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Chuck & Buck 1-27 Hour 3: Gene Steratore, Everett Fitzhugh and · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: we welcome the great Gene Sterotor to the radio program.
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Speaker 5: Good morning sir, Good morning fellas.
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Speaker 2: There's a rumor out there that Seattle's going to the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Gene, I want you to listen very carefully here right now,
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Speaker 3: we're going to the tuber Bowl game.
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Speaker 5: I love it. That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: What an atmosphere, guys.
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Speaker 3: So great, unbelievable. And what a team. I mean, they're
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Speaker 3: just such a fun team to follow. And I don't
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Speaker 3: get too wrapped up and things like that. Like emotionally,
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Speaker 3: I've always kind of been sort of the even keel
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Speaker 3: sportscaster sports talk show os. But man, this team is
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Speaker 3: really easy to root for. Geane, I think even you
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Speaker 3: can see that from your.
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Speaker 5: Seat one thousand percent.
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Speaker 2: And I think the beauty of it really is when
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Speaker 2: cities then and fan bases really just start to really
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Speaker 2: engage the way it is, it becomes just a special
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Speaker 2: thing that not every city.
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Speaker 5: Gets a chance to enjoy.
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Speaker 2: So I know it's happened before, but man, what a
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Speaker 2: great time right now for everybody in the Upper Northwest.
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Speaker 5: We got things to get into.
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Speaker 3: But is there a chance that you're going to be
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Speaker 3: there at Super Bowl Week so we could have you
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Speaker 3: on the show in person?
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Speaker 2: I actually will be there and I would love to
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Speaker 2: do that with you guys.
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Speaker 5: Now I am.
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Speaker 2: I do. I work Westwood One with Kevin Harlan and
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Speaker 2: Kurt Warner on the years that CBS does it broadcast
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I do do it for radio, which
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Speaker 2: is very fun to do from an analyst position the
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Speaker 2: radio piece. But I will be getting in on Friday,
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Speaker 2: So if you want to try to collaborate a little bit,
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Speaker 2: I don't know when you guys, I'm assuming you'll be
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Speaker 2: on radio row yes, at some point.
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Speaker 5: But I would love to be able to hook up.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what.
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Speaker 2: I'll get the specifics and go through it with Ashley,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, if we can pull that off, it to
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Speaker 2: be great.
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Speaker 3: Well, at the very least, we need to go clubbing
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Speaker 3: with Harlan and Warner later.
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Speaker 5: Come in, coach, come in, put me in jeans. I
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Speaker 5: can't even remember the last time I went to.
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Speaker 3: Clubin Lean's territory is with us right here on Chuck
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Speaker 3: and Buck in the mornings. All right, Well, let's talk
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Speaker 3: about something that didn't make us too happy here in Seattle.
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Speaker 5: We had a cornerback that decided.
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Speaker 3: You know, taunting's more important than making it to the
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Speaker 3: super Bowl, and Reek Wolland kind of lost his marbles
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Speaker 3: there for a little while. I mean, he since apologized,
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Speaker 3: but this isn't the first time that he has done
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Speaker 3: something like this, and certainly we're a little concerned heading
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Speaker 3: into the super Bowl on a bigger stage. But let's
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Speaker 3: with you talk about the situation itself, because there has
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Speaker 3: been some conversation on our radio station that maybe the
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Speaker 3: official should have done more to steer Reek Woolen away
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Speaker 3: from his conduct, his activity. It was too big of
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Speaker 3: a game, too big of a moment to throw a
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Speaker 3: fifteen yard penalty in that situation. So I would ask you,
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Speaker 3: did the official have any choice in that matter than
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Speaker 3: to throw a flag based off of Woolen's conduct.
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Speaker 2: From the officiating side, I would tell you it's too
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Speaker 2: big of a moment to let your emotions get to
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Speaker 2: a place where you could affect the outcome of the game.
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Speaker 2: So I would say that from like our window now.
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Speaker 2: That official that happened to.
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Speaker 5: Be on that sideline is.
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Speaker 2: Kent Paign, who's been in this league for twenty plus
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Speaker 2: years and is a fantastic official, And I think if
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Speaker 2: you really watch it, you can see him almost try
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Speaker 2: to talk him off the ledge there once or twice.
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Speaker 2: In games like that, when you do have high emotion,
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Speaker 2: which definitely championships carry, you know, when those situations arise,
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Speaker 2: you do want to verbally get to that player as
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Speaker 2: quickly as you can and try to talk them off
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Speaker 2: the ledge, understanding the you know the amount of emotion
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Speaker 2: and intensity that's happening in real time. But once you
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Speaker 2: do do that, and then they take another bite at
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Speaker 2: the apple and another bite at the apple, then it's
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Speaker 2: not really I mean, at that point, now it's a flag, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, and it's it's a control element these games.
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Speaker 2: Players emotionally physically understand so much much most of them
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Speaker 2: that they have to go play right at the edge
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Speaker 2: to be able to move on. But within that, and
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Speaker 2: I think it does differ a little sometimes in the
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Speaker 2: postseason as opposed to high intensity games in the regular season.
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Speaker 2: They are also very aware of the magnitude of what
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Speaker 2: penalties are and a lot of people say, well, is
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Speaker 2: there less penalties in.
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Speaker 5: The postseason and the rest letting them play?
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Speaker 2: Not Really, It's a lot of it goes to the
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Speaker 2: players so that they know that they can go right
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Speaker 2: to that edge. They're that good and what constitutes a
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Speaker 2: file a lot of times and what doesn't. But they
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Speaker 2: also have to play to that edge all the time.
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Speaker 2: So you do live in that violence constantly through games
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Speaker 2: like that, and emotionally the same. And I think what
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Speaker 2: we saw on the sideline, although you know, we take
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Speaker 2: those clips and see players kind of talking to each
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Speaker 2: other in a pretty intense fashion, but then regroup again
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Speaker 2: and understand it, I would say the fact that he's
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Speaker 2: already recognized where he went and knew it was too far.
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Speaker 2: That's probably the best thing, in hindsight now could happen
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Speaker 2: because the super Bowl is going to be emotional, But
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Speaker 2: you would hope that his memory serves him well. But
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Speaker 2: he will play that intense with just a little less
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Speaker 2: of maybe a wolfing that takes place after a big play.
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Speaker 5: You know, you know how difficult is it.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you've we've heard you over the last couple
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Speaker 6: of years discuss how you talk to your crew about
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Speaker 6: we're looking.
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Speaker 5: For wales, not minnows.
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Speaker 6: And yet every play, every flag, I mean one in
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Speaker 6: the first quarter, could be the difference between a game
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Speaker 6: and not. I mean, there's so much riding on every
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Speaker 6: single play, and so how difficult is it to make
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Speaker 6: sure you're kind of following that creed over the course
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Speaker 6: of a playoff game when it feels like every single
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Speaker 6: play has so much on the line.
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Speaker 5: That is it bucky like that?
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what you're hoping that the crew itself is
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Speaker 2: prepped for and ready to put into action when you
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Speaker 2: have those big meetings on the day before, a couple
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Speaker 2: of days before, and you're trying to instill that thought
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Speaker 2: process and that digestion.
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Speaker 5: Knowing what that environment is going to be.
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Speaker 2: You know again, I was I was up there for
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Speaker 2: a great NFC Championship game that had a ton of intensity,
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Speaker 2: when when Richard Sherman and Crabtree had their own personal
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Speaker 2: battle and and talking almost on every play, right, So
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Speaker 2: you prep for that, you uh, you try to get
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Speaker 2: to the players before the game a little letting them
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Speaker 2: you know know, kind of that place. And then you
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Speaker 2: hope the officiating collectively everybody's kind of on that same page.
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Speaker 5: And and uh.
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Speaker 2: And really it's those bang bang plays that you want
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Speaker 2: to take that breath and and digest it if it
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Speaker 2: if it's a foul, it's a foul, but we want
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Speaker 2: to make sure like it's a whale, it's it's a
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Speaker 2: it's a big play, it's it's.
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Speaker 5: Going to be a big foul. And uh And.
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Speaker 2: I think really overall, I think we have seen I
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Speaker 2: would say that overall that I think the postseason has
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Speaker 2: served itself like that. Now there's always going to be
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Speaker 2: a few plays, but I do think the officials have
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Speaker 2: risen to that level in most cases too, which is
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Speaker 2: great for the game. And I think you try to
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Speaker 2: instill that through the regular season, you know, if you can,
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Speaker 2: and that's a little more challenging over twenty weeks than
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Speaker 2: it is maybe in these two or three.
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Speaker 5: And that's a whale.
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Speaker 3: So we're all going to agree that that was a
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Speaker 3: whale moment and the official made the right call. I
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Speaker 3: would just ask, and this is on behalf of another
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Speaker 3: one of our colleagues, would you have gone a little
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Speaker 3: further than he did to try to convince, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe even go up to Reek right in his face
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Speaker 3: and kind of steer him away. Is that something that
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Speaker 3: Gene Sterotore might have done to try to save Rik
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Speaker 3: Wooland from that terrible moment in a big game?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's other elements that would play there,
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Speaker 2: chuck to you know, as the play just ends, is
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Speaker 2: that official caught up in a different scenario there? How
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Speaker 2: far is he away from him? And those types of things.
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Speaker 2: I think when the moment, if it's everything's down and
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Speaker 2: you just see it happen there in isolation and you're
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Speaker 2: within proximity. I was a talker as well, you know,
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Speaker 2: I was a louder official than most. So verbally, I
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Speaker 2: have no problem yelling from fifteen yards away, you know,
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Speaker 2: but other people are different as well, So you know,
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Speaker 2: I always tried to attack those places as much as
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Speaker 2: I could, but you also have to finish the play.
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Speaker 2: There are other things happening there, so you know, I
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Speaker 2: never like to say, and I think if you watch
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Speaker 2: that play and you do look at it as much
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Speaker 2: as it hurts, it's like, dude, you went back at
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Speaker 2: the entire bench two to three times, now, like.
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Speaker 5: You know, one or maybe one, maybe one and a half.
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Speaker 2: As I'm walking you away, right, maybe we can go there.
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Speaker 5: But this was just too much.
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Speaker 2: And that's part of his game is controlling your emotions
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Speaker 2: in this intensity as well, so it's not just you know,
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Speaker 2: whether I pass it, heard you or not those other elements.
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Speaker 3: at this time to talk about some of the more
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Speaker 3: controversial calls from the weekend of football that was and
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Speaker 3: we still have the biggest call of the weekend to
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Speaker 3: get to. I'll let Bucky handle that one, but I
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Speaker 3: do want to ask you about one more of the
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Speaker 3: Seahawks plays. There was a PI. I mean, it looked
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Speaker 3: about as obvious as it could look gene.
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Speaker 5: It was late in the.
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Speaker 3: Game, fourth quarter, Seahawks are driving, trying to melt as
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Speaker 3: much clock as they possibly can, and they ruled the
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Speaker 3: ball unketchable. That hit our receiver in the helmet, for
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Speaker 3: goodness sake, and there was no doubt that Lake the
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Speaker 3: defender was there early and he just pushed him out
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Speaker 3: of bounds. How did that get called uncatchable in your estimation?
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Speaker 2: In my estimation, I just think it was such a
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Speaker 2: unique play that maybe it just maybe caught those officials
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Speaker 2: on the side of the little off court because it
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Speaker 2: wasn't your normal flavor of an early contact play because
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Speaker 2: the receiver is positioning himself to know he has to reach, extend,
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Speaker 2: keep both fat or toes down on this ground to
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Speaker 2: make this play on a football. In my opinion, at
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Speaker 2: this level, that's a catchable ball. They can make that
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Speaker 2: play right. But I do think that again this is
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Speaker 2: speculation because it was an unusual type of a situation.
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Speaker 2: It may have taken them to uncatchable a little quicker
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Speaker 2: than you may think. But there was always another one
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Speaker 2: of those little things that the veterans would tell.
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Speaker 5: Us as when we were younger. Is in the NFL
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Speaker 5: when you.
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Speaker 2: Doubt whether they could do something or not they did
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Speaker 2: it or they can do it, And I think this
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Speaker 2: was one of those cases, right, Like, no, this football
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Speaker 2: is three and a half four yards out of bounds
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Speaker 2: and he's toes are back here. Can he possibly catch that?
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Speaker 2: More than likely? The answer in the NFL is yeah,
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Speaker 2: he can and get his.
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Speaker 5: Two toes in.
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Speaker 2: So but I do think maybe the uniqueness of how
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Speaker 2: that unfolded maybe prompted them in a reactionary fashion to
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Speaker 2: think that's just not a catchable ball.
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Speaker 5: But we can see.
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Speaker 2: When we look back, I think he can make that play,
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Speaker 2: you know. So I do agree with you it should
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Speaker 2: have been a pi.
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Speaker 6: Okay, I am going to go to the Denver New
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Speaker 6: England game. There was a play that resulted in the
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Speaker 6: only touchdown that New England got against Denver's defense was
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Speaker 6: after that play in the second quarter.
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Speaker 5: I think he's pretty familiar with it. Yeah, I know,
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Speaker 5: I heard. For what it's worth.
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Speaker 6: Even being a die hard Bronco fan, I think it
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Speaker 6: was the right call. And yet I want to get
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Speaker 6: an ex explanation on it, just simply because there's a
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Speaker 6: lot of people that their fandom overrides their their you know,
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Speaker 6: proper judgment. There's no way that's not a backwards path.
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Speaker 6: He was trying to throw it forwards. It was when
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Speaker 6: he kind of shovel passes it and his hands hit.
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Speaker 6: But I think that they hit it before the ball
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Speaker 6: comes out of his hands. To me, I think it
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Speaker 6: was the right call. And yet, what's the explanation from
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Speaker 6: the goat of all officials on that one.
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Speaker 2: You know, I would say this to Bookie, and again,
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Speaker 2: we all try to get better at what we do,
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Speaker 2: and as an analyst, I'm in that same place. Right
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Speaker 2: There was a lot to unpack on that play. Within
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Speaker 2: an instant of that play ending, you know, you're watching
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Speaker 2: that play, and in real time you see Alex kept
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Speaker 2: the referee immediately upon that pushing and he's working the
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Speaker 2: play and the quarterback. You can see his flag come
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Speaker 2: right out right when that push forward pass and his
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Speaker 2: assessment took place, which took me rather quickly and really,
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Speaker 2: in hindsight.
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Speaker 5: A little too quickly.
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Speaker 2: As soon as they started the conference and they threw
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Speaker 2: to me on air, I was already digesting what the
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Speaker 2: officials were talking about initially, and that was the referee
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Speaker 2: ruled this was a forward pass. He also went old
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Speaker 2: school and said it was not only an unconventional but
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Speaker 2: forward pass. There's no receiver in the area. That's why
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Speaker 2: I have a flag for intentional grounding on the field.
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Speaker 2: And he also started blowing to play dead naturally, because
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Speaker 2: he has to be dead. If you have intentional grounding,
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Speaker 2: it's a forward pass. And then the collected conferencing that
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Speaker 2: took place then was the second piece of that, after
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Speaker 2: I had already made my first assessment that while look at.
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Speaker 5: This angle and those angles on.
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Speaker 2: Forward backward passes, all of us know that what's the game.
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Speaker 2: Many times they really look forward and then you look
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Speaker 2: back and go, wow, look at that angle.
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Speaker 5: That ball is lateral or backward.
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Speaker 2: Just based on where his hand went and where the
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Speaker 2: ball landed or those situations.
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Speaker 5: And I agree with you.
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Speaker 2: When I got an angle, then a little maybe the
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Speaker 2: third or fourth angle, you could see stid them unconventionally
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Speaker 2: in a Brett fah fashion, just trying to do the
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Speaker 2: shovel thing forward. But I do agree with you that
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Speaker 2: the defender contacted his arm prior to the ball releasing,
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Speaker 2: which kind of pushed his hands in a lateral way
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Speaker 2: or potentially even a little more backward. So then you
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Speaker 2: had now no intentional grounding, you have a backward pass.
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Speaker 2: You basically have a whistle inadvertently, and in the immediate
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Speaker 2: continuing action, the defense recovers this backward pass, so they
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Speaker 2: get the football as we know, and not the advancement.
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Speaker 2: I would say procedurally, the criticism I would have would
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Speaker 2: be on plays of that magnitude, and we had it
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Speaker 2: the week before with Denver and.
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Speaker 5: The catch interception play.
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Speaker 2: I think the NFL would be served better to then
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Speaker 2: take the three minutes, have a formal review of the play,
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Speaker 2: let the referee on the field way in with in
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Speaker 2: collaboration the replay official in New York, and digest this
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Speaker 2: play and its totality before we make that final judgment.
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Speaker 2: And I had that with zach Ertz in the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 2: where initially some heads in the collaboration said it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a touchdown, but after discussing it and breaking it down,
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Speaker 2: we realized that it was a touchdown. So I think
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Speaker 2: for the integrity of it, for the process of it,
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Speaker 2: and really for the confidence for everybody, you stop the
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Speaker 2: game there, you let the referee go to the iPad,
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Speaker 2: now not under the hood, and then you have a
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Speaker 2: collaborative discussion to come out with a formal response. But
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Speaker 2: I do think they got it right, and I thought
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Speaker 2: they got it right the week before as well. But
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Speaker 2: the procedure, I think is something that should be discussed.
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Speaker 3: How enjoyable is it that you have that complicated of
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Speaker 3: a play and you're allowed like fifteen seconds to explain
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Speaker 3: it on television.
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Speaker 4: It's completely horrifying, right, and again, you know, I think
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Speaker 4: the truth of it is again, look, the one thing
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Speaker 4: I love about being an older person and having something
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Speaker 4: relatively new in my life.
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Speaker 5: That's very challenging to do.
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Speaker 2: And when you only get one bite at the apple
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Speaker 2: too right, just like when I ref that's really what.
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Speaker 5: I was addicted too long with it?
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Speaker 2: I think in those situations it serves me better when
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Speaker 2: I get grown to after four seconds and the play ending,
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Speaker 2: it's maybe the press is that with you know, there's
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Speaker 2: an awful lot to unpack here, so let's take a
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Speaker 2: breath and it start to break them down, as opposed
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Speaker 2: to coming up with one answer and then seeing the
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Speaker 2: fourth Anglee changing, which just allows all those really kind
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Speaker 2: people on social media and everything else to say so
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Speaker 2: many nice things about you and your family. Then because
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Speaker 2: you're just a show for the NFL and whatever the
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Speaker 2: rest say. If you go along with it, you know,
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Speaker 2: but lessons learned and you get better at it, hopefully
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Speaker 2: every every week or every scenario. But it is it
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Speaker 2: is rather challenging. No pun intended to have to weigh
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Speaker 2: in rather quickly on plays with that with those many tentacles,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, how was this? Was that more challenging?
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Speaker 3: Or the getting out of the stadium with eleven inches
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Speaker 3: of snow dumping in about fourteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: That was challenging, But probably the most challenging was getting
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Speaker 2: back to southwestern Pennsylvania in twenty plus into the snow
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Speaker 2: at all and thank you know, thank god my wife
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Speaker 2: is an amazing human being and decided to all pieces
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Speaker 2: of it and uh and then watched me sit on
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Speaker 2: a plow last night for about three hours.
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Speaker 5: Shot you get the car of the garage. But it
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Speaker 5: was it's been a challenging week. Yeah, many ways. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: how about it.
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Speaker 3: Gene has a plow, Think more of them, think more
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Speaker 3: of him as a as a man that he owns
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Speaker 3: a plow.
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Speaker 5: I do, Yeah, I thought so I might work smarter,
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Speaker 5: not harder. Jane, Yeah, you go that's right, That's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: The only thing I would have been more impressed with
18:28
Speaker 3: if you were like, I got the team out and
18:32
Speaker 3: the horses and I just yeah, we just yeah, I
18:37
Speaker 3: got that.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, delivered Budweiser to everybody in the neighborhood.
18:44
Speaker 2: I think the horses would have looked at me last night.
18:46
Speaker 5: We're like, you're on your own, big guy. I'm not
18:48
Speaker 5: going out there tonight.
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Speaker 2: That's a little cold, and and that's those a little
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Speaker 2: higher than normals.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, sir, great stuff. As always, we do
18:58
Speaker 3: appreciate you, and we'll we'll talk to you again. And
19:02
Speaker 3: super Bowl right around the corner, so you know where
19:04
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Speaker 5: I can't wait. I hope to see you guys there.
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Speaker 5: Have a great week, all right.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, sir, Hey guys, I was wondering if you
22:56
Speaker 8: could help me figure something out. Sure, a lot of
22:58
Speaker 8: people the last couple of days have been talking about
23:02
Speaker 8: a Super Bowl. I'm a little confused as to what
23:06
Speaker 8: I mean. Is it like for soup. I know it's
23:08
Speaker 8: a little chilly out. I've never seen one, so, but
23:13
Speaker 8: I was curious, is it like a like like a
23:15
Speaker 8: big gulp.
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Speaker 5: It's not really all.
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Speaker 3: It's the it's the game at the end of the
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Speaker 3: football season that will determine the champion. Uh yeah, champion,
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Speaker 3: the champion of the entire football season, the best of
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Speaker 3: that entire year.
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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, they've got it.
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Speaker 3: It's actually ever you might be surprised to learn it's
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 8: Okay, wow, this is all. This is all news to me.
23:46
Speaker 8: I remember growing.
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Speaker 5: Up hockey, guys. I tell you there was.
23:50
Speaker 8: There was a big Bowl game in Detroit in two
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Speaker 8: thousand and six. I remember that, but my football team
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Speaker 8: wasn't it. So I thought it was weird that there
23:59
Speaker 8: were two and the teams playing in Detroit, that neither
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Speaker 8: one of them were the Lions.
24:05
Speaker 3: As far as our tongues are tucked in our cheeks
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Speaker 3: right now, if there is a fan out there that
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Speaker 3: doesn't know what the super Bowl is, it might be
24:13
Speaker 3: a Detroit Lions fan.
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Speaker 8: You can't have one out the other. Let's also throw
24:24
Speaker 8: some shade on Cleveland as well.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's let's talk some crack and hockey.
24:32
Speaker 3: I mean, they're not playing championship hockey right now. I'm
24:36
Speaker 3: not sure they have all season long. I'm not sure
24:39
Speaker 3: they haven't really since the birth of the organization. And
24:43
Speaker 3: yet they they are trying to find their way and
24:47
Speaker 3: they've won two of their last three. They sandwiched in
24:50
Speaker 3: between their a game that Lane Lambert called the worst
24:53
Speaker 3: we've played all season long. Obviously, this team is at
24:57
Speaker 3: a difficult time just kind of we're really good and
25:00
Speaker 3: we're gonna play that way the rest.
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Speaker 5: Of the year.
25:02
Speaker 3: But are are you starting to see that maybe there's
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Speaker 3: something to believe.
25:07
Speaker 5: In here in this two out of three?
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Speaker 8: I think there is. And for me, I've said this
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Speaker 8: from day one. Your goal this season outside of making
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Speaker 8: the playoffs, your floor, your absolute basement moment for the
25:22
Speaker 8: Crack in this season was to be playing meaningful games
25:27
Speaker 8: in March. You know, game sixty, game seventy, need to matter,
25:31
Speaker 8: need to mean something. The Cracking tonight are going into
25:35
Speaker 8: game fifty two, three points back of a playoff spot,
25:39
Speaker 8: with five games including tonight, five games left until the
25:44
Speaker 8: Olympic break. So you're gonna be potentially going into your
25:46
Speaker 8: three week Olympic break next week in a playoff spot
25:50
Speaker 8: or just outside if you keep playing the way you're
25:53
Speaker 8: playing right now. So for all intents and purposes, it's
25:56
Speaker 8: been a successful you know, first half first, you know,
26:00
Speaker 8: sixty percent of the season. But they have to keep
26:03
Speaker 8: it up. And I mean there's a lot of trade
26:05
Speaker 8: rumors swirling around amongst a few other a few players
26:08
Speaker 8: on the roster and what have you. But I think
26:11
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, if you're if you're
26:13
Speaker 8: in that locker room, you might not be happy with
26:16
Speaker 8: the way that you're playing in recent weeks, recent games
26:20
Speaker 8: and even weeks recent week, but you're overall happy with
26:24
Speaker 8: the position that you've put yourself in, three points out
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Speaker 8: of a playoff spot with a chance against a struggling
26:31
Speaker 8: Capitals team. Tonight, a middling least team on Thursday, and
26:37
Speaker 8: then three big divisional games on the road next week
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Speaker 8: to put yourself back in a playoff spot going the Olympic.
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Speaker 6: Greade FITZI, how does it? How does this team? I mean,
26:46
Speaker 6: why are they so streaky? I mean they'll go through
26:49
Speaker 6: spurts where they're they're allowing one or two goals, and
26:52
Speaker 6: and they're in those games obviously, anytime you allow one
26:55
Speaker 6: or two, you got a chance. And then they'll go
26:57
Speaker 6: through spurts where they're giving up four or five, six
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Speaker 6: goals for a stretch. I mean, how are they so
27:03
Speaker 6: streaky when it comes to that part of the game.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that you know, that's that's the million dollar question.
27:09
Speaker 8: And I think for this team, you know, there's a
27:12
Speaker 8: lot of numbers that that tell the story for Seattle. Offensively,
27:17
Speaker 8: this team's got to score three to four goals. That's
27:21
Speaker 8: that's the magic number. The crack in this season are
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Speaker 8: twelve to and oh, now thirteen to two and oh
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Speaker 8: would they score four more goals? So it seems like
27:29
Speaker 8: if they can get over that three and a half
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Speaker 8: goal hump, that they're going to win more often than not.
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Speaker 8: I think defensively, a lot of it rests on the
27:37
Speaker 8: system and the structure that has played. But Lane Lambert
27:40
Speaker 8: has said all season long, our goalies have to be
27:43
Speaker 8: our best players and a certain at a certain point,
27:46
Speaker 8: it almost seems unfair because you're asking your goaltenders on
27:51
Speaker 8: most nights to to have near perfect games. And even
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Speaker 8: Lane has said that. Some of the coaches, some of
27:57
Speaker 8: the even players have said that about the goalies. It's like,
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Speaker 8: you know, the unfortunately they don't get to have a
28:03
Speaker 8: quote unquote bad game, even though every goalie is has
28:07
Speaker 8: a bad game, you know. Philip Grubauer, Joey Dcord, we
28:09
Speaker 8: were talking last week. They may have gone through a
28:12
Speaker 8: bit of a dip, but even their dip wasn't that
28:15
Speaker 8: much of a major problem, major issue for Seattle because
28:19
Speaker 8: they both rebounded in the last week and have allowed
28:23
Speaker 8: i want to say, three goals in their last couple
28:26
Speaker 8: of starts each. So for Seattle, I mean, it's a
28:31
Speaker 8: combination of needing to always be at the top of
28:36
Speaker 8: their game just because of the style of the system
28:38
Speaker 8: that they play, the personnel that they have, and then
28:41
Speaker 8: also it's the schedule. I mean, listen, you're in the
28:44
Speaker 8: middle of twenty one games or twenty nine games and
28:47
Speaker 8: forty some odd days like that is a very tough schedule.
28:51
Speaker 8: You're playing every other day for a month going into
28:54
Speaker 8: the All Star or the Olympic break, so there aren't
28:57
Speaker 8: two days off in between teams games, getting a lot
29:00
Speaker 8: of practice time either. So they had an off day yesterday,
29:04
Speaker 8: They're gonna have a full morning skate here in a
29:06
Speaker 8: couple of hours, and then they're gonna go out and
29:07
Speaker 8: play a game tonight. They'll probably have a light optional tomorrow,
29:10
Speaker 8: same thing on Thursday, and then they leave for Vegas
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Speaker 8: on Friday. So it's been a very tough season from
29:16
Speaker 8: that perspective. But like I said, where they are right now,
29:19
Speaker 8: you have to be happy with the results overall that
29:22
Speaker 8: you're getting.
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Speaker 3: Everett fits you as whether it's Voice of the Kraken,
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Speaker 3: proud Father, also somebody newly educated to the existence of
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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. All of that true here today on
29:36
Speaker 3: Chuck and back in the mornings. Why would they even
29:39
Speaker 3: consider trading Shane Wright? There are rumors out there suggesting
29:44
Speaker 3: that that might be in play.
29:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, listen, there has been no secret over
29:51
Speaker 8: the last year and a half that this team needs
29:55
Speaker 8: a dynamic playmaking top six forward. It's almost a mandate
30:03
Speaker 8: moving forward. And I've always said, if you're looking for
30:06
Speaker 8: that type of player, you need to work the problem backwards.
30:10
Speaker 8: And if you're an opposing team, you look at the
30:13
Speaker 8: Krakens roster and you're saying, well, who do I want
30:16
Speaker 8: in return? I'll use Shane Wright as an example. He's
30:19
Speaker 8: a former fourth overall pick. He's twenty two years old,
30:22
Speaker 8: He's got a lot of runway, a lot of career left.
30:26
Speaker 8: He's a player that can still be molded and shaped.
30:30
Speaker 8: And you know, I don't think we're we've even scratched
30:33
Speaker 8: the surface of what Shane Wright can do. I think
30:36
Speaker 8: that he's got thirty goal seasons ahead of him. I
30:38
Speaker 8: think he's got multiple sixty seventy point seasons ahead of him.
30:43
Speaker 8: But if you're the Seattle Kraken wanting to get better
30:47
Speaker 8: up front, immediately, you're going to have to lose a
30:51
Speaker 8: player like Shane Right in that same category. Not saying
30:55
Speaker 8: that the Kraken are, you know, wanting to trade Shane Right,
30:59
Speaker 8: not saying that they're going to trade Shane Right. And
31:02
Speaker 8: he had a great answer in his media.
31:05
Speaker 5: Scrum last week.
31:06
Speaker 8: He said, no offense to you guys in the media,
31:08
Speaker 8: but you can't always trust what they say. So just
31:11
Speaker 8: because that is being out there in the noise and
31:15
Speaker 8: all that noise is outside, that doesn't mean internally. Ron
31:18
Speaker 8: Francis or Jason Bostral has pulled him aside and said,
31:21
Speaker 8: hey man, we're dealing with you. We have no idea
31:24
Speaker 8: what's going on behind closed doors. So he's he's taking
31:27
Speaker 8: a really good approach to it, a really mature approach
31:30
Speaker 8: to it. For for as far as I'm concerned, Shane
31:34
Speaker 8: Right is a cracking He's gonna be a kracking and
31:36
Speaker 8: until he's not, and you know, hopefully he's here for
31:39
Speaker 8: a long time. But that's what happens, you know, when
31:43
Speaker 8: you've got good players and you're trying to improve your team.
31:47
Speaker 8: You know, I said it before, I would love to
31:49
Speaker 8: give two seventh round picks for Conor McDavid. Not gonna happen.
31:53
Speaker 8: You're gonna have to find active, good pieces on your
31:58
Speaker 8: roster to upgrade on certain positions, and based on what
32:03
Speaker 8: you're hearing in the media and then the ether, Shane
32:05
Speaker 8: Wright is one of those pieces that has been drawing
32:08
Speaker 8: a lot of attention from around the league.
32:10
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard just to find a seller. I mean,
32:12
Speaker 3: you mentioned earlier the Washington Capitals have been of a slump,
32:15
Speaker 3: and yet there are four games over five hundred. But
32:17
Speaker 3: it looks like everybody in the NHL is four games
32:20
Speaker 3: over five hundred. It's very strange to stare at the
32:23
Speaker 3: NHL standings right now. Why are the Capitals above five
32:29
Speaker 3: hundred and yet you would describe them as a struggling
32:33
Speaker 3: team right now?
32:34
Speaker 8: Well, because the Eastern Conference is really tough, it's top heavy.
32:40
Speaker 8: But a lot of the teams, like the Capitals, I mean,
32:43
Speaker 8: they're only what six points five points back of a
32:47
Speaker 8: playoff spot, So I mean, in reality, they're right in
32:53
Speaker 8: the thick of it. But because of what they're facing
32:56
Speaker 8: out East, and because of their schedules the Eastern, these
33:00
Speaker 8: teams just beat up on each other. Because you're so close.
33:04
Speaker 8: It is really easy to pick up a Pittsburgh in
33:06
Speaker 8: a Philadelphia and a Carolina in a Washington in a Tampa.
33:10
Speaker 8: You know what I mean. You're you're playing divisional games
33:13
Speaker 8: and intraconference games, it seems like more often than you're not,
33:17
Speaker 8: even though it's the exact same number out in the
33:18
Speaker 8: Western Conference. But because you're so close to one another.
33:22
Speaker 8: And I think for the Capitols too, they're a team
33:24
Speaker 8: that's getting older. Oh that's going you know a lot
33:27
Speaker 8: of folks feel that this is going to be his
33:29
Speaker 8: last season. You know, I can see a world he's
33:31
Speaker 8: at He's at nine to eighteen career goals right now.
33:36
Speaker 8: I mean, I could see a world that if he
33:38
Speaker 8: finds a way to get to nine to forty this year,
33:41
Speaker 8: maybe he comes back next season and chases a thousand goals.
33:45
Speaker 8: But even that's I think, very very much out of
33:48
Speaker 8: the question. But they've got a very old team. They've
33:50
Speaker 8: been around, their core has been around for a long time,
33:53
Speaker 8: and I think they're at the end of this window
33:57
Speaker 8: and and they're gonna have to try and tool on
34:00
Speaker 8: the fly to avoid, you know, going back into a
34:04
Speaker 8: dark slump like they were before Ovedskin twenty some odd
34:08
Speaker 8: years ago. So but but you're right, the league is
34:11
Speaker 8: insane this year. I think there's five teams total, five
34:15
Speaker 8: out of thirty two that I would say are out
34:17
Speaker 8: of the playoff race. And even the teams that are
34:20
Speaker 8: out of the playoff race, they're four or five win
34:23
Speaker 8: win streak away from getting right back into it. So
34:26
Speaker 8: that's why for the Kraken, you've got five games left
34:28
Speaker 8: between the between now and the Olympic break. You need
34:31
Speaker 8: to go into that break either in a playoff spot
34:34
Speaker 8: or minimally two points back. Because after the deadline, which
34:38
Speaker 8: is gonna be March thirteenth ish, after the trading deadline,
34:42
Speaker 8: this team goes from a this league, rather goes from
34:46
Speaker 8: a three to two league to a two to one
34:48
Speaker 8: league overnight. Almost You've got a ton of three point
34:51
Speaker 8: games and movement becomes a lot harder. So it's not
34:55
Speaker 8: gonna it's not gonna stop, and I think the cracking
34:57
Speaker 8: are gonna be in this thing until the wire. This
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Speaker 8: come down to the last five games of the season
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Speaker 8: where there's still four playoff spots up for grabs.
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Speaker 3: It's the Evert and Al Show tonight with Mike Menton
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Speaker 8: And congratulations to your cylindrical pit skin ball team on
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Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks man, appreciate you all right.
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Speaker 8: How they feel to go through both of those teams
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Speaker 5: We did not care.
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Speaker 3: There's something I just love about that, and obviously something
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Speaker 5: Really follow football. He drinks coffee out of a big
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Speaker 3: Fine, the San Francisco forty nine ers, but nonetheless we
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Speaker 5: I kind of got caught off guard by the question.
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Speaker 3: And then he slowed down. We did not care like
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Speaker 3: have going into the Super Bowl. Everybody that doubted them,
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Speaker 3: all the Sam donald critics, all the you know, yeah
37:40
Speaker 3: but people, yeah butt police out there that kept throwing
37:44
Speaker 3: different obstacles in the way of trying to convince themselves
37:47
Speaker 3: that the Seahawks were worthy of winning a world title.
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Speaker 3: And I do believe he and everyone in the organization
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Speaker 3: didn't give a rip what anybody else thought. They knew
37:57
Speaker 3: they were on the right path, they knew they were
37:59
Speaker 3: moving toward playing championship caliber football. I don't think that
38:03
Speaker 3: it bothered them one bit, bulletin board material, anything else
38:09
Speaker 3: like that. I think that this team had its confidence
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Speaker 3: from within, and you don't see that a lot in
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Speaker 3: sports anymore. Everybody gets insulted by everything. I truly believe
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald did not care what anybody else thought about
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Speaker 3: his football.
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Speaker 5: I think from the top down, I don't think that
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Speaker 5: they cared.
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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, I think that there was
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Speaker 6: a crazy confidence you I'm sure you guys have seen
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Speaker 6: the tweets and texts about some of the players talking
38:30
Speaker 6: about we're going to zuper bowar. We think we got
38:33
Speaker 6: what it takes to get to the super Bowl, talking
38:35
Speaker 6: about conversations they had with people before the season starts.
38:39
Speaker 6: I went to a golf tournament with somebody that's about
38:42
Speaker 6: as high up as you can get in the Seahawks,
38:44
Speaker 6: and we were talking about this before the season started,
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Speaker 6: and he goes, I think there's a lot of people
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Speaker 6: doubting how.
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Speaker 5: Good this team's going to be. I think we're going
38:51
Speaker 5: to surprise a lot of people.
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Speaker 6: So I mean, I think from the top down, they
38:55
Speaker 6: felt really good after one year of Mike McDonald, and
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Speaker 6: then the adjustments and the additions that they had made,
39:01
Speaker 6: and a couple of the subtractions that they had made,
39:03
Speaker 6: how they felt like everything was going in the direction
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Speaker 6: that they envisioned it to go. And a lot of times,
39:09
Speaker 6: I think every single team has a vision of where
39:12
Speaker 6: they want to go. Now whether or not you get
39:14
Speaker 6: to fulfill that vision or you you figure out a
39:17
Speaker 6: way to get from A to Z when it comes
39:20
Speaker 6: to you know, having a blueprint is just the beginning.
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Speaker 6: Actually following through with it and getting it to come
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Speaker 6: to fruition is a whole different ballgame. And yet that
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Speaker 6: we're watching that in real time. You've watched it basically
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Speaker 6: from the minute that Mike McDonald got here. You've mentioned
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Speaker 6: it multiple times of Quicken in a hurry, like I
39:36
Speaker 6: don't like the linebackers, Yeah, I don't know. We got
39:39
Speaker 6: im make an adjustment. Boom, they make that and it
39:42
Speaker 6: changes things immediately.
39:43
Speaker 5: Don't like the offensive coordinator. That's not going to work
39:47
Speaker 5: A first year I was on board at first. I
39:49
Speaker 5: was scared to say, but he's not right.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you figure if you think of it as
39:53
Speaker 6: some I was to say, a Pete Carroll that is, like,
39:57
Speaker 6: you know, established as a head coach. If he's like a, okay,
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Speaker 6: I got to move on from this. It doesn't fit
40:02
Speaker 6: what I want. That's something you would think is understandable
40:05
Speaker 6: for a guy that's been a head coach one year
40:08
Speaker 6: and at the NFL level to be able to recognize
40:11
Speaker 6: that's not in that's not in the cards for what
40:14
Speaker 6: I want this to be, what our identity, what our
40:16
Speaker 6: culture's going to be, and to make that change quicken
40:19
Speaker 6: in hurry and then to find a guy that is Yeah,
40:21
Speaker 6: there's definitely a sense of communication and trust within the
40:26
Speaker 6: organization from the top down to the last guy on
40:29
Speaker 6: the roster, that everybody's kind of moving in the same direction.
40:31
Speaker 6: And I think it does have if there is a
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Speaker 6: slogan of we did not care, we don't care what
40:37
Speaker 6: anybody else outside this building thinks.
40:39
Speaker 5: We know what we know, we know what.
40:41
Speaker 6: You're going to be up against when when it's time
40:44
Speaker 6: to line up and smack heads.
40:45
Speaker 5: I think that this team.
40:47
Speaker 6: Is poised for a Super Bowl and poised for kind
40:50
Speaker 6: of getting back to this place for a while.
40:52
Speaker 7: I do think it is just a perfect slogan, of
40:55
Speaker 7: perfect synopsis of the way that they believe in each
40:59
Speaker 7: other and and don't care about what the outside voices think.
41:02
Speaker 7: But I also think he could have answered with chicken
41:05
Speaker 7: soup and walnuts.
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Speaker 5: And everybody would have cheered. They would have been like,
41:09
Speaker 5: we don't know what he's saying.
41:10
Speaker 7: Butts, Yeah, he could have said the same thing, and
41:14
Speaker 7: everyone would have been.
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Speaker 5: Like, ye, walnuts, that's our coach. Yeah. I mean in
41:23
Speaker 5: that moment, you could have said anything.
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Speaker 7: But I like that he said that, and I love
41:27
Speaker 7: that it is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, just a perfect, perfect little thing for them.
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Speaker 3: And I don't think he's a perfect natural for standing
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Speaker 3: up on a stage and answering questions.
41:36
Speaker 5: No, he talked about that.
41:38
Speaker 3: You know, tens of thousands of people screaming at him,
41:41
Speaker 3: hanging on his every word. I mean, Kurt Signetti seemed
41:44
Speaker 3: to really love that. He kind of soaked it up
41:47
Speaker 3: like a biscuit. I don't think that's Mike McDonald's favorite
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Speaker 3: place to be.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 5: But to come off with, we did not care.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 5: The terminator for sure, a little bit of a robotic.
42:04
Speaker 5: We don't care our process, We do not care. We
42:08
Speaker 5: do not care.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well, it's abundantly clear you didn't care what
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Speaker 6: anybody says.
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Speaker 5: We did not care. Everybody get through the chappa.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 5: I love him, I just love him. I love everything
42:23
Speaker 5: about him. Glad he's our coach. All right.
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Speaker 3: Coming up next, we'll talk about Reek Wollan. By the way,
42:28
Speaker 3: you should know, the Bills did hire assistant Joe Brady
42:32
Speaker 3: to be their head coach. So they are not an
42:34
Speaker 3: organization that was waiting for the Super Bowl to be
42:37
Speaker 3: played to come and get Clint Kubiak. He's not going
42:40
Speaker 3: to be the Buffalo Bills head coach. That's going to
42:42
Speaker 3: be Joe Brady getting that promotion there in Buffalo. So
42:47
Speaker 3: just pass that along before the break coming up on
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Speaker 3: the other side, let's finally have this discussion about Reek
42:52
Speaker 3: Woollen and his actions on Sunday and then we'll put
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