Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 3-10 Hour 2: 12th Man news with Gregg Bell, Everett Fitzhugh and are the pieces already here?
Transcript
- 0:09Speaker 1: Oh, we've got a special free agency Frenzy show, the
- 0:13Speaker 1: Specialty Tampering Show, Last day of tampering. Get your tamper
- 0:17Speaker 1: in today. You haven't tampered much in the last two days.
- 0:20Speaker 1: I don't know what you're waiting for.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I don't know this was I mean we told people, Yeah,
- 0:26Speaker 2: I've been campering for a while, have you.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Well, that's better than tamp on, better than waiting too
- 0:32Speaker 1: late to tamp Yeah, I don't know who would Why
- 0:35Speaker 1: would you wait too late?
- 0:37Speaker 3: I mean, there's a time when you have to stop tamping.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Tampering.
- 0:41Speaker 4: No, I started yesterday and I'm ready to keep going today.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Clock's taking tampered people. Yeah, get your tamper on. Still
- 0:47Speaker 1: some free agents out there, and uh, still some unknowns.
- 0:51Speaker 1: So we'll get into it with Greg Bell, our Seahawks
- 0:53Speaker 1: insider at seven oh five, So in a couple of
- 0:55Speaker 1: minutes here Also, our NFL insider is going to join
- 0:58Speaker 1: us in studio day. Mike Sando's going to be with us.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Really kind of feel like I should have like bought
- 1:06Speaker 1: bagels or something. Yeah, well, yeah, like our bagel shops
- 1:10Speaker 1: open when we drive in. They're not quite open yet,
- 1:12Speaker 1: are they. No, they definitely makes a trigger. Maybe, Sando,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you should pick up bagels. Yeah, that's a good idea.
- 1:20Speaker 2: As our special guest, it's a great idea.
- 1:23Speaker 1: We'll put you back, yeah, I mean, we can pull
- 1:26Speaker 1: together and pay you back if we get around to it.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Let's get to your headlines. They're brought to you by
- 1:30Speaker 1: Frost Brewed Corps Light Choose Chill. First headline is update.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Baron Jacobson has narrowed his future choices down to professional
- 1:39Speaker 1: wrestling and Major League Baseball, but he doesn't feel like
- 1:43Speaker 1: he has to decide between the two.
- 1:45Speaker 3: No, he's definitely not gonna decide between the two. He's
- 1:47Speaker 3: going to do both.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 3: First, he's going to play in the big leagues just
- 1:51Speaker 3: till he's twenty nine, and then he wants to have
- 1:54Speaker 3: a twenty one year professional wrestling career. And he's got
- 1:56Speaker 3: all of his finishing moves worked out right, and he will.
- 1:59Speaker 3: He actually the the wrestlers he doesn't like right now,
- 2:01Speaker 3: he has already said, I am going to do this
- 2:03Speaker 3: to him when I get there.
- 2:05Speaker 2: I know that dude's not going to still be there.
- 2:07Speaker 4: Yeah, not after a twenty nine year or not after
- 2:09Speaker 4: a thirteen year Major.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Twenty one years from now. Yeah, you got a long time.
- 2:14Speaker 1: It's a long time for mankind to hold on. Mankind
- 2:18Speaker 1: still there now. The WBC US one over Mexico yesterday
- 2:23Speaker 1: five to three.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Weren't that easy, but the US does win.
- 2:26Speaker 1: They remain undefeated in pool play, and they conclude pool
- 2:31Speaker 1: play tonight against Italy. It'll be Cal and Gabe Spire
- 2:35Speaker 1: against Dom Canzone and Miles Mastravoni, and the first pitch
- 2:38Speaker 1: will be thrown out at six o'clock. Yes, there was
- 2:41Speaker 1: a little bit of controversy yesterday. Cal Rawley did not
- 2:44Speaker 1: shake the hand of Randy A. Rose Arena when he
- 2:46Speaker 1: came to the plate. It has made all sorts of
- 2:48Speaker 1: people livid on social media. Of course, we'll try to
- 2:53Speaker 1: find more time talk about it later in the show.
- 2:56Speaker 2: I didn't like it. I didn't like it for Cal.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I think he should have done it, But clearly is
- 3:01Speaker 1: just a guy that had drawn the competitive lines in
- 3:03Speaker 1: the sand and wasn't going to do that, not for
- 3:06Speaker 1: Randy A. Rose Arena or any of his former Mariner
- 3:09Speaker 1: teammates throughout this process. But of course people live to overreact.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I'm sure they will smooth it over. Even though Randy
- 3:16Speaker 1: Rose Arena did seem to say some choice words in
- 3:19Speaker 1: his postgame comments yesterday about cal I think there was
- 3:23Speaker 1: a little bit of an element of tongue in cheek,
- 3:25Speaker 1: but a lot of people disagree with that.
- 3:27Speaker 2: They think he's angry.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Certainly something worth monitoring college basketball. The Big Ten Tournament
- 3:32Speaker 1: starts today at two o'clock. U doubill play tomorrow against
- 3:36Speaker 1: usc and they'll tip that off at eleven thirty at
- 3:39Speaker 1: the United Center in Chicago. Meanwhile, the Zags are back
- 3:42Speaker 1: in the championship game. They played for the first time
- 3:46Speaker 1: in their tournament last night. They won, so they'll take
- 3:49Speaker 1: on Santa Clara, who upset Saint Mary's last night. Seventy
- 3:53Speaker 1: six to seventy one was the final score there. So
- 3:56Speaker 1: tip tonight and the WCC Championship at six o'clock. Although
- 4:00Speaker 1: Joe Lenardi seems to think that all three of those
- 4:03Speaker 1: teams are going to get into the NCAA tournament field,
- 4:06Speaker 1: Santa Clara might actually need a victory tonight in order
- 4:10Speaker 1: to secure their place in the NCAA tournament. Cracking are
- 4:15Speaker 1: going to take on the Predators tonight. They're gonna drop
- 4:17Speaker 1: the puck at seven o'clock. Everett FITZI will join us
- 4:20Speaker 1: later on this hour. Normally it's at eight thirty on Tuesdays,
- 4:24Speaker 1: but we've got our specialty show at eight o'clock with
- 4:26Speaker 1: Mike Sando. So Everittt's going to join us today at
- 4:29Speaker 1: seven point thirty. Is this the night that Bobby McMahon,
- 4:32Speaker 1: the new Kraken, makes his debut for the Cracking.
- 4:35Speaker 2: They need a victory.
- 4:37Speaker 1: There at home tonight against the Predators at seven o'clock
- 4:40Speaker 1: right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM.
- 4:44Speaker 1: A bet our big story the National Football League. My goodness,
- 4:47Speaker 1: you don't have to tell NFL teams to Tampa. That
- 4:51Speaker 1: was one busy frickin' day yesterday. The Raiders sounded like
- 4:56Speaker 1: nine guys. The Tennessee Titans were incredibly active. The Rams
- 5:02Speaker 1: added another defensive back in their quest to try to
- 5:06Speaker 1: defend JSN going forward, first Trent McDuffie the Husky, and
- 5:11Speaker 1: then Jalen Watson yesterday the koug So they have gone
- 5:15Speaker 1: all Pacific Northwest in their secondary in Los Angeles. Meanwhile,
- 5:20Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers signed Mike Evans, pretty significant to
- 5:23Speaker 1: move there by the forty nine Ers, the veteran wide
- 5:26Speaker 1: receiver leaving Tampa for the first time in his career.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Seahawks re signed Rashid Shaheed and Josh Job. They watched
- 5:34Speaker 1: Ken Walker leave for Kansas City, Kobe Bryant for Chicago,
- 5:37Speaker 1: and boy A Mafe for Cincinnati. And now we get
- 5:40Speaker 1: ready for day number two.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Of the Tampafest. Joining us as our Seahawks insider, Greg
- 5:45Speaker 2: Bell with the bell tolls.
- 5:47Speaker 6: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
- 5:50Speaker 6: News with Greg Bell, brought to you by Copola Diamond
- 5:53Speaker 6: Collection Prosecco Chris Sparkling with bright fruit flavors to make
- 5:58Speaker 6: every toast shine date bubbles only with Coppola Diamond Prosecco.
- 6:03Speaker 6: Now with plunk Man Dudes, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
- 6:07Speaker 6: and Butt.
- 6:08Speaker 1: That's good to hear Greg Bell survive Tampafest. It was
- 6:11Speaker 1: a little close, a little touch and go. He didn't
- 6:12Speaker 1: answer the phone for the first the first ring, so
- 6:15Speaker 1: maybe he was just exhausted, Maybe he was laid out,
- 6:19Speaker 1: you know.
- 6:19Speaker 3: It probably was trying and mix it. He was getting
- 6:21Speaker 3: it all mixed up with his six other phones, because
- 6:23Speaker 3: I think he has a Tampa phone, all pre Tamper phone,
- 6:26Speaker 3: a Tampa phone, a free agency phone.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Kid's phone, kids chucking bug phone, probably tamp Yeah.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, guys, I didn't mean to put you through that.
- 6:36Speaker 2: You all right, Greg? Everything good, I'm good. Yeah.
- 6:39Speaker 5: I wrote six stories yesterday and it's just another day.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Yeah, no big deal, No big deal.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Uh.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Well, I would think that the headline revolves around losing
- 6:51Speaker 1: Walker but keeping Rashid shah Heed.
- 6:55Speaker 2: What do you make of that exchange? Greg?
- 6:59Speaker 5: Well, and this whole process started. I thought that Shaheed
- 7:02Speaker 5: would be the first one to sign. I thought, I think,
- 7:06Speaker 5: I said that, I know, I wrote it, and it
- 7:10Speaker 5: was because one I know he wanted to and two
- 7:12Speaker 5: I know they wanted to do And I thought they
- 7:14Speaker 5: uniquely valued him different than the rest of the league.
- 7:18Speaker 5: But I didn't expect him to pay seventeen million dollars
- 7:21Speaker 5: a year for him. So what ended up happening, obviously
- 7:24Speaker 5: was mc schnyder made it the priority and the resources
- 7:30Speaker 5: towards Shaheed in lieu of everybody else, almost everybody else.
- 7:34Speaker 5: We also talked to us about how Josh Job was
- 7:36Speaker 5: the most resignable at the lowest cost. They got good
- 7:40Speaker 5: value there at eight million a year for three years
- 7:43Speaker 5: for a corner still in his twenties, was a starter
- 7:45Speaker 5: who they really like. His man de man coverability. McDonald
- 7:49Speaker 5: basically thinks with Job, he can just keep him on
- 7:52Speaker 5: his own against the guy and scheme everything else around
- 7:55Speaker 5: the rest of the defense, and Josh Job, you got
- 7:58Speaker 5: this guy. So it was I was certain. I was
- 8:01Speaker 5: pretty sure they were going to keep him. But with
- 8:03Speaker 5: the money they ended up panshy heat. At seventeen million
- 8:05Speaker 5: a year for basically a specialist, that's a lot, and
- 8:10Speaker 5: that's why they didn't even come close to offering kind
- 8:13Speaker 5: of twalk or something to stay. Although, as I wrote
- 8:16Speaker 5: yesterday at the News Tribune, I started to think in
- 8:19Speaker 5: September that he would leave for five dollars, let alone
- 8:23Speaker 5: fourteen and a half million, fourteen point three million a year.
- 8:26Speaker 5: Once that job share with Jack Sharbonnay came in during
- 8:29Speaker 5: a contract year, he wasn't exactly thrilled with that. And
- 8:33Speaker 5: then when Kobe Bryant gets a contract from the Bears
- 8:37Speaker 5: that was well above the safety mark, he reset the market.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Cam Kurr with the Rams this past weekend was twelve
- 8:43Speaker 5: million a year at three for thirty six million, and
- 8:47Speaker 5: Brian got above that from the Bears. The Seahawks were
- 8:50Speaker 5: not even Snyder had no interest in resetting the safety market.
- 8:56Speaker 5: Maybe one of the most ridiculous contract as far as
- 9:01Speaker 5: overpaying in the entire league gets it. There were three
- 9:04Speaker 5: hundred and thirteen transactions, most of them teams signing outside
- 9:09Speaker 5: free agents. Maybe the most ridiculous one was boy Mafy
- 9:13Speaker 5: for twenty million to the Bengals. He played fifty percent
- 9:17Speaker 5: of the stats for Seattle, he had just two sacks.
- 9:21Speaker 5: He has had nine sacks before in one of his
- 9:23Speaker 5: previous seasons with the Seahawks, But twenty million dollars for
- 9:27Speaker 5: a part time player. The Seahawks were never going to
- 9:30Speaker 5: even approach that. He might not even be worth a
- 9:33Speaker 5: third of that to them. So the Bengals losing Trey
- 9:36Speaker 5: Hendrickson just went beyond anything Snyder would even comprehended to have.
- 9:42Speaker 5: So you can see how all the other guys leaving
- 9:45Speaker 5: made sense. The Shaheed deal is interesting to me because
- 9:51Speaker 5: now with Tory Horton coming back, they have two speed
- 9:54Speaker 5: guys at receiver. How much can Shahe get that much
- 9:58Speaker 5: better with a full training camp with Sam Darnold establishing
- 10:02Speaker 5: a rapport in the past game, and will we see
- 10:04Speaker 5: a more offensive impact from Shahits heat Rashid's heat in
- 10:09Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Well, I guess I would have to think based on
- 10:13Speaker 3: the fact that they went to seventeen. I mean, we
- 10:15Speaker 3: were all kind of thinking, boy, when the market was
- 10:18Speaker 3: talking about fourteen, that makes me a little bit more.
- 10:20Speaker 3: But that was kind of basing. I was based in
- 10:23Speaker 3: my opinion on things that i'd heard, and then just
- 10:26Speaker 3: kind of where his numbers lie. And yet the numbers
- 10:29Speaker 3: maybe they're obviously thinking. You would think with seventeen million
- 10:33Speaker 3: dollars that there's there's room for growth, not just as
- 10:36Speaker 3: a as a specialist or as a guy returning kicks,
- 10:39Speaker 3: but as a guy that can take the top off
- 10:41Speaker 3: the defense. So, I mean, what is the probability of
- 10:45Speaker 3: him being a legit number two receiver because that's what
- 10:47Speaker 3: where they're paying him as, right.
- 10:49Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean, well they're paying him for both
- 10:53Speaker 5: of his skill. They're paying him primarily for his kick
- 10:55Speaker 5: return skills. But it's seventeen million not just going to
- 10:57Speaker 5: put him on the field for kicks. He going to
- 11:00Speaker 5: be in the offense. He's making more than Cooper Cup,
- 11:03Speaker 5: the former NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP, an offensive Player.
- 11:07Speaker 7: Of the Year.
- 11:09Speaker 5: So yes, they're going to feature him with the offense,
- 11:11Speaker 5: and the role will be deep shots down the field,
- 11:14Speaker 5: loosen defenses to keep him from ganging up on Smith
- 11:17Speaker 5: and Jigba. And now they have two guys who do that.
- 11:19Speaker 5: And Snyder will tell you that when they traded for
- 11:22Speaker 5: Shahed in November, that was the plan. He's saying that
- 11:26Speaker 5: when they really got into the negotiation with the Saints
- 11:29Speaker 5: on who to take the acquire Shahed, they envisioned him
- 11:33Speaker 5: and Horton together being two speed guys to deep threat
- 11:37Speaker 5: stretch the defense. And then, of course Horton was out
- 11:40Speaker 5: for the year with the shin injury about the same
- 11:41Speaker 5: time they ended up consummating the deal with Shahed. So
- 11:45Speaker 5: this goes back to what at least Snyder said the
- 11:48Speaker 5: original intent of acquiring Shaheed was. When he gave two
- 11:53Speaker 5: first third day picks to the Saints, his intent was
- 11:56Speaker 5: to sign him. He talked to his agent before this
- 12:00Speaker 5: even went down, and before they even acquired him in
- 12:03Speaker 5: a trade, what it would take salary wise to keep him,
- 12:07Speaker 5: and then he exploded. He did what he did the
- 12:10Speaker 5: Rams game. We've talked about the forty nine ers Divisional
- 12:13Speaker 5: playoff game. The whole world got to see him on
- 12:15Speaker 5: the super Bowl stage and the value went way up.
- 12:19Speaker 5: This is another example, get another of a Super Bowl tax,
- 12:23Speaker 5: a Super Bowl inflation of a team having to pay
- 12:25Speaker 5: more to keep its own championship players once it wins
- 12:28Speaker 5: it all. There's no way Rashid Shaheat would have been
- 12:32Speaker 5: fetching seventeen million dollars if the Seahawks went out or
- 12:35Speaker 5: didn't even make the playoffs or went out for one game.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider again.
- 12:40Speaker 1: His complete coverage of Day one of Tamperfest available to
- 12:43Speaker 1: you there at the Newstribune dot com and of course
- 12:46Speaker 1: you can follow Greg on x at gmail Seattle. He's
- 12:49Speaker 1: with us here again this morning to talk about everything
- 12:52Speaker 1: going on, what he's hearing, and let's talk about that
- 12:55Speaker 1: running back situation. So here's who came off the board yesterday,
- 12:59Speaker 1: Ken Walker, Travis atn JK Dobbins, Kenneth Gainwell, Tyler al Jeer,
- 13:05Speaker 1: and Rico Dowbell. They're all gone. They're all with the
- 13:09Speaker 1: new teams at this point. So here are the Seahawks
- 13:13Speaker 1: without Zach charboneay for a while as well.
- 13:16Speaker 2: What is the plan at running back.
- 13:19Speaker 5: That's a good question. They thought it was going to
- 13:23Speaker 5: be zach Scharbonah coming back and being the heir parent
- 13:26Speaker 5: to Kenneth Walker. Now he may not be back to November.
- 13:30Speaker 5: So Brian Robinson's still out there available. He's just he's
- 13:34Speaker 5: twenty six years old. He fits the profile of a
- 13:36Speaker 5: second wave free agency acquisition that wouldn't cost as much
- 13:40Speaker 5: and still in his twenties. But with this position and
- 13:44Speaker 5: the injury history that we've talked about, who knows. They
- 13:49Speaker 5: could draft, and they could go with committee. They could
- 13:51Speaker 5: go drafted running back. I mean, Chris Carson was a
- 13:54Speaker 5: seventh round pick. Thomas Rawl, the multi year starter for them,
- 13:58Speaker 5: wasn't even drafted, an undrafted Ricky free agent. There's all
- 14:02Speaker 5: kinds of ways they can go. They've gone high in
- 14:05Speaker 5: the draft and not highest, not first round, but the
- 14:07Speaker 5: second round on back to back years with Walker and Charbonnet.
- 14:12Speaker 5: And they've gone to the back of the draft with
- 14:13Speaker 5: Chris Carson. So they do have to have a plant.
- 14:18Speaker 5: They do have to. I can't see them not augmenting
- 14:22Speaker 5: that position. I just don't see it for a ton
- 14:25Speaker 5: of money. What's weird about this free agency stuff now?
- 14:29Speaker 5: Is we're already in the second wave, the second wave.
- 14:32Speaker 5: I was joking with a writer friend of mine day
- 14:36Speaker 5: a lot. Yeah, this tangles writer and I was talking
- 14:41Speaker 5: to my Cincinnati friend and we were joking that the
- 14:43Speaker 5: second wave of free agency is now four pm on
- 14:46Speaker 5: the Monday. It used to be a couple of weeks
- 14:49Speaker 5: into it, but now we're already into the second wave.
- 14:52Speaker 5: They were dudes yesterday signing who were barely on rosters
- 14:55Speaker 5: a year or two ago. I mean talking about secondary
- 14:58Speaker 5: free agents. There were a ton that signed you yesterday.
- 15:00Speaker 5: They were not at all considered to be first wave
- 15:04Speaker 5: prime free agents.
- 15:05Speaker 1: And there wasn't anything that happened really last night. It's
- 15:08Speaker 1: like they got tired. We've done enough today, let's call
- 15:12Speaker 1: it a day.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Yeah. Some of it's that. Some of it's that the
- 15:16Speaker 5: agents that leak deals that aren't yet official to the media,
- 15:20Speaker 5: pack it up and don't do it in the middle
- 15:22Speaker 5: of the night and back on the East Coast attends
- 15:24Speaker 5: around eight o'clock or so. Some of it's that too.
- 15:28Speaker 5: We haven't talked about is Riek Wallen's still available and
- 15:32Speaker 5: he's a wild card in the whole cornerback market. How
- 15:36Speaker 5: much is he going to get paid. Is he going
- 15:38Speaker 5: to get paid based on his skill as physical skill,
- 15:41Speaker 5: and perhaps it's still ceiling as somewhat of a raw
- 15:44Speaker 5: talent that remember, he didn't start playing cornerback go halfway
- 15:47Speaker 5: through his college career at Texas San Antonio. It is
- 15:52Speaker 5: interesting and the way this breaks, the longer he goes unsigned,
- 15:58Speaker 5: I would think the more chances rise that he could
- 16:01Speaker 5: come back to Seattle, it would have to be a
- 16:04Speaker 5: discount well beyond what the top of the market for
- 16:07Speaker 5: the cornerback position. But it is at least intriguing that
- 16:11Speaker 5: Rik Willen. It's funny to say, still available only one
- 16:14Speaker 5: day in the free agency the last all year, but
- 16:17Speaker 5: he is still out there.
- 16:18Speaker 3: I got one more just on the running back un
- 16:20Speaker 3: I'm just wondering what your thoughts are and some of
- 16:22Speaker 3: the guys that are in house, I mean the Vilas Jones,
- 16:26Speaker 3: Junior Jaccardi A right, those guys very limited amount of
- 16:30Speaker 3: touches last year, but do they like what they saw
- 16:33Speaker 3: out of them before they either got dinged up or
- 16:35Speaker 3: just didn't get the opportunities.
- 16:37Speaker 5: Well, cam acres Is also was there on the practice
- 16:40Speaker 5: squad and they've signed him back to a futures contract.
- 16:43Speaker 5: Dallas Jones is someone they've signed to a futures contract.
- 16:46Speaker 5: Those futures guys are guys they've signed for the off
- 16:49Speaker 5: season and training camp. Doesn't mean they're going to be
- 16:51Speaker 5: on the roster, but it means they're under club control
- 16:54Speaker 5: under the ninety man offseason roster. So cam Acres was
- 17:00Speaker 5: number one back with the Rams a couple of years ago.
- 17:03Speaker 5: I always had in the back of my mind of
- 17:04Speaker 5: someone that at least has done it, ben't game planned,
- 17:08Speaker 5: and been the guy for a short period of time
- 17:11Speaker 5: inside the NFC West. George Halaani impressed me and more
- 17:16Speaker 5: importantly Seahawks coaches when he was pressed into a higher
- 17:20Speaker 5: role coming off injury at the end of last season.
- 17:22Speaker 5: I mean, he was making dudes missing the Super Bowl,
- 17:25Speaker 5: and he wasn't just a third down blocking back. They
- 17:27Speaker 5: were actually throwing him Sat Darnold was throwing him the
- 17:30Speaker 5: ball in the Super Bowl. He's an option, Kenny McIntosh.
- 17:35Speaker 5: He's coming off the ACL tear that he got in
- 17:37Speaker 5: late January at the beginning of training camp last year.
- 17:39Speaker 5: Is a couple of days in twelve months. Is that
- 17:44Speaker 5: would be the start of training camp this year? What
- 17:47Speaker 5: can they count off with Kenny McIntosh. They really love him,
- 17:50Speaker 5: but he's been uninjured reserve two of the three years
- 17:52Speaker 5: he's been in the NFL with them. He can't count
- 17:56Speaker 5: on him, but he at least is an option if
- 17:58Speaker 5: he comes back healthy from that injury. It's not like
- 18:03Speaker 5: they have nothing, but none of it's proven except for
- 18:06Speaker 5: cam Akers, so he could go that way. Snyder and
- 18:09Speaker 5: McDonald could go the committee route at running back with
- 18:13Speaker 5: in house options until they hold Sharvoney comes back.
- 18:17Speaker 7: No.
- 18:17Speaker 5: At the league scouting come back. A couple weeks ago,
- 18:21Speaker 5: McDonald was sounding optimistic about Sharboney, saying they're coming out
- 18:24Speaker 5: of the surgery. There was talk he may come back
- 18:27Speaker 5: on the shorter end of recovery time, but even the
- 18:32Speaker 5: best case of ACL tears are usually eight to twelve months.
- 18:35Speaker 5: Eight months from January is mid September, and that's well
- 18:41Speaker 5: into this season than without any training camp. How much
- 18:44Speaker 5: could they put him in in mid September once the
- 18:46Speaker 5: games have started and expect him to make lateral cuts
- 18:49Speaker 5: and do everything at running back needs to do without
- 18:51Speaker 5: any training camp. That's not very realistic. So it is
- 18:56Speaker 5: a puzzle for them, and that was the price of
- 18:59Speaker 5: letting Kenneth Walker go, was they are what are they
- 19:03Speaker 5: gonna do? I'd normally say, oh, they're definitely draft in
- 19:06Speaker 5: a running back, and they may still. But again, remember
- 19:08Speaker 5: they only have four draft picks this year in a
- 19:11Speaker 5: draft that they've already deemed this week, and three of
- 19:14Speaker 5: those four at the bottom of each of the first
- 19:16Speaker 5: three rounds. It's an interesting situation. Now they put themselves in.
- 19:21Speaker 5: I mean, if they were like most NFL teams, it's
- 19:23Speaker 5: running back, they'll throw the one in there. This team
- 19:26Speaker 5: runs the ball as much more than anybody in the league.
- 19:28Speaker 5: It's put their offense is entirely predicated on and they
- 19:31Speaker 5: have big, big question marks at the first running back spot.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Now he wasn't kidding. Greg Bell wrote an article on
- 19:36Speaker 1: just about everything yesterday ken Walker leaving, Kobe Bryant leaving,
- 19:40Speaker 1: boy A Mafe leaving, Josh Job staying, Rashid shah Heed staying.
- 19:44Speaker 1: So you can check it all out at the Newstribune
- 19:47Speaker 1: dot com and easily have access to it. They're on
- 19:51Speaker 1: x at g Bell Seattle. All right, great stuff. Don't
- 19:55Speaker 1: get a snack in you car bomb. You got another
- 19:57Speaker 1: day of Tampa Fest. Even though we do seem to
- 20:00Speaker 1: be on like a wave number four at this stage.
- 20:04Speaker 5: Yeah, after twenty four hours. Yeah, you've got a whole
- 20:07Speaker 5: twenty minutes without mentioning Randy Rosina and Kyle Rowley and
- 20:10Speaker 5: Potter's buck etiquette and well, thank you.
- 20:13Speaker 2: We didn't talk about it, and I'd like to talk
- 20:16Speaker 2: about it more, but.
- 20:17Speaker 1: You know, we kind of had a show dedicated to
- 20:19Speaker 1: free agency, so you know we're gonna have to ask
- 20:22Speaker 1: Mike Sando about it.
- 20:23Speaker 2: I think later on the show, Mocky, that was bizarre?
- 20:27Speaker 5: Was it not by baseball at a good circles? I
- 20:29Speaker 5: don't mean, I know it's an exhibition tournament, but that
- 20:32Speaker 5: was bizarre.
- 20:33Speaker 3: It's bizarre. Nowadays it would have been run of the mill.
- 20:36Speaker 3: It's exactly the way it would have been done twenty
- 20:38Speaker 3: years ago. I mean, there just used to be no
- 20:41Speaker 3: handshaking and you know, fratternizing, and nowadays the guys will
- 20:45Speaker 3: hug the borderline make out.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Before the game.
- 20:48Speaker 5: It makes me think there's some kind of inside joke
- 20:50Speaker 5: there and those nas taking it very far.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Might be might be all right, Greg, we'll talk to
- 20:56Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
- 20:57Speaker 5: Not happy today.
- 20:58Speaker 1: I seahawks inside of GREGI bell with us his segment
- 21:01Speaker 1: brought to you by Copla Diamond Collection Prosecco. Every game
- 21:05Speaker 1: needs an MVP. Even Tamperfest needs an MVP. Ours is
- 21:09Speaker 1: Greg Bell, and Oh how he sparkles, Oh how he shines.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Copla Diamond Collection Prosecco is light, crisp and always a win.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Grab your bubbles and toast every free agent signing with
- 21:21Speaker 1: Coppola Diamond Collection Prosecco coming up next. Yeah, we're going
- 21:25Speaker 1: to talk almost all NFL free agency today, but we
- 21:29Speaker 1: do have to chat with Everett fits You. He is
- 21:31Speaker 1: coming on early today, Bobby McCann McMahon, Is he going
- 21:35Speaker 1: to make his debut tonight? Sports Radio ninety three point
- 21:38Speaker 1: three KJARFM. We needed reinforcements, so from eight to ten
- 21:43Speaker 1: we have our NFL insider Mike Sando with us right
- 21:46Speaker 1: here in studio. Excited about that, but it forced us
- 21:49Speaker 1: to make a few adjustments. We asked kindly, if the
- 21:52Speaker 1: great Everett fits You would adjust his schedule, get up
- 21:55Speaker 1: a little earlier, talk some crack and hockey talk from
- 21:57Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon with us this morning, and he was happy
- 22:00Speaker 1: to do so, or at least he did it. Yeah,
- 22:02Speaker 1: I don't know we'll find out if he was happy.
- 22:04Speaker 2: He's probably having it.
- 22:05Speaker 3: He's one of the nicest people ever too, so he's yeah, sure,
- 22:09Speaker 3: whatever you want. Actually, I mean, deep down inside, he
- 22:11Speaker 3: probably doesn't like getting up earlier.
- 22:12Speaker 1: But yeah, did you do Did you do it? Because
- 22:17Speaker 1: it's okay or you're just trying to be nice?
- 22:19Speaker 7: Ever for you guys, I will do anything you asked.
- 22:24Speaker 7: But I will say there was an eight am class
- 22:27Speaker 7: that I had in college back in two thousand and eight,
- 22:31Speaker 7: and I had to wake up at seven fifteen, seven
- 22:34Speaker 7: thirty for that class. And let's just say my attendance
- 22:38Speaker 7: was not perfect that year. So I don't think i've
- 22:41Speaker 7: seen seven thirty am probably since two thousand and eight nine.
- 22:45Speaker 7: So well, of you guys, I'll do it.
- 22:47Speaker 2: We won't ask you to do it a long company.
- 22:49Speaker 3: Yeah, I was you can maybe a kick off the
- 22:52Speaker 3: show starting Tuesdays at six am.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Moving forward to what I was thinking, Do you want
- 22:57Speaker 2: to entertain that?
- 22:59Speaker 7: Yeah on Tuesdays? Yeah, yeah, the guys, that's totally what.
- 23:06Speaker 7: But it's over my head, this thing, but I can't.
- 23:09Speaker 7: I gotta keep the thing.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know, things do happen, they do come up. Yeah,
- 23:15Speaker 2: they do.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Everett fits you voice of your Seattle Kraken. He joins
- 23:18Speaker 1: us every Tuesday at eight thirty. We're having him come
- 23:21Speaker 1: on at seven thirty here today to accommodate the frenzy.
- 23:25Speaker 1: So let's get into it. The trading deadline man. They
- 23:27Speaker 1: pushed it all the way to the midnight hour. I
- 23:30Speaker 1: thought the coach was going to turn into a pumpkin,
- 23:32Speaker 1: and instead they had Bobby McMahon right at the last second.
- 23:36Speaker 1: What did you think of the addition?
- 23:39Speaker 7: You know that this is a He's a player that
- 23:41Speaker 7: I likes. I've liked his game a lot. I mean
- 23:43Speaker 7: this team got faster, that's for sure. Bobby McMahon. I mean,
- 23:48Speaker 7: he's probably one of the top three four fastest players
- 23:52Speaker 7: in the NHL and the cracket.
- 23:55Speaker 5: You know.
- 23:55Speaker 7: Leyne Lambert was talking about this last game out against
- 23:58Speaker 7: Ottawa against a rush team like the Senators. The Kraken
- 24:03Speaker 7: never have not given up a lot of odd man
- 24:06Speaker 7: rushes this season. They've always been able to slow down
- 24:10Speaker 7: other teams three on two opportunities, and I think McMahon
- 24:13Speaker 7: helps out with that offensively. I mean, he loves to
- 24:17Speaker 7: shoot the puck, he loves to crash them. That this
- 24:20Speaker 7: is a guy who I think a lot of teams
- 24:23Speaker 7: would have loved as as that extra piece to push
- 24:28Speaker 7: them over the top. Plus he's you know, he's a
- 24:30Speaker 7: hard working player. Reminds me a little bit in terms
- 24:33Speaker 7: of his work ethic. Reminds me a little bit of
- 24:36Speaker 7: a Yonnie Gordon who wasn't drafted, who played in the ECHL,
- 24:40Speaker 7: he played in the American Hockey League. He had to
- 24:42Speaker 7: work his way up. He's earned every second of NHL
- 24:46Speaker 7: ice time that that he's gotten. And I think there's
- 24:50Speaker 7: there's a very underrated quality about those type of players.
- 24:54Speaker 7: So I like the move and and I know a
- 24:57Speaker 7: lot of people, you know, probably were expected that bigger splash,
- 25:02Speaker 7: that top line, you know, seventy eighty ninety points splash.
- 25:08Speaker 7: But those players weren't there. And the guys that were there,
- 25:11Speaker 7: you're Robert Thomas's and Jordan Cayru's number one, they would
- 25:15Speaker 7: have had to have waived their no move clause and
- 25:18Speaker 7: number two, I mean, their asks were astronomical. Elliott Friedman,
- 25:22Speaker 7: who is pretty much the Adam Schefter of the NHL,
- 25:26Speaker 7: who breaks all these news, all these trades and all
- 25:29Speaker 7: this news, Elliott Friedman said that the ask for the
- 25:33Speaker 7: Cayrou and Thomas trade out of Saint Louis. I guess
- 25:37Speaker 7: Buffalo was a willing dance partner. And he said that
- 25:41Speaker 7: a rival GM told him that they would have basically
- 25:44Speaker 7: had to have given up everybody in their American Hockey
- 25:48Speaker 7: League system, all of their prospects, plus a couple of picks,
- 25:51Speaker 7: and it's just not worth it this time of year. Now,
- 25:54Speaker 7: we'll see it the draft. We'll see it in the
- 25:56Speaker 7: summertime if a lot of these bigger names move. But
- 26:00Speaker 7: this is the deal that made the most sense for Seattle,
- 26:04Speaker 7: and I'm excited to see him play and to see
- 26:07Speaker 7: what he can do for this team.
- 26:09Speaker 3: Fitty, I mean six fifteen, that's pretty big. I was
- 26:12Speaker 3: not expecting you to say that he's one of the
- 26:15Speaker 3: fastest guys in the NHL. So that's that's good news.
- 26:17Speaker 3: Where do you expect them to pencil him in?
- 26:20Speaker 2: What line?
- 26:21Speaker 3: Is he going to be playing center or is he
- 26:22Speaker 3: going to be a wing or what's he going to be?
- 26:24Speaker 7: So yesterday he was talking about how this year he's
- 26:27Speaker 7: played more right side right wing up a lineup this year.
- 26:31Speaker 7: I the last couple of years the cracket have played Toronto.
- 26:35Speaker 7: You've seen him on the left side. He does play
- 26:38Speaker 7: really well with more skill than offensive guys, quick guys.
- 26:42Speaker 7: So you know, with Jaden Schwartz out indefinitely after a
- 26:47Speaker 7: very scary skate collision the other night, I think he
- 26:52Speaker 7: slides in on that second line with Chandler Stevenson and
- 26:57Speaker 7: Ellie Tolvenan. So I don't think you're going to break
- 26:59Speaker 7: up the cam Vanier's every line that's been driving a
- 27:02Speaker 7: lot of your offense. Your fourth line has been giving
- 27:05Speaker 7: you a lot of energy lately. So I think the
- 27:07Speaker 7: natural fit for me is on the left side of
- 27:10Speaker 7: that second line, him and Stevenson and and Tolan and
- 27:15Speaker 7: so you've got three really good shooter skaters. Rather on
- 27:18Speaker 7: that team you've got Tolvenan, who's your shooter. You now
- 27:21Speaker 7: bring another guy in McMahon who likes to shoot the puck,
- 27:25Speaker 7: who likes to drive and crash the debts. So I
- 27:28Speaker 7: think there's a bit of an element on that line
- 27:31Speaker 7: that you're gonna get. You're maybe I don't want to
- 27:33Speaker 7: say you're upgrading on James Schwartz because he's a very
- 27:36Speaker 7: valuable piece of this team, but you're not losing a
- 27:39Speaker 7: whole lot without Schwartz in the lineup. Now that you
- 27:44Speaker 7: can plug in Bobby McMahon, all.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Right, So no chance at the McFly line McCann, McMahon
- 27:51Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know mcmadie mcglo.
- 27:55Speaker 7: I told Lane, I said, go easy on me, okay,
- 27:59Speaker 7: I can only have a full of McMahon mccanna to
- 28:02Speaker 7: McMahon again. Oh my goodness, listen, if I can do
- 28:06Speaker 7: if I can do the Pederson's three in Vancouver, Elias,
- 28:09Speaker 7: Elias and Marcus and and and do that rather smoothly.
- 28:14Speaker 7: I think McMahon to McCann and back to McMahon again.
- 28:18Speaker 7: I think I can do that pretty well too.
- 28:20Speaker 1: I haven't gotten through it once, and I'm not even
- 28:22Speaker 1: calling play by play. Every time I've brought it up,
- 28:25Speaker 1: I've stumbled.
- 28:26Speaker 4: Uh.
- 28:27Speaker 7: There was a game a few years ago we had
- 28:29Speaker 7: Jaden Schwartz, Justin Schultz and Jimmy schult on the same
- 28:33Speaker 7: in the same game. So that was not fun.
- 28:36Speaker 2: They can't all be capo.
- 28:38Speaker 1: I'll tell you ever fits you with us voice of
- 28:42Speaker 1: your Seattle Crack and they will play tonight against the
- 28:45Speaker 1: Nashville Predators.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Will McMahon debut tonight?
- 28:49Speaker 7: It does not appear so unless uh the the the
- 28:52Speaker 7: annoying thing about trade deadline being on a Friday is
- 28:57Speaker 7: you have to do all of your immigration work and
- 29:00Speaker 7: all your immigration paperwork and well on Sunday the Lord rested,
- 29:04Speaker 7: so nothing was open and nothing got processed on Sunday.
- 29:07Speaker 7: But it sounds like he will make his debut on Thursday,
- 29:11Speaker 7: unless some magic happened over the last twenty four hours.
- 29:14Speaker 7: But he was out with the team yesterday practicing, getting
- 29:18Speaker 7: used to his new live ates and checking out the
- 29:21Speaker 7: systems and becoming acclimated to the crack. But I think
- 29:26Speaker 7: it looks like everything's pointing sort of Thursday debut with
- 29:30Speaker 7: Colorado against Colorado.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I like that they made an addition
- 29:34Speaker 1: I would have hated to have gotten at the end
- 29:36Speaker 1: of the year, missed the playoffs by a point or two,
- 29:39Speaker 1: and you did nothing at the trade deadline. So I
- 29:41Speaker 1: liked that they did the addition. But bottom line is,
- 29:44Speaker 1: I mean, here we go. They're back in this little
- 29:48Speaker 1: wave of having lost to one of the worst teams
- 29:50Speaker 1: in the NHL, and by Lane Lambert's own admission, playing
- 29:54Speaker 1: one of their worst games of the year against Ottawa.
- 29:57Speaker 1: I mean it's getting crunch time right now here, Everett,
- 30:01Speaker 1: and so Bobby McMahon better make a difference. This team
- 30:04Speaker 1: just flat out has to start playing better hockey starting
- 30:07Speaker 1: tonight and more consistent hockey.
- 30:09Speaker 7: No, they do and that and that's honestly, that's the
- 30:12Speaker 7: biggest thing for Leyne Lambort and he he was talking
- 30:15Speaker 7: to us the other day, you know, after the first
- 30:19Speaker 7: Saint Louis game on the road, when they came back
- 30:22Speaker 7: home to play Vancouver and then it was Carolina, I
- 30:25Speaker 7: believe it. And going into that Carolina game, he was
- 30:28Speaker 7: telling myself and now that listen, we have to work harder.
- 30:31Speaker 7: You know, the the effort out of the break was unacceptable.
- 30:35Speaker 7: We have to work harder.
- 30:36Speaker 2: We have to compete.
- 30:37Speaker 7: You know, these are important games. You know you're coming
- 30:40Speaker 7: up on must win territory or minimally going to points.
- 30:44Speaker 7: And I think the same thing happened for the crack
- 30:47Speaker 7: end after these last two games against Saint Louis and Ottawa.
- 30:51Speaker 7: You know, the effort needs to be better, the compete
- 30:53Speaker 7: needs to be better. You know, Brandon Montour comes out
- 30:56Speaker 7: and says they just wanted it more. And and when
- 30:59Speaker 7: you hear someone say that, that's the wake up call,
- 31:02Speaker 7: especially in a hockey locker room. Nobody wants it more
- 31:05Speaker 7: than we do. Nobody should want it more.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Than we do.
- 31:09Speaker 7: So when you've got a guy calling out you know,
- 31:11Speaker 7: we weren't good enough tonight. They wanted it more, those
- 31:14Speaker 7: words resonate inside of addressing room. So I think tonight
- 31:17Speaker 7: against Nashville, against a team that's right on your heels
- 31:20Speaker 7: that you need to beat to stay ahead of them.
- 31:23Speaker 7: I mean, you're one point up right now on LA
- 31:26Speaker 7: and San Jose, So I mean it's it's not like
- 31:29Speaker 7: you can afford to take these losses. And after the deadline,
- 31:35Speaker 7: a lot of these games in the NHL, you're going
- 31:37Speaker 7: to start seeing they turn into three point games. A
- 31:41Speaker 7: lot of games go to overtime and go to shootouts
- 31:43Speaker 7: right now, a lot of teams just playing for as
- 31:46Speaker 7: many points as they can get. This league goes from
- 31:50Speaker 7: a four to three league to a three to two
- 31:52Speaker 7: league overnight. You know, the offense starts to dry up
- 31:56Speaker 7: because teams don't want to make mistakes. And especially this
- 31:59Speaker 7: season where it seems like the entire league, especially in
- 32:03Speaker 7: the Western Conference, the entire Western Conference is only separated
- 32:07Speaker 7: by six points between getting in the playoffs and not.
- 32:11Speaker 7: If you're the Kracking, you're six points back of first
- 32:16Speaker 7: and you're one point above the cut line. So I
- 32:19Speaker 7: mean these things, these standings can change week to week,
- 32:23Speaker 7: especially this year. So the Cracking, I mean, this is
- 32:26Speaker 7: about as close to must win territory as you're gonna
- 32:31Speaker 7: get these finals six weeks of the season.
- 32:33Speaker 2: All right, man, thank you for waking up early for us.
- 32:36Speaker 1: I know this is ideal pillow talk for you and
- 32:38Speaker 1: the missus to come on with Bucky and Crack and hockey.
- 32:42Speaker 7: So she just looks at me very longingly, like, ah,
- 32:47Speaker 7: that's my man talking hockey seven thirty in the morning. Hot.
- 32:52Speaker 7: Did I get so lucky?
- 32:54Speaker 2: Right?
- 32:55Speaker 7: Yep, yep, yep. I have a great call, I say
- 32:58Speaker 7: from the guest room downstairs.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Alright, man, all right, fits you joining us right here
- 33:10Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck. Of course game tonight seven o'clock.
- 33:12Speaker 1: They'll drop the pucket is it Climate Pledge Arena. There's
- 33:15Speaker 1: a big six game road trip coming up, so gotta
- 33:18Speaker 1: take advantage of these whole ice games. So they'll take
- 33:21Speaker 1: on the Predators pregame at six thirty, and then it's
- 33:23Speaker 1: the Everett and A'll.
- 33:25Speaker 2: Show at seven. All right.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Coming up next on our radio program, before we bring
- 33:29Speaker 1: on Mike Sando at eight o'clock, we'll talk about a
- 33:32Speaker 1: couple of other free agent holes that the Seahawks suddenly
- 33:35Speaker 1: have to fill. Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
- 33:37Speaker 1: A r F. M.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Grace is in the car. We just listened to like
- 33:41Speaker 3: a little Mermaid soundtrack and stuff like that, So it's
- 33:44Speaker 3: not really helping me.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Have you ever heard whole cover under the Sea? No,
- 33:48Speaker 2: really good stuff?
- 33:49Speaker 5: No?
- 33:49Speaker 2: Is it really good.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Under the Sea?
- 33:52Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 33:53Speaker 7: Yeah, alright, so then they're down like you gotta kiss
- 33:58Speaker 7: the girl. La la la la la la.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 34:01Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm interested or not. Actually, it's
- 34:05Speaker 1: not a bad idea. Hole if you're looking to resurrect
- 34:08Speaker 1: your career might.
- 34:09Speaker 3: Be more successful.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Cover some Disney show.
- 34:12Speaker 3: Disney Show too, a great idea. I like it.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Mike Sando is gonna joint. Actually, I kind of want
- 34:19Speaker 1: Ashley to do it now because she was pretty good.
- 34:20Speaker 1: It was pretty good Courtney Love. It was not bad
- 34:22Speaker 1: for just like off the cuff.
- 34:24Speaker 2: I'll consider it.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Well, the Seahawks have a couple holes that were created.
- 34:31Speaker 1: We've already discussed a couple of times. The running back
- 34:34Speaker 1: hole that was created by Ken Walker and Zach Sharbone's
- 34:38Speaker 1: injury at this point, but do they have a safety
- 34:41Speaker 1: hole with Kobe Bryant leaving. I think their response is no,
- 34:44Speaker 1: We've got ty O Katta and Tyokatta got better every
- 34:48Speaker 1: single snap last year, and we don't care what his
- 34:51Speaker 1: background is or what people thought of him on draft
- 34:54Speaker 1: day or anything like that. For us, he was a
- 34:57Speaker 1: very good player and certainly not worth spending fourteen million
- 35:01Speaker 1: dollars a year on a safety when we have him
- 35:03Speaker 1: as an insurance plan.
- 35:05Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, they definitely didn't want to go
- 35:06Speaker 3: out and spend the big bucks, and you can't. I mean,
- 35:08Speaker 3: there's no way they were going to keep all of them.
- 35:10Speaker 3: They kept a couple so far, and we'll see how
- 35:13Speaker 3: it continues. But I do think that was the plan.
- 35:16Speaker 3: I mean, before the frenzy started, tyle Cotto was already
- 35:19Speaker 3: kind of you know, extended whatever that the contract was
- 35:23Speaker 3: that they gave him. I think that they liked the
- 35:25Speaker 3: way that he filled in. I mean, I think he
- 35:27Speaker 3: was multiple times down the stretch of the season, he
- 35:29Speaker 3: made big plays, big games, big plays. Yeah, So I
- 35:33Speaker 3: mean I think he's he's one that they feel comfortable with,
- 35:35Speaker 3: and I'm sure that they still have their you know,
- 35:37Speaker 3: eye on the market as far as maybe some other
- 35:39Speaker 3: guys and possibly using a pick for something like that
- 35:42Speaker 3: in the draft, but I don't know for sure. To me,
- 35:44Speaker 3: I wouldn't feel like that's something that they feel as
- 35:46Speaker 3: a drastic need.
- 35:47Speaker 4: I think too it is. I was definitely surprised that
- 35:50Speaker 4: they didn't get Kobe Bryant back, But in terms of
- 35:53Speaker 4: this defense and Mike McDonald in the way that he
- 35:56Speaker 4: does things, I'm far less worried that I would have
- 35:59Speaker 4: been if this had been five years ago under Pete Carroll.
- 36:02Speaker 4: Not that Pete wasn't a good defensive coach, but it
- 36:04Speaker 4: just seems so specific for Mike McDonald that he's able
- 36:07Speaker 4: to he knows the pieces, he can find a person
- 36:10Speaker 4: to do all the things that he needs them to do.
- 36:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not worried about it, even though I thought
- 36:14Speaker 2: he'd be back.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Yeah, even though I predicted that he would be back,
- 36:19Speaker 1: and I guess probably we shouldn't have expected it because
- 36:23Speaker 1: he probably was going to get high end free agent dollars,
- 36:26Speaker 1: and we knew there was going to be an inflation element,
- 36:29Speaker 1: and it probably shouldn't surprise us that Mike McDonald's like,
- 36:32Speaker 1: I really like him, but thirteen million dollars I can
- 36:36Speaker 1: probably get just as much out of Tyle Cottage.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm that good. I don't think he'd
- 36:42Speaker 2: say that, but you know, maybe he would think it.
- 36:45Speaker 7: Uh.
- 36:45Speaker 2: And then boy A Mafey, Boy, is that.
- 36:47Speaker 1: An interesting move by the Cincinnati Bengals to have fought
- 36:51Speaker 1: tooth and nail Trey Hendrickson for three years, to pay
- 36:55Speaker 1: him when he's getting seventeen and a half sax per year,
- 36:58Speaker 1: and then to give twenty million dollars to boy A
- 37:00Speaker 1: mafe coming off a two sacks season. I'm not sure
- 37:03Speaker 1: that sounds all that logical.
- 37:05Speaker 3: No, it doesn't sound logical, yeah at all. Then again,
- 37:10Speaker 3: I mean when you watch boy in Mafy, he had
- 37:12Speaker 3: what was his big sack years eight or nine sacks?
- 37:15Speaker 3: He had a couple of years ago, so he shows
- 37:17Speaker 3: that burst, that quickness, like I can get back there
- 37:20Speaker 3: and get back there quick. But to go to fight
- 37:23Speaker 3: a guy that had nearly twenty sacks for a couple
- 37:25Speaker 3: of years in a row and fight him on it now,
- 37:27Speaker 3: they paid him, They just didn't want to lock him
- 37:29Speaker 3: up long term for whatever reason, and they still don't.
- 37:31Speaker 3: He's he's one out there on the market. And yet
- 37:34Speaker 3: that was one of the bigger ones we were talking about.
- 37:36Speaker 3: You spend a ton of money in free agency. A
- 37:38Speaker 3: lot of these deals looked like they were way more
- 37:39Speaker 3: than what I thought they would be. Boy and Mafy's
- 37:42Speaker 3: might have been the biggest one.
- 37:43Speaker 2: We don't like proven players in Cincinnati. That's just not
- 37:46Speaker 2: our style.
- 37:47Speaker 4: Who wants someone to come in and build themselves up?
- 37:50Speaker 2: Yeah, we love upside. We'll pay for upside.
- 37:54Speaker 4: You had thirty sacks last.
- 37:55Speaker 2: Year, Nah, proven schmoving. This guy had two. We're gonna
- 38:02Speaker 2: get him.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Here you go, boy, twenty million dollars your car kind
- 38:06Speaker 1: of player.
- 38:07Speaker 2: The only way to go is up. Yeah, I mean
- 38:09Speaker 2: we envision you getting twenty five. That's right, that's what
- 38:12Speaker 2: we pay for.
- 38:13Speaker 4: We're sending it all all our vibes, all our sack vibes.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Smiles, Garrett. We got boy a mafe in Cincinnati.
- 38:23Speaker 1: Now, all right, Mike Sando's gonna join us next year
- 38:26Speaker 1: on the Chucking Back And for the next couple of hours,
- 38:29Speaker 1: it's our first ever specialty tampering show starring our NFL
- 38:33Speaker 1: insider on Sports Radio, NFL Sports Radio, kJ Hard
- 38:37Speaker 2: Ninety three something cave blah blah,