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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Just look out there, Jackson Telts, look at that beautiful
seet weather.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Look at the gorgeous scene out there.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
What a day, What a day? What a next week
we have?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was driving in today, Ashley and I both agreed,
like the space needle look more space needly.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Mount rainier, more majestic.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Well that's what happens, Chuck. When you paint a soccer
ball in the space needle, it does look more needly.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Is it bad that I actually didn't even know there
was a soccer ball on the space needle?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's like, it's like I said a little bit earlier. Look,
you know, I'm not even the biggest soccer fan in
the world. Everybody knows that, but it is.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If God is, it's like He's like, hey, Soccer World
Cups arts in Seattle. Here you go, Seattle, have the
most beautiful day you can imagine.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
When we got awarded one of the sites for the
World Cup, about was that about three years ago there
was the hope of Okay, please don't be Juniuary for
the World Cup. Don't have the fifty five degrees that
we had last week. Please just let it be. In
the seventies and eighties, and beautiful weather, and my god,
do we have it?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It delivered, It delivered.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So Jackson Felts's here.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
He's never done a Green jacket draft before, so we're
excited about having him for that. And of course he
has to also not just be a drafter, he's got
to be our analyst as well. He is our soccer
star here at Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
and he has come decked out in his US soccer merch.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
This is jersey.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I've decided this morning when I woke up at five am,
I said to myself, you know what, every day of
the World Cup, let's do a different jersey. So I'm
gonna I'm gonna do jerseys through the whole World Cup.
How many of you have, Oh, I have one hundred
and two jerseys in my closet. They're not all soccer jerseys, icee.
But but I you know what, I'll figure it out.
(02:11):
I'll make it work and we're gonna have a good
time with it. But I had day one. We're going
the USA from twenty fifteen. Is that just you have
a name on the back or is that just this
is a plain one? Some of them have names, but
this one is just a it's just a it's so classy.
I know Anders loves this one as well. It's just
one of the white polo from was It twenty fourteen?
Twenty fifteen? Classic? Classic?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And I notice you got the beard done and the
hair You're all ready for it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I saw Andrews new soccer haircut that he got in
ready in anticipation. And so we're also joined by our
other soccer nerd here at KJR as well, and that
is Anders Hirst, who joins us on the phone to
also provide some analysts analysis and our World Cup preview. Andrews,
good morning, Happy World Cup to you.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Good morning. I was appreciate you have me on. You
know what I'm most surprised about is Jackson actually got
some sleep last night. He said, you woke up at
five am. That is much more than I expected from
him on the eve of these months and a half
long festival of football. So Jackson, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Help helps with some I guess I can say pills, yeah,
you know it's it was a melatonin. I think my
wife had. I don't know what she had. She just
said she said, this will help with your sleep. So
I said great. I took it at ten pm. I
was out at eleven. I got full six hours. LFG
Boys and Ashley, Wow, I love it. They're not they're
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not bad pills. They're good pills.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, it's legal.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They're all good pills, Jackson, They're all good.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, it's time to provide our preview, like only we
do if it's it's with a green jacket draft.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We're just gonna draft teams, countries, nations, and I don't
even know if we've explained the rules. But you get
a point for every win that you get in the tournament.
You get a half for a tie, and then if
you make it out of group play, you get a point,
and then if you make it to the finals, you
get a plus three, and if you win the finals,
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you get.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
A plus five. You get a plus five with your team.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Okay, okay, all right, is that too much?
Speaker 7 (04:20):
I think that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It was the first time.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I think you know what, it's fine, I said.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think I said two and four yesterday.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
We said two and three yesterday. But that's okay, let's
bump it up.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You're too much.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Three stly the NCAA tournament where if you have the winner,
it boosts you. You could be in tenth place in
your office pool, but if you have the winner, you
might win the darn thing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, let's do two and three though, Okay, because I
want the four teams. I want yeah, to the best
foursome is what we're going for, not just to pick
a winner.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, So there you go. We'll do two and
three at the backside.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So now we just need a draft order. What do
we got at, Well, I'll tell you what, Chuck.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Nobody who listens to our show is going to be
surprised by this.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
You are first, Oh, Jackson, your second, Anders your third,
and guess where I ended up fifth?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yep, you get to turn though you have to turn
there from four.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
To five like that.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't know if you know this. I'm not a
soccer analyst.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I was really hoping for one of those early picks
that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, we're gonna lean on you guys pretty heavily for this.
So that's why we needed two analysts to break down
our picks for us.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And so here we go.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I got the first selection. I'll get it started. I
am going to uh, you know, I realized that France
is like the co favorite. But Wimby couldn't come through
in the clutch last night, and Van Derveld's the other
big choker in history of sports. The French aren't gonna
come through. So I am going to take this little
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program out of Spain. I'm gonna go with Spain.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's my pick to win the whole thing. Tell me why.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Spain, for my money, has the best midfield in the world.
Padrian Rodriy the duo there, I think they're tremendous there.
They got attacking weapons on the wings. Laminium all, for
my money, is the best player on planet Earth. He's
a young nineteen year old who is out of his mind.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Good.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Nico Williams on the other wing is coming back from
an injury. He's really good. They got good defect They.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Have pretty much.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I think, not only good balance, but I think the
high level play at the right positions to take the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right. I love it. I don't even need to
hear anything from Anders. That's good enough for me.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'll take that unless you disagree. I guess we'll find
out in a moment. Jackson, who do you like with
pick number two in the draft. Now that I have
stolen your baby.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, you really have stolen my baby. That makes things
a little bit tougher.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
But I am gonna go France for almost thinking about
points in this and wanting to win the Green Jacket draft,
because I don't think France is going to win it all.
But I think that based on the last two World
Cups they have gotten They won the final in eighteen,
they got to the final in twenty two. They have
a tremendous head coach and just Champs. They have Killian
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Embappe who's still one of the top five players in
the world. They have outstanding balance across the team, and
at the end of the day, I'm looking at a
team who's gonna get me a bunch of points in
this draft, and I think France is, maybe alongside of Spain,
has the best chance of getting to the final.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know you brought up the coach. All you ever
hear about are the individual players. Who's got the star
player Andrews? How much this coaching matter and who's got
the best coach in the world.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well, it's interesting because international soccer can be a lot
different than club soccer, right, because you've only really see
your players every you know, couple of months during these
international windows, so it's not like you're you have a
preseason and you're building up towards things throughout the entire
years here. So that's why I feel like coaching may
kind of get overlooked a little bit. But you have
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some big, you know, big name coaches that have been
and uh moved from club soccer to international soccer for
this tournament. I think England's coach is really good. Spain's
coach is definitely up there. Francis coach. I mean he's
this is his third World Cup and he's gone to
the final, as Jackson just said in the first two,
so you can't really argue with his you know record there.
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I really like Argentina's coach and that's why Argentina with
number three Homer.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh, he's going to Argentina.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You had to otherwise you were going to have thrown
at youss the.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Kitchen the play.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I got my son next to me, he's he's going
to start crying if I choose anything about Argentina.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He's going to make a mess in his pants.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
If you don't.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Exactly exactly, so you know what, I got to make
the family happy. But also it kind of coincides with,
you know, right around who I think is the most
balanced team. They have the goat in Lionel Messi. He's
a little bit older. I don't think this team is
as good as the team that won in twenty twenty two,
but I don't leave they're really that much worse either.
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They have basically the same roster, a couple different guys
that actually kind of help improve in other parts of
the area, but just a little bit more aged at
this point, and they're gonna I think, just with the
chemistry that they have built up over these past four
plus years, because it really was the year leading up
to the World Cup in twenty twenty two that kind
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of broke them out of their slump. They've just been
firing in all cylinders and won the Copa America in
twenty twenty four. They obviously won the World Cup in
twenty twenty two. They won the Copa America the year
before that as well, so they really know what it
takes in these big tournaments, and I believe they're It's
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like I said, they're not as good as I expected
them to be in twenty twenty two, but I don't
believe there's enough of a drop off where and I
just believe them to be the most balanced team. They're
strong in defense, they're strong in midfield, they're strong upfront,
and I really like their coach and their chemistry is
really good. So I'm going Argentina.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, all right, who's Lasso coaching? By the way?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
On that, you know that is all cheer for his team.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I was trying to make I was trying to make
a joke and I couldn't really come up with it.
But I'm not the joke guys.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I'm not the joke guy.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah right, yes, actually got back to back picks in
our World Cup preview Green jacket draft are you going with?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Get ready?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
My soccer knowledge is coming through.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I'm going to pick the two teams that I am
going to cheer for, England and the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The US comes off the board and round.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Hey you know what, we're the host country. Yeah, might
as well make a run at it.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Honest brutal?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Oh yes, terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There's there's there's two sides.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
This.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
England is a great pick. Andrews mentioned Chill is a
is a great head coach they have. Finally, they have
a joke. There's a joke around the world because England
always says the line it's coming home, which means that
we're going to bring a trophy back to England in
a Made Your Soccer tournament, and it's become a running
joke because they never actually do it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
The thing is, this team is not This team is
the best team they've.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Had in a long long time. They have the roster,
they have the talent. They have so many good players
that they had to leave probably the best players home
of any team in the World Cup of talented guys
who aren't even act this tournament. So England is a
great pick the United States. Yes, there's a decent chance
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they win their group. There's a decent chance they win
their Round a thirty two game, and they if they
win their group, and if they win the round a
thirty two game, they're facing what could be Belgium here
at Seattle Stadium, not lumen Field on July six.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I think it's just called field.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Actually, yeah, they cover ups right exactly. That is the
first big test.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think if they can get through and listen, Ashley,
if you can get a win over Belgium, which is
entirely possible. Then the United States is a big points
getter for you. Are they gonna get you those two
three points in the final and no, that's all right,
but it'll stack you.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Some one pointers and I'll have fun cheering for them.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, you will have some fun cheering for them unless
they lose.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, all right, Andrews, you've got the next selection. I mean,
you only have one baby, and so I don't know.
You're out of countries. He's half American and he's half Argentine.
So I don't know where you go from here. Actually, no, no,
nobody knows.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yeah, well I guess I have to actually, you know,
look through the numbers and tick with my brain and
start my heart. Time. So I'm trying to decide between
two countries. I'm trying to think if either one of
these would be available on the turn. Probably not, so
I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Portugal, thank you.
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I'm gonna go with Portugal in my second round.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Portugal.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, so they're probably the best team hasn't won the
World Cup, so that's kind of something that's going in
their favor. They have the desperation more than anyone else.
I believe the JACKI said, Sane is the best field.
I believe Portugal is the best midfield in the entire
World Cup. You got Betina and jo Nevez, who both
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anchor the PSG midfield that just won straight champions leagues. Uh.
And then you have Bruno for Ndez who plays for
my favorite club team, Manchester United. He just broke the
Premier League record for most assists in a single season
with twenty one. Those are three of the best midfielders
in the world, all dominating at the right time. I
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like defense is stress.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, I like to Portugal Spain final. Boy, could you
imagine you imagine that? Yeah, that's two countries going.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
After one st.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That midfield battle. I'm telling you right now that because
because I mean Andrews is right. If if Spain has
the best midfield, Portugal as the second best midfield, that
battle would be epic.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Jackson, you have the pick. I'm gonna go Brazil, and
oh I wonder to Brazil. Yeah, I think I love waxing.
Brazil has the most World Cups of any country. You
know what's interesting?
Speaker 9 (14:12):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And jump serves all I can think of is BBL right,
all right, those two. So what's interesting is World Cup
has been happening since nineteen thirty only eight countries have
won the darn thing and Brazil has the most at five.
And I look at Brazil this tournament and are they
the most talented? No, but I think there are superstar
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level players at Brazil. And I will say I mentioned
Lamina Mall playing for Spain, nineteen years old. He's kind
of already burst on the scene. He's already a kind
of a global superstar. I think that the Brazil has
what's going to be the breakout star of the tournament.
Endrick nineteen years old. He plays for Olympics and you
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look what he's done for for Lyonnais just recently. He's
absolutely on fire right now. He has twelve goal contributions
and in the last sixteen games for them tremendously A
talented striker for Brazil who I think is going to
lead Brazil very deep, at least to a semi final
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in this tournament. I like the road and again I
think I think Endrick is the guy where globally everybody's
going to know.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
His name a month and a half from now.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
All right, Well, we will have to speed through.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We got two more rounds to get there, so I'll
need hot, okay hot quick analysis from Jackson and Anders
here on the rest of our draft.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So I got back to back picks here.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm going with the freaky, sneaky Dutch with my second
round pick, so give me Netherlands, and then with my
next pick. I don't know why, I just got a
sneaky feeling, or maybe I just am that much into
Sophia of oark era and cocaine, but I'm going with
Columbia in the third round. Yeah, and I think, yeah,
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I think they're They make a lot of drugs there.
I think melatonin is one of them. Yeah, Jackson like, yeah, right,
pretty sure. The melatonin trade is huge coming out of
Columbia ten PM last year. You are the scarface of melatonin, Jackson.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
So I'm gonna go with the Dutch and Columbia, all right,
I'll go quick here and I'm gonna go Belgium.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I like their road.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I think they can win their group pretty handily, and
then once they get past that, they are looking at
I think a round a thirty two winnable game United States. Yes,
it could be in Seattle, but they are here. Belgium
is stationed down at the Sounders facility in Retin. They
are playing very much home games, if you want to
call it that. For a long time, I love Belgium's road.
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They're still very talented. Their golden generation couldn't do it,
but I think they rack me up a bunch of
one points in this in this tournament.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
All right, Ashley or anders you have the next selection?
Where are you going?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
I'm gonna believe I'm taking the next one. I believe
to be the only powerhouse of soccer last and as
Germany's pretty similar there, there's their baseline is pretty high
for me. I don't think they're gonna win the tournament,
but they can rack up some wins. We saw how
the US.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, all right, Germany it is Ashley. You got back
to back selections to close out your roster. Do you
have any other parents homes that you can draft from?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Don't?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I don't because I don't think Finland is in right,
I don't think they made it. Yeah, So I'm gonna
go with someone who I saw being called a Cinderella Morocco.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Morocco. I've dated a girl from Morocco. Oh did you Yeah? Okay,
doctor Wahiba. Oh beautiful? Is that another Melotone?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
No, no, no, no, all right, Morocco it is.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
And then who are the three? Who are the other
three in the US pool?
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Play? Right? Who?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's Usury and Australia and Paraguay.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Oh that's right, Paraguay. I was not not the solo Uruguay. No,
I'm gonna go with Senegal.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Please Senegal?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah? I know nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Obviously, it just sounded like a month thing to say, yeah,
all right to Andrews, you are up next?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Ooh, you left me playing two choices here. I'm kind
of leaning towards Norway. I believe they have one of
the best strikers, actually the best striker in the world,
so he can just rack up goals. They don't have
the strongest team all around him, but he can absolutely
carry them to a couple of victories. So I'm taking Norway, all.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Right, Jackson, your last team?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, I think what I'm gonna do is go Japan here. Oh,
a little bit off the board, but Japan came into
the twenty twenty two World Cup and they made kind
of an improbable run. They beat Germany in that World Cup.
They won their group inexplicably. They they even beat Spain
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actually as well. And you know, when it comes to time,
you want teams who recently have gone on nice track records,
and they actually lost in penalty kicks to a very
very good Croatia team.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Give me Japan to maybe do something in this tournament.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, I've got the last selection and I'm torn
between two feel free to help me break the tai U.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Two experts.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Mexico who seems to always play well. Uh, and then
I I don't know a lot about soccer, but when
I've seen the Ivory Coast play in the in the past,
oh yeah, that's always the most athletic team on the field.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Which one I would go to Mexico because they have
a much better chance of winning their group and getting
you those one points?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
And Andres Munios and Margarita.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yes anders, which one tell me Mexico, right? I think?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
See?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I think Ivy Coast is the better team, but I
think the edge goes to Mexico, host country. They love
playing in front of their fans. It's notoriously difficult to
fight in Mexico versus Mexico which I believed would be
almost all of their games. I don't know, kind of
looked at their specific schedule, but yeah, I think it's
a good chance they, you know, at least get to
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the knockout stages versus Ivory Coast has a tough group,
but I believe they have the better chance to kind
of go on a deep run.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All right, Well, I was gonna go Ivory Coast, but
you guys have talked me into it. I'm going with
the fighting Andre's Munjos.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Give me a Mexico agre.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
It's for everyone.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
All right, awesome stuff, you too, Thank you very much.
This was perfect. We needed you, We really needed you.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Call me anytime.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I'm happy to join. It's gonna be a fun next
five weeks. All right, Jackson Felts Anders hearst. You're gonna
hear for all.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Hear from them a lot over the course of the
next month.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right here on KJAR. They are outstanding at breaking down
the beautiful game. We come back on the other side
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one analyst breaking down one key Shawk player for one
entire interview and once per week during the series, we
go outside of town for our analysts because we have
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a lot of newcomers on this team, draft picks, free agents, whatnot,
and they might have more insight than what we have
locally on said players. And today we go to South Bend, Indiana,
home of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and one of
the best podcast names I've ever heard. The co host
of Pot of Gold is with us now Here on
(21:26):
the program. He's been following the Fighting Irish as a
beat writer for the South Bend Tribune for years. Mike
Bearardino is joining us now here on Chuck and Buck
in the Morning to talk about Jadarian Price. Good morning, sir,
how are you good morning? Pot of Gold. That's good.
That's really good.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
Yeah. I can't take credit for that. I inherited that name,
but we're.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Not changing it, all right. Good.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, did the Seahawks strike gold with Jadarian Price with
their first round draft pick?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Sir?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Well, it would seem that they did give him credit
for taking the second Notre Dame running back off the
board and making some history there in the first round.
This is you know, you're you're taking a guy who
has been lightly used because he had to. He had
the split time with with Love, and Love was the focus,
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especially in the final year when he ended up being
third in the Heisman. Jaedarian Price is a quality individual
and and he's going to give you everything he has,
and it seems like it's all in front of him.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Was there a feeling, I mean in South Bend that
if Love went down, which I know shut of the thought,
but if he went down, that how good Jadarian Price
would be just to step right in to that Notre
Dame backfield.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Well, they would split series or some you know, maybe
the final year was two series for Love and then
Price would come in. But we saw it over and
over the USC game in twenty four, Love was injured,
Price came in, no drop off Notre Dame one Georgia
in the playoff, Love was hurt, lightly used in that game,
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Price steps in Notre Dame wins, and you know, just
about any other situation out there, he would have probably
been tempted to go ahead and transfer and be the
feature back. But you know, he's had every team asked
him about it. He's asked about the combine. He had
a perfect answer for that. It wasn't He was afraid
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of a spotlight. He knew what he could do, but
he had other visions. And Marcus Reeman has a great
job of keeping people around here for the team goal,
the team glory they talk about, and they thought they
could win a national championship. As it turned out they
they were kept out of the playoffs entirely with the
two early losses. But this is this guy's all that.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Mike Berodino is our guest year Notre Dame Beat Rider
talking about Jada Price in our SEAWKXEL.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
One series today.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Should we look here in Seattle as that lack of
playing time reps carries as a positive or should we
hold a little bit and reserve some concern because we
have not seen him be the main ball carrier for
a football team. Where should we land in Seattle as
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somebody that watched the Jadarian Price play throughout his career?
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Well, considering running backs have always had such a short
career and because they take so many hits in the
legs especially, and this is a guy who overcame an
achilles tear before he ever got on the field at
Notre Dame, played in the spring game as an early
enroll league and then off season training in twenty two,
came back, missed his entire freshman year, came back for
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twenty three through twenty five. But I wouldn't view that
as as a concern. I think it's a positive, and
surely the Seahawks are viewing it that way because there's
there's more life in the body going forward. He hasn't
taken as many hits. He's had a clean path here
physically since he came back from the Achilles tear. The
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two concerns, I'd say, and it brought up, but you
know he can work through it. Is the fact that
you leave college with only fifteen receptions is one of them.
It's not that he was dropping passes. He just wasn't
really the third down back at any point. Part of
that was Blitz pickup. He's gonna have to really sharpen that.
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And Thomas Hammock, of all people, the former Northern Illinois
coach who came into Notre Dame and beat Notre Dame,
it's his job to make sure that that part of
his game is where it needs to be, is to
be in every down back. I don't see why he
couldn't become that, but he wasn't asked to do that
very often here in blitz pick up. And then the fumbling,
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which nobody wants to be labeled a fumbler. I think
that's another place where they're just gonna have to sharpen
the fundamentals of it whatever was happening, especially down in
the red zone. But there are four examples of the
ball coming up coming loose for Jadarian so so conscientious,
so reliable in every other way, but they were you know,
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this happened at inopportune times, and three of those fumbles
were lost. So those are the areas of improvement that
now that he is going to have a chance to
step in for a Super Bowl MVP and maybe be
the guy from day one, that's those areas that need
to improve.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Why do you think he's stuck it out at Notre
Dame behind Jeremiah Love all that time? Why do you
think that he accepted life in the shadow?
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Well, for one thing, it's not that shadowy. He'd come
in and talk to us as much as any other reserve.
Notre Dame has depth, and that's across all position groups,
and so you don't have to be the starter per
se to come in and get a little bit of
attention and get a chance to have some visit with
the media, and the fact that there was enough to
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go around they could all eat in that. They're blowing
people out tremendously once the season schedule softened up last year,
so he certainly you know, you look back every eleven
point seven touches ta Darian Price scored a touchdown. Three
of those were the kickoff return game. I don't know
if you guys will need him to do that based
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on the roster what we see, but he can do that.
He's explosive in every area. You know, Jeremiah Love as
great as he was eight point four touches per touchdown,
so it's not that different in terms of what they
can do to take it to the house. I don't
think he's afraid of Spilight. Oh he wanted to graduate. Well,
I definitely want to make it get his Notre Dame degree,
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which he did complete in the spring going into his
final year, so he had it by spring of twenty five.
But you know, in the offseason portal leading up to that,
he didn't want to hear about it. And you know,
word gets to these guys these days through the intermediaries.
He had an agent, as they all do now, but
which is weird. But he was able to stay because,
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like I say, Marcus Freeman, his teammates the goal of
trying to win a national championship. They felt they were
that close. They were one game away against Ohio State
the previous year that team glory. Aspect of the bond
with the teammates, he decided to stay and the legacy
here will live on because he was held up throughout.
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We wrote about it while it was happening. This is
the guy, the ultimate teammate, willing not to sit behind
but to share the spotlight with Love, and that made
Love a better pick for the Cardinals, as eventually turned
out a better pro prospect because he wasn't asked to
give every last bit of what he could in his
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college years. There were still some in the tank.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Excellent stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, thank you, Mike. We appreciate the inside into all
of this. That that's good stuff, man. And continued success
there with the pot of gold pos podcasts and we
will bug you at some point during the college football
season next year.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
What do you say to that?
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Really good? Indieinsider dot com is where you'll find our
stuff here at South Bend Tribune, and I appreciate the visit.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
All right, there he is Mike Brodino joining us here.
INDI I well Indie Insider. Indie insider dot com is
where you can find all of his information as he
of course a beat writer for the Fighting Irish. All right,
we appreciate him joining us here for the Seahawks one series.
Jadarian Price getting broken down here today, we'll do it
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again tomorrow coming up next, we close out the show
with one last thing on Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yes, we get ready to wrap things up with one
last thing, and I do want to let you know that. Look,
it's gonna get a little crazy downtown Seattle during all
of this. Sounds like terrifying for me. Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm not a huge fan of overwhelming crowns.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
No you don't love it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But if you're kind of like me, and yet you
want to be a right in the mix of all
the World Cup action, you can't get enough soccer. You
want to see the biggest sporting event and take in
as many games as you can, And yet you don't
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you can take part in the restaurants and when you're like, ah,
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Speaker 7 (31:11):
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Speaker 2 (31:12):
All right, what do you got for one last thing
here today?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Well, last week when you were gone on Friday, we
talked to a guy from Detroit who was telling Greg
and I that Terrek Scubel was just about ready to
come back from his surgery, which seemed crazy because he
only had it like a month ago.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And today they announced that he will start for the
Tigers on Saturday against Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah he's ready.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Yeah, that's crazy too.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
He's good to go.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Yeah, that's crazy. He might be superhuman.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well it was just bone bone spurs, but it's kept
Edwin Diaz that same thing out all year long. Apparently
it was such a clean procedure. They just found one
and that was that's what's been bothering him for like
over a year now. So they just found one and
they took it out of there and sewed him back up,
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and he was He pretty much started the reab process
almost immediately. So it sounds like it was just such
a clean procedure that, you know, yeah, and then that
and that they found the root cause for everything that
was bothering him. It's kind of scary, like if that's
been bothering him for over a year and now it's gone.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Yeah, now, how good is he gonna How good is
he going to be?
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
So he had one reab start. The team couldn't touch him.
This is what I'm talking about, Like with col Like, okay,
I get it. Most times with most human beings, especially
even professional athletes, they need a little bit of time
to get rammed back up. But when you're like, okay,
he seems to be ahead of schedule, and then Trek
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Scooble goes out and nobody can touch him in a
reab outing for five innings, like, well, why are we
messing around with this?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, let's play him.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
We need him well.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Exactly, but I mean that's the one thing. As long
as he's healthy, as long as he's ready, let's go.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, and so let the Trek Schooble trade talk, Yeah,
ramp up as well. Detroit might have a chance to
get back in it.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
By the way, the.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
White Sox jumped ahead of the Guardians. The White Sox
have a first place team right now. Yeah, they've jumped
out of the Guardians in the division, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So if the White Sox can do that, then I
don't know if the Tigers are completely out of it
at this stage. But more often, more.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Likely than not, Trek Scooble is going to be traded
to Seattle. I don't know if that makes any sense
at all to me.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
I know, the way I thought you're saying, more than likely,
Trek's scuobel is going to be traded to Seattle, and
then I realized the pause was different.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah to Seattle, question Mark, No, that doesn't really make
much sense, doesn't make sense, but he is going to
be traded to somebody.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Almost bugged out of my head though the trading.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Deadline comes, all right, last one for me. I think
I got to just kind of begin and end with
this World Cup. So I mean it. You know, it's
kind of like, uh I hear, like parenthood. When you
see the joy in your kids, like it changes like
everything to you, Like holiday celebrations like Christmas. Yeah, you
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always like Christmas, but then all of a sudden you
see the joy and the enthusiasm and little ones that
are yours, and then it makes it just kind of adds.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
To the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Absolutely, I'm gonna tell you seeing Jackson all lit up
today coming in here doing the World Cup preview green
Jacket draft with us and see how excited he is
and having Jackson was my first producer here, and so
I remember having the conversations with him about like, hey man,
if you think this soccer thing is going to take off,
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sink your teeth into it. Jackson, Yeah, you know, maybe
you'll end up being the guy and look at him now,
and look at him now.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
He's the guy. Did you hear him breaking down? He
was so good, he was so damn good.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, so damn good.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
And he's got his jersey on his kit.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's great, he's ready.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And then he got done.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
And I'm not even kidding you. I am kidding you.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
He said, I think you picked a great eighteen and
it actually felt good.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Like made you swell with pride a little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I'm like, oh, wow, Jackson likes my soccer team we got.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
We got a note like, oh my gosh, Ashley doesn't
even know anything about soccer. I'm like, yes, correct, I
said it fifty five times, like I've picked teams I
wanted to root for because I don't.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
If I would have had number one or two, I
would have gone France or Spain. That much I knew
after that.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Okay, I'm glad you got us in England.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
Me too.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
I'm thrilled about it. Now I just get to cheer
for him and hope they do well. And if they don't,
oh well.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You and Mom on the edge of the couch, Oh gosh,
she hates soccer.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, the two of you on the end of the
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Speaker 7 (35:36):
Yep, she's gonna say, why are you making me watch this?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
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