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Chuck & Buck 2-10 Hour 4: Walker's future in Seattle, The Ol Judge and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: It's not o'clock hour here on this Tuesday morning. Man,
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Speaker 1: look at it. I can see it just through the
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Speaker 1: crack outside our door. Here, beautiful day. It's a crack
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Speaker 1: outside the door. It's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, that's where that's
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Speaker 1: where I was at. Yeah, some of that crack, Now
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Speaker 1: that you mentioned it, you seem to go out there
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Speaker 1: a lot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, every break gives me energy.
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Speaker 1: But no, I was looking more at the beautiful sunshiny
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Speaker 1: day that we got out there on the water. Looks gorgeous.
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Speaker 1: You know what it looks like looks like championship weather,
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Speaker 1: But it looks like it looks like it's like the
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Speaker 1: kind of weather. It looks like the kind of weather
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Speaker 1: that champions It's like a champion in boy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, championship and spring both are in the air.
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Speaker 3: Can just let it waft?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, pretty sure. We were supposed to get
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Speaker 1: rain and mold for the next couple of days and uh,
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Speaker 1: instead you win a super Bowl and God's like, that's
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Speaker 1: not championship weather. Here you go, here, you go.
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Speaker 3: Phil doesn't know jet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's a fact. Well, everything just looks a little brighter,
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Speaker 1: a little prettier. These tastes can't tell you why. We
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Speaker 1: do have one thousand dollars in powerplay cash. Everybody's probably
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Speaker 1: gonna win it.
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Speaker 3: That's probably why.
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Speaker 1: entry at ninety three three kJ r dot com on
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Speaker 1: a championship website. It's actually not very good, but three
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Speaker 1: kJ r dot com. As we start this uh nine
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Speaker 1: o'clock hour, Old Judge is gonna stop by. By the way,
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Speaker 1: we haven't chatted with Old Judge since he got back
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Speaker 1: from the super Bowl, so we'll chat with him coming
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Speaker 1: up a little later on in the show. And the
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Speaker 1: only thing that he said to me was just don't
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Speaker 1: make it all football.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair. So I did actually get a picture
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Speaker 3: of the.
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Speaker 4: Old Judge as well, sent to me last week from
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Speaker 4: one of our listeners. I guess they must have snuck
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Speaker 4: into the courtroom to get a good photo. Oh, so
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Speaker 4: we'll share that.
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Speaker 1: Oh please do I don't know what you're talking.
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Speaker 4: About, Yeah, you don't. It's been a secret. ILL kept
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Speaker 4: it till today.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait, can't wait to see it. Well, let's
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Speaker 1: dive into this conversation about ken Walker. I intentionally tried
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Speaker 1: not to talk about it too much yesterday that felt like,
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Speaker 1: let's recap the game day, and even today we did.
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Speaker 1: I've mentioned it with our two experts, but we haven't
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Speaker 1: really discussed it as a show. But already people are
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Speaker 1: looking forward to the off season. No surprise there. And
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Speaker 1: ken Walker, with the way he finished this year super
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Speaker 1: Bowl MVP, for goodness sake, is he going to remain
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Speaker 1: a Seahawk or not. Greg Bell was with us earlier
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Speaker 1: today and I asked him how high of a priority
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Speaker 1: is it for the Seahawks to bring back the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl MVP?
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Speaker 5: Well higher than it was a week ago. The Zach
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Speaker 5: Charboney injury situation changes this a little bit. Had they
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Speaker 5: had charbon A and I mean, let's put this, there
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Speaker 5: was a reason why they didn't offer Kenneth Walker contract already.
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Speaker 5: Zach Charboney was part of that reason. Now, Charboney's contract
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Speaker 5: ends after next year, but they had in the back
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Speaker 5: of their minds they could potentially give charbon Ay a
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Speaker 5: job if they didn't want to resign at Walker's rate,
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Speaker 5: Walker's rate has skyrocketed in the last three weeks because
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Speaker 5: of how he seized his opportunity. You talk about seizing
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Speaker 5: a chance, not too much more he could have done
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Speaker 5: than be the Super Bowl MVP and I have a
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Speaker 5: couple one hundred yard games. It just man perfect timing
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Speaker 5: for him. For him personally, I know he's got a
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Speaker 5: new agent, David Kimpton. The cold business of the NFL
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Speaker 5: is that one side of this is the Seahawks had
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Speaker 5: their chance. They could have resigned him all along, and
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Speaker 5: now there's six weeks until free agency begins. From an
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Speaker 5: agent's perspective, it would be a wise business decision to
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Speaker 5: test that market at this point. From the player's perspective,
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Speaker 5: I asked Walker again yesterday. I asked him if he
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Speaker 5: still wants to stay here, and he said, yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: That says the first choice would be to re sign
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Speaker 5: with the Seahawks. But he is wondering why this hasn't
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Speaker 5: even been approached yet. When I talked to him in
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Speaker 5: San Jose last week, I asked him again, have they
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Speaker 5: even come to you talking about a potential deal and
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Speaker 5: what it might look like and bringing up the subject
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Speaker 5: at all? And he said, not that I know of.
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Speaker 5: And those are the same words he gave me in
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Speaker 5: August when I asked that question. So, nothing he's done
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Speaker 5: this season, in a thousand yard season, a super Bowl MVP,
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Speaker 5: nothing that he's done has moved that needle to him.
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Speaker 5: So I can see why he would test the market,
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Speaker 5: even if he says he wants to come back. The
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Speaker 5: Seahawks probably thought and into the season, because of an
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Speaker 5: injury history, that he could maybe get they could give
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Speaker 5: him a one year deal a few million above thattrimentum.
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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any way they could do that now,
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Speaker 5: because he would get multiple years and more money on
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Speaker 5: the open market. I would almost certainly believe, Oh.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna get a lot of offers of multiple years
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Speaker 1: and lots of millions of dollars. He's he's a hot
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Speaker 1: name right now. And isn't it interesting before we start
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Speaker 1: talking about just you know, what kind of contract these
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Speaker 1: Seahawks might offer somebody else might offer. Isn't it interesting
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Speaker 1: that I asked both Hugh Millen and Mike Holmer and like,
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Speaker 1: why yesterday, why did he suddenly become the running back
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Speaker 1: we hoped to see for three and a half years
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Speaker 1: and really weren't seeing. Why did it happen at the
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Speaker 1: really perfect time. And they both said, without hesitation, because
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Speaker 1: Zach Sharbonau got hurt, Zach Schharbonague got out of his way,
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Speaker 1: you didn't really have a choice. You had to just
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Speaker 1: feed the running back. And both of them and they're
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Speaker 1: pretty smart football guys. I don't know if you've picked
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Speaker 1: up on that over the years. Both of them talked
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Speaker 1: about how a number one running back, you know, they
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Speaker 1: usually get better the more they're used, and Ken Walker
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Speaker 1: got used a lot in the playoffs, and lo and behold,
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Speaker 1: he produces the three best games maybe that he's ever
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Speaker 1: had as a Seahawk, and back to back to back games,
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Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, he's a hot name
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Speaker 1: in free agency, where I think about ten fifteen games ago,
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, why does he never hit the hole where
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Speaker 1: it's designed to go. I was about as frustrated with
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Speaker 1: Walker as I've been in his three and a half years,
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Speaker 1: and I think it was just you're running out of
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Speaker 1: time to prove how great I think you are. I
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Speaker 1: think that's where my frustration started to set in with
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Speaker 1: him a little bit. And yet he showed us how
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Speaker 1: great he can be, just in the nick of time,
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Speaker 1: and maybe we would have won a super Bowl without him,
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Speaker 1: but I really don't want to replay the games. No, no, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was sensational in the playoffs, the best we've ever
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Speaker 1: seen him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you might have been able to win the super
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Speaker 2: Bowl without him going off and you're running for one
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Speaker 2: thirty five, you know, you don't know. I think that
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Speaker 2: the way that they called the offense was indicative of
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Speaker 2: with our defense playing the way it is and him
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Speaker 2: running the rock, we don't have to put the ball
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Speaker 2: at risk by throwing it up there and having something
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Speaker 2: crazy happen, you know, ball going the other direction. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think he stepped up. I think because he didn't
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Speaker 2: have a choice, right, I mean, it's it's you now
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Speaker 2: no longer are going to be protected. I think that
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Speaker 2: to some degree, it's protecting him because he had missed
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Speaker 2: some time over the course of his first three years
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Speaker 2: as a pro. It's some injury stuff, and so you're like, hey,
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Speaker 2: we kind of need this guy to be healthy. We
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Speaker 2: want this guy to be healthy, and the best way
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Speaker 2: to do is if we have kind of a timeshare.
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Speaker 2: And then they think they like Zach Sherman. I think
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Speaker 2: they like the difference in the way that they run
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Speaker 2: is depending on your opponent. The game plans are going
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Speaker 2: to change, and he might be more effective in certain areas. Now,
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Speaker 2: I think that given a guy like ken Walker that
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Speaker 2: like let him kind of eat, especially if he's going
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Speaker 2: to be somebody that's going to be more in the
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Speaker 2: lavian bell where he wants to kind of be patient
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Speaker 2: in going towards the line to pick the spot, and
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Speaker 2: then that burst that he has is different.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's different.
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Speaker 2: He gets through there quick and in a hurry when
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Speaker 2: he sees something, So I think that, Yeah, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of factors that played into it. And most certainly
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Speaker 2: I think the run game stepped up after Charboney got hurt.
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Speaker 2: And that's not a knock against Sharbony as much as
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Speaker 2: it is your lead back got all the carries, so
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Speaker 2: instead of having twelve or thirteen carries, he got twenty seven,
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he can rack up those yards.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's going to be interesting to see if
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Speaker 2: he wants to come back, he could do it. I
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Speaker 2: don't know for sure. I think the Seahawks should be
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Speaker 2: up there with offering what it is it's going to
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Speaker 2: be and yet it's he wasn't making hardly anything so
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Speaker 2: far in his first four years in the league.
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Speaker 1: Yeah he was second round pick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean it's you know, he's made eight
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Speaker 2: million bucks. He's not poor, but he was this year
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Speaker 2: was his highest paid and he was making not even
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Speaker 2: two million dollars basically, And so yeah, he's going to
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Speaker 2: be getting to quite the pay raise. And we'll see
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Speaker 2: if the Seahawks are thinking he's worth it at this point.
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Speaker 2: I would think they should well.
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Speaker 4: And especially because you still have sharbon Ay too, so
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Speaker 4: you I mean, I would imagine they would kind of
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Speaker 4: go through the whole season similar to how they did
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Speaker 4: once Sharbone's healed from his injury, you know, with this
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Speaker 4: with them splitting carries again, because that's the one been
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Speaker 4: that's still the one knock on him, right, is his
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Speaker 4: durability for an entire season. So is the only question then,
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Speaker 4: is is it worth it to pay him more if
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Speaker 4: you still have to share the carries with him for
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Speaker 4: the majority of the regular season.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would think their eyes are open to no,
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Speaker 1: that guy needs the ball more often and maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: he figured out that patient running that Bucky's talked about
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Speaker 1: maybe that's his style. Maybe he stumbled upon the style
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Speaker 1: just in time to dominate in the playoffs. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for that then, yeah, yeah, certainly. But you know, Charles
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Speaker 1: Davis weighed in on this. We had him at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the show. He's with NFL on CBS and
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Speaker 1: also the NFL network. He had an interesting thought on this,
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Speaker 1: which frankly I kind of agree with. Here's Charles.
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Speaker 6: I think John Schneider is going to make sure Ken
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Speaker 6: Walker and as people know that they value him, but
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Speaker 6: he's going to have a number and I don't think
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Speaker 6: John Schneider is going to change that number.
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Speaker 1: I think this is what it's going to be.
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Speaker 6: And I think we're all probably at the stage of
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Speaker 6: it is really tired to talk about. Well, you know,
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Speaker 6: running back, you know the devalued position. We know how
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Speaker 6: important it is the teams that make big runs. The
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Speaker 6: running back is important. Even on teams that didn't have
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Speaker 6: thousand yard runners.
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Speaker 1: When you got to the playoffs.
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Speaker 6: The running game was vital. It meant something.
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Speaker 1: So we know that the runners are valuable.
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Speaker 6: Well, we also know that this world, as my grandfather
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Speaker 6: used to say, it's lousy with runners, which means there's
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Speaker 6: a whole lot of them out there, right, So no.
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Speaker 1: Offense to kid Walker.
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Speaker 5: Love what he's.
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Speaker 1: Done, love all of that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know they're going to.
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Speaker 6: Break the bank, even for a Super Bowl MVP.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he will here. I just I think
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks want to keep him. I think they will
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Speaker 1: make a strong offer. But the truth of the matter
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Speaker 1: is there are desperate teams out there with cap space,
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Speaker 1: and the Seahawks have cap space, but they also aren't
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Speaker 1: a desperate team. I guarantee you the Seahawks believe they
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Speaker 1: can win a Super Bowl without ken Walker next year,
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Speaker 1: and that's an entire offseason to find a replacement, whether
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Speaker 1: that's a free agent or somebody that you draft. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you could have with a thirty second pick, your favorite
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Speaker 1: running back in the draft not named Jeremiah Love. He's
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Speaker 1: going to go in the top ten. You would have
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Speaker 1: your pick of the litter, probably at number thirty two,
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Speaker 1: if you wanted to go that high. I brought that
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Speaker 1: up to Charles and he said, I don't think you
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Speaker 1: need to even go that high. You can probably wait
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Speaker 1: a little longer because the rest of these running backs
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Speaker 1: probably get lumped together from rounds two and three. But
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Speaker 1: I don't think when you are in the great position
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Speaker 1: that the Seahawks are in World Champs, third youngest team
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League, fourth to fifth most cap
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Speaker 1: space in the National Football League, you're not desperate. And
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Speaker 1: if desperate teams with more cap space than you offer
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Speaker 1: him a salary, I prom I can almost promise you.
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Speaker 1: John Schneider is not gonna crawl over broken glass to
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Speaker 1: pay what some team out there might be willing to
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Speaker 1: pay ken Walker. He's gonna make a good, solid offer
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Speaker 1: to keep him because I think they want to keep him.
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Speaker 1: And then he's gonna say, you can either go play
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Speaker 1: for the Titans for two million dollars more a year
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Speaker 1: or whatever, or you can stay with us really good salary,
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Speaker 1: maybe take a little bit of a pay cut like
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold was willing to, and we can just keep
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Speaker 1: on winning. It's really going to be up to you.
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Speaker 1: But my guess is that there's gonna be a team
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Speaker 1: out there, whether it's the Jets or the who have
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Speaker 1: eighty million in cap space or the Titans who have
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Speaker 1: over one hundred million in cap space and need a
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Speaker 1: running back, are gonna make him such a big offer
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Speaker 1: that there's no way, John's gonna go there to meet it.
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Speaker 1: That's my that's my guess here on February tenth, two
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Speaker 1: years after the season ends, that would be my guess
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think three games, even as well
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Speaker 2: as he ran, and I don't think three games changes
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Speaker 2: the opinion that they had for three years before the
13:42
Speaker 2: season started. They didn't do the fifth year, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they didn't do that. They didn't pick up a fifth year. No,
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Speaker 2: you can't a fresh rounder. So yeah, they haven't re
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Speaker 2: signed him back at this point. I think coming off
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Speaker 2: of last season. Now, that was the season where they
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Speaker 2: got rid of Ryan grebbter or one year. So I
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Speaker 2: think as a as an organization they're like that that
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Speaker 2: didn't really work, and so you discount some of the
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Speaker 2: down years or down statistics for him there a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but he also was hurt. Yeah, I think that they
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Speaker 2: maybe are like, oh man, he's finally coming into his own.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, if if he's going to yeah, if he's
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Speaker 2: going to ask, if he's going to ask for that,
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Speaker 2: if he wants to take the top dollar, which I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't fault him if he does. Playing running back, you
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Speaker 2: probably need every million you can possibly get because even
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Speaker 2: if he signed some four year, forty million dollar contract,
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Speaker 2: half of that's not going to be guaranteed, probably because
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Speaker 2: of the fact that the position he plays is so
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Speaker 2: hard on your durability. So yeah, it's just but it's
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Speaker 2: a It's one that I don't think you have to
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Speaker 2: be desperate to be like boy, I'd feel a whole
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Speaker 2: hell of a lot better if he agrees to, you know,
14:51
Speaker 2: an eight million dollar a year, you get a big
14:53
Speaker 2: bonus or a big, big chunk of this. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: make sure that, you know, two or three years off,
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Speaker 2: it's guaranteed. Whatever I would if I'm a Seahawks fan,
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Speaker 2: I would be hopeful that they do get him to
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Speaker 2: come back, even though there's going to be a number
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Speaker 2: that John Schnyder is gonna put on it, and he's
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Speaker 2: not going to go over because I don't think Sharmon
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Speaker 2: is going to be back at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 2: And so you do have free agency and you do
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Speaker 2: have a draft where you can address it, but well,
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Speaker 2: you don't want to be going through the first.
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Speaker 1: I double five six, I would double that salary. Double
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Speaker 1: what salary eight million a year? Yeah, I think he's
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Speaker 1: going to get fifteen to twenty million a year.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, I'm going off for like spow Track And
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Speaker 2: I mean James Cook is making eleven and a half
15:35
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, right, but they signed about the
15:37
Speaker 2: same side same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the cap went up, it's going up. I mean,
15:42
Speaker 1: maybe I'm a little too aggressive with it, but I
15:45
Speaker 1: mean Jonathan Taylor's making fourteen million, Derreck Henry's Megan fifteen million.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'd put it north of twelve. Maybe I
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Speaker 1: got a little aggressive, but I'd put it north of twelve.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if the Seahawks are going to
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Speaker 1: do that.
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Speaker 3: Twelve seems like an appropriate number.
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Speaker 1: In more ways than yes.
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Speaker 4: But I do think it would be interesting to be
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Speaker 4: in those conversations because I do wonder if part of
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Speaker 4: the negotiation is the is the fact that you know,
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Speaker 4: if you stay here, yeah, we might not be able
16:16
Speaker 4: to pay you the you know, four more million that
16:20
Speaker 4: you might get somewhere else, but we're going to keep
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Speaker 4: you healthier. And you know you're going to be splitting
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Speaker 4: these carries for a lot of the seasons so that
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Speaker 4: your body isn't taking the toll that it was one
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Speaker 4: of these other people.
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Speaker 1: Even though you just saw that he might be better
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Speaker 1: not being splitting carries.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was still they were still pretty
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Speaker 3: good when they were doing it, though.
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Speaker 4: I'm just wondering if that would take if you know
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Speaker 4: his longevity and his health, would the idea that he
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Speaker 4: wouldn't be put in and expected to carry the ball
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Speaker 4: every single time like he would probably be if someone's
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Speaker 4: paying him fifteen million dollars.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this, Uh, it doesn't do any
16:52
Speaker 1: favors to those that hate load management. Yeah, because there
16:55
Speaker 1: might be an argument here that he was that great
16:58
Speaker 1: at the end of the year because of the way
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Speaker 1: that he was handled. Maybe he's not as healthy in
17:03
Speaker 1: a spry at the end of the season if he
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Speaker 1: was getting.
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Speaker 2: Chances are if he had, if he had that lion's
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Speaker 2: share of the carries, chances are he's not as healthy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So that's what I'm wondering to get those conversations they
17:18
Speaker 4: bring this up, like, hey, look, this is what we did,
17:20
Speaker 4: this is why you had. You know, you were so healthy,
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Speaker 4: you were able to have a great playoff, and now
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Speaker 4: you're ending the season still healthy. So stay here. We
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Speaker 4: might only be able to pay you twelve million.
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Speaker 1: They're going to want to keep him, Yeah, And I
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Speaker 1: think they're gonna give him a what they believe is
17:36
Speaker 1: fair market value to keep him. And they're really going
17:39
Speaker 1: to sell him on do you really want to leave
17:42
Speaker 1: this just for the highest bid? Well, we've got going here.
17:46
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not like undervaluing you. But there's gonna
17:50
Speaker 1: be a team out there that is going to overvalue him.
17:53
Speaker 1: He's got a big name, and for fan bases out
17:56
Speaker 1: there that are right now, he's a household name. Right now.
17:58
Speaker 1: People just watched him and every NFL city win the
18:01
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP, and so you can sell that in Nashville,
18:06
Speaker 1: Tennessee to a fan base that had to deal with
18:10
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard and you know ty J Spears all season long,
18:15
Speaker 1: and you got an opportunity to say, well, we've just
18:17
Speaker 1: replaced that with the Super Bowl MVP, and we have
18:20
Speaker 1: one hundred and five million dollars of cap space to
18:23
Speaker 1: work with versus the Seahawks seventy two. We're going to
18:26
Speaker 1: be able to give him an offer that the Seahawks
18:28
Speaker 1: aren't going to match. My guess is that's kind of
18:31
Speaker 1: what the offseason is going to be like with Ken Walker,
18:34
Speaker 1: and if that happens, I trust that John's got the
18:38
Speaker 1: right value on him, is going to make the right
18:40
Speaker 1: decision on this. And keep in mind, just because that
18:44
Speaker 1: we don't have a ton of guys hitting free agency,
18:47
Speaker 1: I think Kobe Bryants won and Rashid Shaheed and a
18:50
Speaker 1: couple of others, we also have gonna make JSN and
18:53
Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon very rich men very soon. Now they are
18:58
Speaker 1: going to be entering that far. Obviously, you pick up
19:02
Speaker 1: the fifth year option if you can. But I think
19:04
Speaker 1: they're going to spend this. I think there's a chance
19:06
Speaker 1: they're gonna spend this offseason trying to figure out long
19:09
Speaker 1: term salaries to keep those guys happy and then Seahawk uniforms.
19:13
Speaker 1: And I promise you they value those two guys a
19:15
Speaker 1: lot more than a running back.
19:17
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well yeah, it makes sense. You those are
19:20
Speaker 2: going to be more difficult to find for sure. And
19:23
Speaker 2: yet boy so just have the run that he just
19:26
Speaker 2: had and average over one hundred yards through the playoffs
19:28
Speaker 2: and then them let him walk.
19:31
Speaker 1: Well, let him walk. Like I said, I think they're
19:33
Speaker 1: going to try to keep him. But I just think
19:35
Speaker 1: somebody out there is going to give them him an
19:37
Speaker 1: offer that they're not willing to go to, and I
19:39
Speaker 1: think they're right not to. I mean, if he ends
19:41
Speaker 1: up at fifteen sixteen million dollars. Sorry, Ken, been nice
19:45
Speaker 1: knowing you. Thanks for the memories. Good luck with the Titans.
19:48
Speaker 1: I hear Nashville's got great chicken yep. I agree.
19:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going up there. I don't think he's
19:53
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor. I don't think he's Derrick Henry. I'm not
19:55
Speaker 2: paying him what those guys are getting paid. I'll pay
19:58
Speaker 2: him what he's earned. So, which is like a Montgomery,
20:02
Speaker 2: you've been a timeshare guy, and when you haven't been
20:05
Speaker 2: a timeshare guy, you've been hurt. So here's nine or
20:07
Speaker 2: ten million dollars. You want to take it, fine, You're right.
20:09
Speaker 2: A team that's more desperate will probably pay more. I'm
20:12
Speaker 2: agreeing with you. I'm just saying, at the end of it,
20:15
Speaker 2: you're looking at a recovering Jack, Zach, Sharbonnay and a
20:18
Speaker 2: whole Onny right now, and you're like, Okay, we gotta
20:21
Speaker 2: find something to go back and try to, you know,
20:23
Speaker 2: go back, go back to back on this thing.
20:25
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well sure, yeah, but you got all free agency
20:27
Speaker 1: in the draft to assess it and running backs. I know,
20:32
Speaker 1: even though they're not a dime a dozen, there are
20:34
Speaker 1: a lot of them out there that can get the
20:36
Speaker 1: job done. All right, the old Judge stops by next
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Championship courtroom people. Oh wow, you've noticed the bunting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, shippy, this is.
20:47
Speaker 2: Like champ super Bowl, Championship bunting and spring training bunting
20:51
Speaker 2: all wrapped into one.
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Speaker 1: I hear that they're going to raise the championship banner.
20:56
Speaker 1: We get to keep it here in the courtroom. Yeah, yeah,
20:58
Speaker 1: of course, yeah yeah, not at lumen.
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Speaker 3: But here makes more sense in here, I agree.
21:03
Speaker 2: They usually nice spot for it. Yeah, right behind the
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Speaker 2: bench here. And then they have a picture. They'll take
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Speaker 2: a picture of the banner in the courtroom and hang
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Speaker 2: that at luhman.
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Speaker 1: I love that idea.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, the old judge is here and he
21:19
Speaker 1: just said, hey, look, I know you're gonna ask me
21:22
Speaker 1: a football question, maybe even two. Can we not talk
21:25
Speaker 1: all football in the old judge courtroom today?
21:29
Speaker 3: That's fair?
21:30
Speaker 1: I think that is fair. So let's draw out a
21:32
Speaker 1: few topics. Ashley and I will discuss them. When the
21:34
Speaker 1: old judge is hurt enough.
21:36
Speaker 2: He will bang his gavel, Yes, gavel, cavel, cavey, I
21:39
Speaker 2: forgot my gavel, and then he.
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Speaker 1: Will weigh in, and whatever the old judge says, it
21:45
Speaker 1: goes into permanent record here in these here parts. All right,
21:50
Speaker 1: let's get things started, and I will ask a football
21:52
Speaker 1: question to get it started. All right, the Seahawks defense
21:56
Speaker 1: was the star on Sunday, but the kicking game just
22:00
Speaker 1: isn't getting enough love the last two days.
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Speaker 4: Well, I would agree the kicking game did not get
22:06
Speaker 4: enough love, But I think that that's good, right, because
22:09
Speaker 4: you don't really want to talk about the kicking game.
22:10
Speaker 4: If it's doing its job, you shouldn't be talking about it.
22:13
Speaker 4: If they're not doing their job, that's when you talk
22:15
Speaker 4: about it. And nobody wants to hear that.
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Speaker 1: Like NFL officials.
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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, Yeah, just wanted to just just go out there, kick,
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Speaker 4: walk back to your thing, all right, fives and hat taps.
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Speaker 1: Normally, I don't want to give the kicking game any credit,
22:27
Speaker 1: and I know they deserve more than I've been willing
22:30
Speaker 1: to give them over my lifetime. But on this particular case,
22:33
Speaker 1: these two deserve a lot of credit. Myers was incredibly
22:36
Speaker 1: productive most points by a kicker and a Super Bowl.
22:40
Speaker 1: And Michael Dixon was phenomenal Sunday, Like if a punder
22:44
Speaker 1: can be phenomenal Michael Dixon, and it wasn't just punting.
22:48
Speaker 1: He got a bad snap that he got down as
22:51
Speaker 1: a holder. I mean he took a bad snap on
22:54
Speaker 1: a punt and quick kicked it and got it inside
22:56
Speaker 1: the ten. Michael Dixon was incredible on Sun Gavel Gavel Gavel.
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Speaker 2: I think there is a lot of times that the
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Speaker 2: conversation around kickers is not good, not it is not respectful,
23:13
Speaker 2: and understandably so.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't belong in the courtroom.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't Well, there's times when you the respect for
23:19
Speaker 2: kickers needs to be It needs to be more.
23:22
Speaker 1: Now we have a lot.
23:24
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I love the way that Hugh explains
23:27
Speaker 2: that it's one fifth, not special teams is one third.
23:31
Speaker 2: But I do think that the idea of the recipe
23:34
Speaker 2: of great defense offense do enough go out of Yeah,
23:41
Speaker 2: if you want to put up thirty thirty five, fine,
23:43
Speaker 2: and they almost did, but the idea of we're also
23:46
Speaker 2: going to control field position because they didn't have it
23:49
Speaker 2: right there at the beginning of the game. And it
23:51
Speaker 2: was a punt from Michael Dixon that ended up, excuse me,
23:54
Speaker 2: that ended up kind of flipping that whole thing where
23:56
Speaker 2: now it felt like, oh man, the Patriots are kind
23:59
Speaker 2: of swim an uphill, so to speak. There they got
24:01
Speaker 2: a tough road to hoe because they got a long
24:03
Speaker 2: ways to go. When they punted that down, that one
24:06
Speaker 2: at the two yard line, I thought there was no chance.
24:09
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if I've ever felt less
24:11
Speaker 2: confident that a team had a chance of going ninety
24:14
Speaker 2: eight yards for a touchdown than at that moment in time.
24:17
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I think Michael Dixon and Jason Myers
24:19
Speaker 2: deserve the credit that they're getting.
24:21
Speaker 1: Uh a little bit.
24:23
Speaker 2: Good job boys, Jason Dixon, Michael Myers, Michael Myers. Oh wow,
24:30
Speaker 2: that's creepy.
24:31
Speaker 1: It was creepy. Next up, Lindsey Vonn needs to retire,
24:35
Speaker 1: but she probably won't.
24:37
Speaker 3: I think she probably will.
24:40
Speaker 1: I think she's finally going to do it.
24:41
Speaker 4: I think breaking your upper leg in two places in
24:45
Speaker 4: a horrific accident like that after a knee replacement and
24:49
Speaker 4: a torn acl and those are just like the most
24:51
Speaker 4: recent injuries I I just don't know that she.
24:58
Speaker 3: I guess maybe we're I think she'd be done with
24:59
Speaker 3: you Olympics. Is that fair?
25:01
Speaker 4: Like she might do another competition if she can heal
25:04
Speaker 4: in the next two years.
25:05
Speaker 3: But I don't see her being ready for another Olympics again.
25:08
Speaker 1: Boy, I think she should. I mean, she's accomplished so much,
25:11
Speaker 1: so much, and if ever there was any doubt about
25:14
Speaker 1: her toughness, tenacity or willingness, I mean, I mean, she's
25:18
Speaker 1: gonna be remembered forever for this injury because she probably
25:22
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been out there, but she was playing through
25:24
Speaker 1: the pain. But when her father says I'm going to
25:28
Speaker 1: do my best to convince her to retire, I my
25:31
Speaker 1: guess is he doesn't know if he can do it.
25:34
Speaker 1: I think she just is addicted to.
25:36
Speaker 2: Gavel gavel gal, You're right, I don't know for sure.
25:39
Speaker 2: If I mean, she started at seventeen, she's like forty
25:43
Speaker 2: one now, like she's been doing this forever, right, I mean,
25:46
Speaker 2: this is who she is, I can tell you is
25:48
Speaker 2: I mean, anybody that's played any sports when it's when
25:52
Speaker 2: it's over, when the curtain drops for the final time
25:54
Speaker 2: and you're no longer that there is a there's a depression,
25:58
Speaker 2: there's a morning that happens, and I suppose everybody has
26:01
Speaker 2: to deal with it. You don't get to play forever.
26:04
Speaker 2: And yet it seems like she's I think she's probably
26:07
Speaker 2: gonna want to come back. I don't think she's going
26:09
Speaker 2: to want to end it on this note. And yet
26:12
Speaker 2: I'm with you, guys, I think she probably should.
26:14
Speaker 4: It's interesting too, because she keeps making a point to say, like,
26:17
Speaker 4: this was not because of my acl my aunt. My
26:19
Speaker 4: pole clipped to the flag. It caused me to turn,
26:22
Speaker 4: That's why I fell. It had nothing to do with
26:24
Speaker 4: my knee. I just think, like what we were talking
26:26
Speaker 4: about after the show yesterday, she's kind of just she
26:28
Speaker 4: goes out there with reckless abandon. I mean, it is
26:30
Speaker 4: just flying down that hill. What you have to do, right,
26:32
Speaker 4: you're in a competition. But I don't know, I think.
26:35
Speaker 1: If you, if you had a healthy knees, you probably
26:38
Speaker 1: wouldn't have hit that pole.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
26:42
Speaker 1: They kind of go hand in hand.
26:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, but she said it was her ski pole that
26:44
Speaker 4: hit the right the flag, and so it caused her
26:47
Speaker 4: upper body to twist, not her lower body.
26:50
Speaker 3: And then she couldn't control the rest of it.
26:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
26:53
Speaker 3: You're going so fast. It's so hard, you.
26:55
Speaker 1: Know, not how anybody does it. I can't even stand
26:57
Speaker 1: up on those things, much less down a hill.
27:00
Speaker 2: It would be interesting to see you on top of
27:03
Speaker 2: that hill because where she wrecked was early. That's where
27:06
Speaker 2: they gain. They go from my zero to eighty miles
27:08
Speaker 2: an hour.
27:09
Speaker 1: It's incredible record for most broken spots bones. Yeah, yeah,
27:14
Speaker 1: that's what I don't want to set that. Yeah, I
27:17
Speaker 1: might have set a record that can't be broken. I
27:19
Speaker 1: think I could break it in all of them pieces. Wow,
27:22
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the next one. Cal Rally,
27:26
Speaker 1: is the interview you're looking most forward to during Chuck
27:30
Speaker 1: and Buck's award winning spring training coverage next week?
27:33
Speaker 3: No, Josh Naylor, That's where I was going.
27:38
Speaker 4: I've been counting down. I'm like, finally we're gonna get
27:40
Speaker 4: to hear from Josh Naylor.
27:41
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
27:42
Speaker 1: That's where I was going. I always prefer the new
27:45
Speaker 1: guys anyway. I mean, I can't wait to talk to you.
27:47
Speaker 3: I'm still exciting.
27:48
Speaker 1: But I thought for sure that cal Raley would be
27:51
Speaker 1: the obvious choice of you and probably everybody listening. But
27:55
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor cannot wait to have Josh Naylor on the
27:58
Speaker 1: show and in that form, because the format is the
28:01
Speaker 1: key to it, where we just get to go twenty minutes,
28:04
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about it and we just
28:05
Speaker 1: get to talk.
28:06
Speaker 2: Yes, Gavel, Cavel, Gavel. I can't wait to hear from
28:11
Speaker 2: Josh Naylor. Don't you don't you dare? Don't you dare?
28:16
Speaker 2: Put Dumper aside? Don't you dare?
28:18
Speaker 4: No?
28:19
Speaker 3: Fourth on mind putting them aside?
28:20
Speaker 2: Fourth second, Cal, if you're listening, don't I apologize?
28:24
Speaker 3: We also just had him on.
28:25
Speaker 4: That's the other thing doesn't matter, So I mean tonight, Yeah,
28:29
Speaker 4: I'm excited for it, but we haven't had Josh Naylor on.
28:32
Speaker 4: That's why it's anticipatory.
28:34
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Cal's Numper one. Well, he is coming
28:39
Speaker 1: off a pretty good year, so it's pretty bad. Yeah,
28:42
Speaker 1: pretty yeah, kind of a headliner. I mean, if I'm
28:46
Speaker 1: going on the In for Nest show on Tuesday and
28:48
Speaker 1: I got Cal coming up on Wednesday, probably gonna say
28:51
Speaker 1: Cal Rawley tomorrow on the show.
28:53
Speaker 3: Should probably promote it.
28:54
Speaker 2: I'm excited about all of them. Pictures less then, but
28:57
Speaker 2: I'm excited about all of them.
28:58
Speaker 1: Well, pictures Wednesday. We know that's got to happen. It's
29:01
Speaker 1: Pitcher's Day. Yeah, we're doing it. We don't have to
29:03
Speaker 1: make any day just non athletes day. It's a holiday.
29:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, get them all in at once, that's right.
29:09
Speaker 1: But the other two, Brendan Donovan and Kate Anderson, the newcomers.
29:13
Speaker 1: I want the new number, thirty three Brendan Donovan. Yeah,
29:16
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see. Is that right? Going thirty three? Yep?
29:18
Speaker 1: Look at that.
29:20
Speaker 3: Accidentally calling Bucky Jacobson nice.
29:22
Speaker 2: I don't think there's much similarities there.
29:25
Speaker 1: You're both kind of ginger, and you both have had
29:28
Speaker 1: a mullet in your life. He still has one.
29:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, both hit a baseball.
29:32
Speaker 1: You can hit a baseball. Not a lot of speed,
29:35
Speaker 1: not a lot of speed. Both are in the cardinal
29:39
Speaker 1: organization at one boy, similarities are piling the practically twins? Yeah,
29:44
Speaker 1: practically not.
29:45
Speaker 4: But if I looked up his birthday and it was
29:47
Speaker 4: the same day as yours, that'd be cool.
29:49
Speaker 1: All right? Final one. With football season ending and baseball
29:52
Speaker 1: season immediately beginning, it's going to be very difficult to
29:57
Speaker 1: get into basketball season.
29:58
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's very difficult.
30:01
Speaker 4: I'll be ready for a basketball season the first day
30:04
Speaker 4: of March Madness.
30:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's about it.
30:07
Speaker 1: I've been watching a lot more than we've talked about
30:10
Speaker 1: on the air, and I think it is a really
30:12
Speaker 1: exciting year. This is one of the great freshman classes
30:16
Speaker 1: in the history of college basketball. I mean, they are sensational,
30:20
Speaker 1: but you're right, it's hard with all this other stuff
30:22
Speaker 1: going on. And now we're practically overlapping. If they ever
30:25
Speaker 1: go to an eighteen game schedule, we're gonna be overlapping
30:28
Speaker 1: Spring training and the Super Bowl for goodness sake, poor basketball.
30:31
Speaker 1: So we need the Sonics back and and I need
30:35
Speaker 1: a little extra time to get ready for March Madness
30:37
Speaker 1: because I am right now iloquent.
30:39
Speaker 2: Gavel, gavel gavel.
30:42
Speaker 1: What is this?
30:43
Speaker 2: Babsketball? Yous tako? What is it? Is it?
30:47
Speaker 1: Basketball? Basketball? Round ball? Oh? Like the Sonics?
30:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, I will care about it when the
30:55
Speaker 2: Sonics are back and when March Madness comes around, because
30:58
Speaker 2: you're right, super Bowl training, if you can make an
31:02
Speaker 2: impression on me in the next three days, bat bamsketball,
31:05
Speaker 2: go ahead.
31:06
Speaker 1: They really do just have three days in our world.
31:09
Speaker 2: So like, uh yeah, because I'll probably be watching the
31:13
Speaker 2: Winter Olympics.
31:13
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch a lot of college basketball.
31:15
Speaker 4: Oh, I will be watching more Olympics and college basketball.
31:18
Speaker 2: Really yeah, yeah, I'll be watching some speed skating.
31:21
Speaker 1: See, but they were never going to talk about that.
31:23
Speaker 3: No, I don't better in a long form entertaining.
31:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually there's some enjoyableketball. I don't care if swits
31:31
Speaker 1: Switzerland's better than us at skiing.
31:33
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be watching I'm definitely gonna be watching the
31:35
Speaker 4: Olympic hockey.
31:36
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'll watch the Olympic hockey all right.
31:39
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we close out the show with the
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Speaker 1: one last thing on Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 1: here on this Championship Week Tuesday. Of course, parade coming tomorrow,
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32:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know if the championship
32:15
Speaker 2: parade has to stop in the city, right right, They're
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Speaker 2: starting somewhere in Looming in the head and north. You
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Speaker 2: could just keep on trucking.
32:24
Speaker 1: Sifty one time rode a bike all the way to Pullman. Yeah,
32:27
Speaker 1: you can walk to la after the paradees over.
32:30
Speaker 2: Well, and Pullman's not going to offer near as much
32:32
Speaker 2: cool stuff as remotely.
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Speaker 1: Stop by the Draft Kings sports book. Take all those winnings,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot of you cashed in, very clearly that
32:53
Speaker 1: you cashed in. Don't pretend that you didn't know.
32:58
Speaker 3: Don't lie about it.
33:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Bucky, what's your one last thing? I
33:04
Speaker 1: had a couple of different things.
33:05
Speaker 2: I was, I guess I'm gonna just go with this, Ashley,
33:07
Speaker 2: what do you think you're just gonna start jumping on
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Speaker 2: this AI bandwid.
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Speaker 4: Me, No, it wasn't me. I forgot to tag Nick
33:14
Speaker 4: Nick Allen. Nick sent it to me last week and
33:17
Speaker 4: I said I'd save it.
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Speaker 3: For this week.
33:18
Speaker 2: Did you see the post season on Twitter post that
33:21
Speaker 2: actually put out therble judge Cornelius buck Hole?
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Speaker 1: Uh, you know that was not me.
33:28
Speaker 2: It's great, So you got it all you you're calling
33:31
Speaker 2: me Cornelius buck hole the eighth.
33:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got.
33:34
Speaker 2: The AI buck Nelius corn hole.
33:36
Speaker 3: The which one was that? I can't remember?
33:38
Speaker 4: It's cornhole, that's right, I did it backwards.
33:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I like AI or not. Actually,
33:46
Speaker 1: I just I don't like it.
33:48
Speaker 3: Nick creates of you.
33:49
Speaker 2: It's funny. Yeah, anyway, so yep, I don't know for sure.
33:54
Speaker 2: And it's the eighth. What I think you called me
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Speaker 2: the one hundred and eighth today? I was going to
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Speaker 2: put seventy generations growing. Nobody really knows, really, Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: I just read what the court details give me, okay,
34:08
Speaker 1: and so I just read it. But yeah, nobody really knows.
34:11
Speaker 1: It's a mystery. Yeah, nobody knows how many generations of
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Speaker 1: corn holes there are.
34:16
Speaker 2: How many buck Needius corn holes. There's been a lot
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Speaker 2: of them.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: Is the Really I don't think there has I don't
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Speaker 1: I think that's good.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you need to pass that name
34:26
Speaker 2: down Cornelius Buckhole yeah, or buck Nelius corn Hole, whatever
34:30
Speaker 2: your name is.
34:31
Speaker 1: Either one works. He's got the old judge has two
34:35
Speaker 1: different driver's license. He's above the wall. That is a fact.
34:43
Speaker 1: A nice work again, Nick, No, Nick, knock it off.
34:46
Speaker 1: I like it. Back in your truck and get to work. Yeah.
34:49
Speaker 1: He didn't do me any favors on my waistline when
34:52
Speaker 1: he did the AI of me last week.
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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I noticed that. I was like, wow, just
34:56
Speaker 3: a lot thinner than that photo.
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Speaker 1: You know what, though it looked exactly like one of
35:02
Speaker 1: my uncles. I'm like, you know what, now I can
35:05
Speaker 1: see that I will look like my uncle if I
35:08
Speaker 1: continue to grow up. Go yeah, yeah, all right, Ashley,
35:13
Speaker 1: what do you got for one last thing?
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Speaker 4: Well, as we were talking about spring training briefly, the
35:18
Speaker 4: Mariners have made put up some posts.
35:20
Speaker 3: We were correct.
35:21
Speaker 4: Lots of people all already there. We've got a nailor sighting.
35:25
Speaker 4: Hel's there. They're all there.
35:27
Speaker 3: They're in the batting cages.
35:29
Speaker 1: And I do love that about them, and I think
35:32
Speaker 1: most guys now do that in Major League Baseball.
35:35
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, kel would be there, but yeah, Ryan
35:38
Speaker 3: Bliss is there.
35:39
Speaker 1: I don't know, Bucky. I mean I think once upon
35:41
Speaker 1: a time, yeah, players did take advantage. If I don't
35:44
Speaker 1: have to be there until this time, then I will
35:45
Speaker 1: be there.
35:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:47
Speaker 1: I just think their lives are so cushy. Now, yeah,
35:50
Speaker 1: in the off season, and their lifestyles are so cushy
35:55
Speaker 1: that maybe I don't know why you would try to
35:59
Speaker 1: save two three days. Get down there with your guys.
36:01
Speaker 1: If you don't work out with them, who cares. But
36:04
Speaker 1: get down there with your guys, spend some time with them,
36:07
Speaker 1: get it started the right way together. I like to
36:10
Speaker 1: see that. I don't know if every organization does this
36:12
Speaker 1: in baseball, but it feels to me like the Mariners consistently,
36:17
Speaker 1: certainly since Cal Rawley became more of a leader, he
36:19
Speaker 1: and Julio both. Julio's there always too. I don't want
36:22
Speaker 1: to just give the credit to Cal. Julio's an early arrivor.
36:25
Speaker 1: I love that they all show up the first opportunity
36:28
Speaker 1: they're given to be there. They're there, and Cal's actually
36:31
Speaker 1: been there for like two weeks before then. Yeah.
36:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well they all went straight from the super Bowl
36:35
Speaker 2: back to spring training. I think Col's yeah is hanging
36:38
Speaker 2: out down their majority of the offseason nowadays.
36:41
Speaker 1: But I mean the idea.
36:43
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I was always chomping at the bid
36:46
Speaker 2: at this time of the year. I couldn't wait to
36:47
Speaker 2: get down there. Now, most of my career as a
36:49
Speaker 2: minor leaguer, I didn't have money. I didn't have a house.
36:53
Speaker 2: It was renting the house. I had to stay in
36:55
Speaker 2: the hotel. Well, that started on a certain day, So
36:58
Speaker 2: it was one of those you just had to wait
37:00
Speaker 2: until the day they told you you could go, because
37:02
Speaker 2: that's when they're gonna start paying for your place to stay.
37:05
Speaker 2: For all these guys that are big league dudes and
37:07
Speaker 2: they got the money, you know, they're renting houses. They're
37:09
Speaker 2: not staying at the team hotel. Right there ren't no
37:12
Speaker 2: houses and there. I'm sure most of them nowadays are
37:14
Speaker 2: kind of like, well, we're just gonna report with everybody.
37:17
Speaker 2: Like the idea of pitchers and catchers. Yeah, they show
37:20
Speaker 2: up and they start doing their stuff like it's it's
37:23
Speaker 2: ran by the team.
37:24
Speaker 1: The position players.
37:25
Speaker 2: They can show up whenever they want still get some
37:27
Speaker 2: swings in because they would be doing that anyways, they
37:29
Speaker 2: might as well do it with the training room right there,
37:32
Speaker 2: and you know, get everything kind of settled in their
37:34
Speaker 2: locker and all that kind of stuff. To me, I
37:36
Speaker 2: understand why these guys are showing up early. It's just
37:39
Speaker 2: as a minor league, you didn't really have that option.
37:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know, I mean we had the
37:45
Speaker 1: we don't. It's not football. I don't know if you
37:49
Speaker 1: have holdouts. Yeah, in baseball, you know, like you're doing football.
37:53
Speaker 1: Some years. We did have the Donovan Solano situation where
37:56
Speaker 1: you had trouble with his passport apparently last year and
38:00
Speaker 1: couldn't get there on time. And that happens on occasion.
38:04
Speaker 1: But for the most part, if that does anything for
38:07
Speaker 1: you as a Mariner fan, these guys really like hanging
38:10
Speaker 1: out with one another. They like to be there and
38:12
Speaker 1: they don't want to be the guy that comes in last.
38:14
Speaker 1: They want to be there when everybody is there to
38:16
Speaker 1: get it started.
38:17
Speaker 4: And I like that sounds similar to the Seahawks. Really
38:20
Speaker 4: does worked out well for the Seahawks.
38:23
Speaker 2: Hell of a year, just saying it's gonna crack and
38:26
Speaker 2: do it too in the middle of it. The Seahawks championship,
38:29
Speaker 2: cracking championship.
38:30
Speaker 1: This could be one hell of a year.
38:31
Speaker 2: Mariners Championship Sonics come back.
38:33
Speaker 4: I want to get carried away with convinced the world
38:36
Speaker 4: was ending if all of those good things happened.
38:38
Speaker 1: I don't want to get carried away with like Stanley
38:40
Speaker 1: Cupp or anything like that. That seems silly to predict
38:42
Speaker 1: anything like that. But a Super Bowl championship, a playoff
38:49
Speaker 1: berth for the Cracking to get to prove that we're
38:51
Speaker 1: back on the right track again. That's that's in play
38:55
Speaker 1: right now. We're a playoff. Yeah, this season ended today,
38:57
Speaker 1: the Cracking are in the playoffs at this point point,
39:02
Speaker 1: favorites to win the American League. So World Cup coming
39:10
Speaker 1: to Seattle this year, maybe the Sonics returning. I mean,
39:13
Speaker 1: this could be the greatest year in the history of
39:17
Speaker 1: Seattle sports. Twenty twenty six has the chance to be.
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Speaker 3: My head might explode.
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Speaker 1: I'm here for it, yeah, no doubt. All right, that'll
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Speaker 1: do it for us today. Thank you very much for
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