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Chuck & Buck 6-3 Hour 4: Bring it on Rams, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: It was all smiles yesterday. Boy, it's like dreams were
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Speaker 1: coming true. In the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: A J.
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Speaker 1: Brown shows up says that it's like heaven here at
0:29
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots.
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Speaker 3: Oh heaven. Oh man, I'm like, no, that's Iowa.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I get to put on a new uniform
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Speaker 1: for maybe not a better team. And all I did
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Speaker 1: while I was in Philadelphia was win consistently, get a championship,
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Speaker 1: got paid top market value for my position, and could
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Speaker 1: never be happy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is gonna be so much better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder I get get out? You want to
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Speaker 2: get out of it?
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Speaker 3: Boy?
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Speaker 2: You really like being around other people who love infidelity,
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Speaker 2: don't you.
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Speaker 1: That seems seems to be your cup of tea. Just
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Speaker 1: feel comfortable here. I got a coach that loves me,
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Speaker 1: that understands that. You know, I'm like with the Ryan
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Speaker 1: the wife's back, He's.
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Speaker 3: All right with that, Thank you? So Haven Yeah gosh,
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Speaker 3: just down the road had no clue.
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Speaker 2: Uh so, I don't know, We'll see.
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Speaker 1: I certainly think AJ Brown's got some good football, and
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Speaker 1: there were certainly some fans of AJ Brown in that
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia locker room throughout the course of the season. Many
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Speaker 1: of the Eagles players had said that the problem is
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Speaker 1: not Brown, it's Jalen Hurts. But I think the problem
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Speaker 1: was Brown because Brown kept bringing.
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Speaker 2: It to light.
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Speaker 3: Can't wait to see what book he decides to read
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Speaker 3: on the bench this year.
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Speaker 1: His actions kept highlighting that there's a problem with the offense,
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Speaker 1: and then that led to the problem with Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: And so maybe Jaen, maybe AJ Brown is in terms
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Speaker 1: of like a hangout buddy or a good or maybe
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Speaker 1: even at a point about the offense, I think the
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Speaker 1: Eagles players might back him up. I think there might
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Speaker 1: be if you took a vote, more Eagles players that
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Speaker 1: would back up AJ Brown's thoughts on what's wrong with
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Speaker 1: the team than Jalen Hurts his thoughts on what's wrong
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Speaker 1: with the team.
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Speaker 2: But the thing is is that AJ Brown is the
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Speaker 2: one that.
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Speaker 1: Kept pointing it out, kept drawing attention to it, and
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Speaker 1: obviously led to all of the players having being.
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Speaker 2: Asked about it constantly.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's why you heard from Jordan Mylotta yesterday,
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Speaker 1: they're outstanding, They're all world left tackle, where he was like,
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Speaker 1: I'm just glad it's over with.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad it's done and I don't. I didn't
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Speaker 2: take it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I got some background with it, as
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Speaker 1: I don't like AJ Brown.
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Speaker 2: I think that was my lot of saying. I think
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Speaker 2: we've just had enough of it and something.
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Speaker 4: Had to give you between our teammates, something had to give.
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Speaker 2: And now something's given. He's gone.
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Speaker 1: He's in a Patriot uniform. He's got a smile on
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Speaker 1: his face. He loves being around other infidels. Uh, and
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Speaker 1: we can now get back to being Jalen Hurts led
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles for better or Worse, which we've had some.
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Speaker 2: Pretty good success with over the last few years.
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Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing.
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Speaker 4: It's not like the team was falling apart. Then team's
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Speaker 4: been a disaster. The team has been good. The team
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Speaker 4: has won a Super Bowl. So it's that's where it's
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Speaker 4: it's like, well, yeah, so you're gonna have some issues, right.
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Speaker 3: Not everyone in the locker room's going to get along.
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Speaker 3: We all know that.
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Speaker 4: But if you're the one out there in the media
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Speaker 4: or out there in a game drawing attention to the
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Speaker 4: fact that you are not getting along with some people,
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Speaker 4: then you become the problem, whether you intended to be
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Speaker 4: or not.
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Speaker 2: He sure did look happy. I'll say that for him.
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Speaker 1: And I think anytime you do, you know, move into
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Speaker 1: a new place, or start dating a new girl, or
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Speaker 1: you know, get new clothes, I mean, you are just
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Speaker 1: a little bit happier. And he had new clothes on,
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Speaker 1: and he got around his old buddy again and a
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Speaker 1: team that went to the super Bowl obviously a year ago,
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Speaker 1: got stomped, if I recall. And so he did look
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Speaker 1: like that's what he wanted out of everything in life.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he showed up for OTAs. I'll bet JJ
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Speaker 1: Brown didn't show up for a lot of OTAs the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years of the Philadelphia Eagles. It's not
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Speaker 1: even mandatory mini camp though, yeah, I wouldn't assume he did.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe he's trying to show everyone see I
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Speaker 1: wasn't a bad teammate. I just had a problem, and
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Speaker 1: look I can be a great teammate. He was introduced
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Speaker 1: at a press conference, went immediately out to the field,
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Speaker 1: put on his uniform, started running routes, wharing number one
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Speaker 1: as opposed to number eleven. It looks like going forward.
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Speaker 1: So apparently a great day in AJ Brown's life yesterday,
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Speaker 1: and perhaps more understandably, a great day in Miles Garrett's life,
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Speaker 1: maybe not so much for us, but great day in
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Speaker 1: his life as well. He was all smiles, a little
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Speaker 1: more subdued about it. I don't think he wanted to
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Speaker 1: be seen like he was dancing on the grave of
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns that had employed him. But he now
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Speaker 1: goes from a team that wasn't going to win and
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Speaker 1: never has one, to a team that's the super Bowl favorite.
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Speaker 1: And we have to acknowledge they should be the super
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Speaker 1: Bowl favorite when they were as nearly as good as
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks a year ago and have now added two
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl defensive players, one of them the best defensive
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Speaker 1: player in the world for goodness sake, and Miles Garrett,
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Speaker 1: and true to his reputation, apparently this is a pretty.
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Speaker 2: Good story, kind of one that you don't want to hear.
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Speaker 2: Apparently they went.
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Speaker 1: Through all of the press conferences and the smiles and
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Speaker 1: the photos and everything, and before Miles Garrett could leave
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Speaker 1: and probably probably been a whirlwind for him. You know,
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Speaker 1: you want to get back to the hotel and just
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Speaker 1: like okay, now that yeah, to find a place to
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Speaker 1: live and I take a breath, breath though right now, Nope,
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Speaker 1: apparently pulled over the trainer or somebody in the facility
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Speaker 1: aside and said, Hey, I really.
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Speaker 2: Need to get a work out in. Damn. Yeah that sucks. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I wanted him to be like, hey, we go to
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Speaker 3: in and out. Yeah, exactly, a couple burgers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now that I'm with the RAMS, I can really
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Speaker 2: let myself.
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Speaker 3: I've got to get a little sloth like you to
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Speaker 3: slow down a bit.
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Speaker 1: Nope, He's like, Hey, you don't get this body by
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Speaker 1: skipping workouts. So if you could just point me in
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Speaker 1: to the direction of the gym and give me a key,
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Speaker 1: I'll let myself out.
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Speaker 4: And then they were like, oh, here, Aaron Donald actually
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Speaker 4: wants to work out with you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, which is another part of all of
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Speaker 1: this as well, which we'll get into in a moment.
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Speaker 1: But there's no getting around this. We talked about this
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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the show. I've gone through
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Speaker 1: a few different stages of grief. I haven't settled on anger.
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Speaker 1: I haven't settled on depression at any moment in this.
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Speaker 1: But I did start at denial and then I did
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Speaker 1: start go to bargaining, and today I find myself sort
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Speaker 1: of facing reality acceptance that Miles Garrett is now on
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Speaker 1: the biggest threat to the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: again next year, and I you know, we've got to
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Speaker 1: kind of just get.
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Speaker 2: It to them.
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Speaker 1: Not only are they going to be the super Bowl favorites,
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Speaker 1: they probably should be the Super Bowl favorites. But that's
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Speaker 1: all right with me. They were the Super Bowl, they
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Speaker 1: were favored to win the NFC West last year, they
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Speaker 1: were certainly favored to be better than the Seahawks last.
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Speaker 3: Year, and had the Seahawks on their Super Bowl radar
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Speaker 3: last year.
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Speaker 1: So go ahead, you can take that mantle. It's yeah,
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Speaker 1: you haven't worn it all season long, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: We snatched that crown right off your head.
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Speaker 2: And so I'm alright with it.
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Speaker 1: I'm accepting though, that they are a better football team.
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Speaker 1: Hugh Millen was on with us yesterday. He can't deny
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Speaker 1: it either. It's very hard for me to to come
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Speaker 1: forth with the argument that the Rams aren't better in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I mean, you know, just to put
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Speaker 1: this in perspective there now, Miles Garrett turned thirty late
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Speaker 1: December and so he was twenty nine most of the year.
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Speaker 1: But the NFL just to have apples at apples the
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Speaker 1: way they tabulate that it's what's your birthday on or
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Speaker 1: your agent at the December thirty first.
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Speaker 5: So here's the four guys that the top sack achievers
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Speaker 5: aged thirty or under in the history of the NFL.
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Speaker 5: There's only four over one hundred. Notice how how these
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Speaker 5: first three are clumped together.
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Speaker 2: TJ.
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Speaker 5: Watt at one hundred and one, he's number four, Jared
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Speaker 5: Allen he's number three at one hundred and five, and
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Speaker 5: Reggie White at one hundred and eight. Who's number two.
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Speaker 5: Number one is Miles Garrett at one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 5: four and a half. So and the gap between one
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Speaker 5: and two, the gap between Miles Garrett and Reggie White
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Speaker 5: is greater than the gap between second and twelfth on
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Speaker 5: the all time list. So we're we're talking about a
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Speaker 5: guy who is in Canton. It's not in pencil, it's
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Speaker 5: not in pen it's already been emblazoned in brass. And
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Speaker 5: he doesn't have to worry about losing his hair because
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Speaker 5: his bust has already been made.
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Speaker 2: He's in Canton. Yeah, ye added a good one. I
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Speaker 2: will throw this in.
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Speaker 3: Though, all right, is it going to make me feel better?
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Speaker 2: Only slightly, Okay.
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Speaker 1: Reggie White spent his first two professional years in the USFL.
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Speaker 1: He had twenty three and a half sacks with the
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Speaker 1: Memphis Showboats, so he could have had more. He might
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Speaker 1: have been one on the list. So that makes feel
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Speaker 1: a little better. Miles Garrett is second.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't make me feel any better.
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Speaker 2: Maybe if you were like slightly behind Reggie White.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't make him feel any better.
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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: And then you add Donald Donald to this equation, Aaron
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Speaker 1: Donald and it, I mean, this is real. This is
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Speaker 1: not just some rumors floating out there. Apparently everyone in
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Speaker 1: on TV has Aaron Donald's number. I must have heard
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Speaker 1: this from six different people.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I texted him and he sent me back a text say,
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Speaker 1: and he's thinking about it. Lindsey Theory said it yesterday.
10:25
Speaker 1: She follows them for ESPN. He was apparently. Pat McAfee
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Speaker 1: said it on his show yesterday, so he's not. Sean
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Speaker 1: McVay talked about it in the press conference yesterday and
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Speaker 1: did it with sort of that Sean McVay rye smile
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Speaker 1: on his face.
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Speaker 3: I want to punch him.
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Speaker 1: He talked about it, and so it's deeply being considered
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's an outrageous notion. If this
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Speaker 1: was a cornerback trying to make a return in three years,
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Speaker 1: probably not gonna get the same guy speed there, right,
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Speaker 1: l Beckham Junior like stepped away for a little while.
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Speaker 2: When he came back, it's like, how.
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Speaker 1: Long were you out? Fifteen years? Are you fifty now?
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Speaker 1: But power ages a lot better. And he never did
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Speaker 1: get out of shape. He stayed in shape the entire
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Speaker 1: maybe not football shape, but he stayed in the gym.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So if he decided to come back two years later
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Speaker 1: at age thirty five, I have no doubt.
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Speaker 2: He would be a great player again.
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Speaker 1: And so the notion that the two of those could
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Speaker 1: be added to last year's team, you know, like Donald
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Speaker 1: was on the team last year, they would both be
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Speaker 1: added to that team that we barely got passed a
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Speaker 1: year ago. Plus McDuffie scary.
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Speaker 4: And then on the other side of the ball, you
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Speaker 4: have Matt Staff the MVP, You've got Puka Nakua. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, this isn't making me feel good at all, Chuck.
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Speaker 4: Oh No, this' make me actually a little depressed. So
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Speaker 4: what are the stages of grief? Because I think I'm
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Speaker 4: going backwards.
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Speaker 1: Oh, depression is one of them. As I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: I have not entered that. I don't think I'm going
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Speaker 1: to enter I don't even think i'm going to enter anger.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I will during the season, maybe, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is unfair, right, They're like the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, where's Los Angeles get everything?
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Speaker 3: Stupid City of Stars.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm here at acceptance. But my part
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Speaker 1: of my acceptance is that's fine. I'm just saying on.
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Speaker 4: Annoyance, which I know isn't a stage of grief, but
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Speaker 4: that's where I'm at. I'm at annoyance, okay, And I
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Speaker 4: don't think I'm gonna leave there for a while.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, at least not till we beat them on
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Speaker 3: Christmas Day.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's another aspect of this. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: face them till the end of the season. So that's
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Speaker 1: way past the trade deadline. And as I said yesterday,
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Speaker 1: I'm perfectly okay with John Schneider driving this thing, not
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Speaker 1: doing anything dramatic in reaction, staying with the plan which
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Speaker 1: has been working perfectly, and heading into the offseat, heading
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Speaker 1: into the regular season with if not the best team,
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Speaker 1: maybe the second best team right now on paper in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: I'll accept that. I'll accept it.
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Speaker 3: That's fine.
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Speaker 2: But certainly when you don't have to face them for
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Speaker 2: a while, you get a chance during the course of
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Speaker 2: the season to address, whether through injury or just poor performance,
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Speaker 2: where you might be weak, where you might be lagging.
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Speaker 2: We've got plenty of cap space to work with, so
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Speaker 2: we won't face them until John Schneider's gone through the
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Speaker 2: trading deadline, So I don't think he's going to make
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Speaker 2: some sort of snap move in reaction to this, But
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Speaker 2: I do believe the Seahawks will add.
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Speaker 1: They always add during the course of the regular season,
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Speaker 1: so who knows who he might add before we actually
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Speaker 1: have to square off.
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Speaker 2: Against Miles Garrett, Matt Stafford in company.
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Speaker 3: So I'll go, yeah, I'm annoyed and I'm intrigued. There
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Speaker 3: you go.
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Speaker 4: Possibilities intrigued me a lot. I'm just the Rams annoyed
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Speaker 4: me in the first Now I'm just more annoyed than
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Speaker 4: I used to be with them.
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Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of excited about it. I really am.
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Speaker 1: I sick, Yeah, I am, But I'm also one of
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Speaker 1: those guys that I don't like hearing that the star
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Speaker 1: player got hurt before he got ready to play him
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Speaker 1: as a yeah, I'm going at their best, And I
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Speaker 1: think that maybe just the sports. You know, I played
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Speaker 1: enough sports, played enough sports in my lifetime, and I
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Speaker 1: think also was a sports fan without being a diehard
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Speaker 1: fan of any team. I think that part goes into
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Speaker 1: it as well. But I'm one of those guys that
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Speaker 1: I don't want to find out that the quarterback got
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Speaker 1: hurt slipped in the shower two days before some people
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Speaker 1: celebrate that.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: I want to face you at your best, and so
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Speaker 1: if I face you at your you're even better than
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Speaker 1: the last time I faced you. Challenge accepted. And I
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Speaker 1: love the direction that the Seahawks team's moving in. I
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Speaker 1: think they're going to be better than they were last
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Speaker 1: year and they won the Super Bowl. But of course
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Speaker 1: the Rams look like they're going to be better too,
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Speaker 1: and so we'll find out months which one is better.
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Speaker 1: But I'm there's there's a little part of me and
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Speaker 1: maybe I will get to anger and depression because I've
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Speaker 1: gone through the other three stages of grief. But there's
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Speaker 1: a little part of me because you don't ever experience
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Speaker 1: this in grief. That's like kind of titillated by this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's definitely not one of the go let's do this,
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Speaker 4: And I get that for sure. I mean, nobody thought
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Speaker 4: that the Rams were gonna go out and try to
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Speaker 4: do something to be better than the Seahawks after losing
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Speaker 4: to US in those Pivol games, and especially because of
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Speaker 4: a two point conversion, Right, So there's nobody that thought
15:30
Speaker 4: the Rams were just gonna be like, well, we didn't
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Speaker 4: get it to the we didn't get to the super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: We didn't win the championship.
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Speaker 4: We're just gonna run it back and do the exact
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Speaker 4: same thing and try all over again, because we know
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Speaker 4: without that two point conversion it would have been US.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that would be stupid by all accounts, right
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Speaker 4: for them to not try to improve.
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Speaker 3: So that doesn't surprise me at all. I just you know,
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Speaker 3: they tried to improve. They're all in again, Yeah they are.
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Speaker 4: And it just it's similar though to the forty nine ers,
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Speaker 4: right they but on a different level.
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Speaker 3: The forty nine ers.
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Speaker 4: We keep thinking like when are they gonna when are
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Speaker 4: they gonna show us who they really are?
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Speaker 3: When are they going to show us who they really
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Speaker 3: are well. With the Rams.
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Speaker 4: It was like, Okay, they're rebuilding after they won the
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Now they're going to rebuild, They're not going
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Speaker 4: to be any good. Well that hasn't happened, no, And
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Speaker 4: so it's just, yeah, I'm annoyed there are rivals. I
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Speaker 4: should be annoyed by them, but I don't. That doesn't
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Speaker 4: take anything away from the confidence I have in my team,
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Speaker 4: that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, well well we shall see and we'll see what
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Speaker 1: the counter is. I do wonder if you are to
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Speaker 1: make a move, do you think that's more pass rush?
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Speaker 2: Okay, you can do that. We can find somebody to
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Speaker 2: add to our pass rush or is it pass rush protection?
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Speaker 2: Is that bolstering the offensive line?
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Speaker 1: Or as I suggested yesterday, maybe you get midway through
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Speaker 1: the season and you're like.
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Speaker 2: Vikings are out of it. Oh you know what, Rams,
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Speaker 2: We're gonna add justin Jefferson.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we can't.
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Speaker 1: We don't know how to like actually match up against
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Speaker 1: you with this move. So we're just gonna make one
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Speaker 1: other area of our team unstoppable.
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Speaker 2: And good luck. Yeah, yeah, godspeed, yeah yeah. But it
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Speaker 2: stirred the pot. It stirred the juices.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely got me thinking more about football than
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Speaker 4: I would have been this week, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: Bringing on muscle Boy all right, coming up next, ABCS
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Speaker 2: Kh A r F M. I know I do, mm hmm.
17:22
Speaker 2: So good morning to you all.
17:23
Speaker 1: Mariners make it eight in a row with their win
17:25
Speaker 1: eight three over the New York Mets yesterday and one of.
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Speaker 2: Their easier victories.
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Speaker 1: They usually like to keep us on the edge of
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Speaker 1: our seats, wins or losses, and yet it was nice
17:36
Speaker 1: to get a more comfortable victory yesterday and a lot
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Speaker 1: of contributors to that. Colt Emerson fantastic on both sides
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Speaker 1: of the ball yesterday, Johnny Pareda hitting a big three
17:47
Speaker 1: run home run. In the contest, Logan Gilbert went five
17:51
Speaker 1: solid innings, maybe sat a little too long between the
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Speaker 1: fifth and the sixth, but he ends up getting the win.
17:57
Speaker 1: I would say that that's three consecutive quality appearances by
18:02
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert, even though not officially a quality start yesterday.
18:06
Speaker 1: Then again, not many people pay attention to that stat.
18:09
Speaker 1: But the Mariners do win by final score of eight
18:12
Speaker 1: to three. And seek their third consecutive sweep, not series
18:15
Speaker 1: wins sweep this afternoon, starting at twelve forty, and it
18:19
Speaker 1: will be George Kirby going up against Freddy Peralta, so
18:22
Speaker 1: there will be no opener for the New York Mets.
18:25
Speaker 1: They've already played that trick twice now, like Tyryan Lanister
18:28
Speaker 1: and his Wildfire. See I had the reference ready today, Hey,
18:32
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, rather than just saying, you know, the show
18:35
Speaker 1: with the short guy and the green stuff.
18:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I did yesterday. But yeah, they could only
18:42
Speaker 2: play that trick once.
18:43
Speaker 1: I thought. Apparently they could play it twice. It failed
18:46
Speaker 1: both times, blew up in their green faces. And now
18:49
Speaker 1: they will throw a old school normal starter and a
18:54
Speaker 1: good one Freddy Peralta at the Mariners today at twelve forty.
18:58
Speaker 1: But this is not necessarily about last night's game. We
19:03
Speaker 1: allow the alphabet to be our guide through a few
19:05
Speaker 1: different Mariner topics on a daily basis.
19:08
Speaker 2: We left off of the letter G yesterday. Gis for
19:11
Speaker 2: grown man's strength.
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Speaker 1: You saw it on display yesterday, and if you looked
19:16
Speaker 1: up Patrick Wisdom's scouting report, that's pretty much all it says,
19:22
Speaker 1: grown man strength.
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Speaker 3: That would be funny actually.
19:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's what he brings to the table.
19:29
Speaker 1: I mean, if Patrick Wisdom played over an extended period
19:33
Speaker 1: of time at this age, at this stage in his career,
19:37
Speaker 1: he'd probably hit about one sixty five for us, and
19:40
Speaker 1: he'd yet he'd probably still hit twenty five home runs
19:45
Speaker 1: because he's going to run into a ball occasionally. In
19:48
Speaker 1: this team, with its great pitching, they do love the
19:52
Speaker 1: home run. It's a big part of their equation and
19:55
Speaker 1: winning baseball games. So I wasn't surprised at all. You
19:59
Speaker 1: could tell that in the dugout somebody had predicted it
20:02
Speaker 1: because they weren't necessarily celebrating Patrick Wisdom. They were looking
20:06
Speaker 1: down the dugout and patting somebody else on the back way.
20:08
Speaker 3: To call it.
20:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody called it before it happened, and I'm not surprised
20:13
Speaker 1: it happened. Patrick Wisdom was crushing baseballs and Tacoma. He
20:17
Speaker 1: still has that ability at this stage. I don't know
20:20
Speaker 1: how long he's going to be on the roster, but
20:22
Speaker 1: as long as he's on the roster and gets his
20:25
Speaker 1: rare opportunities to play, we have the opportunity, Ashley.
20:29
Speaker 2: To see his grown man's strength on display.
20:31
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see that gm S GMS.
20:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, a good GMS h is for hat trick. Last night,
20:40
Speaker 1: Johnny Parada scored the catcher's hat trick, So congratulations to him. Actually, no,
20:46
Speaker 1: he came one short, didn't he. Oh, well, you gotta
20:49
Speaker 1: throw out a base runner. If you're a catcher, you
20:52
Speaker 1: got to hit a three run homer and you gotta
20:54
Speaker 1: take a nut shot.
20:55
Speaker 3: Oh did take the nut shot.
20:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he hit the three run home So he
21:00
Speaker 1: was very close to the rarely achieved catcher's hat trick
21:04
Speaker 1: last night. But what a day of highs and lows
21:08
Speaker 1: for Johnny Pareda and he was even smiling through the lows.
21:12
Speaker 2: I really like him. I don't know if he's got
21:15
Speaker 2: a future on this team. On this roster.
21:18
Speaker 1: We shall see our superstar catchers probably going to be
21:21
Speaker 1: back in a couple of weeks. But Johnny Parade has
21:24
Speaker 1: at least forced us into wondering whether or not Mitch
21:29
Speaker 1: Garver is unsafe on this roster.
21:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. We got it.
21:36
Speaker 4: We got one of the texts during the sub thing
21:37
Speaker 4: like do you think that Mitch Garver would be DFA?
21:40
Speaker 3: But I just I don't know. I don't know. I
21:43
Speaker 3: like Parida. I think he's great for the team. I
21:45
Speaker 3: think his energy is good.
21:46
Speaker 4: And I when you were talking earlier about the three catchers,
21:49
Speaker 4: that made me wish that we could do it because
21:51
Speaker 4: I don't want to hurt Parada's feelings.
21:54
Speaker 3: But we can't do the point.
21:55
Speaker 2: But you want to do with res Schneider You want
21:56
Speaker 2: to hurt res Schneider's.
21:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think it's what they're gonna do.
22:01
Speaker 1: You have an option with Parada, you can send him down.
22:04
Speaker 1: You won't have that with Garver. You would have to
22:06
Speaker 1: dfa Garver. I do believe Garver brings a little bit
22:11
Speaker 1: more to the table than what we realized when we
22:14
Speaker 1: spent the last couple of years bashing him. I think
22:16
Speaker 1: the pitchers do really like throwing to him. Number one,
22:21
Speaker 1: And he's turned out to have another terrific skill, and
22:25
Speaker 1: that is he's probably the best challenger in baseball.
22:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very good at that.
22:30
Speaker 2: He's outstanding at.
22:31
Speaker 3: It, especially on a team that's not very good at that.
22:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really stands out because everybody else is terrible
22:37
Speaker 1: at it, including Dan, but he's outstanding at that. So
22:41
Speaker 1: that's a new skill that we're going to have to
22:44
Speaker 1: acknowledge here as baseball fans. And he's actually hit better
22:49
Speaker 1: than you realize since Kyl went on the IL. But
22:53
Speaker 1: you see Johnny Parada and he seems to already have
22:56
Speaker 1: that chemistry with the pitching staff. He seems to hit
23:01
Speaker 1: better and more consistently than what Mitch does, even though
23:05
Speaker 1: Mitch certainly profiles as the better power hitter than what
23:08
Speaker 1: Johnny Preda. And Johnny is so slow, I mean, it
23:12
Speaker 1: is impossible to even imagine a professional athlete being that slow.
23:17
Speaker 1: But the infectious attitude. I mean, he's already made fans
23:22
Speaker 1: of everybody in the dugout. I mean they all love him.
23:25
Speaker 1: You can see it. So it's gonna be an interesting
23:27
Speaker 1: decision that they'll have to make when Cal comes back.
23:31
Speaker 1: You do have time, maybe it'll sort itself out. I
23:34
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be ref Schneyder.
23:37
Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to go to a three
23:39
Speaker 2: catcher roster when none of the catchers can play another position.
23:44
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're going to sacrifice that much
23:47
Speaker 1: position flexibility for all of what's wanting with Rob ref
23:50
Speaker 1: Schneider's start as a Mariner. That dude can field and
23:55
Speaker 1: you know, and that's it's hard to take out of
23:57
Speaker 1: the lineup, and he's far more proven against left handed
24:01
Speaker 1: hitters left handed pitchers then Pareda.
24:03
Speaker 2: There's no question about it. So we'll see. My guess
24:07
Speaker 2: is that.
24:07
Speaker 1: It's Raleigh starter, Garver backup, and Pareda would be sent
24:12
Speaker 1: back down to Tacoma. Finally, I is for Enfield. We
24:16
Speaker 1: covered this on Stove anders and I brand new Stove
24:20
Speaker 1: thirty podcast which is out as of yesterday. And that
24:24
Speaker 1: is what happens when Brendan Donovan returns. What is the
24:27
Speaker 1: ideal Enfield scenario here? And in my estimation again this
24:33
Speaker 1: is me. I'm putting Emerson at shortstop, I'm putting Donovan
24:37
Speaker 1: back at third base. And no, JP's not going to
24:40
Speaker 1: become my DH. I don't think he's the offensive weapon
24:43
Speaker 1: that Luke Rayley is against right handers. I don't think
24:46
Speaker 1: he's the offensive weapon dom can Zone is against right handers.
24:50
Speaker 1: JP becomes a bench player for me, and hopefully he
24:53
Speaker 1: can maintain his lofty status as team leader by being
24:58
Speaker 1: a bench player. But but I'm choosing to play the
25:02
Speaker 1: best nine guys. I don't think they'll do that. And
25:07
Speaker 1: now I'm starting to wonder if Colt Emerson's gonna move
25:10
Speaker 1: off of third. He looks pretty damn good there, and
25:14
Speaker 1: JP has looked better, Yes he has, And I think
25:17
Speaker 1: I think there was an arm injury. We know there
25:19
Speaker 1: was an arm injury in the spring, and I think
25:21
Speaker 1: those two hit by pitches apparently did something to his
25:24
Speaker 1: arm as well. But he seems to be throwing the
25:28
Speaker 1: ball better, seems to be playing the position better here
25:31
Speaker 1: as of late, and it sounds to me like the
25:33
Speaker 1: Mariners are going to stick with him at shortstop and
25:37
Speaker 1: Emerson at third. And then I assume that Donovan then
25:41
Speaker 1: returns to super utility role, which he thrived in as
25:44
Speaker 1: a member of the Saint Louis Cardinals.
25:46
Speaker 2: But how does that play out here?
25:49
Speaker 1: Is he the starting DH who then spells Colt at
25:55
Speaker 1: third and Cole at second, who's played more innings, by
25:59
Speaker 1: the way than any this year in Major League Baseball?
26:02
Speaker 1: Does that mean that Randy Rose Arena might DH occasionally
26:05
Speaker 1: because Brendan can play left field? Does that mean Donovan
26:07
Speaker 1: comes into the right field situation? So I don't mind
26:12
Speaker 1: the idea of Donovan be going back to the super
26:17
Speaker 1: utility role, but I just where is he going to
26:20
Speaker 1: get is a bats because super utility players play every day.
26:23
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Ben Zobrist, it's not you know, jose
26:28
Speaker 1: A Kendo. I don't know, that's not gonna that's not
26:30
Speaker 1: gonna ring true for anybody. But superutility players play every day.
26:35
Speaker 1: They're not just Dylan Moore's. They don't come off the
26:37
Speaker 1: bench late and fill in. Those are guys that start
26:40
Speaker 1: every day. They just might play at a different position.
26:43
Speaker 1: So I don't know how that looks. I don't know
26:45
Speaker 1: who's playing time it costs. If it doesn't cost JP,
26:49
Speaker 1: it certainly can't cost Young or Emerson their time. And
26:54
Speaker 1: I gotta I have a hard time believing that if
26:56
Speaker 1: JP's turned into a DH that's a more effective weapon
27:04
Speaker 1: than what Rayley or Canzone are.
27:06
Speaker 2: No, just have a hard time believing that. I would.
27:08
Speaker 4: I would have a hard time believing that as well.
27:10
Speaker 4: I mean, and yes, to his credit, he has gotten better,
27:13
Speaker 4: as you said, and I don't know if maybe that
27:15
Speaker 4: part of that was the threat of competition and maybe
27:19
Speaker 4: forcing him to just get a little sharper.
27:21
Speaker 3: But I also would.
27:22
Speaker 4: Say if the Mariners were going to put him at
27:24
Speaker 4: third base, I'm pretty sure we would have already seen
27:26
Speaker 4: him there, so it's pretty fascinating to me to see
27:29
Speaker 4: where Donovan how they're going to use him when he
27:32
Speaker 4: comes back. I do think that super utility role. I
27:34
Speaker 4: mean I didn't watch him a lot when he was
27:36
Speaker 4: in Saint Louis, but hearing that he did so well there,
27:39
Speaker 4: I would like to see him.
27:41
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it could thrive in it. But at
27:44
Speaker 2: what cost? Right? Who are you sitting?
27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's right. I don't know either, who are
27:48
Speaker 1: you sitting in order to create that opportunity for him?
27:51
Speaker 1: And so it's right field, third base or DH that's it.
27:56
Speaker 1: I mean, you might give cole An occasionally day off,
27:58
Speaker 1: and you might give Randy and occasional day off now
28:02
Speaker 1: if you are deeper on your bench, but he needs
28:05
Speaker 1: consistent playing time. He needs to be in our lineup consistently.
28:09
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I can say that about
28:10
Speaker 1: JP Crawford and I don't mean to keep picking on
28:12
Speaker 1: him every day, but I don't know if I can
28:14
Speaker 1: say that. And then in terms of the future, my goodness,
28:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're paying attention to this.
28:20
Speaker 2: You probably are.
28:21
Speaker 1: I think Mariner fans, I think baseball fans pay attention
28:24
Speaker 1: to this stuff now. But not only do we have
28:26
Speaker 1: Colt and Cole looking like the future shortstop and second
28:29
Speaker 1: basement for the next ten years, this Felding Celestin is
28:34
Speaker 1: one of the hottest hitters.
28:35
Speaker 2: In the minor leagues right now.
28:36
Speaker 1: I mean that might be third base, shortstop, and second base.
28:39
Speaker 1: They might be all right here. And you can still
28:42
Speaker 1: trade Arroyo at the deadline as a good piece, another
28:47
Speaker 1: middle endfield type, as a good piece to add something
28:51
Speaker 1: at the trading deadline because there doesn't seem to be
28:54
Speaker 1: room for him.
28:55
Speaker 2: And then last.
28:57
Speaker 1: Montez hit two more home runs last night, my goodness
29:00
Speaker 1: or the Arkansas So that's now fourteen that he's hit
29:04
Speaker 1: on this season, and that's putting him on pace for
29:07
Speaker 1: over thirty.
29:07
Speaker 2: Home runs this year. What did Justin Hollander tell us?
29:11
Speaker 1: I can promise you that if Las Montes is on
29:14
Speaker 1: pace to hit forty home runs this season, some of
29:18
Speaker 1: them will be in a Mariner uniform. Well, he's pretty
29:21
Speaker 1: close to on pace for hitting forty home runs this year,
29:25
Speaker 1: so it's another guy to keep your eye on. Believe me,
29:28
Speaker 1: there's an abundance of riches right now at the minor
29:31
Speaker 1: league level, which is another reason to be excited.
29:34
Speaker 2: About Mariners baseball right now?
29:35
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, one last thing to close
29:37
Speaker 1: us out on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
29:46
Speaker 1: All right, final segment of this Wednesday edition up Chucking
29:50
Speaker 1: Buck in the Morning says, we get ready to hand
29:53
Speaker 1: things off to Greg Bell and Christopher Kid. From what
29:55
Speaker 1: I understand, Greg Bell broadcasting from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
29:59
Speaker 2: Today, Seahawks.
30:01
Speaker 1: OTA's another couple of days of that, and we actually
30:04
Speaker 1: have access out there. We're gonna have Greg and Ian
30:08
Speaker 1: both doing their shows from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center
30:11
Speaker 1: and renting. So stick around for that. Plenty of great
30:14
Speaker 1: Seahawks talk, and not just about Miles Garrett.
30:17
Speaker 2: I'm sure so. Well, that's coming your way here from
30:20
Speaker 2: what ten to three, ten to.
30:22
Speaker 1: Three, ten to three, here we go, all right, one
30:24
Speaker 1: last thing to close out our show.
30:25
Speaker 2: What do you got, Ashley?
30:26
Speaker 4: Well, I just wanted to say today is a birthday
30:29
Speaker 4: of a person that's very close to our show and
30:32
Speaker 4: our station.
30:32
Speaker 3: Anders Sry his birthday today, and I.
30:36
Speaker 4: Know what you're thinking, Well, my birthday is tomorrow, So
30:39
Speaker 4: I was going to also say a happy early birthday
30:41
Speaker 4: to you because you won't be here tomorrow. Oh yeah,
30:43
Speaker 4: I did have a bottle of wine for you. It's
30:46
Speaker 4: on the corner of my kitchen counter waiting for you.
30:49
Speaker 4: I put it out there last night and then I
30:50
Speaker 4: walked past it this morning, so you'll get it.
30:52
Speaker 3: When you get back.
30:52
Speaker 4: Okay for a little birthday present. Sorry, you can't drink
30:55
Speaker 4: it over the weekend on your day's off.
30:56
Speaker 2: But there you go.
30:57
Speaker 4: I hope that you have a lovely birthday relaxing a
31:00
Speaker 4: few days.
31:00
Speaker 2: How about that, Andrews. It is so touching.
31:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, that he and his parents thought so much of
31:08
Speaker 1: me that they tried to time it out to have
31:13
Speaker 1: their son on my birthday.
31:14
Speaker 4: Well, what I heard was that they tried to do
31:15
Speaker 4: it during Draftmas, but all the dates were taken. Yeah,
31:19
Speaker 4: so then they were like, oh, let's go June fourth
31:20
Speaker 4: because that's Chuck's birthday.
31:22
Speaker 3: That might be better.
31:22
Speaker 4: And then they were like, oh, wait a minute, we
31:24
Speaker 4: should give him his own day.
31:26
Speaker 3: We'll go the day before.
31:27
Speaker 2: What's the second best thing?
31:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'd just like to pin it right up
31:32
Speaker 1: there next to it.
31:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there you go. You just have that much
31:34
Speaker 3: of an influence.
31:35
Speaker 1: Well, I'm touched as.
31:40
Speaker 2: You should really touched about that.
31:43
Speaker 1: By the way, my birthday is on the exact same
31:45
Speaker 1: day as Angelina Jolie. Oh, that's why I shared my
31:48
Speaker 1: birthday with Also with.
31:51
Speaker 2: Noah Wiley, who's back to being a star again. He's
31:54
Speaker 2: like an Emmy.
31:56
Speaker 3: Do you watch that show?
31:57
Speaker 2: I have seen it. It's very good. I mean, I
31:59
Speaker 2: would rank it among my favorite shows, but it's very good.
32:03
Speaker 1: It is very good, and it sheds tremendous light on
32:06
Speaker 1: what we put our healthcare workers through. Yes, it does
32:09
Speaker 1: so good lesson there, and he's very good in it.
32:13
Speaker 1: And every time I see him on screen, I just
32:15
Speaker 1: can't selp but think we are the exact same age. Yeah, like, no, seriously,
32:20
Speaker 1: not just on the same birthday. We were born the
32:22
Speaker 1: exact same day. Yeah, so I got that with Noah
32:26
Speaker 1: Wyley pretty much.
32:27
Speaker 3: Brothers and you know what else they're celebrating.
32:30
Speaker 4: Don't forget Colin Ray put on a whole concert for
32:32
Speaker 4: your lip so there you go. See, it's just the
32:34
Speaker 4: whole world can't get enough of your birthday.
32:38
Speaker 2: It's weird, you know what, I think.
32:41
Speaker 1: Just when you thought the world didn't revolve around you,
32:43
Speaker 1: then you find out it does.
32:44
Speaker 3: It's flattering, right.
32:45
Speaker 4: It's like the Rams trying to get way better so
32:48
Speaker 4: they can compete with the Seahawks. This is like all
32:50
Speaker 4: these people just wanting to flatter you'd be near you,
32:52
Speaker 4: to be next to you, to get some little touch
32:55
Speaker 4: of what you've got.
32:56
Speaker 2: Well it worked. I am deeply moved. World.
33:00
Speaker 1: Good, thank you for making me the center of your existence.
33:06
Speaker 1: You know, the NBA Finals usually plays on my birthday.
33:09
Speaker 1: This year, Anders got it rude. They're going to start
33:12
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals tonight. I do like the Spurs to
33:15
Speaker 1: win this. And at first I'm like, man, that's a
33:18
Speaker 1: great point.
33:19
Speaker 2: I heard Perk. I like Perk a lot a lot.
33:21
Speaker 2: Not a lot of people like Kendrick Perkins. I like Perk.
33:24
Speaker 1: And his immediate reaction was, I think the Spurs are
33:27
Speaker 1: in trouble because Karl Anthony Towns is such a I mean,
33:32
Speaker 1: he's a big man, but he's a deep threat, and
33:35
Speaker 1: so Wemby doesn't have any choice but to go out
33:39
Speaker 1: and guard Cat. That takes him away from the rim
33:43
Speaker 1: and now he can't be that rim protector that makes
33:46
Speaker 1: him the defensive player of the Year in the NBA.
33:50
Speaker 1: And so I thought at first, man that's really good logic.
33:53
Speaker 1: And then I was like, well, wait a minute. They
33:55
Speaker 1: put Devin Vassel on chet Holmgren. Chet Holmgren's pretty much
33:59
Speaker 1: the same player chet Holme and taller than Cat.
34:01
Speaker 2: He's like seven to one, I think. And so.
34:05
Speaker 1: If you're only a deep threat, then all is required
34:11
Speaker 1: is a hand in your face, like nobody's out there
34:13
Speaker 1: trying to block your shot. Necessarily, probably not gonna do that,
34:17
Speaker 1: but you can get a hand in his face. If
34:19
Speaker 1: they were putting a six foot five inch guy on
34:21
Speaker 1: a seven foot one inch guy, then they can put
34:24
Speaker 1: like a Champenny on Cat rather than take Wemby away
34:29
Speaker 1: from the rim. So I say, keep Wemby near the rim.
34:35
Speaker 1: Do what you did last series against the Thunder, and
34:40
Speaker 1: you're not gonna take me out of my game. We're
34:42
Speaker 1: gonna play our game, and good luck matching up against
34:46
Speaker 1: our freak on the other end of the floor. Because
34:48
Speaker 1: I can promise you Karl Anthony Towns can't do that.
34:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, put a hand in his face, it'll still be
34:53
Speaker 3: above his hand.
34:54
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, I don't think your trickery is
34:57
Speaker 1: gonna work, Mike Brown. I'm gonna take the san Antonio
35:01
Speaker 1: Spurs to win tonight.
35:03
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna take them to win in six games.
35:06
Speaker 3: All right, Go Spurs, Go Spurs.
35:08
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35:11
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