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Set 1: Dud Opening Night (w/ Steve Spagnuolo) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: The Rex was not chasing the Jeep. Murray!
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: Murray, you there?
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: You love sandwiches, huh? Let's go to 80.
• 0:12
  Speaker 4: His name is Bo.
• 0:16
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: That's prime time, baby. I had a crush on Betty Rubble.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: He cost them the game last night. Although they won
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: the game. You're listening to Stugatz & Company.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola going to join us in about 20 minutes.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that. Very excited for that.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Friend of the show, Spags, as the NFL season kicked
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: off last night. What a dreadful game. I know we
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: have winners and losers. To me, they were just losers
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: on that field last night. That was a dreadful, terrible,
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: awful way to start the NFL season.
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  Speaker 3: It is sick that we had to wait months for
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: football to come back only to get a Drew Locke
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: game within five minutes into the regular season.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: He's always there, Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Mikey, if I asked you before the game, and
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: you don't know because who knows who's backing up who
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: and where they're playing, but if I asked you who's
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Seattle's backup, if I asked you five years from now,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: who is Seattle's backup, your answer is going to be
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke, right?
• 1:25
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure that I could name ever another Seattle backup. Like,
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  Speaker 6: I think Drew Locke backup Matt Hasselbeck.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's the guy that parlayed his one or two starts
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  Speaker 1: into a monster contract.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember who that was.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Flynn.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't they draft Jalen Milrow for this exact, like, situation? Like,
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  Speaker 3: if their starting quarterback gets hurt, you draft Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 3: out of Alabama because of the potential that he has?
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem is they've seen that potential. It's not
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  Speaker 2: good enough. which is why they continue to trot out
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how long Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold's out for, because if you're the Seahawks, you're not
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: winning anything. I know the team's good, defense is good,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: supporting cast good, but you're not going to win a
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: single thing with Drew Locke, right?
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: And as we record this, Sam Darnold, they believe they, quote,
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  Speaker 6: dodged a bullet, meaning he probably didn't break his hip.
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: But he will be out, it sounds like, for at
• 2:21
  Speaker 6: least a little bit of time.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Drake May was pretty bad, huh? I was rooting for
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: your boy, Mac Hollins, man, on that final drive. He
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  Speaker 1: kept looking for Mac, kept looking for Mac, looked for
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  Speaker 1: him in the end zone on that final play and
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  Speaker 1: threw an interception.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that. You're in field goal range already.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that. At the very least, you have
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  Speaker 2: to tie up the game and take it to overtime.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: That's a mistake that like 97% of quarterbacks know you
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  Speaker 3: cannot make in that situation.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And Drake May, unfortunately, just trusted his arm a little
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: bit too much to throw that off his back foot,
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  Speaker 3: fading away when he had overtime all but guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: Last three drives, INT, INT, INT. How about that?
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: Drake May was throwing the ball at the end like
• 3:04
  Speaker 6: he's a gunslinger, and he's not. Like, you're not Brett Favre. Like,
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  Speaker 6: you're a game manager. Go look at Sam Darnold. Take
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  Speaker 6: notes on what he does and try and be that,
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  Speaker 6: only better.
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  Speaker 2: And Drew Locke, was that really a touchdown pass, by
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  Speaker 2: the way?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was like a little bubble screen to JSN.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be like the Patriots postgame guy. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that sound in a second. That wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown pass. That was Jackson being the best wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Drew Locke's going to get credit for that, too, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Not a touchdown pass. In my personal record book, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying that was not a touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 2: He handed the ball off to him.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't a bubble screen. It was a three-yard curl.
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  Speaker 6: It was a go to the sticks, pick up the
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  Speaker 6: fourth down on a fourth and three. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: hit you at four yards. He made a couple people miss.
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys start to wonder here?
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  Speaker 1: Last five games for May, seven touchdowns, 11 turnovers, 24
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  Speaker 1: sacks taken.
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  Speaker 2: You guys starting to question Drake May a little bit?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. Maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid we've crowned Drake May a little too early.
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  Speaker 4: Did we?
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting a little worried that we crowned him a
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  Speaker 3: little too early.
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  Speaker 2: We tend to do that. Let's get to winners and
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  Speaker 2: losers here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: My first winner from this game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that game deserves this music.
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  Speaker 3: Or this many winners and losers.
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  Speaker 4: It's back.
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  Speaker 2: I said they were just losers.
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  Speaker 3: My first winner.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We mentioned him. Drew Locke, because he's now the early
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  Speaker 3: frontrunner to win the 2026 Floaty Award for keeping his
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  Speaker 3: team afloat. If Sam Darnold's going to miss an extended
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: amount of time, if the Seahawks can stay in playoff contention...
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  Speaker 3: drew luck floaty.
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  Speaker 1: Through exactly one game in just one game not one
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  Speaker 1: week just one game he is in the driver's seat
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  Speaker 1: to win a floaty this year his award to lose.
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  Speaker 4: Floaty is a weird way to say mvp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well perhaps i mean although that would be jackson
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  Speaker 1: smith and jigba.
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  Speaker 6: All right uh my first winner is your boy, Matt Collins.
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  Speaker 4: Because nobody wants Matt Collins.
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  Speaker 6: Like, when you're doing free agency and you're filling out
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  Speaker 6: your wish list and all that, nobody wants Matt Collins.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Collins isn't going to make you excited.
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  Speaker 6: But when you need somebody, when you need somebody on
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  Speaker 6: that third and 23 to be at the 24-yard– to
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  Speaker 6: be 24 yards down the field, Matt Collins is your boy. Taylor, I–
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  Speaker 6: He's exactly what you.
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  Speaker 4: Need when you need it.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You peered it out there at the end.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to you.
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  Speaker 4: I got crossed up. I was just so happy football
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  Speaker 4: was back.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Well, what are you saying exactly on Matt Collins? Nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants him, but he's always there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody wants him, but he's exactly what you need.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Four catches, 51 yards. He was in the end zone
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  Speaker 1: last night. May was trying to get him the ball.
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  Speaker 2: It was intercepted.
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  Speaker 3: But to Mikey's point, Mikey's point, every time Matt Collins
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  Speaker 3: hits free agency, the contract is like one year, $ 4 million.
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  Speaker 3: Two years, $ 8 million. It's always a one-year kind of
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  Speaker 3: prove-it deal. And then he has the same season almost
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  Speaker 3: every time. It's like 30 to 40 catches. Most of
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  Speaker 3: them are going to be for first downs. And probably
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  Speaker 3: like we're topping out at like 400, 500 yards max.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a big 500 yards.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: And I will say this about Mac. On that interception,
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  Speaker 6: the ball was trying to go to him. He gave
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  Speaker 6: the most half-hearted, he was out of bounds, knowing full
• 6:40
  Speaker 6: well that both feet were inbounds.
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  Speaker 4: But he gave the, he was out. No, he wasn't.
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Who is Boston blaming today? Is it Drake May? Is
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: it Mike Rabel? Or Diana Rossini?
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  Speaker 4: It is only Drake May today.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think Rossini's catching any heat?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I was texting her last night. I hope the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: lose so everyone blames you.
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: My next loser, or my first loser, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Pearl Jam's Mike McCready's National Anthem.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I missed it.
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  Speaker 4: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: First game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I love McCready.
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  Speaker 3: But the first game of the season, I don't need
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  Speaker 3: a guitar solo National Anthem. Give me some lyrics.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Eddie Vedder. I mean.
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  Speaker 6: So it's not Mike McCready that's the loser. It's the
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  Speaker 6: decision to have Mike McCready.
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  Speaker 3: I need to hear somebody sing the national anthem. I
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  Speaker 3: don't need to hear... That was my guitar solo.
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  Speaker 4: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think we didn't notice that was your fake
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  Speaker 1: guitar sound? But why'd you feel the need to announce
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  Speaker 1: it afterwards?
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  Speaker 3: Just in case somebody was confused, what was that sound?
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  Speaker 3: Because I wasn't that confident delivering.
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  Speaker 7: It.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't like national anthems in which there are
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  Speaker 2: no vocals. You want vocals.
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  Speaker 3: Need vocals.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey, how do you feel about that?
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: I think I agree.
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  Speaker 6: You know I'm a big Pearl Jam fan, but I
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  Speaker 6: agree with Taylor that it probably wasn't the decision for opening.
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  Speaker 4: You're supposed to go bigger than a guitar solo.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. Can McCready sing? I mean, can he sing?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: If he could have, he would have, is what you're saying?
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  Speaker 4: No, I think they told him this is exactly what
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  Speaker 4: we want you to do.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And he did it, and he did it good. It's
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  Speaker 4: just not what you want.
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  Speaker 1: I could tell you that any national anthem for any
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  Speaker 1: game at any time without the words, I don't need it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it. I want the words. Respect the anthem.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Don't do it with an electric guitar. You want to
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  Speaker 1: have that in the background?
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: Fine. But someone sing. Oh, say, can you see?
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about here.
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  Speaker 4: McCready loser.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: Sorry. I like that guy. He's been on the show before.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 4: My first loser.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Anybody who had any kind of parlay bet last
• 9:10
  Speaker 6: night because A.J. Brown going down, Sam Darnold going down,
• 9:15
  Speaker 6: all of your bets, they're all gone.
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: You didn't know.
• 9:19
  Speaker 6: There's no way that nobody had one of those two
• 9:21
  Speaker 6: guys in your parlay bet. And the fact that they
• 9:24
  Speaker 6: both went down so early in the game, you lost
• 9:27
  Speaker 6: all your parlay.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: That was the worst possible scenario for A.J.
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: Brown, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Drake May had him wide open early in
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  Speaker 1: the game before the injury, and he underthrew him.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts would have made that pass.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: I really wish we would stop rewarding quarterbacks for underthrown
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: passes with pass interference penalties to bail them out. Like
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: he had A.J. Brown completely wide open on that.
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  Speaker 2: And he underthrew it.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: He underthrew it.
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  Speaker 4: A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown tries to come back to the ball. Josh Jobe
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  Speaker 3: just plays A.J. Brown not knowing that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: come back to the ball, and then it winds up
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  Speaker 3: being a 35, 40-yard penalty. It's ridiculous.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Do you think A.J.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Was thinking as that ball was in the air, man,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: I came here so I could have a quarterback who
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: could reach me downfield?
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Which is what Drake Mays has been known for in
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: his NFL career. And yesterday he was terrible on passes of–
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: 20-plus yards downfield.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: And you can tell Drake May felt bad about it.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Even while getting the P.I. penalty and getting the ball
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: at the two-yard line, essentially, they score a touchdown, Drake
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  Speaker 1: May felt terrible that he underthrew A.J.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Brown in that spot. He was wide open.
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: He felt terrible in that situation because he knows A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown is like, man. this is going to become a
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: thing in like three weeks.
• 10:38
  Speaker 6: When A.J.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: Brown is reading a book on the sideline, people are
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: going to come back to this underthrown pass.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, maybe not because he's hurt. We'll see
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: if he's even going to be playing in three weeks.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Weird game last night. Darnold out.
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  Speaker 4: A.J. Brown out.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Strange game. Bad game. Anyway, who's up?
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: Taylor's up.
• 10:59
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: I'll go with another loser here. Romeo Dobbs.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: Patriots offseason acquisition, four years, $ 68 million. And what does
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: he do in his Patriot debut? Zero catches. And his
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: drop in the fourth quarter led to that Drake May
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: second interception where probably cost them about 30 yards in
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: field position, puts Drake May in a bad spot, third
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: and 15. And Drake May kind of takes a bad
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: situation and makes it even worse with that interception.
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: I'm starting to wonder about Drake May, I have to
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: be honest.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: I'm starting to wonder about Romeo Dobbs.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: I don't care about Romeo Dobbs. It's all about the quarterback.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: If the quarterback's good, the team is good, and the
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: quarterback was lousy last night and has been lousy for
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: the last several games.
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: This is why you have to build through the draft
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: and not through free agency.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: Because players like.
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  Speaker 6: Romeo Dobbs get four years, $ 68 million, and that's what
• 11:55
  Speaker 6: you get for them. There's a reason that the Packers
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: were like, no, you go ahead.
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: That's why. You build through the draft.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: I'll give you a winner here.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: Jadarian Price. He can scoot. That guy's good.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: He can scoot.
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: That guy's good.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: He had 10 rushes. He was the backup to Jeremiah
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Love at Notre Dame. He was the backup running back there.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: And a first-round pick for the Seattle Seahawks. 10 carries,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: 52 yards.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: Didn't give them the ball enough.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: It feels like we haven't talked enough about the fact
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: that Notre Dame had the first two running backs picked
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: in the NFL draft.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: Yes. In the first round.
• 12:32
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: It's like Miami back in the day where Frank Gore
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: was a third-string running back. The guy's got like 13,000
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: yards in the NFL.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Three yards at a time.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: I have one more winner here.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. Oh, big winner.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Still has it.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Well, in spots.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: A little bit.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: He can find it when he needs it. He can
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: find it when he needs it.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: When you need a big catch in Seattle, yes, you
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: have JSN. Yes, you have Price out of the backfield.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: But all reliable, it's Cooper Cup every time. Cooper Cup
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: has the ability to turn the clock back, and when
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: you see it, you're like, wow, 24 yards right there
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: for Cooper Cup. That's a big catch.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 13:16
  Speaker 6: It's the biggest 24 yards in the game.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt. Seattle's a bad 1-0, though, right? Bad 1-0?
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: They're not good. I mean....
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: Bad 1-0. All right, one more loser.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: All right, go ahead.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin.
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin is not good at the TV thing. Mike
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: Tomlin might be a hell of a head coach, but
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin... First off, NBC already has the role of
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: awkward former coach locked up with Jason Garrett. We don't
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: need two on a broadcast, okay? But Mike Tomlin trying
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: to talk about this game. We have some sound to this. Dude,
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: you got to know the players.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: The Sam men and JNS. JSN, I'm not.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Going to let you do it again.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to let you do it again.
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: What?
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: JSN. JSN.
• 14:04
  Speaker 8: You said JNS.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Hey, I appreciate you taking care of me.
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, I think those two are going to do it.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to get it right. Sometimes you got
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: to get it right. Yeah, you know, because usually this
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: is the thing. Coaches always talk in numbers. They're not
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: having to say.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Names all the time. I got you, coach. I made
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: the same mistake, so I cannot criticize him. Go ahead.
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: Nobody says his name like you do, Stu. You're perfect
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: at actually saying his name.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: You don't have to say JSN.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: When I put it to initials, though, it becomes more difficult, oddly. Jackson, Smith,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: and Jigba, I could say. I could see getting JSN wrong.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: I just did it earlier. JNS is weird. JSN works.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: JNS is a department store.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think Mike Tomlin has to take being a
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: loser for the broadcast that hard because all your guys'
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: fan fiction has him coming back next year to be
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: the Jets head coach anyways.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It can't happen soon enough.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: This is just a one-year stopgap. Just collect a check
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: for your talk.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want him anymore.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I want him now.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I want him.
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: I used to have to cut his press conferences, and
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: it was always funny because he always referred to people.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: As, they got a guy.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: You know, they're playing the Steelers. Oh, they got a
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: guy over there, number seven. He is really good. Now
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: I just believe he doesn't know how to say anybody's name.
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: He doesn't know anybody.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: So many expectations for Tomlin. Everyone thinks he's going to
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: be outstanding at this. And sometimes when you think too much,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: your mind's moving quickly, and you can butcher that very,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: very easily, even Mike Tomlin.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: But they hired him because he's such a great speaker.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, Chris Sims isn't doing that anymore, and Tony
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Dungy not doing it anymore because they wanted Mike Tomlin.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Mikey, the point you made, though– It's easy for Tomlin
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: to be better on these broadcasts because of Jason Garrett
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: being there. Every time Jason Garrett's on my screen and
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Jason Garrett's talking, for some reason, I feel uncomfortable.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I feel uncomfortable.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: I didn't ask for any of this, and Jason Garrett's
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: just staring at me so weirdly.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Taylor, put it on the poll. I've still got 790
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: on X.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Does Jason Garrett on your television make you uncomfortable?
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: The feeling I get when Jason Garrett's on my television
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: is the same feeling I get when someone stands too
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: close to me at a urinal.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: Like.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Back up.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Move.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: What is he giving off, Jason Garrett?
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I just get a cold shrug over my body every
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: time he comes on the screen.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, ugh.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like he's not deserving of trying to
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: teach you about what's going on on.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: The field like he's Jason Garrett? No.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: The best way I think I could describe it off
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: the top of my head.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: It feels like an alien's inside Jason Garrett's body pretending
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: to be a normal human. Like, that's the feeling I
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: get from him. Like a Men in Black situation. Be normal, smile,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: and he just never stopped. Like, Jason Garrett gets back
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: to the hotel after a long night and just unzips
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: his human skin.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Put it on the poll.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Does Jason Garrett get back to the hotel at night
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: and unzip his human skin?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: It's such a perfect description because I can't think of
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: another way to describe it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: It's right up by the top of the neck, right?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: You just.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: And a small little alien just pops out and stretches
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: his arms like, what a day. Fooled them again.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Garrett has to feel good today because Tomlin
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was so bad, right? I mean, star of the show.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Tomlin was that bad. Let me hear it again. One
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: more time.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: The Sam men and JNS, I think they got it delivered.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to let you do it again. Yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: they got it delivered. I'm not going to let you
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: do it again.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: What?
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: JSN.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: JSN.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: You said JNS.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Hey, I appreciate you taking care of me.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, I think those two are going to do it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to get unc right.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to get unc right. Yeah, you know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: because usually this is the thing. Coaches always talk in numbers.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: They're not having to say names.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: All the time. I got you, coach.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: But it gets it got worse.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: They showed a clip of his conversation with John Harbaugh
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: that they're going to show on on Sunday night, I guess.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yes. And it's and it's the.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Steelers and the Ravens coach. And it's so awkward. He
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: just is like, thank you for being here. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Thank you for doing this.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: It's like it's weird. It's awkward.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I think part of what's weird is he knows he's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: going to coach again. It's like he shouldn't be doing this.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: He shouldn't be a member of the media. Jason Garrett,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: there's a finality to Jason Garrett becoming a media member.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: No one is ever going to hire Jason Garrett again
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to do anything coaching-wise. Mike Tomlin's there for, you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, and then he's gone, and he's
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: wondering if John Harbaugh is looking at him cross-eyed like, hey,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: what are you doing in a seat interviewing me, you know?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: The Tomlin-Harbaugh sit-down Felt like it's two rivals, even though
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: they're not in the same spot anymore. It's the Ravens coach.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: It's the Steelers coach. And it felt like almost like
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: a Texas Western shootout where both of them had their
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: hands on their guns just ready to draw.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Let's get to this before we get to Spaggs. The
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Patriots postgame host. I can't imagine what this postgame was like.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Taylor.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: So this is Mark Dondero, the host of the Patriots
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: postgame on 98.5, the Sports Hub. And he was not
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: too fond of Drake May after the game.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: They tried to hide him all night long with high
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: school plays, with the Zavarian playbook.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: High school.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Swing pass, little runs.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Roll outs to nowhere.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: High school football.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: The second he had.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: To make NFL plays or throws, he was screwed.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: He couldn't do it. He made one NFL throw all night.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: That was to Hollins on one of the third downs.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: That was a little bit deep on an in-cut. Nice timing.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: He made high school plays all night long.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: That's what happened. And he could.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Not step up. And that throw to end the game
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: was disgusting. That was incomprehensible and disgusting. To even put
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: the ball with that much air under it in that situation,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: it was befuddling. That was a joke. You cannot do that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: He blew this game and he was bad all night.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: I thought the only thing he produced all night was
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: high school level plays.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: High school, science class, chemistry. It was awful.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Just a reminder, this guy was five points off being
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the NFL MVP last season, Drake Knight.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And he took that team to a Super Bowl and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: made plenty of NFL throws along the way.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: But that's how you do it. I'm proud of him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: The end of that clip was just this host recalling
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: anything he could from high school, right? Chemistry, biology, AP literature, history.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you to play it again? I need
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to hear it. This is how you do it in Boston.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: They tried to hide him all night long with high
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: school plays, with the Zavarian playbook.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: High school.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Swing pass, little runs, roll outs to nowhere. High school football.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: The second he had to make NFL plays or throws,
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: he was screwed.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: He couldn't do it. He made one NFL throw all night.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: That was to Hollins on one of the third downs.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: That was a little bit deep on an in-cut nice timing.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: He made high school plays all night long.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: That's what happened. And he could not step up. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: that throw to end the game was disgusting. That was
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: incomprehensible and disgusting. To even put the ball with that
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: much air under it in that situation.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: It was befuddling.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: That was a joke. You cannot do that. He blew
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: this game and he was bad all night. I thought
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: the only thing he produced all night was high school
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: level plays. High school, science class, chemistry. It was awful.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So a high school team almost beat the Seahawks on
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the road. Where do you hear his Boston accent the most?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: For me, it's the first time he says Hollins. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: then when he says, when he tries to get befuddled out.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Befuddled. Yeah, befuddling.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: It was befuddling.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: I just wanted him to keep listening. High school things. Yes. Rom!
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Getting your driver's license.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Hep rallies.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: What is this Zakarian offensive playbook? What is he talking about?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: What is it? What is that thing? Someone look it up.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Is it run left, run right? Like, what is it?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: What is it? Zacharias?
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that word is.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: All right, play it again one more time.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: They tried to hide him all night long with high
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: school plays, with the Zavarian playbook.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: High school.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Zavarian playbook. What the hell is he talking about? Is
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that a playbook that we're not aware of? Is it
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a standard high school offense? The Zaverian playbook? Zaverian Brothers
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: High School?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Yes. Zaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: There it is. That's where he went. And he expects
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: that everyone's going to know.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: 98.5 the sports hub? They do.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: A Zaverian offense as if everyone knows what the hell
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: he's talking about.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: It was befuddling.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: There are people who live in that town and went
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to that school. They don't know what this ovarian offense is.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Steve Spagnuolo, next. Mikey A, it's a tradition unlike any other.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Look who's in the Zoom. It is Spag. Steve Spagnola,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs. And Mikey, again,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: he's sitting in front of his draft board.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: It's a little bit of draft, a little bit of calls.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: We've got everything up there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: It's his fantasy league.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: It's in code.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Spags, how was the offseason? How was the summer? What
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: did you and the wife do? I know you went
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: on a golf trip. What else did you get into?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I did a little Scotland trip. The normal Stugatz.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: You know, we did the beach.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: We were down there in Fort Lauderdale for a little
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: bit over on the Jersey Shore.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: But I will tell you this. I don't want any more.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: It was way too long this year because, you know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: with no playing in the playoffs, you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: Know, it was way too long. It was time to
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: get going again.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I love my time with my family and my wife,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: but it's good to be back doing ball.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I love you guys have been so deep into the playoffs,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Superbowls for so long that you forgot you can't
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: fill the time.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: We didn't know what to do with ourselves for a while,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: but it all worked out.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: We probably needed it though. I'll tell you that we
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: probably needed it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Did you get an invite to the Kelsey wedding spags?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Were you, were you in the, we.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: Were, we were at, it was guys.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: It was awesome. Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: It was awesome.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: The people and Travis and Taylor, it was, it was great.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I was, listen, I was proud to, to be there
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: with all the other people. It was really enjoyable.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: It was a fun, fun event.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Who's the oddest person you ran into at the wedding?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Cause I saw Jason.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Kelsey in Lake Tahoe and we were both wondering, Jason
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was there.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: He's Travis's brother. Uh, but we were both wondering why
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Dean Blandino was on the guest list.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's funny. I tell you, it's funny guys.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Like I'm not, I'm not really in the know on
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: this and start. So there was a lot of people, uh,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, I had to ask a lot of questions.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Who's that?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Because in the industry, music industry, entertainment industry, I mean,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: being as old as I am, Stu Gatz, there's a
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: lot of them young kids.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: I didn't really know. But everybody was having a good time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: That was a.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Good time for Travis and Taylor. I tell you what
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I enjoyed most was there was a bunch of guys
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: that have played for us or been on defense. that
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: we've either lost it with other teams now, and they
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: were at the wedding, and that was fun. Like Trent McDuffie,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Leo Chanel, and we just lost those guys this year.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I love those two guys.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: And a bunch of other guys that I hadn't seen
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: in a long time. So it was kind of a
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: nice little reunion.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Spags, it was reported by Adam Schefter that Mahomes is
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: going to start, and I'm wondering what should people expect
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: from Patrick? You see him every day in practice. Your
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: defense goes against him every day in practice.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: How does he look? What should people expect?
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Well, when they name that, is he going to play
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: on defense?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Is he going to play safety or corner for something?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: No, he's going to keep your defense off the field.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: That's what he's going to do.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: He could.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you this.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: What was remarkable to me was that when we began
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: OTAs back in June and Patrick was standing out there. Now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: he didn't do all the reps, but when we'd go
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: to seven-on-seven and there was no pass rush on him,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: he was flinging that thing around like a, He had never.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Had an injury.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: It was amazing to me that in that short of
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: a period of time, he was doing the things.
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: That he does.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: But he's, listen, you know, Coach has spoken about it
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: a lot, and I'll kind of rest on his comments,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: but Patrick's a remarkable guy in the way he rehabs
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: and trains, and he's gotten himself to this point, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: I'm happy that we're going to be able to play
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: the first game with him.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Nice coach.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I'm excited. Cause I was watching the draft and you
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: guys pick Mansour Delane from, from LSU. What are expectations
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: for him this season? Even, even though he is a rookie,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: he feels like somebody that could kind of elevate what
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: you want to do defensively.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Also someone not going back to LSU specs.
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's an ongoing saga, isn't it? I'm glad.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: And listen, I'm glad he's not going back. I'd be
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: worried if all of a sudden he was going back
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: to Baton Rouge. Um, um, listen, I was really excited
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: when we drafted him. I thought he was kind of
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: like the number one corner in the, in this particular, uh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: draft class.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: He, you know, he had a little bit of a
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: slow beginning.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: He ran into some injuries at the end, the OTAs, he, uh,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: they had a shoulder injury and we didn't have him
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: for a lot of training camp, but he's played catch
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: up and done a really good job of that. Uh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: one of the things about when you have new guys,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: especially in the secondary is the continuity and the chemistry early.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: Um, I've been a little rocky.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: We've had a lot of guys banged up in the secondary,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: but I'm hopeful for Mansour and what he can do. Listen,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: we lost some talented guys last year, not just in
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: the secondary, but the linebacker level and even at D-line.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: So we're going to need anybody that's coming in here
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: now to step up and do some things early.
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: So we expect him to certainly play and hopefully play well.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Spaggs, as a defensive coach, as someone who loves D-line men,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: When you see Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald together in L.A.,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: he's already making faces.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts with that? It seems absurd.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: You know what I immediately thought of? Yeah, A, it
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: would be great to have him here. But B, so
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson, who are corners for us
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: here that are now with the Rams– I immediately thought
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: about how much better they're going to be with those
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: guys up there. It makes, listen, DBs make D linemen
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: look good and D linemen make DBs look good. So listen, they,
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: they've put together what looks like a really good football team.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: So we'll see what happens.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Spags.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: You're, you're, you're a mastermind with these defenses, but do
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: you even have to do anything when you have guys
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: like that? Or do you just go, Hey, go do something.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Just get us the ball.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Back, please.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: You certainly wouldn't have miles Garrett dropping.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Like we do.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: Sometimes with our guys you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: Want those two guys forward all the time right um
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: no i listen to you it's not it's kind of
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: nice to have that listen it's hard to get um
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: and a talent on one defensive unit, but the Rams
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: have found a way to do it, so we'll see
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: what happens.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Spags, do you feel like you've gotten too good as
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator? Because I feel like part of that
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is the Chiefs are like, Spags is going to make
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: it work no matter what 11 we put.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Out there for him.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Listen, it's an unreasonable expectation, but people do just feel like, hey, Spags, he'll.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Make it work.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: He's going to dial up those blitzes.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Well, listen, it's a great compliment, but this– Listen, you
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: guys know, you watched enough football. You've been in it
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: long enough that it's about the players. It's really not
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: about the X's and O's.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: I mean, we've been fortunate.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: We've had some cerebral guys and we've been able to
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: do some things from a defensive standpoint, but you can't
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: do any of that without good football players. We've been
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: lucky to have good players here who have executed like that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: To me, it's all about, you know, how the 11
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: guys work together.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, we threw a lot at them in training camp.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: That's typically who, and then we kind of, smooth it
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: out and thin it out as we get into the
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: first game. But it's how the unit works together. Like,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, you guys know this quote, read our back with,
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: you know, and it was a basketball quote, but he'd
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: always say he didn't necessarily need the five best players.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: He needed the five players that played together the best.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: If that makes sense.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: And that's what you really need in football on defense too.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: You need 11 guys that work well together. And hopefully
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: we can take this crew that we got now and,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: come up a little bit. I just think that with
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: the youth we have, you know, we might, it might
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: be the first quarter of the season, just figuring out
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: what we are and want to be, but hopefully in the,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: in the midst of that, we can find a.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Way to win.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Coach, you got your start at UMass as a graduate assistant.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: When UMass beats Rutgers, what was the Spagnola house like?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Did you give out a little fist pump?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: He loves all things Boston. He does. Yes. Except the Patriots.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: I love that. I love that question. Thanks for bringing
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: it up.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Joe Cullen, our D-line coach, is a UMass grad. He
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: played after I left there, but we were talking about
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: it the other day.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: What a great win for them. And then now, because.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Everybody's looking at the schedule now, because I think they
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: play a couple of teams coming up that maybe, hopefully,
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: they can win. So it'd be nice to see UMass
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: get off to the start here and maybe go.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: 3-0 or 2-0. Go Minutemen, right? Yes.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: The new Indiana. How about that? What do you think? Yeah,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: there you go. Love it. Are you into the Red
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Sox season at all? It's been a great season.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Listen, I was a little bummed.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: I'm really good friends with the manager core that they
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: let go. But, listen, for them, they put together the
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: two months that they had and crank it out and
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: be in the midst of it. I think they've– don't
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: they have a– will they be a wild card team?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the wild card right now.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Pretty safe.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Wild card team, yes. He's so into football right now.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Listen, I think when the Red Sox and the Yankees
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: are playing well, I think that's good for baseball.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Dodgers, you know, all those traditional teams. I think it's great.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Spags, how much time have you spent here in the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: offseason studying Bo Nix?
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot. That's why I have Excedrin over here
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: on my desk because when you watch him, You just
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: get a headache.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: This guy's– I was looking at a tape the other day.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I pulled up Bo Nick's big play tape. And it
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: was all his college stuff, the things he's done at Denver.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: This guy's legit. He's a headache to defend.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, with Sean and that offensive staff,
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: what they do now with him is really, really good.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: You talk about a quarterback that kind of fit in
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: the perfect package for– For him and the coaching, I
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: think they got it there in Denver. This is going
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: to be a huge challenge for us right out of
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: the blocks here.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: All right, Spax, we appreciate the time as always. Good
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: luck this season. Quick one on the way out here. Bruins,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: give us a forecast here. How are they looking? Playoff team,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: not a playoff team.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: You're talking about?
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You Boston Bruins, you're Bruins.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I'm still working on Bobby.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: You are for you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: I missed you. The, the, the zoom call went out.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Somebody needs some help from you on how they've done
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: in the off season. And yeah, well, no, but I'm, I'm,
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: I always stay on the Red Sox, the Bruins, the Celtics,
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: the one that I, you know, I got to let
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: go a little bit as the Patriots.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: And I love Mike Rabel. I think, I think Mike
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: being there is great for them.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Yes. Uh, I'm going to be rooting for all those
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Boston teams. All right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I'm paying attention to the old Boston teams. The Knicks
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: are the NBA champions. That's all I care about.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I'm in heaven. Spags, football has started. We love you.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you for doing this, as always. And good luck
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: against the Broncos and Bo Knicks.
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Bring the Excedrin.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: Appreciate you. Appreciate you, guys.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: See you in Florida next week, guys.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: All right, Spags.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: See you soon, buddy.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Spags.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at his draft board.