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Chuck & Buck 3-12 Hour 4: Matt Santangelo, Seahawks silence and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, nine o'clock hour here on this Thursday, and
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  Speaker 1: joining us now on the radio program, something we do
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  Speaker 1: every year. He was on that original Zags team that
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  Speaker 1: broke through and won all of America's hearts except Seattle's.
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  Speaker 1: And since that time, they've done nothing but roll as
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  Speaker 1: a program. My goodness, they're even making documentaries about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. The Zags just continue to churn right along
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  Speaker 1: as a powerhouse in college foot college basketball, and they're
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  Speaker 1: headed back to the NCAA Tournament again this year. And
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  Speaker 1: so he joins us every year to discuss this very topic.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Santangelo is with us right here on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning, Hi guys, Thanks for thanks
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  Speaker 2: for inviting me back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I be Matt Santangelo day.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I'm not going to argue that one.
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  Speaker 1: Are you part of by the way, this documentary they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: did you get interviewed? Are you a big big deal
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  Speaker 1: in it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about a big deal, but definitely a
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  Speaker 2: part of it. It was a really fun project. It
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  Speaker 2: was over a couple of years putting it together. We
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  Speaker 2: actually did a Friends and Family premiere two weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: now or last Monday a week ago, Monday before it
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  Speaker 2: went public on Tuvy, and they did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard to capture twenty five plus
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  Speaker 2: years of you know, Coach Fugh's career and the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the rides of the program in an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half. But it's and I encourage people to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little biased, but I encourage people it's to
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  Speaker 2: check it out. It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: If they turn it into Zags the movie, Who do
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  Speaker 1: you want to play You?
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  Speaker 2: I always thought, we always joked so the voice of
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  Speaker 2: the Zags, Tom Hudson, who does the radio broadcast and
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  Speaker 2: has for many years, twenty plus years, we always kind
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  Speaker 2: of tease that when they do the story, no one
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  Speaker 2: can recreate Tom Hudsons. He's actually gonna have to work
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  Speaker 2: more and actually play himself. So I'm thinking for our group,
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  Speaker 2: we may lobby to be our own, our own performers,
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  Speaker 2: as kind of the has beens that once wants kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of word I want.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I don't want to go two par there.
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  Speaker 1: But you might have aged brilliantly, but you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to get a younger actor to play you.
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  Speaker 2: Matt younger and a few pounds lighter. I don't know, Ai.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe AI can help me with that one.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, that's true. I could do something, Mattie,
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  Speaker 3: I think. Uh so, how you feeling this year? I
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  Speaker 3: mean the Slipper still fits. I mean the Zags are
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  Speaker 3: in again and and yet different maybe a different way
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  Speaker 3: of getting in this year.
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  Speaker 4: How you feeling at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? This team is really uh interesting? There at least
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  Speaker 2: they've made it certainly interesting. The loss of Braden Huff
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  Speaker 2: was just huge, and I feel like this team's really been,
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  Speaker 2: you know, honestly kind of still building their identity, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as the West Coast Conference Conference play kind of moved on,
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  Speaker 2: and then the tournament in Vegas this week, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: this team, you know, obviously it's awesome to see that
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  Speaker 2: they're back in the Tournament's awesome to see that they
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  Speaker 2: went to Vegas and and took control of their own destiny,
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  Speaker 2: won the tournament, got that automatic bid. But when I'm
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  Speaker 2: not I'm still not even quite sure what their their
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  Speaker 2: ceiling is and it really kind of comes down to
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  Speaker 2: their perimeter shooting. They're good defensively. Graham Yeque is a
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  Speaker 2: stud in the interior and if they can just get
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  Speaker 2: some you know, halfway consistent perimeter shooting, then this team
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  Speaker 2: becomes really kind of scary and dangerous here in March.
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  Speaker 2: But that remains to be seen Frankly. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: guys know as well as I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just a strange start to the year,
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  Speaker 1: like handle the ranked Creton team without any issue beat
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  Speaker 1: an Alabama team that at the beginning of the season
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  Speaker 1: people thought was going to be a national championship contender,
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  Speaker 1: and then to lose to Michigan by forty Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: did that do to you in your assessment of what
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  Speaker 1: kind of season this was going to be? How did
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  Speaker 1: you feel the next morning waking up knowing that there
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  Speaker 1: might be a team in college basketball forty points better
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  Speaker 1: than my team? Is that possible? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: That was That's a great question and one that I
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  Speaker 2: know I struggle with because how does that impact the
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  Speaker 2: psyche going on? I mean, when you draw on those
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  Speaker 2: past experiences during tough times in the season, you know
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  Speaker 2: you obviously are going to lose gains and you hope
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  Speaker 2: that you learn from those. How do you learn from
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  Speaker 2: a forty point blowout? So the easiest way to do
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  Speaker 2: that in the great you know, ted Lasso memory like
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  Speaker 2: a goldfish is just say it's an anomaly, like it
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  Speaker 2: can't happen again. Michigan's good, they were great, we were bad.
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  Speaker 2: You know, kind of move on as quickly as you
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  Speaker 2: possibly can. But I I do agree that that that
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  Speaker 2: did show some cracks in the armor, especially and not
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  Speaker 2: just getting beat that bad, but really having Braiden Tuff
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  Speaker 2: and Graham Ek struggle on the inside, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just didn't expect that to happen at the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the rate that Michigan showed. But then they the guns.
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  Speaker 2: They can then bounce back, you know, they bounced back quickly,
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  Speaker 2: they responded, they got some big wins. They you know,
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  Speaker 2: continue to kind of roll. And then of course the
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  Speaker 2: Braiden Huff injury, you know, changed the dynamic completely once again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously him going down affects a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: And usually at this point it feels like the Zags,
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  Speaker 3: you know what their blueprint is going to be, you
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  Speaker 3: know what they're going to do. I don't know for
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  Speaker 3: sure if I have the same type of feel for
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  Speaker 3: this for this season. So is there someone in particular
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  Speaker 3: that you are like, this guy needs to show up
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  Speaker 3: tournament time?
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  Speaker 4: And they could make a deep run. If he doesn't,
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  Speaker 4: then you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly think it's the the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: group of perimeter shooters. I mean, even looking at the
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  Speaker 2: tournament championship on Tuesday night against Santa Clara, you had
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  Speaker 2: I call him super Mario. But Mario, you know, knock
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  Speaker 2: down five threes. You know, you don't need five threes,
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  Speaker 2: but you need some You got to open up the
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  Speaker 2: interior for Graham to have some space to move. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be really important that you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at one individual player, certainly the point
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  Speaker 2: guard spot on bias towards that position anyway. But Mario
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  Speaker 2: playing well, you know, the freshman Vogel has a ton
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  Speaker 2: of potential and it's just young enough and plays with
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  Speaker 2: enough abandon to really go into March and have a
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  Speaker 2: really fun March Madness tournament. It's all kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: teed up for him because of the style of play
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  Speaker 2: and the nature of the intensity in March. But then
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  Speaker 2: you look at town Grant Foster, you know, he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of been that the second leading score over the stretch
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  Speaker 2: since Braydon Huff went out inconsistent from the perimeter, but
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  Speaker 2: it does a great job of getting to the cup
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  Speaker 2: and getting to the Friesil line. So I I still
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  Speaker 2: think it's kind of X factor by committee, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: with these group of players that really need to kind
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  Speaker 2: of step up consistently to kind of again open it
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  Speaker 2: up for Graham, but also be complimentary to what I
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  Speaker 2: does on the interior.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Santangelo is with us. It's our annual celebration of
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  Speaker 1: Matt Santangelo Day. We have them on once per year.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually this week as we get ready for selection
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  Speaker 1: Sunday just three days away, and of course the Zags
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  Speaker 1: have already punched their ticket and they were going to
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  Speaker 1: make it no matter what, but they are guaranteed a
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  Speaker 1: spot with winning the WCC again this week and right now, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: they've got Joe Lonardi at least in his bracketology as
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  Speaker 1: the Zags as a three seed. How much does seeding?
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  Speaker 1: How much do you put into you know, being happy
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  Speaker 1: with the seed, being disappointed with the seed, and what's
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  Speaker 1: the range for you one Sunday comes around for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I certainly think that three would be would be fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think kind of one through four, Uh
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  Speaker 2: really makes a big difference as far as you know
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  Speaker 2: what that potential first you know, first round, second round
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  Speaker 2: matchups will be, you know, five through the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the bracket. Uh makes marsh Madness magic. So uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know those ones aren't maybe ads not as much of
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  Speaker 2: a differentiator, but I think those one through four, So
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  Speaker 2: Gonzega isn't that in that three seed or I mean
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  Speaker 2: potentially four seed. Depends on how the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: Championship week plays out. I think they got to feel
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  Speaker 2: pretty good about where they're at. And then I think
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  Speaker 2: geography matters.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think if they're able to stay in the West
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  Speaker 2: and zag Nation can come out and support or travel
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  Speaker 2: to I think that that makes a huge impact to
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  Speaker 2: getting through that first weekend and give them some some
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  Speaker 2: kind of emotional uh energy and support as well. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that they with everything they've been through,
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  Speaker 2: the ups and downs, kind of the consists, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the how they were almost they were very superlative defensively
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  Speaker 2: and offensively on all the advanced metrics until Braden Huff
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  Speaker 2: got hurt, and then offensively they've really kind of suffered
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  Speaker 2: because of that, And so I think with that being said,
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  Speaker 2: the strength of schedule, the analytics supporting it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that three or four is fair, and I
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  Speaker 2: think you'd walk away, especially if they're in the West
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  Speaker 2: feeling pretty good about their chances to you know, advance
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  Speaker 2: a few rounds here in March.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, getting getting past a couple of rounds is where
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  Speaker 3: they need to be and then see what happens is
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  Speaker 3: see what happens if if you can get into the
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  Speaker 3: sweet sixteen or something. When you're thinking about this team,
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about what you think the Zags need to do.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a kryptonite that concerned you, a certain type
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  Speaker 3: of team that you don't want to run into, uh
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  Speaker 3: in the tournament?
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly I mean, any any one of the one seeds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what was last year was the first time
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  Speaker 2: all four to one seeds got to the final four
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the tournament. And they're certainly looking
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  Speaker 2: like those those four to one seeds are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: separating themselves with their body of work here this again
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  Speaker 2: this season? So yeah, so definitely want to avoid those.
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  Speaker 2: But if you get the three or four seeds, you
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  Speaker 2: do avoid them for the at least the first weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So that's how those that seeding really helps you. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I would have said the team has historically
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  Speaker 2: rebounded really well, but they got their bus kicked on
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  Speaker 2: the glass by Santa Clair on Monday or excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday in the conference tournament championship. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hope they learn from that and they come out
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  Speaker 2: so you kind of take out maybe teams that aren't
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  Speaker 2: as efficient offensively but really hit the offensive glass. I
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  Speaker 2: think this team might be a little susceptible to some
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  Speaker 2: of those quick guards that can get into the lane
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  Speaker 2: as well, but they have such great length on the
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  Speaker 2: perimeter that defensively they have been pretty solid so far.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it just again, it kind of comes
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  Speaker 2: back to when Saint Mary's beat him. Uh was that
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  Speaker 2: a week and a half ago in Maraga.
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It really came down to the guard Mikey Lewis and
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  Speaker 2: his perimeter shooting, which is always obviously the X factor
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  Speaker 2: in March. If you get a guy who in the
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  Speaker 2: primiter that just gets hot, that three point shot changes
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  Speaker 2: the game dramatically. So I didn't really answer your question,
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  Speaker 2: but but I think, you know, it's just a it's
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  Speaker 2: timing and who gets hot in March really helps, and
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  Speaker 2: so Gonzega hits one of those buzz saws like we've
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  Speaker 2: seen over the years. That's a really tough spot to
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  Speaker 2: be in.
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  Speaker 1: And let's face it, that's it. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that's eluded in this Cinderella story that
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  Speaker 1: is Gonzaga's basketball history. You've made it to the Final Four,
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  Speaker 1: you've made it to the NCAA Championship game, but the
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  Speaker 1: national title still eludes the program. What chance do you
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  Speaker 1: give it that maybe this could be the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another great question I think. I think with without.
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  Speaker 1: Uncomfortable to answer, then.
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  Speaker 2: Give me the you know, pick your top five eggs
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  Speaker 2: of all time. That's the other one. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to answer that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that question.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the ceiling is as high for this group.
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  Speaker 2: I just, you know, I think the Braiden I think
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  Speaker 2: you keep Braiden Huff on this team and healthy. Then
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  Speaker 2: the ceiling is Final four, National championship. You the three
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  Speaker 2: of us have talked before me after Sweet sixteen, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a crap shoot anyway on any given night,
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  Speaker 2: because the teams are so good and the and the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the tournament. But I think with be Huff,
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  Speaker 2: their ceiling is as high as as anyone in the country,
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  Speaker 2: even with the Michigan result. But without be Huff, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're gonna have to get have someone else
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  Speaker 2: really have a really magical march. You know, I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of money in the bank with Graham k and the
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  Speaker 2: way he's going to perform. Of course he could really
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  Speaker 2: go off to but I mean to do it six
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  Speaker 2: games in a row, you know, or four or five
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  Speaker 2: games to get there, it would be pretty remarkable. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they're seeing that high, but I would
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  Speaker 2: like to see them get that sixteen streak started again
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  Speaker 2: after a little hiatus last year, and I do think
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  Speaker 2: that's that's definitely on the goal sheet for this team
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  Speaker 2: and certainly attainable going into the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing. Then for you, I mean, it's another year
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  Speaker 1: and it's another successful year for this program. And it's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why documentaries are made. It's it truly is
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  Speaker 1: I know Seattle basketball fans don't like to hear this,
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  Speaker 1: but it truly is one of the great stories in
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  Speaker 1: the history of American sports. How this program does this
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  Speaker 1: every single year. But it started with that Cinderella team
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  Speaker 1: that you were a part of. But what do you
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  Speaker 1: think is the thing that has been at the center
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  Speaker 1: of being able to make this thing documentary worthy? Is
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  Speaker 1: it Mark Fughse, you know, stewardship of the program? Is
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  Speaker 1: it the foundation, uh, that was set at the very
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the process. Is it that point guard that
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  Speaker 1: led the first uh, you know Cinderella Zags team? Is
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  Speaker 1: it Matt Santangelo? Is the reason why it's lasted for
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of a century. Is it the fan base?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Spokane? Is it the administration? What? What do
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  Speaker 1: you what do you tie it to? What is the
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  Speaker 1: foundation for why this story has occurred?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think it. I think it has to come
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  Speaker 2: down to consistency. I mean, obviously this many years, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's easy to point to that, But if consistency is
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  Speaker 2: the one common them and then you go from there.
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  Speaker 2: So Coach Hughes just is beautifully consistent. He always has
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  Speaker 2: been deadfast in his belief as to what could be accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: even before it was accomplished. You know, this this great
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  Speaker 2: rise in GUNZGA basketball, but consistent in just as daily approach.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he coaches the same uh, in late January
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  Speaker 2: at a you know, a bad San Diego team, as
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  Speaker 2: he does against Michigan in the preseason, and you know
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  Speaker 2: Santa Clair and the conference championship and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever we get in the NCAA tournament. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: next game is always the most important game. And he's
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  Speaker 2: coached like that since since you know, he was an
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach. So that consistency has been fantastic. But then
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  Speaker 2: I think you hit some other nails on the head
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  Speaker 2: the administration. I mean the athletic great director Chris Staniford,
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  Speaker 2: much of the administrative staff were there when I was there,
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  Speaker 2: a long time ago before AI made me look younger
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  Speaker 2: and lighter. So I mean that consistency across the university
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  Speaker 2: I think plays into it. And then I do think
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  Speaker 2: and Seattle might you know, roll their eyes when I
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  Speaker 2: say this. I think Spokane has something to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the support that ZAG Nation gets. I think
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they're the biggest show in town, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not competing with professional sports or major college football or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. I think those have something to do
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  Speaker 2: with it. And then it takes a special kind of athlete,
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  Speaker 2: personality character to come here on your recruiting trip into Spokane,
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  Speaker 2: see this little Jesuit school, you know, on the corner
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  Speaker 2: of the map, and go like, yeah, this makes complete
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  Speaker 2: sense to me. I want to come here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be a part of this culture, this legacy,
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  Speaker 2: this history. I want to take it to New Heights.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's something about that, you know, that that connection,
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  Speaker 2: that correlation between the type of athlete that this area
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  Speaker 2: makes sense and this university makes sense. And then of
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  Speaker 2: course the values and the culture of the university and
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  Speaker 2: the program. So I think there's something to be that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe that's the the magic formula, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of all makes this work. But it all
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  Speaker 2: comes back to that consistency over so many years and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that like why not us, I mean, someone's
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  Speaker 2: got to win the games? Is you got to play them,
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  Speaker 2: you got to schedule, and me might as well win them.
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  Speaker 2: And Gonzei's gonna doing that. Of course. It's a huge
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  Speaker 2: clip for a long time now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Ryan Reynolds was a name I
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  Speaker 1: threw out. What do you think of Ryan Reynolds playing
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  Speaker 1: you and Gonzaga movie?
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it sounds good. I just
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  Speaker 2: hope that we that they we get to be around it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't want it to be completely I
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  Speaker 1: point three kJ R FM, And Yeah, Seahawks free agency
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  Speaker 1: gets started. You know we know by now how John operates.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: If we didn't remind you, Greg certainly has there'll be
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit of activity, but he likes to kind
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of wait till waves two and three of the free
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  Speaker 1: agency process. You're coming off a world championship season and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: in John you trust. But certainly people when you've gone
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours and haven't really done anything big people
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  Speaker 1: are like, come on, give me a sexy move, give
• 20:38
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• 20:41
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  Speaker 1: How about that John factor that into your plans? Body that. Yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: but the first day you went Rashid shah Heed re
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: signing at a price higher than what we thought, Josh
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Job resigning at a price lower than what we thought.
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  Speaker 1: And then whence that time just a lot of little
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: nickel and dime. Let's keep these guys kind of moves
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  Speaker 1: with your long snapper you know, Jake Bobo has been
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: more of a special teams guy than anything else, your
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: sixth man on your offensive line, Josh Jones, and even
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Brady Russell this morning, you know what. And I'm all
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: right with all of it. Hey, I get it. I'm
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: good with it. I kind of like this offseason so far,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with still some money to spend to fill a couple
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of those holes that have been created by ken Walker
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: leaving and Kobe Bryant leaving and some others. I'm okay.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I feel all right about where they're at right now
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in their offseason, even though we have not had the
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  Speaker 1: splash move of bringing in a new face, which always
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: gets people excited.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and yeah, I think that the idea
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: of who is it going to be? Because you you
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: do have to do something. I mean, you know, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: suppose Halani is you. You brought him back, but that's
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: not your replacement for ken Walker, that ken Walker third stringer. Yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that that's uh.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I think, you know a lot of them feel like
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: they're not big. I mean, the Jake Bobo it didn't
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: feel big. Tyle Katta feels bigger than that, but still
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: doesn't feel big. I think Drank Thomas is bigger than
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: both of them and still doesn't feel big. It's not
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: gonna nothing's gonna feel big compared to the Rashid Shaheed
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and the and the decision with Josh Job versus Riek Woolen,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: and none of those are gonna Those all kind of pale.
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  Speaker 3: Even the accumulation of the accumulation of all of them
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: pale compared to what it feels like you lost when
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: you're the MVP of the Super Bowl goes out the door.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: So I think everybody's kind of waiting, but it does
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: feel like it's a patient wait. Just as far as
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I know, our show feels like, Okay, we're just waiting
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: for John to to make the moves on. How is
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: he gonna feel feel that that spot the running back
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: room in particular, I would. I feel like it's gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: be some sort of veteran guy that you know, has
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: a track record of being able to do it in
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: the NFL, and then probably some of the guys that
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: they have in house, combined with probably using a draft
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: pick on that as well. So it's yeah, it'll be
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: interesting to see what they do when they finally do
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: sign somebody.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they got to and they can even make
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a trade. They can even make a trade for a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: running back if they want to do it. Number one,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I think some people are a little bit surprised that
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the prices that have taken place. I don't know if
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: we should be. I don't know if Hugh Millan had
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: inside information or if he's just that good at numbers
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and economics. But his breakdown for us on Friday was
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: pretty much like dead on. It sounded like high salaries
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: for all the guys that we discussed, and yet that's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: where we've ended up. I think that's the mind of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millan realizing inflation and you know, jump and salary
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: cap and everything else. And so now that the dust
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: is set a little bit, you lose ken Walker and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you think to yourself, fifteen million versus eighteen million for
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Rashid Shahed, I think the answer to that, or seventeen
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: million for Rashid Shahid. I think the answer to that is,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and I know people don't like to hear it. We
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: think we can find a running game for less than that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, Rashid Shahed just does some things for us
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that we're not sure we can find that guy out
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: there that can do it. So I think that's part
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of the explanation. And then I think another part of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the explanation is and you can hear it in the promo.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Apparently Jackson said this on Softy and Dick's show, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you've heard it in the promo. They really have gone
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: out of their way to make sure that their special
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: teams remains elite. And Brady Russell's back, and the long
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: snapper's back, and the kicker and the punter are under contract,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and Shahed got paid big money to not just be
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver, so that seems to be a priority,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and it really came in handy this year. I mean,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: we had an excellent special teams group and won the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: World Championship, So I get if John's going out of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: his way to make sure we keep that thing intact.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Well, the idea, I mean, you know, forever I was,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I thought there was the three phases right, offense, defense,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: and special teams. And yet I think the way Hugh
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: breaks it down of it's basically twenty percent right where
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: there's the offense and how you know, passing running all
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the ways in which he breaks it down where it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: not a third but it still is a you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: a fifth of of how your team's going to be.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I think that there's something to that. I mean, you
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you think about the games against the toughest teams there
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: this season.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: They ended up beating the.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Rams when they needed to, and the biggest discrepancy between
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the two teams. I think at any point in time,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks offense could keep up with and and and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: match Matt Stafford and that I think at times their
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: defense it was decent, maybe not as good as Seattle's
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: defense was definitely not at the end of the year.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: But the biggest difference was special teams. I mean there's
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: special teams struggled and the Seahawks didn't. So I think
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: there's the idea of, yeah, you're going to keep that
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the top notch unit intact when it comes to your
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: special teams. But I think they also are thinking they're
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: going to use him more in the past, not just
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: as a shadow that runs down the field and you
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: have to cover it, you know, to take the top off.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I think you're going to do both ways.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: And while I think that the running back market has
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: switched a little bit away from there a dime a
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: dozen there still is a part. There still is a
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: bunch of people out there, like I'll get a young
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: guy that can hit the hole where I want, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I'll run him till his legs fall off, and then
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I'll just get a new one, you know. I mean,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: there's definitely something to that, Whereas that's not the same
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: for a wide receiver, and most certainly not the same
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: for a wide receiver that can do what Shaheed does.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: In the special team's part, I will say.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: The idea of using him more and actually having more
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: involved in the offense, that makes me very excited. I'm
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: very glad we brought him back, and it kind of
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: does make me temporarily forget that we don't have a
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: running back. But then I think about it and I'm like, oh,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: if it does stress me out just a little bit.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: But thank goodness, it's John Schneider who's in charge of
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: figuring this out, and I do trust that he is
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: going to do a great job figuring it out, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: that he knows exactly what he's doing and that he
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: knew that ken Walker wasn't coming back in this has
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: been his plan all along.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Rashad White is a name that keeps coming up. He's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: never really impressed me as a ball carrier, but he
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: is an impressive physical specimen if he could get him
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in the right situation. Keith Mitchell was somebody I brought
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: up earlier this week, but now he's gone. It turns
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out that the person associated with John Harball that wanted
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Keith Mitchell was his brother and not his former defensive coordinator.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe that was somebody that Mike McDonald would
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: lure over, having had some time with him, but it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: turns out he's going to the Chargers instead. And there's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: some other candidates certainly out there still on the market.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But I do think you are going to take somebody
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with one of your first two picks in the draft.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you this, Mike Washington, junior from Arkansas
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: who blew everybody away at the combine, is bigger and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about as fast as kin Walker, and if you see
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the highlights of him, he kind of reminds you of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker, just taller. And so that's somebody to keep
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: an eye on that is projected to be a second
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: or third round pick. I wouldn't be surprised at all
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: if he's a Sea Hawk, wouldn't be surprised at all.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Well, it just seems like, I mean, draft capital is
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: draft capital. But the fact that even with the adjustment
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: to perceptions about how important or unimportant a running back
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: is and when they would be taken in a draft,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: if you end up taking him with the thirty second
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: overall pick, or maybe even trade back into the second
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: round and get it and pick up picks and then
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: pick him, if you end up getting the second or
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: third running back, it might be the maybe not the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: number one. I think everybody probably in the NFL is
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: probably thinking that love kid out of Notre Dame to
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: the number one. But if you could have varying ideas
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: of who you think the next best runner is, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: if you get the second best runner coming out of
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the draft in the top of the second round or
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: midway through the second round, I think that there's a
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: good chance that they would feel better about that than
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: anyone that's left out on the free agent market at
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: this point.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: But they'll team them.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah there, yeah, I think they'll Yeah, they're gonna you
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: gotta block and tackle this situation. You can't put all
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: your eggs in anyone back.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: We have four picks. I mean, you're gonna take a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: running back with one of those four, I'm convinced, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: even if you end up with five or six, but
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I do believe they will have a veteran that they
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: will add, and I don't know at what point in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the process, but he is probably going to be a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: zach sharbon A type. And I think that you're gonna
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: get the ken Walker type if you will in the draft.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: That would be my guess, especially at this stage, because
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: there are a lot more zach Sharbonay types out on
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the free agent market right now then there are ken
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Walker types.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Yea percent.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: I think that that makes total sense to me. And
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: yet you're you're going to try to figure out this
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: solution into this problem with a multi faceted thing you're
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: gonna do. You're gonna still bring in some of your
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: guys that you have in house, You're gonna bring in
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: somebody from somebody else's house. You're gonna pick up somebody
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: that's gonna be new to the league, and then you're
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: gonna throw it all against the wall and see what
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: you got.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, b John Robinson, Yes, that would be cool. Yes,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: get him on the cheap, Come on, John.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Why not us?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I think he's pretty good.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: I mean maybe flying under the radar too.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you should do a segment.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Come on, why don't you get b John Robinson?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: He's good?
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Duh, you know Barley's pretty talented.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I'd probably give up a fourth rounder.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Oh that's a little that's a big ask.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, one last thing to close
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: out the show. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That's what we always do to close out to nearly
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: every show. So, Bucky, what do you got?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I know that we're going to cover this guy in draftness,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: but there's a little head start.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, man, I know I'm with you. Say no more,
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  Speaker 1: I wait till Draftman.
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  Speaker 3: No, that is not what I was. I was not insinuated.
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  Speaker 3: Good extended.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking those Penn State running backs. Uh Singleton?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Is he coming out?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: No?
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Is he?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: So you got Singleton and k Tron Allen? Those both
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: those guys look pretty good and Seahawks, wouldn't they.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Minded? I'd rather have the kid from Arkansas. Yeah, it's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: more explosives. I don't know who that one is. I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: haven't seen him. I have seen the k tron Allen
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Run and Singleton. I think Singleton CA Tron looked better
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: this year, but coming into the season and I thought
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: it was going to be Singleton either way, I think
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: both those guys are crazy. K tron just sounds like
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a sounds like a Seahawks, sounds like a running back,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: sounds like a good running back.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, decent K tron K nine, you're out, K tron,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: come on in.
• 32:17
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• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, Yeah, I don't know, just just thinking ahead here.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: It just seems like a guy because I think that's
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: I think Hugh said it too. I think the guy
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: that's going to take the first be your opening day
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: running back starter is not on the roster right now.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: And I don't think it's going to be the I
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be I think it's gonna
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: be a rookie. I think it's going to be a
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: guy that you draft is going to be who starts
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: your game one.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's no doubt he's not on the roster
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, they're gonna get a free agent
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna get a draft there and that combination
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: of fellas is going to try to provide them their
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: running game. Now, whether that they can get somebody who's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: exploded as ken Walker, I don't know. Can they get
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: somebody more consistent than ken Walker? Maybe? And so that's
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: going to be the game plan going forward. I don't
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: think that we're going to get the training camp. And
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: they still have not addressed running back. No I would,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I'd hope not disappointing. I even tied a string around
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: my finger. Mike, I completely blew it. I forgot we
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: don't have one? All right, Ashley, what do you got
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: for one last thing?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: I saw that the Seattle rain dealt Jordan, the one
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: who was in a.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Relationship with Leo Rodriguez.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Oh to Chicago. Oh she has been yeah, sent to Chicago.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: She put up a social media post Saint Seattle will
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: always have a place in her heart.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Have they cleared?
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: So then I did a little digging, and I was
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: going I was looking to see if they were still
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: together and how that was going to work.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: And I don't think.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: They are, but not there's probably something because that's what
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I was thinking, because they don't follow each other on
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Instagram anymore.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: There's no pictures of him on her Instagram. And then
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: I wondered, what if they broke up and she's like,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: I gotta get out of.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: The city, or maybe they've wanted to trade her all
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: along and they're like, well we do get some Julio
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: prh because of her.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, she has more Instagram followers than he does.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: She's got one point three million, he's only got six
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand.
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: Step it up, yeah, j Rod Yea, that is your
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: real name.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: They're not together anymore. They're not together, and they're still
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: going to play matchmaker now, Oh.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're gonna set them up with some one of
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: your friends.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Sad sad.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, then I thought it was I thought it was
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: meant to.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Be, but she was. I mean, I don't follow a
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: lot of soccer.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: She was the only player I knew on the yeah
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Seattle Rain, And.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: I'm sad that she will not be on the team anymore.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: M All right, Well, let's keep an eye out. You
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: got to go. We gotta keep Julio happy on the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: home front.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: Here, Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, he's at a slow They've
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: been together since twenty twenty two, and he is slow
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: to start every season.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's I don't know something, you know what,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: we got to try something.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so thank you both for sacrificing for the good
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: of the Mariner season.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: So get the hell out of here, lady, get to Chicago. Yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it's very rare that it's the other way around, where
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like you know, Dansby Swanson went to the Cubs so
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: that he could be yeah with his wife who played
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: on the Chicago Yeah tea, And now that's worked out
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: pretty well. I don't know if she's still on that
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: team or not, but he is.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know either, but yeah, there you go.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: That's that's the latest. I'm just here to fill you
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: guys in.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you very much. That is interesting. All right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Last thing for me, I've been maning to mention this
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the entire show. Bryce Miller, he might not be ready
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: for opening day. So you know, you don't have Logan Evans,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Emerson Ancock I would think steps into that spot. Maybe
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: it's Cooper Criswell, who I think has been impressing people.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It won't be Kate Anderson, it won't be Ryan Sloan,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: So don't get carried away. Don't get overly excited about that,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: but it's starting to trend toward Bryce Miller's not going
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to be ready for opening day and it has nothing
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to do with his injury from a year ago. It
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: has to do with his oblique And so I don't
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: love it either, because I really think he's in store
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: for a really good year from beginning to end. But
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you know they're going to be careful, and it looks
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: like they're going to be careful to the point that
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: it might not time out that he's on the opening
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: day roster, which stinks.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bummer. Yeah, that's all right. He'll just
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: get healthy. I don't I don't need him pitching through injuries.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I think that's part of why last year's looked down.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I don't need him pitching through injuries. Get healthy, and
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: we'll see you when you get there.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe if you had a baby. Everybody had a baby.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Seems to be healthy right now.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Bro, It does give you apparently extra strength.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Right, yep, yep.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. His new gals fiance very nice.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a doc.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Really Yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: We got to chat with her a little bit while
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: we were there at spring training.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: So hopefully you didn't ruin it for him.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I hope she doesn't get traded. Oh, we probably did
• 37:08
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