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Chuck in the Morning 9/22 H2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, Real or Fake & ABC's of the M's · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: A great Tuesday morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: It is Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. My name is
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, gutting it out for you here this morning,
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: despite being the first person ever to suffer a massive,
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: and I mean massive, Pop-Tart injury in the last 12 hours.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't know how you're doing it right now,
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  Speaker 3: to be completely honest. Well, it's because of your support, Anders,
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  Speaker 3: you and Travis.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for being more than coworkers.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being friends.
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  Speaker 4: Of course. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. That's what makes
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  Speaker 1: the world go around, people.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Seven o'clock hour. Greg Bell's going to join us here
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  Speaker 2: in two and a half minutes. But let me first
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  Speaker 2: go through your headlines. They are brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: Frost Brewed Coors Light Cold. as the Rockies and the
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  Speaker 2: Rams defeated the New York Giants last night by a
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  Speaker 2: final score of 28-6. It marked the return of Aaron Donald,
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  Speaker 2: and he looked okay, you know, considering he'd been away
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  Speaker 2: for two years, looked great. Three tackles, had one tackle
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  Speaker 2: for loss, and looks like the same physically, same Aaron Donald,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, playing at 280, which is a little under
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  Speaker 2: what he played at the tail end of his previous career.
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  Speaker 1: But looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Rams obviously bounced back, but the story of this game
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  Speaker 2: was the injury to Jackson Dart, who was moving the
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  Speaker 2: football for the Giants when he was injured on the
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  Speaker 2: very first drive. Fortunately for him, when he was kind
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  Speaker 2: of sandwiched. by two different Rams defenders. He was jumping
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  Speaker 2: in the air as he was throwing the ball, and
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  Speaker 2: that kept his leg from being stationary into the ground,
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  Speaker 2: which might have really resulted in a major injury. Looks
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  Speaker 2: like it's an MCL sprain, and Dart is expected to
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  Speaker 2: miss two to four weeks, but they're doing more tests
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Jaden Daniels might be out for longer.
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  Speaker 1: Then again, they.
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  Speaker 1: May not put him on the IR.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to me after the same injury in the span
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  Speaker 2: of 10 months that maybe something needs to be done
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  Speaker 2: to support that joint in there, but we shall see.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams obviously faked all of that. And could play
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  Speaker 2: this week, it sounds like, against the Philadelphia Eagles, although
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  Speaker 2: most likely he will miss at least one game. Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night football, Michael Penix is going to start for the
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons against the Green Bay Packers. That's the next
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  Speaker 2: game that we are going to watch. College football, Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: at UW this Saturday. It'll be the first Big Ten
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  Speaker 2: game of the year for Jed Fish and the Dawgs.
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  Speaker 2: Sounders will be squaring off on a Wednesday night against
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  Speaker 2: Real Salt Lake right here in Seattle. 6.30 to start tomorrow. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: Mariners hosting the Astros. Christian Javier pitching for Houston. Logan
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  Speaker 2: Gilbert pitching for the Mariners. First pitch is at 640. Man,
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  Speaker 2: this could have been a pretty fun couple of nights.
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  Speaker 2: And instead, the Mariners sit there and cling to a 0.1%
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  Speaker 2: chance of making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Could be eliminated tonight. Six games to go.
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  Speaker 2: They are five games out of first place in the
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  Speaker 2: dreary American League West. And then finally, Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 2: expected to practice on Wednesday. I don't know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of details. Fortunately, we got the right guy to fill
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  Speaker 2: in all the gaps. Greg Bell joins us.
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  Speaker 5: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 5: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I burned three fingers on a Pop-Tart last night. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you want to do a story on me,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll be available after the show.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Yeah. Did I need to seek medical attention?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's just put it this way. I'm tougher than most.
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  Speaker 1: So I gutted it out. I gutted it out, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: You see this stuff all the time in the Army.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it's like to gut it out.
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  Speaker 4: I do. For sure, I do. Wow. I was in
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  Speaker 4: the emergency room until 3 a.m. last night. What? If
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  Speaker 4: that makes any better.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? What happened?
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  Speaker 4: I got a foot infection that blew up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 4: Those of you in Hawaii know this. I got sea anemone.
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  Speaker 4: I stepped on a sea anemone when I was surfing
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  Speaker 4: on the North Shore with my daughter. And that was
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  Speaker 4: 10 days ago. And I went to an urgent care
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  Speaker 4: in Oahu. And I said, oh, we really don't pull
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  Speaker 4: these tentacles out anymore. It's calcium. They just absorb in
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  Speaker 4: the blood. Take some antibiotics. You'll be fine. And for eight,
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  Speaker 4: nine days, it was fine. And then yesterday or Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: the game day in Arizona, it blew up. I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: even walk.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 4: I got to go to UW podiatry this morning and
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of other fun stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, Pop-Tarts and Vietnamese.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for one-upping me, Greg. I was just over here
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 4: His Pop-Tart injury. I wasn't even going to bring it up,
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  Speaker 4: but then you did the Pop-Tart story. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a lot more serious than Caleb Williams' injury,
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  Speaker 2: and he got a standing ovation for his bravery Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: I should have gone out in the back of a car.
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  Speaker 4: You should have.
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  Speaker 2: With a towel over your head waving to all the
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  Speaker 2: fans to assure them that you'll be okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of, I mean, it's easy for people
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  Speaker 4: online to make fun of him. But I get it.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a quarterback who thinks his knee has injured
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  Speaker 4: you out for the year, And you're the franchise guy,
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  Speaker 4: and it's only week two. I could get the emotion
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  Speaker 4: of that if you're a competitor. I mean, yeah. So
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  Speaker 4: at the moment, that's what he thought.
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  Speaker 1: Except that it was a hamstring.
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  Speaker 4: Right. I know. I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about our quarterback's injury. Sounds like Sam
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  Speaker 2: Darnold's going to practice on Wednesday. What do we know?
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  Speaker 4: He is. At least that's what Mike McDonald said the
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  Speaker 4: plan is. I was told in Arizona over the weekend,
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  Speaker 4: I heard that he was on track to start practicing
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  Speaker 4: on Wednesday. So now the question becomes, how much do
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  Speaker 4: you split the reps with Drew Locke? Because as we've
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  Speaker 4: talked about, the starter normally gets 100% of the game
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  Speaker 4: week reps. But it would be probably foolish for the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks to give Sam Dunham 100% of the reps and
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  Speaker 4: Drew Locke none of this game plan for Washington Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Then there's another question that I posed in my story
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  Speaker 4: I wrote for the News Tribune yesterday. Should Sam Darnold play?
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  Speaker 4: I talked about this with Jess on our show yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: If ever there was a week and a time of
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  Speaker 4: how a team is rolling, to maybe take an extra
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  Speaker 4: week of caution toward your starting quarterback and let him
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  Speaker 4: heal a little bit more might be this one. I
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  Speaker 4: know they're on the road and they have to go
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  Speaker 4: across the country for a 10 a.m. start. They're playing
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  Speaker 4: a winless game. an 0-2 commander's team that will be
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  Speaker 4: without its starting quarterback. Jaden Daniels ruled out yesterday, dislocated
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  Speaker 4: elbow by Dan Quinn, saying that Marcus Mariota is going
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  Speaker 4: to start. Now, Mariota, of course, has been around a
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  Speaker 4: while and a veteran, but you're facing a backup quarterback
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  Speaker 4: of a winless team while your team is rolling, and
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  Speaker 4: Drew Locke is a top 4 NFL quarterback through two weeks. 73%
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  Speaker 4: of his passes, a passer rating that's second in the league...
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  Speaker 4: Do you just say, Sam, just ease your way back in,
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  Speaker 4: Drew's got this, and go ahead and start Locke again
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  Speaker 4: this week? They're going to figure all that out, but
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be interesting, and McDonald acknowledged yesterday that
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  Speaker 4: this is going to be different on how the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: split the reps this week.
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  Speaker 1: Do coaches just think differently on this?
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  Speaker 2: Because that makes logical sense to me, sounds like it
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  Speaker 2: makes logical sense to you, even Jessamyn, that, hey, We
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  Speaker 2: can win this game with true luck. There's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to rush him back. But it just feels to me
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  Speaker 2: like Mike McDonald and all other head coaches, when you're healthy,
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  Speaker 2: you go. We're putting the best guys out there whenever possible.
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  Speaker 2: It feels to me like they don't really consider the
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  Speaker 2: opponent when making these decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right on that, wrong on that?
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  Speaker 4: You are right on that, and it's because there are
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  Speaker 4: so few, relatively fewer games in the NFL than, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: in the NBA, load management. You just take games off
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  Speaker 4: just because. Major League Baseball, you've got to hang now,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll take a couple days off. Guaranteed contracts play
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  Speaker 4: into that as well. Drew Locke is playing for his contract.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't have a contract after this year, and he
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  Speaker 4: made millions of dollars across the league with how he
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  Speaker 4: played in Arizona on Sunday. Sam Donald, of course, is
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  Speaker 4: in year two of a three-year deal, and there's no
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  Speaker 4: reason that he has to be worried about his contract situation.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to get minted next offseason. But it is different.
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  Speaker 4: There's an urgency and a lack of security for players
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  Speaker 4: and for coaches and just in NFL in general compared
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  Speaker 4: to the other sports that play so many more games. So, yes,
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  Speaker 4: the approach is not, well, we'll just take this one
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  Speaker 4: off because that might be the one that keeps you
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  Speaker 4: from playoffs or that might be the one that keeps
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  Speaker 4: you from home field advantage in the playoffs, where a
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  Speaker 4: Wednesday night in Charlotte of an 82-game NBA season is
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  Speaker 4: completely different.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider, Newstribune.com. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you can follow him at GBellSeattle on X.
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  Speaker 2: I floated something out to Anders and Travis earlier this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't expect you to necessarily have thought about
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  Speaker 2: this just yet, but I'll just put it in your head,
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  Speaker 2: get your gut reaction to it, and then maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: discuss it.
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  Speaker 4: I probably haven't. With the last week and a half
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  Speaker 4: I have, I guarantee I haven't thought of this, but okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, considering the rash of injuries at quarterback that we've
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  Speaker 2: already seen, and I'm not saying that Washington, Chicago, and...
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  Speaker 2: New York are looking to make some trade for a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that those injuries rise to that level.
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  Speaker 2: But between now and November, whenever, when the trade deadline is,
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  Speaker 2: if Sam Darnold comes back from this, proves that he's
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  Speaker 2: healthy and good to go, you got Drew Locke, whose
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  Speaker 2: last example of football has been excellent. And if somebody
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  Speaker 2: does lose a quarterback between now and the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 2: that feels like, hey, we've got a championship team. Do
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  Speaker 2: we really want to abandon this season? Is Drew Locke maybe–
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  Speaker 2: did he set John Schneider up to trade him at
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  Speaker 2: the trade deadline? And I know that that could sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: a really quality backup for you, but Drew's value is
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  Speaker 2: never going to be higher.
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  Speaker 1: He's not coming back next year.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be starting quarterback for somebody next season.
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  Speaker 2: Is that something that John Schneider is willing to roll
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  Speaker 2: the dice on, is a trade of Drew Locke at
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  Speaker 2: the trading deadline if, in fact, he can get a second– third,
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  Speaker 2: maybe first round pick out of it.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, there's no, there's no way, no way a
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  Speaker 4: backup quarterback would command a first, a second or third
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  Speaker 4: round pick. I don't care. The next Joe Montana, look
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  Speaker 4: at the, look at the trades guys. The Stefan digs
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  Speaker 4: trade to Buffalo a couple of years ago. What was that?
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  Speaker 4: Like a conditional fifth round pick for an all pro
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver. There is no way none. We all think that, well,
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  Speaker 4: drew locks playing great. He would have this high value, uh,
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  Speaker 4: No way in hell that a team would give up
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  Speaker 4: a second or third round pick for a backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: That's number one. Number two is the Seahawks have a
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  Speaker 4: luxury that very few teams do. They have a backup
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  Speaker 4: quarterback who started and can win, and it's still in
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  Speaker 4: his 20s. They have a piece that can be, as
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: we've seen the last two weeks, really valuable if your
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  Speaker 4: starting quarterback goes down. Why would you give away what
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  Speaker 4: you have that no one else has? All about chasing edges,
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: and Mike McDonald talked about chasing. Well, they have chased
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  Speaker 4: this edge, ran it down, and caught it. They have
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  Speaker 4: a backup quarterback that can win with a number one defense.
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  Speaker 4: Why would you just give it up and then be
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  Speaker 4: left with Jalen Milrow as your break glass in case
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  Speaker 4: of emergency quarterback? I think it would be malpractice to
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  Speaker 4: give up what you have and what you gave a
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  Speaker 4: two-year contract to to have for this very situation. Three,
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  Speaker 4: it would run counter to what John Schneider has done
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  Speaker 4: ever since the Trevoin-Boykin experience that we talked about a
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  Speaker 4: couple weeks ago. Ever since Boykin, he has had a
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  Speaker 4: backup starting quarterback, or backup quarterback who has started in
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  Speaker 4: the league. He traded for Huntley. He even had... His
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  Speaker 4: name is escaping me from the Rams a few years
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  Speaker 4: ago as the first backup quarterback. Then it was Brett Huntley.
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  Speaker 4: Then it was Geno Smith. Then it was Drew Locke. It's... Now, he...
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  Speaker 4: You could say he lucked into this, but John Schneider
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  Speaker 4: planned for this. He brought back Drew Locke. He insisted
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  Speaker 4: first that Locke was part of the Russell Wilson trade.
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  Speaker 4: And then he brought him back after Locke left for
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  Speaker 4: a year to the Giants just for this case. I
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  Speaker 4: know what you're saying about the enticement of what you
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  Speaker 4: get in return, but I just don't think the return
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  Speaker 4: would be as high as that. And why would you
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  Speaker 4: give up what you struck gold with by proactively planning
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  Speaker 4: for it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just did a quick Google search to see
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  Speaker 2: if there's any kind of standard for this. It was
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  Speaker 2: not in season, but the Eagles traded Kevin Cobb in
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  Speaker 2: 2012 for a second-round draft pick because he was a
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  Speaker 2: backup and Michael Vick was standing in front of him
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  Speaker 2: coming back.
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  Speaker 1: And then how.
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  Speaker 4: Many starts did Kevin Cobb make after that trade?
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  Speaker 1: Not many, but they still pulled it off.
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  Speaker 4: How many years did the Eagles regret trading a second-round pick?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that was 14 years ago. Yeah. I just
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  Speaker 4: can't see it.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably right.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems to me like you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: keep him after this season. And if there's a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that goes down between now and then on a really
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  Speaker 2: good team, maybe that's Drew Locke's value to the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: going forward. Rather than just holding a clipboard during the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: you could get a draft pick for him.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe I'm overshooting.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I mean, never say never. The Broncos gave
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  Speaker 4: up two first rounds and two second round picks for
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  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson, and Pete Carroll never thought he'd get that
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  Speaker 4: deal either. So, sure, in your scenario, if somebody was
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: desperate for a starting quarterback and they would be then
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: tempted to overpay, John Schneider would listen to that call.
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  Speaker 4: But again, then you'd be left for the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the year with Jalen Melrose as your emergency quarterback. So
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  Speaker 4: I think he put himself in this place, Schneider did,
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  Speaker 4: And why would he abandon that? That's my feeling. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: for the sake of argument, a desperate team comes in
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  Speaker 4: and asks, first round pick, sure. If someone offered him
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: a first round pick. If someone offered him a first-round pick,
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  Speaker 4: the GM who did that should be fired.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the running backs.
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  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price obviously left the game with an injury, and
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  Speaker 2: while he was out, Emmanuel Wilson did exactly what Mike
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: McDonald wanted him to do throughout the entire fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: So what has that changed about the running back room,
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  Speaker 2: if anything, this week?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it means they're deeper than a lot of people thought.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked on the roundtables and with Hugh about what
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: do they have at running back behind Price, and He
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: was saying how it's a bunch of third-string running backs
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  Speaker 4: in his mind. Well, maybe Emmanuel Wilson has moved up
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  Speaker 4: in that estimation. 21 carries for 92 yards. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just wore him out to the point that they had
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  Speaker 4: to take a timeout in the fourth quarter before the
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Barnard touchdown to just give Wilson a break. And that
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: was after Price went out. Price would have had, I
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: would say, upwards of 20 carries in that game because
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: he would have run a lot in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 4: had he not left the game with that. It's now
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  Speaker 4: a shoulder injury, not a chest. Mike McDonald changed the
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  Speaker 4: diagnosis yesterday to shoulder, but he doesn't think Price is
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  Speaker 4: going to be out very long. He said it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: look like a long-term thing at all. But, yes, Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't know what they had in Emmanuel Wilson because
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: he missed most of August with a hamstring injury. So
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't part of the preseason much of training camp.
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  Speaker 4: This is what they hoped they got when they signed him.
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  Speaker 4: Here's another John Schneider special, a one-year, no-risk, Low guarantee,
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  Speaker 4: minimum salary contract after a 500-yard season last year with
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  Speaker 4: Green Bay, and then he's your bell cow running back
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: to salt out a win in Arizona. They're pleasantly, pleasantly,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if surprised is the right word, but
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  Speaker 4: they really love the development of accidentally finding a running
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  Speaker 4: back that can count on the rush 20 times. So
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  Speaker 4: that's a fringe benefit of this whole thing of Price
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: having to leave the game. Zach Charbonnet, I don't know
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: if we've talked about him this year. I have on mine.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: The NFL rules have changed that you can now come
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: back to practice after two weeks while on the pup
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: list after two games. That's this week. There's a chance
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: he might practice this week. He still won't be able
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: to play until after the fourth game.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Last thing, Nick Emanwari, did Mike McDonald see enough on
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Sunday to turn up the volume with him this week?
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: It sounds like it. He said he's They will proceed
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: from here. He could have played more on Sunday, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: they purposely didn't want him to, than more than the
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: nine snaps. When I talked to him when we were
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: in the locker room in Arizona Sunday, he said, I'm
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: full go the rest of the season. I'm playing every
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: snap the rest of the season. I'm good. This is
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: what today was supposed to be. And McDonald did say
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: yesterday that we got out of what we wanted to
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: on Sunday. I would expect him, if not 100% of
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: the snaps, to be far more involved in more sub-packages,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: which means the Seahawks are going to play far more
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: dime than they have in the first two weeks, which
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: has been almost zero compared to last year. I think
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: it sounds like Eamon Warrior is going to get more
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: of the regular package, which makes the Seahawks much more versatile.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: They went back to a lot more 4-3 again with
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: three linebackers, with Drake Thomas and Tyrese Knight on the
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: field some. like they did against New England. And if
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Nemo Warwick comes back, I would think we'd see less
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I can't believe you suffered a beach injury on your
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: lovely trip to Hawaii.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: A couple, again, if you're in a mud, I'm going
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: to tell you the whole story of that week. I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: not going to do it yet, but that week was
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: harrowing to say the least. It was a, yeah, I
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: know it was weird. Yeah, I thought it was over,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and then Sunday it blew up. It's weird.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm just picturing you with, like, a foot the size of, like,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a honey-baked ham right now sitting there at home.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: It's the color of one, too.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Oh, man. So is it seeing it in me,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: not a jellyfish, Greg?
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: It's not. Okay. I had about 25 tentacles sticking out
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: of my foot when I raised it up out of
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the water.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: And I just started one by one pulling them out
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: like a pincushion. Oh. And I didn't get about 10
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: of them, and they're still in my foot. Jeez.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Are you coming in today, or are you broadcasting from home?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm coming.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He's from the Army, Chuck. What are we talking about?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: They get Pop-Tart injuries all the time, and they just
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: got it out.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: He's following your footsteps.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: What flavor was the Pop-Tart?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It was cinnamon, which I don't normally do.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, that's why.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: You got burned.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Who eats cinnamon Pop-Tarts? That was your first mistake. That's
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: got to be like Safeway was out of all other
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: flavors and all that was left was cinnamon.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Honestly, it was a two-for-one deal.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I don't normally get them to begin with.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: But it was a two-for-one deal. And I'm like, well,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get two of the same. flavor,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and it was the only other flavor.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: There's a reason why cinnamon was left on a two-for-one deal.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: There's a reason. Nobody. You're the first person I've ever
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: heard of that has cinnamon Pop-Tarts. That's crazy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Well, never again. Not after it bit me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Learn my lesson. You and everyone else learned enough each time.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Last cinnamon Pop-Tart I ever trust. All right, Greg, we'll
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: listen at 10.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: All right, happy Tuesday.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Greg. Greg Bell joining us right here on Chuck
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: in the Mornings.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: If you want to follow him, at G. Bell, Seattle,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: there on X.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: And every day he joins us here at 7.05 with
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: 12th Man News. All right, Factor Fiction coming up in
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit. It will be my selection. I'll try
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: not to let my injury affect my and cloud my opinions,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: but I'm pretty doped up on painkillers right now. Also
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: coming up, it's a game that, well, let's face it,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: we've been playing for 25 years here in the modern times.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Real or fake?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. We have eight 2-0 teams
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League right now. And I want
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: to just do a quick round of real or fake.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Whether or not these 2-0 teams are the real deal
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: or if you think they are faking the funk. Let's
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: start with the Buffalo Bills 2-0.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Real deal.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love what I see with Josh Allen,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Joe Brady, kind of more aggressive nature. And I am
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a little concerned about the defense, but I still think
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: they're leaning into what makes them good and the best
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: player in the league.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I think they look so good offensively that I'm wondering
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: if Joe Brady sabotaged Sean McDermott.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to call my best plays until I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: get the job. Yeah, there is an element of that, right?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Or if Sean McDermott sat on Joe Brady's best plays
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the entire time to keep them conservative.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but finally the Bills.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Look like we thought the Bills could look at least
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: two games into the season.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I think they're real. Cincinnati Bengals, real or fake?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I think they're real, especially because it's not even really
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: their offense that's carrying them. Their defense looks elite. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: it's a huge step up for them. And I think
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the offense will get going. Joe Burrow looks great. Yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I think they're real for sure. Yeah, I do too.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And I think they got a real shot at winning
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: the division. Everybody keeps touting Baltimore. I don't know what's
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: happening there. The Kansas City Chiefs are 2-0.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, real, obviously.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, all aspects. Yeah, it's honestly a little too real.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Sadly too real. I mean, and I don't root against
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs. No, I don't either.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: But.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: You know, really?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They're only going to be bad for one year, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: then they're going to be right back on top. They
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: look like the best team in the national football league, arguably.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I do agree with that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: And it's just the canine effect is coming into play here,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: and it's frustrating.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: All right, so three reels so far. We're clearly not
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in Vegas with that much reel and that little fake
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: going on.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: So let's get to Vegas.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: 2-0.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fake.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Rookie quarterback or not even playing the rookie quarterback. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: do believe they will be better than one of the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: bottom tiers in the NFL this year, but they're not
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: like a playoff or Super Bowl contender.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're better. And good for Clint Kubiak.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be better this year.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I think they will flirt with making the playoffs, but
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to improve that much.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go fake as well. Philadelphia? I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: think they're fake.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I have not been convinced. They almost lost this past
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: weekend to the Titans. And, you know, they have a
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: couple injuries. Saquon Barkley doesn't look completely right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: No, he does not. The defense looks pretty good. They
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: have been saving.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Though it's not like their Seahawk level where they're able
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: to carry a mediocre to bad offense so I'm.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Gonna say fake for the Philadelphia Eagles um I think.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts looks really good and I think their defense
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: has another level to reach I think they're real um
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna say real on the Eagles what about
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the Vikings I think they're fake.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I just don't see any way that either quarterback can
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: really score enough points to be able to compete with
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the big boys in the NFL. I love what they're
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: doing defensively. Brian Flores is about as aggressive as it gets,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: but I just don't. I know Kevin O'Connell's been known
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: for being the whisperer, but I just don't know if
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: they can get enough offense.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The defense is real.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Yes. I.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and lean toward real. Really?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: That's a couple impressive wins that they've had so far.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, real or fake?
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Real.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, just everything's firing on all cylinders.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: It's all if they can stay healthy.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It's real right now, but the Wolf's wearing a dress.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: It's going to be fake. They're going to fall apart.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: They're all going to get hurt by week five.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: That's fair. And the Seattle Seahawks.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Real.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, with the backup quarterback. I don't know.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we still don't know enough about the defense.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Right, exactly. Come on, you've got to prove to me
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. Verdict's still out. Yeah, it's feeling
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: really real. It's feeling like they're.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Even better than they were a year ago.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: All right, let's play some Factor Fiction. We're set to go.
• 25:00
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• 25:01
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• 25:16
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• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Man, there is a game that I absolutely love, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: it's so like, what's wrong here?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: That I'm too scared to take it. You're almost afraid
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it's the wrong line?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention it. I will before the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: end of the segment, but I don't want to confuse anyone.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: So I'll mention it after I make my pick. But
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and take, like we talked
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: about with the Kansas City Chiefs, I think the Miami
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Dolphins are horrible. I don't care if they are home
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: for their home opener this year. I don't think that's
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: going to save them. And the Kansas City Chiefs look
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: like they are on a mission. Mahomes looks back. Kelsey
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: looks back in full form. Andy Reid's on track with
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: his two stars, and Ken Walker has made a monstrous difference.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: The Dolphins lost to the Raiders by 14. They lost
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to the 49ers by 22. They're not going to, even
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: at home, keep this game within 11 points.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: The line is 10.5.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say the Kansas City Chiefs are going
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to blow out the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, so I'll
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: go ahead and lay the big, fat 10.5 on the road.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: which is never really advised in Vegas circles. But I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: going to go ahead and lay the 10.5. I'm going
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to say the Chiefs win by 11 points or more
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: on Sunday.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: And that is my official pick on this Tuesday.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: If you agree with that selection, go ahead and text
• 26:40
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• 26:45
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• 26:49
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• 27:07
  Speaker 2: you got a shot at $ 1, 000. All you got to
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: do is be right once per week. But if you
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: are right 20 times this week, because we'll play 20
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: times as a station, you can get 20 entries into
• 27:18
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• 27:22
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Going to win $ 10, 000.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: So fact.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: 4-9-4-5-1 if you agree with the Chiefs winning by 11
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: or more points at Miami this Sunday.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Fiction if you disagree.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: That is my official pick for today. The other one,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the one that makes too much sense. Hell, even Florida's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: head coach weighed in on this and said, whoever made
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the lines are on drugs. Florida is giving Ole Miss
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: three and a half points this week.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Why? Why? Yeah, exactly.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Is everyone just way over the top on the come
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: down game from LSU?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That's clearly, I mean, there's got to be something to
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the matchup that Vegas doesn't think is good. But to me,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Vegas sets the lines on based on what they think
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the public's going to bet. Even if you think Florida,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: they set it on what the public's going to bet.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm shocked. And so it's one of those games
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: where you're like, They must know something.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm staying away from that because it does not make
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: any sense to me. But the official pick is Kansas
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: City Chiefs minus 10.5 at Miami. So fact to 49451
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: if you agree. Fiction if you disagree. Greg Bell will
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: pick next at 1135 this morning with Jessamyn McIntyre. Coming
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: up next on our radio show, we're going to squeeze
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: in some ABCs of the M. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Also,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel will be with us at 9 o'clock today
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to talk some college football. Those are just things we
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: do on Tuesday. It's just like, you know, brushing your
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: teeth on a Tuesday. You just get up and talk
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: to Rick Neuheisel and Gene Stericore, doesn't everybody?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Part of the routine.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Do you only brush your teeth on Tuesdays? Yep, yep, yep.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And 17 times. So you get it for the full week? Right, right. Yeah,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that's fair. What about flossing? That's just my, oh, floss,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: we've already covered this. Floss game. I'm a floss monster.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a floss addict.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Let's get to the ABCs of the M's. And we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: left off with a letter R. Haven't actually done it
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: in a while.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: While.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: R is for Raleigh.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: And as we sit here on the last week of
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the R is for regular season, I do wonder if
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: our guy R is for Raleigh is R is for restored.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, he has to have a tremendous sense of
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: R is for relief. To have played the way he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: did for four months and then for the last couple
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: months of the year, I mean, it had to start
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: creeping into his head, Anders, that am I done?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Can I not do this anymore? It had to.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are deluged constantly by that psychological battle.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And when somebody who had as much success as he
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: did a year ago, one year later is having that
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: large of a struggle. man, it can get in your
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: head and you might not be able to get it out.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: So for him to.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Have finished the season pretty strong and for him to
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: be flirting with 25 home runs at this point and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: getting the average at least to 190 as opposed to
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: worst batting average ever, I would think Cal Raleigh feels
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: tremendous relief and goes into next year looking at that
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: as an outlier fluke And he's ready to go for 2027.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree. And we've just seen so many
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: instances where a slugger goes through a slump and then
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: they never really get back to where they were before
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: just because it's such a volatile kind of way to play.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: I think the biggest example is Chris Davis. And I
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: was really afraid. that he was going to fall into
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: the Chris Davis kind of mold, where he leads the
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: league in home runs. He kind of has a lot
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: of similar skill set to Cal Raleigh. Obviously not the
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: defensive aspect, but just on the offensive side of the ball.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: But the fact that he definitely looks a lot more comfortable.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: This is the Cal Raleigh in the last at least
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: month of the season that we have come used to seeing.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: And like.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: we never expected him to hit 60 home runs again
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: this year, but just looking like the Cal Raleigh, even.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Before 2025 is something take moving forward.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: No question about and i think i mean he had
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: he threw up 13 of his runners this year yeah
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: i mean i think that that oblique was bothering him
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a lot more than what he let on it was
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: affecting the way he threw so i would imagine it
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: was affecting the way he swung yeah i think he
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: was thinking about it i think he was course correcting
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: his swing in order not to aggravate it i think
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: i think that was a bigger factor than he ever
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: let on because he'll never let on uh to that
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Take notes, Caleb Williams. Yeah, I'm expecting 30 to 40
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: home runs next season from him. And for those that
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: are throwing the dirt on his career or that he's
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: passed it, I think you're making.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, just the psychology of the game. I mean,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: we lauded Ty Francis' hitting abilities. He was a good mariner.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, he was a terrible one.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And then he got inside his head. And then nobody
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: would pick him up. And he was bouncing from team
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: to team. But then in San Diego this year, on
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: a minor league deal, he settles in and had a
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: 900 OPS this season, for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: The psychology of this sport cannot be underestimated.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: S is for Skeens.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Paul Skeens announced yesterday he was asked about his struggles
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: this season. I mean, this is a guy that was
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: being talked about as the best pitcher in baseball, right?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: And a horse.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Like, not only is he great, I mean, he's so
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: big and durable and he works so hard. He's going
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: to be great for years. If anybody's going to be
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: great for years, it's him. And then he didn't play
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: well this year. He was asked about it yesterday. He
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: blamed it on the WBC. Said that his involvement in
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: the WBC just threw him off and he never did
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: recover from it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: It is amazing to me how much baseball players rely
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: on routines. And any sort of wrench into that. More
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: so now than ever.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I know. It's crazy.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: And that's on baseball itself because they force them into
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: those routines.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, Mariners pitchers can't pitch after a rain delay.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: They can't. Because they woke up. The game was supposed
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to start at 4. Why is it not starting at 4? Oh,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to play. That's kind of what
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it looks like sometimes.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: That's how it feels.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. The piggyback threw them off so wildly. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I know that that was unusual. Maybe that's a bad example. But, no,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: they are such slaves to their routine. You throw them
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: off a little bit, like the butterfly effect.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it affected Cal at all. It
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: didn't affect Randy. He had the best season of his career.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I think it did affect Munoz early, and then he
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: ironed it out after that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I don't like it. I mean, I do like it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I do like the competition itself, but I'm more of
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a Major League Baseball fan than a global baseball fan.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I don't want it ever to be played again. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: really don't, even though I do enjoy it while it's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: being played. If I'm a Major League Baseball team, I'm like,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to stop you from playing, but I'm
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: going to let you know I don't want you to play.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to use Cal Raleigh, Paul Skeens, Drew Smiley,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: every example that I can. I'm not telling you not
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to do it. I just want to present some facts
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to you. I mean, I don't want it to be
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: played anymore. I really don't. I, as a fan, want
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: it to continue. Now, I do think the format and
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: the timing of the year, it could be a lot better.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I think it can.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: take the page out of the NHL where it replaces
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: the all-star break, but just an extended period of time.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: So you're in the middle of the season instead of
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, all that stuff. But I
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: do see the side of things where if you're on
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: the side of MLB or a team, you could definitely take,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: really not want your players to do this because it
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: hurts you it hurts you more than almost any other
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: sport when they play in international competitions it's.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: It's great for the game of baseball yes i think
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: it's even good for major league baseball but i'm telling
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you every individual team wants nothing to do with it
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: anymore i could see that for sure Nothing to do
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, we'll see.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: But Paul Skeen's directly saying that the WBC impacted his
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: poor season this year. Gene Steratore is next.
• 36:11
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