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10-28 H4: Cam Cleeland Is Back, All Things Kraken w/ Al & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Pleasure of chatting with Cam Cleland, who joins us here
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  Speaker 1: on the radio program. Happy Halloween to you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, happy Halloween. Pleasure? Is it really?
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  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a pleasure. It's just a joy, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: More pleasure than joy, I would say. I'd say pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Sarcasm is one of my favorite things to do. It's
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  Speaker 2: built into my DNA, so it's very sarcastic. Pleasure. I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, joy would mean that my heart was singing to
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  Speaker 1: have you on. But pleasure, yeah, very pleasurable. Just to
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  Speaker 1: have you like, hey, come on over. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies.
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  Speaker 2: Come on over.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you a beer. Why not? Yeah, that would
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  Speaker 1: be a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it would be a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a cigar and a beer. Make me happy here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go early in the morning. are you looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the spectacle that is a football game in Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll be real with you. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's on Halloween. It's kind of distracting me from my holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Not distracting me in a bad way. It just changes
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  Speaker 2: my whole perspective. It's just I always think like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Halloween should always be on a Friday night. I just
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  Speaker 2: think it's one of those things, but you can't pull
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  Speaker 2: that off all the time. It just is. It's horrible
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  Speaker 2: when it's on. It's there. It's just built different, but
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  Speaker 2: got to adjust. Got to be in Lincoln, Nebraska. I
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  Speaker 2: got to handle all the sea of red that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be engulfed, but I'll deal with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Could you possibly for Halloween dress as one of your
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  Speaker 1: former teammates? That would be hilarious. Like, In their jersey
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  Speaker 1: and in their uniform and do the broadcast with Elise?
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  Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea. It could channel a couple
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  Speaker 2: inner voices, too, of how everybody talks. Right. Just be
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  Speaker 2: a different person. Right. I mean, that's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea. I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 2: pull something off. I'm going to check with Elise. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to check with the powers that be. She'll let
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  Speaker 2: me pull that one. That would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: I like that idea. I'm up for fun stuff like that, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just be all business in the booth all
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  Speaker 2: the time. Everyone always wants to be serious. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: come on, it's just football, guys. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem with being around softy. It's just always
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  Speaker 1: so rigid and strict and never so professional and businesslike
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  Speaker 1: that you personally can't cut loose around a stiff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it, by the way. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: boys and girls, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we got to do.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Who's going to start a quarterback Saturday night?
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  Speaker 2: One of the two. Okay. And my analysis is done.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. It was a pleasure. It was
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  Speaker 1: a real pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: You ask for high-end analysis, this is what you get. No,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm Jed Fish, I'm not saying a
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  Speaker 2: word until after the coin flip. Or do I have
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  Speaker 2: to announce a story? When is the rule in college?
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  Speaker 2: I should know this, by the way, but this is
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  Speaker 2: my by-the-way moment. Yes, you're making Nebraska prepare for both quarterbacks. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: It's strategic. It's intelligent. It's two different styles of quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Probably within the program, I could tell you this, that
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  Speaker 2: there is a– If you went and watched practice, which
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  Speaker 2: Jed will probably close the actual team practice, not be
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  Speaker 2: able to see it through as he would, there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a rep certification of who, who gets the most.
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  Speaker 2: But if I'm him heading into this game, no question. I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing as close to the vest and making sure
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  Speaker 2: that Nebraska has to deal with both. And you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a team that I think the brasses, it could
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  Speaker 2: arguably be arguably be one of the best defenses in
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  Speaker 2: the country to get, Certainly at the top of the conference,
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  Speaker 2: you lose close games in those moments. You lose back-to-back
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  Speaker 2: games in Indiana and Oregon, but you lose it by
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  Speaker 2: six points. I mean, that's how good these games are.
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  Speaker 2: And it's going to be a war out there. So
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  Speaker 2: I would bet Jed waits until the last possible second
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  Speaker 2: to announce. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be the last time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, almost everybody believes Brown should have the
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  Speaker 1: job that I've spoken with. My gut says he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to abandon his loyalty to DeMond if DeMond's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of think he's going to start him. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are you going to lose the other one?
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  Speaker 1: Is Elijah Brown going to be so crestfallen that he
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  Speaker 1: felt he deserved it and is DeMond And I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say entitled like a negative thing, but he
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  Speaker 1: is making the money. He's been there the longest. He's
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  Speaker 1: been right there by Jed. If he's healthy and ready
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  Speaker 1: to go and doesn't get the starting job, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you risk to the other players.
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  Speaker 2: Ego on this? Well, I think Elijah knew coming into
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  Speaker 2: this program as he transferred here, he knew he was
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  Speaker 2: set to be a second signal caller to DeMond. This
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  Speaker 2: was DeMond's program. He was the one that was given
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  Speaker 2: the contract and had keys to the whole program in
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  Speaker 2: the car. And I don't think Elijah's mindset has changed.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you sit in that quarterback room and say,
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  Speaker 2: I deserve anything. I think there's a problem when that
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  Speaker 2: mindset kicks in. You have to earn it. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when you get your chance to step up in that spot,
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  Speaker 2: you play well. And Elijah's done well in his backup role. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this throughout history in football. A backup has
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  Speaker 2: played well. What does the incumbent, the starter, do? Do
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  Speaker 2: you stick with that? And look, Jed recruited DeMond. He's
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  Speaker 2: invested in DeMond. Everyone wants to use the Bryce Underwood
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  Speaker 2: situation over and over and say, look what happened to me.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Winningham didn't recruit Bryce Underwood. He didn't offer him
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  Speaker 2: any money. There is no connection in tie. There's no
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  Speaker 2: investment in that. For those to throw that out with
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  Speaker 2: the bathwater doesn't make any sense in my brain. It
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  Speaker 2: is an imperative for us to understand that when you
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  Speaker 2: recruit players as a head coach and as a program,
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  Speaker 2: you are extremely tied to those players because if you don't,
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  Speaker 2: That makes you look bad. Okay. And so that's part
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  Speaker 2: of how this, this whole thing works. When you invest
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  Speaker 2: time in your players and you bring those players in,
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  Speaker 2: that's a reflection of who you are as a coach
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  Speaker 2: and who you are as, as a recruiting place. That's,
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  Speaker 2: that's very important. And Eliza was there to be a backup.
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  Speaker 2: And if something has to demand, then Eliza steps in.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're at a crossroads and this is just me
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  Speaker 2: speaking off the, you're at a crossroads for the head
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  Speaker 2: coach position. And he, gets to make this decision based
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  Speaker 2: on what he feels is best for the program. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: There's no other clean words. All of us on the
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  Speaker 2: outside that are experts and claim to be experts and
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  Speaker 2: think we should do this, well, we're not the coach.
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  Speaker 2: We're just not. We'll see. That's why he gets to
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  Speaker 2: run this program any way he wants.
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  Speaker 1: And I think everybody, as far as I could tell,
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  Speaker 1: is treating it like an either-or situation. I mean, does
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  Speaker 1: he do the– again, I've got to be careful of
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  Speaker 1: my word choice– Does he do the cop-out thing and
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  Speaker 1: just share the position on Saturday night? I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it in Utah right now with an undefeated football team.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a chance that he just says, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play them both? I mean, that wouldn't be unprecedented
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  Speaker 1: in history, and that certainly isn't even unprecedented in the
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  Speaker 1: year 2026. Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. You could say you get the first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: you get the second quarter. You get the first two drives,
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  Speaker 2: you get the third drive. I mean, you used Des
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  Speaker 2: Roebuck in the backfield because you literally are out of
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  Speaker 2: running backs in a sense. Trey Cooley goes down, you're
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  Speaker 2: Brian Bonner. You put Des all over the place. And
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  Speaker 2: I said back when the first week, and I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you lost your top two running backs. Is there other
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  Speaker 2: athletes on this field or on this, in your program
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  Speaker 2: that you could use as versatile? I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not true. You just got to trust in your depth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, What are you talking? What are you smoking?
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  Speaker 2: When you have good athletes, you find a way to
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  Speaker 2: get them to football anywhere on the football field. And
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  Speaker 2: that's how good Dez is. So if you have a
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  Speaker 2: great athlete of demand, just throw this out here. Who
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  Speaker 2: is the second leading rusher and had the most carries
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  Speaker 2: going into last week prior to Elijah getting, getting in there? Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's Devon Williams. Yeah. Do you think, do you think
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  Speaker 2: Jed isn't wondering how to put both guys on the
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  Speaker 2: field at the same time? or what I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: is like, you're doing whatever you can do to win
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  Speaker 2: the football game. And I'm certainly not saying that you
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  Speaker 2: would come on Williams to running back and slot receiver.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at it from a versatile strategic standpoint
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  Speaker 2: to get my best athletes on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Cleland, the best athlete in this conversation. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you that much right here on Chuck in the mornings,
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  Speaker 1: sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM. He can't wait to address
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  Speaker 1: his Bob Sapp. Saturday night in the booth with Elise,
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  Speaker 1: that'll catch her off guard. That'll catch her off guard.
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  Speaker 1: As the wrestler, too, not as the football player, as
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  Speaker 1: the wrestler. And, of course, Dusky's taking on the Huskers
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night right here at Sports Radio 93.3 KJR-FM.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that Nebraska team. They have a really
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  Speaker 1: good running quarterback. I mean, he's smaller, but, man, he's tough.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be a bit of a challenge for
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Walters and the gang on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It is. Calander is good. If you watch him on film,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's still a pretty accurate passer. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's at... I think he's in this, he's like 62
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  Speaker 2: or 63% on the season. So he's still, no, I
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  Speaker 2: want to say it's serviceable, but they're not asking him
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot of that. He's, small in stature,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not like uh it devalues his ability to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the football he's just really good in
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  Speaker 2: a threat with his feet all around on offense i
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  Speaker 2: just think their defense is their strength point i really
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  Speaker 2: do chuck i think that their ability to stop the
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  Speaker 2: run they shut down indiana they did so many their
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  Speaker 2: offense turned the ball over in situation it just was
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  Speaker 2: they are very good on defense So if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to stop, and we went into a game
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  Speaker 2: last week, two weeks ago, sorry, against the Purdue team
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  Speaker 2: that was excellent running the football. Coach flipped the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: He just really did an excellent job. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: adjusting to what teams do really well, it's obvious everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten wants to run the football. And
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  Speaker 2: if you can't stop it, you're losing the football. It's
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  Speaker 2: just plain and simple. If you can't stop the run,
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  Speaker 2: you're losing the football game. It's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to get into a muddy game with
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  Speaker 2: these guys. I do. I think you can win a
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  Speaker 2: close game. They've struggled in their last two moments to
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  Speaker 2: be able to win close games. I think we can
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  Speaker 2: get into that game. If we get out of control.
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  Speaker 2: and they start being able to hold the ball for
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  Speaker 2: 12-play drives and suck seven minutes out of quarters with
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  Speaker 2: drives like that, that's not a recipe I want to
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  Speaker 2: be any part of. So I feel like this game
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  Speaker 2: is one of those last possession, last two possession feels
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  Speaker 2: for it because I think defenses right now are our
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  Speaker 2: strength points for both sides.
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  Speaker 1: You know, their offense, but speaking of their offense, it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting when you just look at the scores. 49 against Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: 56 against Bowling Green, 34 against North Dakota, 31 against
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State, 48 against Maryland, and then 17 against Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: 14 against Oregon. Pretty clear. Nebraska can put points on
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  Speaker 1: the board against bad defenses, and they struggle against good defenses.
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  Speaker 1: So is Washington, can we call them a good defense
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  Speaker 1: right now at this point in the season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you most definitely can call them a
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  Speaker 2: good defense because they made, after that Ohio game, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Iowa game, that was, I just look back at that
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  Speaker 2: and I go, what was that? And so I have
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  Speaker 2: my theories. We've talked about it so much about your
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  Speaker 2: identity and your attitude in that game and the distraction
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  Speaker 2: of how the offense going three and out, three and out,
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  Speaker 2: three and out, and it just took some emotion out
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  Speaker 2: of it. But the adjustments, which Walters did, and you
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  Speaker 2: have the personnel to do it. I thought the edges
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  Speaker 2: played so good in the previous two weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 2: thought that linebacker core has always been the strength of
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  Speaker 2: this group. Your secondary got better, your cover spots. You're
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  Speaker 2: not facing a dominant passer. This isn't a guy that
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  Speaker 2: can scare you with the football all over the field.
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  Speaker 2: This is an RPO-based game. Again, it's a lazy football offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at RPO games, I'm just going to call
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  Speaker 2: it what it is. It's lazy football. It's not NFL transition.
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  Speaker 2: It's half-field reads. It's quick, easy throws. It's one side.
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  Speaker 2: You read a guy here, you pull it here. That's
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  Speaker 2: college offense for some programs, and they can be really
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  Speaker 2: good with it. And that's part of it because you
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  Speaker 2: design your offense to win. But Coach Walters has seen this,
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  Speaker 2: and these guys have seen this over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: This is an attitude change. And if you get a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of offense from Washington, get a couple drives,
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  Speaker 2: play field position games where you can score on them,
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  Speaker 2: this defense starts to rise up because they get excited
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  Speaker 2: about getting back out there. So, look, it's on the road. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you know how hard it is to win road games
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. It's a nightmare this year. Just
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  Speaker 2: look across the conference. So it's a heck of a challenge,
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  Speaker 2: and it starts this week.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Cleland is with us here on the radio program.
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  Speaker 1: It is UW versus Nebraska Saturday night right here at
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. And Cam joins us every Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Warrior Injury Law battle tested. All right. So
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  Speaker 1: you've made it pretty clear this is going to come
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  Speaker 1: down to running the ball, stopping the run. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's as clear a point as, as can be made.
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  Speaker 1: But if you could find a secondary thing that needs
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  Speaker 1: to happen on Saturday night to pull out a victory,
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  Speaker 1: what would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's just address the elephant in the room. It's
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback play. And, and whoever, whoever handled it, that's not, that's,
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  Speaker 2: not hyperbole. It's not guessing. It is quarterback play. Calandra
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  Speaker 2: is a guy that's going to, he might give you
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things, might throw a couple of bad throws,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to protect the football in a sense
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  Speaker 2: with his legs, who and what Washington does at quarterback
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  Speaker 2: position and how it gets moved throughout the game, protecting
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  Speaker 2: the football. I mean, Elijah had those interceptions, but we
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  Speaker 2: were able to bounce back with how good we ran
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  Speaker 2: the football Chuck, which is still in my mind, The
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  Speaker 2: success factor of how well it does. Losing Landon Hatchett,
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  Speaker 2: I know we didn't talk about this for the season
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  Speaker 2: with his injury, is very significant because he played great.
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  Speaker 2: His ability to set protection, his ability to climb to
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  Speaker 2: the second level, the ace and deuce blocks on the
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  Speaker 2: inside on the ones, the two techniques, the zeros up front.
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  Speaker 3: That's big.
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  Speaker 2: And now you're having to go back to a different setup,
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  Speaker 2: somebody that doesn't play with Cole, with Dietrich, playing center,
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  Speaker 2: who wasn't a true center anyway. So now there needs
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  Speaker 2: to be guys that are stepping up. You're solidifying the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line a little bit more now. which to me,
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  Speaker 2: you got Champ at right, you put John there at left,
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  Speaker 2: and Cody's moved in and out, and John's played left,
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  Speaker 2: and Garen has also moved. So there's still some shuffling,
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  Speaker 2: but there was stability. Now you're back to being a
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  Speaker 2: little instable with Landon out. So that hurts. That hurts.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to shift it to the quarterback play,
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  Speaker 2: and whomever that person is, Uh, if, if the way
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  Speaker 2: Jed designs a game plan, that's, that's the X factor
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  Speaker 2: and that's rocket science. So it's not like I'm throwing
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  Speaker 2: it and it's like, oh yeah, but yeah. Yeah. Quarterback
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  Speaker 2: plays can be pretty important. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And whether it is making plays or just not making mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, either one of those could be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: factor in this football game. on Saturday. How about Dick Baird?
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Could you go as Dick Baird for Halloween and Lincoln?
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Would that go over with people? Is he distinct enough
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: that people would recognize your costume?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? Well, all I want to talk
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: about is the kicking game. I wouldn't do anything else
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: but the kicking game. Kickers.
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  Speaker 1: If you did that, if you did that, if you
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  Speaker 1: supported it with that, everybody would know instantly. You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody would know. I love Coach. I love Coach. Just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Just fantastic. Absolutely. That would be good. I could pull
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  Speaker 2: that one off. You know what's surprising? He never got
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: behind the mic on an old game. Can you imagine
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: just hearing about kickers in 1978 Cougar football? What would
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it have been like over and over?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just the entire– they call it just like a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: kicker's podcast.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: God bless him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: All right, man.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Well, have a blast Saturday night. Thanks, as always, for
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: joining us. We do appreciate it. And happy Halloween to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the guy, the Husky that I know that loves Halloween
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the most.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you, gentlemen, very much.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Happy Halloween, everybody.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: All right, there he is, Cam Cleveland, joining us here
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: on the radio program.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I love the idea that he and Elyse, you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: dress up. Maybe it's not professional. Do you think that
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: maybe the, you know.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's video.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be cool. Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: The three of them just dress up. No one would
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ever know if you don't talk about it. Some famous
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Husky alums.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: True.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You know, Elyse could go as Jake Locker. That's a
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: great one.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Softie could go as, uh. You know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Gabe Gross. You know, just as an idea. Yeah, why not?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: There you go. So anyway, I did do a party
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: one time where the theme was, I used to always
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: throw a Halloween party.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And it started back in Vegas. And the Halloween party
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was you had to dress as a coworker. And I
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: had some crazy ass coworkers back then. Like today, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, yeah, you could do it. You
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: could dress like somebody. There's enough characteristics. But back in
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that day, there was stuff that you could have sold
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: at Walgreens. I mean, they should have made masks of
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: some of my coworkers and sold them at Walgreens because
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: there were so many colorful characters. Just personalities, yeah. And
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I got to give credit to my coworkers because they
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: would come through the door one after the other, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I genuinely would just lose it. Like, oh, my gosh,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't even think of that person. That is perfect.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, at the end of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the night, you get the knock on the door, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you open the door, and you realize somebody's dressed as you. Yep.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I had somebody dressed as me. And it's weird because
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I would have thought if you would have said, well–
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: What if somebody dresses as you? I would have thought, well,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: how could you even do that? And yet when I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: opened the door, I knew instantly that it was me.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, you just absolutely nailed it. Nailed it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And it was so funny. But it's a really great
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: idea for anybody out there to just like dress as coworkers.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: As long as you get along, you can't have any
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: sensitive people. Be okay with making fun of yourself.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goatee doesn't look that bad. You can't have
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that guy.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: That isn't me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not that heavy.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It can't be that. You can't invite that guy. But
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a good group, if you've got a good group that
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: can laugh at one another, it's actually an excellent Halloween
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: costume idea. Dress as a co-worker. All right. Coming up
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: next on the radio program, Al Koniski will join us.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Sneaky great night in.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Sports, by the way.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: October, man. It is the month that just keeps on delivering,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and we're almost out of October. 28, single tier. But
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to have yourself World Series game number five tonight.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Could be decided. Could have a world champion. For a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: second night in a row, could have a world champion.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: We've got Sounders in action tonight against the Houston Dynamo. And,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of course, we've got some cracking hockey tonight.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Taking on the Toronto Maple Leafs. Joining us on the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: program is our own Al Koneski, the color analyst for
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: your Seattle Kraken, right here on the Mothership Sports Radio
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJRFM. Good morning, Al.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Good morning, boys. How you doing?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Okay, so, I mean, I trust that you,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: as a young Canadian youth, had a favorite team over
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: on the west side of Canada. I take it you
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: grew up hating the Toronto Maple Leafs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Is that true? I mean, hate's a strong word.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Well, Canadians don't hate. They don't have that in their hearts.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Dislike.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you want your home team to win, for sure.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Growing up in the Vancouver area, they were my team.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Uh, so never had any like, uh, posters that you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: threw darts at Toronto maple leaves growing up.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, not, uh, not darts, but, uh, when it
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: came to hockey card collecting, those are the ones you
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: put on the spokes of your wheel.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Do you have any of your hockey cards still? Did
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you keep any of them in good condition?
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's not let my wife know this, but yes,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I do have some hidden away upstairs.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That's great. What's your favorite card? Give me your favorite card.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, I started collecting them from the late 80s
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: through until the early 90s. So, you know, I've got
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: some Gretzky's in there. I've got some Fedorov's in there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Those are probably some of my favorite ones.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love that you do.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I wish I would have not stopped. I really do.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I wish I would have kept it going from youth,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: so I'm actually a little bit jealous of you. My
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: wife thought I stopped. They never understand, Al. You're not alone.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: They never understand. All right, so Kraken Maple Leafs tonight,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and let's talk about this Kraken team and how they're
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: going to replace Jared McCann. I mean, that's the big
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: story here. It's not like he was off to some
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: tremendous start, but his consistency as a goal scorer and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: as a leader on this locker room cannot be understated.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So what are the adjustments? What's going to help this
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: team not miss Jared McCann?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm expecting Capococco to fill some of that gap.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: He's a guy that can play physical. He's a guy
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: that can set up plays, but he's also a shooter.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So he's definitely one that's going to have to increase
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the number of pucks he's putting on net. Bobby McCann's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: in that boat as well. As Everett likes to say,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon has never seen a puck he doesn't want
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: to shoot, and I like that about him. So he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: got not only a good shot and a shooter's mentality,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: but he's got a hard and accurate shot as well.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: So he'll have to step it up more. The cat
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: in line, you know, they've been playing really well together,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: and he and Shane Wright look like a great pair,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: making each other better. that that line's going to have
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: to pick it up. But you're right. Jared McCann on
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the lineup leaves a bit of a hole that has
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: to be filled by others.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just speaking of who steps up in that hole,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: you mentioned Capo Caco and the Caton line. I think
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a lot would agree that that's probably been one of
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: your best lines early on in the season, at least offensively,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: with the idea that you don't want to break up
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: what's working in terms of a group of three together,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: but also like, that's your third line at this point
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: is there a thought process that like lane wants to
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: maybe get them some more ice time because you don't
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: want to break them up but you also want to
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: get more out of what's been your best line so
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: far so my long way of saying that is do
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: they get more ice time now that jared mccann's out
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: and it's kind of obvious that that's been your best
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: offensive line early on in the season.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you're going to see that gap
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: between their average time on ice and maybe your top line,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: if you will, start to get tighter. Now, you're going
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to shift that time on ice based on how you play,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and you're going to move up the lineup as well
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: based on how you play. So if that three-person line
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: of Kako, Berkley Catton, and Shane Wright starts putting more
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: offense up on the board than, say, your second or
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: first lines, they'll become the second line, and that will
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: naturally increase your time on ice. But I've noticed over
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the past few games, they are producing just as much
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: as the top two lines with less time on ice. So, yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I would expect that to increase.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Who do you put in with the one line and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: replace a McCann? How do you shake it up if
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you're making the call?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: So.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what you're going to do is you're
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: probably not going to, they did an experiment last game
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: where they moved Capococco off that Catten line, off the
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: left wing. I would expect to see him back tonight
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: with Catten in the right. Jared McCann played the top
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: line with Beneers and Eberle, that's the gap you're talking about.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I would expect Bobby McMahon to fill that gap. um
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: again he's a shooter on that line everly playmaker maddie
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: veneers a little bit of both so i think that
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: uh you you don't necessarily hurt that line by putting
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: bobby mcmahon in in jared mccann's spot it's going to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: be what happens on that second line because you've got
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: a gap on the left wing now and yanni newman's
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: been called up from the ahl he's He's leading the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: HL in goals right now. So he's going to fill
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that second-line wing spot with Stevenson and Samuskevich, which will
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: be interesting to see because this will be some extended
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: time for him with the Kraken this year. He's a
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: different player than he was last year, and it'll be
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a good test for him.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I fell for that Neiman's going to be good
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: line last year, and it didn't work out. Why would
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it be different this year?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, listen, the sample size is small, obviously,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: and we've seen him a little bit in preseason. I
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: would say he looks lighter, he looks faster, and I
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: think he's adjusted his game more where he's playing more
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of a 200-foot game. Last year, we saw his big
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: shot on the power play, and that was great. but
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: it dropped off pretty considerably after that. So I think
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: that tonight will be a good test to see if
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: he's got that 200-foot game. He can play defensively as
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: well as offensively here against the Maple Leafs tonight.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about the goaltending spot, Al? Because I think
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: we went into the season either thinking, yeah, Joey is
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: at least somewhat the starter, but it's going to be
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: a relatively 50-50 split. I would say the play of
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Philip Grubauer has been at least better than Joey Decord,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: at least early on in the season, if not significantly better.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Is there going to start to be a shift where
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: you go with the hot hand a little bit more
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: from Lane Lambert moving forward?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never been a goaltending coach, but if I
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: pretended to be one, I'd be looking at the games
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: ahead of us and saying, OK... Where the goaltenders are
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: at right now, who do I want to play in
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: each of those games? Now, that can change as you
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: go forward, depending on how they play. But where they're
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: at right now, Grubauer with a 9.07 save percentage and
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a 2.76 goals against average, he's your better goaltender right now.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: So I would expect to see him tonight against Toronto.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Then you've got a couple against Calgary, teams that aren't
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: as strong. I don't know if you give both of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: those to Joey Decord or if you split those because,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: you know, mentally speaking, that says something to a goaltender
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: when you give him the easier games. But if they
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: do split, you finish up the homestand against the Rangers
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: before heading out to Finland. You probably want both those
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: goaltenders ready in Finland. I'm not sure you go with
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: just the hot hand, but ideally you split them up.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: So I would expect to continue to see Philip Grubauer
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: in the quote-unquote tougher games. until Joey Decord can get
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: his confidence back and start to push up that save
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: percentage and push down that goals against average.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Al Koniski is with us, color analyst for your Seattle Kraken.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: They play tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs, who a
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: year ago, last place finisher in their division. And obviously,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Toronto fans were not happy about that. The talent seemed
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to be better than that type of a finisher. This year,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they're not lighting the world on fire, but much better
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: than they were, at least on pace to be much
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: better than they were a year ago. What's been different?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they've seemed to have locked Austin Matthews
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: a little bit with his game. I think the last
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: time these two teams met, in fact, I'm certain of it,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Bobby Vianna was still at Toronto Maple Leaf playing with
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Austin Matthews. So this is a big game for him
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: coming back up against his old team. But, you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Toronto's sitting right now in the second wildcard spot in
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference. And, you know... numbers-wise or points-wise, they're
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: very similar to the Kraken. So I expect this to
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: be a very competitive game tonight. There's no reason why
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Seattle shouldn't pull out a win here tonight, but it's
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: going to be a battle because that top line with
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Austin Matthews as their one seed, they can hurt you
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: every single time you throw William Nylander on the wing
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: on that second line. They've got a real solid one-two punch.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: You got a Connor McDavid rookie card?
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I don't. But if I was looking for a rookie
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: card this time of year, I'd be looking for the
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: third-line winger, which is Gavin McKenna. He was the first
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: overall draft pick this year. And the Kraken fans will
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: get a chance to see how he performs with the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Maple Leafs tonight as well.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: So you're telling me one of the biggest hockey markets
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that had a struggling year but did not have the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: worst year last year got the number one overall pick?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: That is shocking.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how that happened.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Shocking development. Color me shocked.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Shocking.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Shocking.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Got to get those big Canadian teams up in the rankings.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. All right, Al. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Have a great time tonight. We'll be listening.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: All right, boys. Take care.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Al.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: There he is.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Al Koniski joining us. It's the Everett Now Show tonight.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Always a great listen. And game time is going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: be at 7 o'clock. And it is at home against
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the Toronto Maple Leafs. Pre-game will start with Mike at 6.30.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and then the Everett Owl Show will take you the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: rest of the way. So good stuff always every week.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: By the way, did you want to make a pickup
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this week? I did.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I was going to mention that for my one last thing,
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: but now that you're giving it to me now, I'm
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: going to take Yanni Newman. I know I— and I'm not
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: dropping anyone, obviously, because I have Jerry McCain injured, so
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: I don't want to necessarily.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Be— No, you don't have to drop anybody.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Right, right. You just add.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Right, so I'm adding Yanni Newman.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: He's going to pop up and looks like he's going
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: to be on that second line with Chandler Stevenson. So
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: hopefully he sticks for a little bit until at least
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: until McCann comes back. He's a goal scorer. As Al mentioned,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: he's leading the AHL in goals right now. Hopefully he
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: gets some opportunity, maybe some power play time as well
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: to give me some points.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I took him last year and boy, I had
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: high hopes. I kept hearing about Yanni Neiman, Yanni Neiman, Yanni.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And he was terrible for me. And I'm holding a grudge.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: That's fair enough. So, Yanni, if you're listening. I'll bend there.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Grudge holder.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Right here.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I don't really have a ton of options. I don't
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: think he's going to be amazing. But I know he's
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: going to come here and just set the world on fire.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: But I need.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: It's a worthwhile gamble. Yeah. By the way, Donnie, if
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you're listening, by chance, that puts you on the clock.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I've already made my pickup. You get to make a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: pickup at some point this season. Kidd still has to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: make his pickup. But if Kidd makes a pickup, Donnie
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: has waiver rights ahead of Kidd. no matter what happens.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: But Anders and I have gone early in filling out
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: our four-player rosters in our showdown draft cracking teams. All right,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: coming up next, we close it out with one last thing.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right, final segment of
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: this Wednesday edition of Chuck in the Mornings. And we're
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: going to hand things off to Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: But we first get one more take from everybody on
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the show. We go round the room. One last thing.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Anders, what do you got?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: I've had a new phenomenon on social media on Sunday night,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Monday morning. I didn't get a chance to mention the
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: last couple of days. But I saw something from one
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  Speaker 4: of the bigger... social media accounts on Twitter from like
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: a Drake May fan who basically tweeted out, everyone thinks
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: their QB would look good against the Seahawks until it's
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: time to play the Seahawks. And watching all the comments
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: of Patriots fans.
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs fans, Broncos fans, even Rams fans, all coming in
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  Speaker 4: to be like, no, RQB sucked less against the Seahawks. No,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: RQB sucked less against the Seahawks. Seeing this phenomenon of
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: all the fan bases measuring up to who sucked less
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: against our defense is... quite funny and i wanted to
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  Speaker 4: point that out so it's no longer like hey we're
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: gonna torture guys it's like oh god that's the measuring
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  Speaker 4: stick we did we sucked less against them so we're
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: better it's that's pretty cool to have.
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  Speaker 1: That it's pretty remarkable yeah drake may's been fantastic yeah
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  Speaker 1: since the first well he wasn't good the following week
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: but maybe mike mcdonald threw him for a loop i
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: don't know yeah bo nicks couldn't have looked worse worse
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  Speaker 1: yeah Now, he hadn't been good really all season long.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes had been fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, deer in the headlights
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Sunday night. And then all the Rams fans are coming
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: in like, yeah, we can do it. But then Bo
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Nix's fans are like, oh, we got the win, though.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the premise was, that's what I would argue if
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: I was a Rams fan.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: But to your point, it's... You lost. You lost. Meanwhile,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: out of all of that, Marcus Mariota's sitting over there like,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That's the guy! I don't see what the big deal was.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Isn't he like two and two worth of Seahawks? I
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: don't know what the big deal was. It seemed pretty
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: easy to me. I just got the ball out of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: my hands and found an open receiver. It was no
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: big deal.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: And then there's Caleb Williams fans coming in and be like,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, guys. We'll be the ones to do it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: And everyone else is like, I wouldn't be so sure
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: about that guy.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Last time they played, they lost 6-0. He looked awful.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Good pull. All right, K, what's your one last thing?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I've got another good pull. So shout out to the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: greatest shooter of all time.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: 17 years ago today, Steph Curry introduced himself to the NBA.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: He put up 14 points, 7 assists, 2 rebounds, and
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  Speaker 5: 4 steals. And tonight, the Warriors take on The Timberwolves
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: without Anthony Edwards, who is getting his knee looked at,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: having surgery tomorrow. So that sucks, but it should be
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: a fun game regardless. But on this day, Steph Curry
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: made his debut NBA. Best point guard of all time?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Negative. No. There's a guy called Magic.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Magic. Magic.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Is he number two? No. Who's number two?
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: I would probably have to say maybe John Stockton or a...
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, Curry's better than John Stockton. I think he's
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: at least number two. But if I wanted point guard...
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: You're just thinking of a pure point guard. When you
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: say point guard, I'm thinking of... So you think Curry's
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: a two, then? Curry's whatever you want him to be.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Except Magic Johnson. Except Magic Johnson. When you're Magic,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you're number one overall.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. All right, all right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny is that when you started to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: say that, I was getting ready to like, oh gosh,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: here we go again. I'm going to be the old
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: guy that has to bring up some old name to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: correct Kidd. Who's the greatest shooter of all time? And
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: then you said Steph Curry, and I'm like, oh, you're right.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Well done.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: There's no question. Clay Thompson started the NBA. Yeah, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: then you answered the point guard question correctly as well.
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  Speaker 1: So nice job, Kidd. Well done. Way to go, Kidd.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Way to go, Kidd.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to close with this. Man, I
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: heard some of the worst World Series analysis. I mean,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I could hardly take it. on my drive in this morning,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and it just hammers home the point. I know that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: there are soccer fans that want me to talk more soccer,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and the truth of the matter is, no, you don't.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Because I don't really know what I'm talking about. I mean,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I've got Anders here now, so we probably will talk
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: more soccer going forward because Anders knows what he's talking about.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: But I don't know what I'm talking about. You don't
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: want to hear me talk about soccer. And that's the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: experience that I had this morning because this show never
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: talks baseball no matter what. And I'm always like, really?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: You're not going to talk baseball today? I don't get
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: any baseball on the drive-in. Shohei had 11 home runs
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: last night. You're not going to talk any baseball? Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: And then they talk baseball today on my drive-in, and
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, please don't ever talk baseball again. Because it
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: was just nonsense. I mean, they were going on about
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: all the pressures on the Brewers now. They're up 3-1.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: They've got two in hand. Tampa Bay had to throw
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: today's starter last night. Milwaukee didn't have to do that.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Then there was the suggestion made that the Brewers should
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: have pitched Miz last night with a tie game to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: finish off the series. They had three games in hand
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and their ace rested and ready to go for the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: next night. When you're up 3-0, you don't have to play.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: You don't have to manage it the way Kevin Cash
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: managed it for the race. They're desperate. Brewers aren't. They
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: still got two games at home that they have to play.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: If it gets game seven, okay.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Pressure swings on Milwaukee because we're about ready to blow
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a 3-0 lead in front of a fan base that
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: has never won a World Series before. And yes, then
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the pressure gets ratcheted where it's squarely on the Brewers.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: But until that time, the Brewers are not the team
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: under the pressure. It's the Tampa Bay Rays. Please don't
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: ever talk baseball again. You sounded so stupid. That just
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: hurts my soul to hear stupid baseball analysis.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It's lazy.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
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