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All right nine o'clock hour here on this Tuesday, And
I mean we devote time to talking some college football
with the best. Rick new Isel is withes former. You
have a head coach and current studio analysts. That's sports
and we get to lean on him every Tuesday at
this time, and there's a lot of college football to discuss.
(01:07):
Come morning, coach, how are you, my friend? We are great?
How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
No bad news? Here, I get to go and caddy
for my son today. What so that's that's always a blast?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay, how good a golfer is he? What are we talking?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
He's a good golf He right now is tied for
twelfth at an ASTRE Tour event at Silverado in Napa, California.
I thought I was brilliant on the reads yesterday. He
s got two under. Now we have to go low today.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, all right, so you're a good caddy.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Then he listens, I am an excellent caddy. I am
an excellent caddy if he only listened to me all
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Kids, Well, look, I don't want to ignore this. I
think that that would sort of be wrong to do
since we discussed it so much last week. So I
just wanted to say that I was rooting for you
to get the Koog's job. I realized that it didn't
come together. But I'm with your colleague, Brian Jones. I'm
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happy that you're still on that set at CBS, because
I would have missed you there.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, you're kind. I had a great experience being involved
in the conversation with the Cougar's got to talk to
a lot of boosters and such, which was always a treat,
but unfortunately didn't get to talk to the main people.
So wish Kirby Moore the best and we'll see how
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the Cogs can do next year.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What is it about this Kirby Moore? And do you
know much about this guy?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Uh? I?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
He's Kellen Moore's brother. He obviously had a nice year
with Missouri. Uh. He and Eli Drinkletz cobble together a
heck of an offense, you know. I Ahmad Hardy, the
kid that transferred from Louisiana Monroe had an epic year.
So they'll be able to run the ball, assuming that
have the personnel for such. You know, it's a it's
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a good hire. He's a kid from the state of
Washington and hopefully he'll have great success.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
All right, Rick new Isiel is with us, our college
football insider. Let's move on to other discussions.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Then.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
How many programs and fan bases right now are being
held hostage by Michigan until they make the decision on
this head coach?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well, you're you're it's an interesting point, and I promise
you the agents are using it as leverage because not
only are you having to kind of sit there. If
you're an athletic director wondering if your guy is going
to get a call from Michigan, You've got to wonder
if you, like for instance, of Jed were to get
a call, who's Washington going to reach out to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Right, somebody's getting stole though, one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, the musical chairs are going to get played. So
you've got to be kind of two steps ahead if
you're going to make sure that you're not left without
a chair. And so that's that's what's complicated, especially at
this time of year when we're supposed to be focusing
on the postseason. We're doing anything.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But are you hearing anything out of ann Arbor that
who they might be leaning toward.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It makes all the sense in the world that they
would that they would communicate with Jet just because he's
been there and he's been successful and such. Now the
only negative maybe that he's been there and he was
there with Jim Harbaugh because a lot of this stuff
that's gone down on a negative side. I don't know
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if it's a direct correlation. I think that would be unfair,
but I think it's at least fair to say that
there's you know, the Matt Weiss is the guy who's
now involved in an FBI de El Sheron Moore, who's
got himself in an unbelievable world of trouble. You know,
those guys could both be doing prison time. I mean,
that's that is incredible that we're talking about that with
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a pro is you know, at the top of the
heap is Michigan is So I don't know what the
folks that Michigan will say as we get in our
car and head Silverada to take you know, shoot low number.
That's the seat belt bell that you're hearing. But I'm
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just giving you a play by play. You know, you
want to know exactly what's happening here tea time just
around the corner. But no, it's a it's a it's
a it's a predicament and then some And the real
question at Michigan is who's going to make the higher
because ward manual he's got to be in a little
bit of hot water as well.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, what do you read into when it comes
to some of the coaches that are being you know,
kind of brought up around this topic, Kalen Board basically
just saying Nope, not going to do it. But then again,
we've heard that before. You know, Jedfish hasn't necessarily pushed
all the smoke out of the room, but he's said
a couple of times that he's not interested, that he's
happy where he's at. Kennty Dillingham broke down into tears
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as if he was breaking up with, you know, his
high school girlfriend. Are you reading anything into it or
is that just that's just the nature of the beast,
because you don't want to go back on your word,
even if there's something better.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I think it's the nature of the beast. I mean,
it's very very difficult to tell everything that the cards
that are sitting their face down, it's very difficult to
do that. I don't know that, you know, I've made
some mistakes in that regard, having said something that I
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probably shouldn't have said, you know, and not being as
forthcoming as I should have been in my life with
respect to this. And you always think you're doing the
right thing by holding back your cards, but the truth
of the matter is you just need to say nothing,
and so in saying nothing, you can't be held liable
for saying something that turned out to be untrue. So
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I think everybody's saying what they think at the time,
and it can always defend it. That's how I felt
at the time. But when the next day you're moving on,
or the next hour you're moving on, that's because new
news came in and it's something that they can't turn down.
It's one of those things I just remind people. Don't
hate the player, hate the game. And this is all
attributed to the fact that this well, in this particular case,
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it's because of an incident that none of us could
have predicted. But mostly it's determined because of a calendar
that's just completely wacky. It doesn't make any sense, and
the people that are in charge of college football should
and can do better.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Can that get fixed to this offseason? Like some of
these calendar.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Issues, to me, they can get fixed tomorrow if we
just get in the room. People in the room. There
needs to be coaches in the room. There needs to
be a representative for the players in the room. There
needs to be the commissioners in the room. There needs
to be the presidents in the room, and there needs
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to be the TV people in the room, and they
need to sit there and say, here's what's important to us.
And then we can figure this out.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Who don't need to be who don't need to be
in the room are the kids that are being recruited
out of high school right now because they can. To me,
hurrying them to get to college in January is a
disservice to them. I don't know why you have to
start college semester early. You're not playing games in that semester.
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You need to let these kids have their senior year.
But there's a race now, especially with finances as part
of it. We're seeing all sorts of states around the country,
you know, trying to make sure nil is available for
high school athletes. I mean, it's it's goofy, and we
need to come to grips with the fact that we're
letting the cart run the.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Horse college football, it's goofy. That's going to be the
new tagline heading into the off season. Rick new Isiel.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Islet and yet yet it's impenetrable. It always delivers. It's
still the best game.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I think Aaron Taylor said it best. It's never been
more popular, it's never been more interesting, and yet it's
never been more vulnerable than what it is right now.
I think that's really well said on another of your
colleague's parts from Saturday.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Glad you're watching our guys. Oh, of course, glad you're
watching us?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yes, Rick new Isiel is with us, our college football insider,
and Caddy extraordinary right here on Chuck and Buck in
the morning for.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
The Stars, I like to say, Caddy for the star.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right, let's talk about these college football playoff games.
They'll start on Friday. I mean Alabama Oklahoma on paper
eight verses nine, this is supposed to be the best
game of the weekend. Will it turn out to be?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I think it's going to be a wail of the game.
The first time they played this year, neither had one
hundred yards rushing, So defense is going to be the
key here. Unfortunately for Alabama, Ty Simpson, who looked like
I think he was the favorite for the Heisman Trophy
in some point late September early October, has fallen on
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some hard times. In the last couple of games. He's
been barely fifty percent when he was sitting there at
around seventy five percent. So for him to come out
as the victorious quarterback over John Mattier, to me, he's
going to have to get back into that seventy range,
which means that they're going to have to cobble together
some quick throws, tight ends, and backs are going to
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have to be involved rather than just the three high
flying wide receivers because you don't have a lot of
time to throw when our Mason Thomas and the rest
of that Oklahoma Sooner defense gets their ears pinned back.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
How excited are you for the Saturday games? Anyone in
particular stand out to you?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, that one in College Station Miami at Texas A
and M is going to be a great game. Miami
is a terrific team. Carson Beck knows all about the Aggies,
having been in the SEC. I don't know that they
played them, but they certainly saw them on film as
they got ready for all their other SEC games. This
is all going to be about Aggie's pass rush. If
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the Cassius Howls of the world can get home and
make that third d N down defense be as potent
as it was all season long for the Aggies. In
a home crowd, remember that crowd will get going, so
snap council be a problem for the Miami front. You
get Carson Beck under heat, he'll turn the ball over,
and that's exactly how they lost those two games to
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both Louisville and SMU.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Maybe the two best pass rushers in the country, Bain
and Howell going against each other in this game. Miami crisis.
That's right, Texas A and M. If there was to
be a major upset involving one of the group of
five teams that made it into this tournament, which of
the two games would you say will end that way?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's difficult to figure that out. It's difficult to figure
that out when you're talking about James Madison because they
didn't play anybody. Their their lone loss was to Louisville.
They lost that game twenty eight to fourteen. I think
their schedule rank was like one hundred and twenty fourth.
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This is not a banner year for the Sun Belt,
so it's difficult. But to me, James Madison seems like
a heck of a team. You can't blame somebody just
because they didn't play anybody. But I worry when they
get to Oregon that they're going to be a little
bit overmatched. So I'm going to go with Tulane. I'm
going to think Tulane learned something the first time they
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played Ole Miss and Retslof will have to be miles
better than he was the first time. And if that happens,
and given all the confusion in Hotty Toddy Land, yeah,
let's say Tulane can give him a game.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
How important or how big of a deal could it
be with the old miss all of the stuff going
on outside. Is that something that's going to be tough
for these young men to kind of put out of
their mind.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Bucky, it feels like this has got to be all
about the players. It's got to be all about those guys.
You can imagine how many conversations they've had with either
their own personal agents, former coaches who are now at LSU,
are you going to come with us? And all that
kind of stuff. If the people in that locker room
can focus and look at each other and say, because
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they know each other is getting the calls, if they
can say, hey, listen, we're not messing with any of
this now, We're going to finish our season. It's too
damn important and we're too damn close. Because they've got
a good they've got a good draw. I mean, if
they win this game against Tulane, they're going to the
Sugar Bowl to play Georgia, and they had Georgia down
nine in Athens. You don't you can imagine they would
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love another shot at that and then they're in. If
you win that one, you're in the Sevines. So Ole
Miss is in rare air right now. They've never won
this many games. This leadership of the team team has
to be come to.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Great.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
If it isn't a player led team, then this is
going to end pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Caddy for the Stars. Rick new Eisel joining us to
talk some college football here this morning. College football playoff
gets started on Friday. When it's all said and done,
who's winning the national championship?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I got Ohio State again. I've got them beat in
Texas Tech in the final. I think Texas Tech knocks
off Indiana. I think, and you know what, it'll be
good for college football. The conversation that will be around
that game, if the Red Raiders are in the final,
will be Okay. They were picked to finish sixth or
seventh in the Big Twelve. They basically bought their roster
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and they now are in a position where is this
is the way of college football. You can buy the wins.
I mean we're talking about Brendan Sorosby, the quarterback at Cincinnati,
being rumored to be going and being the next Indiana
quarterback at five million a year. That's that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
By the way, if you want to you want to
guarantee something, since Damon Ryola is the single white female
of college football, he will be a Texas Tech Red
Raider next year. There's you can book it, you to
bank it.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Well, oh my goodness. They have another kid, though, Will
Hammond that came in off the bench this year. That's
pretty dark good so, and I'm not sure how much
I believe in Dylan Rayola is a great player, but
there's no question he looks like Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He's deliberately trying to I'll say that, there's no question,
and we're going to get We're going to get more
arch madness next year. Good decision by.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Him, right, oh, clearly, clearly. And listen, the great thing
about his family is they know how good college football is.
They know how important these years are to have his
memories and such, so there's no hurry for him. I
think he'll be a first round quarterback. I think he'll
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I don't know that they'll have the career of his uncles.
But I think he's going to get that chance, and
no reason to hurry the process as he's at one
of the premier institutions and kind of have a lot
of talent around him next year.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
All right, Well, we're going to let you go. Let
you go focus on your responsibilities to your son today
and to the sports world. Let's close with your Taco
Time pick of the week. Of all the games this weekend,
which do you feel the best about.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I'm going to take the Oregon Ducks over James Madison.
I'll lay the points and I don't worry about it.
I think the Ducks are going to have their day though,
And for Bucky's case, it's fly, fly and fly some
more fly.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
They might be getting as healthy as they have been
all year too, just in time.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right, Well, have fun today, enjoy the golf, and
we'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Just know this, you boys listen to me a hell
of a lot more than my son will here in
the next day.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I believe you. I believe I could get there in
two Yeah, I'll trust you on that.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Thanks holidays, Thank you the holidays. We'll talk suit all right.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Sounds great Rick new Isiael joining us right here our
College Football Insider, a segment brought to you by Taco Time.
You look forward to that one day, Caddy in for
your son falling around the golf course.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Not yet, not yet, because right now we'll go to
the golf and he doesn't listen to a damn thing.
He just is like, I'm just trying to hit it
too far dead Like, yeah, that's not the whole point though.
There's direction that comes in play here, and how many
times you hit it matters.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
It's kind of a really important part.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
And he's like, I'm just trying to hit it for Yeah,
he gets that from his mom.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I guess when are you going to have your first
father son scramble against Dick Faane and Dixon Fain.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Oh that's gonna be a while. Dixon Fain is good.
Pretty sure I could whoop his dad right now.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
But I don't think part could hold up with Dixon
just yet.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Yeah, Dixon would be the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah's problems, Palmer.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
She's gotten better since for softball. Actually she's she can
hit the ball a lot further.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Now does she have a choice. She probably doesn't. In
your household of whether she's going to play golf or not.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Not really no, no, but she chooses too. She likes to. Okay, Yeah,
she'll ask if she can go out.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Sick.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, they're very sick.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Really, the one whose name is five Iron.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Especially, Yeah, he's he's a little wacky. He's a lot wacky. Yeah,
and we're not just talking about golf here.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Apparently when you are that wacky, you get pretty good
when you play a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Who knew? I bet yeah, I think I asked him,
how often would you play? I would never stop playing? Yeah,
I would just play eighteen, have a snack and play eighteen.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Was like his saddest moment of his whole life when
when he was working from home, had his computer set
up downstairs and he couldn't.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Play golf because the course was closed. So he just
looked at an empty golf course all day long.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Of all the things to shut down, though.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
They shut it down for a couple of weeks to
a month, and then they opened it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
They're like, wait a minute, this is don't touch the flags.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, you couldn't.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
They put styrofoam in the cups so that the ball
wouldn't actually go in, so you wouldn't have to touch
the flat run.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, of all the things that you would have thought
would have stayed open.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Yeah, interesting some courses, dude.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, coming down next here on the radio program,
the old judge stops by, we'll get his thoughts about
a thing or three sports radio ninety three point three
kJ RFM.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
In the courtrooms, almost a hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
There's a lot of grand one hundred generations of Buck Nelius's.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yeah, almost one.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
That means he's almost the most important.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Sure, if anybody was ever named Nelius corn Hole, they
would not pass that on.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh I would.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I'd be like, you know what, Fine, we'll keep this going.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, I think they're going to probably even other kids
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
The buck would have stopped here, I'll tell you that
right now.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I guess there won't be one hundredth Anyway, it's time
to enter the old judges courtroom. This is how this works.
I'm going to bring up a few different topics worth discussing.
Ashley and I will have a quick conversation about them.
We're not looking to agree or disagree, we're just conversing.
Once the judge has hurt enough, he will slam his
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galvel cavel cavel. He will weigh in on the topic,
and you guys will shut up. We will shut up,
and whatever he says goes.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I love that part.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Just put into history, yep etched and stone law. Yeah exactly.
So here we go. Let's get things started. Bring on
the rainy and windy weather Thursday. It can own the ALP.
The Seahawks meet the pampered, sun soaked, soak col Rams.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Oh. I don't know, because I don't know the that
would help us in any way, And since you know
we tend to rely heavily on field goals lately, I'd
prefer to not have the weather play that big of
a factor in the game.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Maybe our kicker is so good that the Rams kicker
will CARDI will never make one, and we'll make one.
I'm with you, though, I don't want that. I think,
head up, straight up, I think we're the better team. Yeah,
and I think we outplayed them the first time and
did lose the game, not like in a flucush stance,
that's just sports sometimes, but getting them at home, I
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want to play them head up and made the best team.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Cavel, cavel, cavel, cavel.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I think that bad weather typically becomes more of an
advantage for offense just simply because you know where you're going.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Defense doesn't.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
So that's that If it becomes slippery a little bit,
and I know that the artificial grass and stuff is
not as slippery as typical your normal stuff, it just
to me they take care of the fields about as
well as they can. I think this can handle the water.
But I would just want it straight up. I would
not want my defense, which is Seahawks are going to
need to rely on that defense to.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Win this ball game.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I wouldn't want them out there on skates in any way,
shape or form. So I think it's one of those
pretty fair all the way across the board. But I
would rather just be straight up and even steven. When
it comes to the weather.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
As Emailon says, it's the wind. That the wind is
what most affects the game. And what are they predicting
twenty mile per hour win?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
I think so well, they know they're not quite sure
where that that one's going to go. I just remember
when I think of bad weather, I think of the
Honka evestorm that we had and it was a Thursday
night football game, and it was the forty nine Ers
and the Seahawks, and that was a disaster.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
We don't need any of.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, we don't need any of that. Let's just play
it straight up, and we can also use some really
good weather. Yeah yeah, all right, next one. You know,
I gotta admit it, the Koog seem to have nailed
it in hiring Kirby Moore. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
I have a lot of questions because they're not veering
from the path they've taken the last two times and
Dickert and now I've got Rogers and young coaches who are,
you know, looking to kind of have their starting jumping
off point and move their way up.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I understand the excitement around him.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
I hope that he does well, but I would have
thought they would have gone with someone who wasn't looking like,
who wasn't looking to just use it to jump off.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh no, I don't know. I don't know. Actually, I
think this is his dream job.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Oh yeah, for sure, definitely his dream job. He's gonna
be there forever.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, he's just going to settle in and he won't
be able to resist Everally.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
No one needs consistency.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Is this is just a flat out mistake. This is
just I don't know. Why are you gluttons for punishment?
Why do you want to do this to yourselves? Get
somebody who is closer to not the end of their career,
but as tired of moving around that wonders if this
is going to be the last chance that they're given
to coach a program and let them run it, because
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they actually might stay. You have Kirby Moore. He's either
going to be successful and lee or he's going to
be unsuccessful and you're gonna want to fire rum correct
and I think it's another mistake by the program.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Gallle Gavel Gavel that is I mean the point you
just made at the end, You basically have two different outcomes.
He can either fall on his face and what he
has done at Missouri. Whatever he's done at his place
is stops before. It doesn't work at this stop, and
therefore you'll be replacing.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Him to find someone that it does work.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
If he's successful, then he's going to use it off
as a used as a jumping off point or a
stepping stone.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I would have done what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Not just Rick new heisl is an a candidate for
something like example, but something.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Along those lines.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Somebody that just wants to get back into it, can
bring something that he knows works into the whole thing.
And he's just kind of like, you know what, I'm
going to do this until I just don't want to
do it anymore, versus I'm going to do it until
somebody offers me a better thing. I think that that
would have been a smarter way to go. But I suppose,
you know, if everybody's looking for the next best thing,
Unfortunately the next best thing doesn't typically want to stick
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around if they are successful.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All right, next one, Japanese slugger Munitaka Murakami has six
days to decide where he's going to play Major League Baseball.
Is he on your Christmas wish list?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Ashley?
Speaker 8 (25:13):
I mean, I would put him on my wish list,
but I think it would be futile because he's probably
going to end up with the Dodgers. It's weird that
we haven't hardly heard a thing about it since he posted,
which then makes me think, well, there's nobody else in
contention but the Dodgers. So I'm going to save that
Christmas wish list spot for something else that I think
I could actually get.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
He's on my list, and he is pretty prominent on
that list, and if his stock is dropping, I mean, yeah,
that's a little concerning. I've not watched a lot of Murakami.
I mean you only see the highlights, and the highlights
obviously show you all the good stuff. But obviously there's
a reputation for a lot of swing and miss, and
it seems that some people are getting some cold feet
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on giving him millions upon millions of dollars. But it
sounds like his values lower than what Polonko's was per season.
At this point, I would love to roll the dice
on a Japanese phenom because they just don't fail anymore.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Gavel, gavel, Gavel. I'm with you where I would love
to try this thing out. And obviously the market's going
to tell you whether or not. If he's going for
the most money, it probably won't be with the Mariners.
I would imagine if he's going for a place where
he wants to be and he likes it here, if
he's come and visited or they've talked to him, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
All for it. I do see.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I think that there was something about I was reading
something about his hard hit rate would be basically up
in the top now he's going against Japanese pitching staffs,
not the big league pitching staffs, and yet his swing
and myths would have been one of the worst, like
second worst. His contact rate would have been one of
the worst. That I don't think is going to get better,
not in his first year over here. And yet the
idea of adding some power, I like the idea of
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adding some power because Polunko's already gone. We don't know
about Suarez, but it looks like that's gone. You're gonna
have to replace some of that pop somewhere, and this guy,
I think brings that.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
To the table. You just have to augment that.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You have to bring in obviously some other guys that
put the ball in play as well.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I'm not here to tell you it's going to work.
I am here to tell you if it happened, I'd
be really excited, and I think Mariner fans should be
excited about the potential of bringing him in here. Somebody
asked me, like, when is the last time that a
guy with this high of a strikeout rate out of
Japan worked? I'm like, when is the last time it didn't?
It was my response, I like, do we know that
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it didn't. I mean, last time I checked, almost every
one of these Japanese phenoms that comes over here ends
up being pretty special. So he's supposed to be a phenom.
We shall see, but there is a reason. There are
reasons why, as Ashley said that he's not creating the
buzz that we thought he was going to be creating
now just six days away from his deadline. All right,
final one. Candy canes are the candy corn of Christmas.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Yeah, you feel like you have to have them because
it's a festive holiday treat. But does anyone I mean
I like the little candy canes the time, anyones now
because then it's like you're not sitting there sucking on
a candy cane for hours or you know, they're the
perfect size.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
But the big ones, yeah, move on.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't even see people even using candy cane.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I used to them a tree.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah. I think they're both just decoration and I think
more people dislike them than like them. So now, yeah,
I think the candy corns of Christmas.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
For people that celebrate Christmas six months prior to Christmas
being here for you to poo poo in any way,
shaping for them on a candy cane one. They're very useful.
You can just hang a treat. You can't hang candy
corn on a pumpkin, you.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Know, during together, you can garlic.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
They're wonderful. You can hang them on the tree and
then they're just an easy little treat. I do think
the little ones are better because you can quickly just
snap a piece off and you can stick the whole
thing and they're go. Don't have to hold it because
it's not the most convenient candy out there that you
have to hold and it gets slimy, and I can
tell you that from sticky hands that my kids get.
But no, the flavor far better, I mean, superior to
candy corn. It doesn't have a waxy aftertaste that coach
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your mouth like candy corn. To put candy corn and
candy canes in the same category blasphemy.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I'll do that again.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
It's that your kids want to eat them, and then
their hands in their face are all sticky and you
have to keep wrapping the candy cane up.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
That's yeah, no, Well, that's where we just have to
parents teach our kids how to not slobber all over themselves.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Good luck.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Well, I'm in the process of doing it right now.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Just pop a little candy corn. Yeah horrible, I mean yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Candy corn, garbage, candy canes, wonderful, Judge.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Says, So, all right, one last thing to close it out.
Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, find one
last thing coming your way in a little bit. I
don't know this is breaking news, but it's worth noting.
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The Rams apparently made a statement about DeVante Adams. They
are not counting him out because of his hamstring injury
for Thursday's game, and so that seems to be a
little bit of a momentum toward him playing, although at
the end of that game Sunday you didn't think that
there was a chance. So that's the latest on that front.
All right, we go round the room at the end
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of every show for one last thing that's on our minds.
What do you got, Bucky.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I deliberately try to make an effort to not do
things like this very often because it makes me sound
like an old fuddy duddy yelling at the clouds. But
there's certainly last night, I'm watching the game and I
probably should have just shut it off after. I mean,
it was not that good of a game towards the end,
but I'm still watching it, and Bear and I were
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doing something in his workbook, and so I'm glancing up
and I end up seeing the final touchdown with I
don't know, two minutes left in the game. The Dolphins
are down I think nine to twenty eight, right, the
game is pretty much over, and they score touchdown Darren
Waller catches a pass and then there's like a fairly
significant celebration. What in the hell can we have a
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feel for, like what you're doing a little bit Like
I'm not saying you have to like pout and put
your head down and sulk back, but like jumping into
each other's arms, like you can't win, your season is
over now, Like can you just.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Have a feel at all for what's going on?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Because to me, it's just it just is a lack
of understanding of what the hell is going I'm not again,
I'm not. I don't want to be the guy that
thinks that it should be the no fun League and
you shouldn't celebrate and bat flips.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Or there's no place for it whatever. I'm coming around.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
But there's certain parts where it's like, yeah, it's like
when a DV comes up, makes a good hit and
you know he's wants to stand over the guy and
it's like there was a seven yard run and it's
first down. Now, Like, do you really think that right
now is the time to gloat? Like they're moving the
ball on you, maybe shut up and do your job better?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
No, Troy, Yeah, No, I'm with you. I'm with you
on that. Troy Aikman. I like Troy Aikman from this
standpoint because he says stuff and you know that he's
got to say. But he goes right to the line
and a little bit over and he was like, this
is the most ridiculous fourth quarter I've ever seen in
my life. He was mad, he was pissed, like are
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you trying? Are you not trying? I mean, are you
are you going to kneel on the ball? I mean,
are you going for it? I mean, why are you
not hurrying if you're trying to score? And then why
are you then on side kicking if you're not trying
to win? He you could tell, and I'm I have
a feeling the thing that you're talking about is probably
what he was referencing as well. He just called it
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the most ridiculous fourth quarter that he has ever seen.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Yeah, it just I don't understand how where the feel
is gone. There's just too much look at me, look
at me, instead of look at the scoreboard. Look at
the scoreboard, look at the standings, look at the standings.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well, I'll give Mike McDaniel that goofy asked some credit.
I mean, he rallied his troops when I thought that
they were dead in the water, and that was early
in the season. But he is the last guy you
want coaching your kid, if you want your kid to
respect the game.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
I'll tell you that much. A little too new school
for me.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, all right, Ashley, what's your one last thing?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Well?
Speaker 8 (33:07):
I was at the game on Sunday, and you know,
they do the decibel thing, like how loud can the
ground crowd get?
Speaker 7 (33:11):
How loud can the crowd get?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
I think the loudest we got was one hundred and
eleven decibels, which feels pretty loud. Then I went, I
was like, but it feels loud when you're in there,
like it's you know, ringing in your ears. But I
was like, but I know this place has gotten way louder.
So yesterday I went and looked and I was like,
what was the loudest it's ever been? So at Arrowhead Stadium,
which has the record, it was one hundred and forty
two decibels, and then the loudest game I believe at
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our stadium was one hundred and thirty seven. So all
I have to say is this Thursday that plays better
be a hell.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Of a lot louder than one hundred and eleven decibels.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
See you always thought that's that was just completely made up. Yeah, no,
I don't ice to get the crowd going.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Maybe, but I think most.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Of them are and I think most of them are lying.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Too, but somebody does track of it.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Yeah, okay, yep, so Hi old male Hi used to
be the loud I remember that back in when I
was a kid. And then I know Kansas City has
been for a long time. I think that Seattle took
it for a while and then Kansas City made a
like a push, like I had a campaign like.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Let's get it back. That's what Ashley's saying. Yeah, all right,
that push you went back?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Yeah, I mean, and I'm just like one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
If we've gotten twenty six higher than that, step up
your game.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Let's go, yeah, well, let's do it. Thursday's as good
a time as any's the truth to get this thing going.
All right, all right, we can start pushing that a
little bit here in the next day or two.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'm going to close with the arch Manning. I mean,
and I'm not saying this because I told you so
that he was not going because he didn't have a
great year. I mean, I think people would say, well,
he would have gone pro maybe had he had the
year people thought that he was going to have. I
think that would be the argument. I don't even think
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he's going to leave the following year. I think I
think today's i mean, one of the great trends with
the draft, especially when it comes to quarterbacks. What we're
seeing is, and it was because of this COVID era,
teams want guys that have played a lot of football
at the college level. This idea of rolling the dice
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on somebody because they had nine starts and they've got
great measurables at this position. I think those days are
dead ridiculous. They're looking for the bo Nixes and you know,
those quarterbacks that started forty games in college and the
Mannings are the Kings of I mean, Peyton Manning could
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have been the first round, first overall pick two years
in a row, and he came back for his senior year.
Eli could have been with a team earlier, and he
came back for his senior year. I don't think he's
going to go anywhere until the twenty twenty eight draft,
even if he does have a Heisman year next year.
So Arch Manning deciding yesterday that he's coming back for college,
get used to it, because I think that you're going
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to see him for two more seasons.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I think that, like new Geisel said, the Mannings understand
the benefit of college, not necessarily the schooling, but that's.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Part of it, the experience that you get from.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
And I think that you do want to come out
and then go to a team because you're going to
go to if you're the first overall pick, you're going
to go to a bad team. So the more experienced
you are, the better chance you have of handling that.
And I think that I think it's a smart move.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, but he's making bank. Yeah college, Plus you're making
bank in college. You're going to pro a chance you
make more than what you're going to make under a
rookie deal. All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at
six am, Mark James, Christopher kidn Nex Sports Radio ninety
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