Sounders 1-0 San Diego FC POST MATCH SHOW

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Well, it was a beautiful evening in Seattle, and it was a beautiful win for your Seattle Sounders won nothing tonight over San Diego.

Hey sus Ferrara scores his first goal for.

The Rave Green ends up being the game winner for Seattle as they beat San Diego, a team with a last to about a month and a half go down in Southern California. Tonight they get the revenge and they get the win. And this week where three matches in nine days, all my Home continues with another dub that is two straight wins over Dawn and here San.

Diego with Minnesota ahead on Sunday.

Great night here, lumin Field, We welcome you in to the Sounders FC postmatch Show. Jackson Phelps alongside the player Kellen Row and the coach Pte viewing. We are here for the next hour hour long post game show tonight. We're gonna hear from head coach Brian Schmtzer. We're gonna react to this game. We're gonna talk about Minnesota ahead and exactly how Brian Schmetzer sets up his team, which could end up taking nine points out of a possible nine when the week is all said and done. But

Look, I think it was a good win. We talked about how this would.

Be a redemption game and they had to be patient, picked their times, you know, make sure they play the right ball. And when they did go, I thought they did a really good job of going at pace and going with numbers. We'll talk about it later in this in this post game that is drowning on into my bedtime, but we'll talk about Morbia.

They could cut off the door by eight.

Thirty, Okay, buddy, I have I'm a working man now, Okay, not the fun kind. It's it's a lot, no, it's I think there was a good game for him though, And like I said, they picked their moments. I think they could have been cleaner and more clinical in those moments, especially towards the end.

I don't think they made the right decisions, but we can talk about that more.

I thought it was a better performance than Dallas. I think maybe close, but I don't know.

He's thinking again, Yeah, I think it is close.

But I would say this that they're gonna get in the locker room and because it's the second of three, they they're gonna look at it and say, Okay, put.

It behind us.

They gotta get healthy again and get ready to go to Minnesota. Is a very good team.

Uh.

I like your comment about they picked their times right.

They did.

They could have got another goal or two honestly on some of the counter attacks late in the game when San Diego is coming forward. But another clean sheet. That's clean sheet number six for the club this year. So I'll take it. It wasn't as pretty as you want. But again, if you can come through a season in and have some wins that aren't as pretty, you're not playing at your best, then you'll take as a coach, as a player, you'll take as a fan, you'll take it.

I feel like we said the same things on Saturday. Well, it wasn't as pretty as you want, and that's what we let the Free Games show with today. But well, it wasn't as pretty as you want, but it wasn't one nothing win. And I'm gonna say the exact same thing I said in the postgame show back on Saturday in October. When this team is looking at a top three seed in the Western Conference, we're gonna look back at the schedule. We're gonna see the one nothing went

Here's where I think this is a little bit of a better win. I agree with you. This was San Diego versus Dallas. Yea, San Diego really had a they did very well against us in the first game. So and to come back in the rubber match and and get the win at home and to get six points, right, that that is a good thing. So I think they're gonna be somewhat satisfied in the locker room. I thought some of the young people who came Stuart Hawkins today, Yeah, good for that kid. Kilany did his job today. He

He was a spark and that gives he should have some confidence from that game. And I'll tell you what the goal. Parrera's goal, great cross from Paul Rothrock. That's his third assist.

Ferrera's first touch, that's the quality we are hoping to see from him. His first touch was a little away from the defender. Gave him a good chance to just taking home with his left foot. So yeah, we'll take it. Six points.

On to Minnesota.

Well, if you talk about these games, you talk about going into the locker room, you have your two games now on on Saturday and Wednesday.

You're going again on Sunday, and.

You're thinking, okay, our legs are tired, but we already got our two wins, right. We grinded these games out. They really did get against Dallas again one zero. It was with the eighty seventh minute of the PK happened. And then you have it here again today where they scored in the second half, but then they did sit back and grind and defend and fight and battle, and so now you're looking at this team who's coming down with injuries. Right, you have younger players that are coming

What are you giving the coach? Yeah? Well, really quick before we take a break, y'all. We'll get back to that next segment. I will say.

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Sounder's taking care of business tonight against San Diego. A one nothing win here tonight at Luminfield, A beautiful evening here at loomen As. The Sounders took care of business to get their win, and it's time for our Emerald Queen Casino Play of the match.

One goal tonight, that's exactly where we're going. It's the first for Haes who's Ferrara, and it ends up being the game winner. Day committed down the line and go, sir rowcuck, did you get that? Fust whips it in its Fererra.

Turns, strikes and there it is for Fererra.

He gets off the mark for the Sounders, his first goal in NLS play.

For his new club, and what a time to do it.

Sounders won San Diego nil.

The Play of the match is presented by Emerald Queen, Casino, the betting capital of the Northwest. You know, we kind of talked about it a little bit there in that first segment, Kellen, but what a good play the cross from Rothrock, the finish from Ferrero.

It was.

It was really well executed. It was.

And then they said they picked their times to go, and when they did go, they went with pace and they went with numbers and that's what they did here. Alex had played a great ball around the corner to you know, a running.

On Paul Rothrock, who did it all night.

He was the first guy to kind of get behind that back line when he made those runs, and he finally did it and he connected on.

It as well.

And the quality and I'm gonna say that word of an underline and very bold and in all caps. The quality of that play from Hazus Ferrara is gonna be missed a little bit because most players try and take that ball he's just passed that front post.

Most players are gonna take that cross.

Trying first time it with his right foot and try and cut across the goalkeeper. Instead, knowing that he's one on one and there's not many people around him in the box, he takes that touch with the outside of his right foot and allows it to roll across his body and so the defender as well as Jesus, but he does a quicker job of turning. But the defender then is a flybyer. He just kind of slides by,

Yeah, you're nailed at.

Here's the other thing. He got to that near post, which is what we talked about before. Dallas and what we talked about before this game and what Brian Schpetzer said, You've got to do that to create opportunities, so good for him and Kellen you you're absolutely correct and it was such a great turn and then the goalkeeper had just absolutely no chance, so a great finish. It's it's his first goal for the Sounders. It's a win for the Sounders. It's three points against the team that's higher

And how about the defensive job where San Diego, I mean, what did Seattle finished with Keel you were saying it was forty four percent possession for the Sounders, and just the defending that happened over the last thirty minutes of this game, where they were just peppering the box with crosses and shots, and I think the job defending, I mean talent that was that was such a great job.

But also should be mentioned as well.

In this part of this conversation, Tonight's Toyota the man of the match I'm naming is Stephen Frye your logo toylet duers are pract to present Tonight's man of the match. The saves that fry came up with, the big stops defensively, the steps from the defenders, great last thirty minutes on that.

End, well, the big one right before the half kept it at zero zero that would have given San Diego all the momentum going in at halftime. And then the skate save where it was a deflection sixty six minute Yeah, and he good for him, I mean yeah, lets.

Just say that we both looked at each other going, oh my goodness, how did he do that?

And then he pinged it first time right out to Alex roll Don. I'm not sure that he is that quick that he could first time a ball.

I mean, what a player right makes the save then distributes right away.

That's our captain, baby, yes, but again keeping the clean sheet, I mean that's he is really sharp right now. And you know, if he can continue this way, I think he gets another year, another two years, I don't know how how long after that, but I think today he was as sharp as as he's been and his decision making. There was a couple where he came off the line right and and san Diego's making a run through and he's right at the edge of his box and he's just stopping things before they get going.

I don't know about next year.

I don't know about two years or five years down the road for Steph and Fry, but at the moment, he's playing amazing and we want him for the rest of the year as well. So he again, Yeah, Stephen Fry makes saves that we say now are Stephen Fry normal saves, And we're going to continue to say this. If someone else made those saves that he made today, he'd be Team of the Week.

Yeah.

Absolutely, That's that's something that everyone is.

Everyone in this league, ourselves included, are so used to Stephan Fry making these incredible saves that it's just a normal save and he makes it look so easy and it is incredibly hard to do so, and so there's there's that, But there's also the organization piece, and I mean we miss this as well on coaching staffs, on players sides, as fans as well. The organization that Stephan Frye has to do that his center backs have to do.

Yeah, phenomenal performance and I'm glad he got Player of the Game.

It deserves it.

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Let's hot out the bowels of lumen Field, Seattle Sounders with a one nothing win tonight over San Diego.

Here is the head coach, Brian Sptser.

The thing that we'll do with this game though, is, you know, we'll obviously assess the first half and was it more than just the technical breakdowns?

I mean, look, go bid must have lost four balls.

In a row, and you know it was it more than just the technical piece? Was there a tactical did we get something wrong tactically?

Did we not cover something when they pray? You know, we got to look at that.

But what I can tell you what I might be on repeat is Stephan Fry's the best goalkeeper in this league. Because you can talk about goalkeepers that you know, want to play with their feet and help and possession and all that. But Steph makes every save that he has to and their guy tonight didn't, now Hazus. I'm not taking anything off Hazeus because it was a good turn and Paulie does his job and you know whatever, But Stephan Fry's the best shot stopping goalkeeper in this league,

It's just it's it's a fact.

And then you get like some of the some of the intangibles. I mean Stewe Hawkins, I mean, come on, he's he's he's defending against Chucky Lisano. He's he's doing what he needs to do.

I mean, look the kid. Okay, he might have made one mistake or let the ball drop or you know, it was a little slow.

But I mean, come on, kids, the kid's great. Jonathan Bell, I mean, he comes in the last game, does his job, he's quiet, you know, nice kid, well rounded kid, does his job, and we're we're we're so thin but those guys come and do a great job.

Jp.

I mean JP comes in, does exactly what we asked him. Win some tackles, get some balls, give us a little composure, a little bit of Smart's brains. You know, it was it was good, Klannie.

I'm going to talk about a game kid.

I mean, when tried to chip the goalkeeper, I mean we had, we had a couple of chances to get to do nothing. Maybe he should have slipped Pedro. But I'm not going to kill the kid because Albert actually, you know, top of the box and we need this little twirl.

If he plays Pedro right away, Pedro's in on goal and do nothing. So I can't kill Kilanie. I can't kill Albert because they put it in.

But that was a gritty performance and that's why I liked it.

All right, Juda, thanks congratulations too. On the wind, I wanted to ask just it seemed like you had Danny and Pedro ready to go for Jyzeu's Can you talk a little bit about just that that moment timing.

Uh, it's you know, whatever happens up there, whatever you want to believe. I mean they were coming off the field and you know, fate has a way of being kind, you know. Heyesus is expecting a child. He's got a busy week. I hope this. You know this, this, this goal starts him off on a good way. We needed him to score. He needed to score, you know, to get some of the fans off his back. I think he's done a lot of good things and tonight's going

And then with Stewart that decision there was it a game that you don't necessarily want to have Jackson kind of playing, because at that point there was.

A lot of great question, great question Jada Jackson was only scheduled for X amount of minutes and it wasn't sixty eight or whatever. Whenever the injury happened, Jackson couldn't play that long. So Stewie's just going to go in next man.

Up to that question, I was wondering if did you get any sense on the gravity of kim kiheyes, injury at all.

No, Well, Mria tomorrow.

It's a left calf issue. And you know, we'll see like he was stretching it. He's put a lot of heavy minutes in. It's unfortunate that, you know, both kim Key and Imar get injured in respective games. But the resiliency of the club, so we always preach guys, step up, Jackson will be better and ready to play, and you know it's just next man up.

You seem like all your subs really worked out and you end up on top of San Diego. No, how important is that in terms of moving forward and kind of giving the whole thing just more confidence.

Well, the team didn't have a ton of confidence at halftime. I think the subs. Yes, they came on and did their jobs. I talked about pitt Well, I talked about Coloni and JP, Missoski, Pedro good.

Those guys came on and did good. They all worked.

But San Diego is a good team. You know, in the first half they took it to us. I mean, their possession is really good, and you know they couldn't find a goal to you know, compliment all possession that they had. But Mike does Mikey does a good job and that's a good team, so credit to him. Made it difficult made it challenging, But this is MLS and sometimes grit determination home, you know, just one bit of quality that we have Sometimes that's the difference.

All Right, we'll swing over to this side of the room and these the question. You're okay, George, coach.

It looked like when Stewart came on that you moved to street in the back.

No, we always play three to two in our possession, but it's a forty three to one.

Just if you could talk a little bit about his performance and the fact that.

Great unexpectedly good. We have high hopes for him. We have high hopes for him. You know.

One of the reasons why we.

Signed Kim Kehee was because we didn't think Stewart was quite ready. But if the kid can put performances like that, if he can show us that, you know, he can do that on a consistent basis, then he's ready.

Hi, coach, forgot you on the wind.

What would you say are some of the key differences between the first and second half and what did you say to the players going into that second half.

Well, we tried to change some things up tactically to try and get past their press. They have a four to three to three and block US six in the middle of the park, and we weren't able to get past their pressure, so we made some tactical switches there. The second half wasn't our best in possession either, but it was just enough. I mean, there was that, you know, a couple of moments. I think some of our transition moments.

But you know, I don't think this was our best performance.

And again we'll watch the tape and we'll try and assess it and figure out how we can do a little better.

All right, Seeing some hands on zoom and if my eyes don't deceive me, I think that's Kellen Rowe from the booth. Kellen, if you want to bring yourself off mute and ask a question, we'll take it.

Hey, coach, congratulations, Look, look two games you kind of grind it really hard there this Sunday game against a team that's once again higher in the standings. What is your message to the guys who are coming in Obviously a little rotation with the injuries, but they had tired legs.

Well, the message is keep doing what you're doing. Look, we get an extra day rest against there, but Kellen to your point, because you know what you're talking about. It's we got to assess and then if there's guys that have a little nick or they've had heavy minutes. You know, Alex was cramping there at the end, we might have to make some changes to start the.

Game against Minnesota.

And that's just part of the a three game week. So we'll we'll assess everybody on Friday and then you know, pick a lineup on Saturday and we'll we'll try and get a nine point week on Sunday.

All right, we'll go to Felipa Machayda next from l RA thirteen sixty am.

Flipe, go ahead, Thank.

You, coach Bray And you just said that it wasn't your best performance, but at the end three points or three points the second half, you had a Georgia Minongu kind of ready to come in and you end up at sending Klennie, What does Calanie offer to you different than the Georgie minong When I want to know how how was your defending? What do you think about the team defending the last fifteen minutes of the game.

Thank you, well, Kalani is a game player. He gives effort energy. Georgie gives energy, but he's an attacking player. I just felt it this game was so close that I needed a more, you know, two way guy to help Alex. Alex has had heavy minutes. It was just a decision that you make on a game day. It has nothing to do with Georgie not being good enough to be inserted into the game. Georgia is a tremendous young player, good talent, but this game was just Kalani was the right choice.

All right, we'll go to Diego next, and then we see a couple of faults, which is fine, Diego go ahead.

We need the mic.

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Casa Congress on the win?

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Similar to the past game. We won this game with some level of suffering. But there's a saying in soccer that when a team wins, you don't change the team. Are you planning on making changes on the team for.

The sudden Yeah, we might have to, depending on how they come out physically. And obviously there's going to be one change because kim keyhe is out so that's one change already and then rotation with some positions.

I mean, it's normal.

It's the benefit of again having a deep squad. Craig has given me a lot of players that you know, can do the job, so I have to use them.

That is Sounders FC head coach Brian Schwitzer falling tonight's one nothing win over San Diego back here in the broadcast, both here on the postgame show, Jackson Felts Pete viewing and somebody who actually knows about going to say that was the quote, you actually.

Know what you're talking about, Kellan Row.

It's the first time I've heard that all year. But that's okay, thank you, coach.

Yeah, well, I'll tell you what I like Brian's comments about He gives shout outs to all the guys who come in off the bench. He talks about the grit, he talks about the you know, next man up for the team, and you know, really he's sending a message to the guys that hey, when we come against Minnesota on Sunday, we expect that we're going to do the same thing.

We're going to get another three points.

So I love how he's really speaking to the players, they're good questions asked, including yours, h Kellen, and and then Brian is talking about what's next, right, But the grit factor, right, the next man up factor that will be ready for the next game. You know, we've seen him through some frustrating losses and some very dominating wins and he never gets too high and he never gets too low. And it's on to Minnesota.

Well, as I look at the other smartest guy in the room here, he's writing down his notes, I'm gonna steal a little note from you. And it's just it's just it's just three letters there. But it's the DNA, right, It's not the DNA of this team. It's not the DNA of Spencer. It's a DNA of this club that you find a way to win and that you go the next man up.

And it's done it for years and years and years.

I've played against it, I've played with it, and each time it amazes me. You know, I think about the first one I always think about is in Austin. I believe it was twenty twenty two, twenty one or twenty twenty two. Yeah, five teenagers started this game and everyone's going, oh, he's just really throwing it to the win.

Here.

It's a throwaway game, midweek, hot in Austin in the summertime, and then all of a sudden, Raoul scores.

And we win one zero. We come out of there, and everyone.

Goes, how did that happen? It was It was a half of assist from me, by the way, don't want to talk about it, but it was a bad pass that got deflected right into Raoul. About loved this, but you know those kind of moments that continuously happened for the Sounders, the Seattle Sounders club. And if it once is a fluke, two is is okay? And then three it's it's that's now a habit, and it's it's become the DNA in the habit of the Seattle Sounders to to find a way to win.

Yeah, it's happened. So it's not as dramatically as that game.

As soon as you started to talk about I remember the goal from.

Raoul and he smashed it. He hit it so well, forty one yards out. Yeah, it was such a great goal.

But those young guys, and you know, you think you were in that locker room, So that locker room must have been just a lot of high five and un hugging, and because they went in to win a game and they pulled it out. And that's there's a reason we say this about every fourth game, I think. But there's a reason that the Seattle Sounders have the most points since two thousand and seven when they joined the MLS.

I have a notebook that I take notes in for every single game, and in this notebook, in this kind of folder section right here, I have two things. First is a program from the inaugural Tacoma Defiance match back on March eighth of twenty nineteen. The only other thing I have in here is the game notes and the lineup sheet from that day. Going back to July twenty second of twenty twenty one, when the Sounders started five teenagers, they set a new league record as defined by play

Sam and Danny, Yeah, I means are still to be fair.

That is also I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that was Obed Vargas's start with the Seattle Sounders.

That was his debut.

So pretty incredible that that they were able to do that. I mean, like we talked about the DNA and I'm gonna steal your note again, but that DNA of the Seattle Sounders we talked about it's not just this team, It's not just Brian Spencer.

It is the full club of the Seattle Sounders that has that DNA of next man up.

It was, by the way, that that debut for Obed Vargas is he was fifteen years old with three hundred and fifty one days. That's the third youngest player in league history to make that debut.

And look at the star.

We have Pete what's that name on the bench right there.

Jimmy Midranda, oh, Kelen Ra Okay, how about that bench, Stephen Cleveland.

Hey, Andrew Thomas was also on the bench that day, Alex Villanuevajan Alvarez, Freddie Montero was on the bench too.

With it. If we didn't have Freddy myself and Raoul.

This has been the youngest lineup and bench that would have ever been around in the MLS.

I mean, Alex Villanueva is.

Thanks still a teenager. Holy cow, Jan Alvarez, it was a teenager at the time. Andrew Thomas was just freshly out of college. I mean, this is a young, young lineup.

Yeah.

How about that one nothing to win and that was We still still have it in my notes and I'm gonna keep it in here because we referenced it so damn much. What a win that was for the Sounders, and what a win it was tonight for the Sounders one nothing over San Diego tonight at Luminfield. As the sun sets on the stadium, We'll take one more break on the postmatch show. We'll come back and wrap it up by looking our final thoughts here to on tonight's win and also Minnesota ahead.

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Won nothing over San Diego and I will say this is my favorite read of the night. The Sounders have won today. Kellen and all fans out there, You get to win tomorrow. Down on McDonald's app and redeem your free McChicken tomorrow with any purchase of two dollars or more.

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You can also watch the match on MLM Season Pass on the Apple TV up and listen in Spanish language on l Ray thirteen to sixty and with the final few minutes tonight, I think the question that I'm having Kellen Pete is a do the Sounders rotate or do they just kind of throw, you know, Pedro back in there and obviously make up for the kim Key heat injury left calf injury. According to Brian Schmitzer, we'll see how bad that is MRI coming, But do you just make.

Those simple changes or Callen, do you rotate more than that for Sunday? For me, you rotate more than that.

Look, there's a lot of games being played, and you're gonna have a lot of games in June. There's gonna be you have an ability to give guys time at home that normally don't get their starts. And for me, especially with what coach Smetzer said on his on his press conference, you know Alex Rodan, he cramped at the end there, Christian Christian hasn't really.

Had any time off.

Albert had injury problems earlier on, so you can maybe see that change. But I liked what I saw from page Valla Vega in that in that second half. I liked what I saw with uh Kolani, maybe giving Georgia a run.

Out and get him some confidence so he can kind of come through.

And then for me, it's the one that kind of stays and is stagnant, is Hezus Ferrara. Because if you have a forward and I've said this many of times both on this in interviews, two players themselves, Forwards run on streaks, and if you can find a streak and you find the find in the back of the net, becomes a habit. I mean, look the moose, right, the moose all of a sudden went loose for five games.

You let those forwards get their streaks and you let them run it out.

And so I think Hazus Ferrara is one of those guys that has to be one of the first names on that team sheet comes Sunday.

I like your thought process.

Do you put him up front or do you put him wide and get Moose up front?

You know, I think you stick with what has worked. Has been two wins in a row now with Hazus Ferira as the nine, I think you stick with him as the nine. If you want to get Danny some minutes, you put him wide or you just take off. You say, Hazus, hey, we need to get every one minutes again. You have the first half.

Yeah, And I can see him going to Hayesus and saying, I need you to play wide. When a coach says I need you to do something that lifts you up. But historically Brian does reward those guys who do the job. And JP did the job today. Galoney did the job today, Stuart Hawkins did the job today. He doesn't want to have Jackson Reagan have to go ninety minutes right on Sunday.

He's already, he said, he was already on minute restrictions now on Wednesday. That doesn't normally change for those that at home, especially if you don't play that number. That minute number doesn't really change much in half a week, and it usually doesn't change much in a full week if you haven't played any minutes in a game.

Well, given the injury to Kim Key, he could you do something where you go to a three five two and have Danny and Hayes, who's play off each other, up top, and you have Kilani as your right wing back, and then you build the midfield back from there, and then you're able to say, all right, we're going to run you know, Jackson plus Stu plus Jonathan Bell, and then we have you know, knew who who can slide in.

Yeah, that's a great one. Kill. I'm gonna ask you this question.

Sometimes, coaches, you've got to manufacture a win, maybe for this weekend. I do love that at Sunday versus Saturday. That extra day is very helpful. But do you go to the team and say, Hey, this is that we're gonna get the win this time. We're gonna go three at the back. We're gonna go two upfront. Does that work for a player or does the player say, no, I don't want to change our whole lineup for one game from a four to two three one to a you know a three five two?

Right?

Well, you play your personnel, right, You play your personnel, and you play the team that you're playing as well. And so there have been times when you think, and hey, we we're winning right now, why are we changing?

But then you realize, oh, because our.

Two starting center backs are heard that our our two midfielders have now played a ton of minutes that Alex rolled On are kind of the guy we we trust on this right side has been playing nine minute, ninety minute,

Here's the other thing.

He said it during his press conference that they're gonna look up Friday and see where everybody's at. So all all of our comments right now, it might be Alex, can you go tomorrow?

Right?

Yes, I can.

I guarantee all the answers of almost everyone there if you're a good pro. And you know this because you have to actually look them in the face and see if they're lying to you, because I was the best at it, and I could lie to a coach's face right there and say coach.

I could do whatever you want. Yep, yes, sir, yes sir.

Well, as our broadcast director Keeley has very well accurately pointed out, the Sounders have an amazing history against Minnesota. We rarely drop points to them, and especially here at lumin Field, we all remember the Western Conference final in twenty twenty. See, yeah, right, So we will see if that can great run. We'll continue Sunday once again two thirty pre game three o'clock kickoff ninety three point three kids you RFM see you out here at lumin for

Terry Ryan here onsite.

Our technical director Danny Jackson Brad Evans called a great game, as well as Pete Fewing Calen Row here on preapp post.

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We thank you all for a long time listening to this extended.

Postgame show tonight. Thank you for staying tune.

We're gonna let Callen go to bed now once again here from Lumenfield a one nothing win tonight over San Diego. We'll talk to you on Sunday for the Minnesota game and Fox Sports Radio is coming up next.

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