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Chuck & Buck 1-23 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, how's Hasselbeck feeling and will the Darnold nonsense ever end? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: A ticket to the NFC Championship on the line between
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  Speaker 1: these two NFC West rivals, and we are underway in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed drifted to his right.
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  Speaker 1: He'll feel the kickoff of the four Shah to the fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: across the twenty. Here's left to the twenty, called the
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  Speaker 1: whole to thirty step to a tackle.
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  Speaker 3: The forty stumbles.
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  Speaker 2: Across the field down the right sideline of the thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Shah to the twenty.
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  Speaker 2: He's all the way home. A Seattle touchdown on the
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  Speaker 2: opening kickoff. Six nothing Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Happy football Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you, getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for the NFC Conference Championship game.
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  Speaker 3: And let me tell you, Ashley and I went to a.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball party last night, and yet everybody at Sea auks
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  Speaker 1: football on their lips. Can't tell you how many conversations
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  Speaker 1: I had about rashicha heat alone.
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  Speaker 4: All everyone's pumped up.
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  Speaker 1: Except one guy, one guy who runs the operation. All
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  Speaker 1: you could talk about was a cracking.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was really into the cracking, which I love.
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  Speaker 3: He was like holding court there.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, Seahawks on the brain of nearly every Seattle
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  Speaker 1: light here this morning and heading into the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: for excellent reasons, man, do we have ourselves a game
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday a chance to go to Super Bowl sixty
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  Speaker 1: will know on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: Buck Ashley, Bucky and Chuck with you here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: later on Hugh Millan at nine, Mike Hongrin at nine thirty.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear a little bit more from Matt Hasselback, and
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell's going to be joining us here in about
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Seahawksrams.
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  Speaker 1: Start three point thirty kickoff on Sunday, where Executive of
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  Speaker 1: the Year John Schneider will be in attendance.
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  Speaker 3: I hear he's gonna go. It's gonna go to the games.
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  Speaker 3: Good call. Yeah he should watch it. Yeah, he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: watch it this year.
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  Speaker 1: So three point thirty kickoff there to decide the NFC
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  Speaker 1: participant in the Super Bowl. The AFC Championship Game will
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  Speaker 1: be played Sunday at noon the New England Patriots at
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  Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: Jarrett Stidham getting the start there.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Mentor is the new head coach of the Baltimore Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: and Fernando Mendoza has officially entered the NFL Draft, where
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  Speaker 1: he is expected to be taken number one overall by.
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  Speaker 3: The Cincinnati Bengal.
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  Speaker 1: The they did there took it a little further than
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  Speaker 1: I should, I guess, actually by the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: Raiders have the number one pick.
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  Speaker 1: It's duck season starting today. Apparently didn't even know that.
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  Speaker 1: We're facing ducks everywhere we turn. We'll be facing them
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  Speaker 1: was traded from the Washington Nationals, their best pitcher, to
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  Speaker 1: our division. He will be a Texas Ranger next year
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  Speaker 1: If you want to check that out, feel free to
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  Speaker 1: do so. But right now it's time to talk Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: football with our Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 5: With the Bell Tolls.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Butt. Good morning, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Happy Friday, Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: How the show go last night? Did you sell football?
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  Speaker 5: That did a good time? You got phone calls? Somethody
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  Speaker 5: called from Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice man, I listen, Yeah, I listened some Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good stuff, good stuff.
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  Speaker 5: You appreciate it. It was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, here we go Sunday, it goes down
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  Speaker 1: and you been around this team all weekend long. Give
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  Speaker 1: us the temperature of the room right now here is
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  Speaker 1: we're two days away from the biggest game of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Chuck, it has shruck me that they have treated
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  Speaker 5: this like it's a game in October, and at least
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  Speaker 5: they're talking like that. And it speaks to how McDonald
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  Speaker 5: has Mike McDonald really instills the importance of the process
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  Speaker 5: and the leaf throughout the building. They have fifteen wins
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  Speaker 5: in eighteen games. To prove it, twenty five wins in
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  Speaker 5: thirty five games since McDonald became their coach before the
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty four season that his way works, and his
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  Speaker 5: way is the process that you'll win if you perfect
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  Speaker 5: the process from Monday to Saturday and the process being
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  Speaker 5: the game plan, the practicing, the studying, every man doing
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  Speaker 5: their his own own job, and so the I mean
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  Speaker 5: every coach says that, but McDonald has the results to
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  Speaker 5: back that a process or an approach works, and that
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  Speaker 5: comes in handy at a time like this, when the
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  Speaker 5: game comes so outsized and dig and height and all
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  Speaker 5: of that. The players are talking and acting as though
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  Speaker 5: they're playing Tampa Bay in early October, and that has
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  Speaker 5: struck me as I talked to guys about this. They
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  Speaker 5: just nobody's going on and on about the fact, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we're in the NFC Championship game. Julian Love has talked
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  Speaker 5: a little bit about you look, we got it. We
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  Speaker 5: understand the importance of these games and we may never
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  Speaker 5: get back here again. But that's not an overriding thing.
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  Speaker 5: The overriding thing is let's do our jobs. Let's do
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  Speaker 5: what the coaches are telling us to do. And the
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  Speaker 5: players at this point have a real confidence in man.
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  Speaker 5: These game plans work, especially on defense. When McDonald has
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  Speaker 5: us do something, he gives them the why and he
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  Speaker 5: tells them here's why we're doing and they have almost
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  Speaker 5: blind allegiance now because it's a success. That would just
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  Speaker 5: rampant success they've had us on defense. He's almost a
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  Speaker 5: wizard in that regard. It's amazing for someone who's only
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  Speaker 5: even a head coach for two seasons to have this
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  Speaker 5: much allegiance from his players such buy in because of
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  Speaker 5: the success that came so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I would hope that like Drake Thomas isn't sitting there
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  Speaker 1: going gosh, Mike, I don't know about this, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly, but that you know you joke, but that happens
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  Speaker 7: in this league, and especially with older players and younger coaches,
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  Speaker 7: and if you don't, especially as a younger coach, if
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  Speaker 7: you don't have immediate success.
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  Speaker 5: There is a little bit of that even among younger players,
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  Speaker 5: but especially among Leonard Williams type players and DeMarcus Lawrence
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  Speaker 5: who've been in the league eleven twelve years. There are
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  Speaker 5: countless examples that I could cite around the league, and
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  Speaker 5: I've covered some teams who have been with coaches. Has
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  Speaker 5: covered one in Oakland, in fact, with coaches who players
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  Speaker 5: didn't trust and didn't think this is gonna work. And McDonald,
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  Speaker 5: if you would go twenty five and ten and get
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  Speaker 5: your team to the conference title game for the first
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  Speaker 5: time in eleven years in your second season, it's obvious
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  Speaker 5: you know what the hell you're doing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Gee, I'm wondering if either coaching staff tries to make
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  Speaker 8: a definitive change on how they go about some of
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  Speaker 8: their game management situations.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was looking back last night.
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  Speaker 8: I mean the Rams had a turnover run down each
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  Speaker 8: of their first possessions, and the first game that they
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  Speaker 8: played and the second game they played, I mean both
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  Speaker 8: of them were you know, the second one I think
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  Speaker 8: was down there, down at the one yard line or
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  Speaker 8: down near the goal line. But there's there's been multiple
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  Speaker 8: times where both teams haven't taken points because they're like, no,
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  Speaker 8: seven points is more important than you know, we feel
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  Speaker 8: like we're gonna need it. And yet both of these
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  Speaker 8: games came down to either a one point or a
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  Speaker 8: two point difference. Do you think there's any chance that
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  Speaker 8: either of these coaching staffs are going to say, you
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  Speaker 8: know what, maybe not take so many chances to try
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  Speaker 8: to get that extra four points, but take the three
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  Speaker 8: earlier in games.
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  Speaker 5: If to me, of the two coaches, I think Mike
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  Speaker 5: McDonald would be more apt to be that way, to
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  Speaker 5: say I'll take the three points. And why because of
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  Speaker 5: his defense. I get the sense that when teams play
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  Speaker 5: San France. I certainly got the sense that Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 5: thought this last week. But when teams played the Seahawks defense,
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  Speaker 5: they're thinking, I need to get seven here. Three might
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  Speaker 5: not be good enough. If I have a chance to
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  Speaker 5: get seven against this defense, I'm taking it because I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how many more times are going to be
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  Speaker 5: down here. I get that sense. It's also the way
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  Speaker 5: football is. Pro football especially has gone now, and the
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  Speaker 5: analytics and the spreadsheets and to go for it and
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  Speaker 5: all that, I mean, fourth downs are. It's just the
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  Speaker 5: way the NFL is. A lot of offensive minds think
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  Speaker 5: that the defensive mind thinks differently, calls plays differently, approaches
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  Speaker 5: differently if he knows he's got to defend four downs
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  Speaker 5: instead of three. McDonald talks about that a lot, that
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  Speaker 5: your calculus as a play call on a defense changes.
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  Speaker 5: So let's say on third and six, if you know that, oh,
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  Speaker 5: if we just get to stop here, they're going to kick,
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  Speaker 5: versus if we to stop here, we got to get
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  Speaker 5: a stop again on the next down. Because then as
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  Speaker 5: a defensive play caller, you're thinking, well, instead of him
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  Speaker 5: trying to get a first down on this play, he
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  Speaker 5: might just be trying to get three or four yards
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  Speaker 5: to make them fourth down more manageable. So it does
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  Speaker 5: change things. And to answer your question, I would think
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  Speaker 5: McVeigh as well as Seattle's defense is playing when they're
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  Speaker 5: if the Rams are getting close to the goal line,
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  Speaker 5: he may be more apt to go for it than
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  Speaker 5: McDonald because of how well his defense play. The Rams
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  Speaker 5: defense is trending the other way. We talked about that
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  Speaker 5: yesterday and then sat round table. They're sixteen points a
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  Speaker 5: game for the first twelve weeks and in the last
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  Speaker 5: six weeks they're averaging twenty seven points a game. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you could see Seattle kicking field goals and the Rams
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  Speaker 5: going for touchdowns because of the Seattle's defense is playing sense.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks Rams. Sunday three thirty, we're previewing it with our
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks insider right now, let's get an update on Samdarnald.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know we got to get one every day,
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  Speaker 1: but Sam Darnald on Friday, January twenty third, how's he
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  Speaker 1: looking better?
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  Speaker 5: I saw I him throwing yesterday, which he didn't do
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  Speaker 5: before the game last week at all in the practices,
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  Speaker 5: and McDonald was saying, wow, I hope he throws. He
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: might have just been messing with me, but he said
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: I hope he throws before the game when I asked
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: him whether he needed to. He was throwing. He didn't
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: come out and throw right away where he normally does
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  Speaker 5: with Milroe and Locke. Before practice he did the stretching
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  Speaker 5: and then what he did on Wednesday. But then right
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  Speaker 5: when practice was starting, he was stationary with his shoulders
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  Speaker 5: and chest facing the guy who was throwing, an assistant
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  Speaker 5: about ten yards away, and he remained stationary with his
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  Speaker 5: feet planted in the ground and just turned and through
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  Speaker 5: without stepping. He did that for a while and it
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  Speaker 5: was at least noticeable that he was throwing it all. So,
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  Speaker 5: I mean last Friday he was underhand throwing the ball
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  Speaker 5: and bouncing it off the ground like a basketball. So
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  Speaker 5: he's definitely improved in that regard, and I think that
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  Speaker 5: pretends pretty well. The question may become that I was
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  Speaker 5: talking about this last night of the show, It may
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  Speaker 5: become does he need an injection, or if he does,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it won't be as big of a dose of
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  Speaker 5: one that would have affected. I thought he was affected
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  Speaker 5: in the very first part of the game, especially when
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  Speaker 5: he's tried to throw his first twenty yard pass and
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: went about five yards the short of Smith and Jigbey
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  Speaker 5: and the defensive back on a seam route. He looks
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  Speaker 5: like he's ahead of that, and McDonald's said in fact
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  Speaker 5: that he feels better and he's improved. And then after
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  Speaker 5: practice I asked Kubiak and he said the player call
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  Speaker 5: it klincobiac, and he said, he looks like Sam. He
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  Speaker 5: looks healthy to me. So he is getting limited reps still,
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  Speaker 5: Blocke is still getting some ones, and that's always an
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  Speaker 5: issue that the backup quarterbacks getting first team reps two
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  Speaker 5: or three days before a title game. But this is
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  Speaker 5: a better deal for Donald in the offense than it
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  Speaker 5: was going into the San Francisco game.
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  Speaker 3: Helpwise, how about Charles Cross Is he going to be
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  Speaker 3: good to go?
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  Speaker 5: McDonald said they're optimistic he's going to play though he
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  Speaker 5: didn't practice game yesterday. When you read the practice participation report,
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  Speaker 5: you go, oh oh, three left tackles didn't practice two
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  Speaker 5: days in a row. What are they going to do there? Well,
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  Speaker 5: if they absolutely had, McDonald said we got a plan,
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  Speaker 5: he wouldn't say what it was. I bet if none
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  Speaker 5: of the three left tackles, including Cross, can't play, which
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  Speaker 5: again sounds like Cross will play. But if Cross doesn't,
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  Speaker 5: or if he gets hurt during the game, I bet
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  Speaker 5: Grey's Abel would move out and play left tackle. That's
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  Speaker 5: how much they think of him. He played some left
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  Speaker 5: tackle at North Dakota State. He's just such a stud anyway,
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  Speaker 5: they would just see I do go do it, kid,
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  Speaker 5: and he would probably he would probably do it. Well,
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  Speaker 5: that's I think of him. But they're saying Charles Cross.
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  Speaker 1: Can start, Charles Cross will start, and then they got
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all three left tackles are on the injury
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  Speaker 1: report right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I said your injury report, You're like, oh, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: what the hell?
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  Speaker 3: The only one left is like a Richmond?
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  Speaker 5: Is that?
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  Speaker 8: I mean the only other one that's on your depth
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  Speaker 8: chart is attach Richmond.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mason Richmond. The rookie late round pick. They aren't
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  Speaker 5: going Sky isn't fallen, And I don't get the sense
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  Speaker 5: there that they're scrambling to do a contingency plan. They're
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  Speaker 5: counting on Charles Cross to play.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider as we're
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  Speaker 1: getting you a set for a Sunday all right, So
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: what's this going to come down to on Sunday? What
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: are the magical Greg Bell keys to this game?
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  Speaker 5: Well, something we talked about a little bit yesterday at
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  Speaker 5: the roundtable that is everging to me is something that
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  Speaker 5: they're really focused on. The Seahawks defense really is working
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  Speaker 5: on this week. Are Matthew Stafford's no look passes. When
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  Speaker 5: we talked about it with Hugh yesterday, they got me thinking,
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  Speaker 5: I must have asked some defensive guys about this and
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  Speaker 5: they wouldn't specify to me, but they I have a feeling,
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  Speaker 5: and I've been told this kind of without in much detail,
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  Speaker 5: that they've got new stuff for Stafford and McVeigh to
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  Speaker 5: combat that different ways, different drops and maybe dropping into
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  Speaker 5: coverage in different places, in different ways than Stafford and
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  Speaker 5: McVeigh used to see and including and defending no look
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  Speaker 5: past the Stafford had two touchdown passes on no look passes,
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  Speaker 5: the one in overtime too, the Cook and Akuah that
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  Speaker 5: fooled Ernest Jones of all people who used to be
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  Speaker 5: a teammate of Matthew Stafford. The Rams, of course won
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  Speaker 5: a Super Bowl with him. And then there was a
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  Speaker 5: fifty one was a fifty four yard pass. And then
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  Speaker 5: there was a one yard touchdown early in the fourth
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  Speaker 5: quarter on a slant route that he went to mccooah
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  Speaker 5: that he did the same thing and Rieke Willen broke
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  Speaker 5: late on the ball because he didn't think he was
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  Speaker 5: throwing it there because his eyes were over at the sideline.
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  Speaker 5: He does it longer better than anybody like Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 5: gets a ton of attention for it, but Stafford's been
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  Speaker 5: doing it since he was in Detroit. Cooper Cupp, who
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  Speaker 5: also knows him better than anybody because he was his
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  Speaker 5: quarterback in LA for so many years, said he's just
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  Speaker 5: blown away by Stafford's ability to do that. So Seattle
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  Speaker 5: combating that is a key. The turnover thing I told
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  Speaker 5: you was Sam Donald. He just can't give him the
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  Speaker 5: short field in the Rams, giving away Rams points. I
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: said this last night I've written it. The Seahawks have
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  Speaker 5: a defense not only to win this game, to win
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  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, and I've been saying that for a
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  Speaker 5: month or two now. And the way the defense is played,
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  Speaker 5: if their quarterback doesn't turn the ball over, if Donald
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  Speaker 5: doesn't turn the ball over, they're going to win the game.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to win the Super Bowl. To me, that's
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  Speaker 5: the over arching key to the whole thing. Their defense
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: just right now, the way they're playing and how they're
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: confident they are. Doesn't believe anybody in the world can
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: drive eighty yards routinely over a game and score multiple touchdowns,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: and they have. Seahawks have a touch offense that's good
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: enough to score multiple touchdowns. So do the math. Don't
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: give him a short field, and then Seahawks are gonna win.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: By the way Stafford's now doing it, he's like gotten
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: cocky with it. He and I'm not even making this up.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Watching that last game they played against the Bears, he
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: threw a no look pass to the official in between.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Plays, said he was egregious about it. Now not only
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: was he brass, he's egregious, but yes, he agrees with you.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: But this year it's more prevalent than ever. I was
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: talking to Gary Kleay at Lots Angeles Times last night
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: on that show we had, and he said that all
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: year the Rams have been almost desperate to win a
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl, that their window is closing, and they know
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: that at thirty seven, Stafford's not gonna play forever. But
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: he felt that urgency all season and now it's of
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: course at a peak with the NFC title in the
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: super Bowl on the line. But this they may think
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: it's last gas time for their Super Bowl window with Stafford,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: which may go back to Bucky's point about the Rams
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: going forward on fourth downoud.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Just to close out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the first time in a while you've hosted
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: an NFC conference championship game.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't get any bigger than this.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You never get to host a Super Bowl, So I mean,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: just what kind of atmosphere can you even put into
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: words that you're expecting to cover on Sunday.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Well, I've covered three of these in Seattle, all three
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: of the NFC title games, all three of the title
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: games in the history of the city that have been here,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: and all three of them have just been carnivals of noise.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, just absolute freak shows of noise and partying
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: and it's just a wild scene. It's like Marty Gras
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: inside a stadium. And last week was as loud as
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I said, as loud as it was since the twenty
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: fourteen season, the end of the Legion of Booms second
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl year. I'd never heard it louder in the
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  Speaker 5: stadium last weekend than it was last weekend since twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 5: The January twenty fifteen NFC title game against the they
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: beat the Packers in overtime with that crazy throw from Wilson,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: when Wilson hit curse overtime to win it, that was
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: as loud as I heard Saturday night when rashi Heed
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  Speaker 5: returned an opening kickoff, And I would think it's going
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: to even be louder if you can believe that. On Sunday,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: the players like Cooper Cup, guys who have not played
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: until last week in a playoff game in Seattle, were
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: blown away by that. They said it was louder than
• 19:46
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• 19:49
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks get off to a start like they did
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  Speaker 5: against the forty nine ers, places gonna be off the
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  Speaker 5: It's unique. I mean, I've covered a lot of cool
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• 20:02
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• 20:07
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  Speaker 5: And that's the only thing that comes close to the
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  Speaker 1: All right, should be fun. I can't wait. We'll talk
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• 22:25
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  Speaker 1: get his thoughts. Something tells me they'll be impassioned.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would assume so.
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  Speaker 1: more weeks. And this week we got to the end
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  Speaker 3: Well into the game.
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  Speaker 9: This is not a game I would ever want to miss,
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  Speaker 9: and that's the championship game. These don't come around often.
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  Speaker 9: This is gonna be incredible, and in the NFC and
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: NFC championship games I feel like are the best, even
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  Speaker 9: better than a super Bowl because it's in front of
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  Speaker 9: your home crowd. Super Bowls are like neutral fan bases
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  Speaker 9: sort of and it's just not the same. So I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: really excited about this game. I think it's a very
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: good matchup, best offense of coach and sort of like
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: the MVP of the league against the best defense in
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: the league. To me, I think special teams are going
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: to be the factor in this game and something that's
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: just been an amazing thing for the Seahawks this year.
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: The Rams, on the other side, have already fired their
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: special teams coach midway through the season. There's some weaknesses
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: there that I see, So I'm really fired up. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: think this will be Again I've said, like I know
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: the Super Bowl is in fury the two best teams
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: in the NFL. That's not the case this year. This
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: is the real super Bowl. This is these are the
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: two best teams in football. No offense to the AFC people,
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  Speaker 9: but it's one of these two teams, and you just
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: got to play this game first, that's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited for it. And uh, like I said,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to come down to the wire.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: He said, no offense, but are you offended?
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: And I can understand it. I mean, I hear it
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: a lot. I've heard a lot of people, well, this
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: is all the matters. You win this one, you definitely
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: win the super Bowl.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Shut up.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: There has been a lot of that kind of It's
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: it's more than likely. I mean, I think the two
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: best teams over the course of the season so far
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: have been these two, the Rams and the Seahawks. But
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: they stuff play the game, so guaranteed. I've heard somebody
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: say guaranteed.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, I heard that the old G word.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about some of these little intangible not
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: intangible aspects, but some of the things that aren't necessarily
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the things that jump right out at you. Matt Asselback
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: brought up special teams might be the key. I can't
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: imagine if it is. I can't imagine anybody matches our
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: special teams. And I think I know that there are
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: kickers that are as good as Myers I know that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: there are punters that are as good as Dixon. I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I know that there are kick returners as good as Shahed.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that there are people in the conversation
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in terms of coverage that have a tyrese night out
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: there that seems to make every single tackle on kick returns.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are teams, But does anybody out
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: there do the Rams have all four that are this good,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that are as good as Jay Harbaughs group. If it
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: does come down to special teams, it's another area. Well,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about that because the collective Myers
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and Dixon and Shahed and our coverage teams that have
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: gotten better as the season goes along. I mean, I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: haven't sat there and Hugh millined it and watched everybody's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: four phases of special teams every single snap of the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: entire football season. But boy, I don't know if I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: can remember a more complete group of special teams then
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it's been a while. I'm sure I could come up
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: with somebody, but it's been a while and I certainly
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: haven't seen it this year. I mean, we got a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: terrific special teams group here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, ultimately usually the thing that happens when
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: it comes special teams is the points aspect, right, I mean,
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: you're not expecting to get points off of kick returns.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Those are like that's a bonus, right, you run back
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: upun or a kick. Now, field position can play a
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: game or play a role, especially if it's at the
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: end of the half or the end of the game
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: and you're running out of time and so you return
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: it back to the forty or the forty five and
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: all of a sudden you're back in business. But it
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: boils down to making field goals. And yeah, I think
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: that you have to think that it's advantage Seahawks with
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Myers versus the thicker kicker that they have and butt head, Yeah,
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: Meavis and butt Heead. But I mean he's been pretty
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: solid for him. I think he's only missed one kick
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: this you know, more than a second half that he's
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: played of the season, So I think he's been pretty solid.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: So it really boils down to which one's going to
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: be on their game. Hopefully it doesn't come down to that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: You know, I wouldn't want either team to have to,
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: you know, basically end their season just simply because the
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: guy that kicked, just had a bad day. If you
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: miss one, fine, that's understandable. But if if if all
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: of a sudden somebody has a bad day, especially if
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: you end up finding yourself where I'm gonna take the
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: points and then you're missing chip shots or anything like that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: But I think it boils.
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: I think it boils down to if the special teams
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: isn't effect, it's another situation where that going into the
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: game you have to think is advantage Seattle.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: They'll miss any easy ones.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Like that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Again, I think I think if we just stick with
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: our game plan again, run back the opening kickoff, we're good.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And then just score forty yeah, yeah, don't them a touchdown?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, thirty five point? Why we just wentn't do
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: that all the time.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get a tattoo of a butt on
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: my butt.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be the butt. Let's talk about those points.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Those three points.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: That's I mean, I think that's always such a fascinating
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: thing about today's game, you know, not just I mean
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in the last few years, hadn't been forever that you've
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: got to go for two those decisions that you make
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: now field goals look as easy as you know, pumpkin Pie.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: That's something that's changed here in recent years. Field goal position,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: being in field goal range is easier than it's ever been.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And so how does Mike McDonald choose to use those
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: factors this week in this game one went away from
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the super Bowl? Because he hasn't been consistent with this.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I know he thinks he goes for it a lot
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: on fourth down last in the National Football League, but
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: here in the last couple of weeks, you've seen our
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: last few weeks, three games, you've seen him say I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think somebody told to me last and he's like, what,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Because you're not taking points when they're right there at
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: fourth and goal from the four yard line in a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: big game.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: It seems to me that he's turned.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Over a little bit of a new leaf, and maybe
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he's taking the approach of if you have a great defense,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: then why not trust your great defense and go for
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the seven points rather than just take the points. That
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: seems to be the way he's been lately. But does
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it change? Does it change against mcnaigh. Greg just told
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: us he thinks Sean McVay is not going to take
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a field goal this week, that he knows what he's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: up against if he's in a position that more often
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: than not, he thinks he's going to go for it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: on fourth down.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald's defense is red hot.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Right now?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Does that change in an NFC Conference championship game against
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the best opponent you could possibly face in the conference
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that knows you well, how's he going to approach this
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: this weekend? Is he going to take the three whenever
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it is there? Or will he be a little more
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: aggressive in which, in my opinion, that's really showing confidence
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in your defense. Everybody thinks take the points shows confidence
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in your defense. I think it's go for the seven,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: show confidence in your defense.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I just think it's wrong if you just do it
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: one way or the other.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: If you're solid on we're just going for it, We're
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: not gonna settle for threes, Well, then you might end
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: up losing by one or two. You might end up
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: screwing yourself out of a chance to the super Bowl.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: Because if it's don't get me wrong, if it's early
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: in the game, zero zero and you get down to
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: the two yard line, it's first and goal from the two.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: If you get stuffed incomplete pass and stuffed on another
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: run and it's fourth and two. Still, if you kick
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: take that three points, you kind of your opponent feels
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: like they won you at first and goal with the
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: two they limit you to three points, they feel like.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: They won something. So I'm kind of okay with.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Going for that extra four points and a little bit
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: of a stab of like, yees see, when mattered on
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: fourth down, we took it from you. Now you do
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: that if it's fourth and goal from the five or
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: the seven, or you do me if you're at the
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: if you're at the twenty nine yard line and it's
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: fourth and six, boy, you can get it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: That's fourth and four. It's like, okay, just take the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: three points. There's a different time, Signetty want a championship
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: going for it on fourth down?
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you end up getting that pitcher Mendoza lean across
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: the goal line fourth down, Well that was.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Down inside the goal line there.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: There's again different situations and how you come up with
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: that decision within seconds because then you have to you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: you can call time out and think about it a
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: little bit, which they did. I mean, I think that
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: there's times that you have to do it. There's other
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: times when you should take the points and I wouldn't
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: sit there and say that it's perfect whichever way that
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: you go. But to be in one camp or the
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: other all the time I guarantee as a mistake.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Take the points, Meavis and butt Head.
• 32:03
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• 32:15
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  Speaker 1: best weekend. This is even better than the Super Bowl
• 33:03
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  Speaker 1: off of this. I don't want to do segments based
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  Speaker 1: on what I heard on the drive in, but this
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  Speaker 1: really took the cake.
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  Speaker 3: The same national guy who said.
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  Speaker 1: In the preseason and all the way up till like
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  Speaker 1: week ten of the regular season, I think Jalen Milroe
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  Speaker 1: is gonna end up being the starter for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback before the.
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  Speaker 3: Year is over.
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  Speaker 1: Same guy, same human being, just said this morning that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: if Sam Darnald does take the Seahawks to the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: he has to go ahead of.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: What this kind of profound ignorance is what gives talk
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  Speaker 1: professional talk show hosts.
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  Speaker 3: A bad name.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you said Sam Donald was a bust
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and you can't come off of
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  Speaker 1: that because you committed and you don't understand that he's
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  Speaker 1: grown and changed and he's turned into a viable super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl caliber quarterback. And then in the same breath, you think,
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  Speaker 1: just because he wins a Super Bowl ring, that that
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  Speaker 1: automatically puts him over somebody who hasn't won a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl ring. This is what's embarrassing for our organization. It
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  Speaker 1: shows you that you just don't understand how sports work,
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  Speaker 1: or professional sports work. And so I just want this
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  Speaker 1: conversation to end once and for all. We're happy with
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  Speaker 1: our quarterback here in Seattle, most of us, not all
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  Speaker 1: of us, but most of us are happy. Most analysts
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  Speaker 1: do understand that we've got a guy that can win
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl here in Seattle. And so, for no
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  Speaker 1: other reason, I hope Sam Donald gets this done. Sunday
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  Speaker 1: gets this done also two weeks from Sunday, so that
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald can be given a break from all of
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  Speaker 1: those that said he sucked three years ago and can't
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  Speaker 1: get over it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, depending on how the other side of the conference
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: championship games go, I can't for sure say that I
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  Speaker 8: hope he wins the Super Bowl, but if it goes,
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  Speaker 8: if it's the Patriots against the Seax, then I will
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  Speaker 8: be wholeheartedly cheering with Theofball, with Ashley, with everybody else
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  Speaker 8: in Seattle for the.
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  Speaker 3: Sea we takosauce and all and I would like.
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  Speaker 8: To I don't need to wear and I will. I
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  Speaker 8: will hope that it qualms some of the non nonsense.
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  Speaker 8: I heard the same thing you were talking about, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm thinking to myself, like, what are you really saying
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  Speaker 8: right now that if he wins a Super Bowl, that
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: then the Jets like that that there was the right call,
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  Speaker 8: like he's better than Josh Allen and Lamar they won.
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  Speaker 8: And what I don't even understand why there has to
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  Speaker 8: be so much put on each individual game. That's my whole,
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  Speaker 8: My whole point that bugs the hell out of me
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  Speaker 8: about people in this industry is the wishy washiness that
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  Speaker 8: is based on the outcome of one certain outcome. It's
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  Speaker 8: if he ends up going out and you know, not
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: having a good game, and they lose on Sunday, it's
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: not a well you need a new quarterback, and yet
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  Speaker 8: that might be somebody here.
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  Speaker 3: There might be somebody here that says it. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: just want to be like, are you silly? I heard
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  Speaker 3: you this morning that they might need a new quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't win at.
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  Speaker 4: All guaranteed money, so it'd be fine.
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  Speaker 8: It's ridiculous. It's just the entirety of this season. If
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  Speaker 8: you are not completely happy with the way in which
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  Speaker 8: Sam Darton.
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  Speaker 3: Now doesn't mean I'm saying you have to be completely
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  Speaker 3: happy with him, but we have to be not sad perfect.
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  Speaker 8: But if you think that all of a sudden, it's
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  Speaker 8: this Sunday is make or break whether or not you
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  Speaker 8: are you think he should be the quarterback of the
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  Speaker 8: Seahawks next season. There's nothing he can do on Sunday
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  Speaker 8: bad that this should make you think we got to
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  Speaker 8: find a new quarterback. And yet it possibly plays if
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  Speaker 8: he has a four interception game and they lose. There's
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: some people like you gotta get rid of him, and
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: it's like that is too short sighted, it's too you're
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: just you're just emotionally spouting stuff off and it's not
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  Speaker 8: the right way to go about it. If he goes
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  Speaker 8: out and throws for five hundred yards and throws six touchdowns,
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  Speaker 8: he's not now the greatest quarterback of all time either.
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  Speaker 8: It's like somewhere in between normalcy lives and just have
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  Speaker 8: a normal take. You can be frustrated and mad after
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  Speaker 8: bad things and you cannot be happy about You can
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  Speaker 8: be super excited and maybe even go over the top
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  Speaker 8: at times, but don't be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: And yet there's a bunch of people that are ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: You can have a strong take without having a dumb take.
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  Speaker 4: But that's the thing is, it's like people feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I've gotta be so extreme one way or another. I mean, no,
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  Speaker 4: you don't. You can beat Yeah, as Bucky said, you
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  Speaker 4: can live in the normal part of the of the world,
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  Speaker 4: and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did you go from six weeks to Milrow should
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: be the starter too if he wins. If he pulls
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: this off, we've got to admit it was a better
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  Speaker 1: draft pick than Josh Allen that the Jets may.
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  Speaker 4: And also that's really said yeah, because he didn't even
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  Speaker 4: I mean he didn't even.
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  Speaker 3: Play well for the Jets, So no, unbelievable all right.
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