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Chuck in the Morning 9/9 H2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Julio chasing, looking, Langford answers back.
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  Speaker 2: That is a big home run.
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  Speaker 1: And the home run ball stings Bazzardo again. It has
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  Speaker 1: become a major problem for what has been one of
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners' best relievers in recent seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, great morning to you. Happy Wednesday, but not just
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  Speaker 2: your run-of-the-mill Wednesday. It is opening night. The Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: will take the field in a regular season football game
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  Speaker 2: for the first time in 2026. They defend their championship
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  Speaker 2: in front of millions, let's face it, of 12s who
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  Speaker 2: will be tuned in. to this football game. It's the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks Patriots here, not your run-of-the-mill hump day, on a
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night to start the football season, and we are
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  Speaker 2: here to celebrate it. Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan here as well,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a lot coming up on the show
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  Speaker 2: to cover tonight's game. We are going to have Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell here, as you know, in two minutes. We are
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  Speaker 2: going to have a special roundtable today Um, all hands
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  Speaker 2: in everybody here at KJR pretty much going to weigh
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  Speaker 2: in on this game, this season here on the show today. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Ian will be with us. Softy will be with us.
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  Speaker 2: Dick Fane will be with us. Uh, that'll be our
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  Speaker 2: round table today from eight to nine. And Hugh Millen
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  Speaker 2: will join us today at nine o'clock with a special
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  Speaker 2: opening night X's and O's as we get ready for
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  Speaker 2: the new England Patriots. Reckless at breakfast is going to
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  Speaker 2: be on this game. Factor Fiction's going to be on
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  Speaker 2: this game. Admittedly bold NFL preseason predictions are coming your
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  Speaker 2: way a little bit later on in the show. So
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  Speaker 2: happy opening day. Happy Blue Wednesday. to all of you
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  Speaker 2: as we get things cranked up in hour number two
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  Speaker 2: of our four-hour show. But let us begin the hour
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  Speaker 2: with your headlines. They are brought to you by Frost
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  Speaker 2: Brewed Coors Light Cold as the Rockies. Mariners did lose
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  Speaker 2: last night, so they are seven games back with 17
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  Speaker 2: games to play. It's all but over. And yes, Edward Bazzardo,
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  Speaker 2: once again, no answers for the opponent. He gave up
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  Speaker 2: a two-run homer and a three-run homer in one inning.
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  Speaker 2: and the Mariners, who had cut the lead to 4-3,
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  Speaker 2: thanks to a Laz Montez 474-foot homer. You heard me right.
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  Speaker 2: Longest home run ever hit by a Mariner at T-Mobile.
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  Speaker 2: 474 feet to dead center field over the J-Rod squad.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable home run. Had everybody buzzing, despite the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it seemed we were attending a funeral last night, as
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners' chances are all but nil. to try to
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  Speaker 2: come back and make it into the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 2: 10-5 the final score. Same two teams will play today
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  Speaker 2: at 1 o'clock, and it will be Cody Bradford, at
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  Speaker 2: least I think. They changed the pitching assignment last night
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  Speaker 2: to Cal Quantrill, but it looks like he's scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: start today. So a left-hander for the Rangers, a left-hander
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  Speaker 2: for the Mariners, and Kate Anderson first pitch is at
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  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock. But that's just the appetizer to the full
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  Speaker 2: meal deal. Later on tonight at 5.20, the season kicks off.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks and New England Patriots. Ty Okada is out. Travion Henderson,
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  Speaker 2: running back for the New England Patriots, is out. Torrey
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  Speaker 2: Horton and Nick Emanwuri, both questionable for the Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 2: George Helani, on the depth chart, was the RB3. Not
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  Speaker 2: only was he not the RB1, he wasn't even the RB2.
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  Speaker 2: He was the RB3. So it goes Price, Wilson, and
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  Speaker 2: then Helani again. as the Seahawks get ready to face
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots tonight. 49ers Rams on Thursday. Aaron Donald did
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  Speaker 2: not make the trip. Alfred Collins, defensive tackle for the 49ers,
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  Speaker 2: was sent home from the trip because he injured himself
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  Speaker 2: in practice in Australia and is out for the season.
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  Speaker 2: And in college football, Michigan. Might have won the game
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  Speaker 2: against Western Michigan, but they didn't trick the pollsters. They
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  Speaker 2: have dropped out of the top 25. Finally, Ben Shelton
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  Speaker 2: finished off Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open last night
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  Speaker 2: at 3.33 in the morning New York time to advance
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  Speaker 2: to the semifinals of the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Open.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk to Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 4: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 4: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Happy game day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Happy game day to Seattle. Seven months
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  Speaker 3: in one day. Seattle's are back.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to wear a special tie? Did you
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  Speaker 2: buy a special suit in the offseason? Anything today? I
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  Speaker 2: did not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't wear one I've worn before. Okay. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: dress-up day, too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You'll shave, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still do that every morning? Are you one
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  Speaker 2: of those people, because you're in the Army, you can
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  Speaker 2: shave in like four seconds?
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  Speaker 3: I can, and I have, but I don't shave every
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  Speaker 3: day anymore. I haven't shaved in a while, actually. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I will for the event today.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, you got to look your best for
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  Speaker 2: opening night. All right. Well, let's get into it here
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Officially, Ty Okada is out of this
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  Speaker 2: football game. So what's the game plan? How are they
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  Speaker 2: going to defend A.J. Brown and Drake May down a
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  Speaker 2: man and possibly two in their secondary?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, like I said, what I've been told, what I've learned,
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  Speaker 3: what I know, I can't see Nicky Manwari playing either.
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  Speaker 3: He's yet to fully practice. He's listed as questionable. I
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  Speaker 3: think there's some gamesmanship by Mike McDonald there a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But he hasn't practiced fully since mid-June. He then had
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  Speaker 3: the surgery. That was the minicamp. And then he had
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  Speaker 3: the surgery in July on his ankle, arthroscopic surgery. And
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  Speaker 3: let's face it, it's 17, and the Seahawks think more
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  Speaker 3: games this year. This is one. So while, yeah, they'd
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  Speaker 3: love to have him out there, and yeah, that gives
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  Speaker 3: McDonald everything he wants to do schematically on defense, it's
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  Speaker 3: one of 17, 18, potentially 20 games. So the right
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  Speaker 3: call is if he hasn't fully practiced, he shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: fully playing.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: What I didn't mention yesterday is the game plan will
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  Speaker 3: be pressure, stop the run for New England, and New
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  Speaker 3: England's not going to have Trayvon Henderson. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: sprained ankle. So it's Ramondre Stevenson or bust for the
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  Speaker 3: New England run game. New England only ran 18 times
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  Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl out of 67 offensive plays. Now,
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  Speaker 3: some of that, of course, is because they trailed most
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  Speaker 3: of the game. But when they started out early in
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  Speaker 3: the game trying to run, the Seahawks shut it down.
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  Speaker 3: If they shut down the run again, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a similar result tonight. because they'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: pressure Drake May in long yardage situations when they know
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  Speaker 3: New England can't run, and May won't even have time
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  Speaker 3: to get the ball down the field to A.J.
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  Speaker 4: Brown.
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  Speaker 3: So that is the game plan. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: cover up your secondary issues, have your front four, six, seven,
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  Speaker 3: when you blitz, get after the quarterback like you did
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  Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. I think they're going to go
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  Speaker 3: to some more three linebackers than we've ever seen before.
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  Speaker 3: like Mike McDonald do, and that means Drake May and
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  Speaker 3: Tyrese Knight on the field with Ernest Jones at times.
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  Speaker 3: You can only call up two practice squad guys, elevate
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  Speaker 3: them for each game. They probably are going to be
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  Speaker 3: both the safeties, which makes me think Trevon Diggs may
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  Speaker 3: not be active from the practice squad when they announce
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  Speaker 3: that before the game, and De'Anthony Bell and Rodney Thomas
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  Speaker 3: will be. This is some of the risk of carrying
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  Speaker 3: only three safeties on your active roster. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: the fourth, the one they had planned, Bud Clark is
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  Speaker 3: an injured reserve with a broken ankle. So I would
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  Speaker 3: expect DeAnthony Bell and Rodney Thomas to be the two
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  Speaker 3: practice squad call-ups with one of those two starting next
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  Speaker 3: to Julian Love. And as a deep safety, I would
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  Speaker 3: think maybe DeAnthony Bell because of his tackling ability and
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  Speaker 3: experience in the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider with the
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  Speaker 2: latest news. Getting ready for opening night here tonight. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to follow him at gbellseattle on X and thenewstribune.com,
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  Speaker 2: do so. Gobble up all of that Seahawks coverage. Award-winning
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks coverage from our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell. All right,
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  Speaker 2: running the football. Interesting, George Helani, RB3 on the first
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  Speaker 2: depth chart of the season. And so I guess he
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  Speaker 2: might have a specific role, but in terms of carrying
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  Speaker 2: the ball, it looks like Jadarian Price and Emmanuel Wilson
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  Speaker 2: are the first two options.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Price certainly is number one, but I will say
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  Speaker 3: that the coaches have no input on that roster. That
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  Speaker 3: is unofficial from the PR staff depth chart for media
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  Speaker 3: purposes and I wouldn't read a ton into that. The
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  Speaker 3: football ops people don't spend a lot of time on that,
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  Speaker 3: and that's more for our consumption of entertainment than it
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  Speaker 3: is anything else indicative of scheme. What it does, though,
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  Speaker 3: is I will say that now that Emmanuel Wilson is healthy,
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  Speaker 3: he's a short yardage back. He's a different kind of back.
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  Speaker 3: He runs more of a thudding, punishing back. physical style
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  Speaker 3: than the others. George Helani slots in as the third
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  Speaker 3: down back because of his experience not only catching the ball,
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  Speaker 3: but he's a really good pass blocker, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: got him into the offense as an undrafted rookie out
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  Speaker 3: of Boise State three years ago. Price, we've said it
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  Speaker 3: from the day he arrived, they would not have drafted
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  Speaker 3: him if he wasn't the running back one, and they
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  Speaker 3: just slow played him early in training camp. It seemed
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  Speaker 3: almost deferential to the seniority of Helani, and then they
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  Speaker 3: bubble-wrapped him and Helani for the rest of training camp.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see a decent bit of Helani tonight, probably in
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  Speaker 3: past catching and past blocking situations.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our guest here. All right, so with that,
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  Speaker 2: and kind of an unknown, I mean, you haven't had
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson carry a football as a Seahawk. You haven't
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  Speaker 2: had Price carry a football as a professional football player.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, last year we beat the drum. You beat
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  Speaker 2: the drum. They're going to establish the run. Even if
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  Speaker 2: it's not effective, they're going to just keep running the football.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing? Same thing tonight? I mean, are they going
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  Speaker 2: to come hell or high water going to try to
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  Speaker 2: run the football tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I do think so. And that's how Mike McDonald wants
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  Speaker 3: to play. He wants his attitude on offense. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want 45 passes and throwing the ball all over the yard.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to impose will, wear down fronts, and exhaust
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  Speaker 3: other teams and just plunder them. Just like he does
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  Speaker 3: on defense, he wants to have the same mentality on offense.
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  Speaker 3: And it's harder to do in this league. It's a
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  Speaker 3: lot harder to do when you have the NFL Offensive
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  Speaker 3: Player of the Year who had 1,800 yards receiving last year,
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Smith and Jigba. and Rasheed Shaheed, and Cooper Cupp,
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  Speaker 3: and A.J. Barner, but they will, and they have to. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: we got out of the weeds, we got out of
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  Speaker 3: the hinderlands of the offensive line last year here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: and it improved, but it improved because they were balanced
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  Speaker 3: on offense. Exactly 50% of the time they ran the
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  Speaker 3: ball last year. We mentioned they spent most of the
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  Speaker 3: year leading the league. They barely were behind Baltimore and
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: Buffalo finishing the league. leaders and rushing percentage. And that
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  Speaker 3: gives your offensive line a chance in pass protection. How
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  Speaker 3: many years did we see guys just speed by the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks blockers in pass protection because the other team knew
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  Speaker 3: that Seahawks couldn't run the ball? They were 30th, 31st
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  Speaker 3: in the league in rushing and rush yards per game
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  Speaker 3: for years. And Ryan Grubb didn't even try to run
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  Speaker 3: the ball. And everybody in the league knew it. And
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  Speaker 3: they just teed off on Geno Smith in the quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It did not work. And McDonald brought in Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 3: and John Benton last year and said, we're going outside
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  Speaker 3: zone and we're running the ball, to use your words,
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  Speaker 3: come hell or high water. And it worked. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't expect hell or high water tonight. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: going to run the ball, and I think it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be somewhat effective, and I think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: balance the offense and, again, make pass protection that much
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  Speaker 3: more effective.
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  Speaker 2: Give me something that will look different about this team tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there is a new OC. Obviously, we're not
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  Speaker 2: exposing anyone or anything in preseason games as to what
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  Speaker 2: might be a new flavor, a new identity to this
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  Speaker 2: football team this year. But as you're gauging and keeping
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  Speaker 2: that eye on everything that's happening at training camp, what
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  Speaker 2: is something that you think we'll see that looks different
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  Speaker 2: than what we saw a year ago from the 2026 Seahawks?
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  Speaker 3: On offense, you're going to see a lot of jet motion.
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  Speaker 3: What's that? That's motion right before the snap, two or
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  Speaker 3: three steps laterally. The Rams do it all the time
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  Speaker 3: to create leverage either inside or outside with their receivers
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  Speaker 3: on the defensive back. So you'll see guys, even tight ends,
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  Speaker 3: going in motion just before the snap, not across the formation,
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  Speaker 3: but just to get some angle on the defender. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's for blocking in the case of the tight end.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see the tight end shift into the
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  Speaker 3: backfield as fullbacks some of the time. and that will
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  Speaker 3: mitigate the fact they only have one true fullback on
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  Speaker 3: the roster, Brady Russell, and he's a part-time tight end too.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see A.J. Barner line up outside at times.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see Jari and Price line
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  Speaker 3: up as a wide receiver, either in the slot or
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  Speaker 3: way wide when they spread out the formation, and they're
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  Speaker 3: going to throw him the ball when they do that.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a tight end. I
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  Speaker 3: know you're going to see the tight ends down the
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  Speaker 3: field much further down the field than they were under
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  Speaker 3: Clint Kubiak. That was distinct from the early part of
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  Speaker 3: training camp. I think A.J. Barner and Elijah Arroyo are
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  Speaker 3: going to be nine-route guys. That means goes straight down
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  Speaker 3: the seam instead of just checkdowns. On defense, you're going
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: to see Byron Murphy, I think, all over the defensive line.
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  Speaker 3: For that matter, Leonard Williams, they're going to move him
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  Speaker 3: up and down the defensive line, but Murphy even more so.
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  Speaker 3: Murphy has mostly been inside the guard or around the
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  Speaker 3: center pass rusher. They're going to move them outside the guard,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even outside the tackle at times to give a
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  Speaker 3: different look. They may overload a front. They may put
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  Speaker 3: two or three defensive front guys on one side of
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  Speaker 3: the ball and overload New England. They're going to move
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  Speaker 3: around and change their fronts and do different things than
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  Speaker 3: what I saw in the preseason than we saw last year.
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  Speaker 3: The front six or seven, that's the key to the
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  Speaker 3: Knights game for the Seahawks defensively. You can really mitigate that.
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  Speaker 3: all the shell games they've had to play in the
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  Speaker 3: secondary with the injuries, if you front, forward, six, really
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  Speaker 3: get after the quarterback, and that's the plan tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your key to the game, your first key
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  Speaker 2: to the game this season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. Stop the run and put New England
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  Speaker 3: in long yardage situations where they do the same thing
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  Speaker 3: they did in the Super Bowl and overwhelm the Patriots'
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. Their left tackle's healthier than he was in
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. They have a new center. They let
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Bradbury go in free agency, and they have a new
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: center now, Jared Allen. And they've spent time fortifying the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line in the draft, free agency. They've made some
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  Speaker 3: moves there. They, of course, have A.J. Brown as the
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  Speaker 3: flashy new. I think their run game is going to
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  Speaker 3: be hampered with only one option tonight. Stevenson is more
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  Speaker 3: of a pounding back, and without Trayvon Henderson there, they're
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  Speaker 3: It's Stevenson or Buffs for New England's run game. And
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  Speaker 3: a one-dimensional Drake May should be something the Seahawks can
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  Speaker 3: dominate again.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let me close with this here on
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  Speaker 2: this opening night. I mean, I'll see you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on. I'm going to stop by Jimmy's during
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: your show. But I do want to ask, I mean,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of professional sports cities do a
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: great job at big events. I don't know if anybody
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  Speaker 2: does it better than Seattle. So just the atmosphere there.
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to experience tonight? What kind of a
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  Speaker 2: story is that going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool. I've covered this. I was thinking this morning.
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  Speaker 3: This will be my 21st NFL opener as a beat writer,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: and I've only covered two of them as the NFL
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: kickoff game. It's only been two times. Of course, the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: other one was when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: and were kicking off the 2014 season against Green Bay
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: on a Thursday night. There's never been a Wednesday game
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  Speaker 3: in Seahawks history. The weather's going to be perfect. It's
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: going to be like 78 degrees and sunny. Everyone's going
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: to be walking around Occidental and downtown. We've got new
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  Speaker 3: owners coming in. Heck, even the end zones are painted blue,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: which they normally only do after the Sounders season is
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: over in Lumen Field. It's the international showcase of the
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: NFL focused squarely on Seattle. And you're right. People show
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: up for it. There's going to be a country music
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: concert in the north walk before this game there's gonna
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: be a sound garden concert at halftime this is not
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: a normal game for everything else for the players it
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: will be but for all of us it'll be different
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: and not to mention the new ownership 11 o'clock press
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: conference i'll be at there's a lot of pomp and
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of circumstance around this game and just reminding
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: the pacific northwest this only happens once a generation or
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: at least has so.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Far 12 man flag.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: It should be Jody Allen. I mean, that's a perfect
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: way for her to say goodbye, and Vinod Khosla already
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: kind of said that's what he wants.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Right, right. Sounds like it. All right, so what are
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we going to do on the show today, live from Jimmy's?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll carry the Vinod and Nehru and Neal Khosla
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: press conference across the street from the stadium at 11
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: o'clock live. I'll run from a commercial break down the block,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: literally run up into the stadium for that. We're going
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: to talk about Sam Darnold, he has said a couple
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: times this spring for the first time that in 2024,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: right before the Minnesota season, he consulted a sports psychologist
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: who changed his life. And it's changed his career. We'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: talk about what the sports psychologist told him and how
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Darnold took it to heart. Darnold's gone 31-7 with his
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: first ever playoff starts. with his only Super Bowl championship
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and $ 105 million contract since meeting with that sports psychologist. Oh, no,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: by the way, he got married to his longtime sweetheart,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Katie Osnogo, this offseason, too. To say the least, that
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: was a pivotal point in Sam Darnold's life. We'll talk
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: in detail about that as well.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think things are going well for Sam today.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's having an okay time.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to shave, though, for tonight.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I think he's really committed to that beard of his.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do, too. Especially after yesterday seeing Baker Mayfield
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: get $ 35 million a year or whatever that total was.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: $ 165 million for three years from the Buccaneers. You know
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: his agent. Oh, yeah. Sam Darnold noticed that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: A couple guys are going to get big fat pay
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: raises next year, too. That's for sure. All right, Greg. Well,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I'll see you actually a little bit later on today.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: So happy opening day to you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: All right, everybody. Happy opening day. Happy football is back.
• 20:00
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• 20:04
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• 20:07
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• 20:10
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• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction time. And I know what you're thinking. What
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: do you mean you're going to pick the Seahawks game?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Ian's already picked the Seahawks game this week. He didn't
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: pick both things that I could pick for the Seahawks game.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Both.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's coming up. Factor Fiction, Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM.
• 20:31
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• 20:35
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• 20:40
  Speaker 2: football Wednesday, this opening night Wednesday, a little ABCs to
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the M's because it is something we do on a
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: daily basis. And frankly, despite the funeral that we attended
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: last night at T-Mobile, the sport of baseball always gives
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you something juicy, it seems. to discuss the next day.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: And in that game, that probably eliminated the Mariners officially
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: from playoff hopes. Not officially, but unofficially. We have Diaz
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: for deep because Laz Montez went deep last night. 474
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: feet to center field over the J-Rod squad, over the stands,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the bleachers. and into a hallway last night. It is
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the farthest ball anyone for the Mariners has hit at
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: T-Mobile in its history. It went 474 feet last night.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And I do want to correct something from earlier. Of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: course he got it all. I'm just saying, I think
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that this guy, I don't think this will end up
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: being the longest ball he hits in his career. Um,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that's the kind of power that we're talking about here
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: with Montez. And when you saw that, that list of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the farthest home runs, Jared Kelnick has actually the farthest
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: home run. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. And, but it
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: wasn't at home. It was at Wrigley. Um, but I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Laz Montez probably going to hit, at least has the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: potential to hit one further than Jared Kelnick, even with
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it being windy. But I was going to say, yeah,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: think about it too. How far could Laz hit it
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field? With the wind.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Eh, well. Maybe to, I don't know, Winnetka.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe to Winnetka. But, I mean, remember how much we
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: were buzzing about Kelnick after that game, though?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, jeez.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: What went wrong, Jared? That guy. Damn. But Laz Montes,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got holes in his game, certainly. I mean,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: he's striking out like half the time at the plate.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: But you can see the power potential. Power is worth
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: its weight in gold. in Major League Baseball, and he's
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: got some people excited between his career debut in Boston
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: and what we saw last night. Everybody loves a power hitter,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and so even on a night as dreary as it
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: could get, last night was dreary. I did not make
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: it through the entire game. I did not. I don't
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: blame you. And yet, last month has had everybody buzzing
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: all night long. That really is kind of the beauty
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: of that sport.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was awesome to watch. And at the time,
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: real hopeful, too, because you're down 4-0. He hits that,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: and it's a ballgame. You didn't realize, oh, right, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: pitching is going to suck tonight. Um, but yeah, it
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: made it exciting in the moment and it was incredible
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: to watch.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: He is for, uh, I gotta go, Edward. Um, I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: was going to do something else, but I think we
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: do have to talk about Edward Bazzardo and, um, and look,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: this organization really likes him. They stood by him. Um,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: they believed that they had something that really nobody else believed.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: They saw something in him. And last year he had
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a really good year. And he's at a, he had
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a decent first half to this year. He wasn't, he was,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's still carrying like an under a sub
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: three ERA for most of this season, but right now
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: he is batting practice and how we continue to keep
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: going to guys that can't get major league hitters out
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: in big game situations. Like I get it. You took
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller out of the game in the third you're,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: pretty much having to manage like it's a playoff game.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: And so you had six plus innings to fill last night. Bazzardo,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I guess, was going to have to pitch at some point.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: But man, he and Michael Rucker are last resorts at
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: this point. I'm going to try to get through the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: game without either one of those if I want to win.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Bazzardo is just not there right now. And yet, what happens?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Send him out there again. pitches in relief of Ferrer,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: and gives up five runs in one inning. Sucks all
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the energy out of the stadium. It certainly did, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: probably was the final nail in the coffin to this
• 25:07
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Opening night, and yes. I did,
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• 25:48
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  Speaker 2: jumped all over it. Ian took the Seahawks earlier this
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• 26:20
  Speaker 2: opening night. I'm going to embrace it. I want to
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: talk about Seahawks Patriots tonight. And you better believe that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I am taking the under tonight. 44.5 points, Seahawks Patriots.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I've mentioned this numerous times. I think it's going to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: be a sloppy football game. I don't think our offense
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: is going to look all that good tonight either. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Drake May will have solved the
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Seahawks defense since the Super Bowl. So I'm looking at
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: like 17-9 as my final score last night. Seahawks 17-9
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: over the New England Patriots, and that will finish far
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: below the 44.5 number that is there for you. on
• 27:04
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• 28:48
  Speaker 2: We now have the National Football League season starting tonight. Seahawks,
• 28:51
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• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Get ready for all the pomp, the circumstance, the hoopla.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I can't wait for the hoopla. Oh, you have always
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  Speaker 2: loved hoopla. It's one of my favorite things. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, the other day, I'm like, oh, there's
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Of all the forms of hysteria, hoopla is probably your favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Number one. Well, we're going to celebrate the hoopla from
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: eight to nine today. We're going to have a special
• 29:25
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• 29:29
  Speaker 2: every single week on Thursdays is going to be joining
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: us in their normal slot from 8 to 9. But today,
• 29:35
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• 29:38
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• 29:41
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• 29:48
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• 29:52
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• 29:54
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• 29:57
  Speaker 2: as we start the football season. So that's coming up
• 30:00
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  Speaker 5: I mean, go nuts. Yeah, we're going to have Seahawks
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: gear to give away, Husky tickets to give away. I
• 30:41
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• 30:45
  Speaker 2: There's going to be some food.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe certificates and things that people could win. And then
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• 31:08
  Speaker 2: And so the Seahawks-Rams, I mean, that is the conversation
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: right now in the National Football League. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: is coming back early from an injury. I'm not sure
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: they're going to be good. The Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel. Yeah, he slept with a reporter. Probably not
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: only one. I was going to say, and probably not
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: only once. Yeah, exactly. So, whatever. I mean, the story
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: really is, are the Rams as good as being forecasted?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: And are they even better than the Seahawks? As Ashley
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: and I, I think, have... pointed out numerous times, the
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: reason that the Rams went all in like this, went
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: crazy with all of this, because they know the Seahawks
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: are going to be better this year than they were
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a year ago, so they had to get better. And
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: so this is the story heading into the National Football
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: League season. Which of these two teams are better, the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: team sitting on the throne or the team that came
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: closest to sitting on the throne last year that wasn't
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks? and has spent the offseason trying to add
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: every superstar piece they can so that they can make
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: sure they leave no doubt in defeating them. Well, we're
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: not going to get to see these two divisional opponents
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: play until Christmas Day. Crazy to me. Then they will
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: play two times in three weeks to close out the season.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: And here's what's even crazier. Whoever loses is probably going
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to be the five seed in the playoffs. and are
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: probably going to take on, once again, the NFC South representative.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And so there's a chance that you could face them
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: three times in four games. That's crazier. If you win
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the division championship and you win home field advantage and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the number one seed in the bye, I mean, there's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: a chance they could play three times in five weeks
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: to try to determine who, in fact, wins. is the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: best football team this year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: It's a little sadistic, NFL.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And they love every moment of it. Roger
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Goodell is twisting his handlebar mustache at the end of
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: it right now as we speak. Meanwhile, he has Diana
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Rossini tied to a rail line.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Sounds about right.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: All right, so what's going to happen in that span
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: of time? Well, I can't see all the way into
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: the playoffs right now. I just can't do it. But
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I can envision what's going to happen down the stretch.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: That Christmas Day game is played right here in Seattle.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: And my prediction is, as bold as this is, as
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: reckless as this is, that the Rams, as I mentioned
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: in our opening segment, are every bit worthy of the
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: hype that they're giving right now. Being given right now.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: And they're going to enter that Christmas Day first place.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: 13-1.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: 13-1. No, not undefeated. No one's going undefeated. Not in
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: a 17-game schedule. Not in today's climate. But they're going
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to enter 13-1. Problem is, Seahawks are going to enter
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: that game 12-2. That's going to be close. That is
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: very close. And so, there's your matchup. Christmas Day. 13-1 Rams.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: 12-2 Seahawks. They'll be talking about, is this In the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: conversation for best regular season game of all time, is
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: this the undefeated Bears versus Dan Marino and the Miami
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Dolphins on Monday night? Is this as good as it
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: gets in NFL history for a regular season contest on
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: the Lord's Day? The Lord's Day. And what's going to happen?
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Seattle is going to win.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: They are going to silence all of those, you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Rams lovers who, can you even imagine how carried away
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: they're going to be with the Rams at 13-1? They're
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: going to be rampant. They are going to be rampant
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: in their analysis. And so the Seahawks spoil the Ram
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: party at home. Probably going to have some crap weather.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Sean McVay is going to blame it on that. Probably
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: going to bitch about that two-point conversion a year ago
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: as well one more time. And then they're going to
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: claim to seek their revenge. We get you again at
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: home under perfect conditions, L.A. weather. There's not going to
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: be anything wrong. Try and stop us now. Yes. Come
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: and we'll play real football without conditions. And there's no
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: way you'll beat us on our home field in the
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: last game of the regular season. And we'll retake that
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: number one seed from you when it matters most because
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: then we will go 15-2 and you will be a
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: lowly 14-3.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Jerks.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And you know what's going to happen, Ashley? I don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: know what's going to happen. Seahawks are going to go
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: in there and smash them again. What? Oh, man.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I did not anticipate how close this was going to
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: be and how stressed I was going to be.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: over this Reckless at Breakfast fantasy of mine? Yes. They're
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: going to win them both. They're going to win the division.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: They're going to win the one seed. And my goodness,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: is it going to be hilarious to see all of
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the national broadcasters and LA broadcasters who believe that the
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Rams are inevitable and have to suffer back-to-back losses to
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, to the champs, and the champs will take
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the number one seed heading into the playoffs. Now, I
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: can't see beyond that. Hard to beat a team that
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: good three times in five weeks. So I'm not even
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: going to look into my crystal ball beyond that. That's
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: where Reckless at Breakfast is going to end today, is
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: those two out of three weeks at the end of
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the regular season when everyone's going to be chanting Rams, Rams, Rams.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: One of the best teams we've ever seen. And I
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: think the Seahawks are going to beat them at home
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and then beat them on the road. And still end
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: up being division champs. Now, what happens in the playoffs?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: We'll save that for another Reckless at Breakfast. We'll save
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: that for another breakfast. But that's my prediction. That's what
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I'm foreseeing in my crystal ball for 2026. I like
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: that crystal ball.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Really pumped and really excited for something that's not going
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: to happen for three more months.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: My palms are sweating over something I just made up.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: I'm stressed out. I think I have to go to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: the bathroom. Roundtable is next. I'll see you in the bathroom.
• 37:45
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