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Furness Show 2-3: Chris Crawford, Gregg Bell, John Lund, Tom Pelissero · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: We're gonna check in with our buddy Greg Bell coming
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  Speaker 1: up from the Tacoma New Street been at one thirty today,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and we'll get in with Greg. He was at the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: media It's it's just I'm gonna only say this. This
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: is not because Saftie brought it up yesterday, I think,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: just so people know how this thing works. It's a
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: very it's a different setup. So covering the super Bowl
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: is such a massively generic term. Our crew Chuck and
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Buck in the morning, great great show this morning. Again
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: with those guys MG in the midday, and then SOFTI
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  Speaker 1: and Fane. They're all down at Media Row or whatever
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: you call it. It's radio row, but it's more than
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  Speaker 1: radio row now because there's i mean half the people
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: probably not even on the radio. It's you know, podcast row,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. But they're all down there in the
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: convention center downtown somewhere someplace down in San Francisco. The
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  Speaker 1: teams are both out next close to the stadium. The
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  Speaker 1: stadium's in Santa Clara, and I believe the Patriots staying
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: in Santa Clara. That's the extra thing is San Jose,
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  Speaker 1: so their media availabilities are there at the hotel you
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  Speaker 1: can't go to practice. Practice is a pool reporter, so
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  Speaker 1: it's very different. So they have meati availabilities in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, so Greg and Candata and Booth and
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  Speaker 1: anybody else, Corbyn Smith, all our guys covering the team.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they are. They're not even at real they're
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  Speaker 1: not at Radio Row because there's nothing at Radio Row
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  Speaker 1: that has to do with the specific teams. It's all
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: just generic stuff and fun stuff. If you missed the
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: Frank Caliendo interview with MJ and Hugh today, go back
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  Speaker 1: and listen to podcast. That's the highlight of the week
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  Speaker 1: for me. I think we could just walk away at
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  Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, you know what, Fo's Mark, I'd say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. That was perfect. That awesome. He did everything
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  Speaker 1: Mad he did everything, he did, John Gruden, he did
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: John Madden, he did Bush, he did Trump. It was awesome.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: It was so good. Anyway, that's what you get there.
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  Speaker 1: So those guys are out there. So Greg's covering the
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  Speaker 1: media stuff today. So we'll find out any news anything
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  Speaker 1: going on. Is there anything we need to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: anything we need to worry about. So he'll join us
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  Speaker 1: coming up, and he's gonna join us all week, every
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  Speaker 1: day and we'll just get the latest and sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: might be nothing. We'll see what Greg has to say today.
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  Speaker 1: But that's coming up at one thirty. Looking forward to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I mentioned that because so basically our crew that's
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  Speaker 1: working their tails off, Jess and all the shows are
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  Speaker 1: down there. They're like anybody's been the Bay Area, OS
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  Speaker 1: traffic is not fun. Like if you jumped in the
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  Speaker 1: car right now went from Radio Road to Seahawk headquarters
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  Speaker 1: and downtown San Jose, it's going to take you an
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half at the most. All right at
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  Speaker 1: the least, but anyway, that's what it is. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: utilize all of our people down there. I heard Charles
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  Speaker 1: Cross is coming on later with Softy and Fame, so
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  Speaker 1: that's good too. Okay, in just second, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have our guy Chris Crawford join us. I want to.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to ignore. He reached out yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: he says, hey, if you need me, let me know.
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  Speaker 1: I said, we're jammed up because that trade happened. I said,
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  Speaker 1: let's see how it all shakes out. Who's going where.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a very significant trade by the Mariners, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's Super Bowl week, but I'm not going to let
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  Speaker 1: that thing just go by the wayside. It's something that frankly,
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  Speaker 1: they had been talking about behind the scenes. We were
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  Speaker 1: all talking about it when we did the little happy
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  Speaker 1: Hour two weeks ago with Mariners personnel, like this is
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  Speaker 1: something that they had their eye on. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: just waiting to figure out all the different elements, the
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  Speaker 1: minor league players and all that stuff involved. The big
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  Speaker 1: thing for Seattle is Ben Williamson Leaves. I know he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest hitter of all time, in his stints
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  Speaker 1: up in Seattle this season, there was no denying his
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  Speaker 1: glove right, And I think back, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the war says, So forgive me, baseball nerds, so forgive me.
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  Speaker 1: But I can think of at least two or three
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  Speaker 1: occasions when his defense saved a game for them late
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  Speaker 1: in the inning. Yes, like that's how elite he was
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  Speaker 1: at third base. And but they get a guy in
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  Speaker 1: that can play a number of different positions, and he
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  Speaker 1: can also and he just doesn't strike out like he
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't strike out like the thirteenth lowest strikeout rate
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  Speaker 1: last year in Major League baseball. Yeah, yeah, like that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's that's enormous contact hitter you Yeah, I'm up there. Yeah, sorry, Randy,
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  Speaker 1: we love you. You had a lead off guy. No,
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  Speaker 1: we love ourselves from Randy Rose arena. Not at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the order.
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  Speaker 2: No, And it's it's not even saying you don't even
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  Speaker 2: like his bad it's just like it doesn't profile for
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  Speaker 2: he does not.
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  Speaker 1: It does not. So we'll talk to Chris in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes about that. Lund's gonna join us at two.
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  Speaker 1: We're not sure if it's here there where he's at,
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  Speaker 1: but he's gonna join us at two. When I say
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  Speaker 1: here or there, we're not sure if he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be joining Is he gonna be there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet. We're still getting the word. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's in transit as of now.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to think a guy that's lived in
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  Speaker 1: the BA area for over for about fifteen years would
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  Speaker 1: know how to get around the area. Yeah, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is a kind of a He is
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  Speaker 1: just such a dipstick. I love the guy to death,
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  Speaker 1: but my god, little bit lazy. Maybe no, not lazy.
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  Speaker 1: He works hard, like I'll give him that. He works hard.
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  Speaker 1: He grinds. Even grinded at Salt Lake when we didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have to grind, he grinded. And but no, he's
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  Speaker 1: just he's the pretty blonde, but she's not pretty. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's just just say that. Oh I love that. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll check you with lond at two o'clock today, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll also do a little special thing at one forty five.
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  Speaker 1: The the guy that made the program this year's game program,
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  Speaker 1: which you can buy for your Seahawk fan. We'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you about that coming up. Uh. If if you want
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  Speaker 1: a momento for later, God, I gotta look in. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get anything from Arizona, which is probably a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to forget about Arizona. But like in New York,
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  Speaker 1: they gave us a little swag bag when we walked in. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the media was pretty cool, like like cushion to sit on.
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  Speaker 1: Some others saying game program. Uh yeah, so if so,
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  Speaker 1: if you want a game program, you can you can
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  Speaker 1: grab those as well. So all right, do we have
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  Speaker 1: any cool music? Do you got a baseball music?
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  Speaker 3: There?
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  Speaker 1: We go, well, by the way, and if I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at an aerial right now of Levi Stadium, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: where is where's the power? Isn't there like some power
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  Speaker 1: thing there has caused anybody to have their legs snap
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  Speaker 1: and stuff? Have you heard about that?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right next to the stadium power thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like a like power grid, you know stuff. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: that's why guys are having an issue with injuries there?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Hopefully if somebody, if one of the shows, get
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  Speaker 1: Fred Warner on, we can ask him. Okay, Johnny us
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'm all over the place today. Joining us
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  Speaker 1: right now Beacon Plumbing hotline. When there's something big in
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  Speaker 1: baseball that happens and we can't get hold of Nathan
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  Speaker 1: Bishop and Luke Arkins isn't available, and Andrews doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it. We work our way up and
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  Speaker 1: down the depth chart and we stumble across one Christopher Crawford.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I feel honored that
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  Speaker 5: I got mentioned below those names. To be honest real quick, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I want to give a shout out to Anders and
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  Speaker 5: Ian for helping me figure out what trust casual means
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  Speaker 5: in a text message. But it was a little weird
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  Speaker 5: that Ian told me to wear all denhim like a
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  Speaker 5: Canadian tuxedo. Like that was what his idea of what
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  Speaker 5: dressed to.
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  Speaker 1: You if you're weird en. But yeah, if you can
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  Speaker 1: go back to the old school Denham dress shirt, I
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  Speaker 1: think you're going to be dialed in there when you
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  Speaker 1: go down there, You'll be fine. You'll be fine. Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I get the same I have the same questions all
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  Speaker 1: the time. So I didn't really, I really didn't help you. No.
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  Speaker 1: I usually I'll usually text like JT. Brown or somebody
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  Speaker 1: who dresses well and say, hey, what do I do? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Got what how do I dress?
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  Speaker 5: Here?
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  Speaker 1: All joking aside, know, when something happens a baseball we
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to Chris and get the breakdown of
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  Speaker 1: not just not just who's coming, but also who's going
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  Speaker 1: and what that means for Seattle. Of course one half
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  Speaker 1: of the Molly Whoppers. We should give a shout out
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  Speaker 1: people also ask me what do I get stuff? We're right,
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  Speaker 1: big story today. I don't know if you saw this. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: fanatics is like they're in all kinds of trouble. They
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  Speaker 1: screwed up. They don't have enough jerseys for Seattle or
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  Speaker 1: New England. God, they were like, well couldn't We didn't
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  Speaker 1: plan in time. We're sorry. It's on us, No, because
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  Speaker 1: you know what you did. You had a zillion Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: a zillion Ravens, and a whole bunch of Rams forty
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  Speaker 1: nine or stuff, and you didn't think that these two
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  Speaker 1: teams are going to get to this. What's on you?
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  Speaker 1: those guys a lot, you'd probably get it before Sunday, right, Ian,
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  Speaker 1: I have to.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you what Jake did for me. I'm so glad
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  Speaker 5: you brought it up. I sent him a message because
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  Speaker 5: I was looking on fanatics. I'm going to the Super
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  Speaker 5: Bowl and I have nothing Seahawk related to wear. I've
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  Speaker 5: got some older stuff, but I wanted.
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  Speaker 6: To look good.
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  Speaker 1: Love those guys, all right, one half of them, Molly woppers.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Brendan Donovan to Seattle, Ben Williamson,
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  Speaker 1: the key guy going back or one of the key
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  Speaker 1: guys going back. Let's just get an over you from
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  Speaker 1: you on this trade and what it does for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it makes them considerably better, and I
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  Speaker 5: considerably I'm talking two to three wins better. I do
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  Speaker 5: believe that Brendan Donovan is that type of player, and
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  Speaker 5: also some concerns about what the other third base options were. Look,
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  Speaker 5: I don't hate Ben Williamson as much as Nathan does.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what Ben Williamson did to Nathan, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I'll apologize for him. I'll do the Canadian
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  Speaker 5: thing and apologize for him. But that's a that's a
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  Speaker 5: player who I do like and is a very very
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  Speaker 5: good defensive player. But there's real concerns about the bat there.
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  Speaker 5: I have far fewer concerns about Brendan Donovan's bat, and
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  Speaker 5: let's just be honest here too. This happening the day
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  Speaker 5: after Aoheneo Suarez ends up signing with the Reds is
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  Speaker 5: not entirely coincidental, I suppose. But Brendan Donovan's an upgrade
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  Speaker 5: on what Aoheneo Suarez provided the Mariners last year as well.
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  Speaker 5: There's there's more offensive thumb in Suarez. Of course, there
• 9:57
  Speaker 5: is the guy hit forty nine homers, but he's just
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  Speaker 5: a more solid overall baseball player that also provides some versatility,
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  Speaker 5: which we can talk about in a little bit. But
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  Speaker 5: they just made themselves better today. They gave up some
• 10:10
  Speaker 5: decent players. They gave up some players who have a
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  Speaker 5: chance to help the Rays and the Cardinals, respectively. But
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that you can say no to a
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  Speaker 5: trade like this. It's too easy to make an upgrade
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  Speaker 5: like this for a player who also doesn't hit free
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  Speaker 5: agency until twenty twenty eight. The Mariners got.
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  Speaker 1: Better, Okay, So I want to get what they gave
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  Speaker 1: up and all that. We'll get to that in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me get to just the lineup and
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  Speaker 1: where you see him playing. It feels like a leadoff
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  Speaker 1: hitter situation, but both in the lineup and also on
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  Speaker 1: in the field Worzy.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's hitting at the top of the order
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  Speaker 5: against right handed pitching. It just makes so much sense.
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  Speaker 5: He's a guy who draws walks, who doesn't strike out,
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  Speaker 5: who has solid, if unspectacular speed. He's never been a
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  Speaker 5: guy who's stolen a bunch of bases. But maybe that
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  Speaker 5: change a little bit in Seattle because it's a team
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  Speaker 5: that runs a little bit more. He is such a
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  Speaker 5: a typical leadoff hitter in the terms of getting on base,
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  Speaker 5: the ability to work counts and to foul off pitches,
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  Speaker 5: and then also to get on base because telling off
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  Speaker 5: pitches is great if you end up not getting a hit.
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  Speaker 5: A Ben Williamson, we saw him do an awful lot
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  Speaker 5: of that last year. Maybe have a tough at bat
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  Speaker 5: but never get the result against right handed pitching. Brendan
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  Speaker 5: Donogan does just that. The question mark for me will
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  Speaker 5: be against left handers. Has been pretty bad against him,
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: and he's a left handed hitter. Maybe he's someone who's
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  Speaker 5: still in the lineup, but maybe hits closer to the
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  Speaker 5: bottom and you have a Randio rose Arena or Julio
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  Speaker 5: Rodriguez hit at the top of the lineup against that situation.
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  Speaker 5: But he's got typical leadoff hitter, who can play third base,
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  Speaker 5: who can play second base, and he can play the
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  Speaker 5: corner outfields as well. So yeah, I think that you're
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  Speaker 5: going to see him play every day. You may not
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  Speaker 5: see him in the same position every day, but it
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  Speaker 5: sure makes sense right now, just based on what the
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  Speaker 5: roster looks like, for him to be at third base,
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  Speaker 5: hitting at the top of the lineup against righties and
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  Speaker 5: probably getting closer to the bottom against whip.
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  Speaker 1: Manners of quietly been telling everybody that they want to
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  Speaker 1: keep they expect Cole Young and cold Emerson to be
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  Speaker 1: on this opening Dave roster. This allows them to have
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  Speaker 1: those guys, but also has a veteran as well in
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  Speaker 1: the infield with Crawford and Naylor. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, it upgrades their infield quality by so much. And
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  Speaker 5: now you're not relying on with the way they were built,
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  Speaker 5: you were relying on both Williamson and Young to be
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  Speaker 5: quality players there. Now they could always make a move later,
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  Speaker 5: They could always call up Colt Emerson. I will talk
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  Speaker 5: about cold Emerson in a second, but it provides so
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  Speaker 5: much more flexibility and it just adds to the floor
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  Speaker 5: and the floor matters here because you have the ceiling
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  Speaker 5: in the bats, you have the Julios, you have the
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  Speaker 5: big dumpers, you have the Joss Naylors, you have the
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  Speaker 5: Randia rose Arenas. The question mark was the next group, right, Well,
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  Speaker 5: this adds to the near top of that group and
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  Speaker 5: just makes extends the lineup so much and just adds
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  Speaker 5: so much stability to the infield. Well, that's why it's
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  Speaker 5: such a no brainer trade.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned Emerson, Let's go to Emerson and Young.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to separate him, fine, but what do
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  Speaker 1: you expect from those guys?
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  Speaker 5: Colt Emerson is a top five prospect in baseball to
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  Speaker 5: Me's a and Cole Young's a good player too, But
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  Speaker 5: there's just a big difference here in potential. We're talking
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  Speaker 5: about on the twenty eighty scale of potential, seventy, hit,
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  Speaker 5: fifty to fifty five power, a very strong defender. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 5: I think he's going to be a shortstop. JP Crawford,
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  Speaker 5: my son's contract just isn't going to allow that right now,
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  Speaker 5: so you're going to see him play second or third
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  Speaker 5: base to begin the year. But he's just such a
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  Speaker 5: high floor prospect, and you know, we've seen high four
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  Speaker 5: prospects fail. We've seen it a bunch. We've seen it
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  Speaker 5: in Seattle. We thought Jared Telnick was considered that type
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  Speaker 5: of thing. Sorry to bring everybody down on such an
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  Speaker 5: important Seattle sports week, but it is something that does
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  Speaker 5: happen Cole Young. It's interesting because most of the year
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  Speaker 5: he struggled, but there were enough flashes there that suggests
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be a starting infielder someday. Well. I
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  Speaker 5: like the hit tool, I like the approach. I liked
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  Speaker 5: that he never seemed like overmatched. The results just didn't
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  Speaker 5: weren't there. The results weren't there, but he never looked
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  Speaker 5: like he was flailing. He never looked like he was
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  Speaker 5: out of his comfort level when he's at the big
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  Speaker 5: league level. I still think he's going to be a
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  Speaker 5: starting infielder someday, and he should be the favorite to
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  Speaker 5: win the second base job, partially because he has experience
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  Speaker 5: playing second base at the major league level and partially
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  Speaker 5: already on the forty man roster, it makes sense to
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  Speaker 5: give him that look. But Colt Emerson is a different
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  Speaker 5: level of prospect, the type of guy who can be
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  Speaker 5: a five plus win player for a very long time.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe even contend for some MVP stuff. I know that's
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  Speaker 5: a crazy thing to say, but that's the type of
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  Speaker 5: upside you're looking at with an Emerson.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's Chris Crawford joining us. What do they give up?
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  Speaker 5: So they give up your Angelo Saint Jah. And the
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  Speaker 5: famous thing here is that he's a switch pitcher. Although
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  Speaker 5: Justin Hollander had already said that he was going to
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  Speaker 5: focus more on right handed pitching, his right arm has
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  Speaker 5: a chance to be really good. He's a guy who
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: has a upper nineties fastball and a plus glider developing change.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Just oohs. His athleticism one of the more athletic deliveries
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: that you'll see, not your typical guy who comes from
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: college who has a you know, who is considered more
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: high floor than high ceiling. By the way, they passed
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: on Treya Savage for that pick oomgof. But you know,
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Sanja has the chance to be a really solid pitcher.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: But he's the third best pitching prospect in the system
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: and at best because Ryan floating Katy Anderson not in
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: that order, had clearly usurped him. Type Pete is a
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: really interesting one. Super athletic guy shows the potential for
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: plus power, already a double plus runner, the type of
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: guy you could see if he becomes a regular, being
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: a thirty homer thirty stolen based player. There's just such
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: massive contact issues and pitch recognition skill is used that
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: I think he's closer to organizational depth. This is basically
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: a lottery ticket for the Cardinals. You know, the type
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: of guy who you know. If he works out, then
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: you scream and holler, and if it doesn't, it's not
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: We took the chance and he ends up being a
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: career minor leaguer. And then, of course Ben Williamson one
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: of the best defensive third basemen that I've seen. He's
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: a phenomenal defender. If I'm the Tampa bay Rays, i
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: move him to shortstop because I think he can handle
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: that position without any qualms, and because the bat plays
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: so much better there. But at worst, he's a utility
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: infielder who can really help you defensively at a couple
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: of different spots, does take good at bats. I think
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: he'll end up being a little bit of a lefty
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: masher may be too strong a word, but a guy
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: who's stronger against the left side at the very least
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's three good players, but it's such an
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: easy yes to get a starting third basement or whatever
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: position you're going to play in at that it's really
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: hard for me to say this is anything but a
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: win for the Mariners.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to wrap it up with this. It
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: feels like it's a win win for everybody on paper,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it really is, for sure.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, the Cardinals are going nowhere and getting their fast
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: and this helps them get nowhere faster. So you know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: it's a team that's clearly on the tank mode and
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: is looking to kind of re establish themselves. They now
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: have a bunch of intriguing starting pitching prospects. And then
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the Rays they move a compensation pick and a guy
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: who is, you know, a potential fourth outfielder type and
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Colton Ledbetter and they get a guy who If Ben
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Williamson's defense is as good as I think, it may
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: not matter how much he hits. Third base is a
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: very valuable defensive position. It's not as valuable as shortstop,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: and it won't shock me if they give him what's
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: the short stops because Tampa Bay Rays are a really
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: smart organization. It is a win win for anybody, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: nobody can really be complaining about this trade. I heard
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: some Mariner fans complaining, this is it, this is the
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: only move that you're gonna make. Number One.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: That's not true.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: They have upgraded this roster. Jose Ferrere is an upgrade.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Bringing back Joshneeler to me, is an upgrade over two
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: thirds of what you got at first base last year.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: And just because this is the big move, the big
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: outside move, doesn't make it a bad move. You could
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: be a little disappointed that maybe they didn't spend a
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: little bit more money, But I don't see how you
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: can be upset about this move. You have to take
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: it one by one and you have to say, hey,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: this is the guy, this is the move that we made.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Hopefully they do more in the future. Hopefully they're aggressive
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: at the deadline if some of these guys don't work out.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: But as a one for one thing, the Seattle Mariners
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: made themselves significantly better and have a window to win
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: the World Series. There's nothing to complain about here.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Absolutely love it, good stuff, my friend, enjoy the Super Bowl,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: give us a full report. Is it business casual? What
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is it business casual? What do you have to do
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: directress the casual you have.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: It's and my good friend Jeff will be out there
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: with me and she'll make sure that I'm not my
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: best behavior.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: She'll take care of you. Okay, take care my man.
• 18:47
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• 19:00
  Speaker 1: come back, Greg Bel the latest on what's going on.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He was at and just wrapped up today's media availabilities
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: at the team. We'll find out next.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: We're keeping you connected to Seahawks football. The latest news
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: for the twelfth Man as it happened. He's embedded till
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  Speaker 7: Sunday at Super Bowl sixty. Our own insider Greg Bell
• 19:24
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• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Here we are Hi. All right, We're gonna check in
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: with that Greg Bell in just a couple of seconds.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: As he's wrapping up covering the press availability today. Greg
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: joins us right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline to
• 19:54
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• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Lord's work down there, working hard covering the old
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. What's going on, my friend?
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: How are you well, sir? Well, they're still available. It's
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: still going on. I'm just right outside of talking to
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Ernest Jones about his father. Actually, he passed away in
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: the summer, and he just told me how an instrumental
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: of the Seahawks, the leader said, Mike McDonald, John Schneider
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: were and getting him back to his father's bedside when
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: he passed away. And those of us that have asked
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: our fathers know, wow, how important that is. And I'll
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: be writing that in the News Tribune. And Ernest Jones
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: wears a pending around his neck every day of his father,
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: his late father. He calls his hero. Yeah, that hit
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: hit a little close to home to me. So you
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: called right when I it's just speak the name about that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Well, I bet it also speaks to the organization, does
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it not. I've heard others. I've heard stories like that
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: over the years with and and you know, Schneider's the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: guy at the top of the list. Maybe it was
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: PP four, but I know Mike's gone through that with
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: some stuff and his family McDonald and I mean, it's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I've heard how tight this group is and maybe that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just kind of another example of what it means to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: be a Seahawk.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: It is and they appreciate it. It's more than the
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: x's and o's. It's more than the interceptions in the
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: sacks and touchdowns. When when leaders do that, I mean,
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: that's real. And er Jones remember that the rest of
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: his life. And if he plays for another team, or
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: he plays thirty years or he plays three more years,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: he'll always remember that. Mike McDonald and John Schneyder said, yeah, go,
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: he said, we were right in the middle of training camp.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: They didn't have to say that. They didn't have to
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: let me go as long as they did. They just
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: said come back when you need to. And it was
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: just football. It was just in July August. We're here
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: in February playing at the Super Bowl. Did it really
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: affect Ernest Jones if he wasn't there for a week
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: of training camp, No, but he'll always remember. His family
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: will always remember and that he was there for his
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: father's passing. I was there too, ran from the combine
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: to see my father pass away. And yeah, I'll never
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: forget that either. And Ernest Jones will never forget that.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell joining us here on the Beacon Plumbing hotline.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And it's day two, day three, two and a half
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, Tuesday of Super Bowl Week down in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Any news come out of today or
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a week? Just kind of in that lull before the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: storm right now?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, can you say here again?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Is there any news today? Or are we kind
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of in that lull before the storm that is Super
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Not a lot of news. Jody Allen, the ownership of
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks. Mike McDonald got on a stump and just
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: said what he a lot more of what he said
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: last week about Jody Allen and her stewardship, and he
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: said it for the football world to hear today, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: he said that he was in something of a fog
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: in his rookie year of twenty twenty four, his first
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: time as a head coach, and that Jody Allen was
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: a steward and a lot of people feel that Jody
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Allen I think the perception Jody Allen is that she's
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: somewhat aloof, or at least attached from the football operations.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: She meets with Mike McDonald every Monday after every game.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: They do usually do it by zoom, and she critiques
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: him and the team and their performance, and she's very
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: critical and direct and clear. And McDonald says it helped
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: him navigate through that fog of being a rookie head
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: coach and he really appreciates her for that. He didn't
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: say it, but the question was about the depending ownership change.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: I think he's a little wistful about that. Yeah, he
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: doesn't have time to think about that right now. But
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: it's going to be different for him. We talked yesterday.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: It's going to be different for the business side and
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: the operation. It's going to be different for him. He's
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: going to have a different person with different standards to
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: answer to. So does John Schneider even more so. But yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Mike McDonald all kinds of flowers for Jody Allen today.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to come after that a second. Uh, just
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: go back to last night then. I know you were
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: when we last spoke, you were popping into the Roger
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Goodell news conference. What came out of that in terms
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of the news about a fine, the news that the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: league is forcing them to sell now as opposed to later.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And then you what did you glean from from what
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the commissioner said, Well.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Goodell denied that there was a five million dollar fine
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: by the NFL to the team. Maybe maybe not those
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: of us that are in this business. I think what
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: you want of the journalists, think what you want of
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: the Wall Street journals. We're not in the business to
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: just make up stuff. No, And if the Wall Street
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Journal has reported in multiple sources that they have vetted
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: an editorial process said that the Seahawks were fined by
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: the NFL, they probably were. And maybe the NFL is
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: not calling it a fine, or maybe it was some
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: other sanction of some kind, or maybe it was, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: they did something to say they weren't happy with the situation.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: That didn't come out of thin air. Goodell's not going
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: to admit that he's a stooge for the owner. He's
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: an employee of the thirty two owners. He gets paid
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: forty four million dollars a year a year as a commissioner.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: That's our society. What's Ronald Our Society. I'm I'm a
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: paying for some public school and some mental health care
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: and drug ads forty four million dollars to an NFL commissioner.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: But the point is you got to take what he
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: says as one side of the story. But I think
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: my talking to NFL and lead people here, they want
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks to be sold out of the trust. They've
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: been trying to be very gentle about not demanding that
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: because they want to respect Paul Allen's legacy and what
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Paul Allen's been for the league, and so they've let
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Jody Allen take her due course and do time of that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: But once the Portland Trailblazers got up for sale, then
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: people start to saying, oh, okay, now it's time to
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: sell the Seahawks too. And that's where it stands. The
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: thing I got most out of it yet was talking
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: to Burke Cold afterwards. I talked to Burke col device chair,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: because I don't know if I'll ever be able to
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: talk to him again before the team might be sold
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: in the next couple of months. And I asked him,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: first of all, when is the Blazer sale going to close?
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: And he said that thinks that'll be in the next
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: couple of months. I said by spring. He said, yeah,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Spring's a good benchmark, still tracking for that. So to me,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: that ian is where the probably the Seahawks go on sale.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Not that it has to be totally closed before the
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Blazers have to be closed before the Seahawks go on sale,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: but it's logical that the lawyers for the estate that
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: are handling the Blazers are also going to be the
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: same people that need to handle the sale of the Seahawks,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: and they don't want to do both concurrently while the
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: crux of the Blazer sales going so going on. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: I think that has to be almost done before the
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: sale of the Seahawks would happen. So I think maybe
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Spring that that might be when that happens.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It's a good point that you bring up with Mike
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: McDonald because you know, yeah, we spent some time yesterday
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Greg and I were talking about, you know, how it
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: affects the guys in the front office, the Chuck Arnold's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and all the people work for on the business side.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: You know, like you you know who your owner is.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: On a football side, you know, Jody is somewhat polarized,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways. But you know,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the accountability that she holds this this football
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: side too, and has really since twenty eighteen when she
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: took over. I think that's important. If you're a Seahawks fan,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I would think and I would hope you would appreciate
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it from the standpoint of this is not an organization
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in terms of ownership, Paul now Jody that is complacent
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to the point of they made the tough decisions to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: get rid of Pete Carroll, Ross and all those other guys.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So you kind of know where you stand. You know
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: what the expectations are. If you're John Schneider and the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: head coach of Mike McDonald. The fear of the unknown
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: is nothing any of us like, right, Greg.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: No, let's be real. She took a big risk. She
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: fired the most successful coach in franchise history, who had
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: the fifteen most successful seasons of sustained success the Seahawks
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: have ever had, the only coach that's hoisted a Lombardi Trophy,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: the only coach that's had a parade down Fourth Avenue
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: to the stadium, Pete Carroll, and she fired him. That
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: was her decision. And then she chose John Schneider's path
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: over Pete Carroll's path forward and how to fix the
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: team and how to fix the defense. I'm left it
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: on John Schneider to go run it as the first
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: time ultimate football a porty. That was Jody Allen's decision.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: And if they were three and sixteen instead of sixteen
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: and three, and if they were at the Senior Bowl
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: instead of the Super Bowl, she will have been wearing
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: that decision. So she should wear this decision too. They're
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: sixteen and three, they're in the Super Bowl, the best
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: regular season in the team's history, number one seed. They
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: went from thirty to thirty, first in the league in
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: defense to one because of one decision, Jody Allen deciding
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: that they need a different direction and trusting them the
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: GM to go hire a coach to fix the defense,
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: and Mike McDonald's done that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is tomorrow the first time we get the another
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: injury reporters or one coming out today?
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, tomorrow. Today is a normal practice. Actually, they're
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: now in the normal Sunday to Sunday practice cadence. They're
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: not practicing. They're not on the steald today. They were
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: going to light workout yesterday, Tomorrow, tonight. Today, they're not practicing. Tomorrow,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: they'll be on the field at San Jose State University,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: and then the injury reports Wednesday, Thursday, Friday as normal,
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: come out Friday, the game reports for the Super Bowl
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: with questionables, probable No, that's normal, probables, doubtfuls, and outs
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: will be on Friday, just like the normal regular season week.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: So they're falling back into the normal cadence pretty much.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Today is the end of the abnormal. All the media,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: all the hoopla. We're still going to talk to him
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: tomorrow and Thursday, but tomorrow is when the super Bowl
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: week starts. Feelings familiar to them. I talked to guys
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: last night at that opening night huh, and they said
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: that Thursday McDonald told them to lean in hard to
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: all this chaos, have fun, steal TV cameras with Germo
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: from Jimmy Kim Alive, do all of it. And they
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: did last night. They leaned really into it. And then
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: McDonald told him, because Wednesday, I'm locking you down. We're
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: going into for the super Bowl on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday seven.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we will check in with you tomorrow
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and see because you know, you know how injury reports are.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: There's always gonna be something that comes out that's going
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to startle us for whether it's you know, something to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: really be concerned about it or not. But there will
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: be news in the meantime. We'll look forward to that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: story on Arst Jones' father and all that in the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: News Tribune as well. Thank you, my friend, Thank you.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: I anytime.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: There you go. Greg Bell joining us down there from
• 30:22
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  Speaker 1: point thirty kick off. The great Kevin Harlan on the call.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: So yes, you're home for the super Bowl right here,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: nine three point three KJFM. I'm gonna guess the majority
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: of the people listening this surprising even a guess. This
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: is probably a fact. The majority of the people listening
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: right now are not going to the Super Bowl. Now,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: there's a handful of you that are, but most probably
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: are not. But you're saying, what can I get? I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: need a little piece of the action, I need a
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: little something something along the way. Well, we're here to help.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We are here to serve you joining us right now
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. He is the editor of
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the NFL's official Super Bowl game program, and has been
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: so since two thousand and three. John Beneziano, Did I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: get that right? Hopefully I didn't screw up your name? John, No,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you got it righty, beautiful. Well, thank you for joining
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: us two thousand and three. You've been putting this thing together,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and this means you've done every Seahawk Super Bowl, right,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that is correct?
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: It's our twenty third year publishing the program. Our first
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: was Super Bowl thirty eight, the Janet Jackson year. But
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: unlike unlike Janet, we were asked to come back. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: I'm not a math major, but I'm not a math major.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: But that's about nearly forty percent of the league's Super Bowl.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Programs we've published. Well, I think it goes back a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: long way. Yeah, I think I have the one from
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: New York. I think they gave us in the media
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a little packet of stuff, and I'm pretty sure I've
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: got that one somewhere laying around. I didn't get one
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in Arizona, but you know, I'd rather forget about the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Arizona super Bowl, to be honest with you. Super Bowl
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: forty nine. So that's okay, Uh, John, What goes into
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: this this what goes into putting this thing together?
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: Well, it's it's honestly, it's it's a year long process.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Is that Bill Belichick was fond of saying that there's
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: no days off. So we'll begin working on this this
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: Super Bowl Sunday. For next year's program, We're going to
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: look for something that's never happened before, a trend, something
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: really unique, as an untold story. So we're it's a
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: it's a year long process for us, and then it
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: kicks in come the day after the regular season ends.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: We're preparing all fourteen playoff teams for the book get down.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: The last week, we get the final four completely ready
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: to go, twenty five to thirty pages on each team,
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: so we can get it to the printer about two
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: hours after the completion of the conference title games. The
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: two teams that win going the book. The two teams
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: that lose go in the recycling bin. So it becomes
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: a full time job right around Christmas time and right
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: through the following four weeks. But it's exciting too. It
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: really gets you going. It's quite a rush to be
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: honest with you in the business and see it to
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: come to fruition.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Well, in terms of recycling bin, we're talking to U
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: La Rams. That's where you guys are at right now
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: in the Yeah, you're in the recycling big You guys
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and our friends that Denver Broncos can hang out there.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So you asked her a little bit of the questions
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: ask John, and that is like if someone gets the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl program, and we'll talk about how in a minute,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but if they get that it's not just generic NFL.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: There is a substantial amount that is dedicated to our
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: team here and obviously the Negland Patriots as well.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, So this year's program, it's a two hundred and
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: eighty eight glorious pages, tons of great content, and all
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: geared toward the fan, whether that fan's eight years old
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: or eighty years old. You know, as the editor, I
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: really want the program to be an enjoyable read, formative, entertained, entertaining,
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: presented a way that will make a fan want to
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: go through it cover to cover. So you know, at
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: its heart, the magazine's about the two teams who dedicated
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: good chunk of the book to the Seahawks and the Patriots,
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: with previews not written in September, but written literally while
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: there's conference championship games were taking place. And then you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: there's a huge section on the previous Super bowls super
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Bowl forty eight is my favorite. Yeah, and then there's
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: a week by week recap of this season, again heavy
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: on the Seahawks and the Patriots. And then you move
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: beyond that and we have about a dozen feature stories
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: talking about the past, present, and future of the NFL.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: So there's something for everybody in that book. But it's
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: really a great collectible, a great souvenir for a fan
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: who can't get to the game, or even if you
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: are getting there.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I joke I mean, you have.
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: Hundreds of choices right for a Super Bowl souvenir, But
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: I mean how many shirts? You know, how many shirts
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: can you wear? You know two years will be right, faded, worn,
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: won't fit anymore. You know, you probably have one hundred
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: hats in your closet already and you have one head
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: to put them on. But with the program, it's a
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: lifetime teach sake.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: It really is.
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: It's permanent part of your fandom of the season. It's
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: just a great memory that you can keep with you
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: years from now, reflect back on when the Seahawks win.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: The title this year.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Well, let's let's go through. Like if someone's sitting at
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: home right now, John, and they're not going to the game,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: or maybe they are going the game, they'd rather get
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: it not having to pick it up the stadium, what
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: have you. Anybody can get this thing this year. Absolutely so.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: We have a website Super Bowl Program dot us. If
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: you ordered by tomorrow, you'll have it by game day.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: And we have this.
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we have a few of the older programs available
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: as well. If people go on the website, they'll see
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: what's available. But if they order by tomorrow, it will
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: be in their hands on Super Bowl Sunday.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I just went to the website super Bowl Program, dot
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: us go there, order it right now, score a piece
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of history. And again, so if you order by tomorrow,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: so you have another twenty four hours and you'll still
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: get there by Sunday. Absolutely. Oh, I love it that.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: We will make.
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: We will make, we will make sure of it. So
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: there's things I'm nervous about in over the course of
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: the production of the book, typos and misscore and even
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: getting Mike McDonald and Mike McDaniel Mike McCarthy straight. But
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: the one thing I'm not worried about is people will
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: get the book by Super Bowl Sunday if they.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Order by tomorrow. I love that. Well, listen, I'm just
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: looking at it right now. This year's copy looks absolutely sensational.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to put eyes on it as well. And John,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: thanks for popping on to say fascinating stuff. And again,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Seahawks fans, even if you're not going to the game,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: you get a piece of history. Again Super Bowl Program,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: dot us go check it out. John, thanks a lot,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: have a great.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: Week, absolutely and great to be with you.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. Yes, indeed, go Hawks. Let's
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: let's get going here the Seahawks. Yeah, Super Bowl program
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Dot you guys, you've can order that right now. And
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: that's kind of cool, little piece of I gotta go
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: see if I've got mine from forty eight, and I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: think I do somewhere. Pretty cool. All right, we'll take
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you right come back, We'll head back down the Bay Area.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Our guy John lun from the Bay Area. What's he
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: up to? We'll find out coming up next from the
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• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Teams are currently tied for third in the Pacific Division
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: sixty one points each. Seattle has two games left before
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the three week Olympic break Today and then tomorrow in
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• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Cardinals and Rays. They got infield or outfielder Brendan Donovan
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't strikeout, which is good. Ben Williamson goes to the Rays,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: among others. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, much like
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, not going into the Hall of Fame this year.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: The system is broke officially. What a gong show that is?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it our number two. You
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: guys have been waiting for it all week long. John Line, standing.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: Boy, Welcome Dean's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed. He's
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: a Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: twenty five years. But don't let their age change your
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: opinion of them. John takes you through the Bay Area,
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: en the NFC West and dupes it out with Ian
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: over the Niners and the Hawks. So let's unleash it
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: now with John Lunn.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Here's Ian. Well.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: We were hoping he would hang out with Jessmin and
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: company on Radio Road today, but apparently Radio rows later
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: this week and our schedule didn't work With your schedule.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So the phone works just fine. And so it's an
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: audio medium. We don't need to you know, we don't
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: need that. But I'm bummed he didn't get down there
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and see everybody, my friend, how are you?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: But you know, here's what's crazy about it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: So my show, as luck would have it, on Sunday
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: is four to eight pm Pacific.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: The super Bowl starts at three thirty. So what I'm
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: doing is I don't tell anybody this, they might get
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: mad at me.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I just sat I'm literally right across the street, like
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I'm right on the corner. It's like Howard Street is
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: running the corner from Radio Row where everything is at
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: the Masconi Center. And I've sat in this studio and
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: done like eight interviews that I'm going to just go
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: on the run on Sunday, and I've got like two
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: more to do. There's twelve segments, so I'll have like
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: ten of them filled with interviews. I've talked to Walter
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Jones with the Seahawks, tamp Bailey, ty Law, who else is.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've just had all these interviews when after
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the because I'm I'm like, they're like, oh, yeah, you're
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: gonna go four to eight.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what with who's going to be listening, Like,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: no one, So I'm just gonna take the whole show.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding me. You mist the Super Bowl
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: sits some dumb studio. Listen, you're living in our world. Man.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We did radio shows during a little thing called the
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Mariner playoff run this past year, and we're yeah, for
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: some reason, for some reason, Major League Baseball decides that
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: they want to play the majority of their playoff games
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: during the daytime hours because nobody works. Nobody works, well, yeah, nobody,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: you know, ridiculous idiots. So I feel your pain. How
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: super Bowl Week is traffic bad? Are you running around?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Are you hiding out? What are you doing down there? No?
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I you know, I've been back and forth to that
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: whole thing, and that's something that I've been doing forever.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I just I just do it from what's called the
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: East Bay on the other side when people have to
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: go down and I feel bad, but this is.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: You've been through this. I mean, I hope people care.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: But that is why New Orleans is perfect, and they
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: really should have it in New Orleans and even in Vegas.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: It's right there, like everything is right there you can
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: walk from hotel to all the facilities.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: If people haven't been down to the barrier, they don't realize.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Like last night, for example, when they had an opening night,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: that's in Santa Clara. And you know this, you've been
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: out here a million times. Santa Clara is not San Francisco.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Santa Clara is not even close to San Francisco. And
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: in traffic, it's probably a good two hours. You know,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: it's maybe twenty five to thirty miles south. But if
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: you know in Seattle, I mean twenty five to thirty
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: miles if you're going at the wrong time, going the
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: wrong way, Oh yeah, you're talking two plus hours. So
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: that's that's what you're dealing with.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And people were talking about last night how it was.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't normally what it is.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because everyone was sitting in their cars like everybody else,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: they probably thought of themselves, oh, we'll make it down there. Meanwhile,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: everything was over probably by the time they got there,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was pretty mellow.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just I think the setup is just goofy,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, it is, if I'm being honest,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: it just seems just a little goofy like with uh.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's just one of the worst. I mean, well,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I'll give you the great example when when the Seahars
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: beat the Broncos in Super Bowl forty eight, everything was
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: in New Jersey.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: And the game excuse me, the game was in New Jersey.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Everything was in New York and we had to go
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: across the bridge and people were I mean seriously New
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Yorkers because they did the same thing here. They cut
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: a lane off and people are in traffic and it
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: makes that traffic worse and they know so they see
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: the bus coming by and they don't know if it's players, media, whatever,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: and they're just flipped like in New York, they're just
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: flipping you off, like they don't care, like we just
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: we went all when they're in that Super Bowl. I
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: remember a cruise of the early in the morning over
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: to the what they you know, it's not like that anymore,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: but what they would call Opening night, but to the
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: media area, and they the New Yorkers have their you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: their fingers out because you had to close the lane
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: during drivetime traffic in the morning, and they didn't.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Like that at all. I'm with you. It's it's this
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: so help me help do it be a tourist guide
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: for us for a second in this regard. Yeah, so
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Seahawk fans that are listing right now and they're coming
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: down for the game, first of all, on a normal
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: for a normal game, you know, we can say we
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: want about the forty nine ers and everything else for
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: a normal game. Levi Stadium is pretty good in terms
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of massive amounts of parking. Getting in and out isn't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: too bad, right, It's it's it's it's really not bad.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I know where you're going, Okay, so you're okay. So,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: but so like if if I'm you know, if if
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Anderson Hurst is heading down there for the game, I
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: wish he's not. His wife's gonna have a baby here
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: any day, probably during this week while we're the super
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Bowl is more important exactly. But say say our friend
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Anderson Hurst is going and he's staying in a in
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a in a residence in in Palo Alta. No, not
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: even that, that's too easy, because Paul Outs is really close.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I'm bad that would do. Say he's staying in in Oakland, okay,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and he's going down to the game. Seahawks fans staying
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: in Oakland hanging out. How do they get to the game.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: What's your what's your advice like, because that's an that's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: like a seven hundred dollars uber ride. So what do
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: you do? Yeah, you gotta go. You gotta go the
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: back way. So take San Jose. Don't cross the don't
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: cross the Bay Bridge. There's a backway to San Jose.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: That's the way that I go to the to the
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: games all the time as a backway to San Jose.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: If you're on that side, if you're on the San
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Francisco side, unfortunately, you got to take one to one
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: all the way down and that is going to take forever.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: So I you know, I would suggest this because I
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: remember this for Super Bowl fifty as well. That was
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Broncos Panthers and in National Championship Game it was at
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: that between Alabama and Clemson. Just go down as early
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: as you possibly can, because if you've never been there before,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: it's like a small it's not like Seattle where the
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Seahawks stadiument.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: It's right down.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Town, Lomenfield and all that stuff. You know this, it's
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: been dropped right in the middle of a small town
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: and there's nothing. And then Santa Clair and the Niners
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: are in this There isn't there just there isn't places
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: around there, and if you're gonna try to uber, it's
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: gonna take you forever. So what you do is there's
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: tailgate parties all around that you have to pay I
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: think right now to get in price for the main
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: tailgate parties is like.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: One billion dollars.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: But you're gonna have to pay what you're gonna have
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: to pay. And then there's there's a Hilton around on
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: the corner that has one. There's a number of different
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: places in the parking lot that has all sorts of
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: cool stuff. Because the one thing they haven't mastered because
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: they fought with the city of Santa Claara, is there's
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: this there's a big construction site going on right across
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: from the stadium and it's been that way for about
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: two years because they've been fighting with the city to
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: try to get you know, all the stuff that you'd
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: want there, bars and all that kind of stuff. So
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: there's really nothing around the stadium but just go there
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: early and just succumb to.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: The tailgate parties. But if you're on the east.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Side, so you're in opland, you're gonna go down San
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Jose Way. If you're on the San Francisco side, you're
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: gonna have to just grin and barrack down one on
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: one south and either way is gonna take take you forever.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Just go first thing in the morning. And it's I'm sure,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of parking on private lots.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're charging everybody right around there. But you're
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be prepared to walk, like I can tell you
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: that because that's like it's on this long street. It
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: be like if I'm trying to give like Seattle fans,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: it would be like if you built a stadium kind
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: of over like maybe in Redmond, not like not buy Microsoft,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: but sort of like in that kind of industrial kind
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: of you know, tech ye kind of area, isn't you know.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just an odd place to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: have a stadium, it really, it is. It's just an
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: odd way it is.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: And they couldn't, you know, not to go back in
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: the history of it, but you know, they had it
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: at Candlestick Park, which still wasn't great, but at least
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: it was okay, we get it, and it was kind
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: of close to San Francisco, and it technically was San Francisco,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: but they just couldn't come to any kind of an agreement,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: so they just dropped this stadium. In fact, they had
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: to pay Great America million dollars. It's closed down now,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: but they had to pay Great America million dollars a
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: game to shut down on Sundays.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: It's just it's a bad place for a stadium. It's
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: not easy. It's get in and out.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: There is train, there's a local train there. But I mean,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: if you think you're gonna get over by doing like
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: an uber or something like that.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: They can't get near the stadium. They just it just
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: America Parker is a real way to do it. America's close.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they just you know, after the Niners started
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: comment daring it, they're like, we're out of here. So
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: but they were paying them a million bucks a week
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: to do to close down and have a game there.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Because they're adjacent to each other. The stadium in Great America.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: It looks like they had a kick ass rollercoaster there.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: If if I'm not mistaken, it was yeah, yeah, what
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the hell it was? Yeah? Okay, yeah, what's what's there
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: now is just the destroyed Is there a parking lot.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: There what you got there?
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: No, it's it's still there, but it's you know they don't.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: They just just sitting there like a relic.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: That's it, all right, let's get some thoughts on the game.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Here we go Seahawks and the Patriots. You know why
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: we're nervous here. We're really nervous because.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Because everybody's saying Seahawks, like nobody's saying Patriots.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty obvious.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: You can't find anybody here. You know what everybody does.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Everybody gets on the air and they say, well, there's
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: no chips, and then they go through this cocka maybe
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: kind of a thing how the Patriots could win, like
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: if Donald threw four interceptions or or there was this
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: or that, or you know, Marcus Jones is a good
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: special teams returner like Shaheeda is, and you know, they
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: lay out these scenarios and it is true that could happen.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: But if you just look at it and you say, okay,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: both teams play.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: An average game, well, obviously Seattle wins.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: But I mean the one thing that everybody is kind
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: of trying to tie to here beyond just obviously and
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I'm sure this paying Seahawks fans the play, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: the throw at the one yard line, all that kind
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: of stuff. But the other thing is people are trying
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: to make this comparison that the Patriots with Brady and
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: they beat the greatest show on turf, and that's you know,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: so this is the same thing, and they come from
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: nowhere and look, upsets happened in the Super Bowl, there's
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: no doubt. But this isn't Tom Brady against the Rams.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks are. The Rams were at that point kind
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: of done. The Seahawks right now are I think just
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: hitting their prime and I think they might even get better.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: So this isn't like a Rams team back then. Brady
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: beat him, you know, all that kind of stuff, and
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: they they're at the end.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks are just at the beginning of their run
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: So that's you know, none of these these comparisons that
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: they try to make are really even relevant.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, every year is different, every team's different.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I mean I was just looking at it earlier. I
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: mean with Seattle, I mean next year is going to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: be different. Rashii He, Josh Jones, Boy and Mafey, ken Walker,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Josh Job, Kobe Bryant, Jarik Wall and Drek Young are
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: all UFAs. I mean, that's a lot of guys that
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: you know, and they'll bring some of those guys you say,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: you know, you know what, you know what.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: The buzz here, though, has been And I don't know
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: that I've ever and you and I have done a
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: ton of these. I'm around twenty radio roads and just
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: you know, you get the buzz what happens all week on.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: I have never heard of buzz as much for an
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: executive that you hear for John Schneider.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: And it is true, and what you just said is true.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: But I would imagine the Seahawks fans have some sort
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: of a confidence in that, you know, and I don't
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: need to go through them because you know that, you know,
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: the darnold didn't bring it in my McDonald and the
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: picks that they've made, and and Min worry and I
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: mean it seems like over the last few years, say
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: just last three years, every button he has touched has
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: turned to gold.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I've ever heard more buzz.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Usually it's around a certain player or a quarterback or
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: a coach or you know whatever, But I mean all
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: week long or so far we're talking about Tuesday, but
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: so far, I mean just tons of love for John Schneider.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the thing with and you know rightfully
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: so what he's done. You know, he gets and he
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: does get beat up for this this period of time
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: with his draft picks. But I think it's you know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and listen, you guys know all about missing you know,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: draft picks. I mean, and if not for Brock Purty,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the Trey Lancing, who knows what happens to John Lynch, right,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I mean that I think you might have gotten fired.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: That's the firerable events when you when you draft Trey
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Lance third and you give up three first round picks
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: to do it, and then you get lucky the next
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: year and you get Brock Purty. But I can just
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: tell you I'll do this really sure. When Purty was
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: was drafted and they went to training camp that year,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan went to Jed York, the owner of the
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: forty nine ers, and went, I think our best quarterback
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: is party And I thought, and the story goes that
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Jed York was gonna kill him. I mean he was like,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, we just gave up three first round picks.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: So if they didn't have party, could you imagine how
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: angry that owner would be because I don't know who
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: their quarterback would be, Jimmy Garoppolo, Like that wouldn't have
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: lasted well.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: And that's that brings me to the point of, you know,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: with Schneider, the times he has kind of you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: not had the great draft and not made the great decisions.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: And again we we'll never know how much of that
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: was also Pete, right, like how much did Pete have
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: an influence? But let's just assume Schneider, I think, for
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: the most part, was the guy in charge of the drafts.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: You know, once they got past that twenty twelve draft,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you're really good and these
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: are I'm just gonna run through this real quick junks.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I think you could speak to this too. This is
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the highest These were the first picks the Seahawks had
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen sixty second, twenty fourteen forty fifth, twenty fifteen
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: sixty third, twenty sixteen high pick, thirty first, So yeah, hey,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: a first rounder that was at the very end of
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the first round. Twenty seventeen, thirty five, twenty eighteen, twenty seven.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I mean you get, you get the point, and twenty nineteen,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, and then twenty twenty kind of the last
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: not great draft for him. Twenty seventh was the first
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: pick he had. Twenty twenty one was the COVID year
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: they didn't like. They punted on that draft. D Escris,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Trey Brown, and Forsyth Brown can play, but the rest
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of them can. Then all of a sudden, guess what, John,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: you have a couple of years you're not so good.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: You're picking ninth, fifth, sixteenth, twentieth. Oh oh, do we
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: get out of that. I'll see Byron Murphy, see Devin Witherspoon, JSN,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Charles Cross, Gray Zabel. Oh, that's weird, like picking this
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: top twenty.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: And the other thing, too, is is that you know
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: again the Russ Wilson trade.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Obviously everybody knows that kid started everything. But then he
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: went out and got Leonard Williams. Then he went out
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and got rashidg He then he out and you know
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest things. Obviously you know, you got
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald. But then he said, Okay, Geno's done and
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Sam's in.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: I mean to do all those things in the last
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: three years because everything we mentioned is in the last
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: three years, jump started by the Russell Wilson trade. It's
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: it's phenomenal and you can't really say anything against it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: And if you look at this division and you look
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: at football in general, that's.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Kind of what it takes.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Is you've got to nail about three drafts in a row,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: two at least, but mainly three, and then you got
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: to make some smart decisions. Everybody thinks that free agencies
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: is great thing. It's a great offseason thing. We all
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: have a bunch of fun with it. But generally speaking,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: free agents are flawed. So you've got to watch what
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: you get as far as free agents. But they you know,
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: they haven't made huge splashes in.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Free agent DeMarcus Lawrence. There wasn't like a.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Big line out the door to get DeMarcus Lawrence. That
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: was a brilliant move on his part. But when you
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: trade for Ernest Jones, bang, you trade for Leonard Williams,
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: you trade for Shiheed, I mean, those are awesome trades that.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: He knows they're going to fit his team.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: When it comes to a free agent, a lot of
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: times you're sticking a square hagging around hole and you're
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: just hoping because they're either two overpaid or too old,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: or two injury prone. There's something wrong with the free agent,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: which is why the team didn't keep him that he
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: was on. So you'll hit some of those, and some
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: of those guys can augment what you're doing. I mean,
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Cooper Cup is a perfect example.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: He's been nice.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: He's sure as hell hasn't been the guy was with
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: the Rams, but you see behind the scenes all the
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: things that the guys say say he does.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And then the the.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: NFC Championship game he steps up and it wouldn't surprise
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: me again for a guy who's been there before that
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: he steps up again in the Super Bowl. But is
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: he going to be a long term piece? I mean
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: probably next draft they might look to replace a Cooper
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Cup type. He's been okay, but he hasn't taken enough
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: pressure off JSN. But that's what I mean about free agents.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: He's been one of the better ones. But if you
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: look at his numbers and you didn't know the team
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: like you know the team and like the fans know
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: the team.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: You'd say he was okay.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: But he's been a great influence and really helped this team.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: That's what free agents are though there are a lot
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: of times you're you're paying for past performance, not future performance.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: He just kind of fits what they're trying to do.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: So you look at these trades, you look at the draft.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just he hit it out of the
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: bar park. I don't think anybody could deny any of that.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of people that didn't like the
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams trade when it was made a few years ago.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: And I remember when I remember when it was made,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: I thought they you know, they were kind of in
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: a and I think that was I would put it
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: in the Pete Carroll Last Gasp mode, so to speak,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: like Pete Trot, like they really were trying to get
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: over the top, get to the playoffs and all that stuff.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: And you know, and Leonard Williams was going to be
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a free agent. They had to resign him, but they did.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: That was the plan all along, was to resoun him.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: You kind of see this in the NHL all the time,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: with you're going to make a trade for a guy,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: do you know you're gonna be able to resign him.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: On the other end, NHL usually does it beforehand, not
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: necessarily the case with the NFL. But they they kind
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: of had a way lot of times you dump trade,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: yeah you yeah, But they wanted to bring him back.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Ernest Jones, they'd pick him up last season early in
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the year. All along from day one, they wanted to
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: bring this guy back, and they did. I think the
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Rashishi Heat trade is just one that's that just is
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: way over underlooked at times. And again that's one that
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: that people at the time, John, there's a lot of
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: people in our market that were really critical of that trade.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: And I think, no matter what you look at now,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: those draft picks, they're not in the super Bowl and
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: they're not having a number one single overall without rashik Shiheat.
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: There's no question.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Plus you know, you look at the super Bowl now,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: you look at the game plan with and without him.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: Again, Kupp has been a nice, solid player, but they've
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: got to worry about special teams. They've got to worry
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: about a deep ball now, like the things that he's
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: brought to the table. When I'm doing this, off the
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: top of my head, what was it a three and
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: a four?
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was no doubt, it was hang on
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: a second, it right front of me. It was a
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: fourth twenty twenty six, four twenty twenty six to fifth
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: for Rashiki. Okay, four to five. Yeah, but you know,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I mean that's the point of it. You know, all
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: these people, this happened to baseball all the time. We
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: have the best farm system.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: Great, wonderful, that's just great. Who cares? Like the point
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: is to try to win?
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: So when you get opportunities to.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Try to win a Super Bowl, I'm not saying you
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: give up a number one pick for for Shahed, but
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: I mean he is far exceeded those Even if they
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: lose the game, you know, they if you look back.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Like look the forty nine ers.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Just to go back to my neck of wins for
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: a second, it was seven to nothing.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: That place was rocking.
• 57:10
  Speaker 8: You.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: You could they could have packed up the bus right there.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I knew the game was over.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: I mean I didn't know it was gonna be forty
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: one to six. But as soon as he brought that back,
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: and having been in that stadium myself plenty of times,
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was like this thing's over. Like they
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: were rock and rolling, man, and the Niners were just
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: shell shocked.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: It was over. Well, you mentioned you mentioned what the
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: special teams does. I mean the Rams didn't kick to
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: them at all. They just to go to the thirty
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: five and start there Before I let you go just
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: quick thoughts on the game and how how you think
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to play out.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm probably as much as anybody.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I look, can it happen? Sure it's happened
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: in Super Bowl history.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: But you know, I was on a show earlier today
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: and they were talking up the Patriots a little bit,
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: and I.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Said, where do they have the advantage? Tell me where?
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: And they were trying to say the quarterback. Not in
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. I mean, Darnold's been better than Drake may
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: and in the playoffs. I haven't seen regular season Drake Mayine.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: I think that this team is going to after him.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Think they're gonna get after Will Campbell. I think the
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: D line with the Seahawks is much better. I think
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: the defense overall is much better.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: I don't need to go even to the schedule the Patriots.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, look this game right now, I just
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: I don't see unless the Seahawks make mistakes, and anybody
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: can do that, and Sam Donald has and everything else.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: But if it's a you know, an average play game.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks are going to win big. But like,
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: like you said, look, that makes everybody nervous. I understand that,
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: and the game is certainly not played on paper. But
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll ask you back, like where the Patriots
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: have an advantage, not on special teams, not on you know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald two weeks to prepare for a team. I
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: think you're gonna have a hell of a defensive game plan.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: I don't see where New England would have an advantage
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: in this game.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I don't either. The only place I would see it
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: is a middle of the defensive line. Hard for Seatle
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to run up the middle. But they'll just stretch play
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: it with with Walker all day and without Charbona. That's
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: what they want to do probably anyway.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: So no, I think, Look, I hate to bring this
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: guy's name up, like Christing Gonzalez and jaysn that's gonna
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: be a good that's gonna be a good matchup.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: But Jayson is so good, you know.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: It's just and they've had other guys step up during
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: this playoff run and late in the season, and if
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: you can, I mean, I'm sure they're gonna their number
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: one thing is you know, given a Belichick thing, Okay,
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: we're gonna.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Take away the thing you do best. The Seahawks have.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Shown if like in the NFC Championship game, if he dominates,
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: they win.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: If he doesn't dominate, they win.
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  Speaker 3: Like you can't just say there's one guy leading the
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: charge on either side of the ball, and that's what
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: and I end on special teams and that's what makes
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  Speaker 3: them so tough.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Plus you tell me this.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: This is another thing I've talked about with a lot
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: of people. You and I have been to a ton
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: of Super Bowls. It's usually corporate, but I can remember
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: the one down in Florida, the Chiefs and the Niners,
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: and it was Patrick Mawum's first victory. And when the
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: national anthem was going on at the end, they go
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: and the home listen by singing and the home of wheesh,
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: and it overwhelmed the stadium. And at that point I
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: looked at your good friend Greg Popa, the voice of
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: the Niners, and went, uh oh, because I didn't I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: didn't think there would be a distinct advantage. And it
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: was all the way in Florida. So Kansas City fans
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: just bombed the place and it was a home game
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: for Kansas City and it made a difference. So is
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: that I mean, our Seahawks fans just bombarding Santa Clair.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be a home field for the Seahawks.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: We'll see. That's just the ticket prices are stupid, crazy expensive.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's stupid crazy. I would think it'll
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: be a pro Seahawks crowd. I mean, then maybe some
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: people from your area that just hate the Seahawks. By
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the way, should we worry about those power lines and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: stuff that snapped Kittle's achilles or are we okay? Oh
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: my god, it's just what an over blood story.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: That's gotta be that thing.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: They've been in that stadium since two thy fourteen, practiced.
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  Speaker 1: Those same fields. Are listen, McCaffrey Kittle. I mean, I
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: just I'm Trey Lance. I saw him break his leg there.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: I blame that not on the tackle, but on the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: power lines. It's a power line deal.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, those muscle injuries are all power line deals.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Saturday, we'll listen to Saturday. We'll listen
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: to you on Westwood one here over on the AM
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: deal on the Sunday, Well, we may catch you later.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: So I've just reading interviews with watching the game myself.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: But I'll be drinking beer too.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Boy, I hope those interviews go okay because if they don't,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be calling me. And I'm like, I'm sorry,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: i can't do a show right now. I've been sucking
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: down beer.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Good luck, Seattle. I'm pulling for you. But you know,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: people don't think I am say it with me.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: See see, boy, that was a good time.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: That was a good time. I may have to call you.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: That into my show will be maybe I'll be my
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: end of my show live and do like a post game.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: I'll call you up again. And if boy, if they win, good, No,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I won't call you. Beers, you're gonna drink just I
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: don't know a lot, a lot you know me, Beers.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: You're gonna drink on Sunday about eighty at least you're
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: gonna drink a largent full of beer.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: It'd be like my god, thirty. But it's close, all right,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I'll talk. I'll talk to you next week. See that's
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: John joining us. I will take a break, come back
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• 1:02:33
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  Speaker 1: up in about and I say join us, Softy and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: myself joined us for cross talk and early version coming
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  Speaker 1: up in just a couple of seconds. Four nine four
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  Speaker 1: five one. Kathleen, I love John Lund all Caps. Great guy,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: even if he's a Whiners fan. I think he's secretly
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: a Seahawks fan. He is, I really, I know, I think,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I totally I know he is. He completely is Fortune five.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang outside to leave I see himself. Foyle
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: hats another Foyle. She's shields to the fans. They don't
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: get injured on the electrical plant. You know, he got
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: all he got all defensive with that. But here's the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: funny thing about that, he too was making fun of
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: it and talking about it. Earlier this year. Yeah, now
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: we're going to be defensive one. Interesting. Interesting are we
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: worried that everyone's on the Seahawks bandwagon? Yes, yes, we
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: don't handle being favorites. Well, it's true, not at all,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: not good at all. We did not care. A Steve
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Bamber Jody Allen ownership group would be awesome. Maybe maybe
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I just don't like change.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: I want to keep it the way it is.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Well, like, if it was broken, then change would be great. Yeah,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not broken here in the super Bowl.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: It's not broken. It's anything but broke. Yes, they made
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: all the right decisions recently. Well, and I like Greg
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: was talking about Greg Bell was talking about with us,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: it's it's decisions, you know, I mean the decision that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Pet goes brutal. Oh yeah, it was interesting though. I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: have to go back and listen to shows. It was
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: both hard, I'm sure, but also needed at the time.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: I remember bur Burke Cole was there for all that
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: nonsense in Arizona. Jody was not, but he was there.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: He was in the room, right, And I just don't
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: think that these guys want to win. It's a good thing.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Robos was a fantastic leadoff hitter prior to last season's injury.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: Anders care to respond, No, I like Robust personally.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a good kind of
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: defensive outfielder. Just everything that happened with the whole throwing
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: the bat and everything last year, it was kind of
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: derailed his whole year. I could see him being your
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: left fielder and then like Rob Refsnyder and dominic Ken
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: zone plutoning and right.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: But you never know. The thing with Robs is like
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: remember how they got it? Yeah cast nothing, Yeah, cast
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: aside there was probably a reason for that. Yeah.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Still like he made one of the biggest plays the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: season last year, if you remember the diving catch in Houston.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: No, I like rollbless. I just think they upgraded at
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the leadoff spot. The Seahawks wagon is a two seater.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Oh goodness. Oh, I have to ask him, has softy
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: and who gotten their stupid Schomas shellfish dish yet? I
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: don't know if they've been to Sculmas yet. That's like
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: to ask him next segment. Yeah, I'll ask him next.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: That's just like his favorite thing. That guy loves himself
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: from scomas. All right, we'll take a break. Tom Pellisero.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Pellisero from the NFL Network is sat down at
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  Speaker 1: Super bowls radio row with Softy. I see, is that
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  Speaker 1: Luke Wilson the background, by the way, it is, yes,
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  Speaker 1: creeping this out, hovering back there. Yeah. I remember when
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  Speaker 1: Luke Wilson used to Tom. He used to return our
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: calls in Seattle, and then he got on the network
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: up in Canada. Tomm he came up, became a big deal,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: kind of like your buddy Rappaport with me, used to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: do stuff with us, and then what happened to you guys?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: You get all big time.
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  Speaker 9: Now he stopped paying him.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: That's right, man, that's probably true.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 9: That is a problem.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's funny I just mentioned, I kid you
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: not the same thing to Dick here, like Michael Robinson,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: Nate Burleson, Diana Roussini, all these people that we know
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: way back when, and now I can't even get a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: text back from these people for crying out.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: That's why we're happy to have a guy like Tom
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: pellisara On. I mean when I when I first had
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: rap on, he had like two hundred followers on Twitter.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Now he's you know, now he's kind of a big deal.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: So you tell him. We got the better half of
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: the NFL show today with you on, So I appreciate you.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: How are you, Tom? How's super Bowl treating you so far?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 9: Everything is?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's clicking along, man, as you know, it's
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 10: it's chaotic here. It was down at super Bowl media
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 10: opening night whatever they call it. Now you know last
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 10: night everything's spread out here. But uh no, it's it's
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 10: a I think it's gonna be really interesting week you know,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 10: talking with We had John Schneider on the show last
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 10: night as well as Elliott Worth and talking about a
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 10: lot of the you know, the moves that brought it
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 10: to this point. You know two guys with John and Elliott,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 10: they both worked with the Packers, you know back circle
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 10: two thousand and seven when I got on the Packers
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 10: beat for the Green Bay Press Cozete, So I've known those.
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  Speaker 9: Guys all the time.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 10: Wow, it's cool seeing both those guys as ron Wolf disciples.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 10: Elliott Chorus's son John trained under him as well. Getting
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: this opportunity to square off in the Super Bowl.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's funny.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: We had you know, Harland does a weekly show with us,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: and he'll be on again Friday. Him and John Schneider
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: went to the same high school in Green Bay Harland
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: did with those guys, and I know that. I think
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken, you tell me if I'm wrong.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: Did the Packers not try to hire John a few
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: years ago when he said no? Or was it the
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: Lions that wanted Schneider?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 10: There was there was speculation about John coming back when
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 10: Brian Goodakunz ended up taking over for Ted Thompson. Right,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 10: it just it didn't really sync up at the time.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 9: John.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 10: You know, John had built something pretty cool in Seattle,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 10: and you know, obviously as much as there were there
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: were some years there where you know, it was a
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 10: challenge late in Pete's tenure, you know, to watch the
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: Seahawks being back on top again. I mean three three
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: Super Bowls in a what twelve thirteen year span, like
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 10: that's rare for any team. I can't give John enough
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 10: credit for for the job he's done building this thing again.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 9: No phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: But I guess the question is do Seahawk fans need
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: to kind of keep that in the back of their
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: mind that day, especially now with this new ownership structure
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: happening who knows when and with who.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 9: Do you see.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: Schneider as a lifer in Seattle or do you think
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: it's maybe a goal of his too, when the timing
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: is right and maybe a new owner is the right timing,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: he needs to go back to Green Bay.
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  Speaker 9: I don't I don't foresee that.
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  Speaker 10: You know, the Packers just re signed Brian Goodakunstan Matt
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 10: Lafleur to contract extensions. You know, John, John and Tracy
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 10: are empty Nesters now, so I think they're they're enjoying
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 10: that life in Seattle, you know, being able to live
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 10: on their own and you know, have some fun out
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 10: in the community there. But no, I mean, listen, it's
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 10: really hard to build something as special as what he's
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 10: built there. I mean, it's not it's some of the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 10: behind scenes things that people don't see too. It's not
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 10: just the roster, it's the front office and the guys
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 10: that they've got there that help put together that roster
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 10: with whether it's Nolan Teasley, Trent Kershner, Matt Berry, you know,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 10: Willie Schneider, like go down the list, like all those
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 10: guys are huge parts of it.
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  Speaker 9: You don't always get that.
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  Speaker 10: And from everything that I've been told, you know, Jody
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 10: Allen has been very supportive. She does have you know,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 10: questions and just like anybody, but she's been really supportive,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 10: including when you know, she made the decision to move
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 10: on from Pete and kept John on. You know, that
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: was the opportunity for, as Pete said in his press counter,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 10: for Johnny to finally do it. You know, Listen, john
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 10: had done a lot for a long time there. He
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 10: just didn't necessarily have the trump card on Pete, you know,
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  Speaker 10: The biggest thing that john had to do was get
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 10: the coach right, and you don't always get that opportunity.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 10: He interviewed a lot of different people. At the end
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 10: it was Ben Johnson and Mike McDonald. Ben just wasn't
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 10: in a headspace to come back. They had already kind
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 10: of zeroed in on Mike McDonald and that's been one
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 10: of the great hires of the past few years as
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 10: head coach.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Tom Pelozarro for the NFL Network joining us. By the way,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: there's never such a thing as empty nests. They always
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: come home. I can tell you that by experience. They
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: just just a warning to all the locks.
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  Speaker 9: The doors or moved, I mean, those are the other options.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: They always find their way back home. So but that's okay.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: You mentioned the ownership. Let's go back to that for
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: a second. What do Seahawk fans need to know about
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: this because I think a lot of us I think
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Softy Year on the same page with me. I like
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: the status quo, whether it was Paul Allen now Jody
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: and Bert. I like the fact that this organization is
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: nice and separate business in football, and there's no doubt
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: they're successful in both. So what do Seahawk fans know
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: about exactly what's going on. There's all these stories coming out,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: then there's denials coming out. Tom, what can you tell us.
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  Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I would start with just the
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  Speaker 10: way that this is structured, which is Paul Allen Unlike
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 10: many owners who pass it down to kids or family members,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 10: the way that his you know, will, for lack of
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 10: a better term, I don't know the technical terms were
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 10: structured was that it will be placed in a trust,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 10: with Jody overseeing that trust, and the ultimately, like all
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 10: of his assets, they would be sold off to fund
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 10: various charitable endeavors. There was never a plan for Jody
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: to be the permanent owner, but she's the one overseeing
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 10: the trust. That means everything everything you are correct, and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 10: it was all going to be, which is a really
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: cool thing. I mean when you think about it, like,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 10: that's pretty awesome, you know, from Paul and so Jody's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 10: been overseeing the trust. She has been working in that capacity.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 10: Under NFL ownership rules, you're supposed to have a controlling owner.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 10: She fulfills that from a realistic perspective, but on paper
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 10: she's not the majority owner. In terms of the timetable
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 10: There's never been a timetable given other than eventually that's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 10: what's going to happen. They're going through that process right
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 10: now with the Blazers. One day they will go through
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 10: with the Seahawks. I have not been told from anyone
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 10: that it is definitively happening or they're.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 9: Going to be sold this coming off season. Wow, that
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 9: could happen.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 10: Okay, certainly could happen, but no one has said it
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 10: has to happen on that timeline. In terms of buyers,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 10: you know, everyone always brings up Jeff Bezos and other
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 10: you know, big names. The NFL kind of has a
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 10: pre approved list of buyers anytime. They don't just start
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 10: from scrap to and it's like, hey, what fifty billionaire
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 10: is going to bid on this team? No, it's they've
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 10: kind of got some people already lined up that are
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 10: We've done all the vetting, we know where their money
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 10: comes from, we've done background checks, we figured out the
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 10: structure of their financing. That's why the NFL avoids in
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 10: most cases messes that you have, Like I mean in
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 10: my backyard with the Timberwolves, where it was Alex Rodriez
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 10: Mark lawyer trying to buy the team from Glenn Taylor,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 10: and they go through this protracted negotiation and then Glenn
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 10: goes actually, forget it.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 9: I don't want to sell you the team.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 10: Now it's in court, and because it was well, you
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  Speaker 10: didn't show the money, you didn't put the downpapers.
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  Speaker 9: The NFL is.
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  Speaker 10: Much cleaner in terms of transactions, so they have a
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  Speaker 10: very structured process. They're going to be able to have
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  Speaker 10: a you know, guardrails in place. Jody's going to be involved.
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  Speaker 10: You know, she's got her people, including Chuck, who's you know,
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  Speaker 10: course very involved this. There will be checks and balances.
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  Speaker 10: It's not gonna get sold some guy who's gonna move
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  Speaker 10: with to San Antonio the next day. Right, there are
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  Speaker 10: gonna be the Seahawks are gonna be in Seattle. And
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  Speaker 10: this process, though it might take some time sure, even
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  Speaker 10: though the actual identification of buyers will not because they've
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  Speaker 10: already sort of done that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you mentioned that Tom Tom Pellisero again joining
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  Speaker 4: us from a Super Bowl sixteen radio row from the
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  Speaker 4: NFL network, that there's this thought that some people have, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the team may move. I don't have that
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  Speaker 4: concern at all. Maybe I should, maybe because of the Sonics,
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  Speaker 4: what we went through with them, We have a little
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  Speaker 4: PTSD with them, be guarded. Should Seattle fans even remotely
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  Speaker 4: be concerned about that?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 4: The lubinfield least, I think right as of now, there's
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  Speaker 4: five years left, there's this twenty year extension. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: sure what's going on with that. Should we even go
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  Speaker 4: to bed at night? Tom, all right, you're you're, you're
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  Speaker 4: our kind of mentor here talk to us. Should we
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  Speaker 4: be concerned at all about losing this football?
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  Speaker 10: All I would tell you is not one person has
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  Speaker 10: even raised that as a remote possibility.
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  Speaker 5: Got it.
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  Speaker 10: There's a lot of things that go into, you know,
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  Speaker 10: different negotiations and whatnot. There's also things that you can
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  Speaker 10: you know, navigate here. See, that is an important market.
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  Speaker 10: It's it's you know, a cornerstone of the NFL in
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  Speaker 10: the in the Pacific Northwest, where there's there's not a
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  Speaker 10: team in Oregon, there's not a team in Montana. It's
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  Speaker 10: you know, it's it draws fans in from Canada as well.
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  Speaker 10: It's an important place that the NFL wants to be.
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  Speaker 10: It's a great sports town with a centralized sports district.
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  Speaker 10: Regardless of the Sonics now played in Oklahoma City. It
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  Speaker 10: has been a stortally a very strong fan base. There's
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  Speaker 10: no reason to believe that it's going to go that direction,
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  Speaker 10: and they'll go through a process whenever that takes place
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  Speaker 10: to identify the right buyer who meets the criteria.
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  Speaker 1: Looking good, great information, Tom, I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to your kind of the guru of guys getting hired
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  Speaker 1: around the league. The coaching hirings are all done now
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  Speaker 1: we know Seattle's losing Klint Kubik. By the way, I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised you mentioned both Trent and Nolan. I'm surprised those
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  Speaker 1: guys haven't had more options as far as GMS are concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick, At are those guys still being mentioned out
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  Speaker 1: there at some point for a GM job.
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  Speaker 10: Well, listen, there's one that's going to be open or
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  Speaker 10: is open in Minnesota. They're going to do a round
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  Speaker 10: of interviews. They're not going to do their process until
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  Speaker 10: after the draft. I absolutely and throw Matt Berry in
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  Speaker 10: that category.
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  Speaker 9: Two.
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  Speaker 10: Between those three guys, they all are deserving candidates. Trent
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  Speaker 10: was in the process with several teams, you know, years ago,
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  Speaker 10: going back to I think twenty seventeen, he interviewed for
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  Speaker 10: the forty nine ers job when they ultimately hired Kyle,
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  Speaker 10: and then you know John Lynch. Matt Barry had an
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 10: interview last year for the Titans job. Nolan Teezy, I'm
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 10: surprised has not gotten an interview to this point. I
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  Speaker 10: think that his time is coming. He's the youngest of
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  Speaker 10: the three. Sometimes that plays a factor here as well.
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  Speaker 10: But you know, one of the things that you know,
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  Speaker 10: whether it was Miami in the process that they went
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  Speaker 10: through or other teams you're looking for who's part of.
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  Speaker 9: A successful program. Yes, there's other different criteria.
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  Speaker 10: One of the great things that John does is he
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  Speaker 10: exposes all those guys to different things. You're not just
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  Speaker 10: getting somebody, Hey, you've only been a college scout. That's
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  Speaker 10: Matt Berry's background, for instance. But he's in the office
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  Speaker 10: now he's able to experience, you know, different things. Trent
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  Speaker 10: has been training for years on all aspects of the
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  Speaker 10: football operation, and Nolan, who came up on the pro
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  Speaker 10: scouting side, has become more and more integrated as the
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  Speaker 10: assistant general manager. All three of those guys, I believe
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  Speaker 10: I should absolutely be candidates in the future. And you know,
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  Speaker 10: Trent is from Minnesota Vikings GM would be his dream job,
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  Speaker 10: you know, whether it's Nolan or Matt. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 10: surprised that if one or more of those guys are
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  Speaker 10: in the mix in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Those three guys Tom. They trotted those guys out for
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  Speaker 1: the pre draft news conference last year. Not Snider kind
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  Speaker 1: of game, all a shot on the mic, and they
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  Speaker 1: all shine. They I mean, Nolan comes across as a GM,
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  Speaker 1: he has that presence about him. I want to add
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator job we believe is open, right, I
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: think that's open after Sunday about the will six thirty
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  Speaker 1: Local time. Do you have any names for us in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle for a possible replacement for Clint Kubiak?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I think you start by looking internal, and there's
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  Speaker 10: gonna be like there always are. There's some moving parts
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  Speaker 10: here because Clint, like most coaches, may be looking at
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  Speaker 10: some of the guys in house to potentially bring with them.
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  Speaker 10: The only guy that you can get out is the
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  Speaker 10: one you hire for your coordinator job. Even if you're
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 10: hiring your running backs coach for your prom game coordinator,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 10: that doesn't count. The only levels the NFL recognizes are
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 10: head coach coordinator everybody else, and so between Andrew Junoko,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 10: the quarterbacks coach, and Jake Pets whose pass game coordinator,
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  Speaker 10: those would be the two that I would immediately think
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  Speaker 10: of as potential candidates in house for the OC. Clint
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  Speaker 10: may be wanting to take one of those guys with
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  Speaker 10: them to go to Las Vegas and so, and you
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  Speaker 10: could do that, Like you can't block them, you can
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 10: only block for other jobs. So those two would be
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  Speaker 10: the first ones I would look at, you know, in
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  Speaker 10: terms of some of the other guys that they interviewed
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  Speaker 10: last year, I mean they interviewed Adams Stenovitch, they interviewed
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  Speaker 10: Hank Freeley, reviewed Frank Smith. You could look at some
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  Speaker 10: of those names potentially. Again, I wouldn't think that they
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  Speaker 10: want to move away from this style of offense. A
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  Speaker 10: big part of the frustration last year with Ryan Grubb
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 10: was just they didn't have any type of run game.
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  Speaker 10: They had no identity to the offense. He knew the
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 10: pass game, the run game was not good. They're not
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  Speaker 10: going to want to now go a different direction where
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  Speaker 10: they're running a different style of offense. So that you know,
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  Speaker 10: the so called mcveay Shanahan system, which is of course
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 10: of derivation with the Shanahan Kubiak system. I wouldn't think
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  Speaker 10: that they're going away from that, and so you're probably
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  Speaker 10: looking to some of those same types snames where it's
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 10: an in house guy or somebody else was a familiarity
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  Speaker 10: within that system. They won't rush. I'll tell you that
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  Speaker 10: they're not going to hire a new OC on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 10: They're gonna take their time. They're going to spend time
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  Speaker 10: with these guys, same process they did last year, where
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  Speaker 10: it was a couple of weeks, it was zoom interviews,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 10: it was in person interviews. Mike found the right guy.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 10: He just did a little bit too good job, good
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  Speaker 10: of a job hiring Klinkubye, Well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean Tom before you got Tom Pellisarah was NFL
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  Speaker 4: Network Live from Radio wrote the Super Bowl. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I was home with the Raiders today and they
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  Speaker 4: asked me for my thoughts on Koobiak. I just said, look,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know if he's got presence
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  Speaker 4: about him to be a head coach. His personality, does
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: he have the command to be a head coach? When
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  Speaker 4: you talk to Clint, you know he's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: quieter guy, a little bit sometimes and that's a concern.
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  Speaker 10: For me as a head coach in the NFL, and
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  Speaker 10: I wouldn't. I had more of a concern with it
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  Speaker 10: in the interview process. Right when you talk to people
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 10: who know Clint well, people who like Clint, they all said,
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  Speaker 10: I don't know how it's gonna come across in an
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  Speaker 10: interview setting.
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  Speaker 9: That was the only surprise to me.
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  Speaker 10: But if you think about where he landed, he lands
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 10: with the with the Raiders, who are partially run by
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 10: Tom Brady, who is in every interview. Bill Belichick doesn't
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 10: come across as a high energy, alpha male vocal leader.
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  Speaker 10: But what did Bill do? He knows football, The football
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  Speaker 10: is good. He's gonna teach you. Football is gonna make
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  Speaker 10: you better. Clint's the same type of a thing. They're
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 10: very different types of personalities. But again Bill's not allowed
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  Speaker 10: upbeat type of guy. He's very much a negative reinforcement guy.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 10: Clint is more of a positive reinforcement guy, but again
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  Speaker 10: a quieter dude. He's gonna need to beentious about his staff,
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  Speaker 10: and they're not down the road on building out the staff.
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  Speaker 10: But if you're that type of personality, you need some
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 10: hammers on the staff. Whether it's your defensive coordinator, assistant,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 10: head coach. You're gonna need people who can be the
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 10: enforcers because the moment that you start pretending, go away
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  Speaker 10: from your personality, try to be someone who you're not.
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  Speaker 9: That's how you get yourself in trouble.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 10: Click Kubiak with Fernando Mendoza and Ashton Genty and Brock Bowers.
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  Speaker 10: Pretty fun to watch, although I understand probably not as
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 10: fall for seats.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's gonna need some Dan Campbells, some knee biers
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  Speaker 4: on that staff man, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you know, it's funny just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that when when McDonald was hired, a lot of
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: guys in Baltimore were telling us media guys going on,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that guy's pretty quiet. He keeps
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  Speaker 1: to himself. He's a bad interview you guys are It's
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  Speaker 1: really gonna be hard for you guys out there. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the case at all. He certainly is blossom. Tom
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  Speaker 1: we Betta, Let you go. Thanks so much for stopping by.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. I'm sure you got stuff going on.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: I just saw you on the NFL network kind of
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: know how you can be two places at once. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 10: But power of television right there. I think they're just
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 10: re airing when those dogs appeared behind this a little bit.
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  Speaker 9: Everything is not live on TV?
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  Speaker 1: What since?
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  Speaker 5: When?
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  Speaker 1: Or radio?
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  Speaker 9: Radio?
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  Speaker 1: Are we sharing que?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Thanks a lot, Tom appreciated.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Cola Saro with us. Man, you know what one
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: of the best dressed guys here by the way radio? Well, yeah,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: you should see this guy. He's got the blue sued on,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: he's got the white shoes, he's got the top button
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  Speaker 4: un button with the chest hanging out looking good.
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  Speaker 1: Man. He's a guy you should put on TV.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly as opposed to somebody else. I know who I'm
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  Speaker 4: looking at right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking at a FaceTime exactly. I was thinking the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: same thing. What are you coming up?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's see Charles Frost will join us from somewhere
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: down in San Jose in the South Bay. We'll talk
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: to him. We'll talk to John Wilner. He's normal visit
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: at five o'clock tonight. And we got a couple of
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: Expatriot quarterbacks that had a chance to catch up with
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: each other today, Scott Zolac and Hugh Millan and the
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 4: Donut Box story. By the way, if you've never heard that,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: can't wait, Okay, that is gonna come up as well
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: with Hugh Millan and Scott Zolac. I promise you before
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  Speaker 4: cracking ducks tonight pregame six thirty zip all right
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  Speaker 7: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness this paddle day,
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  Speaker 7: saying so long everyone,