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Chuck in the Morning 9/7 H2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, a penny for Fisch's thoughts and it's Fantasy Football time! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Washington handoff.
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Lamar makes a man miss, turns it upfield, and
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  Speaker 2: he scores.
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  Speaker 1: It is a Washington touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Jaden Lamar, the Lake Stevens kid with his first score
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  Speaker 3: as a dog.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the historic moment. Elyse Woodward, voice of the Huskies,
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  Speaker 4: her first game as the voice of the Dogs yesterday
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  Speaker 4: with Cam Cleland by her side and David Softy Mahler
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  Speaker 4: on the sidelines. They deliver a victory. Boy, we would
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  Speaker 4: have really judged Elyse had they not pulled off the victory.
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  Speaker 1: Would have been absolutely her fault.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we would have really come down hard on her.
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  Speaker 4: 24-10 the final score. The Dawgs defeat the Cougs yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: but there was a moment in the contest where it
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  Speaker 4: got pretty uncomfortable. 10-7 was the score with 10.5 minutes
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  Speaker 4: to go in the contest. 17-10 with 4.5 minutes to
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  Speaker 4: go in the game. And a third down and nine
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  Speaker 4: conversion from DeMond Williams Jr. on a scramble where he
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  Speaker 4: juked out like three guys. and ran for 21 yards,
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  Speaker 4: really ended up being like the put-away play. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was a little more close for comfort than Jed
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  Speaker 4: Fish hoped.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the Huskies do pull off the opener 24-10. Plenty
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  Speaker 4: of rust, it seemed, on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Played with a little too much emotion on the defensive
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball yesterday. But it is a Huskies
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  Speaker 4: 14-point win over the Cougs in the 118th playing of
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  Speaker 4: the Apple Cup. We'll certainly be talking about it later
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  Speaker 4: on in the show. Hugh Millen is going to join
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  Speaker 4: us for a special Monday morning quarterback Apple Cup edition
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  Speaker 4: from 8 to 9 today. So a lot to discuss.
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  Speaker 4: I just keep writing notes. I just have a couple
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  Speaker 4: pages of notes, and I just keep writing notes. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know where we're going to get.
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  Speaker 3: To all of this.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have to just keep Hugh until next week.
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  Speaker 3: We might. All right.
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  Speaker 4: What else we got going on? Headlines brought to you
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  Speaker 4: by Frost Brewed Coors Light.
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  Speaker 5: Choose.
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  Speaker 4: Chill, people. Also from college football. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, not.
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  Speaker 4: Not a breathtaking weekend to start the college football season.
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  Speaker 4: But you had the controversy with the Michigan Wolverines where
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  Speaker 4: they put a second back on the clock and somehow
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  Speaker 4: they throw a Hail Mary touchdown pass to win the game.
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  Speaker 4: You had LSU who ended up not even being the
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  Speaker 4: biggest controversy of the weekend because of Michigan.
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  Speaker 5: They.
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  Speaker 4: steamrolled Clemson. The ACC had a terrible opening weekend. People
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  Speaker 4: are already questioning the merits of the ACC conference one
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  Speaker 4: game into the season. Ole Miss defeated Louisville. That was
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  Speaker 4: a thrilling second half, 41-38. Notre Dame in their second
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  Speaker 4: half pulled away from Wisconsin and won 41-13. But I
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  Speaker 4: think everybody in college football showed various levels of rust
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  Speaker 4: and It took some teams one quarter to get going,
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  Speaker 4: some two quarters, three quarters in Washington's case. And then
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  Speaker 4: I think there'll be other teams that'll take six, seven,
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  Speaker 4: ten quarters to try to figure out their rhythm on
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  Speaker 4: this football season. I think that's just a byproduct of
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  Speaker 4: the way that teams practice now. It's going to happen
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  Speaker 4: in the National Football League, too. Just brace yourselves for
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  Speaker 4: it starting on Wednesday. Speaking of Wednesday, Seahawks Patriots play
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  Speaker 4: in two days, and so the world champs start defense
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  Speaker 4: of their crown on Wednesday against the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 4: Ty Okada ended up on the injury report here at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the week. Nicky Manwari not looking good
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  Speaker 4: that he's going to play on opening day. And DeAnthony
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  Speaker 4: Bell was brought back onto the roster, so he is
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  Speaker 4: going to play some sort of role on Wednesday for
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  Speaker 4: the secondary. Greg Bell will join us here in a
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  Speaker 4: matter of seconds. to talk some Seahawks football. 49ers Rams
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  Speaker 4: are going to play on Thursday. Puka Nakua, they feel
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  Speaker 4: he's going to play, but the fact that they have
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  Speaker 4: to say that means there's a chance Puka Nakua does
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  Speaker 4: not play on Thursday because of the off-field circumstances he
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  Speaker 4: created for himself, and the NFL might weigh in on
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  Speaker 4: that before their opener Thursday from Australia. Sounders and Red
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  Speaker 4: Bull New York, they played to a draw on Saturday. And,
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  Speaker 4: of course, the Mariners won yesterday 2-0 over the A's
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  Speaker 4: but lost three out of four to the lowly Athletics.
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  Speaker 4: And they have put themselves in a position where they
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  Speaker 4: are six games out of first place, six games out
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  Speaker 4: of the wild card with only 18 games to play.
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  Speaker 4: They have the day off before starting a series against
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  Speaker 4: the Texas Rangers tomorrow at home. All right. Those are
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  Speaker 4: your headlines brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light. I
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  Speaker 4: will also mention Factor Fiction starts today at 735. So
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  Speaker 4: your first pick being made here on the morning show.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tradition. I got it ready for you. Get ready.
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  Speaker 3: 735.
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  Speaker 4: We get the Factor Fiction season started today on this
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  Speaker 4: Labor Day. And joining us now is Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 6: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 6: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 6: with our own Greg Bell. Brought to you by Emerald
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: How did you take in the Apple Cup 2026?
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  Speaker 3: I was at Seahawks, working in the building and locker
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  Speaker 3: room and practice and finding out about Ty Okada and
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  Speaker 3: Nicky Mowary. There's one college team that did not have
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  Speaker 3: a struggle to find itself.
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  Speaker 4: Who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Army? Army 59, Bryant 3.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they probably knew they were still tackling practice at Army.
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  Speaker 3: They tackled basic training in Army before they even get
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  Speaker 3: to practice, but yes. 569 yards rushing for Army on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: 650 total yards, school record. That's good scheduling right there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you do have to pick Army for your first
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  Speaker 4: Factor Fiction pick.
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  Speaker 3: That's a done deal. And anyone who's heard me on
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  Speaker 3: the radio before knows what I'm going to do for
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  Speaker 3: my Factor Fiction pick.
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  Speaker 4: I could jump the gun here. I could really ruin
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  Speaker 4: your Monday.
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  Speaker 3: You could. You could.
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  Speaker 4: I won't.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. I won't. If you want to win, you could.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, there's a lot of information to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: That injury report ended up being a lot more crowded
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  Speaker 4: than I think Seahawks fans feel comfortable with. So let's
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  Speaker 4: dive into it a little bit. Tell us about Eamon Worry.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us about Ty Okada.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Eamon Worry, the thing is he's yet to now
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  Speaker 3: fully practice since the surgery in July, an arthroscopic surgery
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  Speaker 3: on his ankle. He was a limited participant yesterday. it's
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  Speaker 3: not hard to read the tea leaves there that if
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  Speaker 3: he was going to play, he'd be fully practicing by now.
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  Speaker 3: And if he's not fully practicing, it means he's missing
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  Speaker 3: reps in the starting defense, in the game plan. Ernest
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  Speaker 3: Jones yesterday, we were asking him about what Neiman Worre
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  Speaker 3: does for this defense, and he said, well, when he
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  Speaker 3: comes back, he's going to be like an alien. He
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  Speaker 3: can do anything. We'll get him back, but for now
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  Speaker 3: we'll worry about the guys who are here. So he
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  Speaker 3: was pretty much saying he's not going to play in
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  Speaker 3: his first game. It's a little bit of a surprise,
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  Speaker 3: but it does speak to how difficult this has been
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  Speaker 3: for him. I mean, his rookie season last year could
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  Speaker 3: not have gone better. It was idyllic. And from day one,
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  Speaker 3: even game one when he had the high ankle sprain,
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  Speaker 3: He came back in three weeks and took off to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the most dynamic defensive players in the league,
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  Speaker 3: rookie or not. And now this is a setback for sure.
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  Speaker 3: The surgery, and McDonald has talked about how difficult it's
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  Speaker 3: been for him. It's not been a straight trajectory of
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  Speaker 3: surgery to recovery to play. There have been ups and
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  Speaker 3: downs and delays, and now this looks like another delay
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  Speaker 3: of at least one game. They're hoping perhaps they could
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  Speaker 3: get him back for two. They haven't ruled him out yet,
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  Speaker 3: but the signs are pointing that way.
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  Speaker 4: All right. And so, yes, the secondary now looks thinner
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  Speaker 4: than ever. Looks thinner than it even did the last
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  Speaker 4: time I talked to you. So what kind of role
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  Speaker 4: is DeAnthony Bell playing this weekend? Is he starting?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it depends on how McDonald wants to go scheme-wise.
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  Speaker 3: But they only have three safeties on the 53-man active roster.
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  Speaker 3: They have a bushel of them on the practice squad,
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  Speaker 3: four of them. But... Ty Okada did not practice yesterday
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  Speaker 3: with a hamstring issue, which had to have happened in practice,
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  Speaker 3: of course, because they haven't played at all in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: And Okada was out there through the end of preseason practices,
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  Speaker 3: so it has happened in the last week or so,
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  Speaker 3: which doesn't pretend very well for him. Hamstring issues are
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  Speaker 3: not a day or two and you just come back.
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  Speaker 3: Those tend to last a bit. And the fact that
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  Speaker 3: he didn't practice on an injury that's apparently newer suggests
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  Speaker 3: he won't play either. So that leaves Julian Love with
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  Speaker 3: the only... safety on the active roster who's healthy to play.
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  Speaker 3: De'Anthony Belt very much could start because he may be
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  Speaker 3: the second safety for Okada. Then the question becomes, if
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  Speaker 3: he can't go with Nicky Manwari as the hybrid linebacker
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  Speaker 3: with the extra defensive backs, a big nickel or even dime,
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  Speaker 3: then what do they do? Do they go third cornerback? Well,
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  Speaker 3: third cornerback is itself an issue. Is Trevon Diggs ready
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  Speaker 3: to go scheme-wise and got his legs under him from
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  Speaker 3: not having practiced since January until the Seahawks signed him
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  Speaker 3: the last week of the preseason? Is Avery Smith ready
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  Speaker 3: to go as a third cornerback? They just traded for
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  Speaker 3: him a week ago from the Chargers. They say he's
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  Speaker 3: in a scheme that was similar to theirs in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 3: and that was part of the attraction to getting him.
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  Speaker 3: He played inside nickel corner for the Chargers, he said,
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  Speaker 3: about 75% of the time, yet the Seahawks saw him
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  Speaker 3: and drafted him and scouted him out of Toledo as
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  Speaker 3: an outside corner, which would move Witherspoon inside. They're trying
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  Speaker 3: to find a third corner to play outside so they
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  Speaker 3: can move Witherspoon inside, especially without Eamon Worry in there,
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  Speaker 3: because they want one of those dynamo chess pieces McDonald
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  Speaker 3: does to play inside, to blitz from inside, to cover,
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  Speaker 3: to tackle and support and run. Because the NFL trend
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  Speaker 3: is when you go extra defensive backs, the counter is
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  Speaker 3: to running out against you. And if William and Laurie
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  Speaker 3: can't play, McDonald really wants Witherspoon inside. So he really
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  Speaker 3: wants a third corner. So all this focus on who
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  Speaker 3: the safeties will be, the really trickier proposition is to
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  Speaker 3: find an alternative to who's going to play third corner.
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  Speaker 4: Julian Neal is a mystery to us anyway. I mean, we,
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  Speaker 4: the only thing that I saw out of him in
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  Speaker 4: training camp and preseason was him rehabbing from an injury.
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  Speaker 4: He'd come out earlier before anybody else and he'd rehab
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  Speaker 4: and it looks like a, you know, beautiful looking athlete,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the, uh, Rick Wolin, you know, Richard
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  Speaker 4: Sherman build. Uh, but, um, I, we obviously don't know
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  Speaker 4: much about him. What are the Seahawks know about him?
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  Speaker 4: What do they think that they have in Julian Neal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he is way behind because he missed all of
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  Speaker 3: his rookie training camp. It's not like he had a
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  Speaker 3: basis of knowledge of the defense and teammates to bank on.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to spin up and learn it, as Bud
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  Speaker 3: Clark was swimming for a while. So Neal has got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of catching up to do. If Neal was healthy,
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  Speaker 3: the rookie third-round pick would have been– they wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: gone on the Terry Arnold goose chase, and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have signed Trevon Diggs, and they wouldn't– well, maybe they
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  Speaker 3: would have eventually, but they would not have had those
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  Speaker 3: guys as– primary looks for third corner, if Igmanogany and
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  Speaker 3: Pritchett weren't working out as the third corner, and they weren't,
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  Speaker 3: then they just would have had Julian Neal be it,
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  Speaker 3: and he'd be the starter on Wednesday night. But because
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  Speaker 3: he missed the entire camp, that's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: big spin-up too. Could Julian Neal be that third corner option?
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  Speaker 3: Would you ask a rookie who didn't have any training
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  Speaker 3: camp and any preseason games to start In the middle,
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  Speaker 3: and a huge part of what McDonald wants to do Monday, Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday night against the Patriots, I think not. But he
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  Speaker 3: is another alternative, yes. If the injury, the leg issue
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  Speaker 3: that he had for most of August has really set
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  Speaker 3: him back, and he's got a lot of catching up
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things to report about here this morning as
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  Speaker 4: we are two days shy of the season opener and
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  Speaker 4: the injury report. featuring more guys than I expected to see,
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  Speaker 4: including Anthony Bradford. So he's on the list. What does
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  Speaker 4: that mean? And then secondarily, have we discussed what happens
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  Speaker 4: if Anthony Bradford doesn't play? Is it as easy as
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  Speaker 4: Christian Haynes steps into right guard?
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be because that's what they've done
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  Speaker 3: all training camp. And Bo Stevens, the rookie fifth-round pick,
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  Speaker 3: has not played any second team in any of the
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  Speaker 3: preseason and training camp. Bradford was limited, and we noticed
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't in practice not last week but the week before.
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  Speaker 3: So this might be an older injury. To me, he
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  Speaker 3: has a limited participant yesterday, Bradford was. To me, it's
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  Speaker 3: a knee. It's not as recent as the Okada issue,
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  Speaker 3: and I think there's a chance, more of a chance...
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  Speaker 3: My gut feeling is more of a chance that Bradford
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  Speaker 3: plays than Okada. But if he doesn't, it looks like
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  Speaker 3: Christian Haynes, who has started there before, who we've talked about,
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  Speaker 3: had three chances to win that job and hasn't won
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  Speaker 3: it yet. They still have him as the semi-experienced backup.
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  Speaker 3: If he has to play, he will.
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  Speaker 4: Running back room, entirely healthy. I mean, all things considered. Price, Helani,
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  Speaker 4: and Wilson, all ready to go then on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson looks back from the hamstring issue that had
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  Speaker 3: the last half of August. He was on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't practice for weeks, but he was a full
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  Speaker 3: participant listed yesterday in practice. And talking to him, looking
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  Speaker 3: at him in the locker room, he looks ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: And then the first practice, parts of practices we've been
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  Speaker 3: watching all weekend, I would say he's probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be the short yardage back. That's the role he was
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  Speaker 3: gaining before he got injured. Helani and Price have been
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  Speaker 3: in bubble wrap since about the second week of August.
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  Speaker 3: There is some curiosity factor, but when I used that
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  Speaker 3: word to Brian Fleury yesterday about Price, the rookie who
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  Speaker 3: hasn't played since November for Notre Dame, he said, no,
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  Speaker 3: not curious, excited. We've seen enough of him in practice
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  Speaker 3: that we pretty much have a good idea what he's
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  Speaker 3: going to bring. They really repped game-like situations. Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 3: was talking yesterday about how they have these call-it periods
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  Speaker 3: where it's not a scripted practice list of plays like
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  Speaker 3: you normally get. It's Let's read and react to down
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  Speaker 3: and distance and what the defense is in and change
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  Speaker 3: the plays at the line and then go from that
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  Speaker 3: play call to what, okay, it's second and three, now
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  Speaker 3: we're going to call this. More of a game situation
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  Speaker 3: than a scripted just recipe list of plays. And they
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  Speaker 3: did quite a bit of that in training camp and
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  Speaker 3: preseason because they knew the starters weren't going to play.
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  Speaker 3: And they think it's full steam ahead for Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 3: It is unusual that you have a rookie first-round pick
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  Speaker 3: as your number one lead tailback on an offense so
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  Speaker 3: predicated on the run, and he hasn't played in 10 months.
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  Speaker 3: That's really different. I haven't seen that before.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell with us. TheNewsTribune.com, all of his Seahawks reporting. Also,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: you can follow him at GBellSeattle on X. He joins
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  Speaker 4: us nearly every day of the football season thanks to
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  Speaker 4: the Emerald Queen Casino and thanks to Greg. Greg also
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  Speaker 4: has to agree to do that as well. Let's talk
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  Speaker 4: about not just Army. But if they were the outlier
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  Speaker 4: this weekend, I did a whole rant at the beginning
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  Speaker 4: of the show about I think that the way teams
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  Speaker 4: practice now, and I'm not disagreeing with it. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying that that's the wrong approach. I want to preserve
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  Speaker 4: my guys, too. I don't want friendly fire beating up
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  Speaker 4: my guys in practice, either. I think it probably is
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  Speaker 4: the smart way to go about things. But we saw
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  Speaker 4: an entire college football weekend where some powerhouses took two
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  Speaker 4: quarters minimum to get going. The Huskies took three quarters
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  Speaker 4: to get their offense going yesterday. Oregon never did get
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  Speaker 4: its offense going over the weekend, and I don't think
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  Speaker 4: professional football teams are immune to this either. It seems
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  Speaker 4: like it takes them a half or a game and
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  Speaker 4: a half to find their rhythm into a football season
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  Speaker 4: because of the lack of live action that they receive now.
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  Speaker 4: before the season gets underway, why would the Seahawks be different?
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  Speaker 4: What are Mike McDonald and company doing to avoid having
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  Speaker 4: a sluggish start?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I would argue that Michigan went 60 minutes
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  Speaker 3: and only scored one touchdown. Need another second added on
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  Speaker 3: to even during the game. I don't think the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: are immune to it. I don't think there's anything that
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  Speaker 3: McDonald can do to keep them, especially on defense, from
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  Speaker 3: being sluggish in game one. The one thing that in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL most teams early in the season are not
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  Speaker 3: good at is tackling because they don't tackle. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: have not put anyone to ground, nobody, not in practice,
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  Speaker 3: not in pre, the starters, since Super Bowl 60, since
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: February the 8th. They haven't put anybody to any ground anywhere.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: And now you're going to thrust them into full-speed action go. Well,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: there are going to be missed tackles. There are going
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to be bad angles. There are going to be things
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: that the number one ranked defense that led the league
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: in the fewest points allowed last year did not do.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: And I think the Seahawks are in an advantageous position
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: defensively because I don't think New England's offense can hurt them.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I know they brought in new players, and they've got A.J. Brown,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: and they've got different weapons. I don't think Drake May
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: in that running game can hurt the Seahawks, even when
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks aren't tackling it. I said it before the
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl last year, and I'm going to say it
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: before the opener Wednesday. The Seahawks are going to trample
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the Patriots. And it's because of the Seahawks' defense against
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: the Patriots' offense. That's a decisive mismatch in Seattle's favor.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I've watched Drake May for a while. I don't believe
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: he's going to come into Lumenfield Wednesday night and rip
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: up the Seahawks. I didn't believe he was going to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: do anything against the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: he didn't. Having said all that, I don't think you're
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: going to see the same Seahawks defense you saw last
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: year on Wednesday night. and you may not see it
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: for a couple weeks, it's the cost of the way
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: McDonald does business. If he doesn't want his starters to
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: play at all, and they don't want to practice tackling
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: at all, you can't expect them to come out and
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: be ferocious tacklers and technically sound in week one. It's
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: going to take them a while. Will it take them
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the entire game Wednesday? Maybe. And I still think that'll
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: be enough to win.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: All right. What do you got planned for the show
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: here today?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: We tracked down Elise Woodward last night after the game,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and she's excited to tell listeners about what her first
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: experience was in the Bob Rondo Press Box yesterday, talking
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: about the Apple Cup and her experience with the play-by-play
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of it. Of course, Jessamyn was on the Washington State sidelines,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: so we'll get quite an insight into the behind-the-scenes of
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the Apple Cup, how soft he went as a sideline reporter,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: whether or not he had to take off her headset
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: and still could hear him screaming through the microphone on
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the sidelines. We'll talk quite a bit about what the Seahawks'
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: plans could be, alternatives could be to Nicky Manwari as well.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little-known fact that a lot of our
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: listeners aren't aware of how much the Seattle Media Group
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: loves when Softie does a live show during an event.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Walls, distance, it doesn't matter. It's like they don't exist.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I used to be right next to him in Kirkland
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: all the time. Yeah. I think Dave Pearson of the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Seahawks did it on purpose to just torment me that
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I had to sit next to him for hours, like
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: drafts and other things. All right.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Well, great stuff. Thank you very much. We'll be listening
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: at 10 o'clock, sir.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: All right. Happy Labor Day. Thank you. All right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Greg Bell joining us right here on the radio program
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: today at his normal slot. And we will be doing
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the roundtable this year again with Hugh. We are going
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to do it a little slightly differently to open up
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the season this year. We're just going to keep Greg
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: on a Wednesday in his normal slot for the latest,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: greatest information on Wednesday. And then we'll have Hugh with
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: X's and O's, game day X's and O's. But we're
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: going to do a special roundtable. this Wednesday on game
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: day with Softie, with Ian, with Dick Fane. And so, yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: we'll chop it up, get you ready for the Seahawks season.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: So we're basically using all of our weapons here on Wednesday.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Which I think is the right way to kick off
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the season.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too. I want to hear from
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: everybody at the station. All right, coming up next on
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: our radio program, here we go. We're going to have
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Some audio from Jed Fish talking about the victory yesterday,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the Apple Cup yesterday. We'll talk a little more about
• 21:38
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  Speaker 4: touchdown call in that capacity. So congratulations to her historic
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: first game and to Cam Cleland. Thanks for all the support, buddy. Yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: you're great. And to David Softy Mahler for not burning
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  Speaker 4: the place down. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Which is actually one of the more remarkable things.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, the honks last night for quite a bit. Great, great.
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  Speaker 4: Mario and Greg, great reaction last night to what we
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: saw on Saturday. And certainly a tinge, more than a
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: tinge of disappointment. I think there was an expectation that
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: UW was going to just mop the field with their
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: rival to start the season. And that did not happen.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: At one point in the fourth quarter, we had a
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: three-point football game. And the offense never really did get
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: going until a flea flicker sort of unlocked some things
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: in the fourth, and they end up winning by two scores,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: 24-10 the final score. But 12 penalties for 130 yards
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: by the Huskies.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: It was ugly.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: A lot of 15-yard varieties, just stupidity.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yep. And.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: being over-emotional, and probably because it's the opener, you're like
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: a puppy on the carpet, and you're just wetting on
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: over everything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just see a guy standing out of bounds
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and think, I've got to touch him.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got to give him a bump.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I just got to.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Even though I know it's probably not smart. I'm just
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: going to go ahead and pee on the shoes and
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: see what happens. The defense was stifling for the Huskies, and... Yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: let's give credit to the Cougs as well for a
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: stifling defense. I mean, I don't know. Maybe we're not
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: giving the Cougs enough credit for how good a defense
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: that they played yesterday. Maybe we're giving the Huskies too
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: much credit defensively. Maybe the Cougs are that challenged offensively.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, time's going to tell on that front. But
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the Huskies did win the turnover battle 3-0. In the contest,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: that was a big factor. Alex McLaughlin sealing it with
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: an interception late in the game. And the Huskies did
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: lose a couple guys to injuries, both running backs, Quade
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Carr and Jaden Lamar. Looks like Jaden Lamar is going
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to be okay. Here's Jed Fish after the game.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I am happy with the way we played on defense.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I thought in the fourth quarter, the offense really turned
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: on and did a fantastic job. A couple drives and touchdowns.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: drives a changing field position, and was proud of the
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: way DeMond played today. Thought that early on, you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: we were just, you know, dealing with a couple plays
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: here or there that he probably would have taken back,
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: that I would have taken back, and then we should have,
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: you know, we're disappointed we didn't get in the end
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: zone to end the half to get to 17-0. Thought
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: that would have been a real difference in the game
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: if it's 17-0 with the ball to start the half Also,
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: a couple of drives before that, I think we missed
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: a field goal. So there's some things to clean up
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: for sure. The game could have gone a certain way.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: On the same token, when it was 10-7, the game
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: could have gone a certain way, and the offense responded
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: with a touchdown in four plays. So that part made
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: me real happy, the resiliency that we showed. But a
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: lot to learn. Week one, young players, young team. and
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: need to find a way to play a little bit
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: better next week.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: You know what I did on the entire drive-in today?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I worked on my Jed Fish impersonation.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Because he has an interesting enough voice, and yet I've
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: never heard anyone even try it. And there's a cadence
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: to the way he talks, and that it's deep, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: a little bit back in the throat. I can't get
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: anywhere close.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, that's a bummer. That is a winner. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: was ready for it. I was like, oh, I'm ready
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to hear this.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: No, I was actually going to try it out a
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: little bit, and I'm like, I'm not anywhere close with
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: this one. So I'm going to have to run it
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: through my couple filters. Okay. He'll come up with it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Try to get back to you on that. Huskies win
• 26:20
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: with the Thursday game. That's the game I'm going to
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: start with. And if you've been following along at all,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: you know that I've kind of been predicting the 49ers'
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• 30:31
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• 30:33
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• 30:37
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• 30:40
  Speaker 4: what the 49ers are currently doing. And if the Rams
• 30:44
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• 31:07
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• 31:23
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  Speaker 4: as questionable as I personally think that they are, Rams
• 31:30
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• 31:33
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• 31:37
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  Speaker 4: going to have one on Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: As strange as that sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta have a Monday morning quarterback on Thursday if the
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  Speaker 1: game is on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to have a Taco Tuesday on Thursday
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  Speaker 4: this week, too, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just going to move everything right across the board.
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  Speaker 4: We won't have a freaky Friday. We're going to have
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  Speaker 4: a freaky Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, I'm not prepared for that one.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's what's freaky about it. Anyway, Hugh Millen's
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  Speaker 4: going to be with us for two Monday morning quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Thursday, recapping the Seahawks opener, and then he'll be
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  Speaker 4: with us today from 8 to 9. We're going to
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: do an Apple Cup Monday morning quarterback with our QB1,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: so we'll do that for an entire hour. There's another
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  Speaker 4: major event. I mean, I don't know what the pecking
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: order is. Between Seahawks opener defending their title, 118th playing
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: of the Apple Cup, Factor Fiction getting started today. I
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: don't know how to rank them, but somewhere in the mix,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: you've got to throw the KJR Fantasy Football League draft.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty high up there.
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  Speaker 4: Third, maybe, on that list?
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  Speaker 3: Second?
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  Speaker 4: First? Second, I guess. Yes, all the brightest minds here
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  Speaker 4: at KJR are the ones willing to play. We'll gather
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  Speaker 4: tonight at 7 o'clock for our annual KJR Fantasy Football Draft.
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  Speaker 4: And I have terrible news for you, Ashley, and everybody
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: else participating that has to face me for this upcoming season.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I did one of those practice rounds. I don't know
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: if you ever do the practice rounds.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I don't ever do a practice round, no.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I do it just to kind of get
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: a feel of the buttons so that I'm not sitting
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: here going, how do I pull up a guy? So
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I do a little bit of a– and also just
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: kind of get a feel for who might be available where.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: It's actually a pretty good practice. Okay. And so there
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: are a couple of them that are available, but on
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: our site that we're using, I used that last night.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: And so fill out my team. I'm like, oh, boy,
• 35:17
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• 35:19
  Speaker 4: be over the moon.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: And they gave me a D.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: And that is bad news for everybody in our league
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: because they always give.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Me a D.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Every single year, they always give me a D. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: as I've said before many a times, and people can
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: read into it what they want, I will never say
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: that I'm better than anybody in our KJR Fantasy League
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: at Fantasy Football. I just will never make that statement.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: But I have won three titles and have been to
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: four out of five championship games. So I can tell
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you this much. I'm better than the experts that make
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: the picks on our website. I know that much. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: can tell you that much. I don't know if I'm
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: better than Ashley. Ashley's pretty good. Don't know if I'm
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: better than Jackson. Jackson's pretty good. Anders is good. Anders
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: has won a title. But I know that whoever makes
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: the rankings on the website that we use, I at
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: least know I'm better than them.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: So I actually had a real draft last night, not
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: a practice draft last night.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: And it sent me my great after and I went, oh,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: damn it. Because it gave me an A.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: It gave you an A.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: And I was like, ugh.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, just all kidding aside, tongue in cheek aside,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: draft your own team.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Like, don't just rely on who they're telling you. You
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: got a gut on somebody. Play the gut. And if
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: he's valued as a sixth round pick and you're in
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: the fourth and you're worried about not having him, on
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: your roster, take him. That's what I do. That's what
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I do. And it works out. I'd rather play the
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: guys I really like than the guys that they tell
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: me I should like.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely know what you mean.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: So yeah, if you get an A, it just means
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: in the evaluation, it just means that You, they liked,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: you took their advice. It's usually what that means on
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: those little practice rounds.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Which is funny because I didn't.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: You didn't?
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: No.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Which pick did you have?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I was, well, because it's a keeper league.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Or no, wait, yeah, that was the one. It's a
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: keeper league, so I only kept one person. You could
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: keep two. And one guy on our team, or on
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: our league, kept nobody. So he had the first, I
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: had the second.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: And then, and.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Then I had another one before everything. No, and then
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I had the first one again.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Okay. It was weird. I don't understand anything you just said.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Basically, because if you kept two keepers, it counts as
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: your first two picks.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: So if you only kept one, it only counts as
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a first round pick.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: So he got the first, but I would have, in
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a normal, had it not been a keeper league, I
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: would have had the first pick.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: And so I got the second pick, and then I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: got the.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Who did you end up with after all that mess?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Second pick.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Who did I? Now I don't even remember who I took.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Well, obviously the website.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I know I kept Jameer Gibbs. That was the only
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: person I kept.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, what a silly decision.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Terrible, right? And then I picked, oh, that's right. Derrick Henry.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay. Gibbs and Henry. That's a good starting point
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: right there. See, everybody sleeps on Derrick Henry because they
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: keep expecting him. Running backs are old. Here's the thing
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: about Derrick Henry. Here's a good piece of advice on
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: the day that I'm drafting my fantasy league today because
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I had him last year, and it looked like it
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: was a disaster. And the thing about him, he's bigger
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: and stronger than everybody else trying to tackle him, basically.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: So by the end of the season, he's more durable,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: and he's better at the end of the year. Now,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: you've still got to get into the playoffs with him,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: If he starts as slowly as he did a year ago,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: but by the end of the year, he won me
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: the league. He and Chase Brown won me the league.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: That's who the first pick that was gone was, was
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Chase Brown.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So anyway, a little advice for you. Be patient
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: with Derrick Henry. Don't sleep on Derrick Henry.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I did not, and I will not.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: You have the 10th pick tonight in our draft. I
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: have the 11th. So we are going to be stealing
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: from each other all night long.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: So prepare.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: All right, coming up next, Hugh Millen, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.