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Chuck & Buck 1-13 Hour 1: And all the pieces are in place, DK vs JSN and it's list time! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, class, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, hold in producing six one guard from Brighton,
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  Speaker 2: Illinois and former high school basketball stand What in the
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  Speaker 2: hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Don't jumped any conclusions.
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  Speaker 4: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting some Bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll
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  Speaker 5: just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shape X athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 4: Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champions.
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 3: What do you buy to Lado.
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  Speaker 4: Casino Resort and quilsee the Greek Draft King sports.
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  Speaker 3: Book where the action never stopped. Hey, good morning you
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  Speaker 3: beautiful people.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome into the radio program that is Chucking Buck in
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  Speaker 4: the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
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  Speaker 4: Here on a Tuesday, the Tuesday of the divisional round
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  Speaker 4: of the NFL playoffs. To countdown to hosting the forty
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  Speaker 4: nine ers continues right here at the headquarters of counting
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  Speaker 4: Down to the forty nine ers Chucking Buck Sports Radio
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  Speaker 4: ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 3: I just named us the headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it has a nice ring.
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  Speaker 3: Don't feel any pressure. I want to say thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, not for that part, but for the beautiful people,
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  Speaker 5: because you were talking to us, right.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was talking to the listening audience. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like we're a little included.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No, Matt too long today. I think we got it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 5: You're welcome, all you beautiful people. I felt happy, overjoyed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah did you?
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  Speaker 5: And then I wanted to make sure that you meant
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  Speaker 5: us it applies to you. Sure, yeah, yeah, now that
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  Speaker 5: you know I was overjoyed, yea.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to yeah, I don't want to damp
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  Speaker 3: in your spirit. Well they are damp like damp pants.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I hate damn pants.
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  Speaker 3: They're the worst. Well, good morning to you all.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Ryan is here, Bucky Jacobson is here. My name
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  Speaker 4: is Chuck Powell. I am a pullback the curtain kind
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  Speaker 4: of radio host. I've been told my entire life don't
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  Speaker 4: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like doing it myself, just to give people
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  Speaker 4: an idea that you know, you put our pants on
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  Speaker 4: one leg at a time, just like everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: Some of us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ashley's got this incredible skill about her is that
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter what time she.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves her house. Yep, she can get here with three
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  Speaker 3: men and it's despair.
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  Speaker 4: It's like she enters a portal somewhere, steps past Sam Levitt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: demon sits where Demand Williams was sitting there for a
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  Speaker 4: little while. It's like she steps into a portal and
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  Speaker 4: she finds her way to get here.
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  Speaker 3: It was looking pretty hairy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're telling me we have a we have
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  Speaker 4: a business where we get up pretty early, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: actually shocked that we don't oversleep more often than what
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  Speaker 4: we do as a collective. But she overslept a little bit, panicked,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, sleep a little bit, a lot of bit.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up at five nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, oh that's a lot. Warned us, Hey, this is
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  Speaker 4: going to be pretty tight. And part of me was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe we should figure out how to just start the
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  Speaker 4: board in case this happens again. And then another part
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  Speaker 4: of me was like, she could leave at five point
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  Speaker 4: fifty five and get here at five seven incredible.
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  Speaker 6: I was usually like, I come up here at the
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  Speaker 6: same time. But again, I've told you guys this before.
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  Speaker 6: I usually finish my makeup in the car before I
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  Speaker 6: come upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: Makeup on today you can see that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's why I'm not one of the beautiful people.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I woke up.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, I slept terribly and then I must
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  Speaker 6: have fallen into a deep sleep right before my alarm
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  Speaker 6: went off. So when it went off, I just I
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  Speaker 6: guess turned it off, although I have more than one,
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  Speaker 6: so I don't know how this happened.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, and then I.
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  Speaker 6: Woke up and I thought, I feel like I've been
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  Speaker 6: I feel like my third alarm should have gone off
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  Speaker 6: by now.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked. I look at the clock, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: five nineteen. That's not a normal time I wake up.
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  Speaker 6: And then I went five nineteen and I just I
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  Speaker 6: was like, I don't have time to do anything, so
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  Speaker 6: I just grabbed everything. I'm surprised I didn't get dressed
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  Speaker 6: in the car honestly, and.
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  Speaker 3: Got the revive.
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  Speaker 6: I five project is really trying to screw me over
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  Speaker 6: on my morning commute because now I have to leave
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  Speaker 6: earlier because they closed the south down five expresses.
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  Speaker 3: You, No, you don't really have to leave earlier.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently, Well, no, apparently I don't, but for my own comfort,
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  Speaker 6: I leave earlier so that I don't end up betting
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  Speaker 6: here at five fifty seven.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say, actually, just to test it, wake
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  Speaker 4: up tomorrow at six oh four, see if I can
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  Speaker 4: see if you can get here on time fifty I
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  Speaker 4: think we need to test this.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, well, we're gonna have to ask the boss for permission,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm gonna have to show you how to run
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  Speaker 6: the board.
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  Speaker 3: Which we should probably learn anyway. So why don't we fair.
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  Speaker 6: We have done this. We have talked about this multiple times.
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  Speaker 5: I know there's a button you have to turn and
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  Speaker 5: then push it down, and then there's another button you
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  Speaker 5: have to turn and turn it to a certain thing
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  Speaker 5: and then push it down. And then there's something else
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  Speaker 5: you have to hit.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, two buttons of turning and pushing down,
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  Speaker 6: and then you've got to enter insert a thing.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have to enter a code every eleven
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  Speaker 3: minutes otherwise. Yeah. But then, so I got it pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: A problem is is there's six hundred buttons back there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Think we would have gotten on the air, but you
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  Speaker 5: could have facetimed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm certain that some of these buttons don't do any thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm convinced of that.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we should have a roadmap for that, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, once you get on we can kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Fill a bus. Yeah, then I'll just stay home as
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  Speaker 3: long as we need to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, then I'll rush here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, I want to see. I want to
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  Speaker 4: test it at some point. You know, let's plan it,
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  Speaker 4: let's clear it with the bosses. But I want you
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  Speaker 4: to leave at six oh four and see if you
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  Speaker 4: can get here by five point fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I have a feeling if I left.
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  Speaker 6: By six oh four, I wouldn't get here by six
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  Speaker 6: fifty seven, because once you're in the six o'clock hour, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Probably right, I think.
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  Speaker 4: And hell, I hear in the nine o'clock hour, it's
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  Speaker 4: impossible to get to work on time.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of that just for some one person. I've
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  Speaker 3: heard that most.
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  Speaker 5: People don't have hard time getting to their job if
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  Speaker 5: they have to start at ten.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if that would be.
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  Speaker 3: Hard most people.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if this portal between my house and here
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  Speaker 6: is similar to the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot, yeah, constantly yeah, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and not all of them know where they're going.
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  Speaker 1: No, none of them do.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like some don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some don't know there's actual laws.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good morning to you all.
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  Speaker 4: It's we're glad to be together here on this Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: morning and on time, remarkably on time.
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  Speaker 3: As we get things going, we.
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  Speaker 4: Got you for the next four hours and Tuesdays are
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  Speaker 4: loaded with some of our regulars who will certainly be
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  Speaker 4: paying us a visit. We'll cover that with What's on
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  Speaker 4: tap in a moment. Last night was the final piece
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  Speaker 4: of an eight piece puzzle for this weekend's viewing of
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  Speaker 4: the National Football League playoffs, one in which the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: are a major part of. The Houston Texans get the
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  Speaker 4: win last night over the Pittsburgh Steelers thirty to six
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  Speaker 4: was the final wasn't nearly as lopsided as the final
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  Speaker 4: score indicates. It was actually very much in question late
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  Speaker 4: in that contest, but the Texans ended up with a
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  Speaker 4: couple of defensive touchdowns and end up winning this thing
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  Speaker 4: by twenty four last night, so they went on the road.
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  Speaker 4: They advance over the Steelers. More on that coming up
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  Speaker 4: in a moment. The game was over, the network finally
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  Speaker 4: did get around to announcing. I don't know why this needed.
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  Speaker 3: To be this precious game. I think it was just like, we.
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  Speaker 4: Want the viewers to stick around for the entire game,
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  Speaker 4: just for ratings. That's the only thing that I can
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  Speaker 4: Even Joe Buck was making fun of it last night.
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  Speaker 4: But when the game was over, they finally did announce.
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  Speaker 4: And apparently they kept this from all the networks, like
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  Speaker 4: the NFL was even even Joe and Troy were sitting
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  Speaker 4: there going where are we.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be?
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  Speaker 4: All the way until the got the slip of paper
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  Speaker 4: in their hands to announce the times for this weekend's games.
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks will play Saturday night. Seems like that was
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  Speaker 4: a poorly kept secret. It's kind of what Greg has
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  Speaker 4: been telling us for days was going to happen. So
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  Speaker 4: five o'clock Saturday night against the forty nine Ers, obviously
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  Speaker 4: here in Seattle, and the game will be on Fox.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, Phil special Seahawks. Tom Brady will be
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  Speaker 3: calling your game on Saturday night. The most handsome person.
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  Speaker 4: I Hope Pizza, Hut Hutt Hut So Seahawks forty nine Ers,
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  Speaker 4: five o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be Saturday night on Fox.
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  Speaker 4: That means Bill's Broncos will play the first game of
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  Speaker 4: the weekend at one thirty in Denver. That will be
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  Speaker 4: on CBS. Then you'll have Rams Bears will be the
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  Speaker 4: late game on Sunday on NBC and that will be
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  Speaker 4: in Chicago. And then the early game on Sunday will
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  Speaker 4: be Texans at Patriots. That will be on ABC, Slash, ESPN,
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  Speaker 4: and that will get started at.
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  Speaker 3: Noon our time. So there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Now you know the Elite eight is set in the
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  Speaker 4: National Football League. You know when we're playing. We obviously
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  Speaker 4: already knew who we were playing. We know where we'll
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  Speaker 4: be playing in terms of what network you'll you'll be
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  Speaker 4: able to watch, and of course if you want, if
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  Speaker 4: you're getting to go to the game, then you know
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  Speaker 4: how to make preparations there as well. But we now
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  Speaker 4: know the entire puzzle and we can act accordingly going forward.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll say this after watching the Texans and the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers last night. As much as we seem to love
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  Speaker 4: our defense here in town, I'm really not sure, it's
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  Speaker 4: the best in the National Football League, and I know
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: Denver's got a really good one too, But man, that
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  Speaker 4: Texans defense is unbelievable. They are stifling and I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if defense wins championships. I know it has in
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  Speaker 4: the past. I don't know if it's something that you
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  Speaker 4: should hang your hat on as an NFL organization, that
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  Speaker 4: defense wins championships. I don't know if that regularly occurs,
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  Speaker 4: but if it does, the Texans have a very good
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  Speaker 4: chance of winning at all this year.
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  Speaker 3: That's how good that defense is. Yeah. Well, they get
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  Speaker 3: after the passer for sure, and they should right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they spent some serious draft capital on a
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  Speaker 5: couple guys that are coming off the edge there, and
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  Speaker 5: it's one of those whether you're a forty two year
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  Speaker 5: old quarterback or a twenty four year old quarterback, you
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  Speaker 5: better be you better figure out a way to be
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  Speaker 5: nimble and kind of have some have some eyes in
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  Speaker 5: the back of your head because they are. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: that pocket just doesn't last for it, No, And then
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  Speaker 5: the defense, secondarily the secondary. They understand you don't have.
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  Speaker 3: To cover very long.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have to worry about a ton of stuff now,
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  Speaker 5: there was a couple of shots that there was one
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  Speaker 5: that Aaron Rodgers got the ball knocked out of his
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  Speaker 5: hand and fumbled, and yet DK was wide open.
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  Speaker 3: He was gonna be wide open.
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  Speaker 5: So it's one of those there's a risk in playing
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  Speaker 5: that type of defense, and yet it's really hard to
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  Speaker 5: get to it's really hard to take advantage of it
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  Speaker 5: because you just don't have very much time.
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  Speaker 4: They have the best addresser combo in the NFL, between
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: Anderson and Daneil Hunter. I think both of them were
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: named either first team or second team. I think Anderson
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  Speaker 4: was first team and Hunter was second team All Pro,
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  Speaker 4: not Pro Bowl All Pro. And then they've got Stingley
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  Speaker 4: who's a lockdown corner. They are a sure tackling team
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  Speaker 4: at least on par with the Seahawks, maybe even more so.
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  Speaker 4: And they've got a defensive minded head coach whose schemes
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  Speaker 4: really well. And they are frenzied. I mean they are
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  Speaker 4: just they are like seagulls on a bird on a
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  Speaker 4: on a bread truck down at the beach. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that's they They just come out of everywhere. Every every
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  Speaker 4: time you see a team drop by, that seems like
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  Speaker 4: seven Texans are tackling a ball carrier at a time,
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  Speaker 4: so they're dangerous.
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  Speaker 6: And Jalen Pete Petru Pete, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 6: pronounced his last name.
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  Speaker 1: He's really good.
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  Speaker 4: P I t r E Petre, Yeah, he's He's very
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  Speaker 4: good as well. But the Texans are legit on defense
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  Speaker 4: and New England's gonna find that out, I think on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, on the.
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  Speaker 4: Flip side of it, the Pittsburgh Steelers are out and
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  Speaker 4: even though they made the playoffs, won a Division One
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  Speaker 4: double digit games. This is now going on several years
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  Speaker 4: where Steeler fans are not happy. They are just tired
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: of mediocrity and either barely making the playoffs or barely
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  Speaker 4: missing the playoff. They are no more amused by Mike
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  Speaker 4: Tomlin's unbelievable one of the great streaks ever in the
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  Speaker 4: history of football, that he's never had a losing record
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  Speaker 4: in eighteen nineteen years as the head coach of the
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers. I mean, it's a phenomenal stretch, but Steeler
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  Speaker 4: fans are no longer amused by it. They don't find
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  Speaker 4: it cute anymore. They've been booming now for two three seasons.
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  Speaker 4: They've been chanting all your long, fire Tomlin, and here
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  Speaker 4: they are once again packing their bags without a playoff win.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is another incredible statistic. TJ Watt, as
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  Speaker 4: good as he is, has never won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 4: As often as they've been in the playoffs, TJ Watt
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  Speaker 4: has never played won a playoff game. He and his
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: brother JJ combined are three and eleven in their careers.
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  Speaker 4: The Watts don't win in the postseason. So the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: aren't broken, there's no doubt about that as an organization,
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  Speaker 4: but certainly the fans are done with mediocrity, and it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be interesting to see what decisions are going
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  Speaker 4: to be made. Look like Aaron Rodgers last game of
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  Speaker 4: his career last night, and Mike Tomlin, even if he's
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: not fired, might make the decision to step away. And
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  Speaker 4: that seems to be the buzz right now in the league.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose if it's I if he decides he'd like
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  Speaker 5: to step away because he just doesn't want to hear
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  Speaker 5: the noise, right, I mean, there's there's there's an aspect
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  Speaker 5: I understand of you know, mediocrity, the the you know lukewarm.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want that spit that out.
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  Speaker 5: But boy, I mean I'm one that would I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if I'm an owner, I just most certainly would be
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  Speaker 5: really really careful of where you go next. And I
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  Speaker 5: mean we witnessed it here. It wasn't like Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 5: had fallen off and was having three win seasons. It
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  Speaker 5: was just you weren't You weren't contending with McVeigh and
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  Speaker 5: with Kyle Shanahan. They were beating you consistently, and so
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  Speaker 5: it was like, all right, we got to move on.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's the example people are going to give,
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  Speaker 4: but I see what happened in Seattle. They only dealt
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  Speaker 4: with three years of mediocrity, made a really uncomfortable decision,
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  Speaker 4: got rid of a franchise icon, and look where they
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  Speaker 4: are now. They got better immediately in the next year,
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  Speaker 4: and two years later they're a super Bowl contender.
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  Speaker 5: There's a real good chance that it isn't a Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 5: or that you think you get the next Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 5: and you go end up getting four wins and you
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: end up going backwards.
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  Speaker 3: And then now I don't saying that's the worst thing either.
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  Speaker 4: Look I'm not getting rid of Mike Tomlin, but there's
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  Speaker 4: a little secret about the professional sports. The last place
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: you want to be is than the land of mediocrity,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: where you're not getting any better, but you don't get
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  Speaker 4: bad enough in order to rebuild it to make it
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  Speaker 4: great again. And that's where Pittsburgh seems to be stuck.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not for two or three years. They've been
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: stuck in that mode now for about ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it's ritse and repeat every year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well, I mean they back in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: they ended up going twelve and four and winning the division.
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  Speaker 5: Since then they hadn't won the division, but they'd still
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: found ways into the playoffs more often than not. And
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: then this year they end up winning the division. Now
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: they win the division kind of in a you know,
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: missed field goal situation or they would have been out.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: And it's a ten and seven record. You know, I
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: don't know for sure if that team is ready to
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: be a Super Bowl contender. I think I put him
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: a notch above what I thought the Panthers were. But
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: the Panthers played, you know, matched up well against the
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Rams and played them closer than how the game wound
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: up against Houston. I don't I just to me, I
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: would be more patient. But then again, that's a lot
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: of patients.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: It just is.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I just I would always be worried about kicking something
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: to the curb, because you know, Mike Tomlin would get
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: a job somewhere. If he wanted to get a job
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: this next year, he'd get a job somewhere. I don't
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: think Steelers are worried about No.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: I think it would be a situation similar to the
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: John Harbaugh situation.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Just yeah, you know what it's not working for If.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: You were a Steelers fan and he ended up going
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: to Baltimore or end up going to Cleveland, you wouldn't
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: be worried about that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Oh I would be worried about it about that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's any way he would do that,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: just because you don't think he would.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: He loves the Steelers too much.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: But we see looking.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: To the Niners, you know what I mean?
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Like, yeah, but I think he'd be looking for something
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: totally new if he's gonna If him and the Steelers
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: decided mutually the part ways, because I don't think that
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: they'd fire him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I think it would be a hey, is this working
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Is this working for you? Now, let's just do something different.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I don't think he'd stay stay in that area.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: It's the same situation with Harball. It's the same situation.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: And they were there almost the exact same amount of time.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: You know, they each made it all the way to
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: the Promised Land. Uh, they have consistently won, and half
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: of that rivalry has moved on, and it was organizational.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I would look, I'm I think the world of both
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: of those guys, Harball and Tomlin, but there does reach
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: a point, especially in today's day and age, where so
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: many people, I mean, I gotta wonder if Mike Tomlin
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: doesn't even want to be there anymore.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like a mutual choice.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: As much as I've done for this organization, I don't
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: want to hear my name chanted fire Tomlin every single
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: home game.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Now. Maybe he wants to move on from it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: And and if the Steelers make that decision, I don't
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: think Mike Tomlin or John Harball would choose the rival
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: that they've spent the last two decades being a rival against.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I don't think that would happen.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: But if they did, I mean, I'm not going to
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: worry about where the head coach is going that I fired,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going to worry about who can I get so
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: that we are no longer one and done in the playoffs,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: are barely missing the playoffs. Nine to eight is no
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: place to be in the National Football League.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, I get it, and I understand the
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: idea of want upgrade, especially if you feel like your
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: steps away from it. And yet the you know the
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: fact that the Steelers the last couple of years, I
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: mean they had Aaron Rodgers who played and lasted the
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: whole season, and he still can do some things. He
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: obviously does some stuff that you know between the years
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: that that others can't, but he can't do other things.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: The year before they had Russell Wilson and Fields, And
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: so it's kind of one of those like when you
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: end up having That's what your quarterback situation is, is
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: a is an old a forty two year old dude
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: or a couple guys who won is on his way
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: downward with Russell Wilson or Josh Fields who just has
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: a hard time figuring out how to do quarterbacking. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: mean really really at a high level as far as
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: the passing part of it goes, it's like, I don't
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: know for sure what's expected of the head coach, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: yet what does he do doesn't matter. You give him
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: whatever you give him. He just kind of makes a medium,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: you know, flavored soup.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Well, he wanted Rogers and he wanted the Russell Wilson Fields.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, he had a hand and out.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: He's got so much power there, and that's part of
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: the reason why fans are frustrated. You know, they could
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: add Matt Stafford and didn't.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Choose Matt Stafford.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: They didn't choose They gave up draft capital for DK Metcalf,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: So he's part of that too.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: He's part of that equation and that's one of the
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: frustrations that Steelers fans have.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I love him, I think the world of him, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I hope he lands on his feet. I don't want
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: him to go anywhere. I want him be a.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Part of the National f Fotball League. He's got the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: best press conferences out there. I think he'll be a
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: success at the next place that he's at. But I
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: get why somebody that's accomplished as much as he has
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: is done with being booed in the city that he's accomplished.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: That much in and I get, and I get why
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: a fantas a franchise and a fan base is like
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: this is like ridiculous. I mean, this is like ten years,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: We're not getting any better, We're not getting any worse.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to get worse in order to get better.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: And yet we've got this guy that has this unbelievable
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: ability to take whatever meat scraps that he gets and
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: make hot dogs with it. We need steak again here
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh. So I think the look I didn't realize
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of smoke. We'll talk more about this
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: later on in the show, but I think he's gonna
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: believe either his own choice or their choice. I got
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: the exact same feeling about Tomlin as I had about
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Harball a couple of weeks ago. All right, let's find
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: out what's on tap of the show today.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: What's on top?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: All right? The Elite eight is set.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: We've already gone through the schedule for you Seahawks hosting
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: the forty nine Ers Saturday night on Fox. Gene Steratur
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: will be with us today at eight o'clock. A lot
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: to discuss with him. We'll even ask him about the
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: officiating crew that has been assigned for this game.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Coming up at eight.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Greg Bell will be with us At seven oh five,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: we'll get the latest on Kobe Bryant and Elijah Arroyo,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: who are both saw Royo patted up. We'll see if
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: they're going to be available to play on Saturday night.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: The National Championship game in college football is going to
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: be held in six days from now.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Rick new Isle will join us.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Just a couple more conversations with Rick new Isle this
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: college football season. He's with us at nine o'clock. We'll
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: also ask him about a busy day in the portal yesterday.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Dylan Rayola the most interesting thing that happened yesterday the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Nebraska quarterback and Patrick Mahomes single white female wannabe. He
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: went to Oregon, which of course has led people to
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: believe more is leaving Oregon to enter the NFL Draft,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: and there's a lot of conversation about whether or not
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: he's ready for that big giant step. College basketball dub
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: host Michigan tomorrow night. So a huge game for Danny Sprinkle,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: coming off a nice win against Ohio State on Sunday,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: crack and fell behind two to nothing to the New
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: York Rangers, but do not fear. They rallied for a
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: four to two win over New York last night. Evertt
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: fits you on the call on the television side. He'll
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: join us on the radio side this morning at eight thirty.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: The team will play again tomorrow at New Jersey against
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the Devils and Brooks.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Koepka has decided to leave the live tour.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: He's coming back to the PGA, where he has admitted
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: he has confessed it's going to be a long haul
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: trying to remend relationships with my old friends on the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: PGA tour. Hopefully we'll find some time to talk about
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that as well. Coming up next though, DK metcalf in
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: his new uniform, knocked from the playoffs last night, And meanwhile,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: John Schneider's new WR one might have been the best
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: in the National Football League. We'll discuss another great decision
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: by John Schneider this offseason. Next Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: point three KJRF.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Oh thanks, wow, yeah, feel good?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, really good.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: It's Chuck Powell, Buggy Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan with you
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: here on this Tuesday morning. The countdown continues right here
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: at the headquarters for Seahawks Football.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: H Seahawks playoff football. We are sitting here on Tuesday.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Come Saturday, we will be making last minute preparations fashion wise,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: food wise, where we're going to be sitting for the game, wise,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: all that stuff, geographic decisions as well as we get
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: ready for the divisional round of the playoffs. Forty nine
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Ers at Seahawks five o'clock Saturday night. If you don't
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: make it to the game, then you can watch on Fox.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: It'll be KB.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Missed those great jokes about KB last year and his
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: nicknames and Tom Brady on the call this Saturday. And
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: you know another guy that will be front and center
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: is our wr one JSN, who's turned in right before
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: our eyes to one of the best I think maybe
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: even a conversation for the best wide receiver in the
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: National Football League this year. So ready to watch him
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: make his playoff debut coming up on Saturday against the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine Ers.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: All of that said, last night, DK.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Metcalf got knocked out of the playoffs, and DK had
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: two catches for forty two yards in the game, had
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: a key drop. Rogers also missed him on a wide
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: open opportunity as well, but it was just another one
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: of those odd DK Metcalf games where he looks like
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: the best guy on the field physically, and yet where
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: was the production in the most meaningful game of the year.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Think the Texans have a lot to do with that,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: and so you know, I mean this to me is.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald was a great hire.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: But the fact that John Schneider has just been on
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: such a tear here in the last year and a
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: half because these decisions that he had to make were
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: not easy, They were not obvious. Like the biggest decisions
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: that he made for changing the direction and the trajectory
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: of the Seahawks program, they were all the ones that
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: seemed to make the difference. Couldn't have been easy. I mean,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Pete Carroll did not have a four and twelve season,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: four and thirteen season that made it obvious that the
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Seahawks were broken. Dk Metcalf, there was still, I mean,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: believe me, even John Schneider was sitting there like, why
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: do we not use DK Metcalf better than what we
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: have used him here in his as a Seahawk. He
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: was even frustrated by a lot of the things that
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: we talked about with DK Metcalf.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: On Monday, mornings.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Even John Schneider the organization was frustrated by that as well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: So there was still this a feeling with him. Man,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: we trade this guy away and they find they find
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: a way to unlock his potential and use him the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: way that we think he could be used. Man, we
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: might have to watch this guy go on the seventeen
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: hundred yard season for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and that's going
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: to be really difficult to watch. And then even the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: decision with obviously the quarterback as well, Gino Smith was
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: not bad while he was here. He just wasn't He
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: wasn't great. Certainly there was room to improve that position.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: But he makes the very difficult decision of moving on
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: from Geno Smith and trading him and a little bit
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: of a risk, and then bringing in Sam Darnold, which
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: was a little bit of a risk as well. Those
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: decisions were the biggest decisions that have been made by
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: this organization in the last couple of years. And let's
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: face it, John Schneider has just aced all four of them,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: all four of those decision. He's made other good decisions
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: as well, but those four decisions were just masterstrokes by
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the general manager, and I got to believe who finally
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: had the authority to make these decisions without somebody else
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: having more power within him than him in the organization.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: I think that, you know, I mean, I think you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: pretty much everybody around here love Pete Carroll in the
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: way that he went about his things. I know that
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: most of the players that played for him, those that
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: played now he had to do some cutthroat things and
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: cut guys here and not play guys there. And so
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sure there's some people that maybe are sitting at
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: home or on other teams and aren't giant Pete Carroll fans.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: But for the most part, the guys that you're going
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: to rely on on Sundays to go out there, I
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: think they loved Pete Carroll. I think that that's part
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: of the intrigue about him and being a big time
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: players coach. But if you think that he can be
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: one hundred percent unbiased when it comes to decision making,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: when he ends up really really liking somebody, and you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, you take your shirt off with DK metcalf
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: as he walks in. That's funny. And yet it was
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: most certainly he was not going He would not have
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: have signed off and been okay with getting rid of
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: a guy that has shown, you know, a thousand yard
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: potential but didn't ever seem like he was reaching the
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: truest potential of what he could do. And and then
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: you have a guy in Jackson Smith and Jigbe who
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: came in and had a good year's first year, but
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: he doesn't I mean, he doesn't look anything like DK
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Metcalf as far as what you think their ceiling is.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: You just look at it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: If it stood next to each other, You're like, which
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: one of these guys is going to be better? And
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: just about everybody would think that the DK based on
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: the looks of the whole thing and the fact that
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: he's fast. But there's obviously a lot more that goes
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: into it. And I mean, I mean big part of
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the reason. When that game last night was still in
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: question it was three to six or three to nine,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: there was two balls that Aaron Rodgers threw right to
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: his hands and he clanked them. He one went through
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: his hands and the other one he knocked down like
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: he was, you know, trying to be the defender. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, i it is tough for a guy like
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: John Schneider to make those moves, especially when he has
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: another chef in the kitchen, and I think that yes,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: once he got it to where it's like, no, this
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: is my decision. Heye McDonald, I trust you wholeheartedly what
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: you're going to do down the locker room and what
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: you're gonna do with the pieces that I'm going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: give you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: But it's not a co op.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: It's I'm making these decisions and he has aced every
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: single one, even though he's not perfect and some people
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: expect him to be.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: I think it's been interesting, just you know, from Mike
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: McDonald's tenure and the way I got nervous when what
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: is it a month and a month and a half
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: in and he was saying I can't use these linebackers.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That made me nervous, like how are these two gonna work.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: If John Schneyder's bringing people in and Mike McDonald's already
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: saying nope.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: But now I loved it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I yeah, and now I love it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: But it made me nervous, like, oh gosh, how's this
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: relationship going to work? Because how's John going to handle
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: somebody with such strong opinions and convictions as to what
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: he wants?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: But clearly they're i mean a great pair.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they've been a phenomenal pair, and yeah,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: just keep it going. But you know, when you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: DK Metcalf was such a you know, your mouth watered
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: over the possibilities of this guy. And we saw some
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: of the hiccups, some of the red flags, some of
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: the flaws, and we just kept coming back to, you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: what make him happier, make him happy.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: And then we have a different situation.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Well, he was happy, right, He asked to be traded,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: he got out of town, he wanted.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Went to Pittsburgh.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: He seemed like, I mean, it's not like he got
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: traded to Buffalo with Josh Allen. But he seemed to
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: be very happy wearing the black and gold of the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers, and seemed to be happy with Aaron Rodgers.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And yet same things confront at him this entire season.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's him lackluster production, you know, you know, he
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: had eight hundred and fifty yards receiving this.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Year, almost half of Jess. Yeah, yeah, it's it's less
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: than half. Yeah it isn't almost, yeah, it's almost half.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Almost half their job, little buddy.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: You know, six touchdowns, you know on the season, he
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: ends up having the anger issue at the worst point
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: of the year, almost cost his team a shot and
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: the playoffs for goingn sake at the two games to go,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: kind of have to win them both, yep, you know scenario.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: And he decides that moment, I'm going to go start
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: a fight with a fan who may or may not
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: have yelled something inappropriate.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but who clearly tried to set him up for that, right,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: that's yeah, he was. He's a turn No, he could
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: have gotten. All he had to do was not walk
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: over there.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean it's but it's not like
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: he said something that you had to walk over there.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He did not.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: He's a man, I have to walk over there and
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: protect my house.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: It wasn't that situation.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: He'd recognized the guy from the past and wanted to
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: intimidate him. And he ends up getting ejected for JSNS
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  Speaker 4: never doing that, And so again, that's not an easy decision.
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  Speaker 4: He's a phenomenal talent and he's still very young, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: yet the organization, I mean, look what Cincinnati when they
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: went all in on two wide receivers. They're both fantastic
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Higgins and Chase. That's poorly used cap space right there.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: It just is, it hasn't gotten them very far.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you could have paid both of these guys
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: going forward, I suppose, but that's not how John Schneider
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: wants to allocate his cap space funds. So he's like,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I think jsn's ready to be a wide receiver one,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: and I think that we're going to have the same
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: issues with dk Metcalf as we've always had, hoping that
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: we can unlock the true full potential.
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  Speaker 3: And what happens.
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  Speaker 4: JSN turns into an eighteen hundred yard receiver this year
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  Speaker 4: and dk Metcalf once again posts substandard numbers for a
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: top end wide receiver.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: He nailed it again.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I mean every decision that he's made in the last
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: year and a half, John Schneider has aced since he
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: got Pete out of the way, yep.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And you're right, it's not easy, and so he
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: should be commended for it. And I mean, I don't
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: know for sure. I you know how I am when
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: we were talking about the coaches, I'm one that's usually
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: going to be more patient, and yet there's so I'll
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: see people starting to real red flags up and I'll
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: be like, I don't know if that's one. I don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: know if that's one. With DK, it was there was
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: a whole band of red flags waving, and you're just like,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: but can I continue to overlook all of those because
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: of what he potentially could be. John Schneider eventually said,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I don't need to anymore. I can still have the
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: offense that I want this team to have. I can
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: still pay you know, you know, I don't have to
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: pay JSN just yet. You're going to here, I'm gonna
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: have to pay him. But all of a sudden, you
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: didn't have to pay DK because DK ended up wanting
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: the big time money even because of what he could
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: do and what he'd shown he can do a little bit.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: It's not like he didn't have some good seasons. He
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: had a ninety catch season and a couple two three
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: or over a thousand yards. But it was you don't
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: have to pay somebody thirty five million dollars because they
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: might be a seventeen hundred yard, you know receiver. It's like, no,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: you can go ahead and do that. I agree with
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: you one hundred percent. Like the Borough or the Cincinnati thing,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: it's like you could find, you know, Chase and another
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: complimentary thing, and have still have an offense and go
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: out there and score thirty points a game.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: You don't have to pay two of them. And you
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: know who he got with that pick for DK Metcalf.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wasn't it the great one? Number three?
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Ney gam and war Yeah, war Man. I'll
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: take it, take it, take it. Oh my gosh, just phenomenal.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Coming up next, there's It's list season and another sport
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: we kind of like around these here parts. And there
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: was something yesterday through all this football talk that I
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: think needs to be mentioned on our radio program Next
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, the normal Tuesday
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: lineup coming your way today as well. We'll cover a
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: lot of different topics. We'll get ride back into the
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: National Football League where the Elite eight is set, all
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: the teams are set, with the Texans providing the final piece,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: and then the announcements last night of well, when the
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: games will be played, on what networks they'll be played.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Seahawks will be home to the forty nine ers Saturday
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: night at five o'clock.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Supposed to be great weather.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's supposed to be dry like starting today this
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: afternoon and all the way through the weekends.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I was sixty today.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like kind of like a balmy is it?
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Spring? Now?
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Felt like I think we just went Christmas, which was short,
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: so it was like a week of winter and now
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: we're done.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you, when I was walking to
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: the grocery store last night, it felt like spring getting
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: ready to turn into summer.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: You know what it does to us, though, is we're
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: going to get all like, oh, maybe we're not. We're
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: just going to have the very mild winter and it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: going to go straight into spring, and then all of
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: a sudden, it's going to go into like twenty.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Degrees and they can change.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get a freezing rain.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: They can change on a dime. There's no question about it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I think most of the bad snowstorms we get are
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: in February.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or like at least late January.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the truth, my friend.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, anyway, you kind of went into a different
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: kind of character.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I sure did.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Ye one that runs a trailer park, Yeah, that's what
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I do. Ahead. Do you have a spit tune?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: No, but I do have a cigarette that usually hangs
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: right here oh nice.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just noticing that. I wish you would ash it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, anywayshes itself speaking of weather.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Won't be long now, I mean, believe it or not.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know we're in the midst of the
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: throes of football mania right now, but it won't be
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: long after the Super Bowl is played that we'll be
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: reporting down for a spring training. And now is list
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: season in Major League Baseball. So the hot stove seems clogged,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: and so MLB Network and other sources are like, well,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: you might not be ready, you agents and players and
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: general managers for the season to get underway because you
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: don't have your roster set.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: But we're kind of ready.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: So we're going to start, you know, putting out lists
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and rankings and things of that nature because we want
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: to do it and we want things to read and
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: talk about. And so list season has gotten underway. An
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: MLB pipeline always does this prospects list top one hundred.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: It gets a lot of attention, but before they get
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: to the actual top one hundred, they'll release them like
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: a piece at a time, like a position at a time,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: the top ten. So last night they got it started
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: top ten right handed, starting pitching prospects in Major League
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Baseball and our baby faced Ryan Sloan with a six
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: foot four inch frame and wide show, and yet his
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: cheeks still get pink when he gets embarrassed or has,
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: you know, run one hundred yards because he I don't
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: think has reached puberty yet, and yet he's gotten his
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: feet wet in the minor league system. They have ranked
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: him the sixth best prospect in all of Major League
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Baseball in terms of starting pitchers. And just to put
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: that into perspective, trey A. Savage from the Toronto Blue
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Jays he was third on the list. That was the
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: guy that pretty much got the Blue Jays to the
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: World Series last year, and he was third on this
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: So only two names separate Ryan Sloan from Treya Savage
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: in the mind of prospect ranks. I mean, it's just
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: another thing to be excited about in this Mariners organization.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: This guy might be the next Roger frickin Clemens for
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: goodness sake, and it also indicates kind of how the
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Mariners are going to proceed with this starting pitching. I
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: don't think there's any way that we're going to have
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: five years from now Logan Gilbert George Kirby.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Bryce Miller and Brian all of them.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: It's probably going to be more like Logan, Gilbert, Brian Wu, Ryan.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Sloan, Kate Anderson Jarangel.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: That's probably the starting rotation three to five years from now.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: And this guy is just flying up the boards. I
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: don't know if there's a hotter prospect than the sport,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: And if there is one, his name's Cold Emerson.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: That's very exciting for Mariners fans. Yeah, there's some guys
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: down in the farm.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think Sloan's probably a couple of years away, right,
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: he just played a ball this year and he's hasn't
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: respirated a teen yeah, nineteen, So yeah, he's a second away.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I don't think
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: that you're going to be able to keep all of
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: those starting pitchers. I mean, just figure if these guys
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: continue on the path that they're on right and they
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: don't sign a team friendly deal that gets them out
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: of a bunch of years of arbitration, which we already
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: know that most of them have already agreed to their
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: their contract to avoid arbitration for this year. Yeah, once
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: they hit free agency, they're gonna be asking for thirty
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: plus million dollars. You can't pay all of them thirty
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: plus million dollars. I mean you can, I guess if
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: you want to just have an a ball team hitting
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: every day. But we don't want that. So yeah, you're
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: gonna have to make some tough decisions on what to
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: move and what you're going to get for him. But
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: sloan to me, based on some of the stuff that
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I've read, I haven't seen the dude pitch. I mean
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: video here and there. It's got plus stuff, But he
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: just seems like one of those kind of untouchable prospects
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: in the organization right now.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's one of the few I think
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: like him and Emerson seem to be like the two guys.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: His name out of your mouth. Don't even bring him up.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: No to Jerry, he might fight you in the alley.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Fight you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you want phone for Donovan? Come on? Another thing
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: to be excited.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: There's a lot to be excited about as a Mariner fan.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: I even saw a this yesterday that said, behind the
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Dodgers second best chance of winning their division this year.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: So yeah, list season, A lot of things to celebrate.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Mariners front and center on just about every baseball conversation
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: as we sit here a month shy of pitchers and
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: catchers reporting all right, coming up next headlines and Greg
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Bell on Kjar