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11-4 H1: What's On Tap, M's New Manager & Running Back Room · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: Well good morning to you all sports radio 93.3 kjrfm
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  Speaker 3: this is chuck in the morning of course this is
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  Speaker 3: not chuck powell you all chuck fans would recognize his
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  Speaker 3: voice if you heard it and i do have faith
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  Speaker 3: that that would be the case chuck is on vacation
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  Speaker 3: uh just for a couple more days here he was
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  Speaker 3: going home to see his family and boy a lot
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  Speaker 3: has happened since he has left this station uh There
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  Speaker 3: were thoughts about him turning into a vampire since he
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  Speaker 3: left right before Halloween. We had a massive Seahawks game
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  Speaker 3: on Monday and the Mariners have hired a new manager.
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  Speaker 3: Just so much to get to and just a perfect
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  Speaker 3: time for him to go and see his family. But
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  Speaker 3: you'll hear from him a little bit later on this week.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you worry about that. But myself, Anderson Hirsch, Christopher
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  Speaker 3: Kidd will be helping fill in the gaps until he
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  Speaker 3: returns here on Chuck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: And Christopher, you know, when I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to think of a good example, but if you
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  Speaker 3: guys share desks out there at your jobs and you
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  Speaker 3: sit on a desk after someone, or sit at a desk,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, after someone else has been there and
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  Speaker 3: it's like, extremely low or extremely high. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 3: what was this person doing when they were sitting at
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  Speaker 3: this chair before I came in here? That is kind
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  Speaker 3: of the situation I'm in now because not with the chair,
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  Speaker 3: but I plugged my headphones in to get started, of course,
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  Speaker 3: here on KJR and Chuck in the Mornings. And The
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  Speaker 3: dial for the sound was dialed literally all the way up.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, man, whoever was using this spot
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  Speaker 3: last must be absolutely deaf. And sure enough, I go
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  Speaker 3: to log into the computer. It shows who was last
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  Speaker 3: to log into that spot.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dave Softy Mahler, if you would guess anything else. And
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  Speaker 3: I plugged my headphones in and I could literally hear
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  Speaker 3: everything in my headphones as I was holding them at
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  Speaker 3: an arm's length, which is rare in today's business because
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  Speaker 3: usually you want them to be, you know, a relatively
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  Speaker 3: high level so you can hear yourself and hear the
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  Speaker 3: commercials and all that stuff and then know when you're
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  Speaker 3: coming back and hear the audio that Christopher's playing. But Man,
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  Speaker 3: that's another level of loud. Would you expect that from
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  Speaker 3: anyone else?
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  Speaker 2: No, now that I think about it.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm curious to why is it so loud?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he made a mistake when he left or he's
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  Speaker 4: playing a prank on you.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Turn this up for Anderson. That would be also very
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  Speaker 3: softy at the same time. But considering how loud he talks,
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  Speaker 3: even just normal, not.
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  Speaker 1: On the air.
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  Speaker 2: I think he might be messing with you, man. You
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  Speaker 2: think so? I think that's just how... Def he is.
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  Speaker 2: Has Chuck ever mentioned that? I don't know. That's a
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  Speaker 2: good question. Maybe we'll ask him on the way. I
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  Speaker 2: think Chuck would be the first person to be like, God, Lee, man,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Thing is, Safi's not in a ton. He has a
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  Speaker 3: ton of remote shows and stuff, so it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't happen every day.
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  Speaker 4: But on a Wednesday, so a Tuesday that he's not,
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  Speaker 4: a Tuesday that he is here and not off-site, Chuck
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  Speaker 4: would definitely find out on Wednesday morning, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. Or a random other day that Softie's
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  Speaker 2: not off-site. We'll have to ask him about that. Because
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  Speaker 2: you're right, he would mention that if that were the case.
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  Speaker 2: I would think.
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  Speaker 4: Or maybe he comes in and just turns it down
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  Speaker 4: because he's used to it. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, like, what.
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  Speaker 3: At least 10 years of going after Softie, right? It
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  Speaker 3: just becomes normal at that point. Well, you can ask Softie,
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  Speaker 3: I think, at this point. Yeah, I will. Softie, if
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  Speaker 3: you're listening, are you just that deaf or were you
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  Speaker 3: messing with me? Because, man, those were loud.
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  Speaker 4: Holy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning to you all. It's a Wednesday here.
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  Speaker 4: You can actually ask him Thursday, tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Good point. We will have Softie on at 725 tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll definitely kind of ask him about that as,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we pick his brain on the Huskies. We'll
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  Speaker 3: be asking about how is he that deaf? So much
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  Speaker 3: has happened the last couple of days, Christopher, because, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks lose on Monday Night Football and just get
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  Speaker 3: their asses handed to them. The Mariners hire a new
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  Speaker 3: manager just kind of trying to sneak it in there,
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  Speaker 3: slide it under the rug so that no one else
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  Speaker 3: will notice the day after a Seahawks game, after everyone's
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  Speaker 3: talking about that. It's like, oh, yeah, let's slide in
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  Speaker 3: the Jason Kanzler hire. I don't know if I can
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  Speaker 3: talk about it, but just.
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  Speaker 3: What we're going to get to today is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Seahawks questions because normally on a Monday morning quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: but yesterday was a Tuesday morning quarterback because it was
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  Speaker 3: Hugh Millen with us the day after a Seahawks game.
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  Speaker 3: after being on Monday Night Football. We have to kind
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  Speaker 3: of lean on his analysis, of course, and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have it any other way. Don't get me wrong. I
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  Speaker 3: like asking him about what he sees on the tape
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  Speaker 3: as someone who doesn't see that. But we'll kind of
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  Speaker 3: maybe take a couple zooms out as we look at
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks' season. They're 4-4 now from 30,000 feet. We'll
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  Speaker 3: take a look at the rest of the schedule today.
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  Speaker 3: Is the division out of the picture? We're going to
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  Speaker 3: take talkbacks today, so we'll get those. I know I
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  Speaker 3: teased those yesterday, but then, of course, the Mariners manager
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  Speaker 3: situation comes out. We have to pivot. We have to
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  Speaker 3: get Chuck's thoughts and all that stuff. But we will
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  Speaker 3: get to your talkbacks today. But I want to start
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  Speaker 3: with this question for you guys and you, Christopher. Do
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  Speaker 3: we have to change our expectations for the Seahawks in 2026?
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  Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is not can this
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  Speaker 3: team win the Super Bowl, but do we think that
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  Speaker 3: if it's going to happen, it's going to have to
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  Speaker 3: go through the wild card? At least the regular season expectations.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just looking at it from a surface level,
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  Speaker 3: you have to because they've already lost more games than
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  Speaker 3: they did.
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  Speaker 2: In the whole of 2025. They were 14-3 in 2025,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're 4-4 in 2026, just on November 4th
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  Speaker 2: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: I think from the regular season standpoint, yes.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't have a ton of worries about this
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  Speaker 3: team having to go through the wild card, not having
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  Speaker 3: home playoff games for them to go back to the
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl. The thing that worries me most about them
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  Speaker 3: being able to go back to the Super Bowl is
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  Speaker 3: can they actually get back to playing to that level
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  Speaker 3: that they were at last year? Because they they've had
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  Speaker 3: one game this year where they've done that. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs game last week. So, Christopher, I guess the
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  Speaker 3: broad question that I'm asking you is, do you think
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  Speaker 3: we have to change our expectations for the Seahawks in 2026?
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  Speaker 3: Is it no longer a expectation that this team goes
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  Speaker 3: back to the Super Bowl, but more of a, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we have to figure it out, but they still can
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  Speaker 3: go back to the Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's what you just stated. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on with this team.
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  Speaker 4: They still can, but also I think everyone needs to
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  Speaker 4: realize that this is a different team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good point.
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  Speaker 4: I know last year it seems like, oh, well, it
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  Speaker 4: was just Kenneth Walker and a couple of defensive players.
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  Speaker 4: It's not that different, Chris. Well, you're seeing the impact.
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  Speaker 4: If you look at the other teams that are playing
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  Speaker 4: really well, how many weapons do they have?
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  Speaker 2: Look at the Niners.
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  Speaker 4: You can name, you can write off all the talented
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  Speaker 4: weapons they have. George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey, when Debo gets healthy,
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  Speaker 4: Mike Evans. That's just on the offensive side of the ball, right?
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks have... how many weapons?
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  Speaker 2: JSN.
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  Speaker 1: One.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. One real weapon. Last year, they had at least two.
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker and JSN.
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  Speaker 4: And K-9 was getting the short end of the stick because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Mike Madonna would be like, oh, you guys
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  Speaker 4: the first and goal?
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  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet, go on in there and get us a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker had a big part of that offense. He
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  Speaker 4: was able to get explosives. Seahawks aren't getting that many
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  Speaker 4: explosives in the run game, if any at all. So
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  Speaker 4: when you look at This season, I think you have
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  Speaker 4: a good point, Anderson. This team is definitely not where
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  Speaker 4: they were last year. They already have four losses, but
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  Speaker 4: every year is different. And this year is much different
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  Speaker 4: because the team is also different. You have a new
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  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator. The offensive line has not been what you
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  Speaker 4: would expect it to be. I know they just traded
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  Speaker 4: for a guy in Quentin Nelson, but it's going to
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  Speaker 4: take time. It was kind of like the Rashid Shaheed
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  Speaker 4: thing last year. Oh my gosh, it's week whatever, 14,
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  Speaker 4: and he's not doing much.
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  Speaker 2: It's like.
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  Speaker 4: We knew this was probably going to be a possibility
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  Speaker 4: because he's just coming in and learning a new offense,
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  Speaker 4: a new quarterback, all these things that going on that
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  Speaker 4: field and doing your job. So I didn't expect the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks to hit the ground running. I did expect a win.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they could beat the Bears, but the Bears
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  Speaker 4: are a well-oiled machine. Their defense is playing much better.
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  Speaker 4: They just went and got Jeffrey fricking Simmons, who played best.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's the best player on the field on
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  Speaker 4: Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. So, yeah. There you have it.
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  Speaker 4: And then the Seattle Seahawks probably played their worst ball
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  Speaker 4: of the season. When you have that happen, you lose
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  Speaker 4: by 17. So right now you're looking at a team
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  Speaker 4: that if they get the offense fixed, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how but let's just say magically the offense is great
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  Speaker 4: figures it out yeah they're a division contender they will
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  Speaker 4: probably you think so yeah it's not out of the
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  Speaker 4: picture if the offense is fixed meaning they find a
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  Speaker 4: number two weapon yeah it's not just jsn sam's able
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  Speaker 4: to play action pass it the running game Takes the
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  Speaker 4: next step from average to good. Zach Charbonnet shows pop.
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  Speaker 4: Jadarian Price, he excels. Gets maybe, I don't know, a
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  Speaker 4: couple touchdowns here and there.
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  Speaker 2: Explosives. If the offense can do that, they go from
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  Speaker 2: average to good, great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think the defense is only going to improve.
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  Speaker 4: The defense is, I'm not really concerned about the defense.
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  Speaker 4: They had one bad game. What was that bad game
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  Speaker 4: last year? It was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 4: they had a bunch of injuries. Not so much yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I know guys were banged up. Or not yesterday, but
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  Speaker 4: Monday night. Leonard Williams, he did go out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think... I'll just leave it at that. Defense
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  Speaker 2: played probably their worst performance. That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it's a really good offense, too. Yeah, Ben Johnson, mastermind,
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  Speaker 4: you get it. So you kind of give them the cool.
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  Speaker 2: You get a pass.
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  Speaker 4: To your point, though, if they're going to be in
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  Speaker 4: this wild-car situation... They're going to be a defense that's consistent.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they cut down on the turnovers, but Sam's still
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  Speaker 4: coughing it up.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's fumbles.
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  Speaker 4: And then it could get really nasty if the offense
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  Speaker 4: continues just playing the way they've been playing. Then maybe
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  Speaker 4: they don't even make the playoffs, which I think is
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  Speaker 4: a far cry. With JSN, I guess you could make
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs. It probably won't be great. But I think
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  Speaker 4: he is enough to make the playoffs, which is crazy
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  Speaker 4: to say because Stats would show, like, hey, you can't
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  Speaker 4: just throw the ball to one guy. What about his health?
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  Speaker 4: He's getting hit, too. It's not like he's just running
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  Speaker 4: out of bounds every play. So he's taking a beating.
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  Speaker 4: So I will point to JSN, miss a game because
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  Speaker 4: he's a little banged up. He's not going to want
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  Speaker 4: to sit out, but you get my point.
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  Speaker 2: I do, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about, I'm curious as to why you think
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  Speaker 3: the division is still there. I guess you're only two
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  Speaker 3: and a half out of the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: The offense, if the offense takes the next step up, Anderson,
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  Speaker 4: they could easily win Arizona, Vegas, San Fran.
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  Speaker 2: Those are games they could win. They could. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: now you're what, 7-4? Yeah. And then it's up. It's there.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I don't know how the Niners are going to
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  Speaker 4: finish the season. We're banking on them losing more than winning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But you just got to worry about what you're worried about,
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  Speaker 4: which is your team. If the Seahawks win out, which
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  Speaker 4: is a lot to ask. I mean, you're winning every
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  Speaker 4: game from here on out. But if a team's capable
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  Speaker 4: of doing it, it's the defending champs.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I get it. There's issues on the offense. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a big... yelp that's.
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  Speaker 4: A big like oh my god like i get that
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  Speaker 4: but i am saying if they were to do that
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  Speaker 4: they would be in the division hunt.
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  Speaker 3: For sure yeah and the other thing i've been thinking
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  Speaker 3: about the last couple days or division contenders yeah yeah
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  Speaker 3: no i got you i got you um the other
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  Speaker 3: thing i've been thinking about the last couple days is
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  Speaker 3: maybe in 2025 do you think it's fair to say
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  Speaker 3: the seahawks outperformed expectations did the did We as fans
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  Speaker 3: and them as a team go into the season, maybe
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  Speaker 3: they would say they were.
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  Speaker 2: The fans would say probably they did.
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  Speaker 3: That they outperformed it, yeah. They didn't go into season thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we're a Super Bowl contender.
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  Speaker 4: I think this was the year that everyone says the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks will be in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they believed it last year, period, point blank. They
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  Speaker 4: figured they would have the best defense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: They just said, Sam Darnold, go out there, manage the game,
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  Speaker 4: do your job, have fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: And will be in the Super Bowl, and what do
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They also have a different team, as I mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 4: So that makes it even more of a different angle.
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  Speaker 2: And they still believe.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't make a difference, right? Regardless of who they
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  Speaker 4: have in the building, they believe in the guys in
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  Speaker 4: the building. Whether me and Anderson agree, fans agree or not,
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  Speaker 4: they believe what they have can get them back to
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  Speaker 4: where they were last year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I think your point about it being a
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  Speaker 3: different team, a lot of people just assume, oh, they
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  Speaker 3: lost maybe one or two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those one or two guys were actually.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and they were important. But the other thing is,
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  Speaker 3: even if they have a lot of the same starters,
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  Speaker 3: you return 10 of 11 starters on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Or is it 9 of 11?
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  Speaker 3: I guess if you consider Kobe a starter, then that
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  Speaker 3: would be 9 of 11. And then 10 of 11
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  Speaker 3: on offense, right?
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  Speaker 1: Then....
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  Speaker 3: That this team should just basically be the same. And
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  Speaker 3: especially if you get just the same or maybe even
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more or slightly less from those replacements
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  Speaker 3: of those lost starting positions from last year, then you
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  Speaker 3: should be around the same. But the other thing is,
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  Speaker 3: The players that are coming back aren't the same. And
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  Speaker 3: the other thing we don't really put into that consideration
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  Speaker 3: is that it's a new OC.
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  Speaker 2: Another OC. How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Third straight year. JSN's been learning so much football. He's
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  Speaker 4: learned a lot under different coordinators. He's seen the worst.
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  Speaker 4: He's seen the best.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right. Now it's somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because you get a new guy, again, who is, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's never called plays before.
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  Speaker 4: Which is kind of fascinating in itself, the Seahawks for, like,
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  Speaker 4: We're going to go get Clint Kubiak, who has done
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  Speaker 4: this before. He was actually in New Orleans, lighting it
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  Speaker 4: up for a few weeks before his players just went
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  Speaker 4: down with a bunch of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Great hire. And now he's a head coach, doing pretty
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: damn well, if you ask me. See, actually, you know what?
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: We'll try that again with someone that's never called plays
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: and see if we can make it work. And you're
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: kind of in that same situation you were with, what's
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: his face?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Ryan Grubb. Thank you. Couldn't put it together.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Grubb, and now you're doing it again after just winning
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl. That's a tough ask. And here you're
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: seeing the results of it. So going in, I was
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: kind of iffy.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: But now it's like, damn, here you are again. And
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: everyone's asking for a change. Well, who can really come
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: in and make a dent?
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: So you fire him. Now what? Crickets. So nothing's really
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: going to change. That's true.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I don't think too many people have been calling for
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: his job. But I know there are a few fans
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: that are pissed and want something to change.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: But you're going into week nine. I think it's more
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: than just fans. I'm seeing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Not everyone, obviously, and not the mainstream analysts, but there
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: are some analysts out there who are heavily questioning if
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: it's time to pull the plug because you just can't
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: waste the season. You can't pull. You can't do what
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: you do.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: What do you do then? I guess would be the
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: next question. I don't know.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: If you have someone in-house that you feel like is better... Well,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: then they should have did that from the jump.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: And that's where they kind of... But maybe they went
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: for the upside with Ron Fleury. So the only person
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: I can think of is Pete's, but I don't know
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: if he's ever called plays.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know either.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: But this is just what I'm... I'm not saying that
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I agree with it. No, I'm just proposing the question.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: So what do you think they should do, Anderson, given
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: you've seen some of those opinions about... the Seahawks' offense
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: and where they're at right now. Because to be honest,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: you're just going to have to ride the ship.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think there's much else out there to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: bring in midseason. Hiring and firing coordinators midseason is just
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: never a good sign. I don't know.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: The Cowboys might disagree with you on that. They're defensive coordinator.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I feel bad for the kid.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. I think you just rip
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the Band-Aid off and be like, we stink. Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: And we, you know, regardless of who's here, so we're
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: just going to have to, obviously you just score 40.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Like, literally, but continue, Anderson.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, but that's the, like, rare instance
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: where it, I guess, works. I guess works is a
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: very relative term because usually your teams are out of
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: it by the time you're doing that kind of stuff.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And the Seahawks are not out of it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: They're not out of it. They're 4-4, so do you
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: have faith that they can win? kind of turn things
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: around here. I think these next two weeks are huge.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: You need to win these next two weeks.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: So with Charles Cross returning, assuming he's back, let's say
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: he's back next week. I think that helps the offensive
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: line a lot. They had Josh Jones out there on
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Monday night. Not to make excuses or light from that
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: aspect of the game, but you've got a backup left
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: tackle in the game. Why don't you run to left side? Well,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: we've got Josh Jones out there. That's probably not going
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: to do that as much. I get it, so I
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: would hope that when he returns, Charles Cross, that the
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: offense mellows out, finds some consistency. Obviously, Rasheed Jaheed, I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: think his impact was missed, whether fans agree or not.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I think Utena Nwosu, maybe he's going to be back.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: That could also help the defense. So they had some
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: key injuries. I'm not making excuses for them, but I
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: do think that changed a little bit of the game,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: not having your starting left tackle back. Yeah, but I
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: compare that to around the league. Oh, yeah, around the league,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: but it's every week, right?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a weekly thing. Every team has that. Every
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: team does have that. Kyle Monunga was out for the Bears, right?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: And they still, well, they didn't run the football well,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: so I'll say that much. Yeah, that's true.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: So, even if they had Kyle, I feel like the
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Seahawks would have probably done the same thing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: The Niners haven't played with Mike Evans past three weeks. Like,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I just, I don't know, man, like, Compared to where
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: everyone else is, I get the running back situation has
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: been a big issue. But you did get those guys back.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Now it was their first game. I don't want to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: jump to rash conclusions after one game of Zach Charbonnet
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: in 2026 or one game after a month off for
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Jadarian Price. The running game just needs to improve, period,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: end of story, however that looks, whether that's the offensive
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: line getting more cohesion, whether that is getting more out
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: of Jadarian Price and Zach Charbonnet, whether that's giving the
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: ball to Emmanuel Wilson, as Greg mentioned yesterday. I was
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: shocked that he didn't get a single carry. I didn't
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: expect him to be featured, but a guy that just
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: ran for 100 yards against a good Chiefs defense the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: previous week, all of a sudden gets zero touches, zero,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: in the next game. Again, I wasn't expecting him to
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: be the featured back, but if you're struggling to run
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the football, you're kind of looking for other options at
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: that point. Were you surprised that Emmanuel Wilson got zero touches?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That's a great question. I didn't even cross my mind
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: because they had who they wanted. the one-two punch to be.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: That's true. So for me, it was like... And you
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: want to get them going, right? Hell, I remember Hugh
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: thinking he wouldn't even make the roster, right?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: It's true. So from my vantage point, it worked out
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: because injuries. He was basically... The role was there for
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: him to take.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: And he took it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: And then you have your two guys back. And you
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: also have George Helani. So it's like, where does he
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: fit in? So I wasn't too surprised.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: No, I get it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: He did have 100 yards last game. But I would
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: be confident if Zach Serberne or Jadarian Price were there,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: they would have had a fine game as well.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: So with that, it's like, we got our two guys back.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: If he gets in, he'll get in. If not, we're
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: going these two guys.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. These next two weeks are huge for the Seahawks. Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: You have Cardinals, Raiders, and then the bye, and then
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the Niners. So if you can get to the bye
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: at 6-4 and have a whole two weeks to prepare
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: for that second Niners game.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Going up against these two teams. Cardinals, yes, especially now
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: with Jeremiah Love. I'll be honest.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I think you mentioned this maybe two weeks ago when
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: you were doing Factor Fiction. I'm going with the better team.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Or maybe it was Chuck. One of you guys said,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going with the better team. At this juncture, out
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: of these three games that are coming up, Arizona, Vegas,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and Niners. They're better than at least two teams, for sure,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: in my opinion. I know the offense is not where
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: it needs to be, but those two teams, Cardinals and Raiders,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I am thinking the Seahawks are better right now.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: If you go into the bye week at 6-4 with
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: two weeks to prepare... Okay, when?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: When?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: When you go into the bye week at 6-4 with
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: two weeks to prepare for that Niners game, I think
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: that is very much.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: A win scenario for the Seahawks. And then you can
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: maybe get a game back on the Niners. Maybe they drop.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Another one in between. Then who knows? We'll see at
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: that point. All right, let's figure out what's on tap
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the show today.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: A busy Wednesday show here on Chuck in the Morning.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: We got Greg Bell joining us at 7 o'clock. Curious
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to hear his thoughts on the upcoming schedule for the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Seahawks and more.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: We'll get to your thoughts on what the confidence level
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: in Sam Darnold is right now. Again, we'll be getting
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to your talkbacks today regarding the Seahawks, Mariners manager, all
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: that stuff, probably around 830, 845. So be sure, if
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you have thoughts, to go to the iHeartRadio app, hit
• 22:22
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• 22:24
  Speaker 3: 30-second message. We will sift through those. We got Ty
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Dan Gonzalez from Locked On Mariners. He'll be joining us
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: at 8 o'clock to give his thoughts on the Jason
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Kanzler hire for the Seattle Mariners. Hopefully he knows about
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: him more than I do because there's just really not
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: a lot out there. Cam Cleon will join us at
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: 9 after a big Huskies win against Nebraska. Is there
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: a possibility where this season for the Dogs can actually
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: be a success? We'll ask Cam that. Al Kiniski at
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: 9.30 previewing a Kraken-Calgary Flames game. But coming up next,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the Mariners have hired a new manager, and there really
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: is not a lot known about him, not just from me,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: but from most analysts out there. But can that actually
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: be seen as a win-win? Coming up next on Sports
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• 23:09
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• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, we got a great text.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: 425.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: If Christopher calls everyone by their full given name, shouldn't
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the afternoon show.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Be David and Richard? What's your response, Christopher?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You are right, 425. But
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you call him Softie. Well, there's levels to this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. Anderson, his name is Anderson. So it's hilarious
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: when everyone says Anders. We've always called Softie Softie.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's... I don't think Softie came in
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: and he was Dave, but his name was David, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: then he came, you know, 10 years later and became Softie.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Right. I think at some point he was just Softie.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Whereas.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Anderson was like, oh, my name is Anderson, but you
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: can call me Anders. I'm like, I'm not calling you Anders.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: My name is Anderson. So that's why, I don't even
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: know if that made sense. No, no, I got you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I know you got me, but I don't know if
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: they did. Just the full name, yeah. Yeah, so Softie
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: came in with Softie, if I'm not mistaken.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he did. I can't say that for sure. Like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: if I came in as just kid, that would make
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: a little sense.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Not that Softie's does, I guess, because I don't know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Where that came from. We'd have to like, hey, Softie,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: you know, we could probably ask him that too tomorrow.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And try to get to Huskies at some point. You know,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: we have two.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: We have two other questions. You know, not about football. Hey,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: do you turn your mic, your headphones all the way up?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: So when Anderson comes in, it's just like, what is
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: wrong with you?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then the nickname Softie. Yeah. Where did that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: evolve from?
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Well, supposedly on the text line, they also have said
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that this has been a topic many times with Chuck previously.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: See, okay. So then, yeah, Softie's just deaf.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Apparently.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's why he speaks so loud all the time.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: It's like he literally can't hear himself. Hey, Softie, we
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: have a couple questions for you. Why are you so loud?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: What's the reason behind it? Where does that come from?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Are you always excited? Yeah, maybe. Imagine trying to whisper.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: It doesn't exist. Softie's whisper is like you and I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: talking right now. Hey, man, hi-ya. I don't know, man. Oh, man.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Go Dawgs.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You're a motelik.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back. Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: 93.3 KGRFM. Anderson Hirsch, Christopher Kidd filling in for Chuck.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: He's on vacation for the next couple days. I teased
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: it last segment. You know, Mariners hired this new manager.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: There's not really much that anyone knows about him. I mean,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: you can try and read into what Justin and Jerry
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: said about why they hired him. But other than that,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: there's there's not a ton of public knowledge, even where
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: he was before in Chicago, because he wasn't like on
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: the coaching staff. He was a director of their farm system.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: So he's up in the front office. And then he
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: was on the staff, the coaching staff for the 2022
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Houston Astros World Championship team, who also with the other players,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: finalist for the manager and Joe Espada was so this
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Mariners for whatever reason loved that 2022 Houston Astros team
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: yeah the one that beat the Mariners uh with the
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Jordan Alvarez walk-off homer over uh against Robbie Ray uh
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I think you're welcome for bringing that back up Mariner
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: fans but uh beside the point that this is one
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: of those situations where Chuck has mentioned this many times
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: because of how the fans are undoubtedly going to react
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: to who the Mariners hire. There wasn't anyone out there
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: that would be a quote-unquote home run hire off the rip, right?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: There would not be someone where as soon as you
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: heard the name that every single fan would be like, yeah,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: they just absolutely won the day. I think the one
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: person that had the opportunity to be that was Steven Vogt,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: where at the very least the vast majority of fans
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: would be excited about that. A young up-and-coming manager who
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: has local ties. But We've talked about this before. He's
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: still under contract. They would have to make a trade
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: for a player. And I don't think the Mariners are
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: looking to do that. They believe their roster too much and.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: that the value just doesn't add up where you want
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: to give up a player from your team to just
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: to get a manager. So, um, they end up going
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: with an unknown commodity. You have two options in your,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: as I said, the two finalists, Joe Espada, who isn't
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: an unknown commodity. It's, he's very much known, um, especially
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: here in the AL West because he has been the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: manager of the Houston Astros for the past three years. Um,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: never got to 90 wins, but he did win two, uh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: division titles. Uh, he's a meh manager. I think from
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: most circles, a lot of people in Houston believe that roster,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: including myself, that roster wasn't necessarily that great. Um, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: he didn't take them up to new heights really either. He, he,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I think he got exactly what out of that roster,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: what they should have. Now you would take that against
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: what Dan Wilson had gotten out of this roster this year,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: which was way below what, uh, you should have gotten
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: out of it, right? But I think a home run
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: hire would turn like a Stephen Voter or Kevin Cash, right?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Where you get more out of the roster that you
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: have than the talent level suggests, right? So that's where
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I think the Mariners are hoping to get from this hire.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: And the reason I say it's a possibly a win-win
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: situation here is because, okay, I shouldn't say win-win, but
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: in terms of, If you're a fan of change, if
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: you think that the front office is the problem, I
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: still have to see one more cycle before I come
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: to that conclusion. I do think there are issues, but
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I still don't want to go into a, all right,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: reset everything. A new front office would probably want to
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: come in here and kind of change a lot of stuff.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: And that might turn into a rebuild. And I don't
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: want to do that. I still think this team is
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: good enough to compete next year. So, that being said,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: hiring Jason Kanzler, where Chuck and I have said this
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: multiple times, this is the last chance for Jerry DePoto...
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: to hire a manager, right? You can't blame the manager
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: if you miss the playoffs again next year.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: You can't say it's a culture issue. You can't say
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: it's a manager issue. It's you at that point, because
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: you would have too many.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: What's the common denominator after three... you know, kind of
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: failed eras or 10 years, I should say. So the
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Mariners are kind of going, pushing all their chips in
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: the middle of the table, as they should be, right?
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: If this is your last chance, might as well have
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: it be a situation where either A, we get a
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: home run higher that is the next big thing in
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: baseball managing, the next Steven Vogt, if you will, or
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the next Kevin Cash or the next Pat Murphy, right?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Or.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: We're changing the entire front office.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Everything's kind of being upheld, or upheaved, I should say. So,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: in a lot of fans' minds, this might actually be
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: a win-win situation. Either the Mariners finally get the manager
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: they can get the most out of this roster, or
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Jared Pota's gone after this year. So, I don't know
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: if everyone feels that way, if everyone kind of wants
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: that to be... Both of those scenarios would be a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: positive in that situation. But to me, it's kind of
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: the reality that the Mariners are in at this point.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Because who knows if we'll have a season next year?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Who knows how long the season will be next year?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: But whatever happens, this team on paper, and again, games
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: aren't played on paper, this team is good enough to
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: go to the playoffs to compete for the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely are.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: If you bring in a manager who can get more
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: out of that, then we'll finally get over that hump
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: that we've been expecting to get over for a long time.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: If not, then I'm wrong. Then this team isn't good enough.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Then the roster construction isn't what we think it is.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And that's the front office. And then that's why they
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: would eventually move on from Jerry to Poto. and Justin
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Hollander and more. So I think in a lot of fans' minds,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: a win-win situation, right? You get a chance to prove,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: one last chance, Jerry, to prove that you have the roster,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: you have the pieces in place to build a winner.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: And if not, you're going along with him.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: It's so much going on here. I think we're going
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: to pivot a little bit because I totally forgot about
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: this story that came out yesterday. The college football playoff
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: rankings came out last night. I'm curious to hear what
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Christopher Kidd thinks. And you guys on the text line.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about kind of the results of that. And,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: you know, if some teams are getting hard done by
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: where they ended up being in the first rankings reveal
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: of the season.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: That's coming up next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back, Chuck, to the Morning Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Anderson Hurst, Christopher Kidd filling in for Chuck while he's
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: on vacation. He'll be back a little bit later on
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: this week. Got a random text from Keith253. Random fantasy
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: trade question.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I like this. Trade away Bijan, get Swift and T. Higgins.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I have Jamar Chase already. Christopher, what do you think? Oh,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that's a good... I think I would do it. I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: think I would too. Depends on who your other running
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: back is as well. That was going to be my
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: next question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you ever feel really good about your two, I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: would do it.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think Swift is going to get a lot
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: of touches and touchdowns in that Bears offense. And having
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Tee and Jamar is a weapon in that Bengals offense.
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  Speaker 2: Someone's going to score. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. One of those
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: two is going to go off. That's what I meant.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Between those two, one of them is going to score
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: a touchdown and the other is going to have yards.
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  Speaker 2: That's usually how it ends up.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Well, the college football playoff. rankings came out last night
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: yeah i there's a lot of thoughts on this one
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: they just had the update that miami expectedly number one
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: i wasn't expecting them to be number one to be
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: completely honest i look at their resume and i don't
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: see much there um but okay there ain't no fine
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: but christopher what it was your reaction like how was.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Alabama number five yeah two losses yeah i don't know
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, Tennessee, who beat Alabama 26-10. Let me
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: pull that up to verify. Find that game.
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  Speaker 2: 13th. Yeah, so they beat them 26th. They're 13th.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how does that make any sense in this planet?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. On this planet.
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  Speaker 1: UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: That's the big one. Aren't they undefeated? They are undefeated. Okay,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: they are. And where are they ranked? Oh, they're 8th.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: So... So this is where... This is the biggest egregious....
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  Speaker 3: At fact, to me, because Miami. OK, if you want
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: to give me the argument that, hey, you know, you
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: can only play the teams on your schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Texas Tech. The eye test matters.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: That's where.
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  Speaker 3: OK, even if they have a soft schedule, Miami's best
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: win is against Wake Forest. Now, Rick Neuheisel mentioned it yesterday.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Wake Forest has been a great story.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: This year.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: And that has been one of the best updates, I
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: guess you could say, with Jake Dickert having a ton
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: of success there. That's been a great story. But that
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: being your best win.
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  Speaker 2: That's a soft schedule so far in the year.
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  Speaker 3: Versus UCLA, okay, you can make the argument they have
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  Speaker 3: a soft schedule as well, but their best win is Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say Oregon is a bigger win than Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 3: I know right now Wake Forest is ranked higher, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Oregon has a couple more losses, but I still think
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Oregon's a better team than Wake Forest if they were
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: to play right now. So it makes no sense to
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: me how one team can get punished for having a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: soft schedule and being undefeated in UCLA. But another team
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: gets rewarded for being undefeated even though they have a
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: soft schedule. That's the main conclusion I drew last night.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Where else does your eye go, Christopher?
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  Speaker 2: Let me go back. You mentioned Texas Tech. I think
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: that's another one where it's like, really? Time out.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Texas Tech at number 15 is a slap in the face.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: They are 7-1 and sit behind multiple two lost SEC teams.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I get it, some of those teams have, it's
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the schedule argument, right? But Texas Tech has beaten two
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: ranked teams, Houston and Arizona.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Come on, man. Right?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: And then Ohio State at number 12, I have a
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: question mark there because Ohio State beat Indiana, yet Indiana
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: is ranked 4th.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: And the bucket is also lost to USC.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I don't think they take a ton of head-to-head into account,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: which is dumb to me. Because USC literally just beat
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Ohio State. It's 7-2 versus Ohio State being 6-2. And
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: USC is 20th, and Ohio State is 12th. And it
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: wasn't just like, oh, a really close game. It could
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: have gone either way. USC put the beating down on them.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: and they're ranked 20th to Ohio State's 12th. To me,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: this looks a lot like, everyone's going to say SEC
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: bias or East Coast bias. I think it's more just,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: all right, which big names, big name bias, which big
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: name players, big name programs do we want to have here?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Miami is getting all the headlines for having two Heisman
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: contenders right now.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: That's just the reality.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: So I think that's why they want to, really buff
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: up that story a little bit, I would be fine
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: with having them at number one. But if that's the case,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: UCLA has to at least be in the top three.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: At least. I would be okay with top five. Top five. Okay. Fine.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Let's just be generous. Sure.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: An undefeated team in the top five should be guaranteed.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: A 6-2 Texas team who lost to Oklahoma is ahead
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: of UCLA because they have Arch Manning.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, man.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: This is where college football turns me off. I'm not
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: going to lie. I've said this multiple times. I went
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: to a school that didn't have college football, Seattle University.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: And honestly, even at that, it's a school that doesn't
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: really lean into the sports-heavy culture, if you know what
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I mean. It's just how it is. I played soccer there.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I love the sports there, but it's just not how
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: it is. It's not a big-time sport. program where everyone
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: goes to basketball games like Gonzaga or everyone goes to
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: football games, you know. So I don't have an allegiance.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: It's not as easy for me to just, OK, I
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: root for my team that I went to school for
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: every single week.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: So I kind of look at it as like, OK,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: this is another version of pro football for me. And
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: it's just this kind of stuff really turns me off
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: when when it's it's all subjective. It's all committees and
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Versus in the NFL where it's just like, hey, you
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: know exactly what you need to do to get in
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. You win these games. It's not like, oh,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: but you had a soft schedule. You had a second
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: place schedule. If that was the case, they would have
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: had the Rams as the number one seed in the
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: NFC last year. And the Seahawks would be playing on
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the road, even though they beat them twice. That's just
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: that's how much crazy we're talking about right now.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I had to mention it because I didn't actually put
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: it on our show sheet this morning. But, man, looking
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: at that and just not seeing the uproar or outrage
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: that we normally see, that surprised me because there were
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: a lot of question marks on what came out last
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: night in the college football rankings.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Let's talk to Greg Bell coming up next. Lots of
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: pressure on Brian Fleury. What does he need to do differently?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: We'll discuss with Greg. next.
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