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Chuck in the Morning 8-28 Hour 4: Hugh Millen's X's and O's, ABC's of the Mariners and Booze News! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, rolling into the 9 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: hour here on this Friday. How about this, Ashley? Try
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  Speaker 1: this on for size. So Mike Benton's filling in for
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he rolls into town, and Mike's like one of
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  Speaker 1: the nicest people on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he does his pleasantries and his aloes
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  Speaker 1: and everything else. And then he's got a coffee about
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  Speaker 1: the size of this cleanser container. Yeah, it's large.
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  Speaker 4: Right here.
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  Speaker 1: It's a massive coffee container. And he looked at me
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, these early mornings, man, they'll get you.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, the nerve on you.
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  Speaker 1: Early mornings.
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  Speaker 3: It's nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: You are doing a 10 o'clock show. I'm like, do
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  Speaker 1: you know who you're talking to, mister?
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  Speaker 5: This wouldn't have even been early in Hawaii at 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: I would have been up for an hour.
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  Speaker 1: So I pushed him down. Good.
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  Speaker 4: And poured his coffee over his head.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he laughed in his face.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he'll have to deal with that at 10.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now on the program is our QB1. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for X's and O's, 9 o'clock Fridays. We've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it for years, and we get ready for the
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  Speaker 1: third and final preseason game. And I know Hugh Millen.
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  Speaker 1: is a lot more fired up for tonight than what
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  Speaker 1: Ashley and I have suggested and Greg Bell here today.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad that we do have you on so
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  Speaker 1: that you can present the other side. I know I've
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  Speaker 1: been pretty hard on preseason here this morning and for
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days, but I know there's some
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  Speaker 1: stuff worth checking out here, and I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 1: are here to.
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  Speaker 6: Point them out to us. Uh, yeah, let's not get
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  Speaker 6: carried away. Now this is not football porn for me.
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  Speaker 6: This is, you know, this is like Josh Allen versus
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  Speaker 6: like parka.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A parka catalog. So I mean, I have to get
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  Speaker 6: revved up as much as I can, but you know,
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  Speaker 6: I do think it's interesting, uh, to put, to contextualize this,
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  Speaker 6: to put it into context. So I'm going to make
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  Speaker 6: a couple of assumptions.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: You're a football fan. You're getting ready for the regular
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  Speaker 6: season in both college and the NFL. And you assume
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  Speaker 6: that in September, between now and the end of September,
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  Speaker 6: that the best football you're going to see is the NFL.
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  Speaker 6: And the next best football you're going to see is
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  Speaker 6: college football, really elite college football. And in fact, on
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  Speaker 6: September 12th, Ohio State is going down to play Texas.
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  Speaker 6: So you'd say, oh, that's probably the second best. In
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  Speaker 6: that game, and by the way, if you take the
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  Speaker 6: current standings of the AP, Ohio State's one, Texas is five,
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  Speaker 6: add them together, that's six. That is the best ranking
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  Speaker 6: by that methodology. The next closest is Oklahoma, number 10
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  Speaker 6: at Georgia, number three. But anyways, let's get back to
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State at Texas. The average starters in that game
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  Speaker 6: for both teams is 20 years and 11 months. Tonight,
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  Speaker 6: The average second and third string for the Seahawks is
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  Speaker 6: 25 years and two months. Here's where I'm going with this.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to see some sloppy football, but you're going
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  Speaker 6: to be seeing some guys that are fighting for their career,
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  Speaker 6: their football life, existential fighting tonight. And the talent... You're
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  Speaker 6: going to see tonight in this sloppy, boring game, which
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  Speaker 6: I concede those points, if you took tonight's Seahawks team
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  Speaker 6: and you lined them up and you said, go play
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  Speaker 6: Ohio State, they'd be at least a touchdown favorite in Vegas.
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  Speaker 6: They'd probably win the game. And if you had just
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  Speaker 6: the twos, now you'd be up 17 to 20 points
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  Speaker 6: a game. And if you incentivize the starters, against Ohio State,
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  Speaker 6: point for point financial incentive, you could be up in
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  Speaker 6: the close to 60 points for the Seahawks over Ohio State.
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  Speaker 6: So let's just kind of understand. You're going to see
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  Speaker 6: some high-level football, at least from a talent standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, and that's fair, and I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: you pointed that out. I would just say that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was hard enough for football fans to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we know that the games don't count on the standings.
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  Speaker 1: And year by year, fewer starters play in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're to the point, Hugh, where literally we
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  Speaker 1: aren't going to play a single starter in the three
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  Speaker 1: preseason games. So it's hardened for me, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there of the National Football League,
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  Speaker 1: to think that the coaches value the games anymore, so
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  Speaker 1: why should I?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I couldn't agree more. It's a necessary... I don't
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  Speaker 6: say evil, but it's just a necessary, you know, impediment
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  Speaker 6: to getting where you want to go. And Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 6: making it clear how he feels about this. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, hats off to the Seahawks a week ago,
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  Speaker 6: by the way. Everybody's saying that the number twos for
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  Speaker 6: Seattle beat the starters for Tennessee's to 16 to three. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in week one, Tyrese Knight had his 10
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  Speaker 6: tackles and Patrick O'Connell, his running mate at off-ball linebacker
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  Speaker 6: next to him had a great game. Those guys didn't
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  Speaker 6: play at all last week. The linebackers were Chris Paul,
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  Speaker 6: not the point guard, but Chaz Surratt, and Andre Fuller
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  Speaker 6: was the nickel guy. Those are all third-string guys against
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  Speaker 6: the Tennessee starters. So you're seeing even cases where Mike
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  Speaker 6: McDonald is going off Oh, my, my number two guy
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  Speaker 6: looks so good. I don't need to see him anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want him hurt. We didn't see from anything
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  Speaker 6: from Tyrese Knight last week. Um, so yeah, it's, it's
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  Speaker 6: when you actually, uh, peel a layer of the onion
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  Speaker 6: down to this thing, you're seeing, uh, you know, all
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  Speaker 6: the concepts. and ideas to the nth degree with Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if he puts Connor O'Toole in bubble wrap tonight,
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  Speaker 1: now we've got to.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he had two sacks last week. Yeah, so we.
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  Speaker 1: Can't risk him.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one guy that is going to play, and for
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  Speaker 1: four full quarters, I don't know what they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do if, God forbid, an injury at some point during
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  Speaker 1: the game. I guess you emergency run Drew Lockback out there, but...
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see Jalen Milrow for four quarters, and
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  Speaker 1: he certainly has a lot to prove to the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staffs to show us that he's an improved quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: can handle the flow of the game.
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  Speaker 6: We haven't seen it yet. A couple of things there.
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  Speaker 6: First of all, thus far in the preseason, no rushing
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  Speaker 6: attempts on anything designed or even the read zone keeps.
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  Speaker 6: The only rushing attempts he has, there was an abort
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  Speaker 6: with that drop fumble early in the first game. And
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  Speaker 6: then he had a rush on a naked boot, but
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  Speaker 6: that's like a scramble. And then everything else is scrambles.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think that's interesting. They have not schemed
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  Speaker 6: him to try and take away his legs. They've encouraged him.
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  Speaker 6: You saw it on hard knocks.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, be a runner.
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  Speaker 6: But that's in a scrambling situation on a cold pass play.
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  Speaker 6: What Milrow wants, needs to show the coaches, here's just
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  Speaker 6: a few things. Last week, just going back to last week,
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  Speaker 6: some mistakes he made. First, very first pass, there's a
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  Speaker 6: quarters coverage, ball's on the left hash. That's a four
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  Speaker 6: deep three under. That means that the three under, that
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  Speaker 6: you can't spot drop to a zone. There's too few defenders.
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  Speaker 6: So you have to play man concepts within a zone
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  Speaker 6: so with the ball in the left hash and the
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  Speaker 6: three receiver side going into the the boundary on the
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  Speaker 6: left side there's a nice big hole to the right
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  Speaker 6: you had a just a hook that's about as easy
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  Speaker 6: of a intermediate completion you get 12 yard uh button
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  Speaker 6: hook like you play in the the playground on tory
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  Speaker 6: uh montori foster he he wasn't even looking there he
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  Speaker 6: has a naked bootleg to his left. Now, it's a
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  Speaker 6: little more difficult because it's to your left, but if
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  Speaker 6: you're an athlete like... like Milrow, you have to make
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  Speaker 6: that play. That's like saying an NBA player is a,
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  Speaker 6: is a left-handed lay in more difficult than a right-handed
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  Speaker 6: land for a right-hander.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: But you still got to make it. He comes out
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  Speaker 6: and he dirts that ball to or a Royal.
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  Speaker 4: He has a play.
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  Speaker 6: Um, most of the league calls it a swirl route
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  Speaker 6: where you start to the corner, then stop. And again,
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  Speaker 6: that's like a hook route, which is, is, is static accuracy.
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  Speaker 6: Cause the, The receiver's not going across your vision.
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  Speaker 4: It's mirrored.
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  Speaker 6: We got one on the left, Montori Foster, one on
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  Speaker 6: the right, Cody White. You look at, and that was
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  Speaker 6: a cover three defense. You look at the two hook defenders.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the inside shallow defenders. Whoever squeezes the middle
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  Speaker 6: to that side, throw to the other side. He turns
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  Speaker 6: it down. He under throws a goal ball. You got
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  Speaker 6: to get it out there. That was on third and five.
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  Speaker 4: He had Arroyo.
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  Speaker 6: This is at the 50 yard lane. He had Arroyo
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  Speaker 6: on an out route to get the first down. He
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  Speaker 6: elects to throw the fade. He's got Cody White open,
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  Speaker 6: but he under throws it and to the inside. And
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  Speaker 6: then the last one, The interception, it's a disguised coverage.
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  Speaker 6: It starts looking like that four deep, that cover four
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  Speaker 6: that I described in the first of this set that
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  Speaker 6: I'm describing, but it's a disguise. Think of it like this,
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  Speaker 6: an outfield in softball. You know how there's a left
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  Speaker 6: center fielder and a right center fielder? So what the
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  Speaker 6: quarterback is looking at, okay, there's four guys in the outfield.
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  Speaker 6: Now the safety is going to, in football terms we
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  Speaker 6: call it, he's going to come down off the roof.
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  Speaker 6: And he's going to go from left center. He's going
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  Speaker 6: to come play shortstop. And the guy who's lined up
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  Speaker 6: at shortstop, he's going to go over and play second base. Now,
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  Speaker 6: it's football, so he only went about, I'm estimating, six,
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  Speaker 6: seven yards. But that's the disguise he saw. But he
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  Speaker 6: didn't recognize.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 6: And then he stares down. And then the, the, the
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  Speaker 6: guy who's at second base, who I said, as I said,
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  Speaker 6: was started as a original line up at shortstop. He just,
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  Speaker 6: he just tracks the eyes of the quarterback. It's an
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  Speaker 6: easy interception. So there's five minuses right there and double
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  Speaker 6: minuses on the last one. that are kind of emblematic
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  Speaker 6: of the growth that he needs to show.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Hugh Mellon is with us. Our QB one with
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  Speaker 1: a little X's and O's segment here on this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It is game day as the Seahawks get ready to
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  Speaker 1: face the Kansas city chiefs to wrap up the preseason
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  Speaker 1: tonight in Kansas.
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  Speaker 4: City five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I want to talk a little bit about the linebackers,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to run it through the Nicky Manwari filter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, We're not getting a lot of updates on
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  Speaker 1: Eamon Worry's progress. And as you warned, it's making me
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  Speaker 1: a little nervous. I'm getting a little worried about Nick
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  Speaker 1: Eamon Worry and whether or not when he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to play for this team. But you've also
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  Speaker 1: mentioned a lot in the past. I mean, he's playing
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  Speaker 1: Sam Linebacker. That's the position that he played last year
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  Speaker 1: so well. Just a really wickedly versatile Sam linebacker. So
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  Speaker 1: if he's not ready to go on opening day, you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Tyrese Knight. I mean, is there a Tyrese Knight,
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  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas, Ernest Jones? Will we see them, do you think,
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  Speaker 1: on the field a lot more where you're not replacing
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  Speaker 1: with a safety or a corner that you just go
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  Speaker 1: with the three linebacker sets as your base defense at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the season?
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  Speaker 6: It's a great question and they've had a lot of people, uh.
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  Speaker 4: In that position.
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  Speaker 6: Um, the first snap of, of, uh, practice in the first, uh,
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  Speaker 6: the first drill you had Witherspoon dropped inside and Pritchett
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  Speaker 6: was a corner. Uh, we've seen D Anthony bell run
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  Speaker 6: with the number ones in that regard in, in, uh,
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  Speaker 6: in the last, the prior pre or the first preseason game,
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  Speaker 6: rather you had, uh, uh, Oh, Igbenogany.
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  Speaker 4: Um, right.
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  Speaker 6: Um, and, and so they, they've had a number of guys,
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  Speaker 6: I would say my it's, it's perhaps the question of
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  Speaker 6: the defense, right? Uh, it's, it's just heartbreaking in a way.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, sports heartbreaking, not like real life heartbreaking, but,
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  Speaker 6: but it's heartbreaking, uh, that a young beautiful athlete like
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  Speaker 6: Nick Gammon worry is shelved in this regard. And, and, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you just worry about it kind of, um,
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  Speaker 6: you know, lingering and, and God forbid we ever use
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  Speaker 6: the word regarding his ankle chronic. Um, but all of
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  Speaker 6: those concerns are at least something more than nothing, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, probability lives in a world greater than zero.
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  Speaker 4: And less than a hundred.
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  Speaker 6: So I'll accept anything other than zero and a hundred.
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  Speaker 6: So it's more than zero. And, um, And so a
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  Speaker 6: year ago, the Seahawks' Mike McDonald was resolute. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 6: just nick him and worry, as we said. Sam Linebacker,
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  Speaker 6: he finally said it in the playoff game prior to
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  Speaker 6: leading up to the playoff game against the 49ers. He said, hey,
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  Speaker 6: he's just our Sam Linebacker. It's like we had discussed.
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  Speaker 6: And teams tried to drive them out of that. The 49ers,
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  Speaker 6: with their personnel, tried to drive them out of that. Hell,
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  Speaker 6: the Rams would go 13 personnel and try and drive
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  Speaker 6: them out. And Mike McConnell goes, sorry, I got Superman
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  Speaker 6: as my Sam linebacker. You can go as heavy as
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  Speaker 6: you want. You ain't getting me to take. And not
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  Speaker 6: only will I play that personnel, I won't even put
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  Speaker 6: a safety down in the box to help stop the run.
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  Speaker 6: So you can try and run, and we can still
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  Speaker 6: stop you with a light box in a nickel. against
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  Speaker 6: your three tight end set. Am I making sense about,
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  Speaker 6: about the, the, the extremes that we're going to here, um,
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  Speaker 6: because of what M and worry could provide for you.
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  Speaker 6: And so what I think is most likely to happen
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  Speaker 6: is that McDonald will play it more conventionally where he
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  Speaker 6: will match personnel. He said, okay, uh, we, we can
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  Speaker 6: put D Anthony bell in there, uh, you know, against, uh, maybe, uh,
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  Speaker 6: maybe a lighter personnel, you know, maybe they do, you know,
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  Speaker 6: play the base. And now Tyrese Knight has been a
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  Speaker 6: Will linebacker. And we haven't seen, I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: say any, because then as soon as somebody shows me
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  Speaker 6: one snap, then it proves me wrong. But he's been
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  Speaker 6: a Will linebacker. And so, you know, that's Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: That's the position they've battled at. So if you're talking
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  Speaker 6: about trying to play base with their three best linebackers,
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  Speaker 6: That would be Ernest Jones. That would be Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: And that would be Tyrese Knight. But we haven't seen
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  Speaker 6: Knight play over there. So I think it's a very interesting,
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  Speaker 6: unwanted question. Yeah. You and I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 6: talking about this. Not if we're Seahawks fans.
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  Speaker 4: But we do.
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  Speaker 6: And, uh, and, and I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 6: just kind of, uh, you know, by committee type of
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  Speaker 6: thing in the way I'm describing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, those hard knocks people, they've done,
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  Speaker 1: but they put on a heck of a show so far,
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  Speaker 1: but they need to get off their ass and give
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  Speaker 1: us some updates, uh, on the Eman Worry.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, what's, what's, what's, what's the point?
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  Speaker 6: What good are they?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I know Mike McDonald's going to keep a tight lip,
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  Speaker 1: but their job is to dig this stuff up for us.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go. Um, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I want to close with Leonard Williams, uh, extension yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: three years, $ 90 million, uh, feel like a no-brainer to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're starting to stack some of these highest
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  Speaker 1: paid at their position guys, and I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to add another one next year in Murphy and probably
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  Speaker 1: an extension for Sam. So, I mean, the bill's getting
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  Speaker 1: pretty high for a few individual players, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine not wanting Leonard Williams for the next three years.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of like the must-win talks that we
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  Speaker 6: get into at some point in the various seasons in
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  Speaker 6: the different sports, and they say, well, if we label
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  Speaker 6: this a must-win, then what do we label real must-wins?
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  Speaker 6: So I can't label this a no-brainer because where does
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  Speaker 6: that leave me when I talk about JSN and Witherspoon
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  Speaker 6: and those types, and Murphy next year? So I don't
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  Speaker 6: think it was a no-brainer because of his age, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: But what You're talking about a guy that was number
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  Speaker 6: one in the NFL at the defensive tackle most snaps.
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  Speaker 4: So he's a versatile guy.
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  Speaker 6: He's number four in the league in terms of garnering
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  Speaker 6: a double team. So there's numbers there to support it.
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  Speaker 6: But you just watch the tape. I know the GMs
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  Speaker 6: on the ESPN poll, the GMs rated him the number
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  Speaker 6: one defensive tackle in all of football. So maybe the
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  Speaker 6: sabermetricians don't put him at number one, but the more
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  Speaker 6: subjective eyeball test kind of tells you that in that regard.
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  Speaker 6: I think the further point that I'm kind of realizing
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I had a fuzzy vision of this, Hard Knocks has
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: given us a little bit more clarity, and it's just
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: that his value, somewhat like Cooper Cup, he's far more
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: productive than Cooper Cup. But his value as a veteran
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: who buys in and makes sure that the young guys
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: are buying in, I think this guy is an extraordinary
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: human being who happens to be a football player. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: everybody that he's around, he touches them in a positive way.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: And I think that the Seahawks, at least some of
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: this contract, I'm not going to say obviously the majority
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: or half or anything like that, but there's more than
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: $ 1 in that contract that can be directly tied to
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: who he is and the leadership. So that part intrigues me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know how the ratios break down. We can
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: all just kind of give our gut hunch estimates about it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: But there's no question that he's being paid in part
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: for what he brings in these what we'll call less
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: tangible ways.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Phenomenal.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It might be the preseason, but Hugh Millen's in regular
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: season form, ladies and gentlemen.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe postseason.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe postseason. We're not running our backups out there. We're
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: going first stringers every Friday, 9 o'clock. I don't know
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, that was kind of backup quality. I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: used to being a backup. All right, man. Well, enjoy
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the weekend. We'll break it down on Monday.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Enjoy.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: All right, there he is.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Our QB1 X is an O segment here at 9
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: o'clock on this Friday. Coming up next, we've yet to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: do it today, and I'm not going to let it slip.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It's the ABCs of the M's on Sports Radio 93.3
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Toronto for a three-game series against the Blue
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Jays and an opportunity to make a little more ground.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Every day is an opportunity to make up a little
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: more ground on the Houston Astros.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, man, Blue Jays, Astros, just both of you.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two of these.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, take two of these and call me never.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I think they're out of the screen.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Yep, they're good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Two of them.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Bring them down a little bit.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I think YouTube has seen this before. This isn't going
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: to be shocking to YouTube.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I'll do this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Read between the lines.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I got to do that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: There you go. I almost just straight up did it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I would have gotten in so much trouble.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: And just to clarify.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: That's not to our YouTube viewers. No. That is directly
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: to the Astros and the Blue Jays.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yep, and especially Jose Altuve.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: And George Springer. Yep.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So three-game series starts tonight with Toronto Hancock versus Cease.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That'll be the trickiest one of them all this weekend.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: First pitch is at 415. But the ABCs of the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: M's don't necessarily cling to the day's news. And yet
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's amazing how the alphabet works.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Where are we, right? Where are we in the alphabet?
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: We're at letter G.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, G.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And who's the athlete that has been most prominently mentioned, Mariners-wise,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in the last 24, 48-hour news cycle?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Geno Suarez.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: See, you think I doctor this, you people. Some of
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you doubters, cynics.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Those people.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: The alphabet is magical.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the alphabet knows what it's doing.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: So we've already talked about Gino Suarez a couple of
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: times here this morning, but since the alphabet says talk
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: about him again, we're going to talk about him again.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He was made available on the waiver wire to every
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: team in Major League Baseball, and every single team passed.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by that, but I would have thought
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the Mariners were the team that would have struggled the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: most with this decision. And I suppose since the Mariners
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: passed as well, the decision was for $ 2. 5 million. I mean, ideally,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: we'd like Brendan Donovan to be our healthy third baseman.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: JP plays shortstop because Emerson's gone for the year. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: so at third base, we'd rather have Donovan there. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if that's the case, we had Gino Suarez. I mean,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I realize owners have a lot of money.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: But $ 2.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: 5 million just to come off the bench and maybe
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: lift the club's morale, which already seems to have been
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: lifted here as of late. Is that really money well spent?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I still would have done it if I were them. Um,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think Gino Suarez does make an impact with this
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: team just by walking into the clubhouse. And I also
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: think that he does provide a better offensive source at
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: third base than what you have. And if Donovan comes back, great. Well, we,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: we can, we can work things out that it's, you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Gino plays a little third. Brendan plays a little third.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Brendan does a little utility stuff.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: We'll piggyback third base.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I think that not adding somebody who could improve your
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: league's worst offense seems to me a mistake. And I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: not worried about the defense that suggests that he's a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: liability this year. He very well may be, but so
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: has Donovan been. And so has Weston Wilson been. So
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we're not really losing anything there either. His 7.05 OPS,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: despite the low 200 batting average, which we grew accustomed
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to here in Seattle, and despite the 35% strikeout rate,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: which is gaudy and gross, and I don't want to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: see him come here and strike out as much as
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: he did a year ago either, but at 7.05 OPS,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that threat that he provides to a team that struggled
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: offensively all year long, I mean, he immediately becomes your
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: fourth best OPS guy the moment that he steps on
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the baseball field, which is sad in its own right.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: But it also suggested perhaps a source that could lift you, Ashley,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in multiple ways. I'm not saying it's a huge mistake,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: but I would put it in the category of I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: think that's a mistake.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I think Geno Suarez should be a Mariner right now.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was definitely disappointing to hear the news yesterday
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: that we didn't claim him. It was also, because I
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: like Geno so much, disappointing to hear that nobody claimed
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: him and nobody thought he could bring something new. to
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: their team, but especially disappointing for the Mariners because we
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: know what he brings. We know what he brings to
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the fans. We know the, I mean, we played a
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: home run from him earlier in his first game back
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: last year and that place was erupted. I mean, what
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: he actually can do when he is, when he's dialed
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: in is incredible. And yes, he's been playing worse, but
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: it doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to see him
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: come up in a pinch hitting situation and have a
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: lot of faith that he can make something happen.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Um, and, and, and we don't know behind the scenes,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: maybe there was a little bit of a falling out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe the second time he was told we're not bringing
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you back. Maybe that bothered him.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Maybe, you know, and maybe I wouldn't blame him.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And maybe, maybe he said something on the way out
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to the wrong person. So maybe there's just, we're not
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in the Geno Suarez business anymore.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Uh, that's a possibility.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We don't know all the details of this, uh, but, um, yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: there was a, there was a chance to get him.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I think that he does improve your roster. I'm not
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: paying the bills. Maybe it's not worth $ 2. 5 million for
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season. But also, you should be
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in desperation mode at this point to get into the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: playoffs with this team. You have so much invested in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this team making it to the playoffs.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I would have thought a little $ 2. 5 million for Geno
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Might have been worth it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't seem like a lot.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: H is for Hancock.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I will say this.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of times I say we got
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the pitching advantage, and people apparently cringe over that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You just jinxed the team. Oh, dang it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say we don't have the pitching advantage tonight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: But that is no shot at Emerson Hancock. Man, you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: really do have to step back from this season. What
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a year this guy has had this year. I think
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: he could have and maybe should have been in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: All-Star game, for goodness sake. And then he created the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: piggyback because of how good that he had been after
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: having stepped in for Bryce Miller, who was supposed to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: be in the best shape of his career in spring
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: training and yet got injured before we got the season underway.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And Emerson just performed then. Then he performed, like, they
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: created the piggyback because of Emerson. It could have been
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: really tough on Emerson to like, oh, this is my fault,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: This mess, and Bryce is angry, and Luis is angry. Oh, geez.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: But he just kept performing through that. And then he
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: gets to the All-Star game, he gets snubbed, and he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: just kept performing through that. I mean, between he and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Randy Rosarino, I don't know who's been the most consistently
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: good player on this baseball team this year. It might
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: be Emerson Hancock.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: So, yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He's facing Dylan Cease who's been fantastic this year and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: might win the Cy Young so we don't have the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: pitching advantage but man Emerson Hancock has answered the bell
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: all season long let's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Hope he does it I hope he does it today
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: and I hope that we don't have a rematch or
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: a redo of what Dylan Cease did to us last time.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah let's not do that let's at least score a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: run please can we at least score a run all
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: hands in.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah okay ready one two three run run uh I.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Is for insulted. Adam Jude reported yesterday that Bryce Miller
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: was approached by possibly moving to the bullpen. And I
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: would hope that Bryce is not insulted by that. I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: don't think that he would be. Then again, he was
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: admittedly bothered that he was piggybacked and was admittedly bothered
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that when they were going to go to other guys
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: getting piggybacked, It was.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Just he and Luis that just got piggybacked.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Nobody else had to do it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they kept canceling it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And I understand why you would be bothered by that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And yet, I know Bryce enough. I don't know him personally,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: but I've been around him enough that I know he's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a team-first guy through and through. So it's not going
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to affect... his attitude toward winning this year or toward
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the team. And now he might get demoted to the bullpen.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And this is going to be an even tougher pill
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: for him to swallow. But I hope that he can acknowledge, hey, wait,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we might become a better baseball team by activating this
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson right now. I have been pitching the worst
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: here as of late. And I also admitted to the media,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not 100% right now. So I'm going to trust
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that Bryce is not going to be insulted if the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: decision is made that he moves to the bullpen for
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season, and that doesn't bury you.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Next year, you get back into good shape, and I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: guarantee you, you're in the starting rotation to start next year.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Nobody's saying, move Bryce Miller to the bullpen forever. If
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you are, I think you're being silly. But right now,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he is the sixth most effective starting pitcher on the team.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I don't want Kate Anderson to be taken out of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the rotation. I really don't want the piggyback to be
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: structured from the standpoint of Kate goes five, Bryce goes four.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I don't want that. But because we know Kate Anderson's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: only going to go five or six at the most,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you could have Bryce Miller not in a one-inning mode
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: or a piggyback, we're guarantee of four innings tonight, We
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: could have him, while he's nursing this injury, in a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: good two, three inning role where he could be a
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: hell of a weapon coming out of the bullpen. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: not only do I not want him to be I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: as for insulted, I want him to be I as
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: for invigorated. I want him to embrace this role because
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it could be a really powerful, impactful role if, in fact,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: they do this with Bryce down the stretch. He might
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: actually have a chance to have a greater impact on
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the team in this kind of role than he would
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: as a starting pitcher, and I truly mean that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and if he is insulted, then use that and
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: be pissed and spit fire when you come out of
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: the bullpen. I mean, he played his best when he
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: was doing the piggyback.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: He very well was.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: So I don't know why we wouldn't consider this. It
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: seems like a great possibility.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. I think it could give us a weapon.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: We don't have a long reliever, and I don't want
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: him to be a mop-up guy. I mean, maybe he
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: would have to be at some point, but I don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: want him to be a mop-up guy.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: We've got Michael Rucker for that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I want him to be available, not predetermined, but I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: want him to be available when George or Logan has
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: one of those not very efficient four-inning outings, and yet
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: we're still in the ballgame, 1-0, 2-1. because the Walls
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: didn't cave in, but they're already at 95 pitches, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: now here's Bryce capable of going.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Three, four innings for us.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: That'd be great.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Out of the bullpen so that we don't have to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: run through five, six relievers and then make Dan feel like,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I don't have anybody to pitch tomorrow.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: It'd make Dan's job easier.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like the role for him, and I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: think we could use a guy in this role, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I think he's the perfect guy for it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: So don't be insulted, Bryce. Please. Keep your chin up.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: All right, booze news next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: We are out of practice with this. Way too long.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, and these microphones are all over the place. What's
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: happening in here?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: It's like a jungle of microphones over there.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: It's just like a jungle in here.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody needs to do some weed whacking.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, microphone weed whacking.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Great morning to you all. We're getting ready to close
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: things out and then hand them off to Jessamyn McIntyre
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and Michael Benton. I hope you're properly caffeinated since you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: had to get up so.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Early today, Mike.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Such an early morning for Benton.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: He did dump a whole bunch of caffeine in himself,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: he did say.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, no, we saw.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We heard him crying about how early he had to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: get up today.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: At 9 o'clock.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I'm ready for lunch.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: You put something in the doodle-doo, and it ain't doodle-doo.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Come on. I can tell you that right now, Mr.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Bennett.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, good rooster humor. Thanks there, Chuck.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We're going to close out the week with what we
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: always do.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I'm Ashley, and this is the Booze News.
• 31:38
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• 31:48
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• 31:48
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• 32:18
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  Speaker 5: the islands, but I do think I'm really.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Good at vacation. Like, really good.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Doesn't surprise me.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Got exercise, got sleep, got beach time, pool time, wine time,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: friends time, family time.
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  Speaker 3: I crushed it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: You know, I was scouting you from afar for years,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and I thought, like, Of all the skills you have,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you seem best suited for having great vacation.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Okay, so I'm glad you brought this up because not
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: to mention, by the way, I did also schedule it
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: so I came back to only two days of work
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: and then I.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Have a weekend.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Smart again?
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Do you think that this is something that I could
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: put out there and people could hire me for?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Like great at vacations?
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't know because if you don't have the talent,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I think you have a natural talent. I think you
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: might be the Roy Hobbs of vacationing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Which is the movie The Natural.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So you have an 80 grade in vacationing. You have
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a zero grade in movie choices.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Correct. But yeah, I do believe that you've got a
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: special talent for it. And just because you can do
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: it You may not be able to coach it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: You could be like Magic Johnson.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Well, that's fine. I don't need to coach it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: What if people just hire me to go on vacations?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, and show them how to do it.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: And just do my vacation and be like, look at
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: how great this vacation is.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe you could do videos of your vacation and then
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: people could watch your videos.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: I need to start getting better at social media influencing
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: is what you're saying. Right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll work on that.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: That's not a bad idea.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: I'll work on that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: There's probably something there, believe it or not.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: So in Hawaii, they are three hours behind. And in Toronto,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: they're three hours ahead, which means that time goes faster there.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: That's how that works.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: In fact, the Mariners get underway just after 4 o'clock today. See,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: it's coming up. The Mariners are just three games back
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: in the AL West race, while the Blue Jays are
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: 15 games back in their race. And then when you
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: add in the Canadian Exchange race, they're like 21 games back.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, is that right?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: They lose something.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: They do.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Move out of Canada, I guess.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: This is just math.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: They're a half a game ahead of us in the
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: wild card, but we can make that up this weekend.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: If we win the series, then we're good.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Plus.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Bring in that exchange rate thing again. Two wins actually
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: equals four. So if we sweep, we win six.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Math.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So there's a chance we could have a three-game lead
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: at the end of this weekend.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: At least over Toronto.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I see. In Canada. I see.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the only place it works.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Doesn't necessarily apply to Houston.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: No, unfortunately it doesn't because we're still in America there.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: That's why our wins count the same here, but in Canada, extra.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I believe you.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You should.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Finally, the NFL preseason is coming to an end and
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: it feels like it's been going on forever. So imagine
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: how the Lions feel. Preseason has been going on for
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: like since 2021 for them.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: It's been nothing but preseason since the moment they were.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Made a state.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Will I watch the final preseason game against the Chiefs tonight? Yes. Yes.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Will I care about it? Oh, no.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: See, I'm going to do the even worse thing.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to watch it tonight because I'm in Tacoma. Yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And then I am going to have to keep score
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of a preseason game that I know what happened at
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: some point during my weekend.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, and then you have to record it. You know what?
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: There is something to be said about this Hawaii thing
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: because when we were in Hawaii, we were watching the
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: preseason game against the Titans.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: And when that game ended, we were certain we won.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: It wasn't until we went back two days later. We're like,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: wait a minute.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: They lost.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was hard knocks. We're like, wait, they lost
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: that preseason game.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: So I don't know.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Something scores are different there, too.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: I think here in Hawaii, we play five quarters.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: And I was certain we won.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: And it wasn't just me. It was five iron, too.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't like we were bombed out of our
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: minds and couldn't pay attention. We just probably weren't really
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: paying attention.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: That'd be something that that really was the case, like
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: in Hawaii. They just kept a different running clock of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the game. And they believe in five quarters. So you
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: think it's over after four quarters. But they, on their
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: TV math, had divided it into five.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: And we won.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: So there you go. So it would feel like it
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was longer, like you just suggested about Hawaii. They manipulate
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the time to make it feel like it goes by slow.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Well, that's very clear, because the Roosters are still cockle-doodle-doing
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: at 9 a.m., because it's.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Like it's 4 a.m.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Still.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Also, before we go, congratulations to Jackson and Anders on
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: the big Sounders trade this week. No, I'm not even
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: going to try his name. I know they're both excited,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: and I am excited to watch almost Aaron Judge play soccer.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: I think that'll be really fun. The guy that's 5'11,
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: but plays like he's 6'3, that's that conversion rate in
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Hawaii and Canada and weird math.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Serbians.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Plus, that really helps Anders recover from all the shame
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: he's been dealing with. Obviously, you know, having his six-month-old
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: cause Cal to struggle on Wednesday.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: It's not easy to get over. But to Austin, if
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: you're listening, don't worry, little guy. You got a lot
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: of life left to live. And there's going to be
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: a lot of other Mariners disappointments that'll make you get
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: over this one.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to take a different tact on this. Austin,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: step up. I'm tired of this.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I think that's fair. I was trying to be nice.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Stop cursing our catcher. Yeah. Just because you're cute and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you smell good doesn't mean that you can curse our catcher.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Cut it out or move.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Don't show us those dimples and think we can forget.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Just because you're a baby, like, I'm going to
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: take it easy on you.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Ugh.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I think that's good.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you did that because I felt like I
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: went in a little hard on him. I was trying
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: to be nice, but I didn't believe what I was saying,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: and I believe what you're saying.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: The key is to go harder on a baby that's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: ruining your baseball team. All right, that'll do it for us.
• 38:25
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• 38:29
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