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Chuck in the Morning 9/24 H1: Sam Darnold Latest, Mariners Morning After & Chuck's Fantasy Woes · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: where we will discuss sports.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Sports Talk Radio, people.
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  Speaker 2: It's a hot new thing that has taken the nation
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  Speaker 2: by storm.
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  Speaker 3: And we are right at the epicenter of said hurricane.
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  Speaker 2: We welcome you in, and when I say we, I
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  Speaker 2: say Travis Moger, who is working his 3,758th straight day
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  Speaker 2: here at KJR.
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  Speaker 3: A new record. Congratulations. Well done, sir. Way to go, Timo.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're even bigger than Lou Gehrig, because Lou Gehrig had
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  Speaker 2: planned days off in between all of his Iron Man stint.
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  Speaker 3: Cal Ripken got days off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he played that many straight games, which I
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  Speaker 2: guess is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: So you're saying I'm better than Cal Ripken?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I'm saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Travis Moger is better than Cal Ripken and Lou Gehrig.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that?
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  Speaker 4: It's more impressive of a feat, you know, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what my opinion means anything anymore. It's
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  Speaker 4: because you know how grueling this job can be.
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  Speaker 3: This is true.
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  Speaker 2: How many times do you got to fight through nicks
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  Speaker 2: and pains? Yes, and play through, play hurt. Right, bruises
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  Speaker 2: and scratches. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: His exact words to me when I saw him because
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  Speaker 4: we parked at the same time and came up the elevator.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, hey, how you doing? He was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm losing my sanity. Yeah. I'm like, okay, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 2: The Iron Man.
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  Speaker 3: The Iron Mo. That's your new nickname. Iron Mo. I
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  Speaker 3: like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anders Hurst is here as well as we get things
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  Speaker 2: going here on this Thursday. By the way, did you
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  Speaker 2: see the parking garage set up? What were all the
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  Speaker 2: cones set up for? Because it didn't look like there
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  Speaker 2: was any kind of construction going on or anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably planned. They probably have something. Because I know...
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  Speaker 3: Because we could have easily foiled all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: And parked there anyway. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Get that out of there, right? But I know they
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  Speaker 4: had some stuff in the... lower level like a couple
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago and they coned off a couple spots and
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  Speaker 4: they were working on like the ceiling or something I
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  Speaker 4: have no idea it's a bunch of power stuff that
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  Speaker 4: I cooperated just.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody knows I mean I wasn't the guy that's
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  Speaker 2: like hey they coned off your spot they coned off
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  Speaker 2: my spot Which I changed anyway for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so I did cooperate. I wasn't like, screw the man. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to tell me where to park if
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  Speaker 2: I could easily park. You don't think I can move
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  Speaker 2: that orange cone? You have underestimated me for the last.
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  Speaker 3: Time, garage people. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not like I was going to pull
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  Speaker 2: one because a lot of people would just pull that one. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think Bucky would have pulled that one. He would
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  Speaker 2: have just ran over the cone with his truck. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Dared them to say anything. Even though there's just open
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  Speaker 4: spots everywhere. It's like, I need that one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he had this element about him like, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to tell me.
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  Speaker 3: What to do.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was him. That's fair. Yeah, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: tell me when curfew is, Skipper.
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  Speaker 2: I will go out till 11.04 if I want before
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  Speaker 2: a game.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson would have been the perfect manager for you. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he would have forgiven him all sins.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, so I didn't decide to take on the man.
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  Speaker 3: This morning I went ahead and... I played their stupid
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  Speaker 3: little games. Oh, no. Sheep. Sheep. And I parked elsewhere,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see if anything comes of it. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we go on this Thursday. We got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ground to cover here today, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guests today. Our Thursdays, it looks like, are going
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty jam-packed, at least until the baseball season ends,
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  Speaker 2: which apparently we're just.
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  Speaker 3: Going, hold on.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: We had to wait until that last stitch of fabric
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  Speaker 2: was there to really showcase how much we love this shirt.
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  Speaker 3: It's holding on by one button, but you know what?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to rock this thing.
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  Speaker 2: So fought to the end, 10 innings, a victory last night,
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  Speaker 2: and so that thread holds on forever. to keep the
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  Speaker 2: team in place. We'll talk about that with Mariners morning after.
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  Speaker 2: And the ABCs coming up a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: But I suppose, Anders, we should start with the Seattle Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: who will be back in action on Sunday against the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Commanders, looking to start 3-0 on the season.
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  Speaker 3: It's already felt like a season.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, between, you know, having a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: injury fall in your lap right off the bat and
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke becoming a local sensation over two weeks and
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald making fun of Sean Payton behind his back
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  Speaker 2: and Sean Payton forgiving Mike McDonald in public, even though
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I really trust it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I trust it. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Sean Payton's a petty man, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 2: He's the type of guy that might just put an
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  Speaker 2: orange cone in Mike McDonald's spot just to get him
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  Speaker 2: to park somewhere else. Well, what the hell is this?
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  Speaker 2: Why is there an orange cone? I guess I better
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  Speaker 2: park somewhere else. Yeah, that's the type of thing Sean
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  Speaker 2: Payton would pull. But let's start with Sam. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into McDonald and Payton as well. But let's start with Sam.
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  Speaker 2: He did return to practice yesterday, and Mike McDonald said
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  Speaker 2: he's going to take every snap.
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  Speaker 3: He's took every rep in practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So that tells me that, you know, once again, we
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  Speaker 2: as sports fans or sports talk show hosts or even
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  Speaker 2: insiders and analysts– can say it kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of makes a little more sense to just go with
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke. What's it going to hurt? They're not going
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  Speaker 3: to beat us without Jaden Daniels. Let's just. Let Drew play.
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  Speaker 3: He's playing well.
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  Speaker 2: Unless Sam wouldn't hurt to get one more week of
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  Speaker 2: healing before you put Sam back under center. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's get him back for that Chargers game. That to
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  Speaker 2: me makes logical sense. But that, Anders, is just not
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  Speaker 2: how head coaches in the National.
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  Speaker 3: Football League operate.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if Sam Darnold's healthy enough to play, Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 2: going to play him because in Mike McDonald's mind, he
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  Speaker 2: gives us the best chance to win. the football game,
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  Speaker 2: no matter who the opponent is. And so it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like the objective is, because I can't imagine the objective is, no,
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  Speaker 2: let's not let Drew Locke get any snaps at practice
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday and have him start against the commander. It
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  Speaker 2: sounds like the objective is that Sam Darnold is back,
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  Speaker 2: he's healthy enough to practice, and we're going to approach
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  Speaker 2: it like he's healthy enough to play. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold's going to be the starting quarterback in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 3: On Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't hate the decision. I think, like you said, logically,
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  Speaker 4: it would have made a ton of sense if they
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  Speaker 4: were to.
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  Speaker 4: Go with Drew Locke on Sunday and then kind of
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  Speaker 4: ease Sam back into it a little bit, give him
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  Speaker 4: a week of practice, two weeks of practice before he
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  Speaker 4: really kind of ramps up.
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  Speaker 3: To play a game.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the aspect that I didn't think about
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  Speaker 4: with this whole situation is kind of something Greg brought
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  Speaker 4: up yesterday. About time he stumbled on something. I know, right? Geez,
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  Speaker 4: that beat writer. You've got to always find something, you know?
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  Speaker 4: But the element of.
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  Speaker 4: The locker room and telling your guys that this guy
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  Speaker 4: is our guy. And when he's healthy, he's going to
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  Speaker 4: play no matter what. And that goes a long way with...
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  Speaker 4: like the chemistry, the culture, all that stuff we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about multiple times. So I honestly was just thinking about
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  Speaker 4: it from a logistical standpoint, from a, Hey, if Sam
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  Speaker 4: Donald is anything less than one, absolutely 100%, it should
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  Speaker 4: be drew lock.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But these guys like they, they love Sam. They go
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  Speaker 4: to war with Sam and I'm sure they love drew too.
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  Speaker 4: I don't doubt that whatsoever, but the idea that knowing
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  Speaker 4: who your guy is and when he's healthy, he's going
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  Speaker 4: to play, I think goes a long way with the
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  Speaker 4: whole team.
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  Speaker 2: And I, and I even wonder, speaking of, Lou Gehrig,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the famous Wally Pip. Wally Pip sat down
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  Speaker 2: and then Lou Gehrig never gave him his job back
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's not at play here.
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  Speaker 2: But what I'm talking about is the psychology of that.
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  Speaker 2: If you are a starting quarterback and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we need to get back. I'm ready to go. Let's
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  Speaker 2: remind everybody that I'm pretty good at this, too. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that enters into the equation. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think Sam... really is somebody that would struggle with that.
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  Speaker 2: Like a peer, even a backup getting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good press. And I don't, I don't, he doesn't strike
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  Speaker 2: me as the person that would, that would phase him whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe a head coach does think about that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: a head coach says, Hey, no, you're, you're the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And when you're the guy and you declare yourself ready,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what's going on. Drew Locke could have
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  Speaker 2: gone crazy. 32 for 30 passing last week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he could have gotten credit with two completions on
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  Speaker 2: two different plays.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what... happened last week. We have declared
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  Speaker 3: you the guy. You are the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We won us a championship last year, and so when
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  Speaker 2: you're ready, you tell me, and you're right back to
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  Speaker 2: the front of the line.
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  Speaker 3: There's no debate. There's no discussion.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that is the way NFL head coaches operate,
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  Speaker 2: and we shouldn't be surprised that Mike McDonald's going to
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  Speaker 2: operate the exact same way this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you could think, hey, because Drew Locke has
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  Speaker 4: played so well, that gives you an opportunity to kind
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  Speaker 4: of let Sam get healthier, but you can also think
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  Speaker 4: about it the opposite way, where... Hey, like we can
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit more risky, quote unquote, in getting
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  Speaker 4: Sam back. And he says he's ready. He's ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Because if something were to, God forbid, happen, you feel
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  Speaker 4: good about Drew Locke stepping in once again. So both
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  Speaker 4: ways can be true. But I think it's not coming
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  Speaker 4: from Sam, the fact that he wants to be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't seem like an insecure type of guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's more, like you said, the coaching and
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  Speaker 4: even more so the players.
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  Speaker 3: They want to know what the direction is.
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  Speaker 4: They don't want to be confused about who is the
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  Speaker 4: leader here and like, oh, you know, Sam's ready, but
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  Speaker 4: we're going to start Drew. What's going on here? I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying that there would be any sort of massive issue,
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  Speaker 4: but the culture that Mike McDonald has built has put
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  Speaker 4: everyone on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing threatens the culture. It's just that this is the culture. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: This is our culture. And this is what we do.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we'll continue to do. I think back
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  Speaker 2: to the baseball season, frankly, and it yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit I don't know if it's apples to oranges.
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  Speaker 3: It might be apples to cranapples. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But think about when Cal Raleigh went out, he was
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  Speaker 2: playing poorly. He got injured and dirty little secret. Johnny
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  Speaker 2: Parada and Mitch Garver were out playing him when they
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  Speaker 2: were filling in. They were outperforming what Cal Raleigh had
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  Speaker 2: been doing prior to his injury, which seems impossible. But
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  Speaker 2: not only did Cal get his job back immediately, which
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  Speaker 2: of course he would, but he rushed back to get it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know he wasn't 100%. I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 2: he was 80%. I'm not sure if he played much
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  Speaker 2: of the season at better than 80% health. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: yet the, the respect goes to the man that holds
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  Speaker 2: the position. Right. Um, and so if you're going to, Hey, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: Mitch played really well, but Johnny, you're going to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the minors, Mitch, you're going to go back
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  Speaker 2: to your backup role.
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  Speaker 3: We don't even know if Cal's healthy, right? But he
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  Speaker 3: says he's healthy.
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  Speaker 2: He says he's ready to go and he will get
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  Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt with us every single time.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the way that it should be. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That is the way that it should be. So if
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  Speaker 2: Sam's sitting there saying, hey, coach, I think I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel 100%. Maybe I could have even
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  Speaker 2: played last week.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe. If he's sitting there saying that, then you're right.
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  Speaker 2: The culture that not just Mike McDonald, the National Football
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  Speaker 2: League culture is if our QB1 is ready to go,
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  Speaker 2: we play him. We're not going to play these games
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  Speaker 2: about a weak opponent. a backup quarterback that we're facing.
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  Speaker 2: Sam is the guy. He will be the guy when
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  Speaker 2: he declares he's ready to again be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's pretty cut and dry.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam and Coach McDonald, I trust. Speaking of Coach McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if Sean Payton will ever trust him again.
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  Speaker 2: And as I said, I'm not sure that we should
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  Speaker 2: ever trust Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's the type of guy that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as you get up at the movie theater,
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  Speaker 2: he might take your seat. That's the type of guy
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton strikes me as. No, I wanted to sit here,
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  Speaker 2: and you didn't put your name on it.
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  Speaker 4: And then pay someone to go punch you in the
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  Speaker 4: alleyway after the game or after the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I drank the orange juice. Your name wasn't on it.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: If it was yours, so be it. That's the type
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  Speaker 2: of guy I think Sean Payton might be. But I
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  Speaker 2: really don't know. I guess this is a huge story.
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  Speaker 2: And we did play the audio yesterday and we did
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  Speaker 2: react to it. But now it does, on the surface,
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  Speaker 2: seem like it got handled really well. That Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: raised his hand like, shoot, I got caught. Like every
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  Speaker 2: human being gets caught talking crap about somebody else. I
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  Speaker 2: thought I was off the record. That doesn't excuse it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a nice lesson. Don't talk crap about don't spread
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  Speaker 2: stories about somebody else, especially to perfect strangers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I got caught.
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  Speaker 2: They caught me on camera. They got they got the audio.
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  Speaker 2: And now I.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be the person. I got to be the
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  Speaker 3: bigger person.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to call Sean, even though I think he
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  Speaker 2: was the smaller person to start the entire disagreement that
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  Speaker 2: we had. I'm going to call Sean. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to wear this one. And he called him and apologized.
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  Speaker 2: And Sean Payton apparently picks up the phone, completely let
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  Speaker 2: him off the hook.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: And I really like the way that he handled it.
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  Speaker 2: I love the way Sean Payton handled it. It was
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  Speaker 2: pretty much like I've done the same thing. I know
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  Speaker 2: I've done the same thing to others and just didn't
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  Speaker 2: get caught on camera.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know what? I'm not going to be angry
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  Speaker 3: about it. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, there's no problem here. And then in his
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  Speaker 2: press conference, he handled it very well. So even if
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  Speaker 2: he might be a little angry behind the scenes, the
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  Speaker 2: public perception of Sean Payton is totally understandable.
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  Speaker 3: No hard feelings. We're good.
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  Speaker 2: And according to Mike McDonald, they have a better relationship
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  Speaker 2: now than they probably had before the story leaked. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing that we can conclude is Graham Bensinger is
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  Speaker 2: done in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 3: So all's well that ends well.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: We don't have a rivalry with the Broncos that got heated.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't provide bulletin board material. It doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 2: if we ever do face them down the line this year.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald learned a lesson about trusting. everybody in the
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: media uh and Graham Bensinger got exposed for not being
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: that good of.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: An interviewer yeah I mean I think the the Sean
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Payton Mike McDonald as you said the hatchet's buried there
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: uh doesn't seem like there's anything really ongoing there we
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: do face them later this year so I'm curious to
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: see if there's anything uh uh that comes from.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: That uh that would be hilarious that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Would be very funny uh if they you see like
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: you know the pre-game conversation between the two coaches at
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: that midfield and then Sean Payton just sits there, like,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: just staring at him in anger.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to happen. No, that wouldn't happen.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: It would be– I mean, it wouldn't be funny if
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: we lost, but it would kind of be funny if
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: they did win and then he made his whole postgame.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: He went total Richard Sherman on him. Oh, God, yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Don't you talk about Sean Payton! Don't you talk about
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Sean Payton with Graham Bensinger!
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's completely– I don't want that to happen, but
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: there is an element that's added to that game now
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: because of this situation. But the Grant Bensinger side of things,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: did you see his release, his press release? I mean,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: there's so many aspects to this that's so weird. He
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: said that he released... He put it on Seahawks PR.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he released the video to Seahawks PR. That won't
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: make Seahawks PR happy.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I have a very hard time they saw that and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: thought it was okay. A very hard time. Knowing how
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: they operated. So I don't trust Graham Bensinger's word whatsoever. Oh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: he took a.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Hit for sure. He took a hit in the entire process.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: And then in saying like, hey, I should have made
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: a better judgment call in posting it, also blames Mike
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: McDonald for.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Not realizing that this is a hot mic situation, which like, dude,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: either go one side or the other.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: He definitely comes across looking the worst, which is justice.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Mike got caught with his hand in the cookie. There's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: nothing wrong with eating that extra cookie.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: No, there's not.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: It's not all that sinful, but Mom said don't do it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: We know we're not supposed to do it. We know
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: we're not supposed to talk crap behind other people's back
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: and share stories, and yet we do it. We have
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the extra cookie. He got caught with his hand in
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the cookie jar, and he.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Had the— He had to fess up to it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He had to be the bigger person and call Sean
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Payton and apologize.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: So that worked well. And then Payton, we got to
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: give him credit.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: He handled it very well in a class manner, and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: he hasn't always conducted himself that way.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: So I think all's well that ends well. I think
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: justice was served.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: And sometimes you have to have one of those uncomfortable
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: situations to make relationships better. So I think all's well
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: that ended well, and Mike McDonald comes away with it
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: a wiser man.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: The one quick fallout that I would be a little
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: bit upset if this kind of becomes the case is
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: now I wonder how closed off Mike McDonald is in
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: kind of interviews moving forward.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: That's fair.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: As media members, that's something that we have really appreciated
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: that he's kind of grown into himself this year, whether
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: that's from hard knocks, whether that's just from years in
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: the league, more confidence, all that stuff. But, I wonder
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: if he kind of goes back to being in his
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: shell again because of this situation.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: That would suck, unfortunately. Yeah, he will be.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: He'll be more guarded and he's not going to be
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: as trusting in people that he doesn't intimately know or
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: don't cover them on a daily basis.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I don't think it'll affect the Greg Bells of the world. No.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: But it could affect the David Softy Mahler's Chuck Powell's
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of the world. Of course, I send him a Bundt
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: cake every Friday. So I think... I think Mike and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I are close. That's your problem, Softy. All right, let's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: find out what's on tap for the rest of the show.
• 19:40
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• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Seahawks at Commanders Sunday, and it will be the early game,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: 10 a.m. We will have a 12th-man roundtable today from
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: 8 to 9 o'clock, starring Greg Bell and Hugh Millen.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold is expected to play. We'll get the details
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: on that from Greg. Not at 7.05 today, but at
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: 8 o'clock and for an entire hour, the 12th man roundtable.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: We do it every Thursday at 8. NFL notes, a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: lot of injury notes out there. Saquon Barkley is questionable
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: for Monday night. Zay Flowers is questionable for Sunday in Brazil.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Puka Nakua looks like he's leaning toward very doubtful for
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the Rams this week. And the Bears may be starting
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: their third quarterback, which I had no idea was Case
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Keenum until this morning.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Case Keenum is still hanging around. I guess.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: So we'll update some of that stuff a little bit
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: later on in the show. Tonight, Thursday night football, the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons at Green Bay to take on the Packers.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Michael Penix Jr.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Will start for the Atlanta Falcons. We'll see if he
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: can kickstart that offense tonight. for Atlanta because it desperately
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: needs to be kick-started, averaging eight points per game through
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the first two games of the season. Mike Sando is
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: back in his normal slot with us, 9.30 on Thursday,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: so we look forward to chatting with him. UW-Minnesota, Saturday,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: that's the night game, 8 o'clock. Softee will join us
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: this morning. Thursdays with Softee at 7.20-ish. College football's week four.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: It's a doozy.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Six different games featuring top 25 matchups. Sounders won last
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: night 2-0 over Real Salt Lake. It is their first
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: win since August 9th, but that was a League's Cup game.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: It is their first MLS win since May 13th. 133 days.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Over four months since they won. And yet somehow, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't get this sport, Anders, they're 8-8-9.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. They had a good start to the season. That's why.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: They're in a playoff spot at the moment.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: They have not won in over four months in their league,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and they're in.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: The playoff spot.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yep.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Jackson Feltz last night was over the moon. I have
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: never seen him happier. Wow. Really? They've won some big games, too. Yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I was going to say. Well, I mean, yes. He
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: was just very excited to get a win.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Look, if... You know, maybe you've had some great, awesome
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: moments in your life, but the time you crawl across
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the desert and you get that first drop of water,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that's the best thing that's ever happened to you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: So I'm not surprised.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Kraken are going to host Calgary tonight at 640. It's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the first home preseason game of the year. You can
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: hear it on our sister station, 950 and the Mariners
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: fighting to the end. 6-5 winners over the Houston Astros
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in 10 innings. We'll recap it with Mariner's Morning After
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Great morning to you all.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: It is Chuck Anders and Travis with you. And yes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: it is time for Mariner's Morning After.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Hey, we don't have many more of these. Let's hold
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: them dear and precious.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: And, of course, the team shows its most grit and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: fight that it has all season long.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: You just had to back them completely into the corner.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Give them no hope at all. You know, they had
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to lose 7-0 to really back them. They had to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: get up at the 9.76 second count.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: By the referee.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Not be counted out, even though their eyes do look
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: sort of dazed. And they are wobbling in the corner. No,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: we're going to pick tonight to fight to the bitter end.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Push it to extra innings and pull off the victory.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Am I alone that I get more frustrated with wins
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: like this?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Come on, guys.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: And this is why this season's been so annoying is
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: because you see that last night.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: It could have been.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying play every game like that, right? You're
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: not up against elimination every single game. But, man, the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: difference between that and, like, 90% of the games you
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: played this season, it's like a different baseball team.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Frankly, I didn't watch a lot of it, so I
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: don't know if they did play that way all season
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: long or if they just saw.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: An opportunity to win the game and seized it. I
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: really don't know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But even that. I do think there is an element
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: here of playing out the string for Dan since they
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: like him so much. Yeah. and playing out the string
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for JP and others who probably aren't going to be
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Mariners for very much longer.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: So the M's.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Taking on the Astros last night.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: We know that the tragic number is one.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Any combination of Rangers losses, Astros losses, or excuse me,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Rangers wins, Astros wins, or Mariners losses.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: One.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That's all that is required starting yesterday all the way
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: through the end of the season, and the Mariners will
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: be officially eliminated from the playoff picture. And yet, last night,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the Rangers did lose, and the Astros did lose, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the Mariners came through with a victory.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Third walk of the inning issued by Hader. Here's Josh Naylor,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: winning run at third. And he winds it into center field.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And Seattle walks off the Astros.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: A walk-off win for the Seattle Mariners tonight with two
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in the tenth.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Houston back into a tie with Texas atop the AL West.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: So, Josh Naylor with the walk-off base hit single in
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: 10 innings, and the Mariners do win it by a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: final score of 6-5. That's right, ESPN had the call
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: of the game last night. Here is Dan Wilson afterwards. Yeah,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Some good offensive things today. I thought number one, coming
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: back with a three spot there after they were able
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: to put four up in the third, I thought that
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: was huge for us to get right back into the game.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I thought really good at-bats up and down, particularly against Hayter.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: He was a little bit of wildness tonight.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: We didn't go chasing.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: We had some really good at-bats, particularly over there in
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: the 10th, and you know, creating traffic. And Dom with
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: a huge night, obviously, earlier in the ballgame. Some, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: huge RBIs for us, get us rolling. And, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: I just thought to be at bats there at the
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: end to kind of give us a lead there was huge.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson, after a 6-5, 10-inning victory for the team,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: like I said, in terms of how I saw the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: game last night, I thought Mobland had a decent start
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to its second season.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Because that's what I watched instead.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And then I went to bed at like 8 o'clock
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: because I had truly a napocalypse yesterday where everything that
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I tried to do to take my nap, there were
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: like three leaf blowers, a street washer, kids screaming, dogs howling.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It was like the loudest, loudest cacophony of noise that
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I think I've ever experienced.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: So anyway.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: That's how that's how I took the game in yesterday.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: That's that's how I'm feeling about the end of this
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Mariners season. But they did get the win last night,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: six to five. So they trail by four games with
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: four games to go. And now they face the Angels.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It was just a two game series against the Astros.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: The Angels are in town. Grayson Rodriguez will be pitching
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: for L.A. tonight. Brian Wu gets his final start of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the season tonight for the Mariners. And I know he
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: has finished the season strong, Wu.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: And I know he'd love nothing more than in front
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: of the home fans. that's one guy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And I don't really buy in a lot to the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: team doesn't care and they didn't play hard this year.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I don't buy that. I think that I think they
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: do care a lot. And I think that it's hard
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: to look like you're playing hard when you've gone months
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: struggling offensively and disappointing, not just the fans, but yourselves.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I think there have been episodes. Josh Naylor has authored
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of those episodes. Randy Rosarino a few times
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: where clearly there wasn't you know, all-out hustle. But I
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: don't really pin that on them like others might. I'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: say this about Brian Wu. Nobody can accuse him of
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: not caring because every time that that guy comes off
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: the field after a disappointing outing, it's screaming into the glove.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: It is... Fury on the mound from that guy. So
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: that's one guy you can't accuse of it. And as
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I mentioned yesterday, and I think it's worth repeating, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: don't know if people realize what the metrics have said
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: about Brian Wu's season this year.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: It looked bad for us.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a Cy Young contender a year ago.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Entered the season.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: with the thought of being that might be our ace
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: this season. And Brian Wu looked to us like he struggled,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and his road woes specifically contributed mightily to this team
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: not being able to get it going this year. But
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I checked Fangraff's war a couple of nights ago. He
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: has the 18th highest pitching war in the entire sport.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: There are 30 teams. That means he pitched like a
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: number one starter this year, Got absolutely no luck whatsoever.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And the actual.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Overall numbers, the hits allowed, walks allowed, number of strikeouts,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: actually he had a much better season than what we
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: realized last He takes away those road nightmares that he
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: suffered through, and we're looking at Brian Wu having repeated
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: another great year this year.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you alluded to it a little bit.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: A lot of it was luck, and not just luck
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: in terms of, oh, that one hit barely found some grass.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Luck in terms of how poor his defense behind him is.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: It really was, too. It's the worst.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Defense in baseball and in some ways historically bad. But
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, that, that obviously makes a pitcher's results look
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: a lot different than what their expected stats should be.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: But I'm with you.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I think Wu is an ace type of guy and
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: his competitive nature really kind of showed out more than
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: most would show this year.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And for all the window closing people out there, which, you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Know, I just cannot get on board with you on that.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, even if you traded George Kirby next year,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you're at a starting rotation of Logan Gilbert, who had
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: a good year.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Emerson Hancock, who had a breakthrough year.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu, who we just illustrated, had a much better
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: year than what even we realized. And certainly what a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: lot of people that don't pay as close attention as
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: you and I do realize. Kate Anderson for a full
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: season with his rookie year under his belt. And Bryce
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Miller is your number five who spent a month being
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: our best pitcher this year? Yeah. I mean, that's still
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: an outstanding starting rotation with Ryan Sloan waiting in the wings.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: So I know this was a horrible season. maybe the
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: most disappointing in franchise history, and there have been a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: lot of disappointing seasons in franchise history, but I am
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: never going to jump on board with this window is
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: closing argument because there's just way too much talent and
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: young talent here to build around. All right, coming up
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: next on the program, yes, Brian Wu had some road nightmares,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: but they don't match my fantasy football nightmare.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. I
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: am just so certain.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: And I was, even if we would have had a
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: successful season, I've been so certain that this off season,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: George Kirby was going to be traded that I don't
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: even factor him into my plans for next year. So
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: if you were like, why didn't he mention George Kirby?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: It's because for three years, I thought in the 2026
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to 2027 offseason, George.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Kirby would be dealt. Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: And I think there's actually a lot of sentiment around
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Mariners analysts with that same thought, to be honest. So, yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: that's something that we'll see what they do with the offseason.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: So, look, I get it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear about other people's fantasy teams. The
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: only reason I bring this up is because I think
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: everybody can kind of relate to the frustrations of fantasy seasons. Like,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it's bad when you have like a first or second
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: round pick that gets injured for the year.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's really bad, right?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, you lose.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Everybody starts with an all-star team. You really can't flub
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: your first four players.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Picks.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, you might, somebody else might get a better one,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: but everybody usually ends up with a foundation of an
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: all-star team. And then it's rounds five through 10 is
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: really where you make your hay and then you finish
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: it off.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: With waiver wire pick. That's kind of the way to
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: win championships.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: And so it's certainly frustrating to lose one of those horses,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: especially the first or second round pick, like for an
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: extended period of time for the entire season.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: But that doesn't frustrate me as much as.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Having guys who are questionable from week to week and
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out whether or not they're healthy enough
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: to start with the information that you're given. And then
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: once the game begins, there's no going back on that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, the worst one of all is
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: what I experienced Sunday with Saquon Barkley on his first
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: carry gets hurt.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I got a zero. There's a zero.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I ended up with like a two. That was me. Okay, zero.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Jackson Dart, like second play or... First drive.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, first drive. That's the worst. Like there's nothing you
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: can do. There's no defense for it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I always thought that was the bigger nightmare.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: That always frustrated me more than even a star player
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: who was going to be out for the season. What
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: frustrated me more was the inability to counter the injury
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: gods who decided to take one of my seven players
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: and remove him on the first play of the game
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: where there's no defense for it. But now I'm facing
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: this brand new nightmare because here I am. With Saquon
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Barkley and with Zay Flowers on my team. And not
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: only do I not know if they're playing, Barkley doesn't
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: play till Monday.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: That's the worst. Yeah. That is the worst. Flowers doesn't
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: play till Sunday.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I also have Colston Loveland on my team, and I
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: don't know if the Bears quarterback who's going to be,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and he doesn't play until Monday night.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: And so it's like, oh, in other words, I have
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: three game time decisions to make, but.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: The game times are staggered.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: And if I don't replace them right now with guys
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: who are inferior, then I risk getting one to three zeros.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Before the end of the week.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: And yet, if I don't play at least a couple
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: of them, what chance.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Do I have anyway?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: So it is like, this might be my new fantasy
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: football nightmare. This weekend, trying to figure out, trying to
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: read the thoughts of The.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles medical team.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Right. And, of course, Jackson Feltz snoops in and gets
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Tank Bigsby last week.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So I don't even get his replacement.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And then, of course, Jackson's like, well, I'll trade you
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Bigsby for Chase Brown. Seems fair.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Because you're not, you may be dumb.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I'm smart. So would you do this?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: It's a nightmare.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: It's a nightmare. I know exactly how you feel. Um,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: this is what, like, this is a pro stack, uh, conversation, right?
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: You asked why you have so much invested into one team.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: A lot of it is because you want maybe whether
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: it's a receiver or a running back, you want kind
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: of like options. If the guy is injured, say you're
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: playing on the Monday night. Well, at least I have
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: his backup on my team, or at least I have
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: the second receiver that will now be the main receiver
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: on his team. So That's kind of the give and
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: take with that stuff. But yeah, you have to kind
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: of like play your odds, like the risk reward.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: It's part of the game. I'm not off to a
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: good start. This is not good. I'm probably going to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: be 0-3. But who can deal with two of their
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: best three players having not played and both leaving in the.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: First half of their game? Nightmare. Nightmare. All right.
• 36:50
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• 36:58
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