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Speaker 1: They are NFL champions. The Seattles he Hawks have one

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl forty eight.

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Speaker 2: As part of our non stop coverage of the NFL,

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Speaker 2: this is Softy's weekly visit with Kevin Harlan.

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Speaker 3: He's a pulldozer. He's a piece.

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Speaker 2: Brought to you by Twin Peaks in tuck Willa open

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Speaker 2: every Sunday morning, just in time for kickoff.

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Speaker 4: He was like a pinball banging off.

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Speaker 3: Bunny's a twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Yard catch it run catch every game, every bite and

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Speaker 2: every sip only a Twin Peaks Tuck Willa.

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Speaker 1: Hit the touchdown, hit the touchdown, hits grab by purse.

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Speaker 3: Now with Kevin, here's Softy Jacoby Brissette. Oh there was

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Speaker 3: the piss who is hit? The polo's free picked up

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Speaker 3: by Lawrence.

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Speaker 5: Will they take it on?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir?

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Speaker 6: To the house?

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Speaker 3: Touchdown, third down eleven. Here comes Night.

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Speaker 7: Not to way again, lose, Here comes Lawrence ho he

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Speaker 7: smokes another touchdown by.

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Speaker 3: The same guy. How about that? The same guy and

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 7: Guy that joins us every Wednesday at five o'clock courtesy

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Speaker 7: at Twin Peaks Tuck Willa. The same guy with that

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Speaker 7: same silky smooth voice, The same.

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Speaker 3: Guy with that unbelievable work ethic.

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Speaker 7: Who you heard right there doing the game for CBS

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Speaker 7: on Sunday with the Seahawks and Cardinals. Our friend Curtesy

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Speaker 7: at Twin Peaks, Tuck Willa, Kevin Harlan, how are you, pal.

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Speaker 1: Well, just stunned by the pressure from Knight, who was

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Speaker 1: getting a nice opportunity with some injuries and some shuffling

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Speaker 1: of the defense. And he's the one who jarred it

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Speaker 1: free both times. He really, you know, it's not that

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Speaker 1: big a deal, I guess to grab a loose ball

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Speaker 4: Into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: But it does see a lot about night Right that

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Speaker 1: then Lawrence being so alert, you know, vacuumed it in

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Speaker 1: took it in twice. You just don't see that very often.

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Speaker 1: And they smoked them, I mean they smoked them in everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Good teams do that, and they're a good team. They're

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Speaker 1: I'm almost you never like to say it halfway through

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Speaker 1: the story, but they're elite. I mean, the quarterback is

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Speaker 1: Darnold told us a real interesting thing he said. He say,

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Speaker 1: And it showed. I mean they're up thirty five zip.

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Speaker 7: Well, I love it, and I love that you were

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Speaker 7: on the call Sunday. First of all, let me just

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Speaker 7: that meant a lot to a lot of people. So

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Speaker 7: thanks for doing that. Number one, and then and then

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Speaker 7: and it's funny because you know, look, he's a guy

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Speaker 3: Like Steven A was on ESPN the other day Kevin,

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Speaker 3: And I'm thinking to myself.

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Speaker 7: Pigeonholding this guy as a playoff failure before he's even

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Speaker 1: I think what maybe is guiding that comment from some

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Speaker 1: And I just think I think he's got better parts

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, he's now twenty one and five.

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Speaker 3: I believe it is in his last twenty six games.

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Speaker 3: The Seahawk game on Sunday.

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Speaker 7: By the way, that the Hawks since last year's by

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Speaker 7: I mean, my wife Gina, she's asking me all the time,

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Speaker 7: if I say the Seahawks are the best team in

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Speaker 1: Who's to say the Seahawks are not the best team

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Speaker 4: Where's that note I had? I think it was this.

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Speaker 1: We've only had two other seasons in the last forty

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Speaker 1: don't know what their issue was. Well, when you beat

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. We'll talk about that in a second.

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Speaker 7: But I tell you what, I'm gonna send that entire

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Speaker 1: You tell Gina, You tell Gina. She's not a she

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Speaker 7: Well if you're if you're saying she sleeps with the wizard,

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Speaker 7: I get kicked to the couch for the dog. Kevin

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Speaker 7: Harlan's with us before we get to the Rams game.

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Speaker 7: On on Sunday, Brian Dable fired with the Giants. Now

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Speaker 7: they're starting Jamis Winston on Sunday, just totally bypassing Russ

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Speaker 7: bigger sign that Russell's days are coming to an end?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen the Rams yet this year.

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Speaker 7: Well, Kevin, before you go and we are going to

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Speaker 3: What the heck is going on with the Bills?

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Speaker 7: Because if I would have asked you, you know, two

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Speaker 4: It is such a week to week league.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Like who comes out of the Hawks

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Speaker 4: I knew they were a paper tiger. I knew they

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Speaker 1: It is week to week and and so I'm not

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Speaker 1: we'll keep tabs on Buffalo. They got they got a

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Speaker 1: But this game, I'll go back to it again, Rams

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Speaker 7: I love that all right, before you go, it's time.

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Speaker 7: Where will Kevin be for TV on Sunday? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, it's one thing for you to

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Speaker 4: He goes, why is that.

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Speaker 1: Guy you're on with all the time on KGr who

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Speaker 4: But that's okay.

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Speaker 7: The fact, the fact that this makes you this worked

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna guess that you are doing Buffalo Tampa in Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: Am I right?

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Speaker 1: You're wrong again. You're wrong every day, You're wrong, every right,

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Speaker 1: every week we do.

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Speaker 6: This's the game.

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Speaker 1: The stupid exercise of yours I'm We're in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna see the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, all right, yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: Then got to go to watch Vegas after that. That's

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Speaker 1: That's what we are on Monday.

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Speaker 7: All right, you got you got Pittsburgh this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Who are they playing again?

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Sunday, Pittsburgh CINCIDNA. But I gotta I got an

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Speaker 1: NBA game in San Antonio Friday. Oh here you go,

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Speaker 1: all right, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Vegas.

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Speaker 3: And that's on Amazon Friday night.

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Speaker 4: It's on Amazon.

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Speaker 7: You know, I hate to ask this because you think

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Speaker 1: No, it's a second, got a second. I've only done one.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm your biggest fan and I'll be

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Speaker 4: Are you are you really really.

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Speaker 3: Sit there with my foam finger just getting.

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Speaker 10: You know what?

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Speaker 4: I'm your biggest thing.

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Speaker 3: Go, Kevin, go is sofy Go. We'll talk in a week.

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Speaker 3: See you man.

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Speaker 4: Thanks pal.

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Speaker 7: All right, Kevin Harlan with us. He's got Steelers Bengals.

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Speaker 7: He's got an NBA game on Amazon on Friday, and

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Speaker 7: All right, well, by this time tomorrow, we'll know, we

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Speaker 7: will know by this time tomorrow who has won the

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Speaker 6: So anti climatic. On November the thirteenth.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, just so again game four of the World Series. Man,

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Speaker 7: Just do it on the field before Game four, and

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Speaker 7: It's again like how many times, how many times we

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Speaker 7: said NBA when they give out the MVP and it's

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Speaker 7: during the finals or whatever, and the guy's there, he

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Speaker 7: gets the trophy on the court, you know, Adam Silver,

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Speaker 7: David Stern posing for the picture.

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Speaker 3: I think they're blowing it with that opportunity.

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Speaker 11: So how about doing it at the end of the

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Speaker 11: regular season on the last day before the playoffs and

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Speaker 11: you can market the MVP during the playoffs.

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Speaker 7: Well, you gotta wait until the regular Season's all. That's

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Speaker 7: what I'm saying to vote on it. So you're saying,

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Speaker 7: what are you saying.

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Speaker 11: Between the last game of the regular scene, between the

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Speaker 11: last game of the regular season the first game of

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Speaker 11: the playoffs that day, we can't get it. We can't

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Speaker 11: get votes in in twenty twenty five, between the last

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Speaker 11: day of the regular season the first day of the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you would think.

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Speaker 7: I think you want to give people time to process everything.

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Speaker 7: You know, like one hundred and sixty two games they have,

459
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Speaker 7: but they still may want to do some research. I

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Speaker 7: don't like giving people a day when the season. So

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Speaker 7: the best thing is the World Series. World Series just

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Speaker 7: makes too much sense. Yeah, because you're talking about a

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Speaker 7: month then, right, you know whatever, a month and a week.

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Speaker 10: I would say that I have always believed that the

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Speaker 10: playoffs should incorporate part of the MVP vote. I'm not

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Speaker 10: sure though, there's a good way of doing that, you know, considering.

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Speaker 7: Well, the way to do it is make them wait

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Speaker 7: to vote, like we should wait until the Bowl games

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Speaker 7: are over for the Heisman. I mean, if you've got

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Speaker 7: twelve teams making the playoffs, now there's going to be

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Speaker 7: more and more Heisman contenders in the tournament.

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Speaker 10: Yes, So here's so the PLAYO I was making is

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Speaker 10: this is that if you want the World Series, like

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Speaker 10: I would have a perfect situation, the World Series should

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Speaker 10: count towards MVP voting. But the problem is is that

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Speaker 10: then you're talking about after the world So the only

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Speaker 10: way to do it is keep voting and going through

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Speaker 10: the end of the Championship series and then at least

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Speaker 10: people can see, Okay, this guy played in the.

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Speaker 11: World I just think it's easier for football to have

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Speaker 11: a Heisman Trophy in the playoffs, have an MVP at

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Speaker 11: the end of the playoffs because your MVP is is

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Speaker 11: going to be a quarterback and they're going to make

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Speaker 11: the playoffs, whereas baseball there's one out of twenty six players.

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Speaker 6: Man, I mean, it's just.

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Speaker 7: Well, Paul Skin's just won the sy Young and the

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Speaker 7: Pirates stunt exactly, Andrey Dawson won the MVP in the

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Speaker 7: last place Cubs team. We've seen it before. Griffy, you know,

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Speaker 7: did the Marriors make the playoffs? The year he won

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Speaker 7: the MVP was ninety six?

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Speaker 8: Right here?

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Speaker 3: They did. They did make it.

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Speaker 7: But the point is I that I agree with that

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Speaker 7: there's going to be way more Heisman contenders that make

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Speaker 7: the playoff then there will be.

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Speaker 3: Well I mean, look, here's the thing.

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Speaker 7: Maybe not because the more you expand the postseason, the

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Speaker 7: more teams.

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Speaker 3: Are in it.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I I don't mind waiting until the playoffs

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Speaker 7: are over to vote on it. I also don't mind

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Speaker 7: making it a regular season award and then announcing it

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Speaker 7: during the World Series. But again, tomorrow we're gonna find out.

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Speaker 7: And I'm just telling you right now. I'm not going

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Speaker 7: to throw a fit of Aaron Judge wins the MVP.

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Speaker 7: I'm just not right. I mean, I know we all

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Speaker 7: want Cal to win. I hope he wins. I really

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Speaker 7: think he's got a good shot of winning the MVP.

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Speaker 7: Aaron Judge, guys had a OPS that was almost two

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Speaker 7: hundred points higher than cal Raley. He had thirty two

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Speaker 7: more hits in seven less games than what cal Rawley played,

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Speaker 7: and his batting average was eighty five points higher than

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Speaker 7: cal Raley.

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Speaker 3: So look, the home.

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Speaker 7: Runs is huge, the defense is huge, the RBIs is gigantic,

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Speaker 7: all that stuff, and maybe if they would have waited

517
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Speaker 7: Jackson to the playoffs shore over, maybe Cal would have

518
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Speaker 7: crept pasted him. He would have with his performance and

519
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Speaker 7: won the MVP over Aaron Judge. But I'm not going

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Speaker 7: to lose my mind if Aaron Judge wins tomorrow. No,

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Speaker 7: absolutely not.

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Speaker 10: That is though, the crux of the whole thing We've

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Speaker 10: seen this in so many different years, in so many

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Speaker 10: different leagues and whatever is why doesn't playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Why can't playoffs be part of this?

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Speaker 10: To Dick's point, like is twenty twenty five, you should

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Speaker 10: be able to keep voting going through the end of

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Speaker 10: the Championship Series, and frankly, right now, you should be

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Speaker 10: able to keep it going through the end of the

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Speaker 10: World Series because you do this so late, and be

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Speaker 10: able to have it incorporated, because it's very clear cal

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Speaker 10: Rawly kept the Mariners going to Game seven, all those

533
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Speaker 10: big moments, the home run in Game seven, he would

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Speaker 10: have done this thing by far.

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Speaker 7: Well, then give out a postseason Player of the Month

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Speaker 7: or whatever. I mean, give out another trophy. I know

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Speaker 7: they give out the MVP of the World Series and

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Speaker 7: all that blah blah blah, But if you want to

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Speaker 7: give out a second one, I just think for me

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Speaker 7: and the Heisman, everyone's going to a bowl game, so

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Speaker 7: at least wait until the bowl games are over. And

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Speaker 7: the ball games are obviously a part of the twelve

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Speaker 7: team playoff. But look, we all hope cal Rawley wins

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Speaker 7: it tomorrow. Let's hope he does. It'd be a fantastic

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Speaker 7: moment in Mariner history to see him win the MVP.

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Speaker 7: But I don't think anybody can throw a fit affair

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Speaker 7: and Judge wins the MVP.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I only look at the fan from both fan

549
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Speaker 11: bases that say, oh my guy clearly is the No,

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Speaker 11: he's not Marin fans, no Yankee fans.

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Speaker 6: Your guy clearly isn't the guy.

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Speaker 3: Nobody can losing, right nobody?

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Speaker 11: And you you you spit out the numbers, and but

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Speaker 11: right now, don't expect cal to win Aaron Judges minus

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Speaker 11: three twenty five?

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Speaker 3: What's that right now?

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Speaker 6: To win the MBA?

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Speaker 3: What's that based on? You think?

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Speaker 7: Is that based on them actually talking to voters who

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Speaker 7: are not allowed to talk. I don't know where that

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Speaker 7: comes from. I mean, waging what were the odds? Yeah,

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Speaker 7: probably exactly. So people that don't have any idea what

563
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Speaker 7: the hell they're doing, like you and I making bets

564
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Speaker 7: at the Embra Queen Casino. What were the odds at

565
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Speaker 7: the end of September on the MVP. They're closer, so

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Speaker 7: why would they change now when the playoffs don't matter.

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Speaker 6: That's that's true. That's true.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's weird to me. I mean, I got it.

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Speaker 11: I you know, I tried to buy cal of MVP

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Speaker 11: by betting on Aaron Judge.

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Speaker 6: When it got down they were basic even, and I

572
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Speaker 6: was like, are you kidding?

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Speaker 11: What is the first time that Aaron Judge and Calvin

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Speaker 11: even I'm depending on Aaron judge.

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Speaker 6: What's cal now plus two twenty?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: If I can make a bet on cal to do it,

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Speaker 3: I do it. Why not?

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Speaker 7: You're getting two twenty, You're getting better value, absolutely absolute

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Speaker 7: the hell make it happens. So we got that going

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Speaker 7: on tomorrow. We're gonna know tomorrow at this time. David Sampson,

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Speaker 7: who's great former president of Marlins, will join us in

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Speaker 7: the five pm hour tomorrow and we'll get David's reaction

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Speaker 7: to all that. I was looking up some numbers. By

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Speaker 7: the way, Brian Schmetcher is going to join us next segment.

586
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Speaker 7: He wanted the day a couple days to get over

587
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Speaker 7: the loss on Saturday, so he'll join us next segment

588
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Speaker 7: on the AAR and we'll talk to Millan more about

589
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Speaker 7: this on Friday. I can't wait for Hughes segment on

590
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Speaker 7: Friday at five o'clock because there's a ton to go over.

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Speaker 7: We were talking about blitz rates and all that stuff,

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Speaker 7: and I think we're talking about if I have my

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Speaker 7: numbers correctly, both teams are kind of low in the

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Speaker 7: blitz rate category.

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Speaker 3: I know the Hawks don't blitz a lot on defense.

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Speaker 7: It's probably a good idea in this game on Sunday

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Speaker 7: to not do that because matt Stafford has a passer

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Speaker 7: ray of one hundred and twenty seven against the blitz

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Speaker 7: this year, seventeen touchdowns, one pick, and a sixty eight

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Speaker 7: percent completion rate. He is right up there with the

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Speaker 7: best of the best in the NFL when it comes

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Speaker 7: to handling the blitz. He's also very good when they

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Speaker 7: don't blitz, by the way, That's why people are saying

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Speaker 7: he's the MVP. The difference is Darnald. The difference is Darnald.

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Speaker 7: Darnald does not handle a blitz nearly as well as

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Speaker 7: Stafford does. Passer rating of ninety three when he's blitzed,

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Speaker 7: passer rating of one hundred and twenty eight when he's

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Speaker 7: not blitzed, with thirteen touchdowns and two picks. So I'm

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Speaker 7: curious to see how much the Rams come after this

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Speaker 7: guy on Sunday.

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Speaker 11: Man and I think the Seahawks need to be pretty

612
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Speaker 11: vanilla against Matthew Stafford because you're not going to show

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Speaker 11: anything that he hasn't seen before. You can confuse young quarterbacks,

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Speaker 11: You're not going to confuse Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 6: You gotta beat him with your Base four Man Rush.

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Speaker 3: He's seen everything, man, and we're going to break.

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Speaker 7: Brian Schmitzer, unfortunately, has now seen almost everything you can

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Speaker 7: see as a coach in soccer. He'll join us next

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Speaker 7: on ninety three three KJARFM.

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Speaker 5: This is Duke of Duke's and this hour is brought

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Speaker 7: I do know that Brian Schmetzer got a big old

626
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Speaker 7: Duke's gift card in the mail a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 7: You might want to take that head to his local

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Speaker 7: Duke Seafood restaurant and Billy after the bar and spend

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Speaker 7: the whole damn thing.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a plan. Can we join him?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely we can after what we saw on Saturday, Man,

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Speaker 7: But Brian Schmetzer joining us on the radio show.

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Speaker 3: God, I mean, I could ask you how you're doing,

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Speaker 3: but I think.

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Speaker 7: I know how you're doing. The question is are you

636
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Speaker 7: as frustrated? Are you as pissed off, angry, sad?

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Speaker 3: Whatever?

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Speaker 7: The emotion was on Saturday night. Brian, are you still

639
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Speaker 7: there one hundred percent? Or have you maybe changed and

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Speaker 7: maybe come down a little bit since then?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 8: I was all of those things for the last forty

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Speaker 8: eight hours, or the first forty eight hours, maybe the first,

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Speaker 8: you know, three days. I was so desperate that I

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Speaker 8: almost call Jackson's wife, who's a therapist, that talked to

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Speaker 8: her on the I mean, I've got an ivy of

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Speaker 8: tequila that you know.

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Speaker 9: I just a constant drip.

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Speaker 8: I don't have anything to do anymore.

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Speaker 9: So I actually listen to your show.

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Speaker 8: I mean Kevin Harlan and Gina and the whole you

652
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Speaker 8: know who sleeps with the Wizard, And I mean I'm

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Speaker 8: just I'm a lot of sorts.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 10: Brian, north Shore Therapy will be giving you a call.

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Speaker 10: Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 6: There you go a good deal on me, good deal, Brian.

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Speaker 11: Is there is there a moment that you keep replaying

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Speaker 11: your head kind of an an if this didn't happen.

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Speaker 6: Moment that you just keep replaying.

661
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's about three of them, four of them, eight

662
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 8: of them. I could I mean, look even look when

663
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 8: I got the red card.

664
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 9: I mean Albert clinks.

665
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 8: That one off the poet he was at the penalty spot.

666
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 8: Maybe that was a precursor to Obed's miss. But we

667
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 8: had some chances in the first half to make it

668
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 8: three to one, even before the red card, Jordan had

669
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 8: a good chance. Uh.

670
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: You know.

671
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 8: Then we had some you know, really good moments in

672
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 8: the second half, the score, the third goal, and we didn't.

673
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 8: We failed. And you know, give Minnesota some credit, they

674
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 8: stuck with it. You know, they went ahead, and you know,

675
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 8: the guys come back and then you know, just the.

676
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 9: Just the penalty kicks.

677
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 8: I mean, it's just like going through my head, well,

678
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 8: should I have changed the order? You know, what could

679
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 8: I have done? But we had two chances to win it. Yeah,

680
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 8: so you know, and and the big move that we discussed,

681
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 8: you know, putting Andrew Thomas in, I think was the

682
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 8: right move.

683
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 9: I think I I think I did a lot of

684
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 9: things right. I think the team did a lot of

685
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 9: things right.

686
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, it was one

687
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 8: of those moments in sports where it's just not.

688
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 9: Going to be your night.

689
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, is the tequila IV rip in as we speak?

690
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 7: Or did you take it out for the segment?

691
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 9: I took it out for the show.

692
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: Okay, because.

693
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 7: Because you need it for this show. No problem with

694
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 7: that at all. The only guy that can't Drake is Jackson.

695
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 7: The rest of us are good to go. But yeah, yeah,

696
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 7: you put in Andrew Thomas for the penalty kicks, right.

697
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 7: Tell us what was behind that decision and how did

698
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 7: Stephan Fry take that call?

699
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 8: You think, Well, it's a great question because that was

700
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 8: you know, I was dreading that conversation because Steph is

701
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 8: arguably the best goalkeeper that this. I mean, you're going

702
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 8: to talk about Kathy Keller, Marcus Tanneman, but Steph has

703
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 8: won a lot of games and a lot of trophies.

704
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 8: And when I first you know, talked about it, thought

705
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 8: about it with the coaching staff, I said, you know what,

706
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 8: I'm just going to ask him because you know, I

707
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 8: think this is important and we're going to try and

708
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 8: do whatever it takes to you know, help the team win.

709
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 9: So had the conversation with him. Look, there was a.

710
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 8: Little bit of you know, kind of a you know,

711
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 8: squirmy moment there in his chair, but you know what,

712
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 8: he is such a team guy.

713
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, and he said, you know what, Yeah.

714
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 8: Andrew is you know better better at penalties and so

715
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 8: let's do this.

716
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 9: And so it was.

717
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 8: Pre planned and there was no drama, no animosity. It

718
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 8: was just like Andrew knew, Steph knew, the players new,

719
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 8: and we went around to do our business.

720
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 7: So you basically let Stephan Fry kind of make that call.

721
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 7: And I wonder, is there any other player on your

722
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 7: roster or any other player that you've ever coached that

723
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 7: you would trust to be honest with you and actually

724
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 7: let that player make that decision.

725
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 8: Well, I'll give you a great example in the penalty

726
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 8: kicks shootout because they went down a guy for the

727
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 8: red card, we had to take someone off our ten

728
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 8: field player roster to make it even. And it's a

729
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 8: weird rule by MLF. And so Christian had missed the

730
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 8: penalty when he was in Minnesota earlier, and Christian just

731
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 8: really wasn't confident. So he is the actual player that

732
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 8: you know I took off the roster for that pedally.

733
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 9: Kicks shootout the last game.

734
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 8: And so I have a lot of players that would

735
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 8: do things that you know, help help the team win,

736
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 8: sacrifice a little part of themselves to make sure that

737
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 8: the team wins games.

738
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 11: Well, Coach, where do we go from here at keeper

739
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 11: Andrews signed long term. There's some questions about Fry. What's

740
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 11: your what's your take on that spot going into the offseason.

741
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 9: We're working on that.

742
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 8: Look, there's going to be competition, and I had a

743
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 8: conversation with Steph today. You know, I'm going to have

744
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 8: a conversation year ending meetings with Andrew and the rest

745
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 8: of the guys throughout the course of this week, and

746
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 8: Steph knows that it's real competition this year. Andrew certainly

747
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 8: has done enough.

748
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 9: He is ready, Dick, he's ready to be the starter.

749
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 8: So we'll we'll have some more talks and we'll we'll

750
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 8: think about it. We'll go into preseason and look, the

751
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 8: goalkeeper is going to start the first game.

752
00:34:59,040 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 4: Of the year.

753
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 7: Well there's a lot more obviously about that match on Saturday,

754
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 7: to talk about the off season, to talk about Brian

755
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 7: Schmetro's with us, and I'm just kind of wondering, because

756
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 7: I want this thing to work for you, man. I

757
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 7: want there to be a reason why you come on

758
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 7: the air with us. Are you feeling better in the

759
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 7: last five.

760
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 4: Minutes is.

761
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 9: Like therapy?

762
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: Talking to you good? All right?

763
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 7: Just you know again, because we love it. I just

764
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 7: want to make sure it works for you. But you know,

765
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 7: not as good as talking to Riza. But no, it's okay. No,

766
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 7: I can't even get an appointment with her. I mean,

767
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 7: she's scared beyond her to even talk to me. But

768
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 7: the other major off season topic is going to be

769
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 7: at Bit obviously, right, he's made it pretty clear he's

770
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 7: got big career goals, and who doesn't. Who can blame

771
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 7: the guy? How do you balance wanting that kind of

772
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,959
Speaker 7: player on your team versus letting him follow his heart

773
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 7: and his dreams overseas.

774
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 8: Look, Softius, if the right deal comes around, the right club,

775
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 8: we're going to let him go. I mean we have

776
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 8: to the kids. You know, you don't want to have

777
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 8: a and I'm not saying it. Oh, Bit's heart wasn't

778
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 8: in this season. It's just he's got some ambitions and like,

779
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 8: we're not going to give him away for free.

780
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 9: I mean, let's be honest about that.

781
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 8: I mean, he can play out his contract and that's

782
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 8: that's fine, that's something his camp can talk about. But

783
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 8: you know, if someone comes to Craig in this offseason

784
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 8: and there's been some you know, some little feelers thrown

785
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 8: out there, and you know, if the deal comes around.

786
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 9: We would move him.

787
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 6: What's that deal look like, what's the number?

788
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, you know we've lost you know, some

789
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 8: some leverage. I mean there was a ten million dollars

790
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 8: deal with Tigrisk, But now as he comes to the

791
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 8: end of his contract, I mean there's there's all sorts

792
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 8: of nuances there that Craig has to deal with.

793
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 9: Craig doesn't have an easy job with this one. But

794
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 9: he's a talented player.

795
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 8: I mean, there's been plenty of players in our league

796
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 8: that have gone for you know, three, four, eight, ten

797
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 8: million dollars to other teams.

798
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, how about roth Rock? Questions about him and his future?

799
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 7: Can he just assume that you want the guy back.

800
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 8: I want the guy back. I think there's a lot

801
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 8: of fans out there that want him back. But he's

802
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 8: going to test the free agent market.

803
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 4: You know.

804
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 8: I had that conversation with him today, and you know,

805
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 8: the club is still in contact with his camp, so

806
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 8: it's not like we've just radio silence. But he wants

807
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 8: to see if there's any takers out there. He's just

808
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 8: playing the game.

809
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 9: You know, he wants his agents.

810
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 8: Want a little more leverage, So we'll see how that

811
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 8: ends up. But I know that I'd like him back,

812
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 8: and there's like I said, there's plenty of fans that

813
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 8: would have him back in a heartbeat.

814
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 11: Well, Peggy, backing off what Softy just asked, you comfortable

815
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 11: bringing back the entire attacking unit as is or do

816
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 11: you feel like you need to add to the offense.

817
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 8: Well, we're looking to add pieces, Dick, Like, the injury

818
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 8: to Pedro was a blow.

819
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 9: You know, that was a big blow. That's going to

820
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 9: take a little.

821
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 8: Bit of time. You know, Ryan Kent is kind of undecided.

822
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 8: You know, his was a one year deal and there's

823
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 8: an option, but we got.

824
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 9: To sort through that.

825
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 8: You know, there's some holes that we want to fill.

826
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 8: Look at Paul Lee's if he you know, tests free

827
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 8: agency and he leaves. So another attacking piece is you know,

828
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 8: in the forefront, along with making sure we have a

829
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 8: backup plan in case o Bid leaves as well.

830
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 2: Yeah.

831
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 7: Well, Brian Schwetzer again with us and just coming off

832
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 7: of heartbreaking ten penalty kicks on Saturday night, man and unbelievable.

833
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 7: It's kind of talking off the air that you do

834
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 7: this long enough, you'll see everything. And I'm assuming you

835
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 7: saw that for the first time in your life as

836
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 7: a coach on Saturday night. But looking back on this year,

837
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess most people would call it a success.

838
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 7: Between beating Messi and Miami winning League's Cup, Jordan Morris

839
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 7: becomes the all time top scorer and team history Club

840
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 7: World Cup, Pedro's goal greatest goal in club history, finally

841
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 7: beating Portland. Here do you have a moment, Do you

842
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 7: have a game, a match, a memory, whatever that you

843
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 7: think will define this season for you men?

844
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it has to be the League's Cup victory. Look,

845
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 8: that was a tremendous part of our year. You know,

846
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 8: the team was just in a great run of form.

847
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 8: Everything was coming together. You know, Pedro's goal, you know,

848
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 8: might be up for goal of the Year, like in

849
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 8: the FIFA World's you know, in the World rankings of

850
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 8: goal of the Year. That was really a good time

851
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 8: to be a Sounder fan, and it culminated with sixty

852
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 8: nine seventy thousand people watching us beat Messy, So that had.

853
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 9: To be the highlight.

854
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 8: But you know what, Softy, I'm a pragmatic guy and

855
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 8: you look, at the end of the year, we got

856
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 8: to take this one on the chin. We got to

857
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 8: say to the fans that, look, we didn't live up

858
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 8: to our standard that last game against Minnesota, and we're

859
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 8: going to carry that through in the next season, or

860
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 8: at least I am, because I'm still I'm still kind

861
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 8: of passed.

862
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 7: I was going to say, will it piss you off

863
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 7: the entire offseason? Will this motivate you?

864
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's for sure.

865
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 8: It's going to motivate me and I and the messages

866
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 8: that players are leaving for the offseason is been the same.

867
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, we got a high standard and yes,

868
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 8: the you know, the league's couples of success, and we

869
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 8: had some good moments there, but you know, this team

870
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 8: we want to go deep into the playoffs. This was

871
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 8: this was too early of an exit. And the way

872
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 8: we exited the playoffs is what should piss them off.

873
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 3: I love it.

874
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 7: Well, listen, man, I know Saturday was tough, but just

875
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 7: think about it this way. Saturday was tough, but at

876
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 7: least you're not working for Merrett Paulson in Portland.

877
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 8: All right, nice, that is a good one.

878
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 9: I love that.

879
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 7: It can always be worse, man, trust me, Brian, you're

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Speaker 7: the man. Great stuff. Hell of a run. Sorry it

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Speaker 7: went down the way it did Saturday. Use it as

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Speaker 7: some gas for next year. Go enjoy yourself over the offseason,

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Speaker 7: and we'll talk sooner, right.

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Speaker 9: Mans, Coach, all right, guys, take care.

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Speaker 3: All right, Brian Schmetzer with us. We're going to break