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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-4 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We will start with the Super Bowl MVP who learned
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  Speaker 1: his faith yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've known some time that Ken Walk would.
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  Speaker 1: Almost certainly be free, not be transition tag, not be
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  Speaker 1: franchise tag. That was a reality yesterday. Not saying the
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  Speaker 1: seatofs don't want to bring it back. They do, but
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a number lower than the one year tag.
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  Speaker 1: They are going to continue to try to work toward
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  Speaker 1: a deal with Walker is free, no doubt he is
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  Speaker 1: going to have a big market in a resurgent running
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  Speaker 1: back group.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones a different situation for the Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 1: He did in fact get the transition tag, almost thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars fully guaranteed, the first time it's nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six that a quarterback got the transition tag. The
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  Speaker 1: New York Jets made a similar decision for Bresee.
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  Speaker 2: Hall, their star running back.
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  Speaker 1: He gets not the transition tag like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people thought, but the franchise tag.
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  Speaker 2: And then for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: Their siding with Tree Handrick it officially ended yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He is now free. One of the top pass rushers on.
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  Speaker 3: The Morning.
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  Speaker 4: And fl Networks Ian Rapaport with the full breakdown of
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  Speaker 4: yesterday's franchise tag deadline doings and Yes. For us, the
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  Speaker 4: story is the ken Walker wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Tagged, but we expected that. We'll talk to our Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Insider Greg Bell about that and many other things coming
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  Speaker 4: up here in a matter of about a minute.
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  Speaker 5: And a half. So we do that every day at
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  Speaker 5: seven oh five. Good morning. It is Chuck, Buck and
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  Speaker 5: Ashley here on a hump day.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we've got a lot to discuss today, so let's
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  Speaker 4: rip through first and foremost your frost brewed cors like chews,
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  Speaker 4: chill headlines, Headline number one, biggest story of the day.
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  Speaker 4: I have a new breakfast bar I'm trying out this morning,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a nightmare for talk show hosts.
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  Speaker 5: Chia seeds. There's chia seeds everywhere. They're stuck in my teeth.
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  Speaker 5: Can't get them out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, oh no, yeah, I don't know chias seeds
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  Speaker 6: were bad.
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  Speaker 5: But no, they're not bad.
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  Speaker 4: They just they're bad for talking after eating.
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  Speaker 5: They're getting your teeth.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, let's take a look at your headlines. We
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  Speaker 4: will start with the franchise tag. Yes, Breese Hall, George
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  Speaker 4: Pickens and Daniel Jones along with Kyle Pitts from previously.
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  Speaker 4: We're all tagged in the process. Ken Walker and Trey
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  Speaker 4: Hendrickson were not. The NFL free agency tampering period will
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  Speaker 4: begin on Monday, so we are just four days away
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  Speaker 4: from Tamperfest twenty twenty six. Kyler Murray will be cut
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  Speaker 4: next week that according to reports, so no longer the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback of your Arizona Cardinals out there. Dre Dolman retired
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  Speaker 4: at age twenty seven from the Chicago Bears. That's the
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  Speaker 4: third Stanford Cardinal by my recollection that has done that
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  Speaker 4: in a decade. Just retired four or five years into
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  Speaker 4: his NFL career for no other reason but trying to
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  Speaker 4: preserve his health. NHL trading deadline is coming up on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Kraken and Blues are in action tonight at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Al Kiniski will join us today at nine thirty. Hoops,
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  Speaker 4: you dub back in action tonight at home against USC
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  Speaker 4: seven to three. Seven point thirty is the start time
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  Speaker 4: there and the WBC does get underway. I mean it's
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  Speaker 4: Australia and TYPEI they're starting now. The US will play
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  Speaker 4: another tune up game against the Colorado Rockies today at
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  Speaker 4: three o'clock. Meanwhile, the Mariners play this evening at six
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  Speaker 4: o'clock against the San Francisco Giants and Cactus League action.
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  Speaker 4: And don't forget that the GEESA State Tournament Finals will
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  Speaker 4: be held this weekend, so make sure you get to
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  Speaker 4: Tacoma take in some basketball.
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  Speaker 5: How much fun is that? I mean, I grew up
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  Speaker 5: on high school basketball for goodness sake. And the state tournament, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: that was like.
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  Speaker 4: Sports heaven for an eight year old from southwestern Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's talk some football with our Seahawks insider
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 7: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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  Speaker 7: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell, brought to
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  Speaker 7: you by Copola Diamond Collection Prosecco, Chris Sparkling with bright
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  Speaker 7: fruit flavors to make every toast shine bubbles only with
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  Speaker 7: Coppola Diamond Prosecco. Now with punk Man dudes, here's Greg
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  Speaker 7: Bell with Chuck and Bud.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Greg, Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: You played in the state finals, didn't you? In football?
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  Speaker 8: Twice in Ohio Stadium. Get thirty two thousand people in there,
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  Speaker 8: wild wow Wow. With the horseshoe. It was cool. Mike
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  Speaker 8: Ben and I are gonna be doing the play by
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  Speaker 8: player of the three A State semifinals on Friday on
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  Speaker 8: the nine fifty am. So Mike's doing the first game
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  Speaker 8: and I'm doing the second game.
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  Speaker 4: Nice, very good linebacker, right, Greg Bell is a linebacker.
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  Speaker 8: Defensive and oh craprecker, I think than fast enough.
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  Speaker 6: A crap wrecker, kind of like Aaron Donald.
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  Speaker 8: Quite Aaron do I was too slow to be a linebacker,
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  Speaker 8: So that suck me at the sense of.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Oh, okay, well we're going to have to race.
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  Speaker 4: I think now that you said, let's just see where
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  Speaker 4: we stand for the three of us. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if I can beat you. I'm just want to see
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  Speaker 4: where we stand.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You going for straight line distance? Yeah there a straight
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  Speaker 8: line speed, straight line forty year death speeds is very
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  Speaker 8: vital to their game. I know.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's talk about ken Walker first and foremost.
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  Speaker 4: He was not tagged yesterday. That's no surprise. Wait what
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  Speaker 4: what that is?
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  Speaker 8: We all said we were going to tag.
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  Speaker 4: What no surprise to any of us that have discussed it.
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  Speaker 4: But there was a suggestion that this means ken Walker
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  Speaker 4: is going to enter free agency. So uh, I would
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  Speaker 4: ask you, will the Seahawks and Ken Walker be able
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  Speaker 4: to pull off a deal before Monday hits.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's not impossible, and no one knows him better
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  Speaker 8: than they do, and he doesn't know any team better
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  Speaker 8: than the Seahawks obviously, so there's a They're not starting
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  Speaker 8: from zero like he would be with another team. But
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  Speaker 8: we talked about this last week, maybe his honey and
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  Speaker 8: show last week when the agents are in Indianapolis. Don't
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  Speaker 8: think that the agents only talk to the teams that
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  Speaker 8: the guys had been playing for in the last four years.
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  Speaker 8: I know there's tampering rules, but there's nothing to stop
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  Speaker 8: David Canter and his staff and walking around the combine
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  Speaker 8: and asking the Chiefs or the Broncos or the Eagles,
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  Speaker 8: or the Patriots or the Giants, what would it take
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  Speaker 8: the what would you sign my client for? Just saying hypothetically.
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  Speaker 8: So this was another step yesterday toward free agency, but
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  Speaker 8: it was when we knew was coming. They were never
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  Speaker 8: going to do this. It's not how he does business.
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  Speaker 8: We've talked about how it's only really been one time
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  Speaker 8: in sixteen years, and that was his very first months
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  Speaker 8: doing it with Lyndamar. And yeah, the other one was
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  Speaker 8: signing trade with Frank Clark. But it doesn't mean automatically.
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  Speaker 8: There are some fans who think, Okay, this means automatically
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  Speaker 8: there's no way down Seahawks can sign them. That's not true.
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  Speaker 8: They have. The hours are dwindling, but they have between
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  Speaker 8: now and essentially Monday. They have technically to Wednesday, when
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  Speaker 8: Wednesday is the opening of the league year, and that's
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  Speaker 8: when deals can officially be named. But we all know
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  Speaker 8: deals get done on starting on Monday, agreed to and
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  Speaker 8: then announced on Wednesday. Once we get the Mondays, when
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  Speaker 8: he's going to have the market open for him, and
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  Speaker 8: he's going to get multiple suitors, and he is by
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  Speaker 8: far the most attractive running back free agent, and he's
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  Speaker 8: still is we've mentioned only twenty five years old, and
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  Speaker 8: the fact he's still only twenty five I think it's
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  Speaker 8: going to drive his price up here, and that if
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  Speaker 8: the price is higher than the tag number of fourteen
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  Speaker 8: point five million, for sure he's gone, or even if
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  Speaker 8: it's close to it, because if the Seahawks are willing
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  Speaker 8: to offer him close to fourteen and a half million,
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  Speaker 8: they just would have tagged them, even though they never
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  Speaker 8: rarely do that so the Seahawks are obviously offering him
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  Speaker 8: something below fourteen million a year, or else they would
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  Speaker 8: have franchise tag him. So if he gets something approaching
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  Speaker 8: fourteen and the open market, which I think he will,
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  Speaker 8: he's gone. But if they can entice him to sign
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  Speaker 8: before he gets to developing market where the bidding will
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  Speaker 8: raise his price, then they have a chance. We've talked
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  Speaker 8: about the player's side of this, and why would once
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  Speaker 8: you get to this far, the eleventh and three fourth
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  Speaker 8: hour of your first time ever in free agency, you're
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  Speaker 8: probably going to go shop.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's probably going to go shop. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you know him better than most people do, just having
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  Speaker 6: covered him and talked to him personally. I mean, is
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  Speaker 6: there any part of him that you that you know
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  Speaker 6: that you would think if it's something where you're you're
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  Speaker 6: kind of in the same ballpark, right, I mean, these
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  Speaker 6: guys got to go make their money, especially running backs
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  Speaker 6: as you know, injury prone as that position Lens tends
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  Speaker 6: to be. But I mean, is there any part of
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  Speaker 6: him that you and you know in him personally that
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  Speaker 6: you think maybe if it was fourteen million somewhere else
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  Speaker 6: and the Seahawks were like now, we're thinking thirteen that
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  Speaker 6: he would possibly want to stick around just because of
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  Speaker 6: you know, you're a champion and you could possibly, you know,
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  Speaker 6: create a leg I can see here in Seattle versus
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  Speaker 6: going and chasing that little extra money.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I do, and I think he wants to stay.
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  Speaker 8: But I also know this, Bucky. He was not thrilled
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  Speaker 8: with how they used him last season. He was in
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  Speaker 8: a job shared during a contract year. Think about that.
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  Speaker 8: When you're trying to audition yourself for the max possible
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  Speaker 8: value deal you can get, you're getting taken off the
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  Speaker 8: field once the ball gets inside the twenty yard line.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Zach Charbonay had twelve touchdowns last year. He
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  Speaker 8: played sharbone, did a higher percentage of snaps than did
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  Speaker 8: Kenneth Walker until he got hurt. It was like forty
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  Speaker 8: six to forty two percentage of snaps for Charbonay most
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  Speaker 8: of the season. So here's Walker saying, ha, this is
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  Speaker 8: my year. I'm finally healthy through this foot and ankle injury.
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  Speaker 8: My goal is to play in every one of the
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  Speaker 8: seventeen games so I could show the league that I'm
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  Speaker 8: durable and I could make the most money I can.
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  Speaker 8: And as he's ready to do that. They say, well,
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna your reps and you're going to get fewer
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  Speaker 8: than fifty percent of the carries in our offense. In fact,
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  Speaker 8: you're going to run between the twenties and when we
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  Speaker 8: get to the twenty you're coming off. You could see
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  Speaker 8: from the press box the steam coming out of his ears.
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  Speaker 8: At times he was coming onto the sideline and the
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  Speaker 8: ball get into the red zone. He was not thrilled
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  Speaker 8: with that, and that's in the back of his mind.
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  Speaker 8: Hey guys, well you did me. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 8: you did me. Here my contract year if I want
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  Speaker 8: to do that again. I didn't appreciate that. This is
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  Speaker 8: a very selfish perspective. But we're in a selfish time
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  Speaker 8: of year. He trying to make the most money he can.
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  Speaker 8: Now now, he played good soldier. He didn't rock the boat.
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  Speaker 8: He said he was all for it during the season.
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  Speaker 8: But I can tell you with the surety that that
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  Speaker 8: was not how he wanted his contract year to go to.
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  Speaker 8: Being a job share, Greg, We're we're about to find
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  Speaker 8: out how much the effect of that is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Inside, of course, a full coverage of the Seahawks twenty
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  Speaker 4: four to seven there at the News Tribune dot com
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  Speaker 4: and you can follow him on x at g Bell.
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  Speaker 4: Seattle joins us year nearly every day at seven oh
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  Speaker 4: five to update us on everything that he is hearing
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  Speaker 4: in regards to the Seattle Seahawks. The other big name
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  Speaker 4: that was mentioned yesterday alongside Ken Walker all day long
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  Speaker 4: in NFL coverage was Trey Hendrickson. Finally, the Cincinnati Bengals
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  Speaker 4: just accepted he doesn't want to be here. We're not
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  Speaker 4: going to go through all of this drama again, and
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  Speaker 4: so they let him go. I mean there's talk we
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  Speaker 4: talked about it yesterday of getting Max Crosby here in
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  Speaker 4: a trade that the Seahawks are interested. They've got cap space.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can get a Hendrickson who did not
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  Speaker 4: have a great year last year, but his ear removed
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  Speaker 4: from being an NFL sack leader. You could get him
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  Speaker 4: without giving up trade compensation. How much interest do you
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  Speaker 4: think the Seahawks have in adding a Trey Hendrickson if
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  Speaker 4: they were interested in adding Max Crosby.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, John Schnyder's gonna call and he's going to see
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  Speaker 8: what the price is going to be. The thing that
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  Speaker 8: would make it more checkive than trading for sake Crosby
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  Speaker 8: is as you mentioned, you wouldn't have to give up anything,
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  Speaker 8: and they don't have a lot of draft capital, So
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  Speaker 8: if you've traded for Henrickson or Crosby, it won't be
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  Speaker 8: Hendrickson now that he's free agent. But if you say
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  Speaker 8: it for Crosby, you're going to have to lose a starter.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you don't have the draft capital to get
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  Speaker 8: a guy like that, so there would be less of
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  Speaker 8: an upfront cost to Hendrickson. And if you can get
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  Speaker 8: a multi year deal, the hammered out with them, but
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  Speaker 8: you would or else why would he sign a one
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  Speaker 8: year deal in free agency? So you get a multi
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  Speaker 8: year deal done, then you can structure it the way
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  Speaker 8: the Seahawks always do, which is guaranteed money upfront and
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  Speaker 8: the salary cap money spread and bonuses do later and
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  Speaker 8: all of that and you opportunity to restructure down the road.
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  Speaker 8: That's a much more attractive way to do it than
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  Speaker 8: to inherit somebody else's contract. That Obviously, in the carser case,
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  Speaker 8: the Raiders may be want to get rid of so yes,
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  Speaker 8: but the Seahawks won't be the only one calling about
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  Speaker 8: Terry Henderson and that's why his prices skyrocket too. And
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  Speaker 8: we know from experience that John Schneider is relatively conservative
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  Speaker 8: and free agency. He doesn't join the bidding Frey and
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  Speaker 8: the most popular first wave free agents. And I've talked
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  Speaker 8: about the one time I can think of in the
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  Speaker 8: last decade he did Draymond Jones blew up in his
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  Speaker 8: face and he was months into that deal going why
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  Speaker 8: did I pay fifty one million dollars for this guy?
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  Speaker 8: So chances are no, but he will definitely make a call.
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  Speaker 8: There is a Kevin Thibodeau is rumored to be on
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  Speaker 8: the shopping block and the Giants are shopping him. But Thibodeau,
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  Speaker 8: to me, while young, twenty five, very athletic, huge a
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  Speaker 8: form of Oregon duck, he represents a huge risk. He's
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  Speaker 8: in the last year of his contract, which the Seahawks
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  Speaker 8: would not want to take on. The Giants gave him
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  Speaker 8: a fifty year option for fourteen and a half million.
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  Speaker 8: That's a first round pick. So he's playing this year
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  Speaker 8: on a fifty year option. And most importantly, he's been
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  Speaker 8: on injured reserve in each of the last three years.
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  Speaker 8: Why it sounds to me that's and you're inheriting somebody
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  Speaker 8: else's problem for fourteen and a half million dollars. So
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  Speaker 8: I don't think he would go that route either. He's
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  Speaker 8: much more conservative this time next week, everyone's going to
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  Speaker 8: be ticked off that Seahawks are letting everybody go by
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  Speaker 8: the boards and the top guys are signing elsewhere and
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  Speaker 8: they lost Walker. What the hell's John Snyder doing? I
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  Speaker 8: will say this, Josh Schneider is the only general manager
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  Speaker 8: to will win two Super Bowls with two different regimes,
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  Speaker 8: two different head coaches, two different players, two different quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 8: The guy might know what he's doing, if there's ever
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  Speaker 8: a chance, if ever i's ever a time to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: we're just going to trust that he might know what
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  Speaker 8: he's doing. He has a plan. Maybe it's right after
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  Speaker 8: he won his second Super Bowl. I don't think we
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  Speaker 8: need to be ripping John Schneider if he loses Kenneth
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  Speaker 8: Walker and doesn't sign Trey Anderson.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yesterday we talked about Rashid Shaheed and you kind
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  Speaker 6: of mentioning that, do you think that's a priority. Later
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  Speaker 6: on in our show, Chuck kind of ran us through
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of a drill where we were looking
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  Speaker 6: at some other wide receivers possible, and there's some guys
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  Speaker 6: out there that are projected to be less expensive than
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  Speaker 6: Rashid Shahed. I mean, if if his bow track number
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  Speaker 6: is close where he's up there, around fourteen million dollars, would.
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  Speaker 8: You I just don't see I don't see it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see it either. And yet those same numbers
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  Speaker 6: for other receivers. There's guys that you know possibly could
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  Speaker 6: do the same things that he does. I mean, you
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  Speaker 6: might even have a guy in Tory Horton if he
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  Speaker 6: comes back and he's healthy, that is just as good
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  Speaker 6: and does the very similar things. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 6: see them possibly be out there kind of shopping around
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  Speaker 6: for something they might think is a little bit less
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  Speaker 6: expensive considering the other money they're gonna throw at Jackson
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  Speaker 6: Smith and Jigbuan, guys like Devin withersmen.
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  Speaker 8: If they lose Shaheed, Yes, they will be in the
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  Speaker 8: market for a second wave, maybe even third wave free
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  Speaker 8: agent wide receiver. I'm talking mid to late March, not
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  Speaker 8: top shelf, top money, because otherwise you just signed the Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: his value to them is far more in the kick
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  Speaker 8: return game than wide receiver. They do think they have
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  Speaker 8: Tory Horton to be their golf take the top off
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  Speaker 8: a defense wide receiver. They do think Tory Horton is
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  Speaker 8: going to be back in time for training camp. They
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  Speaker 8: do think they've got three very productive years with a
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  Speaker 8: guy they really love in Tory Horton. They think Horton
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  Speaker 8: fits the locker room culture. Mike McDonald has set quality
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  Speaker 8: individuals from a great family background, as siblings are all
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  Speaker 8: Division one athletes, volleyball mostly UTEP and well play it
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  Speaker 8: and sisters play in Europe and volleyball professionally. Raving about
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  Speaker 8: him as a guy, and we talked about how John
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  Speaker 8: Schneider has tried to get back to more good human
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  Speaker 8: beings as it picks for culture purposes. The risk of
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: signing free agents is that you don't know how they're
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: going to fit this brotherhood and culture that they really
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: perfected this Super Bowl run season. And especially if you're
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: paying adopt dollar for guys who don't know how the
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: culture exactly is going to fit. You're bringing in somebody
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: else's a guy who was raised in another culture. That's
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: why they go conservative. That's why they'd rather draft and
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: signed top free agents. They'd rather mold their own dudes
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: instead of bringing in somebody else's dudes have got to
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: let go for whatever reason that in a nutshell and
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: simplistic terms as John Schneider's Seahawk approach, it's worked, and
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: they've got a coach that they think can absolutely mold
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: that culture and maintain it even when they lose guys
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: and in Hortant, they think they got a guy who
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: fits the culture. Shaheed, they definitely think they have a
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: guy who fits their culture. I'm still gonna be surprised
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: that if Shhed's not a Seahawk this time next week.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Greg mal Our, Seahawks insider, joining us here on this
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: hump day, great stuff as always, we do appreciate it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: And yeah, way to go, way to fall asleep on
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: that old Ken Walker story.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Man. Yeah, it was breaking news on ESPN yesterday. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: mean comfort presses. They were so ignorant about the chuckle.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: What's breaking news anymore?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I love when there's a breaking news story that just
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: deals with probabilities.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Breaking news.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: You know, running back X is probably less likely to
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: sign with Team Y.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: When I first got into journalism, you weren't supposed to
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: suppose you were supposed to report when you knew, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: now we just throw stuff out there that maybe this
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: will happen. Well, this might happen too.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Walker is probably less likely to probably sign with
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks necessarily. Maybe maybe all right, Greg will talk
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: to you tomorrow.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: It's like the adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: If you've seen this, Oh yeah, I love to Bucky.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Please tell me you know Schoolhouse Rock?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, oh good good. He's not just all right, Greg,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Very simple, key.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I wonder if complicated as with your stupid agent.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder if they do it the way I did,
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Like in junior high when I was asking a girl out,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: like with a note right and passageur in the hallway,
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: folded up really cool, by the way, and then will
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: you be my girlfriend? Or will you go with me?
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: And then check yes or no? And the yes box
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: was significantly bigger than the no box. The no box
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: was just tight. You couldn't even really fit a pin.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah you did, so you just I don't know. I mean,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I think it's the way to go if you're trying
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: to get somebody to sign. Make the yes box much bigger.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had a few years of dating experience. I'd
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: be a lot slicker as a third grader now.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: If I if I had.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: To do it all over again, then what you know?
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Now I'd be like check yes or yes, check yes
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: or yes, yeah of course.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Yes or yes.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: I would like to hope that my game would be
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: better now than it was back then. Yeah, I would
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: hope because the first time asked a girl out, I said, hey,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: will you go with me?
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: And she went where?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Never mind? I just turned and walked away.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: I asked my parents if I could go with someone,
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: and they're like, where to. I was like, I don't
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: like McDonald's.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Well you might have had a you know, communication, like
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: a cultural.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot that they didn't understand.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, gat the bridge.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Then they told me I could go with someone, but
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: then there wasn't anyone that wanted to go with me.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: That problem. Oh geez, I don't believe.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: It didn't help that the kid I had a crush
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: on liked boys.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Oh well, yeah, I was so close.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: We're such good friends.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And he was like, correct, So I guess that was
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: a check. No, that was a check.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: No.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, at least there are reasons.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good reason.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: What about you?
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Not you?
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: It's him, that's true.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: That's true. I did have that going for me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Well anyway, yeah, I would.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I think I would have been a lot more confident
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the third grader, because you were just terrified. You're just
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: terrified of rejection in the third grade, for goodness sake, fifth.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Grade, I don't even know if I was all that terrified.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I was really used to it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Uh so, I mean I was comfortable in my rejected skin. Yeah,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: but I just kept shooting my shot.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Well, well, good, good for you. It worked out of it. Actually. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Well, well we're going to play check yes or no
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: with a free agency right now. We did this yesterday.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it, So it's back again today. And I'm
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: not going to go to any position group here. I mean,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: we could go to a cornerback preview, but I don't know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I think that gets bogged down a little bit trying
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: to explain to you some of these free agents that
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: are out there. So this is an exercise of if
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: John gets to step outside of the community of Seahawks
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: players and he's got the money to sign one big
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: free agent on the market, you know, marrying player quality
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: with whole that you might address on your roster, do
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: you check yes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Or no on this given player?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: All right, So well we'll do a variety of positions,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: but really the top guy arguably at each.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Of those positions. So let's start with Trey Hendrickson.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Walker made news yesterday by not getting tagged even though
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: we knew it. Trey Hendrickson made news yesterday by not
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: getting tagged by the Cincinnati Bengals. Thank goodness, I could
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: not deal with another year of Trey Hendrickson drama in
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: my life. And so he is now a free agent,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: a thirty one year old free agent who according to spotrack,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: and again I don't know how accurate they are, but
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I got to use something as a point of reference
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: here for our conversations, they're putting his market value at
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: twenty five million dollars per year. He is coming off
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: an injury riddled season in which he was angry all
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: season long. So how much that contributed to his seven game,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: four sack performance, I don't know. But the previous two years,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: we're talking about back to back seventeen and a half
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: sacked season. So that's twenty three and twenty four. It's
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: not that long ago. That's not ancient history. One that
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: long ago. He was in the conversation for best pass
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: rusher in the league not named Miles Garrett. So we
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: are talking about somebody that's had one heck of a career.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: He's going to ask for one heck of an annual
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: per year salary. But he plays that coveted edge position.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: And if you're the.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl champs and you've got some money to spend
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and you get to spend it on something that you
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: know fun, do you check yes or no on Trey Hendrickson.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, all things considered, Yeah, I mean this basically
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: goes towards yesterday when we were talking about like if
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: you can add to what is already a devastating defense
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: and add somebody that can kind of is just really
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: really good to getting after the passer.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I mean to throw last year out.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: He was angry, he was hurt, his numbers weren't there,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: but the previous like five years, he was averaging like
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: a sack of game. I mean, that's that's game changing production, right,
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: because for every sack, you got to figure there's a
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: couple other times that he's making a quarterback rush into
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: a decision, whether it's throwing an interception or throwing it
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: away and punting the ball. So, I mean that's a
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: guy that if I'm sitting there thinking, Okay, if I
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: just had a giant chunk of change, a bag of
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: money that I get to give to somebody, twenty five
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: million bucks is a lot for a guy that's over thirty.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, I do think that this
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: guy's somebody could come in and be a difference maker
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: and make something already a strength.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: You just make it absolutely terrifying.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say check yes, yes, or checking yes. Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: I just think any opportunity you have to make this
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: very excellent defense excellenter.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: No, excellenter today yep, yesterday was awesomer.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, excellent, Go you do it. And I think that
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: somebody like Trey Hendrickson could absolutely make us the excellentist.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very well could.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I want to be fantastic this year. That's
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: We talk about how hard it is to repeat as
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Super Bowl champions, So here you go.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: You got to make some big moves to try to
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: make that happen.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, you do have the cap space. I mean,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: this is where you know, life's pretty good. I get
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: to go shopping and I don't have to shop for
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: what I need. I get to shop for what I
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: want and I got money to spend. Man, that's a
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: great position to be in. And if they're really kicking
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the tires on a Max Crosby trade, I mean, yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: there's a year and a half difference there. But Hendrickson's
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: coming off a year where he mostly rested versus Max
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Crosby coming off a year where he got really banged up.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know if from a mileage standpoint, there's much
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: of a difference there. I do believe Crosby's the better player,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: But is he so much better that you would pay
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: five million dollars more for him annually and give up
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: two future first round picks theoretically for him?
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Why go through all of that?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Why not get the slightly less proven edge rusher, pro
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: bowler and not have to give up any trade compensation
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: for him, just money at twenty five million, I'm checking
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: yes on Trey Hendrickson as well well.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: And you think about this, If you have the most
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: excellentist defense in the entire galaxy, you don't even to
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: worry about who's at running back because your defense will
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: just take care of everything. So you could play negative points, Yeah, exactly,
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: with negative points.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: You could play offense with ten guys.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: You're okay, Yeah, yeah, it's true.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I mean Michael Dixon punts down inside the five, Trey
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Henderson sacks for two points.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Offense doesn't even have to do it. I have to
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: have a running back.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean you have potential to.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Be galaxier and that is the ultimate goal.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: All right, let's move on to the next one.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: We all we all liked the idea in theory of
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Trey Hendrickson. Nashan Wright was a cornerback out of Chicago.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Spoke Track again has him ranked as the number one
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: cornerback prospect that's getting ready to hit the free agent market.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: He was one of many Bears and their breakthrough season
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: who had a breakthrough individual season at age twenty seven.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: This is somebody that they're projecting might make sixteen and
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: a half million dollars per year on the free agent market. Well,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks currently have two cornerbacks hitting the free agent market,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Josh Job at nine and a half Greek Woolan at eight.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: So this is where you could play the game of
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: trying to get one or both of those guys back,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: or you just cut out the middleman. We're not going
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: to end up getting in bidding wars. We've got the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: money to spend. Let's just get the top guy on
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: the market at cornerback, lock him up, and now we
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: don't sweat whether or not we can have to bring
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: back job and or woolen Jack.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Yes or no.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean he definitely showed out last year and
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: he's going to get paid because of it. I mean,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: you know, we talk about how important we think clubhouses.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: Do you really want to bring a rodent into it?
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: You let an Oregon State beaver infiltrate your locker room.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: You know they could bring a losing could be a
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: losing mentality you're bringing in there. So no, I mean
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: all seriousness, I think that the idea of securing your secondary,
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I mean the secondary is kind of feels like it's
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: maybe not legion a boom. I don't think we have
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: have to compare that. It's its own thing whatever they
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: want to call it, the dark side, the entire defense,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: and there was at times where you had a little
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: bit of a weakness on the outside. I wouldn't be
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: surprised one bit if they went out there and tried
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: to lock up a guy like that. On the free
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: agent market, they don't typically go after the biggest dudes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: They don't want to get into bidding wars. True in
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: free agency.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: This is a guy that you know, really hasn't done
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: a ton except for last year, and so do you
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: really want to get into a bidding war with a
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: guy that won an Oregon State Beaver that has one year,
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: one good year under his belt.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go ahead and check no on that one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: Dog well, and I actually I'm also going to check
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: no because you know, Mike McDonald knows what he wants
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: and knows what he needs on his defense, and this
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: guy could fit. But we also know that Josh Job
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: fits and he's a lot, a lot less expensive.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: So I think that they go try to re sign
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Josh Job and you're good.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. I checked no on this as well
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: for points that both of you made. Yeah, they're not
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: an early and free agency type of franchise. And the
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: only he's an un checking yes on Trey Hendrickson is
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: because they're kicking the tires rumor has it on Max Crosby. Well,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: maybe there's a better alternative there to get nearly as
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: good a player without giving up the draft picks and
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: as high a salary. So that's why I check yes
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: on Trey Hendrickson because it sounds like they're already thinking
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: about adding a twenty five million dollars per year pass rusher.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: But I just think maybe you're too good at identifying
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: corners defensive backs coaching them up first Pete now Coach McDonald,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I think you're too good at it, and I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: you do just bring back Josh Job for nearly half
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: the price. Rieke Woolan, I do believe somebody out there
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: is going to value him more than the Seahawks. They
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: think they'll be able to unlock that athletic ability. So
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I let him walk. But I think that Josh Job
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: will be more valuable to the Seahawks than he is
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: to anybody else. Yeah, I think they're going to say
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to themselves, we know he's a good player, and we're
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: gonna bring him back at half the rate it would
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: take to get the top cornerback on the market. All right,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: let's go to the next one, right guard, right. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: mean a lot of improvement on the offensive line, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: yet everybody still had a problem all year along with
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Anthony Bradford. He did seem to get better. At year's end.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: We weren't hearing as much squawking about Anthony Bradford by
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: the time playoffs ran around, as run around as we
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: did at the beginning of the year. But if you've
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: got a little extra money to spend again, you're drafting
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: what you want here, not what you need. You know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: why not spend thirteen million dollars on Elijah Vera Tucker,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: the guard from the New York Jets, who was a
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: former first round pick that I'm sure John Schneider liked
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: and didn't have an opportunity to draft once upon a time.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: He's still just twenty six years old. He's been one
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: of the better.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Jets the last five years. He's going to cost you
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: about thirteen million dollars. But now you've really completed your
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: offensive line. Where's the whole the offensive line? If you
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: had Elijah beat Tucker at thirteen million dollars per year, Bucky,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: you're checking yes or no.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: This is probably the place. This team, you know, winning
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: the Super Bowl doesn't have a ton of holes. If
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: you have some guys leave ken Walker and other things,
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: you're obviously gonna have to fill some holes. There's gonna
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: be some openings that come up there. But this is
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: the one that at the end of the season, even
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: though Bradford was better, it's still I don't know who
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: it was on Twitter that I was watching. But basically
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: every week he would break down film of Bradshaw and
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: there would be a play where he would end up.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: He would end up, you know, pancaking a guy or
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: you know, getting in on a double team and just
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: pushing somebody six yards downfield. And then the next one
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: he would just be like turning in a circle like
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: no one is like touching him, He's not blocking anyone.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: He just tipped over one time, just fell over. I mean,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: I get it, I'm fifty, that'll happen to me. But
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: I would think that if I was in my prime
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: as an NFL player, I wouldn't just tip over when
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: no one touches me. So this is the position I
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: would probably upgrade more. And so yeah, I'm all for
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: going out there, and if you got money to spend,
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: done what you want. This is the place I think
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: you would want to upgrade more than just about anything.
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: I would say yes, because you know, former USC Trojans
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: do pretty well on the Seahawks.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Team, better than Rodents. That's a good point.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you're not having a real good news cycle
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: No, But it's the no the ones that that went
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: to school when I was still proud of my school.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Oh okay those ones?
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and uh so.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: And then also I watched him on that home team
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: New York Jets on Amazon Prime. Really like him.
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: It seems like a good guy, seems like an easy
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: guy to get along with. And again we are we
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: can't mess with this locker room kind of send thing
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: we've got going on.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: So you need to bring in people that are gonna
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: just slide on him.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's a good player. Yes, I don't
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: think there's any way that John would do this one.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just don't know if a Tiger changes
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: the stripes that much. He invested the first round pick,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: He's got money invested in this both as tackles right now,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and I think that they do like Whether or not
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: people out there do like him, I think they do
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: like Anthony Bradford at right cards. So I'm gonna check no,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: not because I don't see hear the merits to what
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: you're saying, or don't understand the merits to what you're saying.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: And I do think he's a good player that would
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: fit well on this team. I just I'm not going
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: to add a thirteen million dollar player to my interior
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: offensive line, not when it's not a major weakness like
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: it was a year ago at this time. All right,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: final one check yes or no on this one. Just
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: do nothing big, nothing outside the community. Use your cap
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: space that you have this year to bring back as
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: many of your own as you can, and use this
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: offseason while you've got the space to extend your own
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and make JSN and spoon happy right now, so you
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: don't have to worry about this a year from now
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: and then nickel and dime your way through free agency
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: to fill in the cracks because you'll still have some
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: money left over and you can manipulate your cap space.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: So don't do anything of significance, b John, and just
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: ride the second, maybe even third wave of free agency
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: and just do your due diligence to bring in as
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: many of your free agents back into the fold as
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: you possibly can.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Well, I think this is probably the box that's going
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: to get checked, really, to be honest, and who am
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: I to doubt John Schneider. I mean, you know, Greg
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: Bell was talking earlier today and it's been mentioned multiple
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: times that he's the only person to ever win two
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: Super Bowls with an entirely different team and regime and
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: the entire everything.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: From top to bottom.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: So to me, it's he's probably leaning more in that
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: into this category of like, I'm not going to make
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: any of the splash. I'll let other people go spend
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: big money on one person that could get hurt during
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: training camp or you know, all of a sudden, it
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: goes by the wayside. Whereas if you disperse that across
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: a bunch of people, especially when you start talking about
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: like a job, for example, but beyond the for sures
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: of the JSA and and the Witherspoon the superstars, but
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: you start spreading it across other people that already understand
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: what it is to be a Mike McDonald seahawk. That
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: you know, we heard it himself and Hughes explained many
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: times how his second year is when all of a
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: sudden the defense starts taking off. Well, that's because of
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the complexity in which he runs the system. If you
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: can get an or an experienced Josh Job that maybe
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: is less than athletically or gifted wise than some of
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: these high priced cornerbacks, but he already knows the system
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: that's worth, that's the worth, it's weight in something maybe
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: not gold but it's worth its weight in some sort
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: of precious metal. So to me, I'm with you this.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: I think this is one that I would check. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: I think it's the box that John's gonna check.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Ashley, I would check.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: No.
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: Oh, because you know, Asney as nice as the idea
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: is that like, let's get the whole team, gether, we're
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: gonna run it back. I mean, we talk over and
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: over about how hard it is to repeat as a
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: super Bowl champion. You can't just expect that you can
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: do the exact same thing, and teams aren't going to
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: be more prepared for you. And so I think you
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: have to at least make one move to say, yeah,
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: we recognize how hard it is that to try to
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: do what we did or to try to do what
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: we want to do. So we're going to even add more.
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: We're going to make ourselves scarier to you so that
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: it's harder for you to prepare for us and bring
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: on that second super Bowl. So yeah, you got to
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: make one move check.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: No, all right? All right?
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean yeah, and even if you do try
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: to bring all the guys back, you're not going to
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: bring them all back. So that's going to create some
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: sort of hole out there. I'm a check yes though
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: on this, I think that they're in really good position.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: I don't think they need to overextend themselves.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: I would like to spend this offseason making sure that
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: JSN and Weatherspoon are happy extended. And again, you can
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: manipulate the numbers so that doesn't impact you greatly for
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: this upcoming year. And I could still leave you the
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: space for Ashley to spend you know, Jody Allen's money
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: this offseason. That's fine. You still have the space, you
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: might as well spend it. But I'd be okay with this.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I'd be okay if they just do typical John Schneider.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Stuff this offseason and don't.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Really extend themselves on a big free agent edition this year.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Coming up next on the program, we're going to be
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: joined by who is considered to be the greatest infield
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: coach in the history of baseball stop it. Perry Hill
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: is next on kJ R. My Good Morning, It is
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Chucking buck here on a Wednesday. Our spring training coverage
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: was a couple of weeks ago, award winning, some people say,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: and yet we didn't get to chat with everybody we
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: wanted to talk to while we were down in Peoria,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: including our next guest, so it's great to catch up
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: with him now. Of course, on the coaching staff, the
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: infield coach of our dreams, he is considered widely the best.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: To do it in the business. The bone himself, Perry
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Hill is with us here on Chuck and Buck.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Good morning, sir, Lauren Chucking Buck.
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: How are you?
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: We're doing all right?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: How are I don't mean to embarrass you that way,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: but every player that we have on comes on and
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: says the exact same thing. Even newcomers like Brendan Donovan
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: told us this year, the opportunity to be coached by
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: the best infield coach in the world, I couldn't pass
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: up on that, So your reputation precedes you. I'm sorry
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: if that embarrasses you, Perry Well.
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: I'll say that did players make coaches look good? How's that?
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: Well yeah, but good great coaches turn good players into
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: great ones. So if you had, if you had to
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: have a room, or if you if you've got a
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: replica for every gold glove you've helped someone get, you'd
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: have to buy a bigger house.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: You're too kind, But I actually before we get into this.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Just one real quick thing.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Yesterday here I was two days ago, had my first
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: eight to nine U baseball practice for the little kids.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: So first thing, first thing that I need to be
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: working with these kids on ground balls.
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: What is it, I think, Uh, getting them to spread
• 40:22
  Speaker 11: their legs out wider. A lot of kids have their
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: feet so narrow that they can't get their glove in
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: front of their body. And I think that's why a
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: lot of them, you know, get a little bitty hot
• 40:35
  Speaker 11: at the end and it'll hit them on the wrist
• 40:37
  Speaker 11: or something. And so to alleviate that, I mean, it's
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: just this little small adjustment of trying to get their
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: feet wider than their shoulders, two or three inches wider
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: than their shoulders, and they'll give them a whole lot
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: better vision, and in turn, it'll take the fear away
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: of the ball, all right.
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: Got it?
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Was Brendan Donovan afraid of the ball when he got
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: to you?
• 41:02
  Speaker 11: He's not afraid of anything.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I don't think he is either. What's it been like
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: working with him?
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I mean he expressed us, Now granted this was before
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: camp officially began, but he expressed us like, yeah, you know,
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: I never really played third base on an everyday basis,
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: and so you know, I got some things to polish up.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: So how is he doing in his progress working with you?
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: He's done great. He's got tremendous work ethic. He's a sponge.
• 41:30
  Speaker 11: He wants to know everything. Even when we're done with
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: our ground ball routine that we do every day, he
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: wants to go to a side field by himself and
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: get more work. So he's really applied himself to the instruction,
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: to his suggestions, and his work ethic combined with that
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: has just made him a pleasure to work with, and
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: he's starting to get very comfortable at third base.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: Perry, when we talked to him early right we were
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: there right when basically all the position players were showing up,
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: and when we had him on, he was very happy
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: about the fact that when he was excited about meeting
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: you and working with you and learning from you, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: he but he was happy that it wasn't some drastic overall.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: The first thing you said to him wasn't well, that's crappy,
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: We're gonna have to scrap everything you know and and
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: start all the way over.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: He was saying, it sounded more like what.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: You guys be working with, was you know, tinkering a
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: couple of little things here and there? What in particular,
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: was there one thing that you just noticed that like, Okay,
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: that's a that's a habit that you might have gotten
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: from playing more second base at third base, we're gonna
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: have to make sure we do this, Or was there
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: anything in particular that you were going to make sure
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: that he was figuring out before spring's over.
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: Well, but the first thing I do is I just
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: watched the player for a couple of days. It's really
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: not fair to meet somebody the first day after you
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: trade for him and try.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: To overhaul them.
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: Then the players thinking what would you trade for me
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: for if I couldn't do anything right? So I so
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: I watched a couple of a couple of days, and
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: then there's just a few suggestions about maybe footwork, consistent footwork.
• 43:14
  Speaker 11: It's going to be a longer throw for him than
• 43:16
  Speaker 11: it was at second base, obviously, and the key to
• 43:21
  Speaker 11: that is big consistent footwork, because you throw with your legs.
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: If you use your legs, your arm's gonna be a
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: whole lot better. And so we just have been stressing
• 43:31
  Speaker 11: the footwork and making it consistent.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Perry Hill is with us infield coach for your Seattle
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Mariners JP Crawford. I mean, he's obviously been a fixture
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: at shortstop for this team, but all the analytics people,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: all the metric people, they question his range. What do
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: you say to those that question JP's defense and whether
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: or not it's on the decline.
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: I don't know if you've ever heard me talk about
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: the box. I talk about the box a lot, and
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: that's that's Many acted does a great job of positioning
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: the guys, and so where Many puts them, then we visually,
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: I visually draw a box, you know, like four steps
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: to your left, five steps to your left, four or
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: five steps to your right, you know, six or seven
• 44:26
  Speaker 11: steps in when I connect it make a box. We think,
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: because where Manny's putting them, that the ball is going
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: to be hit somewhere in that box. If you make
• 44:35
  Speaker 11: those plays in that box, the starting pitcher will throw
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: left pitches. He'll get to stay in the game longer.
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: You don't touch your bullpen, the game flows a lot quicker,
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: and you get to twenty seven outs a lot quicker.
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: So I know what the analytics say, and and analytics
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: are important but also is making the bald that fit
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: in that box, making it and out every time is
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: valuable in my opinion, and JP does that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: I'm one hundred percent with you on that one.
• 45:12
  Speaker 10: Perry.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: When it comes to his battery mate, if you will
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: up the middle, I mean Cole Young. We don't know
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: for sure that that's who's going to be playing second base,
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: but I think probably has the pole position at this point.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: Last year gets his first cup of coffee, his first
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: taste of the big leagues. What did you like about
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: him that he brings to the table defensively and what
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: are the things that a youngster like that you need
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: to work on.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: He's very coachable, He listens, he applies things. I think
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: he got a little tired in the last year. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: didn't know what he knew what to expect. You know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 11: he's never played a one hundred and sixty two game
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: full schedule, and he came to spring training really prepared.
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: This year. He's taking really good care of his body
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: over the winner, and he's coming to the camp a
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: lot strong, younger, and I think he's has done the
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: things he needed to do to do. The group in
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: the hudred and sixty two game schedule. He's got tremendous talent.
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: I mean, he was a number one pick, so he's
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: going to be fine. I just think last year kind
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: of surprised him in some cases.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Perry Hill, our guest here on Chucking Buck in the Mornings,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: I got to get your thoughts on Josh Naylor.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: What surprised you more?
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: How good he was defensively at first base when he
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: has he arrived, or how just impressive his shoe and
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: belt game is Perry.
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: Well, if you've never seen my shoe game, that's not
• 46:42
  Speaker 11: a strong points. He's quite the flashy dresser, let's put
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: it that way. But my relationship with Josh is goes
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: back a long way. It was only for a day
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: or two, but he was the number one pick for
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: the Marlins when I was in Miami, and so you know,
• 47:02
  Speaker 11: the number one pick comes into town, and you know
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: they take batting practice and you know, fool around the ballpark.
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: And and so I met him way back when, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: so I knew he was just as intense then as
• 47:15
  Speaker 11: he is now. It's not more so. So I've known
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: Josh a long time, and I will say this, he
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: is actually a student of the game. He studies everything,
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: and he never gets surprised. He might, he's a very
• 47:32
  Speaker 11: prepared player, and his death is he's been fine. He's
• 47:38
  Speaker 11: uh in a stolen bases. I mean, so I think
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: surprised everybody, including myself. Yeah, you know, I figure, you know,
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: the guy like that will sneak in, you know, five
• 47:48
  Speaker 11: or six a year, but geez, he just kept running
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: and he was always.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Safe, always safe. Yeah, thirty bags, that'll do.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: I mean for Perry, for guy like you that's been
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: around and seeing so many ballplayers at the highest level.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, when it comes to Nail, he's a guy
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: that I was wanting the Mariners to go out and
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: get for a couple of years, and he did not
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: disappoint because of the that kind of intensity that you're
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: talking about, but it's also an educated intensity. I mean,
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: is he is he abnormal from even all of the
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: guys that you've got to watch over the decades that
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: you've been in professional baseball when it comes to that, well, I've.
• 48:25
  Speaker 11: Been around a lot of really smart players who study
• 48:28
  Speaker 11: the game. But you know what I like about Josh
• 48:32
  Speaker 11: is that when the game is going on and he's
• 48:37
  Speaker 11: a few hitters away from going to the plate. You
• 48:40
  Speaker 11: can see him talking to the younger players and pointing
• 48:43
  Speaker 11: out things with the picture what he does or how
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: he does it, or you know, maybe he picked up
• 48:51
  Speaker 11: something in their motion. He's always looking and then always
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: trying to help the younger players. And you know, you
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: don't get a lot of players that are for us
• 49:00
  Speaker 11: like he is. He's a tremendous student of the game.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Perry Hill as our guest, before we let you go,
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: which of the kids has caught your eye?
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Who can you give us?
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Give us a little snitch on some of these prospects
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: that are buzzing around camp. Who's somebody that you have
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: been really impressed with?
• 49:22
  Speaker 11: Well, I like all my guys, so it would be
• 49:25
  Speaker 11: a long list.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: Okay, I have to list them all. All right, Well
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: I'll cut you off.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Then we might not have time to list them all.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: But all right, are you Are you already missing cal
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: from camp? Are some of these guys that left for
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: the WBC?
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: Do you miss them already?
• 49:43
  Speaker 10: Well?
• 49:44
  Speaker 11: I think we have the most players represented it in
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: the WBC than any other team. I believe that this
• 49:49
  Speaker 11: is correct. Yeah, but yeah, it's I mean, the ground
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: bow routine is it goes by quicker because we have
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: less players. Biting practice. This goes by quicker because we
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: have less players. So yes, I missed them because I
• 50:05
  Speaker 11: like to be out on the field.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah you get How long would you practice if you
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: were allowed, if Dan just let you run the practice,
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: how long would you go?
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: Well, if the players wouldn't revolt, I'd be out there
• 50:21
  Speaker 11: five six hours. How's that?
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 50:25
  Speaker 11: Just just ten more rounds?
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: Boys? Stop it?
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, they always get they always they always get
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: on me about one more, one more, one more? When
• 50:37
  Speaker 11: is one more in?
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: After one more?
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: One more?
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Well, great to have you on. Thank you very much,
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: have a great year, and we'll talk to you soon.
• 50:48
  Speaker 11: All right, thanks for having me on. Fellas.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: All right, there he is Perry Hill and Field coach
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: to the stars, joining us here on Chuck and Buck.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: Dude knows the stuff, Yeah he does. I mean it's
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's something.
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: You typically are going to have some egos, right, and
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: guys that have already gotten to the big leagues, they
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: they're going to have one they've got there, right. But
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: if you have a guy like Brennan Donovan, now I
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: think he's cut from the cloth of I always can
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: be getting better. There's always stuff to work on. But
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, JP Crawford first round pick, and
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: he came here and got turned into a gold glove guy.
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: That is that's a coach that understands how to talk
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: to people and get them to check their ego and
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: understand we got things to get better at. But if
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: you listen to what I'm talking about, you're going to
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: get better and it's going to show up. And so
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: that's that's one of the beliefs that I have when
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: they have with the turnover and some young guys and
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: maybe metrics say defensively, you're not going to be all that.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Good Perry Hill.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: If they can get if Manny puts them in the
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: bright position, Perry Hill's going.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: To get him to field the balls that are in
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: that box.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: It's an interesting comment about JP and the metrics on JP.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Just hearing the organization's perspective on that and Perry Hill's
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: perspective on that, something that maybe will toss up up
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: into conversation tomorrow. Coming up next though, on the radio
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: program before we Green Jacket drafted nine o'clock. It has
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: been the top story all week long, probably will be
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: all the way through next Tuesday is ken Walker leaving
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: a four gone conclusion at this point. Sports Radio ninety
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: three point three KHRFM, Oh, happy Wednesday to everybody. We've
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: got Al Konisky joining us at nine thirty to talk
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: some crack and hockey. But man, we have not green
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: jacket drafted in a long long time. It feels like,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: as a matter of fact, it's been so long we
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: haven't even handed out the awards for our last two
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: green Jackets that were decided. Fine, fine, you just want
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: to just mole over it, Yeah, just no big deal.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of them. I'm glad I lost.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't turn his mike. That's great. Yeah, don't even
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: worry about it. I'm curious one, you know, Oh you're
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: just curious. Yeah, I want to know you sitting there,
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: like I want to know who has the green jackie.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: You're just on pins and needles over there, aren't you.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: I guarantee it ain't.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Bucket's gonna be so fun to find out.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: I'll guarantee such things.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's start with the our NFL postseason
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: fantasy draft that we did. Uh and with one and
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: sixty two and a half points, having drafted Saquon Barkley,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Kyron Williams, Stefan Diggs, and Josh Allen, the winner by
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: nine points over me, Christopher Kidd.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: The sneaky pick was.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: The Josh Allen, getting Josh Allen the fourth ron because
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: even though I had Sam.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: Darnold, Yeah he went the whole way. Yeah, I got
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: three games, you got two from Allen, and you still
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: outscored me at the quarterback VISI.
• 53:50
  Speaker 12: And that was my concern with picking the seat because
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: I kne they probably would't score a lot of offensively.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: I just think their defense was elite.
• 53:55
  Speaker 12: And if I could have picked a defensive player, Okay,
• 53:59
  Speaker 12: sorry about your broncos, I would have definitely taken I
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: don't know any defensive player available.
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well they were that good.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's face it, me picking a j Brown in
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: the fourth round was the reason that you won.
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: Thank you, dumb, dumb.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: All right, we got another green jacket because did you
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: get this a little over midway through the year, we
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: always picked the Super Bowl champions right after the trading deadline.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, it's just an outright you
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: got to pick the Super Bowl champions.
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: We know who won the championship.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: But who took the Seahawks and our green jacket draft?
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: Me and Bucky are personal right now, music up actually
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: did have the Patriots fourth round pick.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's yeah.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: But Kid in the second round at the time, so
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: we weren't any of us confident enough to take him.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: With our first PI.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: We had the fourth pick though, right so yeah, yeah, third, third,
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, So it came right back around. You have
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: to the second pick, and I was hoping to get him.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sixth pick overall. So Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, the Rams,
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: and the Chiefs were all taken at the time ahead
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: of these makes sense.
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: I mean, no one saw that happening with those teams
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: you mentioned. The chief didn't even make it.
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: We were all we just we were all feeling good,
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: just not good enough. But Kid ends up taking the
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: pick there and winning a Green jacket. So that's two
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: green jacket drafts. Ceremony for kids. Look at me, Bucky.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: That means you're up by five on the year.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: So in the overall standings, you are one back of Bucky, Bucky,
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: I'm on your still behind, and one up on Ashley.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: Don't let me win another one. Bucky, don't let me
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: win another one. I have six, he has five, actually
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: has four, Yes, I have two. I've had the worst
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: green jacket draft season ever.
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: We had a lot coming up right with Yeah, well,
• 55:48
  Speaker 9: golf majors.
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: Well, the new season starts to start at the Masters,
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: so whatever we draft now will carry over, all right.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: So we need at least too so I have a
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: chance to tie Bucky.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, nobody's run away with it. So I mean
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: we do have probably four or five six more of these.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: So you know, Ashlely, if you go on a run,
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: you could still win the season. And I suppose I
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: could too, but I better get every pick right going forward,
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: because Bucky's also leading our NBA standing. Of course, he's
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: twelve games up on Ashley with the Knick, Celtics, Clippers,
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: and Pistons. That's a twenty four point turnaround me taking
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: the Mavericks over the Pistons. As you can go back
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: and listen, That's why I was trying to decide between
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: I was debating between Lakers and Pistons.
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: Like I said, I've had a bad green jacket here,
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: and then hockey wise kids in the lead with Chandler Stevenson,
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: Matty Benier's, Frederick Gridot Goodreau, and Adam.
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Larson nine points up on Bucky.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: So that wait till I pick up somebody right here
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: at the trade deadline, and.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: Bug you has a spot. You can't pick anybody up.
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: He can, yep, and he's down nine. So here you go.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: I think it is going to come down to Kid
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: and Bucky, but we shall see. Ashley could get hot
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: here at the end of the season. Well, it's just
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: been one of those off years.
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: You got off to a great start.
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: I've only got two people playing, right, or do I
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: even Yeah, I've got Brandon Brandon Montur, I think, and
• 57:11
  Speaker 9: then I've got Vince done.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: No, you got done, and you got Caton.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: You're you're great. Yeah.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: I mean we're not gonna win, no, but anyway, all right,
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: So today we're going to do something we've never done before.
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: We're going to green jacket draft for the WBC.
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: We're gonna draft players and we're going to count total
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: bases for the entire tournament. And so that being said,
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: four rounds of drafting and we don't know the order yet,
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: but the only rule that we have, the only stipulation
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: is that you can't take more than one player from
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: one national team. So if you take a US player
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: in the first round, that's the last US player.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: That you get.
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: So you got to spread it out a little bit
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: over the entire tournament field. That said, we're we're all
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: gonna end up with all star teams unless we got
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: our head completely up our butts. You're gonna end up
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: with an all star team because there's plenty to choose
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: from in this WBC, and we're only choosing four players each.
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: So we need a draft order, Ashley, what's it gonna be? Yeah, third,
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: all right, all.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: Right, those of the order. All right, Bucky, you got
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: the first overall pick. You get any player in the world.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: Total basis is what we're counting. Who you taking with
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: your pick?
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: Ah, I want to go with our boy, but I'm
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: gonna go with Aaron Judge.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: Aaron Judge, yep, oh, he's taking an American off the board,
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: right off the bat.
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: All right, Aaron Judge. The selection he's pretty good.
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: He's not bad offensively, He's one of the better hitters
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: in the world.
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: He's up there in the conversation.
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: It honestly was really cool to like. I mean, I'm
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: just I'm half asleep, getting ready for my nap. They're
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: playing an exhibition game before the WBC against the Giants,
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, hitting third in the lineup,
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: strolling up there, twice as big as anybody else wearing red,
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: white and blue on a team i'm rooting for. Here
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: comes judge. It felt pretty good, Yeah it does. Yeah,
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: it didn't feel pretty good. And first of bat they
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: said to run.
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: Scored well even all spring so far, I've watched a
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: bunch of videos of that guy just absolutely dropping, you
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: know what on baseball's I mean, the guy just as
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: a hitting machine, playing and simple noah fans abuts.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: I have a hard time thinking he's gonna have a
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: bad WBC.
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: So never No, he has prone to go into slumps
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: like they all are. But we shall see. All right,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the other phenom. Then I'm gonna take
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: my Japanese player here, give me show.
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: Hey, I think that's obviously it's a great pick. I mean,
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: he's freaky. And if we're gonna add a little half
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: point for stone bases and stuff, we know how the Japanese.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: Come out and they play this game.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is it's not the World Series, but
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: for a lot of the players, it is the closest
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: thing to it. The thing with him is he sometimes
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: misses a couple of abs if he's pitching right.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: He ends up not getting as many.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: And this is such a short little tournament that that's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: why it doesn't anymore.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: They allow him to hit and pitch.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: Now, yeah, I was just the last one. He ended
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: up not hitting sometimes because he was pitching.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: I'm not worried about it. Give me a show. Hey,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: with the second overall celection.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Team Japan anyway, they haven't listened as the DH.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, all right, kid, you got the third pick
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: in the draft again a WBC preview got to take
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: no more than one player from a roster, a national roster.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: Who you're taking third overall? I'll take the big dumper. Oh,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: you just crushed Ashley's soul.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 10: Sorry, I.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: Just had to take them, you know, I got to.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: I have to. Okay, I didn't have to, technically, I
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: have to.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 12: I think he's really good and I think he's gonna
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: be He's okay.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Hey, oh thanks, BRIT's get breaking News cal Rale, he's
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: really good.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 10: Pretty good.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: Turns out he's pretty good. I'll take he's like a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: six hitter. I don't know for sure if they should
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: be drafting six hit Sorry? Can I take him in
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: the next round? Not going to get him. I can
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: promise you.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: That Ashley's got back to back selections. Two American players
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: off the board. Ashley, where are you going here?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Japan. Please give me. You're
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: gonna talk Maurakami.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, I to talk Mori Kami with the pick.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: And then I'm going to go to the US and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: give me body with Junior.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: That's a that's a good pick.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: I think I actually had him rated a little bit
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: higher than cow as my American list of preferences.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Just because we're going total basics.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: Total basis.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's just gonna he just doubles, triples, homers,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: he does it all. So yeah, he's he's terrific. More
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: a comedy though, with all of the headlines about.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: It, his swing and miss stuff. And yet you're gonna
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: take him with your first round pick. Yeah, he's gonna
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: run into a few, that's almost for sure.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: All right, All he does two Japanese players off the board,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: three American.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: Players already off the board, which.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Means I can just sit back and wait for my
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: American player. It looks like I'm the only one that
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: doesn't have one.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: There's no good ones left, I know.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Slim Pickens. All right, kid, you've got Kyle Rawley.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: Where are you gonna go with your second round selection
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: and our WBC preview green Jacket draft.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: I will go to Japan and I'll take Saya Suzuki.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: Saya Suzuki, so another Japanese player. They're flying off the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: boards at this defending champs.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: I got it, you know, defending champs.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: He's coming off a really good year with the Cubs.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, he's uh, he can play. And I have
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: a feeling, you know, experienced then here before probably is
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: gonna be relaxed, settle in and be pretty productive.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: I still know Dominicans having come off the board at
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: this point, maybe I do just wait on that and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: take Venezuela Superstar Ronald Lecunya Junior with my second round
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: selection to add to show, Hey.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: Otani's a good one. Venezuela's lineup is stack Man.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: They lost to Houston yesterday, so I'm kind of hoping
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: they get upset a little bit. But I think Ocunya
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: is probably the best bet on that team, and I
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: think they're probably third or fourth as far as odds
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: to win it.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: Also go the distance they're pitching is a little suspect.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: Ranger Suarez is really good. He's their ace. Jonathan Diaz
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: is on that team, by the way, from the Mariners,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: but man a lineup of William Contrevis, Wilson Contreras, Salvador Perez,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Louis Ries, Royal's Allstar mckel Garcia Glaber, Torres Gino is
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: on the team, Jackson Turio Andres Jimenez.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: That's a damn good lineup right there.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: Next to the US and the Dominican that's the third
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: best lineup in that in the tournament.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: I would argue, you know, a lot of the Japanese
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: players as well.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: Seems like the Japanese just play team baseball, right, a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: bunch of guys that kind of slap it around and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: get it done. As far as a danger aspect, those
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: are definitely the top three.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: Bucky's got back to back selections here and a lot
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: of talent on the.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: Board in our WBC preview, where are you going?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: M you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and take
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: give me a little bit of a Oh boy, did
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: I take a slapper here?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: Give me Luisa Roz. I'm gonna take first, just to
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: get him.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: I mean he would have been my third round pick probably, yeah,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: because I mean I'm.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully get a bunch of them.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: Okay, not really all that speedy, but he gets on
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: a lot, so we'll find he'll find a way.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: He'll scrape together. You know, maybe ten points for me.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: I'll be fine with that, although everybody else if they
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: just run into three balls, that's going to be more.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: And then I'm going to I can wait for my
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: Japanese guy for my last because you guys have all
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: taken somebody, right. Yeah, So I'm gonna go ahead and
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: go to the dr. Now do I take Julio typically
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: not a hot starter? I was thinking that, so no,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to. Then it's between Vladdie and Nando Tatis.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: Give me Tatis.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: Wow, Frando Tatis. I thought for sure you'd go Vladimir
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: Guerrero there, and I was hoping you didn't take one
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Sodo because I'm taking one.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I would have taken it.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: Give me one Sodo with the next selection. Honestly, he
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: would be my probably my second overall pick. But the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: Dominican Republic lineup is so stacked that you really can't
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: go wrong.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: You better have somebody.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: From the DR on your team here in this green
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: Jacket preview.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: But I'm not sure you can really go wrong here.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: So I will take one Sodo, two DR hitters off
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: the board, and Kid, you are up with your third
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: round selection. Bad to Cal Rawley and Saya Suzuki.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 12: I'll go with Harry Ford for like that risk, but
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: I won't zone I will do. I'll take Vladimir take
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 12: master Bony Lad.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: Round pick, I really do.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: This is the Dominican Republic round right here?
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 12: Can I say that I know black eyed Dominican.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: You can What do we have to dump that? I'm
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: not sure what I caught in there. I'm not sure
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: what you said. I think you're good? All right, Lad,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: with a third round selection? All right, Ashley, you get
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: back to back picks here. You got screwed out of Cal,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: You got screwed out of Lad. Don't screw yourself out
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: of somebody else you really want. Honestly, take somebody you
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: want here.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Yeah, I take somebody I want.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: Really, if I can offer you some advice, get somebody
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: here that you really want.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's great advice. Greatly appreciated it.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: Ram Toro's on the Canadian team.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: I think I'll pass, Okay, I don't know.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 9: I'm part of Me's like, well, I should take Julio
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: because I love Julio. And then I'm like, but do
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: I think he's going to be one of the better
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: ones on the team. You know what, We'll take the risk.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: I'll take Julio.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: Going to take Julio Rod I had to have a Mariner,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: Oh I got one.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: You could have to, frankly I could.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 9: But I am going to go to Venezuela and I
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 9: am going to take William Contreras.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: Oh William, not Wilson.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: Sneaky, sneaky good there for William Contreras. All right, kid,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: you are back up. You got your last selection.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: Ashley.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: Now as a team of Murakami, Bobby Wood, Junior, Julio
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: and William Contreras.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 12: Anyone where you're going, anyone have a great Britain accent available?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, Ashley I wouldn't advise taking a pick.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 5: Thank you. I will not. I'll take Randy Rose Arena,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 5: Randi Rose Arena.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: I'm glad Mexico got represented because Mexico's got a sneaky,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: deep good team as well. No One Aernato is playing
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: for Mexico, and so is Jared Duran. Even a Rose
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: Arenas not from Mexico. It's Alejandro Kirk and Aleandro Kirk
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: and he's from Mexico. And then Mooney on that team
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: of course, ye closing it out. They might make a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: little bit of noise here in this. But Randy A
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: Rose Arena. We got four Mariners picked or three? We
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: got three Mariners picked? All right, I get the last
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: selection of my team. I have not taken a US player.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: I will rectify that right now. Give me Kyle Schwarber
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: the last pick. He's just really good in these things,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: like there is something about him that you know, home
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: run derby's and playoffs and big stages that Kyle Schwarber
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: just has no problem with.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I kind of feel like
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: he elevates his game.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm I'm he probably would have been my
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: fourth American that I would have taken out of the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: four that we're going to be taken in this draft.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: But I have no problem getting him with my final pick.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 4: I kind of love it, actually like it.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good one to pick.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: He was definitely I had a star by his name,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 6: but then again, I had a star by like eight
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 6: guys in the US.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, what's the difference because they're like four
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: stacked lineups. Skins in Schooble going to be the difference
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: because nobody else in this tournament has schemes or schooble and.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: We've got them both.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah, except for they're not going to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: throw very much, you know what I mean, You're going
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: to get three innings out of these guys. Maybe you
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 6: might get four if you get that later on in
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 6: the thing. But I don't think they're going to be
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: stretching these guys out all of a lot.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: Dominicans got Christopher Sanchez, who's fantastic, but they're more bullpen
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: and that's probably what's going to win is bullpen guys,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: you know, throwing a lot of different guys because of
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: they are shortened. But I think that's where the US
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: might hold its advantage. Having those horses at the front
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: of the rotation.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: All right, the last pick buckets are going to be.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: I am going to Team Japan. Give me Kazuma Akamoto.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you something right now. I don't know
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: if anybody on this list has looked better at the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: plate so far in the spring training than this guy.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: Every time I've seen him play, it's a laser beam somewhere.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: So if he's hot right now, who I mean if
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: he doesn't end up being good for the Blue Jays,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: and let's hope he doesn't, Yeah, who cares? If if
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: there is anything too, who looks really good swinging the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: bat in spring training so far? You probably got the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: hottest hitter in all of that.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: I'll take it with the last pick in the draft.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he looks really good, looks really good at
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: the plate.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: Man. There's a lot of talent that did not get taken.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of talent in general.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Joe James Paxton was on the Canadian team.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, uh, you know great, Britain's got jazz Chisholm.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: Do you know that.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: That's why I didn't know, and I thought British.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know, but there's a lot of that if
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: you have a connection, and then yeah you can you
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: can apply and you can be on the team.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: He visited once. You can be like, you know what,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: I was there for three weeks.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but their talent is so thin. I mean they've
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: got Prince Harry coming out of the bullpen. Hey, how
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: good a chance?
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 8: That's?
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I mean I suppose it's better than William slightly,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: he's too old for this, slightly, but the US team.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: You know what else, I like, just to close out
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: the conversation, I love that du Rosa picked like a.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: Clement from the Blue Jet.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: He like has specialty players, like bench guys to bring
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: off the bench, like guys that aren't going to be
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: angry being on the bench. He even thought of that.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: He's got Clayton Kershaw on the team. For goodness sake.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: He retired. Yeah, and he believe me, he looks retired.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: He didn't do much working.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: Out this offseason. No need to. You've got Paul Goldschmidt.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: Just have a leader, just to have a guy that
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: everybody loves and kind of bends the zeer wherever he's
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: been every time that they're getting ready for it at
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: bat he thought.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: Of everything I think.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, he didn't have a chance to the last
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 6: time he did it, it was kind of a roster was
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: majority of a set, So this one he got into
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 6: a lot of it with a lot of like, Hey, Schwarbs,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: do you care if you're leading off? He's like, no,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: I kind of would like the idea of driving some
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: guys in.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 6: Like all right, good then, Bobby Witt, you want to
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: lead off? He's like, yep, love to. It's gonna be
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: fun to watch.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun, all right, Bucky Steam, Aaron Judge,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: Luisa Rise, Fernando Tatist Junior, and Cas Okamado or as
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: I like to call him, the Okomotive. Chuck's got show a,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: Ronald Acuna Junior, Juan Soto and Schwarb's Kid with Cal Rawley,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: Seya Suzuki, Vladimir Guerrero Junior, Randy A. Rose, Arena and
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: Ashley with Munataka Murakami, Bobby Witch Junior, Julio Rodriguez, and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: William Contreras. Yeah, a lot of the teams we've picked suck. Yeah,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of weak players in this group.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: All right, al kanisk He's going to join us next
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: on Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A R F. M.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: Hey joining us now as he does every Wednesday at
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: this time, color analyst for yours Seattle Crack and al
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: Canisky is with us thanks to Queen Anne beer Hall
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Good morning, Al,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: good morning. We just saw your broadcast partner. He just
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: stopped by to say hello. Gave us all hugs. I
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: figured out that you don't give us as money hugs as.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: Ever does like zero.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah, did you did you bring any big goods or
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 10: smoked meats? No?
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: He did not. No, he didn't bring me a sandwich.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: One time advantage out. I've never I've never gotten a.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: Sandwich from you or a hug, so I'll take that personal.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: Well, just like that, the Crack and are playing good
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: hockey again. What a weird team that you cover for
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: a living, Alconisky. So the last couple of days, what
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: has changed that has put this team back in the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: win column?
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 10: Last couple of games, Well, the boys snapped out of
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 10: the break essentially, you know, the first two games out
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 10: of the break. It wasn't the kind of hockey we
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 10: saw going into the break. And yes, everybody else had
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 10: the same amount of time off, but for whatever reason,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 10: they did not get things going right away. And you know,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 10: coming out of the break with those two losses was
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 10: a bit of a wake up call that hey, if
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 10: we want to be a playoff team, we're going to
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 10: turn things around. And they certainly did that over the
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 10: last two games. So they've canceled those those games out,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 10: those first two, and now it's time to start building
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 10: going forward. And you know, Fitz and I talked about
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 10: a little bit like the first ten out of the break,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: you want to go, you know, seven and three, eight
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 10: and two, maybe six and four, but probably seven and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 10: three is about the worst you can hope for. So
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 10: that means they've got to go on a bit of
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 10: a winning streak here, and I see no reason why
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 10: they can't do it with the schedule ahead.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: Well, the having snapped out of that a little bit
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 6: put them right down back in the playoff hunt, right,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 6: I think the third place at this point, at least
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 6: that yesterday when I looked at it, they were I mean,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: is this now have they played themselves into a position
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 6: where the front office is for sure going to go
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: out there and add that the trade deadline here coming
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: up in a couple of days.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 10: Well, I definitely believe that they are making phone calls.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 10: They are having conversations. Now, whether it happens or not,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 10: we'll see in the next forty eight hours. But in
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 10: terms of the playoff standings, they slipped back into that
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 10: second wild card spot. Overnight they left they'd left the
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 10: win the other night in third place, but other teams
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 10: have played last night, and so they've slipped back into
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 10: that second wild card spot. But Bucky, the numbers are
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 10: so tight between where the Crack and are right now
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 10: in that second wild card spot and the top of
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 10: the of the Pacific. It's three points. Vegas has seventy points.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 10: The Krack and have sixty seven. So you know, one
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 10: win one loss can get you out of the playoffs,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 10: can get you, you know, into second place. Two or
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 10: three wins that are all all of a sudden you're
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 10: looking at first place depending on what other teams do
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 10: with their games. So it's so tight right now, it
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 10: makes it exciting. I guess if you're a fan, it
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: makes a little nerve racking. I guess if you're if
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 10: your management for the Cracking, But you know wins mean
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 10: so much right now. So yeah, a win tonight puts
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 10: the Cracking back into second place. And as far as
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 10: you're comment about the trade deadline coming up here on Friday,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 10: I have to believe that there are conversations being had
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 10: for top forwards that are available out there. Robert Thomas
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 10: is one that's been talked about a lot. Ellie is
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 10: tighter set up in Vancouver's been talked about, Jordan Kyrie
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 10: has been talked about. For the Cracking to go do
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 10: something for a top forward, It's gonna take some pain,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 10: you know, every big move does You're you're not gonna
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 10: send over a fruit basket in the second rounder to
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 10: get a top forward. So you have to ask yourself,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 10: you know, do you draft and pray, which is what
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 10: the team has been doing, or do you pay and win.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 10: There's just no clearance rack for top franchise centers. So
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: that's the way that you've got to go into these
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 10: conversations thinking about it that to get somebody in your
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 10: top six, you're going to have to give something up.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 10: And as far as giving something up, names have been
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 10: floated around. I won't speculate any further.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: Well, what al Canisky did, would you pull the trigger
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: on something significant to help the team right now, even
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: if it costs you a young player that you prize.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 10: Well, you have to ask yourself, you know, does a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 10: you know, let's use Robert Thomas. He's a one seas
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 10: In fact, he's back in the lineup as of last
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 10: game for the Saint Louis Blues. He had a goal
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 10: in assests. He is an absolute proven one seed. He's
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 10: twenty six years old. You put him in that one
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 10: seed spot with the crack and maybe Maddy Beniers is
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 10: your two c. Does that win you a playoff series?
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 10: I think the answer is yes, if you've got the
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 10: blue line and the goal. To meam that this team
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 10: seems to have right now. I think that's the tweak
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 10: you're looking for in that Op six group. You're not
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 10: looking for depth. This is an identity shift with the team. So, uh,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 10: you've got you've got to You've got to change that
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 10: mindset of you know, we're not gonna wait and you know,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 10: or we're not gonna be patient. We want to win
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 10: now and to do that, you've got to give something
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 10: up big and it might be a Shane right, you know,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 10: it might be uh, you know, an electioniic it might
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 10: be both of them. It might be prospects. You know,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 10: you've got to give something up big to get something big,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 10: because I guarantee you other teams are doing the same
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 10: same thing for a guy like Robert Thomas.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 6: So would you prefer giving up somebody that is proven
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: that they're capable of competing like Shainwright at the NHL level?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: But we don't know for sure how far the growth
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 6: is going to be, but obviously the ceiling is higher.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 6: Or would it be somebody that is, like you said
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: with Alexiak, like somebody that's more of a veteran guy
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: and you're kind.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: Of getting rid of some money as well.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 10: Yeah, no, I I think both pieces could be part
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 10: of a bigger package. It really just depends on the
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 10: team you're talking to and what they're looking for. H
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 10: Jamie LEXI, I had a fantastic game that other night.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 10: See he had eleven hits in the game. I just
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 10: just under the record held by Jake Laanson at twelve.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 10: But you know, he's playing some of his best hockey
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 10: of the season right now. So you know, if he's
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 10: somebody that you're you're you're prepared to move, You're you're gonna,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 10: assuming that play continues, you're gonna lose that play from him.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 10: And again that's part of the pain that you've got
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 10: to You've got to give up to get somebody that's
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 10: a top six forward. So uh, and then the Shane
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: Wright piece. You know, Shane Wright has continued to develop
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 10: since he's been here, but some might say he's stalled
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 10: out a little bit right now. Does that mean that
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  Speaker 10: that continues? I don't know. You'd like to see him
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 10: take that next step here over the remaining twenty games,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 10: twenty two games. If he did that, then he too
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 10: is part of the equation of getting you into deep
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  Speaker 10: into the playoffs. If he doesn't, and he remains stalled out,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 10: then hen comes part of maybe a package to go
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 10: get a top line at centerman, a top line wing
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 10: or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's interesting, I know, I'll fired up.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was to see if Shane Wright could continue from
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: a year ago into this season. Same thing with Yannie
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: Nieman who came up at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: You see the talent as a skater, as a scorer,
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  Speaker 4: but al I mean, when this team plays well, it's
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: Jacob Malanson and Myers, they're the young guys that seem
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: to be making the bigger impact on this team. Talk
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: about Ben Myers and Milansen and just the way they
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: play hockey and what they've done to help this team
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: win hockey games this year.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean Ben Myers is is a proven centerman.
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  Speaker 10: You know, he's first perst of all. I mean this,
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  Speaker 10: and this never really factors into anything. He's a great
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  Speaker 10: team guy. He's a great guy on the bench, great
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  Speaker 10: guy in the locker room, great guy to talk to,
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  Speaker 10: just even off the ice. So that's where you start
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  Speaker 10: with a guy like Ben Myers. But you know, he
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 10: he's good in that he can work with anybody on
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 10: the wing. He can actually play wing, which I thought
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 10: was fantastic. I talked the other day when he was
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 10: slotted to the left side with Freddie Gudrou in the middle,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 10: and I said, is this is this new for you?
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 10: Is this uncomfortable? He goes, No, I played it earlier
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 10: in the season. I'm plying with it. And you know,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 10: he had a good game that night. So when you've
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 10: got a utility guy like Ben Myers that can flip
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 10: back and forth between center and wing, he becomes more valuable.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 10: And in the case of Jacob Allanson again, you know,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 10: great guy, great personality. You know, his game is simple.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 10: He's not looking for that highlight reel that floats around,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 10: you know, the social networks for the next three days
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: of where you blow somebody up at center ice. He
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 10: just wants to go out every ship, certainly in the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 10: first two periods, and finish his checks. If that means
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 10: behind the net, along the boards, wherever. He doesn't care.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 10: He doesn't care if you're six eight or five eights.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 10: He's going to finish the check on you. And I
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: like that mentality about him because, as he said the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 10: other day, you do that over the first two periods
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 10: and then in the third period they're kind of looking
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 10: over their should a little bit and maybe you get
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 10: to a puck quicker, maybe you steal a puck off
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 10: of them a little bit quicker, and that only helps
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 10: the team.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: All right, Well, close with us.
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  Speaker 4: Can we say that al Kiniski is reporting that Robert
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: Thomas will be a cracking by the time they dropped
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  Speaker 4: the puck tonight against the Blues?
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  Speaker 10: Is that?
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: Can we go with that?
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 10: You can say that Robert Thomas is someone that a
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 10: lot of teams are looking to add to their roster.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 10: And I believe I'm not saying I believe the Cracking
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  Speaker 10: are one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if we traded, if the trade went down like
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: between now and game time though, I mean, he could
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: be in a cracking uniform tonight, right.
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  Speaker 10: Good, yeah, good, yeah, packing extra bag Stan Seattle. The
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 10: weather's beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Today, all right out, we'll have fun on the call tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And you know sandwich is soon, all right, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sandwiches soon. Smoke beat you.
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  Speaker 4: Got it, alkinisky color analysts for your Seattle cracking again.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to drop the pucket seven o'clock tonight at
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  Speaker 4: home against the Saint Louis Blues and Robert Thomas Owl's
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