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Chuck in the Morning 8-21 H2: Gregg Bell, OPQ, PCA or Shohei for NL MVP? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Bowers at first.
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Speaker 2: The bles lie down the left field line and it's.
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Speaker 3: A credib ball into the corner the Rose Arena into
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Speaker 3: the corner.
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Speaker 2: That's gonna score Torang, That's gonna score Bowers. I Sidjez
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Speaker 2: makes it too ughly, sparrinis TD with the call of
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Speaker 2: yesterday's loss. That's one of the many low lights. A
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Speaker 2: really bad first inning, A terrible first inning for George
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Speaker 2: Kirby put the team in a six to nothing hole.
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Speaker 2: They did do a little rallying, but stop scoring themselves
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Speaker 2: after they cut the lead to two and end up
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Speaker 2: losing seven to four to the Milwaukee Brewers. They end
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Speaker 2: up losing two games out of three in the series.
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. When they lost twenty two to nothing,
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Speaker 2: they didn't lose any ground for the Houston Astros. When
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Speaker 2: they won seven to five, they didn't gain any ground
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Speaker 2: on the Houston Astros. And when they lost yesterday seven
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Speaker 2: to four, they didn't lose any ground to the Houston Astros.
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Speaker 2: And so they sit at four games back in the
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Speaker 2: American League West, despite the disgusting eight games under five
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty and sixty eight record that they have
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Speaker 2: right now with thirty four games to go. But that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that damage wasn't done by losing two out
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Speaker 2: of three to Milwaukee, because obviously it has cut down
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Speaker 2: the amount of games that you have left to play
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Speaker 2: to try and chase the Astros down. So again, the same,
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Speaker 2: the same key remains. This team has to play with urgency.
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Speaker 2: They have to approach nearly every game like it's a
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Speaker 2: damn playoff game. I'm not saying to go all in
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Speaker 2: and do that, but a lot more urgency than what
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Speaker 2: the manager's showing, the front office is showing, and certainly
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Speaker 2: what the players are showing right now. You can't just
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Speaker 2: show up every other day. And so we'll see if
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Speaker 2: it kicks in at home tonight against the Chicago Cubs
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Speaker 2: seven to ten. First pitch against the Cubs and PCA,
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Speaker 2: who will talk about a little bit later on this hour,
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Speaker 2: and your pitching matchup is Emerson Hancock for the good
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Speaker 2: guys and for the North Siders it will be a
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Speaker 2: former Seattle resident, a former Seattle Mariner, Matthew Boyd. We'll
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Speaker 2: get the start tonight for the Cubs. Is he a
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Speaker 2: lefty Chuck, Yeah, he's a lefty face. Three lefties for
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Speaker 2: the Cubs. This is sort of like when you're planning
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Speaker 2: a vacation and you're like, well, we want to get
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Speaker 2: there when the weather's the best, so you plan it
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Speaker 2: in advance, use the farmer's almanac. You want to make
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Speaker 2: sure that when you go to Aruba, you're getting the
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Speaker 2: best kind of Aruba conditions. There are the Cubs. A
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Speaker 2: year ago. We're like, where can we face a team
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Speaker 2: where we can throw all three left handers? All right,
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Speaker 2: let's circle this weekend.
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Speaker 4: There we go Seattle in Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, we're going to face three He left
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Speaker 2: these over the weekend. Should be fun. Some other news
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Speaker 2: in your Frost Brewed Corps light headlines, Huskies camp continues
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Speaker 2: without me. I know it's gonna be hard, but Jed,
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Speaker 2: you say strong. You're gonna be all right, young man,
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Speaker 2: demon keep it up. Okay. The Huskies will have their
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Speaker 2: mock game tomorrow at six point thirty. There fan fest
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Speaker 2: at four to twenty. If those things interest you, and
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Speaker 2: they should, it's a chance for them to reach out
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Speaker 2: to you and say thanks, So get on out there.
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Speaker 2: Sounders in action tomorrow at four point thirty against Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: The Sounder is just really weird for the Sounders to
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Speaker 2: be in such a funk, but they have an eight
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Speaker 2: game losing streak in the MLS. Brian Schmetzer's team seems
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Speaker 2: lost for answers right now. Maybe they'll find some tomorrow
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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, and if not, go as some chili with
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Speaker 2: the spaghetti underneath it. It always makes you feel better. Finally,
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Speaker 2: NFL preseason Week number two started yesterday with Vegas winning
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Speaker 2: over Houston twenty two to twenty despite Fernando Mendoza's poor
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Speaker 2: play being the headline, and the forty nine Ers defeated
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Speaker 2: the Chargers forty one to seventeen. There'll be games tonight,
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Speaker 2: There'll be games tomorrow in the National Football League, and
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Speaker 2: then on Sunday, the Seahawks will finally play. They'll have
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Speaker 2: the entire day to themselves. It's the only game on
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Speaker 2: Sunday in Nashville against the Tennessee Titans, which is where
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Speaker 2: our own Greg Bell is right now. Let's check in
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Speaker 2: with our Seahawks insider.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's find out what you did yesterday in Nashville.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you had plenty of chances to get rested up,
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Speaker 2: get some hot chicken or some barbecue in your belly.
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Speaker 2: What did Greg Bell do with Wendy to paint the
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Speaker 2: town last night?
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Speaker 1: Well, first she had you walked all the way to
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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt in ninety five degree heat humidity.
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Speaker 2: I love campuses. I love college campuses.
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Speaker 1: The Vanderbilt area, the west end, past Music Row is
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Speaker 1: really cool. The whole area is really neat. So we
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Speaker 1: walked from downtown to all the way to Vanderbilt and back.
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Speaker 1: So that was a little unusual. People staring at us,
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Speaker 1: like why are you outside so hot here? And then
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Speaker 1: we went to we went to an Indian restaurant, which
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Speaker 1: people here were like, what, I've been to a thousand
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Speaker 1: barbecue places here, but okay, vegetarian. We went to the restaurant. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: Well we'll hit up some barbecues later on Broadway in
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Speaker 1: the stage and it's good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, She's used to seeing you eat meat, though, even
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Speaker 2: though she won't touch it herself. Correct, Okay, all right,
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Speaker 2: all right, Yeah, you can have some barbecue and you
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Speaker 2: did Indian and that's a that's a good balance right there.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing about Greg Bell. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: things to admire about Greg Bell. Good at his job,
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Speaker 2: you know, military background, you know, you know, the apple
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Speaker 2: of his parents eye, you know, throughout his entire life.
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Speaker 2: But I think what I admire most about Greg is
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Speaker 2: that he and Wendy don't sit around in a hotel
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Speaker 2: and watch a movie. They go out and they do stuff.
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Speaker 1: She's thinking about going to Dollywood. Dolly Parton's place is
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Speaker 1: way way out in the Smoky Mountains, like three hours here.
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Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I mean, Dolly sick right now, and
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Speaker 2: she's a legend. You might have to do a little
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Speaker 2: tip of the cap to Dolly while you're there. I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's a terrible idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she loves Dolly Parton. She stands for Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: might be what Wendy's doing. One of the Seahawks Titans today.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, let's talk about Seahawks Titans today. I mean,
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Speaker 2: my goodness, Greg, I mean, we've had three different joint
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Speaker 2: practices this week and all it's been is just fight
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Speaker 2: after fight after fighting. Now you're telling me the weather's horrible.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna make people even angrier and twitch ear out there.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, why do they do this? I mean,
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Speaker 2: is it really that productive for Mike McDonald to risk
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Speaker 2: all of his players punching helmets and things of that nature.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna fight, and they're gonna fight a lot today, period, right, But.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is worth it. Okay, he is counting on
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Speaker 1: He's counting on them to be smart about like don't
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Speaker 1: take your helmet off, don't punch an empty hand to
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Speaker 1: a helmet, just stuff like that. They don't be stupid.
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Speaker 1: But and you talk about that. The league has sent
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Speaker 1: a memo to all the teams in advance and training
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Speaker 1: camp this year to warn them again of possible fines
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Speaker 1: and maybe even taking draft picks away if you have
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Speaker 1: fights at joint practices. The Saints and Cowboys, I saw,
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Speaker 1: I gotta find half a million dollars each, which is like,
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Speaker 1: you know what they throw into the Salvation army, rid kettle,
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Speaker 1: it's nothing to an NFL team. But the point is
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Speaker 1: that McDonald wants them to push all the way to
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Speaker 1: that edge, maybe even a little bit over it, but
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Speaker 1: not to get out of hand and be stupid. And
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Speaker 1: it was like that last year in Green Bay. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they were fighting more than they fight at trading camp.
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Speaker 1: But these thinks it's worth it because it's the only
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Speaker 1: ones versus another team's ones that the starters are going
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Speaker 1: to do all preseason. So and it's a controlled environment
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Speaker 1: in the sense that the quarterbacks aren't getting wailed on
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Speaker 1: as they do in a preseason game. They blow the
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Speaker 1: whistle before anyone gets near a quarterback, for instance, open
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Speaker 1: field runners, they tend to blow the whistles so that
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Speaker 1: there are open field tackles where there can be injuries
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Speaker 1: as well. There's tackling in guys, bringing guys to ground
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Speaker 1: for the only time in the preseason in the interior
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Speaker 1: line play, by and large. But it's just it's the
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Speaker 1: only time he puts all starters out there, ones versus ones,
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Speaker 1: and he'd rather do that in this setting today than
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Speaker 1: in the preseason game Sunday night. And I can't faulting
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Speaker 1: for the logic of that. Plus, and it's a very
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Speaker 1: very big plus. It's not like an oh, by the way,
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Speaker 1: but the players will tell you the actual trip of
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Speaker 1: ninety guys going across the country bonding. Tonight, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a rookie talent show at a barbecue joint across
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Speaker 1: the street from their hotel here. Julian Love said the
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Speaker 1: other day, it's the critical pivotal pieces to our season.
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Speaker 1: Are these joint practice trips. Guys will say it. It
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Speaker 1: forged their bonds for the rest of the year, and
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Speaker 1: they are still to this day. Tell us tell me
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Speaker 1: the reason they won the Super Bowl was because of
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Speaker 1: their culture and togetherness, and that starts tonight.
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Speaker 2: All right. So is Jadarian Price more likely to be
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Speaker 2: a heavy contributor today or Sunday or both or neither today?
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Speaker 1: And I don't expect to see him. I might he
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Speaker 1: might play a little bit Sunday night, but I don't
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Speaker 1: expect to see him much Sunday night. But I do
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Speaker 1: expect to see him full go in the ones today.
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Speaker 1: I think Trevon Diggs will be on the field. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what capacity he could play in his first
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Speaker 1: practice after signing, but he was supposed to have made
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Speaker 1: the trip. When I get there in about a half hour,
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Speaker 1: I'll know whether he's on the field or not, but
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine Price is going to get and even
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Speaker 1: next week against Kansas City on Friday Night, This today
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Speaker 1: might be it. And I'd mentioned it before. The reason
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Speaker 1: I'm here is for this practice. I'm going to go
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Speaker 1: to game too, because I'm already here. But this joint
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Speaker 1: practice with Sam Darnold throwing the Jackson Smith at Jigbi
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Speaker 1: against the Titans starting cornerbacks and Jenerian Price running for
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Speaker 1: real getting tackled is the only real football we're going
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Speaker 1: to see from most of the starters till September ninth.
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Speaker 2: So what does that mean then for Sunday? I mean
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Speaker 2: usually the last preseason game, which may have changed a
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Speaker 2: little bit now that they're down to three, but they
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Speaker 2: usually don't play the starters on the last preseason game,
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Speaker 2: and they didn't play them in the first preseason game.
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Speaker 2: And if they're going to beat that snot out of
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Speaker 2: each other today, how much are the starters going to
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Speaker 2: play on Sunday?
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Speaker 1: I don't expect much at all. Well, McDonald's m has
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Speaker 1: been the last two preseasons to not play the starters
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Speaker 1: at all or much at all. Now, last year was
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Speaker 1: a little bit different because he wanted to get his
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Speaker 1: offensive line settled. Jalen Sindell at this time last year
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Speaker 1: was still winning the center spot eventually took it from
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Speaker 1: Uli with Timmy, so they'd started their starting offensive line
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Speaker 1: in the preseason games more than I think he's going
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Speaker 1: to Sunday Night, but I don't maybe at drive on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night. If that it's on national television. I know
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Speaker 1: the league it's the only guys you mentioned at the top.
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Speaker 1: It's the only game that night, the only game that day,
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Speaker 1: and it's a Fox National TV. Brocker. I know the
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Speaker 1: league would rather the Seahawks have the Super Bowl champion
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Speaker 1: starters out there. They might play a series. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: expect much more than that.
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Speaker 2: Are there camp battles to be won?
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Speaker 1: Still? Is there?
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Speaker 2: Are there some starting jobs still open that that I
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Speaker 2: don't know if they'll be determined at all by pre
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Speaker 2: season action as from what I'm telling what I'm hearing
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Speaker 2: from you today. So are there still camp battle starting
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Speaker 2: jobs to be won out there? Is that pretty much
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Speaker 2: filled up?
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Speaker 1: Well? The third cornerback job that we've talked about the
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Speaker 1: whole reason they went for tarry On Arnold and the
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Speaker 1: whole reason they signed Trvron Diggs, and that is the
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Speaker 1: starter was last year in Mike McDonald's defense of playing
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Speaker 1: extra five six defensive back sets. So Diggs has got
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Speaker 1: some ground to make up. There's only eight days left
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Speaker 1: until the preseason games are over, So yeah, they've got
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Speaker 1: to settle whether they're gonna go with me and i
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Speaker 1: Ah Pritchett, Whether a brand new Trevron Diggs is in
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Speaker 1: shape enough to play right away Noah, Iig bonoghany. Is
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Speaker 1: he the veteran that Dan Quinn turned into a starting
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Speaker 1: nickel a couple of years ago with Washington? Will he
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Speaker 1: be the guy? And then all of this is how
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Speaker 1: much now will Mike McDonald maybe not play five and
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Speaker 1: six defensive backs? When does Nick even Warrie come back?
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Speaker 1: And if he comes back, will he have five or
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Speaker 1: six defensive backs on the field with him? Are they
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Speaker 1: going to be in base? How much are they going
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Speaker 1: to go to three linebackers that I've seen more in
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Speaker 1: practice the last couple of weeks. We talked about that
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Speaker 1: yesterday that could get Tyree Knight and Thomas Drake Thomas
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Speaker 1: on the field at the same time, flanking Ernest Jones,
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Speaker 1: I've seen much more of that in the starting defense
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Speaker 1: than I saw at any time last year during this
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Speaker 1: training camp, and that could be the hedge against McDonald
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Speaker 1: not trusting a third corner to go with three linebackers.
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Speaker 2: More so, what is the most intriguing thing or most
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Speaker 2: intriguing player on Sunday? In other words, where do your
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Speaker 2: eyes go on Sunday's preseason game?
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Speaker 1: Greg Well, I am going to watch the Darien Price
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Speaker 1: and I have a feeling he's going to play some
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Speaker 1: but not much Sunday Night. Diggs and who the third
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Speaker 1: corners are, even if they go to backup mostly backups
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Speaker 1: on defense, He's probably going to rotate through Diggs what
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Speaker 1: he looks like in a game situation for the first
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Speaker 1: time since January. Nig Bnogay and pritchet'll probably get a
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Speaker 1: rotation going, I would think as third corners and inside
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Speaker 1: slot guys. I'll be watching for that too. The everything
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Speaker 1: else Chuck really is settled, I mean, the starting offensive
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Speaker 1: lines returning in full. We know about the wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: Montory Foster, I think is won a job, and what
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Speaker 1: to be determined is whose job is he taking as
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Speaker 1: a fifth or six wide receiver? Is it Cody White,
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Speaker 1: Is it Jake Bobo? I think Bobo's safe as a
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Speaker 1: fifth receiver. We know Smith and Jake Boyn, Cooper Cup
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Speaker 1: and Rashid Shat and Tory Horton are making the team,
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Speaker 1: but Horton hasn't been on the field all week. He's
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Speaker 1: got now a new issue that McDonald won't specify. What's
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Speaker 1: Tory Horton's status? Is he going to practice today? Is
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Speaker 1: he going to play on Sunday? Yeah? But I think
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Speaker 1: Montory Foster has forced his way. It would be a
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Speaker 1: bad message to the locker room, to the younger players
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Speaker 1: if a guy is as good as he's been both
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Speaker 1: in preseason games and practices every day, moved up to
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Speaker 1: the ones catching passes from San barn the last week
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Speaker 1: and then say, well, we'll get to release him and
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Speaker 1: put them on waivers and maybe get him on the
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Speaker 1: practice squad. That's not how McDonald operates.
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Speaker 2: Man five days and nights in Nashville, Tennessee, hanging out
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Speaker 2: with your teammates slash buddies. If you're a Sea Hawk player,
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Speaker 2: I understand they have a few like outings that they plan,
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Speaker 2: including maybe the Freshman Talent Show or the Rookie Talent
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Speaker 2: Show that they they they do. Uh, then you got
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Speaker 2: a joint practice and you've got a preseason game on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: I mean, is Hard Knock's gonna have to go two
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Speaker 2: three hours on Tuesday to get all this footage in.
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Speaker 1: They're here, the Hard Knocks crew team here, they're all
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Speaker 1: over the team hotel. That'll be all over this practice
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Speaker 1: with boom MIC's and yeah, they're gonna they're not gonna
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Speaker 1: have much trouble fill it up. Put it this way.
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Speaker 1: There's not gonna be a scene of Sam Donald's spiral
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Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes in this upcoming episode. They gonna they're
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Speaker 1: gonna have enough other things.
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Speaker 2: You know how much you Millan enjoyed seeing that fifteen's
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Speaker 2: it down? Yeah he put it into slow mo so
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Speaker 2: it would last forty five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's poorn for Hu Millin. He's probably
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Speaker 1: got that in a beta tape already.
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Speaker 2: Is there a favorite in the Rookie Talent Show? Is
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Speaker 2: there any like Murmurs that we've got some talent out
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Speaker 2: there in this rookie class beyond football?
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Speaker 1: I I think because he's been forced to be he's
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Speaker 1: the only rookie in the in the position room. I
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Speaker 1: think Bo Stevens, the fifth round pick, the guard from Iowa,
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Speaker 1: is he's gonna get. I mean, the offensive linemen are
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Speaker 1: just crushing him. They made him. John Benton, the offensive
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Speaker 1: line coach, made him be the MC hype guy for
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Speaker 1: the fans at every public practice they had out there.
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Speaker 1: I think you heard him a couple of times when
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Speaker 1: you were out there. John Benton put him up to that.
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Speaker 1: He's the only rookie on the offensive line, so he's
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Speaker 1: been getting all kinds of stuff from everybody else, including
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Speaker 1: Gray's Able who had to do it last year. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Stevens to a good performance.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? It's so stranger, And he told us
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Speaker 2: this is like I was a captain, I was a leader,
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Speaker 2: I was the alpha male in the room, and now
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Speaker 2: I'm the guy being picked on. It's been a strange
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Speaker 2: experience for him at camp and I get that.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he'll never feel more picked on in his life,
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Speaker 1: probably than tonight, and especially if he doesn't perform. Their
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Speaker 1: guys around this camp this week, Chuck, that have been
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Speaker 1: talking more about this talent show and looking forward to
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Speaker 1: it than the game and the practice not for just
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Speaker 1: a bonding, but they want to see who steps up.
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Speaker 1: Montry Foster actually could win a roster spot tonight at
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Speaker 1: the barbecue joint over on the field this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: I hope both Stevens sings like Pavarati and dances like Usher.
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Speaker 2: That's my wish, Like they just leave some slack job.
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Speaker 2: They cannot believe they're watching one of the great talents
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Speaker 2: that's ever taken a stage. That's what I hope for.
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Speaker 1: Gray's Abel Farmer from South Dakota was singing Future at
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Speaker 1: this event last year.
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Speaker 2: And I take it you don't get a ticket to this.
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Speaker 2: You don't get a front row seat. They keep this
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Speaker 2: to themselves.
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Speaker 1: They do keep it themselves, but it is It's funny,
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Speaker 1: is the stage at this barbecue. Every restaurant and barbecue
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Speaker 1: joining Nashville has a stage from live music. Gas stations
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Speaker 1: have stage for live music here and the back of
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Speaker 1: the restaurant is open and people just walking through this
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Speaker 1: park in downtown Nashville. So last time they had it
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Speaker 1: here two years ago, people were just lining up and
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Speaker 1: watching this and they couldn't what are these three hundred
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Speaker 1: pound men doing skits for in this barbecue chop. What's
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Speaker 1: going on here? So there will be passers by who.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, have a blast. We'll talk to you
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Speaker 2: on Monday hopefully. And yeah, you got a full weekend
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20:10
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Speaker 2: Other people's quarterbacks always a hot topic of conversation on
20:29
Speaker 2: sports talk radio. And so we have a segment of
20:32
Speaker 2: OPQ here today for you on a Friday. Anders Hurst
20:36
Speaker 2: is here filling in for Ashley Ryan. My name is
20:39
Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, and let's get to it. Fernando Mendoza coming
20:44
Speaker 2: off impressive performance in his first preseason game, but he
20:48
Speaker 2: came off the bench. He was the second quarterback, and
20:52
Speaker 2: that was the first preseason game, so there wasn't a
20:55
Speaker 2: sniff of a starting defensive player on the field, and
20:59
Speaker 2: his first preseason game last night he got the start.
21:04
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins didn't play at all, Even though Clint Kubiak
21:08
Speaker 2: has suddenly been very like dark about whether or not
21:14
Speaker 2: he's fully committed to kirk Cousins being the starting quarterback
21:17
Speaker 2: on opening Day. I mean we thought heading into camp
21:20
Speaker 2: that that was already settled. Like the first few days
21:22
Speaker 2: of a camp, there was some sort of story. I
21:25
Speaker 2: mean I can't recall it one hundred percent, but there
21:28
Speaker 2: was some sort of story that was leaked out there
21:30
Speaker 2: that Kirk Cousins is going to be the starter and
21:32
Speaker 2: Mendoza's gonna, you know, eventually be the starter. But they'll
21:36
Speaker 2: figure that out as the season goes along. But then
21:40
Speaker 2: after that first preseason game, I haven't heard Jason Smith
21:43
Speaker 2: talking about it on our airways, the national guy talking
21:46
Speaker 2: about he's sure Mendoza is gonna end up being the
21:50
Speaker 2: starter on opening Day and was reading into a few things,
21:54
Speaker 2: maybe more aggressively than he should be but Mendoza gets
21:58
Speaker 2: the start yesterday and against a few starters from that
22:01
Speaker 2: Texans defense, struggled through a pick six in the first quarter,
22:05
Speaker 2: barely completed fifty percent of his passes in the first half,
22:10
Speaker 2: and he played the entire first half, And so suddenly
22:14
Speaker 2: it's pretty obvious Fernando Mendoza has a lot of work
22:17
Speaker 2: to do to be as good as Kirk Cousins in
22:20
Speaker 2: an NFL football game, or at least that. I mean,
22:22
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's obvious, but it seems like
22:25
Speaker 2: it's not a foe gone conclusion like some are making it. So,
22:29
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know why you'd be in any rush.
22:33
Speaker 2: I anders kind of like it if I'm a franchise
22:37
Speaker 2: that's not like on the cusp of winning my division.
22:41
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it benefited Patrick Mahomes to say,
22:44
Speaker 2: I think it would benefit everybody. I think it would
22:46
Speaker 2: have benefited Peyton Manning to sit rather than take a
22:49
Speaker 2: beating his first year, Troy Aikman to sit rather than
22:53
Speaker 2: take a beating his first year, but they pressed him
22:55
Speaker 2: into the action. They wanted them to take that beating
22:59
Speaker 2: to get used to things, let the game slow down,
23:01
Speaker 2: and then by their second years. The greats like those two,
23:05
Speaker 2: they hit the ground running from their second year on
23:09
Speaker 2: and they were number one overall picks. And that's what
23:12
Speaker 2: you've got in Fernando Mendoza. So he's supposed to be special.
23:16
Speaker 2: But I certainly don't hate the idea, if I am
23:19
Speaker 2: a Raider fan, that we sit Fernando Mendoza for most
23:23
Speaker 2: of the season, let him learn, don't take the enormous
23:27
Speaker 2: beating that he's likely going to take, and let Kirk
23:30
Speaker 2: Cousins try to guide us close to the playoffs. I
23:33
Speaker 2: think I think I'd be okay with that scenario.
23:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, And there are multiple ways to look at this,
23:38
Speaker 5: because on one hand, you you definitely don't want to
23:42
Speaker 5: expose him to the Sam Darnold treatment of the Jets
23:46
Speaker 5: right where he just gets I'm seeing ghosts, so to speak, right.
23:54
Speaker 1: Him.
23:55
Speaker 5: I know we don't like that statement, but like there
23:58
Speaker 5: is a lot to say about, you know, letting the
24:00
Speaker 5: young guy watch from the sidelines, kind of learn the
24:03
Speaker 5: ways of the NFL and kind of get his feet
24:05
Speaker 5: wet sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: There are plenty of examples where that has benefited the player,
24:09
Speaker 2: whether it's hate sitting on the bench or not.
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Speaker 5: Yes, But then the other part of me thinks, Okay, well,
24:16
Speaker 5: how much are they actually going to develop in the
24:20
Speaker 5: year that they're not playing, If that makes sense, Will
24:24
Speaker 5: reps on the field going through their lumps, doing making
24:29
Speaker 5: mistakes in big time situations, but then learning from those mistakes.
24:34
Speaker 5: Will that give him more of a fast track of
24:37
Speaker 5: a development than just watching from the sideline and then
24:40
Speaker 5: going through those things the next year. Right, So that's
24:43
Speaker 5: where I'm kind of thinking. Both schools of thought can
24:45
Speaker 5: definitely prevail, but I think more Yeah, I mean, and that's.
24:49
Speaker 2: The age old debate, right, But my argument is it's
24:53
Speaker 2: not the worst thing in the world. There are plenty
24:55
Speaker 2: of examples of guys that were in far worst quarterback
24:58
Speaker 2: room situations, guys that weren't even wanted on the team
25:02
Speaker 2: by the starting quarterback. You don't have that situation. Kirk
25:05
Speaker 2: Cousins knows the score, he knows Mendoza's eventually going to
25:08
Speaker 2: take the job from him, He just doesn't know when.
25:11
Speaker 2: Apparently Cousins has made it clear I'm not here to
25:14
Speaker 2: be his mentor. I'm also trying to accomplish some things
25:17
Speaker 2: as well. But if he can pick up some things,
25:20
Speaker 2: I'm certainly not going to get in the way of
25:22
Speaker 2: that where some quarterbacks, starting quarterbacks in the past have
25:25
Speaker 2: looked at that person as a threat, have mistreated them
25:28
Speaker 2: far have mistreated Aaron Rodgers, and yet he's still benefited
25:31
Speaker 2: from being around one of the all time greats. And
25:35
Speaker 2: Brett Farv Joe Montana mistreated Steve Young from what I've heard. No,
25:40
Speaker 2: I've also heard Steve Young earned that by being a
25:43
Speaker 2: bit of a tool at times, but he benefited certainly
25:47
Speaker 2: from watching one of the all time greats, whether he
25:50
Speaker 2: was embraced or not. Cousins isn't one of the all
25:52
Speaker 2: time greats, but he's also, by everyone's account, one of
25:55
Speaker 2: the great teammates in the National Football League leader too.
25:58
Speaker 2: And so I think Fernando Manda will could benefit very
26:02
Speaker 2: easily from just sitting the entire year if it works
26:06
Speaker 2: out that way, because we've seen plenty of examples of
26:09
Speaker 2: guys that have benefitted from that.
26:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so, And it's probably like more often
26:15
Speaker 5: than not, that is what especially with quarterbacks, right, where
26:18
Speaker 5: so much of the game is mental. Right, you have
26:20
Speaker 5: the physical tools and you're going to go do that
26:23
Speaker 5: and kind of develop those year after year, but so
26:26
Speaker 5: much of the game is mental and learning about the
26:28
Speaker 5: process side of things more than the than the physical
26:32
Speaker 5: side of things. And that's where I think that's why
26:35
Speaker 5: those guys have developed the way they have when they
26:37
Speaker 5: have sat the year, right, because they see it from
26:39
Speaker 5: a different perspective. They're they're here in every play go
26:42
Speaker 5: through their headset, right, and they're kind of learning the playbook.
26:46
Speaker 5: And that's where I do think that it does become
26:51
Speaker 5: a little bit more of a you know, good thing
26:54
Speaker 5: that if Mendoza isn't ready to start on day one,
26:57
Speaker 5: or maybe even if he is, that he gets a
26:58
Speaker 5: rest for the first of these for the first large
27:01
Speaker 5: part of this season.
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Speaker 2: All right, maybe not the whole season. This is not
27:04
Speaker 2: the segment and not called other people's quarterback. This is
27:07
Speaker 2: other people's quarterbacks. So we got to get to more
27:10
Speaker 2: than just Fernando Mendoza here today, I want to talk
27:14
Speaker 2: about a tweet that Ryan Paganetti sent out. Now you
27:19
Speaker 2: might not know the name Ryan Paganetti. I didn't either,
27:23
Speaker 2: but apparently he was an assistant coach for a few
27:25
Speaker 2: different teams, Eagles, Jaguars, and Raiders, and apparently he's turned
27:31
Speaker 2: to the media. He's like a strategy analytics coach, and
27:34
Speaker 2: so Ryan Paganetti had a tweet that he sent out
27:38
Speaker 2: this week that almost I mean not almost everybody, but
27:41
Speaker 2: a lot of NFL players were retweeting this week. And
27:46
Speaker 2: it's something that we've talked about on this show a lot.
27:51
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, maybe we'll ask you about
27:53
Speaker 2: it at nine o'clock. But his point was, anyone arguing
27:57
Speaker 2: that sack rate is not heavily tied to the quarterback
28:00
Speaker 2: is fighting a losing propositions proposition. And then he goes
28:04
Speaker 2: through a series of the all time greatest quarterbacks and
28:10
Speaker 2: five best sack rates in NFL history belonged to Dan Marino,
28:15
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, and Patrick Mahomes. Now
28:19
Speaker 2: what does that tell you? Does that mean they all
28:20
Speaker 2: played behind their entire careers amazing offensive lines. No, it
28:25
Speaker 2: means that they knew how to get rid of the
28:27
Speaker 2: football and not take a sack. Yeah, okay. And then
28:31
Speaker 2: he goes through how bad the Dolphins were protecting the
28:35
Speaker 2: quarterback right before Dan Marino. And then because he's the
28:39
Speaker 2: best of all time at getting rid of the football,
28:41
Speaker 2: famous for his quick release and his good feed even
28:44
Speaker 2: though he wasn't that athletic. And then as soon as
28:47
Speaker 2: he left, how the Dolphins quarterbacks after started getting sacked again? Now,
28:52
Speaker 2: is that because the offensive line was well, they weren't
28:55
Speaker 2: terrible for David Woodley, but they were great for Dan Marino,
28:58
Speaker 2: and then they weren't terrible for everybody after. No, it
29:02
Speaker 2: means Dan Marino knows how to get rid of the football.
29:05
Speaker 2: Truth of the matter is his line didn't turn him
29:08
Speaker 2: into Dan Marino, the Hall of famer. Dan Marino turned
29:12
Speaker 2: Dwight Stevenson the center into a Hall of famer. True, okay,
29:15
Speaker 2: And so we've had the same thing happened when the Colts.
29:19
Speaker 2: When Peyton Manning took over for the Colts, the sack
29:22
Speaker 2: ray went from ten point six percent for the quarterback
29:25
Speaker 2: and then three point seven. And Peyton's rookie year, his
29:28
Speaker 2: rookie year where he struggled and led the league in interceptions,
29:31
Speaker 2: he still was getting sacked seven percent less of the
29:34
Speaker 2: time than the quarterback that he replaced. And then with
29:37
Speaker 2: just one year of experience, it dropped all the way
29:39
Speaker 2: down to two point three percent, which is like historic,
29:43
Speaker 2: that's Dan Marino level that he was operating at. And
29:46
Speaker 2: then as soon as he left six point two percent.
29:48
Speaker 2: Right back up, even Andrew Luck six point one percent
29:52
Speaker 2: sack rate in his first season after Peyton Manning had left,
29:56
Speaker 2: and Andrew Luck was terrific. Yeah, and it just one
30:00
Speaker 2: after another. It goes to same offensive line, but without
30:05
Speaker 2: the quarterback that knew how to get rid of the ball.
30:08
Speaker 2: It looked like the offensive line had a sack issue. Right,
30:11
Speaker 2: looked like the offensive line was terrible. And then magically,
30:16
Speaker 2: once they had a great quarterback that knows how to
30:18
Speaker 2: get rid of the football, suddenly the offensive line looks
30:21
Speaker 2: spectacular exactly. Now, let's apply this locally. Was saying this
30:26
Speaker 2: for years. I think Seahawk fans, I think twelve's oh,
30:30
Speaker 2: an awful lot of sea Hawks offensive lineman an apology.
30:35
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that Russell Wilson and Geno Smith
30:39
Speaker 2: had great offensive lines or even good offensive lines. But
30:42
Speaker 2: what I've said for eleven years is is not as
30:45
Speaker 2: bad as you think. And the quarterback is having an
30:48
Speaker 2: awful lot to say about how often he's getting sacked.
30:52
Speaker 2: There's a lot you're putting everything on the offensive line
30:55
Speaker 2: because it looks like Russell's taking beatings and you're letting
30:59
Speaker 2: Russell off the whole when odds are that it's probably
31:03
Speaker 2: has to do at least half of that has to
31:05
Speaker 2: do with we have a quarterback that's holding onto the
31:07
Speaker 2: football too long. And the same thing was with Gino.
31:10
Speaker 2: We had a quarterback, and now you have Sam Darnold
31:13
Speaker 2: and now, and yes, you did address the offensive line,
31:16
Speaker 2: and I do believe with greys Abel the offensive line
31:19
Speaker 2: is better. But did it become miraculously better because you
31:23
Speaker 2: added grays Abel or did you get a quarterback and
31:26
Speaker 2: an offensive coordinator that came in here and they get
31:29
Speaker 2: rid of the ball better and take fewer sacks?
31:31
Speaker 4: Option B.
31:32
Speaker 2: It's option B, and it's always been option B. So again,
31:37
Speaker 2: David Carr for the Houston Texans did stand a chance
31:41
Speaker 2: to be successful, but he held onto the football too long.
31:45
Speaker 2: And that's why it wasn't any good. Wasn't because that
31:49
Speaker 2: poor guy played with a terrible offensive line his entire career. Now,
31:52
Speaker 2: David Carr made his offensive line terrible his entire career.
31:56
Speaker 2: It probably wasn't good, No, but it wasn't as bad
32:00
Speaker 2: as he made it look. And the same thing can
32:03
Speaker 2: be applied to Russell because we saw him go to
32:05
Speaker 2: Denver and guess what offensive line issues.
32:09
Speaker 4: And now with bow Nix not as much.
32:10
Speaker 2: And not that with boon Knicks not as much. So
32:14
Speaker 2: it really does have all Troy Yekman has said this,
32:18
Speaker 2: it's a quarterback stat, it's not an offensive line stat.
32:20
Speaker 2: I agree, taking sacks is a quarterback stat. Now, there
32:24
Speaker 2: are certainly some plays where you're like, quarterbacks stood no chance.
32:28
Speaker 2: And that happens with bad offensive lines more than it
32:32
Speaker 2: does with good offensive lines, to state the obvious, but
32:37
Speaker 2: we've kind of operated with that quarterback gets sacked a lot,
32:40
Speaker 2: he's got a terrible offensive line mentality, and that is
32:43
Speaker 2: just not the case and it really never has been. Yeah,
32:46
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Speaker 2: Oh show coming up at eight o'clock, your eight time
33:22
Speaker 2: stories of the day heading into the weekend, also recapping
33:25
Speaker 2: the week. The weekend will be highlighted, I think by
33:30
Speaker 2: the Mariners taking on the Chicago Cubs one of the
33:32
Speaker 2: great franchises, maybe not historically from in terms of success,
33:39
Speaker 2: but one of the most beloved logos franchises in America.
33:44
Speaker 2: The Chicago Cubs one of the most well known, was
33:46
Speaker 2: most recognizable, storied for a lot of bad reasons, but
33:52
Speaker 2: always fun. Always fun to take on the Chicago Cubs,
33:54
Speaker 2: even more fun to play them at Wrigley and see
33:56
Speaker 2: it on TV. But we got a pretty damn good
33:59
Speaker 2: stadium ourselves, So it's going to be fun to watch
34:01
Speaker 2: the Cubs roll into town this weekend. And we always
34:05
Speaker 2: provide a preview before every series. I want to get
34:08
Speaker 2: to a question for Anders in a second, so I'm
34:10
Speaker 2: going to go through the preview pretty quickly. The offense
34:14
Speaker 2: is really I think maybe the envy of the entire sport.
34:18
Speaker 2: I guess you could throw the Dodgers in there, since
34:19
Speaker 2: they're just one through nine good. But in terms of
34:23
Speaker 2: like lefty, righty power, speed, feistiness, putting the ball in play, veterans,
34:31
Speaker 2: youngsters like they've got they've just got a really good lineup.
34:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's arguably the most balanced lineup.
34:39
Speaker 1: Right.
34:39
Speaker 5: The Dodgers have all the big names, and then they
34:42
Speaker 5: can you know, Candle a little quiet sometimes if those
34:45
Speaker 5: big names aren't performing, but it just seems like they
34:47
Speaker 5: can do They can score in anyway.
34:49
Speaker 4: The Cubs can.
34:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's shown up. I mean, they've been very
34:52
Speaker 2: productive this year. So that's a really good lineup, hopefully
34:56
Speaker 2: for this weekend. It's true that our backdrop is impossible
35:00
Speaker 2: to hit a baseball against. Yeah, yes, because they do
35:05
Speaker 2: definitely have an offensive advantage.
35:06
Speaker 1: Now.
35:06
Speaker 2: Pitching wise, they've been a mess this year. They've got
35:10
Speaker 2: three lefty starters going at it. They've ironed things out
35:12
Speaker 2: a little bit. Peterson's actually been of quality since they
35:15
Speaker 2: acquired him. He was terrible with the Mets before they
35:18
Speaker 2: acquired him. Matthew Boyd just continues to be steady Eddie
35:22
Speaker 2: out there and showedo. Imanaga will have to face him
35:25
Speaker 2: as well, and he's probably their best starter at this point.
35:27
Speaker 2: But they've had a mess both starting and relief pitching.
35:31
Speaker 2: So maybe we'll see if you runs scored this weekend
35:35
Speaker 2: from the Chicago Cubs. But the thing that I wanted
35:38
Speaker 2: to bring up in our couple minutes that we have remaining,
35:41
Speaker 2: where are you with the PCA Versus show? Hey, MVP,
35:45
Speaker 2: conversation right now, because it's looking like it's those two
35:48
Speaker 2: head to head the rest of the season.
35:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the big argument for show Hay obviously
35:51
Speaker 5: is what he does on the pitching side. But he
35:52
Speaker 5: hasn't done a ton of that this year, So where
35:55
Speaker 5: it gets to the point where I don't really value
36:01
Speaker 5: that as highly as I normally would. I mean, I
36:03
Speaker 5: don't have the innings pitch in front of me, but
36:05
Speaker 5: I know he hasn't paid.
36:06
Speaker 2: Eighty six eighty six something around the eighty five.
36:08
Speaker 5: It's not a ton. I mean it's not nothing also,
36:10
Speaker 5: but it's also not a ton. And the fact of
36:13
Speaker 5: the matter is PCAs right now the best defensive center
36:16
Speaker 5: fielder in baseball while almost having a one dot ops right.
36:21
Speaker 5: So that's where I think offensively they're pretty even. It's
36:25
Speaker 5: all about what you value more on their other things,
36:27
Speaker 5: where PCA gives you more defensively, obviously, but show Hey
36:31
Speaker 5: has the pitching. They're probably around the same in terms
36:34
Speaker 5: of the base running side of things. I probably just
36:37
Speaker 5: in terms of the storylines, would go PCA because the
36:42
Speaker 5: Cubs are you know, even though they probably don't have
36:45
Speaker 5: the same they don't have the same record as the
36:47
Speaker 5: Dodgers right now, but they have had a great season
36:50
Speaker 5: and he's the big reason why. Show Hey, it feels
36:53
Speaker 5: like that even though he's still playing fantastically, it's a
36:56
Speaker 5: weird down year for him, and yet he's still in
36:58
Speaker 5: the MVP converce six.
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Speaker 2: It's not a down year. Look again, it is not
37:03
Speaker 2: a down year. He's got like a four hundred oh ps.
37:05
Speaker 2: He's at thirty home runs, he's got a two ninety
37:07
Speaker 2: batting average. He's having a phenomenal year. And if you
37:10
Speaker 2: just compare offense to offense, show A versus PCA is
37:15
Speaker 2: pretty even. Yes, it's a pretty even battle. So then
37:19
Speaker 2: people say, well, then you get the edge because show
37:21
Speaker 2: Hey pitches, and even if you only made fourteen starts,
37:24
Speaker 2: there were fourteen really good starts, and who can measure
37:27
Speaker 2: up to that? I say, not so fast to that too.
37:31
Speaker 2: I say, when you have a Platinum Glove Award winning
37:35
Speaker 2: center fielder playing every day and bringing that defense every day,
37:41
Speaker 2: versus a sometime starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
37:46
Speaker 2: who's only made half of his scheduled starts so far
37:50
Speaker 2: this season, I would argue that PCA's every day Gold
37:54
Speaker 2: Glove platinum glove defense and center field out produces the
38:00
Speaker 2: show Hey pitching element, and then you add the stolen bases.
38:04
Speaker 2: They say he's the fastest guy in the league. It's
38:07
Speaker 2: either him or Bobby Witch Junior PCA. You add the
38:10
Speaker 2: stolen base. He's already a thirty thirty guy with a
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Speaker 2: month to go, so he could get forty forty before
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Speaker 2: it's all said and done. Show he's done fifty to fifty,
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Speaker 2: by the way, in the past. I mean right now,
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Speaker 2: Fangrafts War has pie Crow Armstrong number one in total
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Speaker 2: war at eight point three.
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Speaker 4: And that includes Show he's pitching as well.
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Speaker 2: Show A is second at seven point zero. That is
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Speaker 2: a full run and a third better than show a
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Speaker 2: Otani for second place. I mean, let's do a hum
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Speaker 2: millin now. Actually it's not that far. Another one point
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Speaker 2: three gap. You only have to go down to four,
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Speaker 2: so it's definitely those two guys. But I think PCA,
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Speaker 2: I mean batting War eight point three War for PCA
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Speaker 2: versus Show has four. Yeah, of course Show he doesn't
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Speaker 2: play any defense, and that gets factored in, of course,
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Speaker 2: But I think think it's BCA. I think it's Pete
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Speaker 2: Crow Armstrong who we're going to see tonight. He will
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Speaker 2: be the leadoff hitter. He will be the first person
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson faces Saturday in his major league career. How
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Speaker 2: about that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be a weird win.
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Speaker 5: And when I say show ha is a down year,
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Speaker 5: it's like he's had the three previous years for one
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Speaker 5: dotting ops. So a nine to forty ops. Yeah, it
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Speaker 5: does seem like a relatively down year. He got off
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Speaker 5: to a slow crazy and he's really picked it. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 5: all right.
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