the Mets lost a 17 game lead or something,
• 57:08
  Speaker 13: a seven game lead in, in, in late September, it
• 57:11
  Speaker 13: was the Phillies came on, you know, that was, that
• 57:14
  Speaker 13: was somewhat similar, but that Mets team was above 500
• 57:18
  Speaker 13: when the whole thing started. And, uh, you know, this doesn't,
• 57:21
  Speaker 13: this doesn't feel like it's headed that direction. So a
• 57:25
  Speaker 13: little bit more starts. I wonder, you know, how did
• 57:28
  Speaker 13: this end up being the worst offense in baseball and
• 57:31
  Speaker 13: Despite the fact that if you look at projections, they're
• 57:34
  Speaker 13: supposed to have six, seven, eight above average players with
• 57:39
  Speaker 13: the stick. So there's a disconnect there.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: And Houston already won today, I should point out. So
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: they're already half game back from where they are, depending
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: on what happens the rest of the day. Worst offense
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: in baseball? Explain, because you look at different numbers. I mean,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: some people look at the very basics, average, RBI, home run,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: on-base percentage, slugging, OPS, that stuff. Worst offense in baseball,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: in what way?
• 58:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I guess just brass taxes in terms of runs.
• 58:10
  Speaker 13: And so that's where it does become an issue that
• 58:15
  Speaker 13: the park is a factor there. If you look at
• 58:18
  Speaker 13: park-adjusted numbers, they are merely 15th. But, you know, it's
• 58:24
  Speaker 13: still runs that require that you need to win games.
• 58:29
  Speaker 13: You can't park adjust your way to a win. And
• 58:33
  Speaker 13: I think that's where a little bit of the, that's
• 58:36
  Speaker 13: part of the disconnect is just the ongoing conversation we're
• 58:38
  Speaker 13: always having about, you know, how to deal with T-Mobile
• 58:42
  Speaker 13: and how to win with a park like they've got.
• 58:47
  Speaker 13: And I think they have to put, you know, on
• 58:49
  Speaker 13: the table the questions about, Could we make alterations to
• 58:54
  Speaker 13: the park to make it play more fair? What you've
• 58:56
  Speaker 13: seen in San Francisco is an effort to do that.
• 58:59
  Speaker 13: They made Triple Valley smaller. They've done some things with
• 59:04
  Speaker 13: the walls there. In fact, most of the places that
• 59:07
  Speaker 13: have been really extreme hitters, at pitcher's parks have done
• 59:11
  Speaker 13: something to try and make.
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: It a little bit easier to hit.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I just looked at that number when you said the
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: runs scored. They've scored, what is it, 44 runs less
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: than the A's? My God.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, the A's.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: They played in a AAA ballpark.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: But still, can you justify... I wonder how you balance that.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: We talk about this starting staff for Seattle all the time.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul, right? Because
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you base your stuff on pitching, and yet you might
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: want to try to help your offense in your own
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: home ballpark. I wonder how you could balance that.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 59:52
  Speaker 13: I mean, you still have 81 games on the road, right?
• 59:56
  Speaker 13: You don't want to You don't want to build a
• 59:58
  Speaker 13: team that doesn't work on the road. I did discover
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 13: something interesting in the bat stance and bat speed numbers.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 13: So they swing the bat almost exactly as fast as
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 13: a team as the Brewers, right? And, you know, that
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 13: is like, you know, The Brewers are sixth, and the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 13: Mariners are eighth. So that speed itself is not necessarily
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 13: a problem. Now, then it comes to another way you
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 13: can organize teams is tilt. So the Dodgers are the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 13: scoopiest team. They like tilt. They like to have a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 13: slightly uppercut swing, and that's treated them well. The Tigers
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 13: have Riley Green, who has this huge uppercut swing. But
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 13: then there's the Angels, Pirates, and Rockies. Those are the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 13: scoopy teams. On the other side are the Brewers and Mariners.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 13: They have flatter swings. But, again, Brewers and Mariners right
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 13: next to each other. They're in a deadlock tie for
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 13: the same flatness of swing and in terms of bat speed.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 13: Where they differ is that the Brewers hit opposite field.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 13: Their average attack direction is to the opposite field. The
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 13: Mariners are to the pull side. Now, pull side is
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 13: where power is. Pull it in the air. Pull it
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 13: in the air for power. That is, you know, you
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 13: look at the slugging percentage to your pull side, it's
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 13: like 200 points higher than the slugging percentage to your
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 13: opposite field. That is incontrovertible, and it leaves a lot
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: of people to say, okay, we need to pull for power.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 13: But the Brewers have gone the other direction and said, no,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 13: we need to spray this around to get on base,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 13: to get hits, to get on base, and to be
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 13: hard to defend. It's really worked for them as a group.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 13: And what it's also done is it's made them more clutch.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 13: There's a good piece on, it's not Grantland anymore. I
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 13: forget where he is now. What's the Simmons type?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: Is it the ringer?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 13: Yeah, the ringer. Ben Lindberg on the ringer wrote about
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 13: how the Brewers are the most clutch team of all
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 13: time in baseball. For six or seven years in a row,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 13: they've been the most clutch team in baseball, and teams
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 13: don't do that. You're clutch one year, you're not clutch
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 13: the next. It's one of those things that goes up
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 13: and down. The Brewers have been clutch for six or
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 13: seven years, and I think the hypothesis is they go
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 13: the other way on the fastball. And then in big
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 13: moments when there's people on base, pitchers tend to go
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 13: to the breaking balls and the softer stuff, and that's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 13: when they pull those for power. Because if you go
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 13: the other way on the fastball, you can be in
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 13: front on the breaking ball. In any case, I just
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 13: wanted to bring this up, that the Brewers and Mariners
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 13: are similar in so many ways when it comes to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: how they're built, and yet the Brewers have had a
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 13: lot more success.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: Brewers have a different home park. There's a different.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 13: Situation for them. maybe there's something to learn there. Maybe
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 13: this sort of old-school, spray-it-around mentality.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: Would be better for them as a team.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Brewers have only won 91 games this year, so it
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: must be working at least a little bit.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: Might be something to learn from them, right?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Might be okay for them along the way. I mean,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: it just probably speaks to what could happen in the offseason.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone here wants Wilson fired, and everyone wants,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: you know, let's get some heads going and heads rolling.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, they let go their number three hitting coach
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: earlier this year, but It sounds like a hitting philosophy,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: hitting coach, whatever it might be, and organizational philosophy as well.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: And we'll see what the offseason brings if it ends
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: sooner than we were expecting this season. You know, Sarah's
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  Speaker 1: real quick on Bryce Miller for a second with you.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about him a lot this year, and you
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: look at all the intricate numbers, the spin rates and
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: velocity and different things that make sense. He just seems
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: to be struggling so bad right now. And we saw
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: it again the other night, a short outing, got hit
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: around a little bit. What does Bryce Miller need to do?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Is he still capable of being a high-end starter for
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: this team?
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 13: I think he needs to go get those bone chips
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  Speaker 13: out of his elbow, man. Because when he was hurting
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 13: last year, and he's not pointing to it as an
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: excuse right now, But I wouldn't be surprised if it's
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 13: affecting his command because when he was hurting with them
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 13: and he was openly talking about it last year, he
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 13: said the thing that it affected most was his fastball
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 13: command and his command in general. If you look at
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 13: his stuff, it's been pretty good in terms of– I
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 13: know that he did lose some below off of the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 13: early 97s that he was throwing when he first came back.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: But he's been a pretty steady 95, 96 guy since. And,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 13: you know, in terms of stuff plus, which looks at,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: you know, the shapes of his pitches too, he's been
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 13: an above average stuff plus guy. What has happened was
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 13: early on, he was putting up great command numbers. And
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: then lately he has three of his last five games
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 13: below average command. And then if you break it down
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 13: as a fastball, he's three straight games of poor fastball command.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 13: And the worst fastball command of the year has been
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  Speaker 13: basically in this last stretch. So, You know, I put
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  Speaker 13: two and two together. He says last year I'm hurting,
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  Speaker 13: and it's affecting my fastball command the most. I look
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 13: at the numbers, and I say his fastball command is
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 13: the number one thing that's missing right now. So I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 13: would say, you know, when the– and the benefit of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 13: this surgery is that it's not TJ. It's not six months.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 13: It's not, you know, it's not a full year. You know,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 13: he could get the surgery and maybe only be a
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 13: little bit behind going into next spring.
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  Speaker 4: Got it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happens.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you'd just make a decision soon to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: shut him down. I mean, you're still kind of in it,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: so maybe not, but it just feels like that would
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: be the wise move along the way. And other options.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: You might.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you might.
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  Speaker 4: Sloan? Hello? Yeah, sure. Yeah, let's.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Go see Sloan!
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 13: Let's go see Sloan!
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got the other toys up here. We
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: got Arroyo and Montez up here. I don't know if
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: you saw Montez's home run the other night. I mean,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: they got.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 13: Oh, my God! Everyone saw that thing. Oh my God.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: 470 feet.
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  Speaker 13: And Cade, Cade had a good start.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: I was happy to see that. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Montez is, what do you, when you, when you watch
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: this guy, I mean, there's been, and it's so unfair
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: to compare him to Jordan Alvarez, but, but when, when
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: you watch him, what, what do you see with the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: kid that's only played, what is it? 10 games or
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: something like that so far? What do you see with him?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 13: I mean, he's really aggressive, but I need to see
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 13: is what the plate approach looks like when he calms
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 13: down a little bit. Because he had these, like, he
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 13: had really good walk rates.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: In the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 13: And will he settle in and be a guy that
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 13: strikes out 30% of the time but has, like, a 12%
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 13: walk rate and is a big three-two outcome guy? that
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 13: would be really great. Right now, it looks like he
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 13: might have to scare pitchers into a walk rate because
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 13: he's been swinging stuff outside of the zone a ton.
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  Speaker 4: He swings a ton.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 13: But it's early going. You're going to be pressing. As
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 13: a kid, you're jumping right into a team that wants
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 13: offense more than anything else, and you want to show
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 13: everybody what you've got. So I want to see... when
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 13: he calms down, what his swing metrics look like and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 13: what his walk rate looks like. Because I do think
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 13: it'll matter. If he doesn't do the walks, then he
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 13: might be a low OVP, big slugger. If he gets
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 13: those walks up there, I kind of think a little
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 13: bit like Chris Davis with a C. He's a guy
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: who struck out 30% of the time, but he scared
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 13: everybody into walking him. And people might not remember Chris
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 13: Davis fondly, because of how it ended. And, you know,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 13: it wasn't the greatest end because once you stop scaring people,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 13: they don't walk you as much. But prime Chris Davis
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 13: in Baltimore, 53 homers, 26, 47 homers, 38 homers, 26 homers.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 13: So there was a guy who put.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Up homers in bunches.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 13: And he had some good years of 360 OBP, 370 OBP.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 13: So that's a guy that comes to mind for me.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 13: if he doesn't end up calming down and he's always
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 13: super aggressive. But if he does, if he doesn't get,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 13: you know, sort of get calm and start taking those walks, then,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 13: you know, there's a little bit more ceiling there.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Only one walk in 20 plate appearances so far up here.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Right to barrels podcast. You got, I think you have
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: something on the young guys looking ahead to 2027 with
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: including at least one.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Mariner, right?
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 13: We, we were, we were picking different young pitchers and
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 13: hitters that, we want for next year. And then today
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 13: we did an autopsy on the Angels and what went
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 13: wrong with them. some relevant AL West information for your list.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Can you do one for the Mariners?
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that next week? Is ours next week?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: Well, we're waiting.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 13: We're going to do autopsies on everyone eventually, so we're
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 13: doing the ones that are definitely out there.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, definitely. That's the key word, apparently. Thanks, Eno. Appreciate it.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Keep your hat up.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Edo Saris joining us. When we come back, we'll pay
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a little tribute to a guy that passed away yesterday.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Actually has some local ties. And then don't forget, you
• 1:09:39
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• 1:09:40
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  Speaker 1: have here, the passing of Barry Melrose yesterday in our
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  Speaker 1: 25-plus years, was the face of hockey at ESPN. Even
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  Speaker 1: when they didn't have hockey on the network for a while,
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  Speaker 1: he was still there front and center carrying the torch.
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  Speaker 1: And he passed away yesterday after suffering for a while
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: with Parkinson's disease. He was 70 years old. Also has
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: a local tie here. He coached the Seattle Thunderbirds for
• 1:11:15
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• 1:11:24
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• 1:11:27
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• 1:11:32
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• 1:11:38
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• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Many people called him, and it's interesting because Paul Bissonette
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: does this now, many people called him the kind of
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley of the NHL analyst world. And he kind
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: of was. Barkley himself said he was the best analyst
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: on TV, best studio analyst on TV. And just a
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: debt of gratitude if you're a hockey fan, even a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: casual hockey fan, you owe Barry Melrose a big thank
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: you and a tip of the cap and a stick
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• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: a long time. When that network was by and large
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: ignoring hockey, but they couldn't ignore it because they had
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Barry on staff. And it's unfortunate that when they did
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: get hockey back a few years ago and they did
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: get back to the NHL world, the Parkinson's was already
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: kind of getting into him and so he was unable
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: to continue on. And that's too bad. But rest in peace,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Barry Melrose, former Seattle Thunderbird coach and Long time, long
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: time ESPN analyst who did so much for the game
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: and to grow the game in our country from Saskatchewan,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: small town in Saskatchewan, but he made it big time
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: along the way. So thoughts go out to Barry's family
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: and everybody at the ESPN family as well. I know
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: it's been a hard day for Linda Cohn and Steve
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Levy and others, Bucci and others that knew him so well.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back. We
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  Speaker 1: are moments away from the first. The first of the year.
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  Speaker 1: The first regular season visit of the year. The first
• 1:12:58
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• 1:13:02
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• 1:13:06
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  Speaker 1: of season 13-10 against the Patriots. Sam Donald's hurt. More
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  Speaker 1: at 3 o'clock when Mike McDonald speaks to the media.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, hey. Mariners won game two of the
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  Speaker 1: series against the Rangers yesterday, 3-2, but even Eno Serra
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: says it doesn't matter. Like, he was like Sheehan put
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  Speaker 1: him to bed a long time ago.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 1: Eno's been pretty optimistic.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he has.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't the case today.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: NFL tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Rams. Niners.
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  Speaker 1: Right here on KJR. Can't wait. Let's go. 520. 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: In Australia.
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  Speaker 1: So dumb. We're rooting for a tie, according to Ross Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Melrose, former NHL player, coach, beloved hockey analyst at
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  Speaker 1: ESPN for 25 years, former Seattle Thunderbird coach, died Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: He was 70 years old. With that, Anders, 206-286-9595 or 49451.
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  Speaker 6: I really will.
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  Speaker 1: Week one, NFL season, one game in the books, which
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: was like a nothing burger for fantasy owners, unless you're
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: a Seahawks defensive guy or a JSN owner, right? Outside
• 1:15:39
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• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: The first of many weeklies as we head into the
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: En route to the other side of the mountains for
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  Speaker 3: try to get to Monroe and get into the Fred
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• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: a little bit like Drew Locke getting thrown into the fire.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to try to manage the clock and
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: not turn it over today. You know, kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Great analogy. Thank you, Mrs. Funston, for being considerate of
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  Speaker 1: So here's how we do it. We take phone calls
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• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Last couple of years, it was 1 p.m. Actually, last
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: year was 1 p.m. Before that, it was 12. But basically,
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• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: come in before that, they're not going to get read.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: We've got some good controversy going today, which I'll post
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: to you guys in a minute. I'll read the earliest text.
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  Speaker 1: Anders at 49451. You can text him right now, 49451.
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  Speaker 1: He'll read the later texts. All your questions, trade, start, sit, drop, add,
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• 1:17:16
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  Speaker 1: will answer your questions. But we always start with phone calls, 206-286-9595.
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  Speaker 1: And we start with Mike in Edmonds. Man, it's a
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  Speaker 6: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 9: Hi, Ian. Hi, Brendan.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be back.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 9: Based on what Brandon said, I should go for a
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 9: ball control offense.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: All right. Hey, real quick. This is not a complaint
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 9: against Anders, but I just really need to give a
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 9: shout out to Jessamyn. She is just the best.
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  Speaker 1: She is.
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  Speaker 3: She is.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the 10. For people wondering, she's on the
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: 10 to 12 show now with Greg Bell. But yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: What's your question, Mike?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 9: I just found that out today. Okay. I need just
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 9: one of these guys. And I'm not only concerned about
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: what their value is for Sunday, but what you think
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 9: their value is for the rest of the year. So
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 9: here we go. Jordan Mason, Chris Godwin, Alec Pierce, Rico Daddle,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: or Chuba Hubbard. And as always, thank you for doing this.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: And remind me, Mike, is this a PPR?
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: Okay. And so it's... Pierce, Dowdle, Jordan Mason, and who
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: are the other two?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: Godwin and Hubbard.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: You know, in the PPR, I'm actually going to lean
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: Chris Godwin, Jalen McMillan. hasn't been that healthy. Abuka has
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: been dealing with the toe injury. And I just like
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: the upside of the amount of points to be scored
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: in that Cincinnati game. So give me Chris Godwin.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: All right, Chris Godwin it is. That's Mike and Edmunds. Again,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: a tradition like no other. I look on this call screen, Brandon,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: it would put a tear in your eye, my friend.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Guess who's next?
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: I know who it is.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, you know who it is. We're heading to Tacoma.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: It is Ricky in Tacoma.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm the dog, dude. What's going on?
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, saving all my money.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 14: I'm playing six leagues every year, you know, saving all
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 14: my money so I can buy the Mariners. Just to
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 14: put Jeff Nelson in the top 50.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. Even better.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Even better.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: I did have a good team, man.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you got?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: All right, man.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 14: Good to hear everybody back, and thanks for doing this again. Okay,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 14: this league, okay, standard scoring, Brandon. I got three pass catches,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 14: and I need the best two. Isaiah Likely, Juwan Johnson. the,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 14: you know, saints and then Corlin Sutton, what would be
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 14: the best two out of three this week?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm okay.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I do. Uh, I'm going to
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: go Juwan Johnson for sure. He's looking like the number
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: two pass catcher there without Jordan Tyson out. That's a
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: high over under 50.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: It has a high over under that Detroit game could be,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: could be track me. Um, I do like Isaiah likely
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: a lot. It's kind of the same situation with the giants.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: He could be an even better situation if Malik neighbors
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: doesn't play. And right now it's not certain that he
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: is going to play. So if Malik neighbors doesn't play,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: you'd go with Isaiah likely. Otherwise I would go with
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: Cortland Sutton in that likely spot. And I'm a hundred
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: percent behind you on that. Jeff, Jeff Nelson sentiment.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: A hundred percent. Ricky, Ricky Tacoma. Great to hear your voice,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: my friend. Well, let's see how this goes. You can't
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: be 0-1 yet, but we'll see. Welcome back, Rob and Burian. Hello, Rob.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 10: Well, good news, I have the Seahawks, which is probably
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 10: the only good thing to happen to me this whole weekend.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 10: And I have McCaffrey, so rest assured, Seahawks fans, we're
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 10: good to go.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: McCaffrey's bound to get hurt, and I've got him too.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: I heard that you had him, Rob, and I almost
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: started to cry. I was like, no way. No chance.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: My God.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: What's your question, Rob?
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 10: Do we go any two of these running backs, please? B.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 10: John Robinson, Javante Williams, Kenny Gainwell, and Aaron Jones. And
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 10: is that Jacoby dude going to play?
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: Jacoby. Oh, Jacoby. Jacory Kroski-Merritt, groin injury. I think he's
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: going to play, but... The Dijon, obviously you're not sitting
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: Dijon ever. And then Dallas going against the Giants, you've
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: got to love Javante Williams as well. That should be
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: a high-scoring game. It should be more scoring on the
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: Dallas side. So I like Javante Williams' chances of getting
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: the end zone. So those are the two with the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: bullet there.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That's Rob and Burian. We
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: just continue rolling along. This is called the Salton Two-Step.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: We'll start with Stephen and Salton. You're first up. What's up, Stephen?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 4: I'm only about three minutes from Brandon right now in
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: Monroe hanging out.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: Answer your question from a couple days ago, too, Ian.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 13: DraftKings is at the Tulalip Casino.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Ah, okay, okay. So they are in all 50 states.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. There you go. That's why
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: we've got correspondents up in Snohomish County, like Steven and Salton.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: All right, so I.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 13: Need three of these.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 4: One's a flex, but two wide receivers. Neighbors, DJ Moore,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: Mike Evans. Michael Wilson or Michael Pittman.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. So I would go with the first three. So
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: Mike Evans, DJ Moore, Malik neighbors. If you end up
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: having to sit neighbors, cause he's not going to play.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: I would go ahead and go with Michael Pittman as
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: my third one there. So it's where I'm at house,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: a house of traffic consultant.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: I was actually in Snohomish working, and now I'm hanging out.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: I had to pull over and wait to do the call-out. Oh,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: even better. Even better. All right.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? We got another one. We got
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Derek and Sultan next. Maybe he can help you out.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: What's up, Derek? Great to have you back again this year.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: What's up, guys?
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: How you doing, buddy?
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: Traffic sucks, as always. Welcome to Sultan.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 13: Love it.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: It was not a shocker.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: All good.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: At least my fantasy team's doing okay so far when
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: you're 0-0.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: That's a perfect way to look at it. Rob's not
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: thinking that, but everybody else is. All right, what do
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: you got, Derek?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: I'm simple today. Can I just get one of.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 13: These two between Mike Evans or Jaden Reed?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: And I guess Mark Andrews, maybe.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm sticking with Mike Evans. He's healthy
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: right now, and he was pretty good last year in
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: terms of advanced metrics. The advanced metrics say he wasn't
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: really slowing down. It was more the issue of Baker
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: Mayfield's inaccuracy. So I like Mike Evans as the number
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: one guy for the 49ers until he starts to get
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: the injuries. But I do like Jaden Reed overall going forward.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: I think you've got two good options there, but give
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: me Evans for week one.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 4: Perfect.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: Evans for week one. All right, we'll bank through the
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: next couple, and then we'll get to text 49451. We
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: head down to Enum Scratch, the Claw. Kyle and Enum Claw,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: what's up, Kyle?
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, Ian?
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: How are you doing, Boston?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: I got one question. I just need one for a flex. Okay. Judkins, Quichon, Judkins, or.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: DJ Moore.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: I had a terrible draft, too.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: PPR.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you know what? I don't even know why.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: I'm the....
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: I know why sometimes. I know why sometimes that happens.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: It usually is a local league where, you know, it
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: gets into the hazy, fuzzy hours. You know, I've been
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: drinking a little bit, and you end up with the
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: third quarterback. I've seen it happen plenty of times, but.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, DJ Moore, I like him a lot.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: I tried to get him in every league I could.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: But week one on the road at Houston against Stingley
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: and company, and it's no Quinn Sean Judkins is going
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: to get the ball a lot. So I'm just for
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: week one, I'm going to play it more of what
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: I'd say was a safer play and go with Quinn
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: Sean Judkins.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: All right, perfect. We'll just get two more calls in
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: and then start getting the text. Got a ton of those.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Joel in Newcastle, fire away real quick.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 6: What do you got?
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: Real quick.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 8: Hey, thanks for taking the call.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: This is a, I need your help, man.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 8: This is my, my $ 500 buy-in league that my wife
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 8: doesn't know about yet. So I, I need, I need,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 8: we'll have two questions for you.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 10: First question.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 8: I need one, Josh Allen, who I usually always play,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: but he's playing the Texans or my backup is Joe
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 8: Burrow against Tampa Bay.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: That's the first question. Who would you say in those two? Yeah,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: it's $ 500. And I hate to say this. I'm looking
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: at my quarterback list and I actually ranked Joe Burrow
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: number one this week and Josh Allen number six. So
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a tough call. It's a tough call
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: on the road against Houston. So I just, I had
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: to do it.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 8: And then my second question, then I'll hang up, and
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 8: I've got to keep going.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: I need one, or we all need one.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: Jerry DePoto or my son's pet goldfish?
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: That's a goldfish, I think I'll answer for you. That's
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: a goldfish. There you go. Last phone call before I
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: get a text. Isaiah, fire away, Isaiah.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: PPR.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 13: I need two out of these four for my two flex.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 13: Chris Godwin, Tuba Hubbard, Kenan Allen, or Jacoby Myers?
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: Speaker 2 you know, I'm going to go to the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: first year. Chris Godwin for the reason I mentioned earlier,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: I liked that matchup. I liked the fact that he's
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: probably the healthiest guy in that receiving core at the moment.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: And give me, give me Cuba. Hubbard came off the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: injured list. Johnson Brooks sounds like he's going to play
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: as well, but that's probably at least a straight split
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: and Chicago bears defense from, you know, all reports are
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: going to be a little bit of a in rough
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: shape this year. So I liked it. I liked the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: matchup for them as well at home.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Speaker 1 Text line 49451. By the way. By the way.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Are we sticking? I'm going to ask Anders because he's
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: leaving us soon.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: No 59-59s.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: In honor of Kevin Shockey.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Because we had a 59, 11-59-59. We had that come
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: in today.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: It's just a slippery slope, Ian. That's a slippery slope.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: You let it happen, then you go 58.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: Exactly, Brandon. I just wanted to get confirmation. I'm on
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: your page. I just wanted confirmation from the committee here.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: Or you just want people to blame and it's me.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Instead of you. 8733 is the last numbers of that
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: phone call if you got it in. I bet Anders
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: will text it. Text it in now and I'll help
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: you out. Anders will help you out. All right, here
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: we go. Nothing on the money, but 1, 2, 3,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: 4 at one second after.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: Four more at.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Two seconds after 12 o'clock. You guys are amazing. Here
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: we go. Full PPR. Need two. Lamar or Mahomes?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: Lamar.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: And Brenton Strange or Tucker Kraft at tight end?
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, give me Tucker Kraft. Much higher ceiling.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Need a quarterback for Sam Injury. Choice of these gems.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Who should I get? Bryce Young or Tua? Oh, God.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Tua may not even play this week.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: He's got a bleak injury, and so it's going to
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: be maybe Cooper Rush. But, yeah, I would go Bryce Young.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love, J.K. Robbins, or RJ?
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 6: Harvey?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: Man, I do have Love ranked a little bit higher.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: It sounds like he's going to go. It's like all
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: the rookies I cautioned that week won. They don't usually
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: get a full low. We saw Price looking way better
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: than Helani, but they almost split.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: I think that's the case. It's just I like the
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: ceiling a little bit more with Jeremiah Love.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, Dak Prescott.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: Let's go Dak Prescott.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: Jamie from Allen, Washington. Who do I put in my flex? McLaurin,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden, or DJ Moore?
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 3: I got Terry McLaurin as the number one spot there.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: There's a few people who have the question. What do
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: you do with Josh Jacobs? Keep him, drop him, or
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: trade him?
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: But he's at a court appearance today. I think what
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: could happen is I would hold on to him right
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: now because I think it won't be long before we
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: see a suspension come down. They'll probably pull him off
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: the commissioner list pretty soon and lay out what kind
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: of a sentence he's looking at.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: This is from Brandon Edmonds. Fantasy football question. 10-team half
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: PPR need a flex between Isaiah Likely, DK Metcalf, Alec Pierce,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: or little Khalir Shakir?
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: Man, I really like Likely. I'm going to go ahead
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: and say it. Give me Isaiah Likely over DK Metcalf.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: Especially if Neighbors doesn't play. If Neighbors plays, I might
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: give a slight edge to DK.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Diggs or Worthy?
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll go with Stephon Diggs.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Jalen Warren, Parker, Washington.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Jalen Warren. I actually have him
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: ranked pretty high this week. I like him going against,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: who was he going against? Pittsburgh is facing Atlanta. Yeah,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: I like that one for Jalen Warren. Feeling good about him.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: Rico Dowdle's there now, but I like Jalen Warren kind
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: of leading that platoon, getting a little bit more of
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: the workload in week one.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Anders, your turn.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: All right, need one.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 5: Mike Evans, Carnell Tate, or DJ Moore? a little bit
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: over dj moore okay josh allen or tyler shuck.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah i have allen at six shucks down there a
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: little bit i do like the shootout potential it wouldn't
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: shock me but i think you just gotta go with
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: josh allen too too high of a chance that he
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: rushes one in himself.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: Would never have thought that would have been a question
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: ever uh anyways jalen warren or marshawn lloyd half point ppr.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just heard that Green Bay offensive coordinator basically
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: come out and say that it's going to be a
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: committee out.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: Of the gate.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: They're going to kind of see what they all look like,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: and it sounds like it could be a three-way committee.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: So give me Jalen Warren.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: All right. PPR, Devontae Adams or Mike Evans?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: Hmm. Hmm.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: I like Devontae Adams. San Francisco's defense should be better.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: They were rough against the Bass last year.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: I like that answer.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: Do you recognize that? That might have been my text.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: I think it was, actually.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: One just came in saying, wow, didn't think there was
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: a chance Malik Neighbors might not play. So if he doesn't,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: do we go Roma, Dunzay, Jonathan Brooks, or Dallas Goddard?
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: Man, it's tough. You've got two of the biggest kind
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: of question mark receivers with high profiles, and Nabors and Adunze.
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  Speaker 3: He's been day-to-day dealing with a calf injury. I'm probably,
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  Speaker 3: assuming he goes, I'm going to go Adunze as a fallback.
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  Speaker 3: I think between Nabors and Adunze, you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: one of them to play.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Full PPR.
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  Speaker 5: Need one while asking a question in a quiet library.
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  Speaker 5: softy or jackson.
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  Speaker 3: Neither oh i i gotta i gotta plead the fifth
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  Speaker 3: on that yeah that.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't i wouldn't touch that with a 39 and
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  Speaker 5: a half football tight end johnson or ferguson i assume
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  Speaker 5: that's juwan johnson by.
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  Speaker 3: The way yeah that's juwan johnson i like them both
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  Speaker 3: i i have juwan johnson just a little bit higher
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  Speaker 3: i think i think he's going to be the number
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  Speaker 3: two option in that passing game i think ferguson you're
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  Speaker 3: looking at him being the Probably no better than number three.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Just need one. Mike Evans or Michael Pittman?
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  Speaker 4: PPR.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of Mike Evans questions this week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I feel good about Mike Evans in this one over Pittman.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Parker Washington or Jalen Warren?
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  Speaker 3: PPR, I'd probably go Parker Washington. Full PPR, yes. If
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  Speaker 3: it's full PPR. Go ahead and give me Parker Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Give me one more, Anders.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Godwin or DJ Moore?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, do I have Chris Godman over DJ Moore? Look,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty close. That is close. I actually have DJ
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  Speaker 3: Moore two spots ahead of Godwin. That's a Quinn flip
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  Speaker 3: for me. I'll go ahead and say DJ Moore here
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  Speaker 3: since I've talked about how much I like him this year.
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  Speaker 2: Can I do one more? Because I think this is
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  Speaker 2: pretty close.
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  Speaker 5: 206 says Kittle or Kelsey for the tight end position.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think... I think they're going to give Kittle, like,
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  Speaker 3: limited snaps. I don't think he's going to play a
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  Speaker 3: full game. He is clear. But I will go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and go with Travis Kelsey. Against that Denver defense, I
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  Speaker 3: think that short area is going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: something that Mahomes is going to look at a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I got two more that came in.
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  Speaker 4: One is this.
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  Speaker 1: Half PPR need two flex. Tate, Adunze, Jalen, Warren, or Love?
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  Speaker 3: Who was the first one?
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  Speaker 6: Tate.
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  Speaker 2: Carnell Tate.
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  Speaker 1: Carnell Tate.
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  Speaker 3: Carnell Tate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably going Roman Dunzay if I'm feeling good about
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  Speaker 3: the health report going into Sunday. If not, my fallback
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  Speaker 3: is Jalen Warren.
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  Speaker 6: And who's this?
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: He needs two. So Dunzay, Tate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so then I would go Love over Tate.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's courtesy of one of the guys at Georgetown. They
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  Speaker 1: pay the price here.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Actually, real fast, what do you do with Sam Darnold?
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: Do you pick up? If you have Darnold, do you
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  Speaker 1: pick up Drew Locke?
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  Speaker 3: It's against Arizona. I mean, it's not a bad matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just kind of depends on the context
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  Speaker 3: of your league and who's available. I'd probably be looking
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  Speaker 3: to see if someone else is out there to be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you. Okay. Yeah, it's a super flexible league.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: You're going to have to just... You know, it's always
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: tough because you can't cut Sam Darling. You need to
• 1:34:59
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• 1:35:04
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  Speaker 3: and you just have to deal with the other two
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  Speaker 3: guys starting for the next week. So, yeah, there you go.
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• 1:35:17
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  Speaker 12: Great win.
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  Speaker 15: I'm going to change it up a little bit. I
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 15: have a six-year-old girl, and this is her first, like,
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  Speaker 15: winning we're winning dad we won yay it made my
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  Speaker 1: I love that i did too You took your son
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: to a baseball game a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I watched the game with him yesterday, too. Even though
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: the game was awful that particular day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. It was good. Yeah. That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for that moment where he kind of
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: gets it.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much fun I'm having watching
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  Speaker 1: with my kid right now.
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  Speaker 4: So much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting texts from the day.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Rams, Niners.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: Next one.
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  Speaker 15: It feels like nobody's giving enough credit to the new OC.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 15: This guy just called a game and his starting quarterback
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 15: went down on the fifth play.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: And Rookie Price looks amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Can we please see more of him?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Great talk back.
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  Speaker 6: Great talk back.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about Brian Fleury tomorrow with our guy Greg
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: Cosell on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did awesome.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: I thought he really kind of got his sea legs
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: going a little bit, too. But, yeah, I didn't think
• 1:37:43
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• 1:37:46
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• 1:37:49
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  Speaker 1: OC did a nice job adjusting past play calling as
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: time went on to build rhythm for Locke.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: That fourth and one call to JSN, such a good
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 5: play call. Like getting him open in like a little pocket,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 5: but then he has room to run too.
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  Speaker 2: Just fantastic play call.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: No Darnold, no Eamon Worry, 10 penalties, no problems.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: So true.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: That was kind of crazy in that regard.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was not a very Mike McDonald team, but
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: we see this first game a lot.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: A lot of people asking and a lot of people
• 1:38:26
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  Speaker 1: No starters playing in the preseason. Should they change that?
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  Speaker 1: weekend goes tonight and then all the games on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and Monday.
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  Speaker 5: We also see the negatives of them playing in the
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 5: preseason with no Bud Clark.
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  Speaker 1: Good point.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: So, like, it's a give and a take, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Bud Clark got hurt in a preseason game.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: Bobo got hurt in a practice. But, yeah, I mean, it's–
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: we want to take the contact out of the contact sport,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes there's non-contact injuries, Bobo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just guys are going to get hurt. But, yeah,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. There seems to be– there needs to
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: be a better way because– yeah, I don't know. We'll see.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, especially the offensive line, it helped because they
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: all came back.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: There just needs to be no preseason. I'm sorry.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: I'd rather go 18 games and then just no preseason.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: What if you could do no preseason and then do
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: the following? If you finish first, you play the worst
• 1:39:20
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: If anyone's listening to the radio station in the offseason,
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  Speaker 5: I get pretty ticked off and people say... that the
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  Speaker 5: Rams are just going to go win the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 5: or that they should have won the Super Bowl if
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 5: Zach Charbonnet didn't pick up the ball. Because I think
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: that just disregards any... Even if the Seahawks were on
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 5: the road, I still think they'd win that NFC Championship game, personally. So,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 5: all that being said, I think, at the very least,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: this game tonight is a lot closer than people think
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: it might be. I think San Francisco covers at plus
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 5: three and a half. against the LA Rams.
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  Speaker 1: I love the hook. You love the hook.
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  Speaker 2: I love the hook.
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  Speaker 5: I like them being down there a week in advance
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  Speaker 5: versus a day in advance.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to kind of see the two philosophies for
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  Speaker 1: the travel. Well, sports science being melted into a factor fiction.
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  Speaker 2: That's a first. Yep.
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  Speaker 5: I also think we saw last night Seahawks are the
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 5: obvious better team, but you see what the first game
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 5: kind of brings, right? The better teams don't play their
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 5: best football in the first game of the season. So
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 5: even if the Rams at the end of the season
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 5: probably will be a better team than the Niners, I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 5: believe that there will be some first game stuff going on.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: No Aaron Donald for them.
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  Speaker 5: So like I said, San Francisco being down there, and
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  Speaker 5: I think it'll be more of a home game for
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 5: San Francisco than it will be for L.A. So all
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 5: that being said, I think San Francisco covers plus three
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  Speaker 5: and a half versus the Rams tonight. Go Niners gross.
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  Speaker 1: That is a bad thing for the Niners. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I like this for a couple reasons. One, you got
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  Speaker 1: the extra half point.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Lose by three, you're good to go. We had a
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: three-point game last night. I would have died for that
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: extra point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Not being there. Actually, I had a minus three and
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  Speaker 1: a half, so it didn't even matter. But, because a
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  Speaker 1: push is a loss.
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  Speaker 2: A push is a loss.
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  Speaker 1: A push is a loss.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. Push the fiction.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to get a push with three and
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  Speaker 1: a half.
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  Speaker 6: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: First pick of the year was L.A. minus two and
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  Speaker 1: By Chuckles. You're going the other way.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it a lot. Plus, you
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  Speaker 1: got a little juice on tonight's game.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: That makes it even more fun. If you're a Seahawks fan,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: why would you not be fired up and revved up
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to do that?
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, as much as I hate the Niners...
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hate them more than the Rams?
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  Speaker 5: I did until this past offseason, to be completely honest.
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  Speaker 5: It was everyone just disregarding the Seahawks winning the Super.
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  Speaker 4: Bowl last year.
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  Speaker 1: They've moved up to number one in your rankings.
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  Speaker 6: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: And, like, now we have London. We can kind of
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 5: agree on one thing, that we hate the Rams, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I torched the 49er fan basically on his show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just went all in.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, I've always said I hate hedging. Softie's
• 1:43:33
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• 1:43:35
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  Speaker 5: I hate being like doing mental gymnastics on like, okay, well,
• 1:43:39
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  Speaker 5: about it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: One more time.
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• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: In right now?
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: I'm texting right now. I am texting fact.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: Surprised.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: I am texting fact.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: I just sent that to you.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: Whoops.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: Wrong number.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: Make sure you send it to 49451.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: If you text me like Anders just did, it will
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: not be... It will not be registered. You won't get
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: a bounce back. No, but I got a bounce back,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: so it is working. If you don't get a bounce back,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: that means you misspelled the word.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: Softie joins us. Coming up next.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 4: Talking to me.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: Talking to me.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: Not yet, I wasn't, actually.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 6: Talking to me?
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you yet.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 6: What's up, boss?
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 4: You believe me?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: Talking to me?
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: Dion, let's go.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: Smash!
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Dion.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, let's go. How are you?
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: By the way, Anders' pick is? What, Anders, again? What's
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: your pick?
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, plus three and a half against the Rams tonight.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 6: San Francisco.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: San Francisco.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: Fact, 49451.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: Discrete fiction, 49451.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 6: I just think this whole thing with the Rams going
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 6: out there two days.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: Ago, That was Anders' thoughts.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 6: It's just weird, man. It's very weird, man. I mean,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 6: nobody could, if they get smashed tonight, we're going to.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Be like, what were you thinking? If they get what?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: If they get what?
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: Smashed!
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 6: If they get smashed by the Niners tonight, and a
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: bunch of dudes get hurt, they're going to take heat
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 6: for it, man.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 6: Whether it's fair or unfair, whether it's got anything to
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 6: do with it or not, they're going to get heat.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Have either one of you guys ever gone to Australia?
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: Dick has. I have not been there.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, Dick has. That's right. You went to South Africa.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: How long was that travel?
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 6: Well, that included a nine-hour stopover in Lagos, Nigeria. So
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 6: if you include all that, it was like 32 hours.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mine was like 22 hours to Argentina.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 4: Brutal.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 6: You know what I've realized, guys? That's not for me.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: No, I'm with you.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 4: It's tough.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 6: But it's 2026. Why can't we beam people like Star
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 6: Trek now?
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: Would you be willing, like if they said, hey, we've
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: got this thing and we think it's going to work?
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: Fake.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: And we're pretty sure, but we need a test case.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: Would you be in on the test case scenario?
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 3: Got up on Monday morning, and there it was. Glory Hole.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: What's up, Jerry?
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 6: Put me in the Glory Hole.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: And they said, Softie, we're going to send you.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 6: Like the guinea pig?
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not doing that. Come on.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: We're going to send you to your favorite place in
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: the world, which is Hawaii. We're going to send you there.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: And if you make it, we're going to buy you
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: your own shave ice stand to operate, and you can just...
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: Walk away in the sunset.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 6: Come on. If it hasn't been proven yet, not even
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: on like a monkey or a gorilla or a guinea
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: pig or a snake.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, how about this? Pick one person. I was going
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: to say pick one person that you would say, hey,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: let them be the guinea pig.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 6: Jamal Adams.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, I would have lost that bet. I would have
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: said you would have said Tyrone Willingham, but that's close.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 6: I would have said Jamal Adams. I was going to
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 6: say you would have said Tyrone. I don't wish that
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 6: upon anybody. You're talking about like breaking everything down.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Like molecules, everything.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 6: Well, you just said that. And then reconstructing it when
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 6: you get to your destination. Yeah, you just said it.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 6: What if they put me back together and I'm like
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 6: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something?
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: What if they put you back together and you're better?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 6: Well, that's not easy to do.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, all of a sudden they put you back
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: together and you don't look like Pee Wee Herman anymore.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: And you hit a golf ball 400 yards.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 6: Didn't the Seahawks win a game with their backup quarterback?
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they did.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: Of the season?
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 6: This is the kind of topic you have when the
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 6: Mariners are 80 games out in July. Or six and
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: a half games out and getting perfect gamed in September.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: By Jacob McGraw. No longer.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 6: Okay, there you go. I'm actually surprised.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: You have a voice today.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 6: I'm surprised.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: Surprise your voices.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 6: So my wife was yelling at me. So Gina, and
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 6: I don't mind saying this on the air, probably because
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 6: there's a good chance she's not listening right now.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Really good chance.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 6: We like to call her postseason Gina.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 6: You know, like when the Huskies run in 2023, she
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 6: didn't go to any games until the Texas semifinal and
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 6: the national championship.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 6: Last year, she didn't go to one Seahawks game until
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 6: the Niners playoff game, the NFC championship and the Super Bowl.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: I call that efficiency.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 6: Last year, she didn't go to any Mariner games until
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 6: they made the playoffs. So she's postseason Gina. And so
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 6: last night during the game, when Drew and the offense
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: were kind of struggling a little bit, and Sam's out,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 6: she's like, I'm not going to a game the rest
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 6: of the year. And then we win. I'm not going
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: to miss a game the rest of the year. So
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 6: help me out. So she is the definition of a
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 6: bandwagon jumper, man.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: So help me out with this, because people in the press,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: you've been there, the glass, you can't really get a
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: feel all the time.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 6: I don't like that, by the way. They've got to
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: put some holes in the.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: Glass or something. I know, I wish they would. A
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: lot of stadiums do that. But okay, so you're in
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: the stands. The JSN touchdown.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so to answer your question, sorry, I was on
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: a little rant there. So you asked why my voice
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 6: is not sore. She's looking at me going, why aren't
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 6: you screaming? Why aren't you yelling? What's wrong with you?
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: You're stressed out.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 6: And I'm like. I'm a little bit stressed out, number one.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 6: And number two, I don't want to lose my voice.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: No, because that does happen.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 6: I do not do screaming well the next day. No,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 6: you don't.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 6: I don't know why. It's a problem I've got. I
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 6: don't know if you guys can get over it. I
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 6: start screaming and yelling, and I'm going to be hoarse
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 6: the next day. The worst part about being hoarse the
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 6: next day is dealing with purple sheet. Geez, what are
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 6: you doing? You're not thinking. Put your head on right there.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: You're softy. You scream.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 6: That's what you do. I got to deal with that, right?
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: That's what you do.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: How loud was it?
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 6: Very loud.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 6: Extremely. It was mid-' 80s kingdom loud.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: I just actually sent a clip to Jackson. I can
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 6: send it to you, Andrews, if you want. We've got
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 6: time here. And, you know, I like to kind of hold, like,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 6: my phone up during the first snap of the game
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 6: by the opponent.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 6: And just record it and see how distorted it ends up.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 6: I'm going to send this to you right now, Anders.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 6: I don't know if this is going to come through
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 6: or not in time, but I just sent.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: It to you.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 6: All right. And this is what I hear in my ear.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 6: That's literally what I hear in my ear.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 6: And I looked up, and it was 110 decibels, which
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 6: is nowhere near the record, by the way.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 6: Nowhere near the record.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: What is the record there?
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 6: Is it 130? I think it's like 125 or whatever.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: So my other question would be this. The Jobe interception.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: Was the place shaken like it can?
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, big time. That was awesome.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're nuts.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 6: You know what? It's funny that for telling Dick off
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 6: the air, the first thing I thought of and the
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 6: first thing I tweeted when he threw that interception and
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 6: Josh picked it off is not, hey, way to go, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 6: It was, what the hell is he doing? What the
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 6: hell is Drake May doing?
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 5: That's what the entire NFL world was saying.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 6: And then I couldn't even hear myself think because all
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 6: I heard was, right? That's all I heard. But when
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 6: you start getting, like, that distorted sound in your ear,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: and you know what I'm talking about, right?
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 6: That's when you know it's really getting freaking loud.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: I love it. I mean, that was one of those
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: times where you kind of feel the camera shaking, you know?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: But you're waiting to see, because I think Jackson says it's.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: Not worth playing, by the way.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: It's not worth playing, all right.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 6: It didn't pick it up then.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: But we're waiting to see, like, did he get his
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: toes in? Like, that was the thing. Like, I don't know.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: You're sitting across from it. Did you think he was
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: in the whole time?
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 6: I had no idea.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: I was freaked out. I was like, oh, God, don't
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: let this.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 6: Because you couldn't see the ref's signal, but he caught it.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 6: You couldn't see the ref's signal, touched back. Did you
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 6: see Harlan's call, the video of Harlan's call?
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so good. We played it earlier, too.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 6: With the Patriots staffer throwing his headphones down. That's so awesome.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: And the thing with Harlan, he's objective. He's calling it
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: a national broadcast. But he's giving it his all. He
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: had the same take we did.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 6: He's like, what the hell.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: Just happened, man?
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: Why are you throwing that football? Yeah, we had Ross
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Tucker on earlier. He's like the same thing. By the way,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: just a real quick note. Third most watched college football
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: game of the weekend was the Apple Cup.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 6: How many people?
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 3: 5.1 million.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, God, I was thinking seven. I mean, look, it
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 6: was the only game in the world.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: But earlier in the day.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 6: Only game in the world. Imagine if those two teams
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 6: were actually, like, really good, like Ohio State and Texas.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 6: How many people would have tuned in for that?
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: I'll give you this. It was more people than watched
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: Oregon-Boise State.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: So that's good. Wow.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 6: Nobody cares about Oregon.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 6: They're yesterday's news.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: What do we got coming up today, buddy?
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: That'll be good. That'll be really good.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 6: Let's see. Mike Holmgren joins us at 4.00. Makes his
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 6: debut for this year, courtesy of VenueKings.com. We're going to
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 6: go back and hear a lot of audio from the Patriots'
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 6: perspective and the Seahawks' perspective. Boston Sports Talk Radio losing
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 6: its mind today. And I don't blame them, by the way,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 6: at all, after what I saw from that guy yesterday.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 6: We'll do that, and then we're going to go to
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 6: Melbourne around 5 for Niners Rams live right here.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: 520 Bar and Grill. Go see Softee. And the return
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: of Mike Holmgren coming up.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 4: See ya.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 13: For the mild-mannered and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 13: Paddle Day saying so long, everyone.