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Chuck & Buck 5-27 hour 3: Matt Hasselbeck, Baseball Brunch and Gone Fishin'! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Eight o'clock hour here on this hum day. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us here. It is Chuck Powell, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Ryan with you, Chuck and Buck in the Mornings. Still
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  Speaker 1: waiting news on Bucky. He is on medical leave right now,
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  Speaker 1: but we should get some information on that that we
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  Speaker 1: can pass along to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to fret.
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  Speaker 1: About, just some things he had to look into, and
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  Speaker 1: so we continue with business as usual. It's Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Ashley with you as we roll into our eight o'clock
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  Speaker 1: hour here on this Wednesday, and joining us on the program.
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  Speaker 1: And it is going to be good to hear from
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  Speaker 1: this guy. It's great that we have become best friends, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Hasselbeck and myself that we can call him and
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  Speaker 1: have him on on a Wednesday, because we did miss
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  Speaker 1: him and we just didn't want to tell him that
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  Speaker 1: because we didn't want to come off weird.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: He joins us here to talk some Seahawks off season.
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  Speaker 1: It's number eight at eight Off Season edition right here
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  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, sir, Hey, good morning, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, I'm great.
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  Speaker 1: How's your spring going, How's how's the off season for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: My Uh, my middle daughter, Mallory just finished up for
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  Speaker 4: NCAA lacrosse career, was at Stanford and they got knocked
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  Speaker 4: out in the elite eight. So that was a disappointment
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  Speaker 4: as any parent who you know travels with their kids
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  Speaker 4: and their sports teams. But but my older daughter was
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  Speaker 4: the sideliner reporter for the final.
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  Speaker 3: Four in the national Championship.
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  Speaker 4: So I got to just say, you almost get more
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  Speaker 4: nervous as a parent when you're when you're when your
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  Speaker 4: child is doing something like that. Really, and I'm coming
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  Speaker 4: from a from a place where I was a goalie
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  Speaker 4: parent at one point, so anybody that's a that's a
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  Speaker 4: goalie parent can understand what that lifestyle is like as well.
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  Speaker 1: So are you at full empty nest at this point?
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  Speaker 3: We're two years into an empty nest right now, which
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  Speaker 3: is uh, it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: Been quite a quite an experience experience. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: that they don't tell you about. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 4: like the movies. If anybody can, uh can can relate,
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  Speaker 4: it's there at that point. But uh, but a lot
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  Speaker 4: of time, you know, spending time with our parents as
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  Speaker 4: well as you know something as as you know you
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  Speaker 4: you say goodbye to your kids. You know, you spend
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  Speaker 4: I feel like you spend more time with.
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  Speaker 3: Your parents if you can. So it's it's been great though.
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  Speaker 4: We've we've enjoyed the uh we've enjoyed the time and.
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  Speaker 3: And it's actually given me a lot.
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  Speaker 4: More time to kind of focus on on other things
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  Speaker 4: like the Seahawks and and other things, because, uh, there
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  Speaker 4: was a stretch there where we were just doing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: burning it at both ends with travel soccer and travel basketball,
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  Speaker 4: travel hockey, like all the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, it's nice to kind of just take a
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  Speaker 3: deep breath. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've never had a normal spring or summer as
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  Speaker 1: an adult. I mean, I mean between getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: the next football season, uh and raising children, like to
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  Speaker 1: have time on your hands. You actually can do some
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  Speaker 1: adult summery things. You might even go on a trip.
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  Speaker 3: Matt might even take up golf.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, it is it is interesting, like people
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  Speaker 4: talk to me about like the this year's NFL schedule
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  Speaker 4: and how they're going to be playing on the day
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  Speaker 4: before Thanksgiving and on Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 4: then Christmas and like you know, all these holidays and
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  Speaker 4: you know, funny, it's funny because like as an NFL
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  Speaker 4: player and even a college player, we never had those holidays,
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  Speaker 4: Like I never felt like ever had a Thanksgiving, Christmas,
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  Speaker 4: New Year's like those were never Those were always work days,
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  Speaker 4: whether you had a.
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  Speaker 2: Game or not.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was really the only question was like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when is Mike Holmgren giving us three hours
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  Speaker 4: off to do you know, plan Santa Claus's arrival? You
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean, like when's that happening?
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  Speaker 3: Because?
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  Speaker 4: Or when is when is Thanksgiving dinner going to be
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  Speaker 4: served or whatever? Because they were work days, whether you
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  Speaker 4: at a game or not you were preparing for a game, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: or something like that. So it is a new day
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  Speaker 4: and age the NFL. I think the Seahawks are playing
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  Speaker 4: on every single day this year besides Tuesday. Yeah, they've
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  Speaker 4: got a game I believe, on a Wednesday, a Thursday,
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  Speaker 4: a Friday, at Saturday, a Sunday, and a Monday, which
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  Speaker 4: is you know, just kind of comes with the territory
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  Speaker 4: when you win the Super Bowl. But it's definitely a
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  Speaker 4: new NFL. And they're playing a bunch of games overseas
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  Speaker 4: this year as a league, so you know there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot to follow them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, and I do want to get into the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll stay on that for one more question, because
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  Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey recently said, it's too much that we're we're
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  Speaker 1: getting away from the sacred nature of Sunday NFL football.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 4: It's probably too much for him because now he's chosen
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  Speaker 4: a career where he has to talk about all these games.
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  Speaker 3: And so when he accepted the.
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  Speaker 4: Job at ESPN, they probably said, hey, Monday night football only,
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  Speaker 4: and then his brother starts, you know, dating Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 4: and then they're like, hey, we need you for Sundays too. Man,
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  Speaker 4: You're the hottest thing in all of sports now. So
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  Speaker 4: it's Sunday and Monday. And now he's looking at his offseason.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, wait, a secon I got to cover in
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  Speaker 4: the media these teams on a Wednesday, a Thursday, a Friday,
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  Speaker 4: a Saturday, a Sunday, a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Like it'd be easier for him.
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  Speaker 4: If he just went back to playing center for the Eagles,
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  Speaker 4: where he was off Monday, Tuesday practice hard, Wednesday, Thursday, halfday, Friday,
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  Speaker 4: off day, Saturday game on Sunday. You know, Like that's
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  Speaker 4: what's probably in his mind. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: for the fans, it's a great opportunity to grow the game,
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  Speaker 4: maybe follow your favorite team and go overseas, catch a
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  Speaker 4: game in Australia or Europe or Brazil or you know,
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  Speaker 4: who knows where wherever you want. So I do think
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of fun. And I also think like a
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  Speaker 4: lot of this is gearing up to the LA twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight Olympics, when flag football is going to be
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  Speaker 4: an Olympic sport, both for.
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  Speaker 3: Men and women.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, I've met, you know, through my career,
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  Speaker 4: so many women who are very knowledgeable and passionate about football,
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  Speaker 4: but like tackle football just really hasn't been a thing.
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  Speaker 4: And now so I think for like, you know, younger
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  Speaker 4: girls who are coming up, whether it's a high school
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  Speaker 4: sport or maybe even a college sport, like flag football
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  Speaker 4: is a path like it could be a path to
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  Speaker 4: a full scholarship in college, it could be a path
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  Speaker 4: to a gold medal in all because you know, you
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  Speaker 4: just love the game. And so, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 4: think there's some cool opportunity with the growth and.
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  Speaker 3: Where the game is headed.
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  Speaker 1: I do love the idea though, but about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I mean, here are American football players who are
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  Speaker 1: the closest thing we have in the world today to
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  Speaker 1: gladiators of Roman times. And I love the idea because
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  Speaker 1: we used to have Cliff Avril on our staff as well,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked at me like, I could never do
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  Speaker 1: what you do, getting up.
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  Speaker 2: As early as I get up.
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  Speaker 1: And I like the idea that these gladiators, American gladiators
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  Speaker 1: can come over to my side and say I'm not
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  Speaker 1: tough enough to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is a real thing.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's also that way with players who
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  Speaker 4: say like, hey, I'm just going to go into coaching. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think players while they're playing in the end
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  Speaker 4: l have a health, healthy enough respect.
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  Speaker 3: For how hard the other jobs are.
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  Speaker 4: That are technicals that connect to the game of football,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in broadcast or coaching is a big one.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of guys will be like, oh, I'll just
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  Speaker 4: go into coaching, and then they see the work and
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  Speaker 4: the hours and the dedication that goes into coaching, and
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  Speaker 4: quite honestly, they don't. They don't have it in them
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  Speaker 4: to do it. You know, it's it's a calling, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a you know, you're you're staying up all night
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  Speaker 4: thinking about how I can make my players better, What
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  Speaker 4: drills can I do to help make them better?
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  Speaker 3: What can I how can I say it differently to.
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  Speaker 4: Help this person be the best that they could possibly be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And it's you know, it's kind of like being.
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  Speaker 3: A teacher, you know. You you know, the students.
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  Speaker 4: Probably half the time feel like, oh, why doesn't my
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  Speaker 4: teacher like me? He's always giving me a hard time, this,
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  Speaker 4: that and the other. It's like, No, the teacher, just
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  Speaker 4: like the coach, I'm really just trying to push you
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  Speaker 4: to be greater than you ever thought you could be,
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  Speaker 4: and trying to like unlock the potential that's inside of you.
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  Speaker 4: That's what teachers and coaches do. And just because you
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  Speaker 4: can throw a great spiral or you've got a great
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  Speaker 4: pass rush doesn't mean that you've got the gift of
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  Speaker 4: teaching or coaching, right, So it's you don't realize it
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  Speaker 4: until after you're done playing, I think for most players,
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  Speaker 4: but you do realize that at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Hasselback, the Great Matt Hasselbeck, joining us here this
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  Speaker 1: morning on Chuck and Buck in the Morning, talking a
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  Speaker 1: little Seahawks offseason. So let's get into a few things
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  Speaker 1: about the world champion Seattle Seahawks here with you, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk specifically about Sam Darnold to get
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  Speaker 1: the conversation going, and I want to relate him to you.
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  Speaker 1: Although your paths into the NFL were quite different. You
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  Speaker 1: had your breakthrough season waiting behind Brett Farv and in
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay, you had your breakthrough season in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and three. You made a Pro Bowl your first year, starting.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen games, went ten and six, and you kind of
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  Speaker 2: proved that year that I'm in the club.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I still got a lot to prove, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely in the club. I'm one of the better
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  Speaker 1: guys out here playing this position in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam's had to, you know, live down a lot
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  Speaker 2: of doubt.
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  Speaker 1: That has surfaced since his days with the New York Jets,
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  Speaker 1: and so he kind of he not only passed over
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  Speaker 1: into another threshold, he became a Super Bowl champion and
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  Speaker 1: doing it this past year. And so here's where I
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  Speaker 1: would relate it. I'm curious as to how you think
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald approached this offseason. How did you approach the
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  Speaker 1: offseason after you broke through that crust, did you fight complacency,
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  Speaker 1: Did you work even harder because you got a taste
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 2: What did you go.
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  Speaker 1: Through after your breakthrough year and relate that to what
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald might have gone through this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it reminds you know, I had a conversation with
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  Speaker 4: Sam last year around this time, and you know, it
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  Speaker 4: was a little bit about the fact that he just
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  Speaker 4: really wasn't getting the respect that I thought he deserved
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  Speaker 4: after the year that he had in Minnesota. He had
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  Speaker 4: an incredible year, and you know, all anybody wanted to
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  Speaker 4: talk about were his failures with the New York Jets
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  Speaker 4: or with the Carolina Panthers, or how he was only
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  Speaker 4: a backup of the forty nine ers, and how his
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  Speaker 4: one year in Minnesota was kind of a fluke. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, what we talked about a little bit was
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  Speaker 4: some of the some of the tougher spots in my
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  Speaker 4: first four years of the NFL, Like it was just
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  Speaker 4: it was hard, Like there were some things like getting
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  Speaker 4: you know, getting trashed, you know, getting basically trashed in
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  Speaker 4: the media or booed out of a stadium or you know,
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  Speaker 4: and I think he kind of took this approach like man,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know that, you know, like I think
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  Speaker 4: he was twenty seven years old at the time.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't know that about you, Like all I remember was
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  Speaker 4: this version of your in Seattle, Like I don't remember that,
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  Speaker 4: And so I think we kind of bonded over that,
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  Speaker 4: like the hard times, like the scabs, the wounds that
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  Speaker 4: he had sort of experienced early.
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  Speaker 3: But to answer your question, to.
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  Speaker 4: See what he's done since he won the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: it's been completely different than what other Super Bowl winning
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks have done. Almost all of them have taken like
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  Speaker 4: this victory lap during their offseason.
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  Speaker 3: You see him at the Kentucky Derby all.
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  Speaker 4: Decked out, you see him at the met Gala, you
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  Speaker 4: see him at all this stuff that quite honestly has
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  Speaker 4: nothing to do with running it back or running it forward,
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  Speaker 4: as Mike McDonald said yesterday, has nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 4: What he has chosen to do is exactly what he
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  Speaker 4: did last year and kind of be all about the work,
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  Speaker 4: getting away and not doing it necessarily in the spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: Now. I know he's also getting married this summer and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like.
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  Speaker 5: That, But that can almost stuff like that can almost
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  Speaker 5: be the absolute best thing for you when you kind
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  Speaker 5: of step away and recharge, and it's not necessarily about football.
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  Speaker 4: It's this major life event you're getting married and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, But it's not about all the things that
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  Speaker 4: are distractions. You see some guys come back ten pounds heavier.
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  Speaker 4: You see some i'd come back lighter, looked like they
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  Speaker 4: haven't put the work into the weight room.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think his offseason has been like that at all.
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  Speaker 4: And if yesterday is any indication from the footage that
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  Speaker 4: I saw, he looked sharp, and so I think that
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  Speaker 4: the combination of the offseason that he had in the disrespect.
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  Speaker 3: That he still gets.
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  Speaker 4: There were two major national publications that came out this
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  Speaker 4: week ranking starting NFL quarterbacks. I believe two of them
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  Speaker 4: had him outside of the top fifteen. I think in
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  Speaker 4: one he was nineteenth overall and one he was seventeenth overall.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that chip on his shoulder it's not
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  Speaker 4: going away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to remain right there to fuel him.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Hasselbeck is with us. What about the team itself?
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  Speaker 1: I think we can all agree. I think even Mike
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  Speaker 1: and John might agree that they're a year ahead of
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  Speaker 1: schedule with that Super Bowl championship, and what do you
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  Speaker 1: do with it? I mean, obviously, when you have a
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  Speaker 1: team this good, this early, with a new head coach
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  Speaker 1: and this young of roster, people around here start thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how many championships can we win. We've watched a
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  Speaker 1: previous Sea Hawk team win a championship and kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell apart after that, kind of came apart at the
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  Speaker 1: seams fighting over you know, who gets the most credit.
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  Speaker 1: So what would be your advice to the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six Sea Hawks to stay on this path and and
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  Speaker 1: what is the most important thing to trying to win
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  Speaker 1: as many championships as possible in this window?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, you can only win one at a time,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I think some of the arrogance that comes with
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  Speaker 4: the organizations and the players that talk about we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be winning multiple championships, Hey how about you.
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  Speaker 3: Win the next one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You know that, that's what helps you win a championship
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  Speaker 4: in the first In the first point, your your biggest
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  Speaker 4: game is your next game.
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  Speaker 3: And you you nailed it like on the head about the.
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  Speaker 4: You know, unselfishness that comes with it, not caring about
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  Speaker 4: who gets the credit. And so I think my advice
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  Speaker 4: would be just the unity, you know, and sticking together
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  Speaker 4: and uh and not and and basically taking taking a
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  Speaker 4: lesson from last year's team. It was that mob mentality.
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  Speaker 4: It was the mission over any bs. It was the
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  Speaker 4: mission over anything and and And that's what I think
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  Speaker 4: has splintered some of these other teams from getting back
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  Speaker 4: is it's not about the mission anymore. It's about personal accolades.
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  Speaker 4: It's about where my place in history is or where
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  Speaker 4: my role, Like what's the pecking order on this team?
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  Speaker 4: And I think Mike McDonald is the secret sauce. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of credit to go around. John Schneider's
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  Speaker 4: done an amazing job, but like Mike McDonald, this will
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  Speaker 4: be his third year as a head coach, like ever anywhere,
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  Speaker 4: Like he at Jones Junior High, he wasn't even.
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  Speaker 3: The head coach.
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  Speaker 4: I mean this is this is like the third year
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  Speaker 4: and he's already you know, I mean, to accomplish what
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  Speaker 4: he's accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's what's so special about this group and what's
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  Speaker 4: so exciting. And then also like there's some teams out
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  Speaker 4: there making one last push, like the with Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 4: who's thirty seven years old and Aaron Rodgers is in
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  Speaker 4: his forties. You've got a young quarterback who's going to
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  Speaker 4: be like twenty nine years old this season, who's still
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  Speaker 4: under contract. Like the future, the setup on paper is
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  Speaker 4: really bright.
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  Speaker 3: It's a young, talented roster that way.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very good friend of mine and he
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  Speaker 1: does sports talk radio in Kansas City, so he's had
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  Speaker 1: a good run with the Kansas City Chiefs, and that
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  Speaker 1: the first time I saw him, Matt after the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: had won the championship. His question was, well, how do
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  Speaker 1: you think Sam's going to respond to losing his quarterback
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  Speaker 1: coach and his OC And it was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a warning shot, like, don't don't underestimate that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: once a guy has a bit of a breakthrough season
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  Speaker 1: and gets comfortable with an offensive coordinator and then he
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: loses that guy, that's a slippery slope. And so how
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: would you describe the changeover at offensive coordinator, quarterback coach
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: and how that could have Sam in this offense.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I think it's a huge loss losing Klint Kubiak. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: think he's really special. I think he's a great coach.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't think that that's a uh. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: don't think that that's nothing. It's a big deal.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: At the same time, you know, I have and Mike
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: McDonald and the staff that he puts together, and you know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: a lot being made at Brian Fleury has never been
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: in an offensive play Carter before you know it is
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: a thing. But but I would also say, we're not
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: putting somebody on the moon here. We're calling offensive plays.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: It's either a run or a pass.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: We're playing.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: We're expecting, we're expecting zone. I don't think it's uh.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's the most complicated thing on the planet.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: What I do think sometimes people get right and sometimes
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: they don't get right. It's just the chemistry and the
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: trust and the vision and the accountability and say hey,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: raise my hand, and hey it's my bad honesty, keeping
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: everybody happy, making sure everyone's getting their touches, seeing the
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: whole offensive structure through the lines of the guys up front,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: who I believe have the hardest job, and you can
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: make their life a lot easier if you just look
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: at everything through their lens first, before you get all
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: super creative with the.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Passing game and the running game.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: So I just think that if you have a good
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: staff and you have a collaborative effort, and then you
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: have a guy that's been around and he's prepared and
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: waiting for his moment, which I think Brian Flurry is
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: that guy. And if you can get the trust and
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: on the same page with the quarterback and the play caller,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I think it's okay, Like we.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Can get this done.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: It's very rarely does a team go and win the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl and not get pillaged. But whether it's in
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: their coaching staff or their players, or in this case
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks, they are assistant GM's now getting interviewed with
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: the Minnesota Vikings like you're going to pull from winners
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: because you want to be like them. You want to
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: know what the secret sauce is. And so it's going
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: to happen. So Klink Kubiak. In this case, it's going
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: to be a loss. But like I said, I think
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I just have trust in Mike of pulling it together
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: and Sam and Sam as well because he's been around
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: the block a little bit now, So I think they
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: can get it done.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: So what about losing ken Walker? What does that do
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to that magical chemistry?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: You know we're doing like with fans and fantasy football
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: people in particular, they really feel like the irreplaceable.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Guy sometime is the running back.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: And I know running backs won't like to hear me
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: say this, but when you talk to scouts and g
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: and coaches it to them it's one of the most
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: replaceable positions. When you look at like the cost that
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: it would, you know, be to keep somebody, you'd kind
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: of like to go sort of younger and cheaper and
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: more of a committee. And so Kent Walker had a
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: great year last year, certainly finished strong, which was a
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: huge part of the reason that the Sioux were able
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: to win the Super Bowl. But you know, going with
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Jedari and Price and the committee, maybe sharpa Nacam is
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: back healthy. I mean, the committee approach certainly is one
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: that makes some people feel more dynamic as an offense.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Now, not everybody feels that way.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Some people like the Derrick Henry model where he gets
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: all the touches or the Christian McCaffrey model where he
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: gets all the touches, and that's another way to go.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: It's just if you're going to be spending your money
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: there and not spending it up front or on.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Defense, you know, so I think there's that is a hole.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: That needs to be filled. Some people need to step
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: up to fill those to fill those carries or those
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: reps and all that stuff. But at the same time,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I think this team's going to be stronger up front
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: on the offensive line and they're going to be really
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: dangerous on the back end in the secondary. So if
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: you've got to give up something somewhere, I think I'm
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: probably in line with John Schneider's philosophy that, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: maybe running back by committee is.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: The way to do it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of with you all on that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I do want to ask you before we close out
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: one question about JSN because it kind of feels like
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the Rams did some anti JSN stuff this offseason, bolstering
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: their second andary knowing what a weapon he's been. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: know you are a huge fan of JSN.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: How could you not be?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: So, is there anything that the Rams or anybody else
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: can do that can slow this guy down? Because maybe
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he's just that special.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Well everyone else is trying to do it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: With the disrespect that the awards show At NFL Honors,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: they couldn't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Say his name.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: The NFL accidentally sent him the Defensive Player of the
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Year award trophy instead of the Offensive Player of.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: The Year trophy.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: So you know, he's getting disrespected all kinds of different
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: ways from different spots. But the true measure of respect
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: is what the teams in your division do in the
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: draft and free agency to try to stop you. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: remember I was with the Green Bay Packers my rookie
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: season and Randy Moss just went off with the Minnesota Vikings,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: just torched the NFL completely and we had really good dvs.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: We the very next year, we drafted a corner in
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the first round, a corner in the second round, in
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: a corner in the third round, and our head coach
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: basically was like, Hey, we'll see if one of y'all
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: can cover Randy Moss, because so far we've not met
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: anybody that can do it. And so I don't know
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: that we're at that extreme, but it was definitely a
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: sign of respect to Randy Moss, the wide receiver. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I think that's kind of what's been happening with this
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: division with JFN.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: All right, well, what are you gonna do with your
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: beautiful spring day? I mean, we have beautiful weather here.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have it where you're at right now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do with this day the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: rest of your day now that you've done the most
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: important show.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, so my son is moving back to college.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: You know, he's a quarterback at Appalaxis State this year,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: and so we're saying goodbye to him and he's moving out,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: going back to school.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: He's on break for Memorial Day.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: And then my daughter, she'll have her final class out
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: in the or sorry out in the northern California and
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: we'll be moving her out this month too. Looking forward
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: to coming up to Seattle for an OTA here in June.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: And Jucks do a great job of inviting there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I guess they call them legends former players back and
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: so it'd be great to see the team of close
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: and personal, see that new banner that's hanging in the vMac,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: and say hi to's some old former Syhawks as well.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: For that's phenomenal.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: All right, Matt, well enjoy, thank you very much for
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: your time. That was outstanding and hopefully we can bug
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you again real soon.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Absolutely good to talk to you, all right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Matt hasselback joining us for a very special off season
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: number eight at eight here on Chuck and Buck in
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the morning's great stuff out of him, including the stuff
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: on Sam Darnold, which I do want to get back
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: into a little bit later on in the show. But
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: coming up next, it's our new feature, and I think
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it's here to stay.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Let's just put it this way. I got a.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Hunch you love the Baseball Brunch, so it's coming your
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: way next on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a brand new segment, our new baseball feature. We decided,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you know what, we need a recap of the previous
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Mariners game for the late risers.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And that's not even fair.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I think eight thirty is a perfectly reasonable time to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: get all your faculties together during the.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Course of the week.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And yet compared to six thirty people, you look like
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the laziest people on the planet.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, sobs, yeah yeah together, Yeah exactly. They're like, Man,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: I've been up since six thirty. I already worked out
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: and I just got in my car.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the army has already listened to us.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: It's like all their push ups, right, I've done their
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: pushups and you're just getting around to listening to a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Mariner recap. Yeah, And yet I don't think eight thirty
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is like a late riser, like I would start thinking
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like after nine.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Come on on a weekday being an adult.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, on a weekday for sure, unless you work like
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: the opposite shift of us. Oh yeah right, and you
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: are at home at midnight okay, yes, sleep till nine.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: But we always do a Marinery recap, and yet we
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: kind of act like six thirty that's all the only
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: time we need to do that. And there are people
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: just now getting in their cars going to work, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: so maybe what they want to hear is a recap
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of the Mariners game. And so we do Mariners morning
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: after at six thirty.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And we have.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Introduced the Baseball Brunch, akin to Reckless at Breakfast. Now
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we have the Baseball Brunch where we recap yesterday's Mariners
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: game for you. They were in Sacramento taking on the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: A's and with a victory would move within a half
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: game of first place. Because it's been that successful of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a year.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Yes, indeed it has.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Because everything is fired on all cylinders.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: This season, every single game.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it could come together, it's come together
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: for this year's marriag.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: I couldn't have pictured this going any.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Smoothie slap a first. This is a first place team
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of I've ever seen one attachment to the twenty twenty.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: Six marrin darn touton Chuck, so a chance to move.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Ever so closer to that top rung in the American
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: League West. But there was one big problem, and that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: is that the A's have.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: A left hander in their organization.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: We thought we'd you know, scoured the entire countryside. We
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: didn't know they had another lefty down in the Miners.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: So gauge Jump their best lefty. That seems almost unfair
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: as something from the minor leagues their best left handed
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: pitching prospect. And why because the Mariners just cannot hit
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: left handers period.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: We're the worst in the world at it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And so the A's are like, we're gonna take veteran
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Luis Severino, who we played millions of dollars to, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: we're gonna tell them we're gonna skip you because this
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: team can't hit lefties, and we're gonna bring up rookie
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Gage Jump.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Except they said it like this with evil fingers.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Like twisting the ends of their handlebar mustache without question.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And so that that was I mean, it was blatant.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You guys can't hit lefties. We're calling up a lefty.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And so the Mariners actually did put some hits together
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: last night. They come up with a three run second inning,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Mitch Garver getting a big RBI single, Almost two RBIs
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: on that single. And it was also the best game
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: we've seen so far this year from Victor Roeblaze younger old.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: They just have not had a whole lot of success here.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I just can't help but think about making the major
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: league debut here.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: This ball is lashed in and left field road Blaze.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Good to have him back for the Mariners. He's in
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: there standing with a double.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Mariner's TV. That's Angie going on and on about something
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and then Aaron playing catch up. I mean, that wasn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: really a big play in the game. But this recap's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a little different from the one we do at six
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: point thirty. This one's the Baseball Brunch and it's starring
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: today Or Roblaze, who we've not gotten a big contribution
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: out of this year. We haven't gotten a big contribution
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: out of him since twenty twenty four. He was injured
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for almost all of the last season. He's been injured
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: for almost all of this season, and you almost tend
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to forget that at one point he was a pretty
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: significant contributor to this team's success. Well, that was certainly
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Ashley his best game of the year last night. He
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: had three hits, he seemed locked in, then gave a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: great post game interview, being really aware of where the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: team's at right now, what else that they need, how
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: good that he feels that they are. So we almost
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: forgot about it. But it's kind of nice to have
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: good Victor Roblaze back like we saw last night.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, because he's getting on base and that's what
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: we need. And to have him go three for three,
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I'm sure was just an added boost of confidence for
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: him coming off of his injury and back with the team.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: And I just hope that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: He can keep it going and we can get back to.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: The old form before he had that shoulder injury.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I and I do want to say this, I mean,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want to nitpick Dann every single game, but
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: obviously this lefty righty thing that you're doing, it's not
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: gone over great with a lot of the fans, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I know why you're doing it, but I also think
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you need to try and find opportunities for when you're like, okay,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: let's not do it this time. And last night was
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a perfect opportunity. Roe Blaze was three for three.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yep. Do we really not want him to face right handers? Ever?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, wouldn't he benefit a little bit that if
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you did need him because you've already made changes and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: he had to face a writing wouldn't last night have
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: been a good opportunity up four to oh he's three
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for three in the game, to let him see a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: right hander last night and not yank him out of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the game for Luke Raley. And yet sure enough, Oh,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: they brought a writing in. I have to bring my
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: left handed batter in and Rayley ends up striking out.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, to me, that's a golden opportunity to get
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: somebody and at bat that they're not accustomed to seeing.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I get that he has a strong side and that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you're trying to play to that. But when he was
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: successful in twenty twenty four, he didn't hit left handers
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: all that well, he killed right handers. He can hit
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: right handers, and now we're just deciding not to give
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: him any practice at that craft. I don't understand it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: It's like one of those It's again, it's that feel
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: for the game, right. They almost is like their game
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: plan operates like if.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: This, then this. It like one of those maps.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Right, You've got a square and it's okay, if this
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: is your situation.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Did this happen? Yes, they brought in to right, then this,
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: did this happen?
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: No?
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Then this, and they have to go off this map
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: to get all the way through the game. Versus, Oh,
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: he's three for three, we're up. Let's keep him in
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: and see what happens.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Let's get it at bad against a riety. This is
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the perfect time to do it. And that's what's going
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to separate eight. There's not a successful manager in the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: history of baseball to just what's the book say, Yeah,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: every single time you can't do it, there's a situation
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that pops up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: That was a great chance to get it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But now I'm nitpicking because it was a successful night
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: against a left hander. The Mariners had eleven hits, all
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: eleven of them against left handed pitching last night. They
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: put up a crooked number and inning number two. Turns
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: out that's all they were going to need for the contest.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: They end up winning it by a final score of
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: four to one. Emerson Hancock was outstanding.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: In the game.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: He allowed just one hit over six innings, did not
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: allow a run, and a ballpark that is conducive for
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: scoring runs. And Mitch Garver had a hand and a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: lot of things. Number one, he had the RBI double
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that got the scoring started. He had another hit later
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: on in the contest as well. So the batting average
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: is up over two hundred for Old Mitchie. And he
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: also caught Emerson Hancock, which we've pointed out on this show.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Our pitchers seemed per completely comfortable throwing to Mitch Garver.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: They don't seem to get rocked at all. There's not
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: once upon a time there was this. I don't want
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to pitch the Sebbisavalla, don't make me I want to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: pitch the col I don't think that we have that
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: when it comes to Mitch Garver. I don't even think
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: in a very short period of time we have that
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: with Johnny Parades. Right now, it seems to me like
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: we might have had that with Andrew Kissner maybe, which
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: is why I didn't make it out of spring. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Mitch Garver contributed in a lot of ways last night.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Here he is after the game.
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: As far as the players go, there's hasn't been any
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: panic all year. As far as how we're playing like
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: we know we're good. It's a matter of time. Things
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: just have to click together. Sometimes the pitching is good,
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: sometimes out it's Ford vice versa. So we just need
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: to make sure that we do that as good as
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: we can every game, and I think we're showing that
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: right now. Pitching has been phenomenal, offense has been great.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, there's really nothing it's a critique I could
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  Speaker 8: past two games on the offensive side. How encourage have
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: you been by the way you guys have been able
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  Speaker 8: to string to get a hits and runs early in
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  Speaker 8: games as well. Yeah, we You know that shows a
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  Speaker 8: lot when you face a young arm like you did
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  Speaker 8: today that you've never seen before and you're able to
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  Speaker 8: string together walks, hits, run the bases aggressively. You know,
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: that was a tough outing for that kid, and you
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  Speaker 8: know we made a tough one were to come into
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  Speaker 8: the zone and we punished him when he did, and
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  Speaker 8: all around, just good execution by us. You know, second
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  Speaker 8: third lesson two outs, running out third lesson two outs,
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  Speaker 8: But we were able to get a couple runs across
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  Speaker 8: there early and just a really.
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  Speaker 1: Good job Mitch Garber afterwards again two for four RBI
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  Speaker 1: runs scored and caught a really good game last night
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  Speaker 1: from Emerson and company, as the Mariners do win it
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  Speaker 1: by a final score.
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  Speaker 2: Of four to one.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Also, he challenged a pitch last night, and I do believe,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and I think I can say this without hesitation, there's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: no baseball team on planet Earth worse at challenging than
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: They had some promise, but it went downhill.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: They are terrible. Now has been the highlight of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think lately he's been a little too careful
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and maybe, and I hope this isn't the case he's
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: trying to protect protect his gaudy statistics because he's been
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a rather successful one of the most successful challengers in
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the entire sport. But last night, and I thought was
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: used in the perfect setting and he didn't get it right.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It ended up being a ball. The umpire was right
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: about it. But it was also Emerson's first trouble that
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: he had gotten into. There are a couple guys on base,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and man, if we can get that strike call we're
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: out of the inning. If we don't, then we still
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: are vulnerable to a three run homer, and all of
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody's finers get tight for the rest of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the contests, and who knows what happens from that point forward.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: So even though it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Was a little reckless from the standpoint of I don't
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: think he's right about this. I think it is a ball.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I think the umpire has gotten this one. I really
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: did like that challenge because it was an important enough moment.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: It was close enough that Garver's like, damn the stats.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: If we can get if I can get this strike called,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: we're out of this inning, and we probably are good.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: We're probably smooth sailing for the rest of the game.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And he didn't get it, and Emerson ended up getting
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler out anyway, But I thought that was a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: very good use of the challenge because they had two
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: at the time. Why not roll the dice on that
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  Speaker 1: particular play, because it's such a big deal to get
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: out of the inning with them threatening, or you run
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the risk of possibly getting one up in the zone
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and he hits a three run homer and now all
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, we got a one run ball game.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a tremendous use of a challenge.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Well, and that's one thing we've been talking about this
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: whole time.
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  Speaker 6: Is not just whether or not you think you're right
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: or wrong, or that the umpire got it right or wrong.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: It's the timing of when you use it, and so
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: using it in a pivotal moment, yeah, it would be
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: a waste. If it's that close, you might as well
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: find out. And so, yeah, it was a smart challenge.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: That's the thing. They have to be smart about their challenges.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: And a lot of times it's more the no, there's
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: no way, and then they just do it.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: To me, it's becoming quite clear it's more about situation
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: than it is.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: About just getting the right call.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are times to use it early in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the contest, but those got to be no brainers. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I mean no, when I say no brainers, I mean
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you better get it right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like it was so obvious the Empire got it wrong, right.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want anything challenging off the edge in situations
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: unless there's something at stake, and I think maybe slowly
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that's what teams are learning. I thought that was a
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: good use, even though I didn't think he was going
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to get it right last night, and he did not.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So what did we learn on this edition of the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Baseball Brunch That the Mariners are not that far off
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the pace. As a matter of fact, with a victory
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: today against the A's, they will be a first place team.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: With a sweep of the A's, they will leapfrog them
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in the American League West standing. So by three o'clock
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: today we could be a first place team. Now to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: remain a first place team, we have to solve this
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: issue against left handed pitching.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: We're not going anywhere.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, we might win a down division this year
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: without ever solving this, but I doubt it. And we
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: certainly aren't going to go on a deep playoff run
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: because once you get to the playoffs, these teams, these managers,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be good enough that they're just gonna lefty
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: pitch you to death.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So we've got to start showing that we can hit
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher on occasion. And that is why Ashley,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I am glad we're facing a lefty today. I want
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to see it back to back games. I want to
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: see that this was not an outlier. I want to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: see that this is progressed. So bring on Jeffrey Springs today.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Let's do it two games in a row. Let's put
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: a crooked number or two up in an inning or too,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: and let's show that we're making real progress in that area,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: because it's going to be essential.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: This is a big problem. Piggyback is not a big.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Issue for the twenty twenty six Mariners. What is is
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: our inability to hit left handers. So hopefully last night
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: was a jump in the right direction.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: I liked that pun.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, And I'm glad they're doing it again today
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: as well. They don't have time to overthink it. They
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: don't have time to analyze anything. It's just go back
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: out there and do what you did yesterday, and don't
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: overthink the fact that it's a lefty.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: A right Coming up next, we're gone fishing.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM fishing. We must
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: be playing that excellent little country ditty for a reason,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: sure must. It's because we've sent a couple more teams
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: in the NBA and NHL playoffs a pack in last night.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Let's start in the NHL because the Colorado Avalanche.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Have gone on fishing who would have ever seen that coming?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I realized that the NHL playoffs
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: are that's just a different beast. I think they're kind
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of akin to Major League Baseball. You can kind of
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: throw the seedings out. It's kind of who gets hot
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: at the right time, more so in that sport than
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: any other. But of all the teams that I expected
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to run deep, I thought Colorado was the team. And
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: not only surefire. No, they get knocked out before they
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: can make the finals. I mean, just blasted by the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Golden Knights. They got swept by Las Vegas.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: How on earth did that happen?
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: And how angry are you if you are an Avalanche
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: fan right now? I mean it was they didn't show up. Yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: well they did not show up apparently not.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: But in terms of our green Jacket drafting, that now
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: officially eliminates the great everard fits you from our competition.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: He lost his last member of his squad, Niches, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: he only scored him one goal. First round pick. That was.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: That was sad. Yeah, I felt bad for him. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: didn't really, I don't.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I don't really ever sorry about that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: But he gets eliminated with ten goals. The Kid's already
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: been eliminated with ten total goals. I'm the only person
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that can catch Ashley because I still have Andrea schvechnikoff.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: But uh, here's what's going to need to happen going forward.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: All schvetch and a Cough has to do is outscore
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: his teammate Seth Jarvis by nine goals the rest of
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: Doabowl.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: That's just three measlely hat tricks.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because you got you're gonna have more games in
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: this series for them to be all right, probably going
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: to Game seven, so you got a lot there and
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: then you got the finals.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ashley has Seth Jarvis still, so yes, Uh, not
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: only does svetchinakaff have to.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Score at least nine goals.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That means Seth Jarvis also has to get shut out
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: So I got a great chance.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: I mean, I love that it's tight type down and
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: I still.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Only have nine goals when I've had a lot of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: people still alive in this I'm still trailing kid. Kid
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: hasn't had a hockey player playing two rounds and I'm
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: still trailing him. So I have nine and Ashley has seventeen,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: but I am the only person with a chance.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: To catch you.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: That's right. Okay, let's make it a race now.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: NBA has got a little tighter. The Cleveland Cavaliers have.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Gone vision, that's right.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And they didn't put up much of a fight. And
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I told you at the beginning of this round what
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I need is for the Thunder to advance, and to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the Knicks advance, for the NIXT to advance, and I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: need really the Knicks to sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers at all.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: So so far, so good on that front. Donovan Mitchell
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: was just eliminated from Spencer's roster. Spencer Halls drafted in
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: our NBA Playoff preview Green Jacket draft, so he got
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: eliminated two nights ago. But he is the leading scorer
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: in the NBA Playoffs with four hundred and sixty eight points.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: That's more points than I thought Donovan Mitchell was going
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to score in the playoffs.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: So he's out.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: And then James Harden also eliminated. That was Ashley's last hope.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: He finished with three hundred and forty five points. So good.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: That's a good pick for you. It was definitely your
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: best pick. That was your third round pick, and and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: he did the job, But that does officially eliminate you.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: You have no players left.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: You're the only one of us that doesn't have a
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: player left.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: Well, you know what I say to all my NBA players.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Go hockey. Oh, I see what you're doing.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, see that that's up there all the way at
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: the top above you.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I say what you did until we get permission.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, naughtiness above board. And so seven hundred and eighty
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: three points is what you finished with. You're still ahead
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: of kid who has seven to twenty one. But Kids
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: still has Jalen Brunson, so he's going to pass you.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: He's gonna fly past me right now. It comes down
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: really to Spencer and myself and my big giant lead
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: has definitely been dwindled. And if not for Wimby and
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams and Darren Fox all having injuries throughout the tournament,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I would not be in the lead, that's for sure.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: And yet I'm still going to need help because I
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: feel pretty good SGA head up against Jalen Williams with
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a lead, I feel pretty good about that in the finals,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: if that's what it comes to. But the truth of
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the matter is if the Spurs still have a really
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: good chance of getting this done. And he's got two
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Spurs to my one Spur Stefan Castle. So I am
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: leading with eleven and seventy two points to Spencer's eleven
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: twenty six. But that was a big lead I had
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: over him at one point, and it's all the way
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: down to just forty six points.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: And that's pretty crazy because I remember sending him an
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: update and he was just way behind all of us,
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: and he's like, I'm playing the long game.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I got this.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: He had confidence the whole time, and if not for
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: all of his injuries, he'd definitely be in the lead
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: right now, without question.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: But you're not so eat it hauls.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: All right, and then quickly Mariner's Bucky leads our home
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: run derby thus far. Actually we're not doing that. That's
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: gone fishing. This isn't even a part of gone fishing.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Oh never mind, Okay, all right, So anyway, there you go.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Colorado's out, Cleveland's out.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: We're down to whoa what three teams in the NBA,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: three teams in the two teams in the NHL, So five, no,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: three teams three, three and three yeah, six teams remaining
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: for a shot at championships in.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Those two sports. All right, we're going to talk.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: About Sam Darnold in our next hour, but coming up
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: next the Mariners an issue they have and i'm sorry,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: an issue that they do not have. We'll discuss that next.
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