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Chuck in the Morning 8-31 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and the return of the crap-wrecker. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Infield in Jimenez the centerfield It's.
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  Speaker 2: A bad weekend in Toronto six nothing Blue Jays down
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  Speaker 2: to their final out Ball games over Things could.
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  Speaker 1: Not have gone realistically any worse for the Mariners over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: They get swept and shut out today. 7-0 the final score.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Aaron. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with
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  Speaker 2: us telling it like it is?
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  Speaker 3: I liked both of them. I was like, I can't
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  Speaker 3: decide which one. I like he made it. That's how
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  Speaker 3: I felt.
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  Speaker 2: Angie called out Bizzardo. He should have been called out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nice work, you two.
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  Speaker 3: Good work.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock hour. It's Chuck and Ashley with you here
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  Speaker 2: on this Monday. We have a lot to discuss today.
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  Speaker 2: And in three minutes, Greg Bell will be joining us,
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  Speaker 2: our Seahawks Insider, to talk about the Seahawks roster. Cut
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  Speaker 2: day was yesterday, so they have a 53-man roster. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's entirely complete. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: with Greg here momentarily. Mariners TV obviously on the call
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  Speaker 2: of that atrocious performance yesterday. 7-0, one hit. by Max
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  Speaker 2: Scherzer and the Toronto Blue Jays. 15 strikeouts from the
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  Speaker 2: worst offense in baseball this year, and they do get
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  Speaker 2: swept by the Toronto Blue Jays. And Toronto puts them
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  Speaker 2: nine games under with a month to go in the season,
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  Speaker 2: five games back in the American League West. The people
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  Speaker 2: you're chasing are not very good. That's the silver lining
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  Speaker 2: in all of this. But, man, just when you thought
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Mariners are starting to piece some things together
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  Speaker 2: and playing the way that they should be playing... They
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  Speaker 2: play maybe their worst weekend of the entire year against
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. Just a disaster. They go to Boston,
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  Speaker 2: and now that's at least two out of three, if
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  Speaker 2: not a sweep, that you need against the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: And they have cooled off. I mean, they were as
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  Speaker 2: hot as any baseball team could be there for about
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  Speaker 2: a month and a half. They have cooled off, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still good, and they still have a lot to
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  Speaker 2: play for. So it's going to be a tough matchup tonight,
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  Speaker 2: 345 first pitch. Mariners will go with George Kirby coming
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  Speaker 2: off arguably his best performance of the entire year. But
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Tolley, big, monstrous left-hander, throws hard and just comes
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  Speaker 2: after you, is not a good matchup for the Mariners' offense. Perfect. Yeah, exactly. 345.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if Laz Montez is in the lineup. He
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  Speaker 2: got called up yesterday by the Mariners. It is September
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  Speaker 2: call-ups time right now. But Laz Montez is, well, actually,
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow's September, right? Maybe he's not even, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how that's going to work.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They said that he was already called up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's called up. So I guess it's not
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  Speaker 2: a September call up technically. Uh, so last month as
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if he's in the lineup, Emerson Hancock was
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  Speaker 2: placed on the injury list. It is apple cup week.
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  Speaker 2: As strange as that sounds. Um, we have a, an
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  Speaker 2: apple cup matchup to start the season on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So weird this year. And so we'll start that today,
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  Speaker 2: but we really will be talking a lot of college
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  Speaker 2: football starting on tomorrow's show. Scotty Scheffler won the FedEx Cup.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Curacao won the Little League World Series. Dejan Jovilic scored
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  Speaker 2: two goals in his debut with the Sounders, and they
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  Speaker 2: earned a draw. We'll call it a draw. Finally, Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: set their roster at 53 men. They had to yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into some of the decisions here with Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell in a matter of moments. One guy that did
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  Speaker 2: make the roster is Avery Smith. Never heard of him? Well,
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  Speaker 2: John traded for him over the weekend. Another cornerback. And
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  Speaker 2: so Avery Smith acquired for a sixth-round draft pick from
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  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Chargers. He certainly made the roster yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out more about him from Greg, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about the preseason finale. A
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  Speaker 2: 9-9 tie. Just a wonderful way to wrap up the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: That's what football dreams are made of right there.
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  Speaker 2: A 9-9 tie to close out the preseason. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: to Greg.
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  Speaker 1: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 1: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a beautiful, picturesque way to close out the
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  Speaker 2: so meaningful preseason, Greg, with a tie. Both teams in
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  Speaker 2: single digits. It was wonderful to watch.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the result of a tie doesn't really matter whether
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  Speaker 5: they would have won, lost, or tied.
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  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't. It was just, well, okay. Happened in and
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  Speaker 5: a tie. I once covered a preseason game that went
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  Speaker 5: to overtime before they changed the rules. And it was
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  Speaker 5: when I was covering the Raiders, and Bill Callahan went
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  Speaker 5: for it, kicked an extra point near the end of
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  Speaker 5: regulation to force the overtime in Dallas. We were all bad.
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  Speaker 5: We went down the locker room. What are you doing? Oh,
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  Speaker 5: just see more of our team and get you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so at least we don't have overtime ties in preseason anymore.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, we will discuss a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: about the game, but that's certainly not the headline. The
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  Speaker 2: headline is that the roster is set. And let's start
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  Speaker 2: with Avery Smith because not a lot of people know
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  Speaker 2: much about him, including myself. So who did the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: get in Avery Smith over the weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he had a really big preseason for the Chargers
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  Speaker 5: and got some national attention for it, and people around
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  Speaker 5: the league saw how well he played. Undrafted rookie from Toledo.
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  Speaker 5: The Seahawks had two players in their training camp from
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  Speaker 5: Toledo that they're scouts and player personnel. People knew, well,
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  Speaker 5: Maxson hooked the safety. Andre Fuller, the drafted rookie cornerback,
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  Speaker 5: both of them got cut. So they know Avery Smith
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  Speaker 5: from having scouted him and have been on the Toledo
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  Speaker 5: campus and been around him. And it looks like the
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  Speaker 5: fact that they gave up a six-round pick to get him,
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  Speaker 5: that they were just risking during the draft, instead of
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  Speaker 5: drafting him, that they would be able to sign him
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  Speaker 5: as an undrafted free agent, and the Chargers beat him out.
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  Speaker 5: And so now they recoup and get him back. They've
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  Speaker 5: had a trove of scouting film and meetings that are
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  Speaker 5: familiar with him, or else they wouldn't make this deal.
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  Speaker 5: You're right. Trade means he goes right onto the 53-man roster.
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  Speaker 5: John Schneider, yesterday we talked to him one of the
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  Speaker 5: three times all year we get to talk to the
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  Speaker 5: GM we see every day, said that he is able
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  Speaker 5: to play inside a nickel, outside a corner, can do both,
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  Speaker 5: and they'll ramp him up to Seattle's way. He did
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  Speaker 5: play a system with the Chargers that's similar to Seattle's
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  Speaker 5: defensive Mike McDonald system, and that helped, too. So that's
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  Speaker 5: why they traded.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so what does this mean for Trayvon Diggs?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Diggs Friday night looked to me like he won
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  Speaker 5: the third quarterback job. When I saw him take off
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  Speaker 5: his shoulder pads in the second quarter and get the
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  Speaker 5: veteran starter treatment, hanging out with Witherspoon and Love and
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  Speaker 5: those guys, I thought, well, he did it. He made it.
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  Speaker 5: And after a game, I asked McDonald how viable is
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  Speaker 5: Diggs as a week one player for you, and he
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  Speaker 5: said viable. And so I thought, well, he not only
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  Speaker 5: made a team, he's going to be a starter. He's
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  Speaker 5: going to be the third corner. But they're doing roster gymnastics.
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  Speaker 5: And Snyder has gotten an agreement from Diggs that he
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  Speaker 5: will sign from being an unrestricted free agent to the
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  Speaker 5: practice squad. He can't do that until the waiver period
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  Speaker 5: ends at 1 o'clock today. Even though he and others,
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  Speaker 5: if you have four more years in the league, you're
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  Speaker 5: considered a vested veteran and you're not subject to waivers.
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  Speaker 5: So he didn't have to go on waivers. He went
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  Speaker 5: straight to being an unrestricted free agent. He can sign
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  Speaker 5: with anybody, but he's given Snyder the word he's going
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  Speaker 5: to sign back here to go to the practice squad
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  Speaker 5: and ramp up and continue acclimating and getting ready, perhaps,
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  Speaker 5: for the opener. But he's only had two, yesterday, three,
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  Speaker 5: two practices. I didn't see him on the practice field
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  Speaker 5: at the beginning yesterday. Two practices plus one and a
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  Speaker 5: half quarters, three drives at a preseason game. So the
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks want to see, while he's on the practice squad,
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  Speaker 5: how ready he would be to play. So that's another
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  Speaker 5: option at the third corner. Nehemiah Pritchett, they kept on
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  Speaker 5: the roster. They cut Noah Yagbenogany. I think Yagbenogany is
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  Speaker 5: one of the six veterans. They cut eight veterans. You
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  Speaker 5: can keep up to six on the practice squad. I
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  Speaker 5: think Yagbenogany is another one they're going to invite back.
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  Speaker 5: I think Nick Vanette is going to be one of
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  Speaker 5: the two that they didn't of the eight they cut.
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  Speaker 5: They won't ask back to the practice squad at tight
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  Speaker 5: end because they kept Nick Cower up as their fourth
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  Speaker 5: tight end.
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  Speaker 2: We have five corners on the roster, and one guy's
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  Speaker 2: brand new. He doesn't know the system at all in Smith.
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  Speaker 2: And then Julian Neal has not really been available. So
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with the rookie and his health status
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Smith does know the defense. Like I said, he
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  Speaker 5: played in the system in the Chargers, just like McDonald's.
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  Speaker 5: That's part of the reason they got him. I asked
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  Speaker 5: Julian Neal in Arrowhead Stadium Friday night, so you're already
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  Speaker 5: all the way back now? Because I saw him practice
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  Speaker 5: Thursday in Renton, and even Wednesday he was in full pads.
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  Speaker 5: And he kind of was giving me this, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: he didn't know what he was allowed to say. At
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  Speaker 5: that point, he wasn't sure if he was going to
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  Speaker 5: go on the injured list or not. And I thought
• 9:51
  Speaker 5: there was a good chance he would start on injured
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  Speaker 5: reserve designated to return. But no, he's on the 53-man roster.
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  Speaker 5: As Snyder said yesterday, we don't, and we're not in
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  Speaker 5: the business of cutting third-round picks. So they must think
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  Speaker 5: he's ready health-wise to play in the first couple games.
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  Speaker 5: If they thought he was not ready, he had a
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  Speaker 5: quad injury, is what the GM said yesterday. If they
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  Speaker 5: thought he was going to miss more than four games,
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  Speaker 5: he would have gone on injured reserve. designated to return.
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  Speaker 5: So if not the opener, soon thereafter. But you're right,
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  Speaker 5: he's missed most of training camp, which it's unrealistic to
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  Speaker 5: think suddenly in nine days he's going to be ready
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  Speaker 5: to play.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: One more cornerback question. Explain the situation with Terry and
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  Speaker 2: Arnold as it exists today.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of nuance to it. So they
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  Speaker 5: signed him Saturday. Like we said, they waited until after
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: the Kansas City game so they could have all 91
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  Speaker 5: guys to evaluate. And then on Saturday, they signed him.
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  Speaker 5: They cut an offensive lineman. So he was on the
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: roster for a day. Then the commissioner yesterday put him
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  Speaker 5: on the exempt list. The Seahawks were told by the
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  Speaker 5: league what happened. So he was off of the 53-man roster.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't count. He can do meetings. He can do
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  Speaker 5: weight room. He can do everything inside the building. He
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: can't do anything on grass outside the building. He can't practice. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: he can't play. So when I asked Schneider to explain
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  Speaker 5: how important it was to retain his rights, not just
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  Speaker 5: for this year, but now that they've signed him, they've
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  Speaker 5: got him as an exclusive rights or restricted fridge. And
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  Speaker 5: depending on how many weeks, if he's six weeks eligible
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  Speaker 5: on the roster this year, he becomes a restricted free
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  Speaker 5: agent because of his only two years of service time
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  Speaker 5: right now. If he doesn't play at all or fewer
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  Speaker 5: than six weeks, he becomes an extra exclusive rights free agent,
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  Speaker 5: but both to Seattle and, They did this, as Snyder said,
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  Speaker 5: for the long play. They did it for next year
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  Speaker 5: as well as potentially this year. Their thinking is they
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  Speaker 5: believe from their investigation that the legal system is going
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  Speaker 5: to let him eventually play, whether it's mid to late
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  Speaker 5: this year or next year, and that they will have
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  Speaker 5: a first-round pick for next to bottom basement minimum money
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  Speaker 5: as a restricted or exclusive rights-free agent. That's their long play.
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  Speaker 5: And the other thing that Snyder said yesterday that was
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  Speaker 5: new is that Leon Washington, the first guy, one of
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  Speaker 5: the first guys Snyder traded for back in 2010 in
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  Speaker 5: his first month as a Seahawks GM. Leon Washington is,
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  Speaker 5: as Snyder said, considered to be a father to Teron Arnold.
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  Speaker 5: And Washington's the one who told him, these allegations don't
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  Speaker 5: match his character. This is so out of left field.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's going to get off. This isn't him
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  Speaker 5: at all. And he convinced, the way Snyder made it
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  Speaker 5: sound like, he convinced the GM to sign him. They
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: have a potential first-round pick to come in in the
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: middle late this season or next season. And the way
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: they're looking at it, it was worth doing a minimum
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: salary deal for that.
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  Speaker 2: Our Seahawks insider Greg Bell with us this morning. He
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: had a busy day yesterday. All sorts of articles up
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: at thenewstribune.com, so make sure you check them out. And,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: of course, his segment with us brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: the Emerald Queen Casino. We've got a lot of other
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: ground to cover. Let's talk about the running back room.
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  Speaker 2: Only three running backs kept. Two of them have had
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: injuries all preseason long. Maybe Price has passed his injuries
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: and just being cautious with him at this point. But
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  Speaker 2: that seems like an awfully light running back room. Is
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: it going to look like that on opening day, or
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: are they combing the waiver wire to add some depth here?
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  Speaker 5: No, they are. Larry will either claim somebody off waivers
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  Speaker 5: and put them on the 53 today or or they'll
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: sign a free agent before the opener. I'm quite certain
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: of that. They also have the ability to bring to Cartier, right?
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  Speaker 5: And back on Vellis Jones, back on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 5: If they want to do that, Jones ended last season
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  Speaker 5: on the practice squad. Emmanuel Wilson came back. He was
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  Speaker 5: full go in an arrowhead on Friday night in the pregame.
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  Speaker 5: He was taking passes and handoffs from Sam Donald, which
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  Speaker 5: at our end price. And I asked after the game
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  Speaker 5: about Wilson and, McDonald was pretty circumspect because I guess
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  Speaker 5: at the moment he wasn't sure whether they were going
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  Speaker 5: to put him on an injured list to start the
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: season or not. He, Wilson, is on the 53. They
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  Speaker 5: like him as a plowback. So the way the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: see it now is that Price is their number one.
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  Speaker 5: Helani can be their third down back because he's a
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: good pass blocker. Also can catch the ball like Price.
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  Speaker 5: And then if they need one or two yards on
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  Speaker 5: third or fourth down, Emmanuel Wilson is going to come
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  Speaker 5: in and be the plowback. But you're right. They can't
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  Speaker 5: get away with three running backs. No NFL team can.
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  Speaker 5: I keep saying it, but I covered a Seahawks team
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  Speaker 5: that had 18 different ball carriers out of the backfield
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  Speaker 5: about a decade ago. So they will sign multiple guys,
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: and whether it's one they know from Wright or Jones
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  Speaker 5: off the practice squad, more likely to be an experienced
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: veteran that they sign as a free agent or a
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: waiver pickup.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk wide receivers, because if there's a good story, now,
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  Speaker 2: of course, it comes at the expense of somebody else
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't make the roster, but certainly the Montori Foster Jr.
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  Speaker 2: story is a great one. You were on it early, early,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: early in camp that he was turning heads, and he
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  Speaker 2: ends up making the roster. So talk about Montori Foster Jr.
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  Speaker 2: and the ultimate decision of keeping him over some others
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  Speaker 2: that they had a little more familiarity with.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Ohio high school substitute teacher. Again, he was a
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: real estate agent, got his real estate license during last
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: season because he thought he'd never perhaps play football again.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks cut him out of training camp early in
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: training camp last summer. He was in a gym in
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Cleveland where he's from, and some guy, just random dude,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: as he said, walked up to him in the gym,
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: like a 24-hour fitness, and said, hey, man, I heard
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  Speaker 5: you were in an NFL training camp as a receiver.
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  Speaker 5: I'll throw passes to you if you want to stay sharp.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't know this guy from anybody. Turned out it
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  Speaker 5: was a guy who played high school football in Cleveland
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  Speaker 5: 10 years ago. And so that was his training partner
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  Speaker 5: all during the Seahawks. So while the Seahawks were marching
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: to the Super Bowl, Montori Foster was teaching Latin to
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  Speaker 5: some junior high school kids at Lakewood Synod High School
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  Speaker 5: in Cleveland and catching passes from some random dude at
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  Speaker 5: a 24-hour fitness gym. And then they called him back
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  Speaker 5: and asked him to be on the practice squad. At
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  Speaker 5: the end of December, he was on the practice squad
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  Speaker 5: through the Super Bowl. They put him into a futures contract,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: which put him on the offseason roster, and he just
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: kept making plays. One-handed catches, turning around starting corners in
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: training camp. Eventually, Sam Darnold started throwing him in the
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  Speaker 5: first-team offense, and he had to make the team. Everybody
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  Speaker 5: on the roster saw what he was doing all training camp.
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  Speaker 5: It would have been a terrible message for Darnold productivity
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  Speaker 5: and doing everything that you ask and then not make it.
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  Speaker 5: Cody White seems like the one who was the odd
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  Speaker 5: man out. Once Jake Bobo got on injured reserve at
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Tennessee Joint Practice with a knee injury, that really cemented
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  Speaker 5: the foster spot to me. And then Cody White agreed
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: to do Trevon Diggs. I'll get cut and sign as
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: a free agent on the practice squad deal. I'm pretty
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: sure that's what's going to happen today with White. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: he's been around, of course, now for three or four years.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: So that also got a spot. When they cut Emmanuel Henderson,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: they cut four of their eight rookie draft picks, by
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the way, which is a lot, but tells you what
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: a Super Bowl roster is instead of all the other years.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: So once they cut Henderson, that's how Foster was indeed
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: on the roster. I talked to him at Kansas City
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Friday night, and he was nervous. He didn't think he
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: played well in the Chiefs game, and he didn't think
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: he was ending his preseason well. And I was trying
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: to tell him, no, you're on the team. And he
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: was looking at me like, don't say that, man. It
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: was a really stressful weekend for him. He smiled yesterday
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: when I saw him, and he was on the practice field. Big,
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: big day for him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I have a feeling Hard Knock's going to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: cover that storyline on Tuesday. Oh, they were.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: The cameras, they were all over him yesterday when he
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: walked on the field and talking to Cooper Cup. Yeah,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: that'll be featured tomorrow night.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: All right, so much ground to cover, but I do
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: want to mention at least two things from the game
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: on Friday.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: One.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I liked what I saw out of Jalen Milrow on
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Friday night. He played against the first string, he played
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: against the second string, he played against the third string,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: and he made throws against all three groups for the
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs defense. So what was the reaction from
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Mike and company to Jalen Milrow's performance Friday?
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Relief. It was really reassuring to them that, okay, this
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: is why we drafted him. We can build on this.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: We can't build on Tennessee and Dallas, but we can
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: build on this. And he played the whole game. He
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: got to adjust to the ebb and flow of the game.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: His pass out of his own end zone, stepping up
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: against pressure and throwing 40 yards to Cody White was
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: the best throw I've seen him make as a Seahawk
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: in two years. That was exactly what they want out
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: of their quarterback, a decisive, poised, focused throw out of
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: your own end zone, avoiding danger. It was exquisite. And
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: he did a couple of those. one to Montori Foster,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: one to Henderson on the sideline, and it was like
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: a different quarterback. And I think some of it was
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: he was in the flow of the game. He was
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: back at Alabama, right? He hadn't started and played a
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: whole game. Only one other time, that was Green Bay
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: last summer. He looked light years ahead of where he
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: was the first two preseason games. That was really reassuring
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: for them. So now, okay, where do they go from here?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: But there's definitely building blocks there.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And then Jason Myers, we talked about a little bit
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: last week. He misses an extra point, misses a game-winning
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: field goal. What's going on? I mean, I don't like
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the fact that he was pushing everything to the right
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: and then tried to adjust, obviously, to that on Friday
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and then hooked a ball. I mean, it looks like
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: he's just not where he needs to be to start
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the season.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Well, even the 46-yarder he made in Kansas City veered
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: to the right. It was in the middle of the goalpost,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: and then it's... going off to the right again. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: then the last kick looked like it was some kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: of boomerang or something of a 90-degree angle to the right.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I talked to him out of the locker room in
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Kansas City late Friday night on his way to the bus.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: He said, man, I'm looking at film. I'm trying to
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: see if there's anything technique-wise. I'm working on it. It happens.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Ed does. I mean, kickers miss. They don't make every
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: single one of them. He missed, though, five kicks, counting
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: two extra points. He missed five kicks in three preseason games.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: He only missed seven kicks all last year in 20 games.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: So it's an abnormality for sure. 12th year, 35 years old.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks say they still profess in him, love him,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: total faith in him. McDonald's say we still trust him.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: In fact, Parked the bus there for the last three plays,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: the last 115, to take a 52-yard field goal instead
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: of try to drive in and get closer to the
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: goal line because they were settling for the 52-yard kick
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: and thinking Myers would make it. They aren't going to
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: make a change, but it's certainly something to look at
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: because kicking is such a mental thing. It is something
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: to keep an eye on. I will say this. Nobody
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: wrote it or said it. He missed a lot of
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: kicks in training camp in practice. It was a more
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: than usual number. So we'll see if he loses a
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: couple of games, of course, then it becomes an issue
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: for them to consider. But this team plays low, tends
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: to play low scoring because their defense low scoring close games.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And that's a big deal.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: All right. What do you got on the show today?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to play back John Schneider because it's
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: like a meteor strike or blue moon when he talks
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: publicly to us. So we're going to hear everything he
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: said yesterday and explaining Tara and Arnold and explaining some
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: of the moves he made. You'll hear from Mike McDonald,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: what he said after the game in Kansas City. Not
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: so much about the game, but why he thinks his
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: starters are ready, even though they haven't played since the
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl. Jalen Milrow, we'll talk more about his. I'll
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: explain the whole Terry on Arnold long play situation in
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: a longer form than what I just did there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Well, that was great. We liked it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I thought it was a good breakdown. All right, man. Well, thanks.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: A lot of information. We got a lot of it in,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: not all of it in, but... We'll pick it up
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: where we left off tomorrow.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Appreciate it. Happy Monday. Thanks.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider. You can follow him at
• 22:13
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• 22:18
  Speaker 2: of the Seattle Seahawks. And he joins us nearly every
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: day during the football season at 7.05. Thanks to the
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• 22:27
  Speaker 2: before Hugh Millen joins us at 8 o'clock to talk
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: some more Seahawks football, get his response to everything. Uh,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it's the ABCs of the M's on sports radio, 93.3
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: KJR FM right now, the ABCs of the M's feels like, uh,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: this is the slot, uh, for our daily Mariner segment.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And that is certainly a big topic here this morning
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: after the crap weekend, uh, in Toronto may have, uh,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: doomed the team, uh, for the season, still a month
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: to go. Uh, the schedule does get lighter, but, um,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: hard to explain why the team played so poorly this
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: weekend with so much at stake. Um, I mean, that
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: should have been the best effort performance that we've seen
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: all season long. And instead, it was the flattest, grossest
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: we've seen all season long. And that is a problem.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, very big problem. Very disappointing.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: It was, you went into that weekend having really high
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: expectations coming off of how they've played and what we've
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: been seeing. And then to do that, to just do,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: to make it so awful. I mean, at least win
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: a damn game.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at least win a damn game. At least in
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the middle of a game, don't act scared and then
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: forget that there are runners on the base paths. Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Edward.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: That would help you win a damn game.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: We left off with the letter J. J is for JP.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And I get that JP is well-liked in this organization.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And he certainly earned that. As you know, I've had
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: problems with JP all season long. And I realize that
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: he probably has to play shortstop for us right now
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: without Colt Emerson. I suppose you could put Brock Rodden
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: in there. But man, all of my criticisms have been
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: brought to life here in the last week or so.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: The range that he showed on that ground ball by
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Vladimir Guerrero that gave up the third run yesterday. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it just does feel like this team, once it's down 3-2,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: They fight when they're down two. Bloop and a blast away.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Once they're down three, it feels like it's over every
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: single time.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every time something happens, they have this look like, well,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: darn it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Well, you give up that third run, and you can
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: even see the look on Logan's face. And Logan's as
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: good a teammate as you're ever going to find. Just like, really?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You can't get to that ball? I'm going to tell you,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: every single shortstop, starting shortstop in Major League Baseball gets
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to that ball. And ours doesn't.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: That's a problem.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: On top of it, he can't hit. He's got a
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: 670 OPS right now, and if not for those 10
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: home runs, which everybody bragged about at the time, that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was not a good thing. I tried warning you. Him
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: hitting home runs early in the season was not a
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: good thing for J.P. Crawford because that's not his game.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: And he swings for the fences whenever he feels like
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: there's an opportunity. There was a moment on Saturday in
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the seventh inning when you are down And okay, you're
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: down one. You're a home run away. 2-0, he swings
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: at a ball that is way inside. Take your walk.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: That's what you're here for. You take your walk. Randy
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Rosarino bats in that inning. And there's a guy that
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: has come through with a long ball. And instead, we're
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: going to try to hit the ball out on 2-0,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: swing at a pitch that nearly hits us in the wrist,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: and then you end up striking out before the at-bat
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: comes to a close. It's a selfish decision. And I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: know he's really well-liked, and I know he carries a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: lot of leadership skills, but that's not leadership right there.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Going outside of what you are.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: To try to prove that you can be the hero
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: every single time you want to try to be the hero.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Just do your job. Get on base. And he strikes out.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I think it was the epitome of everything that's frustrated
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: me about J.P. Crawford this season. I thought it was
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a bad weekend from him. It was a bad weekend
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: from nearly everyone. not just picking on him, but it
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: certainly was on display this weekend why he probably shouldn't
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: have been our shortstop this year. Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've, we had this conversation before Colt Emerson
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: came in and then when he moved to third, we
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: were like, okay, if he's going to move to third,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: we'll try it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: And he was decent. I mean, he wasn't terrible at third.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: He's better at third than he is at shortstop. That's
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: for sure. And it's not a very.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Good feeling to think that if we were to go
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: into the playoffs with him at shortstop, I mean, I
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: don't even know if we're going to make the playoffs,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: but I'm just saying, if that's your shortstop, you don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: have a lot of confidence in that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: K is for Cade. I think Cade's looked... I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: it's actually a real impressive way that he started his career,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: because I'm going to tell you right now, he's not
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: been locked in in either of his games. That guy
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: is all about control and command. He can throw it
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: wherever he wants to throw it. Any pitch... That's what
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: he did in AA Arkansas this year. And you are
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: seeing him miss a lot. And yet he's still gotten
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: very good results. And he deserved better in both of
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: his starts than what he got. First from his manager
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: in game number one and then from Bazzardo in game
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: number two. But considering that he's not even hitting his spots,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: which is his forte, and he's still, you know, teams
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: are not able really to score on him. I guess
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: they did in the first game. Again, we won't get
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: into that. But I'm impressed with what I've seen out
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: of Kate Anderson to be able to battle that way
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: with your B stuff. That's not his A stuff. I
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: think that we have a really bright future with Kate Anderson.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, he definitely has left a pleasant feeling.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Taste in your mouth?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, pleasant taste. That sounds bad. Pleasant feeling, though.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of promise with that kid,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and I'm excited that we're getting to see him already.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Finally, L is for Lazaro, who also comes to the
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: major leagues with a lot of promise. Lazaro Montes called
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: up yesterday. He's hit 38 home runs in the minor
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: leagues this year. Went to Tacoma. His pace really didn't
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: drop off in terms of his home run pace. He
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: strikes out a lot. He struck out a lot in
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the minor leagues, and that is worrisome to have a 30%
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: strikeout rate in the minors, and now you're getting ready
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to face major league pitching, major league scouting. they're going
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to expose everything you're not good at. That's what the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Major League does. But at this point, yes, please, roll
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the dice on this guy. I've seen a few Tacoma
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Rainiers games, and I've watched him play side-by-side with Arroyo,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and I realize that a lot of people believe that
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Michael Arroyo, because he puts the ball in play more,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: might be the better option here. To me, I think
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Laz Montez is The damage that he inflicts is the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: right choice here over Arroyo. He looks to me like
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the guy that is thirsting to get on a major
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: league field more so than what Michael Arroyo does. So
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I think this is the right decision. And this guy, man,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: he can damage a baseball and he actually can make
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: some pretty good plays in the outfield as well. I
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: stand to make a couple of bad plays too. But
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: he's better out there than I thought that he was
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: going to be. And also just, I mean, he's as
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: good a personality and character as you're ever going to find.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: So this is exciting. And I know there was a
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: little confusion earlier when I was doing this story in
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: the headlines, but he will be a September call-up. He
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: will not play tonight against Tolley and the Red Sox,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: but should be available to Dan on Tuesday.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm excited to see him. And I mean,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Five Iron pointed out this weekend, well... Hollander said, can't
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: hit 40 home runs. Or, you know, if he's hitting
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: 40 home runs, he better be up there, up with
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: the big guys. And here he will be to hopefully
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: hit his 39th and 40th.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He said, if he hits 40 home runs, I
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: promise you some will be as a Mariner. So you
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: took your sweet time. Weren't many grains of sand left
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: in that hourglass, but you got him here in time.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: So at 38. So I don't know. I mean, he's
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: going to strike out a lot, but. if he strikes
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: out three times a game and does damage and one
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: of his four at bats, that's a better ratio than
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: we've got with most of the guys in this lineup
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: right now. Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the program, uh, Aaron Donald is
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: back in our lives. What does it mean for the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: NFC West race? We'll talk about it on sports radio,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJR FM.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Cause if the wife wasn't happy, it wasn't going to
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: get done.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Um, I got to make sure that the household was,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: good the kid was okay with it all um you
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: know and then having them hard conversations figuring things out
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: what I wanted to do if I was to do
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: it how would we do it so and my wife
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: was you know on board you know she said if
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: you want to do this she's with me 100% and
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: there was days when I was like I don't know
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: she was like Aaron she talked to me enough to
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: be like you want to do this don't make no
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: decisions faster than what you need to make a decision
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: take your time and um you know she played a
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: huge part of you know, me figuring this out through
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: this because it really wasn't an easy decision.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I think your wife ought to just butt out. Right?
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: I liked it better when she didn't let you leave
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the house.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Why don't she just keep her opinions to herself?
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Since when do marriages require two people to come to
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: an agreement?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate encouragement from a loved one.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Usually it should be one person saying no.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: This is how we're doing it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: And the other person has to acquiesce.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Where do you get off, lady?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Why is it all of a sudden something where your
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: opinion matters?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I guess Aaron Donald is just his wife's puppet.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, I guess.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, she snaps. You jump.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I hate marriages like that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: She says jump.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: For compromise and support. Disgusting.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: She probably yells at you for not stacking the dishwasher
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the right way.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you should stay home and work on that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I only work on that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Shirking your responsibilities, huh?
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  Speaker 2: National Football League season. Let me tell you a little
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  Speaker 2: story about a guy by the name of Doug Wilfong.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A guy by the name of Doug Wilfong, who I
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  Speaker 2: grew up with. And he was one of those, he
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  Speaker 2: was like me. He grew up fast. Like he had
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  Speaker 2: like a beard in the seventh grade. By the time
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  Speaker 2: he was a freshman in high school, he was like
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  Speaker 2: the number one pitcher. He was a year older than me.
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  Speaker 2: He was the number one pitcher on our varsity team.
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  Speaker 2: That's how advanced that he was. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good team too. And so we did not have
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  Speaker 2: Legion baseball set at that point. in our tiny little town.
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  Speaker 2: So once you were done with Little League there, you
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  Speaker 2: had to kind of go to the next town over
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  Speaker 2: in order to play Legion baseball. And so that did
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  Speaker 2: happen the following year. But for one year, Doug Wilfong
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a place to play in the summer. So
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  Speaker 2: he recruited all of his older, you know, freshman and
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  Speaker 2: high school buddies, Mike McAfee, course everybody knows everybody steve
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  Speaker 2: green oh you know that guy's trouble by the way
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  Speaker 2: so he they end up playing like little league when
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  Speaker 2: they were should not have been playing little league and
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  Speaker 2: it was we still had two years to go left
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  Speaker 2: in little league we were going to go to legion
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  Speaker 2: ball the next year but we had one more year
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  Speaker 2: well all of a sudden our rival team because there
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  Speaker 2: are two teams And we had faced the Bulldogs our
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  Speaker 2: entire Little League career, right? And so the Bulldogs and
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  Speaker 2: us were rivals, but we beat them every time. They
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  Speaker 2: had never beaten us. So many close games, so many
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  Speaker 2: close games, and they'd never beaten us. We were the Trojans,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not. Named after the condom, not USC.
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  Speaker 3: Right, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Teaching kids early education. We'd beaten them every year, and
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  Speaker 2: they were running out of time. They knew this was
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  Speaker 2: going to be the last year they had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to beat us. And they, behind the scenes, under the
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  Speaker 2: veil of night, met and hatched this plan that they
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  Speaker 2: were going to add every single one of these older
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  Speaker 2: kids to their roster.
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  Speaker 3: How's that allowed?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was allowed because they were within the age
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  Speaker 2: group and they didn't have another place to play in town.
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  Speaker 2: So it was allowed. But the idea was that they
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  Speaker 2: would be divvied up. And they all went to the Bulldogs. Now,
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind, we'd beat them every time, but they
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  Speaker 2: always were close. Yeah. So all of those players were
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  Speaker 2: the Bulldogs. And so we are going to have to
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  Speaker 2: face the staff ace of our varsity team as eighth
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  Speaker 2: graders and seventh graders, because we had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: seventh graders on our team at the time. So we
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  Speaker 2: were actually two years younger on average than the Bulldogs,
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  Speaker 2: who had been our rivals forever. And if we didn't
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  Speaker 2: go out in the first game of the year and
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  Speaker 2: just knock the snot out of Doug Wilfong and the Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 2: Suck it, Doug. Beat them like 15-2 and just embarrass
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  Speaker 2: them on the field. My point being is that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: they had the accomplished team, but the younger— Our younger
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  Speaker 2: kids ended up being the ones that all got drafted
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  Speaker 2: in high school. Our younger guys were the ones that
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  Speaker 2: ended up playing in the major leagues, Jason Isringhaus and others,
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  Speaker 2: getting going to college. A lot more of our younger kids.
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  Speaker 2: And so the point is that we were built better.
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  Speaker 2: We actually had better players than what they did. They
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  Speaker 2: just had age on their side and hype on their side.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Rams have added their Doug Wilfong. And
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  Speaker 2: they're Mike McAfee this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: We know how this is going to go.
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  Speaker 2: But the better team won again in the rivalry. And
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  Speaker 2: so I realize they're the favorite. They should be the favorite.
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt that Vegas has made the right decision
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  Speaker 2: in making them the favorite. But if you want to
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  Speaker 2: sleep on the team that's already won the championship, that
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  Speaker 2: has been a step ahead of the Rams here in
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  Speaker 2: recent months. and is younger, and arrived at the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl title prematurely, and they are only going to get better,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the players on this roster, go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and count the little Seahawks out. Go ahead and do that.
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  Speaker 2: The little world champion Seahawks out. Go ahead and do that.
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  Speaker 2: Because I know this team's going to be even better
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  Speaker 2: than they were a year ago, and now the Rams
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  Speaker 2: are going to be saddled with, you can't I heard
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  Speaker 2: a conversation this morning about how they were going to
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  Speaker 2: go undefeated. They were going to run the table.
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  Speaker 3: No pressure.
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  Speaker 2: So you go ahead. They still are a quarterback injury
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  Speaker 2: away from being brought down a couple of levels. They're
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  Speaker 2: not winning the Super Bowl with Ty Simpson at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how good Donald and Garrett end up being.
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  Speaker 2: So just go ahead and underestimate the team that has
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  Speaker 2: already won the world championship. That's fine with one of
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  Speaker 2: the youngest rosters in the entire sport and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys that are going to be even better this
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  Speaker 2: year than the year before. I'm not predicting right now
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  Speaker 2: that the Seahawks are going to win it all, but
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  Speaker 2: for anybody that's dismissing the Seahawks from being able to
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  Speaker 2: do that and top the Rams again, go ahead. Go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and sleep on them. See what happens.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you who's not sleeping on the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they're adding all these people.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the Rams adding all these people doesn't shake
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  Speaker 4: my confidence in my team. Does it mean, do I
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  Speaker 4: think the Rams are going to be really good?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Were they really good last year?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I expect that. Bring it on.
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  Speaker 2: I guess my point is, Aaron Donald's Doug Wilfong, and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't grow another inch after his freshman year.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think Donald's got a growth spurt in him.
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: He ain't growing an inch this year.
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