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- 0:00Speaker 1: Boeing Plussic COUGUS fourteenth through the sixteen at the club.
- 0:03Speaker 1: It's don't call me Ridge details at Boeing Plussic dot com.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Now here's Chuck in the Morning on your home for
- 0:10Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Champion twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three
- 0:14Speaker 1: point three KJR FM.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Well, great morning to you here live from Seahawks training
- 0:24Speaker 2: camp at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. It's great to
- 0:27Speaker 2: have you on this Thursday. My name is Chuck Powell,
- 0:29Speaker 2: and we are with you for the next four hours.
- 0:31Speaker 2: When I say we, it is Ashley Ryan back at
- 0:34Speaker 2: the studio. My name is Chuck Powell, and we've got
- 0:37Speaker 2: a very busy show planned for you today, which I
- 0:40Speaker 2: will detail with what's on tap coming up here in
- 0:42Speaker 2: a moment. But I gotta tell you because it's just
- 0:46Speaker 2: the kind of host I am. I pull back the
- 0:49Speaker 2: curtain to let you know what's going. We're supposed to
- 0:52Speaker 2: act like this is a seamless operation, and yet it
- 0:55Speaker 2: always it isn't always a seamless operation. I'm going to
- 0:58Speaker 2: tell you right now for you listening Ashley, who's back
- 1:02Speaker 2: in studio, It was five point fifty eight thirty five.
- 1:06Speaker 2: We had a minute twenty five to get on the air,
- 1:10Speaker 2: and we did not have it. There was no equipment
- 1:12Speaker 2: on this table, Ashley, not a bit. We had less
- 1:16Speaker 2: than a minute and a half. And Terry Ryan, who
- 1:18Speaker 2: also doubles as an indie pit crew and you know
- 1:22Speaker 2: he operates the jack you know down there for Jimmy Johnson,
- 1:26Speaker 2: or at least he did for years. He obviously's the
- 1:29Speaker 2: best engineer in the business. And he got us on
- 1:33Speaker 2: the air in a span of about thirty five seconds. Wowive,
- 1:39Speaker 2: that is not even an exaggeration. So we got here
- 1:43Speaker 2: to the to the facility, which we've done numerous times before,
- 1:48Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, they locked the closet to where
- 1:52Speaker 2: our equipment was, and then we couldn't get a hold
- 1:55Speaker 2: of anybody here at the Seahawks to unlock the equipment.
- 1:59Speaker 2: And finally somebody showed up about five minutes ago and
- 2:04Speaker 2: Gay and we finally got the key. And Terry wasn't
- 2:07Speaker 2: bothered at all. I mean, Terry's sitting here telling me
- 2:09Speaker 2: and complaining about Softy wrapping the headphones the wrong way,
- 2:13Speaker 2: and I'm like, Terry, We're on the air. I'm panicking.
- 2:15Speaker 2: He's not, you know, I got sweating my crotch, and
- 2:19Speaker 2: Terry's just sitting here just you know, ho hum soft.
- 2:24Speaker 2: He's wrapping the headphones the wrong way again. And I
- 2:27Speaker 2: looked at Terry and I'm like, Terry, we are on
- 2:29Speaker 2: the air in like forty five seconds. And he looked
- 2:32Speaker 2: at me like, what's the big deal. I've done this
- 2:33Speaker 2: a million times, And sure enough he got us on
- 2:36Speaker 2: the air within like fifteen seconds after that, and so
- 2:40Speaker 2: we made it. We didn't make it, and our penultimate,
- 2:43Speaker 2: second to last Seahawks training Camp morning show, we keep
- 2:47Speaker 2: our record intact. We got on air on time.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Ashley, ooh, and you know it's interesting.
- 2:52Speaker 4: This is what's funny. So I had no idea you
- 2:54Speaker 4: guys had a problem. I was like, well, I haven't
- 2:55Speaker 4: heard anyone yet. And I kind of had just I
- 2:57Speaker 4: was over here just getting highlights, kind of off in
- 3:00Speaker 4: my own world, and then I was like, well, I
- 3:02Speaker 4: looked over I was like, we've.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Got a minute, and I haven't heard anyone yet.
- 3:06Speaker 2: And so I didn't send you a text.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Yeah, but I never have my phone in my bag.
- 3:10Speaker 4: I had it in my bag this morning and I
- 3:12Speaker 4: was and so I was going to grab it right
- 3:14Speaker 4: as you came on and said hello. But as I
- 3:16Speaker 4: was coming up today, I thought, man, it's been really
- 3:20Speaker 4: nice not.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Having issues getting on the air lately. I thought that.
- 3:26Speaker 4: Alistair coming up, and then I was like, I don't
- 3:29Speaker 4: even know why. It was so random. I never think
- 3:31Speaker 4: that because I'm not going to jinx it.
- 3:35Speaker 2: It so reminds me because now KJR people are spoiled
- 3:39Speaker 2: with terry like a career in this business, like the
- 3:44Speaker 2: engineer sometimes like makes or breaks the station. And when
- 3:48Speaker 2: I worked in radio for the first time, and I
- 3:51Speaker 2: had no idea like a national radio, local radio was different.
- 3:55Speaker 2: I did a small when I started in this business.
- 3:57Speaker 2: It was in a little town called Alton, Illinois, and
- 4:00Speaker 2: it was a pretty seamless operation. But then again it
- 4:02Speaker 2: was a small operation and we had a man for
- 4:05Speaker 2: every job even back then, you know, back in the day.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Well then I moved to Vegas and I did national
- 4:11Speaker 2: sports radio and it was my first exposure to real radio, right,
- 4:18Speaker 2: and our equipment was like broken every day, like it
- 4:24Speaker 2: would became comical. There was an issue almost every day.
- 4:29Speaker 2: And we had this engineer by the name of Joe Sands,
- 4:32Speaker 2: who at the time I thought was just the most
- 4:35Speaker 2: bumbling fool in the world. Like there were jokes like
- 4:39Speaker 2: I was expecting him to short out the entire Las
- 4:42Speaker 2: Vegas strip at times, you know, because our equipment, you know,
- 4:46Speaker 2: would be on the fritz so frequently I thought he
- 4:49Speaker 2: would cross wires in the entire Las Vegas Boulevard would
- 4:53Speaker 2: be out one day when we drove up, and and
- 4:56Speaker 2: and so he and then later I got to know
- 4:59Speaker 2: the operation a little more, I got to know him
- 5:02Speaker 2: a little more, and he remains one of my favorite
- 5:04Speaker 2: people I've ever met. And I got to understand how
- 5:08Speaker 2: much was on his shoulders to keep our twenty four
- 5:12Speaker 2: hour radio station afloat, pretty much by himself back in
- 5:16Speaker 2: the day. So I had a full appreciation for it,
- 5:19Speaker 2: but much more so for Terry that somehow keeps us
- 5:24Speaker 2: on the air and keeps this operation singing, because there's
- 5:27Speaker 2: always something to deal with. So today today it was
- 5:31Speaker 2: there's the door is locked, there's no key, And because
- 5:34Speaker 2: we get up at an ungodly hour, no one from
- 5:36Speaker 2: the Seahawks was at work yet, so we couldn't even
- 5:39Speaker 2: open the closet. But we did it. We got here
- 5:42Speaker 2: on time. Here we are, we got a radio show
- 5:45Speaker 2: for you. And I thought we'd spend five six minutes
- 5:48Speaker 2: giving you a little inside behind the curtain information about
- 5:51Speaker 2: how valuable engineers are. How about it?
- 5:54Speaker 3: Yeah, well done, Terry, well done.
- 5:58Speaker 2: He was just just Bill gabbing to me about the
- 6:02Speaker 2: conversations we were earlier. And I'm sitting here like counting
- 6:06Speaker 2: the seconds, like we're on the air in seven minutes,
- 6:09Speaker 2: we're on the air in four and a half minutes.
- 6:12Speaker 2: I'm on the air in two minutes. And Terry's just
- 6:15Speaker 2: like not even breaking a sweat. He knew, he knew
- 6:18Speaker 2: the entire time, he had exactly the amount of time,
- 6:21Speaker 2: with like thirty four seconds to spare, no period he needed.
- 6:24Speaker 3: It's like he's been doing this job for a long time.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Oh, thank god for him. I would have had no
- 6:31Speaker 2: clue what to do in that situation. I would have
- 6:33Speaker 2: ended up yelling at people. That would have been my solution.
- 6:35Speaker 3: And then probably but there would be no one there,
- 6:38Speaker 3: so you just yell at yourself.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Well yeah, and then but then you know, then I
- 6:41Speaker 2: would have yelled at a Seahawks employee and then probably
- 6:43Speaker 2: gotten in trouble with the Seahawks and got the old
- 6:45Speaker 2: station in trouble with the Seahawks because I'm sitting there
- 6:49Speaker 2: yelling at somebody with road rage, and so fortunately we
- 6:55Speaker 2: got the best in the business, and here we are
- 6:57Speaker 2: on the airwave. So great to have you with us
- 6:59Speaker 2: here this as we get started here from Seahawks training camp.
- 7:03Speaker 2: And I do want to talk a lot of football today.
- 7:05Speaker 2: I'm not really sure there's a point to talk much
- 7:07Speaker 2: baseball anymore. We'll get to the Mariners here in a
- 7:10Speaker 2: little bit, and the Mariners will certainly be a topic
- 7:14Speaker 2: here today. But I sort of held my funeral for
- 7:17Speaker 2: them on yesterday show, so for some reason, it didn't
- 7:21Speaker 2: bother me as much last night to watch them blow
- 7:24Speaker 2: an early lead. Finally had an early lead, they found
- 7:27Speaker 2: a way to blow it and then end up kind
- 7:29Speaker 2: of getting blown out by baseball terms by a final
- 7:32Speaker 2: score of ten to five. But we'll go over that
- 7:34Speaker 2: with Mariners morning after today. Mark's the start of the
- 7:37Speaker 2: preseason schedule. Yeah, they don't count the Hall of Fame
- 7:40Speaker 2: game as a preseason game, so we have NFL preseason
- 7:44Speaker 2: football tonight, and so it's back in our lives, Ashley.
- 7:49Speaker 2: We have real football six games being played tonight, even
- 7:53Speaker 2: though Aaron Rodgers doesn't really call it real football. It'll
- 7:56Speaker 2: be on our televisions. Let's put it that way this
- 7:59Speaker 2: evening for the first time this year. And so this
- 8:03Speaker 2: truly is I mean, it's one thing to have training
- 8:06Speaker 2: camp open. It's another thing for me, Ashley, to have
- 8:09Speaker 2: football on your television for an entire evening. Now it
- 8:13Speaker 2: is football season.
- 8:14Speaker 3: It's here, Yeah, it really is.
- 8:15Speaker 4: And that's somebody sent me a message yesterday like, oh,
- 8:18Speaker 4: don't worry, football season's here.
- 8:20Speaker 3: You don't have to watch baseball anymore. It's like, I'll
- 8:22Speaker 3: get there.
- 8:22Speaker 4: And then I thought, oh, wait, preseason starts tomorrow, but
- 8:25Speaker 4: until the Seahawks play. I mean, I'll put preseason on
- 8:28Speaker 4: tonight and I'm gonna be pretty excited just to have it, because,
- 8:30Speaker 4: as we talk about all the time, fall is the
- 8:32Speaker 4: best season on earth, and part of that is because
- 8:35Speaker 4: you get the best part of baseball season and you
- 8:36Speaker 4: get football season on top of the best weather there
- 8:39Speaker 4: ever has been.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Right, but we're gonna have the baseball part of it
- 8:42Speaker 2: looks like stripped from our.
- 8:44Speaker 4: Yeah we are, we are, So I will fully embrace
- 8:46Speaker 4: the football part while still remaining stupidly optimistic about the
- 8:51Speaker 4: baseball part.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Yeah, and you should. As we talked about yesterday. Even
- 8:54Speaker 2: with the loss last night, Stranger things have happened. This
- 8:58Speaker 2: team has done strange things that come back from now
- 9:02Speaker 2: five and a half game deficit in the division. But
- 9:05Speaker 2: I'll say this about the Mariners. They do have three
- 9:08Speaker 2: against the Astros coming up, and I mean, it looks
- 9:11Speaker 2: like sweep or die. It's kind of what it feels like.
- 9:15Speaker 2: But if you do sweep them, then lo and behold,
- 9:19Speaker 2: you're you know, right back within striking range with a
- 9:22Speaker 2: month to play and maybe some real momentum on your side,
- 9:26Speaker 2: and not just one game victory that floats out there.
- 9:31Speaker 2: But I mean, that's pretty much your chance, I think.
- 9:35Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say that's pretty much your
- 9:37Speaker 2: chance to pull this thing off is when you start
- 9:40Speaker 2: that series against the Astros Friday. That if you can
- 9:44Speaker 2: pull off a sweep, man, that's a powerful jump in
- 9:47Speaker 2: the standings and gives you still a month to now
- 9:50Speaker 2: make up what two and a half games, or maybe
- 9:52Speaker 2: it'll be one and a half games, We'll see based
- 9:55Speaker 2: on what happens today. I mean, yeah, hold out, hope.
- 9:59Speaker 2: I still hope we have this beautiful time of year,
- 10:02Speaker 2: that crossover time of the year. I still hope we
- 10:05Speaker 2: have meaningful baseball to watch for the next five weeks.
- 10:09Speaker 2: But it's not looking like that. And yet those who
- 10:14Speaker 2: are trying to give us therapy, or maybe they're just
- 10:17Speaker 2: people that love football and want us to stop talking
- 10:20Speaker 2: about baseball, because those people out there exist too well.
- 10:25Speaker 2: We will have football, certainly to distract us, and not
- 10:28Speaker 2: just on the back burner. Very soon, it's gonna move
- 10:30Speaker 2: to the front burner here here, if it hasn't already.
- 10:35Speaker 2: But there is something about that first Thursday preseason. And honestly,
- 10:41Speaker 2: I'm I'm right now, and this happens to me every year,
- 10:44Speaker 2: and I don't think it's ever gonna change. I'm fifty
- 10:46Speaker 2: five years old and I've been a sports fan since
- 10:49Speaker 2: i was three, so this is over a half century
- 10:54Speaker 2: of being a football fan and getting fired up for
- 10:57Speaker 2: first preseason games. And Ashley, I had absolutely convince myself that, man,
- 11:02Speaker 2: I'm really gonna dig in this year. I've done it
- 11:04Speaker 2: thirty five years in a row. I'm really going to
- 11:06Speaker 2: dig into preseason. I really want to know all the
- 11:08Speaker 2: nuts and bolts. I want to see what all these
- 11:09Speaker 2: rookies are doing. And I'll tune in tonight and I'll
- 11:14Speaker 2: watch one and a half series, and then I'll flip
- 11:18Speaker 2: over to baseball, whether it's the Mariners or not.
- 11:20Speaker 4: Right, Well, yeah, yeah, they're in the morning, so you
- 11:22Speaker 4: might get a good game tonight.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah. I mean, I'm still going to be
- 11:26Speaker 2: a baseball fan, certainly, no matter what the Mariners do.
- 11:31Speaker 2: But the point is that every year I get fired
- 11:34Speaker 2: up like NFL preseasons on tonight, and I will lose
- 11:38Speaker 2: my interest in the very first preseason game. I don't
- 11:42Speaker 2: know if it will be a series and a half,
- 11:44Speaker 2: but it'll be at most a quarter and a half.
- 11:47Speaker 2: And yet I'm still gonna raise the flag NFL preseasons here,
- 11:52Speaker 2: get excited for six games tonight. Sea Hawks debut one Saturday.
- 11:57Speaker 2: But it really is a rough experience for me to
- 12:00Speaker 2: get through, and it gets rougher every year. My excitement
- 12:03Speaker 2: level building up to it remains the same every year
- 12:06Speaker 2: as a football fan, and yet I cannot remain sustained.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I mean, I keep score of every single Seahawks game
- 12:14Speaker 2: by hand, yes, and certainly I have no trouble doing that.
- 12:19Speaker 2: I actually really enjoy doing that during the regular season.
- 12:25Speaker 2: Every single week preseason games, I do the same thing,
- 12:28Speaker 2: and it's even more important because we still do post
- 12:31Speaker 2: game shows here and it's pretty much all we talk
- 12:35Speaker 2: about the day after the game. So I try to
- 12:37Speaker 2: take even more notes in the preseason. But I'm gonna
- 12:40Speaker 2: tell you something. It's a chore.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I bet, yeah, yeah.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I want to quit doing that. By no labor, even
- 12:49Speaker 2: for the Seahawks, by no later than the second quarter,
- 12:52Speaker 2: and by the fourth quarter, man, it gets the penmanship
- 12:56Speaker 2: gets sloppy, the note taking gets derelict, and and usually
- 13:02Speaker 2: I do fade out before the final gun goes off.
- 13:06Speaker 2: I'll like, with a minute and a half to go,
- 13:09Speaker 2: I'll just I can't write anymore. I'm done. So the
- 13:12Speaker 2: same thing's gonna happen starting tonight, and the same thing's
- 13:16Speaker 2: gonna happen Saturday. But nonetheless, it is a marker, it's
- 13:20Speaker 2: a marker. It's a substantial marker that football season, real
- 13:25Speaker 2: football is almost here.
- 13:26Speaker 4: No, And I completely agree, And I do think the
- 13:28Speaker 4: way that they do the preseason, having six games tonight
- 13:31Speaker 4: and three games tomorrow, and having whatever it is, six
- 13:34Speaker 4: games or seven games on Saturday, it's great because you're
- 13:37Speaker 4: getting everyone and you know, involved, everyone excited. You you know,
- 13:40Speaker 4: here we get a couple of games that we get
- 13:41Speaker 4: to watch tonight, So you'll, you know, go watch your
- 13:45Speaker 4: series and a half and then turn it off, and
- 13:47Speaker 4: then you can come back for the second.
- 13:48Speaker 3: Game and watch a series and a half and turn
- 13:50Speaker 3: it off.
- 13:50Speaker 4: And it's a nice it's kind of you don't have
- 13:54Speaker 4: to jump all the way into football season. You get
- 13:56Speaker 4: to get your toes wet and you get to start
- 13:58Speaker 4: getting it. This is what's arts to build my excitement,
- 14:01Speaker 4: because yeah, I don't really care about preseason other than
- 14:04Speaker 4: the fact that it is my marker for Okay, football
- 14:07Speaker 4: is almost here, like fall is almost here. Here we go,
- 14:10Speaker 4: let's get excited. So it's your way to kind of
- 14:12Speaker 4: get in there and dip your toes in and say.
- 14:14Speaker 3: All right, we got a little football. I get to
- 14:16Speaker 3: watch a little football tonight.
- 14:18Speaker 5: Right.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but even that, I mean, there are actually
- 14:21Speaker 2: some interesting things when you think about it, that will
- 14:25Speaker 2: debut in twenty twenty six tonight, And yet you do
- 14:30Speaker 2: have to take just one step back. You got to
- 14:32Speaker 2: dig one layer deep before you recognize, oh, that's really
- 14:35Speaker 2: not much at all? Is it like Green Bay Pittsburgh
- 14:38Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is taking on the Packers? Yeah, tonight but
- 14:45Speaker 2: he's probably not going to play, you know, I mean,
- 14:48Speaker 2: and it is it y Pittsburgh, it's not in Green Bay,
- 14:51Speaker 2: so it's not like he's returning to Green Bay. But
- 14:53Speaker 2: he's already gone on record saying I don't want to
- 14:56Speaker 2: play preseason because it's not real football. Well, when when
- 15:00Speaker 2: the quarterback is said, that's what he said this week,
- 15:04Speaker 2: that's not like me digging up something from the past.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy said earlier in in training camp that he
- 15:11Speaker 2: wants Aaron Rodgers to play in the preseason. I think
- 15:14Speaker 2: that's before Aaron Rodgers showed up and had a conversation
- 15:17Speaker 2: with him. Aaron Rodgers said this week, no, I don't
- 15:20Speaker 2: want to play preseason because it's not real football. So
- 15:23Speaker 2: I don't know what's gonna win out tonight, and so
- 15:26Speaker 2: we'll find out if Mike McCarthy gets his way or
- 15:30Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers gets its way. And it's pretty much the
- 15:32Speaker 2: only compelling thing about the Steelers Packers matchup, because it's
- 15:37Speaker 2: not like some return of Aaron Rodgers to Green Bay.
- 15:40Speaker 2: And he's already said it's not real football. So really
- 15:44Speaker 2: the only interesting thing about Packers Steelers tonight will be
- 15:48Speaker 2: decided before the game even starts.
- 15:50Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. That is when you put it
- 15:54Speaker 3: that way. Boy can't wait to tune.
- 15:56Speaker 2: In, right, you know, Chargers Houston. Yeah, I mean Mike
- 16:03Speaker 2: McDaniel new offense. Is he gonna unlock Justin Herbert finally,
- 16:08Speaker 2: who's a very good to great quarterback but you know,
- 16:12Speaker 2: obviously hasn't won a playoff game and constantly just gets
- 16:17Speaker 2: abused for seventeen games of the year. So we bring
- 16:20Speaker 2: in a offensive coordinator like Mike McDaniel, what is he
- 16:24Speaker 2: gonna unlock with the Chargers? So that storyline Chargers Houston,
- 16:29Speaker 2: and then you take one step back and they're like, well,
- 16:31Speaker 2: wait a minute, they're gonna give like ten percent of
- 16:33Speaker 2: their playbook. They're not gonna expose Herbert at all. He
- 16:36Speaker 2: might not even play. So yeah, theoretically, it's exciting to
- 16:41Speaker 2: see what the Chargers offense is gonna look like under
- 16:44Speaker 2: their new offensive coordinator. But we're not gonna get any
- 16:46Speaker 2: idea of that tonight.
- 16:48Speaker 4: None, No, I know, And that is I think, I
- 16:50Speaker 4: mean as much as yeah, we all get excited and
- 16:52Speaker 4: we tune in and then we're like, oh wait, that's right,
- 16:54Speaker 4: it's preseason.
- 16:55Speaker 3: I forgot what preseason.
- 16:57Speaker 4: You know, sometimes I think, I know I do, like,
- 17:00Speaker 4: especially for Seahawks, I'll kind of let my excitement of
- 17:03Speaker 4: the fact that I get to see the Seahawks make
- 17:06Speaker 4: me forget that I barely get to see the Seahawks.
- 17:09Speaker 3: You're not seeing what they're really gonna put out right.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, same with it, same with every everybody.
- 17:14Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's it is funny because you'll tune in
- 17:16Speaker 4: then you're like, oh.
- 17:17Speaker 2: That's right, Oh that I mean, and then you can
- 17:20Speaker 2: convince yourself of that every time. I mean, Cincinnati thinks
- 17:23Speaker 2: they're going to win the Super Bowl this year. All right, Well,
- 17:25Speaker 2: let's see Joe Burrow hit the ground running. Is he
- 17:27Speaker 2: playing Tennessee San Francisco. I suppose that's interesting from the
- 17:33Speaker 2: standpoint for us. We might see twenty more forty nine
- 17:37Speaker 2: ers get hurt tonight. You know, that's a that's a possibility,
- 17:40Speaker 2: not something to actually get excited about right now.
- 17:43Speaker 3: It'd be a storyline, Chuck, it.
- 17:45Speaker 2: Would be a storyline, though it's been a storyline all
- 17:48Speaker 2: camp long. I will say, if there is one thing
- 17:52Speaker 2: tonight that is real and is going to happen, and
- 17:55Speaker 2: that maybe as football fans we can sink our teeth
- 17:58Speaker 2: into I heard just this morning that Fernando Mendoza is
- 18:02Speaker 2: gonna play a lot tonight for the Las Vegas Raiders.
- 18:04Speaker 3: Oh that's so interesting.
- 18:06Speaker 2: Raiders versus Cardinals. The number one pick in the draft,
- 18:09Speaker 2: who's already been declared. He's not gonna be the season
- 18:12Speaker 2: one starter, at least the opening day starter, but you
- 18:16Speaker 2: will get to see him take his first pro football snaps,
- 18:20Speaker 2: and he's gonna take more than one. He's gonna take
- 18:22Speaker 2: more than a series, that sounds likes He's gonna get
- 18:24Speaker 2: substantial playing time. So I think, yeah, I think that's
- 18:28Speaker 2: very interesting that I think that is something as a
- 18:31Speaker 2: football fan that is more than just Oh, that's right,
- 18:34Speaker 2: it's just preseason. No, I think that's something worth checking
- 18:38Speaker 2: out for a little while tonight. So yeah, on one end,
- 18:41Speaker 2: it's very exciting, and I fall into the trap every
- 18:44Speaker 2: year that NFL preseason is here. But on the other hand,
- 18:48Speaker 2: it won't take us very long to realize. God, I
- 18:51Speaker 2: can't wait till the regular season start, I know.
- 18:53Speaker 4: And now it's gonna feel like years between this, between
- 18:57Speaker 4: today and the start of the preseason and between and
- 19:00Speaker 4: until the.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Start of the actual regular season. That's gonna feel like
- 19:03Speaker 3: a long time.
- 19:04Speaker 2: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
- 19:06Speaker 2: rest of the show. Please.
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- 19:24Speaker 5: I'm not kidding.
- 19:25Speaker 2: I was so panicked that we weren't gonna get on
- 19:28Speaker 2: the air on time. I had plenty of time to
- 19:30Speaker 2: get water. I was just you know, and I didn't
- 19:32Speaker 2: get water. And I'm like, why didn't I grab a water? Oh,
- 19:36Speaker 2: that's right, because I was crapping my pants.
- 19:38Speaker 3: Yeah, right, because I pooped myself earlier.
- 19:41Speaker 2: I was busy pooping myself before the show started because
- 19:45Speaker 2: I didn't think we're gonna get on air on time.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Seahawks take on the Cowboys Saturday at five o'clock. The
- 19:51Speaker 2: preseason schedule get started for Mike McDonald and crew, of course,
- 19:55Speaker 2: with hard Knocks being a huge part of our training
- 19:58Speaker 2: camp experience this year, all sorts of game footage that
- 20:02Speaker 2: they'll grab for that for episode three. Training camp also
- 20:07Speaker 2: includes Terry and Arnold watch I don't really have anything
- 20:11Speaker 2: new to add to it, but maybe Greg Bell will
- 20:13Speaker 2: At seven o five this morning, Husky's Camp continues, and
- 20:17Speaker 2: we're gonna spend some time on that with Scott Eckland
- 20:20Speaker 2: today at nine o'clock, and I can report we will
- 20:23Speaker 2: be doing at least one show. Well, yes, I think
- 20:29Speaker 2: at Husky's Camp next week, and I think Cam Cleveland's
- 20:33Speaker 2: going to be a part of the operation as well.
- 20:36Speaker 2: So excited to have him, and not just for one segment,
- 20:40Speaker 2: maybe for the entire show. So that would be next
- 20:43Speaker 2: week Husky's Camp coverage show right here on your favorite
- 20:48Speaker 2: morning show. It better be your favorite morning show. The NBA,
- 20:51Speaker 2: the Lakers sold yesterday for twelve point five billion dollars
- 20:57Speaker 2: and so very strange, by the way, because that's the
- 21:00Speaker 2: Dodgers owner and also the Sparks owner, and yet for
- 21:05Speaker 2: whatever reason, he only owned that team for like a
- 21:07Speaker 2: year and a half two years and decided to flip
- 21:11Speaker 2: and sell it. A lot of people reading into that
- 21:13Speaker 2: as he needed some money and he needed it fast,
- 21:17Speaker 2: and that's why he did that. I hope he's penniless.
- 21:23Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna be.
- 21:25Speaker 2: I don't I don't either but I hope that. Yeah,
- 21:28Speaker 2: I hope he's destitute, and I hope that the Dodgers
- 21:31Speaker 2: crumble into the ABYSS, not as an organization, but he
- 21:36Speaker 2: just has to sell off every player for pennies on
- 21:39Speaker 2: the dollar. I know there's no reality to that, but
- 21:41Speaker 2: I hope that's the case. Russell Westbrook retired yesterday, of course,
- 21:46Speaker 2: drafted by the Sonics, and it really does highlight just
- 21:50Speaker 2: how long we've been out without the Sonics that he
- 21:53Speaker 2: retires yesterday having been drafted by the team once upon
- 21:58Speaker 2: a time and never play for the team. The New
- 22:01Speaker 2: York Yankees won over the Mariners ten to five, the
- 22:05Speaker 2: final score in yesterday's game. So that's six straight tough
- 22:10Speaker 2: ones for the Mariners and they are now five and
- 22:14Speaker 2: a half games back I think six back in the
- 22:17Speaker 2: tough one column, and so fifty six and sixty five.
- 22:22Speaker 2: It might not have been flushed this season, but it
- 22:25Speaker 2: sure feels like it's heading that direction. We will have
- 22:29Speaker 2: Mariners Morning After coming your way next on Sports Radio
- 22:33Speaker 2: ninety three point three kh A RFM.
- 22:42Speaker 6: That ball sky hide all right, Jones forget it.
- 22:46Speaker 2: Don has now matched.
- 22:48Speaker 6: Tulio with his nineteenth and the Mariners have got three
- 22:53Speaker 6: home runs in three innings.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Par rabbits ESPN National broadcast last night, and they watched
- 23:09Speaker 2: the Mariners lose in an all new and unfamiliar way,
- 23:14Speaker 2: and that is by scoring early and then somehow getting
- 23:17Speaker 2: blown out when they put five runs on the board.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Yankees won ten to five over the MS. Their slide continues.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Seattle at fifty six and sixty five on the season
- 23:28Speaker 2: and in an unimaginable nine games under five hundred. I
- 23:34Speaker 2: can't even process that. No, it doesn't file five and
- 23:38Speaker 2: a half games back in the American League West right
- 23:41Speaker 2: now from the Houston Astros, who they do have starting Friday,
- 23:45Speaker 2: But right now, it's like sweep or bust. You sweep
- 23:48Speaker 2: that team and jump back into the series and grab
- 23:51Speaker 2: some real momentum, not some one game momentum kind of stuff,
- 23:55Speaker 2: but some real soul feeding momentum over the weekend. Or
- 24:01Speaker 2: obviously you will have failed and flames this season to
- 24:07Speaker 2: accomplish your goals and to be nine games under five hundred,
- 24:11Speaker 2: just I mean, it hurts. It's just sad. It is
- 24:15Speaker 2: just a sad feeling right now that I have it.
- 24:18Speaker 2: It's why I'm not gung ho to even talk about
- 24:20Speaker 2: it again here today, Ashley.
- 24:22Speaker 3: I completely understand, and yeah, I've had the same thing.
- 24:24Speaker 4: It's I'm holding on to this optimism because I think
- 24:27Speaker 4: I'm too.
- 24:28Speaker 3: Sad to let it go.
- 24:30Speaker 4: I just have to, like, I can't stop believing in
- 24:33Speaker 4: this team. I've got to have They gotta do something
- 24:35Speaker 4: because it can't really end this way this year.
- 24:38Speaker 3: It can't be this sad.
- 24:40Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't think I say hold on to it.
- 24:42Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, mathematically, yeah, there's still a chance. But man,
- 24:46Speaker 2: we got to see them play good baseball. It just
- 24:49Speaker 2: feels like forever since we've seen them stack back to
- 24:52Speaker 2: back wins together, like good baseball performances together, And so
- 24:57Speaker 2: here they sit in this even low state than they
- 25:01Speaker 2: were yesterday, nine games under five hundred.
- 25:04Speaker 5: I don't even want.
- 25:05Speaker 2: To It's hard to even push it past my lips
- 25:08Speaker 2: to say that. All right, let's take a look at
- 25:10Speaker 2: your other headlines. Brought to you by Frostbrewed Corse Light Mariners.
- 25:13Speaker 2: We'll try to once again salvage a game from a
- 25:15Speaker 2: three game series. They'll take on the Yankees today at
- 25:18Speaker 2: ten to thirty five. Logan Gilbert versus Yankee left hander
- 25:22Speaker 2: Max Freed that is your pitching matchup. NBA, the Lakers
- 25:26Speaker 2: sold yesterday for twelve point five billion dollars. The real
- 25:30Speaker 2: story there is not that that's the record. The real
- 25:32Speaker 2: story is why did their owner, after like fifteen minutes
- 25:37Speaker 2: owning the Lakers decide to sell them already? What is happening?
- 25:41Speaker 2: There has to be an underlying story and it must
- 25:43Speaker 2: be fascinating. Also from the NBA yesterday, Russell Westbrook, who
- 25:49Speaker 2: at one point was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with
- 25:52Speaker 2: the fourth overall pick in the draft, after an eighteen
- 25:55Speaker 2: year career, has decided to hang them up. He has
- 25:58Speaker 2: retired and certain he had a fabulous career, even though
- 26:02Speaker 2: he did rub some people wrong along the way. Dude
- 26:06Speaker 2: played hard, a freakishly good athlete and had one of
- 26:09Speaker 2: the great seasons in NBA history. It's happened since, but
- 26:14Speaker 2: at the time it hadn't happened in a long time
- 26:16Speaker 2: and was thought of as being unthinkable that somebody could
- 26:19Speaker 2: average a triple double and he did it. What a
- 26:22Speaker 2: great career for Russell Westbrook. Huskies camp continues, so we're
- 26:25Speaker 2: gonna be out there next week, so make sure you're listening.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Cam Cleland's gonna join me for a whole show or
- 26:31Speaker 2: two next week out at Huskies camp. Excited about that?
- 26:35Speaker 2: Of course, We're broadcasting from Seahawks training camp, where they
- 26:39Speaker 2: will play their preseason opener Saturday at five o'clock at
- 26:44Speaker 2: home against the Dallas Cowboys. The NFL preseason schedule gets
- 26:48Speaker 2: underway tonight. Without further ado, let's chat with our Seahawks
- 26:51Speaker 2: insider Greg.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Bell as part of our continuing NFL coverage for the
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- 27:17Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg, Good morning. Preseason football starts tonight. I
- 27:25Speaker 2: was talking to Ashley earlier. I'm like, every year I
- 27:27Speaker 2: get excited that we get pre season football, and it
- 27:30Speaker 2: lasts about a drive and a half and then I'm
- 27:33Speaker 2: ready for the regular season. Where do you after twenty
- 27:38Speaker 2: years on the beat, how does Greg Bell feel about
- 27:41Speaker 2: preseason football?
- 27:44Speaker 5: Well, it used to be the starters played when I
- 27:47Speaker 5: first started covering now they don't play at all, and
- 27:51Speaker 5: so it's for the bottom of the roster and special
- 27:55Speaker 5: teams players, and how do the rookies look? And Mike
- 27:58Speaker 5: McDonald hinted the other day they're going to have a
- 28:00Speaker 5: new way to do the quarterbacks playing time during the preseason.
- 28:05Speaker 5: I don't know if that means Jalen Milroe more. He
- 28:08Speaker 5: at the entire Green Bay game, the third game last preseason.
- 28:13Speaker 5: I don't know. If that means Sam Donald does a
- 28:16Speaker 5: little more than did last I don't know. So there
- 28:18Speaker 5: was a little bit of mystery there that we may
- 28:20Speaker 5: find out on Saturday. I can't imagine Donald even sees
- 28:23Speaker 5: the field. But yeah, what's it really is from a
- 28:28Speaker 5: business and fan experience standpoint, it's the biggest rip off
- 28:32Speaker 5: in sports. They charge regular season prices, they make the
- 28:35Speaker 5: season ticket holders buy him. Used to be, you remember
- 28:39Speaker 5: this in the Midwest. Used to be they would play
- 28:42Speaker 5: at college stadiums or even high school stadiums. Steaks have
- 28:45Speaker 5: had preseason games in Joe Alby Stadium in Spokane. But
- 28:49Speaker 5: now the owners win all that revenue for themselves and
- 28:51Speaker 5: roll it into the season ticket package, so they don't
- 28:54Speaker 5: do that anymore. There are no neutral site games. There's
- 28:57Speaker 5: no college campus preseason games anymore. I covered a game
- 29:01Speaker 5: at the Sun Bowl and El Paso between the Raiders
- 29:04Speaker 5: and the Cowboys. They don't do that stuff anymore. So yeah,
- 29:08Speaker 5: let's move on. Yeah, I'd rather just I'd rather just
- 29:11Speaker 5: do three more weeks of training camp practices and go
- 29:15Speaker 5: right into the game.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Well, and I'm sure you're going to get more clarification today,
- 29:19Speaker 2: and so it's probably a question I'll repeat tomorrow. But
- 29:22Speaker 2: as a reminder, like Mike McDonald first preseason game, what
- 29:27Speaker 2: in two years of being on the job have you learned?
- 29:29Speaker 2: Is what he's trying to get out of that preseason opener?
- 29:33Speaker 2: And who and who will and won't play in the game.
- 29:38Speaker 5: Well, his younger starters typically played last year when he
- 29:41Speaker 5: was trying to get the offensive line cohesive, they played
- 29:45Speaker 5: longer than the other starters. But now their five are
- 29:48Speaker 5: all returning back, so I can't imagine they're going to play.
- 29:51Speaker 5: Gray's Abel, for instance, is in a rookie anymore, he
- 29:53Speaker 5: doesn't need to play. But a guy like Jerran Price,
- 29:57Speaker 5: lead running back and rookie first round picky he turned
- 30:00Speaker 5: to practice yesterday. I mean it was a walk through
- 30:02Speaker 5: in every sense of the word. No running at all,
- 30:05Speaker 5: complete walking. It was the act practice alignment communication technique.
- 30:09Speaker 5: McDonald just wants him to do it right slowly, then
- 30:13Speaker 5: to move and do anything physical. So that's what yesterday's
- 30:16Speaker 5: practice was. In bucket hats, t shirts. Generian Price was back.
- 30:20Speaker 5: He had missed four practices with the upper leg soreness
- 30:23Speaker 5: that McDonald turned to like an NHL coach. But I
- 30:28Speaker 5: would see I could see him, for instance, being a
- 30:30Speaker 5: starter who would play more than the other starters because
- 30:35Speaker 5: he needs the reps and he needs to catch the
- 30:37Speaker 5: ball in the NFL, and he's to do some pass
- 30:38Speaker 5: walking and all of that. That might be a one
- 30:41Speaker 5: off of a front liner that could play Saturday night.
- 30:47Speaker 2: And as much as we've talked about it, I mean
- 30:49Speaker 2: is that the thing is that the most interesting thing
- 30:52Speaker 2: is to see the running back room showcased on Saturday
- 30:58Speaker 2: and see who does step up, who does get the reps,
- 31:01Speaker 2: and who does actually perform well. Is that going to
- 31:04Speaker 2: be the most interesting thing from a Seahawks fans perspective
- 31:07Speaker 2: on Saturday.
- 31:09Speaker 5: I think it'd be the one they noticed the most
- 31:10Speaker 5: because you'll see the carries, they'll get the Tremaine Pope
- 31:14Speaker 5: syndrome of a guy who might run for one hundred
- 31:16Speaker 5: yards in a preseason game, and why isn't he making
- 31:18Speaker 5: the team. Well, he's gonna run for one hundred yards.
- 31:20Speaker 5: Get because you're gonna get all the carries, because then
- 31:23Speaker 5: the guys are gonna play, they are gonna get the carries.
- 31:26Speaker 5: Emmanuel Wilson was a guy who was making a move
- 31:28Speaker 5: to get more time with the starting offense. Was carving
- 31:31Speaker 5: out a role as a bigger, more physical third down back.
- 31:35Speaker 5: And then he pulled up limp and grabbing his upper
- 31:38Speaker 5: leg in practice two days ago and wasn't even doing
- 31:41Speaker 5: the walk through yesterday, so now he may not play.
- 31:45Speaker 5: Jaccardia Wright was trying to make a move and he's
- 31:47Speaker 5: been around camp for a couple of years now, practice
- 31:50Speaker 5: squad player for the Seahawks last year. He had a
- 31:52Speaker 5: lower leg injury last week and hasn't practiced since. So.
- 31:57Speaker 5: Dallas Jones was a wide receiver to start this training camp.
- 32:01Speaker 5: He was a running back in the practice squad last year.
- 32:04Speaker 5: He was a wide moved to wide receiver start camp,
- 32:06Speaker 5: but they moved me back to running back because of
- 32:08Speaker 5: all the injuries and guys not available, So it could
- 32:11Speaker 5: be Vellas Jones, It could be guys they just signed
- 32:15Speaker 5: here in the last week. TJ. Harden could end up Monday,
- 32:19Speaker 5: we may be talking about TJ. Harden running for eighty
- 32:22Speaker 5: yards in the preseason game, because he'll be one of
- 32:24Speaker 5: the only ones available.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Greg belllet's with US Seahawks Insider here as we are
- 32:30Speaker 2: two days short of the Seahawks preseason opener. Preseason action
- 32:33Speaker 2: gets started tonight six different games across the National Football
- 32:37Speaker 2: League landscape. Greg joins US nearly every day during the
- 32:41Speaker 2: football season at seven oh five thanks to Emerald Queen Casino.
- 32:45Speaker 2: All right, let's get the latest on Nick emn Worri.
- 32:48Speaker 2: Feels like there's a little bit more information, a little
- 32:51Speaker 2: more progress every day. But how great is that progress?
- 32:55Speaker 5: Well, again, yesterday's hard to tell because they worthy were
- 32:58Speaker 5: just walking and bucket hats and T shirt. But he
- 33:00Speaker 5: was out there. He was on the side, not participating
- 33:03Speaker 5: and walking through information, but he was tossing ball up
- 33:06Speaker 5: to himself. But he is at least now on the
- 33:08Speaker 5: field on the side, and the day before that he
- 33:11Speaker 5: was doing some pass rush drills and steps. It is slow,
- 33:15Speaker 5: its incremental, but they still have yesterday. It's four weeks
- 33:18Speaker 5: to the day until the opener, so he's got four weeks.
- 33:21Speaker 5: His right ankle, right leg looks a little after feed
- 33:25Speaker 5: and he's favored it a little bit because he hasn't
- 33:27Speaker 5: done anything on it in a month the arthroscopic ankle
- 33:30Speaker 5: surgery in July. But he's on track and they expect
- 33:35Speaker 5: him to play now. It'll be how he responds to
- 33:37Speaker 5: the plan of getting him back up. He doesn't look
- 33:40Speaker 5: to me like he's ready to do any full practicing
- 33:43Speaker 5: anytime soon. But it may be a deal where the
- 33:45Speaker 5: first time he practices will be position drills and he
- 33:49Speaker 5: does that for a few days, and then maybe he'll
- 33:50Speaker 5: do group drills defense against air and they would do
- 33:53Speaker 5: that for a few days, and maybe then at the
- 33:55Speaker 5: end of August, could he start going towards scrimmage. That's
- 33:58Speaker 5: just meet positioning from what I've seen so far. But
- 34:03Speaker 5: it's sure better than a boot and a scooter that
- 34:05Speaker 5: the nation saw last week in Hard Knocks that was
- 34:08Speaker 5: filmed at the end of July.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Are we gonna have to wait for another episode of
- 34:11Speaker 2: Hard Knocks to get Witherspoon contract information and also information
- 34:18Speaker 2: on Terry and Arnold or do we have an update
- 34:21Speaker 2: that we can provide here this morning.
- 34:24Speaker 5: Well, apparently you need to mount a camera and just
- 34:26Speaker 5: have Witherspoon do it soliloqually as he's driving somewhere to
- 34:30Speaker 5: get any comments.
- 34:31Speaker 2: Yeah, why haven't you done that? Why haven't the News
- 34:32Speaker 2: Tribute hooked you up with something like that?
- 34:34Speaker 5: Because I'm married and I have a life and one
- 34:36Speaker 5: of practices over and go and try to finish the
- 34:40Speaker 5: rest of my life. Yeah. That he didn't comment when
- 34:44Speaker 5: we talked to him, and that'll be the last he
- 34:46Speaker 5: says to us about it until he signs the deal.
- 34:48Speaker 5: I would assume Tara and Arnold he visited the Giant yesterday.
- 34:53Speaker 5: John Harboro, the new coach in New York, was pretty
- 34:56Speaker 5: open talking about how we're here to make the team
- 34:57Speaker 5: better and we're checking into everything about it. But now
- 35:01Speaker 5: the leverage is on today is supposed to be. I
- 35:05Speaker 5: haven't seen any reports or indication that has changed. His
- 35:08Speaker 5: arraignment date was supposed to be today in Tampa. He's
- 35:12Speaker 5: supposed to assumingly will plead not guilty, so he mains
- 35:17Speaker 5: out on one million dollars bond. So the question becomes
- 35:19Speaker 5: can he play in the hard Knock second episode. Joey Lane,
- 35:24Speaker 5: one of the Seahawks advisors and assistant to the general manager,
- 35:29Speaker 5: John Schneider, said that Joey Lane told him that he
- 35:32Speaker 5: the NFL and some people that they've talked to think
- 35:35Speaker 5: he can play during the preseason. Does that mean play
- 35:37Speaker 5: while he's out on bond because he is, as I
- 35:39Speaker 5: mentioned yesterday, subject to not only the jurisprudence in Florida,
- 35:44Speaker 5: but Commissioner Roger Goodell has wide sweeping powers to discipline
- 35:48Speaker 5: players that are wrecked up in things like this and less,
- 35:51Speaker 5: and he says has suspended guys for less. He can
- 35:54Speaker 5: put him on an exemp list indefinitely. So it could
- 35:57Speaker 5: be that he could play in the preseason but yet
- 36:00Speaker 5: be unavailable for the regular season because he suspended, and
- 36:04Speaker 5: Seahorks could potentially sign him for a layaway deal waiting
- 36:08Speaker 5: to see how the jurisprudence goes on. Hearing today will
- 36:12Speaker 5: be the next legal step in that process. But I
- 36:15Speaker 5: can't imagine his case being set unless the accusers flip
- 36:22Speaker 5: or decide to change their tune, which happens a lot
- 36:25Speaker 5: for reasons we can surmise unless that happens, if they
- 36:28Speaker 5: if this case runs its course, It's probably not going
- 36:32Speaker 5: to be settled anytime soon. We're talking months, and so
- 36:35Speaker 5: what's that mean. If the commission doesn't suspend him, maybe
- 36:38Speaker 5: he could play. If the commissioner does suspend him, which
- 36:41Speaker 5: is a real possibility, then he could be under contract
- 36:44Speaker 5: to some team but not playing.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Greg bell Our seks insider joining us here. Follow his
- 36:49Speaker 2: coverage at g bel Seattle on X and of course
- 36:52Speaker 2: Thenewstribune dot com. All sorts of good stuff up there,
- 36:55Speaker 2: including your coverage a couple of days ago of another fight,
- 36:59Speaker 2: and it seems like there's been more this year, and
- 37:01Speaker 2: they seem to be growing. Is this just a simple
- 37:03Speaker 2: case of this team needs to stop practicing against one
- 37:06Speaker 2: another that maybe Saturday will be good for this team
- 37:11Speaker 2: to get some of their you know energy out. And
- 37:14Speaker 2: then I'm thinking about that Nashville trip next week, which
- 37:18Speaker 2: almost always is just a big, giant fight. So has
- 37:22Speaker 2: this team just got a little extra you know juice
- 37:25Speaker 2: and its stinger right now? What's happening with this team?
- 37:27Speaker 2: Why are they brawling so much?
- 37:31Speaker 5: Honestly, Chuck, it's not any different than it's been for
- 37:33Speaker 5: the twenty seven years I've covered NFL training camps once
- 37:36Speaker 5: you get to this point of sixteen seventeen practices against
- 37:39Speaker 5: the same guys all the time. Yeah, And part of
- 37:42Speaker 5: the reason McDonald wants to do join practices for that
- 37:45Speaker 5: very reason, to go hit somebody else. And that is
- 37:50Speaker 5: going to happen next week for sure. Yesterday the forty
- 37:52Speaker 5: nine ers are having a joint practice with the Titans
- 37:54Speaker 5: in Tennessee, and two forty nine ers got kicked out
- 37:56Speaker 5: of practice and there were four or five different brawls.
- 37:59Speaker 5: So the Titans are gonna be well versed in this
- 38:01Speaker 5: by the time they get there next week. They won't
- 38:03Speaker 5: have Jamal Adams there this time like the last time
- 38:05Speaker 5: the Sea Arks were there to chirp and everybody. But yeah,
- 38:09Speaker 5: that will happen.
- 38:10Speaker 7: The only if it goes like the last two years,
- 38:15Speaker 7: the only substantial game like action for the starters will
- 38:20Speaker 7: be in those joint practices.
- 38:21Speaker 5: It's ones versus ones in a controlled environment. And that's
- 38:25Speaker 5: what McDonald put all his starters out and put them
- 38:28Speaker 5: on the field and played them, and I'm expecting that
- 38:31Speaker 5: to be That's the reason I'm going to Nashville, frankly,
- 38:33Speaker 5: and I expect that Friday, a week from tomorrow to
- 38:36Speaker 5: be the dress rehearsal for the regular season for those starters.
- 38:40Speaker 2: Yeah, well get ready, get ready for the fights. Went
- 38:43Speaker 2: to the fights.
- 38:43Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be ninety five degrees and humidity and yeah.
- 38:48Speaker 2: But you have that cold beer in country music to
- 38:50Speaker 2: look forward to every evening.
- 38:53Speaker 5: I'm bringing Wendy this time as an adult.
- 38:57Speaker 2: So yeah, that's awesome.
- 38:59Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good place to have a joint practice
- 39:01Speaker 5: in a couple of days. Five days there, four days. Yeah,
- 39:04Speaker 5: we'll be bradcasting our show ten o'clock show from Nashville
- 39:07Speaker 5: next Thursday and Friday and Monday night.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Very good. All right, last thing, and I want to
- 39:12Speaker 2: bring this up. We wrote an article about Anthony Bradford
- 39:15Speaker 2: and man, the criticism that this guy has received over
- 39:19Speaker 2: the last couple of years. I mean that would break
- 39:23Speaker 2: a person that's not secure and confident. What is it
- 39:26Speaker 2: about Anthony Bradford's personality that he can laugh at off
- 39:30Speaker 2: and just and let it fuel him, or if it
- 39:34Speaker 2: doesn't fuel him, at least not let it bother him
- 39:37Speaker 2: and get to him personally.
- 39:39Speaker 5: Honestly, checking, I've covered him now four years. I've watched
- 39:42Speaker 5: him as a rookie from LSU a four year starter
- 39:45Speaker 5: and now twenty five years old. It's being married and
- 39:48Speaker 5: me and a father, and that has changed him his
- 39:51Speaker 5: outlook on life. He's appreciative of his baby daughter. He's
- 39:56Speaker 5: holding in his arms after practices. It's changed him. When
- 40:02Speaker 5: I sat down and talked to him last week. Look
- 40:06Speaker 5: the Internet. Anyone with thumbs can put anything out on
- 40:09Speaker 5: the Internet and put clips together and try to look
- 40:12Speaker 5: like an authority. And most of these guys are Joe
- 40:15Speaker 5: Schmo's from Idaho who's never played, but have a platform
- 40:19Speaker 5: simply because they have a social media account. And that's
- 40:22Speaker 5: the proliferation. And how that's just lazy, and that's just that.
- 40:25Speaker 5: Guys who never played and guys that don't know. The
- 40:27Speaker 5: coaches love Anthony Bradford. They love his size, they love
- 40:31Speaker 5: his lateral quickness. Yes, he gives up some pass blocks
- 40:34Speaker 5: and sometimes they look terrible, and he misses assignments and
- 40:37Speaker 5: sometimes they look terrible. The aggregate the coaches tell me
- 40:42Speaker 5: is that they really think Anthony Bradford had a great
- 40:45Speaker 5: season last year and they are considering whether to give
- 40:48Speaker 5: him a new contract or not. And I know a
- 40:50Speaker 5: lot of people listening are going what I'm telling you
- 40:53Speaker 5: that's what they really value. The continuity the offensive line.
- 40:56Speaker 5: They loved it. All five starters are back, and let's
- 40:59Speaker 5: face it, for ten years we were talking about this
- 41:01Speaker 5: offensive line, and last year it was the opposite. We
- 41:03Speaker 5: were talking about how much better the offensive line was.
- 41:06Speaker 5: Bradford was a part of that. And just because people
- 41:09Speaker 5: in mom's basement are putting together videos that make him
- 41:12Speaker 5: look like a fool at times doesn't mean he's a fool.
- 41:16Speaker 5: I guess that's the best way to put it. The
- 41:18Speaker 5: people who decide, the people who coach him, the people
- 41:21Speaker 5: who are giving him a starting job, think he's a
- 41:24Speaker 5: lot better.
- 41:24Speaker 2: Than you do.
- 41:25Speaker 5: And the thing that tells me they like Anthony Bradford.
- 41:29Speaker 5: They drafted both Stevens, an All American guard from Iowa.
- 41:33Speaker 5: They traded into the fifth round a pick they didn't
- 41:35Speaker 5: have in the fifth round to get Bo Stevens, And
- 41:37Speaker 5: I thought, one of the things I'm going to look
- 41:38Speaker 5: at in this training camp is how much is Bo
- 41:40Speaker 5: Stevens gonna challenge Anthony Bradford. Because they have a decision
- 41:43Speaker 5: take on Bradford after this year's contract's ending, so they're
- 41:46Speaker 5: gonna give Stevens a little run and audition to see,
- 41:48Speaker 5: well do we have something here, and maybe we don't
- 41:50Speaker 5: need to resign Bradford because now Stevens can play. Stevens
- 41:53Speaker 5: has been completely entrenched on the third team, not even
- 41:56Speaker 5: the second team. He hasn't even challenged Christian Haynes, Who's
- 41:59Speaker 5: had three chances to win Bradford's job and failed in
- 42:02Speaker 5: all three with three different line coaches. So it's Anthony Bradford.
- 42:07Speaker 5: It makes like secretary in the Beaumont Stakes. As far
- 42:09Speaker 5: as that competition's going, it's not even close. So that
- 42:14Speaker 5: I know fans, he's a lightning rod. It's a little
- 42:17Speaker 5: baffling of how much of a lightning rod is for
- 42:19Speaker 5: being a Super Bowl champion, but he is. And he
- 42:23Speaker 5: did laugh at Off and Stride. He says he sees everything.
- 42:26Speaker 5: He said. I can't believe people spend their time actually
- 42:30Speaker 5: doing that, but he did.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Well. I would say the only thing I would say,
- 42:34Speaker 2: and for the most part, I agree with you, The
- 42:35Speaker 2: only thing i'd say about that. I mean, it's Brian
- 42:37Speaker 2: Baldinger that was pointing that stuff out last year. It
- 42:39Speaker 2: was Hugh Milan pointing that stuff like the really embarrassed
- 42:44Speaker 2: you could do.
- 42:44Speaker 5: That for a lot of offensive line. Some really good
- 42:47Speaker 5: Trent Williams miss blocks last year. I watched it from
- 42:50Speaker 5: the press box. I mean, you could put a montage
- 42:53Speaker 5: of a lot of guys missing blocks. Bradford had a
- 42:56Speaker 5: propensity earlier in his career to miss more than others.
- 42:59Speaker 5: But let's really, let's be honest. The bar has had
- 43:04Speaker 5: been until last year. The bar was really low on
- 43:06Speaker 5: good offensive line play with the Seahawks. Bradford went above
- 43:09Speaker 5: that bar last year, and now they are really valuing
- 43:12Speaker 5: the continuity him come back. I don't know.
- 43:17Speaker 8: It is a to me.
- 43:19Speaker 5: It's a little out of proportion for the overall whole
- 43:23Speaker 5: play of the offensive line to constantly single him out
- 43:26Speaker 5: all the time. He tightens. If he doesn't get resigned
- 43:31Speaker 5: of the Seahawks, someone's gonna give him a lot of
- 43:33Speaker 5: money next year in free agency.
- 43:35Speaker 2: All right, the last thirty seconds, what's on at ten
- 43:37Speaker 2: o'clock on the Greg Bell Show.
- 43:40Speaker 5: We're gonna hear from Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's learning
- 43:43Speaker 5: from Ricky White, one of the guys at the bottom
- 43:47Speaker 5: of the depth charters, just in the second year, a
- 43:49Speaker 5: late round pick last year who barely played. We're going
- 43:52Speaker 5: to hear what he's learned Jackson Smith and Jiggby with
- 43:54Speaker 5: the NFL Offensive Player of the Year learning from a
- 43:56Speaker 5: six round draft pick who's barely played. Letter Williams, you
- 44:01Speaker 5: will hear from him talking about the culture of Mike
- 44:04Speaker 5: McDonald's growth from year one to year three and what
- 44:06Speaker 5: he's noticed about the culture builder of the Seahawks. And
- 44:10Speaker 5: I don't know should we even bring up the Mariners?
- 44:12Speaker 5: Are you doing ABC's of the Seahawks now or we
- 44:15Speaker 5: reach that point?
- 44:16Speaker 2: Oh no, it's just ABC's of the EMS. Yeah, yeah,
- 44:19Speaker 2: but we do enough Seahawks. I don't need to. I
- 44:22Speaker 2: don't need to create segments.
- 44:25Speaker 5: Maybe you do. Is it time to just I don't
- 44:28Speaker 5: know if the Marriers we're talking about anymore? They are
- 44:32Speaker 5: a subterranean right now.
- 44:34Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bad, It is bad, all right man. We'll
- 44:38Speaker 2: be listening at ten. Thank you very much. All right,
- 44:40Speaker 2: thank you, sir Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider from the
- 44:43Speaker 2: News Tribune joining us right here thanks to the fine,
- 44:46Speaker 2: fine folks at the Emerald Queen Casino. Coming up next,
- 44:49Speaker 2: we do have the ABC's of the EMS and it
- 44:52Speaker 2: is definitely worth listening to Sports Radio ninety three point
- 44:55Speaker 2: three KJRFF. We have our next guest. We've never had
- 44:58Speaker 2: them on the morning show before. And I want to
- 45:01Speaker 2: get the name right, because guys like you get your
- 45:03Speaker 2: name pronounced mispronounced all the time, asked Jackson Smith and
- 45:07Speaker 2: Chickba about that. So I want to make sure that
- 45:10Speaker 2: I've been pronouncing it right your entire time here in Seattle,
- 45:14Speaker 2: Chenna nw WOSU? Is that it? Oh? Man? Why can't
- 45:18Speaker 2: we hear you now? Oh right, hold on, I should
- 45:23Speaker 2: have checked your mic before then. Uh all right, yeah,
- 45:26Speaker 2: try to those. Let's see if we can throw those
- 45:28Speaker 2: on him. Sorry about that, and then and yet all
- 45:31Speaker 2: of a sudden I could hear them right then and there.
- 45:33Speaker 2: All right, let's go. There we go. There you are,
- 45:36Speaker 2: you can hear yourself? Yeah, there we go? All right,
- 45:39Speaker 2: one man operation around here? Yeah yeah, yeah, all right?
- 45:43Speaker 2: So do I have it right? I got it right? Okay,
- 45:47Speaker 2: all right. You've had a difficult with difficulty with people
- 45:50Speaker 2: your entire life. Screwing that up. Man.
- 45:52Speaker 9: I've heard everything, man, I've heard it all. It's fun
- 45:56Speaker 9: to hear somebody say it right.
- 45:58Speaker 2: All right, Well, great to have you with us. How
- 46:00Speaker 2: it feel to be World champs? Coming to training? Camp.
- 46:02Speaker 9: It feels great. Man, nine years in. You know, I
- 46:06Speaker 9: never thought I get to this point. You know, people
- 46:08Speaker 9: play their entire careers whenever seeing a championship. So I'm
- 46:11Speaker 9: blessed to be able to have that accomplishment and you know,
- 46:14Speaker 9: go into another season trying to repeat it.
- 46:16Speaker 2: When did you feel last year like this is different,
- 46:20Speaker 2: this team's different, We're gonna shock the world here. When
- 46:24Speaker 2: did that strike you that that was a possibility.
- 46:27Speaker 9: I'll probably say the most memorable moment that I experienced
- 46:30Speaker 9: that was the Jacksonville game. For defound speaking defensively, of course,
- 46:35Speaker 9: that was just a game where everybody was making plays
- 46:37Speaker 9: across the whole defense. Everybody up front was attacking the quarterback,
- 46:41Speaker 9: rushing together, communicating as one, and we're playing like that
- 46:45Speaker 9: we're unstoppable. So when we finally saw that all come
- 46:47Speaker 9: to life where everybody on the defense is on the
- 46:50Speaker 9: defensive line is communicating, everybody's you know, helping each other out,
- 46:53Speaker 9: everybody celebrating each other, Yeah, that's when I kind of
- 46:56Speaker 9: knew we had something special.
- 46:59Speaker 2: And we can at all. Yeah, that's what a lot
- 47:01Speaker 2: of people keep commenting on and watching you guys on
- 47:04Speaker 2: Hard Knocks. It's like, my goodness, I don't do football
- 47:08Speaker 2: teams typically get along this well. I mean, you guys
- 47:11Speaker 2: just seem so team oriented that you have each other's backs.
- 47:16Speaker 2: I mean, is that the cameras fooling us? Is that?
- 47:19Speaker 2: Is that legitimate? And have you ever experienced anything like
- 47:22Speaker 2: that at any time in your playing career?
- 47:24Speaker 9: A group this tight, it's all legit, man, It's all legit.
- 47:27Speaker 9: That's who we are, even before the cameras. That's what
- 47:30Speaker 9: we were doing last year. Hard Knocks is just now,
- 47:32Speaker 9: you know, recording it and everybody's now seeing it for
- 47:34Speaker 9: their own eyes. But it's something we've been doing. We've
- 47:37Speaker 9: been connected, we've been together like this, we established and
- 47:41Speaker 9: you know, it's just gonna keep going. It's what get
- 47:43Speaker 9: us to the top. And as far as a group
- 47:44Speaker 9: that's been this connected that I've been on personally, I
- 47:47Speaker 9: can't say I have. I have to probably think back
- 47:49Speaker 9: to when you're playing with your little cousins in like
- 47:51Speaker 9: you know, you know, middle school. Yeah, the close last
- 47:54Speaker 9: time you be that connected. Other than that, professionally, no,
- 47:56Speaker 9: I've never had an experience like this.
- 47:58Speaker 2: I don't think I got along with my cousin as
- 48:00Speaker 2: well as you guys get along. Yeah, it's pretty impressive
- 48:03Speaker 2: to see Chenna Nwok's who is our guest here on
- 48:06Speaker 2: the radio program, Leonard Williams, So you guys have that
- 48:10Speaker 2: USC connection as well. Have you ever gone to his
- 48:12Speaker 2: house to have salads? Apparently he's got a beautiful garden
- 48:15Speaker 2: in the back rond you know that? Do you know that?
- 48:17Speaker 2: I know that? Yeah, he has a beautiful house.
- 48:19Speaker 5: You know.
- 48:19Speaker 9: Shout out to Leo Man. I've known him since I
- 48:21Speaker 9: was in college. He was a junior, I was a freshman.
- 48:23Speaker 9: I think I was like seventeen. He might have been
- 48:25Speaker 9: like eighteen nine, nineteen twenty. So I've known Leo a
- 48:28Speaker 9: long time.
- 48:28Speaker 5: Man.
- 48:29Speaker 9: To see the man he's become, and you know how
- 48:31Speaker 9: he's grown in so many different areas and aspects of
- 48:33Speaker 9: his life, and you know, to watch him be the
- 48:35Speaker 9: player he is today is like I've seen that from
- 48:38Speaker 9: when we were young. So, I mean, he's doing great
- 48:40Speaker 9: things and can't wait to see him continue that trajectory.
- 48:43Speaker 2: You know, some of my best friends in life have
- 48:45Speaker 2: been co hosts that I've had in my radio career.
- 48:48Speaker 2: But while we were co hosts, I didn't spend a
- 48:51Speaker 2: lot of time with him. Like off because I see
- 48:54Speaker 2: you enough. We talk and we laugh, and I probably
- 48:58Speaker 2: need to see other people. But what is it like
- 49:01Speaker 2: for you and him or other football players? Do you
- 49:04Speaker 2: spend time off the field together or you're my coworker,
- 49:08Speaker 2: even though we're best buddies, I see you enough, and
- 49:13Speaker 2: you really don't do that off the field.
- 49:15Speaker 9: No, we definitely try to make that up okay to
- 49:18Speaker 9: be you know, we talk about it. Togetherness and the connectedness.
- 49:21Speaker 9: Spending time off the fields what matters a lot. So
- 49:24Speaker 9: you know, guys, will I know, during the springtime, we
- 49:26Speaker 9: went out and went golfing with you know, us linebackers,
- 49:29Speaker 9: D line. We'll go golfing together. You know, we'll get
- 49:32Speaker 9: on boats, spend time on the water. You know, somebody
- 49:34Speaker 9: will grill out their house. Everybody go over and eat
- 49:37Speaker 9: like it's just those and we'll go to each other's house,
- 49:38Speaker 9: play cards, you know, watch the football games Thursday nights,
- 49:41Speaker 9: you know, some stuff like that. But that's where the
- 49:43Speaker 9: bonds really happen. Is that connected the off the field
- 49:46Speaker 9: because we spend so much time here. Even in the building,
- 49:48Speaker 9: we're still connected. We're still playing cards, still hanging out.
- 49:51Speaker 9: It's still tatting. But it's the off the field stuff
- 49:53Speaker 9: where you like know that bond is real and real special.
- 49:55Speaker 2: So do you do the shadow boxing thing? I'll do
- 49:58Speaker 2: it all. Are you good at it? I'm one of
- 49:59Speaker 2: the best ones. Who is the best? Who's the number
- 50:01Speaker 2: one seed? Me? I thought it?
- 50:03Speaker 9: No, no, no, seriously, I'm whooping everybody. You can go
- 50:06Speaker 9: around check my highlights. Man, I'm smacking everybody in there.
- 50:10Speaker 2: That's the truth. Chennon wo Wolks, who are a guest here?
- 50:16Speaker 2: All right, you're number one. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna
- 50:17Speaker 2: believe you. You're the number one. I also think your
- 50:20Speaker 2: head coach might be the number one coach in the
- 50:22Speaker 2: National Football League, and I think he might be the
- 50:25Speaker 2: number one defensive mind and the entire sport. Okay, so
- 50:30Speaker 2: when you started getting around him, because you've been around
- 50:33Speaker 2: I'm sure excellent defensive coaches your entire life. What was
- 50:37Speaker 2: it about him that was different and special that sets
- 50:40Speaker 2: him apart?
- 50:42Speaker 9: I'll probably say his willingness to always grow. I feel
- 50:46Speaker 9: like a lot of defensive coaches, you know, they're happy
- 50:48Speaker 9: with what they run, and they're stuck in their ways,
- 50:51Speaker 9: and you know they kind of just got to make
- 50:53Speaker 9: it work. You know, he's always figuring out what's the
- 50:55Speaker 9: next best thing, how to put players in the right
- 50:57Speaker 9: positions to be successful, and.
- 50:59Speaker 2: He's always trying to expand his game.
- 51:01Speaker 9: You know, he never wants to you know, know what
- 51:03Speaker 9: the right hand, you know, the left hand's doing with
- 51:05Speaker 9: the right you know kind of sort of things.
- 51:06Speaker 2: So he's always growing.
- 51:07Speaker 9: He's always figuring out ways to be better, put guys
- 51:09Speaker 9: in different positions to throw people off or you know,
- 51:12Speaker 9: change things up and not give you the same look.
- 51:14Speaker 9: And I really appreciate that because it keeps us on
- 51:16Speaker 9: our toes and unlocks abilities that you know, seeing other
- 51:20Speaker 9: guys being like, oh he can do that too, that's awesome.
- 51:22Speaker 9: You never know because usually you line up this is
- 51:24Speaker 9: who you are, this is what you gotta do, this
- 51:25Speaker 9: is what they tell you are. But Mike puts all
- 51:27Speaker 9: guys in different positions to see what they can do,
- 51:29Speaker 9: and you realize guys who have never you know, done
- 51:32Speaker 9: this can do that, and ad vice versa. So it's
- 51:34Speaker 9: it's awesome to see and hit him display other people's
- 51:37Speaker 9: talents on the field.
- 51:38Speaker 2: Way his mind works, he's probably amazing at shadow boxing.
- 51:43Speaker 2: That yeah, he's terrible. Unfortunately, I figured he'd be You're
- 51:48Speaker 2: out there shadow boxing. All of a sudden he sends
- 51:50Speaker 2: his foot on a blitz. You know, I didn't see
- 51:53Speaker 2: that coming.
- 51:54Speaker 9: Yeah, Mike, he refuses to shadow box. We're gonna get
- 51:57Speaker 9: him up there one. He can't keep running forever. You come, like,
- 52:00Speaker 9: don't worry, man, You up there next man, You and Nico,
- 52:03Speaker 9: let's go all.
- 52:04Speaker 2: Right, Well, you've never had to defend a Super Bowl championship.
- 52:08Speaker 2: How do you feel about your status and doing that?
- 52:11Speaker 2: Right now? Sitting here with me.
- 52:12Speaker 9: I feel confident. You know, the majority of our team
- 52:15Speaker 9: is back. Of course, we lost some key pieces you
- 52:18Speaker 9: know that are going to go out and to do
- 52:19Speaker 9: great things. So you know, congratulations to them. You know,
- 52:22Speaker 9: when your super Bowl team, everybody tries to pick from
- 52:24Speaker 9: that of course, so that's expected. But I feel like
- 52:26Speaker 9: the majority of our team is back. You know, everybody's
- 52:30Speaker 9: hungry again. You know, the feeling we left off last
- 52:32Speaker 9: year was kind of like, yeah, we won the super Bowl,
- 52:34Speaker 9: but like what's next? You know, we were you know,
- 52:37Speaker 9: we were beating guys, you know, kicking sorry, kick kicking
- 52:39Speaker 9: ass you know, for so long, and so we just
- 52:42Speaker 9: like wanted didn't want it to stop. You know, we
- 52:43Speaker 9: wanted to keep going, so it's like, what's next. So
- 52:45Speaker 9: now that we're back, I feel like, guys, you know,
- 52:47Speaker 9: there's still we're still kind of underdogs. People still talking
- 52:50Speaker 9: about other teams got better eyes and us whatever. You know,
- 52:52Speaker 9: we're just putting our fedal to the metal. Where we're down,
- 52:55Speaker 9: we're grinding, you know, we're building off what we did
- 52:58Speaker 9: last year. We're just gonna keep pushing.
- 52:59Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's do it. Have a great camp, man.
- 53:02Speaker 2: I'm glad that you were actually getting to start a
- 53:04Speaker 2: season where you're not coming off an injury and rehabbing
- 53:08Speaker 2: and let's just unlock it for seventeen games. What do
- 53:11Speaker 2: you say?
- 53:11Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean last year was the first year, you know,
- 53:14Speaker 9: like I came off injury of course, you know, training camp,
- 53:17Speaker 9: none of that, So it's kind of like I had
- 53:18Speaker 9: to just go straight into it. But I was fortunate.
- 53:20Speaker 9: I was blessed, you know, no injury that season. I
- 53:23Speaker 9: missed the first game, but played the rest of the
- 53:24Speaker 9: season all through playoffs. So I was happy to finally
- 53:26Speaker 9: finish the season come out healthy. You know, I was
- 53:30Speaker 9: just talking to I was just talking to NASA about
- 53:32Speaker 9: that just earlier. Today, like just not not taking that
- 53:35Speaker 9: for granted, and you know, just putting my all into
- 53:37Speaker 9: the off season, making sure I'm prepared for this year
- 53:39Speaker 9: and I can't wait to put my skills on display
- 53:42Speaker 9: and you know, remind people what I can do again,
- 53:44Speaker 9: and you know, to go out there and give it
- 53:45Speaker 9: my all.
- 53:46Speaker 2: Well, you're a difference maker, So go out there and
- 53:48Speaker 2: make a difference. Now that you've got that taste of
- 53:50Speaker 2: touchdown in your mouth. Yeah, I expect a couple of those. Yeah,
- 53:55Speaker 2: a couple of those. At least now I know how
- 53:57Speaker 2: to get it done. Hey, great to have you on.
- 54:00Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you. I have a great year.
- 54:01Speaker 2: Appreciate it all. Right, Chennanuosu joining us right here at
- 54:04Speaker 2: our set here Seahawks training camp. We'll be back in
- 54:08Speaker 2: a moment. We're gonna talk about another head coach who
- 54:12Speaker 2: thinks he's a genius. Ben Johnson, Sports Radio ninety three
- 54:15Speaker 2: point three kJ RFM. Hey, great morning to you all.
- 54:30Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you. We are broadcasting from
- 54:33Speaker 2: training camp, Seahawks training camp getting ready for the preseason
- 54:37Speaker 2: opener on Saturday against the Dallas Cowboys. More on that
- 54:40Speaker 2: coming up a little bit later on in the show. Also,
- 54:42Speaker 2: we'll talk some college football, Huskies football today at nine
- 54:45Speaker 2: o'clock with dog Man's Scott Ecklin. He's been at that
- 54:50Speaker 2: Huskies camp. He's been at that camp, so he can
- 54:52Speaker 2: tell us all the details about how Demon Williams Junior
- 54:57Speaker 2: looks at quarterback and about you know how the other
- 55:01Speaker 2: day Chris Fetters fell asleep at camp and he put
- 55:04Speaker 2: his hand in some warm water and made him wet
- 55:07Speaker 2: his pants.
- 55:08Speaker 3: Those stories right from Husky camp.
- 55:11Speaker 2: How he made a macaroni necklace for coach Fish.
- 55:14Speaker 5: You know.
- 55:15Speaker 2: Yeah, So right, we're gonna talk camp with Scott Eckland
- 55:20Speaker 2: coming up at nine o'clock today, So this is our
- 55:23Speaker 2: chance to talk about our Mariners team. Maybe we don't
- 55:26Speaker 2: even want to be reminded. But another loss last night,
- 55:29Speaker 2: a new wave to lose last night where you scored early,
- 55:32Speaker 2: scored five runs but couldn't hold the lead. And the
- 55:36Speaker 2: guy that we thought should come in the game but
- 55:39Speaker 2: couldn't two nights ago comes in the game last night
- 55:41Speaker 2: and just couldn't get anybody out in Gabe Spire. So
- 55:45Speaker 2: a ten to five loss drops the team nine games
- 55:48Speaker 2: under five hundred, and things look awfully grim on the
- 55:51Speaker 2: playoff front for the Seattle Mariners this year. Never thought
- 55:55Speaker 2: that it would dip to this low of a status,
- 55:58Speaker 2: and yet that's where we sit here on August thirteenth,
- 56:02Speaker 2: nine games under five hundred and five and a half
- 56:04Speaker 2: games out of first place. Now, before we start getting
- 56:06Speaker 2: into some stuff, I do want to point out one apologies.
- 56:11Speaker 2: I went on a rant earlier about cold Emerson. Why
- 56:14Speaker 2: didn't you even try You didn't even think about laying
- 56:16Speaker 2: down a bunch? Well apparently they did. Apparently I missed that.
- 56:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I did it one time.
- 56:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess he did try to lay it out
- 56:22Speaker 2: a bunt last night, So me saying you didn't even
- 56:25Speaker 2: consider it obviously was wrong. I must have looked away
- 56:29Speaker 2: for a brief moment from the game last night, but
- 56:31Speaker 2: I missed that entirely, So I do apologize for that.
- 56:35Speaker 2: They at least did consider bunting, but they didn't marry
- 56:38Speaker 2: themselves to it.
- 56:39Speaker 8: No.
- 56:39Speaker 4: Sure, well, I will say too, even if you like
- 56:41Speaker 4: look down at one point, you would have missed it
- 56:44Speaker 4: because when he hit the bunt, it went like straight
- 56:47Speaker 4: up in the air and fouled off to his left,
- 56:49Speaker 4: so it didn't like if you saw that part in
- 56:51Speaker 4: the contact, then you wouldn't have known that he actually
- 56:53Speaker 4: attempted a bun.
- 56:54Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I didn't see it, so I just went
- 56:58Speaker 2: off of the fact that I didn't see it, and
- 57:00Speaker 2: I thought that was a mistake. I think he could
- 57:02Speaker 2: have bunted every single time up last night. I really do,
- 57:05Speaker 2: the way he's hitting and the fact that he inherited
- 57:07Speaker 2: traffic with nobody out each inning. Because Cal got on
- 57:11Speaker 2: base three times last night, I thought it was a
- 57:14Speaker 2: perfect opportunity to commit to a little small ball last night,
- 57:18Speaker 2: and they didn't do it. But that's a small criticism.
- 57:21Speaker 2: I don't think that Dan mishandled the game last night.
- 57:24Speaker 2: That's not the reason that we lost the game. It
- 57:27Speaker 2: had more to do with our pitching this time, could
- 57:29Speaker 2: not step up against the struggling offense that the Yankees have.
- 57:33Speaker 2: I'd also point out Cole Jung left the game with dizziness.
- 57:36Speaker 2: I don't know how that started yesterday. But he's not
- 57:39Speaker 2: in the lineup again today either, So hopefully Poll's okay.
- 57:43Speaker 2: And then cal Raley boy didn't take long. They're so
- 57:46Speaker 2: they're more anxious than we are to get Cal going
- 57:49Speaker 2: because he had a good night at the plate. He
- 57:51Speaker 2: got on base three times, and he had a hit
- 57:53Speaker 2: in two walks and looked a lot, a lot better
- 57:56Speaker 2: than what he's looked and so you only have to
- 58:01Speaker 2: show him one game of that in he's hitting fourth today.
- 58:04Speaker 2: Oh wow. They put him right back from eighth up
- 58:07Speaker 2: to fourth in the cleanup spot today. So they must
- 58:10Speaker 2: have seen something Ashley that they liked last night.
- 58:12Speaker 3: I mean, and I don't blame them. He looked more
- 58:15Speaker 3: relaxed yesterday. He did look good.
- 58:17Speaker 4: He was screen, he made smart decisions, and I mean
- 58:20Speaker 4: I was shocked when he walked the first time, and
- 58:22Speaker 4: then when he did it the second time, I was like,
- 58:24Speaker 4: what is happening?
- 58:24Speaker 3: This is excellent. When he got the hit, it was great.
- 58:27Speaker 3: I hope I hope.
- 58:29Speaker 4: I mean we say we've said this a lot, and
- 58:31Speaker 4: not just about Cal but with this team in general.
- 58:33Speaker 4: I hope that's the start of something. But for him,
- 58:35Speaker 4: I really hope that's the start of something, because it's
- 58:38Speaker 4: got a way on you to go from the top, top,
- 58:41Speaker 4: top last year to this struggle that he's had this
- 58:43Speaker 4: year and trying to make sense of it and trying
- 58:45Speaker 4: to figure it out and trying to do it while
- 58:47Speaker 4: you're still the face of the organization and in front
- 58:50Speaker 4: of everybody, has to be a lot.
- 58:52Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're the leader of the team, and you
- 58:54Speaker 2: can't lead because you aren't playing well. You're playing worse
- 58:58Speaker 2: than anybody else who's gonna listen to you at this stage,
- 59:01Speaker 2: even though you have obviously earned a good reputation as
- 59:05Speaker 2: a leader in that locker room. I mean, can you
- 59:07Speaker 2: tell anybody to step up their game when you're hitting
- 59:10Speaker 2: one fifty nine going into last night. So that's also
- 59:14Speaker 2: I think been a conflict within him. But I'll say
- 59:17Speaker 2: this because I start what was it four days ago?
- 59:22Speaker 2: I said, I think it was Monday, Yeah, it was Monday.
- 59:24Speaker 2: I came on the air and I said, for the
- 59:26Speaker 2: first time this year that I'm on the other side
- 59:29Speaker 2: of the fence of doubting it, that it's that I'm
- 59:32Speaker 2: on the other side of the fence of thinking it's
- 59:34Speaker 2: not going to happen. And then yesterday I kind of
- 59:37Speaker 2: performed my eulogy for the team on the show yesterday.
- 59:42Speaker 2: It does feel like it's done to me, but of
- 59:46Speaker 2: course it's not. Mathematically it can be overcome. This franchise
- 59:52Speaker 2: itself has overcome a lot larger deficit in the past
- 59:56Speaker 2: with less time remaining in the season, and so it
- 59:59Speaker 2: can be done if you have the talent, and I
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: do still believe that they have the talent, and something
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: like getting cal Raley going will go a long way
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: toward heating this team up, no question about that. But
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: it does feel like it's too much of a hole
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: that you've dug yourself to overcome at this stage in
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: the season. It feels grimm to me. But if there
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: is a chance, and there is a chance, then that
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: happens this weekend, Ashley, forget about today. I mean, yeah, you,
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: I mean every loss is awful at this stage in
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: the season, but this weekend you do have a chance
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: to kind of sweep or die. You face the Houston Astros,
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: and there's no quicker way to get back into a
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: race than head to head. And they have dominated the
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Houston Astros, not just this season, but for the last
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: two seasons, and so to take a big chunk, you
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: do have control over that. And no, you can't overcome
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: them by the end of the weekend, but if you
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: could cut this thing, reduce this thing from five and
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: a half to two and a half games by Sunday night,
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: with a month ago. Now, all of a sudden, the
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: clouds do lift and the sun comes out, and you've
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: got twenty five games to overcome two and a half
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: in the American League West. And yes, there is your chance,
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: there's your crack in the door. There is your opportunity,
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: even though you really haven't earned it this year and
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: are taking advantage of a down American League West. There
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: is your chance to force your way back into this
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: divisional race and maybe go on a run toward the playoffs.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: So it doesn't feel good purely because it's been so
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: long since they've played even decent baseball and how is
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: that gonna happen in a snap overnight? But the path
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: is there. The pathway is there this weekend. If you
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: do take that big chunk, two out of three won't
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: get it done. That only gains a game. If you
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: take that big chunk three games away from the Houston Astros,
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: there's your path toward getting back. And that's real momentum.
- 1:02:09Speaker 3: That's not you know, just a game here or there.
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: Yeah, three good at bats from Cal Rawley last night
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: or Colt Emerson answering a bench clearing discussion with a
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: home run the next standing or you know, even a
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: two game winning streak. Now that's real momentum right there.
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: But that's gonna happen this weekend. And frankly, it's the
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: last chance. That's last chance Motel Ashley.
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: Yeah, and I again will continue to be stupidly optimistic.
- 1:02:37Speaker 4: But I do think, I mean, the thing that glares
- 1:02:41Speaker 4: to a lot of people, and it's understandable is the
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: fact that we're nine games under five hundred.
- 1:02:44Speaker 3: But that's not the number you have to worry about
- 1:02:46Speaker 3: right now.
- 1:02:47Speaker 4: The number you have to worry about is how far
- 1:02:48Speaker 4: back you are in the al West, because you could
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: be under five hundred, win the AL West and you're
- 1:02:51Speaker 4: still going to the playoffs, and whether or not you
- 1:02:54Speaker 4: deserve it because the season hasn't been good, well, nobody
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: in the AL West really deserves it, right, and nobody's
- 1:02:59Speaker 4: just running away with this thing when a year where
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: someone should be so go out there and take it.
- 1:03:04Speaker 4: Don't don't let someone take what take it from you
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: when you have every right to it too.
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, and had I mean, do you guys, I
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: don't think Seattle fans some hate beast quake, do they?
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: I don't think so.
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: Really, still love that to this day, don't they. Yeah,
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: that was a seven to nine football team that had
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: no business being in the playoffs. Had they taken that
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: beast quake momentum and gone all the way to the
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: Super Bowl, would a Seahawk fan have apologized for being there?
- 1:03:36Speaker 4: I would have been so mad. Oh, guys, we didn't
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: deserve it. We were seven and nine, shouldn't have been here. No,
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: whatever your record is, it doesn't matter. Get into the
- 1:03:42Speaker 4: damn playoffs and make something happen.
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you have the talent, it could be real.
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: That could be real. And I still believe they do
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: have the talent if they can just fix how poorly
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: they are playing. At this point, I'll ask you, Look,
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: I heard rumor that you were going to give up
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: on superstitions, that it wasn't working, that you finally realized
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: that the way you sit on the couch, or the
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: things that you wear, or how you cheer or how
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: you do your hair has no impact on the playoffs.
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: And yet are you going to watch the rest of
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: the season in bed? Is that what I'm to understand.
- 1:04:21Speaker 4: There's a solid chance, Chuck, and we're going on vacation
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: next week, So I thought like, well, will it be
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: frowned upon if I just don't hang out with our
- 1:04:26Speaker 4: friends and sit and watch Mariners games in bed in Hawaii,
- 1:04:29Speaker 4: because that's what so completely, this is how superstitions are born.
- 1:04:34Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to be superstitious at all. And I
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: had to take a late nap because I work and
- 1:04:40Speaker 4: other things. So I didn't lay down till like two thirty,
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: and I was.
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: Going to wake up at four thirty.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: Always give myself two hours so I have time to
- 1:04:47Speaker 4: fall asleep and time to wake up.
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: And I ended up waking up at four or four
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: or four to eleven.
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: So I turned the game on right as it's starting,
- 1:04:56Speaker 4: and I see Cole Young get on base, I see
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: Randy hit his home run, and I'm in there, laying
- 1:05:02Speaker 4: in bed, still no lights on, thinking like.
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is great.
- 1:05:06Speaker 4: And right then five Iron walked in from his office
- 1:05:08Speaker 4: and I'm like, I can't believe that a home run.
- 1:05:11Speaker 4: And then Julio hits his home run, and then Palmer
- 1:05:14Speaker 4: the Great hears me yell, oh my god, Julio too,
- 1:05:16Speaker 4: and so she comes running in. Well, now we're all
- 1:05:18Speaker 4: three laying in bed, and we then score another run.
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: And then I'm like, wait a minute, do we have
- 1:05:24Speaker 4: to do this forever? And I said it, and Palmer
- 1:05:26Speaker 4: were the Great, was like, yes, we do. This will
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: be awesome. So then we had to like have a conversation.
- 1:05:31Speaker 4: I think it was in the fifth inning. We yeah,
- 1:05:36Speaker 4: we were up five three or whatever it was, and
- 1:05:38Speaker 4: I said, all right, sixth inning, if no one scores,
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: we're going into the living room. If they score and
- 1:05:45Speaker 4: we don't, we're going in the living room. If we
- 1:05:47Speaker 4: score and they don't, we'll stay here.
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: No one scored, so we went in the living room. Okay, Yeah,
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: And then now I'm regretting. We should have stayed in
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: the bed.
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: Should have stayed in the bed.
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: Invite people over to watch Marners, take guys, want to
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: watch the Mariners game.
- 1:06:02Speaker 3: We all just hang out in our bed.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like Willy Wonka. You're like your grandparents and
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: Willy Wonka.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: Okay, you've got your head up here, your feet are
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: over here.
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: Well see, now here's here. Now here's my problem with
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: all of this, because if I'm to be honest, you know,
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: working with you for now, what are we going on?
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: Six years?
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: We're five?
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: Just five? Yeah, five six years. Not only do I
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: think that your superstitions are silly, Yes, they're insane, Yeah,
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: because they really don't have any impact. But now I'm
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: rooting for the fact that they get on a tear
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: because you are in bed for every game, and then
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: we're gonna have bedcam and everything else. And then there's
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: there are people added to your bedroom while you you
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: and five iron are in your kerchiefs and you're flowing
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: bed gowns. Uh and the family sitting there in bed.
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: And yet you have friends over to party with you
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: while you're watching the playoffs while in bed.
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: I mean, if that's what I'm rooting for, yeah, and
- 1:07:07Speaker 4: I embrace the chaos.
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: I'm in let's do it.
- 1:07:10Speaker 4: And I have already had the thought of okay gate
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: today's games at ten thirty. I'm not gonna leave here
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: till ten. I'm gonna miss the first ten minutes. But
- 1:07:19Speaker 4: then do I just go get in bed because they
- 1:07:20Speaker 4: also have work to do.
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: I would just say test it. So you're not gonna
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: be able to get home in time by ten thirty, yeah,
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: but you will get in time during the game. For
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: wherever you are in the game, just go lay in bed. Okay,
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: And if things get better, even if we're up, if
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: they just keep getting better, then you know something's up.
- 1:07:38Speaker 4: Well, because we know no amount of runs that we're
- 1:07:40Speaker 4: up our safe. So we just got to keep stacking them.
- 1:07:44Speaker 4: And if it comes down.
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: To it, I'll move the bed into the living room
- 1:07:46Speaker 3: and we can have parties in there.
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: That's fine because we got a golden tick and we
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: got a gold head.
- 1:07:54Speaker 4: If it gets the Mariners a golden ticket, sign me up.
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: Well, I am officially, for the first time ever, rooting
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: for one of your superstitions to be true, because I
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: want to do bedcam.
- 1:08:09Speaker 4: This would be the most stressful of all my superstitions
- 1:08:12Speaker 4: trying to figure out a way to make this work constantly.
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: And I want five iron uncomfortably on bedcam throughout the
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: entire playoffs.
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: Who doesn't That's what I want to see.
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Palmer the.
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: Great will think it's the greatest thing that's ever well.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: She will. She'll love it. Yeah, he'll hate it, but
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: he will be compelled to do it. Yep, he'll have
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: no choice because all of Seattle is counting on you
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: three correct, all right, Scott Eckland at nine o'clock coming
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: up next. Preseason games start tonight, and you know what
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: that means. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: here from Seahawks set training camp. Meanwhile, we needed eyes
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: and ears on Husky's camp, and so why wouldn't we
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: reach out to one of our Dogman friends. Scott Eckland
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: from dog Man now joins us here on the radio
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: program to talk to some Husky's football.
- 1:09:02Speaker 10: How you doing, man, I'm doing great man dog days
- 1:09:06Speaker 10: this summer. I'm I'm getting to that grind where it's like,
- 1:09:09Speaker 10: all right, I'm tired of watching drills, Let's watch some football.
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: How's it feel out there? What's the camp like, what's
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: the what's the vibe out there? Scott?
- 1:09:21Speaker 10: Well, I think the vibe has been a little bit
- 1:09:23Speaker 10: of chippiness, which you know, can obviously go overboard, sometimes
- 1:09:28Speaker 10: too much, but I think the Huskies have done a
- 1:09:31Speaker 10: good job of controlling it. Guys pushing and shoving a
- 1:09:34Speaker 10: few times here and there, tired of hitting the same
- 1:09:36Speaker 10: people all the time. But Drew has a party, John
- 1:09:40Speaker 10: Mills and then Rylan Dillard Allen, who's about half the
- 1:09:43Speaker 10: size of each of those guys, those guys have all
- 1:09:46Speaker 10: gotten into it a little bit here and there, and
- 1:09:48Speaker 10: so there's definitely some spirited competitions going on there. There's
- 1:09:53Speaker 10: a lot of I think quiet confidence from this coaching
- 1:09:58Speaker 10: staff and this team. I think they know they've built
- 1:10:00Speaker 10: this team up to be pretty darn good. Now they
- 1:10:03Speaker 10: need to just go out and prove it on the field.
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: How much more difficult in today's atmosphere? Do you think
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: it is to gel during camp or early in a
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: season when you have as much turnover to the roster
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: as you have these days? Do you think there's an
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: effect there?
- 1:10:21Speaker 10: I get the question, and I and I totally understand
- 1:10:25Speaker 10: why it's asked. The thing is nowadays, you know, back
- 1:10:29Speaker 10: in the seventies, eighties, even in the nineties and much
- 1:10:33Speaker 10: further before that, guys didn't really see each other in
- 1:10:36Speaker 10: the offseason until they reported for camp, and they got
- 1:10:38Speaker 10: in shape in camp. That's why you needed too a days.
- 1:10:41Speaker 10: That's why guys ran gassers. That's that's when they got
- 1:10:44Speaker 10: into football shape, into just any kind of cardio shape. Well,
- 1:10:47Speaker 10: now these players are are are basically it's a year
- 1:10:51Speaker 10: round thing for them. They're they're doing player led practices
- 1:10:55Speaker 10: in the month of July. They're doing conditioning all throughout
- 1:11:00Speaker 10: winter and during the summer.
- 1:11:02Speaker 11: And everything like that.
- 1:11:03Speaker 10: It's just these guys have been around each other for
- 1:11:05Speaker 10: so long. Even the guys who showed up in January,
- 1:11:08Speaker 10: they've been pretty intensely working out with each other for
- 1:11:13Speaker 10: the last seven months. So, I you know, I don't
- 1:11:16Speaker 10: get the feeling that the turnover, as much as it
- 1:11:19Speaker 10: can definitely be an issue. I don't get the sense
- 1:11:22Speaker 10: that it's as much of an issue as maybe we
- 1:11:24Speaker 10: think it might be from the outside looking in.
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: Great explanation. Scott Ecklin from dog Man with us, he's
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: been out at Husky's Camp. We have not. We haven't
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: had the opportunity. We will be out there next week
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: a couple weeks. Camp Cleveland's going to be joining me
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: out there, So we'll be at a couple practices next week,
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: broadcasting right here on the morning show. All right, let's
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: dive into some of this stuff. I mean, some of
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: my favorite I gotta do the cliche questions about camp.
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: Let's start with the buzz. Who's the talk of camp,
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: Who's creating the buzz for the dogs?
- 1:11:58Speaker 10: Well, I think the guy that's really creating a lot
- 1:12:02Speaker 10: of buzz.
- 1:12:02Speaker 11: Is someone who created a lot of buzz last year.
- 1:12:04Speaker 10: He's not even nineteen yet, but he's entering his second
- 1:12:06Speaker 10: year with the Huskies.
- 1:12:08Speaker 8: And that's John Mills. I mean, the guy is almost.
- 1:12:11Speaker 10: Six y seven, he's close to three hundred and forty pounds.
- 1:12:15Speaker 10: His hair is down almost to the middle of his back.
- 1:12:18Speaker 10: He's got a mullet. He looks like I don't know,
- 1:12:21Speaker 10: I compared him to when I talked with Softy and
- 1:12:23Speaker 10: Dick about it, Michael P. Hayes from The Fabulous Freebirds.
- 1:12:28Speaker 10: He looks like that, the old wrestler. It's just it's awesome.
- 1:12:32Speaker 10: And he's such a gregarious guy and he's got such
- 1:12:35Speaker 10: a great personality. And you know, he did that muggin
- 1:12:38Speaker 10: with Mills thing that he did with El Gaucho and
- 1:12:43Speaker 10: just his personality, and I think that's one of the
- 1:12:45Speaker 10: he's kind of the face of the program right now
- 1:12:48Speaker 10: as much as Demon Williams because he's the quarterback, he's
- 1:12:50Speaker 10: the de facto leader of this team. John Mills is
- 1:12:54Speaker 10: kind of that face of the program. And you know
- 1:12:57Speaker 10: this chuck from interviews and all that different stuff. The
- 1:13:00Speaker 10: linemen are always the most fun to talk to because
- 1:13:04Speaker 10: they don't give a rats, you know what what anybody
- 1:13:08Speaker 10: thinks about them.
- 1:13:09Speaker 11: They're just gonna come out and.
- 1:13:10Speaker 10: Tell you what they think, and they're gonna and if
- 1:13:12Speaker 10: they've got a good personality to make you laugh.
- 1:13:14Speaker 11: So I'd say on that on the opposive side of.
- 1:13:17Speaker 10: The ball, John Mills is definitely the one that's catching
- 1:13:19Speaker 10: a lot of people's eyes. You know, obviously the wide
- 1:13:22Speaker 10: receiver competition with Christian Moss, Rashid Williams, Desmond Roebuck, Chris
- 1:13:27Speaker 10: Loss and all those guys, that's that's something a lot
- 1:13:30Speaker 10: of people are looking at. Quid Carr in the running
- 1:13:32Speaker 10: back room with Jaden Lamar and possibly Trey Cooley who's
- 1:13:37Speaker 10: coming back. Those guys are all all battling for those spots.
- 1:13:40Speaker 10: But I think Jean Mills is kind of that guy
- 1:13:42Speaker 10: that everybody's kind of looking at and saying, that's the
- 1:13:44Speaker 10: guy that we're kind of watching right now. And then
- 1:13:47Speaker 10: on the defensive side of the ball, you know you've
- 1:13:49Speaker 10: got Derreck Coleman Brus You just don't see a lot
- 1:13:51Speaker 10: of freshmen that come in looking like he did. Six',
- 1:13:54Speaker 10: five two hundred and ninety five pounds is already in
- 1:13:58Speaker 10: the starting. Lineup you, know it'll be interesting to see
- 1:14:01Speaker 10: how much playing time he gets right.
- 1:14:03Speaker 8: Away will he play forty.
- 1:14:05Speaker 10: To fifty snaps a game or is he going to
- 1:14:07Speaker 10: be more relegated to twenty five point thirty as he
- 1:14:09Speaker 10: just kind of gets used to the college. Game but
- 1:14:11Speaker 10: you also have a secondary With alex McLaughlin AND i
- 1:14:14Speaker 10: already Mentioned Ryland Dillard.
- 1:14:15Speaker 8: Allen those guys are are leaders of this.
- 1:14:18Speaker 10: Defense and that's that linebacker group WHO i personally think
- 1:14:21Speaker 10: is very underrated. NATIONALLY i think they're a top ten
- 1:14:24Speaker 10: unit in the entire. Country you've got four guys who
- 1:14:28Speaker 10: could be, starting, yeah probably eighty five to ninety percent
- 1:14:32Speaker 10: of the schools in this, country and two of them
- 1:14:34Speaker 10: are going to have to be on the bench when
- 1:14:35Speaker 10: the teams on the field in the regular base. Defense
- 1:14:38Speaker 10: so just a lot of stuff going, on a lot
- 1:14:41Speaker 10: of great personalities at this camp and it's been fun
- 1:14:45Speaker 10: covering him so.
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: Far, Yeah Scott ecklin WITH us Talking huskies. Camp one
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: other question On, mills is it a four gone conclusion
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: that It's Cody green at left tackle And John mills
- 1:14:56Speaker 2: at left? Guard and if that is the, combination is
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: youth gonna be an. Excuse so are we gonna have to
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: wait on them to jell or is that gonna be
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: a duo that's going to be good to great?
- 1:15:08Speaker 10: Immediately good to great. Immediately i'm not one hundred. Percent
- 1:15:13Speaker 10: i'm not one hundred percent sold on that. Yet but
- 1:15:16Speaker 10: DO i think it's gonna be really?
- 1:15:18Speaker 8: Good? YEAH i.
- 1:15:19Speaker 10: DO i THINK i think it might take a few. Weeks,
- 1:15:23Speaker 10: Look Cody green has just turned eighteen years. Old he's
- 1:15:26Speaker 10: he's a guy who has an elite. TALENT i, mean
- 1:15:30Speaker 10: we're Talking Lincoln, Kennedy Khalif barnes kind of kind of
- 1:15:35Speaker 10: talent level coming. In but he's only a. Freshman he's
- 1:15:39Speaker 10: a guy who really hasn't done anything at this. Level
- 1:15:44Speaker 10: so it's gonna take him some time to get used
- 1:15:46Speaker 10: to the college. Game it's gonna take him some time
- 1:15:48Speaker 10: to get used to playing some of these guys who
- 1:15:51Speaker 10: are just as, talented if not more talented than he
- 1:15:53Speaker 10: is that he's going to be facing off. With so
- 1:15:56Speaker 10: but he And John mills are going to be That
- 1:15:59Speaker 10: Walter Jones Steve hutchinson combo at least for two, years
- 1:16:03Speaker 10: if not three At, washington and it's gonna be great
- 1:16:07Speaker 10: For husky fans to kind of keep an eye on that.
- 1:16:09Speaker 10: Group and then you've got another second year. Player we're
- 1:16:15Speaker 10: not calling him red shirt freshman, anymore but second year,
- 1:16:17Speaker 10: Player champ Talaye. Lea he's Battling Gearon. Hatchett, Well Garon
- 1:16:21Speaker 10: hatchett hasn't even really been on the field yet because
- 1:16:23Speaker 10: he's still recovering from an arm injury he suffered in.
- 1:16:26Speaker 10: Springball So Champ talayala is gonna is getting a ton
- 1:16:30Speaker 10: of reps with the first. Unit AND i, mean you're
- 1:16:32Speaker 10: you're talking about three guys who are who are all
- 1:16:35Speaker 10: under the age of nineteen years old starting the season
- 1:16:38Speaker 10: for The university Of. Washington that's pretty, special but it
- 1:16:41Speaker 10: could also lead to some inconsistencies up, front at least early.
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: On, well we're supposed to chat With jade And lamar
- 1:16:48Speaker 2: next week's gonna be one of The huskies that comes
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: on with us WHEN i sit down with them next
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: week At huskies. Camp AM i chatting with the starting running?
- 1:16:56Speaker 10: BACK i you, KNOW I i'm not sold he's going
- 1:17:01Speaker 10: to be the starting running. BACK i think he's gonna
- 1:17:03Speaker 10: get lots of playing. TIME i think he's he's, uh
- 1:17:05Speaker 10: definitely gonna get you, know looks at in pass, pro
- 1:17:09Speaker 10: but also as a receiver out of the. Backfield that's
- 1:17:12Speaker 10: where he really excels is out in space and and
- 1:17:15Speaker 10: make him plays with the ball in the air and.
- 1:17:17Speaker 8: Everything but you.
- 1:17:19Speaker 10: KNOW i Think quaid Cars is is the guy as
- 1:17:22Speaker 10: long as Quad car is healthy and he and he
- 1:17:24Speaker 10: picks things up like we, like he looks like he has.
- 1:17:27Speaker 10: BEEN i Think quaid car is probably your. Starter When
- 1:17:30Speaker 10: washington takes a field Against Washington.
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: State other freshmen another freshman, man.
- 1:17:35Speaker 10: Well that's second your player. Freshman but, yeah, yeah.
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: Uh what is the most interesting camp battle out? There position,
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: battle the fiercest one that's going on right?
- 1:17:47Speaker 5: Now?
- 1:17:49Speaker 10: Wow THAT i think you could do that about a
- 1:17:51Speaker 10: couple of, spots But i'd say it right. Guard If
- 1:17:54Speaker 10: geron has ever ever able to get back on the,
- 1:17:57Speaker 10: FIELD i think that's.
- 1:17:58Speaker 8: One and then you know with.
- 1:18:01Speaker 10: Camp Tell, alao which we already kind of talked, about
- 1:18:03Speaker 10: BUT i think out at that receiver spot is really.
- 1:18:05Speaker 10: Interesting you've Got Christian moss who came over From Kenasas,
- 1:18:09Speaker 10: state but he signed With Virginia tech coming out of
- 1:18:12Speaker 10: high school and just wasn't able to get on the.
- 1:18:14Speaker 8: Field was a little.
- 1:18:15Speaker 10: Homesick went, home had had a couple breakout seasons At Kenasas,
- 1:18:20Speaker 10: state granted not the not the highest level that you're playing,
- 1:18:23Speaker 10: at but they are A Sun belt, team and so
- 1:18:26Speaker 10: he comes and he's got one year. Left he decides
- 1:18:28Speaker 10: to come up To washington and Play big ten, ball
- 1:18:31Speaker 10: and the coaches are really excited about getting him in this.
- 1:18:33Speaker 10: Program he's not a guy who's going to take the
- 1:18:36Speaker 10: top off the defense or anything like, that but he's
- 1:18:38Speaker 10: going to be that, short intermediate guy who can.
- 1:18:42Speaker 11: Catch the ball and do something with it once he's got.
- 1:18:44Speaker 10: The ball in his, hands but also muscle up some
- 1:18:47Speaker 10: defensive backs and make some plays in the intermediate passing,
- 1:18:50Speaker 10: game going up and getting the ball in the. Air
- 1:18:53Speaker 10: then you Got Rashid, williams WHO i, think as long
- 1:18:55Speaker 10: as he stays, healthy and that's always been the big
- 1:18:58Speaker 10: question with, him as long as he's, HEALTHY i think that's.
- 1:19:00Speaker 8: Really going to be a.
- 1:19:03Speaker 10: Guy who could break out and have A Denzel boston
- 1:19:06Speaker 10: like impact on things for for For. Washington and then
- 1:19:12Speaker 10: but then.
- 1:19:12Speaker 11: Behind, them you've Got Chris, Lawson you've Got.
- 1:19:15Speaker 10: Jordan clay who's a supremely talented first year, Player Jordan
- 1:19:20Speaker 10: clay out Of, texas six to two hundred and five, pounds
- 1:19:23Speaker 10: somewhere in that. Range then you Got Trees davis who's
- 1:19:26Speaker 10: kind of a. Speedster he's out Of. Louisiana he's another
- 1:19:29Speaker 10: first year player and he's a guy that the coaches
- 1:19:32Speaker 10: love and they think he can be really. Special he
- 1:19:35Speaker 10: just needs to pick things up, quickly and we could
- 1:19:38Speaker 10: see a lot of. Him so that battle for reps
- 1:19:41Speaker 10: at THE x and the and THE z wide receiver
- 1:19:44Speaker 10: spots is going to be really. Interesting then, DEFENSIVELY i
- 1:19:47Speaker 10: think it's really the edge spots because you've Got Ramsack,
- 1:19:50Speaker 10: froun who the coaches are really excited. About he's a
- 1:19:53Speaker 10: first year. Player you've Got Jacob, lane who's a returning.
- 1:19:56Speaker 10: STARTER i think he's kind of locked in it one
- 1:19:58Speaker 10: as one of the. Starters but that other Side Ramsack,
- 1:20:01Speaker 10: froun you Got Russell davis who's a great pass, rusher
- 1:20:04Speaker 10: just hasn't been able to stay healthy.
- 1:20:05Speaker 8: The last two.
- 1:20:06Speaker 10: Years you've Got Rashaw Isaiah ward who's really good and he's.
- 1:20:12Speaker 11: Another one who could be a really good.
- 1:20:14Speaker 8: Guy then you Got Devin hyde who is big and.
- 1:20:18Speaker 10: Physical you've Got Victor, Sanchez, hernandez who's another big physical
- 1:20:22Speaker 10: guy that would kind of those guys have kind of
- 1:20:24Speaker 10: both Behind Jacob. Lane but then you've Got Logan, george
- 1:20:29Speaker 10: who's the guy who comes over From Ohio. State was
- 1:20:32Speaker 10: At Idaho state led the country or the scs the
- 1:20:35Speaker 10: entire country in tackles for, loss goes To Ohio, state
- 1:20:40Speaker 10: is injured most of the, season so doesn't play, much
- 1:20:43Speaker 10: and then decides he wants to come back to The West.
- 1:20:46Speaker 8: Coast comes to The.
- 1:20:47Speaker 10: West, coast and now he missed most of springball because
- 1:20:50Speaker 10: he was still rehabbing from his energy. Injury but the
- 1:20:53Speaker 10: coaches think that he's got a chance to be a
- 1:20:56Speaker 10: starter Opposite Jacob.
- 1:20:57Speaker 11: Lane so lots of different.
- 1:20:59Speaker 10: Moving, parts and that's one that we've really got our eyes.
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: On the Outstanding Scott ecklund is with. This you want
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: to follow, him do so At scott e k l
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: u N. D he's going to give, you along with
- 1:21:11Speaker 2: this dog man Cole, horts the Best huskies coverage out,
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: there along with us of course here on the. Flagship
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: but of course you Hear scott a lot on the
- 1:21:20Speaker 2: flagship here to talk Some dogs, football and he's our
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: eyes and ears right. Now At husky's, camp so we're
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: leaning into it here. TODAY i do want to talk
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: about the defense to close, out BUT i can't have
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: you on and not ask about the quarterback. Room And
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: i'll ask you about both of, them Both Demon Williams
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: junior And Elijah. Brown how are they looking at the?
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: Camp so?
- 1:21:41Speaker 10: Far demon has had his. Moments he's had his moments and.
- 1:21:46Speaker 10: Brilliance he's had his moments where you just go, ooh
- 1:21:48Speaker 10: that wasn't a great. Decision but he's just still still
- 1:21:52Speaker 10: kind of easing his way into. THINGS i will say,
- 1:21:54Speaker 10: this And i'm not comparing him To Michael, pennix But
- 1:21:57Speaker 10: Michael pennix's first camp At, washington granted he had played
- 1:22:02Speaker 10: three or four, years but his first camp At washington
- 1:22:05Speaker 10: was not. Good we all looked at him and just,
- 1:22:07Speaker 10: goes this guy was like a big time.
- 1:22:10Speaker 8: Guy what's going?
- 1:22:11Speaker 11: On and then he comes in and he's kind of a.
- 1:22:13Speaker 10: Gamer, Right So i'm not ready to throw out the
- 1:22:17Speaker 10: baby with the bathwater kind of, thing you, know where
- 1:22:19Speaker 10: you're just, like, oh it's the season's over With demon
- 1:22:22Speaker 10: stinks all. THIS i just think he's kind of working
- 1:22:24Speaker 10: on some different, things getting used.
- 1:22:27Speaker 8: To some new.
- 1:22:27Speaker 10: Receivers that's always you, know you talk to any, quarterback
- 1:22:30Speaker 10: getting used to new receivers and what they like and
- 1:22:32Speaker 10: what they run best and where to throw the ball.
- 1:22:34Speaker 10: Best for him is something that you always have to
- 1:22:37Speaker 10: get used to and everything like. That SO i think
- 1:22:40Speaker 10: he's gonna be. Fine but demand has been been great at,
- 1:22:43Speaker 10: times and he's had some times where you're a little.
- 1:22:46Speaker 10: Questionable Elijah brown has been nothing but. Good compared to
- 1:22:50Speaker 10: what we saw in the. Spring the, spring he just
- 1:22:52Speaker 10: did not look, comfortable looked like he was, pressing looked
- 1:22:56Speaker 10: like he was still learning the, offense which guess what he.
- 1:23:00Speaker 8: Was he was just running the.
- 1:23:01Speaker 10: Offense so now that it looks like he feels a
- 1:23:03Speaker 10: little lot more comfortable with the playbook where guys should.
- 1:23:06Speaker 10: Be he looks much more comfortable and is making some
- 1:23:09Speaker 10: much better reads and much quicker. READS i you, know
- 1:23:13Speaker 10: have made no bones about my. Man crush on Truston keene.
- 1:23:16Speaker 10: McMillan i love that. Kid he was The hawaii played
- 1:23:20Speaker 10: The Opositive player of The. YEAR i Think Gatorade State
- 1:23:24Speaker 10: player of The year when his his junior year when
- 1:23:26Speaker 10: he Led mililauney to a state. Title and He's he's
- 1:23:31Speaker 10: a guy WHO i think could be, really really, good
- 1:23:34Speaker 10: but he.
- 1:23:35Speaker 11: Just hasn't had the opportunity.
- 1:23:37Speaker 10: To really get in there and make the reads at the,
- 1:23:40Speaker 10: speed at game. Speed and SO i think he And
- 1:23:43Speaker 10: Elijah brown are going to battle things. Out but right,
- 1:23:45Speaker 10: Now Elijah brown is your second string.
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: Guy, hey by, license you brought him. UP i think
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: The falcons ought to be made aware That Michael Pennock
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: junior is a. Gamer had not to judge him on.
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: Practice that's something.
- 1:23:57Speaker 11: Absolutely he's not even practicing right.
- 1:24:00Speaker 8: Now is he really banged down right?
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: Now he's not gonna be the. Preseason he's not gonna
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: end up starting in The Scott ecklin with us here
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: on the morning Program Sports radio ninety three point three
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: K a R. Fm i'm want to close with this
- 1:24:15Speaker 2: because it seems like WHEN i talked To huskies, people
- 1:24:19Speaker 2: there's this feeling that maybe one of the talks of
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: the season offseason is the defensive coordinator a, Coach Ryan,
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: walters and that maybe he's got a few tricks up
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: his sleeve as he unveils more of his defense. Here
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: the longer he stays in this, program what's your read
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: on whether or not we have a coaching star possibly
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: lying beneath the.
- 1:24:46Speaker 10: Surface, OH i think there's no doubt about the fact
- 1:24:49Speaker 10: That Ryan, walters as long as he's a, coordinator is
- 1:24:53Speaker 10: an as a coaching. Star you, KNOW i think him
- 1:24:56Speaker 10: as a head coach somewhere is still kind of up
- 1:24:59Speaker 10: for debating up in the but as a, coordinator there's
- 1:25:02Speaker 10: no question that he's in the top two or three
- 1:25:04Speaker 10: defensive coordinators.
- 1:25:05Speaker 8: In the entire. Country you, know you talk about a
- 1:25:08Speaker 8: guy WHO'S i.
- 1:25:09Speaker 11: Mean his his first year At illinois.
- 1:25:11Speaker 10: Was, good his second year was, outstanding and The seahawks
- 1:25:16Speaker 10: are benefiting from one of.
- 1:25:17Speaker 8: The guys he helped develop during that time In Devin.
- 1:25:19Speaker 10: Weatherspoon so you, know He's he's a guy who can
- 1:25:23Speaker 10: do a lot of different things for. You he'll scheme things,
- 1:25:25Speaker 10: up he'll he'll He the one thing that the players
- 1:25:28Speaker 10: have all said is he simplifies things and makes it
- 1:25:30Speaker 10: so we're not thinking too. Much When Steve belichick was,
- 1:25:34Speaker 10: here he was. Fine it wasn't anything, special but he was. Coaching,
- 1:25:39Speaker 10: uh he was coaching a pro defense and expecting players
- 1:25:43Speaker 10: who also have to go to class and, study to
- 1:25:47Speaker 10: be in their playbook so much that they pick up
- 1:25:51Speaker 10: a pro playbook within three, months and it's just it's.
- 1:25:55Speaker 8: Not that easy to.
- 1:25:56Speaker 10: Do SO i think one of the things that That
- 1:25:59Speaker 10: Ryan walters understands, is, hey this is. College these kids
- 1:26:03Speaker 10: have other things on their mind besides playing. Football as
- 1:26:06Speaker 10: much as we as fans want to think that they're
- 1:26:08Speaker 10: only there to play football and with THE, nil a
- 1:26:11Speaker 10: lot of people think that's all they're do, nowadays but you,
- 1:26:15Speaker 10: know these guys have a lot more on their, minds
- 1:26:17Speaker 10: and So Ryan walters simplifies. Things he makes, quick easy
- 1:26:21Speaker 10: reads for these guys and then they can go use
- 1:26:24Speaker 10: their speed and, athleticism Which washington has an abundance.
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- 1:28:50Speaker 2: Along we just need people to Enter thunderdome and for
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: whom to, enter one to. Leave that's the way it.
- 1:28:58Speaker 2: Works and so you, know it's crazy every TIME i
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: Hear Tina turner. Played there's some about music that like
- 1:29:06Speaker 2: sucks you back to some, play some specific moment in your.
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: Life AND i don't even know Why i'm sharing this with,
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: you but that, song for whatever, REASON i was driving
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: to a legion baseball game WHEN i was a, kid
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: and that song was really, popular AND i was in
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: the back seat of The, boozes that's. Right their last
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: name Was, booze and they were driving me because my
- 1:29:34Speaker 2: parents couldn't go to that particular. Game so they're driving
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: me to our baseball. Game and so my friend and
- 1:29:43Speaker 2: actually second, Cousin, matt AND I Matt, Booze we're in
- 1:29:48Speaker 2: the back and his parents are in the, front and
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: we spent almost the entire drive to our baseball game
- 1:29:54Speaker 2: trying to convince The boozes that the greatest song ever
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: made Was Sweet child Of mine By Guns N', roses
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: and if they didn't think that, way they were. Old
- 1:30:09Speaker 2: so that's how we spent the entire car. Ride but
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: this song came on in the middle of that car,
- 1:30:16Speaker 2: Ride Tina, turner because it was wildly popular at that,
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: time and for some, reason every TIME i hear that,
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: SONG i am zoomed back to that car With Matt
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: booze in the, background arguing With kathy And terry over
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: what great music? Was is that not? Strange does that
- 1:30:36Speaker 2: not tell you the power of music right, there that
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: it can? Take why does that even a memory for?
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: Me period much less one that can be. Triggered and
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: it's not even the song we were arguing. About the
- 1:30:48Speaker 2: song we were arguing about Was Sweet child Of mine
- 1:30:51Speaker 2: By guns N', Roses and yet that it's that song
- 1:30:56Speaker 2: that's the one that zooms me back BECAUSE i vividly
- 1:30:59Speaker 2: remember it playing in that car in the car while
- 1:31:03Speaker 2: we were arguing about. That is that not crazy how
- 1:31:05Speaker 2: the human mind?
- 1:31:06Speaker 3: Works very very? Crazy, YES i would.
- 1:31:09Speaker 5: Agree.
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: EH i like to study, that like for somebody to
- 1:31:13Speaker 2: study my brain and why that would. Happen but that's
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: the power of music right. There smells do that to me.
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: TOO i can smell something and it can remind me
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: of a specific moment in my life that was not
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: even a memory until that smell entered my. Brain does
- 1:31:29Speaker 2: that happen to, You? Ashley?
- 1:31:30Speaker 4: Uh, YEAH i think You're you're instantly transported back. Somewhere
- 1:31:34Speaker 4: but you're, like, wait, What, Like i'll tell you what
- 1:31:36Speaker 4: does it for? Me nivia elocean always makes me think
- 1:31:38Speaker 4: of my, grandmother SO i always think of being in her.
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: House maybe that's what it is more, so but, yeah
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: because it does the same thing like a perfume can
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: take you back to a girlfriend that you may not
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: have even thought about in a. While uh but but
- 1:31:51Speaker 2: BUT i can just like smell, manure not kidding, it
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: BECAUSE i grew out on a.
- 1:31:56Speaker 3: Farm oh, yeah, Ca and there.
- 1:31:57Speaker 2: Could be like a combination of the smell of manure
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: combined with what the weather is like that, day and
- 1:32:04Speaker 2: whatever that creates can zoom me back into a moment
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: in my.
- 1:32:09Speaker 3: CHILDHOOD i can't help you with the, poop.
- 1:32:12Speaker 2: Snow well you know, What, ASHLEY i don't want your
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: help with. Poop, okay, good nobody asked you to help
- 1:32:23Speaker 2: me with, Poop, Ashley thank?
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: God what's not in my job? Description And i've, Looked, yeah.
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: You just took it the wrong way. Here you thought,
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: here you thought you had to rally to my side
- 1:32:34Speaker 2: and help me with. Poop i'm gonna go to the
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: boss like you don't you can help me With poop's is? Happening,
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: hey if he's listening right, now that's what he's. Saying all,
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: right it's time for a camp. Battle Uh so the
- 1:32:50Speaker 2: running back, Position let's face, it that's BEEN i Mean
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: i've done what five or six camp battle segments during training.
- 1:32:57Speaker 2: Camp that's not. Unusual what is on you? Usual is
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: that four of the six have been about the running
- 1:33:02Speaker 2: back position because we just keep getting more, information and,
- 1:33:05Speaker 2: frankly from at least a fantasy football, standpoint it might
- 1:33:09Speaker 2: be as interesting a camp battle the running back position
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: for The seahawks as any because people are wandering across the,
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: country not Just seahawks. Fans how are you going to
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: divvy up these? Carries who's going to end up being
- 1:33:21Speaker 2: the running? Back, well we should get some more information
- 1:33:24Speaker 2: along those lines This, saturday and if nothing, else just
- 1:33:28Speaker 2: to eliminate a couple of people maybe from the conversation
- 1:33:31Speaker 2: of who's going to get. Carries But Jadarian price's health
- 1:33:35Speaker 2: has been a topic of conversation this. Week he's missed
- 1:33:38Speaker 2: some practices and you do, wonder because he was probably
- 1:33:42Speaker 2: the guy your eyes were going to be drawn to
- 1:33:44Speaker 2: in the first preseason. Games if he's even going to
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: be available to get his first carries as A, Seahawk,
- 1:33:49Speaker 2: well we Asked Greg bell at seven oh five give
- 1:33:52Speaker 2: us an update On Jadarian price and how he may
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: or may not be used On.
- 1:33:56Speaker 5: Saturday, well his younger starters typically played last year when
- 1:34:00Speaker 5: he was trying to get the offensive. Line cohesaid they
- 1:34:04Speaker 5: played longer than the other. Starters but now there five
- 1:34:07Speaker 5: are all returning, back SO i can't imagine they're going to.
- 1:34:10Speaker 5: Play Gray's, abel for, instance isn't a rookie, anymore he
- 1:34:13Speaker 5: doesn't need to. Play but a guy Like Generan price
- 1:34:17Speaker 5: lead running back a rookie first Round picky returned to practice.
- 1:34:20Speaker 5: YESTERDAY i mean it was a walk through in every
- 1:34:23Speaker 5: sense of the. Word no running at, all complete. Walking
- 1:34:25Speaker 5: it was the act practice alignment communication. Technique McDonald just
- 1:34:30Speaker 5: wants him to do it, right, slowly then to move
- 1:34:33Speaker 5: and do anything. Physical so that's what yesterday's practice. Was
- 1:34:36Speaker 5: in bucket, hats t. Shirts Generan price was. Back he
- 1:34:40Speaker 5: had missed four practices with the upper leg soreness that
- 1:34:44Speaker 5: McDonald turned to like AN nhl. Coach BUT i would
- 1:34:48Speaker 5: SEE i could see, him for, instance being a starter
- 1:34:51Speaker 5: who would play more than the other starters because he
- 1:34:55Speaker 5: needs the reps and he needs to catch the ball
- 1:34:57Speaker 5: in THE, nfl and he's to do some pass blocking
- 1:34:58Speaker 5: and all of. That that might be a one off
- 1:35:02Speaker 5: of the front liner that could Play saturday.
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: Night and as much as we've talked about, IT i
- 1:35:08Speaker 2: mean is that the thing is that the most interesting
- 1:35:11Speaker 2: thing is to see the running back room showcased On,
- 1:35:16Speaker 2: saturday and see who does step, up who does get the,
- 1:35:20Speaker 2: reps and who does actually? Perform, well is that going
- 1:35:23Speaker 2: to be the most interesting thing from A seahawks fans
- 1:35:26Speaker 2: perspective On?
- 1:35:27Speaker 5: SATURDAY i think it'd be the one they noticed the
- 1:35:30Speaker 5: most because you'll see the. Carries they'll get The Tremaine
- 1:35:33Speaker 5: pope syndrome of a guy who might run for one
- 1:35:35Speaker 5: hundred yards in a preseason game and why isn't he
- 1:35:37Speaker 5: making the. Team, well he's gonna run for one hundred,
- 1:35:40Speaker 5: yards going to get because you're gonna get all the,
- 1:35:41Speaker 5: carries because then the guys are gonna play are gonna
- 1:35:44Speaker 5: get the. Carries Emmanuel wilson was a guy who was
- 1:35:47Speaker 5: making a move to get more time with the starting,
- 1:35:49Speaker 5: offense was carving out a role as a, bigger more
- 1:35:52Speaker 5: physical third down, back and then he pulled up limp
- 1:35:56Speaker 5: and grabbing his upper leg in practice two days ago
- 1:35:59Speaker 5: and was even doing the walk through, yesterday so now
- 1:36:03Speaker 5: he may not. Play Jaccardia wright was trying to make
- 1:36:06Speaker 5: a move and he's been around camp for a couple
- 1:36:08Speaker 5: of years, now practice squad player for The. Seahawks last,
- 1:36:11Speaker 5: year he had a lower leg injury last week and
- 1:36:13Speaker 5: hasn't practiced. Since So Vellas jones was a wide receiver
- 1:36:19Speaker 5: to start this training. Camp he was a running back
- 1:36:22Speaker 5: on the practice squad last. Year he was a wide
- 1:36:24Speaker 5: moved to wide receiver to start, camp but they moved
- 1:36:26Speaker 5: me back to running back because of all the injuries
- 1:36:28Speaker 5: and guys not. Available so it could Be Vellas, jones
- 1:36:33Speaker 5: it could be guys they just signed here in the last. WEEK.
- 1:36:37Speaker 5: Tj harden could end Up, monday we may be talking ABOUT.
- 1:36:40Speaker 5: Tj harden running for eighty yards in a preseason game
- 1:36:43Speaker 5: because he'll be one of the only ones.
- 1:36:45Speaker 2: Available It's Greg bell with us earlier this show seven oh.
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- 1:37:01Speaker 2: Know The National Football league always is adjusting its rules
- 1:37:04Speaker 2: on the field off the, field and one of the
- 1:37:07Speaker 2: adjustments that they've made in recent years is that they
- 1:37:10Speaker 2: don't have the series of. Cuts if you remember From
- 1:37:14Speaker 2: Pass Hard, knocks you know there was a moment where
- 1:37:17Speaker 2: there's cut day and then there would be another cut
- 1:37:20Speaker 2: day a little bit. Later, well they pretty, MUCH i,
- 1:37:23Speaker 2: mean sure some guys get released before cut, day but
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: pretty much there's just one. Day there's This august, thirtieth
- 1:37:30Speaker 2: and that's when you got to have your roster down
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: to the fifty three man. Roster and so go ahead
- 1:37:38Speaker 2: and circle. THAT i, mean if you're A seahawk, FAN i,
- 1:37:41Speaker 2: Mean John schneider is always gonna work the waiver, wire
- 1:37:44Speaker 2: but maybe more so our starting running back might come
- 1:37:49Speaker 2: out of. THAT i, mean, FRANKLY i, mean With Zach
- 1:37:51Speaker 2: charbonnet out for we don't know how, long and If Jadarian,
- 1:37:56Speaker 2: price you, know we're not sure health, wise and then
- 1:38:02Speaker 2: if they don't want him to necessarily be the bell
- 1:38:05Speaker 2: cow running, back and then If George hallani And Emmanuel,
- 1:38:09Speaker 2: wilson who's hurt right now as, well if they just
- 1:38:12Speaker 2: don't if they just don't play, well or if they're
- 1:38:15Speaker 2: not HELL i, Mean Hugh millen brought this up at
- 1:38:18Speaker 2: the beginning of training. Camp watch out for the running back.
- 1:38:21Speaker 2: Position if ever there was a situation where a dark
- 1:38:24Speaker 2: horse could. Emerge this might be it where somebody that
- 1:38:28Speaker 2: you don't even have on your radar ends up getting
- 1:38:31Speaker 2: significant playing time this season for The. Seahawks it could
- 1:38:35Speaker 2: be at the running back position well between, injuries and
- 1:38:40Speaker 2: we'll see how effective some other guys are going to
- 1:38:43Speaker 2: be from the depth chart once preseason games, begin there's
- 1:38:48Speaker 2: going to be a lot to. Study you, KNOW i
- 1:38:51Speaker 2: guarantee you That John schneider in a, way not that
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: he's wishing away the. Days they've got a lot of
- 1:38:57Speaker 2: work to do between now And august, thirtieth BUT i
- 1:38:59Speaker 2: guarantee you he cannot wait to try to pour through
- 1:39:03Speaker 2: and see who's going to become available on the waiver
- 1:39:05Speaker 2: wire and add a running back to this, organization if
- 1:39:09Speaker 2: for no other reason just. Depth maybe he does have
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: the right combination of guys already. Here maybe he does
- 1:39:16Speaker 2: have the depth chart that is required to sustain the
- 1:39:19Speaker 2: running game Until Zach charboney is healthy and ready to
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: be added to. It but my guess Is i'm betting
- 1:39:27Speaker 2: that he cannot, wait from the running back perspective For
- 1:39:31Speaker 2: august thirtieth to get a group of running backs that
- 1:39:35Speaker 2: have been released from other teams and try to find
- 1:39:38Speaker 2: the gem and the, bunch try to find his favorite
- 1:39:41Speaker 2: guy to add to this room before the season gets.
- 1:39:45Speaker 2: Underway that's my. GUESS i don't think that this running
- 1:39:48Speaker 2: back room is done by a long, shot evolving this,
- 1:39:52Speaker 2: year not just to figure out the depth chart and
- 1:39:55Speaker 2: how we divide up the, carries BUT i think we're
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: going to have another face or two added to this,
- 1:40:00Speaker 2: group one before the season gets. Underway and my guess
- 1:40:05Speaker 2: Is ashley at some point during the.
- 1:40:06Speaker 3: Season, yeah, well and he. IS i Think schneider and
- 1:40:09Speaker 3: McDonald are both kind of.
- 1:40:10Speaker 4: Perfectionists they've got to have the right, field they've got
- 1:40:12Speaker 4: to have the right, pieces and they know what they.
- 1:40:15Speaker 4: Want AND i wouldn't be surprised to see more. TINKERING
- 1:40:18Speaker 4: i kind of kind of like picture That John schneider
- 1:40:20Speaker 4: up in the office of like his little chess pieces
- 1:40:22Speaker 4: and being, like, no this one, Here, NO i want
- 1:40:24Speaker 4: it over.
- 1:40:24Speaker 3: HERE i, mean, YEAH i.
- 1:40:26Speaker 2: Will oh he's gonna. Tinker. Yeah oh he's a. Tinkerer he. Is,
- 1:40:31Speaker 2: yeah he's a little. Tinker he's not. Done he's always.
- 1:40:38Speaker 2: Tinkering but this running back thing might take a little
- 1:40:40Speaker 2: more than a. Tinker we'll. See, yeah if There's Jadarian
- 1:40:43Speaker 2: price injury at, ALL i, mean, really you're gonna Start
- 1:40:46Speaker 2: World champ's gonna start the, Season George hallani And Cardian
- 1:40:51Speaker 2: wright gonna be your running. BACKS i don't. KNOW i
- 1:40:53Speaker 2: don't know if he's gonna be able to live with.
- 1:40:54Speaker 2: That but you, know we got a long way to
- 1:40:56Speaker 2: go before the start of the. Season you never know
- 1:40:59Speaker 2: what my. Happen all, Right we close out This thursday
- 1:41:02Speaker 2: show With One Last Thing next On Sports radio ninety
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