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Chuck & Buck 2-27 hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, Spring Training lessons pt 7 and the Colts really messed up... · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Done right side the line for goodrow across to Rker
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Speaker 1: Evans left wing shot ten scarss Riiker Evans from the
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Speaker 1: left wing point throw it on goal.
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Speaker 2: Ben Myers read.
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Speaker 1: Therects it and then the Seattle Kraken have pulled back
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Speaker 1: to within one.
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Speaker 2: It's a three to two Saint Louis lead.
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Speaker 1: All the Blues are gonna challenge to see if it
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Speaker 1: was offside prior to the goal.
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Speaker 2: Apt for the review it was a trip that the
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Speaker 2: point was offsides.
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Speaker 3: We have.
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Speaker 1: And I tell you what partner that play was off
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Speaker 1: side by a half an inch.
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Speaker 2: Falconiskey with the cutting analysis there. Yep, yep, good morning,
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Speaker 2: it is Friday. Happy Friday to you all. Ashley Ryan
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Speaker 2: is here. My name is Chuck Pye, No Bucky. He'll
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Speaker 2: be back with us on Monday. But we enter our
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Speaker 2: second hour. Greg Bell's just minutes away from joining us
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Speaker 2: here as he does most every day at seven five
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Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. Crack and lost again last night
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Speaker 2: ended up being five to one. Yeah, maybe a half
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Speaker 2: an inch cost him a goal. Maybe that changes the game,
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Speaker 2: but it really doesn't excuse getting out played. Unmercifully for
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Speaker 2: a second night in a row to begin this resumption
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Speaker 2: of play after the three week long hiatus for the
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Speaker 2: an two start at this resumption being outscored nine to two.
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Speaker 2: It's one thing to lose to the Dallas Stars and
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Speaker 2: blow out fashion, another thing, Ashley, to lose to the
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Speaker 2: last place Saint Louis Blues five to one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know if I mean, I would
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Speaker 3: doubt that they went in thinking like, well, this team's
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Speaker 3: terrible and we're better, especially coming off being blown out
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Speaker 3: by Dallas. Nobody should be thinking that. But that I
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Speaker 3: was hoping that was kind of going to be their
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Speaker 3: get right. Let's okay, we're gonna we're gonna have no
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Speaker 3: problem with Saint Louis. And now We're going to come
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Speaker 3: home on a positive note. We've got the Canucks and
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Speaker 3: you know, all will be right with the world. And
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Speaker 3: giving up those two goals basically back to back in
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Speaker 3: the second period so early it was like, wait, what
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Speaker 3: what just happened? And then when they got that goal
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Speaker 3: and then it got taken away, I was like, well
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Speaker 3: that's it. I mean, because at least coming back and
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Speaker 3: being within one was I thought we had a pretty
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Speaker 3: good chance, but it just seemed like the air sailed
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Speaker 3: out of them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sliding doors. Maybe that goal counts and we got
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Speaker 2: a completely different game. Ian for Ness told us yesterday
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Speaker 2: nothing to worry about after the Dallas loss is just
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Speaker 2: a bad matchup. But if they lose a game against
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Speaker 2: the Blues, we've got something to worry about come Friday morning.
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Speaker 2: So it sounds like we got something to worry about.
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Speaker 2: We're going to ask ed Zo himself at Old Check
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Speaker 2: about it at nine o'clock today. Let's take a look
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Speaker 2: at your rest of your frost brewed cors light shows,
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Speaker 2: chill headlines before we bring Greg aboard Mariner Spring training.
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Speaker 2: They won yesterday eight to seven. A couple of hits
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Speaker 2: for Colt Emerson again in the game, including a triple
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson is expected to make his Mariners pitching debut
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Speaker 2: this weekend. I believe Saturday is when he will be
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Speaker 2: taking the mound in the Cactus League College Hoops You
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Speaker 2: Dub host Wisconsin tomorrow at one o'clock. But for a
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Speaker 2: five hundred basketball team at this stage of the year,
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Speaker 2: the bigger story is the legendary Detla Shremp's going to
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Speaker 2: have his number retired. Spencer Hawsell join us TOT eight
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Speaker 2: thirty today to discuss it. Sounders look to go to
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Speaker 2: and Oh. They'll be in Utah tomorrow to take on
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Speaker 2: Real Salt Lake and they'll start that match at four thirty.
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Speaker 2: The Kraken will also play tomorrow at seven o'clock at
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Speaker 2: home against the Vancouver Canucks. As Ashley and the NFL
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Speaker 2: combine enters Day number two, Day number one, maybe the
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Speaker 2: best group of them all, and the best players of
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Speaker 2: the best group were the ones that stole all the headlines.
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Speaker 2: David Bailey Texas Tech could be the number two overall
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Speaker 2: pick in the draft. If not him, Rvel Reese of
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Speaker 2: Ohio State and now Sunny Styles has turned into be
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Speaker 2: the talk of the NFL combine after his impressive workout yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Reese and Styles both from Ohio State. How did they
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Speaker 2: not win a national champion hip. That's weird, But yes,
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Speaker 2: today is day number two. It'll be defensive acts and
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Speaker 2: tight ends going. But there's another story that we started
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Speaker 2: with today. I don't know how much truth there is
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Speaker 2: to it, but when you hear that DeMarcus Lawrence is
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Speaker 2: contemplating retirement, it does make you think. Joining us now
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Speaker 2: to discuss that in other topics is our own Greg
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Speaker 2: Bell with the Bell Tolls.
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Speaker 4: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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Speaker 2: Now with twalk Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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Speaker 2: and Bud Oh. It's been playing strains and automobiles for
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Speaker 2: Greg Bell this week. Last I heard he was heading
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Speaker 2: to Michigan in the back of a beer truck, singing
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Speaker 2: polka music with some fine fellows from Chicago. But hopefully
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Speaker 2: he made it to Michigan by now.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Greg, Good morning. I did I prove myself
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Speaker 5: I avoided the back of the truck rack.
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Speaker 2: Well, good to have you with us. What did What
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Speaker 2: do you know about this DeMarcus Lawrence thing that seems
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Speaker 2: to be buzzing around that maybe he's thinking about hanging
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Speaker 2: it up after a Super Bowl championship.
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Speaker 5: Well, we asked, like McDonald att and he said that
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Speaker 5: last he talked to Lawrence, Lawrence wants to come back.
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Speaker 5: And then in fact, all the player, Jaron Reid, everybody
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Speaker 5: who is getting into their thirties and eleven twelve years
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Speaker 5: in the league have told McDonald that they want to
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Speaker 5: return twenty twenty six. Lawrence's contract is three years. Was
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Speaker 5: notable for someone thirty two years old at the time
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Speaker 5: and eleven years in the league to get a three
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Speaker 5: year deal and so guide him to Seattle. And the
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Speaker 5: first I heard of was ESPNS dot COM's Brady Henderson
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Speaker 5: has been on the beat a long time with being
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Speaker 5: his dialed in as well. He said that it could
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Speaker 5: be that Lawrence is contemplating retirement after twelve season. Is
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Speaker 5: going to be thirty four years old next year, and
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Speaker 5: I mean it makes sense that a player of his stature,
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Speaker 5: four time pro bowler has played a dozen years in
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Speaker 5: the league, going to be thirty four, goes out after
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Speaker 5: winning a Super Bowl, the one thing he said he
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Speaker 5: has always sought in the NFL. When he got to
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Speaker 5: Seattle the day he signed, he said, I'm here because
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Speaker 5: I thought this is my chance to win a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 5: He turned out to be correct. There had a great
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Speaker 5: season doing it. So it is a natural supposition that
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Speaker 5: a player might want to go out on top, which
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Speaker 5: is where I think this comes from. But as up
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Speaker 5: two days ago, the coach says that the player told
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Speaker 5: him he's coming back. Now, McDonald did say that can change,
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Speaker 5: especially the further a player gets away from this brotherhood
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Speaker 5: that they had for the last eight seven, eight nine
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Speaker 5: months and it's off on their own and want to
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Speaker 5: beat somewhere for the next couple of months and might
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Speaker 5: entice him to stay on the beach for the rest
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Speaker 5: of his career. But as it now, McDonald says that
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Speaker 5: Lawrence and everybody else's makes it interview saying they're coming back.
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Speaker 2: Does it not speak to how difficult it is to
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Speaker 2: repeat his champions or build a dynasty in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the things that you battle against you got
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Speaker 2: free agents that are going to get higher value than
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Speaker 2: they're probably worth because it's as super Bowl next to
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Speaker 2: their name. You've got the fear of complacency. You've got
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Speaker 2: the fear of guys that you do bring back maybe
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Speaker 2: they're not as hungry now that they're a little richer.
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Speaker 2: And then you even have a guy like DeMarcus Lawrence
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Speaker 2: who at the parade seem to have the time of
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Speaker 2: his life. And yet I like consider retirement because I'm
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Speaker 2: thirty three years old, I've been in the league for
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Speaker 2: twelve years. I've taken a lot of abuse. Maybe I
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Speaker 2: want to go out on top. I mean, you just
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Speaker 2: can't rest in this league when it comes to trying
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Speaker 2: to win championships.
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Speaker 5: Right, And the league legislatesd so that you don't win
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Speaker 5: super Bowls over super Bowls, which is why I told me,
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Speaker 5: been what five times in the last fifty years or
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Speaker 5: so that's happened. Yeah, it's it's hard. It's really really
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Speaker 5: hard to do.
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Speaker 6: And players, once they get into the offseason check the
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Speaker 6: one thing that motivates players to rev it up again
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Speaker 6: and to start the personal training and the weightlifting and
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Speaker 6: the four yard dashes and all the offseason work.
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Speaker 5: In the training camps and the slog through August. The
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Speaker 5: one motivating factor that gets these guys once they played
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Speaker 5: a few years in the league and made money. One
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Speaker 5: motivating factors to win a super Bowl, to win a ring. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: and then you do it. I was like, well, what's
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Speaker 5: left am I going to go through this brack my
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Speaker 5: body and affect my quality of life for the rest
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Speaker 5: of my life? I already won a Super Bowl? What
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Speaker 5: am I doing it for? And you already made tens
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Speaker 5: of millions and something hundreds of millions of dollars, which
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Speaker 5: absolutely and you have to think to just a pure
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Speaker 5: quality of life side, someone who's just won a Super
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Speaker 5: Bowl and in the market laws in this case, made
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Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty million dollars in his career, what
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Speaker 5: else is there to do? He's done it, And I
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Speaker 5: mean that's again part of a supposition that he'd be
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Speaker 5: looking at retirement. Then again, players chuck get to this
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Speaker 5: level because of how ultra competitive they are. And then
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Speaker 5: there are players who say, you know what, everyone says,
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Speaker 5: we can't do it. Let's do it again. Ye say,
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Speaker 5: everyone says it can't be done. There's an intrinsic motivation
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Speaker 5: that make world class. He will be players who they are.
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Speaker 5: That's why people just walking down First Avenue in Seattle
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Speaker 5: this morning aren't in the NFL. They're uniquely competitive and
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Speaker 5: equipped to rev it up again.
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Speaker 2: There might have been other reasons I didn't make it
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Speaker 2: to the NFL, Greg Maybe maybe one or two.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Greg bellis with us our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you can follow his entire coverage of the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks all year long at the Newstribune dot com. Another
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Speaker 2: story that came out yesterday is an apparent leak the NFLPA.
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Speaker 2: The players fill out this survey of how much they
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Speaker 2: like their organization and how well they're treated in various
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Speaker 2: forms behind the scenes, and it gets out that the
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers got the lowest grades and the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 2: for whatever. So this shows you who cares how well
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Speaker 2: they're treated. Sometimes they can guess they can be treated
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Speaker 2: too well, because the Dolphins are the biggest poop show
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Speaker 2: in the entire National Football League. But the Seahawks ended
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Speaker 2: up fourth out of thirty two. I would just ask
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Speaker 2: you how much merit, how much stock do you put
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Speaker 2: in these evaluations?
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Speaker 5: Well, First of all, I love the Kaitlyn Kaylor of
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Speaker 5: ESPN dot com published it, got obtained it and published it.
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Speaker 5: I love it because the league, the ownership, and the
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Speaker 5: Commissioner's office don't want this out. In fact, as a
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Speaker 5: lot of people know, they got an arbiter to rule
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Speaker 5: in the league's favor prohibiting the NFLPA the players union
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Speaker 5: from publicly releasing these report cards. Now, the arbord Is
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Speaker 5: ruling two weeks ago wasn't that they can't do the survey,
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Speaker 5: and it wasn't that they can't share the survey with
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Speaker 5: their players, their union inside union matters, union talk, as
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Speaker 5: the Arbury ruled, But they did the arborid did say
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Speaker 5: you can't publicly release and so we knew at the
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Speaker 5: time when that came out two weeks ago, the ruling that, oh,
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Speaker 5: the union is just going to make sure somebody puts
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Speaker 5: it out, whether it's them or somebody does for him.
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Speaker 5: That's off that Kaylon Kaylor putting out for all of
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Speaker 5: us to now do what the league doesn't want us
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Speaker 5: to do, which is there the insideer pulled the curtain
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Speaker 5: back on these teams. The Seahawks fourth overall a's across
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Speaker 5: the board, except I think in two areas treatment of
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Speaker 5: player families, which means a player family activity room at
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Speaker 5: the stadium mostly got a B plus. That's gone up
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Speaker 5: from the past. I can't remember one other off the field.
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Speaker 5: The rest are as ownership, a GMA coaching, a defense
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Speaker 5: corner idden dirty by the way eight plus. I saw
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Speaker 5: him in MINDI Napolis the other day they came monod
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Speaker 5: The only the only of seventeen areas the Seahawks got
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Speaker 5: below a B plus was on the fields playing service
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Speaker 5: their home field. And this is an issue that goes
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Speaker 5: back to why owners become NFL owners because of money.
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Speaker 5: Fifteen of the thirty NFL stadiums have real grass. The
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Speaker 5: other fifty to thirty stadium because the Giants and the
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Speaker 5: Jets and the Rims and Chargers share their fields. So
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Speaker 5: fifteen of the thirty NFL stadiums have fee grass. Why
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Speaker 5: do they have fake grass? Well, well you could make
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Speaker 5: an argument of Colonel Yeah, Pittsburgh as l gross and
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Speaker 5: they got raided the worst field in the league. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: because they can't they share it with pitt and with
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Speaker 5: the high school fields or high school teams in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 5: The Seahawks have always had artificial turf, they could do
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Speaker 5: it in the Pacific Northwest. They could truck it in
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Speaker 5: like Arizona and Las Vegas do on trees, grow it
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Speaker 5: somewhere else outside of the elements they don't, And the
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Speaker 5: fifteen out the fourteen other Stadians don't because they want
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Speaker 5: to make money, because they want to have factor pools,
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Speaker 5: motocrosses and concerts with how iven to damage their grass
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Speaker 5: and spend the money to put in new grass? Well,
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Speaker 5: what's interesting to me? I put a lot of stock
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Speaker 5: into this because this is the players that are talking
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Speaker 5: about what their daily lives are, and the teams absolutely
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Speaker 5: pay attention to it. And the fact the league got
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Speaker 5: an arbiter ruling to keep us from being public supposedly
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Speaker 5: by the union, shows how much the league pays attention
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Speaker 5: to This question comes out of this upside of me
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Speaker 5: and I just posted the story for the News Tribune online.
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Speaker 5: There used to be an O come will the new
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Speaker 5: owners pay attention to this field issues? This is the
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Speaker 5: one red flag as the sale goes on that the
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Speaker 5: new ownership group could look at and say, what do
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Speaker 5: we need to fix? With the Super Bowl champion Seahawks
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Speaker 5: who seem to be doing everything right aha the field,
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Speaker 5: and as we know, the World Cup's coming to Moomenfield
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Speaker 5: this summer and it's going to have a real grass field.
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Speaker 5: FIFA requires that international and World Cup matches pull on
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Speaker 5: real grass, as it did the club will Cup in
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Speaker 5: a temporary grass pitch of Movemanfield last summer. And the
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Speaker 5: talk has been around in the locker room for a while,
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Speaker 5: why don't we just keep the World Cup grass again?
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Speaker 5: The players prefer grass eight days out of seven to
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Speaker 5: play on. The league tries to throw up all this
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Speaker 5: information at all. Turf doesn't add to injuries, and there's
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Speaker 5: statistical evidence that grass and turf is a wash. That's
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Speaker 5: bull to the players. They hate the turf, hate it.
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Speaker 5: They hate this field. Turf that is at Seattle is
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Speaker 5: any of the league so far? Is another infamous two
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Speaker 5: soft stadium that knee injuries have occurred on. Will the
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Speaker 5: new owners pay attention to this, send the money and
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Speaker 5: put real grass in womenfield? That's the question to me
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Speaker 5: came out of the survey.
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Speaker 2: Greg Bellis with us our Seahawks insider, joining us here
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Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck Well. As you've now left Indianapolis
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Speaker 2: and the combined behind, what else did we learn before
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Speaker 2: we got out of town? Did we get any sense
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Speaker 2: as to where the organization seems most vulnerable, like where
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Speaker 2: they might put their attention running back, cornerback edge. Considering
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Speaker 2: all of the free agents and now at DeMarcus Lawrence story,
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Speaker 2: do you got any sense as to what area they're
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Speaker 2: most concerned about filling this offseason?
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Speaker 5: Running back, offensive defensive line depth? Okay, they are not,
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Speaker 5: though John Snyder made it clear off the podium on
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Speaker 5: pty Bro and cameras. Here, Snyder mighte clear that this
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Speaker 5: is not a good draft and the Seahawks are not good.
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Speaker 5: Therefore invest in the draft. It's why they traded two
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Speaker 5: third day picks of the Saints to get a Pro
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Speaker 5: Bowl kick return in Rashid Shihed. They don't care, frankly,
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Speaker 5: that they have four picks. I still think they're going
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Speaker 5: to end up with one than four, especially because Snyder's
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Speaker 5: at the bottom of each of the first three rounds.
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Speaker 5: That's easy to trade down and pick up multiple picks later.
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Speaker 5: They're not going to have thirty two first round players
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Speaker 5: with first round grades, so it's really likely they're going
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Speaker 5: to trade down from thirty two to get a cup more.
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Speaker 5: But Snyder made clear he doesn't see this draft as
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Speaker 5: a priority. He said that they were planning on this
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Speaker 5: for years ago. They saw that last year and next
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Speaker 5: year's draft are better, deeper, with better talent at the
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Speaker 5: positions they need. And how does that affect their free
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Speaker 5: agency plan? Does that mean they throw a little bit
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Speaker 5: more money to Kenneth Walker because of the Zach Sharperny injury,
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Speaker 5: because maybe there's not a running back they like in
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Speaker 5: this class that's being ready to go right away. The
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Speaker 5: problem what's relying on a college running back now is
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Speaker 5: that there's so many Almost all college offenses are so
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Speaker 5: past prolific and so putting cartoon characters on play cards
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Speaker 5: and we were two word play calls. But there is
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Speaker 5: a big adjustment period, especially at running back, from the
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Speaker 5: college game to the NFL and to draft a guy
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Speaker 5: to be your heir, to replace the Super Bowl MVP,
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Speaker 5: and say this guy is a rookie can do what
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Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker did last year, it's probably full hearty. So
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Speaker 5: does that mean they make a bigger push to resign
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Speaker 5: Walker and give him more money than they were going
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Speaker 5: to offer him? I think so. I still don't think
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Speaker 5: Walker's coming back, but I think it has changed their
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Speaker 5: calculus quite a bit, but it was it was interesting
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Speaker 5: here here at the Combine that yeah, okay, we're going
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Speaker 5: to try to take a pass on this year, Jeff
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Speaker 5: four picks. We're not worried about that, all right.
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Speaker 2: Man, Well, enjoy your time in Michigan. Can't wait to
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Speaker 2: read the article about your adventures in the from the
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Speaker 2: Northeast to the Midwest. Uh, you might even you know,
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Speaker 2: short story is what you might end up writing based
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Speaker 2: on all the information that you have, all the material.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it wouldn't even before I could quote my wife,
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Speaker 5: I have accomplished to the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, Well
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Speaker 5: we had pictures. Yeah, I know, I'm a published some
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Speaker 5: of them worthy of publishing. Yeah. We had a great
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Speaker 5: qu had a great dinner on Sunday night in Boston.
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Speaker 5: Was everything was hunger down with the snows, salt trucks
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Speaker 5: are out. We went to the North End and depending
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Speaker 5: once has been to Boston. Now, how quaint and I
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Speaker 5: do like and original. Lea says, that's part of the
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Speaker 5: highlight of the whole trip. Was really awesome and we
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Speaker 5: got to see our daughter and it's very cool senior
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Speaker 5: All right, I have a good weekend, all right, Greg Bell.
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Speaker 2: I tell you a quick story about Nev Campbell. Oh yeah,
21:43
Speaker 2: so once fun a time I was working in Phoenix
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Speaker 2: and it was a little more guy talking back then.
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Speaker 2: It's gone back to sports talk radio, but it was
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Speaker 2: a little more guy talking back in those days. And
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Speaker 2: and he was he's older than us. He's about fifteen
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Speaker 2: in pop culture, and he says, mine is Nev Campbell,
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Speaker 2: and the whole show was like, oh, come on, like,
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Speaker 2: she's cute and all, but gosh, you can pick anyone,
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Speaker 2: and you're gonna pick Nev Campbell. That's terrible. So that
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Speaker 2: was the conversation, and he kind of like he always
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Speaker 2: looks sad, and I go like, why are you being
22:52
Speaker 2: so defensive. It's just guy talk. We're just sitting here
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Speaker 2: just ripping on each other. It's no big deal. About
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Speaker 2: a week later, I get invited to a party and
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Speaker 2: and she looked exactly like Campbell and it was just like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I get it now, and now I feel terrible.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, all you guys said was Yeah,
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Speaker 3: she's pretty, she's cute, but she's not like Halle Berry, right,
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Speaker 3: And I think Nev Campbell would agree with that.
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Speaker 2: I think so as well.
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Speaker 7: But fake Nev Campbell his wife would have agreed with
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Speaker 7: that too.
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Speaker 2: The fact that we just jumped all over three of us,
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Speaker 2: like the moment it came out of his mouth, and
23:37
Speaker 2: you know he had told her in the past, you
23:40
Speaker 2: know you look like Nev Campbell and blah blah blah.
23:43
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that was that was an uncomfortable moment. That
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Speaker 2: would be all right, let's talk some mariners spring training,
23:50
Speaker 2: all right. So a lot of positives, a lot of
23:53
Speaker 2: superlatives being thrown out. And I did discuss this last week,
23:57
Speaker 2: but I do believe it's worth bringing back up again
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Speaker 2: because look, it's not gonna be easy. It's never gonna
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Speaker 2: be easy. I mean, the Dodgers are going to have
24:05
Speaker 2: injuries for goodness sake before all is said and done.
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Speaker 2: But certainly I feel really good about this team. I
24:14
Speaker 2: think they're gonna win the division. I think they're gonna
24:16
Speaker 2: win it somewhat comfortably. And I don't mean they're gonna
24:20
Speaker 2: run away and hide from the Astros. I don't win
24:23
Speaker 2: by fifteen games. But you know what it's been like.
24:25
Speaker 2: Even when we've done well in the last couple of
24:28
Speaker 2: years and made the playoffs, it's been torture. It was
24:30
Speaker 2: torturous last year, you know. I think that this season
24:34
Speaker 2: is going to be a lot more comfortable from the
24:36
Speaker 2: standpoint of I don't think that we're going to go
24:39
Speaker 2: two and twenty four in April and then have to
24:43
Speaker 2: dig out of a hole and have to save the
24:46
Speaker 2: season by going twenty eight and one in July.
24:48
Speaker 7: I hope, right.
24:50
Speaker 2: I mean, we've lived with that too much. I realize
24:52
Speaker 2: there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows in
24:55
Speaker 2: all seasons, especially baseball seasons, but it's it's been exceptionally
25:01
Speaker 2: torturous for the Mariners the last few years. Even in
25:04
Speaker 2: the successful years, even in the year that you won
25:08
Speaker 2: the division and took the crown off the astros head
25:11
Speaker 2: and got a first round by I mean, there were
25:12
Speaker 2: times we were pulling our hair out. Yes last year.
25:15
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to experience that same season.
25:18
Speaker 2: So that's what I mean by comfortable. I think comfortably
25:21
Speaker 2: we're gonna get where we need to get this year,
25:24
Speaker 2: win the division. I think we'll get a bye, and
25:26
Speaker 2: I think we're going to be heavy, heavy contenders for
25:29
Speaker 2: a World Series appearance. But that said, I mean, it's
25:34
Speaker 2: not like there aren't some holes in the roster or
25:37
Speaker 2: on the team. And I brought up one last week
25:41
Speaker 2: that I'd like to kind of expand on here today.
25:44
Speaker 2: I think that there needs to be some concern about
25:47
Speaker 2: this team's defense, and fortunately Perry Hill is here. And
25:51
Speaker 2: Perry Hill, I mean, there are guys that show up
25:55
Speaker 2: and know the moment they arrive just by reputation, how
26:00
Speaker 2: excited they are to work with Perry Hill defensively. I mean,
26:04
Speaker 2: think about hitter, you know, a positional player. I mean,
26:07
Speaker 2: most of them just want to like get in the cage.
26:09
Speaker 2: But these are guys that are excited to work with
26:12
Speaker 2: Perry Hill to improve their defense and how simple he
26:15
Speaker 2: makes it. And even Brendan Donovan talked about it like
26:18
Speaker 2: very first day, like things triggered in his head like Okay,
26:22
Speaker 2: this is easier. I'm doing well now. So we do
26:26
Speaker 2: have that advantage. And I do think that there's a
26:29
Speaker 2: chance that, you know, some of these question marks do
26:32
Speaker 2: improve because of the coaching staff. But let's be honest
26:36
Speaker 2: about it. I mean, Josh Naylor didn't have a great
26:39
Speaker 2: reputation as a defensive first baseman before he got here.
26:43
Speaker 2: When he got here, I kind of warn you don't
26:45
Speaker 2: expect great defense. And then for I don't know why,
26:50
Speaker 2: he was exceptional very good.
26:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
26:52
Speaker 2: I mean he was saving people left and right over
26:55
Speaker 2: there at first base and so thoughtful as a base
27:00
Speaker 2: mean Kevin Seitzer called him the best, said he has
27:03
Speaker 2: the best quarter awareness of anyone he's ever been around
27:06
Speaker 2: as a player or a coach. And he's been in
27:08
Speaker 2: with some good teams and around some really great players.
27:10
Speaker 2: So Josh Naylor, I think we're good there. I don't
27:14
Speaker 2: think he's going to like take a step back or
27:16
Speaker 2: anything like that. I think that he's kind of found
27:18
Speaker 2: this groove defensively, and I think he's going to be good.
27:21
Speaker 2: But just the fact that I said, Josh Naylor had
27:23
Speaker 2: to save a lot of errant throws last year, and
27:28
Speaker 2: those guys that were making the errant throws are back, yep.
27:32
Speaker 2: JP Crawford's arm at the end of the year was toast.
27:36
Speaker 2: Cole Young had some throwing issues. Twenty one years old.
27:39
Speaker 2: I expect him to get better, but Cole Young is
27:42
Speaker 2: still adapting to a position, and he has a shortstop
27:45
Speaker 2: his entire life and now he's playing second base. And
27:48
Speaker 2: he was better than Polonko last year defensively, but he
27:52
Speaker 2: wasn't a Gold Glove contender. There were some issues there JP.
27:57
Speaker 2: I don't know if he can overcome his issues. JP's
28:01
Speaker 2: metrics suggest that he has the worst range of any
28:06
Speaker 2: shortstop that starts for a Major League baseball team in
28:09
Speaker 2: the game. That typically doesn't get better the older that
28:14
Speaker 2: you get. I mean, JP's lateral quickness is so suspicious.
28:20
Speaker 2: If you saw him by the end of the year,
28:21
Speaker 2: he was getting like a two foot lead off of
28:24
Speaker 2: first base because he was so timid that he couldn't
28:29
Speaker 2: get back on a pickoff move that he wasn't even
28:32
Speaker 2: threatening to get off the bag because he didn't want
28:35
Speaker 2: the pitcher to be enticed to throw over. Yeah, that's
28:39
Speaker 2: a shortstop, so that's probably not gonna get any better.
28:44
Speaker 2: Well his throwing return it should. There's no reason why
28:48
Speaker 2: JP should have throwing issues like he had at the
28:50
Speaker 2: end of last year. Does he make the routine play?
28:53
Speaker 5: Yes?
28:53
Speaker 2: Is that enough to justify it? I suppose, But we're
28:58
Speaker 2: not talking about JP ever winning a Gold Glove award again.
29:02
Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen because they factor defensive metrics
29:07
Speaker 2: into their votes now, and you can't have the worst
29:10
Speaker 2: range and among the worst defensive run saved numbers in
29:15
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball and the voters consider you a top
29:19
Speaker 2: flight shortstop. So I think that's just what it is.
29:22
Speaker 2: He's going to make the plays that are to him,
29:25
Speaker 2: and he's not gonna make he's not gonna save many bases.
29:28
Speaker 2: He's not gonna turn many base hits into outs. I mean,
29:31
Speaker 2: that's just where we are with our shortstop. Brendan Donovan,
29:34
Speaker 2: by his own admission, at third base not a position
29:37
Speaker 2: that I've played consistently as a major leaguer. I've got
29:40
Speaker 2: work to do, and that's why I'm excited to be
29:42
Speaker 2: here with Perry Hill. If I'm going to be in
29:44
Speaker 2: everyday third basement and we still don't know if that's
29:46
Speaker 2: going to be the case, then I've got I got
29:49
Speaker 2: to clean some things up. And I understand why he
29:53
Speaker 2: wasn't an everyday third basement. He was with the Saint
29:55
Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals and Nolan Aronado's one of the great defensive
29:57
Speaker 2: players of all time, and he was standing in front
29:59
Speaker 2: of him. So you don't play Brendan Donovan at third
30:01
Speaker 2: base in that case, So he's just not accustomed to
30:05
Speaker 2: playing there every day. And I'm sure he will be better,
30:09
Speaker 2: but I'm not I still don't know if I don't
30:12
Speaker 2: rate his defense at third as at least a question mark.
30:17
Speaker 2: I'm not saying a weakness, but it is at least
30:20
Speaker 2: something to watch bear out. Randy rose Arena is a
30:24
Speaker 2: circus in left field, and sometimes he'll make terrific plays
30:28
Speaker 2: because of his athleticism and he can chase down balls,
30:31
Speaker 2: and then other times, I mean he's lofting the ball in,
30:35
Speaker 2: he's throwing the wrong bases, he's I mean, he can
30:39
Speaker 2: be a circus out there, and that aspect is not
30:42
Speaker 2: going to improve. Its just not you know, And so
30:45
Speaker 2: to me, that's a major question mark and might even
30:49
Speaker 2: be bordering on a weakness. And then in right field, yeah,
30:52
Speaker 2: I think you're fine when Roeblaze is out there. I
30:55
Speaker 2: think you're gonna be fine when ref Snyder's out there.
30:57
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be okay when Rayley's out there.
31:00
Speaker 2: And then when ken Zone's out there, we got a
31:03
Speaker 2: little bit of a question. Really. The only places defensively
31:07
Speaker 2: that I think that you have sure things are catcher
31:09
Speaker 2: and center field, and then I would put Nayler as
31:12
Speaker 2: the third most positive surest thing that we have. But
31:16
Speaker 2: when you start listing it off second short, lack of
31:21
Speaker 2: range at short, lack of throwing at second, No, not
31:26
Speaker 2: a lot of experience at third base, a bit of
31:30
Speaker 2: a knucklehead as a left fielder, and then a rotating
31:35
Speaker 2: right field where at some times you're not going to
31:38
Speaker 2: have your best guy out there, they start to stack
31:41
Speaker 2: up a little bit. So if we're a pitching first organization, well,
31:47
Speaker 2: having a great defense behind you really does matter. Yeah,
31:52
Speaker 2: So I don't think there's any way that I can
31:54
Speaker 2: convince myself that we're going to have a great defense
31:56
Speaker 2: this year. I'm just hoping that we end up having
31:58
Speaker 2: a good defense, and I'll even settle for Okay, if
32:03
Speaker 2: we start kicking the ball around, you know, turning singles
32:06
Speaker 2: into doubles and things of that nature, it could end
32:10
Speaker 2: up becoming an issue.
32:11
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:11
Speaker 2: And as far as I can tell, as positive as
32:14
Speaker 2: I am about this upcoming season, I mean, I'm climbing
32:16
Speaker 2: up to ninety six to ninety seven wins for this
32:18
Speaker 2: team this year. If there is a question mark, I
32:21
Speaker 2: do think it is on the defensive side of the ball.
32:23
Speaker 3: I think that's fair, especially with you know, outside of
32:26
Speaker 3: Cal Julio and Naleric, there's a lot of unknowns, and
32:29
Speaker 3: especially what we saw last year from JP and a
32:32
Speaker 3: Rose Arena.
32:32
Speaker 7: I get it.
32:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, something to monitor. I'm not saying to worry about it.
32:37
Speaker 7: No, just something to you know.
32:39
Speaker 3: Don't go in thinking like, oh my gosh, we're gonna
32:41
Speaker 3: just have gold gloves everywhere.
32:43
Speaker 2: I mean, we have two gold glovers on the entire team.
32:47
Speaker 2: That's it. We have two.
32:49
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:49
Speaker 2: No, Now we have a defensive coach who has turned
32:54
Speaker 2: people who never even played the position before into goal glovers. Yeah,
32:58
Speaker 2: so we got that in our back pocket. But I
33:01
Speaker 2: would rank it as probably my biggest concern for this team.
33:05
Speaker 2: I think that's fair heading into the year. All right,
33:07
Speaker 2: coming up next, interesting thing about Anthony Richardson that I
33:13
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33:46
Speaker 2: totally on brand, have decided to franchise tag George Pickens.
33:50
Speaker 2: I've never seen an organization that goes out of its
33:52
Speaker 2: way to piss off its own players as much as
33:55
Speaker 2: the Cowboys do. They really like it, I mean, use
33:57
Speaker 2: the franchise tag, but it always seems to be the
34:00
Speaker 2: it's always them, and you know that the players hate it.
34:03
Speaker 2: And you would think that after a run of pissing
34:05
Speaker 2: off so many of their stars that maybe they would
34:07
Speaker 2: handle it a little differently. The next year, they get
34:10
Speaker 2: George Pickens steal of a trade by the way. I mean,
34:12
Speaker 2: everybody wants to rip on Jerry Jones all the time
34:15
Speaker 2: for being a GM dufis, but he stole George Pickens
34:19
Speaker 2: from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He ended up having a great year,
34:21
Speaker 2: was even better. He was better than CD lamby last year.
34:24
Speaker 7: He was great.
34:25
Speaker 2: And yet instead of working out a long term deal,
34:28
Speaker 2: We're going to franchise tag you. And you know, you
34:31
Speaker 2: can put the franchise tag on so that you can
34:33
Speaker 2: work out a long term deal, but that's usually not
34:36
Speaker 2: what they do.
34:37
Speaker 7: Well, look because then you're comfortable. You're like, well, you
34:38
Speaker 7: can't go anywhere.
34:40
Speaker 2: I mean, a smart team uses the franchise tag to
34:43
Speaker 2: will work out the long term deal for a player
34:45
Speaker 2: they really like. Yeah, but the Cowboys always do it.
34:49
Speaker 2: It feels like to piss them off so that they
34:52
Speaker 2: have angry people at training.
34:53
Speaker 7: Camp and then Jerry can talk about it.
34:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. I mean, of all the candidates to
34:58
Speaker 2: franchise tag, I think George Pickens would be one because
35:02
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I would invest long term money to
35:05
Speaker 2: a guy who's that unstable. Yeah, from a personality standpoint,
35:10
Speaker 2: I mean that if this was an isolated case, that
35:13
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense to me. Franchise tag George
35:15
Speaker 2: Pickens until have two years with him before you decide
35:19
Speaker 2: to commit to him long term, because he could have
35:22
Speaker 2: been on his best behavior just last year. But it's
35:26
Speaker 2: just where it's coming from. They are always the team
35:29
Speaker 2: tagging and pissing off their star players. Yeah, and having
35:33
Speaker 2: extended negotiations that creep into training camp and beyond. And
35:39
Speaker 2: so welcome to the newest example of it, George Pickens
35:43
Speaker 2: versus Jerry Jones. I want to talk about Anthony Richardson here,
35:47
Speaker 2: though the Idiapolis Colts have requested his they have granted
35:54
Speaker 2: his request, I should say, to seek a trade. So
35:58
Speaker 2: clearly the Indianapolis Colts are out of the Anthony Richardson
36:04
Speaker 2: business here at this stage. And this is why, this
36:08
Speaker 2: is why when professional athletes get angry at fans or
36:14
Speaker 2: professional talk show hosts, and that's what we are. We
36:16
Speaker 2: are professional sports fans. Hopefully we elevate the conversation a
36:20
Speaker 2: little bit for you here at times at KJR, but
36:24
Speaker 2: we're sports fans. We are sports fans like you. Maybe
36:27
Speaker 2: dab played a little bit of sports growing up, but
36:30
Speaker 2: for the most part, you know, it's our job to
36:33
Speaker 2: study it, have an opinion, have some analysis attached to it,
36:36
Speaker 2: and try to defend our positions. That's our job. And
36:39
Speaker 2: still professional athletes, even though I've been doing it for
36:42
Speaker 2: thirty five years, there are many that think I'm not
36:45
Speaker 2: entitled to my opinion, you know, because I didn't play
36:48
Speaker 2: the game, or I didn't sit, I didn't coach, or
36:52
Speaker 2: I wasn't a general manager. And so we as sports fans,
36:55
Speaker 2: we play armchair coach and armchair quarterback and armchair execus
37:00
Speaker 2: of all the time. I think it's the fun of
37:02
Speaker 2: being a sports fan quite frankly, and I've made a
37:06
Speaker 2: career out of it. So that said, this is why
37:11
Speaker 2: this Anthony Richardson story is why we are empowered to
37:15
Speaker 2: do what we do. Because the Indianapolis Colts and their
37:18
Speaker 2: general manager Chris Ballard, who drafted Anthony Richardson and is
37:21
Speaker 2: still in Indianapolis making the decisions for the Indianapolis Colts.
37:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, wasn't he number five overall or something like that?
37:28
Speaker 2: Right, had an option back in the day to draft
37:32
Speaker 2: or not draft Anthony Richardson, And we all knew you
37:35
Speaker 2: didn't have to follow draftmas to know what the story
37:38
Speaker 2: about Anthony Richardson was. Tremendous talent, not ready, Okay.
37:44
Speaker 7: A project athletic, very gifted.
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Speaker 2: He's a project.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You can't draft a project fifth overall and then run
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Speaker 2: out of patience with him one year into it. You
37:57
Speaker 2: cannot do that. Yeah, Hey, if you wanted to finish
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Speaker 2: product that, we got to have a quarterback that concurrib
38:04
Speaker 2: me right now, then get a polished product. They willingly
38:09
Speaker 2: took a project at five overall. Everybody was on the
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Speaker 2: same page with that, and then a year in two
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Speaker 2: it ran out of patience with him. That is unthinkable.
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Speaker 2: This is why I have a job doing this. This
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Speaker 2: is why fans feel empowered to yell at their general
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Speaker 2: manager and boo their manager's decisions, Because this is a
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Speaker 2: professional general manager in the National Football League who took
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Speaker 2: the risk of drafting a quarterback and he had other
38:42
Speaker 2: options that year. He had a ton of other options
38:45
Speaker 2: that year, and took the risk of taking a guy
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Speaker 2: that everybody knew was going to take a little while
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Speaker 2: before he was seasoned and ready to go, and within
38:52
Speaker 2: a year he'd given up on him. How does that
38:55
Speaker 2: guy still have his job? I don't know. And then second, Dari,
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Speaker 2: how do people still think that we're not entitle to
39:03
Speaker 2: have an opinion about sports now and then? Because ninety
39:08
Speaker 2: nine out of one hundred sports fans would not make
39:10
Speaker 2: that decision. And yet the guy calling the shots for
39:12
Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts has done it right.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, if you wanted to draft him because you
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Speaker 3: were intrigued by his athleticism or skills and what could
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Speaker 3: have been, sure, draft him, but know that you got
39:22
Speaker 3: to put in the work to get him where he's
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Speaker 3: gonna have to be to be a starting quarterback in
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Speaker 3: the NFL.
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Speaker 2: You need to have a three year, three year timetable
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Speaker 2: on when we win. Richardson needs to be what we
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Speaker 2: drafted him to be, and they gave up on him
39:37
Speaker 2: within a half a season. That moment that he took
39:39
Speaker 2: himself out of that game. Remember when he took himself
39:42
Speaker 2: out of the game. We've never seen a quarterback do that.
39:44
Speaker 2: He was tired, he ran a long way, and he
39:45
Speaker 2: took himself out of the game the moment he did that,
39:48
Speaker 2: And I understand why you were furious and benched him
39:52
Speaker 2: and needed to have a heart to heart with him
39:54
Speaker 2: on what it takes to be a leader and what
39:56
Speaker 2: it takes to be a professional football player. But to
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Speaker 2: abandon a number five overall pick in that moment and
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Speaker 2: in essence give up on him, and then two years
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Speaker 2: later you're allowing him to seek a trade because you
40:09
Speaker 2: don't even want him on campus anymore. Fail. Yeah, fail.
40:14
Speaker 2: This is why. This is why we play this, and
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Speaker 2: this is why sometimes we're right and the executive is wrong,
40:21
Speaker 2: even though he's got a lot more experience than what
40:23
Speaker 2: we do. This is why the fan. Sometimes the fan
40:26
Speaker 2: is right when he's yelling at Dan that's the wrong
40:29
Speaker 2: pitching change to move doesn't mean that he's better than Dan,
40:32
Speaker 2: or we want Craig from Accounting to take over as
40:35
Speaker 2: manager of the Mariners. That this is the fun of
40:38
Speaker 2: being a sports fan, and certainly the draw of having
40:40
Speaker 2: a talk show is that sometimes that fan is right
40:44
Speaker 2: that Dan did make a bad pitching change, or that
40:48
Speaker 2: the general manager did shouldn't have drafted Malik McDowell when
40:52
Speaker 2: we were all screaming, don't draft Malik McDowell. Starts right, Yeah, Wow,
40:58
Speaker 2: John Schneider's better at it than any of us. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean he doesn't miss every once in a while. No,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't perfect, and it doesn't mean that a fan
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Speaker 2: can't point it out, yeah, or that a fan can't
41:09
Speaker 2: say I knew we shouldn't have drafted Malik McDowell. And
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Speaker 2: certainly a talk show. Oh so, I just wanted to
41:13
Speaker 2: point that out because that's the ultimate example right there.
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Speaker 2: Nobody liked that they took to Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis
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Speaker 2: with the fifth overall pick, But to then compound it
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Speaker 2: by not having patients with a guy that you drafted
41:26
Speaker 2: as a project, that is like inexcusable, and you can't
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Speaker 2: defend it. There's no defense for that decision. All right?
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