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Chuck & Buck 11-11 Hour 1: Jedd speaks up, Wilson up for MOY and are the Hawks peaking too soon? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Crooks. Good morning everyone, morning, it's some time.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning class, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, behold.
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  Speaker 4: A producing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former
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  Speaker 4: high school basketball stand What in the hell.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean? You don't jumped any conclusions?
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  Speaker 3: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to.
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  Speaker 1: Pluto, getting Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just openly
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  Speaker 1: admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 4: A five seven guard and a former college water polo
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  Speaker 4: national champions.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Ryan. What to you buy to Lada Casino Resort
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  Speaker 4: and quill see the Greek Draft Game sports book where
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  Speaker 4: the action never stopped you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good morning, Welcome into the radio show. It is
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  Speaker 3: tacos into your day. I don't know, feels right to me.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Ryan is here. Former Marin or Bucky Jacob said,
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  Speaker 3: my name is Chuck Powell. We got four hours with
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  Speaker 3: you today. We'll take you till ten o'clock, and we
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  Speaker 3: will cover all sorts of fascinating aspects of the entire
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  Speaker 3: sports world, particularly here in Seattle, Washington. So we welcome
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  Speaker 3: you to the show. We have five good legs between us.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yours fell off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, king around, we'll fall off. It's still there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just a little swollen, had scouting on my part. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's still there.
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  Speaker 2: Hard to see though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I had a little one of those procedures
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  Speaker 1: at Pinnacle where they're doing some plasma rich or platelet
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  Speaker 1: rich plasma therapy.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the cartoons, if there's people plasma and dog plasma,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you don't get the dog plasma.
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  Speaker 1: People. I'm pretty sure it was my own plasma.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well that's good because the dog plasma will make
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  Speaker 3: you start acting like a dog. Have you being right?
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  Speaker 1: According to the cartoon heard did.
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  Speaker 2: You hear the barking it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that would be the worst thing that could
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  Speaker 1: possibly happen. I'd rather not have a leg.
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  Speaker 3: I love probably like it a lot about it.
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  Speaker 1: Get a lot more pets you should.
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  Speaker 2: Go around helping everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Sorry, what's different? Dog plasma? Put in?
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  Speaker 1: What's new? Yeah that would be new. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine. I had it before, but I had it
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  Speaker 1: done on like a Friday, so it kind of it's
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  Speaker 1: stiff for day or so and then and then it dissipates,
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  Speaker 1: it goes, it goes away. But yeah, now I had
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  Speaker 1: it done yesterday and I was got up today and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, there's gonna be a rough one getting around.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna tell you this right now, And I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to ruin anything for you, but you've been
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  Speaker 3: drinking a lot of water lately, and there is no
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  Speaker 3: way that Ashley and I are going to carry you
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  Speaker 3: to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: If your leg starts, then might just go right here.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go get a.
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  Speaker 5: Dolly from the engineering slash storage room.
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  Speaker 2: We could just push him up and down there.
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  Speaker 1: I might.
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  Speaker 3: I think you think that's I think you think that's easy.
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  Speaker 2: You could wheel yourself, No, I couldn't. Like a scooter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could do that. You use
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  Speaker 1: those two haul refrigerators around. I'm not the size of
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  Speaker 1: refrigerator plus her refrigerators easier.
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  Speaker 3: To manage you with all your limbs and loose parts.
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  Speaker 3: You'd be flopping over and I'd be having to push
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  Speaker 3: you with one arm and then hold you in place
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  Speaker 3: with the other. Yeah, that's more work than just carrying you.
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  Speaker 5: We have one that lays flat. I was thinking you
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  Speaker 5: could just sit on that and we could push you around.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we might have to do that because I actually
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  Speaker 1: do have to go to the bathroom, and I chose
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  Speaker 1: do not try to make the trip. It would take
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  Speaker 1: me about ten minutes to get there.
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  Speaker 5: Use a wheelichair. We're in wheelichairs. Just put your bad
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  Speaker 5: knee on there and push with your good foot.
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  Speaker 3: Just put a little Johnny on the spot right out here.
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  Speaker 3: Little honey bucket. Yeah, people they call and call them
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  Speaker 3: in Madison BUCkies apparently, according to Softie.
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah, they call their outhouses BUCkies. Well that's dumb.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 2: My time was really funny.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that was the company that made them,
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  Speaker 3: like honey Bucket in Madison, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, BUCkies is a big I got to go to
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  Speaker 1: a Bucky window BUCkies supermarket before heard of it. Bring
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  Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, mini mart that is basically like Walmart,
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  Speaker 1: but on steroids. Like, but it's a gas station, Slash said,
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Beavers. It has a beaver, it has a it's
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  Speaker 1: not it's BUCkies, but b U C K E e. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and it has a beaver on there. But it's but
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  Speaker 1: it's not Bucky Beaver's. That's called BUCkies. Just called BUCkies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but they have everything. I have food and clothes and
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  Speaker 1: gas and good knees. They probably would have a good
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  Speaker 1: knee or two in there. We run in there and
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  Speaker 1: get you one. I could use it right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can just real hop hop in. I'm gonna hop
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  Speaker 1: in real quick and get Bucky a knee. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back. Yeah, a leftne get left, well the road.
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  Speaker 2: The one you've had a lot of problems with.
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  Speaker 1: My right one is the one I had replaced. My
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  Speaker 1: left one is started to hurt. That's why I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: the integrated.
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  Speaker 2: You need another right one. That's the one that's the
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  Speaker 2: bionic me.
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  Speaker 1: It is bionic. I'm trying to stay away from getting
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  Speaker 1: another bionic one by doing this. And it's just part
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  Speaker 1: of the process. You get it shut with this plasma
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  Speaker 1: and then now they'll put some stem cells in there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my next spin it around. Yep, yeah, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, hopefully this is just the storm before
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  Speaker 3: the calm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to that it just.
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  Speaker 3: Tames down here a little bit because we do not
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  Speaker 3: want to carry you. We're not worried about your pain. No,
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  Speaker 3: we do not want to carry you to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: You might have to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well, good morning to you. We get
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  Speaker 3: started here on this day. And you know, I was
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  Speaker 3: talking to Hugh actually on the phone last night and
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  Speaker 3: he's like, I was a busy day talking Seahawks. But
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  Speaker 3: we could have easily done an entire show on the Huskies.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, but I'm kind of glad we didn't because
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  Speaker 3: I know some people like talking about things that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's compelling radio to, you know, talk about a loss.
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  Speaker 3: It might even be more compelling to talk about a
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  Speaker 3: loss and try to fix things and try to point
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  Speaker 3: fingers and try to figure out what went wrong. Again,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably is, you know, the kind of radio show
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  Speaker 3: that you can sink your teeth into. But it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of fun, kind of focusing on the blowout win
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  Speaker 3: from a football team here in town yesterday. But there's
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  Speaker 3: no doubt there are some angry Husky fans, dog fans,
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  Speaker 3: and even a head coach over what happened in Madison,
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin on Saturday. Jedfish and his team. It's like they
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  Speaker 3: played inside a BUCkies. They played one of their worst
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  Speaker 3: games of the year. And after two weeks, two weeks
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  Speaker 3: of build up, a bye and everything, two weeks of
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  Speaker 3: build up talking about how, hey, the path to the
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  Speaker 3: college playoff is here, and man, the door got slammed
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  Speaker 3: on that rather quickly, on just a stinker effort against
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  Speaker 3: a team that just hasn't been able to find success
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  Speaker 3: this year in the Wisconsin Badgers, And so it led
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  Speaker 3: to a bit of a testy press conference yesterday Jedfish
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  Speaker 3: once again being asked, and it sounds like more aggressively
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  Speaker 3: so from the Seattle media hoarde about what's the deal?
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  Speaker 3: Are you staying or not? Do you want to be
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  Speaker 3: here or not? There are rumors out there that your
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  Speaker 3: wife and daughter are living in Arizona and don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be here, and all sorts of things that were
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  Speaker 3: posed to Jedfish yesterday, and it's the most animated he's
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  Speaker 3: been about this topic. It's the most you know, pound
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  Speaker 3: your fist on the table kind of reaction that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen from Jedfish trying to assure people that yes, he
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  Speaker 3: wants to be here, Yes things are going well despite
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  Speaker 3: Saturday's the lost to Wisconsin, and so he tried to
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  Speaker 3: do his best to convince us that I don't care
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  Speaker 3: what rumors that you're hearing, I don't care about the
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  Speaker 3: ridiculousness of the coaching carousel. I'm here to stay and
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to make up a story on me,
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  Speaker 3: and it's actually leading to a distraction. So he was
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  Speaker 3: actually quite adamant about it yesterday. Now, I watched Rafael
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  Speaker 3: pelmer Zo perjure himself in Supreme Court by doing the
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  Speaker 3: exact same thing. So you never know exactly what the
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  Speaker 3: truth is. But I'll give Jetfish this, This is the
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  Speaker 3: most he stepped forward and said Bucky that it's all garbage,
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  Speaker 3: it's hogwash.
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  Speaker 1: I'm staying here. Well, the idea of whenever coaching vacancies
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  Speaker 1: pop up, then people are going to write stories on
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  Speaker 1: who's going to fill that spot, and then they do
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  Speaker 1: end up throwing names in there. Now, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: to some degree, I like jet I think he seems
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  Speaker 1: like a nice dude, But I mean, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you've been a mobile coach for a majority of your
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  Speaker 1: career lends itself to where you're going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the names that pops into people's heads when they're
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  Speaker 1: writing articles, they're having discussions about it, and so don't
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  Speaker 1: get too terribly upset about it. I do think that
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  Speaker 1: the idea of trying to put you know, add this
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  Speaker 1: plus that, I think that that does not necessarily mean
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  Speaker 1: the fact that his wife and kids aren't here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: could just simply be Yeah, I didn't want to uproot
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  Speaker 1: my daughter from another school because I have already moved.
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  Speaker 1: You have friends there.
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  Speaker 3: That itself makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so. But at the same time, you
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  Speaker 1: can't get your you know, you can't get too terribly
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  Speaker 1: riled up if you're the coach that has moved around
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  Speaker 1: consistently over the course of your career, and understandably so
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't fault coaches for doing it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a part of it where loyalty or really wanting
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  Speaker 1: to put your roots down and really wanting to you know,
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  Speaker 1: make a name for yourself in a certain market or
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  Speaker 1: a certain at a certain program. I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: something to it but if you if you're like that
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  Speaker 1: is where I would rather be, then okay, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and go. I mean, that's that's your prerogative. Is your
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  Speaker 1: your right to go chase whatever dream, whatever program you want,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully you find something that you want to stick with.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he was making it sound yesterday like this
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  Speaker 1: is where he wants to be and this is where
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  Speaker 1: he wants to stick now, just like everybody else that
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  Speaker 1: hears that, they're like, yeah, but that's exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: would say until you leave, right, that's what. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those I'm not gonna I wonder.
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  Speaker 3: What the press conferences were like in Tucson, Yeah, exactly
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  Speaker 3: leading up to his.
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  Speaker 1: Announcement that he was coming here.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I'm really not trying to jump on Jed
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  Speaker 3: here because I think it is grossly unfair if he
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  Speaker 3: legitimately wants to be here and legitimately wants to see
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  Speaker 3: this thing through and legitimately thinks he's building something special
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  Speaker 3: and his wife and daughter are legitimately in Arizona until
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  Speaker 3: she's done with high school because Jed is planning on
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  Speaker 3: staying in Seattle for the next ten to fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: of his career, and that missus Fish really desperately wants
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  Speaker 3: to be next to her husband, but she's trying to
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  Speaker 3: do right by her daughter. I mean, that's this is
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  Speaker 3: desperately unfair that this would be hounding him, following him
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  Speaker 3: around in this process because let's face it, today's college coach,
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  Speaker 3: you are recruiting every second of every single day. That
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  Speaker 3: press conference hurts his recruiting efforts. That press conference makes
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  Speaker 3: the next seventeen year old or the star linebacker from
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  Speaker 3: James Madison that would like to jump up into the
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  Speaker 3: big boy conference before his time is done at college.
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  Speaker 3: That makes everybody pause. Every one of those young men
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  Speaker 3: pause and their families pause about well, where they's smoke,
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  Speaker 3: there's fire, right dad, You know that if they're talking
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  Speaker 3: about him leaving, there must be something to it. So
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  Speaker 3: from that standpoint, I do sympathize with him if he's
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  Speaker 3: telling the truth, if what he's saying is actually genuine,
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  Speaker 3: that he does want to be here, And unfortunately, because
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  Speaker 3: of his history, it's hard to believe he genuinely wants
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  Speaker 3: to be here once.
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  Speaker 1: Those rumors start.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really a catch twenty two for a talk
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  Speaker 3: show host and for Jedfish frankly, the predicament that he's
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  Speaker 3: in if in fact that he has nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with the rumors that he wants to be out at Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're talking about the effect that it has, the
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  Speaker 1: naked impact it has on recruiting. Is that's real? And
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  Speaker 1: yet I think that most coaches when they first sign,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they're doing their introduction, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: little press conference, that they are about as excited as
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  Speaker 1: possible about being where it is that they just signed
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  Speaker 1: and where they're planning on being, and then things can change.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know that all of these job opportunities were
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  Speaker 1: going to open up, right, I mean, you can assume
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be other colleges that are going to
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  Speaker 1: fire their coach at some point in time. The idea
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  Speaker 1: of loyalty to one program is kind of out the window,
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  Speaker 1: because especially in today's day and age, where we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pay a bunch of money to have this team
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  Speaker 1: and they better be competitive. If you're not, if you
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  Speaker 1: lose a couple of games, you shouldn't you show up
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  Speaker 1: the way they showed up this last weekend. You might
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  Speaker 1: be out on the streets looking for somewhere to go, period.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you're leaving preemptively, You're you might be forced
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  Speaker 1: into having to go somewhere else. And so I think
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  Speaker 1: that loyalty is a word that, while I love the word,
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  Speaker 1: don't think I think goes both ways. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: coaches that are just like, Nope, this is a stepping stone,
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  Speaker 1: or somewhere at some point in time during their tenure
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  Speaker 1: at a place, they're like, boy, if that opens up,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'd rather go, right, whether it's an alma
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  Speaker 1: mater of theirs or where you know their their mentor coached,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the case might be. And yet I do
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  Speaker 1: think it's unfair. It's fair, but it's not. It is
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  Speaker 1: kind of unfair from his standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: If it's true, it's unfair, but it's also in play, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, your history has to come into
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  Speaker 3: the conversation. And where was the speech when these rumors
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  Speaker 3: were first starting. Where was the standing on top of
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  Speaker 3: the podium and saying this is ridiculous. Where were the
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  Speaker 3: words like ridiculous earlier in the season. Because these rumors
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  Speaker 3: have been out all year long, and part of it
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  Speaker 3: is because of this crazy college coaching world that we've
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  Speaker 3: suddenly entered a phase that a lot of people, including
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Rick new ISISAC who loves college football more than anybody,
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  Speaker 3: didn't even see coming.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how could you see it coming?
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  Speaker 3: We were going to have this many coaches under long
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  Speaker 3: term contracts let go because there were boosters around that
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: were willing to eat monster contracts, or at least seemed
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  Speaker 3: willing to eat. LSU is now trying to fire Brian
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  Speaker 3: Kelly with cause so that they don't have to pay
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  Speaker 3: the fifty four million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: After they tried to offer him like twenty five million,
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  Speaker 5: and just to be like, yeah, there, we'll give you
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  Speaker 5: twenty five how about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so, look, we're entered this crazy world, and
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  Speaker 3: so he gets lumped into it, and if he really
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have a hand or his agent doesn't have a
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  Speaker 3: hand in poking around at UCLA or Florida and trying
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  Speaker 3: to gauge interest, then it Yeah, then it does cross
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  Speaker 3: over into just how unfair is that to Jed Fish
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  Speaker 3: to have to go through this if he genuinely wants
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  Speaker 3: to be here, because it really would be screwing up
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  Speaker 3: his job and his job duties.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and I do think that that aspect is
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  Speaker 5: unfair but I also think we can't put too much
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  Speaker 5: stock in to anything a college coach says these days,
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  Speaker 5: because you've got.
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  Speaker 1: She still hurt by day, I am a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's true, right, because we're talking about that
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't he's got his family still in Arizona because
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  Speaker 5: his daughter wants to finish high school, which is a
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  Speaker 5: completely valid reason, right. But him moving here isn't going
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  Speaker 5: to mean that he's going to stay here. If he
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  Speaker 5: moves his whole family here, he could say all the
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  Speaker 5: things that Caylin de Boor said, I want my whole
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  Speaker 5: family to be here, like this is where I see
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  Speaker 5: my life. And at the time, I do believe that
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  Speaker 5: was real. I don't think he was just saying it
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  Speaker 5: to say it. Maybe well, well.
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  Speaker 3: The only reason that I remaced is because I think
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  Speaker 3: he was saying it and it was true to him
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  Speaker 3: at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But he does have a tendency to move. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there is a chance here that Jedfish just likes what
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Bucky was talking about being the new guy. There's a
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: lot of excitement that goes with being the new.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Guy, you know.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean it's hard when you're little to
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: be the kid in school that moves a lot and
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: you just get sick of. But when you are the
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: highest paid guy on campus and you are suddenly thrust
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: into this role of most popular kid in school. The
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: moment that you arrive on campus because you drive a
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: motorcycle and you got a tattoo and you're eleven years
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: old and all the girls think you're cute, I.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Mean, that's awesome.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: And maybe Jedfish is addicted to that feeling of being
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the new guy on campus that gets to start from scratch.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: That's wonderful. I can tell you that my first day
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: at KJR was a lot more exciting than today.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Fair.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm glad. I love the job and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I love doing it. I'm glad to be here talking
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: about it. But there's no way to compare being the
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: first day of your new job and the excitement that
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: goes into it, and you get to start from scratch
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: and everything else and you have pie in the sky
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: hopes and dreams and aspirations, and so maybe he's addicted
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: to that. Maybe maybe that's part of his character.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Maybe he's happy here till he it's offered a job
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: from somewhere else, and he hasn't been offered the job
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: from somewhere else.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So he's like, hey, I like it here, I'm good
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and justifies.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: It in his own mind. I'm being honest.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: There right now, Yeah, exactly.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: And then well it all goes back to Troy Dan.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, because it all falls on you, dubbed too.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Why did you hire a guy that jumps around every
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: two years if you didn't want to deal with the
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: smoke that goes with coaching openings coming up? And then
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: and then that goes back to Dan.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: So I mean it's a it's a complicated topic, there's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: no doubt. I mean, I appreciate that coach Fish stepped
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: up and said it's ridiculous and pounded the podium for
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the first time in this entire process. I don't know
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: what's going on behind the scenes. I really don't know
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: how genuine, how honest he's being with it, how true
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the rumors are, how thick the smoke is where the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: fires might actually exist. But at least he tried. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: did better at trying to shoot them down, trying to
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: put them out yesterday, and now we'll see.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'm with you Ashley.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: I'm I mean, I want to trust him, but I.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Don't, right, And that's and it's fine. I have no
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: animosity towards me. If he's gonna go somewhere else, he's
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: gonna go somewhere else. I think he's saying what he
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: believes in the moment right now. If another opportunity arises
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: and he leaves, would I be shocked?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't either, But I and I wouldn't be
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: mad either, man. So there you go.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: rest of the show.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: What's on TEP? What's on TEP?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I'm I mean I football. It was kind of pretty ugly.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It wasn't much offense, but it was very interesting. The
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: entire game was just a battle for inches. Uh Philadelphia
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Green Bay. For some reason, both offensive coordinators were completely conservative,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: with veteran quarterbacks who've done a thing or two in
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: this league, and yet nobody could find offense until late.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Final score was ten to seven the Eagles over the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers. So another week of the new National
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Football League season is in the books. But we've already
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: kind of moved on here in Seattle. I mean, we
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: win by twenty two all the time these days, so
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: it's time to focus on the next big one, the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Rams, the biggest test of the season to
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: this point in Los Angeles, first place on the line,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and so that conversation begins today. Greg Bell will join
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: us at seven oh five. NFL notes from yesterday, Brian
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Dable crazy coaching carousel right he's out as New York
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Giants head coach. I heard some very interesting things about
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: this on the drive in. Hopefully we'll have time to
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: share it later on in the show. Joe Burrow has
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: opened up his window to possibly be activated by Thanksgiving.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: It sounds like his toe.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Injury was supposed to keep him out for the entire year,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: but the progress that he's shown has Cincinnati thinking he
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: can play before the end of the season and maybe
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: as soon as Thanksgiving Day. College football playoff rankings come
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: out tonight, week number two of that new Isa will
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: join us at nine o'clock. We'll talk to him about
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Jed Fish college football rankings and UDUB versus Purdue. This Saturday,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: college basketball, it is Apple Cup Hardwood Week U double
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: take on the Koogs.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: This Friday night, Kraken.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: And Columbus meet here in Seattle tonight at seven o'clock.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Everett fits you our guest at eight thirty to discuss
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: that and Major League Baseball's Award week is here. Last night,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Rookies of the Year were announced, no surprise. As a
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, he was a unanimous choice and that
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: was a little bit of a surprise. Nick Kurtz of
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the Athletics was named the American League Rookie of the Year,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: and Drake Baldwin beat out Cad Horton of Chicago. The
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Atlanta Catcher won the National League Rookie of the Year honor,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and that sets up tonight where a Mariner will be
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: in position to win a major award. Managers of the
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Year will be announced tonight. Dan Wilson is a finalist
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: and we will discuss next whether or not he will
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: win this year's award on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
• 22:02
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• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the Dallas Stars on November twenty sixth, and we've got
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: revenge on our minds.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah we do.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Stars beat us over the weekend by a goal
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: on a back to back. Now you won't beat us
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: if we're well rested.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: We're properly rested.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Forget about it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: It's our first game in three days.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Look out by Way Fire and Eco.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah just figured yeah, well, jump on there, jump on
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: that bandwagon. It is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: here on this Tuesday. And yes, a baseball on the brain,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and we're gonna have it on our brain throughout the
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: course of the week. It's awards week Thursday, cal Raley,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: we will find out once and for all if he
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: will be named Most Valuable Player of the American League.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And it is the.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Vote that they are talking. They're building up the hype
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: for that Thursday vote because it's it's almost like good
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: versus Evil. I mean, it's almost like a movie that's
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: going to on Thursday premier somewhere on Thursday, Cal or
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: judge for an MVP. So we'll be talking about it
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a lot throughout the course of the week. But if
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: we jumped into that conversation right now, we would be
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: treating tonight's chance for Dan Wilson to win Manager of
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the Year like a speed bump, and I certainly don't
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: want to do that. So Dan Wilson has one of
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: three finalists.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: They've already had the vote.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: They voted that after the regular season, so not after
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: postseason decisions, just in case people are wondering out there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: And so he was named. We know that he finished
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: no worse than third in the voting. They reach out
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to the three they announced the finalists. What a month ago,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and so today we're going to find out the managers
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: of the year in both the American League and National League.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So what do you think? What do you think as
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: chances are winning this thing tonight?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Oh? Boy? Well, I mean I was driving home yesterday
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: thinking about it, driving in today thinking about it, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I kind of think he won't. That said, I ended
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: up looking something up this morning and AI popped up.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: You know, you have a Google page or being Paige
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and you type something in and it basically
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: said Dan Wilson wins Manager of the Year Seattle marriage
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. Is that right? Yeah? AI already
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: said it's happened. Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: So I hope it doesn't start ruining things like that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I hope it doesn't get to the point where it
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: ruins surprises. That'd be terrible. It's already something I'm worried about. Yeah,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: it was my surprise the Super Bowl. Yeah, I don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: trust I don't trust it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I'll just say I mean, I he would get my vote.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: But then again, there I can't take my bias out
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: of it. I mean, as much as I would like to,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I would say this. I mean, if I'm making arguments
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on it, I you know, the Toronto Blue Jay's finished
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: with the best record. I don't put a ton of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: credence in from worse to first because I think that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: actually is a sign of you didn't do very well
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: last year. You were hurt, but you're you know, you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries, but you were worst last year.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And now you take essentially the same team. I mean
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it's a different team but a lot of the same guys,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and you go to first place in the American League.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I will say you finished four games above us, and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: yet that's more than that's more than the difference between
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: us and the first team that didn't make the playoffs.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: The Houston Astros missed it by they were three games
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: behind us, and they were the first team out. So
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: those four games is substantial. I would think it probably
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: will be Schneider. I think that's probably who would win.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I know that they do these before the postseason. But
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it's like if you were to just take all of
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the postseason, try to forget what had happened. I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that the fact that they finished on top of the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: AL and there's a lot of people that still will
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: put a lot of weight behind the they were last
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: place last year and he takes them to the first place.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Team, Yeah I would.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: I would say, I don't think Dan's gonna win it,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: but I don't think it's a knock on Dan.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I just think that Schneider is gonna win it for Toronto.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think he's going to win it, despite
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: what AI says. I think it will be John Schneider.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Now that aside, I don't think he should win it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I think my letter grade for Dan Wilson was a
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: C minus this year. C minus efforts should not win
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Manager of the Year, So he's not getting my vote.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: He wouldn't even be top three in my book. Now
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean I don't think some good things occurred
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: in the first year Dan Wilson, and I'm not just
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: talking about the result of winning the American League West.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about a lot of people need to understand
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: that today's day and age x's and o's decisions usually
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: aren't as impactful as your ability to manage an entire roster,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to manage your personnel to get the most out of guys.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: That's really what a manager is judged by and by
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: today's standards, and Dan Wilson was aces and a lot
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: of those things. Like, you know, the players like him,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: the players respect him. He never threw a player under
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the bus ever. Players love that. I think he has
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: a soft touch. He's got an old school sort of
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: baseball mentality, but he also has a new school way
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: of approaching players, which are essential, it seems in the
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: hiring practices this off season. So there were a lot
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: of good things that he did, but man, I can't
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: name him after I felt I mean, I'll put it
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: this way, nobody that covered Dan Wilson on a daily
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: basis who might have had a vote for this feels
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: like he should be manager.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Of the Year.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: So I don't know who voted for it, because it's
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: not like Ryan Divish and Adam Jude get votes. We
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: don't even know who gets to vote on which different categories.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: But he wouldn't have gotten a vote, I'm pretty sure
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: from anybody any of the beat writers as Manager of
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: the Year. As a matter of fact, I think they
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: were a little closer to my grade of C minus.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: But he's gonna finish probably second. I'll say he probably
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: finished the second in all of this. And this might
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: be the one time where you know, East Coast bias
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: works for US people not staying up until ten o'clock
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to watch Mariners baseball, so they didn't watch the daily
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: decisions made.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They see the results.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And they see that the Mariners knocked off the Astros
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and finished first in the American League West. Because usually
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: it does go to a guy, a manager whose team
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: overachieved the expectations. See But at the heart of it,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think we overachieved expectations. I think this team
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: was on pace to win eighty six games, which is
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: right where I had them, and then they had a
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: great trading deadline and ended up winning ninety. I think
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: that actually is a little below what I might have expected.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I'll just say, I mean, there's not a manager on
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the planet that doesn't have mistakes throughout the course of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the season. So unless you watch every single game of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: every single team, then I don't think you can necessarily
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: put as much stock in which one you're voting for
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: because we saw way more mistakes from Dan Wilson than
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we saw from John Schneider because we just didn't watch them.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I've watched enough baseball over time that I know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, even Mariner managers there weren't as many Like
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know how often the manager should, in
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: my mind make a bad in game decision. And I
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: felt Dan Wilson's threshold went over it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I would think to me, I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: think that if you're voting for it, unless, like I said,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you've watched every manager, if you if you were going
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to cast your vote, I think that you'd have to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: put in more of a thirty thousand foot view. And
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: so that goes towards the what did you do? Did
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you do more with less? And so Stephen vote with
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a substantially lower payroll than most certainly the Toronto Blue Jays,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I mean Toronto Blue Jays won four more games than
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Mariners, and quite possibly if the marriage didn't lose
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: three in a row and then win four and rot
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season, you could have got
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the number one seed. And yet they were working with
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a higher, way higher payroll than on. Conversely, on the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: other side of that, Stephen votes working with wa lower
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: one and they were the factors out of it. They
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: were out of it, and he got them to rally
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden come back and overtake the fumble.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: That was the Detroit Lions, end of the season. Tigers. Yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: not the Lions, Detroit Tigers. So to me, it's the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't. I think I think Dan
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Wilson most certainly deserves to be in this conversation. I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: think that there is some things that he does that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: are looked down upon, that go towards go towards a
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: little bit more of the thirty thousand foot view when
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they're pulling guys in June because they're trying to keep
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: everybody healthy, and this year didn't necessarily work, but we've
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: seen it over the course of quite some time where
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the organization has a philosophy and it does keep guys
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: healthy for the most part. I think he had a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: lot of injuries. I think he did a fantastic job.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I don't I wouldn't give him a C minus by
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: any stretch, And yet I don't think he would be
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in this I don't think he'd be in this conversation.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: He deserves to be in the conversation. I don't think
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: if he was a CEA manager that he would be well,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's my point.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think that the nation sees it as that
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: because they didn't watch every single game, And you're right,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: maybe I would feel the same way about Alex Cora.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Most of these votes are based off of whether or
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: not the rider perceives that you got the most out
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: of the talent given you. That's usually what it's based
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: off of. And so Dan Wilson is going to be
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a final three candidate for this, I personally would vote
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: for a guy with an even higher payroll, Alex Cora.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: That would be my vote.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's somebody that overachieved the expectations, had eighty
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: nine wins on the season, had his star player controversially
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: traded away midway through the year, had to deal with
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: one good starting pitcher the entire season, got the most
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: out of a forty year old a role as Chapman somehow,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: some way at the end of the year, and still
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: made his way into the playoffs. I would vote for
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Alex Cora based off of the amount of information that
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I have to decide what he overcame in order to
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: lead his team to success. I would go Alex Cora
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: not even a finalist.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would go John Schneider. As much as I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: want to go Dan Wilson. I would go John Schneider.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: But that's because of the overhaul. We didn't hear as
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: much about it during the regular season, how much they
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: changed their hitting philosophy. And I know that's not just him,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but he's the one that oversaw it. And then we
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: watched how it played out when you watched every single
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: game through the postseason. To me, I think he changed.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: He was the guy at the Helm that changed the
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: offensive way in which that team basically played, and they
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: went out there and almost won the World Series because
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I wish we had more time to discuss it,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately we do not. Coming up next, are you worried
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: that the Seahawks might be peaking too soon? Sports Radio
• 32:38
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• 32:59
  Speaker 3: oh five plus your headlines at seven o'clock. Great new
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: ISIL today, Jeans Sterotur today, and of course we've got
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Seahawks rams this Sunday. Get ready, it's on the biggest
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: game of the year so far the NFL season. Seahawks
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: rams both playing as well as any team in the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: But is there any fear, any worry at all. I'll
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  Speaker 3: start with Ashley, since you know you're a Seahawk fan
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  Speaker 3: and all, yeah, sure, yeah, any worry at all? That's
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  Speaker 3: you know, because watch the ebbs and flows of a
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  Speaker 3: National Football League season. I mean the Green Bay Packers
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  Speaker 3: through the first three weeks of the season. Everybody thought,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, who's going to beat them? And here
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  Speaker 3: they are just six seven short weeks later and they
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  Speaker 3: can't score a touchdown. Yeah, you know, so the ebbs
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  Speaker 3: and I mean Kansas City excuse me, Kansas City was
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  Speaker 3: counted out and then they rallied Baltimore. Baltimore was counted out,
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  Speaker 3: and now they're nearly back to five hundred and the
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  Speaker 3: favorite to win there to Buffalo beats the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 3: then the very next week get blown out by the
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  Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. So what the hell are they?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And it's a fleeting thing. I mean, you can be
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  Speaker 3: great one day and then the very next week. That's
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  Speaker 3: kind of what the National Football League is right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't want to be in Green Bays position.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be sitting here like we peaked
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  Speaker 3: in November. Are you a little worried that maybe they're
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  Speaker 3: peaking too soon?
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  Speaker 5: I am not worried, actually, and I will say this,
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  Speaker 5: it's been interesting because watching from game one to see
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  Speaker 5: where they've come to now, you're seeing improvements each week,
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  Speaker 5: and it does seem like they're building upon the things
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  Speaker 5: that they've done the week before, and you're just seeing
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  Speaker 5: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Better, a little bit better, a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: Granted, obviously these last two games have been a whole
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  Speaker 5: heck of a lot better, but you have also been
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  Speaker 5: not playing great teams. So I don't worry that we've
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  Speaker 5: peaked too soon. I do think that we are doing
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  Speaker 5: We are taking steps each week to improve, and I
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  Speaker 5: think that will continue.
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  Speaker 3: We are a better football team by fall are this season,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Mike McDonald and John Schneider are putting
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  Speaker 3: it together the right way, and so I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see some sort of drop off, dramatic
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  Speaker 3: drop off, but I'm not sure you could play better
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  Speaker 3: than what they've played the last couple of weeks, Bucket.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're I mean they're playing. I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason that they're jumping up power rankings and whatnot. Those
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: are kind of this kind of stand by themselves and
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  Speaker 1: depending on how you play the next week, they adjust,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that you can kind of jump around
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  Speaker 1: with that. To me, I'm not worried about them peaking
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  Speaker 1: too soon. I mean I kind of look at it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a I don't know certainly. I told you my
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: high school basketball team went twenty six and oh.
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  Speaker 1: Well, apparently it is twenty something in one at some point.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. We did. We peaked. You peaked at the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the middle, and towards the end.
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  Speaker 3: No, we peaked in the middle. We peaked at Christmas
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  Speaker 3: tournament time. And uh and then by the end of
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  Speaker 3: the season, you know, off started and we were in
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  Speaker 3: a crapple. And it's just not just high school kids
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  Speaker 3: from Illinois with mullets. You see it happen all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just give you three examples of that. It's
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  Speaker 3: happening already this year in the National Football League. It's
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  Speaker 3: a real thing. Just like trap games and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Those are real things. And so I'm hoping that the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks aren't peaking in early November because it doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: count right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I usually your main objective and almost
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I mean every season, win your division, right because you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you into division regardless of what your record is, and
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs and really just get into the
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  Speaker 1: dance and then you want to be peaking at that point.
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice. But I kind of look at
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of feel like, right now, there's I
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  Speaker 1: think there's really seven teams, maybe eight teams that are
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  Speaker 1: in playoff contention right now that I think those are
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  Speaker 1: the teams. Seven of those eight, I think maybe the
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Bears might be a team that doesn't find them their
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  Speaker 1: way in that it's in the top seven at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time. I think that, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: the Packers could find the way to right the ship offensively,
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  Speaker 1: and I think maybe start peaking at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I think you're in a tough division, so
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  Speaker 1: you've got tough matchups when it comes to the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers. And yet to me, I
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  Speaker 1: have a hard time seeing how this team the way
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  Speaker 1: that they're built and the way that Mike McDonald McDonald
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  Speaker 1: has him playing where I think it was Leonard Williams
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: was talking about how he's got them focused on whatever happens,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you just go back to the process. When you get
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: back into the process, you lose, you get back into
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the process. That to me is the idea of the
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  Speaker 1: mentality that creates consistency, and consistency is what creates the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether we win or we lose, we're going
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  Speaker 1: we know the next week, we're going to come out
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  Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll again because you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: win them all. So I mean, yeah, they're right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're rocking and rolling on defense, they're rocking and rolling
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  Speaker 1: on offense. And so are they going to be playing
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  Speaker 1: this hot on both sides of the ball come week sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen and possibly in the playoffs. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: I do think this team has what it takes culture
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  Speaker 1: building wise to to be consistent when it matters.
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  Speaker 3: I legitimately am concerned that this is the best that
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  Speaker 3: they can be and that it's happening too soon because
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  Speaker 3: I've happened, I watch it happened too many times. But
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  Speaker 3: make no mistake about This team is real. It's been
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  Speaker 3: built the right way. The success you're seeing that is real.
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  Speaker 3: Uh this, and I think that they are. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the rookie draft class is real. So I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a really really good team, maybe even a great team.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll see if they can sustain this excellence for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the year and into the playoffs. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Coming up next, Greg Bell plus your headlines on kJ R.