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Chuck in the Morning 8-13 Hour 2:12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABCs of the Mariners and Uchenna Nwosu · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: That ball, sky hide all right, Jones forgetting Don has
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Speaker 1: now matched Julio with his nineteenth and the Mariners have
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Speaker 1: got three home runs in three innings.
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Speaker 2: Parl rabbits ESPN National broadcast last night and they watched
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Speaker 2: the Mariners lose in an all new and unfamiliar way,
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Speaker 2: and that is by scoring early and then somehow getting
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Speaker 2: blown out when they put five runs on the board.
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Speaker 2: Yankees won ten to five over the MS. Their slide continues.
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Speaker 2: Seattle at fifty six and sixty five on the season
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Speaker 2: and in an unimaginable nine games under five hundred. I
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Speaker 2: can't even process that. No, it doesn't seem vial five
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Speaker 2: and a half games back in the American League West
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Speaker 2: right now from the Houston Astros, who they do have
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Speaker 2: starting Friday, But right now, it's like sweep or bust.
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Speaker 2: Do you sweep that team and jump back into the
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Speaker 2: series and grab some real momentum, not some one game
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Speaker 2: momentum kind of stuff, but some real soul feeding momentum
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Speaker 2: over the weekend or obviously you will have failed and
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Speaker 2: flames this season to accomplish your goals and to be
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Speaker 2: nine games under five hundred, just I mean it hurts
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Speaker 2: it's just sad. It is just a sad feeling right
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Speaker 2: now that I have. It's why I'm not gung ho
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Speaker 2: to even talk about it again here today, Ashley.
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Speaker 3: I completely understand. And yeah, I've had the same thing.
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Speaker 4: It's I'm holding onto this optimism because I think I'm
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Speaker 4: too sad.
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Speaker 2: To let it go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just have to, Like, I can't stop believing
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Speaker 4: in the team. I've got to have They've gotta do
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Speaker 4: something because it can't really end this way this year.
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Speaker 3: It can't be this sad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he wouldn't think, I say, hold on to it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, mathematically, yeah, there's still a chance. But man,
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Speaker 2: we got to see them play good baseball. It just
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Speaker 2: feels like forever since we've seen them stack back to
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Speaker 2: back wins together, like good baseball performances together, And so
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Speaker 2: here they sit in this even lower state than they
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Speaker 2: were yesterday, nine games under five hundred. I don't even
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Speaker 2: want to it's hard to even push it past my
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Speaker 2: lips to say that. All right, let's take a look
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Speaker 2: at your other headlines. Brought to you by Frostbrewed Cores
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Speaker 2: Light Mariners. We'll try to once again salvage a game
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Speaker 2: from a three game series. They'll take on the Yankees
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Speaker 2: today at ten to thirty five. Logan Gilbert versus Yankee
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Speaker 2: left hander Max Freed. That is your pitching matchup. NBA,
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Speaker 2: the Lakers sold yesterday for twelve point five billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: The real story there is not that that's the record.
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Speaker 2: The real story is why did their own or after
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Speaker 2: like fifteen minutes owning the Lakers decide to sell them already?
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Speaker 2: What is happening? There has to be an underlying story
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Speaker 2: and it must be fascinating. Also from the NBA yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, who at one point was drafted by the
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Speaker 2: Seattle SuperSonics with the fourth overall pick in the draft,
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Speaker 2: after an eighteen year career, has decided to hang them up.
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Speaker 2: He has retired and certainly had a fabulous career, even
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Speaker 2: though he did rub some people wrong along the way.
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Speaker 2: Dude played hard, a freakishly good athlete and had one
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Speaker 2: of the great seasons in NBA history. It's happened since,
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Speaker 2: but at the time it hadn't happened in a long
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Speaker 2: time and was thought of as being unthinkable that somebody
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Speaker 2: could average a triple double and he did it. What
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Speaker 2: a great career for Russell Westbrook. Husky's camp continues, so
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Speaker 2: we're gonna be out there next week, so make sure
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Speaker 2: you're listening. Camp Cleland's gonna join me for a whole
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Speaker 2: show or two next week out at Huskies camp. Excited
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Speaker 2: about that, of course. We're broadcasting from Seahawks training camp,
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Speaker 2: where they will play their preseason opener Saturday at five
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Speaker 2: o'clock at home against the Dallas Cowboys. The NFL preseason
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Speaker 2: schedule gets underway tonight. Without further ado, let's chat with
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Speaker 2: our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg, Good Morry. Preseason football starts tonight. I
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Speaker 2: was talking to Ashley earlier. I'm like, every year I
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Speaker 2: get excited that we get preseason football and at lasts
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Speaker 2: about a drive and a half and then I'm ready
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Speaker 2: for the regular season. Where do you after twenty years
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Speaker 2: on the beat? How does Greg Bell feel about preseason football?
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Speaker 6: Well, it used to be that starters played when I
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Speaker 6: first started covering. Now they don't play at all, and
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Speaker 6: so it's for the bottom of the roster and special
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Speaker 6: teams players. And how do the rookies look? And Mike
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Speaker 6: McDonald hinted the other day that they're going to have
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Speaker 6: a new way to do the quarterbacks playing time during
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Speaker 6: the preseason. I don't know if that means Jalen Milroe more.
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Speaker 6: He had the entire Green Bay game the third game
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Speaker 6: last preseason. I don't know if that means Sam Donald
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Speaker 6: does a little more than did last I don't know.
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Speaker 6: So that was a little bit of mystery there that
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Speaker 6: we may find out on Saturday. I can't imagine Donald
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Speaker 6: even sees the field. But yeah, what's it really is
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Speaker 6: from a business and fan experience standpoint, it's the biggest
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Speaker 6: rip off in sports. They charge regular season prices, they
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Speaker 6: make the season ticket holders by him. Used to be,
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Speaker 6: you remember this in the Midwest. Used to be they
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Speaker 6: would play at college stadiums or even high school stadiums.
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Speaker 6: Stehawks have had preseason games in Joe Alby stadium in Spokane.
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Speaker 6: But now the owners win all that revenue for themselves
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Speaker 6: and roll it into the season ticket package, so they
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Speaker 6: don't do that anymore. There are no neutral site games,
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Speaker 6: there's no college campus preseason games anymore.
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Speaker 7: I covered a.
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Speaker 6: Game at the Sun Bowl and El Paso between the
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Speaker 6: Raiders and the Cowboys. They don't do that stuff anymore.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, let's move on. Yeah, I'd just I'd rather
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Speaker 6: just do three more weeks of training camp practices and
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Speaker 6: go right into the game.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm sure you're going to get more clarification today,
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Speaker 2: and so it's probably a question I'll repeat tomorrow. But
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Speaker 2: as a reminder, like Mike McDonald first preseason game, what
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Speaker 2: in two years of being on the job have you learned?
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Speaker 2: Is what he's trying to get out of that preseason opener?
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Speaker 2: And who and who will and won't play in the game.
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Speaker 6: Well, his younger starters typically played last year when he
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Speaker 6: was trying to get the offensive line cohesive, they played
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Speaker 6: longer than the other starters. But now their five are
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Speaker 6: all returning back, so I can't imagine they're going to play.
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Speaker 6: Gray's Abel, for instance, isn't a rookie anymore. He doesn't
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Speaker 6: need to play. But a guy like Jeneran Price, lead
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Speaker 6: running back, a rookie first round Picky returned to practice yesterday.
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Speaker 6: I mean it was a walk through in every sense
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Speaker 6: of the word. No running at all, complete walking. It
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Speaker 6: was the act practice alignment communication technique. McDonald just wants
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Speaker 6: him to do it right slowly, then to move and
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Speaker 6: do anything physical. So that's what yesterday's practice was. In
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Speaker 6: bucket hats, t shirts. Generian Price was back. He had
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Speaker 6: missed four practices with the upper leg soreness that McDonald
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Speaker 6: turned to like an NHL coach. But I would see
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Speaker 6: I could see him, for instance, being a starter who
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Speaker 6: would play more than the other starters because he needs
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Speaker 6: the reps and he needs to catch the ball in
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Speaker 6: the NFL, and he's to do some pass blocking and
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Speaker 6: all of that. That might be a one off of
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Speaker 6: a front liner that could play Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: And as much as we've talked about it, I mean
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Speaker 2: is that the thing is that the most interesting thing
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Speaker 2: is to see the running back room showcased on Saturday
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Speaker 2: and see who does step up, who does get the reps,
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Speaker 2: and who does actually perform well. Is that going to
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Speaker 2: be the most interesting thing from a Seahawks fans perspective
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Speaker 2: on Saturday.
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Speaker 6: I think it'll be the one they notice the most
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Speaker 6: because you'll see the carries they'll get the Tromaine Pope
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Speaker 6: syndrome of a guy who might run for one hundred
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Speaker 6: yards in a preseason game, and why isn't he making
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Speaker 6: the team. Well, he's going to run for one hundred yards.
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Speaker 6: Get because you're gonna get all the carries, because then
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Speaker 6: the guys are gonna play, are gonna get the carries.
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Speaker 6: Emmanuel Wilson was a guy who was making a move
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Speaker 6: to get more time with the starting offense. Was carving
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Speaker 6: out a role as a bigger, more physical third down back,
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Speaker 6: and then he pulled up limp and grabbing his upper
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Speaker 6: leg in practice two days ago and wasn't even doing
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Speaker 6: the walk through yesterday, so now he may not play.
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Speaker 6: Jacardia Wright was trying to make a move and he's
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Speaker 6: been around camp for a couple of years now, practice
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Speaker 6: squad player for the Seahawks last year. He had a
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Speaker 6: lower leg injury last week and hasn't practiced since. So
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Speaker 6: Vellas Jones was a wide receiver to start this training camp.
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Speaker 6: He was a running back in the practice squad last year,
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Speaker 6: he was a wide moved to wide receiver to start camp,
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Speaker 6: but they moved me back to running back because of
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Speaker 6: all the injuries and guys not available. So it could
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Speaker 6: be Vellas Jones, it could be guys they just signed
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Speaker 6: here in the last week.
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Speaker 7: TJ.
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Speaker 6: Harden could end up Monday, we may be talking about TJ.
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Speaker 6: Harden running for eighty yards in a preseason game because
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Speaker 6: he'll be one of the only ones available.
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Speaker 2: Greg belllet's with US Seahawks Insider here as we are
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Speaker 2: two days short of the Seahawks preseason opener. Preseason action
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Speaker 2: gets started tonight' different games across the National Football League landscape.
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Speaker 2: Greg joins us nearly every day during the football season
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Speaker 2: at seven oh five thanks to Emerald Queen Casino. All right,
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Speaker 2: let's get the latest on Nick emn Worri. Feels like
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Speaker 2: there's a little bit more information, a little more progress
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Speaker 2: every day. But how great is that progress?
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Speaker 6: Well, again, yesterday, it's hard to tell because they Worthy
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Speaker 6: were just walking in bucket hats and T shirts. But
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Speaker 6: he was out there. He was on the side, not
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Speaker 6: participating and walking through information, but he was.
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Speaker 7: Tossing ball up to himself.
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Speaker 6: But he is at least now on the field on
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Speaker 6: the side, and the day before that he was doing
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Speaker 6: some pass rush drills and steps. It is slow, its incremental,
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Speaker 6: but they still have yesterday. It's four weeks to the
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Speaker 6: day until the opener, so he's got four weeks. His
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Speaker 6: right ankle, right leg looks a little after feed and
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Speaker 6: he's favored it a little bit because he hasn't done
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Speaker 6: anything on it in a month the arthroscopic ankle surgery
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Speaker 6: in July. But he's on track and they expect him
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Speaker 6: to play now. It'll be how he responds to the
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Speaker 6: plan of getting him back up. He doesn't look to
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Speaker 6: me like he's ready to do any fool practicing anytime soon.
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Speaker 6: But it may be a deal where the first time
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Speaker 6: he practices will be position drills and he does that
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Speaker 6: for a few days.
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Speaker 7: And then maybe he'll do group drills.
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Speaker 6: A defense against air, and they will do that for
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Speaker 6: a few days, and maybe then at the end of August,
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Speaker 6: could he start going toward scrimmage. That's just meet suppositioning
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Speaker 6: from what I've seen so far, but it's sure better
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Speaker 6: than a boot and a scooter that the nation saw
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Speaker 6: last week in hard knocks that was fumed at the
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Speaker 6: end of July.
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Speaker 2: Are we gonna have to wait for another episode of
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Speaker 2: Hard Knocks to get Witherspoon contract information and also information
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Speaker 2: on Terry and Arnold, or do we have an update
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Speaker 2: that we can provide here this morning.
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Speaker 6: Well, apparently you need to mount a camera and just
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Speaker 6: have Witherspoon do it soliloqually as he's driving somewhere to
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Speaker 6: get any comments.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, why haven't you done that? Why haven't the News
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Speaker 2: Tribute hooked you up with something like that.
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Speaker 6: I'm married and have a life and one of the
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Speaker 6: practices over and go try to finish the rest of
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Speaker 6: my life. Yeah, that's He didn't comment when we talked
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Speaker 6: to him, and that'll be the last he says to
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Speaker 6: us about it until he signs the deal. I would
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Speaker 6: assume Tara and Arnold. He visited the Giants yesterday. John Harboro,
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Speaker 6: the new coach in New York, was pretty open talking
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Speaker 6: about how we're here to make the team better and
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Speaker 6: we're checking into everything about it. But now the leverage
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Speaker 6: is on. Today is supposed to be, as I haven't
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Speaker 6: seen any reports or indication that has changed. His arraignment
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Speaker 6: date was supposed to be today in Tampa, he's supposed to,
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Speaker 6: assuming Lee will plead not guilty, so he mains out
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Speaker 6: on one million dollars bond. So the question becomes can
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Speaker 6: he play in the Hard Knock second episode? Jolly Lane,
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Speaker 6: one of the Seahawks advisors and assistant to the general manager,
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Speaker 6: John Schneider, said that Jolly Lane told him that he
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Speaker 6: fit the NFL, and some people that they've talked to
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Speaker 6: things he can play during the preseason. Does that mean
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Speaker 6: play while he's out on bond because he is, as
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Speaker 6: I mentioned yesterday, subject to not only the jurisprudence in Florida,
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Speaker 6: but Commissioner Roger Goodell has wide sweeping powers to discipline
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Speaker 6: players that are recked up in things like this and less,
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Speaker 6: and he says has suspended guys for less he can
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Speaker 6: put them on an exemp list indefinitely. So it could
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Speaker 6: be that he could play in the preseason but yet
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Speaker 6: be unavailable for the regular season because he suspended, and
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Speaker 6: Seahorks could potentially sign him for a layaway deal waiting
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Speaker 6: to see how the jurisprudence goes on. Hearing today will
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Speaker 6: be the next legal step in that process, but I
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Speaker 6: can't imagine his case being set unless the accusers flip
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Speaker 6: or decide to change their tune, which happens a lot
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Speaker 6: for reasons. We can surmise unless that happens, if this
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Speaker 6: case runs its course, it's probably not going to be
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Speaker 6: settled anytime soon. We're talking months, and so what's that mean.
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Speaker 6: If the commission doesn't suspend him.
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Speaker 7: Maybe he could play.
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Speaker 6: If the commissioner does to spend him, which is a
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Speaker 6: real possibility, then he could be under contract to some
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Speaker 6: team but not playing.
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Speaker 2: Greg bell our Shawks insider joining us here. Follow is
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Speaker 2: coverage at gebel Seattle on X and of course Thenewstribune
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Speaker 2: dot com. All sorts of good stuff up there, including
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Speaker 2: your coverage a couple of days ago of another fight,
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Speaker 2: and it seems like there been more this year and
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Speaker 2: they seem to be growing. Is this just a simple
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Speaker 2: case of this team needs to stop practicing against one
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Speaker 2: another that maybe uh, Saturday will be good for this
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Speaker 2: team to get some of their you know energy out.
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Speaker 2: And then I'm thinking about that Nashville trip next week,
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Speaker 2: which almost always is just a big giant fight. So
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Speaker 2: has this team just got a little extra you know
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Speaker 2: juice and its stinger right now? What's happening with this team.
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Speaker 2: Why are they Why are they brawling so much?
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Speaker 6: Honestly, chug It's not any different than it's been for
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Speaker 6: the twenty seven years I've covered training camps. Once you
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Speaker 6: get to this point of sixteen seventeen practices against the same.
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Speaker 7: Guys all the time.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And part of the reason McDonald wants to do
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Speaker 6: joint practices for that very reason to go.
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Speaker 7: Hit somebody else.
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Speaker 6: And that is going to happen next week for sure.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday the forty nine ers were having a joint practice
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Speaker 6: with the Titans in Tennessee and two forty nine ers
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Speaker 6: got kicked out of practice and there were four or
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Speaker 6: five different brawls. So the Titans are gonna be well
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Speaker 6: versed in this by the time they get their next week.
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Speaker 6: They won't have Jamal Adams there this time like the
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Speaker 6: last time to see arks were there to chirp with everybody.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, that will happen. The only if it goes
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Speaker 6: like the last two years. The only substantial game like
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Speaker 6: action for the starters will be in those joint practices.
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Speaker 6: It's ones versus ones in a controlled environment, and that's
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Speaker 6: what McDonald put all his starters out and put them
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Speaker 6: on the field and played them, and I'm expecting that
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Speaker 6: to be. That's the reason I'm going to Nashville, frankly,
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Speaker 6: and I expect that Friday week from tomorrow to be
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Speaker 6: the dress rehearsal for the regular season for those starters.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well get ready, get ready for the fights. Went
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Speaker 2: to the fights.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no degrees and.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have that cold beer in country music
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Speaker 2: to look forward to every evening.
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Speaker 6: I'm bringing Wendy this time, so yeah, that's awesome. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's a good place to have a joint practice. In
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Speaker 6: a couple of days, five days there, four days, we'll
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Speaker 6: be bradesting our show.
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Speaker 7: Ten o'clock show from Nashville next Thursday and Friday and
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Speaker 7: Monday night.
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Speaker 2: Very good. All right, last thing, and I want to
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Speaker 2: bring this up. We wrote an article about Anthony Bradford
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Speaker 2: and man, the criticism that this guy has received over
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years. I mean that would break
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Speaker 2: a person that's not secure and confident. What is it
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Speaker 2: about Anthony Bradford's personality that he can laugh it off
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Speaker 2: and just and let it fuel him, or if it
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Speaker 2: doesn't and fuel him at least not let it bother
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Speaker 2: him and get to him personally.
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Speaker 6: Honestly, Chuck, and I've covered him now four years. I've
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Speaker 6: watched him as a rookie from LSU, a four year starter,
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Speaker 6: and now twenty five years old. It's being married and
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Speaker 6: me and a father, and that has changed him his
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Speaker 6: outlook on life. He's appreciative of his baby daughter, he's
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Speaker 6: holding in his arms after practices. It's changed him. He's
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Speaker 6: a different man, very hard when I sat down and
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Speaker 6: talked to him last week. Look the Internet. Anyone with
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Speaker 6: thumbs can put anything out on the Internet and put
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Speaker 6: clips together and try to look like an authority. And
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Speaker 6: most of these guys are Joe Schmo's from Ioho who's
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Speaker 6: never played, but have a platform simply because they have
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Speaker 6: a social media account. And that's the prolification and how
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Speaker 6: that's just lazy, and that's just that. Guys who never
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Speaker 6: played and guys who don't know. The coaches love Anthony Bradford.
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Speaker 6: They love his size, they love his lateral quickness. Yes,
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Speaker 6: he gives up some past blocks in some times they
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Speaker 6: look terrible, and he misses his assignments and sometimes they
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Speaker 6: look terrible. The aggregate, the coaches tell me is that
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Speaker 6: they really think Anthony Bradford had a great season last year,
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Speaker 6: and they are considering whether to give him a new
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Speaker 6: contract or not. And I know a lot of people
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Speaker 6: listening are going what I'm telling you, that's what they
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Speaker 6: really value. The continuity the offensive line. They've loved it.
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Speaker 6: All five starters are back, and let's face it, for
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Speaker 6: ten years we were talking about this offensive line, and
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Speaker 6: last year it was the opposite. We were talking about
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Speaker 6: how much better the offensive line was. Bradford was a
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Speaker 6: part of that. And just because people in mom's basement
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Speaker 6: are putting together videos that make him look like a
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Speaker 6: fool at times, doesn't mean that.
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Speaker 7: He's a fool.
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Speaker 6: I guess that's the.
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Speaker 7: Best way to put it.
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Speaker 6: The people who decide, the people who coach him, the
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Speaker 6: people who are giving him a starting job, think he's
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Speaker 6: a lot better than you do. And the thing that
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Speaker 6: tells me they like Anthony Bradford. They drafted both Stevens
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Speaker 6: and All American guard from Iowa. They traded into the
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Speaker 6: fifth round of pick. They didn't having the fifth round
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Speaker 6: to get Oo Stevens, and I thought, one of the
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Speaker 6: things I'm going to look at in this training camp
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Speaker 6: is how much is bo Stevens going to challenge Anthony
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Speaker 6: Bradford because they have a decision take.
19:08
Speaker 7: On Bradford after this year's contract's ending, So.
19:11
Speaker 6: They're going to give Stevens a little run and audition
19:13
Speaker 6: to see, well, do we have something here and maybe
19:15
Speaker 6: we don't need to resign Bradford because now Stevens can play.
19:18
Speaker 6: Stevens has been completely entrenched on the third team, not
19:21
Speaker 6: even the second team. He hasn't even challenged Christian Haynes,
19:24
Speaker 6: who's had three chances to win Bradford's job and failed
19:27
Speaker 6: in all three with three different line coaches. So it's
19:31
Speaker 6: Anthony Bradford. It makes like secretaryat in the Beaumont Stakes.
19:34
Speaker 6: As far as that competition's going. It's not even closed.
19:37
Speaker 6: So that I know fans, he's a lightning rod. It's
19:42
Speaker 6: a little baffling of how much of a lightning rod
19:44
Speaker 6: is for being a Super Bowl champion, but he is.
19:47
Speaker 7: And he did laugh at off in stride.
19:49
Speaker 6: He says he sees everything.
19:51
Speaker 7: He said.
19:52
Speaker 6: I can't believe people spend their time actually doing that,
19:55
Speaker 6: but he does.
19:56
Speaker 2: Well, I would say the only thing I would say,
19:58
Speaker 2: and for the most part, I agree with you. The
20:00
Speaker 2: only thing i'd say about that. I mean, it's Brian
20:02
Speaker 2: Baldinger that was pointing that stuff out. Last year. It
20:04
Speaker 2: was Hugh Millan pointing that stuff like the really embarrassed.
20:09
Speaker 6: You could do that for a lot of offensive line
20:11
Speaker 6: some really good Trent Williams miss blocks last year. I
20:14
Speaker 6: watched it from the press box. I mean, you could
20:17
Speaker 6: put a montage.
20:18
Speaker 7: Of a lot of guys missing blocks.
20:20
Speaker 6: Bradford had a propensity earlier in his career to miss
20:22
Speaker 6: more than others. But let's really, let's be honest, the
20:27
Speaker 6: bars had been until last year, the bar was really
20:31
Speaker 6: low on good.
20:31
Speaker 7: Offensive line play with the Seahawks.
20:33
Speaker 6: Bradford went above that bar last year, and now they
20:36
Speaker 6: are really valuing the continuity him come back.
20:40
Speaker 7: I don't know.
20:41
Speaker 6: It is a to me. It's a little out of
20:45
Speaker 6: proportion for the overall whole play of the offensive line
20:50
Speaker 6: to constantly single him out all the time.
20:53
Speaker 7: He titus.
20:55
Speaker 6: If he doesn't get resigned of the Seahawks, someone's going
20:57
Speaker 6: to give him a lot of money next year in
20:59
Speaker 6: free agency.
21:00
Speaker 2: All right to the last thirty seconds, what's on at
21:02
Speaker 2: ten o'clock on the Greg Bell Show.
21:05
Speaker 6: We're gonna hear from Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's learning
21:08
Speaker 6: from Ricky White, one of the guys at the bottom
21:12
Speaker 6: of the depth charts, just in the second year, a
21:14
Speaker 6: late round pick last year who barely played. We're going
21:17
Speaker 6: to hear what he's learned. Jackson Smith and Jigby with
21:19
Speaker 6: the NFL Offensive Player of the Year learning from a sixth.
21:21
Speaker 7: Round draft pick who's barely played.
21:25
Speaker 6: Letter Williams, you will hear from him talking about the
21:28
Speaker 6: culture of Mike McDonald's growth from year one to year three,
21:31
Speaker 6: of what he's noticed about the culture builder.
21:33
Speaker 7: Of the Seahawks.
21:34
Speaker 6: And I don't know, should we even bring up the Mariners?
21:37
Speaker 6: Are you doing Abcson the Seahawks now or we reach
21:40
Speaker 6: that point?
21:40
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's just ABC's of the ms. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
21:44
Speaker 2: But we do enough Seahawks. I don't need to. I
21:47
Speaker 2: don't need to create secs.
21:50
Speaker 7: Maybe you do.
21:52
Speaker 6: Is it time to just I don't know if the
21:54
Speaker 6: Marriers we're talking about anymore. They are a subterranean right now.
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Speaker 2: It's bad. It is bad, all right, man. We'll be
22:03
Speaker 2: listening at ten. Thank you very much, Thank you, sir
22:06
Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Arciahawks insider from the News Tribune joining us
22:09
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22:15
Speaker 2: ABC's of the EMS, and it is definitely worth listening
22:18
Speaker 2: to Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Earners lose
22:22
Speaker 2: again yesterday ten to five. The final score put some
22:25
Speaker 2: nine games under five hundred. It's just never in a
22:28
Speaker 2: million years what I dreamt that on August thirteenth that
22:32
Speaker 2: this would be this team's record, And yet here we are,
22:36
Speaker 2: and the ab seeds of the EMS do continue because
22:39
Speaker 2: there are a lot of juicy things to discuss, and
22:42
Speaker 2: since we're back at the beginning of the alphabet. As
22:44
Speaker 2: for Anderson, and there's gonna be this question at the
22:48
Speaker 2: end of the season that you let the season slip
22:51
Speaker 2: away without activating a the top prospect arguably in the
22:56
Speaker 2: entire sport, who's toying with the league that he's in
23:01
Speaker 2: and has since the beginning of the year. You want
23:04
Speaker 2: to talk about an unchallenged straight a student. You know,
23:08
Speaker 2: those kids in the third grade sometimes test out when
23:13
Speaker 2: they're geniuses. They don't keep them in the third grade.
23:17
Speaker 2: They they move them on to advance themselves so that
23:22
Speaker 2: they're not We don't deprive ourselves of developing somebody that
23:27
Speaker 2: can change the world right, well, and Kate Anderson, maybe
23:31
Speaker 2: he could. He could have changed the stars of this
23:34
Speaker 2: team and to not have tapped into that, and now
23:37
Speaker 2: you're practically out of it. So does anybody care if
23:41
Speaker 2: he gets activated in September at this point, Ashley, Oh,
23:45
Speaker 2: if we're sitting here out of it, maybe you just
23:47
Speaker 2: put him in bubble wrap and just be done for
23:49
Speaker 2: the season at this point, rather than activate him to
23:52
Speaker 2: a team that doesn't have anything to play for in
23:56
Speaker 2: a week or two. I think he could have been
23:58
Speaker 2: you the moment you traded Luis Castile. Maybe you don't
24:01
Speaker 2: bring him up because you can't even figure out six starters,
24:03
Speaker 2: but the moment you traded Luis Castillo, I think I
24:06
Speaker 2: could have found a role for him, whether that's out
24:08
Speaker 2: of the pen, maybe it's long relief. I mean, we've
24:11
Speaker 2: had a few situations here in the last week and
24:13
Speaker 2: a half where our starting pitcher has only gone five innings.
24:17
Speaker 2: Maybe you throw them in there for three four innings.
24:19
Speaker 2: Not a piggyback where you determine it before the game starts.
24:23
Speaker 2: But maybe there was a role that Kate Anderson, certainly
24:26
Speaker 2: in this series, when you're desperate and all these lefties
24:30
Speaker 2: that the Yankees put in their starting lineup. It just
24:33
Speaker 2: feels like, if you were desperate and you have this
24:37
Speaker 2: weapon in the miners that not a single Yankee hitter
24:40
Speaker 2: has seen this in their entire lives, and he's made
24:45
Speaker 2: mence meat of the competition that he's faced this year.
24:48
Speaker 2: Was it a mistake not to activate him this week
24:52
Speaker 2: so that you had that weapon coming out of the
24:55
Speaker 2: bullpen if nothing else out of the bullpen in the
24:58
Speaker 2: right situation. I mean, I.
25:02
Speaker 4: Would hate to have think that this whole season goes
25:04
Speaker 4: by and we wasted the opportunity to allow him to
25:07
Speaker 4: help us, to benefit our team, to do something. And
25:10
Speaker 4: if he just came up in September when we're out
25:12
Speaker 4: of it and it was like, well, let's just have
25:13
Speaker 4: a look at him. No, I mean, because now I'm
25:15
Speaker 4: gonna worry, he's gonna get hurt and something weird's gonna happen.
25:18
Speaker 4: So I definitely I would. I do think this would
25:21
Speaker 4: have been the right time. Maybe they didn't want to
25:22
Speaker 4: do it on a long road trip or you know,
25:24
Speaker 4: the whole road trip. Maybe they want to do it
25:26
Speaker 4: at the end of the road trip.
25:27
Speaker 2: I don't know.
25:28
Speaker 4: I I start to wonder a lot of things that
25:31
Speaker 4: I just question with with things in general, but this
25:34
Speaker 4: would be a big one because yeah, it's time for him.
25:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I made this reference yesterday. It's when
25:41
Speaker 2: Thanos got the five Infinity Stones, he put him in
25:44
Speaker 2: the glove and he used it immediately. I mean, he
25:47
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna linger around to see if Iron Man came
25:51
Speaker 2: up with a new weapon to stop him. Like as
25:53
Speaker 2: soon as he got him, it went right into action, Like,
25:56
Speaker 2: you know, we have this weapon, and it's like we're
25:59
Speaker 2: putting it on the top of our car and forgetting
26:01
Speaker 2: about it and driving it away. Imagine Thanos's glove with
26:05
Speaker 2: all the Infinity Stones just rolling over into a ditch
26:08
Speaker 2: because he forgot and put it on the top of
26:10
Speaker 2: the car because he was carrying two pies at the time.
26:13
Speaker 2: I mean that's how it kind of feels like, Kate Anderson,
26:16
Speaker 2: we're gonna just not use him and we're just gonna
26:19
Speaker 2: waste him in a season in which the goal was
26:22
Speaker 2: to win the World Series and we're never really gonna
26:26
Speaker 2: be able to activate this weapon in time to help
26:29
Speaker 2: us do that, to help us overcome some of these hurdles.
26:33
Speaker 2: And I fear that it's gonna feel like a waste
26:35
Speaker 2: at the end of the year. And rather than activate
26:37
Speaker 2: him in September, if we're out of it, I'd bubble
26:40
Speaker 2: wrap him and get him ready for next season. I
26:42
Speaker 2: don't see any point in activating him if we're out
26:44
Speaker 2: of it, that's for sure.
26:45
Speaker 4: No, no, exactly, because the last thing you want to
26:48
Speaker 4: have happen is you bring him in meaningless situations just
26:51
Speaker 4: to give him some time up here, and he gets hurt.
26:52
Speaker 2: Yeh BS four bunting. Look, I am not a big
26:57
Speaker 2: bunt guy, but I have said this very clearly. I mean,
27:01
Speaker 2: we bunted too much once upon a time in baseball,
27:05
Speaker 2: and that was course corrected by analytics. But the fact
27:09
Speaker 2: that this is a tool that has been in the
27:13
Speaker 2: tool shed of every baseball franchise for one hundred years
27:17
Speaker 2: to get runners into scoring position, and to just say
27:23
Speaker 2: we can't use that tool, we can never use that tool.
27:27
Speaker 2: It's outdated. No no, no, no, no no. It still
27:30
Speaker 2: serves a function now. And then the reason why it
27:33
Speaker 2: looks so bad when sometimes teams do it is because
27:37
Speaker 2: you do it so infrequently. Nobody practices bunting. Nobody's good
27:41
Speaker 2: at it anymore, and There is a difference between bunning
27:44
Speaker 2: in a cage and bunning one hundred mile per hour
27:48
Speaker 2: fastball or ninety two mile per hour slider. Everything with movement.
27:53
Speaker 2: There is a huge difference between that, and so you
27:56
Speaker 2: have to be practiced at that. Well, we have this
27:58
Speaker 2: twenty one year old shot who can't hit a lick
28:01
Speaker 2: right now, and yet he's already proven this is a
28:05
Speaker 2: skill in his tool bag. Last night we jumped out
28:08
Speaker 2: to a three to nothing lead three times. Cal Rawley
28:12
Speaker 2: got on in front of cold Emerson with nobody out
28:15
Speaker 2: once with runners at first and second, and we don't
28:18
Speaker 2: once let Colt Emerson lay down a bunt, which he
28:22
Speaker 2: can do. We have him swing for a three run homer.
28:25
Speaker 2: He goes zero for four with four ks. Right now.
28:28
Speaker 2: He's overmatched at the major league level. Why can't we
28:32
Speaker 2: try something else. We needed to stack runs last night,
28:37
Speaker 2: and yet it doesn't matter, Ashley. We can be up
28:39
Speaker 2: three down, three up, six down, six up, one tiede
28:44
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. We're always just playing for the three run
28:48
Speaker 2: homer rather than stacking runs when we have an opportunity
28:51
Speaker 2: to do it. Colt Emerson can't hit right now, and
28:55
Speaker 2: if we're gonna put him in the lineup every day
28:56
Speaker 2: for his defense. If we have the opportunity for him
29:00
Speaker 2: to use a skill like bunting, which he possesses, why
29:04
Speaker 2: aren't we laying one down in that situation and just
29:07
Speaker 2: trying to get a fourth run, maybe a fifth run
29:09
Speaker 2: at that moment, and not count on the fact that
29:12
Speaker 2: the Yankees can't overcome a three run deficit.
29:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I agree, especially if you watched the Yankees
29:18
Speaker 4: defense yesterday. They were sloppy at times, and they were
29:20
Speaker 4: having some issues, you know, controlling the ball, and so
29:23
Speaker 4: why not do something that's at least putting the ball
29:26
Speaker 4: in play.
29:27
Speaker 3: Because you're going to create the opportunity.
29:30
Speaker 4: And when you're just sitting there swinging for the fences
29:32
Speaker 4: every time and hoping that he runs into one, I mean,
29:34
Speaker 4: you're missing.
29:35
Speaker 3: All of that opportunity, all of that possibility.
29:38
Speaker 2: It's the only strategy we have right now. And if
29:41
Speaker 2: that's organizationally, if that's Jerry, then shame on Cherry. If
29:46
Speaker 2: that's Justin, then shame on Justin. If that's Dan, shame
29:50
Speaker 2: on Dan. If it's a collective, shame on all of them.
29:53
Speaker 2: We have one way to score runs, and that's to
29:57
Speaker 2: get a hopefully get a guy on, and then hit
30:01
Speaker 2: a home run. That's our only way that we can
30:04
Speaker 2: score runs in twenty twenty six. And we do have
30:07
Speaker 2: guys with the skill set to lay down bunts, and
30:10
Speaker 2: Cole Emerson's one of them. And yet wasn't even considered
30:13
Speaker 2: last night, wasn't even thought about last night, and yet
30:18
Speaker 2: it probably should have been done three at bats in
30:20
Speaker 2: a row.
30:21
Speaker 3: Quite frankly, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
30:23
Speaker 2: Finally, ce Us four Castillo, My goodness, now this is
30:29
Speaker 2: a truly Mariner thing. Yep that within two starts, Luis
30:34
Speaker 2: Castillo looks like the best pitcher in baseball. Last night?
30:37
Speaker 2: What seven innings, one hit, shutout ten k's with a
30:42
Speaker 2: brand new, good looking haircut out on the mound. Last night,
30:47
Speaker 2: Luis Castillo dominated for the Chicago White Sox, his new team,
30:51
Speaker 2: and he looked very happy doing it, while our guys
30:55
Speaker 2: once again looked very sad in losing their sixth tough
30:59
Speaker 2: one tonight in a row.
31:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was I mean one when I saw the
31:03
Speaker 4: picture of him because it was his first home start
31:05
Speaker 4: or whatever, and I saw the picture and his short
31:07
Speaker 4: hair was like, well, that's Ai, that's not Luis castile
31:09
Speaker 4: and it had like the stats and everything, his ten strikeouts,
31:12
Speaker 4: and I said, why are they giving him a haircut?
31:14
Speaker 4: What's happening? And then I was like, oh no, that's real.
31:15
Speaker 4: And I went and saw a video and he's turning
31:17
Speaker 4: around and giving his rock you know, fist, oh boy,
31:20
Speaker 4: and I'm like, god, I missed that. We didn't get
31:22
Speaker 4: to see that at all this year.
31:24
Speaker 2: That was our rock.
31:25
Speaker 3: That's our rock.
31:25
Speaker 2: What are you playing with our rock for?
31:27
Speaker 3: And I get why we traded him, but yeah.
31:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get why we traded him.
31:30
Speaker 3: But the same time, it is, as you said, so
31:33
Speaker 3: very Mariners, so.
31:34
Speaker 2: Very Mariner that you could trade a guy that you
31:36
Speaker 2: couldn't figure out whether or not he was a starter,
31:38
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden he's pitching like his prime.
31:43
Speaker 7: All right.
31:43
Speaker 2: Coming up next, Chenna Nwosu's gonna join us at our
31:46
Speaker 2: set Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We have
31:49
Speaker 2: our next guest. We've never had him on the morning
31:52
Speaker 2: show before. And I want to get the name right,
31:54
Speaker 2: because guys like you get your name pronounced mispronounced all
31:58
Speaker 2: the time, asked Jackson Smith and Jickba about that. So
32:02
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I've been pronouncing it
32:04
Speaker 2: right your entire time here in Seattle, Chenna NWOSU?
32:09
Speaker 7: Is that it? Oh?
32:10
Speaker 2: Man? Why can't we hear you now? Oh all right,
32:14
Speaker 2: hold on, I should have checked your mic before then.
32:18
Speaker 2: Uh all right, yeah, try to those. Let's see we
32:20
Speaker 2: can throw those on him. Sorry about that, And then
32:23
Speaker 2: and yet all of a sudden I could hear them
32:24
Speaker 2: right then in there. All right, let's go, there we go.
32:28
Speaker 2: There you are, you can hear yourself? Yeah, there we go?
32:31
Speaker 7: All right?
32:31
Speaker 2: One man operation around here?
32:34
Speaker 7: Yeah?
32:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right? So do I have it right?
32:38
Speaker 2: I got it right? Okay, all right. You've had a
32:41
Speaker 2: difficult with difficulty with people your entire life. Screwing that up.
32:45
Speaker 7: Man.
32:45
Speaker 8: I've heard everything, man, I've heard it all. It's fun
32:48
Speaker 8: to hear somebody say it right. All right, Well, great
32:51
Speaker 8: to have you with us. How's it feel to be
32:53
Speaker 8: World champs? Coming to training camp?
32:55
Speaker 2: Feels great?
32:56
Speaker 6: Man?
32:57
Speaker 9: Nine years in, you know, I never thought it get
33:00
Speaker 9: to this point. You know, people play their entire careers
33:02
Speaker 9: whenever seeing a championship. So I'm blessed to be able
33:05
Speaker 9: to have that accomplishment and you know, go into another
33:07
Speaker 9: season trying to repeat it.
33:09
Speaker 2: When did you feel last year like this is different,
33:13
Speaker 2: this team's different, We're gonna shock the world here. When
33:17
Speaker 2: did that strike you that that was a possibility.
33:19
Speaker 9: I'll probably say the most memorable moment that I experienced
33:23
Speaker 9: that was the Jacksonville game. For defound speaking defensively, of course,
33:27
Speaker 9: that was just a game where everybody was making plays
33:30
Speaker 9: across the whole defense. Everybody up front was attacking the quarterback,
33:34
Speaker 9: rushing together, communicating is one and we're playing like that,
33:38
Speaker 9: we're unstoppable. So when we finally saw that all come
33:40
Speaker 9: to life where everybody on the defense is on the
33:43
Speaker 9: defensive line is communicating, everybody's you know, helping each other out,
33:46
Speaker 9: everybody celebrating each other. Yeah, that's when I kind of
33:49
Speaker 9: knew we had something special.
33:52
Speaker 2: And we can win it all. Yeah, that's what a
33:54
Speaker 2: lot of people keep commenting on and watching you guys
33:57
Speaker 2: on hard knocks. It's like, my goodness, I don't do
34:00
Speaker 2: football teams typically get along this well. I mean, you
34:04
Speaker 2: guys just seem so team oriented that you have each
34:08
Speaker 2: other's backs. I mean, is that the cameras fooling us?
34:11
Speaker 7: Is that?
34:12
Speaker 2: Is that legitimate? And have you ever experienced anything like
34:15
Speaker 2: that at any time in your playing career, a group
34:17
Speaker 2: this tight.
34:18
Speaker 9: It's all legit, man, it's all legit. That's who we are,
34:21
Speaker 9: even before the cameras. That's what we were doing last year.
34:23
Speaker 9: Hard Knox is just now, you know, recording it and
34:26
Speaker 9: everybody's now seeing it for their own eyes. But it's
34:29
Speaker 9: something we've been doing. We've been connected, we've been together
34:31
Speaker 9: like this, we established and you know, it's just gonna
34:35
Speaker 9: keep going. It's what get us to the top. And
34:37
Speaker 9: as far as a group that's been this connected that
34:38
Speaker 9: I've been on personally, I can't say I have. I
34:41
Speaker 9: have to probably think back to when you're playing with
34:42
Speaker 9: your little cousins in like you know, you know, middle school. Yeah,
34:46
Speaker 9: the close last time you be that connected. Other than that, professionally, no,
34:49
Speaker 9: I've never had an experience like this.
34:51
Speaker 2: I don't think I got along with my cousins as
34:53
Speaker 2: well as you guys get along.
34:54
Speaker 7: Yeah.
34:55
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive to see. Chenna Nwosu is our guest here
34:59
Speaker 2: on the radio pro Grim Leonard Williams, So you guys
35:02
Speaker 2: have that us connection as well. Have you ever gone
35:04
Speaker 2: to his house to have salads? Apparently he's got a
35:07
Speaker 2: beautiful garden, in the back round.
35:08
Speaker 7: You know that?
35:09
Speaker 6: Do you know that?
35:09
Speaker 2: I know that?
35:10
Speaker 9: Yeah, he has a beautiful house. You shout out to
35:12
Speaker 9: Leo Man. I've known him since I was in college.
35:15
Speaker 9: He was a junior, I was a freshman. I think
35:16
Speaker 9: I was like seventeen. He might have been like eighteen
35:19
Speaker 9: night nineteen twenty. So I've known Leo a long time.
35:21
Speaker 2: Man.
35:22
Speaker 9: To see the man he's become, and you know how
35:24
Speaker 9: he's grown in so many different areas and aspects of
35:26
Speaker 9: his life, and you know, to watch him be the
35:28
Speaker 9: player he is today is like I've seen that from
35:30
Speaker 9: when we were young. So I mean, he's doing great
35:33
Speaker 9: things and can't wait to see him continue that trajectory.
35:35
Speaker 2: You know, some of my best friends in life have
35:38
Speaker 2: been co hosts that I've had in my radio career.
35:41
Speaker 2: But while we were co hosts, I didn't spend a
35:44
Speaker 2: lot of time with him like off because I see
35:47
Speaker 2: you enough. We talk and we laugh and I probably
35:51
Speaker 2: need to see other people. But what is it like
35:53
Speaker 2: for you and him or other football players? Do you
35:56
Speaker 2: spend time off the field together or or you're my coworker,
36:01
Speaker 2: even though we're best buddies, I see you enough, and
36:06
Speaker 2: you really don't do that off the field.
36:08
Speaker 9: No, we definitely try to make that up okay to
36:11
Speaker 9: be you know, we talk about it togetherness and the connectedness,
36:14
Speaker 9: spending time off the field as what matters a lot.
36:16
Speaker 9: So you know, guys, will I know during the springtime,
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Speaker 9: we went out and went golfing with you know, us linebackers,
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Speaker 9: D line. We'll go golfing together. You know, we'll get
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Speaker 9: on boats, spend time on the water. You know, somebody
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Speaker 9: will grill out their house. Everybody go over and eat
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Speaker 9: like this is those and we'll go to each other's house,
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Speaker 9: play cards, you know, watch the football games Thursday nights,
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Speaker 9: you know, some stuff like that. But that's where the
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Speaker 9: bonds really happened. Is that connected the off the field
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Speaker 9: because we spend so much time here. Even in the building,
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Speaker 9: we're still connected. We're still playing cards, still hanging out,
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Speaker 9: it's still chatting. But it's the off the field stuff
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Speaker 9: where you like know that bond is real.
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Speaker 2: And real special. So do you do the shadow boxing thing.
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Speaker 2: I'll do it all. Are you good at it? I'm
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Speaker 2: one of the best on the team. Who is the best?
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Speaker 2: Who's the number one seed? Me?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 9: No, no, seriously, I'm whooping everybody you can go around.
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Speaker 9: Check my highlights. Man, I'm smacking everybody in there.
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Speaker 2: That's the truth. Uh chennon wolks who are a guest here?
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Speaker 2: All Right, you're number one. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: believe you. You're the number one. I also think your
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Speaker 2: head coach might be the number one coach in the
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Speaker 2: National Football League, and I think it might be the
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Speaker 2: number one defensive mind in the entire sport. Okay, So
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Speaker 2: when you started getting around him, because you've been around
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Speaker 2: I'm sure excellent defensive coaches your entire life. What was
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Speaker 2: it about him that was different and special that sets
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Speaker 2: him apart. I'll probably say his his his willingness to
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Speaker 2: always grow.
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Speaker 9: I feel like a lot of defensive coaches, you know,
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Speaker 9: they're happy with what they run and they're stuck in
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Speaker 9: their ways, and you know they kind of just got
37:45
Speaker 9: to make it work. You know, he's always figuring out
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Speaker 9: what's the next best thing, how to put players in
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Speaker 9: the right positions to be successful, and he's always trying.
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Speaker 2: To expand his game.
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Speaker 9: You know, he never wants to you know, know what
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Speaker 9: the right hand, you know, the left hand's doing with
37:58
Speaker 9: the right you know, kind of sort of things.
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Speaker 2: So he's always grown.
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Speaker 9: He's always figuring out ways to be better, put guys
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Speaker 9: in different positions to throw people off or you know,
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Speaker 9: change things up and not give you the same look.
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Speaker 9: And I really appreciate that because it keeps us on
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Speaker 9: our toes and unlocks abilities that you know, seeing other
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Speaker 9: guys being like, oh he can do that too, that's awesome.
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Speaker 9: You never know because usually you line up this is
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Speaker 9: who you are, this is what you gotta do, this
38:18
Speaker 9: is what they tell you you are. But Mike puts
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Speaker 9: all guys in different positions to see what they can do,
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Speaker 9: and you realize guys who have never you know, done
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Speaker 9: this can do that and ad vice versa. So's it's
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Speaker 9: awesome to see and hit him display other people's talents
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Speaker 9: on the field.
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Speaker 2: Way his mind works, he's probably amazing at shadow boxing
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Speaker 2: that yeah, I would think he's terrible. Unfortunately I figured
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Speaker 2: he'd be. You're out there shadow boxing, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: he sends his foot on a blitz, you know, and
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that coming.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Mike, he refuses to shadow box. We're gonna ge
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Speaker 9: him up there one. He can't keep running forever. You
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Speaker 9: coming like, don't worry. Man, you up there next man,
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Speaker 9: you and Nico, let's go.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, you've never had to defend a super
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Speaker 2: Bowl championship. How do you feel about your status and
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Speaker 2: doing that? Right now?
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Speaker 9: Sitting here with me, I feel confident. You know, the
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Speaker 9: majority of our team is back. Of course, we lost
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Speaker 9: some key pieces you know that are going to go
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Speaker 9: out to do great things. So you know, congratulations to them.
39:15
Speaker 9: You know, when your super Bowl team, everybody tries to
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Speaker 9: pick from that of course, so that's expected. But I
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Speaker 9: feel like the majority of our team is back. You know,
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Speaker 9: everybody's hungry again.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 9: The feeling we left off last year was kind of like, yeah,
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Speaker 9: we won the super Bowl, but like what's next. You know,
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Speaker 9: we were you know, we were beating guys, you know,
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Speaker 9: kicking it, sorry sick, kicking ass, you know, for so long,
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Speaker 9: and so we just like wanted didn't want it to stop,
39:36
Speaker 9: you know, we wanted to keep going.
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Speaker 2: So it's like, what's next.
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Speaker 9: So now that we're back, I feel like, guys, you know,
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Speaker 9: there's still we're still kind of underdogs. People still talking
39:43
Speaker 9: about other teams got better eyes and us whatever. You know,
39:45
Speaker 9: we're just putting our fedal to the metal where we're down,
39:48
Speaker 9: we're grinding, you know, we're building off what we did
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Speaker 9: last year. We're just gonna keep pushing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's do it. Have a great camp, man.
39:55
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're actually getting to start a season
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Speaker 2: where you're not coming off an injury and rehabbing and uh,
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Speaker 2: let's just unlock it for seventeen games.
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Speaker 7: What do you say?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean last year was the first year, you know,
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Speaker 9: like I came off injury. Of course, no training camp,
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Speaker 9: none of that. So it's kind of like I had
40:11
Speaker 9: to just go straight into it. But I was fortunate,
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Speaker 9: know I was. I was blessed, you know, no injury
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Speaker 9: that season. I missed the first game, but played the
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Speaker 9: rest of the season all through playoffs. So I was
40:18
Speaker 9: happy to finally finish the season come out healthy.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 9: I was just talking to I was just talking to
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Speaker 9: Nassa about that just earlier today, Like just not not
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Speaker 9: taking that for granted, and you know, just putting my
40:30
Speaker 9: all into the off season, making sure I'm prepared for
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Speaker 9: this year, and I can't wait to put my skills
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Speaker 9: on display and you know, remind people what I can
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Speaker 9: do again and.
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Speaker 2: You know, to go out there and give it my all. Well,
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Speaker 2: you're a difference maker, So go out there and make
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Speaker 2: a difference. Now that you've got that taste of touchdown
40:44
Speaker 2: and in your mouth. Yeah, I expect a couple of those. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: a couple of those. At least now I know how
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Speaker 2: to get it done. Hey, great to have you on.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I'm a great year. Appreciate it
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