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10-30 H4: Andrew Destin Joins, Hey Mike & Raise A Pint · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure. Thanks for having me on. How are
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  Speaker 1: we doing today?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing well. We're doing well. Appreciate you hopping on
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  Speaker 2: the show today. For those who don't know, Chuck is
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  Speaker 2: on vacation, so myself, Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd are filling
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  Speaker 2: in the gaps for him until he returns next week.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just talk about your first impressions of Quentin Nelson.
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  Speaker 2: He gets to speak to the media for the first
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  Speaker 2: time yesterday. What's this guy like? Is he going to
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  Speaker 2: step right in and just make this team instantly better?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. I think that's exactly what we're looking
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  Speaker 1: at here. And I kind of wrote as much and
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  Speaker 1: probably as opinionated of a story as you'll ever get
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  Speaker 1: out of me, which for any of you listening, if
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  Speaker 1: you're curious to learn more about my style as a reporter,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't be more boring when it comes to my
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  Speaker 1: writing or my take. So if I write something opinionated,
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  Speaker 1: that means it's probably pretty important. I say all that
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  Speaker 1: to say that this is such a big pickup for
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. especially in the interim, depending on how long
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  Speaker 1: Charles Cross is going to be out. I know Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald City doesn't think that Cross is a candidate for
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  Speaker 1: injured reserve at this point, but man, I mean, Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: you can't find... offensive lineman in the league. He's excellent
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  Speaker 1: in past pro. He's been there, done that as a
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  Speaker 1: six-time all-pro and eight-time pro bowler. Just an excellent addition.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, it also makes the right side of the
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  Speaker 1: line that much better because no disrespect to Anthony Bradford,
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  Speaker 1: but once Gray's able gets up to speed on the
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  Speaker 1: right side, boy, does that make the right side of
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  Speaker 1: the line a lot better when you've got a former
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  Speaker 1: first rounder on the right side, a former first rounder
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  Speaker 1: on the left side, another one in Charleston Like that's a,
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  Speaker 1: that's legitimately you're taking your offensive line from being a
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  Speaker 1: weakness two years ago to theoretically with Nelson on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Now it can be a clear and obvious strength. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what is the change like for moving from
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  Speaker 2: left guard to right guard for crazy books? I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the biggest, real biggest change. Most people, like I
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  Speaker 2: know I mentioned with Greg Bell earlier on in the show,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have three fifths of the offensive line be different
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  Speaker 2: positions for or different players at those positions. But for
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  Speaker 2: two of those three changes, it's guys that have played
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  Speaker 2: those positions before. It looks like it'll be Josh Jones
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  Speaker 2: at left tackle for Charles Cross if he's unable to go.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, Quentin Nelson playing left guard where
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  Speaker 2: he has his entire career. The only one really switching
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  Speaker 2: is Gray Zabel to right guard. What is that change like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a big one, or is it just, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing the same stuff just on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the line?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a little bit of both, which is
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  Speaker 1: a cliche cop-out answer, but it's the truth, right? Zabel
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  Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit yesterday of how one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest differences, frankly, is which hand you're planting with.
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  Speaker 1: It's that all the plates are flipped. It's all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what's really going to help Gray Zabel here,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like this is becoming a really well-known
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  Speaker 1: fact at this point, is that during his time at
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota State, About half of his starts came on
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  Speaker 1: the right side. So I think that's what probably helped
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff in the front office be okay with
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  Speaker 1: making this switch is the fact that Gray's able is
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  Speaker 1: very familiar with the right side is the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Gray's able is very comfortable with either right tackle or
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  Speaker 1: right guard, both of which he played in college. So
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  Speaker 1: it was certainly more right tackle how it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be different. The plays are going to be switched. going
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  Speaker 1: to be different, but when it comes to the actual
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  Speaker 1: offensive scheme, it's still the same playbook. He still knows
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  Speaker 1: that he's been with this franchise now for a year
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  Speaker 1: and change. It's a relatively similar offense under Brian Fleury
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  Speaker 1: as to what Clint Kubiak was running last season in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways, so I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: working in Grace Abel's favor. That being said, it will
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  Speaker 1: be an adjustment. I don't think it's going to happen overnight,
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  Speaker 1: but I think this is probably going to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more seamless of a transition than, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you compared this to, say, a wide receiver switching
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  Speaker 1: to tight end, right? That's apples to oranges. This is
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  Speaker 1: more of an apples to apples switch. It's not such
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  Speaker 1: a foreign language. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Destin joining us from The Athletic here on Sports
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  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Anderson Hurst, your quiz for Kidd and
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  Speaker 2: for Chuck Powell. Andrew, the running back room. You got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of running backs.
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  Speaker 3: You got $ 100.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you putting your money on to start Monday
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  Speaker 4: Night Football versus Chicago Bears?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a great question. I'm going to say it's
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  Speaker 1: Zach Charbonnet. I genuinely do think that at this point
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  Speaker 1: with him getting a full week of practice in last
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  Speaker 1: week and him now on the verge of another full
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  Speaker 1: week this week, that gives him two. What a math
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  Speaker 1: major I am. But no, sincerely, I think that at
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  Speaker 1: this point, Charbonnet has done, he's checked all the boxes
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  Speaker 1: at this point. The reason they held him out this
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  Speaker 1: past week against the Chiefs is strictly by nature of
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  Speaker 1: It's just really quick. It's just really soon. So I
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  Speaker 1: think Charbonnet is really close. That's who I'm putting my
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  Speaker 1: money on. But if it's not him, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be Jarrion Price. He was limited in practice. So
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be Charbonnet if you give me a
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  Speaker 1: hundred bucks. And if it's not him, of course, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be Emmanuel Wilson. It's between those two guys. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Price is an option at this point for Sunday
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  Speaker 1: or for Monday. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So let's clarify there.
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  Speaker 2: Even though you don't think Price will start, are you
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  Speaker 2: saying he probably won't play either?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Price is going to play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: limited in practice right now. Yesterday was Thursday. Today we'll
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  Speaker 1: find out what the practice report is. It's just too
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  Speaker 1: short of a run-up. He missed four weeks. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got plenty of other running backs that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to say they're world beaters in a way that
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  Speaker 1: Janarian price isn't, but you know, I would say I've
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  Speaker 1: written this, but I think Charbonnet is closer to coming
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  Speaker 1: back than prices. So that's just kind of where I
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  Speaker 1: stand on that, uh, that conversation. Gotcha. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, with the Quentin Nelson move, this obviously
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  Speaker 2: is a huge upgrade, not just to the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: but the run game as well. So, um, Do you
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  Speaker 2: think John Schneider is done with his his trade deadline moves?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he can make another one? And where
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  Speaker 2: do you think that might be?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's done in terms of making another move,
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  Speaker 1: but he's done in terms of making that impactful of
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  Speaker 1: a trade. Right. And you look at the last three
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  Speaker 1: trade deadlines, Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones, Rashid Shaheed, now obviously
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson. If I'm quoting Seinfeld, it's the big salad.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's certainly... I think there's still potential there.
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  Speaker 1: And I wrote about this recently at The Athletic about
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  Speaker 1: whether you could go after an edge rusher, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is probably the top priority remaining. And there's so
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  Speaker 1: many guys out there on expiring deals or cheaper contracts
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  Speaker 1: that come to mind. It doesn't have to be Max Crosby.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of other guys out there. Possibly you could
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  Speaker 1: go for a tight end if you aren't satisfied with
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  Speaker 1: what A.J. Burner has provided and or the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Arroyo is out for the year. Maybe it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt to add another tight end. Dallas Goddard can probably
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  Speaker 1: be obtained for relatively cheap from the Philadelphia Eagles. He's
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  Speaker 1: on an expiring deal. He's been injury-plagued for a few seasons.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are going nowhere at this point. I think
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard makes a ton of sense. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bigger name, but there's plenty of other tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of other edge rushers out there. But those
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  Speaker 1: are the two positions that I'm looking at. possibly could
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  Speaker 1: also add some depth at safety wide receiver running back
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  Speaker 1: but i'm really looking at edge rusher and tight end
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  Speaker 1: those would be spots of interest to.
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  Speaker 2: Me yeah one of the last positions you mentioned there
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  Speaker 2: i think was what everyone was hoping for just a
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  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago running back so you think this move
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  Speaker 2: for quentin nelson um and having zach charbonnet and judarian
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  Speaker 2: price coming back kind of pushes down the priority of
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  Speaker 2: adding a running back at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, and I will say this, and this
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  Speaker 1: is not in defense of John Schneider or in defense
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  Speaker 1: of the Seahawks. It's just my understanding of business. You
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  Speaker 1: let Kenneth Walker III walk in free agency. position at
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  Speaker 1: that level of a 14, $ 15 million a year guy.
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  Speaker 1: And you thought you could replace him through the draft
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  Speaker 1: and through sharpening coming back from injury. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you have. You've reached that juncture. So if this plan
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  Speaker 1: is no longer the plan, then that's kind of backtracking
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  Speaker 1: on everything that you outlined and did over the last six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight months. So I think you have to at least
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  Speaker 1: give this a shot on Monday night. See where you're
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  Speaker 1: at with the running back room. I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: If I was a Seahawks, I would be a lot
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable going past the deadline without adding running back.
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  Speaker 1: If I actually, actually saw Zach Charbonnet play a game,
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  Speaker 1: if I actually saw Jadarion Price return to the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: like both those things would make these conversations a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they add a running back, but I'm not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to bring it to Seahawks fans. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Jonathan Taylor is coming here. If he does, I
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  Speaker 1: will gladly eat my words, but it's not going to be,
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  Speaker 1: if they add a running back, it won't be a
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  Speaker 1: big name because then that would kind of basically disprove. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you just keep walking a third? That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of going against the grain of the way that they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to operate here.
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  Speaker 3: We'll stick with the offense, Andrew.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that Rashid Shaheed, he didn't practice yesterday and,
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  Speaker 4: you'll find out today if he's practicing, what does that
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver room look like Monday night if, indeed, Rasheed
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  Speaker 4: Shaheed is out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tough question. I think what you're looking at with
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  Speaker 1: the receiver room is probably more opportunities for Torrey Horton.
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  Speaker 1: Could get a little bit deeper in the weeds there
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  Speaker 1: at that wide receiver depth, but probably more tight end involvement.
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  Speaker 1: I think that Cooper Cuff has certainly continued to operate
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  Speaker 1: in that number two role. You'll see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more Torrey Horton who has flashed and especially with Shaheed around.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously everything still runs through Jackson, Smith, and Jigba,
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  Speaker 1: but I think if Shaheed is not able to go,
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  Speaker 1: which remains to be seen, Mike McDonald was pretty optimistic
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  Speaker 1: about his availability moving forward, whether or not he missed
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  Speaker 1: the game, that's unclear, but at least things he can
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  Speaker 1: get through, they can at least get him back on
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  Speaker 1: the sooner side because it doesn't seem to be a long,
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  Speaker 1: long-term injury. So I have to say, whenever I see
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  Speaker 1: the injury, report and it says knee injury, that always
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  Speaker 1: gives me pause. So yeah, if he's not able to go,
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  Speaker 1: Corey Horton definitely is going to be the guy who
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  Speaker 1: steps up.
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  Speaker 4: I want to stick with Shahid because Anderson and I,
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  Speaker 4: we were discussing him a little earlier in the show
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  Speaker 4: about him just not being a factor in the offense, right?
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  Speaker 4: And I was basically trying to not defend him, but
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  Speaker 4: saying that, you know, sometimes he just doesn't get the football.
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  Speaker 3: And I know his stats are very underwhelming this season.
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  Speaker 4: What are you seeing from the offense and the uses
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  Speaker 4: of Shahid and lack thereof?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two things. One, I think that people are going
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  Speaker 1: to be upset about Rashid Shahid's because of what he produces, right?
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  Speaker 1: He forces the defense to respect the default, to threaten
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  Speaker 1: the return game. We've seen him making a couple of
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  Speaker 1: nice returns already this season. Obviously, you know what he
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  Speaker 1: did last year during the playoffs and down the stretch
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  Speaker 1: of the regular season. So that's all a factor. The
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  Speaker 1: second thing is, I don't think, whether it's Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: or whether it's the scheme, After kind of a shaky
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  Speaker 1: start to the year, I think back to that Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals games or that Arizona Cardinals game kind of as
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  Speaker 1: the inflection point where he dropped at least one pass,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two, maybe three. And remember, at least one right
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  Speaker 1: in front of me there in Glendale. But it feels
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  Speaker 1: like from that point onward, the concerted efforts to try
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  Speaker 1: to get him the ball have been less and less. Hmm. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and instead what we're seeing is that it's more to
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba. And now we're seeing the tight
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  Speaker 1: ends get a little bit more involved. I know AJ
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  Speaker 1: Barner had four catches last game, and that was one
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  Speaker 1: of his more productive games in the season. So what
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing from Sheed, he's certainly still getting open. Those
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  Speaker 1: opportunities are there. He is forcing the opposing defenses to
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  Speaker 1: respect him by keeping it safety deep, keeping it safety high,
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  Speaker 1: but He's just, the production's not there. I understand the frustration.
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  Speaker 1: I really do. But I think it goes to a
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  Speaker 1: couple different factors. One is just him not getting targeted.
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  Speaker 1: And second, it's what his exact role is in this offense,
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  Speaker 1: which is to try and take a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: pressure off Smith and Jigba and force opposing defenses to
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  Speaker 1: respect the deep ball.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Destin from The Athletic joining us. Andrew, let's look
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  Speaker 2: ahead to Monday against the Bears. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: have been hyping them up for a while now, and
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  Speaker 2: they just added Jeffrey Simmons kind of in response, I
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  Speaker 2: should say, to Seattle trading for Quentin Nelson. That should
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  Speaker 2: be an interesting matchup on Monday. But do you think
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  Speaker 2: that move particularly puts them firmly into one of the
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  Speaker 2: elites of the NFC, or do you still think there's
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  Speaker 2: a gap between the Seahawks, Niners, whoever else you put
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  Speaker 2: up there and where the Bears lie right now?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think the Bears are right there. We saw
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  Speaker 1: them make the playoffs last season and they're just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to get better when they stay healthy. And obviously having
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams back and playing at the level he's capable
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  Speaker 1: of is really important for that. But you add Jeffrey Simmons,
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  Speaker 1: you think about Ben Johnson, who really is one of
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  Speaker 1: the rising head coaches in this league and kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels like the off really kind of a trendsetter on
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  Speaker 1: that side of the ball and the way that McDonald
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  Speaker 1: is with defense. I think the Bears are excellent. I
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  Speaker 1: think that this is a team that is on the rise.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the schedule, I'm kind of delineating here,
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  Speaker 1: but when I think to when the Seahawks schedule came
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  Speaker 1: out back a few months ago, I was thinking, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a really tough stretch of games
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  Speaker 1: there all the way until mid-November. Obviously, the Chargers didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up being as good as we thought they would be.
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  Speaker 1: Far from it. But the Bears certainly have. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a tough matchup. And I'll say this much for
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks' sake. They should be glad this one's being
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  Speaker 1: played at home because Monday night in Chicago against this squad,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I would be as confident in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle to pull it out. So it should be a
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  Speaker 1: great game. I'll leave it at that. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be an excellent one on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew, last one from me. It's simple. Who wins Monday
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  Speaker 3: night football?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I like it. I'm going Seahawks. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that really... Two points I want to
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  Speaker 1: make off of that Chiefs game. One, the Seahawks finally
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  Speaker 1: found their groove. Second, the Chiefs are probably a little
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  Speaker 1: bit overrated relative to that previously undefeated record. All that
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  Speaker 1: being said, I think Seattle is going to start rolling.
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  Speaker 1: I think adding Quentin Nelson is going to energize this team.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote this much, but when you add a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Nelson that sends a message to the team of
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  Speaker 1: we believe in you guys, we think that you're still
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender and we're going to give you
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  Speaker 1: every piece imaginable or every piece of support to go
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  Speaker 1: all the way. I think the mood around the building,
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  Speaker 1: around the locker room has just been elevated in the
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  Speaker 1: last 24 hours in a way that's pretty darn tangible.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that carries over into Monday for a
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn important game. So give me the Seahawks by
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: This does feel like kind of a prove it game
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  Speaker 2: for both teams, right? For the Bears, this is like, OK,
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  Speaker 2: if you're legit, you come in and win this game.
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  Speaker 2: People start to take you really seriously as a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl contender for the Seahawks. You kind of if you
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  Speaker 2: win back to back weeks against the Chiefs and Bears
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  Speaker 2: in primetime, I should say, that makes a big difference
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  Speaker 2: when everyone's watching you. That kind of puts your early
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  Speaker 2: season struggles behind you a little bit. You could start
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  Speaker 2: to move forward with a slightly easier next couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks in terms of the schedule as well. One last
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  Speaker 2: one for you before we move on here. Who do
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  Speaker 2: you think is that threat for the Seahawks and the NFC?
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  Speaker 2: Is it still the Niners? They had their bye week.
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  Speaker 2: They're going through some injuries right now, or they have
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  Speaker 2: their bye weeks, excuse me, this week. They're going through
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  Speaker 2: some injuries right now.
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  Speaker 5: Is it the Bears?
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  Speaker 2: Do you still feel like the Rams are right there?
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  Speaker 2: Who is that main threat for the Seahawks and the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: NFC to kind of dethrone them this year?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Wow. Can I give you the most cliche answer of
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: all time and say the Seahawks' biggest threat is themselves?
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I do actually believe that. And this is going to
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: come off like such coach speak, but... The Seahawks, to
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: a man, are as good or better than every team
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: in the NFC. I think that's pretty obvious. The only
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: reason they would not be able to win it all,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: or at the very least advance deep in the NFC,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: is if they can't stop throwing the ball over. If
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: they can't continue to keep opposing teams from scoring off
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: of their own turnovers. If they can't find solid footing
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: in offense. Sure. Niners are a very strong team. They
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: beat them up here in Seattle a few weeks ago.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I think the Niners are probably the biggest threat on
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: paper as of right now. The Seahawks are the defending
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: champs if they don't go all the way. lost three
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: games by eight points. And frankly, you can make a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: legit argument that they should be seven to now. Totally.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And I would hear you out on that. Yeah. So
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I think truly the Seahawks pick a threat of themselves.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll take coach speak anytime, especially when it's that
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: good of analysis. So appreciate you, Andrew Destin for joining us.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Where can we find your wonderful work?
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Yeah. I'm on the athletic.com. You can
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: find that through the New York times webpage. And also
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I am on Twitter or X, the everything app, whatever
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you call it these days at Andrew, Andrew Destin one.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So that's where you can find me with all of
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: my work covering the Seahawks. Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Well, and he says it's boring writing. I disagree. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: think his writing is fantastic. It's great to read. He's
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: one of the best beat reporters in the game. We're
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: lucky to be able to chat with him, Andrew.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Thanks so much. We'll talk to you soon.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. You're too kind. Thank you so much for having
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: me on. It's a pleasure. Thank you, guys.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much to Andrew Destin for joining us. Yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a huge game. Very much for
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: both football teams this weekend. You got the Huskies with
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: a very turning point type of game against Nebraska. If
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: they were able to pull that one off, there's a
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: really good chance that they can have a good season
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: this year. The Seahawks and Bears, you're looking at the
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: rest of the schedule for the Seahawks. it looks a
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: lot softer than we may have thought it was earlier
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: in the year. If you're able to win this game
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: against the bears, you got the Cardinals and Raiders the
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: next couple of weeks.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: The rematch with the Niners will be a tough one.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: That is going to be a huge one on November 29th,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: but then the Cowboys giants, Eagles, Rams, Panthers, Rams. And
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: especially if the Rams are not in the position that
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: they thought they were going to be in, uh, at
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: that point in the year, they could be a totally
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: different team than we expected. So the, uh, the schedule
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: kind of is lining itself up for the Seahawks. If
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: they're able to get this one up and then, uh, Obviously,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the big one against the Niners on the 29th as well.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: So lots to look forward to.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Monday Night Football, of course, coming up soon for the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Seahawks after the weekend. So we'll really know where this
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: team lies after that game. All right, coming up next,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: we get to speak to our Kraken insider, Mr. Mike Benton,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: the captain of the Kraken Audio Network Enterprise. We'll speak
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: to him next about, you know, is this Kraken team
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: for real? Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back to Sports
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Chuck in the mornings here.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell spending a few days on vacation. So myself,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Anderson Hurst and Christopher Kidd will be holding down the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: fort for him until he returns. Hopefully we don't burn
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: it down. But who knows when we have this guy on,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: there's always a threat of it. Mike Benton of the
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Kraken Audio Network joins us.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Mike Benton, how are you?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Good, sir.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: I'm doing good, Andrew. So what's up here?
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: So baseball season goes into hibernation, and now the resident
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: steamhead decides he can go and hibernate too?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: My goodness.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: We have a theory that he's a vampire. There's a
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: reason why he's leaving the day before Halloween. And considering
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the hours that he works, that is a big question
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: mark for me. So Chuck Bauer, the vampire.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: He's got some bangs growing.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Out right now as we get closer and closer here
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to Hallow's Eve. I mean.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: He picked two guys who sound like national radio quality
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: here for this program.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Chuck, we miss you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: We do miss you. But, you know, we'll be.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Having some questions about you upon your return, depending on
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: if you're a vampire or not.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Let's get into the big stories here with the Kraken,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton. This early season positive start seems to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: for real. The big win over Toronto on Wednesday. Let's
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: start big picture here. What is, do you think, the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: biggest difference this year compared to the last few years
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: for the Seattle Kraken? Because it's really a lot of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the similar guys on the roster.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Very similar guys on the roster, Andrews, and I would
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: say in some sense a similar start to last year. Now,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: I think the difference for me is that when you
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: get into late game situations for the third period, last
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: year they were finding ways to lose these kinds of
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: games already. I think a road game early at Montreal
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: came to mind. I think a road game at Ottawa
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: also came to mind. They were able to pull one
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: out in Toronto as well. And Josh Mahura left Toronto
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: in a vapor trail and scored what was a gorgeous
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: goal last year. This time, do they still have third
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: period issues right now?
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: The answer is yes.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: I think, though, the difference for me is that even
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: though it's been a bit of a bumpy road in
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: that last period, they are finding ways to win, whether
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: it might be goaltending here in a shootout, whether it
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: might be I think better shot selection here for these
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: shooters in a shootout. They have also found ways to
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: win what is not a normal part of the game,
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: but they're finding ways to get the extra point. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I think that goes right back to something that Collins
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: or Leonel, their goaltending coach, did to kind of help.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: train these shooters and be able to, I think, rethink
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: how you approach a goaltender one-on-one. But ultimately, I think
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: it goes right back to the area that they're getting
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: depth up and down the lineup. And the biggest thing
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: for me is that they're seeing younger players contribute, whereas
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: they were not a big part of the conversation last year.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: And front and center, that is Berkley Catton, who right
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: now is on pace to blow past 60 points for
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: this season, which if you get that for him... At
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: age 20, I mean, you're in a pretty good spot.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: So he might be the most talked-about player now on
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: this crack and roster locally and nationally.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: And I think well-deserved.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: But I think that's very, very much a big part
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: of this conversation is seeing a guy like him emerge,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: maybe here to a spot where they haven't had someone
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: who can produce like that previously at the 1C position.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we mentioned it going into the year.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: This was their biggest chance to get a superstar. It's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: not trading for one. It's not signing one in free agency.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's if one of the guys that they have drafted recently,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: elevates their game into that. And I think the most
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: likely case of that happening was Berkeley cat. And is
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: this just a hot stretch for him or he's playing
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: more confident hockey? Or is this a full fledged breakout
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: where we're seeing him go up into that status of
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: star slash superstar?
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I like the chances here, and I like the odds
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: of bladder, I think, for his game, based on the
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: fact that, number one, he was very dedicated in the
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: offseason to amplifying his skill set. But number two, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: biggest thing for me was I asked the first question
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: about back in training camp, how much weight did he
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: put on? And he came back with about between roughly
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: 5 to 10 pounds. That's a big, big difference in
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: being able to handle a lot of the big boys.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: When you have to make plays under less time, much
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: more pressure, and you're facing bigger, heavier, stronger, and more
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: mature players than what.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: You're usually facing, say.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: At about roughly 20 years of age, where, I mean,
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: let's just be honest here. For a lot of players
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: his age right now, they're in the American Hockey League,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: and even some still might be at major junior. But
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: He is able to process the game and do it
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: at a higher rate of speed more than I think
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: the average player can already do in this league, who
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: is about usually five to six years older than him.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: As of right now, when.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: You go back for players who are in the draft
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: class of Macklin Celebrini, first overall, Matthew Schaefer, first overall,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: Becca Seneca, third overall.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: There's only about, I think.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Three players who are right now banking more points than
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: him to begin this season at age 20. Celebrini is one.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Matthew Schaefer is another. So it's very, very rare as
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: far as the kind of start that he is having
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: right now.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: exemplary of the work that he has certainly put in.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: But on top of that, he's also earned a lot
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: more ice time. That was a big part of the
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: conversation is maybe a matter of not, you know, possibly if,
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: but when his line with Capo Caco and Shane Wright
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: was going to be getting maybe more top six, like
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: ice time and facing bigger matchups. We saw the breadcrumbs
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: about a couple of games ago, and I thought they
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: got a couple of defensive zone starts. That, to me,
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: is a big key because they can be trusted without
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: the puck. But then they were also getting matchups against
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Nick Paul's line against Toronto, Berkeley Cat, and until the
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: third period was one of the more used centers on
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: that entire team. I think time is coming where you're
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: going to be seeing him and his line a lot
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: more featured, and I think certainly well-deserved because he's a
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: player who's a high-skilled player already making mature, highly skilled plays.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's great to see. I think that's the biggest,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: for me, the question I asked earlier, it's the biggest
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: difference between this year and in past years. You're actually,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: at the early point of the season at least, seeing
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: players the development of those young players where you've had
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: those high draft picks like Berkeley cat, and he is,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: he's going to be the guy. So if he's turning
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: into this type of player, it's going to be a
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: huge change, uh, for the crackings, uh, you know, uh,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: luck moving forward. Uh, let's move to goaltending here. Um,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I think early on in the season, we were expecting
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: a pretty even timeshare between Joey Decord and Philip Grubauer,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: if not slightly more stars for Joey Decord. Are we,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: is it Grubauer's crease at this point or is it
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: still a timeshare?
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: I think this is maybe a short-term and long-term answer here, Anders,
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: because I think in the short term, there's a hot
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: hand that you have to play, and it's because of scheduling.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: So I think Grubauer is the obvious choice right now,
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: and I think based on his start versus what Joey
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Decord has already put forward as far as his start,
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: and Grubauer arguably has had the better numbers out of
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: the two. I think down the road, you have to
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: look at, and you have no choice, but to look
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: at a split for these two goaltenders. Again, it's going
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: to be very, very heavily schedule-driven. Granted, you take into
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: account that the Kraken are going to be flying here
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: to Finland in about roughly a week and a half
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: of the NHL Global Series. It still makes them the
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: longest-traveled team in the entire NHL. You take that trip out,
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: they're the third most-traveled team in the NHL this season.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: They face a heavy share of back-to-backs. They have a
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: goaltender who can also play the puck. So when you
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: get into that second game of a back-to-back, the mind
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: for these players go, the legs for these players go.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: It especially affects your own defensemen to go back and
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: fetch the puck and move it up ice. Ideally, under
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: normal conditions, say if Grubauer is playing great and Joey
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Decord is playing great, you save Decord usually for that
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: second game because you have to have his ability to
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: play the puck, which is much more advanced than many
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: goaltenders right now in the NHL, and shorten the ice.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: for your players to get up and do what they're
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: supposed to be doing with what Lane Lambert has preached
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: to us, and that's not to sit back in their
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: own zone, but to get buzzing up ice and into
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: the offensive zone. So in that second game of back-to-back,
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: where fatigue kicks in, if you can shorten the ice,
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: it is much, much greater here to your own advantage.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: So that's the advantage that the Kraken have with the court,
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: and they're going to have to eventually get him into
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: the mix here much more, but I think Out of
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: the two goaltenders, I think Grubauer has looked the most
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: calm in that. He's looked the most poised. He's not fumbling.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: He's not juggling loose pucks as well. He's had maybe,
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: I think, the benefit, I think, of greater insulation with,
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: you know, how the Kraken have played defensively.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Utah came to mind for that game. Detroit came to
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: mind here for that game.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: So they only play about roughly 10 games, Andrews, in
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: a 30-day span as of right now. They're big 10 games,
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: but you also have plenty of time off. I won't
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: be surprised if the court gets a few in there.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: I think especially at the NHL Global Series where you
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: don't want to just have him sitting on the bench
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: and rotting. But as of right now, I wouldn't be
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: surprised if.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: The hot hand plays and the obvious hot.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Hand right now is Philip Grubauer. But down the road,
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: this could be much more of a split.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton says not so fast on naming Philip Grubauer
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the one instead of the 1A, 1B situation.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Calgary, a little home and home today and tomorrow.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: It's... They do have one game against the Flames today,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: and then they play again on Wednesday. Sorry, not today
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and tomorrow. But this team is a different team since
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: we faced them last. Prior to their loss to Edmonton
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday, they beat the Maple Leafs, they beat the
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Red Wings, they beat the Wild, and they beat the Hurricanes.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Is this a different team that's coming in to face
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the Kraken?
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: I think certainly, and just given the fact that they've
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: done a little bit more life offensively and they've had
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: some help as well with Devin Cooley back in that,
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: that's kind of helped bump it a little bit back up.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: And, I mean, Andrews, let's just be real here.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Devin Cooley might be one of the most flamboyantly quoted
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: hockey players in the last roughly 15 years.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: A guy could write a book or go into TV
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: once he's all done.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: But I think.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: I think that kind of poise and devil-may-care attitude, pardon
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: the expression, when it comes to, you know, his quotes
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: in the media really translate to how he plays on
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: the ice.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: He's got ice in his veins. He's got a lot
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: of poise.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: But he got banged up in the previous game against Edmonton,
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: did not return. Last I checked, we are still waiting,
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: I think, here for the status of Devin Cooley, which
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: might be in doubt.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: For this game. So if he can't go.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: That might mean Dustin Wolf once again, the former Reverend Silvertip,
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: who has had a very, very, very rough year, and
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: the Kraken exposed him in the first couple of games
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: when they played against him back early October road, and
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: also here for the home opener. So I talked with
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: John Abbott about this, and we'll have him on for
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Kraken Weekly later on here for today. And, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: he mentioned that, of course, in the vein of hockey
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: players have long memories of Calgary still remembers.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: The first two matchups and just.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: How much the Kraken ran them right out of the building.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: 6-1 one game, 6-1 in the other. So I think
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: as far as a mind, this is where you have to,
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: I think, exercise some element of caution. The Flames do
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: not want to get run out of their own building
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: once again. So I think it's going to be a
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: much tougher matchup, a tighter matchup as well, a five-on-five matchup. Ultimately,
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: I think for me, it goes right back to the
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: same recipe. Can you insulate your goaltender for today? Can
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: you get an early goal to kind of quiet the
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: settle-don't-crowd building? And then the third period as well, let's
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: just kind of dive into this here for about 20 seconds.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they have blown leads previously.
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  Speaker 7: Five on five, though, the play's been normally great, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: it's when you take penalties, that's where things have begun
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  Speaker 7: to unravel with their own lead and open the door
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  Speaker 7: for teams to creep back in.
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  Speaker 6: So, You stay out of the box. The Flames have
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: been much better, I think, on special teams-wise. You're going
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: to be in pretty good shape here for this one.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Rarely do I get an opportunity to add content to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton's pregame show, but it has just come out
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the last couple minutes that Devin Cooley is going on
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: IR and is considered week-to-week. So it will be Dustin
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Wolf tonight against the Kraken. 4.30 pregame for you, Mike Benton, tonight?
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  Speaker 7: 4.30, MLB at Tom's Watch Bar, rocking, rolling, food, beverages,
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  Speaker 7: big screen.
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  Speaker 6: So if you're in the area, come on down.
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  Speaker 2: Come on down. Yeah, go and visit him. If not,
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  Speaker 2: listen to him on Sports Radio 93.3 KGR FM.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Mike. We'll talk soon.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, I hope I don't steal this from you.
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  Speaker 1: You probably will. It's okay. I won't.
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  Speaker 3: I got another one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I will give a raise a pint to a coworker
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: of mine at the community center.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: She brought me, Miss Anne, shout out to Miss Anne,
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  Speaker 4: she brought me peach cobbler. I'm a peach cobbler nut.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, peach cobbler's so good.
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  Speaker 3: And it was delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go get some more when I get
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  Speaker 3: off work.
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  Speaker 1: From her?
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  Speaker 3: She made me a big old pot, basically.
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  Speaker 1: Damn. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Multiple servings. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I had made sure that coworkers grabbed some.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday. Good.
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  Speaker 4: But I got a bunch left, so shout out to
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  Speaker 4: Miss Anne for that delicious peach cobbler.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Perfect time to go into Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Bunch of sweets. So there you have it. That was
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: my Reza pint.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: What time of year is peach cobbler best?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Right now. You think so?
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  Speaker 3: Right now up until Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Right until. up into the new year.
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  Speaker 2: Well peaches are i know peaches are like most ripe
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: during like august september maybe even early october uh so
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  Speaker 2: i guess if you've been keeping them around for a
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: while um the peach clobber right now would be perfect
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: so i guess it is kind of a halloween little
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: dessert there i like that uh well shout out what's
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: her name mizan mizan well done mizan um I'm glad
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you didn't take mine because I didn't have another one ready.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: So I appreciate that. The courtesy is there. We mentioned
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: this on a little text chain. By the way, quick
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: shout out before I do my actual raise the pint,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: quick shout out to Christopher Kidd, Jackson Feltz, and our
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: show that we do. For those who don't know, we
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: do a little TV and movie podcast once a week.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It's called Hollywood Weekly. You can find it anywhere you
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: get your podcasts on the iHeartRadio app. It's the best
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: place to find it. We do a draft every single week.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: We do kind of what we've been watching, lots of
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: different stuff. You get our sports takes a lot, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: you don't get our movie takes very much. And we
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: all have different tastes, which is great. It's a great
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: little podcast that we do. It's one of my favorite things, actually.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So I look forward to.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: That every week.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: We released our episode yesterday, but unfortunately, we weren't able
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to discuss this on our podcast because it happened afterwards.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Patrick Stewart passed away yesterday at the age.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Of.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: 86, one of the legends in, you know, Hollywood in general,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: but specifically in the X-Men universe and in the Star
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Trek universe. And two of those things. I know Jackson
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: has a very strong feelings towards both of those things.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure this is a big kind of blow
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: for him because he was a big he's a big
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Trekkie guy. And I know he's into Marvel and the
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: X-Men as well. So having him be, you know, a
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: part of Hollywood for so long and he passed away yesterday.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I think he was battling Alzheimer's and a couple other things.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So I just wanted to give a raise the pint
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: and true raise the pint nature to him. a legend
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: in Patrick Stewart. So thank you, Mr. Stewart, Sir Patrick Stewart,
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  Speaker 2: for entertaining us for all of these years. I'm not
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: a big Star Trek fan myself, but I know there's
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are, and he's fantastic in
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: The Next Generation, in Star Trek Picard, and he's fantastic
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: as Dr. X in The X-Men as well. Are you
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: an X-Men fan, Mr. Christopher Kidd?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I am. Yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: So this must have been a big... kind of news.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: For you as well yesterday when it came down a
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: little shocking indeed but you know he had a great
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: career i enjoyed the x-men series especially the first like
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: three yeah after that it kind of got like but
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: the first three were just they were really good but
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: yeah great actor probably a better human being so you
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: know best to his family and Onward we go.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the tributes are pouring in for him
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: in the last 24 hours or so. So just wanted
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to give a quick raise the pint to Patrick Stewart,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a Hollywood legend. All right, quick shout out. Thank you
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: so much for listening today. Coming up next, Greg Bell,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Jessamyn McIntyre here on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.