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Chuck & Buck 1-22 Hour 4: Hawks vs Rams- the preparation. Mike Sando and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: our nine o'clock hour. Our friend Michael Sando, NFL Insider,
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Speaker 1: smarty pants football guy, is going to join us at
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Speaker 1: nine point thirty. Today we'll discuss not just the Seahawks rams,
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Speaker 1: which of course we've talked about all show long. We'll
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Speaker 1: also get into the Broncos Patriots game a little further
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Speaker 1: with them beyond Jared Stidham. And we got asked the
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Speaker 1: Stidham question, but hopefully we can ask something more than
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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham of Mike Sando NFL Inside.
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Speaker 5: Right, we can maybe find out beyond just Stidham, like
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Speaker 5: is are the Patriots really legit, because then it's gonna
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Speaker 5: make me more worried. I have a feeling I'm gonna
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Speaker 5: feel worse after our conversation with Sando.
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Speaker 1: Fun yeah, based on this week, I'm just gonna ask,
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Speaker 1: is there another player on the Broncos roster not named
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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna be like, I'd have to actually look that up.
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Speaker 1: I looked that up for I think so. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: But anyway, we'll talk to Mike Sando at nine thirty.
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Speaker 1: Of course, our focus all day long, most of the week,
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Speaker 1: and certainly tomorrow when we get to football Friday. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be on Sundays to matchup Seahawks. Rams. Always
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Speaker 1: great when we can find a little bit of time
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Speaker 1: to hear from the head coach himself, Mike McDonald on
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Speaker 1: all of these pressing topics that we've you know, banged
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Speaker 1: around here on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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Speaker 1: r F every single day, all day long. And the
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Speaker 1: quarterback question of Sam Darnold's health is at the forefront
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Speaker 1: of our minds here in Seattle. Here's coach with what
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Speaker 1: he sees as the latest.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Sam continues to get better. You know, he's not
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Speaker 6: gonna be a full go the whole week. So we
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Speaker 6: have a play, We're I work through it, see the
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Speaker 6: howther day goes, and then we'll kind of ticket day
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Speaker 6: by day and then take it to tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: But he won't be like throwing.
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Speaker 6: Every ball every play for the whole week.
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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I think, I don't know. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: tell me from a baseball I know they're different sports. Well,
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Speaker 1: when you've played you've had that many reps, and you've
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Speaker 1: played that many games at this stage of the season,
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Speaker 1: and you're nursing a little bit of an injury, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be a little I'm gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: more worried about him playing with that injury than I am.
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Speaker 1: That he's going to get rusty in a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: I think he knows the offense. I think that he
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Speaker 1: can win out having to throw the football, be in
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Speaker 1: on everything that they're working on and planning. I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe the timing gets thrown off a little bit, but
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Speaker 1: I personally am not worried about that at all. Same
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Speaker 1: thing with like a hitter in the playoffs, if he
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Speaker 1: has an injury, you played one hundred and sixty two games,
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Speaker 1: You've had six hundred played appearances this year. I'm not
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Speaker 1: worried about you getting into the cage, even though I
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Speaker 1: know you'd prefer to get into the cage before every game.
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Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and cut down on our swings
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Speaker 1: and the ones that we use, let's use for the game. Right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I mean, I don't think at this point
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Speaker 5: in the season, it's I mean, and he's not really
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Speaker 5: like it's not like he's missing a bunch of time
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Speaker 5: to accumulate Russ. He's just not getting as much practice
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Speaker 5: as he would like. Right if he was one hundred
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Speaker 5: percent healthy, you'd like to have all the throws and
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Speaker 5: be actually working on at full speed or as close
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Speaker 5: to full speed as a practice. You'd like to be
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Speaker 5: working on the game plan that is being put in play,
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Speaker 5: versus just mentally going through the reps and every once
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Speaker 5: in a while making a throw but kind.
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Speaker 1: Of a little bit careful about it. That's it.
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Speaker 5: I think that it kind of creates a system where
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Speaker 5: I'm going to try to maybe make some real easy plays,
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Speaker 5: which I think most offenses should probably try to do
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Speaker 5: a couple easy plays to get in the flow of
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Speaker 5: the game. A couple completions early in the first drive
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Speaker 5: to where you're not feeling like you're knocking off rust,
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Speaker 5: like okay, boom, yep, yep, we're ready to go, right.
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Speaker 5: I mean I had I had multiple injuries that ended
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Speaker 5: up costing me significant amounts of time, and when I
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Speaker 5: came back, I wasn't expecting myself to be as locked
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Speaker 5: in as I was four months ago when I before
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Speaker 5: I broke my wrist, and so I just kind of
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Speaker 5: narrowed things down.
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Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to be on time for the fastball.
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Speaker 5: I might look stupid on a bunch of breaking balls,
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Speaker 5: but I'm not going to miss very many fastballs, and
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Speaker 5: sure enough, you'd get a fastball or two account and
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Speaker 5: I ended up taking advantage and usually came back from
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Speaker 5: those on fire to some extent. So I don't think
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Speaker 5: it means you necessarily will stumble, stumble or struggle, but
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Speaker 5: I think there is definitely a different mindset that you
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Speaker 5: have to go into it that is different than your
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Speaker 5: normal routine of how you prepare for a game.
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Speaker 4: I think too though, just having Locke getting some more
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Speaker 4: reps when you're heading into right now, the biggest game
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Speaker 4: of the year, just in case something happened isn't a
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Speaker 4: bad idea, because that's the last thing you want, is
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Speaker 4: if something were to happen and you've got to put
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Speaker 4: a guy in that hasn't taken a snap with the
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Speaker 4: first team in four.
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Speaker 2: Months, maybe the time for four years.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well but I'm saying like, probably, well it wouldn't
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Speaker 4: have been since training camp, right, if he even got some, then.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the timing suffers a little bit, But I think
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Speaker 1: you're picking that up. Yeah by second third possession at the.
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Speaker 2: Latest, you're this far into the season.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So yes, let's just let's just not have him throw. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, let you have him walk through and run
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Speaker 1: through and tape his arms down to his sides if
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Speaker 1: you would like, maybe put him in a wheelbarrow and then.
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Speaker 4: Just yell throw when he would have thrown like gavel, gavel,
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Speaker 4: gavel or whistle, you just.
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Speaker 2: Yell throw like he'll just yell throw, okay catch, yeah exactly,
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Speaker 2: and then there you go.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Dave Pearson's not doing anything during practice, just
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Speaker 1: have him wheel him around in a wheel there and
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Speaker 1: then just yell.
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Speaker 5: Thro yeah Pearson, look out they're coming off the edge
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Speaker 5: from Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So if that's how practice, and if it is.
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Speaker 1: Please get us video. Yes, that would be We do
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Speaker 1: appreciate that. How about Hugh Millen like ken Walker thousand
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Speaker 1: yards rushing Sunday, that's.
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Speaker 2: What I heard.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's summoning Eric Dickerson numbers. Shut he's exaggerating
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Speaker 1: for emphasis. His point is that this right his point
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Speaker 1: as the stage is set. There's no excuses. Ken Walker
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Speaker 1: is playing well. He's the only guy he's been wanting
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Speaker 1: all year long to be the guy wanting to get
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Speaker 1: into his rhythm. The Rams haven't been playing well against
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Speaker 1: the run here as of late. All signs point to
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Speaker 1: ken Walker having the best day of his football life
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Boy, you get that done. Sam Darnold might
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Speaker 1: not even have to throw. He might be able to
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Speaker 1: wheelbarrow it on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could tape his arms down. You can just
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Speaker 2: yell throw.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it would be exactly the way that they
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Speaker 5: would want to draw it up. And we've watched Clint
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Speaker 5: Kubiak in this offense has not ran the ball crazy efficient.
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Speaker 5: I mean, they haven't been putting up crazy numbers. They
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Speaker 5: didn't lead the league in rushing yards or anything, have
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Speaker 5: the leading you know, rush or anything like that. But
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Speaker 5: they stick to it now all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 5: idea of man, what would happen if you just didn't
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Speaker 5: give him a share of the carries? But he just
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Speaker 5: got all of it because we I don't. I think
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Speaker 5: there's an there's definitely something to your increasing your chance
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Speaker 5: of getting injured if you're just the bell count, you
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Speaker 5: take all the all the reps. So we've kept him
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Speaker 5: healthy throughout the course of the season by sharing his
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Speaker 5: reps with with Zach Charbonnay. But I do think that
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Speaker 5: there's something to boy. Just let him start to eat,
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Speaker 5: let him go. Like once they start feeling it right,
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Speaker 5: they start to inflict pain at the end of runs,
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Speaker 5: and they start to feel themselves a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: You start getting a feel for you know, how quickly
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Speaker 5: these backside linebackers are collapsing on that hole, and so
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Speaker 5: you're bouncing things a little better. I think there's a
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Speaker 5: chance that he does have his best game, but I
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Speaker 5: think you got to get off to a good start
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Speaker 5: in order for that to hap.
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Speaker 1: Coming off a pretty damn good game. If he has
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Speaker 1: a better game, yeah, his best game, Wow.
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Speaker 2: I mean I'm fine with him doing what he did
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Speaker 2: last game. I'll allow it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that. Yeah, I think three touch if
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Speaker 1: he scores three touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and over one hundred yards.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate that one. On the other side, of course, defensively,
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Speaker 1: I mean we here in Seattle, I think every Seahawk
9:41
Speaker 1: fan has the utmost confidence in the defense, even though
9:44
Speaker 1: the last time you faced the Rams, they racked up
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Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty one yards against this defense and
9:52
Speaker 1: didn't have an answer all day long for the great
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Speaker 1: Puka Nakua. And let's not beat around the bush. He's great.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe our guy is in that conversation too.
10:03
Speaker 1: By the way, national people JSN as the best receiver
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Speaker 1: right now. Jamar Chase is certainly in that conversation. But
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Speaker 1: Puka Nakou, a former fifth rounder, is in that conversation
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Speaker 1: at the very least of being the best receiver and
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Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus, the best player in the
10:22
Speaker 1: National Football League this season. So how do you stop him?
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Speaker 6: Here's coach McDonald, so, I mean, you name it. I mean,
10:29
Speaker 6: ball skills are tremendous. So a lot of those contested
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Speaker 6: catches he's coming down with body control, you know, on
10:35
Speaker 6: the sideline, being able to make plays. They can kind
10:39
Speaker 6: of do everything, so you can't just account for him
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Speaker 6: for to do one thing. He's great in the run game.
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Speaker 6: It's great running after catch. Yeah, I mean he kind
10:47
Speaker 6: of gets like hidden yardages, which is which is a
10:49
Speaker 6: testament to his toughness. And so he does a lot
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Speaker 6: of great things.
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Speaker 1: He's a really good player, you know, Aaron notice he
10:55
Speaker 1: always just stops it really good. I think Mike McDonald's
10:58
Speaker 1: shares my glossary of terms. I'm not going you gonna
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Speaker 1: have to earn great yeah me, he says. Always, they're
11:04
Speaker 1: really good, like mcveighen, there the great team that face
11:08
Speaker 1: we're facing very very very playing great football right now.
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Speaker 2: They're just they're just great. Your eyes right, yeah, very good.
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Speaker 2: The eyes were perfect, Sean eyes had perfect.
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Speaker 1: Sean mcvagh uh, he's got Sean McVay is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good song, not great. It's a good song,
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Speaker 2: a very good song.
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Speaker 1: Sean mcv great song.
11:31
Speaker 2: Great song man.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Stevie Nicks, Oh geez, the best actually, I think
11:36
Speaker 1: that's Kim Carnes.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, Kim Carnes great, Oh my gosh.
11:42
Speaker 1: Mike MacDonald. Kim Carnes is very good, very good.
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Speaker 2: It was very good, and I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Looking I'm very much looking forward to seeing the concert,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure she put on a very good performance. No,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Uh So, Pooka Nakua, No getting
11:57
Speaker 1: around it. He's great. He's not just very good. He's
12:00
Speaker 1: turned into a great football player. We had great one
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Speaker 1: too in JSN. But JSN didn't have two hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty five yards, twelve catches and two touchdowns the last
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Speaker 1: time we faced him, And so I don't. I would
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Speaker 1: bet everything that I have that Nikou is now going
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Speaker 1: to touch that. But he affects the games in so
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Speaker 1: many ways. He's very good blocking down field. They'll give
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Speaker 1: him the ball on the end around two or three
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Speaker 1: times a game. It's outstanding. In the red zone, he'll
12:27
Speaker 1: get you. They give it to him when they need
12:29
Speaker 1: tough yardage, when it's third down and one, they'll they'll
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Speaker 1: they'll do an in and round with him because he's
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Speaker 1: their best not just a run after the catch, he's
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Speaker 1: their best run after being hit. He's better than Kyrin
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Speaker 1: Williams at that. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Now he's he brings a different skill set. He's kind
12:47
Speaker 5: of a he's got a little bit of the Deebo Samuel,
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Speaker 5: but I maybe even better hands as far as contested balls.
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Speaker 5: But I mean Deebo Samuel Samuel, remember when he was
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Speaker 5: with the Niners, he just was that. He was like
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Speaker 5: there was something about him that made him really difficult
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Speaker 5: to get to the ground after he caught the ball.
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Speaker 1: Pookah's got that, and that's something. That's what it is.
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Speaker 1: Got a big ass. I had a big dumper.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well that big dumpers are are there in twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty six. The big dumpers are in and he definitely
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Speaker 5: has that. There's a toughness to him. He's obviously not
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Speaker 5: worried about the contact that comes now. I mean this
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Speaker 5: is going to be about as hyped up as that
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Speaker 5: defense is going to be. And I think that they're
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Speaker 5: going to be wanting to put a lick on him.
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Speaker 5: You know, they're going to be wanting to make him
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Speaker 5: feel it whenever he does touch the ball. He's the
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Speaker 5: type of guy that you just got to hope to contain, right.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think he's gonna get to twenty
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Speaker 5: five either. I mean there was a few big chunk
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Speaker 5: plays there. I mean, it wasn't if you keep him
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Speaker 5: to where his longest pass is a thirty yarder. He
13:47
Speaker 5: even let him catch eight or nine balls, And I
13:49
Speaker 5: don't think that that's going to be the reason you lose.
13:52
Speaker 5: You just can't let him go off and you have
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Speaker 5: a trouble stop and Kyrie Williams the running back, and
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Speaker 5: then let them figure out a way to get a
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Speaker 5: couple other people in the game to where next thing
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Speaker 5: you know, they're scoring thirty thirty five points.
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Speaker 2: So we just can't do what we did in the
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Speaker 2: second game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, yeah, yeah. And I as we pointed out
14:12
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock, I wrote down at one point, like
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Speaker 1: their offensive line is dominating our defensive line in that game.
14:18
Speaker 1: That's not happening again. I mean, that's just not going
14:21
Speaker 1: to happen. I mean they maybe they win the day,
14:24
Speaker 1: but they're not going to dominate the day. And so
14:27
Speaker 1: again another topic we discussed yesterday. You get a four
14:30
Speaker 1: man pass rush, you're able to drop seven into coverage
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Speaker 1: and not just seven. We don't have just your run
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Speaker 1: of the mill seven. First of all, all of our
14:38
Speaker 1: best defensive backs are healthy and linebacker right now, and
14:43
Speaker 1: linebackers right now, they are healthy. We also are the
14:47
Speaker 1: most versatile secondary in the National Football League. The number
14:52
Speaker 1: of different things that they can do, probably the most athletic,
14:57
Speaker 1: and when you consider Emon Warreon Woolten. Yeah, when you
14:59
Speaker 1: fact after them into the equation, and then you've got
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Speaker 1: the smarts of Julian Love and the toughness of Kobe
15:06
Speaker 1: Bryant and everything else. I mean, the front four does
15:09
Speaker 1: its job than the back seven, including Ernest Jones with
15:13
Speaker 1: six interceptions this year from inside linebacker, They're going to
15:17
Speaker 1: get their job done as well. And so I just
15:22
Speaker 1: there's no chance he's going to have the game that
15:24
Speaker 1: he had the last game.
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Speaker 4: Well, not to mention, I think the defense was embarrassed
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Speaker 4: by giving up that many that Mitch yardage and that
15:32
Speaker 4: many points because that's just not what they do. So
15:35
Speaker 4: there's an element of pride at the Seahawks defense is
15:39
Speaker 4: going out there with in this game as well.
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Speaker 1: And I do think that the big dumpers are the
15:43
Speaker 1: new nice calves.
15:44
Speaker 2: Yeah they are.
15:45
Speaker 1: You know, orange is the new black. Big dumpers are
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Speaker 1: the new ice calves. All right, Let's talk about turnover deferential.
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Speaker 1: It is a huge factor in every football game. We
15:58
Speaker 1: already know that. So it's a cliche and if you're
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Speaker 1: using that in your pregame analysis, you're lazy at your job, Okay.
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Speaker 1: So but when you do have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: statistical history that says, man, we turned the ball over
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Speaker 1: a lot more against that team than we do anybody else. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I will allow people to use that as their pregame
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Speaker 1: analysis this week, because obviously there's been a bit of
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Speaker 1: a contrast here and we can't fall into the same pattern.
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Speaker 1: Sam Donald cannot have three turnovers on Sunday and expect
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Speaker 1: to win. Not saying you can't win, but expect to
16:37
Speaker 1: win in that situation. Mike McDonald also addressed the turnover
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Speaker 1: differential in this matchup.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting. I think you're looking at a really
16:46
Speaker 6: small sample and it's kind of like two independent like
16:50
Speaker 6: observations that happen to not go our way takeaway wise,
16:53
Speaker 6: so you look offensively, like, hey, there's some things we
16:57
Speaker 6: could do better to protect the ball. Special team is wise.
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Speaker 3: You know.
17:00
Speaker 6: I thought we've been pretty sound, you know, with the
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Speaker 6: football and been secure and defensively. I think there's some
17:06
Speaker 6: things that we did in the first game that was
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Speaker 6: really good, that we took the ball away and we
17:09
Speaker 6: had some opsis past game, and it's kind of like,
17:12
Speaker 6: are we doing you know, are we doing the things
17:14
Speaker 6: that we need to do defensively to kind of put
17:16
Speaker 6: the ball in jeopardy and be able to attack it.
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Speaker 6: And so it's kind of like a pay by play
17:20
Speaker 6: game by a game type of thing, and they do
17:22
Speaker 6: a good job of protecting.
17:23
Speaker 1: It, you know.
17:24
Speaker 6: So, but that that really doesn't that doesn't really have
17:28
Speaker 6: an effect only how we prepare what we're trying to
17:31
Speaker 6: do in terms of making the ball come to life.
17:33
Speaker 1: This said really good? Again, it's poor wife. How do
17:37
Speaker 1: you think I look today?
17:38
Speaker 2: Really really good?
17:39
Speaker 1: Really good?
17:39
Speaker 2: How was that dinner?
17:41
Speaker 1: Really good? Yeah? Not above that? Ever? Do we not
17:44
Speaker 1: ever get above that?
17:45
Speaker 4: Imagine though, imagine how exciting it would be if it
17:49
Speaker 4: did get above it.
17:49
Speaker 2: You're like day made, year made.
17:53
Speaker 5: I think you just tell hey, it's about the process.
17:56
Speaker 5: We're always getting better here, right. If I set the
17:58
Speaker 5: standard to where that was great, that was, that was unbelievable, Well,
18:02
Speaker 5: now what would be unbelievable be on that?
18:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't marry Gus Johnson, you married Mike Donald.
18:07
Speaker 1: All right, let's face it. We're keeping a reel here, Hunt.
18:11
Speaker 1: I think it's a phenomenal point by Bucky. I mean
18:14
Speaker 1: a really good point. Yeah, it's a really good points
18:16
Speaker 1: carried away. I don't want a decent point, really good point,
18:19
Speaker 1: good good point. He never really really good. That's really good.
18:23
Speaker 1: That's where I cap out at makes sense, just really
18:26
Speaker 1: good what we did there? Uh And and look, I'm
18:30
Speaker 1: with him. I'm with him a thousand percent. I think
18:32
Speaker 1: that that echoes everything that I have said about this
18:35
Speaker 1: topic over the entire season. It's the reason why I
18:38
Speaker 1: don't allow turnovers to be used as a key to
18:41
Speaker 1: the upcoming game, because it's almost always a short sample size,
18:46
Speaker 1: and certainly this one is. And yes, we're on the
18:48
Speaker 1: short end of the stick on this one, There's no
18:50
Speaker 1: question about it. And maybe you do have to factor
18:53
Speaker 1: in that Sam Donald got sacked nine times in his
18:56
Speaker 1: last game as a Viking against the Los Angeles Rams.
18:59
Speaker 1: Maybe he does have an issue here. I just still
19:02
Speaker 1: can't go into the game. I just don't go into
19:04
Speaker 1: this game thinking, well, we got a factor in at
19:07
Speaker 1: least two turnovers, because you know, Sam Donald is gonna
19:10
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. It's the Rams, after all. I
19:13
Speaker 1: mean he might, he might turn it over two to
19:15
Speaker 1: four times for all I know. I I but to me,
19:19
Speaker 1: I think it's too short of a sample size to
19:21
Speaker 1: think Sam Donald has a RAMS problem. I do too.
19:24
Speaker 5: I think that, like I've said a million times, I
19:28
Speaker 5: don't think all turnovers are created the same. And I
19:30
Speaker 5: think sometimes you get into a you know, if it's
19:33
Speaker 5: third and long and you're outside the red zone, you're
19:36
Speaker 5: you're on their forty yard line, and so, but it's
19:39
Speaker 5: third and twelve, you want him to take a chance
19:42
Speaker 5: to complete that thing if it turns into a pick
19:44
Speaker 5: and now of a sudden it's their ball on the
19:46
Speaker 5: twenty nine yard line, Okay, versus I'll just throw it
19:50
Speaker 5: out of bounds and we're gonna punt or we're gonna
19:52
Speaker 5: We're gonna have to decide. Do we try to go
19:54
Speaker 5: for a fourth and twelve. No, you're gonna try to
19:56
Speaker 5: pin him right there. Probably when you're going against a
19:59
Speaker 5: team that is the best team offensively at putting points up,
20:03
Speaker 5: then you have to take a couple more risks to
20:06
Speaker 5: because it's like, Okay, I am the idea of you.
20:09
Speaker 5: You've said this many times of with a great defense,
20:12
Speaker 5: it doesn't mean, oh, play far more conservative because we
20:15
Speaker 5: don't need as much offense. It can mean that some
20:19
Speaker 5: teams do that. Some coaches will make it that way.
20:21
Speaker 5: I think Mike McDonald has Sam Donald in the Hey,
20:25
Speaker 5: we obviously don't want to turn it over when we're
20:27
Speaker 5: down inside the ten and getting ready to score. We
20:30
Speaker 5: don't want to do it when we're backed up against
20:31
Speaker 5: our own end zone because that's automatic points for them.
20:34
Speaker 5: We saw that with the fumble or an interception that
20:36
Speaker 5: they got the ball at the one yard line. You
20:38
Speaker 5: don't want to be doing that. That puts your your
20:40
Speaker 5: defense in a near win, near impossible situation to defend.
20:45
Speaker 5: But the idea of hey, go out there, slang it
20:48
Speaker 5: with him. I want you to beat Matt Stafford at
20:50
Speaker 5: Matt Stafford's game, Right, if we're going to compare the quarterbacks,
20:52
Speaker 5: you go beat him because I'm going to beat their defense.
20:56
Speaker 5: And so if you keep pace with them and it
20:58
Speaker 5: turns into a benign turnover and I mean that loosely,
21:02
Speaker 5: but you get what I mean. There's certain ones that
21:04
Speaker 5: are just catastrophic and you can't have those. And so
21:07
Speaker 5: I think that there's almost certainty that there's gonna be
21:09
Speaker 5: some sort of turnover. I would be I would imagine
21:12
Speaker 5: a pick at some point in time, because situationally it's
21:15
Speaker 5: gonna be where he's been coached, and he thinks, Yep,
21:19
Speaker 5: this is where I'm pushing it. I'm pushing the envelope
21:21
Speaker 5: right here. I'm gonna fit it in there, and if
21:23
Speaker 5: they make a play on it, so be it. They're
21:24
Speaker 5: a good team for a reason.
21:25
Speaker 1: You know who asked that question to Mike McDonald. You
21:28
Speaker 1: know that, Nosy prior? Who was it? Mike Sandos.
21:34
Speaker 2: Right, No, do that up in our business sandals. Why
21:38
Speaker 2: you gotta be like that.
21:41
Speaker 1: Give me some information they can pass along to the people.
21:45
Speaker 1: It's like it is any of your business.
21:49
Speaker 2: Snoopy, come up with your own answers.
21:51
Speaker 1: Sando, Mike Sando's next Sports Radio ninety three point three
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21:58
Speaker 1: and call Hunts now, Mike. Here's chucking bug Happy Conference
22:05
Speaker 1: Championships Sunday, Mike Sando, You've earned it, buddy, you got here,
22:10
Speaker 1: You did it. I can feel the energy coming off
22:13
Speaker 1: of you even over the phone line.
22:17
Speaker 7: Super excited. Yeah, I was at the game last week.
22:19
Speaker 7: I'll be there again this week. It's kind of like
22:21
Speaker 7: old times. You know, It's been a while since they've
22:23
Speaker 7: had this type of energy, this type of team playing
22:26
Speaker 7: at home with everything on the line. Yeah, taking photos
22:29
Speaker 7: with Dave Bowling making the rounds and then asking our
22:33
Speaker 7: head coach about turnover differential?
22:35
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare I asked that?
22:37
Speaker 7: I don't think I asked him that today. I asked
22:40
Speaker 7: a few questions after the game. I don't think I
22:42
Speaker 7: did that one.
22:42
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well maybe oh I actually thought it
22:45
Speaker 1: sounded like you so, all right, So what is the
22:49
Speaker 1: big topic do you think? What is the big issue
22:52
Speaker 1: for Ram Seahawks? What's going to determine this outcome on Sunday?
22:57
Speaker 7: I think the Seattle defense with the home crowd and
23:02
Speaker 7: and the offense that doesn't turn it over too much.
23:06
Speaker 7: I think they can turn it over a little bit,
23:07
Speaker 7: not too much. So I see this game as one
23:10
Speaker 7: that the Seahawks should win. I believe that the Rams
23:13
Speaker 7: have been should be the tireder team that's just piled
23:17
Speaker 7: up a ton. I think since the last time they played,
23:19
Speaker 7: the Rams have flown thirteen thousand miles and the Seaks
23:21
Speaker 7: are about six thousand. They've played, you know, more games,
23:25
Speaker 7: they've played super tight, you know, overtime, put it all
23:30
Speaker 7: on the line. I think Seattle is a much more
23:32
Speaker 7: rested team. The only thing that would possibly concern me
23:35
Speaker 7: for the Seahawks is, you know, offensively, if they were
23:40
Speaker 7: to get behind, you know, and have to pass. I
23:46
Speaker 7: think the Charbonney injury in pass protection is a little
23:50
Speaker 7: bit of a thing. So you know, the Seal defense
23:54
Speaker 7: would probably still allow a comeback, but kick it behind
23:57
Speaker 7: too much, and I don't think that's going to happen.
23:59
Speaker 7: I think the are, you know, the better team. I
24:02
Speaker 7: think they're probably going to win the game. I think
24:03
Speaker 7: they have a chance to win pulling away in the
24:05
Speaker 7: second half. So I do lean to them pretty strongly.
24:11
Speaker 7: But there is a path for the Rams, Yeah.
24:12
Speaker 5: For sure, definitely a path Sando. I mean you're talking
24:16
Speaker 5: about the ken Walker part of this with Sharbonnaye, you know,
24:19
Speaker 5: blowing his knee out. I mean, how where do you
24:22
Speaker 5: stand on the idea of like letting a running back eat.
24:25
Speaker 5: I mean, they've tried this running back by committee, which
24:29
Speaker 5: a lot of teams do, because it's hard to stay
24:32
Speaker 5: healthy if you've run your guy twenty five thirty times
24:35
Speaker 5: a game. And so now you've got two games, you
24:38
Speaker 5: pulled the governor off and you let him go. Do
24:40
Speaker 5: you prescribe or subscribe to the idea of the more
24:43
Speaker 5: carries or running back can get, the better he can
24:46
Speaker 5: kind of get into the flow and just letting him eat.
24:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably, I think so. Most backs would say that.
24:51
Speaker 7: Of course, they all want the ball, so they're a
24:53
Speaker 7: little bit biased, but I do think there's something to that.
24:55
Speaker 7: I think it's been that way for ken Walker this
24:57
Speaker 7: year too, just getting work in this offense behind the line.
25:01
Speaker 7: I thought, you know, I'm not a personnel evaluator, but
25:04
Speaker 7: I thought his vision was not good a lot of
25:07
Speaker 7: the season, Like, man, it doesn't he see this? Doesn't
25:09
Speaker 7: he see that? I felt it's been way better, so
25:13
Speaker 7: you know, something's happened there. I know they've had some
25:14
Speaker 7: changing in the change in the coaching room there too
25:17
Speaker 7: with him, But whatever it is, I think he's gotten
25:19
Speaker 7: more comfortable. I think more is good for him. And
25:21
Speaker 7: now you just need two games, so I don't think
25:24
Speaker 7: I think some of that balancing guys out is smart
25:26
Speaker 7: over the whole course of a season.
25:28
Speaker 1: When you have two guys that are good, but we
25:30
Speaker 1: got two games.
25:30
Speaker 7: Now, it's all hands on deck, right, I mean, give
25:33
Speaker 7: him to him forty times if he needs it.
25:35
Speaker 1: It's Derek Henry time, it's Otis Anderson time. Just give
25:38
Speaker 1: him those two t's. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Mike Sando is
25:40
Speaker 1: with us, our NFL insider from the Athletic. You can
25:43
Speaker 1: follow him on the ex at Sando NFL of course
25:46
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25:48
Speaker 1: all of his great stuff that he pumps out. He
25:51
Speaker 1: joins us every Thursday at this time, but not every
25:55
Speaker 1: week is conference championship week? All right, So do you
26:00
Speaker 1: give Jarrett stead I'm a chance to pull this thing
26:02
Speaker 1: off on Sunday? A chance? Yeah?
26:04
Speaker 7: I think that in a one game at home with
26:09
Speaker 7: a good but not perfect Patriots team, sure you give
26:12
Speaker 7: them a chance. I think the Broncos have pulled out
26:14
Speaker 7: a bunch of games this year. Some of that's Ben
26:16
Speaker 7: bo Nick's running around, so they're going to lose some
26:18
Speaker 7: of that. I think in a one game situation you
26:20
Speaker 7: have a chance with the backup. I think it's harder
26:22
Speaker 7: to do over multiple games. I probably lean towards New England.
26:25
Speaker 7: I think we're gonna have a Seahawk New England rematch
26:28
Speaker 7: in the Super Bowl.
26:29
Speaker 5: It's not what I want to hear Sando. Why Because
26:32
Speaker 5: I'm a Bronco fan, So I actually.
26:35
Speaker 7: Said that would you better have that happen or rather
26:38
Speaker 7: have a forty three to eight.
26:39
Speaker 1: I don't want that either. I've already told my.
26:41
Speaker 7: It shoots a gun question choosing are you choosing lose
26:44
Speaker 7: now or just get slaughtered in the Super Bowl?
26:48
Speaker 5: No, no, neither. I don't want either. I would question.
26:53
Speaker 5: It's not a horrible question. Uh, sand do stop that
26:56
Speaker 5: with your good questions. Okay, so what when it comes
27:00
Speaker 5: to I'm going to ask you one more on that.
27:02
Speaker 5: What is the most difficult thing about a quarterback stepping
27:04
Speaker 5: in when the situation when there's this many chips in
27:07
Speaker 5: the bot.
27:08
Speaker 7: I think it's when it's a different style of quarterback
27:10
Speaker 7: that's a little bit challenging, because you when you have
27:13
Speaker 7: someone like bon Nix with the ability to run around,
27:16
Speaker 7: you build your run game off of that too, and
27:18
Speaker 7: you know, he becomes a threat as a designed rusher.
27:21
Speaker 7: I think he had six or seven of those, got
27:22
Speaker 7: hurt on one of them. As a bootlegger, right, he's
27:25
Speaker 7: super convincing on that could be and then you know
27:29
Speaker 7: play action the ability to really move him after that
27:31
Speaker 7: and have him be able to scramble. So I think
27:33
Speaker 7: your offense does change. The good thing for them is
27:35
Speaker 7: that they got that. They knew about it the whole week,
27:38
Speaker 7: so it's not like, you know, it's a change in
27:40
Speaker 7: the first quarter and net Nix goes out. I think that,
27:44
Speaker 7: you know, is challenging too in a different way. So
27:46
Speaker 7: they have a chance with a really good coach and
27:48
Speaker 7: Sean Payton, to have a game plan that works. We've
27:51
Speaker 7: seen sid him come in. I remember he played the
27:53
Speaker 7: forty nine ers when he was with the Raiders a
27:55
Speaker 7: few years ago, and I think he had three hundred
27:56
Speaker 7: and sixty yards passing. The next week, it wasn't like that.
27:59
Speaker 7: That's why I think, you know, the more games you
28:01
Speaker 7: have to do, the harder it is. But for one
28:03
Speaker 7: game he.
28:04
Speaker 1: Can go out there.
28:04
Speaker 7: He's a veteran who has a commanding type of voice
28:09
Speaker 7: and personality. I think he can convince him for a week,
28:11
Speaker 7: hey we got this, We're gonna go. And I think
28:13
Speaker 7: that's why Sean Payton announced it so early, right he
28:16
Speaker 7: could have. He held an extra press conference Sunday night
28:19
Speaker 7: to let everyone know. I think that was for his
28:21
Speaker 7: team and for his quarterback to just say, guys, we're
28:24
Speaker 7: not hiding from this.
28:25
Speaker 1: Let's go mm hm, why don't we believe in the Patriots?
28:31
Speaker 1: I do believe in the Patriots. You do, okay, well,
28:34
Speaker 1: I do believe. It's like a Super Bowl champ. I
28:35
Speaker 1: get that you you're picking him to win this game,
28:38
Speaker 1: but it feels like good that the New England area
28:42
Speaker 1: nobody's really bought. I mean, great turnaround, got the right
28:45
Speaker 1: head coach, and man, this young quarterback looks good. But
28:48
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win a super Bowl with this group.
28:50
Speaker 1: Why do we feel that way? Well?
28:51
Speaker 7: I think that I think this becomes an incremental thing.
28:54
Speaker 1: Maybe if they win.
28:55
Speaker 7: Convincingly on Denver, then people will say that I think
28:57
Speaker 7: we for the longest time, we didn't think they would
28:59
Speaker 7: eat and overtake Buffalo. Ow, Buffalo will still find a
29:02
Speaker 7: way by the end of the year, right, And then
29:04
Speaker 7: they beat Buffalo and you're like, well, and they keep winning.
29:07
Speaker 1: The fundamentals look really good for them.
29:11
Speaker 7: I think though, when you're a team that came into
29:12
Speaker 7: the season and everyone thought was a bottom five team
29:14
Speaker 7: in the AFC, it takes longer to get the respect.
29:19
Speaker 7: So that's probably what that is, you know. But if
29:23
Speaker 7: they win this Denver game, I think some people will
29:25
Speaker 7: give them a chance.
29:26
Speaker 1: Boy, looking at Mike Sando's ex timeline here, you seem
29:31
Speaker 1: truly fascinated by this Buffalo Bill's Sean McDermott story. So
29:36
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about at this stage?
29:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know a lot of people were making fun
29:43
Speaker 7: of the owner and the GM press conference yesterday for
29:46
Speaker 7: them for good reason on some of it. But what
29:49
Speaker 7: the owner said to start off resonated with me that
29:51
Speaker 7: he went in that locker room and he just saw
29:52
Speaker 7: these guys, you know, crying and all that they've had
29:55
Speaker 7: too much. It seems like their losses in these playoffs
29:58
Speaker 7: are all gut punters. Different ways to lose these games, right,
30:02
Speaker 7: Like when you lose a Super Bowl with the thrown
30:04
Speaker 7: interception by Seattle, it's like way worse than if they
30:08
Speaker 7: never completed the pass to curse and they just lost
30:10
Speaker 7: the game.
30:10
Speaker 1: Right.
30:11
Speaker 7: The Bills have had so many of these, and it's
30:13
Speaker 7: kind of been their history with the Super Bowl, four
30:16
Speaker 7: losses in those before, and I think you do reach
30:19
Speaker 7: a point where you've got to change the channel a
30:23
Speaker 7: little bit here. And it doesn't mean that Sean McDermott
30:26
Speaker 7: deserved to lose his job and the GM deserve to
30:28
Speaker 7: be promoted. That's not really what it's about. It's just
30:31
Speaker 7: kind of an owner having a feel in that locker
30:33
Speaker 7: room that we've got to change this. We need a
30:35
Speaker 7: new direction here.
30:39
Speaker 1: And I kind of get it. Yeah, I do too.
30:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it was right, But I
30:44
Speaker 1: also am like I think that I think they had
30:47
Speaker 1: decided if we don't go to the super Bowl, we're
30:50
Speaker 1: going to fire him. But that was with John Harball
30:54
Speaker 1: out there and Kevin Stefanski out there and maybe Matt
30:58
Speaker 1: Lafleur becoming available. Now it doesn't feel to me, Mike,
31:02
Speaker 1: like they've got a plan. I would think that if
31:04
Speaker 1: you're going to fire a successful head coach, you'd have
31:06
Speaker 1: a plan, and it just doesn't feel like they've got
31:09
Speaker 1: one right now.
31:10
Speaker 7: Well, we'll find out if they do have a plan.
31:11
Speaker 7: I don't think you have to hire the guy who
31:13
Speaker 7: has the best resume. I don't. I think you need
31:16
Speaker 7: to do your work and find your you know, find
31:21
Speaker 7: your Mike McDonald, you know, find your guy that fits
31:25
Speaker 7: well for you, and he doesn't have to be somebody
31:27
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty wins. In some ways, they may
31:30
Speaker 7: not need that, they may not want that, you know,
31:33
Speaker 7: like if you listen to Terry Pegula and Sean mcnerny
31:36
Speaker 7: or Brandon Bean, they feel like they have a good team,
31:38
Speaker 7: like they're probably not looking for someone to come in
31:40
Speaker 7: and fire everybody and start just fresh, right, They're probably
31:45
Speaker 7: just looking for a new voice, and so they can
31:47
Speaker 7: probably they can find that. Maybe I don't know, you know,
31:50
Speaker 7: there's Brian Dabau in the mixt there that would be
31:52
Speaker 7: kind of a familiar voice. I don't know if that
31:53
Speaker 7: would be the way to go, but they can. They
31:55
Speaker 7: can get somebody. I still think they can. I don't
31:57
Speaker 7: know if they will. I don't know what their process
31:59
Speaker 7: will be like, but they can get somebody. And by
32:01
Speaker 7: the way, they got Sean McDermott.
32:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, Seahawks Patriots. That's what you get. That's what
32:06
Speaker 1: I got. Okay, all right, Well, enjoy it on Sunday,
32:11
Speaker 1: and then we look forward to previewing the Super Bowl
32:14
Speaker 1: with you for the next couple of weeks. Yeah, it
32:16
Speaker 1: should be fun. All right, great, Thank you, Michael. All right,
32:18
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Speaker 1: next on KJR final segments here on this Thursday edition
32:56
Speaker 1: of Chucking Back in the Morning. So we always close
32:58
Speaker 1: with one last thing, one last thing that's on your
33:01
Speaker 1: mind before we close out our broadcast day, Bucky, It's floorisiers.
33:07
Speaker 5: I just think it is interesting that we've seen these
33:10
Speaker 5: Rams games right this year, even last year. I mean,
33:13
Speaker 5: I maybe want the last game of last season not counting,
33:17
Speaker 5: because I know the Rams were not playing their starters, right,
33:20
Speaker 5: they kind of their seating was already set up their
33:23
Speaker 5: final week of the season. And yet I just don't
33:26
Speaker 5: know for sure if I've seen a game that I
33:29
Speaker 5: can remember that feels more evenly matched, even though they're
33:32
Speaker 5: built quite different, right, I Mean, we talk about the
33:35
Speaker 5: number one offense versus number one defense, I mean, the
33:38
Speaker 5: defensive mastermind versus the offensive mastermind and and all that,
33:42
Speaker 5: and yet they just to me, it feels so toss
33:46
Speaker 5: up y. It's not even funny. I would say advantage Seahawks,
33:50
Speaker 5: just because I do think that that that defense is
33:54
Speaker 5: playing at a at a.
33:56
Speaker 1: At a rate right now that's unbelievable.
33:57
Speaker 5: But one of the stats I just kind of came
34:00
Speaker 5: across was in the last thirty four meetings that it's
34:03
Speaker 5: been number one offense versus number one defense seventeen and seventeen.
34:08
Speaker 1: Is that right, rubber match?
34:09
Speaker 5: I mean it probably happened again, so it's not really
34:11
Speaker 5: the rubber match, but we'll just say it's the rubber
34:13
Speaker 5: match right here, because I think it is advantage defense
34:16
Speaker 5: in this situation.
34:18
Speaker 1: I I not to give away tomorrow's predictions, but I
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Speaker 1: don't I think we're winning by ten again.
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Speaker 2: Oh I'll take that, man.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a toss up. I think we
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Speaker 1: have to if where we play as if the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: play as well as they have been playing, they don't
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Speaker 1: have a chance. We have to play. The Seahawks have
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Speaker 1: to play a bad game or not a bad game.
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Speaker 1: They have to play. They have to make mistakes, they
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Speaker 1: have to be less than themselves and it doesn't even
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Speaker 1: have to be turnovers. They they just don't function if
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Speaker 1: they're functioning like they have been. Let's put okay bottom
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Speaker 1: line and Hugh pointed out the statistics defensively, the rams
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Speaker 1: and how deficient they've been lately defensively. If the two
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Speaker 1: teams play Sunday the way they've played down the stretch,
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Speaker 1: we're winning by ten or more. Oh think it's toss up.
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Speaker 1: I think we have to play down to them. Hmm
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Speaker 1: to lose. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: could go there, but I hear you. I they're playing unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely playing better. Actually, what you One last thing?
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Speaker 4: Well, I saw yesterday that they put out to the
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Speaker 4: announcement that Tucker Wetmore will be the halftime.
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Speaker 1: Going here performer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I have you just need to clarify this.
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Speaker 4: I have no problem with teer Tucker Wetmore. I love
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Speaker 4: country music. It's actually the music I listened to most.
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Speaker 4: I have not listened to a lot of Tucker Wetmore,
35:37
Speaker 4: but I will say this, how do you go from
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Speaker 4: Little John who might have been cheesy, and it might
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Speaker 4: have been you know, you know, he might be past
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Speaker 4: his prime, but the music gets you fired up? To
35:49
Speaker 4: Tucker Wetmore, who I get is local, but there's a
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Speaker 4: lot of people that don't know who he is. I
35:55
Speaker 4: don't know, and there's all and I just don't see
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Speaker 4: it pumping up the crowd. Wow, this is your biggest
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Speaker 4: home game of the entire year. You should have somebody
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Speaker 4: there that's just gonna keep the energy up.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I just what are you doing, Dave crollying to do?
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Speaker 1: Right now?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I just I don't want it to come across as
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Speaker 4: bashing the musician, because it has nothing to do with
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Speaker 4: bashing him as a musician. It just has to do
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Speaker 4: with I don't think that's the right choice for your biggest.
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Speaker 2: Home game of the year, or what more we're doing
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Speaker 2: in his dance hear hims question.
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Speaker 1: In his page.
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Speaker 4: Okay, now, if he does that song, then the crowd
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Speaker 4: will be fired up, you know, Tucker what more?
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Speaker 1: Uh No, I just looked it up untry music.
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Speaker 2: Guy from Yeah, he's from Washington. I get that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know for.
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Speaker 5: Sure if playing a song that gets them pumped up
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Speaker 5: during halftime makes a if anything, maybe it's just relaxed
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Speaker 5: a little bit. We need your energy in the third quarter.
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Speaker 5: I don't think it makes a hill of beans worth
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Speaker 5: a difference.
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Speaker 1: Huh, But I don't.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if i'd there, I would just want to
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Speaker 5: be She's just talking about like from the entertainment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking about the Seahawks getting inspired by.
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Speaker 4: I'm just talking about like the crowd, crowd entertaining sphere.
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Speaker 4: You want to keep the atmosphere up right, you want
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Speaker 4: to keep the energy up in the stadium, the buzz
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Speaker 4: in the stadium.
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Speaker 1: We have to be listening to people talk.
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Speaker 5: So somebody needs to post it online here if it
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Speaker 5: gets people fired up.
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Speaker 1: What more doing the dance? Hear him chushing, and.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I love that song and I'm probably gonna
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Speaker 2: sing it all day.
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Speaker 1: So I hope he doesn't sound like that because that
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Speaker 1: would be a bad decision. All right, I'll close with this.
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Speaker 1: Can we say now, I mean, we haven't discussed this
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Speaker 1: this week because we've got a big NFL game, But
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Speaker 1: is the Big Ten better at the SEC at football
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Speaker 1: right now?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, well, you know it just means no, wait.
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Speaker 2: No, no, we're supposed to mean more.
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Speaker 4: Interesting in the National Championship. The last three years the SEC, No,
37:56
Speaker 4: it was a Big ten, Big ten.
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Speaker 1: Three different Big ten teams have won it. I know,
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Speaker 1: I can hear Hugh Now, I know like deeper. I'll
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Speaker 1: still give the SEC credit for being the deeper conference
38:09
Speaker 1: from week to week. It's probably I do believe, not probably,
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Speaker 1: I do believe. It's more challenging week to week. And
38:17
Speaker 1: now that Vanderbilt's good, you know, it's now you don't
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Speaker 1: even have a week team really in the conference. But
38:24
Speaker 1: in terms of the top half of the conference and
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Speaker 1: the trajectory of where the conference is going, Nick Saban
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Speaker 1: said it the other day, the SEC is in trouble.
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Speaker 1: We can't compete in the nil era with the Big ten.
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Speaker 1: That's from Nick Saban.
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Speaker 5: That's maybe the first positive thing that's come out of
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Speaker 5: the NIL and it's lack of guardrails.
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Speaker 1: Well as it makes the SEC not so good whatever.
38:53
Speaker 1: To me, that's the fascinating part because when this happened,
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Speaker 1: everybody thought, great now will never catch Alabama. I mean,
38:59
Speaker 1: they're so fixated on football. The whole state will give
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Speaker 1: a dollar each everybody there to the cause of Alabama football.
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Speaker 1: They're going to just blow everybody away. And they're like, no,
39:12
Speaker 1: turns out there aren't as many billionaires in Alabama.
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Speaker 2: Weird.
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Speaker 1: One guy, one guy can lift Indiana. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if Alabama's got that guy. Texas Tech's got those guys,
39:27
Speaker 1: SMU's got those guys. Vanderbilt's got those guys. I'm not
39:33
Speaker 1: sure the SEC has those guys. They certainly don't have
39:35
Speaker 1: as many of those guys. So I do think that
39:38
Speaker 1: the NIL rules are going to be tightened up and
39:41
Speaker 1: cinched up, and I think that we will make sense
39:44
Speaker 1: of this chaotic, crazy three years that we've been dealing with.
39:49
Speaker 1: I don't think it's just going to be outspending. I
39:51
Speaker 1: don't think we can allow it to become that. But
39:53
Speaker 1: the SEC is in trouble until they do get a
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Speaker 1: hold of it because they just don't have enough big pocket,
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Speaker 1: deep pocket guys in that conference compared to of IT
40:03
Speaker 1: programs across the country. Yeah. No, I'm with you.
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Speaker 5: I do think that there will be a little bit
40:07
Speaker 5: of well right now as far as the top goes
40:11
Speaker 5: the top, at the last three years, there's no contest
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Speaker 5: the top. The best teams have been out of the
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Speaker 5: big ten. But I think the depth is still is
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Speaker 5: a fact. There's definitely better teams top to bottom in
40:23
Speaker 5: the SEC.
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