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Chuck int he Morning 9/2 H2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, Hello Laz and Hello Showdown, our old friend! · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Fly ball.
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  Speaker 2: Sailing back to the monster. Second straight night with a
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: monster shot for Randy Rosarena. And the Mariners blow it
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: open in the second inning thanks to a three-run home run.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Hey, great Wednesday morning. Happy hump day to you all
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: as we roll into our number two here on this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell. Great
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us coming up here in a
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  Speaker 1: matter of moments. Greg Bell for the latest on the Seahawks.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: We'll see if he had the same response Ashley and
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  Speaker 1: I did to the Hard Knocks finale last night. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get the latest gritty details of your Seahawks coming
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  Speaker 1: up here at 7.05. Also, Cam Cleland will be joining
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  Speaker 1: us for the first official time of this football season today.
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  Speaker 1: to talk some Huskies football, to talk some Apple Cup.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be at 9 o'clock today. But we begin our
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  Speaker 1: hour with our headlines brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light.
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  Speaker 1: Choose chill. Mariners TV with the call. Randy Orozarena stays hot.
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  Speaker 1: But the real story last night was the debut of
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  Speaker 1: the very, very gregarious Laz Montez last night. The rookie
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  Speaker 1: power hitter was called up. by the organization as part
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  Speaker 1: of their two September call-ups. And let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Hobie Miller knocked it out of the park last night.
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  Speaker 3: He was exactly what everyone hoped he would.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Hobied he would be.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And there must have been cold there in that shadow, Laz.
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  Speaker 1: A flower emerged. Laz Montez had an RBI single last night.
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  Speaker 1: He had a walk. He had a home run. And
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  Speaker 1: the camera loved him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They could not take their eyes off of Laz Montez.
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  Speaker 1: His personality is infectious. Kind of knew that about him.
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  Speaker 1: Got a 75 grade on his personality on his 40
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  Speaker 1: to 80 scouting report. So Laz Montez certainly put on
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  Speaker 1: a show in his debut tonight. single, RBI single, a walk,
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  Speaker 1: and a home run, a long home run to dead
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  Speaker 1: center field, which is not an easy place to reach
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  Speaker 1: at Fenway Park. And so he was fantastic in a
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  Speaker 1: 9-6 Mariners win last night. Yes, he was. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch it again. Let's do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's something. The Astros lost yesterday, so the Mariners do
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  Speaker 1: gain a game. Five back at this point. The Texas
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  Speaker 1: Rangers did win yesterday. Sorry, I said they lost at
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  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock today. I've corrected it twice since. Get off
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  Speaker 1: my back. Yeah, come on, people. Tonight, or today, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, 110 first pitch. Bryce Miller will start for us.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Sandoval, left-hander, will start for the Red Sox. Both
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  Speaker 1: struggling pitchers right now, so we might get a third
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  Speaker 1: consecutive high-scoring game in Boston. Now, elsewhere in the sports world,
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  Speaker 1: Stan Kroenke bought the Angels yesterday, something that we'll discuss
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the show. Artie Moreno
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  Speaker 1: finally has given up the Angels after doing a horrible
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  Speaker 1: job with them, frankly, for the last decade. College football,
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  Speaker 1: Apple Cup is on Sunday. That's right. The Apple Cup
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  Speaker 1: will start the season, and it will be on a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday at 1 o'clock So we're just a few days
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  Speaker 1: away from that, and we are one week exactly away
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  Speaker 1: from the Seahawks opener, the defense of their Super Bowl championship.
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  Speaker 1: and against the team that they beat for the championship,
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Joining us now to discuss it,
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  Speaker 1: our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 5: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 5: this is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Greg. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, hard knocks now in the books. An
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  Speaker 1: actual game one week away from today. So, yes, let's
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  Speaker 1: get ready for a football season. What was your big
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  Speaker 1: takeaway from the hard knock season coming to a close
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  Speaker 1: last night?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was interesting that Carl Scott, the defensive
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  Speaker 4: backs coach, went back to the Alabama position drills practice
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  Speaker 4: film for Trayvon Diggs to fire him up and get
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  Speaker 4: him back into here's where you were in Alabama. That's
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  Speaker 4: confidence building and that's putting a guy, making him comfortable
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  Speaker 4: in something familiar back to where Diggs, where it all
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  Speaker 4: started for him. And I thought it was interesting that
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  Speaker 4: in the first week with the Seahawks that Scott did that.
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  Speaker 4: And that's an interesting coaching and leadership move and, Part
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  Speaker 4: of the reason that Trevon Diggs signed back with the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks instead of trying to go shop somewhere else to
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  Speaker 4: find a job somewhere, signed back to the Seahawks as
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  Speaker 4: a practice squad player, in fact. I thought that was
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  Speaker 4: an interesting extent for them to go to. It's just
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  Speaker 4: interesting to see an NFL coach, that's something a college
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  Speaker 4: coach might do with a high school kid or get
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  Speaker 4: his high school film, but It's interesting to see the
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  Speaker 4: extent that Carl Scott was going to make Teron Diggs
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  Speaker 4: feel at home, and it paid off so far anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Very, very interesting thing to have pulled. Yeah, I did
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  Speaker 1: like that exchange. I did find that interesting myself. Of course, HBO,
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  Speaker 1: in something that we've talked about, really did wrap the
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  Speaker 1: bow on this thing by pointing out what a gem
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  Speaker 1: we have as a head coach. I mean, that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the story of the hard-knock season was how
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  Speaker 1: impressed Hard Knocks was with Mike McDonald. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: my takeaway from the entire season. And I'm sitting here thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, look, the word is out. I mean, everybody's
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  Speaker 1: seen his defensive genius, and I'm sure the league was
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  Speaker 1: already aware of the leadership skills. He's already won a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship. Greg, right now, the highest paid NFL
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  Speaker 1: head coach makes $ 20 million. I mean, we have brand
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  Speaker 1: new ownership. I mean, is there any thought that Coastal
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  Speaker 1: has come in here and say, $ 40 million a year,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got to sign a lifetime contract to try
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  Speaker 1: to keep Mike McDonald here in the fold because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I ever want this organization to be
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  Speaker 1: in a position where they get in a bidding war
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  Speaker 1: with other NFL franchises. How high on the priority list,
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  Speaker 1: when will it occur that Koslas and John Schneider will
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  Speaker 1: make sure that Mike McDonald's happy and stays here long-term?
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Two things. One, it's a little funny for me that
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  Speaker 4: everyone say, wow, that's Mike McDonald and his leadership. This
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  Speaker 4: has been going on for three years. I've seen it
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  Speaker 4: every day. And we've been talking about his leadership as
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  Speaker 4: being unique and his methods as being something I hadn't
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  Speaker 4: seen in the NFL and how he's brought a West
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  Speaker 4: Point Army officer ethos to some of the things he does.
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  Speaker 4: And he's always his personal touch and the empathy and vulnerability.
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  Speaker 4: And now the whole world, whole football-watching nation sees it,
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  Speaker 4: and it's suddenly like, holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is a difference, Greg. I mean, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: have been talking about this, but until you actually see it,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing to hear about it and
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  Speaker 1: then to put your eyeballs on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been seeing it, but not everyone gets to
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  Speaker 4: be where I am every day, so they haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 4: and now there's a revelation that, oh, the Seahawks know this,
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider knows this, the new owners don't know this,
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  Speaker 4: and they don't know him. And I don't think the
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  Speaker 4: first priority for them is to come into the organization
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  Speaker 4: and just re-up the coach for a lifetime contract because
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  Speaker 4: they have to establish a relationship and know how he operates.
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  Speaker 4: They'll find out quickly, but they aren't even there. They're
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  Speaker 4: not even in the building yet because the transaction hasn't cleared.
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  Speaker 4: I have brought this up and talked to people about
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  Speaker 4: the McDonald contract and whether they would redo it, just
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  Speaker 4: extend them. I don't think it's out of the question.
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  Speaker 4: In the NFL, nothing lasts forever, and even when Pete
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  Speaker 4: Carroll looked like he'd be here forever, he wasn't here forever.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know how large or deep an extent
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  Speaker 4: they would go for this, but suffice to say, he's
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  Speaker 4: so far outperformed his contract, and it's a five-year deal.
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  Speaker 4: They like to, though I won't say they, because they
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  Speaker 4: has just changed. Under the Allen stewardship, they like to
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  Speaker 4: have Snyder and the coach on concurrent contracts. That would
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  Speaker 4: end around the same time and then re-up them for
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  Speaker 4: about the same time. That's why McDonald got a five-year
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  Speaker 4: deal in line with the GM. Would the Kozlows like
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  Speaker 4: to do the same thing? Would they change it? It
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  Speaker 4: has created a lockstep relationship between the coach and GM
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  Speaker 4: to do it the way the Seahawks under the Islands
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  Speaker 4: did it. I don't know why they would change that
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  Speaker 4: either because that isn't broken in that relationship either. So
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  Speaker 4: if you're talking about extending, it's a long way of saying,
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  Speaker 4: if you're talking about extending Mike McDonald, you're probably talking
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  Speaker 4: about extending John Schneider at the same time. Don't know
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  Speaker 4: that that's the first priority, but that's something down the
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  Speaker 4: road I think they would look at doing and how
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  Speaker 4: far they do it. You're right, there's no salary cap
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  Speaker 4: for coaching GM salaries. The new owners can pay them
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  Speaker 4: anything they want to.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly. I'm a little surprised that, I mean, whenever
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  Speaker 1: you talk about an NFL team, everybody says get your...
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a good owner, get your coach,
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  Speaker 1: and get your quarterback. Those are the three things that
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  Speaker 1: they tend to bring up. And yet a good head coach,
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  Speaker 1: the best head coach, makes $ 20 million. I have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling that number, and I know that we're just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just sharing an opinion here, but I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: get your reaction to it. I have a feeling that
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  Speaker 1: number is going to skyrocket going forward because to get
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  Speaker 1: one of the elite head coaches, to get a McVeigh,
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  Speaker 1: to get a McDonald, not just one of the elite ones,
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  Speaker 1: but a young one as well. I have a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that that salary might double, uh, in the next five,
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  Speaker 1: 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it could, because there is no cap and there's
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  Speaker 4: no ceiling. Uh, So far, no one has done that,
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  Speaker 4: and there are reasons for that. In McVeigh's case, McVeigh
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  Speaker 4: is somewhat in lockstep with Les Snead in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 4: and they have a partnership there as well. My sense
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  Speaker 4: is that the Kozels are going to see how the
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  Speaker 4: football operation works, and they're going to try to do
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  Speaker 4: both at the same time, Schneider and McDonald, and therefore
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  Speaker 4: it won't be a $ 40 million a year contract. Because McDonald,
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  Speaker 4: face it, McDonald is not like a Bill Belichick or
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  Speaker 4: even a Pete Carroll personality inside his own building. He's
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  Speaker 4: in a partnership as a first-time head coach that's still
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  Speaker 4: in his 30s. So while it's been wildly successful so far,
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  Speaker 4: it is still, at least appears to be, dependent on
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  Speaker 4: the relationship he has with John Schneider. So I would
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  Speaker 4: think it's a two-for-deal, and maybe the two of them
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  Speaker 4: would make $ 40 million together. I don't see Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 4: lapping the field and lapping his own GM at the
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  Speaker 4: risk of changing that dynamic. You don't want a coach
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  Speaker 4: that makes $ 40 million a year while a GM makes
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  Speaker 4: $ 5 or $ 6. And then I think you have the
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  Speaker 4: accent on the wrong syllable there. So I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: speaking out of turn because I don't know how the
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  Speaker 4: Coles operate. In fact, they aren't even in the building yet.
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  Speaker 4: But if they truly aren't going to change the football operation,
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  Speaker 4: I think they're going to. extend both, keep both in
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  Speaker 4: the same realm, both in time frame and money. But
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  Speaker 4: it has worked out swimmingly so far. And I think
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  Speaker 4: a large part of that is the relationship he has
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  Speaker 4: with John Schneider.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider, his segment
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll just start asking about a few more
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: tangible things. For example, I'll throw this out as well.
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  Speaker 1: It just Seems like the offensive line has just kind
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: of flew completely under the radar this entire preseason. There
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: have been no mysteries. I mean, the same starting five
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: has been there. They haven't played in the preseason, so
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  Speaker 1: we haven't exposed them to any low moments. at this stage.
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  Speaker 1: So does that tend to suggest that, man, they feel
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  Speaker 1: really good about this group right now? Or is this
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  Speaker 1: just a suggestion that offensive lines that are solid are boring?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we haven't talked much about them this year.
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  Speaker 4: Boring is a good thing in Seattle because for 10
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  Speaker 4: years they were the opposite of boring. So compare this
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  Speaker 4: to this time last year. Remember, they had to play
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  Speaker 4: the starting offensive line last year because Kubiak was installing
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  Speaker 4: a system and John Bent was installing the outside zone. Remember,
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  Speaker 4: they ran for like 150 yards in the first half
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  Speaker 4: of that second preseason game against the Chiefs here in
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  Speaker 4: Seattle last year. And they had to do all that
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  Speaker 4: in the preseason to get ready for this. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: have to do that this year. It's really rare. And
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  Speaker 4: Brian Fleury talked about this when he took the job.
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  Speaker 4: He understands how rare it is to walk into a
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  Speaker 4: situation of taking over a Super Bowl champion offense when
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  Speaker 4: the entire offensive line comes back. Usually Super Bowl champions,
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  Speaker 4: guys are getting paid and they go seek their money elsewhere.
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  Speaker 4: They're still young enough to the offensive line at their core,
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  Speaker 4: and they've re-upped their book and tackles that everyone came back.
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  Speaker 4: And they are very happy with their offensive line. Having
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  Speaker 4: said that, they aren't happy with the depth on the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line, and they got manhandled by reserves on the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage pretty much in all three preseason games.
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  Speaker 4: McDonnell wanted them to run the ball, and they didn't
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  Speaker 4: effectively run the ball hardly at all. You take out
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  Speaker 4: the 69-yard touchdown that Jakartier Wright had in the second
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  Speaker 4: preseason game at Tennessee. I had the number in my
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: story at the Kansas City game after postgame. It was
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  Speaker 4: something like 2.7, 2.8 yards per carry for the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: That's terrible. That's back to where they were two years
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  Speaker 4: ago in offense and running the ball. So the depth
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  Speaker 4: is a concern, and they don't go through all just
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  Speaker 4: five guys in the season. They don't. No NFL team does.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a concern. They think they have a swing
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  Speaker 4: tackle in Josh Jones, a proven veteran who did well
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  Speaker 4: for them when he had to start at the end
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  Speaker 4: of last season because of a couple injuries. But after that, eh.
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  Speaker 4: They don't have a swing guard they can trust. They've
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: tried Christian Haynes. I thought they were trying to trade
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Christian Haynes, but I don't know he had any trade value.
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  Speaker 4: They like Sundell, although he's not quite as strong as
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: some centers and as big as some centers. He's cerebral
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: and traffic cop and makes all the right calls. They
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  Speaker 4: love their bookend tackles. Anthony Bradford's in the last year
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: of his contract, and no matter what the public thinks
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: of Anthony Bradford, the coaches and the people in the
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  Speaker 4: building really love his improvement the last couple of years.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: especially in pass protection. The fact no one's talking about
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  Speaker 4: him is a plus for Seattle compared to what it's
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  Speaker 4: been for 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure. Greg Bell is with us. You
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  Speaker 1: want to follow him at gbellseattle on X and, of course, thenewstribune.com.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've covered football for a long time. There's
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: about 10 years I took off from doing sports talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: but It's always been about the 53, the 53. I mean,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: how many conversations I've had with Ian Furness and Curtis
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Crabtree about the 53 in the last couple of spots.
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  Speaker 1: And then last night on Hard Knocks, such an emphasis
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  Speaker 1: about the 70, all 70. Like it's not the 53,
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  Speaker 1: it's the 70. Is that something new or does that
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  Speaker 1: sort of emphasis happen league-wide? Because I remember stories about
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  Speaker 1: the Turk and seeing the Turk and you didn't make
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  Speaker 1: the 53 and that was a crushing blow. Is this
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  Speaker 1: something new that John and Mike do differently than everyone
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  Speaker 1: else or is this something league-wide that has changed over
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  Speaker 1: the years and just flown under the radar?
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  Speaker 4: It is an emphasis that the Seahawks do more than
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  Speaker 4: most teams I've been around. Also, the practice squad rules
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: have changed in the last few years to make the
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: practice squad more relevant. It used to be when you
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: could barely call up dudes from the practice squad or
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  Speaker 4: you had to cut somebody from your roster to get
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: up somebody from the practice squad. They truly were a
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: taxi squad that were just there in reserve. Because the
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  Speaker 4: rules have changed and now you can bring practice squad
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  Speaker 4: players up up to three different times, three different games,
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  Speaker 4: to activate them and then send them back down without
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  Speaker 4: having to do any roster mechanisms. Because you can do that,
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  Speaker 4: and because they've expanded the practice squad from about 10
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  Speaker 4: or a dozen players to 16, or in the CR's case,
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  Speaker 4: because of the international exemption, 17, it has changed everything.
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  Speaker 4: Because you can now put six, used to be it
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  Speaker 4: was only first or second year guys on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can have vested veterans of unlimited service time,
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  Speaker 4: like a Trevon Diggs. So in the last four or
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  Speaker 4: five years, the rules have completely changed. So the practice
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  Speaker 4: squad has become an extension of the team, and the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks have really gotten behind that. I think the one
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  Speaker 4: takeaway for the league, and everybody in the league watches it,
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  Speaker 4: and personnel people watch it, and the players watch it,
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  Speaker 4: but the one big takeaway from the Seahawks' hard knocks,
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  Speaker 4: especially last night's episode, is maybe we should rethink how
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: we do the cuts because the Seahawks do do it differently. Now,
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  Speaker 4: what they didn't show last night, my son and I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: were talking about this, There were 91 players on the
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: preseason roster, right? Only 70, if you count the practice squad,
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  Speaker 4: made it. They didn't show the 21 other dudes who
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: are cut and gone and weren't getting the, hey, you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: coming right back, you know what we're doing here, just
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: hang out for a day and we'll come bring you back.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: 21 dudes didn't get that call. 21 dudes are watching
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Hard Knocks going, that wasn't my experience. They threw my
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: ass out on the street. They don't think quite as
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: warmly about the Seahawks 70 as the 70 do. So.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: It cuts both ways, and Hard Knocks didn't choose to
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: show that. But it's true that in previous seasons and episodes,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: they would show the pink slips and a guy having
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: to turn his playbook in. And even last night, John
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Schneider said, it's not like we're telling you to go
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: turn your playbook into AD to one of the players
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: on defense, Adam Dirty, the defensive coordinator. That has been
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: in previous seasons the big drama of the final episode
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: of turning your playbook in, and famously of the Jets,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the guy locked out of the front door to the facility.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: There wasn't any of that, and I think there might
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: be some nuance to how teams view their cuts when
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: they watch how the Seahawks do it, because the 70
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: is real to them, and because last year I think
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: they led or were in the top three in the
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: league in practice squad transactions and elevations and re-signings. When
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: you do that, then 70 becomes, if you just say
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: it and then those guys never play, then it doesn't matter.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: But Vellis Jones Jr., for instance, who's back on the
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: practice squad to start this season, was elevated from the
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: practice squad for the Super Bowl. So, yeah, they actually
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: back it up, and they do use 70 players throughout
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: a season, and we all know because of injuries that's
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: going to happen.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Again this year. I hope John understands that his days
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: at Dino's Pub are probably ruined. His meetings uh at dino's.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Those local people know it already though i mean now
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the nation knows but yeah he's been a fixture there
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: since his gm tenure started he's got his own bench
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: he's got his own stool they eagerly await him coming
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: over yeah the the staff and the people there there
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: are a lot of people i know and even some
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: writers who hang out at Dino's for knowing he's going
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: to always be there. Now the whole nation, it'll probably
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: come like one of those dives and diners or whatever
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: those food shows are. That's going to be a destination
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: place now for people. All right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: What do you got on the show today?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: We're going to talk Apple Cup a little bit more.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Apple Cup. Seahawks are off again today, and they don't
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: return to practice from their three-day hiatus until tomorrow. So
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: not a lot of news there. The Apple Cup. We're
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: going to talk to Greg Woods of the Spokesman Review,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: get to Washington State's side. We got Softie Mahler's side,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: which wasn't exactly Cougar's side yesterday. He and Jesslyn got
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: in a sparring match about the coverage of sideline reporting.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: If you listeners don't know, Softie's going to be the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: new sideline reporter for Husky Broadcast on our station.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And Jesslyn.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that won't be. That's going to be partisan,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: to say the least. But yeah greg woods and spokesman
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: are you gonna talk to washington stateside as well and
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: of course we'll give laz montes's flowers they should have
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: called him up in like may at this rate.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Huh uh yeah they were very hesitant but man he's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: got some thunder in that bat.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: There's why were they hesitant was it like a service
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: time thing.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Or was it 35 strikeout rate 30 strikeout rate if
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you're doing that at the minors what's that look like
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: at the majors you don't want them to come up
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and fail but uh yeah they could have called him
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: up earlier for sure i mean 38 homers is 38 homers.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. You've been talking about it when you've been going
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: to Tacoma. So, yeah. All right.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll listen at 10. Thank you, sir.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Happy Wednesday.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us right here on
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the radio program. This segment brought to you by the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Emerald Queen Casino. And he'll be on the air today
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: at 10 o'clock. Does his own show, you know. Coming
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: up next on the program, we will talk more about
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Laz Montez and his debut. last night at Fenway Sports
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJR-FM. Ground ball, base hit, right field.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And a run batted in. Lázaro Montes claps his hands.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And in his Major League debut, his first at-bat picks
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: up his first Major League hit.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And drives in a run of the process. Oh, Aaron's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: getting a little fancy with the name last night. You know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: he's the guy that goes to the, you know, the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: French cafe and orders a croissant. Cafe au lait. Yes,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: welcome to Chipotle. Yes, I'm Aaron Goldsmith and I have
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a barrito. Could I please have some pollo asada? I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: really don't know how to pronounce it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Laz's name i just say laz montez but it got
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: fancy last night on tv and.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Radio i do believe that it is lazaro and i
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you know and then of course we do americanize it
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it probably is montez but we go montez Yeah. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that's fine. If Aaron wants to do Montez, we can
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: live with.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: That, right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Because that's speaking to the culture. It's how he pronounces
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his name. That's how we should probably pronounce his name.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: It's like Rick Riz always with Franklin. No, Dave Sims
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: was it? With Franklin Gutierrez.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I kind of like to pronounce the player's
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: name the way he wants it pronounced.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Like if you go to Louisville. It's Louisville. Right. I mean,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we grew up thinking it should be Louisville. And therefore,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of people call it Louisville.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: But when you go there and they say, no, it's Louisville.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: then I think we owe it to them to pronounce
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: it Louisville. Problem is, for whatever reason, Latino players don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: ever correct us. And I don't know why. Because I'd
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: really like to just know how you want it pronounced,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and then I will effort to do it that way.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Well, and the Mariners or any organization, I mean, they're
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: usually pretty good at that, at saying, okay... Here's the
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: pronunciation according to how this person says their name. But
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know that that happened before his call up
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: yesterday because, yeah, Aaron was Lazaro Montes. And on the radio,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: it was Montas.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Montas.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: And I was like, there's definitely no way.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we're not going to solve it here today because
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I really don't know. But I'm going to go with Laz.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And even that, Aaron was calling him Laz last night.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go with Laz. That's what I've
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: been saying. So he hasn't corrected me yet. He's a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: big man. If he wants me to correct it, I'll
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: correct it. I didn't go bouquet, did I? I said
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: it Bucky. That's how he wanted it pronounced.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, bouquet, I think would have been good.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So Laz Montez makes his debut last night and the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: pronunciation of his name certainly goes down the list of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: things that were exciting about that debut. A young man
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: with just elite power potential, somebody that not only has
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: been compared to Jordan Alvarez, but seems to be patterning
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: his game after him, has some connections to how Jordan
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Alvarez came up, same coaching connections. And so there's a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: belief that that's the kind of ceiling that we're looking at,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: ceiling that we're looking at. Of course, the floor is
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a concern. Somebody that is struck out 30% of the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: time at the minor league levels, and then you get
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to the major leagues, and it might not show up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: on the opening game as he also faced a call-up
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: yesterday as well. He faced a minor league pitcher that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: maybe he's faced before in the past. Who knows? But
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: that wasn't exactly facing Peyton Tolley last night for Laz Montes. And,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of course, the league doesn't quite have its book on
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: him just yet. But he's probably going to get exposed.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He's probably always going to have a strikeout issue. But
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: he's always going to bring that thunder in his bat.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And as he emphasized, I think he probably was interviewed
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: 15 times yesterday. And as he emphasized over and over,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I like to believe that I'm an all-around hitter. Yes,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I have power, but I like to believe that I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: an all-around hitter. And he's a pretty good athlete for
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: his size as well. He can play some right field.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I watched him make a few mistakes in Tacoma, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I also saw him make a lot of really good
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: plays as a right fielder in Tacoma. Some good instincts
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: for the position as well. So I think we have
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a good one, but like anything else, I mean, Cole
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Emerson splashed on the scene for us in the league finals.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: caught up to him and he was dealing with an injury.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: And then the next thing you know, he was ineffective
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. So he's going to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: go through that for sure. But in terms of a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: debut last night, that was about as good. That's fairytale
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is what that was last night for Laz Montez. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, the power may not show up
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: every day, The defense may not show up every day,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: but that personality is real. That personality shines. And you
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: got to see a taste of it yesterday. It's like
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: he lifted everyone's spirit by being in that dugout yesterday.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And especially Randy Rosarino. That's the most I've seen Randy
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: smile ever. Yeah, he was having a great year. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: But he's having a great year with a team that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: hasn't been having a great year and that's hard. So
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to get the win and you know, I mentioned it earlier,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: but worth repeating again, we see so often see these
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: kids make debuts and have these monumental moments. And especially
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: for us, it's been in a losing effort. And it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: always a bummer when you see, you know, like Cole
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Young hit his first home run, but the team's getting
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: blown out. So it's kind of a muted celebration. It's
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: like a, Hey man, good job. Here's a high five.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: You know, they don't even really want to like lift
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the trident up. And so for him to have been
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: able to have that moment, have the huge celebration and really,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: especially with his personality, be able to show it all off.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That was fun. Yeah. Even the trident, he didn't really
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: know what to do with the trident. He's like, oh,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'll take it. And then he tried to give it
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: right back. And they're like, no, no, no, no, carry
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it in there. Manny Acta was laughing at him at
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that point. I thought Aaron, one of his best calls
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of the entire year was when they caught him playing rock, paper,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: scissors with Randy. And Aaron's like, What a night for Laz!
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: He can do no wrong! He beat Randy Rosarino in rock, paper, scissors.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Randy let him do his guitar thing with the trident
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: at the end of the dugout, and he did it well.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: He really, you know, he ripped those strings. So it
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: was just a really feel-good day, and that's kind of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the power of baseball, is that the night before... I mean,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: we're sure. I saw a poll yesterday afternoon. This was
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: an actual poll on MLB Now, on MLB Network. And
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: its options were, should the Mariners be concerned, panicked, or
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: feel doomed?
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And doomed was 78.5%. Wow. So that was the feeling,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: not just locally, but nationally, like what we watched. Two
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: nights ago, that was the final nail on the coffin.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: And yet you can have such a fun night at
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the ballpark the very next night because of stories like
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Laz Montez. It really is a magical. Now, I believe
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: in the romance and the poetry of baseball. I'm kind
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of a sucker. I'm a sap for that. But it
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was hard not to have a good time watching him
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: play and watch the team kind of lift itself after
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: such a crap night the night before such a crap
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: loss the night before and to let this gregarious giant
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of a rookie come up and put everybody in the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: right frame of mind it was great to.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: See it really was it was it was a lot
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: of fun i i did find myself at one point
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: though i was doing something we had the game on
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: and i looked over and i go wait a.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Minute It's only the fourth inning? Yeah, it was a
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: long game.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: It lasted for a long time. And not because it
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: was boring. It was an exciting game. It was a
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: fun game.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: It was just like, holy moly. We're not used to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: long at bats.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: It was like the game was in Hawaii. It took
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: twice as long. Yeah, we're not used to long at bats.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So that was different, too.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe. Maybe that's what it was. They were on Hawaii time.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I think it was.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe Laz Montez put us on Hawaii time. Hey, I'll
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: take it. But yeah, we're not used to long at bats.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: And they had thrown a lot of pitches last night
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: as well. And then mounted a comeback. So we had
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to make pitching changes as well. And then there was
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: an injury to an umpire. So it was a longer game.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: We're not used to having games that long since the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: pitch clock era began. But it was a win. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: hope springs eternal and perhaps through the eyes of a big,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you know, affable rookie.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: We shall see. I'll take it. All right. Coming up next,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a little Reckless at Breakfast for you. Sports Radio 93.3
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. They're going to be able to do that
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: at an amphitheater, the big giant screen to watch the game.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, at any downtime, you can
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: just wander into the casino. Yeah, you can.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: You can place bets. And that playground. So Tulalip Resort Casino,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: when all you want is everything, everythingtulalip.com.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: And actually, the cool thing, too, you can place bets
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: from your phone while you're sitting in the amphitheater as
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: well because you're on Tulalip grounds.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's a lot of ways. It'll be fun. A
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: lot of ways to have the time of your life.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And it's next Wednesday with Ashley Ryan. All right, coming
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: up at the top of the hour, we have our
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: college football season preview. I always say this, as only
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: we do. We're going to have a draft. I love drafts.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I love them more than my family. That's fair. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: so we're going to draft for our college football picks
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: for this upcoming season, Heisman pick, our national champion, our
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Big Ten champion, and UW's record. So that's coming up.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And we are, this year, changing it from the green
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: jacket draft back to the showdown draft this year. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: so we're going to involve like other shows in on
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: this as well during the course of this new fall
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: season into, well, for the next calendar year. And then
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: also listeners. So we're going to have a listener participate
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: as well today in our college football season preview, first
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: ever showdown draft coming up at the top of the hour, 49451.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: is our text line if you are interested in being
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: our college football picker for our first ever showdown. And
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: so for those of you that have wondered, because we've
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: not always been on YouTube, but we've been doing this
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: since we became The Morning Show, we really do have
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a green jacket in here. It was Bucky's. He won
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it at a golf tournament or something like that. I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: think it was the Detlef Schrempf, wasn't it? Yep. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it only fits him, so you can imagine what it
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: did to everybody else.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Um, we didn't put it on a lot. We should have.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: We just, that was theater of the mind. But if
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you want a green jacket, if you won one of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: our green jackets, one, one of our drafts, our prediction contests, uh,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: we did celebrate it. We gave you a song and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: then we acted like we put it on. We never
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: really put it on, but it is here. It's like
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a real tangible thing. And now that obviously you've heard
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: that Bucky's not going to be at least on a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: permanent basis with us going forward. We're still working on
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: some stuff. It doesn't seem right to keep doing a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: green jacket draft. I agree. It's his jacket. He finished off.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: He won the last green jacket season that we did.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: He won the year. And he was winning the two
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: outstanding drafts that we had for the baseball season as well.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: So it just seemed like a good day to kind
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: of retire officially the green jacket. It is now just
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a part of our morning show history. We can hang
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: it from the rafters. I think it's time. Yeah. You
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: did great, Green Jacket. You did. You did. And a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: touching tribute. So we're going to bring this thing back,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: if you're on YouTube. So we had this trophy made,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Jackson Feltz and I, years ago when we did this
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: thing called the Showdown. And we didn't really get that
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: much use out of it because I ended up doing
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the mornings. So we only did one year of Showdown,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and that was... We made predictions at the beginning of
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the year every show, and then I graded them at
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the end of the year and then awarded it. I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: don't even remember who won it. But it sat in
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: our office every year for the last nine years and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: has not been used in any way. It's just gotten
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in the way. And it even got to the point
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: where PS told us, like, I want to throw this
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: thing away. Is there any use for this? And I'm like, yeah,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: we're going to make up a use for it. We're
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: going to retire the green jacket. We're going to bring
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the showdown trophy back. And so we will now celebrate
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: our championships with a trophy celebration as opposed to a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: green jacket celebration. And yet all the same rules to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the green jacket draft will apply going forward. So it
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is basically the green jacket draft now once again called
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the showdown. I love it. I mean, that thing looks hefty.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: There used to be a little placard here that said
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the showdown.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know where it went.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I can make one out of aluminum foil if you
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: need me to. Yeah, the gaudier the better. I think
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: this thing should get abused over time.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should treat it like the Stanley Cup. Yes.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: With that much love and affection and also, you know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: take wee-wees in it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Or drink beer out of it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Drink beer out of it.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I like that plan. So we're going to bring it
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: back and we're going to have our first ever showdown
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: draft at the top of the hour. as we preview
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the college football season. And so that's the plan going
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: forward here. I'm looking forward to it. And the two
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: wrinkles that we're bringing is that, number one, we're going
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to involve listeners. So you will have a voice that
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: represents your– we're not going to have the same listener
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: every time we do a draft. And we're also going to–
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: it's the showdown, and that's what the showdown was. It
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: was shows versus shows. We're going to incorporate other shows
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and the expert in-house– in whatever particular area. In lieu
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: of an expert today, we're going to have Anders Hurst today.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: So that's next. Our preview of the college football season.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Green Jacket, for all you did for us.
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  Speaker 1: And hello again, Showdown Trophy, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.