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Chuck in the Morning 9/23 H1: The Drew Lock Question, Mariners Morning After & Cupcake Wars · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 6: My name is Chuck Powell, and I remain gray and
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  Speaker 6: grizzled and whiskered. Anders Hurst apparently wears a hat every
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  Speaker 6: single day. I'm learning this about Anders Hurst, even though
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  Speaker 6: he might have the thickest head of hair at the
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  Speaker 6: entire station. And that seems like an odd combination.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, whenever I kind of grow my hair out,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit it can kind of get a little
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  Speaker 1: scruffy uh i get a little lazy in the morning
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  Speaker 1: so i don't want to like do my hair a
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  Speaker 1: bunch so i just pop on a hat and i'm
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  Speaker 1: good to go when i when i feel proud about
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  Speaker 1: my haircut like travis over here yeah that's when i'm
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  Speaker 1: like flaunting it a little bit yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah well i'm not judging you it's not criticism just
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  Speaker 6: an observation i didn't realize uh until working with anders
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  Speaker 6: every day that he wears a hat every day all
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  Speaker 6: the youtuber people know that yeah and then look at
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  Speaker 6: travis moger with his brand new haircut he's worked 38
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  Speaker 6: 000 days in a row Hasn't had time.
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  Speaker 2: To do anything, but he's like, damn it. I don't care.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go to a concert tonight and I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to get.
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  Speaker 2: My hair cut. I'm going to look sexy for it.
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  Speaker 2: And so look at that. Look at that guy. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that. Timo. Well, I wasn't expecting to look sharp.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one guy to look sharp on the show.
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  Speaker 2: One guy.
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  Speaker 6: One guy showed up like being presentable, like he was
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  Speaker 6: getting ready to meet his in-laws.
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  Speaker 1: Timo always does. He always does. He shows up for
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  Speaker 1: the occasion. I try, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: I made all these plans this week because I wasn't
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  Speaker 6: expecting to be working in the mornings.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Get the car fixed, concert, and here I am. Here
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  Speaker 2: he is. On behalf of the people that make these decisions, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It's all good. Anders and I had nothing to do. No,
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  Speaker 2: we did not. I promise. Not that we don't love you. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great having you. I'm having a fun time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, look at it this way.
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  Speaker 6: The upside is you're the only one that looks presentable
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  Speaker 6: for our television audience here this morning. All right, so
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  Speaker 6: great to have you with us here on this radio
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  Speaker 6: show here today. It is a hump day, so we
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  Speaker 6: will start our Commander's Preview. We've got all sorts of
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  Speaker 6: things on tap. I can't even believe how many juicy
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  Speaker 6: topics that we have to discuss on today's show, and
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  Speaker 6: I cannot wait to get all of them. And one
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  Speaker 6: that I am going to discuss today again is one
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  Speaker 6: that the audience– heard yesterday at this time, so I
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  Speaker 6: don't need to bore you with what was a very
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  Speaker 6: layered conversation about the possibility of Drew Locke being traded
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  Speaker 6: between now and the trading deadline.
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  Speaker 2: I hate social media. I hate it.
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  Speaker 6: And unfortunately, Anders put a post out yesterday and everybody
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  Speaker 6: just reacted to the actual post, which.
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  Speaker 2: Was simple in nature.
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  Speaker 6: And they responded to the simplicity of the question without
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  Speaker 6: hearing the complexity of the conversation. And I don't blame
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  Speaker 6: Anders because two.
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  Speaker 2: Days ago, P.S. and I actually told him.
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  Speaker 6: Use the show if you're not doing anything in the
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  Speaker 6: mornings with your four hours.
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  Speaker 2: Use the show.
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  Speaker 6: Get us out on social media because Chuck doesn't do
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  Speaker 6: it a lot, primarily because he hates it.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday was a prime example of why I do.
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  Speaker 6: Anders just throws out the question, should John Schneider consider
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  Speaker 6: trading Drew Locke when Sam Darnold returns? And everybody lost
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  Speaker 6: their ever-living mind. Even King 5 picked up on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: And did a segment on it last night. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure all the other shows.
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  Speaker 6: I know Greg did an entire segment on it yesterday because...
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  Speaker 6: He lives for that. He's like a vulture. Whenever we
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  Speaker 6: step in it, he cannot wait to show everybody that
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  Speaker 6: we've got to.
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  Speaker 2: Poo on our feet. I'm sure the other shows did
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  Speaker 2: it as well.
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  Speaker 6: But it just I did spend most of the night
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  Speaker 6: sort of slow fuming over this.
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  Speaker 2: And don't do it again. I'm not blaming you, but
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  Speaker 2: don't do it again.
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  Speaker 6: Don't take one of my what I thought was well constructed,
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  Speaker 6: thorough work. conversations that i think every sports fan might
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  Speaker 6: have at the sports bar because that's what this is
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  Speaker 6: this is just elevated sports bar talk that's all sports
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  Speaker 6: talk radio is that hopefully it's elevated yeah um i
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  Speaker 6: mean that's the idea anyway maybe we don't accomplish it
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  Speaker 6: but that's the idea yeah We're just guys sitting on
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  Speaker 6: a bar, but with a microphone in front of us.
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  Speaker 6: And so we can't cuss. I mean, that's pretty much
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  Speaker 6: the difference.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is. And so to me, I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was a very like like.
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  Speaker 6: Outside a little bit outside the box, but not crazy,
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  Speaker 6: not trying to click bait.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, wasn't trying to click bait because I never
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  Speaker 2: intended that to get on social media. And so nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 6: But KJR just got slandered last night. We're just, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're blowhanging fruit and anything. That was not the objective
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  Speaker 6: whatsoever yesterday. And so I'm not going to have the
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  Speaker 6: same conversation because our six o'clock audience heard it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And I know that it landed fairly well because I
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  Speaker 6: didn't get one piece of hate mail.
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  Speaker 2: Over it.
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  Speaker 6: But by the time it got to social media in
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  Speaker 6: its simplistic form.
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  Speaker 2: It blew up. And then I got nothing but hate
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  Speaker 2: mail for the entire evening over. Why would you dare
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  Speaker 2: ask that question?
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  Speaker 6: So I am going to discuss it for our eight
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  Speaker 6: o'clock hour that only saw the tweet. I didn't hear
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  Speaker 6: the conversation. So we are going to do it a
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  Speaker 6: little bit later on. So, again, Anders, don't mind that
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  Speaker 6: you have a hat on.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. And I don't mind that you posted that out,
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  Speaker 2: but don't do it again.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what's so controversial about it.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. I'm sorry. I didn't either. I didn't either.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that such a big deal? Why is that
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  Speaker 2: such a terrible thing to suggest? I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 6: Because the way that it was worded, it was Sam
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  Speaker 6: Darnold's going to be back this week.
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  Speaker 2: Trade him.
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  Speaker 6: And that's not what the conversation was. The conversation was,
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  Speaker 6: once Sam Darnold proves that he's back and healthy, if
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  Speaker 6: you get to the trading deadline and teams come after
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  Speaker 6: Drew Locke, do you have to consider moving him at
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  Speaker 6: that point? So that was missed in the tweet by
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  Speaker 6: everyone that read that. Everyone that read it missed that tweet.
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  Speaker 1: Hugely important context the word that says consider well yeah
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  Speaker 1: and they missed.
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  Speaker 6: That as well yes but the way that it was
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  Speaker 6: worded is sam's practicing today yeah he's might play this
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  Speaker 6: week do we use do we trade drew yeah and
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  Speaker 6: that is not how it was presented all the social
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  Speaker 6: media exactly and that's what i'm angry at because it
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  Speaker 6: was a layered conversation that if you just isolated some
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  Speaker 6: simple question out of it then people would say why
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  Speaker 6: are you even asking this i mean that even corbin
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  Speaker 6: smith responded like why are we even asking this and
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  Speaker 6: then as soon as i sent him one tweet like
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  Speaker 6: oh okay i understand now yeah i'd probably trade him
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  Speaker 6: if it's a high pick yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so, anyway, I don't want to give it away now.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to have the same conversation. I certainly
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  Speaker 6: want to, you know, whatever you want to say about it,
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  Speaker 6: say about it this morning right now. But we are
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  Speaker 6: going to talk about this because the 8 o'clock hour heard, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: nothing about what was actually discussed in regards to drew lock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah considering the change in uh reaction that we got
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  Speaker 1: uh at that time versus the exact same conversation two
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  Speaker 1: hours earlier it's funny how that works when it's framed
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  Speaker 1: in the right like you said the simplistic nature of
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  Speaker 1: social media and like i i get it like people
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  Speaker 1: are just reacting to a take and they're like, no, yes.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? 90 characters or less? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: 120?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Something 240, but like characters. So 240 characters. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's, I understand.
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  Speaker 6: It was a 20 minute conversations with all. And, and
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  Speaker 6: I covered every single aspect that people were complaining about
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  Speaker 6: last night, but they never heard it. All they saw,
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  Speaker 6: the people that were complaining was that KJR sent out
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  Speaker 6: a question and, And they thought we were trying to
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  Speaker 6: trade Drew Locke. And that was not the case. So anyway,
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  Speaker 6: we'll wrestle it to the ground a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to do Mirror Mirror today on baseball,
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  Speaker 6: but now I'm going to do it on Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Because you've worked me into a frenzy. Yes, let's
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 7: I love it when not content just naturally uh appeases
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  Speaker 7: itself you know and i guess that's that's sort of
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  Speaker 7: the idea by the way is it created more buzz
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  Speaker 7: yeah I mean, if television stations locally are picking up
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  Speaker 7: on it, even though they didn't listen to the conversation either,
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  Speaker 7: they weren't up either.
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  Speaker 6: If they're picking up on it, then it created more
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  Speaker 6: buzz than it should have. And I guess a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people in the business world live in the sandbox
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  Speaker 6: of any hype is good hype. Anytime you're getting mentioned
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  Speaker 6: out there, I don't feel that way. I don't like
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  Speaker 6: having my words simplified when I've taken the time to
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  Speaker 6: give a complex, layered And have that conversation on the airwaves.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like people just gut reacting to a question
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  Speaker 6: that oversimplified the conversation that we had at 6.05 yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Totally agree. That's why I'm like, you know, watching everything.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm sure that everybody on the entire station.
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  Speaker 2: Why are we doing this? Why are we asking this? Right.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, because it's an interesting conversation to have.
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  Speaker 6: And that's our jobs, is to come up with interesting
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  Speaker 6: sports conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Should they consider it? We'll get to it later.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to it later. All right.
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  Speaker 6: It's also hump day, so today we start our Washington
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  Speaker 6: Commanders preview. So we'll be asking Greg Bell about the
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  Speaker 6: commanders coming up at 7.05. But we might as well
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  Speaker 6: get the conversation started here today. Commanders off to an
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  Speaker 6: 0-2 start. Seahawks off to a 2-0 start. And I
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  Speaker 6: don't think too many people think that they're going to
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  Speaker 6: get in the win column on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks are rolling, even if Drew Locke does play
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  Speaker 1: versus Sam Darnold. It still feels like all chips are
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  Speaker 1: favoring the Seahawks, and I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a good game.
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  Speaker 6: And I think Drew Locke should play in this game.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see any reason to rush Sam Darnold back
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  Speaker 6: the way that Drew Locke is playing right now. But
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  Speaker 6: in the NFL, that's not really the way they approach it.
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  Speaker 6: I think that we as sports fans, I think we
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  Speaker 6: do approach it as, We can win this game without him.
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  Speaker 6: Let's make sure he's 100%. I don't think that an
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  Speaker 6: NFL head coach thinks that way. I think they believe
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  Speaker 6: we chose that guy for a reason to start. And
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  Speaker 6: if he's capable of starting, he's going to start. And
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  Speaker 6: so I think we'll find out very quickly in the
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  Speaker 6: next couple of days. Once Sam gets back to practice,
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  Speaker 6: how good he looks, how he's moving. And I think
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  Speaker 6: there's a good chance that he starts on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But I, along.
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  Speaker 6: With a lot of other people, would rather just keep
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  Speaker 6: going with Drew. Let him have a few reps. Make
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  Speaker 6: sure Drew gets his reps. And let's just keep going
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  Speaker 6: with what we're doing. They're down a quarterback. Marcus Mariota
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  Speaker 6: doesn't scare us. We can win this game easily. you know,
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  Speaker 6: with Jalen Milrow probably at quarterback. So why rush Sam
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  Speaker 6: Darnold back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, the biggest question on who to start
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback is it's all based on Sam Darnold's health.
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  Speaker 1: And I realize that's kind of an obvious statement, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you're making these decisions, depending on how good
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  Speaker 1: your backup is, there are other elements in play, how
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  Speaker 1: important the game is. maybe 80% of Sam Darnold would
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  Speaker 1: be better than whoever your other backup would be. I
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  Speaker 1: think anything less than 100%, zero limitations, he feels completely fine,
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  Speaker 1: start Drew Locke. But there is an element of, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's got to kind of work himself back into,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not game shape, but more like game reps,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, so that by the time an important
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  Speaker 1: game does come in the Niners or even the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: next week, they could be a dangerous team if they
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. Um, that he, I want him to
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  Speaker 1: be like 100% ready for those games instead of, um,
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  Speaker 1: that would be his first game back where he's that
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  Speaker 1: after two or three weeks off at that point. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's just all based off of if he's 100%
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  Speaker 1: zero limitations can do everything normal, healthy, then he plays.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, If anything less than that, it's Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 2: Even that, though.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, there's not a drill that the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 6: that's let's test Sam's hip drill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. So he's still going to have to.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to have to, coming off of that injury,
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  Speaker 2: take hits. He's going to have to fall to the ground.
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  Speaker 6: He's going to have 300-pound men falling on him. All
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  Speaker 6: sorts of things. And so I think it's... I personally...
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  Speaker 6: And I raised my hand and said, I might be
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  Speaker 6: wrong about this. If I had been a coach my
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  Speaker 6: entire life in the National Football League, if I'm Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure I'd feel completely differently. But just from an
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  Speaker 6: outsider's perspective, Drew Locke looks really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he does.
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  Speaker 2: This team's playing really well.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think the commanders with Marcus Mariota are that
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  Speaker 6: big a threat to score many points.
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  Speaker 2: I think we win this game without a sweat. So....
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  Speaker 6: So let's use this week for Sam just to make
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: sure that without contact he feels good. And then how
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: much better will he feel by next week with a
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: full week and a full experience and one more week
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  Speaker 6: removed from the injury? where I don't think he'll be
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  Speaker 6: thinking about what's it going to be like to get
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  Speaker 6: hit as much. So I just want to buy him time.
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  Speaker 2: If not physically, mentally, preparation-wise.
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  Speaker 6: To be in the exact right headspace, and I think
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  Speaker 6: that that's next week.
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  Speaker 2: I would just go with Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 6: I also don't want to just split reps all week
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  Speaker 6: long because, to me, that's just being half-prepared for the
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: football game. You can't play them both at the exact
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  Speaker 6: same time. So, to me, I hope the conclusion by
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  Speaker 6: Friday is Sam's on a great trajectory.
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  Speaker 2: He looks great in practice. We're going to give it
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  Speaker 2: one more week.
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  Speaker 6: And the way that Drew's played here the last couple
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  Speaker 6: of weeks, we feel great with him leading us into
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  Speaker 6: this game in Washington on Sunday. That's what I want
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  Speaker 6: to hear from Mike McDonald. Yeah, I tend to agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think the balance, like the biggest thing I want
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  Speaker 1: to avoid is having him be out the next two
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  Speaker 1: weeks and being like, yeah, we just want to slow
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  Speaker 1: play and make sure he's all good. And then having
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  Speaker 1: that his first game back be that really important game
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  Speaker 1: against the Niners. I don't want that to happen. I
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  Speaker 1: want him to get at least one game in before
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  Speaker 1: that happens. And I think that's the balance. It probably
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  Speaker 1: would be Drew Locke this week, and then Sam starts
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  Speaker 1: against the Chargers, and then that gives him one game
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the Niners game.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's what we circled from the moment it happened. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I think so too. That's without seeing Drew Locke play
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  Speaker 6: well last week. It was just like, circle the Chargers game.
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  Speaker 6: If he gets back by the Chargers game, Then that's
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  Speaker 6: that to me was ideal then.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's ideal now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it kind of balances the it's the rest
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  Speaker 1: versus rust thing, because, again, as well as Drew Locke's playing,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold at his highest level is a higher level
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  Speaker 1: than and then Drew Locke. I think we can all
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: agree on that. But the biggest thing is getting him
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: back into that level. It's not going to just as
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: soon as he shows up, it's not going to be
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: 100 percent.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Right. He needs to kind of build that up.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I think I think, like you said, if
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: given this week for any sort of kind of ramp
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: up time, make sure you're you're good without contact.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Give Drew Locke one more game and then get into
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: the Chargers game. Chuck, I think you're just trying to pump.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke's draft value. Is that what I'm saying? You're
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: probably right about that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Because, of course, I was standing on a table yesterday
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: saying trade him now.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Well, now Jackson Dart's out for the years. Yeah, that's true.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Well, we'll have more on the actual commanders themselves a
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: little bit later on in the show.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Let's find out what's on tap for today's Hump Day program.
• 17:59
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  Speaker 6: We might as well just be absurd about it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Why not? Since people were accusing us of that anyway.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Take anything.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Seventh round pick. Just take them. Just take them. Cut him.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: We don't need him. Yeah, cut him. Cut him. He's overpaid.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: It's Mill Road time. He's overpaid.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: I love the idea of an emergency quarterback. Seahawks at
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Commanders Sunday, 10 a.m. Sam Darnold returns to practice today.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: We'll get the latest from Greg Bell coming up at
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: 7.05 this morning. Also, Mike McDonald found his way into
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: the news yesterday in a way that he didn't want to.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Apparently, Hot Mike. during a Graham Bensinger interview, revealed a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: story that Mike felt close enough to Graham to share
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: about Sean Payton, and someone, Graham or someone else, decided
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to post that on social media, and it ended up
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: being a.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Pretty clicked-on story yesterday. We'll talk about it later. We'll
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: actually hear the commentary a little bit later on, but
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Mike McDonald pretty much just painted a scenario where they
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: were taking some footage, off of social media of Broncos practice.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Peyton found out about it, was angry about it, thought
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: that that crossed the lines of fair play, threatened to
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: go to the National Football League. The Seahawks then threatened Peyton,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: and apparently it did sort of dissolve.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Away, but maybe the hard feelings have not.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: So anyway, it was a big story about McDonald versus
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Payton and what actually is in play on a hot
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: mic and journalistic responsibility and integrity. So we'll get into
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: all of that a little bit later on in the show.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: If you haven't heard the audio, we will play it
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: for you at some point here today. Thursday night football tomorrow,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: week three of the National Football League season. We'll have
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: the Falcons taking on the Packers, two teams that have
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: stumbled recently. Out of the blocks this season, the Packers
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: did at least get a come-from-behind win against the New
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: York Jets, but they don't look right. The Atlanta Falcons
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: have looked worse than anyone in the National Football League,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: but Michael Penix Jr. is returning and is going to
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: start tomorrow, and that alone worth the price of admission. uh, for,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: for me, um, to see how Michael Penix, uh, looks
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: and how the offense will operate over the guy that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I think it was designed to operate around, not Tua.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Um, and so we'll have a waiver wire Wednesday in
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: preparation of week number three, coming up here today at 17.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: also at uh excuse me 7 30 uh and then
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: at 7 35 we'll play some fact or fiction nfl
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: news jackson dart looks like he is out for the
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: season after all they reassessed they did more studies tests
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: on jackson dart and it won't be two to four
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: weeks it looks like uh he's headed for surgery which
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: should cost him his entire season uh the bears quarterback
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: situation is murky caleb williams Even though it's not as
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: severe as he acted, he probably won't play. I would
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: assume he's going to miss at least one game after
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: that performance. But now his backup has a concussion and
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: he might not play. So the Bears could be down
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: to their third string quarterback by week three of the season.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: San Francisco 49ers signed veteran Brandon Cooks yesterday.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: There's also a story out.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: There that was flying around that they are first in
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: line for Tyreek Hill whenever Tyreek Hill passes his physical
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: and announces to the world that he's ready to return
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: to the National Football League.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So that's interesting.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: College football, a monster week number four is on tap.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: There are six top 25 matchups this Saturday.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: The Huskies are going to host the Gophers.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Cam Cleland will join us today at 9 o'clock to
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: discuss that. Sounders and Real Salt Lake tonight at 6.30
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: right here on KJR.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: The Kraken will play tomorrow.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: And the Mariners are still alive somehow, despite their 7-0
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: loss to the Houston Astros last night, which we'll recap
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: in our next segment, Mariners Morning After. But in terms
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: of the actual standings, five games to go. They're five
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: games back of both the Rangers and the Astros. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: so any combination of an Astro win, Ranger win, or
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Mariner loss will eliminate the Mariners officially from the playoffs,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: even though, yes, we've known.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: For a long time that they are out. And so
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we get into Mariners morning after next and not really
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to recap the game, but there are a lot of
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: conversations to hold about this team. And we'll have one
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of those next sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM. Great morning
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to you all. It is a hump day.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Chuck Anders and Travis with you. We do Mariners morning
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: after nearly every Mariners game.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Pretty much all of them.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: And so we're not going to jump off of that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: I don't think there's really much reason to spend much
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: time on the game. Last night, hosting the Houston Astros,
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: what could have been, this could have been a really
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: exciting two-game series, even with the floundering of the team
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: this year, had they just taken care of business in
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: the nine games leading up to it, this actually could
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: have been intriguing. This could have been interesting, and instead
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: it was either background noise or as Anders dealt with it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Just mute it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Play with my kid. Just mute it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And he was still watching it because he, for whatever reason,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is very intrigued by just baseball. I don't know if
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it's the specific movements on the TV, but yeah, he's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a smart guy. Just figured it out. Yeah. Or, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: let's springboard the Astros season because why the hell not?
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: They've been struggling down the stretch, so let's give them
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a couple wins so they can go to the playoffs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Why not? Yeah, yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Who doesn't love the Astros? Yeah, exactly.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Especially the Mariners. Most likable team in baseball.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Well, the Astros rolled in last night against Logan Gilbert.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Their starting pitcher even went out with a groin injury.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: I guess they don't have groin-tment in Houston. Two innings,
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: he was done. I mean, it was the recipe for
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: a victory last night, but... We were never really in
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: the game. Logan Gilbert got hit around early. I think
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: he gave up nine hits in the first three innings
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: of the game. And Jordan Alvarez put on a show
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: once again. That ball is never going to be seen again.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Jordan Alvarez cranks out number 41 in.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Hot pursuit of a triple crown. 7-0 to Astros.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: That's Aaron Goldsmith with the depressing call.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I hurt myself today. You should have played that underneath
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the hole.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: During my home run call. Your Don popped another out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: And we are down to one.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Down to one. Magic number one.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Jordan Alvarez, 41 home runs on the season, which is
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: tied for first in the American League. 102 RBIs, which
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: is second in the American League. I don't think he's
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: going to get the triple crown. He's six RBI back
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: of Pete Alonso, and he leads the American League in
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: batting average. Still probably going to win MVP. What a
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: year he's had, what a player he is and has been.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: terrorized us in the past. Even in meaningful games, he's
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: terrorized us. 7-0, though, was the final score in last
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: night's affair. So the Astros moved in even with the
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Texas Rangers. Both are five games up on the Mariners
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: with five games to play. So still technically alive, but
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: obviously you can do the math. Here's Dan Wilson after
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: the game.
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: I thought he did a really nice job of getting
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: out of that first inning with just the one run.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: I thought he made a couple pitches there when he
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: had to and needed to.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: You know, bases loaded, nobody out there. He scored a run.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Able to shut it down there, keep us close.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: It looked like the slider to Walker kind of stayed
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: on the plate and he was able to drive it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: That was really the bigger blow there in the third.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: They put some pitches on. And, you know, just it
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: was a tougher night for Logan.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Offensively, you know, not able to get too much going on.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: You know, just the four hits. You know, we were
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: able to get we'd reduce some walks.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: You know, I think we had five walks and able
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: to get some base runners on.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: But just nothing, you know, sustainable, you.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: Know, that, you know, just allowed us to kind.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Of jump back in the game. And, you know, I
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: thought they did.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: And, you know, just we made some contact. It just wasn't,
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: you know, solid contact. And, you know, again, just not
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: getting our opportunity. We got our opportunities, but just not
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: able to convert them into.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Runs and just couldn't get anything going.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Okay. Dan Wilson. After the game last night. And I
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: wanted to play some Dan, even though he said nothing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: He was just, again, recapping a game rather than talking
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: about the story of being on the verge of elimination here.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: But I wanted to hear it because it kind of
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: dovetails into something that was sent to me last night.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Luke Arkins, I don't think he'd mind.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Luke Arkins sent me something last night, and it was
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: about the New York Mets talking about Andy Green, who
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: was their interim manager. And Andy Green has now been
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: named the full-time manager of the New York Mets going forward.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: And they had just as disappointing a season as what
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: we did. We weren't the only team out there. Toronto
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays, there were several teams that had high expectations
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: that didn't come close to making the playoffs. So we
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: weren't alone. It doesn't help, but we weren't alone in that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: But they put Andy Green in. And so there's been
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: some infighting, like Lindor and Soto don't exactly approach the
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: game the same way.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: And it had a ripple effect and everything else. But.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Here's what Lindor said about Andy Green being named full-time manager.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for Andy.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: I think he's been good at the role that he's
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: got right now, not necessarily the role of managing because
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: I didn't see his role this year as to manage.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: His role right now was to come in and bring light,
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: bring ownership, bring respect, and bring accountability. He succeeded at it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: That's what Lindor said. In-game stuff, plays and all that stuff,
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: he's made good moves, but I don't judge him on
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: those things.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I don't really care about that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: He has put here more to bring light to the players,
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: to bring accountability, to bring respect, to bring self-awareness, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: that's what he brought into the role he's in right now.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Juan Soto, who has seen differently, who has seen they've
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: not gotten along, also commended Andy Green for the exact
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: same things.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's what today's manager has to be. That's
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: what today's leader has to be. It doesn't have to
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: be rule with an iron fist. It doesn't have to
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: be find guys left and right, chew them out in
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: the dugout.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Bet you mid-game.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: But it is about, hey, we don't play that way. Right.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Like, we're going to play a certain way and we
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: expect you to play that way. That's accountability. And I
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: think it is what Dan Wilson lacks. And not that
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: he lacked it as a player, he just lacks it
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: as an authority figure. And What I really think happened,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: and I think the biggest downfall, and there are many reasons,
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: but I think maybe the biggest downfall in this season
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: was Jerry is not great at culture.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And I think Jerry recognized that in the last two,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: three years.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: And I don't think that Jerry wants to be somebody
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: that is in the mix when it comes to culture
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: because he's now finally self-aware.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: That's not my bag, baby.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: And so he saw Dan Wilson, who everybody in the
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: organization liked, and he thought, man, if I have a–
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: that's got to fix culture, right? All my players like
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: all my coaches. And yet that's not leadership. Likeability is
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: not leadership.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: No, it is not.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: And so all of a sudden things like accountability and–
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: Holding people's feet to the fire and making sure that
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: it's not always a pat on the back or, you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: a rub of the head is not what's called for
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: in that moment. Sometimes you do have to get in
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: somebody's face.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: And not necessarily to yell, but just to look them
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: eye to eye and say, hey, that's not the way
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: we're going to do things.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Set a standard. Like you got a team first.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: And I don't think he ever did it from what
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: I've gathered. And I don't think anybody on his coaching
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: staff does it. And last year, I think he relied
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: on Cal to do it. And Cal was battling his
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: own things this year. And leadership got put on the
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: back burner because he had a 150 batting average. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: so I think more than anything, and there were a
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: lot of reasons, but if I'm putting together a pie chart,
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: That's the biggest piece of pie is that we had
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: a leader that doesn't know how to lead.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He knows how to get people to like him, but
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think he knows how to lead. Yeah, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: think there's multiple ways to lead as well. You can
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: be a player-friendly leader at the same time.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: That's what that article. Andy Green's like, he's player first manager.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: But....
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: He demands respect at the same time. And those are
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: two different things. You do get, I think, a lot,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: especially in baseball, maybe not as much recently, on the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: other side that are very, like you said, authoritarian. I'm
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: going to bench you if you do anything wrong, chew
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you out, yada, yada, yada. There is a balance between
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the two. And I think maybe the Mariners, because like
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: what you said, Jerry, maybe didn't value culture and clubhouse
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: chemistry enough, maybe overcorrected in this, in the side of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: things with, with the hiring of Dan Wilson, just to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: get a raw, raw guy.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I think so. So I think now the, and he
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: has to own that. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's on Jerry.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And now the move is to kind of, you know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: find a balance between the two, figure out what's next.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: And then just quickly, I just add, and then when
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it comes to X's.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: And O's, which I don't think are as important as
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: they used to be with a manager. I think it
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: is the managing of personalities. That's why they call it
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: a manager and not a head coach.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I think that is the number one responsibility.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: But the actual game management, I mean, you've heard his
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: press conferences. You've heard his press conferences. There's no creativity there.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: And I think he struggled understanding matchups, and I think
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: he struggled understanding baseball math. I mean, I gave him
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: a C-minus last year after we came within, what, eight
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: outs of the World Series. It was a total F
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: this year. Just a total F from the manager this year.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: That's how I see it. All right, coming up next,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I'll be glad someday when this is not part of
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: our college football world anymore.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. All right, we got Greg Bell
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: coming up at 7.05.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: I've got your headlines at the top of the hour
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: as well. I'll run a little bit late because we
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: went a little long on that Dan Wilson segment. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: this next segment, I'll make this quick. UW's getting ready
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: for Minnesota on Saturday, first Big Ten game. And I just, Anders,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: I have no idea if they're prepared for this. It
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: feels like they are not prepared for this.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: Even though Minnesota's, I mean, this isn't exactly one of
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: the powers of the Big Ten conference.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: No.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: But I don't think that their non-conference schedule got them
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: ready for conference play.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Well, the only thing you can hope for is that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: they kind of went through those lumps earlier in the season.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: And because it was against poor teams, obviously, that they
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: were able to kind of figure out some things. They
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: did look better against Eastern than they did in the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: first two games. But again, it was Eastern, right? So
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you can't really take too much from that, kind of
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: what he was talking about. So I'm just trying to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: look at it in terms of a, that was their preseason.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: This is their week one, right? They're kind of going through,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: figuring out some stuff. They are 3-0. I mean, that's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the silver lining. You're 3-0.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: And I think that you still should win against Minnesota
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: with that home field advantage that you're going to have.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: So you should still be 4-0 when you do start
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: facing the big boys.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of confidence, but the thing
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm clinging on to is the fact that I hope
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they learned about themselves and made some adjustments for Big
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Ten play. Again, you could have a much worse starting
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Big Ten game than you do, right?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So you're kind of ramping yourself up into the season,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: but it gets really tough really fast in the next
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: couple weeks.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you did not establish a running game
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: against three cupcakes.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: And you did not clean up.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Your sloppy, over-aggressive, after-the-whistle penalties, which you can no longer afford.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: So are you going to be able to establish those
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: things now, starting in week number four? I would have
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: felt a lot better had you at least been able
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: to establish that against Eastern Washington, for example. But I
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: hope that the cupcake wars are coming to an end soon,
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I was going to do this at Reckless at breakfast
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: today because I've done it so many times in the
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: past and it felt like a good time to update it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do something else at Reckless at breakfast.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: But I do believe at.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: Some point college football will take control of the schedule
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: and 80s will no longer be making it. And we're
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: going to see like conference versus conference weekend showcases.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Where you're going to line up against whoever you finished.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: You're going to line up against that team from another
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: conference where they finished in the conference, and that's who
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: you're going to face.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Just like the NFL.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: It's just going to turn into college football will eventually
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: make the scheduling for you, and then they'll probably leave
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: you one game. You can schedule your rival, or you
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: can schedule your homecoming game, your guaranteed win, whatever you want,
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: but you're not going to do that for three or
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: four games.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Miami has just embarrassed too many people already this season.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Oregon won 84-0 over Portland State, for goodness sake.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I don't need to see this stuff ever again for
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of my life.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: I hope the cupcake wars will someday end, and I
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: think it will benefit college football. All right, headlines next,
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: plus Greg Bell, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.