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Chuck & Buck 1-9 Hour 3: Seahawks Head Coach Mike MacDonald, Cam Cleeland and "what's your price tag?" · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Of your Seattle Seahawks, but he won't do it for
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  Speaker 1: a while. We've earned that by Mike McDonald now joins
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  Speaker 1: us right here on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, coach, Good morning guys. Morning guys gat to
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  Speaker 2: be on here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thanks for being with us. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm curious did you allow I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say congratulations, but I thought maybe Mike McDonald will
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  Speaker 1: tell me we haven't won anything yet. So how much
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  Speaker 1: did you allow yourself your team to celebrate a little
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  Speaker 1: bit the accomplishment of the regular season before diving into,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the meat and potatoes of a playoff run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's uh, you definitely want to You definitely
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  Speaker 2: want to enjoy and celebrate the wins, right, I mean
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  Speaker 2: we talk, If we talk stacking wins and you never
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  Speaker 2: celebrate anything, that'd be kind of a miserable existence. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, we're having the game on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: was great because it let us have Sunday to kind
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  Speaker 2: of recalibrate and put a plan together for the week too. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had Sunday off and then we came
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  Speaker 2: in Monday and really started kind of executing our bye week.
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  Speaker 2: Plan and off we went. So but it's it's been
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  Speaker 2: great Mike.
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  Speaker 4: When you were, you know, a younger coach and maybe
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  Speaker 4: had the aspirations of one day being a head coach,
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  Speaker 4: did you ever formulate what your game plan would be
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  Speaker 4: when you ended up getting that that seed in the
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  Speaker 4: buy and how you were going to go about that
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  Speaker 4: and what type of things does that entail?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, The short hand of that is no, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like let it's it's hard for me to look ahead,
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  Speaker 2: and especially you know, the way that the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season kind of shook out. We knew it was
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  Speaker 2: a possibility. It's obviously a goal of ours to be
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  Speaker 2: in that position. But Leslie Leslie Frasier was great kind
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  Speaker 2: of putting together some thoughts on the front end. Having
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  Speaker 2: that extra day was good. We had an idea of
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  Speaker 2: how we wanted to handle it, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we we asked for some advites and for some
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  Speaker 2: other like veteran coaches around the league that have been
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  Speaker 2: in this position too, and we didn't necessarily adhere to
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  Speaker 2: what they said, but it was just it was good
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  Speaker 2: to hear you know, some other some other you know,
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  Speaker 2: ways of doing it and and really to cross check
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  Speaker 2: on on what we thought was the best for our team,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then ultimately, as we figured out where
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to go with it and how we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to plan it out, just run it by our leadership
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  Speaker 2: group and making sure that you know, they were on
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  Speaker 2: the same page as what we're trying to get done
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  Speaker 2: and end up working up pretty well, I thought, So
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  Speaker 2: we're not out of it yet. And then then this
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  Speaker 2: is really the guys are gonna have to break over
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  Speaker 2: the next few days so we can come into Monday
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  Speaker 2: fresh and ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: How do you approach prepping going forward? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know some coaches just start diving, and I know we're
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  Speaker 1: we we don't know who we're playing yet, but let's
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  Speaker 1: just study them both. Or do you want to wait
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  Speaker 1: till after Saturday night? Uh and just focus on uh,
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  Speaker 1: start your focus on that one team once you know
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  Speaker 1: who it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I think all of our coaches are are handling it
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  Speaker 2: in their own way. Me personally, I'm a you know,
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  Speaker 2: I need a deadline. You know, I got to know
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  Speaker 2: what I have to have it done right now. There's
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  Speaker 2: no deadline, so it's hard for me to active urgency.
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  Speaker 2: But it is good to you know, have some time
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  Speaker 2: to buzz games and get familiar with especially the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we haven't seen him all year. And then
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  Speaker 2: and then really you're trying to get brushed up on
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  Speaker 2: these other three teams that we could possibly play. And
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  Speaker 2: there's also a component of of really feeling about how
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  Speaker 2: how we've been attacked and when kind of working on
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  Speaker 2: our stuff as well the last couple of days and
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  Speaker 2: making sure we're sharp as we go in into the
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  Speaker 2: kind of the game planning phase.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as long as we're talking about coaching, Clint Kubiak,
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  Speaker 1: obviously supporting him and his pursuits to possibly become a
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  Speaker 1: head coach himself versus his responsibilities to this team, how
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  Speaker 1: are you handling that? How are you making sure he
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  Speaker 1: handles his business as your offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one thing I really respect about Clint was as
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  Speaker 2: this process started, the team is really, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: absolute priority in his mind, and he made that very
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  Speaker 2: clear and his actions back that up too. And uh
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  Speaker 2: so I really feel like it's more my responsibility to
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  Speaker 2: give him the kind of hey, like the great of
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  Speaker 2: the team, like, look, we trust you handling your responsibilities
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  Speaker 2: this week. You know, we're gonna have two days off
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  Speaker 2: as coaches here on Friday and Saturday, and you could
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of that time to interview with the teams
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  Speaker 2: that are interested in with you, and then we'll go
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  Speaker 2: from there. So he's been he's been a great partner,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously he's done great things for our team and
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  Speaker 2: our offense, and we expect that going forward and wishing
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  Speaker 2: the best in the process. But you know, when it's
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  Speaker 2: a seahawk time, he's been, he's been right on it.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, and I know he's looking forward to really
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  Speaker 2: just kind of get it back into a kind of
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  Speaker 2: a one track mind here once these interviews are done. Uh, Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one last thing on the coaching front, how surprised
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  Speaker 1: were you?
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  Speaker 3: How weird does it feel that your.
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  Speaker 1: Old boss, John Harbaugh is not the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's tough, you know, it's I love John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 2: and and he's a he's a he's a Tory's a
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  Speaker 2: lifelong friend. He's got a phenomenal family. I know, Steph,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, it's close with Ingrid and Alice, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just like a superhuman She's just the best and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, obviously they're really close to us, so
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  Speaker 2: any anything, and.
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  Speaker 5: It's so it's a little it's a little bit of a.
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  Speaker 2: Twilight zone, you know, just like John Harbaugh in my
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  Speaker 2: mind is the Baltimore Ravens, you know, like it's anonymous
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  Speaker 2: with one another. So it's hard to wrap your head around.
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  Speaker 2: But I think if you if you try to stay
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  Speaker 2: optimistic with it, I think, uh, I think John's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to have a fresh start and and
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  Speaker 2: he's a Paul Fame coach and he's gonna have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: wherever he goes, they're gonna win. And I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to him having that opportunity, you know, uh, as a
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  Speaker 2: fresh start as well. So it's some mixed emotions.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, coming head to the defense means that you are
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  Speaker 4: the defensive genius that you know that that you are,
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  Speaker 4: and I we like to remind you of that on
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  Speaker 4: this show, just in case you forgot. I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: the idea. We've talked a lot this week already about
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  Speaker 4: you know, the defense and how well they're playing, and
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  Speaker 4: some of our analysts have even dove into the your front,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Leonard Williams and d Law and Murphy,
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  Speaker 4: the way he's playing Jared Reid, the way in which
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  Speaker 4: it looks like you're you feel comfortable being able to
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  Speaker 4: get some pressure and stop the run even with some shell,
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  Speaker 4: you know, coverage looking like on the back end. Is
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  Speaker 4: that is that by plan or is that just those
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  Speaker 4: big dudes just uh, you know, excel in the way
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  Speaker 4: that they are.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's both. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 2: if you have to be able to win on early downs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because in order to apply pressure on offenses,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be able to shrink their menu and
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  Speaker 2: uh and you know, make the quarterback operate and try
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  Speaker 2: to put apply as much pressure to him and the
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  Speaker 2: opposite line as you possibly can. Order to do that,
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  Speaker 2: you can't give him the whole playbook every time. So
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  Speaker 2: how you get that done is kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: method you know you could and that really that's based
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  Speaker 2: off of your personal philosophy, but also like what your
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  Speaker 2: players can do and who you have. We're we're really
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  Speaker 2: blessed to have an incredible front and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we give our deeps to tackles a ton of credit
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  Speaker 2: and they and they deserve an incredible amount of credit.
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  Speaker 2: But the guys that are playing on the edge, and
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  Speaker 2: the guys who have played at the second level this
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  Speaker 2: year and really a third level, you know, if fit
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  Speaker 2: the ball, if and when the ball spits out of there,
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  Speaker 2: they are playing great football as well. You know, like
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  Speaker 2: we are putting even the edge guys under stress of
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  Speaker 2: these of like the expectation of you know, winning more
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  Speaker 2: than your one on one on a play to play basis.
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  Speaker 2: And the inside backers and the second level guys, they
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  Speaker 2: they're responsible for more than one gap in the run
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  Speaker 2: game too. So everybody's kind of doing their one point
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  Speaker 2: h nine as we kind of nerd out and say,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think that's how you end up with, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the run defensive you know, effort and production
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  Speaker 2: that we've had as all those guys working and working together,
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  Speaker 2: and you end up with kind of the summer is
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  Speaker 2: greater than the hole of its parts type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach slash genius flash nerding out guest joining us
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald here on Chuck and Buck in the mornings
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  Speaker 1: as we get you ready for the Seahawks playoff, which
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  Speaker 1: won't start till next week. We got to buy this
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  Speaker 1: week of course, and then get ready for the next
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  Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. Is your defense playing I mean
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  Speaker 1: that forty nine ers game as that is that as
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  Speaker 1: good as you can expect? I mean, are are you
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  Speaker 1: playing your best football on defense right now since you
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  Speaker 1: arrived here?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think that's a fair statement. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: that's probably the best we've we've played up to this point,
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  Speaker 2: just from first to the last play all even guys
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  Speaker 2: on one accord playing with playing with shocking effort, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and it was just it was just it was
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  Speaker 2: just a great team effort, really was you know, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't tried to say it after the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: our coaches have done a great job of putting playings together,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the more important part is like how
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  Speaker 2: we prepared our guys, the work that our guys have
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  Speaker 2: put in like on a weekly basis, so they can
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  Speaker 2: go play that way, you know. And then at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, the guys they make the decision
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  Speaker 2: every time they take the field that uh, there's a
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  Speaker 2: stand they want to uphold, and they really they really
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  Speaker 2: made it come to life on Saturday night. It was
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  Speaker 2: it was it was a pretty pretty awesome game by
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  Speaker 2: those guys, well.
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  Speaker 4: One guy that has been coming to life, so to speak,
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  Speaker 4: ever since training camp. I would think, is Nick even worry?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we talked a lot about him in training camp.
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  Speaker 4: You spoke a lot about him in training camp. Just
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  Speaker 4: are you at all surprised by what he's capable of
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  Speaker 4: doing or is this just one of those rare unicorns
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  Speaker 4: that you can just keep throwing stuff out of any excels.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: When you when you it's tough to have. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: in my role, it's tough for me to have expectations
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  Speaker 2: for guys you have. I think we have like we
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  Speaker 2: have like visions for guys, you know that of where
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  Speaker 2: we feel like we can their game can go. And
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  Speaker 2: this is you know a big part of the vision
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  Speaker 2: that we have for Nick. I know he feels like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, he kind of expects the
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  Speaker 2: same thing out of out of his game as well.
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  Speaker 2: And when that marries up now now now you're able
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  Speaker 2: to kind of hit the daily things that you need
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do, so he can grow his
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  Speaker 2: game to get to the point that it is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like it's not like you kind of hit
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  Speaker 2: rep Okay, now I've done. I just hit Rep. Five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm ready to go. Like now, now my game
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  Speaker 2: is going to take the jump.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's this constant, incremental like attacking of things. So
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  Speaker 2: he can he can just he can play faster and okay,
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  Speaker 2: now he can recognize things and play out of snaps more. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now maybe we can add a technique here or there,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we can put him at a different part of
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 5: And and he's.
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  Speaker 2: And he's really adding on to the game that he's
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  Speaker 2: built up to that point. So uh, I think I
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  Speaker 2: think the fair thing today is like we're really excited
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  Speaker 2: about him being at this point in his career. And again,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know he's doing a lot and he's
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  Speaker 2: playing really great football, but uh, there's more, there's more
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  Speaker 2: to go. I mean, he is, he has.
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  Speaker 5: Room to grow.
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  Speaker 2: He should expect that out of himself. I know we do.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's going to be it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: exciting career for sure. I mean, and really throughout the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the season, and we're still looking for ways
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  Speaker 2: for him to effect games and giving them different techniques
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  Speaker 2: that he's working you know, before and after practice, and
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  Speaker 2: we just continue to attack this thing to give him
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  Speaker 2: some more tools in his tool belt.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose I got to give you in John
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  Speaker 1: credit for nick Emon warr. I mean, you trade it
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  Speaker 1: up to get him and he's turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: and you were so excited on the night of the
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  Speaker 1: draft where you did get him and it's turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be great. But now that I've seen him, and
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  Speaker 1: I think about where you got him in the draft,
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  Speaker 1: and like, how dare you wait till the thirty fifth pick?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you realize how much you risked by
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  Speaker 1: not getting higher, coach in the draft. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: imagine this team without number three out there. Shame on you, coach.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, you know, it's funny because that really is
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  Speaker 2: a testament to John and Nolan and all the guys
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  Speaker 2: that have, like they have experienced about the kind of
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  Speaker 2: read the tee leaves, of taking those calculated debts in
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  Speaker 2: the draft where you have a feeling of okay, these
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  Speaker 2: are kind of sweet spots where you feel like a
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  Speaker 2: player might be available, And now looking back at it,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was a little a little risky at the time,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're bullets there, but uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: had the draft capital and and John was aggressive and
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  Speaker 2: decisive in that moment, and I felt like that was
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  Speaker 2: the right time to do it, and we were able
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  Speaker 2: to you know, we had we had grades where you
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  Speaker 2: could argue taking them in the first round too. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think based office based officer performance. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody would have bat it an eye. But
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  Speaker 2: to end up with great Dabel and nicky man worry.
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  Speaker 5: Is a a heck of advances.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great job by John those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And and to have like the patients and the trust
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  Speaker 1: that you there was to try to play it out
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  Speaker 1: where you got them both. I mean, man, coach, I've
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  Speaker 1: had fantasy football drafts where I couldn't take the pressure
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  Speaker 1: in the tense intensity of waiting for you know, Ken
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  Speaker 1: Walker to get to me in the third round or
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  Speaker 1: I can't even I can't even imagine what that was like.
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  Speaker 1: On Draft night, Mike McDonald with us here on Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 3: A r f M.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about your quarterback. The entire nation, even
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  Speaker 1: some people here locally seem really worried about his number
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  Speaker 1: of turnovers. Why is Mike McDonald not worried about that
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  Speaker 1: at all?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think we're worried about what Sam
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  Speaker 2: does all the inputs.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's because it's it's it's easy to tell.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've said this before, but when you start coaching outcomes,
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  Speaker 2: that's to me, that's like confusing as a player. You know, like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know make like you gotta make that tackle
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  Speaker 2: or you gotta like why don't you get a sack
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  Speaker 2: on that play? Well, you know why, why wouldn't you worry?
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you be coaching me on where I went
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  Speaker 2: aligned and how I got off the football and like
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  Speaker 2: the how I like how I attack, like the the
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  Speaker 2: contact zone and the rush, or how I finished the play. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same thing for the quarterback. You know, it's well,
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  Speaker 2: what was your mentality going to the play? Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: coach your footwork up? Where did your eyes start? How'd
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  Speaker 2: you see the read? You know, where you decite them
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  Speaker 2: in that moment? The way we want you to play?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think those are the things that are
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  Speaker 2: clear to a player on how you want them to play,
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  Speaker 2: and it if you start coaching outcomes, now you now,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to start getting players on your
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  Speaker 2: team that aren't playing the way you want, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't get the style of play that we've been
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  Speaker 2: able to create.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's the most important position, and and and
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  Speaker 2: Sam is a great player. But the way we coach
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  Speaker 2: our guys is going to remain the same and and
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  Speaker 2: that and that's and that's just how we're going to
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  Speaker 2: roll here. You know, is at this I believe that
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  Speaker 2: that's definitely the way to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, did you you were talking about vision to you
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  Speaker 4: how you envision players more so than as setting expectations.
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  Speaker 4: Second year here obviously Jackson Smith and Jig was second year.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have the vision when when moves were made
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  Speaker 4: and he was all of a sudden thrust into the
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  Speaker 4: w R one, did you envision him leading the league
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  Speaker 4: and in yards and being as productive as he has been?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was talking to Jack's at the end of
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: the season, and you know, and he had some I
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: mean like he had some monster games last year. You
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: know where he was where he's catching the ball at
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: all three levels and showed the ability to to really
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: make an impact all across the field. I don't like
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: saying like one or the X or the theas, because
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: you know, when you have a guy like that, you
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: are able to move him around. You know, he can
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: make plays over the middle and on outside lanes and
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: deep throat, you know, all those sorts of things. So
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: like that's the lawyer you're looking for with your receivers.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: And then and then I really felt great going to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the offeason because of what Jack shared with me that
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: like he had that vision for himself and that's what
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: he expected where his game could go. And uh, I
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: think at that point, just understanding who he is, it's
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: like he said that, like I'm not one to doubt
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: this guy, you know. So it's like, all right, great, let's.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Go to it.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, as you start to as we
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: started to build our offense out and and you and
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: you and you saw like what we were doing on
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: a daily basis between him and Sam and Coop and
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: the rest of our receiver group. You're like, man, these
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: guys are they're really doing some cool stuff. And and
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: we and then when we start getting like into practice
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: periods and competition period my hard time guarding this guy,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: you know, like he's he's catching a lot of balls
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and there's not much we can do about it right now.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: And so that's that's really where you felt like, okay,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: like these things are are merging, you know, the vision
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: of how we're doing it, and now it's coming to
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: now we're seeing on a daily basis. Then now you
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: start to get excited about.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: What we could possibly do. So that's that's that's.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Really how it all came together from from my perspective.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Speaking, emerging your running game. Has it arrived to your
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: satisfaction just in time for the playoffs.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: If if I start saying like, hey, we have arrived
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: in any part of our game, then watch out, that's
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: not good, right. I Mean, there's you always like we
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: talked about chasing edges, there's there's another level that even
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: our defense like, okay, it's fair to say that's probably
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: our best played game. But you know we're we're meeting
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: up in you know, this morning, our defensive staff talking
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: about how we want to play a certain coverage against
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: some of these like these patterns that teams are attacking
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: us with and and tweaking maybe some of our rules
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and maybe maybe adding a wrinkle here or there. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: it's like we're always we're always looking for what's the
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: next next thing, and the run game is no different.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: There's there's still a handful of plays a game that
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: we want to be able to be more efficient, and
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: there's a block here there danger every play where he's like, man,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: if we could just maybe take a different angle, or
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: how are we coaching that? Can we attack this fundamental
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more? Is there a drill we
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: could do so this guy, can you know we can
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: make this combination come to life? And and now we
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: can hit the right track, and now we're looking at
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: more explosive runs. So I think I think you have
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to have that mentality and and in terms of you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: are we are we excited that our run game is
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: really taken off of the last a month or so. Absolutely,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you know, I think that's a I think that's a
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: good you know, its a It's one of those deals
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: where it's like, I know what our teams have done.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Our team has done every day to make our run
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: game this effective. And I'm excited for the guys because
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: you realize the work they put in. But we also realize, hey,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: there's at a.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Level we can go coach.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, as a former athlete. I always had a
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: hard time like rooting for any team because I was like, oh,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I want them to win because then I can play,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: we can play them. I didn't want to do that
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: for some reason. It felt like I would be setting
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: myself up for something bad. And yet I am wondering,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: from your perspective, coming down the stretch here with the
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Niners and the Panther game and the Rams game, both
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Rams games for that matter, is there a part of
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you that's you're feeling good about how you match up
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: with those guys, like, yeah, let's bring that on. I'll go,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: let's go for a third time against those guys. Or
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: is it you just you don't really care how it
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: pans out, Bring on all comer, somebody's got to come
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: into looming and you're wanting to smack them down.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It's no, I see it. It's like it's like when you
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: get the it's like when the schedule comes out, it's
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, shoot, we haven't played Indianapolis ever, okay,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and you look, okay, let's week fifteen. So you kind
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of have to trust that, Like by that point when
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you have to play that team and that challenge, you're
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: going to kind of use the things that you have
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: on hand then put the best plan together, you know.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: So that's the way I'm looking at this week is, Hey,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: there's there's four teams that we could play. We don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: know yet. You know, we're going to do we can
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: right now, and then whoever ends up, you know, end
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: up being the team that we're going to play. Now,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: let's go, you know, let's go kind of identify the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: things we got to be able to do that week,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: and let's go knock it out so we can go
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: go play for a great game. But I think one
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: of the things that really helped us this year is
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: we just really haven't wasted a bunch of time on
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: you know, who we're playing, or the circumstance behind where
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we're playing, or you know what day it is, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it's just like all that stuff. It's kind of just stuff,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you know, the stuff that really doesn't how well we're
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: preparing how we play, and our guys been great with that,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna stick to that plan to say, you know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: take it to the next level.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Well, here we go.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: We're getting ready to take it to the next level.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: All right, getting ready for your first playoff appearance as
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: an NFL head coach.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Do you have a plan?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Do you have like a pair of lucky underwear, or
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you know some keepsake from some old coach or the wife,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: like some sort of rose that she kept from your
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: junior prom something like that to get you give you
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a little extra boost for the playoffs.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I have been known to be a little stitious, but
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: not super though. I'll tell you what though. I mean,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: it's yeah, look like you said, this is our first
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: playoff game, you know so, But if you make it
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: about us being our first playoff game, then now I
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: feel like you can kind of lose track of process
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and how you can like kind of best get ready.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: So our process is going to stay the same, and
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and we're going to tack the heck out of the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: week just like we've done every other week. And I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: know our guys are really excited to play in front
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of the twelves and we're gonna need it rocking, which
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I know we will be. It's gonna be, it's gonna
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: be electric. But we know the game's coming.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: We got to do.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: We gotta do what we need to do in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: meanwhile to be ready, to make sure that we're ready
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Well, it's been a great ride so far.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, really enjoy watching your football team play
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and watch you coach out there. So best of luck,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: best of luck on Hope, Hope you achieve everything you're
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: seeking to achieve, and we appreciate your time here this morning.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: All right, guys, Yeah, I appreciate it. I'm glad we
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: could finally finally knock this out.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: It's great.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you coach, good luck.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks guys.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in the morning. All right, Coming up next, Cam Cleveland
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to talk about Demon Williams Junior Sports Radio ninety three
• 21:54
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• 22:16
  Speaker 1: with the air on this Football Friday.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: That's right, Football Fridays. Oh, we do it every Friday.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: That makes sense, Football Friday during football Sea.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I know sometimes though, like Taco Tuesday. I'll do that
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: on a Wednesday. Oh yeah, yeah, that sounds important. Yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Taco every day. Yeah, but with you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so Football Friday sponsored by Tito's handmade Vodka.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: We've got, of course, Hugh Melon nine o'clock X as
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the nose. Mike Homer nine thirty will be joining us.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So we haven't chatted with Cam Cleveland for a little while,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but it really felt like we should. Uh and so
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the bat signal went out for Cam last night to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: come on here. And he's I'm gonna make him in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: charge of making sense of this demand.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Williams Junior story.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: So camp, get it rolling, go start well.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Football Friday. By the way, before we get started, what's
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: our go to food on football Friday?
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Guys? If it's not, I mean, what is it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I don't have a set.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I know, I threw a curveball in the corner.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm I mean, I don't really have one.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: But what what certainly screams out to me. Just barbecue.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Let's get some barbecue on football Friday.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: What do you I can appreciate that, Yeah, I can
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: appreciate that. I'm a wings Monday Friday guy.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: But it's gotta be wings. It's gotta be wings at
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: all times.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Are your drums or drums or flats?
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Guy, I'm a f I can do them both. I
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: don't deviate.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I know, I don't like to throw away from that
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: too much. So you know, if you guys want to
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: throw some wings my way anytime.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: But you know what, let's go.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: We'll work that into your contract for next year. We
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: got to do tell you, yeah yeah, Camp Clayland is
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: with us here this morning. I mean, what after all this,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if the dust is settled. The
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: dust is still flying around in the air. Where are
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you at with this entire story with Deman this week?
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Oh? I guess guys.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I'll preface this as a fifty year old guy that
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: played in the NFL and played in college football. So
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: it's let me be really understanding of the fan base
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: and people and everybody's there's entitled to their opinions and stuff.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: And I'm not going to try to convince anybody on
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: how to think. I'm going to start it with all
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: of that. But our job at least is to give
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: you an opinion. And I don't speak in the gospel,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: but I do speak in just an experience, and I'll
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: look at it from this. It's not surprising the way
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: college football is, the way college football is designed, it
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: needs to be adjusted and changed. And I'll start with
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: two perspectives that I think are are important. When I
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: look at what demand William's situation was I'm going to
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: start with the business side, and then I'll go to
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: the personal side. And I'll first start with business. Name
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: image and likeness starts with an individual mentality. It was
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: created to protect the name on the back of your jersey,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: and anybody on the outside that's listening to this or
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: understands marketing. Name, image and likeness on YouTube or anything
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: is pretty valuable because you're born with it. Yeah, you
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: can change your name, you can mess around with it
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: if you're a Hollywood superstar. But in football, it's based
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: on performance and athletics, it's based on talent performance. You
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: don't even have to have a good personality, right you
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: just you have to perform, and that performance garners you
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: of value. And then when you can maximize that value
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: from age sixteen now because high school kids are getting
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: six figure amounts to transfer to high schools. Now, it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: happening in Seattle, it's happening everywhere. You have to take
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: advantage of that. If that's the kind of person that
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: you want to choose to be in this sporting industry,
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: because as Bucky you understand, or anybody you get it chucked.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: You don't get into the sport business if you don't
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: want to perform, if you don't want to be a starter,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: if you don't want to be one of one hundred
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: and thirty three. Look, there's thirty two jobs in the
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: world at quarterback. There's one hundred and thirty three jobs
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: in all of college football at the enter thirty six
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: FCS levelor FBS level. Twenty five of those jobs are
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: told by some guys in August that write you in.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: If you're pretty good, right, they write you in and
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: they tell you that. So demand made a decision to maximize.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: He sat in the contract room with his head coach
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: and probably had the same agent, which he did as
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: his head coach. His head coach came to the University
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: of Washington and put a slogan at you.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Now, I don't have any problems with the slogan. I don't.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: This is part of business, said be a pro. Okay.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: In fact, outside of the offices is a list of
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: professional athletes that have all been Huskies. Be a pro
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: means we're in a pro sport. Now we're not in college.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: And I'm trying to help everybody understand this. This was
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: a business decision. Now again, I'm not justifying it. Four
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: and a half million dollars, so your job is to
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: maximize it. You have a sixteen to twenty two age
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: window of where you can maximize your earning value. All right,
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: that's the business side, and I don't want to take
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: up all your show.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: But the personal.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Side of this is at those risks of taking business,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: you make personal risks, you make relationship risks, you make
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: teammate and locker room risks. You put yourself above. But
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: if there's a twenty million dollar cap, guys at a
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: college level at this point, twenty million dollars to twenty
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: two ten kids will make seventy the sixty five percent
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: of that cap money in the NFL. I'm sorry, twenty
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: twenty will make in the NFL. It's like seven to
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: ten make sixty five to seventy percent of the NFL cap,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: ranging all the way to almost two undred and fifty million dollars.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: So we're not any different.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: So if you know that you got another seventy guys
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: that you're trying to lead in scholarship and win a
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: football game, you have to earn them back a little bit.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: You have to take care of them and understand it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: So we've made a mess of college football a little
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: bit by becoming professional and telling kids to act professions
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: eighteen years old. And the final part is you surrounded
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: yourself with people. Okay, now I'm not in his camp.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: And if you have a team of people at age
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: eighteen and nineteen, you're already doomed.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, you know what I mean. You're doomed.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're gonna have somebody on the outside. Somebody got
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: to Demand. I think he's on Twitter. He's made his point.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: He said that he got demand. He got to Miko also,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: and you tried to maximize your valte where Demand made
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: his mistake because he signed a contract with the university
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: University of Washington before he maximized his value. He got
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: his number first, signed it and didn't go out and shop.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: That's his right to do it. But those that sit
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: here right now and all the Washington fans timing was atrocious.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: With me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: It was awful, horrible And if you need to tell
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: me that was his decision, yes, it was.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Was he advised.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to even speculate. It was just a
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: horrible decision. Demon has some work to do. Those are
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: my business and personal sides of this story.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Do.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: I welcome demand back. Look, and I'm gonna give you
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: this is flat out. I love Husky football. I love
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: it to my core. It is the number one sport
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: by a billion to me. And how I watch college football.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: I cheer for Saturdays. People.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Individual players are important, but I cheer for the w
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: on that helmet, the gold, the people that are in
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: that stadium on Saturdays. I do not wrap myself up
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: personally and invest emotionally anymore in individual players because I
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: just love Saturday and I want to appreciate the way
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: these boys and these coaches work their ass off for Saturday,
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: not the stuff I can't control and the millions of
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: dollars that are in shock. Can you shout from the
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: rooftops and be upset? Yes, But I do not spend
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: investment time on making them think that I'm that there's
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: some delusional loyalty in college sports that needs to be
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Do I think majority of kids need to be more loyal?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: I do. I think they do.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: And I also value relationships over dollar figures because I
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: can't take money with me, but I will be remembered
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: for the relationships I've made with people.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: So that's my quick synapsis of the demand scenario. I
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: know it was wasn't quick, but I tried to be concise.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: That's great, Yeah, Kim, all right, if you if he
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: came to you and said, what do I need to do?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, would you encourage him?
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I would tell him personally, you go out and do
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: a press conference, take your medicine, answer the questions, tell
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: people you're sorry for the mistakes you made, and you
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: hope to be able to reap hair or whatever you
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: distrust is now there.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, what would you tell the kid?
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I well, first of all, I would tell him as
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: that and I don't mind that, Bucky.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: I think that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 6: I would tell him the first, uh, he better, he
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  Speaker 6: better grab all his teammates and he better organize a
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  Speaker 6: wing party or pizza and at whatever place is, pay
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: all the ubers for them to show up, organize it
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: at the team wherever it is. They didn't have to
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: be there and start with them. Yeah, because what we
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: think on the outside, we're finnicky. Okay, we're fans, We're
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: we're people. Right, you're going to be as loyal as
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: as the win and lost column is in that scenario.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Next to that team name. That's just who you are.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I want him to I want him to
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: win that locker room back. I want him to get
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: the coaches that he might have burned a little bit back.
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  Speaker 6: I think that the youth needs that kind of leadership
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: more than making sure Steve and the rest of the
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: podcasters are aren't upset at him. I'm sorry, I'm just
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: along that lines. What a press conference nationally where he
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: answers questions from from gritty old sports writers and and
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: and salty sports radio people help.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, Yeah, you know, I'm sure it will help.
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  Speaker 6: Well, but none of those guys are going to the
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  Speaker 6: war with you on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Because we've all seen the clip.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Of the Longest Yard when Adam and Sandler at his
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: first couple snaps right and they're like, well you didn't
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: earn it, dude, You're gonna get your ass kicked for
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: a little bit. So along those lines, I think you've
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: got to earn his locker room back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot more to discuss. I'm sure we
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: don't have the time here today, so I'll just close
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: with the most important question I think I can ask
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you at this point, when you were at your peak.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: How many wings could you crush in one setting?
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, let me just tell you this.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: This is part of this is I'm gonna give a
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: shout out to my local establishment and head out of
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: here Windom. Shout out to you guys. You're phenomenal.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: See, I love you.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Every Monday night we'd get done and we'd have to
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: run a mile in our paths on Monday night in
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: the cold Monday night practice. And after I was done,
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I would go to Wing Wing Doome and I would
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: order fifty and then I would order a large pizza.
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  Speaker 5: That was my routine on Mondays.
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  Speaker 6: And to tell you, I couldn't have crusted probably another
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: thirty or forty wings at the time. Yeah, Yeah, that
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: was a that was a standard procedure.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you wouldn't have let that pizza get in,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: if you wouldn't have let that pizza get in the way,
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  Speaker 1: he could have probably got one fifty.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Least, no question.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: And I'm hovering around.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Three and four alarm all the time, probably comfortable fore alarm.
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  Speaker 3: That's good.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, love you Wingdome real man.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I have the feeling we need to call Wingdome to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: get as our game. Cleveland sponsor next year. Yeah, this
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: is this is a layup right here.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: All right, guys, this job, that's your job.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Go get to work. I want rich.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks man, We appreciate it, and we'll chat with you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: real soon.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, thanks?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Cam Cleveland, former Husky legend tight end and current color analyst.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Right here on Husky's broadcast went in on demand. Williams Junior,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to do the same thing
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. But coming up next, I got a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: question for Ashley and Bucky, a very personal question. Sports
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. So I have a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: question for you. I mean, there's a lot of talk
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: this week about college football, and man, these young people
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: are just out of their minds and the whole system
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is out of whack, and you know, and a lot
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: of finger pointing and blaming and name calling, all.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Of that sort of thing.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Well, let's put this in proper perspective. I want to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: see if the two of you have a price, would
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you what price would you transfer for? So I'll start
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: with Ashley. You have to have a price, Okay, maybe
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you would tell me you wouldn't do it for anything, Okay, well,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: what would the price tag be for you to transfer
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: from your current position to being a fan of UCLA? Oh?
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: That actually must be to throw up.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: If tomorrow they made you an offer and you had
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to root for only you Ucla for the rest of
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: your life.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: What's your price there?
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: You've gone my life for the rest of your life.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: You got a.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: Price five million dollars?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Five million? Are you sure it's not just a million?
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: No, a million, I'm sure five million.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Passionate I had a million dollars right here, you.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't become a UCLA fan tomorrow.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: I think about it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd think hard about it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: But five million, I'm in.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: You're in for five million? Yep?
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, that blue is so ugly.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I bet.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: I bet with one million you'd say no, and two
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: days later you'd come back and be can I take
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: that money?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, first I'd say yes, then i'd say no. Nineteen
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: I'd have to say yes first, then I'd have to
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: say no. Then I'd have to say yes again.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Imagine the USC fans that would see you in the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: transfer portal.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: They'd be happy for me because I'd buy themselves, because
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: I'd buy them drinks with my five million.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars, you'd be my girlfriends.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Next.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: No, my girlfriends would be like, you're paying for the
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: next wine weekends.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Would never talk to you again.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: That's inaccurate.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: He actually probably dislikes USC right now more than I do, so.
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: He'd be he'd get it.
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  Speaker 5: C l A.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, they're just as guilty for Rooney the conference
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: as USC, and their uniforms are gross.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So all right, so five million, yeah, absolutely, But if
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's like one point.
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  Speaker 7: Two million, I'd have to I'd have to think long
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: and hard about that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I think once you get up into seven figures, ash
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: she's gone.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go for you here a big guy. Yeah,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you're ready. What would the price tag have to be
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: for you to enter the transfer portal and become vegan?
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: God?
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: These are like you took me by surprise so much,
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: and now Buck, you have the same reaction.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: No, because no, you don't have a price tag.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Now all right, I'm I'm gonna do to you what
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you did to Ashley.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: You have one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I wouldn't make pet you ten million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I would try. I'd have to pay it back.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: I'd try, like them on tried i'd get try ten
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: million bucks, I will sign and you know how long
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: into it?
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: A week? Two weeks? For ten million, I'd be like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I gotta have up some meat.
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: You just put You'd take like ad dollars in ones
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: and he'd put them in a room and every time
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: you wanted to eat meat, you'd just go roll around
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: in the money.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: And you know I would not kids of years have
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to go to college, Bucky, I need to live.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: You can live.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Look at Tofu people sometimes fair, they're just they're just
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: dying slower.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Someone wanted to give me one point to to be
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: a vegan. I could do it, but.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: You could horrible more difficult for him.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Well, he's the one that was telling me that I do.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: I'd be a U C l A.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: And for one point time I thought you were going
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: to go sports wise. There's a number for sports. Oh
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I wear purple.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: I had to make it more difficult.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: He just said I'd wear purple.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I'd wear purple for the right price. Yeah, and you
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: brought in a suit face with a bunch of cash. No, no,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: hell no.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: You know there's a nice white no no food chariso.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: If you just sauce it up the right way, not
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: too bad.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: No, not true and not good for it. It says
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: it's good for you. They're wrong. You need protein. Your
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: body needs proteins. It's not real protein. It's not real. Yes,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: part of the poison they fetus, all.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Right, So not a price at all, not a price.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I believe that I would take one hundred million.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I would end up saying yes, and then I would
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: end up having to give it back with penalties. Yeah,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: and I would still be shunned by the meat people
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: out there that I know and love.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: They would look at you with such disappointment.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: They would hate me, and I would have to be like,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: what is ten million dollars? But you had to know
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: you couldn't do it, But you could.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Take some of that money and invest in better fake meats.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: One billion dollars. I would say yes to a million.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: To do a lot.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I just wouldn't be able to stay. I wouldn't be
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: able to stick it out. I would pull them on.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: I'd probably cheer for Notre Dame for a billion dollars.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I was deciding between which school I should go.
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: The price would be a lot higher on all right.
• 39:17
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