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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-13 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, good Friday morning. Welcome into the radio show. It
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  Speaker 1: is Chuck Powell, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan
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  Speaker 1: with you. Greg Bell coming your way at seven oh
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: five his take on the Emmanuel Wilson signing yesterday. Hugh
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Millan will be with us at nine o'clock as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we got a lot of things to do, plus
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  Speaker 1: your OA show, your Booze news, and so much more
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  Speaker 1: on today's radio program as we wrap up what has
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  Speaker 1: been a crazy week sports talk radio. So many juicy topics,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately this was one of them. I think we
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  Speaker 1: all hate that Randy and Cal have this thing out there, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean as and I'm sure Bucky it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be nothing, and I'm sure it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation when the season begins. I think
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  Speaker 1: that we'll look back and laugh at remember when we
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  Speaker 1: had to talk about that Randy Cal handshake thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure that's where it's going to end up in
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  Speaker 1: the discarded pile of silly things that we had to
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  Speaker 1: discuss in sports talk radio. But it obviously is not
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  Speaker 1: resolved at this point, and I think that it might
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  Speaker 1: be a good thing. You tell me that Randy rose
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  Speaker 1: Arena has been eliminated from the WBC and will be
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  Speaker 1: reporting back to Peoria earlier than Cal so that some
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  Speaker 1: people can talk to him and make sure there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's definitely better than had they
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  Speaker 3: met again, because I wouldn't be surprised if Randy would
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  Speaker 3: double down on it. Yeah, handshake, And I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: Cal is not going to change. He's not gonna flip on.
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  Speaker 3: He just simply is saying no, I'm not playing that.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. It wasn't meant as some sort of giant disrespect.
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  Speaker 3: It's just that's what I have decided to do, or
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  Speaker 3: that's what we as a squad have decided to do,
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  Speaker 3: is not do the same hugging and you know, fraternizing
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  Speaker 3: if you will. And so I don't think he's in
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  Speaker 3: a back off of where he was at, even though
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't want.
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  Speaker 2: It, he doesn't want it to be a beef.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll get squashed, but yeah, I think there's
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  Speaker 3: a definite something where you know he's gonna get called
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  Speaker 3: in with Dan when he gets back, or he's already back.
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine and hey, what's going on. Well, he
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  Speaker 3: made me look stupid up there. Well he wasn't trying to.
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  Speaker 3: Can we understand that, It just is, it's different strokes
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  Speaker 3: for different folks. If you want to be the one
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  Speaker 3: that handshakes and does that, fine you can. And on
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  Speaker 3: the flip side of it, if you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: do it, you don't have to do it. That's it,
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  Speaker 3: plain and simple. It's not well I wanted to, so
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  Speaker 3: you have to or you're a bad person. No, it
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  Speaker 3: really doesn't mean that much. And so I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 3: the organization kind of wrapped their arms around him, say hey, dude,
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  Speaker 3: come out we do not want to start, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the season with some sort of beef that is not
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  Speaker 3: an intended beef.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If Kel was like, yeah, I don't really care for
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  Speaker 3: him and I don't like the way that he plays
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  Speaker 3: a game.
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  Speaker 2: Then you got an issue.
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  Speaker 3: If he didn't mean it that way, he just meant
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  Speaker 3: it as I'm in game mode whatever whatever that means,
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  Speaker 3: then that's what it means, and we need to get
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  Speaker 3: over it a little bit. So I'm hoping that it
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  Speaker 3: can be water under the bridge sooner than later.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's water under the bridge for Randy.
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  Speaker 4: He went on too his Instagram and posted videos of
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  Speaker 4: the of other players hugging and yeah, so he's I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is the problem that I have as your teammate
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  Speaker 4: reached out to you to try and squash whatever misunderstanding
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  Speaker 4: or whatever issue there was at the plate and your
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  Speaker 4: postgame comments. After he directly reached out to you, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't talk to reporters to tell.
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  Speaker 5: You he's sorry he reached out to you.
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  Speaker 4: Reportedly, Randy has not gotten back in contact with Cal
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  Speaker 4: right except and so all he's going to do is
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  Speaker 4: then post things on social media.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, six of you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, your teammates, this isn't something that you're you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're just two people that play on different teams and
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  Speaker 4: you don't you're hardly ever going to see each other,
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  Speaker 4: and you just want to kind of be mad at him.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to figure this out, and being passive aggressive
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  Speaker 4: with social media posts isn't the way to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that either. I do want to be careful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not given Cal a complete pass on this. I
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  Speaker 1: wish he would have done it. He chose not to,
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  Speaker 1: No big deal. I think that as captain, you could
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  Speaker 1: do even more than just text your text somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you think called him. You could have called him. I mean, hell,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the same city. You could have gone to
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  Speaker 1: see him and make sure that everything's okay. But I
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  Speaker 1: think over the course of one hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 1: game season, I'm going to be spending the next seven
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  Speaker 1: months of my life, hopefully eight with you. I got
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  Speaker 1: time to fix this relationship that should not should not
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  Speaker 1: be an issue, but it obviously is. And that's another
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  Speaker 1: reason exactly what you both brought up. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's good that the Mariners get him back in
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  Speaker 1: the facility, and I wouldn't be surprised if in a
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  Speaker 1: sit down meeting they don't have a conference call with
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  Speaker 1: cal and bring him in there, force them to have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation about it, like a zoom call sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: But also I think it's good, as Bucky pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: that they're not going to meet again, because I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's very clear that the Latino teams are
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  Speaker 1: making an example out of America and the way that
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  Speaker 1: they're conducting themselves, and so they're going to lay it
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  Speaker 1: on thick if they meet up in a game. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they are laying it on thick for a reason
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  Speaker 1: the whole I mean, they're going out of their way
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  Speaker 1: to hug each other, and they're you know, fraternizing at
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  Speaker 1: the base paths, and they're sharing hats and they're posting videos.
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  Speaker 1: They are going out of their way to say, this
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  Speaker 1: is the way we play the game, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: like the way that you have taught us or told
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  Speaker 1: us that we should play the game. And so there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be there's gonna be some stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Well it's going to happen to shake his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, but there's going to be some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There are going to be some incidents whenever the US
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  Speaker 1: and it won't happen in the Canadian round, but if
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  Speaker 1: we face the Dominican in the second round, I can
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  Speaker 1: promise you there are going to be some gestures intended
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  Speaker 1: to get under the skin of the US team, to
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  Speaker 1: force them to react to how they are lovingly wanting
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  Speaker 1: to play the game. And so if they would, if
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  Speaker 1: cal would have ended up, as you pointed out, meeting
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  Speaker 1: Randy in another game, at least there's one incident and
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  Speaker 1: now we deal with it. If you didn't talk and
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  Speaker 1: you meet up. Now, all of a sudden, you're playing
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  Speaker 1: with fire. You might add more fuel. No matter what happened,
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  Speaker 1: there would have been more fuel added to it. So
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  Speaker 1: if Randy doesn't go up and shake his hand, what
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  Speaker 1: was that because he's bitter, he doesn't even go up
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to, or if he attempts to and it
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  Speaker 1: gets another deny. The only thing I guess it could
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  Speaker 1: have happened is if he hops up and shakes his
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  Speaker 1: hand or gives him a dab or he probably loved it.
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  Speaker 1: He gets up and embraces him and maybe wraps a
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  Speaker 1: leg around him.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been.
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  Speaker 3: The best case scenario, like, look, I love you. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: a kiss on the cheek.
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  Speaker 2: Does that? Are we good? Now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what it takes to get this
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  Speaker 3: is over beyond just a conversation and realize it is
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  Speaker 3: exactly that the Latin American players, they don't play by
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  Speaker 3: those same rules of when does it turn into this
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  Speaker 3: is going to battle? Right, this is we're in full
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  Speaker 3: competitive mode. They just don't do it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: can remember seeing guys talk to each other like holding hands,
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  Speaker 3: literally holding hands, talking to each other before a game
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  Speaker 3: I had plenty of buddies on the other teams, there
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  Speaker 3: was no part of me that ever wanted to embrace them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I had I can remember tapping a catcher
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  Speaker 3: on the shin guards coming up right first, Aby, boom,
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  Speaker 3: what's up?
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  Speaker 2: And that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And yet that is, I guess less than what Cal
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  Speaker 3: gave at this point in time, or or didn't try
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  Speaker 3: to extend that to me. It's just you're entitled to
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  Speaker 3: however you want to go about doing it, especially this
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  Speaker 3: in this tournament, where it is the Dominican gets to play,
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  Speaker 3: how the Dominicans play, Venezuelan's play, how Americans play, how
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  Speaker 3: they went. Everybody gets to go about their business how
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  Speaker 3: them and their manager and their team, their country wants
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  Speaker 3: to go about doing it. And at this point it's
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  Speaker 3: just basically two different two different countries going out it
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  Speaker 3: two different ways, and there's beef with it. So hopefully
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  Speaker 3: they figure this whole thing out, because I'm I don't
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  Speaker 3: really want it to linger and carry on into the season,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely think somebody at the Mariagers is going to have
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  Speaker 4: an actual chat with Randy and be like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: what's the problem.
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  Speaker 5: How are we going to fix it?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think anyone if you'd stay that the
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  Speaker 4: WBC was going to do that, they were going to
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  Speaker 4: let him continue to be angry if he is angry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I think it's a good thing that
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams has been eliminated. And as an
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  Speaker 1: American US, I prefer that Mexico be eliminated. That's just me,
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  Speaker 1: my own admitted bias toward my country. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that it's Randy. And then i think it's good for
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  Speaker 1: him to be back there, and I think it's good
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  Speaker 1: for them not to me. But the store's not over.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, They're going to be some They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be some over the top gestures that are going
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  Speaker 1: to be made if the US faces the Dominican on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Now US has to get past Canada and the Dominican
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  Speaker 1: has to get past Korea. But there's a chance that
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  Speaker 1: you're right, Julio and Kal are going to be on
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  Speaker 1: the same field come what Sunday. And I mean, those
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  Speaker 1: are the two pillars player wise in the organization. And
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  Speaker 1: if there's some sort of gesture made toward cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: might not be done. I don't know. We'll see, but
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  Speaker 1: the story's not over, that's for sure. It's very clear
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  Speaker 1: that the Latin American countries are making an example of
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  Speaker 1: why they think the way the US is handling this
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  Speaker 1: thing is in their minds ridiculous. So they're not done.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're probably going to go over the top
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, guarantee they did. Yeah, guarantee. I'll be in
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  Speaker 3: see what happens when Naylor walks up there today.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Naylor would even attempt like because I
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  Speaker 4: just think he's gonna have the same mentality of I'm
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  Speaker 4: playing in the game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, Yeah, we'll see, all right, coming up next, man,
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't expect a basketball court to become a controversy.
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  Speaker 1: But it is Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
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  Speaker 1: hy seven o'clock hour, hour number two on our Friday show,
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  Speaker 1: it is Chucking Buck in the morning, So Bucky Jacobson, Ashley, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell with you. Greg Bell's going to be joining
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: us here in about a minute and a half to
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: talk about Emmanuel Wilson and all things Seahawks are Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: Insider Nearly every day at seven oh five, But we
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  Speaker 1: lot of headlines to go through. We'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball As the WBC resumes tonight, it will
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: be the US versus Team Canada and Josh Naylor at
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: five o'clock. Julio and the Dominican Republic will take on
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  Speaker 1: Korea today at three point thirty two more games will
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: be played on Saturday. We're out of pool play. We're
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  Speaker 1: ready for single elimination tournament, and so three wins away
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  Speaker 1: some country is three wins away from winning the WBC.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it a little bit later on
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: in the show. Sounders will be an action Sunday at
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: four o'clock against the San Jose Earthquake. Sounders off to
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: a two and one start. Suddenly the Kraken are struggling again.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: They got demolished by Colorado last night three to nothing
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: after one period. They never got back into the game.
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  Speaker 1: Five to one was the final score. They've lost four
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: straight games, six of eight since the Olympic break ended,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: and they will be in Vancouver tomorrow at seven o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: still with no word as to win. Bobby McMahon, the
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: new acquisition by the Kraken, will suit up for the team,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: a rather frustrating point of fact for the organization. College
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: basketball Husky season ended yesterday. They lost in a tight
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: game to Wisconsin eighty five to eighty two. Wisconsin, along
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: with seven other Big Ten teams, will play today. That
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: action will get started from Chicago at nine o'clock. The
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: frenzy ends in the National Football League. As we've had
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: a week of activity, I will give it another day.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: We'll say another day of frenzy, and then it just
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: moves into the off season before Draft miss gets underway.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Yesterday's big note nationally was Kyler Murray agreeing to a
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: league minimum deal with the Minnesota Vikings to take over
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: as their starting quarterback. Meanwhile, the Seahawks did add a
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  Speaker 1: player that was not on the team a year ago.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: His name is Emmanuel Wilson, running back from the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Packers. And we're going to talk about it with
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell right now.
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  Speaker 7: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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  Speaker 7: Here's Great Bell with Chuck and Bunt Morny Greg.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy Friday to you.
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  Speaker 6: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about that? How much snow did you.
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  Speaker 6: Get a trace here in the city?
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: How many inches did you get?
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  Speaker 2: Buggy? Five or six? Before I left?
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  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, way to be there were shelve to
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  Speaker 8: the team.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I had to had to bring the truck today.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Didn't want to didn't want to test it with the tesla.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm glad because all the way it is squa
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  Speaker 3: it was slushy, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was bad.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Well maybe a lot of snowman waiting for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I guarantee that's wonderful man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just uh, I mean, tis the season right
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  Speaker 1: March thirteenth, that's usually when the first snowfall occurred.
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  Speaker 2: That's the season that you need to be making snowmen.
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  Speaker 2: But my kids will love it.
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  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, go off no school today, two.
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  Speaker 3: Hour delay, which then usually they have early release on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: so that is not going to happen today. I guess
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  Speaker 3: they'll go the normal length, but yeah, a little two
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  Speaker 3: hour delay. Yesterday they didn't have school because of the
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: There was two hour delay because of power outage.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we're gonna get a white draft miss this year.
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  Speaker 1: Have you thought about that? I mean, something we've never had.
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  Speaker 5: Not mother Nature. Maybe it's the NFL doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm dreaming of it right now. I am dreaming of
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a white draft MEAs yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, I don't necessarily know if I want that,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Now the nature might have that mind.
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  Speaker 8: April twenty third, for those of you listening, that's when
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  Speaker 8: the draft is.
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  Speaker 1: That you never know. You never know, Greg all right,
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  Speaker 1: of other Nature seems to be in a weird mood
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  Speaker 1: right now, so you never never know. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's dive into this thing. Your reaction to the newcomer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like it. I don't know if I'm
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: just drinking John Schneider kool aid these days, but then again,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: his kool Aid's been delicious as of late, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm guilty. But I kind of like this player, and
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: I like him at one year, two million dollars, What
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: was your reaction to the signing of Emmanuel Wilson yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, this is a quintessential John Schneider. Manuel Wilson
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  Speaker 8: turns twenty seven in May. He rushed for five hundred
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: yards each to the last two seasons, played thirty four
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: games with the Packers, two starts. Denver signed him in
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  Speaker 8: twenty twenty three as an undrafted Rooky free agent Division
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  Speaker 8: two Fort Valley State. John Schneider still has a ton
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  Speaker 8: of people he knows very well in the Packers' organization,
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: his hometown, the organization he started in, so he's known
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  Speaker 8: about Wilson for a while. The thing to know about
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: that first, he's two hundred and thirty pounds, and John
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  Speaker 8: Schneider said up his radio show yes today, he's a
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: heavy runner, one that they really are excited to bring
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  Speaker 8: in to run in that style, which is different than
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: the Kenneth Walkers style.
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  Speaker 9: Heavy runner me more of a power.
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  Speaker 8: Back, a little bit more like Jack Charbonnet who may
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  Speaker 8: not play until deep into the next season, as we know.
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  Speaker 8: But the rain reason this is a John Schneider signing,
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't count against the Comppick formula. You have to
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  Speaker 8: have a threshold of playing time and salary from the
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  Speaker 8: previous seasons to qualify in the top thirty five percent
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  Speaker 8: at your position to count in the salary for the cap.
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  Speaker 8: Excuse me to compick formula. So the Seahawks remain up
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  Speaker 8: plus four on track for four compensatory draft choices for
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: the free agency lost this week. And I keep bringing
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: this up because this is how John Schnyder's playing this week,
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: in this month. He doesn't like this draft. We've talked
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: about it. He set a point blank at the combine.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: He thought this was a weaker draft than last year
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: and much weaker than next year. So he's loading up
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: on next year. They now have twelve picks out the
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: pick they got from Atlanta for the Mike Juril trade
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: offensive lineman last summer, they'll have twelve picks a dozen
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: and they only have four in this year's draft. And
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: signing free agents like this, like the safety from the
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: Indianapolis Colts they got yesterday, that also doesn't count against
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: the cellar or the comp formula. These are John Schneider
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: in the Edges type of deals. One year, two point million,
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: two point one million. As you said, Chuck, that's that's
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: for Seahawk fans to know. This is how he's going
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: about it. We're gonna keep We're gonna throw all our
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: money at keeping.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Josh Job and Rashid Shiheed.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: We're gonna save some money for Devin Witherspoon and Jackson
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: spent and Jiggs would be at the top of their
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: salaries at their positions in the summer. And we're gonna
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: buy at the fringes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: And punt this year's draft. Why can they do that?
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Because they're the Super Bowl champions. They think their team's
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: good as is.
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  Speaker 6: And yes, they lost.
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  Speaker 8: Their starting running back and that remains the biggest hole.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: But as Snyder said yesterday, were not done at running back.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: They're still going to continue looking at that position and
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: friends creating like Naji Harris that you brought up coming
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: off in Achilles terror in September. Those guys could come
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: later in the offseason. The COMPIC formulas doesn't matter who
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: you signed for how much money. The COMPIC formula apply
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: ends the day after the draft, so they may add
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: a Nauji Harris type of veteran the day after the
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: draft in late April or later.
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  Speaker 2: Gee.
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  Speaker 3: The idea of this making anyone feel like, all right, well,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: we just replaced K nine, so we're good to go.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Obviously that's not the case. And yet, what are the
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: odds of this guy? I mean, his progression up to
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: this point in three years limited usage. Last year haven't
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: his best year yet, but I mean even the year
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: before that, he was effective in the limited amount of
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: carries that he got. So I mean, is this at
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: least more than just a guy? I mean, is this
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: a guy that you could possibly see being the starter
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: a week one because we know Sharbony's not going to
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: be ready.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Well, he could be the starter because Kenny McIntosh might
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: not be ready either, coming off of his torny aco
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: from last July. They think he may be back for
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: some of training camp, but they're not sure of that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: So with McIntosh and with Sharbone out, Wilson could potentially.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Compete for that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: He's only played a nineteen percent of the team snaps
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: in Greene Bay and his first three seasons combined and
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: the last two it's like nine percent and thirteen percent
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: of the offensive snaps. So he got his five hundred
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: yards and very limited amount.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Of times to carry the ball and be on the field.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: They really like George Lynne.
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: We talked about him and what he did.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: After Zach Charboney got hurt in the Divisional round game
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: and Alani was making guys miss and safety valve catches
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: in the NFC title game against the Rams. Snyder brought
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: that up again yesterday at his radio show. George Lane
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: might have the inside. If you're going to say, is
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: there a starter, the guy will be on the field
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: first nap of week one, It could be George Alani
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: right now. Yeah, I know that's not inspiring to think
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: that an undrafted rookie second two seasons into his career
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: from Boise State is the guy, but it right now
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: shaping up as a committee. And as much as they
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: run the ball, and they're going to run up fifty
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: percent of the time again next year. That's why they
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: got Brian Fleury from the forty nine ers to be
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: the offensive play caller, to continue to run the outside
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: zone from Shanahan system from San Francisco. As much as
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: they run the ball, they could use a pote prie.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Of running backs. And right now that's the stable. They're
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: lining up with.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, as with us our Seahawks insider here on
• 20:42
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• 20:44
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• 20:53
  Speaker 1: A very busy week this week with the frenzy going
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: on and Emmanuel Wilson finally the adding someone from outside
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: their house yesterday the running back from the Green Bay Packers.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: All right, So, speaking of stuff inside the US, you
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: mentioned about the long term contracts with JSN and Devin
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon probably being signed in the near future.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I would think, so.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Are they? Are they for seeing this is gonna be
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: tricky at all? I mean, usually what happens is, all right,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we'll make the All Pro wide receiver the highest paid
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: receiver in the National Football League by one million dollars
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: per year. But JSN has sort of suggested, Hey, I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: kind of I kind of want to blow that figure away.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, is this going to be tricky at all?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's he going to set the market fifty
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: million a year? Forty five million a year?
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: No, I think he'll be a forty million dollar receiver
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: and maybe be a two hundred million dollar contract.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: They go five years.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: Although the vogue.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Now is to go three years on these type of deals. Hey,
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: I don't see Smith and Jiguinor's agent who playing hardball
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: with the team that you're after them at twenty years
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: old and had made him what he is, he'll be
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: top of the market. And that's about forty million dollars
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: and it probably will happen in the first days of
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: training camp late July and to early August. Same with
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: Devin Witherspoon, which top of the market for cornerbacks is
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: about thirty million. So that's seventy million a year between
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: both of them. And you see why Schneider's being judicious
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: with his money and his salary capsay. Now, of course,
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: all that space, all that salary cap charge wouldn't come
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: up in the first year, and Schneider will structure it
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: as he always does, and Seahawks players and agents that
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: deal with the Seahawks know it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: They don't hang.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Up on would guarantees up front and spreading guarantees across
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: years and the second year guarantee being five days after
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl. The Seahawks blueprint of contracts. Smith and
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: jigmin his agent, I'm not going to hang up on
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: that either, because they've been in the program now for
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: three years. They know how it works, and the league
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: knows how it works, and agents aren't going to run
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: and bump up against Snyder's way because Snyder's way works
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: and it's now won two Super Bowls. Do it this way,
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: so I don't anticipate it being sticky, and they don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: seem to me to be the type of players who
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: would do that. And frankly, they don't have a ton
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: of leverage because they still have the final year of
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: their rookie deal eleven. If they really got sticky, Snyder
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: would just say, okay, play out this year and we'll
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: see what your value is next year. Smith and Jigby.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: The sooner he signs, the better for him, because he'll
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: never be well he I guess it's possible he could
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: be the NFL Offensive Player the Year again this coming year,
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: but he'll never be valued more than he is right now.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: And Witherspoon's and is coming off as third consecutive Pro Bowl,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: so it's almost I don't want to say it's a
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: favorite to the players, because the players should earn as
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: much as they could possibly get, but Snyder doesn't have
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: to redo these deals. They're still under contract for the
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: twenty twenty six season. It has been his custom to
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: do it going into the final year of Foundational players contracts.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I'm with, you have to and yet once the president
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: is set set, then it feels like.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, will the play well.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: The players all of a sudden feel like, well, you
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: have to, and you have to and you have to
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: give me the top of the market if I have
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: proven that I deserve such a thing. So I mean,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: you're thinking forty million for Jackson Smith and Jigman thirty million.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, if if they're they were to try to
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know if hold John Schneider's feet to the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: fire is the right term, but if they were to
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: try to go big time, you think there's a chance
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: that John Snider will be like, hey, this is where
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I'm going take it or leave it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I don't know, I let's take it or leave it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Because again, they're under contract, right, so where.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: They're going to go. They're gonna play for the Seahawks
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: this year.
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: No, he's budgeted, he's I'm sure I haven't told this,
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: but I'm sure he's told both of those players and
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: their agents that we will take care of you and
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: we'll put you at the top of the market what
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: you deserve. You're foundation, guys. We're picking you. It's why
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: we let Kenneth Walker and didn't make him the top
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: running back at the top of the market. We've valued you, guys,
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: and this is.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: What we're choosing.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: It also helps that this sounds absurd to say to
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: someone who's driving around Seattle right now, but it also
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: helps that their quarterback is only in quotation marks making
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: thirty three and a half million dollars on average. Because
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: that relative cost, I mean, Daniel Jones just signed a
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: deal for forty four million a year from the colt
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: Daniel Jones. What does he want so that they relatively
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: less money. It's crazy to say relatively less money. They're
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: paying the quarterback will help them pay Smiths and Jigba
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: and Witherspoon this year, now, this time next year, you
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: have a Sam Donald question. This is how the NFL works.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: The more you win, the more you have to pay.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: And if Sam Donald has a Pro Bowl caliber, Super
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: Bowl contending season again, how much money.
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: He's gonna be worth. He's gonna be worth more than
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: Daniel Jones. And agents come to the bargaining table with comps.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: That's that's how this game works.
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: It's not how much my guy's worth as much as
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: it is my guy's worth more than this guy and
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: Daniel Jones. Sam Donald is worth way more than Daniel Jones.
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: And that's where their agent's gonna come to John Schnighter
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: this time next year. So Snyder he has to forecast
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: all of this out. He and his staff to plan
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: their salary caps, have to think about this stuff. And
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: when they decided to let boy MafA go for twenty
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: ridiculous million dollars a year, and when they decided to
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: let Kenneth Walker walk, it's for these reasons. Who are
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: we going to keep We're gonna Keepkenneth Walker and not
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: pay Witherspoon and Smith's and Jigba and Sam Donald next year.
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: And they decided, no, we're not gonna do that. You
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: just can't when they understand people saying, why did you
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: let these guys leave? But you can't think about that
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: in a vacuum because the Seahawks don't. The Seahawks think
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: about it in three year increments, projecting their salary caps
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: three years.
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: Down the road.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: In our last minute, do you think John Schneider accomplished
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: exactly what he meant to accomplish this week.
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: I don't know exactly. I don't I think the market
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: on Kobe Bryant in particular surprised him. I don't think
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: they could have fathomed that the Bears were going to
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: give him forty million dollars over three years. Brian to me,
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: was one they thought they could get back. They thought
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: the safety market would be something they could afford to
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: dive into, and it just blew up on him. Walker
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: seemed like he was I told you I thought Walker
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: was gone back in September when they job shared him,
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: and it was a little bit like Bucky was just
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: talking about if you don't if you're a player in
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: the Seahawks locker room and you don't get that big
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: deal going into your final year of your rookie contract,
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: that's a message to you that they don't like me
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: as much as I thought they did, because they've seen
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: what happens around here. And if you're not getting a Witherspoon,
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: Smith and Jigbit treatment, then you know which side of
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: the tracks you're on. And that didn't set Kenneth Walker
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: off very well either. So that seemed to be a
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: ship that already sailed, but I thought the B Bryant
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: one might have been the one that didn't go exactly
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: as they planned.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, well, awesome stuff all week long. Thank
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you very much. We appreciate it. And yeah, we will
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: get you some time off at some point in twenty
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: thirty five or so.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah, man, I appreciate the commitment.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we're thinking about you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I could always change my number again.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I guess he could. Yeah, go out and we've got
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: play in the snow. Slide down, slide down the hill.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: Tobacco is an exactly Midwest snow. It's like slop, like oatmeal.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: It's very wet, but yeah'd be safe out there. Have
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: a good weekend.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, Greg bell Our.
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  Speaker 1: a win for Wonderland. By the way, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's still like that. Is it still like that
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  Speaker 1: out there?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been outside the studio yet.
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  Speaker 4: It's snowing out there. It's not sticking out there. But
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  Speaker 4: Palmer the Great just woke up and I got a
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  Speaker 1: It's thick too there to.
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  Speaker 2: Go do a snow angel. We need video evidence. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 4: I just literally just got it right now. I've been
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: waiting and I was like, I wonder what it's going
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: to be like when she wakes up. So it's still snowing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I thing I know, and I love it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I love in the faces of children to see them
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: light up over the possibility of a white draft miss
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: That is Isn't it magical? That's what season's all about.
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  Speaker 9: It.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I love magic of the season.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Even God is like, I really like draftness. I want
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: it to be beautiful this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's it.
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  Speaker 9: Huh.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'd like to I'd like to know who God would
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: take in the Disciple draft number one overall, I like
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to find that out.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be some really Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the first ever draft that was held.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Is when he picked his disciples. All right, it is Chuck,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Buck and Ashley with you. While I was driving through
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the winter Wonderland to work this morning, John Paul Morosi
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was on with Brady and what's his Jonas Nutt and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: he was and John Paul Morosi loves the WBC more
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: than anyone on Earth. Number One, he gets to show
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  Speaker 1: off how many languages he can.
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  Speaker 5: Speak, speaking Italian this morning.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Number two, he's not really very good as being an insider,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: but he's a very nice guy and he really embraces
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: this and he's a go to authority on it, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: so he's he loves it. And they were talking this
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: morning about how how can we get more of this?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I don't want more of this. I don't even want
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: us to participate in the Olympics. I mean, in a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: very short period of time, the world's most perfect superstar
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: has been cast as a villain. My favorite analyst in sports,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa has been cast as an idiot, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I am really fearful that come Sunday we're going to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: have a bench clearing brawl between the US and the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Dominican that I think. I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of WITNESS. I don't want anything. I don't want
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: anything to do with it. I don't need any more
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: international competition. I'm not saying get rid of the WBC,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: but please don't make it more frequent than it already is.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I've already had enough.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I don't need it more
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: than every everything. I'm a Major League Baseball fans. That's
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: what I grew up on. I don't want anything to tarnish.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: The Major League Baseball season. Period.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't want it to tarnish it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: And yet I think there's a way where you can
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: have this and it can add to it. There's a
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: fear factor of just you're getting arms loose before they're
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: typically normally needing to be loose, and so that fear,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I think is going to be there no matter what.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I don't need it any more than what it is,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: but I don't want it. I most certainly wouldn't want
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: it to go away. I like the idea of of
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: you know, getting to getting to you know, put your
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: country across your chest and go out and play for it,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: and the idea of that type of pride.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: It's a different thing.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: It's different than going out and playing for the team
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that you were drafted by or the team that you
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: signed with, or the team you're going to go out
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: and try to battle for one sixty two and then
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: the playoffs with it. Those are two totally different things
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: to me, and I think there's room for both in.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: My baseball world.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've really enjoyed the WBC so far.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I like it, but I can definitely understand, like I
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: don't know about needing more more than this. I like this,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: and this is good, and I think if you do
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: it too much, you ruin this special.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: I agree feeling that you get from the WBC.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: It doesn't become a special to put your country across
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: your chest if you're doing it all the time.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And look, I mean I watched a city make it
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: to the American League Championship Series and lost its mind.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: The US could win the WBC, and I don't think
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: there'll be one person celebrating on the streets. No, I mean,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: so maybe this is just an American running through my
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: American filter that has just watched Major League Baseball his
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: entire life and still thinks that a Mariners championship will
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: be a lot more enjoyable than a Team USA WBC championship.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: But that's not the way it was in Japan three
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: years ago, and that's not going to be the way
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it is for these other countries. So when Julio Rodriguez
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: is asked by a reporter yesterday, it would be bigger
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to win a World Series with the Mariners or to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: win the WBC with the Dominic And I'm not sure
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: we should be surprised when he said, is this.
• 34:00
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean being honest though, like I love I
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: love the Mariners. They know I give my best for
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: them every single time that I step on the field.
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: But winning the War Basic Classes will be top of
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: the list. You know, this is for my country, This
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: is for my time and for my people, my neighborhood,
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: like everybody my the Dominican in the public. So I
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: will say, winning the War Basic Classic will be number one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Got a problem with that?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: No, No, I do not.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's the bottom line is is that
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: most other countries their sport, well, I shouldn't say most.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: In all these Latin Ameran countries, baseball is hit. There's
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: no football. The NFL doesn't hold a candle to what
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Julia Rodriguez grew up watching as far as his baseball
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: even like soccer there, yeah, I mean, yeah exactly. In
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: love the Dominican and so there exactly you might be
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: part Dominican when it comes right down to so no,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I don't fault them one bit.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I mean it's when all of a sudden, the biggest prize, uh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: for the sport that your country loves the most is
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: the World Series, where that's you have to move away
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: from your country, go live in a different country to
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: pursue said career. Yeah, except for now with the WBC,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: there's a chance where you get to put your country's chess,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: you know, your country across your chest and play with
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: just a bunch of your buddies and homies and and
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: peers that you all came and basically, like I said,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: going across the you know map to follow this dream
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: of playing at the highest level. It makes total sense
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: to me why they would think that this is just
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: as big, if not bigger.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: I do also the wonder if it is a bit
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: of him being a prisoner of the moment and being
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: in the WBC, Because the only reason why I would
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: think it, and you know that he would reconsider it,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: is if the Mariners do actually win the World Series
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: and he realizes how effing hard it was to win
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: the World Series. Like, the WBC is awesome, and you're
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: playing for the pride of your country and you're playing
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: with yeah, all your friends and they're all, you know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: representing your same country. But it's not to win the
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: WBC is not as hard as it is to win
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: the World Series. And I do wonder if after one
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two regular season games and the grueling
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: playoffs and hoisting a World Series trophy, if you would
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: feel differently, Well, look.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I mean the Mariners made you rich. The Mariners. I mean, yes,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you were a talent, but they took you on a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: what sixteen fifteen and develop your growth. You know, you
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: play one hundred and sixty two games a year with
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the Mariners, So you're right from the standpoint of like
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: being on a quest. Yeah, like it's just it's this
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: is not some I mean, really, we're talking about an
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: exhibition tournament. I mean our pitchers, aren't you are are
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: limited to how many pitches they can throw? Yeah, dalking
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: about an elimination turn. So there are some things about
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it where I'm like, how could But this is through
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: an American filter? How could that be more rewarding than
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the process of wanting the dream of becoming a major leaguer,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: becoming a major leaguer, being a part of a team
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: for years on end, knowing how difficult it is to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: win the World Series, watching a city get behind you
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: completely every step of the way, and then finally pulling
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: off the accomplishment something that is so difficult that the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: organization you play for has never even gotten to the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: top of the mountain, much less celebrated at the top
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of the mountain. So to me, that seems like that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: would be a bigger achievement and more worthy of celebrating.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: That said, I do understand where he's coming from. I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: have no problem with it. And this is his one
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: opportunity to rep his parents, his grandparents, his people in
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: his neighborhood, his culture, all of that stuff. This is
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: there one opportunity to do it. Because we don't yet
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: have them on the Olympic stage at this point. So
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I do understand where he's coming from. But I think
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: here in America, we just we're not going where we
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: want the Team USA to win. But it's going to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: be a much bigger deal in Seattle if the Mariners
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: win where in the dominic and they're not going to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: celebrate Julio Rodriguez much at all if the Mariners win
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the World Series. So I get where he's coming from.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: It's just not my filter.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: It's just two different things. Yeah, I mean, it's the
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: same sport, and I suppose if you want to narrow
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: it down to winning a championship, then it's the same.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: That's where it stops. It's not the same any nothing
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: about it is the same. One happens at the beginning
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: of the year when most people aren't even really ready
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: for their baseball season. One, like Ashley said, is super
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: crazy difficult to do. Go through one sixty two, find
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: yourself in the playoffs, and then go through all those
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: series that you have to get to to get to
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the World Series, and then you got to win the
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: best of seven in that versus how many wins do
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: you actually have to win to win this thing. Six
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: six wins and you could basically win this whole thing.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: You six and one and you're the WBC. It's not
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: even close. But the thing about playing for your country,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: playing for you with your buddies, playing for your neighborhood,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: for your family name, all of that is different. I
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: don't expect you who you would have that that said,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: anybody that'll get their feathers ruffled because he said, well,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: this means more to me right now. Whether it's a
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: prisoner of the moment or just genuine right now, this
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: is what I think means more. The dude's not going
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: to care less in Game seven. Everybody heard the primal
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: scream from the showers when they lost in Game seven
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: of the AOC Championship Series. The dude wants to win.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: So competitiveness, it just is competitiveness for a different thing.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: You're wanting to win a baseball game or a baseball tournament,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: whatever it is. But this is you're wanting to win
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: it with your with your peers from your own country,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: or you're wanting to win it with your peers for
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: your own team that the organization that you work for
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: in the city that you play for. So to me,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: it's just two totally different things. I don't think this
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: should be an issue either way, very.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Different I would have I don't. I have no problem
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: with what he said.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: And yeah, maybe this is more emotional or more sentimental
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: to him versus what will happen when the Mariners do it.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: But again, I just would be curious if his feelings
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: would change come the time that the Mariners actually hoist
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: a world seriously.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Well, just to bring it full circle, I still don't
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: want any more of it. Not one more pitch the
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: WBC every three years. Okay, that's the thing. I don't
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: need one more pitch off international competition because obviously too
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: many hurt feelings occur in this in this arena, and
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with any more drama. Coming
• 40:45
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• 40:49
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• 41:14
  Speaker 1: All right eight o'clock hour here on a Friday. Happy
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Friday to you all as you navigate our winter wonderland
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: out there here in Seattle in spring. It's Chuck Powell,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It's former Marina, Bucky Jacobs, and Ashley Ryan with you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: half the show to go here on this Friday, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: we will of course kick off the second half with
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: your O show every Friday, your eight top stories of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the day, recapping the week, getting you ready for the weekend.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: We provide that service to you right here on the
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck Radio program. And this week it was
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: all about the frenzy. The National Football League free agency
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: period started with two glorious days of tampering on Monday
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and Tuesday, where nearly three million players were signed before
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the official year began in the National Football League. Then
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the official kickoff to the new calendar year of the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: league started happened on the Wednesday, and then on Thursday. Finally,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: John Schneider, really lazy at his job, got around to
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: signing a free agent that wasn't a Seahawk one year
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: ago or a couple of months ago. He signed em
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Manual Wilson, former Green Bay Packer, twenty six years old,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: out of Fort Valley, filled in admirably for an injured
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs last season in Green Bay, averaged four yards
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: per carry during a four hundred and ninety six yard
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: rushing season, and became a free agent after just three
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: years in the National Football League, signing a meager by comparison,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: one year, two point one million dollars deal yesterday with
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Our Seahawks inside of Greg Bell was on
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: with US one hour ago and Bucky asked him if
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Wilson looks on paper like he'll be the star at
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: running back next season, Well.
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: He could be the starter because Kenny McIntosh might not
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: be ready either, coming off of his torn aco from
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: last July.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: They think he.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: May be back for some of training camp, but they're
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: not sure of that. So with McIntosh and with Sharbone out,
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: Wilson could potentially.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Compete for that.
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: He's only played a nineteen percent of the team snaps
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: in Greene Bay and his first three seasons combined, and
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: the last two it's like nine percent and thirteen percent
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: of the offensive snap, So he got his five hundred
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: yards and very limited amount.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Of times to carry the ball and be on the field.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: They really like George alone.
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: We talked about him and what he did.
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: After Zach Charboney got hurt in the Division round game.
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: And George Lawney might have the insight. If you're going
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: to say, is there a starter? The guy will be
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: on the field first nap of week one? It could
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: be George Lawanne right now, but right now shaping up
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: as a committee. And as much as they run the ball,
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: and they're going to run up fifty percent of the
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: time again next year, they could use a poteorie of
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: running backs and right now that's the stable they're lining up.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: With Greig Bell, our Seahawks insider. Yeah, they end up
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: with a stable. There'll be a competition, competition for carries,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: so will be certainly something to watch a training camp.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: No matter how this thing sorts itself out, I would
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: say that I'd favor Emmanuel Wilson right now over George
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Hallane as our starting running back. But we have the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: entire offseason, we got a trade possibility, we got draft
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: coming up. Who knows who else is going to fill
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: out that running back room and maybe Bucky. I'm just
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: drinking the John Schneider kool aid. I got a John
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Schneider kol Aid mustache right now. But I really like
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: this in terms of like sneaky. I didn't see it coming.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't go far enough down the list of free
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: agents kind of signings. I kind of like what I
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: saw out of Emmanuel Wilson when he was filling in
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: for Josh Jacobs last year. He was pretty productive, pretty
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: damn productive. And I think with more carries a longer look, Yeah,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I think John might have done it again. I think
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: he I'd have found a little diamond in the rough here.
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: No.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, what five ten two twenty six, so
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: he's a big dude. He's kind of known for, you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: the ability and willingness to lower the shoulder and go
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: get the tough yards he's got. He's not super fast,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: top end speed wise, but I guess he's got a burst.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: And last year I said earlier that I kind of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: run through when I was looking through the free agents.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Was I ever interested in picking this guy up? Because
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: you're not talking about your first round picks and Fantasy
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: football that are on the free agent market at this
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: point in time.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Canine's gone.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: He maybe was the only one that was in that
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: category now you're talking about guys that you maybe have
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: picked up if you lost somebody in your fantasy. And
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: this was a guy that I remember looking at and
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: picking up in one of my leagues, and he's he's
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: pretty decent when he gets the touches.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was productive. He was filling in for ja.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, four yards of carry last year overall in his
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: two hundred and forty two touches or carries his heads.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: So for it's four and a half yard back.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: And it's not because he gets those big home runs
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: that kind of boost to that thing.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: It's more of a workman.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: You go out there and move the chains, and so
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I think you've added to that whole. You know, as
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: as Greg puts it, the potpourri of running backs at
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: this point in time, if you weren't going to have
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: a popa Arie, you're gonna have to add somebody like
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Emmanuel Wilson. And I think right now he's in the
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: forefront of a being a guy that you feel like,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: if the season was starting tomorrow, you have somebody to
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: hand the ball off to, versus somebody that you know
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: for sure is probably an RB three.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: I was trying to go through my fantasy football stats
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: to see where I had him and how he did
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: for me.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: But it's taking too long. Oh.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: All I can think about is the heavenly aroma of
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: having a running back group of polpourri. Yeah, yeah, you
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: just light it at the beginning of the day and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: just let the aroma take over practice.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's going to be heaven.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, not all feel comfortable about an unproven veteran running
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: back replacing Ken Walker. The Hawks still have time to
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: add to their running back room at this point, and
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: they certainly will. But I like this. I like this.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: We'll find out if Hugh Millan likes it. He's going
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: to join us today nine o'clock. Immediate analysis from a
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: guy that I don't have any doubt went back last
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: night as a fun project and watched every single snap.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson has played in the National Football League, so
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: we'll get his take on it at nine o'clock. But
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: for the most part, the Seahawks just spent the week
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of NFL free agency frenzy re signing their own most
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: notable Rashid Shaheed, and we are underway in Seattle. Rashid
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Shaheed drifted to his right. He'll feel the kickoff of
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the four, Shahed to.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: The fifteen, across.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: The twenty gears left to a twenty kind of hell
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to thirty step two a tackle, the thirty step to acrossmitfield.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Tell him the right sideline of the thirty shay Heed
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: to the twenty. He's all the way home. A Seattle
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: touchdown on.
• 47:43
  Speaker 13: The opening kickoff six nothing Seahawks.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: A three year, fifty one million dollar deal for Rashid
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: shah Heed, one of as many highlights that one described
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: by west Wood one. But the Seahawks also spent the
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: week resigning Josh Job at cornerback, Josh Jones at tackle,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and backup offensive line of sixth man to the offensive line,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Jake Bobo, long snapper, Chris Stole, fullback, Brady Russell. You know,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: John said he wanted to run it back with as
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: many of the players off of this World Championship roster
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: as he could. He lost four starters, slash key contributors,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: but man, he brought back two valuable components and certainly
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: all those little nitty gritty parts, especially in the set
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: special teams game. He got him. He got them all
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: back this year to try to keep some things going
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: as smoothly as they've been.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna be able to keep everybody.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Everybody knew that kind of coming into this whole thing.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: But after kind of watching a few guys exit and
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: move on to their teams, he's kind of rebounded with
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: getting the Rashid and Josh job. And you know Josh
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Jones yesterday or day before whenever, that was now signing
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: your first free agent in Emmanual Lewis, And yeah, it's
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: just that's the nature of it.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: You do it.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: He did it, he said, Emmanuel Lewis did I.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that kid was real cute. I'll give him that.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Not much of a running back size though, No, he.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Would hang out in the dumbwaiter.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: He definitely didn't have the truck stick in his bag
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: of tricks.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I guarantee that you have a dumbwaiter play well. You
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: don't see a lot of running backs at the combine
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: that are three foot six, fourteen pounds.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: You don't.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: It's we got him.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: He can just go through between everyone's legs. Go Webster,
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: oh Webster, you got this buddy.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: The defending world champs will continue to sip through the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: remaining pile of NFL free agents for treasure, no doubt
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: about that. But the frenzy comes to an end today
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and the draft will be the NFL's next big events,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: while extensions for stars Jackson Smith and Jigba and Devin
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon also seemed to be on the Seahawks to do
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: list this off season. But yeah, ready, draft, missus next,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: So ready.
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: It's warming my it's warming the cockles of my heart.
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And the snow outside is just God's
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: way of saying, let's get ready for drafting.
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: Bring it on.
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: What he's doing getting this.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Season's dreaming of a why draft? Just like the ones
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: we've never known?
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: What put yourself together?
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: God?
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, I can't do God's singing voice. Justice, I apologize.
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: Bucky needs Bucky's the voice of God.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: We know that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: And other news from the National Football League. Kyler Murray
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: yesterday agreed to a deal with the Minnesota Vikings. Call
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: off such party. Sorry, Bukaroo, Little sweets.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: Just passing through.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Yes we take it off. Yes we are diving into
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the pillow. Little sweetest self imploys it's the sweet sweet
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: wants to go to us anywhere. A really small prince
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: was also a wooden legend.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Little Sweet Stow Viking, Little Sweet and a Viking horn.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I call him back, smaller than Prince, Little.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: Sweets taking JJ's job.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: School School.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Doesn't have the same ring too, to do a high pitch.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: School school really doesn't School.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: School, Oh, Little Sweet, the smallest Viking ever.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Little Sweet loves Minnesota, Little Sweet raven and pillaging.
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: Oh oh my god, so Kenner Murray versus JJ McCarthy
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: or ahead of JJ McCarthy, I mean.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: Sweets in a peason competition.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: This is a complete failure.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: If the Minnesota Vikings have decided without get JJ McCarthy
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: more than a few games, Look, they have chased off
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. They have chased off Sam Darnold to create
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: this path for JJ McCarthy to take over his starting quarterback.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: And if they are.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Going to basically say okay in a short period of
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: time last year where he was mostly injured and trying
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: to play catch up, JJ McCarthy stinks were moving on
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: from him. They have failed miserably at identifying a quarterback
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: for this organization. And they have a head coach who's
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: supposed to be an expert at this very thing. What
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a crash and burn if they've already moved on from
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, and I'm not saying they shouldn't because I
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: don't think JJ McCarthy's good, never have.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: But they should have known that when he didn't throw
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: for Michigan.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: But to not give him an extended look to figure
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: it out if Kyler Murray really is the QB one
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: from day number one. Man, have they botched this? I
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: mean botched it like few people have botched anything.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: I don't.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if I would go that far.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, I get what you're saying. But at the
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: same time, it's kind of one of those Wait a second.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: You can get a guy that was, you know, a
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: number one overall pick that has shown signs of.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Being able to play quarterback in this league. You get
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: him for nothing.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: Basically, you get him for a song, and you're going
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: to put it into a quarterback competition with a guy
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: that is injured. You don't know if you're when he's
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: gonna be ready. I could see Kyler Murray taking the job,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: and it still doesn't necessarily mean that JJ McCarthy will
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: never amount to anything. It could just be Kyler Murray
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: with Kevin O'Connell could end up being a decent quarterback.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: I don't see that happening, by the way, but I
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: could see how they would think, well, I'm two, PEP
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: couldn't be successful.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I'm saying they're what they've done with JJ McCarthy as
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: a crash and burn.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Well, if they never give him an opportunity again, yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: I could say, I mean, I'm here, I'm with you
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: on that. You would have basically wasted a big pick.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: Well, and then maybe he just needs to go to
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: a place that's really good at developing quarterbacks like the Jets.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Here you go, there you go.
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: Swite avoid.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Raiders were at the center of the NFL free agency
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: week high volume activity plus the Max Crosby drama, The
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Rams bolstered their secondary is acts to the throne. The
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Champs and San Francisco signed Mike Evans, and everybody that
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: analyzes the All twenty two is saying that this Mike
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Evans signing was the greatest things and sliced bread during
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: this NFL free agency period. So if that gives you
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: any worry, the experts seemed to think that was a
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: great move by the forty nine ers. We shall see
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: all right, Moving on to the O Show item number four.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: College basketball Udubs season ended yesterday. They gave it a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: run against Wisconsin after beating USC close game, but eighty
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: five eighty two the favored Badgers. They move on. Here's
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Danny Sprinkle post game.
• 54:46
  Speaker 14: Yo, just proud of our guys, Like you said, like
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: that's a hard team to play and for us, and
• 54:51
  Speaker 14: when they were making threes, like they were like, the
• 54:53
  Speaker 14: game can get away from you quick, you know, and
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: not just us, man, they like they've drilled some really
• 54:58
  Speaker 14: good teams in his country and that's why.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: They're hard to guard. We finally, you know, we got
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: some stops.
• 55:03
  Speaker 14: We just we had so many open shots that first
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: thirty minutes that just couldn't fall.
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: You know, once we.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Started making them, we came back.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: But you know, give them credit.
• 55:11
  Speaker 14: But man, I can't tell you how proud I am
• 55:13
  Speaker 14: of this group. You know, the fight that this group had,
• 55:16
  Speaker 14: you know, finishing the season with you know, seven scholarship players,
• 55:19
  Speaker 14: eight total players. Just the grit and the camaraderie and
• 55:23
  Speaker 14: the togetherness they had was was was special.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Danny Sprinkle's second season as dub had basketball coachings with
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: a disappointing sub five hundred record four games during the
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Friday session of the Big Ten Tournament. Top seeds Michigan,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Michigan State, Nebraska, and Illinois played their first games of
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: the tournament today and it all gets started at nine am.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: The Big Twelve Tournament made news they have decided to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: move on from their revolutionary playing floor. They had the
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: first round couple rounds of the tournament on an LED screen.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: They were playing basketball on a giant LED screen.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: It's huge television.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: All the players were slipping and there were injuries that occurred.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Turns out they didn't test it for whether or not
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: you should play basketball on it. They just tested it
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: for how cool it looked. And the Big Twelve commissioner
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: announced the last night that they will not keep using
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: it throughout the rest of the tournament. Selection Sunday is
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: in just two days and then let the true madness begin.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Item number five. Stop me if you've heard this one,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: but the kraken or in a slap again, but kid
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: it right side turns away to the line. Bolinsky shot
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Dozzub Dowdrey. He scores.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: Boice shot from Bolinsky Dozzub Kawdrey got his stick.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: On it alves lead back.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: To three, four to one, two forty nine left here.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Of the second ever It fits you with the sad
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• 57:02
  Speaker 1: food see app four details. Colorado scored three times in
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the very first period and never were really threatened. Five
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: to one is your final score. Last week's Last Weeks
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: trade deadline acquisition. Bobby McMahon still has not been cleared
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: to play by the league, So the Kraken definitely getting
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: frustrated by this. Still been without that trade deadline acquisition.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: They have lost four in a row. They have lost
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: six of their eight since the Olympic break ended. They
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: are back in a slump. The good news is the
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: way they've played this year, I'm sure an upcoming seven
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: game winning streak is probably inevitable.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to get we need to get Bobby
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: in there. I don't know, hopefully he can play when
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: they're in Canada. Maybe that matters. Maybe when they're in Vancouver.
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: Would he be able to because he was playing in Canada?
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something of your new paperwork violates your
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: returning to Canada?
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: I was listened to something with it that Benton was
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: talking about. I was like, yeah, well, it made a
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: difficult to share because it fell on a Friday. That
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: didn't sneak up on people? Did it that when the
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: trade deadline?
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: What day it fell on?
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: That's what I was And isn't it always on a Friday?
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: No?
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think it is, But I.
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: Would have thought that the NHL would have been prepared.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: That's got to happen. Get our guy in there. We
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: need him.
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: Who can't get our guy to be able to play?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: When I say we, I mean me need him?
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: You do the crack and a Vancouver tomorrow night, seven
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: o'clock right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: kJ r f M. The WBC resumes tonight with the
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: elimination tournament beginning. Mark de Rosa, who has come under
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: heat for maybe not understanding pool play rules, was asked
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: about it yesterday at a press conference. Is there anything
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: that you want to clarify about the timeline of when
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: all the type breakers became clear to you.
• 58:55
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's just an overly confident statement on hotstove period
• 58:59
  Speaker 15: the end, and it's my fault. It felt good about
• 59:03
  Speaker 15: where we were after Mexico. Listen, us hanging out in
• 59:07
  Speaker 15: the clubhouse is everything I ever dreamed of creating. You
• 59:10
  Speaker 15: got to buy into this thing super quick and try
• 59:13
  Speaker 15: and create a team. And they played a hell of
• 59:15
  Speaker 15: a game. They smacked us in a mouth early, they
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: got up big. We went into that game prepared to
• 59:21
  Speaker 15: win it. I think there's a couple of false narratives
• 59:24
  Speaker 15: out there, but no, I was well aware that we
• 59:26
  Speaker 15: had to win that game based on all the scenarios
• 59:29
  Speaker 15: that could take place. I mean, they went into and Oh,
• 59:32
  Speaker 15: we went into and Oh. We knew they were playing
• 59:34
  Speaker 15: Mexico the next day, we knew there was tiebreaker rules involved.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Well they were both three and oh. But I don't care.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting hung up on that. I will say this.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: I'm hung up on this. He's lying he didn't know,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: and I don't know when he did know. I'm not
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: saying he didn't know during the game. But he didn't
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: know the time he made the statement. He's lying and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: he's trying to protect himself to save face a little bit.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: There was a disconnect. He did not understand the rules.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't seem like, based on his statements
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: that he made before that game, that he knew the rules.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: And if he's not, I need a better explanation than that,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: because that was not a really convincing argument that he
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: made in that press conference. I really like him. I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: hope this doesn't haunt him for the rest of his life,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: but I think he really messed up. Dominican at Korea
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: or not at Korea VERSUS Korea at three point thirty today,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: US in Canada at five o'clock. So Calan Gabe Spire
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: against Josh Naylor. Saturday, Puerto Rico versus Italy at noon,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: and then Japan and Venezuela will play Saturday as well. Finally,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Sounders will be in action on Sunday in San Jose
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: against the earthquakes.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: Are you saying you think the whole soun address fault
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: might come off?
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, That's exactly what I'm saying. Who should we call ghostbusters?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody the drama? So yes, the earthquakes. Beware two and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: one Sounders. They'll play Sunday on the road in San
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Jose at four o'clock. Most of the MLS place on
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Saturday this weekend. All right, coming up next. We are
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: at the end of the frenzy. No better time to
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: recap it. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: f M. Every good frenzy has to come to an end.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Today is that day?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Ah?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's more NFL free agency. NFL free agents.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: John Schnyders still got money to spend. He's got money
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to spend, so they know he's not done. He's not
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: done with the off season. He's gonna do stuff before
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: even the draft rolls around. But the frenzy, oh, that
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: has expired. There's no more frenzy after this. The frenzi. Oh.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I do love a good frenzy almost as much as
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I love a great tamper.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, you can combine the two.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: We've had a great week of tampering and frenzy.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I think frenzies should have a shelf life.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I think that too long of a frenzy becomes I
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: don't know, you.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Have a heart attack if you maintain that high level
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: of frenzy.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably true. Yeah, so we got to have
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: a little tamper and then some frenzy and then enough
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: just relaxed.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Not good enough shape to handle that much frenzy.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: To keep that going day after day after day.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Right, I would have to take up crack or math
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: or something something healthy.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'd have to keep doing it. I agree.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: I don't want that.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: So here we said at the end of the week,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: and I mean, I realized it's fun to get new toys,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: and the Seahawks didn't get a lot of new toys.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: What they did get seemed very practical, like a pair
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: of socks. Good pair of socks.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: Socks, They're great, but not exciting.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Right, is not exciting? I mean, I like Emmanuel Wilson,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: but when that's your free agent ad during something called
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the frenzy, I get that people out there wanted more
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: because they're appetite for Seahawk football right now, and watching
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: four starters leave through free agency and not really adding
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: much back in return. I get why you're not necessarily satisfied.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: But I am. I am with this week. I think
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: about what they achieved this week, and I think this
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: is what smart organizations executives of the Year, Super Bowl
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Champion front office says do. Don't overpay for anyone. There's
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: an argument that maybe they did for Rashid Shaihed, but
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: we were hearing Friday last Friday that eighteen million dollars
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: per year was what his salary was at. We thought
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: that was insane, insanely high. But they got him for
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars per year. So maybe you could make
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: an argument that they did slightly overpaid, but they didn't
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: for job, and they didn't for anybody else. Leave space
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: for in season moves. John does that every year. I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: think he's smart to do that, and he's one of
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: the most aggressive in season traders in the history of
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: the National Football League, So he's done that. Have a
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: plan beyond twenty twenty six. When you are building something
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: in the off season, you have to think about twenty
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty twenty eight and twenty twenty nine,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: and those that don't, I think, end up paying for it. Eventually.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: The Rams figured their way around it somehow a couple
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: of years ago. But I think John feels more comfortable
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: in that space, and I think that was done deliberately
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: this offseason and done well. He kept himself from you know,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: doing too many things to try to keep the team together,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: very calm, very steady hand to keep in mind this
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: isn't just about staying great for twenty twenty six, but
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: it is for beyond as well, keep special, special teams
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: grouped together on the cheap. I think he did that,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: and he's left himself some room to add more free
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: agents here and also to get JSN and Devin Witherspoon
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: done sooner than later long term. I like the week.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: You know, I know it's not the sexiest week, but
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: your world champions for goodness sake, and I think these
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: are world I think this is world championship caution and
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: steady handedness.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: Sure, I mean the idea of you. I mean, obviously
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: you don't have a ton, You're not in the middle
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: of some sort of rebuild, you don't have a ton
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: of things you have to do. You're going to lose
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: some folks. I mean every single year, you're gonna have
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: people's contracts come up, and and you know we've seen them,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: excuse me, try to you know, lock down the things
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: that they need to lock down at when that time
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: comes there, you know, when Charles Cross or you know,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: even Sam Donald, when they end up going out and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: getting Sam Donald. They didn't do it on just some
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: one year situation. They said, Okay, we think this is
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: something for the future. And then now with running back,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: I think that you have you don't know for sure
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: what you're going to need after this season, right, and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: so you have Zach Charbonay's and come back at some
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: point in time. If he comes back and he's completely healthy,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: I think that there's an idea that they that might
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: be a guy that they bring back because this will
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: be his final season on his rookie contract. So I
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: think they're they're piecing this thing together with the long
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: term and the short term, you know, kind of in view.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: They're looking at the entire thing and trying to figure
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: out how do you kind of stay where you're at
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: while you also know you have to make long term
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: agreements with guys like Jackson Smith and Jigmuin and Witherspoon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're being smart and I think it prudent. That's
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: a good way to put it.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, I still am I disappointed
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: that we didn't get Kobe Bryant.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: Back, Yes, but for that money.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: No, And I'm glad we got job, and I'm glad
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: we got Shahed, and I'm glad we're bringing in a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: running back at a great price to see what can
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: happen there.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: And it's everything I would expect from John Schneider.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, he is a very He's just really good
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: at what he does and.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Better and I think I mean there was some time
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: where he was not doing very well. I mean he
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: was missing on drafts and missing on free agents and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: maybe a couple of bad trades which seemed very unlike him.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I think it was Pete, Yeah, frankly, And now that's
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: the like now that the path is cleared and he
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: and Mike just seem to be on the same page
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: and they know exactly what it is that they want
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: need and they're doing a great job of getting it.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: And I think they have a world championship as evidence
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: for that. And they've got cap space here remaining as well.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: The thing that I think I would want next to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: know if I were John, and again this might be
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: just talk show host boy being unnecessarily worried about something.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: I would go meet with DeMarcus Lawrence and I would say, okay,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: what's going on. I don't want to be caught off.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Are you going to play next year or not? You know,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: when when's enough time for us to give you that
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you feel is fair? Because there are some veteran free
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: agents right now that might want to leap aboard this
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: ship and try to win a championship that might be
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: able to kind of replicate what DeMarcus Lawrence did. Joey Bosa,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: for example, to not find a job this week, Cameron
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Jordan looks like his long career with the New Orleans
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Saints is over. Von Miller is still out there. Those
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: are just like veteran types that could possibly be the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: leadership element and the physical element that Lawrence brought to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: the table that I might want to go get, But
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get him because I don't want
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: to duplicate what I already have in de Marcus Lawrence.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: So I need to know are you going to retire
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: or not? You know, Yeah, when do you think is
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: enough time away from you know, your shirtless parade that
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: we can reason expect an answer from you? Because I
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: don't want this veteran pass rusher market to dry up
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: and then be left down two pass rushers because I've
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: already lost Mafe. That's what I think I would want
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: to know next.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would like to I would imagine when
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: we hear that there is speculation or you know, there's
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: stuff out there that he's thinking about possibly walking away, right,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: I would think that you have had that conversation that
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: exact one of Hey, when do you when are you
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: going to know for sure?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Or when do you when can I come back to
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: you to find out for sure? Because of that exact
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: same reason that you're talking about. I mean, at this point,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: the frenzy's over, right, that mad rush at the beginning
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: of the tampering period and the beginning that the first
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: couple of waves. At this point, yeah, I think you're
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: still looking at there's a handful of guys that would
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: maybe fit the bill that are going to be less
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: than what you think of DeMarcus Lawrence at this point
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: in time, but they would fill that VOI to some degree.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: If somebody that's been there, done that maybe has a
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: little bit of gas left in the tank, can pick
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: up the system and join right in like a veteran,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: you would want to do.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: So we'll play for the cheap to be on a
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: great team to try to win a championship for their
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: careers over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean cheap comparatively, right, I mean my
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: edgeresser at twelve million bucks. If you were to if
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: DeMarcus Lawrence was to give up his salary, and you're like, okay,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: well then we can use that somewhere else. You don't
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: want to have that excess money just be sitting around
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: where we Now, where are we going to spend this
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: on something that is not going to equate to the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: same thing. I'm with you on that, but I would
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: I would think that once you hear he's thinking about it,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: that you have had that conversation. Okay, well when are
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: we going to know? Because I have roster construction to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: figure out here, all right?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Coming up next on the radio program. We spent a
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: little bit of time on this yesterday, but not as
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: much to satisfy me. So we'll talk about Bryce Miller's
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: injury next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Here
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: we go, nine o'clock hour on a Friday, as we
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: now sprint toward the weekend, the anchor leg and we
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: always hand the baton to our fastest runner that is
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millan right here with us. Uh usually x'es and o's.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not an x as and O season,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: but we are at the end of NFL free agency frenzy,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: and we did sign a running back yesterday that could
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: be the air apparent to Ken Walker. So we gotta
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: get Hugh Millon's thoughts on it, don't you agree?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we know he's gonna come in here. I
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: mean just chopping them feet like a sewing machine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no doubt about it, No doubt
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 16: You better when you're a defender of my scouting report, Yeah,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 16: like a machine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you're trying to Yeah, you better look at that
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: belly button. You're looking at anything else You're gonna miss him.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He'll juke, You'll juke you right out of your jock.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Good morning you, Good morning with you. All right? Well,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you did the deep dive last night on
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: the new running back Emmanuel Wilson from the Green Bay Packers.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 16: What did you come away with? Yeah, Well, I think
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 16: we can reason this through a little bit. Let's look
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 16: at the market for twenty twenty six of running backs.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 16: We've got ten running backs that have signed. We're still
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 16: waiting on the numbers on Rashad White. I think it's
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 16: going to be around where Wilson was. But of the
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 16: nine we have, the average is eight point one million.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 16: That you've got Etn Well K Nine's at the top
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 16: at fourteen point three million. Then you got Etn at
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 16: thirteen million, you got JK. Dobbins at eight million, Kenneth
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 16: gain Well at seven, Rico Dade Dabbles six point one,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 16: Tyler al Jill six point one, Chris Rodriguez five million,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 16: Keaton Mitchell at four point six and then Emmanuel Wilson's
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 16: at two point one million, less than half of this
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 16: of the second lowest guy on that list. Again, the
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 16: second lowest guy keep mitching four point six million. Right,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 16: so the market is speaking, and and and then I
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 16: want I want you to also consider that the Packers,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 16: I'm not gonna get into their they've signed some guys
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 16: to be backup running backs. And you know they've got
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 16: this number two in mind. They've got another guy to
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 16: be a third. So the Packers had him for three
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 16: years and did not tender him, which would have been
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 16: at three point five to two million. And and so
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 16: three point five to two million would have been well
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 16: below what I just said is the second lowest.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: So so I think.
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  Speaker 16: Before you even throw on the tape, you know, you know,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 16: you get a picture of where the market was. So
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 16: as you know, I'm just nerdy enough to go look
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 16: at every single play for this past season with and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 16: the first thing you noticed right up the jump, and
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 16: the way I study the tape is is I've got
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 16: I've got the sideline copy on one side, it's the intercut,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 16: and then right next to it is the end zone copy,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 16: and they run, you know, concurrently, and so you kind
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 16: of watch in your frame. You know the dude's dude's
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 16: a thick dude. I mean, before you even snap the ball,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 16: go oh okay, that guy's stick at two hundred and
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 16: twenty six pounds at five ten. But then you watch
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  Speaker 16: the tape and you watch, you know, I watched one
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  Speaker 16: hundred and twenty six carries that he had and the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 16: seventeen times that they threw him the football, And you
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 16: know the first thing I'm I'm looking at, I'm saying,
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  Speaker 16: I don't see a lot of burst. I don't see
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 16: long speed, I don't see lateral quickness whatsoever. Few broken tackles.
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  Speaker 16: We'll get to some of these, some stats that reflect
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 16: on this. And as I'm sitting there going you know,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 16: you know, I'm getting in a bad mood. Not because
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 16: the sea Owks didn't replace Kenneth Walker, but I don't
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 16: like to come on your show. I'm a Seahawk fan.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 16: I'm from Seattle. It's a lot more fun for me
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 16: to watch a tape and go, oh wow, this is
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 16: gonna be fun. I can't wait go on the radio
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 16: and talk about all these things that I love about
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 16: this player.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: That's a lot more.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 16: Fun for me. But all I can do is just
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 16: give you of my assessment. I was prepared until the
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 16: Viking game on the tape to say, you know what
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 16: this is gonna be exactly like do you remember when
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 16: I when they signed Marcus Valdez Scanle and I came
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 16: on your show the next morning. Yeah, do you happen
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 16: to remember what I said? You didn't know if he
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 16: would make the opening day roster. Yeah, everybody's saying, well,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 16: this is the replacement for DK metcalf. I'm like, that's
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 16: what I see, not what I see on the tape.
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  Speaker 16: And so I was looking, you know, he's two point
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 16: one million, nothing is guaranteed. And prior to watching the
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 16: Viking game, I'm like, I think this guy, you know
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 16: fifty to fifty whether he makes the team. And now
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 16: he did play. And I mentioned the Viking game because
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 16: that that's the game. It was at Green Bay. He
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 16: had one hundred and seven yards on twenty eight carries,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 16: so that's three point eight yards per tempt. But there
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 16: were some nice runs there and he saw I saw
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 16: a lateral quickness from him. And by the way, I
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 16: think his vision is pretty good. I put some disparaging
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 16: points I think throughout the tape.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: I think I think he.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 16: Has a good idea of where the holes are. I
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 16: don't think he misses holes. But he's had forty five
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 16: games in his career. Of the forty five, he's had
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 16: four games over fifty five yards, and his career high
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 16: as the one time over one hundred is the Minnesota game. Now,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 16: a few weeks later they came back and they played
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 16: in Minnesota, and I think Brian Floores got after their
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 16: ass the defensive coordinator for the Vikings, and and and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 16: at that point, Wilson had eighteen carries forty four yards
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 16: two point four yards per attempt, so I think they
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 16: kind of shut him down. But in any event, yeah,
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  Speaker 16: that's what I see. I mean, here's a guy that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 16: that his twenty yards shuttle the combine, he's thirty if
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 16: one hundred percent of his best he was thirty third
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 16: percentile on the twenty yard suttle that shows up on tape,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 16: the three cone drill. These are the things that measure
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 16: your kind of lateral quickness nineteenth percent out. You know,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 16: he's where Canine is a one four nine. He's a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 16: one to five eight in his first ten yards. And
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 16: then you know, Canine had fifteen rushes of twenty of
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 16: fifte excuse me, let me start over fifteen yards or more.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 16: Canine had twenty two rushes. Wilson had one. The mistackle
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 16: percentage Canine had twenty seven percent, Emmanuel Wilson eleven point
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 16: six percent. And then, okay, is there the physical component
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 16: I mentioned this frame yards after contact per rush. Out
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 16: of fifty two running backs who had one hundred or
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 16: more attempts last year, he was dead in the middle
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 16: twenty six out of fifty two. So I think we're
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 16: talking about a guy that is is and he wasn't
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 16: a special team's contributor. So I think you just have
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 16: to say, wait a minute, why did the Packers, Why
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 16: are the Packers on signing these other guys to be
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 16: their second and third running back? You know, why does
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 16: the market only render two point one million? And then
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 16: you throw on the tape and you just kind of say,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 16: this is a guy that's that's going to be in
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 16: a camp battle to.
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  Speaker 2: Make the football team. All right, Well, I mean I'm
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the measurables and stuff is some of
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: the stuff that I went back and looked at, and
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: those were not anything spectacular as forty is. None of
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: the stuff at the combine made him look like he
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: was good enough to where anybody drafted him. That's why
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: he was signed by Denver as a as an undrafted
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: free agent. And so I'm wondering if you can put
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: on your your Hawks fan rose colored glasses just a
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: little bit. I mean, is there anything besides I mean,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: does he at least put his shoulders down when you
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: need two yards and he'll go get the tough yards
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: because he's built. He's built like he could be a
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: kind of a bit of a tough load to bring down.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, does he bring something to the table where
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, this is something we throw into the mix,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: and if he continues to blossom with a little bit
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: more reps or a bigger opportunity, then maybe he could
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: be something to tide over until some one of these
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: other youngsters gets healthy or or somebody else comes through.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Well there's there. You know, he's stronger.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 16: You do see there's a few mistackles on the on
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 16: the tape, as I said, where Canine is twenty seven percent,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 16: this guy's eleven point six percent, Yeah, there was some,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 16: But I think that is moving the pile. Kind of
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 16: left me underwhelmed. I thought when I saw his frame
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 16: on play one, I just kind of assumed when I
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 16: watched one hundred and twenty six carries that I would
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 16: see more plays remove the pile. But but you know,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 16: if I just watched the Viking game, I'd say, Okay,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 16: this guy's a solid number two in the NFL. Not
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 16: a starter, but a solid number two, like like he's
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 16: making your football team. I think the rest of the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 16: tape leans me towards you know, friends player, you know,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 16: not a guarantee to make the team, and uh and
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 16: and and and by the way, you know I mentioned
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 16: the combines, you know, having played in Dallas with Emmitt Smith.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 16: Emma Smith ran a four to six uh you know,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 16: you know I was with Tryl Davison and Eric Dickerson,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 16: you know, two other Hall of famers. They take their
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 16: shirt off and and you could go up and you
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 16: could knock on their uh, on their on their pecks
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 16: if you if, if you were inclined to do that,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 16: and it would make a sound like these guys were
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 16: just just ripped, and Emmett was just soft. He's you know,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 16: my wife's site five eight, you know, like there was
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 16: nothing about the measurables with Emmett. You had to watch
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 16: the tape to see his greatness. So I'm not just saying, well,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 16: I'm gonna go look at a guy's combine numbers and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 16: and then tell you what I think of him as
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 16: a running back. No, what I'm saying is what I see.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 16: I don't see great burst, I don't see great lateral quickness,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 16: and and what the tape shows is supported by how
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 16: he tested.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get too personal, but do you
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: ever go up and knock on your wife's pecks? Find and.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: That doesn't even known to happen.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: But you know, it just depends on your definition. You
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: villain is with us our QB one talking about the
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: signing of Emmanuel Wilson. So if you're out and the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the vMac and you got John Schneider there and you're
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: out in the gravel, uh, and you're talking to him
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  Speaker 1: out by the train tracks where we tend to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: meet before we leave the facility, and it's just the
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  Speaker 1: two of you in the wilderness out there, and and
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  Speaker 1: he says to you, yeah, I think we got the
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  Speaker 1: ken Walker a whole solved between Wilson and Halani. What
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: do you say to the Executive of the Year.
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  Speaker 16: Well, I would hope I'm not drinking a coffee right
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  Speaker 16: at the moment because I might spit it out and
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  Speaker 16: and and and it might burn him. Look, I think
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  Speaker 16: that that he the keys fantastic. I love the guy's personality.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I.
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  Speaker 16: Mean there's a lot you know, he's he seems fun
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  Speaker 16: and but uh and and and accomplished. Like if if
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  Speaker 16: you want to say he's the best GM in the
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  Speaker 16: in the league, I'm not going to put up an
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  Speaker 16: argument like he's earned a lot of cash, like almost limitless, right,
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  Speaker 16: But let's talk about the running backs that that they've drafted.
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  Speaker 16: You ring a bell when you when when you there's
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  Speaker 16: a star player, Robert Turbin, Christen Michael Spencer, where Kiero Small,
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  Speaker 16: c g. A. Procis, Alex Collins, Zach Brooks, Chris Carson, Okay,
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  Speaker 16: Rosard Penny that you know, that's that's a tough one
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  Speaker 16: because of the injuries, Travis Homer, DJ Dallas, Kenneth Walker obviously,
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  Speaker 16: Zach Charbonay, Okay, Kenny McIntosh, Damien Martinez. Like that, that's
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  Speaker 16: the list of running backs that they have. And even
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  Speaker 16: when you go second rounders, where I think Seattle's you know,
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  Speaker 16: the most likely thing they'll they'll probably take the second
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  Speaker 16: rounder on a running back. They're in my mind, they're
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  Speaker 16: one for three on second rounders. You know, Chris and
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  Speaker 16: Mike Well, yeah, I mean Zach Scharbonay, you know, one
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  Speaker 16: and a half out of three.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 16: But but Canine is the only one who's a number
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  Speaker 16: one out of the second rounders. I don't think Zach
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  Speaker 16: scharbon A is a number one. I think he's, you know,
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  Speaker 16: a solid two. But he but you know that that's
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  Speaker 16: my I mean, they're they're they're just no comparison in
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  Speaker 16: my opinion. So so I think that that just because
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  Speaker 16: a guy is great does not mean he's in errand
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  Speaker 16: and so I would to answer your question. And we've had,
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  Speaker 16: you know, conversation, not out in the gravelly woods like
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 16: you're talking about, but we've yucked it up a few
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 16: times over the years and and talked about and and
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  Speaker 16: and he's a fun guy. And I would be crestfallen
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 16: if he wasn't the general manager of the Seahawks, Like
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  Speaker 16: I hope that's clear everybody would be right. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 16: but that doesn't mean there's not some holes in his game.
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  Speaker 16: And I've got some concerns about where they are running
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 16: back going into the twenty twenty six season.
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  Speaker 1: If you were looking at Wilson replaces Charbonnay while he's
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: injured versus thinking it through the prism of replacing Walker,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel better about that? So he's a he's
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  Speaker 1: a two. Yeah, he's the two. He's the guy that
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: the thunder, you know, the thunder the tough yardage. He's
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: just gonna be the you know, he's going to take
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  Speaker 1: up that spot till Charbonay is healthy versus trying to
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  Speaker 1: look at it through he's replaced.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think.
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  Speaker 16: He's good as Charbonne as a two. I think that
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  Speaker 16: I think he's a two three type guy. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 16: you know, I think it'd be more like a Halani versus.
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  Speaker 16: But Halani's a special teams guy. This guy doesn't do
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  Speaker 16: play play uh, special teams.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 16: They threw to him seventeen times, he caught fifteen. He
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 16: dropped a screen pass. But I think he he you know,
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  Speaker 16: he shows just a naturally he doesn't fight the ball.
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  Speaker 16: I think the other one was a wheel route and
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 16: Jordan Love over threw him intentionally. So so I thought
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  Speaker 16: his contributions as a receiver were, you know, more than adequate.
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  Speaker 16: You know, you know, all of these were checkdowns. They
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  Speaker 16: don't feature him. It was always like, okay, you know,
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  Speaker 16: Jordan lov uh one, no, two, No, let me throw
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  Speaker 16: the swing. And he's fine in that capacity. He's not
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  Speaker 16: gonna You're not gonna You're not gonna third down, you know, McCaffrey,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 16: you're gonna run an option route and on on third
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  Speaker 16: and four, you know, in a critical time of the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, he's not that kind of receiver.
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  Speaker 2: But but he's adequate.
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  Speaker 16: So but yeah, that's my assessments below the median number two, okay,
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  Speaker 16: and you know I think he's a fringe number two,
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  Speaker 16: he's a two three Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In our last couple of minutes, I did want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you. We've had this big topic this week about
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Cal and Randy and whether or not the handshake at
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: the WBC should have been reciprocated. We don't know how
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: big of an issue this is within the Mariners family,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: but it's obviously not gone away. There's something there. And
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  Speaker 1: I would just ask you, somebody that's been in a
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  Speaker 1: locker room for a lot of your career, a lot
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: of your life span, how would this go over for
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: you if this you watch this exchange occur.
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  Speaker 16: Well, my question would be, I think that that Randy
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  Speaker 16: and Cal are gonna emerge out of this more or
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  Speaker 16: less what they brought into it. Tell me what their
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 16: relationship was before.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 16: You know, I've had, as you know, for the last
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 16: few years, I've had press credentials see you guys down
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  Speaker 16: there at spring training, and and you know, I just
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 16: kind of and and that credential allows you to kind
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 16: of you're just kind of mixing in with all the
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 16: guys in the stuff they do. You're you're very close
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 16: to the action. And because I'm very interested in the pitchers,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 16: you know, I watched the both penned sessions and years ago.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 16: You know, I was like, Wow, this cal Raley is
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 16: a hell of a leader. You can just tell how
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 16: he interacts. You know, there's there's a confidence to him,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 16: but he's like one of the guys. And I think
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 16: for leadership, I think that there's basically three.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: Three components of being a leader.
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  Speaker 16: This is twenty five years of playing football, twenty four
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 16: years of coaching, and I've given this a lot of thought.
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  Speaker 16: Number One, I think you have to be a great player.
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  Speaker 16: I've never seen a leader, you know, at least a
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 16: very good player. You know, at a professional locker room.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 16: If you're a below the average player, you don't have
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 16: a lot of leadership juice. That's just my opinion. Number Two,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 16: you have to be a burning competitor. And I'll come
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 16: back to that because there's there's many subsets to that.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 16: And then number three, you got to point the thumb,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 16: not the finger. You got to be accountable, right and
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 16: and you know, so I've seen you know, John always
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 16: considered one of the great leaders. You know, watched him
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 16: and and when you're a burning competitor, you prepare, you're
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 16: physically tough, you're mentally tough, you fight through adversity, you
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 16: employ your teammates in a way, and your teammates know
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 16: that winning matters to you. And so so if you
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 16: if you check those boxes, those three boxes, then there's
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 16: room for different personalities. My sense, my overwhelming sense, is
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  Speaker 16: that cal Rawly checks those those boxes. And then his
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 16: personality is the type that he would be like, no,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 16: we're not we're not boys in this moment. Now he
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 16: can you know, with his left hand, he could have
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 16: with the back of his mit. If there's an issue
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 16: about pine tar, he could have just dabbed him, like
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 16: we know, he could have accomplished that if that was
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 16: a concern. I don't think that was it. I think
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 16: it was now Here's here's another point. I studied Spanish
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 16: for three years in high school, and Signorakdama tried to
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 16: teach us about Mexican and South American culture and mocha
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 16: pichu and all these things, you know, and and uh, now,
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  Speaker 16: maybe in year four they would have taught about the
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 16: culture of handshakes on a baseball field. I didn't get
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 16: to year four, but we have to at least uh
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  Speaker 16: And and Bucky, heck, you played down there, you'd speak
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 16: to this, but you have to. We have to at
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 16: least say there's a chance that the culture difference is
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 16: a vital element. And of course I'm not the first
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  Speaker 16: to raise this this component. Now that doesn't mean you
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 16: just get carte blanched just everything as well. It's just
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 16: different culture and then you can excuse uh, you know,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 16: destructive behavior. But getting back to my thought, I think
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  Speaker 16: that if they, if if if Randy respected Cal, and
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  Speaker 16: I can't imagine he didn't before the incident, then he,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 16: unless he's a total jackwagon, will will find a way
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 16: to understand Cal. And I think they will emerge out
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 16: of it what they brought into it. And my my,
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  Speaker 16: I suspect what they brought into it was that they
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 16: have great respect for each other. Yeah, because Cal's gonna
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 16: humble himself and he's gonna, you know, even if he doesn't,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 16: you know, he's gonna say, hey, look, look my bad.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 16: You know, he's gonna go overboard to try and mend it.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 16: But you know, for I don't want to totally dismiss it,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 16: because when when Randy said he can go to Hell,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 16: I was like, you guys, thinking, well, he must.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: Be joking, like he doesn't really mean that, right, you know.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 16: But then based on Cal's response and the subsequent response,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 16: you go, wait a minute, he cut right in that moment.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 16: He kind of meant Cal can go to Hell. So
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 16: I do think there's some patchwork to be done. I
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 16: think it will be done for the reasons we've been
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 16: just that I've expressed.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Awesome. All right, man, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, and we'll talk.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: To you soon.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: Hammer down.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, guys, there he.
• 1:31:20
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• 1:31:23
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• 1:31:26
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• 1:31:31
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• 1:31:34
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