Mark, what exactly is going on here, and why is this important?

Well, thank you, John.

Well, as you see behind us, we're clearing these channels, getting ready for the, uh, storm season.

This is something that we're doing throughout the whole city, not just here.

Throughout the whole city, we have crews clearing channels of debris, vegetation, anything that can cause a blockage or, and, and result in flooding.

Um, so this is something that is ongoing.

We just don't do it during the storm seasons, we do it all year long.

And how many channels like this are there around the city?

It's phenomenal.

It's amazing.

And I think the CCAP dual enrollment is really a partnership with our local high school districts.

So in this case, the Sweetwater Union High School District.

But it allows us to teach college courses embedded within the high school curriculum.

So if a student is taking intermediate algebra trig at Southwestern College, they do not need to take a math course at their high school.

They're getting dual credit.

How is the faculty adjusting to it? How are the students adjusting to it? Talk about it.

Is that part of it?

Oh, that's a huge part of it.

And I think he went from a steady distributor type point guard to a guy who's got to score a lot more.

And they're leaning on him a lot more to make plays with, you know, a different type of roster than he came into the league with.

Remember, he had guys like Brandon Ayuk, George Kittle, Debo Samuel.

And then halfway through the first year he started, they get Christian McCaffrey.

So three of those guys are all pros or pro bowlers, perennial all pros and pro bowlers.

Where are you with Trevor Lawrence?

Is that part of it?

Oh, that's a huge part of it.

And I think he went from a steady distributor type point guard to a guy who's got to score a lot more.

And they're leaning on him a lot more to make plays with, you know, a different type of roster than he came into the league with.

Remember, he had guys like Brandon Ayuk, George Kittle, Debo Samuel.

And then halfway through the first year he started, they get Christian McCaffrey.

So three of those guys are all pros or pro bowlers, perennial all pros and pro bowlers.

Where are you with Trevor Lawrence?

Your biggest takeaway, Mark, from your production meeting with the Seahawks that either played out the way you thought it would after that meeting, or was a kind of a turn from maybe what you anticipated and from what you heard in that, in that production meeting?

Well, (sighs) you know, talking to Clint Kubiak, he, he was adamant about, uh, sticking to the run game.

And I was really impressed that they did, they didn't abandon it.

And I think in years past, he might have.

I was, I was impressed with him as a coordinator.

I thought the sequencing of plays, especially down the stretch, was exactly where he wanted to be.

And it's easy to get off track in an environment like that.

What did you make of the way the offensive line for the Seahawks looked yesterday?

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lot of good food.

You know, I might get gout the way I'm living.

Like this.

This is nice, you know? No, but for the Steelers, shoot.

It's such a unique situation, right? Because they're this blue-collar organization.

Everything's in-house.

I also wanted to ask you about you start a rookie quarterback or that at what point do you get to now I'm going to put you in? How much damage can be done to a rookie quarterback when you get into a situation that maybe you shouldn't be playing in?

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goes, yeah, dude, I'll grab you a dog.

And so he ran up, goes and gets a hot dog.

He's running away.

I'm like, yo, grab some mustard.

So he runs up, gets the mustard, and then you see the whole – deal where Dan Deardorff and it was Gumbel.

I think Gumbel, RIP, was calling the game.

Um,