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Chuck & Buck 1-16 Hour 1: Uh oh! Do we have an injury concern? ICYMI Matt Hasselbeck & No Cliche Keys to Victory! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: coming up with thoughts on tap. But I can see Ashley,
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Speaker 2: who left her house at five point fifty two and
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Speaker 2: got here at five fifty seven. I'm sure has got
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Speaker 2: her Seahawks poofball hat on, and she only cracks that
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Speaker 2: out when she is really serious about a victory.
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Speaker 3: First off, I left my house at five p fifty
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Speaker 3: two and got here at five forty seven.
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Speaker 2: Wow, so did it? Yep?
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Speaker 4: The portal works, just saying good, good, good.
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Speaker 3: And second of all, yes, I the poof because there's
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Speaker 3: certain things like I have a shirt that I have
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Speaker 3: to wear, you know, on game day. I couldn't wear
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Speaker 3: that today because game day tomorrow, and I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to do the laundry today to have it clean for tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: It's got to be ready already, and it is ready.
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Speaker 4: So today the hat m poof.
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Speaker 2: And all, yeah, I.
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Speaker 3: Love it.
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Speaker 2: Got all your superstitions aligned for tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: You guys would be pretty proud of me. I haven't
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Speaker 3: been less superstitious. I'm like Mike McDonald, I'm still a
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Speaker 3: little stitious. You're yeah, I'm stitious, yeah, but not super
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Speaker 3: I've been doing pretty well.
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Speaker 2: I bet I bet your definition of superstitious you probably
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Speaker 2: are no longer radically stitious. Yeah, that's and you probably
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Speaker 2: have settled at superstitious.
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Speaker 4: That's probably more accurate.
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Speaker 5: That is just slightly or a little stitious. Yeah, but
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Speaker 5: it probably is still quite super right, probably quite Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I'm with you have a certain place you're going to sit.
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Speaker 3: Right, came Okay, Well you know what if we're gonna
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Speaker 3: get into this, Okay, I have a real conundrum here.
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Speaker 3: Oh so, last game we had people over to our
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Speaker 3: house to watch somebody no no, no, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Well we won whatever you did, do it again.
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Speaker 4: I guess that's where the conundrum comes in.
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Speaker 3: So now we're watching with the same group of people,
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Speaker 3: but our friends want us to do it at their house.
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Speaker 5: Oh jeez.
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Speaker 3: And my friend whose house it is, Emily. She's a
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Speaker 3: big listener of the show. She's None Games Back Emily.
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Speaker 2: Oh love None Games Back Emily.
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Speaker 3: So Emily is also superstitious. She is also concerned about
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Speaker 3: watching it at our house. But her husband is the
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Speaker 3: complete opposite and just told us both that isn't a thing.
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Speaker 4: We're watching it at our house.
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Speaker 3: So we have prepared that if we're not doing well
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Speaker 3: at halftime, everyone will pack up and we will go
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Speaker 3: to my house.
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Speaker 2: See this is You're right, it is a conundrum. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: because I totally am him and see his side of things.
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Speaker 2: But just because he feels that way, he's gonna make
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Speaker 2: a lot of other people uncomfortable that don't feel that way.
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Speaker 2: And if things start going south just a little bit. Yep,
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Speaker 2: even though I think he's absolutely right, he's gonna get
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Speaker 2: blamed if things don't go well.
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Speaker 4: I promise I won't blame him. I will just quietly
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Speaker 4: get up and leave and I will say yes this dish.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And the sisions have passed on to Palmer the
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Speaker 3: Great because where she found out we were playing San Francisco,
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Speaker 3: She's like, well, I better wear my green onesie and
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Speaker 3: go to Ella's because that's where she was and what
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Speaker 3: she was wearing for the last game, and the green
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Speaker 3: ones he's mine, so.
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Speaker 4: It's massive on her.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4: I tried to not pass it on to her.
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Speaker 2: I think I don't know if you tried that.
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Speaker 4: No, that's not true. I didn't really.
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Speaker 2: She probably just watched you and mimicked what you did.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I see, I'm torn. I'm right, smack dab in
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Speaker 5: the middle, like when T shirt. Yeah game, everyone see
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Speaker 5: an old one this one out of the back of
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Speaker 5: the closet because it's Ben Wilson done well in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: This is a playoff shirt. Is that what you're telling me?
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Speaker 2: You only crack this out for special occasions, like I've
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Speaker 2: seen it, But you might be right, You might be right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I don't think you've seen this one, and
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Speaker 5: I like it. But see, I I was quite stitious, yeah,
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Speaker 5: probably even super uh stitious as a player. I mean
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Speaker 5: it is this, which sock I put on first, which
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Speaker 5: wrist I taped first, which batting goes? I would wear
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Speaker 5: batting gloves that were just trashed if I was hitting,
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Speaker 5: you were going to change your batting gloves even if
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Speaker 5: they didn't even work as batting gloves, right.
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Speaker 4: They were just more Bracelet be sure.
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Speaker 5: They protect my hands from blisters, but they don't work.
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Speaker 5: We have holes in them, Like you're just getting a blister.
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Speaker 5: Like I don't care. I'm getting a blister from hits,
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Speaker 5: is what I'm getting. It's not a no hit blister
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Speaker 5: I'm getting. And yet it somewhat transferred into my fandom
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Speaker 5: outside of it. And yet while I'm doing it as
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Speaker 5: a fan, like I don't have anything to do with this.
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Speaker 2: Don't have it.
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Speaker 5: See when it was my stition about me and it
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Speaker 5: had to do with me performing kind of made sense
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Speaker 5: even though it didn't really matter which sock I put
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Speaker 5: on first.
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Speaker 4: Let's be real, right, But it made you not, it.
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Speaker 5: Made me yes. But then when all of a sudden
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Speaker 5: it transfers into something where it doesn't matter what my
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Speaker 5: routine is. I have zero to add to this whole thing.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't have. I have less than zero.
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Speaker 5: The ball boy has far more to do with it
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Speaker 5: than I do, so he better.
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Speaker 4: Put a socks on matter where I watch the game.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't.
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Speaker 5: No, it doesn't, but I understand why you feel that
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Speaker 5: it does. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, like I said the last time we had this conversation,
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Speaker 2: I do have this like dark wish and hope that
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Speaker 2: if I do make it to heaven and I do
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Speaker 2: get to sit on that cloud and talk to the
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Speaker 2: archangel uh and I get to ask him anything I want.
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Speaker 2: I do want to ask like superstitions and sports, does
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Speaker 2: God care who wins the game? And I want him
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Speaker 2: to say.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, me too, because then I won't have been
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Speaker 3: wasted away.
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Speaker 2: Every single person superstition that roots for whatever team and
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Speaker 2: whoever wins the game had the people most dedicated to
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Speaker 2: their superstitions.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, and you also have to think about think
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Speaker 3: about this, think about the people you've lost that are
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Speaker 3: up there too. So if I'm doing my superstitions and
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Speaker 3: my dad's looking down on me, he's like, all right,
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Speaker 3: she did it.
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Speaker 4: Let's go Seahawks. You got this.
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Speaker 3: And then he's talking to the archangel and then they're all,
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Speaker 3: you know, and his friend George, George a big Seahawks
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Speaker 3: fan too. Well yea, So now my dad and George
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Speaker 3: and Peter or whoever, Yeah, they're all help, you know,
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Speaker 3: so I have to do it.
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Speaker 2: Peter's a huge Seahawks fan. Yeah, everybody knew that. Well. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: whatever yours are, however, you enjoy the game, whatever you
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Speaker 2: pour into it, man, good luck to you. Yeah. So
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Speaker 2: we're all pulling in the right direction. Well except for Bucky,
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Speaker 2: but all the rest of us are pulling in the
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Speaker 2: right direction. So good morning to you all. Welcome in
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Speaker 2: among the stitious and superstitious right here on Chuck and
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Speaker 2: Buck in the Mornings. It is Ashley Ryan former Marin
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Speaker 2: or Bucky Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell. We have
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Speaker 2: a lot to do today, and we probably shouldn't put
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Speaker 2: this off any longer, because yesterday the Seahawk world got
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Speaker 2: rocked a little bit. What on earth happened that Sam
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Speaker 2: Darnold could end up on a bye week, two days
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Speaker 2: shy of the game, on the injury list with an
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Speaker 2: injury as scary as an oblique And certainly there are
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Speaker 2: scarier injuries out there, but there are a few that
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Speaker 2: are more mysteiurious on how they're going to affect an
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Speaker 2: athlete in the game. It's also one of those injuries
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Speaker 2: that can be easily aggravated as well and made worse.
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Speaker 2: And he's gonna get hit around, and he's gonna be contorted,
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Speaker 2: and he's gonna make throws from different platforms. And so
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Speaker 2: even though I'm sure Sam Donald's gonna give it a
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Speaker 2: go tomorrow night, he said next to zero percent chance
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Speaker 2: that I won't play with an oblique injury or an
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Speaker 2: oblique tweak on my left side, it hasn't stopped doctors
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Speaker 2: from coming out of the woodwork to weigh in on
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Speaker 2: just how serious this is. And I'm not saying that
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Speaker 2: I've seen any reports from people that think that it's
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Speaker 2: a serious thing that people have to worry about it.
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Speaker 2: But pretty much every report has been it's not nothing.
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Speaker 2: It's not nothing. It's not something that anybody could feel
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Speaker 2: great about that Sam Donald on the Thursday before the
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Speaker 2: biggest game of the year has tweaked something on his
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Speaker 2: left side. And so here we sit now here on
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Speaker 2: a football Friday, thinking that we had the healthiest team
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Speaker 2: in the galaxy. Now having to discuss the most important
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Speaker 2: player to your roster having some sort of injury born
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Speaker 2: out of nowhere. It's interesting.
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Speaker 5: I mean, then again, you know it's there's a lot
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Speaker 5: of worse ones, and I think obviously nobody wants to
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Speaker 5: hear that your quarterback just stops basically in practice. But
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Speaker 5: the idea of a tweak of some sort and you
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Speaker 5: felt the discomfort and then shut it down, and then
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Speaker 5: backing it up by saying, well, there's no chance I'm
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Speaker 5: not going to play to me makes it to where
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't be overly concerned about it.
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Speaker 2: That's z.
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Speaker 5: There's nothing saying that you know, it's supposed to be
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Speaker 5: nice weather here and whatnot. But obliques are tricky ones
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Speaker 5: because of the fact that you can't stabilize that part
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Speaker 5: of your body right. It's your core. It's a side
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Speaker 5: of your cords. You can't stabilize it. So it's something
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Speaker 5: that even though you can rest it and not aggravate
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Speaker 5: it or make it worse, you know, today or tomorrow,
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Speaker 5: leading or tomorrow. I guess he has to play. But
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Speaker 5: he didn't react, he didn't make it any worse yesterday
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Speaker 5: after he felt the tweak. There's nothing saying that that
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Speaker 5: isn't going to get worse during the game Amorrow.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna play.
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Speaker 5: I believe him one hundred percent when he says fell
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Speaker 5: a little bit of a tweak, stopped throwing, probably went
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Speaker 5: and did a little treatment, try to get the inflammation
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Speaker 5: out of there. But it's probably not going to be
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Speaker 5: one hundred percent tomorrow. He's still going to be able
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Speaker 5: to throw. I still think he's still going to be
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Speaker 5: able to throw down the field. Now, if all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden you tweak that worse, you heard it, you
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Speaker 5: really pull the old bleaque. Now you have something to
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Speaker 5: worry about moving forward, whether it's moving forward the rest
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Speaker 5: of tomorrow's game or beyond if they advanced. So, yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's definitely not nothing, even though I wouldn't be overly
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Speaker 5: concerned about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my concern, not that he's not going to
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Speaker 3: play tomorrow, but that he would bother it further during
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Speaker 3: the game, and then that would be a bigger problem.
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Speaker 2: And well it's not like I mean, we watched Justin Herbert, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how he did it. And
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Speaker 2: he's playing out there with a broken hand, and every
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Speaker 2: time he looked like Chubbs Peterson, yeah from Happy Gilmore.
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Speaker 2: It looked like it was a wooden extension on his
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Speaker 2: left hand. And every time that he went down, he
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Speaker 2: somehow ended up with his broken hand in the air
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Speaker 2: and he would avoid it, but there was no avoiding
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Speaker 2: it entirely. He still got it smacked around on the
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Speaker 2: turf by other players in every sense. I mean, he
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Speaker 2: was he kept putting that thing at risk, no matter
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Speaker 2: how great he was, and he was great, yes, and
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Speaker 2: he would fall down and somehow he'd sling his left
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Speaker 2: arm out and keeping aware. But man, you're quarterback. You've
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Speaker 2: got a twist and turn on every throw, you know,
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Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to throw from all sorts of
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Speaker 2: different angles. And that's the concern.
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Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: And it's just I feel like I'm going to be
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Speaker 3: watching the game all tomorrow. Well, I mean obviously there's
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Speaker 3: already nerves, but you're going to be watching like every throw.
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Speaker 4: Okay, did he did he do it? Did he make
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Speaker 4: it worse? Is it okay? Is it okay?
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Speaker 2: How he gets up?
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Speaker 3: Yep, You're gonna reach time he goes, every time he throws,
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Speaker 3: You're gonna be watching him get up everything, just because
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Speaker 3: it isn't just about tomorrow, Right, You've got one game
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Speaker 3: at a time, and you've got that mentality, but you're
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Speaker 3: hoping that you've got more than one game, and how's
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Speaker 3: he gonna hold up?
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Speaker 2: It's something I sugges I could have done without. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I could have not.
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Speaker 4: I was not expecting that news yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Wrinkle come into our lives on a Thursday afternoon, forty
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Speaker 2: eight hours shy of playing in the divisional round of
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, and I and I know, I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: it's it's not one of those things we're on. Buy
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Speaker 2: what's going on? Like you can you can hurt your
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Speaker 2: oblique grabbing milk out of the refrigerator. I mean so
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Speaker 2: uh and Charles Cross ended up with a different type
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Speaker 2: of knee injury to the same knee, but apparently he
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Speaker 2: had something during the course of the buy I mean,
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Speaker 2: you're you win the bye, You're not supposed to have
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Speaker 2: an injury report that expands during the bye, and yet
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Speaker 2: somehow the Seahawks managed to do that. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if that's Bucky the football gods trying to even things out, like, well,
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Speaker 2: this seems unfair. Look at all these guys on this
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers list, and there aren't any over here
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Speaker 2: on this Seahawks list. I mean, we got to have
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Speaker 2: an interesting game tomorrow, but I could have done without
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Speaker 2: all of it. I mean, Ernest Jones got sick this week.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he looks like he's fine, but I mean
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Speaker 2: it wasn't exactly a great week for injury news, considering
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Speaker 2: that you earned a buy right, we didn't have to
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Speaker 2: play a game the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean yeah, I mean the Charles Cross one,
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Speaker 5: I think is a bit more concerning considering it's also
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Speaker 5: on the heels of Josh Jones, who toughed out I
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Speaker 5: guess an injury while Cross was out with the hamstring.
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Speaker 2: And I guess Josh Jones is out. He's out out out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So then you're like, okay, well that your starter
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Speaker 5: is still good to go, right, And yes, it appears
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Speaker 5: as if Charles Cross isn't injured where he's not going
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Speaker 5: to go. But it's like, okay, but you were already
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Speaker 5: you already had a hamstring issue, and I can tell
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Speaker 5: you from hamstrings, those don't just miraculously go away, right,
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Speaker 5: we saw how that happened. Now he kind of got
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Speaker 5: his leg stuck and then basically pulled a big giant hamstring,
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Speaker 5: ended up missing a game. And so you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 5: I think that there's there's something to the idea of Wow,
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Speaker 5: you would think on your bye week that you just
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Speaker 5: do nothing but get healthier.
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Speaker 2: Nope, not so quick.
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Speaker 5: Apparently you're still working out. Things can happen. And yeah,
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Speaker 5: so now you have a couple of really big ones.
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Speaker 5: I mean your quarterback and your left tackle both added
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Speaker 5: to the whole situation, and your backup left tackle who
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Speaker 5: did a great job being ruled out. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 5: not all good news yesterday.
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Speaker 3: For sure, we basically need to score seventy points in
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Speaker 3: the first quarter so everyone can rest.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need sort of it. We'd have to build
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Speaker 2: in another buy. Yeah, that would be that probably be
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Speaker 2: a record or something. It's serious enough that Drew Locke
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Speaker 2: got first team reps yesterday, So, like I said, I'm
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Speaker 2: not concerned about it, but it's not nothing, right, and
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Speaker 2: obviously Mike McDonald's not treating it like it's nothing. And
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a terrible idea for your backup
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Speaker 2: to get first team reps anyway and ready for getting
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Speaker 2: ready for a big It's a pretty physical sport, yes,
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Speaker 2: and I wouldn't mind Drew Locke having it. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: mind that even if Sam was one hundred percent one
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Speaker 2: hundred and three percent healthy, I wouldn't mind that Drew
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Speaker 2: got a few reps with the first team, you know,
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Speaker 2: just in case. But I don't think they usually operate
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Speaker 2: that way. I just don't think there's enough practice time
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Speaker 2: for you to operate that way. So they gave Drew
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Speaker 2: a few reps with the first team yesterday, so Mike
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Speaker 2: McDonald is at least thinking to himself just in case. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'd like to have Drew a little more ready than
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Speaker 2: not ready at all to step in for Sam if
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Speaker 2: we need him. So it's news we could have all
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Speaker 2: done without, and certainly we'll be talking a lot about
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Speaker 2: it here today and we certainly have the people lined
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Speaker 2: up to discuss it. So let's find out what's on tap,
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Speaker 2: what's unte what's untech? All right? Seahawks forty nine Ers
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Speaker 2: Saturday at five o'clock. It'll be the second game of
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Speaker 2: the day, as this is my favorite weekend of the year,
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Speaker 2: the entire calendar year of sports. To get the eight
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Speaker 2: best teams theoretically in the National Football League to play
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Speaker 2: back to back double edders, it's it's a lot of football,
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Speaker 2: but not too much. Sometimes that wild card is like
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Speaker 2: who I got another game? Yeah, yeah, we do this.
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Speaker 2: This is like this is like perfect. It's the it's
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Speaker 2: theoretically the eight best teams playing a double edder for
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Speaker 2: you on Saturday and Sunday, and the winners go on
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Speaker 2: one step away from the Super Bowl. Yeah. I love
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Speaker 2: this weekend and we're and it's even better when you're
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Speaker 2: a part of it. So Seahawks forty nine Ers tomorrow
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Speaker 2: at five o'clock kickoff from loom and Field. Greg Bell
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Speaker 2: is going to be with us to discuss all of
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Speaker 2: these injuries. Darnold close to no chance of not playing
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Speaker 2: despite the oblique injury. We'll get the latest from Greg
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Speaker 2: on that front. Arles Cross was a full participant in
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Speaker 2: practice yesterday, so is Kobe Bryant, Riek Wollan, and Ernest Jones,
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Speaker 2: even though somehow all those guys found their way onto
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Speaker 2: the injury report. With Kobe Bryant this week, Hugh Millen
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Speaker 2: X's and o's, obviously we're going to ask him about
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Speaker 2: what it is to play quarterback with that type of injury.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he had it at some point during his
18:22
Speaker 2: professional and collegiate career, and so he will join us
18:25
Speaker 2: for x's and o's at nine o'clock. Mike Homgern at
18:28
Speaker 2: nine thirty. How do you coach somebody that on Thursday,
18:31
Speaker 2: your quarterback ends up on an injury report, So things
18:34
Speaker 2: to ask him as well about this ordeal. So those
18:38
Speaker 2: guys are coming up on the program today, we'll even
18:41
Speaker 2: ask Sam Darnolds look alike if maybe he tweaked his
18:44
Speaker 2: oblique just to try to be like Sam Stam Darnold
18:47
Speaker 2: is going to join us today at eight thirty because
18:50
Speaker 2: we're always bringing celebrities on this week to get ready
18:53
Speaker 2: and see how they're preparing for the Seahawks game. So
18:56
Speaker 2: Stan Darnold is going to join us, will have some
18:58
Speaker 2: fun with him today at eight thirty. Elsewhere in the
19:01
Speaker 2: National Football League, of course, you've got Bills Broncos at
19:05
Speaker 2: one point thirty on Saturday. The double eder on Sunday
19:08
Speaker 2: will start at noon Patriots hosting the Texans, and then
19:12
Speaker 2: the Bears and Rams will be saved for last in Chicago,
19:15
Speaker 2: where it is supposed to be frigid for that game
19:18
Speaker 2: between the Rams and the Bears. The John Harbaugh deal
19:22
Speaker 2: is still not done, and so I guess they did
19:25
Speaker 2: let him leave the building. And if written contracts don't
19:29
Speaker 2: mean anything see the last week of our show, then
19:35
Speaker 2: how do verbal agreements mean anything in today's world. So
19:40
Speaker 2: John Arball still hasn't signed the deal, and we're now
19:43
Speaker 2: going on over twenty four hours since that was reported
19:47
Speaker 2: as pretty much done, and so it's left open this
19:51
Speaker 2: thought that maybe John Harbaugh didn't hear everything he wanted
19:55
Speaker 2: to hear, and that maybe there's still interest in interviewing
19:59
Speaker 2: with a couple of other organizations about their head coaching
20:03
Speaker 2: position before he makes his commitment. So a very interesting story.
20:07
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that with Sharkocherie a little bit later
20:11
Speaker 2: on in the radio program. We're three days away from
20:13
Speaker 2: the Natty and college football. Man, it's been a long season.
20:17
Speaker 2: It's still going. Indiana will take on Miami Monday night
20:21
Speaker 2: for the National Championship, and the Hoosiers are seven and
20:24
Speaker 2: a half point favorites despite playing at Miami. I mean,
20:28
Speaker 2: that's a home field game for the Miami Hurricanes, and
20:32
Speaker 2: the Hoosiers have been so dominant as of late. They're
20:35
Speaker 2: still favored by more than a touchdown in that contest.
20:39
Speaker 2: And so three days from the Natty, we'll talk more
20:41
Speaker 2: about that in the O Show today at eight o'clock.
20:43
Speaker 2: Same thing for college basketball. Huskies will host the Spartans
20:47
Speaker 2: of Michigan State Saturday at three o'clock KRACK and lost
20:51
Speaker 2: again on the road. So that's now four out of
20:54
Speaker 2: five losses for this team that had been on fire.
20:57
Speaker 2: They lost in Boston yesterday four empty net goal made
21:01
Speaker 2: it look worse than it actually was. Cracking scrambled to
21:04
Speaker 2: try to tie things up at the end of regulation,
21:07
Speaker 2: but the Bruins win by a final score of four
21:10
Speaker 2: to two. And from Major League Baseball, and we will
21:13
Speaker 2: find some time. We'll find a segment to discuss this
21:15
Speaker 2: today because I think it has huge ramifications. Kyle Tucker
21:19
Speaker 2: did finally come to terms and of course with the
21:23
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers, who signed him to a sixty million
21:27
Speaker 2: dollars per year deal. He now is the highest paid
21:31
Speaker 2: player not named show Aotani in a single season, and
21:35
Speaker 2: he even passed Juan Soto for goodness sake, And of
21:38
Speaker 2: course he went to the Dodgers. Where are they getting
21:42
Speaker 2: all of this fake money and passing it off as real?
21:45
Speaker 2: So Kyle Tucker is now a Dodger. We will discuss it.
21:48
Speaker 2: We'll spend a segment on this a little bit later on,
21:51
Speaker 2: because I think it's a monster story here on a
21:53
Speaker 2: Football Friday. Coming up next, In case you missed it,
21:56
Speaker 2: Matt Hasselbeck has been joining us every Wednesday at eight
21:59
Speaker 2: o'clock eight at eight here on Chuck and Buck the
22:02
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, and he will throughout the playoffs.
22:05
Speaker 2: So we'll replace some of that conversation we had with
22:08
Speaker 2: him about the Seahawks getting ready for the forty nine
22:11
Speaker 2: Ers this week right here on Sports Radio ninety three
22:13
Speaker 2: point three KJRFM Football Friday, sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka.
22:18
Speaker 2: All sorts of guests lined up talk about this Sam
22:22
Speaker 2: Darnold injury. How it's going to affect tomorrow. We'll have
22:26
Speaker 2: Greg Bell with the latest information at seven oh five,
22:29
Speaker 2: we'll have our QB one at nine o'clock talk about
22:31
Speaker 2: playing quarterback with that type of injury, and we'll even
22:34
Speaker 2: have the coach, Mike Holmgren on at nine thirty to
22:36
Speaker 2: talk about how you manage it going into that game
22:41
Speaker 2: on Saturday. So suddenly a bomb dropped on us yesterday
22:45
Speaker 2: doesn't sound too serious with Sam. He says, there's pretty
22:49
Speaker 2: much a zero percent chance that I won't play. But
22:52
Speaker 2: when you're talking about a left o leak, certainly it
22:56
Speaker 2: does raise some concern as we head into this big
23:00
Speaker 2: game of the year. And I know I've said that
23:02
Speaker 2: like three games in a row, but it is it
23:03
Speaker 2: keeps building. They're bigger, Yeah, keeps growing, It keeps growing.
23:07
Speaker 2: I mean, this is do or die.
23:08
Speaker 3: If we make it past this one, the next one
23:10
Speaker 3: will be the biggest game of the year.
23:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm failing. The super Bowl might be the biggest.
23:15
Speaker 4: That's what I've heard.
23:16
Speaker 2: It was my gut feeling about that. So when I
23:19
Speaker 2: tell you that, we're going to replay some of our
23:21
Speaker 2: conversation with Matt Hasselback from Wednesday in case you missed it.
23:25
Speaker 2: Obviously we don't have the Sam Darnold information. We didn't
23:28
Speaker 2: have it at the time, and so we don't venture
23:31
Speaker 2: into that topic at all. Matt with Matt Hasselback, but
23:35
Speaker 2: I'm sure if you missed the conversation, you'd like to
23:39
Speaker 2: hear what the former Seahawks quarterback has to say about
23:43
Speaker 2: the Seahawks preparation for this game on Saturday. And I
23:47
Speaker 2: started off the conversation really with just the gut reaction
23:51
Speaker 2: that Matt Hasselback had to finding out that it's going
23:55
Speaker 2: to be the forty nine Ers that they have to
23:56
Speaker 2: play again in the divisional round.
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Speaker 6: I think for the Seahawks in particular, it's disappointing that
24:03
Speaker 6: the Rams were able to come back against Carolina, because
24:06
Speaker 6: I do think we're gonna have to play the Rams,
24:08
Speaker 6: and if Carolina could have taken care of business in
24:11
Speaker 6: that one, that would have made our path a lot easier.
24:14
Speaker 6: But I don't think you can be upset about the
24:16
Speaker 6: fact that the forty nine Ers or your next opponent
24:20
Speaker 6: you had thirteen days in between the last time you
24:22
Speaker 6: played them. It's the last team you played and they.
24:25
Speaker 2: Have five days.
24:26
Speaker 6: The Niners are only going to get to practice two
24:28
Speaker 6: times this week in pads, and they lost some of
24:31
Speaker 6: their star players, the biggest name being George Kittle. They're
24:35
Speaker 6: all world you know, Rob Gronkowski type tight end. So
24:39
Speaker 6: this is a good matchup for us in terms of rest.
24:42
Speaker 6: But at the same time, they're no slouch. They're a
24:45
Speaker 6: good team, and they're not going to roll over like
24:48
Speaker 6: they seemingly did last time we played them.
24:50
Speaker 5: What carries over, Hasselbegt, what carries over from a dominant game?
24:56
Speaker 5: I mean, you absolutely put it on them. He only
24:58
Speaker 5: won by ten because you didn't necessarily finish all the drives.
25:01
Speaker 5: But defensively, you absolutely shut down the mastermind that is
25:05
Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan and his crew. So what carries over and
25:08
Speaker 5: what other things do you just expect or going to change?
25:12
Speaker 6: Well, I think you're exactly right now. Offensively in special teams,
25:15
Speaker 6: we've been great all year. We didn't play well week
25:17
Speaker 6: te and against the Niners, like it wasn't our best game.
25:20
Speaker 6: There were some you know, there were some highlight moments.
25:22
Speaker 6: We ran the ball well, we did a good job
25:23
Speaker 6: on critical third downs at the end of the game,
25:25
Speaker 6: but we missed two kicks. You know, we took sacks
25:29
Speaker 6: when we couldn't take sad like, it wasn't our cleanest game.
25:31
Speaker 6: Now defensively, though, this is I think the challenge. You
25:34
Speaker 6: did such a great job defensively. It was an absolute beatdown.
25:38
Speaker 6: It was a historic performance from our defense. So do
25:40
Speaker 6: you go in there with the same game plan and
25:42
Speaker 6: you say, oh, it worked last time, Well, like, that's
25:45
Speaker 6: dangerous because you know, Kyle Shanahan.
25:47
Speaker 2: And the Niners aren't going to do what they did
25:48
Speaker 2: last time.
25:49
Speaker 6: They're going to change, right, And so I think Mike
25:51
Speaker 6: McDonald obviously smart enough, he realizes that he's got to
25:54
Speaker 6: go to some of the other things in that previous
25:57
Speaker 6: game plan that he didn't put on tape because Kyle
26:00
Speaker 6: Shanahan doesn't know about him. But to think that you're
26:03
Speaker 6: just going to line up and do exactly what you
26:05
Speaker 6: did the last time, No, I don't.
26:07
Speaker 2: This is the NFL. I don't think that'll that'll play.
26:09
Speaker 2: I don't think that'll work. Matt Hasselbeck is with us.
26:11
Speaker 2: It's number eight. At eight, it's now gotten the stamp
26:15
Speaker 2: of approval from Matt himself right here on Chuck a
26:18
Speaker 2: Buck in the morning says, we get you ready for Saturday.
26:21
Speaker 2: Forty nine Ers versus Seahawks. What's your offensive approach for
26:25
Speaker 2: this game? You only put thirteen points on the board,
26:27
Speaker 2: as you said, a couple of miskicks, which normally doesn't
26:30
Speaker 2: happen to Jason Myers. But certainly you don't think I
26:35
Speaker 2: wouldn't think that. You feel you've got to put a
26:37
Speaker 2: lot of points on the board the way the defense
26:39
Speaker 2: is going. But man, you like to make it a
26:42
Speaker 2: little more comfortable than what it ended up being a
26:45
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. So are you aggressive with Sam?
26:48
Speaker 2: Do you try to establish the run to a fault?
26:51
Speaker 2: How do you approach this if you're Clint Kubiak in
26:53
Speaker 2: the offense?
26:54
Speaker 6: Well, I like aggressive play calling. I still like that,
26:58
Speaker 6: you know. I don't like having training wheels on, and
27:00
Speaker 6: I don't like handcuffs. I like, you know, cut it
27:02
Speaker 6: loose on your play calls. But Sam, you know you
27:05
Speaker 6: got to communicate to him, Hey, we won this game
27:08
Speaker 6: last time, and you threw I think you threw for.
27:10
Speaker 2: Less than two hundred yards.
27:11
Speaker 1: Like you.
27:12
Speaker 6: If we get more aggressive as play callers, you got
27:15
Speaker 6: to protect us with the ball. If you love it downfield,
27:18
Speaker 6: cut it loose, man, cut it loose. If you don't
27:20
Speaker 6: love it, Hey, find your checkdowns, let's live to play
27:23
Speaker 6: another day. Let our kicker kickfield goals. Let our punteror punt.
27:27
Speaker 6: You know that kind of a mindset, and you know,
27:29
Speaker 6: when it comes to analytics and some of that kind
27:31
Speaker 6: of stuff, you know, you hear people on TV being like, oh,
27:34
Speaker 6: it says it's fourth and four, you're supposed to go
27:36
Speaker 6: for it right here. Like for me, maybe I'm a
27:39
Speaker 6: little bit old school understanding how great your defense is
27:43
Speaker 6: and how banged up this forty nine ers offense is.
27:46
Speaker 6: Maybe just take points. Let your field goal kicker. Hey,
27:49
Speaker 6: if he kicks five field goals in this game, that's
27:51
Speaker 6: gonna be fine. Now, I don't think it'll be that.
27:54
Speaker 6: I think the Seahawks will get it right offensively, but
27:56
Speaker 6: understanding the complimentary football that this defense is playing in
28:00
Speaker 6: some metrics even much better than the Legion of Boom
28:03
Speaker 6: ever played. Like, understand that's who's playing on the other side.
28:08
Speaker 6: Those are your teammates. Let your teammates defend a long
28:11
Speaker 6: field against a beat up team that had to manufacture
28:14
Speaker 6: trick plays with wide receivers throwing reverse pass touchdowns last
28:18
Speaker 6: week just to find offense. So yeah, I think that
28:21
Speaker 6: that's the approach that I would take. But some at
28:25
Speaker 6: some point here in the playoffs, our quarterback and our
28:28
Speaker 6: wide receiver group and our past game, they're gonna have
28:31
Speaker 6: to be the ones to put the team on the back.
28:33
Speaker 6: So I want to shy away from having that mindset
28:36
Speaker 6: even in a game like this.
28:37
Speaker 2: Matt hasselback with us this past wins stave. You want
28:40
Speaker 2: to check out the entire conversation. It's twenty minutes long.
28:43
Speaker 2: We get into some great stuff. He's asked a great
28:45
Speaker 2: Walter Jones story that you got to hear. Do so
28:48
Speaker 2: we podcast the show every day and post it at
28:50
Speaker 2: ninety three to three kjar dot com. Man, I this
28:54
Speaker 2: is why you gotta love sports. I mean, because you
28:57
Speaker 2: could have all this analytic information, this advanced information, right,
29:02
Speaker 2: this statistical information, and you could have some old school
29:06
Speaker 2: thoughts to how the game used to be played and
29:09
Speaker 2: elements of it and this is how they still should
29:11
Speaker 2: be played. But I love that you can interpret a
29:14
Speaker 2: couple of different ways the fact that you have a
29:17
Speaker 2: great defense that probably is not going to give up
29:20
Speaker 2: a lot of points and how that affects you offensively.
29:23
Speaker 2: There's Matt, and I know coach would feel this way
29:26
Speaker 2: as well, take your points. You don't need that many,
29:29
Speaker 2: so take them when you can get them. They're precious.
29:32
Speaker 2: And I can appreciate that point of view. But Mike McDonald,
29:35
Speaker 2: according to what we've seen recently and according to what
29:39
Speaker 2: Greg Bell says he's probably going to double down on
29:42
Speaker 2: going forward, is saying, I have a great defense, I
29:45
Speaker 2: can take more chances offensively, so on fourth and goal
29:50
Speaker 2: from the four, I can try to get seven points
29:54
Speaker 2: and not three because if it fails, I've got a
29:57
Speaker 2: great defense. They'll be at the four yard line, so
30:01
Speaker 2: I can turn around and stop them. In theory, get
30:04
Speaker 2: the ball back and really have two shots at the
30:07
Speaker 2: end zone, which is what happened last week. People I
30:11
Speaker 2: think kind of forget that they got the ball back
30:13
Speaker 2: with great field position and scored their only touchdown on
30:16
Speaker 2: the day off of getting the ball back with that
30:19
Speaker 2: great field position. And so I love that there are
30:22
Speaker 2: two different ways to view you have a great defense,
30:26
Speaker 2: So how should you operate your offense and when should
30:31
Speaker 2: you make sure you take your points. I love that
30:34
Speaker 2: there's a conversation there, But I kind of lean, and
30:37
Speaker 2: you know this, I kind of lean toward Mike McDonald's
30:40
Speaker 2: way of thinking. Now, whether that changes because we're in
30:42
Speaker 2: the playoffs, I don't know, but I love that he
30:45
Speaker 2: kind of feels that way, even though he went for
30:48
Speaker 2: it on fourth down less than any head coach in
30:50
Speaker 2: the National Football League this year.
30:51
Speaker 5: Well, I think that the scoreboard, I mean, the time
30:54
Speaker 5: of the game and the score of the game dictates
30:57
Speaker 5: and should dictate exactly what you do. I don't anybody
30:59
Speaker 5: that this goes into analytics across all sports. The idea
31:03
Speaker 5: of I'm just going to go with the analytics is silly.
31:07
Speaker 5: Or I'm gonna throw that in the trash, you know,
31:10
Speaker 5: Mike soosha, just throw that in the trash. I have
31:12
Speaker 5: no use for that at all. That's stupid and so
31:15
Speaker 5: to me, it's so zero zero. First drive of the game,
31:18
Speaker 5: you're driving down, you get right on the doorstep, and
31:20
Speaker 5: to some degree, when you get to fourth down, you
31:22
Speaker 5: feel like, I am I'm giving up on this drive.
31:26
Speaker 5: If I just take three points, it's a tide ball game.
31:29
Speaker 5: But we have the whole game to go. You can
31:32
Speaker 5: overcome it if you don't get it, and you possibly
31:34
Speaker 5: if your defense steps up and does what they can
31:37
Speaker 5: with you got them backed up, you might get two
31:39
Speaker 5: cracks at this thing from the fifty you know what
31:40
Speaker 5: I mean, it's almost like.
31:41
Speaker 2: A all right, well on.
31:43
Speaker 5: Fourth down, if we don't get it, they don't really
31:45
Speaker 5: get the ball. We just have to go back to
31:47
Speaker 5: the fifty yard line and start over again. Well, everybody
31:50
Speaker 5: would take that. Now if it's the fourth don't. But
31:56
Speaker 5: if it's the fourth quarter and it's a tide game,
31:59
Speaker 5: it doesn't have to be zero zero. It's just a
32:00
Speaker 5: tiede game in the fourth quarter and there's you know,
32:03
Speaker 5: let's say there's seven minutes left, Well, then I think
32:06
Speaker 5: you take the points and you take the advantage that
32:08
Speaker 5: you have. Then, Now, if it's the fourth quarter and
32:11
Speaker 5: there's three minutes left and it's a tide game and
32:14
Speaker 5: you just take the three, are you now giving them
32:17
Speaker 5: the chance to go down where they only have to
32:19
Speaker 5: get two first downs and they're there within range of
32:22
Speaker 5: getting the game time field goal, or they could take
32:25
Speaker 5: all of the time off the clock and go down
32:28
Speaker 5: and get a touchdown. Now you're putting yourself at more
32:30
Speaker 5: risk because you're the finish lines coming near. You don't
32:33
Speaker 5: have as much time to make up for If this
32:35
Speaker 5: decision doesn't go the way that I want it to go.
32:37
Speaker 5: And so that's where you could say, I'm gonna go
32:39
Speaker 5: with the risk of it's tied ten to ten if
32:42
Speaker 5: we don't get it. I don't think they're gonna drive
32:44
Speaker 5: ninety seven yards on us. Okay, I'll go ahead and
32:46
Speaker 5: do that, or boy, I'm gonna go ahead and take
32:48
Speaker 5: the points. It's the time of the situation of the
32:51
Speaker 5: game should dictate what you do based on what your
32:55
Speaker 5: analytics tell you as well.
32:57
Speaker 2: In my opinion, well, I mean, I hear you loud
32:59
Speaker 2: and clear, but I don't know. I mean, because that
33:00
Speaker 2: happened early in the game, the four going forward on
33:03
Speaker 2: fourth and goal and you ended up not getting the points,
33:05
Speaker 2: but just they had it at the four and then
33:07
Speaker 2: you get the ball back. That happened early in the contest,
33:09
Speaker 2: So that wasn't a time factor. But I would say
33:14
Speaker 2: even in the early part of the game, as you
33:17
Speaker 2: pointed out yesterday, the game and the rules have changed
33:21
Speaker 2: where you are pretty much getting the ball at the
33:24
Speaker 2: thirty five yard line minimum every single time that you
33:28
Speaker 2: get the ball, and so you get three points there
33:33
Speaker 2: and San Francisco you kick off, they get the ball
33:36
Speaker 2: to the thirty five, and as you said, there are two
33:39
Speaker 2: plays away from being in field goal range and they
33:43
Speaker 2: get their three points right back, and so I think
33:46
Speaker 2: that factors in as well. It is factoring into coaches decisions.
33:50
Speaker 2: There's no question across the league right now. It'll be
33:53
Speaker 2: interesting to see if Mike McDonald continues with the way
33:57
Speaker 2: he coached that situation last week or if it changes
34:01
Speaker 2: a little bit because it's the precious one and done tournament,
34:05
Speaker 2: and maybe he will change a little bit too. I
34:08
Speaker 2: better get my points while I can. I think it's fascinating.
34:10
Speaker 2: I love it. I love that about sports. I love
34:13
Speaker 2: how you can take the same information and come away
34:15
Speaker 2: with a different conclusion and you might be right either way.
34:19
Speaker 2: And so we'll see how they approach it, all right.
34:21
Speaker 2: Coming up next our no cliche Keys to Victory. We
34:24
Speaker 2: do it before every Seahawks game on kJ R. Coming
34:26
Speaker 2: up about the Seahawks, Sam Darnold's injury and more, But
34:29
Speaker 2: we always do no cliche keys to victory before every
34:31
Speaker 2: Seahawks game. Please don't use anything cliche other than that,
34:35
Speaker 2: there's not really a rule. So give me something specific
34:38
Speaker 2: as to why the Seahawks will win this game. If
34:42
Speaker 2: this happens Bucky get us started.
34:45
Speaker 5: I think. I mean, I'm not going to say turnovers
34:48
Speaker 5: because I think that there's going to be turnovers in
34:50
Speaker 5: this game, but it's the opportunity. Just don't do it
34:52
Speaker 5: at the wrong times, all right. So I'm not going
34:55
Speaker 5: to say just win the turnover at it because I
34:57
Speaker 5: don't think you have to, but you better not make
34:59
Speaker 5: the the cardinal sin of turnovers. Don't turn it over
35:03
Speaker 5: when you got points on the board, and don't turn
35:05
Speaker 5: it over when you're backed up against your own You
35:07
Speaker 5: got to take care of the ball. These are going
35:08
Speaker 5: to be every single game gets bigger in the playoffs.
35:11
Speaker 5: We were just talking about that, every play is bigger,
35:14
Speaker 5: Every possession is bigger, there's more riding on it, and
35:17
Speaker 5: so the mistakes are bigger. The same mistake. A drop
35:21
Speaker 5: ball is bigger than a drop ball in Week three.
35:24
Speaker 2: It just is.
35:25
Speaker 5: And so I think that the teams if you just
35:27
Speaker 5: go out there and say, okay, you go out and
35:29
Speaker 5: we play our game, and they say, okay, we're gonna
35:31
Speaker 5: go out and play our game, I think that the
35:33
Speaker 5: Seahawks win. It's the way in which the Seahawks lose
35:36
Speaker 5: this game, not the way in which the Niners win it.
35:39
Speaker 5: The way in which the Seahawks lose this game is
35:41
Speaker 5: turning it over. When you have points basically on the board,
35:45
Speaker 5: you're down there in the red zone or on the
35:46
Speaker 5: cusp of the red zone, the fringe red zone, or
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Speaker 5: if you're backed up against your own and you don't
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Speaker 5: take care of the ball, you make some poor decisions
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Speaker 5: or put the ball on the turf, whether it's Sam
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Speaker 5: Darnold or you know, Ken Walker or anybody. I mean,
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Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jig But had a game where he
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Speaker 5: fumbled a couple of times. So just you got to
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Speaker 5: take care of the ball. But it's not just okay.
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Speaker 5: You got to be careful and be scared, play scared.
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Speaker 5: Don't don't turn the ball over. No, I want you
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Speaker 5: to push the ball down the field. I want you to,
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Speaker 5: you know, make your plays. But when it gets time,
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Speaker 5: when you have points on the border, you would be
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Speaker 5: relinquishing automatic points by a turnover, backed up against your
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Speaker 5: own in zone. You got to take care of the
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Speaker 5: damn ball.
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Speaker 2: All right. I thought he was going really cliche there,
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Speaker 2: but I think he saved it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. In the end, I might be going
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Speaker 4: really cliche.
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Speaker 3: You have to protect your quarterback because, especially with this
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Speaker 3: oblique issue, you can't have him having to scramble extra
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Speaker 3: or take those unnecessary hits. And if you're protecting him
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Speaker 3: and the offensive line is doing their job, then you're
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Speaker 3: most likely establishing a pretty solid run game, which is
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Speaker 3: giving him more options, which is keeping him healthy.
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Speaker 4: And that's the key. You got to keep him healthy.
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Speaker 2: You know. I kind of am borrowing off of both
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Speaker 2: of you because earlier in the week yesterday, for example, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, like, just don't lose the
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Speaker 2: turnover battle by multiple turnovers, and I don't think the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers can beat you. They're gonna need breaks
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Speaker 2: in order. I just think we are just better man
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Speaker 2: to man person for person on our roster, and I
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Speaker 2: think our coach is a match for their coach. I
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Speaker 2: don't care how good he is. I think ours is
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Speaker 2: just as good. So I just thought, as long as
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Speaker 2: you don't blow it, I think that you win this game.
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Speaker 2: So a little bit like Bucky. But then the Donald
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Speaker 2: thing happens, and that's exactly what you're saying, is how
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Speaker 2: I felt. Suddenly I'm changing my key. I think it
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Speaker 2: now comes down to Clint Kubiak, and it's like, how
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Speaker 2: are you going to protect Sam Donald without taking this
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Speaker 2: sting out of your offensive game plan? Because man, you
37:47
Speaker 2: give a whole lot back to a team that's beat
37:50
Speaker 2: up and is missing Kittle and Bosa and Warner and
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Speaker 2: Brown and all sorts of possibly Piersaw, you give an
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Speaker 2: awful lot back if you go down your starting quarterback.
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Speaker 2: And so all of a sudden, I'm like, hey, we
38:05
Speaker 2: might have to figure out a game plan of moving
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Speaker 2: the football that just I'm not talking about being conservative,
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Speaker 2: but I am talking about making sure you put Sam
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Speaker 2: in a position where he can get rid of the
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Speaker 2: ball quickly. And so I think maybe it does now
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Speaker 2: rest on Kubiak and his ability to protect Sam Darnold.
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Speaker 2: And as long as he's not getting destroyed slash hurt,
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Speaker 2: then I think you still win the game. I still
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Speaker 2: think you have the advantage person for person on the
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Speaker 2: roster over the San Francisco forty nine ers, But man,
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Speaker 2: the game changes if Sam does something more to that
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Speaker 2: oblique On Saturday, All right, headlines, next, we'll get Gregski
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