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Chuck in the Morning 8-4 Hour 3: Mike Sando's QB Tiers, ABC's of the Mariners and the rant gets clarified... · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Every year our own NFL insider, Mike Sando from the
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Speaker 1: Athletic who lives right here among us in the great
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Speaker 1: state of Washington. Well, he releases his NFL quarterback tiers
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Speaker 1: and the entire globe goes bonkers. And joining us now
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Speaker 1: to discuss his brand new list fresh off the presses
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Speaker 1: here this morning, is in fact, the author himself, Michael Sando.
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Speaker 2: Hi Mike, how are you doing. It's a great day.
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Speaker 1: It's a great day. It's a great day. It's tears day,
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Speaker 1: It's Quarterback Tiers day.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you explain this because I wouldn't do
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Speaker 1: it nearly as well as you would. So why is
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Speaker 1: your quarterback Tiers list different than all the other lists
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Speaker 1: that we've been reading here for the last month from
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Speaker 1: other publications, Lesser than publications.
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Speaker 2: Lesser than yeah those yeah, yeah, well number one. I
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Speaker 2: think it's the first quarterback tiers, right, I mean, you
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Speaker 2: got the original, and then it's hard to do, you know,
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Speaker 2: talking talking to fifty people that are coaches and executives
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Speaker 2: in the league with the you know, I think I've
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Speaker 2: got eight gms, five assistant gms, five former gms, a
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Speaker 2: handful of utter executives. I think there's nine head coaches
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Speaker 2: this year, five offensive coordinators, ten defensive coordinators. Just having
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Speaker 2: the trust with all of those people and really, you know,
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Speaker 2: able to get the unvarnished opinions and truths wasn't something
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Speaker 2: that I could have done in you know, my first
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Speaker 2: fifteen years of covering the league. Really, so it takes
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Speaker 2: a lot of time and relationships to be able to
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Speaker 2: do it, and I think it hopefully shows in the
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Speaker 2: product that is differentiated from you know, most of the
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Speaker 2: stuff that's out there. Doesn't mean we're all going to
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Speaker 2: agree with it, doesn't mean all those guys are right,
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Speaker 2: but we do have a criteria as well, and I
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Speaker 2: think when you It's one of the things I we
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Speaker 2: stress about Hall of Fame voting is like, if someone
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Speaker 2: doesn't have a criteria for something, then how good is
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Speaker 2: the list? Right, NFL one hundred list? Okay, what's the criteria?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Wiersman didn't make it any Yeah, sorry,
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Speaker 2: you know that type of stuff. And then the other
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Speaker 2: part that I think he separates it is everyone in
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Speaker 2: the league watches the quarterbacks. Like if I did this
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Speaker 2: with you know, other positions or things, I think it's
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Speaker 2: harder to get the good results. I think quarterbacks really
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Speaker 2: are something that everyone watches enough to have a good opinion.
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Speaker 1: Now, do they rank them an order like you end
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Speaker 1: up doing, or do they just put them on teams?
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Speaker 2: They just put the tier in. They'll tell me things
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Speaker 2: like yeah, I think he's a low too, or whatever.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't really factor into the to the math, you know,
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Speaker 2: with fifty people. If he's a low two to someone,
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Speaker 2: he's going to be a high three to someone else
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Speaker 2: and it'll all even out. So I average out those,
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Speaker 2: but no everybody. We do him in alphabetical order by
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Speaker 2: the team. So we start with Atlanta in Arizona, and
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Speaker 2: if they're not ready to quit after doing Tua and
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Speaker 2: you know, Panix and Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew, then
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Speaker 2: they're good that we can do the rest of the
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Speaker 2: teams in alphabetic quarterer.
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Speaker 1: Mike Sando is with us here, our NFL insider from
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Speaker 1: the Athletic. His quarterback tiers are out, and it's time
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Speaker 1: to go over some of it. We don't want to
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Speaker 1: go through all of it. Yeah, people to go check
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Speaker 1: it out and read it and get the insight from Mike.
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Speaker 1: But I'll go ahead and ignore the local quarterback to
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Speaker 1: start the conversation. Let's go to that very top tier
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Speaker 1: where only four guys end up making it on the
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Speaker 1: very top tier. And frankly, I'm a little surprised that
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is still number one.
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Speaker 3: What about you?
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's barely number one. He's got one Tier
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Speaker 2: two vote forty nine and tier you know, Tier one
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Speaker 2: so it's only one way to go is down basically.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it worked out good. Josh Allen,
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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford two Tier two votes each. I mean that's
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Speaker 2: not many, but I like the order of Mahomes than
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Speaker 2: Alan Stafford then Borrow. I think you can make a
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Speaker 2: case for Lamar Jackson being there too. He was last year.
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Speaker 2: He slipped to the top of two. But as long
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Speaker 2: as he's ahead of the Justin Herberts of the world,
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Speaker 2: I like it at the top. I think it's a
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Speaker 2: good clean list. I feel like historically there's usually about
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Speaker 2: four Tier one quarterbacks and then there's kind of a
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Speaker 2: fifth or sixth guy sometimes who rotate in, you know,
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Speaker 2: off of a great year, who are really Tier two
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Speaker 2: over the course of their careers. So I like how
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Speaker 2: it came out. I'm fine with Mahomes, you know, getting
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Speaker 2: getting one Tier two vote. I think if he got
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Speaker 2: more than that, I wouldn't have liked it as much,
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Speaker 2: you know, if he was down below those guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Lamar Jackson, and again I'm trying not
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Speaker 1: to go through the entire list, but he.
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Speaker 3: Can go through a lot.
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Speaker 2: We just have to be off in another ten minutes,
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Speaker 2: we can go through every one.
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Speaker 1: He's just off the top tier at number five, but
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Speaker 1: then at number six it's Justin Herbert. I think Justin
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Speaker 1: Herbert is such an interesting name to see at number
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Speaker 1: six because the league and executives and coaches really seem
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Speaker 1: to believe in this guy, and I do too. But
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Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is he's falling short. Whether
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Speaker 1: it's because he's getting beat up or because he can't
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Speaker 1: stay healthy, or he's playing with a cast and having
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Speaker 1: to play one handed out on the football field, whatever
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Speaker 1: the case may be. To me, just he's not producing
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Speaker 1: like top six quarterback in the National Football League. But
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Speaker 1: it seems Mike that everybody believes he has the talent
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Speaker 1: to do so there's.
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Speaker 2: No question that he has a talent. I mean, just
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Speaker 2: if you've ever watched him play, I mean, he's huge,
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Speaker 2: and he can throw it well and he can run
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Speaker 2: it well, and you look at everything there and go, well,
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Speaker 2: there has to be a reason besides him that they're
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Speaker 2: not getting further. Right, and we've seen, you know, we've
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Speaker 2: seen shoot Peyton mannings start of his career. He wasn't
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Speaker 2: killing in the plasts, but he had some MVP type years, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean one of the greatest seasons in the history
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Speaker 2: of the league in two thousand and four. So I
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Speaker 2: think that's what we're waiting to see. And he's the
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Speaker 2: highest ranked guy in this who got votes in Tier three.
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Speaker 2: Three people did Dingham there? You know, I think the
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Speaker 2: fear for him is he's taken so many hits. Is
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Speaker 2: he going to is he going to get a little
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Speaker 2: gun shy, you know, right, So I think this is
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Speaker 2: a huge year for him. I think they do have
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Speaker 2: better weaponry. Obviously, Mike McDaniels had success as a coordinator
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Speaker 2: in the league. He's there now, and so you know,
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Speaker 2: for having this conversation next year, and he still hasn't
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Speaker 2: done anything I expect him to have. I chected him
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Speaker 2: to slide a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's time and and yes, I realize bad
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Speaker 1: offensive lines and taking a beating, but you know I
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Speaker 1: heard that throughout David Carr's career as well, and he
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Speaker 1: was just a guy that couldn't get rid of the football,
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Speaker 1: you know, the bottom line, You just couldn't get rid
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Speaker 1: of the football, don't care how bad his offensive line was.
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Speaker 1: And I'm getting to that point where justin Herbert, you're
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Speaker 1: kind of on the lip of that. You either do
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Speaker 1: it this year or I'm just going to chalk you
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Speaker 1: up as somebody that likes to take a beating.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. If week one is what will probably
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Speaker 2: happen is Week one, his entire offensive line will retire
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Speaker 2: or something, right, So we'll never be able to get
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Speaker 2: a clean, clean analysis on this. I think that was
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Speaker 2: one of the great quotes, and it was how long
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Speaker 2: has he been in the league? Now they've ever won
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Speaker 2: a playoff game? I get it, but like, if you're
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Speaker 2: the guy, at some point, I feel, you know, they've
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Speaker 2: been sniffing around, you should have more accolades at this point.
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Speaker 2: And I totally, I totally hear that. At the same time,
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Speaker 2: I would have a hard time giving him a three.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think he's probably a high tier two quarterback.
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Speaker 3: I'm with it.
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Speaker 1: Mike Sandois with us our NFL insider. You could follow
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Speaker 1: Hi Matt Sando NFL the twenty twenty six Quarterback Tiers
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Speaker 1: t I e rs is live, It is out. We're
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Speaker 1: breaking it down, all right, Let's get to our guy,
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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, we felt should have silenced all of his critics.
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Speaker 1: You've got him in Tier two or they have him
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Speaker 1: in Tier two, but he's pretty close. He's a lot
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Speaker 1: closer to Tier three than tier one. Obviously, I don't
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Speaker 1: agree with that. What are your thoughts on Sam Donald here?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, he's definitely earned everybody's respect,
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Speaker 2: but let's not forget that. You know, they are a
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Speaker 2: team that had an amazing defense and special teams. Probably
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Speaker 2: they could arguably have the best defense and special teams
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Speaker 2: in the league. So when you have that, even Lamar
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Speaker 2: Jackson early in his career as a clear great talent,
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Speaker 2: you know you're not getting as much credit when you
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Speaker 2: win in those ways. And in the Super Bowl, they
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Speaker 2: didn't really need him to do a ton of but
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Speaker 2: they kind of It wasn't like they leaned into Sam Donald, right,
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Speaker 2: they kind of took the ball out of his hands
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Speaker 2: and and won it convincingly, but running the ball and
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Speaker 2: playing great defense. So I think people realize that if
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Speaker 2: you were to put it on him every week to
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Speaker 2: really spin it around and try to be the MVP,
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Speaker 2: there would be limitations to that. It doesn't mean that
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Speaker 2: he can't do it when he needs to on occasion
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Speaker 2: you just want to ask him. There's a whole or
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Speaker 2: two in his game, right, he's gonna probably turn it
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Speaker 2: over a little more. But when shoot NF Championship game,
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Speaker 2: he needed a deal and he did. They're just not
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Speaker 2: doing that every week like the rams RBIs Stafford.
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Speaker 1: Tied for fourteenth is where Sam Donald is on that list,
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Speaker 1: So behind Jaden Daniels, Caleb Williams, Brock Purdy, Jordan Love
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Speaker 1: and many others. So that's where Sam Donald is. He
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Speaker 1: haves some upward mobility. I mean, if it's the same,
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Speaker 1: if he wins the same way this year with defense
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Speaker 1: and special teams and you go back to back, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: does he still climb this list even though he still
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Speaker 1: has the same limitations.
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Speaker 2: I think he does, because right now he has eighteen
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Speaker 2: votes in tier three and I think if you're you know,
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Speaker 2: winning a super Bowl and then do it again the
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Speaker 2: next year, Not that he has to win the super Bowl,
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Speaker 2: but right let's just say playoff team, win a playoff
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Speaker 2: game type of a thing, and he has a good year.
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Speaker 2: I think some of those people that were on the
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Speaker 2: fans over you know, that terrible part of his career before,
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Speaker 2: probably come off and give him his due in two
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Speaker 2: and he rises up. I think that's very much on
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Speaker 2: the table for him.
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Speaker 1: I see Caleb Williams at eleven. I find that one
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Speaker 1: fascinating as well, because I know a lot of people
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Speaker 1: right now have him a lot higher than eleven for
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Speaker 1: some reason. Last year made them believers and obviously number
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Speaker 1: one overall, pick one of one, an incredible talent here.
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Speaker 1: I'm curious what the input was from those that you interviewed,
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Speaker 1: what was sort of the varying commentary when it came
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Speaker 1: to Caleb Williams and his growth.
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Speaker 2: I thought one of the great quotes last year on
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Speaker 2: him in the last Year's Quarterback here says, I think
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Speaker 2: he was in tier three. This guy's going to be
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Speaker 2: a two or a four real quick. People saw volatility
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Speaker 2: in him, you know, and I think there was question
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Speaker 2: marks of how he would do with a you know,
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Speaker 2: by all accounts, a tough coach and Ben Johnson. But
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Speaker 2: clearly he you know, was able to really make miraculous plays.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he made some superstar plays last year. I
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Speaker 2: think in the spotlight playoffs, big games didn't necessarily have
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Speaker 2: you know, that consistency, and he may not because he's
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Speaker 2: going to hold the ball and run around, but he
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Speaker 2: dramatically reduced the number of sacks he took. I mean,
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Speaker 2: just just slashed him even though he was still holding
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Speaker 2: the ball a long time. So I think he would
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Speaker 2: be higher in this if not only were the sacks down,
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Speaker 2: but he was throwing on time, more in the rhythm
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Speaker 2: of the offense, and it looked a little bit more consistent.
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Speaker 2: But you have to give him his due and his
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Speaker 2: ability to you know, go out and win the game,
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Speaker 2: sometimes almost almost by himself in certain situations, in ways
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Speaker 2: making throws that other guys can't make. I mean that
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Speaker 2: one was it against the Rams last year when he
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Speaker 2: looked like he was back pedaling and I don't know
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Speaker 2: how he lobbed it over the top. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 2: like impossible, like and maybe in the history of the game,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, did el Way ever do it like that?
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Speaker 2: You know, it was, It was unbelievable. It was a
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Speaker 2: one of one play. So I think that's why there's
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a you know, a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a divide there, not just a more full throated
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Speaker 2: endorsement and putting him up there with Lamar Jackson at
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Speaker 2: the top of your two Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: There's such a divide. I mean, if you were going
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Speaker 1: to go to a Jalen Hurts wedding, if he was
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Speaker 1: going to marry himself, there would be Uh, do you
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Speaker 1: want to sit on the side that thinks he's overrated
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Speaker 1: or do you want to sit on the side.
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Speaker 3: That thinks he's underrated? Uh?
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Speaker 1: All of the all of the he's underrated because he's
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Speaker 1: got a championship ring. I mean they are convinced he's
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Speaker 1: like a top five quarterback because he won a championship
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Speaker 1: out there, you question his credentials. But those that think
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Speaker 1: he's overrated, man, they just don't see a good quarterback
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Speaker 1: at all who's a product of his environment. So he's
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Speaker 1: right there on the lip. He's barely in tear Tier two.
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Speaker 1: He almost slipped a tier three. What it was the
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Speaker 1: commentary about Jalen Hurts status.
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, that you know, it fell off a little
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Speaker 2: bit around him last year and they still you know,
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Speaker 2: they won eleven games, they still had a good record,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't like they were you know, he was
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Speaker 2: getting over the top to win in the playoffs or
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Speaker 2: make a deep push. I think it's hard in these
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Speaker 2: situations when you have someone you know that there's some
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Speaker 2: limitations with Jalen Hurts, especially when when he has to
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Speaker 2: throw the ball. But they've won a Super Bowl, he's
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Speaker 2: been the MVP. He can throw it over the top
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Speaker 2: with the best of them. I think he's not a
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Speaker 2: you know, consistent passer of the football without having a
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Speaker 2: great offensive line in a run game and having everything going.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, they've had a great defense too,
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Speaker 2: at least lately. So the feeling on Jalen Hurts says like,
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Speaker 2: do you really think that. I mean, I know the
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Speaker 2: Eagle's going to sign him to it. Are they going
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Speaker 2: to give him a raise on a big extension or
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Speaker 2: do you think maybe they have one eye on the horizon.
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Speaker 2: I kind of feel like it could be the latter, don't.
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Speaker 3: You, m Yeah, I do. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: They acquired that first round pick in twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: remember that. I was like when they did that, I
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Speaker 2: was kind of like, you know, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: long has Jalen Hurts their quarterback. That's kind of what
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, they got rid of a j Brown for him,
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Speaker 1: so he better produced this year. He better be better
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Speaker 1: without that distraction this year.
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Speaker 2: I know, But jeez, he's a perfect receiver for Jalen
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Speaker 2: Hurts in the ability to go you know, deep and
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Speaker 2: make big go snatch the football and all of that. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, we'll see where they're at. I think they're
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a transition period offensively, and if
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Speaker 2: he plays well, he won't be part of the transition,
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Speaker 2: you know, if meaning they won't transition him out of
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Speaker 2: there eventually. But I think for him to rise, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's got to do it more with us around him.
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Speaker 1: You been doing this quarterback tiers thing for a while.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen anyone that more people were high on
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Speaker 1: like CJ. Stroud early in his career, that has plummeted
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Speaker 1: after this past season as far. I mean, you've got
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Speaker 1: him on tier number three, and I would think he's
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Speaker 1: falling down the charts with the way that he cused
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Speaker 1: out twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know somebody who really fell was Derek Carr.
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Speaker 2: I think Derek Carr came in and had a little
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Speaker 2: bit of skepticism early, but then played well and showed
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Speaker 2: traits with his arm, and I think he rose pretty
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Speaker 2: high in the tier two with some people thinking, oh
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Speaker 2: this guy could go to a one, and then we
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Speaker 2: sort of saw him kind of the exposed over the course.
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Speaker 2: Now he had terrible situation with the Raiders. You know,
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Speaker 2: the defense really fell off and he was gonna have
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Speaker 2: a harder time winning. But I think people just had
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Speaker 2: ambivalence about the way he played too, just a willingness
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Speaker 2: to stand in there, you know, and and some of
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Speaker 2: his leadership too. And so I think it's a big
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Speaker 2: year for Stroud on a very good team. It's won
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Speaker 2: a playoff game just about every year, I think, every
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Speaker 2: year he's been there, So I do think it's a
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Speaker 2: really big year for him. And the key there, I
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Speaker 2: think is I do think they've upgraded their offensive line,
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Speaker 2: So I think I kind of think Stroud has a
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Speaker 2: better chance getting back into the bottom of two than
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Speaker 2: falling to the bottom of three after this year.
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Speaker 1: Man Hey, I sure was a believer after that season,
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Speaker 1: but man As, that was about as painful a quarterback
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Speaker 1: performance as I think I've seen in the playoffs in
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Speaker 1: my entire lifetime, most recently with C. J.
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Speaker 3: Stroud. So we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Michael Pennock Junior. A lot of interest in him, a
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Speaker 1: lot invested in him here locally about what kind of
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Speaker 1: quarterback he's going to become. I thought he was going
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Speaker 1: to become a great quarterback in the National Football League,
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Speaker 1: or at least a very good one, and yet here
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Speaker 1: he is still not able to solidify a starting job
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. So what's the overarching opinion
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Speaker 1: of Michael Pennock's junior quarter to your executives and coaches.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think number one, durability injuries. That was an
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Speaker 2: issue coming out, and then number two, he doesn't really
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Speaker 2: have that many pitches. He's kind of a fastball thrower,
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Speaker 2: so you know, there's a lot of touch involved taking
16:47
Speaker 2: no one way to take the speed off and really
16:49
Speaker 2: being able to kind of loft it in there when
16:50
Speaker 2: you need to. And he just seems to be a
16:52
Speaker 2: guy who throws fastballs, so that can look really impressive,
16:55
Speaker 2: but the consistency hasn't been there because of it, and
16:58
Speaker 2: now he's coming off of a you know, a major injury.
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Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, it's a great list. As always,
17:04
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time. I know you've
17:06
Speaker 1: got a really busy morning, people pulling you in a
17:08
Speaker 1: million different directions, so we'll let our audience pour over
17:12
Speaker 1: the rest of it online and we will talk to
17:15
Speaker 1: you very soon.
17:15
Speaker 3: All right.
17:16
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
17:18
Speaker 1: Okay, job well done, all right, Mike Sando r NFL Insider.
17:23
Speaker 1: Look at him, look at him showing off with his
17:25
Speaker 1: big quarterback tiers list and his time limitation.
17:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, he's already gone. Didn't even have time
17:32
Speaker 4: to say by Yeah, I.
17:33
Speaker 3: Got to get on.
17:34
Speaker 1: I got a lot of people a lot more important
17:36
Speaker 1: than you, Powell. They want to talk to me today. Basically,
17:39
Speaker 1: if you heard of this guy Ian forness, yeah, yeah,
17:45
Speaker 1: but the tears are out, tears for fears, that's right.
17:51
Speaker 1: Patrick Malmes number one, Josh Allen number two, Matthew Stafford
17:54
Speaker 1: number three, Joe Burrow number four, that's the top tier.
17:57
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson no longer on it. I get that he
18:00
Speaker 1: did not play well last year, he did not look
18:03
Speaker 1: good at all last year, and then you got to
18:06
Speaker 1: go all the way down to tied for fourteenth with
18:09
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield to find the world champion Sam Darnold on
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Speaker 1: the list, and so I get it. I mean it's
18:18
Speaker 1: not I get his argument. It's I just feel like
18:25
Speaker 1: this is a He's got to be closer to the
18:27
Speaker 1: top ten, top ten, right.
18:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, but fourteenth is a little low.
18:31
Speaker 4: Even other lists we've seen have put him low, and
18:33
Speaker 4: it shouldn't be surprising because everyone still thinks he hasn't
18:36
Speaker 4: done anything.
18:37
Speaker 1: I think he's at least knocking on the door of
18:39
Speaker 1: top ten. I put him in my top ten. I
18:42
Speaker 1: continuously think Dak Prescott gets overrated on these lists. But
18:47
Speaker 1: he's got him at number fourteen, behind Jordan Love at
18:50
Speaker 1: number ten, behind Brock Party at number eleven. I guess
18:53
Speaker 1: he was Brock Perdy's backup, but then again one of
18:55
Speaker 1: them as a championship ring aim end that. Yeah, So
19:01
Speaker 1: if you want to check it out, we urge you
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Speaker 1: to do so. Always well done, always very thoughtful. Mike
19:06
Speaker 1: Sando you know pros pro and he goes around the
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Speaker 1: league to fifty different executives and coaches and quizzes them
19:14
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Speaker 1: So check it out. You can follow Mike at Sando NFL.
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Speaker 1: It'll lead you to all sorts of good stuff there
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19:37
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Speaker 4: It's kind of his domain. But I mean his grass
19:44
Speaker 4: is easier since we got turf, so he doesn't have
19:46
Speaker 4: to do that, and he really does. He really isn't
19:49
Speaker 4: much of He's not like a gardener. He's more of
19:51
Speaker 4: a Oh that's got too many branches.
19:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to get out my chainsaw.
19:55
Speaker 3: He's a trimmer.
19:56
Speaker 1: He's a trimmer.
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Speaker 4: Big town everything can to be fixed with some sort
20:00
Speaker 4: of saw apparatus.
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Speaker 1: I've just sit in here thinking, like, man, I could
20:05
Speaker 1: really use the Seahawks yard team, you know. I mean
20:09
Speaker 1: I don't have it at my house, but if I
20:11
Speaker 1: were sitting there at a house that had a big yard, man,
20:14
Speaker 1: that would be one like the thing I think I'd
20:16
Speaker 1: save my money for to have just a team of
20:18
Speaker 1: five guys spend all morning making your making your yard look.
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Speaker 3: As beautiful as possible.
20:24
Speaker 1: And I mean they're going down to the every blade
20:27
Speaker 1: of grass. They'll just cut everything lay of grass for you.
20:31
Speaker 4: I take, yeah, the Seahawks or the Mariners team either one.
20:34
Speaker 1: Then they have a couple of these like rumba things
20:36
Speaker 1: that go and they suck up all of the loose grass.
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Speaker 3: So they just.
20:40
Speaker 1: Run out on the field the whole time. After the
20:43
Speaker 1: humans are done. It's like it's it's an AI operation
20:46
Speaker 1: around here to make this thing look as sexy as possible.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 4: I'm jealous.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I am jealous.
20:53
Speaker 4: Although actually I guess I have a bigger yard too,
20:55
Speaker 4: because then the golf course takes.
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Speaker 1: Care of that part.
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Speaker 3: That's true.
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Speaker 4: I really get the best of all worlds, that's.
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Speaker 3: True, and they probably keep pretty good care of that.
21:02
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the ABC's of the MS
21:04
Speaker 1: and we start anew after all the deadline, that's kind
21:08
Speaker 1: of the end of the calendar year in and of itself,
21:10
Speaker 1: so kind of feels like we're renewed now as we
21:13
Speaker 1: restart the ABC's of the MS, and we're going to
21:15
Speaker 1: go a and that is for Anderson, Kate Anderson, because
21:19
Speaker 1: we are a step closer obviously with the Castillo trade
21:22
Speaker 1: of Kate Anderson being a part of this team. We
21:26
Speaker 1: have felt they have told us with the Seattle Mariners
21:30
Speaker 1: that Kate Anderson will be part of this equation at
21:33
Speaker 1: some point this season as long as it seems feasible.
21:39
Speaker 1: In other words, you had to be in the race,
21:40
Speaker 1: which for a little while it felt like we weren't
21:42
Speaker 1: going to be I'm not sure they're going to use
21:44
Speaker 1: them if we don't stay in the race, for example.
21:48
Speaker 1: But with Castillo being gone, he's obviously our sixth starter
21:53
Speaker 1: in our.
21:54
Speaker 3: Rotation at this point.
21:56
Speaker 1: If anything happens to our top five guys, Ashley's knocking
21:59
Speaker 1: on her head right now, then Kate Anderson the first
22:03
Speaker 1: guy that is going to be added to that rotation.
22:07
Speaker 1: But obviously we want to keep those five guys healthy.
22:10
Speaker 1: We kept Kirby and Hancock for a reason, and so
22:13
Speaker 1: I still believe, and I've always felt it that Kate
22:15
Speaker 1: Anderson was going to play a role on this team.
22:17
Speaker 1: I nicknamed him the September South Paul at the very
22:20
Speaker 1: beginning of the year because I thought we would see
22:22
Speaker 1: him maybe in some critical, crucial situations going down the stretch.
22:27
Speaker 1: And now it's almost inevitable. I mean, we have people
22:31
Speaker 1: saying that he has nothing left to prove in the
22:33
Speaker 1: minor leagues. He has the number one rated prospect in
22:37
Speaker 1: the entire sport. He's not giving up a run. I mean,
22:40
Speaker 1: he's pitching four nights every outing in Arkansas and he's
22:43
Speaker 1: not giving up any runs. And so I don't know.
22:47
Speaker 1: To me, he's got to be like the third grader
22:50
Speaker 1: who has already mastered calculus while the rest of the
22:53
Speaker 1: class is still working on adding and subtracting. So Kate
22:58
Speaker 1: Anderson's gonna need for his own sanity to be promoted
23:03
Speaker 1: and for the betterment of this team. And I'm sure
23:06
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out a role for him coming
23:09
Speaker 1: out of our pen, which is why BS for bullpen.
23:12
Speaker 3: I'm not that.
23:13
Speaker 1: Concerned about our bullpen like so many of you are
23:16
Speaker 1: out there. Our bullpen is the fourth best team era
23:22
Speaker 1: in the entire sport, and they've thrown the fewest innings.
23:26
Speaker 1: And I know Bizardo's struggling right now, but Dominguez is
23:30
Speaker 1: here and that adds a little bit of depth to it.
23:33
Speaker 1: And I think Anderson's gonna be added to this team
23:36
Speaker 1: one way or the other before the end of the year.
23:38
Speaker 1: Plus you're gonna get Ryan Sloan potentially. We know Brash
23:42
Speaker 1: is gonna come back as long as as rehab continues
23:45
Speaker 1: to go. We haven't even seen Carlos Vargas this year,
23:48
Speaker 1: and Cooper Criswell cannot be forgotten about. So I think
23:51
Speaker 1: before the end of the season we're gonna have a
23:54
Speaker 1: dynamite bullpen, which is why I'm not that upset about
23:58
Speaker 1: not adding to it yesterday. Would it have been nice, Sure,
24:01
Speaker 1: I think it would have made everybody feel better, But
24:04
Speaker 1: I've never felt like this was some major primary need.
24:08
Speaker 1: The statistics don't show that. The evidence just isn't there
24:13
Speaker 1: that people should be, you know, standing on ledges because
24:17
Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin didn't add a second reliever at the
24:20
Speaker 1: trading deadline.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think a lot of people are like
24:23
Speaker 4: overly concerned by it. And we've had a lot of
24:25
Speaker 4: people texting this morning, when will we see Cad? When
24:28
Speaker 4: will we see Caid? And they said something about, you know,
24:30
Speaker 4: they've got to change the way that they're pitching right
24:32
Speaker 4: because they're going right now every week once a week,
24:35
Speaker 4: I think for Sloan and Anderson, and so obviously they're
24:38
Speaker 4: going to have to manipulate some things to get the
24:41
Speaker 4: guys ready if they're joining the bullpen, because that's different.
24:44
Speaker 1: Well, it is a different experience, and obviously facing major
24:47
Speaker 1: league hitters is going to be different. But I don't know,
24:51
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind, at least from Anderson a week in
24:54
Speaker 1: Tacoma working at being a reliever and facing Triple A hitter.
25:00
Speaker 1: I mean, the Double A guys tend to be the
25:02
Speaker 1: most talented prospects in your organization, where the Triple A
25:05
Speaker 1: guys seem to be the most like major leaguers. You're
25:10
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of like thirty year olds trying
25:12
Speaker 1: to get back into the league down down at Triple A.
25:15
Speaker 1: But it is you are facing hitters who have faced
25:20
Speaker 1: a lot of hitters who have faced major league pitching
25:23
Speaker 1: which you have not faced at Double A Arkansas. And
25:26
Speaker 1: so maybe Kate Anderson, maybe you can kill two birds
25:30
Speaker 1: with one stone.
25:31
Speaker 3: You get him.
25:33
Speaker 1: Operating out of the bullpen at Triple A and also
25:38
Speaker 1: facing guys who have seen major league pitching and see
25:41
Speaker 1: how he fares. Maybe that's the last piece of this
25:44
Speaker 1: puzzle before he gets activated.
25:46
Speaker 3: I doubt that.
25:47
Speaker 1: They're gonna tournament they're gonna unleash him as a starter,
25:51
Speaker 1: considering that they kept Kirby and Hancock, But I don't
25:54
Speaker 1: rule that out either. But I think for sure he
25:58
Speaker 1: at least has to find a role on this roster
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Speaker 1: before the end of the regular season, and if it's September,
26:06
Speaker 1: if it's a September call up, it's a September call up,
26:09
Speaker 1: but we're not that far away from Kate Anderson contributing
26:12
Speaker 1: to this team.
26:13
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm excited c is for.
26:16
Speaker 1: Cal, Cole and can Zone because the lineup's gonna come
26:20
Speaker 1: out tonight, and I'm not sure exactly how Dan and
26:24
Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin and they will work on it together,
26:27
Speaker 1: just so everybody knows. So nobody Thinkstan it's a complete puppet.
26:32
Speaker 1: They will, I will tell you right now, Justin and
26:35
Speaker 1: Jerry are gonna want to have their say and on
26:36
Speaker 1: how it's lined out, but ultimately it is Dan's decision.
26:41
Speaker 1: They've all told me that, so it'll be curious to
26:45
Speaker 1: see how they do this. You have Donovan coming back,
26:48
Speaker 1: and yet Cole Young seems to be flourishing.
26:51
Speaker 3: In that leadoff spot.
26:53
Speaker 1: Cal of course, is the face of the franchise, and
26:56
Speaker 1: we know how important he is down the stretch here
26:59
Speaker 1: to get back to looking like cal Raley again, and
27:02
Speaker 1: you'd like to believe that he's your cleanup hitter in
27:06
Speaker 1: the new lineup featuring Taylor Ward and Brendan Donovan returning,
27:11
Speaker 1: but with a deeper lineup. Now mean I mean we're
27:15
Speaker 1: down to crunch time. Do you have to hit Cal
27:17
Speaker 1: lower in the lineup. Does he have to drop all
27:19
Speaker 1: the way to maybe seventh in the lineup to accommodate
27:23
Speaker 1: some of these new faces. And then you've got Tom
27:26
Speaker 1: who probably should be a middle of the order hitter
27:29
Speaker 1: for us at this point, but it seems strange heading
27:32
Speaker 1: down the stretch that can Zone is our cleanup hitter
27:36
Speaker 1: and Cal is hitting seventh. But I think that might
27:39
Speaker 1: be what you see tonight. Here's my mock up lineup
27:42
Speaker 1: for the new Mariners heading down the season. I keep
27:45
Speaker 1: Cole Young hitting first. I hit a Rose Arena second,
27:49
Speaker 1: I hit Julio third, I hit can Zone fourth. I
27:53
Speaker 1: put Taylor Ward fifth. I like putting good on base
27:56
Speaker 1: guys in the five hole, and my reasons are that
28:00
Speaker 1: ideally your three and four guys are cleaning up the
28:03
Speaker 1: bases and so you might be able to start anew
28:06
Speaker 1: with an on base guy. So I'm putting Ward fifth,
28:09
Speaker 1: Naylor sixth, Cow seventh, and then Brendan Donovan because not
28:14
Speaker 1: only have we not seen you for a while, but
28:16
Speaker 1: as soon as you were ready to come off the
28:18
Speaker 1: injury list, you spent four days with your wife and
28:21
Speaker 1: new kid, so you haven't even really taken batting practice
28:24
Speaker 1: in four days, so I'm not going to put you
28:26
Speaker 1: at the top of the order just yet. So I'll
28:28
Speaker 1: hit him eighth and I'll hit Emerson ninth. That's a
28:31
Speaker 1: pretty damn good looking lineup right there, Ashley.
28:33
Speaker 4: I would think so, and I just I mean, I
28:36
Speaker 4: told you already. When I woke up this morning, my
28:37
Speaker 4: first thought was all the Mariners played today, and I'm
28:39
Speaker 4: so excited to see how this team looks with Brendan
28:42
Speaker 4: Donovan back, adding Taylor Ward. I just my optimism is
28:46
Speaker 4: very high, and I hope this team can match it.
28:49
Speaker 3: There is no.
28:50
Speaker 1: Doubt that is a deeper lineup, and we don't have
28:52
Speaker 1: a Yordan Alvarez in the middle of our lineup like
28:55
Speaker 1: the Astros do, and he is single handedly carrying them
28:58
Speaker 1: right now. But I would say one through nine that
29:00
Speaker 1: is just a better looking lineup. And I know what
29:03
Speaker 1: the statistics say the league. I know what the statistics say,
29:08
Speaker 1: but I also believed in this lineup from the beginning
29:10
Speaker 1: of the year and feel like it is grossly underachieved.
29:13
Speaker 1: I mean, this is really gonna come down to, not
29:15
Speaker 1: the trade deadline acquisitions, the rest of the way. It's
29:18
Speaker 1: gonna come down to whether cal Raleigh, Josh Naylor, and
29:20
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez at least two of the three step up
29:24
Speaker 1: and contribute mightily like they were supposed to all season long,
29:29
Speaker 1: and we'll see all that unfolds. Finally, Das four Detroit
29:31
Speaker 1: that's the opponent tonight. It's going to be an interesting
29:33
Speaker 1: one because the Tigers have obviously traded off their face
29:38
Speaker 1: of their franchise, Trek Scouble. They sent the message that
29:42
Speaker 1: they're not in it, even though they have a very
29:44
Speaker 1: similar record to the Mariners, and they were supposed to
29:49
Speaker 1: start Trek Scuble tonight, that was his time in the rotation.
29:52
Speaker 1: We won't have to face him, we know that for sure,
29:55
Speaker 1: but we might have to face Troy Melton, who not
29:57
Speaker 1: only has had a better season than Trek's school this year,
30:01
Speaker 1: he was tougher on us in the playoffs last year
30:04
Speaker 1: than what Schooble was. So we still are going to
30:07
Speaker 1: probably face a couple of really good pitchers in this series.
30:11
Speaker 1: And the last time the Tigers were told that we're
30:14
Speaker 1: not in it, they ended up getting back in it
30:16
Speaker 1: and making the playoffs. So this is no pushover tonight
30:20
Speaker 1: and for the next couple of nights, Hopefully they're licking
30:23
Speaker 1: their wounds. Hopefully they're the saddest team on the planet.
30:26
Speaker 1: That Trek Scooble is no longer a Tiger and they
30:29
Speaker 1: just cannot focus. Do you declay I cannot focus on baseball?
30:34
Speaker 1: Hopefully that is the case, and we just run roughshot
30:37
Speaker 1: over a really sad, crying team for the next three days.
30:42
Speaker 1: But my guess is they're going to have a little
30:44
Speaker 1: bit of nastiness to them during this series.
30:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they will. I don't think they'll be
30:48
Speaker 4: as sad as we want them to be. But have
30:50
Speaker 4: you thought about this. Scooble probably wanted to go play
30:53
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers because he didn't want to have to
30:55
Speaker 4: face us as many times as he normally does. Probably
30:58
Speaker 4: because clearly he had his number.
31:00
Speaker 1: He probably thought Polanka was still on the team. Everybody
31:02
Speaker 1: knows Scooble doesn't keep up with current events. That's right.
31:05
Speaker 4: Everybody knows that about Scooble.
31:12
Speaker 1: Melling him all right, Well, speaking of Scooble, I went
31:16
Speaker 1: on a bit of a rant yesterday, and I liked
31:19
Speaker 1: that rant, and I stick by that rant. But I
31:22
Speaker 1: just and nobody really called me out for this. But
31:24
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I clarify that my
31:27
Speaker 1: rant wasn't anti Dodgers, it was anti system, and I
31:33
Speaker 1: want to discuss that. Clarify that next on Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. All Right, Heally's gonna join
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Speaker 1: us at nine o'clock. He does every Tuesday at nine o'clock,
31:48
Speaker 1: So looking forward to that conversation, his thoughts on the
31:51
Speaker 1: trade deadline and what really needs to kick into gear
31:55
Speaker 1: if the Mariners are going to pull this off and
31:57
Speaker 1: win the division for a second year in a row.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I'm gonna get there a little early
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32:44
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33:08
Speaker 1: went off on a rant about major League Baseball and
33:11
Speaker 1: that the Dodgers are the problem with major League Baseball.
33:15
Speaker 1: I stand by the rant from yesterday, but I can
33:18
Speaker 1: see why it might have been misinterpreted. Not that it
33:22
Speaker 1: was I didn't get like some big giant feedback. Maybe
33:26
Speaker 1: the text line blew up. I have no idea. I
33:28
Speaker 1: can't see it, don't typically read it anyway. But I
33:31
Speaker 1: went on my big rant yesterday, and I just want
33:34
Speaker 1: to clarify something. I don't really think the Dodgers are
33:39
Speaker 1: doing anything wrong. I don't really blame them for their
33:44
Speaker 1: role in this unfair market place that we have in
33:48
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. They aren't being stopped from taking advantage
33:54
Speaker 1: of their advantages. And I give them credit. Actually, they're
34:00
Speaker 1: us spending wildly. They're also one of the best teams
34:03
Speaker 1: in baseball at drafting, at developing, at making trades. They've
34:08
Speaker 1: created obviously a very inviting environment for players. Everybody wants
34:15
Speaker 1: to play for them. For goodness sake, they've obviously from
34:19
Speaker 1: a they've created, they've cornered the market on Japanese stars.
34:23
Speaker 1: So they've made themselves appealing to that robust market that
34:28
Speaker 1: has infiltrated Major League Baseball for the good uh and
34:32
Speaker 1: and so I give them all the credit in the world.
34:36
Speaker 1: What I'm railing against is that the Dodgers are the
34:39
Speaker 1: example of how a broken system can give the already
34:45
Speaker 1: advantaged even more advantages, especially if they get creative in
34:51
Speaker 1: their use of those advantages.
34:54
Speaker 3: And so we don't have the right.
34:57
Speaker 1: Infrastructure in place to stop the from acting like the
35:01
Speaker 1: Dodgers are acting. And if we want it to be
35:05
Speaker 1: a more fair market, then we have to get a
35:09
Speaker 1: salary cap. We've got to go to that length in
35:13
Speaker 1: order to give the impression to baseball fans everywhere that
35:17
Speaker 1: their team has a chance, and it doesn't come down
35:20
Speaker 1: to just that they don't get to win the World
35:23
Speaker 1: Series because their owners are cheap, because it's really not
35:27
Speaker 1: even the case. The Dodgers are actually struggling right now.
35:30
Speaker 1: They have gone under five hundred in their last twenty games,
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Speaker 1: they've lost four straight for goodness sake, and they're not
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Speaker 1: playing very good baseball right now. The Milwaukee Brewers have
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Speaker 1: a better record than them. I mean, there is a
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Speaker 1: way to win in this league without overspending or out
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Speaker 1: spending everybody else. But the perception out there with all
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Speaker 1: the customers, nine out of ten of them, is that
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Speaker 1: it's the only way to win in Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: And as long as that perception exist, then we're not
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Speaker 1: going to have satisfied baseball fans. They're just going to
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Speaker 1: continue to blame their own unhappiness on the fact that
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Speaker 1: their owner of their favorite baseball team won't spend as
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Speaker 1: much as what the Dodgers do. So that was the statement.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't critical of the Dodgers. Good for them of
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Speaker 1: taking advantage of their every opportunity to try to win championships.
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Speaker 1: It is with a broken system that allows a team
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Speaker 1: already with a surplus of advantages to find more and
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Speaker 1: then flaunt them as aggressively as what the Dodgers do.
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Speaker 1: And that's why we do need a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Speaker 1: I finally do believe we need a salary cap. We
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Speaker 1: got to get our arms around this thing, and it
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Speaker 1: will make the overall product better going forward. So hopefully
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Speaker 1: that provides some clarification to what I was talking about
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Speaker 1: in yesterday's long twenty minute rant about the health of
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. All right, Ryan Healey's gonna join us next.
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