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Speaker 1: Brian Florey, will join us. Had a chance to talk

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Speaker 1: had after the press conference at three twenty this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first blush, you heard the press conference like me,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to getting your reaction here to the interview

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Speaker 1: we did with him, that you'll hear a about fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 1: But I don't know so far.

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Speaker 2: I love the guy.

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Speaker 1: I love the guy's energy, love his personality, love how.

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Speaker 2: Engaging he is.

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Speaker 1: Man, He's an x Niner coming up here after seven years.

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Speaker 1: He said today that he had a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 1: and apparently for him, coaching a football team with the

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Speaker 1: that felt.

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Speaker 2: Like the good idea to leave San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Man, how can union is that for Brian Florey?

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Speaker 3: Buddy, Well, it's a great opportunity for him, and those

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Speaker 3: those attributes that you mentioned your first impression, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: not unimportant. I think you know you had said you

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Speaker 2: I don't know. For me, I'm I'm.

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Speaker 3: Just looking at other things. And I know you're looking

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Speaker 3: at other things as well. You're saying, Hey, I don't

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Speaker 3: care what kind of personality you have, just freaking get

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Speaker 3: get my football team in the end zone.

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Speaker 4: I know that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I know this, my my, my concerns

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, point taking.

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Speaker 2: But I you know, I the fact is we just

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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald he's gotta, uh, he's got to creep on

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Speaker 3: these guys and really learn what they can. Now, he

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Speaker 3: the detail that uh, he teaches tight ends. But you know,

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Speaker 3: now he takes on a much bigger stage. He's got

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 2: And like that's bad technique. You're not going to get

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Speaker 3: So that's the difference between you know, getting you want

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well, and so all.

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Speaker 3: Those I know you want to cut me off, but

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Speaker 2: No, first of all, I would never ever cut you off, ever, ever, ever.

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Speaker 1: Number one and number two, you're exactly right, because let's

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Speaker 1: three twenty with Brian Flory, the new Seahawk offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: I just think he's completely played his cards perfectly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously he wanted this. I'm certain he probably wants to

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you come to Seattle and you're this

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Speaker 1: all the same guys getting recycled through the system. Did

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Speaker 1: Brian Florey just fast track himself to potentially being a

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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting your comment there. I agree with every

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Speaker 2: Well gee, thank you.

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Speaker 3: But that's but comma coma, there we got to beeriod,

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Speaker 3: here we go. But that's at least my interpretation of it.

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Speaker 3: That's all from his perspective.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Quite Frankly, I don't care about his perspective, Like like,

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Speaker 3: with him. Yeah, I would say almost everybody. What you

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Speaker 3: the idea that he would love this opportunity, that doesn't

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Speaker 2: So all of that, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, obviously super Bowl MVP. I don't need to make

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Speaker 3: concerned about is this, And you know the movie Liar

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Speaker 3: don't know, did he take a postion or did he

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Speaker 3: get some spell?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 2: What caused him to what caused him to be in

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Speaker 3: Right, Well, let's just say with some trans or spell

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Speaker 3: if you had Mike McDonald under liar Liar's spell. There's

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Speaker 3: Because the guy's never been a play call Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you know with with with

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Speaker 1: Say you know, Jinoko's name was on that list and

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Speaker 1: talking about hiring a guy that's never called plays in

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Speaker 1: next segment, Hugh. We talk about Hey, for fans that

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Speaker 1: thirteen team, This isn't a developing situation here. This is

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Speaker 1: Who the play caller is could decide whether or not

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. So it's very important who that

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Speaker 1: for crying out loud man. So this is a massively

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Speaker 1: important hire for Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 2: So here's what we'll do. Well, come back.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I had a conversation with Brian right

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Speaker 1: after the press conference today about fifteen minutes. I think

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Speaker 1: get your reaction to it. Brian Florey the brand new

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Speaker 2: All right back here on a Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Brian Florey, new Seahawk offensive coordinator, introduced today over at

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Speaker 1: Ryan Florey with us new brand new Seahawk offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: after he was introduced today at a press conference in Renton.

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Speaker 1: Well here he is the man of the hour after

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Speaker 1: to back. Brian Florey is with us on the radio program, Coach,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm fired up, man, this is awesome. I'm excited to

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Speaker 2: Well, we are fired up to have you in town. Man.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the little rivalry that was going on

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Speaker 1: Well, Brian, go back and talk about why this was

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Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, Mike is obviously on the front end

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well let's talk about that because you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: So you know Clint, you work with him and Sam

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean Clinton and I have similar backgrounds.

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Speaker 1: Well, Brian Flory with us, you mentioned the continuity thing there.

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Speaker 1: Right, Brian flore with US new Seahawk offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: You you know Sam Darnold a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit, talk about your relationship with him, and did

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Speaker 1: Well, Brian Florey again with us New Seaawk go see,

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Speaker 2: And look, man, I'll be I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: What would you say to them?

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Speaker 4: Let me save you some suspense. They're softy, I'm going

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Speaker 1: I will say this, if you do make up a

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Speaker 1: But look, man, I mean, overall, you get judged on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Kyle's always attacking and that's something that I really,

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Speaker 4: and like forcing them to make adjustments and playing style

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Speaker 4: of football that they might not be comfortable with. And

440
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Speaker 4: so that's really the thing. It's more of a mindset

441
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Speaker 4: and just how you're formulating the offense and attacking the

442
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Speaker 4: defense on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and then the red zone for me, Look,

444
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of things the Seahawk offense did great.

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Speaker 1: There was a couple of months there, a couple of

446
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Speaker 1: weeks where they were kind of scuffling a bit.

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Speaker 2: Brian in the red zone. You know, we work with

448
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Speaker 2: a guy up here.

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Speaker 1: You may have heard of him named Mike Holmgren who's

450
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Speaker 1: got a philosophy that he shared with us on the

451
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Speaker 1: year many times that you get inside the twenty, every

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Speaker 1: passes to the end zone. And that's him because he's

453
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Speaker 1: pass happy. He loves tossing the ball. So what is

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Speaker 1: your philosophy on maximizing red zone offense and turning field

455
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Speaker 1: goals into touchdowns?

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Speaker 4: Man, you guys got a lot of scars in the

457
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Speaker 4: red zone. I get this question a lot up here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why there's not a lot to nitpick here,

459
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Speaker 1: by the way, so you got to grab something right, Yeah?

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Speaker 4: No, I mean to me, the red zone is about

461
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Speaker 4: maximizing efficiency obviously, Like the best way to score in

462
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Speaker 4: the red zone is to run it in, so we're

463
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Speaker 4: going to look for opportunities to do that at all costs.

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Speaker 4: But ultimately, you know, when you get to third down,

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Speaker 4: when you get the longer yardages to get to the

466
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Speaker 4: goal line, you know you do have to throw the football.

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Speaker 4: And it's really just making sure Sam has plays that

468
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Speaker 4: these comfortable executing, or whichever quarterback might be in there,

469
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Speaker 4: that we have reps with, we have confidence in, and

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Speaker 4: that we feel like we can gain an advantage from

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Speaker 4: an execution standpoint.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, you mentioned your forty six Brian,

473
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Speaker 1: I'm fifty two. I'm a little slow these days. Was

474
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Speaker 1: that a Super Bowl forty nine crack about the red

475
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Speaker 1: zone there, Malcolm Butler?

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Speaker 2: It might have been, Oh mad, dude, you're killing me.

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Speaker 1: Man here, I am just thinking about how much I'm

478
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Speaker 1: a joy in talking to you, and then you hit

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Speaker 1: me with that. For God's sakes, Well, you know what,

480
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Speaker 1: now that we're going down that road, Brian, let me

481
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Speaker 1: ask you this, honestly this we can just keep this

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Speaker 1: between us, by the way, and the people listening.

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Speaker 2: How much did it bother.

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Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers that the Seahawks went down there,

485
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Speaker 1: not only used their locker room, but won that game

486
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Speaker 1: on their field.

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Speaker 2: Tell me?

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I can't speak for everybody, but I

489
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Speaker 4: mean I was actually you know the fact that it

490
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Speaker 4: was in a stadium and or in the forty nine

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Speaker 4: ers stadium in the forty nine ers locker room. I

492
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Speaker 4: didn't really care too much about it. I just I

493
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Speaker 4: love good football. I wanted to see good football players

494
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Speaker 4: and good coaching staff have success, and like I absolutely

495
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Speaker 4: had some relationships with some of the players on this team,

496
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Speaker 4: so I was happy to see it in.

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Speaker 2: All that time.

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Speaker 1: Well, you you got a chance to work with on

499
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Speaker 1: a great tight ends Brian in the history of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Last time I saw I saw George Kittle, he was

501
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Speaker 1: on radio road down there a week ago at the

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Speaker 1: Moscone Center scooting around on that scooter with that.

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Speaker 2: With that busted Achilles.

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Speaker 1: But you got aj Barner, Arroyo, Sobert, you know, some

505
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Speaker 1: pretty good room growing up here in Seattle. Talk about

506
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Speaker 1: kind of what what you took from George Kittle that

507
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Speaker 1: you want to kind of impart on those guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, and Eric was obviously with George. We were together,

509
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Speaker 4: you know last year. You know, George has a great

510
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Speaker 4: approach to the game. He's got a great attitude and

511
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Speaker 4: is always positive and like you know, speaking things into existence,

512
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Speaker 4: and and he's just got a great outlook. And so

513
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Speaker 4: that kind of positivity enthusiasm for everything that we do

514
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Speaker 4: is something that I I'd love to see in the

515
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Speaker 4: tight end room I do. You know, you know, had

516
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Speaker 4: a chance to look at the entire roster obviously before

517
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Speaker 4: accepting the job, and that's one piece that I was

518
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Speaker 4: really excited about. They've got a great combination of skill

519
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Speaker 4: sets there with the people that are here, and obviously

520
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Speaker 4: we'll bring a couple more into compete in the off

521
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Speaker 4: season for the final roster, and you know we'll see

522
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Speaker 4: the cream always rises to the top, right, But like that,

523
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Speaker 4: you know, I'm excited about what's going on in that

524
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Speaker 4: room for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how much do you expect from McDonald as far

526
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Speaker 1: as his input philosophy, leave you alone, let you do

527
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Speaker 1: your job. How involved will he be with this talk

528
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Speaker 1: about kind of what you expect your day to day

529
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Speaker 1: and even on game day relationship with what McDonald to

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Speaker 1: be all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we'll see, Like, obviously, you always want

532
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Speaker 4: to have input from great football coaches, but he also has,

533
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Speaker 4: you know, a lot to worry about on his own

534
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Speaker 4: on the side of the ball. So I'm open to whatever.

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Speaker 4: I'm in as many conversations as we can, have as

536
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Speaker 4: much input as he can give me from how he's

537
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Speaker 4: seeing things from the other side. Like, I'm open to it,

538
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Speaker 4: and you know, I'm really excited to see how that develops.

539
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Speaker 4: I'm prepared for whichever direction he chooses to go, and

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Speaker 4: you know we'll make the best of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, before you go, you got a guy that obviously

542
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Speaker 1: looked great in the playoffs, you had a guy in

543
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey who is a star, absolute stud, Hall of

544
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Speaker 1: Fame or one of the best running backs I've ever seen,

545
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Speaker 1: for sure, and you're hanging around him for the last

546
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Speaker 1: few years in the Bay Area. Kenny Walker's up here,

547
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Speaker 1: obviously is a free agent, so that's a question for

548
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Speaker 1: John obviously on his future. But this is a guy

549
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Speaker 1: that was putting up Brian McCaffrey type numbers. Honestly, dude,

550
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Speaker 1: in the last month and a half, he was doing

551
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Speaker 1: everything for this football team. How important is a guy

552
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Speaker 1: like Kenneth Walker to what you want to do offensively?

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Speaker 4: I mean, Kenny had a great season. I really can't

554
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Speaker 4: talk about the future, you know, until he had this

555
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Speaker 4: contract situation resolved. But you know, obviously acquiring great players

556
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Speaker 4: is part of the deal, and having as many as

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Speaker 4: we possibly can. If they're here, I'm going to find

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Speaker 4: a way to use them, get them the football, and

559
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Speaker 4: like help them have success.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, have you dumped all your forty

561
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Speaker 1: nine er gear yet you still have some stuff to

562
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Speaker 1: take to the goodwill?

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Speaker 2: What's the plan there?

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Speaker 4: Now? I dropped three huge trash bags off and told

565
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Speaker 4: the guy that was standing there I was like, hey, man,

566
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Speaker 4: there's some cool forty nine er gear in here. If

567
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Speaker 4: you ever want to dig in there. I don't know

568
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Speaker 4: if you're allowed to from a you know, employee contract standpoint,

569
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Speaker 4: but yeah, that's all gone.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, I love it. Well, dude, we're gonna have

571
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Man, appreciate you doing this. Get settled.

572
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your family. What's the what's the family situation?

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Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, I've been married nineteen years, it'll be twenty

574
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Speaker 4: on July. First. I got a fifteen year old daughter

575
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Speaker 4: who's you know, she's learning to drive, So that's exciting

576
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Speaker 4: to say the least. Yeah. So, I mean they're they're

577
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Speaker 4: both really excited to get up here and see what

578
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Speaker 4: this place is all about. I mean it's a great

579
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Speaker 4: part of the country, beautiful views and you know, wonderful people.

580
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Speaker 4: So they're they're excited to get up here and immerse

581
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Speaker 4: themselves in there as quickly as they can.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna love coaching at LOOM and man, you're

583
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Speaker 1: gonna love having those twelves on your side on a

584
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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. And yeah, right right, I mean did you

585
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Speaker 1: notice that when you came up here, how difficult that

586
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Speaker 1: was to deal with.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, Yeah, of course. I mean we've played here once

588
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Speaker 4: a year for the last seven years, and I was

589
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Speaker 4: fortunate enough to be here a few times beforehand. It's

590
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Speaker 4: always been one of my favorite places. My guy with

591
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Speaker 4: the signs in the corner of the end zone is

592
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Speaker 4: the best heckler in all football, and so like, I'm

593
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Speaker 4: glad he'll be on my side from now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a buddy of mine. I can introduce you

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Speaker 1: to by the way, if you want. If you've got

596
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Speaker 1: somebody coming in that you know is a little bit sensitive,

597
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Speaker 1: let us know and we'll do our best to push

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Speaker 1: it over the top. But hey, Brian, great stuff, man,

599
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Speaker 1: welcome to Seattle. Fired up for you, looking forward to

600
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Speaker 1: meeting you in person down the road. Man, get yourself settled.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for doing this and we'll talk very soon.

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Speaker 4: Man, all right, thanks aust you appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: All Right, there you go.

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Speaker 1: Brian Florey, the new Seahawk offensive coordinator, says he took

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Speaker 1: three trash bags full of forty nine ers gear to

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Speaker 1: the dump and said, have at it. Man, those days

607
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Speaker 1: for him are over. I could have done without the

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler crack by the way. But you know what, well,

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Speaker 1: let it slide, all right. Beating the Patriots in sixty

610
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Speaker 1: kind of starts to help.

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Speaker 2: Heal the wound a little bit, so we'll let that

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Speaker 2: slide for now.

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Speaker 1: But that's it. You get one and that's it. Man,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break. What did Hugh Millon make of it?

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Speaker 1: We'll get huge thoughts on it next on ninety three

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Speaker 1: three KJR FM.

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Speaker 5: From the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now

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Speaker 5: back to Softie and Dick on your Home for the Huskies,

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Speaker 5: Kraken and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point

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Speaker 4: Let me save you as a suspense there, Softy, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna make a bad play call at some point, Okay,

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Speaker 4: so not everybody be ready, and don't pount, don't pound

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Speaker 4: the panic button if it happened.

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Speaker 2: No, I've been preparing for.

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Speaker 4: This for a long time, Like the uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: the play go owing process on offense is really done

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Speaker 4: way ahead of time. So it's really just a matter

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Speaker 4: of being able to process the situation in real time

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Speaker 4: and get to the calls that you've already thought about.

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Speaker 4: And so that that I'm very confident in.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's the new Seahawk offensive coordinator Brian Florey

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Speaker 1: with us last segment. I'll just say this, the first

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Speaker 1: bad play call he makes, Hugh Millon, I'm gonna rip

635
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Speaker 1: his ass on the air to get after him and

636
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Speaker 1: rip him a new one from soup to nuts baby

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Speaker 1: if he makes a bad play call.

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Speaker 2: No, obviously there's.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be a little bit of a learning process, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a learning curve with him as a

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Speaker 1: first time play caller. But I mean, you heard the

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Speaker 1: comments there, you heard the conversation. What did you make

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Speaker 1: of what you heard there?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a nice interview, very nice, great job.

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Speaker 3: I thought you built a rapport with him for you

647
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Speaker 3: not having known him or met him. I thought that

648
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Speaker 3: that sounded great just over the phone, you know, So

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Speaker 3: I agree, I thought it was incredible.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't quite.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a ways to go to You're not

652
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Speaker 3: getting a Roy Firestone Award on that one. But I mean,

653
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Speaker 3: but it was good. But you know a few things

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Speaker 3: that I started took the notes here. I thought it

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Speaker 3: was interesting, he said, I some of what I'll be

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Speaker 3: doing is what I believe Clint would do.

657
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: If he were here. So that really speaks to.

658
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 3: The continuity and the idea that you know, even if

659
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 3: Clint were here, you're still going to be looking to

660
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 3: make changes, right because he talked about the continued growth

661
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 3: and that would happen the I like that answer that

662
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: Jackson just played about the play calling and the adjustments.

663
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 3: You're you're you're already you already have a plan going in. Okay,

664
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 3: these are the adjustments I'm planning to make. Now there's

665
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: there's still I bet Mike Holmgan is going to say,

666
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 3: you can prepare for ninety five percent of the adjustments

667
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: you think you're gonna make, but there's always gonna be

668
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 3: that something that maybe catches you off guard. And we'll

669
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 3: just have to wait and see how he replies to that.

670
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 3: You know, three thoughts and then and you can kind

671
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 3: of respond him. One that is a potential concern for

672
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 3: me is he said, you know, you asked him about

673
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: the terminology difference in the playbook and what have you right, right,

674
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 3: and he said in that he said, hey, there's a

675
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: few things that are non negotiables. Okay, that got my attention.

676
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: He says that he regarding formations in motion and the

677
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: process of community, he says, hey, I've got I've got

678
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 3: to think, process, visualize, and communicate.

679
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: To the quarterback.

680
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: And he's essentially saying, hey, there's some things that I'm

681
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 3: locked in that I'm gonna make everybody else learn because

682
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: this is just the way I think. And by the way,

683
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 3: he went to the forty nine Ers in twenty nineteen,

684
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan went in twenty seventeen, you know, taking over

685
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 3: a poor team, and then since twenty nineteen, the year

686
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 3: that Flory got there. I'm not obviously saying this is

687
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 3: because of Flori, but the forty nine Ers are the

688
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 3: winning this team in the NFC, only the Bills and

689
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 3: Chiefs have more wins than if you go playoff wins,

690
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: only the Chiefs have more, and the forty nine Ers

691
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 3: are number one NFC. So he's seen a lot of

692
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: success there. But for him to say it's non negotiable,

693
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I really agree with that, because Sam

694
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: Donald's got to what did he say, think, process, visualize,

695
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 3: and communicate. He's got to do that too, So why

696
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 3: not learn the way Sam Donald is thinking, processing, visualizing,

697
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: and communicating the way he did in twenty twenty five,

698
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 3: and you just learn Sam Darnold's and the rest of

699
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 3: the offenses communication that was that kind of caught me

700
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 3: scars in the red zone.

701
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: You guys had a funny exchange about that and all, yeah,

702
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: well was up with that? By the way, the Malcolm

703
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: Butler crack, Holy cow.

704
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: You know, I thought, God, man, hey, you know what

705
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: he he? I don't know.

706
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 3: I took it as this guy sounds pretty self assured

707
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 3: in a good way, you know, like he can come

708
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 3: on and kind of bust your balls a little bit.

709
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 3: So I think we get a win to win his personality.

710
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: You know, I would have liked to ask him about

711
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 3: is Connor McGregor beard, you know, you know, if we're

712
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: talking about ball busting all But anyways, he said in

713
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 3: the red zone, he says the best way to score

714
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 3: is to run it in right, right, in right. I'm

715
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: not sure if I agree with that at all. Right,

716
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 3: I think that there are a lot of people who

717
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: have been very successful in the NFL when you get

718
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: in the red zone, like, hey, you've already got a

719
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 3: field goal in your pocket, you know, now is the

720
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 3: time to get aggressive throw that thing in, because that's

721
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: when it's gonna be the hardest. And I know now

722
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 3: I have to update it the last few weeks, But

723
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 3: for the majority of the season, I remember going, hey,

724
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: what is Seattle's first and ten yards per attempt in

725
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 3: the red zone? And late in the season I remember

726
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: the fit writing down the figure two point two two

727
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 3: point two yards per rush attempt on first and ten

728
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 3: in the red zone, all of those parameters, which suggests

729
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: to me, No, the best way is not to run

730
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 3: it in the best way is to do it the

731
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 3: Mike Homegren way and many others like first and ten,

732
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 3: go play action pass, send three guys in the end zone,

733
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 3: and then tell the quarterback touchdown or check.

734
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 2: Down, touchdown, checkdown? Right, okay?

735
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 3: And then maybe a final thought is when you ask

736
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 3: him what do you expect from Mike McDonald and he says, well,

737
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 3: I'm open to whatever. I'm excited to see whichever direction

738
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 3: in that. Now, maybe that's just my interpretation, maybe I'm

739
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 3: leaning too hard into it, but I had the sense

740
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,959
Speaker 3: that that wasn't a big part of their discussion and

741
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 3: something that had to get ironed out in detail in

742
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: his discussions with McDonald. Right, I didn't feel like I

743
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 3: didn't feel like that was a closed book in terms

744
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 3: of their understanding. I feel like they're just kind of

745
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 3: in the infancy of how they're going to handle it.

746
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 3: So those are a few of the stars that I

747
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: had on my notes.

748
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would like to know, first of all,

749
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: because I have referenced and Mike is going to join us.

750
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: Obviously we'll get his thoughts at some point, but I'd

751
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: like to know, and maybe in your geek machine at

752
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: home you can look this up. What percentage of plays

753
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: from the twenty in last year were throws to the

754
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: end zone?

755
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 2: Right?

756
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: Like, I'd be curious how many offensive coordinators actually take

757
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: on that mentality that, like you said, I've already got

758
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: my field goal, I got my thirty eight yard field goal, right,

759
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: that should be a chip shot for most kickers, especially

760
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: our guy and Jason my in Seattle. I'd be curious

761
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: to know how many what percentage of plays from the

762
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: twenty inn were throws to the end zone by Clint

763
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: Kubiak last year, and what percentage of plays from the

764
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: twenty inn were throws by all play callers in the

765
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: National Football League. That's number one and then number two.

766
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: I mean, he mentioned he's he's forty six years old,

767
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: so he's he's eight years older than than Mike McDonald.

768
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,240
Speaker 1: He's got just frankly more experience than Mike McDonald coaching.

769
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 2: I mean, he played.

770
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: This guy played college football at Towson State. Mike McDonald

771
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 1: did not play college football, not a down of college football.

772
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: He played high school football, but not college football. So

773
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: he's got He walked on at Maryland. He's a walk

774
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks man, and then he transferred to Towson State.

775
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: I believe to finish his career saying he didn't on

776
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: the field, like didn't get reps or no. I'm just

777
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm just comparing him to McDonald. That the idea that

778
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: the amount of data, the amount of experience, the amount

779
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: of people that he has run into and been exposed to,

780
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: he's got a leg up on McDonald because the guy's

781
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: eight years older than him. For crying out loud, he've

782
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: been around longer than Mike McDonald has. So I I

783
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: honestly wonder how much he will even learn from this guy, right, Like,

784
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: how much can he take from him about what he

785
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: learned from Kyle Shanahan. How much can he take from

786
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: him that he observed from Robert Salah for example, Hugh

787
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: in San Francisco and bring to Seattle because we mentioned

788
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: it and you've mentioned it, and I love it. I

789
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: don't know what your thoughts are, but I like the

790
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: idea that this guy coach defense at one point too,

791
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: and it's.

792
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 3: Correct, yeah, one hundred percent. I think that that gives

793
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 3: you an understanding. And you know, I mean going back

794
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 3: to as far as you know, my playing career under

795
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 3: Don James, where coach James frequently said, hey, I know

796
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 3: you're going to end up as the secondary coach, but

797
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 3: you know, I want you to be an assistant wide

798
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 3: receiver coach and vice versa.

799
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: You know, to learn the other side of the ball.

800
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 2: I think that's an important part of it.

801
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: And for him the outside linebackers, there's you know a

802
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: little bit of an asterisk there that if you're coaching

803
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: outside linebackers that was his specialty on defense, then you're

804
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 3: gonna know exactly how you want to set an edge,

805
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 3: right and then correspondingly with him as a play caller

806
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 3: where he's got these blocking tight ends and you're trying

807
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 3: to run the outside zone scheme, you're trying to set

808
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 3: an edge, you know when they when when Kubiak was

809
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 3: going particularly in that forty nine er game, not so

810
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 3: much the RAM game, but the forty nine or playoff game. Yeah,

811
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 3: they were running a stretch at the tight end. You know,

812
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: there's a weak side stretch, and really when they were

813
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 3: doing weak side stuff was more of a sweep and

814
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 3: pin and pole stuff. When they were doing the stretch,

815
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: it was always to the tight end and frequently to

816
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 3: the I don't say always because then you show me

817
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 3: one rep and and then it negates it. But I'll

818
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 3: say virtually everything was directed at the single tight end,

819
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 3: or if they had a wing tight end, they're going

820
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 3: at the two tight end side. Well, that that little,

821
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 3: you know, our that little spectrum of specialty for him,

822
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 3: that edge setting component, both on the offense. Indeed, having

823
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 3: coach tight ends, having coached outside linebackers that battle on

824
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 3: the outside zone, because the forty nine ers that's their

825
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 3: specialty as well. You know, he would be considered, based

826
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 3: on his resume, an expert on that phase of the

827
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 3: outside zone.

828
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this real quick. We've got

829
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: to break here in a second. But I'm it's easy

830
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: I think for people when you say things like, hey,

831
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: what position group or what player is really going to

832
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: benefit from playing for Brian Florey.

833
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 2: And it's easy to say, well, it's going to be

834
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: a J.

835
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: Barner, right because of what the guy did with George

836
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: Kittle and all that information and data exposure to maybe

837
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 1: one of the greatest tight ends we've ever seen.

838
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?

839
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw AJ Barner really kind of take

840
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: off towards the end of the year. He scored the

841
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: touchdown in the Super Bowl to put things away. If

842
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: I asked you what player, what position group would benefit

843
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: the most from this new guy, is it AJ Barner?

844
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 2: Well?

845
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 3: I think that maybe I'm wrong, but I think inherent

846
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 3: in that question is the idea of Okay, are you

847
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 3: going to put it up big numbers? You know, and

848
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 3: that's typically the tight ends who make the Pro Bowl

849
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 3: are are guys putting up numbers. And of course don't

850
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 3: sleep on Elijah Royo.

851
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even talking about putting up Pro Bowl numbers.

852
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the biggest improvement, right. Yeah, But

853
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: it could be.

854
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 3: That, you know, maybe we're we're interviewing a J. Brown

855
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 3: Barner two thirds of the way in the season, and

856
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 3: he says, you know, coach Floory, you know, he really

857
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: helped me on my footwork and my hand placement on

858
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 3: how to seal the edge. And and now all of

859
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 3: a sudden, you know the Seahawks are averaging, you know,

860
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: zero point seven yards more on the outside zone, and

861
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: you know you could kind of trace it to those nuances,

862
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: those details. So yes, I would say that, Look, Floory,

863
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 3: it's logical to conclude this, he'd better have done a

864
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 3: really good job at his prior job to be ascended

865
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: to the offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl champions right,

866
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 3: And what was his prior job? He was the tight

867
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 3: end coach, so he should have some really good ideas

868
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: about how to maximize things for tight ends.

869
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 2: I know this, and we went through this last week.

870
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:09,959
Speaker 2: No sense going again.

871
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 3: But but there are some comments out there from George

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Speaker 3: Kittle that go way beyond perfunctory in terms of some

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Speaker 3: kind of yes, obligatory compliment to his coach. It's clear

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Speaker 3: that he sincerely feels like flori was an exceptional coach

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Speaker 3: and that he benefited in an exceptional way from Florrie's

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Speaker 3: coaching and was, as he said in his emoji, sad

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Speaker 3: that his coach had left him.

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Speaker 2: Let's do this.

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Speaker 1: We're going to break Mike Holmgren, him and Kathy about

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Speaker 1: to receive the Humanitarian of the Year award at the

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Speaker 1: Sports Star banquet coming up in March.

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00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: We'll get his thoughts on that honor.

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Speaker 1: We'll give him some kudos for that, and also his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the New Seaawko see and mentioned there, Hugh

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Speaker 1: that you were not in agreement with Florrie's take on

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Speaker 1: how to handle the red zone?

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Speaker 3: Why don't we play that ass No, that's not exactly

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Speaker 3: what I said, but it's kind of what I intimated,

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Speaker 3: but it's yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: He said that's the best way to score was to run,

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Speaker 1: and you said you did not agree with that, right, So,

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Speaker 1: unless I'm putting words in your.

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Speaker 2: Mouth, I may have said that.

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Speaker 3: I think I was like, hey, that has me a

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Speaker 3: little bit concern, Like, Okay, whoa are we sure about that?

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Speaker 2: So let's get an event, let's get Mike's thoughts on that.

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Speaker 2: That's my point.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll play that clip from Mike get his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that next on ninety three three KJRFM.