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10-20 H2: Gregg Bell Joins, OPQ, Fact or Fiction & NBA Opening Day · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hour number two here on a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It is Chuck Anders and Chris with you here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell's going to join us in about three minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Our Seahawks insider for the latest information. A lot of
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: injury stuff to talk about with Greg as the team
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: prepares for the Kansas City Chiefs this Sunday night. But first,
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: your headlines brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light. Cold
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. The NBA season tips off tonight. A
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: brand new year. Chris Kidd's fired up. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: have Boston and Detroit playing at noon. The first game
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  Speaker 2: is going to be at noon our time. Four o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be LeBron James in his new uniform. The Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: 76ers taking on the defending world champion New York Knicks
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  Speaker 2: at four. And then, okay, see. And San Antonio tonight
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  Speaker 2: at 630. Those are considered the two best teams, though,
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA. So one heck of a way. for
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  Speaker 2: the NBA to start its season with a tripleheader getting
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  Speaker 2: started today at noon. WNBA playoffs, the Atlanta Dream are
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  Speaker 2: even with the Golden State Valkyries at a game apiece.
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  Speaker 2: Angel Reese, got to give her credit. 30.16 rebounds last
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  Speaker 2: night led the Dream to the victory. Was great in
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  Speaker 2: her postgame comments. Her teammates love her.
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  Speaker 1: She plays hard.
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  Speaker 2: I know she gets a lot of criticism out there, but, man,
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  Speaker 2: you can't really challenge her with her effort.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not at all. She makes it and she produces.
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  Speaker 1: She plays her butt off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay advances to the World Series in six over
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  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Guardians. Freddy Peralta ends up winning your MVP
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  Speaker 2: of the ALCS. And he's one of the most beloved
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  Speaker 2: players in all of Major League Baseball. He was just
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  Speaker 2: so happy and touched by it. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a true surprise to him. But he ends up being
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  Speaker 2: the winning pitcher in the clinching game. And was used
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  Speaker 2: a couple different times in the series.
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  Speaker 1: Now he gets to play his former team.
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  Speaker 2: And Lauren Shahadi, by the way, is the best sideline
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  Speaker 2: reporter in the business. She's amazing. And here she is
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  Speaker 2: conducting a great interview with him. And then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden she just throws in a, you ever been
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  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee? knowing that he played there for six years,
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  Speaker 2: and it caught him off guard, and he just starts
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  Speaker 2: laughing out loud. It was such a great— she' s so good.
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  Speaker 4: Genuine.
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  Speaker 1: She's so good.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: World Series is set for Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It will be the Brewers taking on the Rays, and
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  Speaker 2: it is a great matchup. Two small market teams probably
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to draw a lot of attention, but make
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  Speaker 2: no mistake, that is a terrific World Series matchup. College
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  Speaker 2: football bye week for UW. Rick Neuheisel doesn't get a bye.
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  Speaker 2: He'll join us at 9 today. Jed Fish has a
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  Speaker 2: little extra time to decide who's going to start for
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  Speaker 2: him at quarterback in his next game. Jalen Hurts is
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  Speaker 2: out for the season. Scary blood clot situation for Hurts.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to take any chances. He won't play
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  Speaker 2: again this year for the Philadelphia Eagles. Monday Night Football
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  Speaker 2: last night, the 49ers held on to defeat the Commanders 23-17,
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  Speaker 2: if not for a dumb penalty. Washington would have taken
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  Speaker 2: the lead late in this game, but the 49ers do
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  Speaker 2: improve to 6-0 on the young season. They are three
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  Speaker 2: and a half games up on the Seattle Seahawks, four
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  Speaker 2: and a half games up on the Rams. The Hawks
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  Speaker 2: will be in action Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: and Ken Walker. For the latest information regarding the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: it's time.
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  Speaker 1: To chat with Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 5: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man.
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  Speaker 2: I've left this out of the headlines twice, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to go on without mentioning this. Kraken in
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  Speaker 2: action tonight, home against the Detroit Red Wings, 640 start.
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  Speaker 2: So Climate Pledge Arena, and it is a Kraken ticket Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: not for this game, but for an upcoming game against
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  Speaker 2: the Maple Leafs on the 28th. So be listening for
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  Speaker 2: your chance to win some tickets to see the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: in an upcoming match. All right, let's talk to Greg Beller,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, a lot to catch up on, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of injury information last night. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: clear things up. I'm not sure of what we heard
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  Speaker 2: from you yesterday, if I heard it right. But I've
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  Speaker 2: heard other reports, and I know that Zach Charbonnet's window
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  Speaker 2: will be closing since his activation. So is Zach Charbonnet,
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  Speaker 2: he's available to play this week, right? I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: eligible to play. Whether or not his injury will allow him,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. But he could play Sunday night, correct?
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  Speaker 4: He could play. He's not yet officially eligible to. They
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  Speaker 4: have to make a decision by Thursday on whether to
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  Speaker 4: add him to the active roster. He's still currently on POP.
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  Speaker 4: physically unable to perform, and his 21-day window ends on Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: So they have to decide by Thursday to add him
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  Speaker 4: to the active roster. That would make him eligible to play.
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  Speaker 4: Or if they don't do that, they have to keep
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  Speaker 4: him on PUP for the rest of the season. Essentially,
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  Speaker 4: he becomes injured reserve. So he's fully out there practicing.
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  Speaker 4: He was running around yesterday. He looks like he's going
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  Speaker 4: to play on Sunday. McDonald said he'll have a full season.
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  Speaker 4: work week and full practicing week, and if that goes
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  Speaker 4: well and he responds well to it, there's a chance
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  Speaker 4: he will play. Well, he said that he gets snaps.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't say how many. It's hard to believe that
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  Speaker 4: they will just throw him into running back one and
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  Speaker 4: he gets 50% or more of the carries eight months
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  Speaker 4: out of reconstructive knee surgery and his very first game back.
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  Speaker 4: I don't envision that, but I do envision him getting
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  Speaker 4: playing time and some carries Sunday night. He's not quite
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  Speaker 4: the knight on a white horse coming in to save
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  Speaker 4: the running game yet. I think that would be beyond
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  Speaker 4: what the team and he would expect in his first
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  Speaker 4: time out, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll also see about the decision to let Ken Walker
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  Speaker 2: not re-sign him as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see about that as it goes along.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we spent a lot of time on it
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and from the approach of, it's not looking good.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Seahawks are going to live to regret this.
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  Speaker 2: That said, this story could change a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we have not got to watch the Seahawks backfield with
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  Speaker 2: Charbonnet and Price a part of it. uh, hell we
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  Speaker 2: haven't got to see Charbonnet at all and price very little.
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  Speaker 2: So who knows what this could look like? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't seen Ken Walker get through a season on
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  Speaker 2: pace to get 360 carries before either. So, um, I
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  Speaker 2: do believe there's a little element. I think we should
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  Speaker 2: spend a little time, Greg, and just, um, letting John
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  Speaker 2: and Mike kind of see this thing through before we
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  Speaker 2: make the ultimate decision that they're fools, uh, when it
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  Speaker 2: came to Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, but the problem is that the 49ers are 6-0,
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  Speaker 4: and Price isn't coming back until November 2nd at the earliest.
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  Speaker 4: That's the first day he can come back, first game
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  Speaker 4: he can come back from injury reserve. And by then,
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  Speaker 4: they'll be halfway through the season. That could be a
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  Speaker 4: fight for the wild card. The running game and lack
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  Speaker 4: of it, and the potpourri of anonymous backup running backs
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  Speaker 4: that the Seahawks have been trotting out there since Price
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  Speaker 4: got injured, has subverted the entire season. because it has
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  Speaker 4: put Sam Darnold in a completely different situation than they
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  Speaker 4: had planned him to be. It's ruined the play-action passing game.
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  Speaker 4: It's ruined short yardage. It's ruined early downs and made
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  Speaker 4: third downs longer, which has caused some of the pressure issues,
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  Speaker 4: which has caused some of the decision issues, which has
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  Speaker 4: caused a lot of the interception issues. So this team
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  Speaker 4: is built on running the ball. The whole reason they
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  Speaker 4: hired Brian Fleury was to continue the outside zone in
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  Speaker 4: the Shanahan run game system. And they aren't running the
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  Speaker 4: ball consistently enough to defenses to be playing them honestly.
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  Speaker 4: That really is what it comes down to. They don't
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  Speaker 4: want to run the ball 400 yards a game. They
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  Speaker 4: want to run the ball so they can pass the ball.
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  Speaker 4: And they want to run the ball so they can
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  Speaker 4: put their aggressiveness, their will on another team on offense,
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  Speaker 4: as Mike McDonald talks about a lot. He said yesterday
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  Speaker 4: again that they went over this weekend, how are we
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  Speaker 4: going to get to impose our will again? on defenses,
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  Speaker 4: and that is through the running game. And as great
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  Speaker 4: as Jackson is, as wondrous as Jackson Smith and Jigba
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  Speaker 4: has been, McDonald wants to win the game by setting
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  Speaker 4: up Smith and Jigba, by not just throwing it to
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  Speaker 4: him 40 times. That's the nutshell of where we're at
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  Speaker 4: for the Seahawks offense right now. They have Emmanuel Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: George Helani, Bellis Jones Jr., a guy who's on the
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  Speaker 4: active roster who hasn't even played yet, Robert Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Those dudes are not primary. In July and August,
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  Speaker 4: those were not the primary rushers. That was not the plan.
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  Speaker 4: The plan is on injured reserve, and the plan is
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  Speaker 4: replacing the guy who's leading the NFL who's in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: So the urgency is they don't have a lot of time.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting late early, as Yogi Bear, whoever quoted Yogi
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  Speaker 4: Bear for saying that, The 49ers keeping winning has changed
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  Speaker 4: the hue of this season. It now could be a
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  Speaker 4: race for a wild card spot. And it bears repeating,
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  Speaker 4: the only time in Seahawks history they've been to the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl, the only times, is when they've had won
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  Speaker 4: the division and had home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: And you cannot get a home game in the NFL
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs unless you win your division, and that
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  Speaker 4: division is getting smaller and smaller in the Seahawks review
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  Speaker 4: mirror all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: I guess yesterday was glass half empty. I thought I
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  Speaker 2: would try to be glass half full today, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if.
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  Speaker 1: You're enjoying what was in the glass.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I didn't play along with that.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. I want you to, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: shoot from the hip.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say I think Seahawks fans and Mike and John
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  Speaker 2: are going to live to regret that move for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of their Seahawks lives. That said, it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be as big a gap.
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  Speaker 1: At some point this season, we're going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to close that gap a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, Price will play, right? We really haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: Jadarian Price. We've seen glimpses of why they drafted him,
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  Speaker 4: but we haven't seen him be the lead back, and
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  Speaker 4: that's why they drafted him to be. He was benched
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  Speaker 4: at part of his third NFL game for fumbling the
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  Speaker 4: second time in two games. And then he was hurt,
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  Speaker 4: and that was it. And that's what we've got to
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  Speaker 4: go on so far. Well, Kenneth Walker has the most
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  Speaker 4: yards in the first five games any player has ever
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  Speaker 4: had with a new team. That's what they get to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for that, Greg. You're welcome. That hammers it home.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. You can
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: follow him at GBellSeattle. He joins us nearly every day
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  Speaker 2: at 7.05. for the latest Seahawks information. How happy are
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: they to get Anthony Bradford back? Did they miss him
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  Speaker 2: more than they anticipated?
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  Speaker 4: I've been covering the Seahawks for a minute, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know of a player who has reinvented himself in
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: the middle of his Seahawks career like Anthony Bradford has.
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  Speaker 4: We all know everyone would post little clips of him
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  Speaker 4: missing blocks and saying how he's the worst lineman ever created,
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  Speaker 4: and now everyone misses him. Everyone wants him back in
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  Speaker 4: the lineup. and thinking he might help the run game
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  Speaker 4: and the pass protection game. Bradford's in a contract year.
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  Speaker 4: I sat down with him and had a long conversation
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  Speaker 4: on our station and wrote a story about him and
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  Speaker 4: his contract situation and how he'd love to stay and
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: finish his career here. He loves it here. But that
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks had not approached him about a deal. And
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  Speaker 4: it's interesting, to say the least, how Anthony Bradford has
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  Speaker 4: become a valuable member of the offensive line that it
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  Speaker 4: seems like they need to have back soon. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to play. McDonald said, yeah, usually I'm coy about this
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  Speaker 4: injury stuff, but he's good. He's going to play this week,
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  Speaker 4: and that's going to help. They've been rotating. Christian Haynes starting,
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  Speaker 4: the rookie Bo Stevens getting about 30%, 35% of the
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  Speaker 4: snaps in the month that Bradford's been out, but now
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  Speaker 4: no more of that. It goes back to Bradford, and
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  Speaker 4: this will, Sunday night, be the first time since the
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  Speaker 4: opener the five starters from last year will all play
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  Speaker 4: together on the offensive line, and that can only help.
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  Speaker 4: but we'll see how much that helps.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with Elijah Arroyo?
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like he's going to be on, if not injured reserve,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to be out a long time. It's a
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  Speaker 4: shoulder issue. McDonald said they're getting different opinions on where
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  Speaker 4: the next course is, but the word was significant amount
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  Speaker 4: of time. McDonald said that Arroyo's going to be out,
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  Speaker 4: and unfortunately that's not a huge loss for them because
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  Speaker 4: he hasn't done much since they drafted him in the
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  Speaker 4: second round. He's a speedy, wide receiver type tight end
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  Speaker 4: who just has not done what they drafted him to do.
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  Speaker 4: And I asked a couple weeks ago about Arroyo, and
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  Speaker 4: McDonald kind of gave a roundabout answer, but the bottom
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  Speaker 4: line was he needs to practice better. He needs to
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  Speaker 4: be better on his assignments, and he needs to give
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  Speaker 4: the coaches and the quarterbacks reason to trust him. And
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  Speaker 4: he hasn't done that yet in the second year, and
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  Speaker 4: now it looks like that second season might be over.
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  Speaker 2: We are three weeks away from the trade deadline. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: and their dog are making a Seahawks trade where they
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: get a running back. But let's play the game of,
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  Speaker 2: is there another position? If three weeks from now, Price
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: and Charbonnet, they feel good about that, decent about that,
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  Speaker 2: is there another position that they feel they need to upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: Before the trade deadline?
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  Speaker 4: They could use depth on the defensive line. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that they would use a draft pick to get that.
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  Speaker 4: They might sign a free agent off waivers or somebody
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  Speaker 4: who becomes available. Line of scrimmage depth.
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  Speaker 1: So it's running.
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  Speaker 4: Besides that, no. I can't think of anything. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they don't need another corner because they have Trevon Diggs,
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  Speaker 4: a former pro bowler who's barely playing because of Nehemiah
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  Speaker 4: Pritchett right now. They like what they have at depth defensively.
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  Speaker 4: linebacker with Tyrese Knight being able to fill in with
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  Speaker 4: Drake Thomas still being injured. McDonald had no update on Thomas,
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  Speaker 4: implying he may not be able to play again Sunday
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  Speaker 4: night against Kansas City, the ankle injury. So off the
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  Speaker 4: top of my head, no. And running back is such
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  Speaker 4: a glaring issue for this team. They're going to do
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: something there. I can't imagine that John Schneider is going
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  Speaker 4: to just say, well, we'll just... put it all on
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  Speaker 4: price and Charbonnet coming back. I think they're going to
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: do some move there.
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  Speaker 2: Anything as big as Barkley or Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, or
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: are those just fun names to throw around in trades?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think those are fun names. The problem with
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  Speaker 4: Barkley in particular is he just signed an extension and
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: two years added onto his deal in Philadelphia last year.
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  Speaker 4: So he has five years, four, four and a half
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  Speaker 4: years left on his contract. That's a hefty price to move.
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  Speaker 4: And that would take a, command a lot of draft
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  Speaker 4: capital or trade back from the Seahawks that I don't think,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think, I almost know that Schneider's not going
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  Speaker 4: to do. If Schneider wanted to pay in draft pick
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: premium and money premium the price of Shaquan Barkley, he
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  Speaker 4: would have just re-signed Kenneth Walker. But again, we've gone
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  Speaker 4: around and around about how at that position, he just
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: doesn't want to invest that much. So why would you
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: take on the money and give up draft picks for
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  Speaker 4: something you could have had by just re-signing your own
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  Speaker 4: guy and I don't think he's that desperate at running back.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he has a right to be desperate. I'm
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: not sure he's that desperate. And similar to Taylor. Taylor's
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  Speaker 4: contract not as long with as much money left. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it might be something more mid than that, as the
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  Speaker 4: kids would say. I don't know that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: get two all-pro rushing champion top-of-the-league guys. In a trade,
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  Speaker 4: that would command too much.
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  Speaker 1: Greg getting young. Yeah, look at him.
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  Speaker 4: I love that. 23-year-olds keep me young. It's just not me.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine you've been evaluated that way in the past.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Dad, these pancakes are kind of mid. Probably an exact quote.
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  Speaker 4: You remember the pancake story. I think I told you,
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  Speaker 4: from every morning, those kids, they're spoiled. From kindergarten through
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  Speaker 4: almost basically 12th grade, I cooked them pancakes. The nature
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: of being a sports writer is you have your mornings free, right?
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: There's no games in the morning. So I missed a
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: lot of nights and weekends, but man, did I cook
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  Speaker 4: pancakes for about 14 years. They had cooked, made to
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: order breakfast for 14. Some kids are having Pop-Tarts and
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: oatmeal on the way out the door, and I'm giving
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: them these shape any full course meal type breakfast. They're spoiled.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: That's my leg. That's, that's the one thing I did
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: for my kids. That's my legacy.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Pancake maker bell.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And they're all shaped in a army.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: A Mickey mouse pancakes. We had a classic. Yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Classic.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Total, total dead move.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, what do you got on the show today?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Is it better than mid?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I hope so. It will be because Jory Epstein is
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: going to join us, our friend, the NFL reporter for
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Yahoo Sports from New York, so it'll be better than
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: mid just because she's going to be on. She's going
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: to go all around the NFL and talk about whether
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: the 49ers are uncatchable. I mean, really, three and a
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: half games, you're right. It is three and a half
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: games because they beat the Seahawks, and it's four and
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: a half games because they beat the Rams. This would
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: be a colossal collapse if the 49ers lost, even if
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: they have more injuries. I don't know how Ian and
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I were going through the 49ers' upcoming schedule until the
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Seahawks play them again next month. And there's a good
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: chance they're going to be 10-11-0 by the time the
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Seahawks play them again.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Well, they almost lost to Washington at home last night.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't a dominant performance by any means.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Boy, it's alarming to see the commanders on fourth down
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: thinking it was a field goal.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Two weeks in a row he's blown it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's... Unfortunately, of course, we all love Dan Quinn,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: love to cover him, but how glaring is it that
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: the Commanders only win against the Seahawks?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not good. Not good.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Thanks for that, Greg. Yeah, and I think about it,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I haven't really said much positive about the Seahawks. Pissing
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: it off. Mike, God.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: You owe all Seahawks fans Mickey Mouse pancakes.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Call me Rain Cloud. I'm sorry. They're already going to play.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Saturday's going to play Sunday night.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: There we go. There it is.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, and they're going to wear their royal blue throwback
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: uniforms again, apparently.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Wear them for the rest of the season.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Come on. I think rest of time, right?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Seriously. All right, Greg. Thank you, sir. We'll be listening
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: at 10.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Happy Tuesday. Thank you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, RCOX Insight. You can follow him at GBellSeattle
• 19:21
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• 19:24
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• 19:34
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• 19:39
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• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Man, did Jay Glazer go on and on and on
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: about how confident the Philadelphia Eagles are in Tanner McKee
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: as their backup.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He didn't look so.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Confident Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. That looked like a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: guy that was scared to throw the ball into.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Harm's way all game long.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, the report is that they feel pretty good
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: with McKee if they can get some of their other
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: parts around him. The bigger story, though, is Hurts' health
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and whether or not he's going to be okay going forward.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And certainly a scary situation. And frankly, the Philadelphia.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Eagles didn't do Nick Sirianni any favors yesterday, putting him
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: out there in front of the media to try to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: explain away something like this. Should have had at least
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the medical staff with him, the doctors, team doctors with him,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: if not just the team doctors out there explaining it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: But Jeff Saturday explained it earlier this morning. I thought
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: it was really valuable information to pass along.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Remember, he used to be a head coach.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: He also was like the leader of the Players Association
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: from the players' perspective at one point, and he made it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: So this is a pretty much unimpeachable source here. He
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: said the coach should never have to explain those medical things.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: That coach never makes the decisions anymore on those things.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: This is 1965, where they're like, hey, you're.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Seeing three of me?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Well, good.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: At least you're not seeing four. Get back in there.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: They really do have no choice but to listen to
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the medical evaluation and the medical recommendation from the doctors
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: that say he should or shouldn't play. Therefore, it shouldn't
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: be Nick Sirianni having to explain himself. He's following doctor's
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: orders ever since London on this. And if anybody screwed up,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: it was the doctors of the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and a lot of the times it's like, Not
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: even doctors that are employed by the team that end
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: up kind of making these decisions, especially with concussions. I
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: know this is a different situation. But, yeah, I don't
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: know why they put him out there. It makes no
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: sense why they kind of left him in that situation. And, obviously,
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: he's not going to really have the full details about
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: what is actually going on.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: He's not great explaining anything to begin with.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not great explaining simple things, much less
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: something as difficult as this. Football things that he is
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the coach of. It's looking like, according to Adam Schefter,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the J.J. McCarthy will start instead of Jameis Winston for
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the New York Giants. He played last week and put
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: up some numbers, that's for sure. Isn't it fascinating, though,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the Harbaughs that they just play with each other's toys?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: They're still just the little Harbaugh boys that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Are like, hey, are you done playing with that? I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: want to play with it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Don't break it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I may want to circle back and have it. But yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: it's a good toy. It's a good toy, but I'm
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: playing with this right now.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Jim Harbaugh's apparently two best quarterbacks of all time, Justin
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Herbert and J.J. McCarthy, are both with each Harbaugh brother
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Right.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: They just share toys all the time.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Like, we'll take that guy. Hey, are you done playing
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: with that? Yeah. Mom, he's done playing with it and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: he won't let me play with it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Finally, they did it again last night. Jaden Daniels and
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Dan Quinn.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: God.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And look, they tried to explain it away like they
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: thought it was an illegal shift and they were getting
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: another play. The truth of the matter is that's just
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: not true. All the evidence says that's just not true.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: They screwed up another situation yesterday, and it was that
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: they did not know what down it was and ended
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: up costing their team three points. Another embarrassing situation for
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: quarterback and head coach in Washington yesterday.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: For the second straight week.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy how many situations like that happen and
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: that just are dealt with normally from everyone else. But
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: for whatever reason, these two together can't figure it out.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, Quinn's definitely not going to survive.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he gets through the season, and I
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: give credit to the team for playing harder in the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: second half, despite that gaffe, but he's not going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: survive much longer.
• 23:54
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• 24:00
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• 24:02
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• 24:23
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• 24:26
  Speaker 1: These guys.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, we are.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You didn't put your thumbs up. Yep, yep. Yes, there
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we go. Chris Kidd got off the schneid last week. Look,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: he started late.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Started late. Anders, not used to slumping.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Broke his slump. I did.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: So there we go. You got to pick the Commanders.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: They're the ultimate slump buster.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I guess so.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You got to pick the Commanders when in doubt. I guess.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: And I climbed back over 500 last week, so I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: think we're finally ready to start.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Moving it in the right direction here. So, Kent, it's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: your pick today on Factor Fiction. Where are we going? Gosh,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: this just got much harder. Why? I was locked in,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and now I'm nervous. But I'm going to go with
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: it anyway. Okay. All right. Give me.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Give me the Rams minus four at the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's great.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I think that this team, they ran into the worst
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: situation ever. You lost Devontae Adams. You lost Puna Ford.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Everything's up in the air right now. Your defense isn't
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: what it needs to be. I think Myles Garrett could
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: be returning for that game, so that definitely could help.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for Kirk Cousins to have one of those
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: games where he throws two picks or something.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And no touchdowns. Could it be this game? I don't know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: but I do.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Think the Rams will respond and win by more than five.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: So there you go. Five or more. I think it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a great pick, but minus four. Yeah, yeah. So they
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: win by five. Yeah, I think you left out the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: biggest reason. I mean, if they're good at all, forget
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: about whether or not they're You know, the best team
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: ever assembled.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: We're way past that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: If they're any good at all, if they've got any heart,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: any championship fight in them at all, they're coming out
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the most pissed off team in America this Sunday. This
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: is a prove-it-or-lose-it kind of game. If they fall to 2-5,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Anders and I were just talking about, they're going to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: have to sell at the trading deadline.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Which would be insane. Wouldn't that be funny? That would
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: be awesome. Yeah, they're going to start shopping Matt Stafford around.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: If they lose to the Raiders, not like that's some
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: sort of great home field advantage there. And they're not
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: what they were at the beginning of the year either.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: They've come down to earth. Probably would be a better
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: home field advantage than at their home field.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: The Rams.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: They almost have to come out guns blazing. They almost
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: have to come out playing their best. If they hadn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: had the wake-up call before, they certainly got it losing
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: at home to the Arizona Cardinals on six field goals.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So that's why I like it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Because if they have any fight at all, and let's
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: face it, we've got to acknowledge that the Rams have
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: got fight in them.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Then they've got to come out and play their best
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: game on Sunday. And if they play their best game,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: they're going to stomp the Raiders by 20.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: As long as Brock Bowers has, you know, a couple
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: touches and a touchdown. I'll be okay with that. So, yes,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: if you agree with that, Los Angeles Rams minus four
• 27:22
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• 27:25
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• 28:05
  Speaker 1: on the road against the Raiders. Here we go. They're
• 28:08
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• 28:10
  Speaker 2: So Chris Kidd saying the Rams are going to win
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: by five or more on Sunday.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I like this. The more I think about it, I
• 28:17
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• 28:17
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• 28:20
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• 28:24
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• 28:26
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, the NBA season tips off
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: tonight with an outstanding triple header.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And you know what?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: For all of those Chris kids in the world, we
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: celebrate this holiday. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. They still
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: like to hoop it up, and this is a holiday
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: for them. I still like the sport. I still like
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the league. And Chris kid, it might be his favorite
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: thing in the world. And I am just not going
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to ever be one of those people on Christmas Day,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: even though You have your toy. I'm not going to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: sit there and go, your toy's stupid. What a dumb
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: toy you got from Santa.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: You're stupid for liking that toy. Did you actually ask
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for that on your Christmas list?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just not going to be that. I'm not going
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to ever be that guy. I mean, as Anders knows,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: he doesn't like this about me. I don't like soccer.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: But if I'm asked about it, I'll tell you the truth.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But I'm not going to go out of my way
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: when you're getting ready for a man you– It's Man U, right?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That's your team?
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: And you're getting ready for their big premiere match. You've
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: been waiting for it. Stupid sport you watch. Why would
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: you ever wake up early for that? Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: If that's something that you enjoy, if that's celebratory for you,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and that's what being a sports fan is about, is
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that you love something.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: So congratulations. Happy holidays to you, Christopher Kidd. Thank you, sir.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Is it your favorite league? That's a tough one. I'm
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: big on track and field as well.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: NFL's grown on me a lot over the last 10 years.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: It's taken a little while to sink in, though, with others.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: People had a really hard time coming around on the NFL.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: They're getting there. They're getting there. They're climbing into that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Sooner than later, right? Pop culture. They'll get there. Keep trying, NFL.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Those three for sure, and then everything else. Kind of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: falls later. Yeah, so it's track for sure, NBA, NFL, NFL, NBA, interchangeable.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: What's the big track and field event? What's the one
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: that you might not even sleep the night before because
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you can't wait?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Probably 100, 200, 400. But is there, like, an event?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Like the world championships or Olympics, obviously. Olympics, sure.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: So you'll just randomly, any time of the day, find
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: some track and field and watch it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. Good for you. Because I, you know, ran
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: in high school, wanted to run in college.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So I've always had that, and I've learned so much
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: about track and field that, you know, people are like, oh,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: it's just running.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: That's the stupidest thing ever. I feel you.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not mad at that, but it's really fun to watch.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Well, track and field is great. The only time we
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: normally watch, though, is just the Olympics. Yeah, but I'll
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: watch college, Googs, go Googs.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you this. Do you think that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: a professional track and field, so if you had the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Olympics and then after the Olympics, because this could be,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: track and field could be the only event out there
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: where you could do males and females on the same team.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: They do that for a four by one.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: So what if you had an entire professional league, the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: first ever professional league that was as many men as
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: women on the same teams, and they did medleys, and
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: then there were individual female contests, and there were individual
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: male contests. And what if you had a league where
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: you drafted.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: He.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't have any of the field. He'd probably just track.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're drafting shot putters.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Well, they would argue they want to be a part
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of it, though. That's the thing.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Well, if they did, if he came big, then you
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: let him be a part of it. But I always
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: thought that it might work if it was on the heels.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, Carl Lewis was the biggest star in America
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in 1984.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Quite arguably. Because there were a lot of other
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: stars at that time.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: But if you could have taken advantage of his popularity
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and we had, like, Houston would have a franchise, like,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Portland or Eugene would have, or track is really huge.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: And they had their own professional team.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing to your point. It
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: needs to be really huge. And unfortunately, it's just, it's
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: not popular until the Olympics. That's just how it is.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: But then you take advantage of the Olympics and you
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: have a professional league where you play as a team.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It's not individuals.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: That's the problem. Like track and field is such an
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: individual sport.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: No, but if, you know, even, even when track and
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  Speaker 2: field in the Olympics, you don't keep these, you do
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: keep these specific things. gold medal count for the usa
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: but it's added to the team's numbers for the entire
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: olympics yep that's what they show on the big.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah who won the olympics well there's one successful version
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: of this and there's one failed version of this six
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: the successful one is f1 where they have the team
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: stuff but it's an individual sport obviously the driver is
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: what ends up winning the title but it goes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Towards the team that they're representing and then the.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: Failed version of that is live golf An individual sport
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: that tried to make it teams, and it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Just didn't work. Well, there was some political stuff. Yeah,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I was going to say. That adds to it for sure.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: They took bread elsewhere. There was some blood on their hands.
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  Speaker 1: Quite literally. I don't think Dragon, well, who knows? Money
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: is the root of all evil.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: So if they're getting money from a philosophical kid over here.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I have a plan.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to map it out to see track
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  Speaker 2: and field people that I think there could be.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I like it personally.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I ever watch track and field, I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: There just isn't the drive to go watch it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Apparently kids, the one person that is sitting there on
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: Going on ESPN Plus looking for track and field events.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Not even looking. Sometimes I'll be scrolling and I'll see, oh, snap.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The Mississippi Sprints are on.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Bingo.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And I'll be like, let's see who it is.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: And, you know, personally, I'm a style guy, so I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: don't mind the shades and.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: The chains that they wear.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: That's just it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: We only see them, like, on proper decorum. They've got
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to represent the country, and they've got to live by
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Olympic standards. If you had, like, a professional league, imagine
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the swag. Imagine what people could wear.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: The capes. Super kid in lane number three. Came in
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: with a 994.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: This was supposed to be our NBA regular season begins conversation.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: It turned into something else.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure there's a lot of fans out there that
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: are happy that it's track and field talk instead of
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: NBA talk.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Way to go, Chris.
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  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, three games today. Starts at noon. The season's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: starting at noon, which is weird. I love that.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not too mad about it. I'm not either, because
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I get to... Watch it while I fall asleep this afternoon.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Boston at Detroit at noon, Philadelphia at New York at four,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and Oklahoma City at San Antonio. That's an outstanding lineup
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: for the first day of the NBA season. And you
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: said that it's like picking your kids. You can't even
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: pick your favorite game of those three.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I struggled through it. I told you it was OKC
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and the Spurs, but it was tough. That's the best game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: And then followed up by LeBron and company taking on
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: the defending champs.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: OK, wait, wait.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, San Antonio, that's the best game. Correct. Philadelphia,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: New York is.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: The most interesting because it's Jalen Brown and LeBron in
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: their new uniforms for the first time.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Yes. And Boston, Detroit might end up being the actual, okay,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: best game, Boston, Detroit.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia, New York, most interesting. Oklahoma City, San Antonio, best teams.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And by the way, I think, and you keep this
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: in mind, Anders, as you add to your brood. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: think you can pick your favorite kids. I think that's
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: perfectly acceptable.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I think you can do it publicly.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: And I'm proof of this because a few years ago
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I went home and it was my first night home
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: and my family was already there and I was tired.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I had traveled all night long. So we're just sitting
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: there and my family plays games all the time. Anytime
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: we get.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Together, we play games. Like board games?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: We invent them. We create them. We have over the years,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: we've got a bunch of them. So I created one
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: on the spot and it was mom has to tell
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the truth game. And the entire game was, because she
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: has seven children. The entire game was, we had to
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: guess what she would say. And it was all asking
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: her questions about her favorite kids. Like which of your
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: kid is the smartest? And then she would have an answer,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: and she'd write it down, and then we would all guess.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: And she would play along. She played along. Oh, wow.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Because I got three siblings that probably couldn't have handled it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: They would have been too sensitive.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: But we had the right group of siblings there that
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: were there to laugh at it and.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Have fun and everything else. And she actually did, who
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: is your favorite kid? I had to ask her. Who's
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: your favorite child? And she did answer it. Was it you, Chuck?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: How about that? No, it was not. I thought this
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: was all gearing up to be I was her favorite kid.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking, too. I moved away from
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: home at 19. There was no chance I was ever
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: going to be the favorite kid.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the radio program, Gene Steratore is
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: going to join us.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: That is my mom's favorite rules analyst. She had answered it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I got that one right. Understandably. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.