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8-27: Mariners reaction, Seahawks news and Mike Macdonald press conference · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJRFM
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  Speaker 1: Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning from Seahawks Headquarters. Headlines are brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by Frost Brew Coors Light Shoes Chill. The Seahawks have
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  Speaker 2: reached agreement with Pro Bowl Defensive Tackle and Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Three years, $ 90 million extension this morning. Now has him
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  Speaker 2: under contract in Seattle past his 35th birthday. That's through
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  Speaker 2: the 2029 season. More on the why and what Seattle
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  Speaker 2: has meant for Leonard Williams coming up in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: NFL owners voted unanimously, 32 yes votes out of 32 teams,
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  Speaker 2: to approve the Seahawks' sale to the Kozla family in
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  Speaker 2: a meeting yesterday in Atlanta. $ 9. 612 billion deal, NFL record.
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  Speaker 2: The Kozlas are not yet officially owners operating the team,
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  Speaker 2: yet the banks and lawyers have to have the final
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  Speaker 2: vetting of the transaction before the sale is done done.
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  Speaker 2: That's expected to happen in the next week or so
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  Speaker 2: before or on the date of the opening game, September
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  Speaker 2: 9th versus New England. Seahawks practiced yesterday two days before
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  Speaker 2: the final preseason game Friday at Kansas City. Rookie third-round
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  Speaker 2: pick Julian Neal was in full pads, appearing to be
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  Speaker 2: full go. He has missed most of training camp with
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  Speaker 2: a leg injury. Does that suddenly make him a candidate
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  Speaker 2: for the third cornerback derby that Mike McDonald's still raging?
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  Speaker 2: We'll discuss that. The NFL is getting rid of the
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. Finally. No one will miss that. Players sure won't.
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  Speaker 2: But the league will keep the recognition of being selected
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  Speaker 2: as a Pro Bowl player. 88 players will be Pro
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  Speaker 2: Bowl selections on offense, defense, and special teams. No more alternates.
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  Speaker 2: That's for contract incentive purposes, of course. Phillies made quick
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  Speaker 2: work to ensure the Mariners wouldn't sweep them. Six runs
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  Speaker 2: by Philadelphia and two innings off Brian Wu. First loss
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  Speaker 2: of the season to home for Wu is now 7-1
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  Speaker 2: at the yard. Seattle shut out for the 13th time
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  Speaker 2: this season, third most in Major League Baseball. The Pirates
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  Speaker 2: and the Phillies have been shut out 15 times, the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers 14 times. But the M's did stay two and
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  Speaker 2: a half back in the AL West because the trash
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  Speaker 2: cans lost again. Every team in the division is under 500.
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  Speaker 2: 28 games left. Mariners travel today to Toronto for a
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  Speaker 2: road trip that begins at the Blue Jays, then into
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  Speaker 2: Fenway Park for Boston next week. And the Big 12
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  Speaker 2: is joining the Big 10 in the Southeastern Conference and
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  Speaker 2: banning players who've been drafted into pro leagues or have
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  Speaker 2: been on a pro roster, won't allow them to come
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  Speaker 2: back to play college sports in the Big 12, Big 10,
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  Speaker 2: or SEC. Now on with the Thursday show. Echo Chamber,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the little room off the side of the
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  Speaker 2: media room here at Seahawks headquarters. Seahawks are about to
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  Speaker 2: begin practice in about five minutes. And then coach Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald is going to address us at 11, 10 or so.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to carry that live here on the show.
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  Speaker 2: His first comments since he got back from the team,
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  Speaker 2: got back from Tennessee. Good morning. Jasmine McIntyre is back
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  Speaker 2: in our LA based studios in Seattle. Good morning, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: How is it out there?
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  Speaker 2: Quiet. No fans, no media. When I got here, it
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  Speaker 2: was just by myself. And now I'm in this white
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  Speaker 2: walled room that creates an echo. That's what you're sounding
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  Speaker 2: and hearing in the background. Leonard Williams, three years, $ 90 million.
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  Speaker 2: He's 32 years old now, entering his 12th training camp.
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  Speaker 2: He was talking about retiring when he was in New
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  Speaker 2: York after year eight from so many losing seasons. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about how Seattle has transformed him and how his
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  Speaker 2: life is different as we come into the show here
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  Speaker 2: from Seahawks headquarters. That's the news of the day. The
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  Speaker 2: news of yesterday, you'll hear the first public comments from
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  Speaker 2: Vinod Khosla, about he, his wife, their son becoming new
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  Speaker 2: owners of the Seahawks. He was asked in Atlanta yesterday
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  Speaker 2: by reporters about the future of Lumen Field, how he
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  Speaker 2: views the Seahawks football operation and more. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: struck exactly the right tone. Patience, going to learn. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to sit back and learn the operation of the
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  Speaker 2: community here. I know some people are getting a little
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  Speaker 2: bent out of shape about Lumen Field's future. They're Bay
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  Speaker 2: Area owners. Are they going to move the team? I
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  Speaker 2: get it. Those of you that have been in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: a few days remember the Sonics, Howard Schultz selling the
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  Speaker 2: team to carpetbaggers from Oklahoma. This is not that. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that for sure. There is such a difference.
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  Speaker 2: But I get it. I get it. Out-of-town owners, I
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  Speaker 2: get it. I lived here. I covered that trial.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 6: I do think that people will enjoy hearing from Van
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  Speaker 6: Gogh when we play that audio coming up here in
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  Speaker 6: a little bit because you're going to enjoy him and
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  Speaker 6: what he had to say if that's something that's in
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  Speaker 6: the back of your head.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think it was reassuring. And again,
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  Speaker 2: as a Seahawk, if you're a Seahawk fan, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure you would want to hear anything else than what
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  Speaker 2: he said yesterday in terms of– I'll let him speak
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  Speaker 2: for himself. Come up at 10.25. At 10.45, Cooper Copp.
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  Speaker 2: He's born and raised here in Washington State, was going
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  Speaker 2: to Seahawks games in the Kingdome. He talked yesterday about
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  Speaker 2: the new ownership change, the value of the Seahawks to
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  Speaker 2: the state, to the Pacific Northwest. He has a keen
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  Speaker 2: understanding of that, 33-year-old wide receiver. He'll also talk about
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  Speaker 2: the impact of losing Jake Bobo. It's more than just
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  Speaker 2: the numbers as a fourth or fifth wide receiver in
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  Speaker 2: special teams. Cooper Kopp talked about that yesterday. You'll hear
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  Speaker 2: from him at 1045.com. At 11 o'clock, we'll do headlines again.
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  Speaker 2: And then right after about headlines around 11.10, we're expecting
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald to begin his press conference at the end
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  Speaker 2: of practice today. We'll carry that live around 11.10, 11.30.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's the time we do every day, your
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  Speaker 2: talkbacks and your text. It's coming on your text line.
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  Speaker 2: It's 49451. If you want to leave a 30-second voicemail
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  Speaker 2: message on the iHeartRadio app, 933KJR, or our website, 933KJR. com.
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  Speaker 2: You can do that. Jessamyn will play them back at 11.30.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll talk to Ian Furness at 1145, talk
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  Speaker 2: about what's on his show today. I was going to
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  Speaker 2: talk a lot about the Mariners in this first segment,
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  Speaker 2: and now the Winter Williams news has come up this morning.
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  Speaker 2: But about the Mariners, Brian Wu, we know about his
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  Speaker 2: road troubles. He was always sterling at home. Yesterday is
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  Speaker 2: his first loss in eight decisions at home this year.
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  Speaker 2: Six runs in the first two innings tied his career
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  Speaker 2: high for runs allowed for the first two innings he got.
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  Speaker 2: tagged by Schwarber, as many people have. He's got 40
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  Speaker 2: home runs now. Kyle Schwarber does the first in the
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  Speaker 2: major leagues to get to 40, and he got it
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  Speaker 2: off Brian Wu yesterday. First time in three years, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Wu gave up six runs through two innings. Now here
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  Speaker 2: come the Mariners to a road trip that is no picnic.
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  Speaker 2: Toronto has resurfaced in the playoff race, or the playoff
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  Speaker 2: race has gone back to them because of so many
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  Speaker 2: teams that are under. 500 in the playoff chase. They
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  Speaker 2: got three with the Blue Jays. Then they have Boston
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  Speaker 2: next week with the Red Sox. Of course, they're now
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  Speaker 2: holding a playoff spot after just going crazy in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the summer, winning like 27 out of 30
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  Speaker 2: games to come from way back. And then they come
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  Speaker 2: home to the A's, the Rangers. They go to the A's.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners play the Angels twice and the A's twice
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  Speaker 2: to finish the season, plus the trash cans and the Rangers. So,
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  Speaker 2: None of those teams are over 500. None of them
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  Speaker 2: have a winning record, not even at 500. But, Jessamyn,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen before this team lose series to teams they
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  Speaker 2: should just be mopping up, and that can't happen here
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  Speaker 2: in the final 29 games.
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  Speaker 6: No, they still want a, you know, dumb and dumber
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  Speaker 6: quote coming at them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They still do have a chance, of course. Two
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  Speaker 2: and a half games back with a favorable schedule and
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  Speaker 2: just coming off stretch of the Yankees, the trash cans.
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs and the Phillies, and they went eight and
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  Speaker 2: five and nobody expected that. Uh, most people would have
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  Speaker 2: thought that we, all of us, including us that see
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  Speaker 2: the team every day and are consider ourselves rooters for
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners would have figured they'd be under 500 in
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  Speaker 2: that stretch. And they went eight and five and they
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  Speaker 2: took a series against the Cubs who have just been
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  Speaker 2: destroying teams since the Cubs left town. They took a
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  Speaker 2: series against the Phillies, another playoff team with all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of bats in that lineup. And, Yet they went 4-6
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  Speaker 2: between those two National League playoff teams. We said it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: If Cal Raleigh continues to hit, he got an off
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  Speaker 2: day from catching yesterday, day game after night game. If
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  Speaker 2: Cal Raleigh continues to hit, this is a different team.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what anybody else does. I mean, different team.
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  Speaker 7: 4-9, 4-5-1.
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  Speaker 2: 29, 28 games left. Do you think the math is
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  Speaker 2: mathing for the Mariners? Do you think two and a
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  Speaker 2: half back is they got this? Or are you still
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  Speaker 2: realizing that they're a six-game under 500 team. That's not
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  Speaker 2: really turned a corner just yet. There's not a big
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  Speaker 2: corner to turn, Jessamyn, right? Right. I mean, a four-game,
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  Speaker 2: five-game winning streak would do it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's it. That's all you need. That's all
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  Speaker 4: you need in this AL West. Honestly. Honestly.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we can keep talking about how 54% would
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  Speaker 6: be doing it right now, too.
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  Speaker 2: Sure would. But they'd have to go like 700 the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the way to get to 54% for this season.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 2: 82 and 80 probably would win the division. 81 and
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  Speaker 2: 81 is probably going to win the division. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: the trash cans are in first place with one game
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  Speaker 2: under 500. Mariners only have to make up, what, five
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  Speaker 2: games to get to 500 right now? Six games to
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  Speaker 2: get to 500. All right, about the Seahawks. Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 2: I was curious if Leonard Williams would entertain a contract
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  Speaker 2: extension now or play out the season to see where
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to go He's 32 years old. He married
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  Speaker 2: his wife Haley just last year in 2025 in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: They had their first child this offseason, little son Zion.
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  Speaker 2: They bought a house in the hills above the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: headquarters here and rented it. Newport Hills. But he's played–
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  Speaker 2: this will be his 12th NFL season. It was certainly
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  Speaker 2: a question. Last year I talked to him about Calais Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: He was playing his 18th season for the Arizona Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: as a defensive lineman. And Williams was just shaking his
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  Speaker 2: head like, ain't no way. Ain't no way I could envision–
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  Speaker 2: play in six more years and now he's under contract
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  Speaker 2: for four more years because this one is the final
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  Speaker 2: year of his deal and then three more after it
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  Speaker 2: through the 2029 season he'll take him past his 35th
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  Speaker 2: birthday and that's getting up there for a defensive lineman
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  Speaker 2: but he talked about that i just posted a story
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  Speaker 2: about a half hour ago at the news tribune the
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  Speaker 2: news tribune.com you can go check it out but seattle
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  Speaker 2: transformed him he talked a couple weeks ago with us
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  Speaker 2: here in training camp about how after about the year
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  Speaker 2: seven and eight in New York, the Jets had drafted
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  Speaker 2: him sixth overall in 2015. And after a few years
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  Speaker 2: with the Jets, he got traded to the Giants. And
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  Speaker 2: eight years were losing seasons. No sniff of a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, is this it? Is this what football is?
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  Speaker 2: Is this what my career is? And he was thinking
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  Speaker 2: of quitting, he said, after year eight, still in his 20s.
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  Speaker 2: And then he got traded to the Seahawks. John Schneider
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the 2023 season. making the move
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  Speaker 2: for a couple draft picks to get Leonard Williams midseason.
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  Speaker 2: That was, of course, Pete Carroll's last season as Seahawks coach.
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  Speaker 2: And Leonard Williams said that the minute he got here,
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  Speaker 2: it transformed him. His outlook, the Pete Carroll's environment, Seattle
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  Speaker 2: as a city, the Pacific Northwest. He'd never really spent
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  Speaker 2: any time here. He played at USC, but he grew
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  Speaker 2: up in Daytona Beach, Florida. And he was blown away.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden he said, I can do this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm revived and refreshed. So he signed one extension right
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  Speaker 2: after the trade to stay in Seattle. And now this
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  Speaker 2: is the second extension. Think of what it's done for
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams since he got here in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the 2023 season. He signed two. Today his agreement will
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  Speaker 2: make him with two Seahawks contracts totaling $ 154. 5 million in
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  Speaker 2: total value. He met his wife, the daughter of former
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  Speaker 2: NFL coach, star Ronnie Lott, married Haley last year while
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, bought a house in the hills above Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and they had their first child in that house and
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  Speaker 2: raising it in that house right above Seahawk headquarters in
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  Speaker 2: Newport Hills, all since he got traded here. Oh, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, he's made two Pro Bowls. He went on
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  Speaker 2: to his first Super Bowl, and he earned his first
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl ring after 11 years in the league. it's
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  Speaker 2: worked out pretty well for Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 6: I'm actually thinking back to that time where he was
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  Speaker 6: ready to hang him up. Like, imagine like right.
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  Speaker 4: Now, aren't you like, Oh boy.
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  Speaker 6: It's one of the highest paid defensive tackles in the league.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And think about it from his perspective, but also from ours,
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  Speaker 2: if they had never traded for Leonard Williams, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have the force that they have in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Why are the Seahawks doing this at age 32? Because
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams is, is an everything guy for Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: He's a confidant. He's a guy that, that McDonald goes to,
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  Speaker 2: to get a pulse of the team, to bounce ideas
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  Speaker 2: off of, to present things to, to the team. They run,
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  Speaker 2: he runs it through Leonard Williams first. You saw the
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  Speaker 2: clip the other, you saw the scene the other night
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth episode of hard knocks where how vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald was talking about the passing of his friend
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  Speaker 2: and mentor in Baltimore, OJ Brignance. And, Leonard Williams coming
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  Speaker 2: up to him at the practice an hour later saying,
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  Speaker 2: that was good blank this morning, coach. He appreciated his vulnerability. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how the relationship that they have. McDonald
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  Speaker 2: relies on Williams to be a locker room leader, to
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  Speaker 2: be a defensive tackle, a three technique, a five technique,
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  Speaker 2: to be a defensive end, to move around and confuse
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  Speaker 2: offenses on where he's lining up. He lined up a
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle. Excuse me, nose tackle. and dropped into coverage
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  Speaker 2: a few years ago with Pete Carroll and intercepted a
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  Speaker 2: pass against the New York Jets and intercepted Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: and had a pick six out of that as a
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  Speaker 2: nose tackle. That's how versatile Leonard Williams is to the
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  Speaker 2: defense on the field. And then in the locker room,
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  Speaker 2: he's indispensable to the coaching staff, to head coach, he's indispensable.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they're investing $ 90 million for the next three years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course, NFL economics and the way NFL is, Williams
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  Speaker 2: is going to have to maintain his health and his
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  Speaker 2: level of performance to see all $ 90 million in all
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  Speaker 2: three years of that deal. Right.
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  Speaker 6: But it's still $ 56 million guaranteed.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting that no matter what he does. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost certainly the way John Schneider does it. Backloaded deal.
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  Speaker 2: That has a lot of money due at the end
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  Speaker 2: of it. Most of the guaranteed money up front. so
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  Speaker 2: that by the third season the team can reassess when
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  Speaker 2: he's turning 35 whether they want to continue with the
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  Speaker 2: final year of the contract or perhaps renegotiate it to
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  Speaker 2: a better salary cap number. Yes, all that's true. But
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  Speaker 2: the very fact that at age 32 the Seahawks have
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  Speaker 2: decided to re-up a guy past his 35th birthday tells you, one,
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  Speaker 2: how they feel he's still in his prime as a
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  Speaker 2: player and physically and health-wise, and two, how valuable he
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  Speaker 2: is to the locker room at large. This is just
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  Speaker 2: the first of a couple of deals that are coming
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  Speaker 2: at the defensive line. Next year at this time, Byron
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  Speaker 2: Murphy is going to get the brink struck backing up
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  Speaker 2: to him. He's going to get paid among the top
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackles in the league. And you say, okay, how
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  Speaker 2: can they afford all this? Well, DeMarcus Lawrence is going
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  Speaker 2: to retire. He's already told our friend, just this past
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  Speaker 2: two weeks ago that he will retire after his age
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  Speaker 2: 34 season this year. The salary cap will keep going up.
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  Speaker 2: It's at $ 300 million this year. It'll probably go to $ 315, $ 310.
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  Speaker 2: It goes up at least $ 10, $ 15, sometimes $ 20 million
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  Speaker 2: year over year, thanks to the media rights and the
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  Speaker 2: fact the NFL prints money. That's something always to consider
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  Speaker 2: with these contracts, the Devin Witherspoon contract. How can they
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  Speaker 2: get Witherspoon and Jackson Smith and Jigba, the top of
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  Speaker 2: the market, at their position money in the same year?
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  Speaker 2: in the same off season. It's because the relative, the
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  Speaker 2: value of those contracts, the relative cost of the percentage
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  Speaker 2: taken up the salary cap goes down every year. It
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  Speaker 2: gets more economic and more of a value year over
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  Speaker 2: year because of how the salary cap, the salary cap's
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  Speaker 2: only gone down once in the last generation. And that
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  Speaker 2: was during the pandemic. So yes, the Seahawks are going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to afford this. Of course, they've already
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  Speaker 2: planned this out and penciled this out, but, NFL math
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  Speaker 2: to be in the way it is that they will
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  Speaker 2: get it done under an increasing salary cap. 49451 on
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  Speaker 2: the Tacoma Dodge text line. What's Leonard Williams to you
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  Speaker 2: as a Seahawks fan? I mean, you see him raising
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  Speaker 2: both arms and bench pressing the sky as a signature celebration.
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  Speaker 2: He now has made his home here. A native Floridian
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  Speaker 2: who played college football in Los Angeles has made a home,
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  Speaker 2: a wife, a child, a young family that they're raising here.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: in Seattle, in the Seattle area. He's a pillar of
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the community now and the sports community here in Seattle.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Your view of Leonard Williams as a player and as
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: a member of the Pacific Northwest, now one of us,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: end of deal, three years, $ 90 million if you missed
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: it at the top of the show. Again, he and
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: all the other starters are not playing tomorrow night. They're
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: practicing today. They're going to get on a plane this afternoon,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: fly to Kansas City. They'll probably all get in full
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: pads and warm up and make it like a practice
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night at Arrowhead Stadium pregame. And then they'll take
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: their pads off, put ball caps on and watch as
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the second and third team play. I don't even know, Jessamyn,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: if Drew Locke's going to play. Maybe Mike McDonald will
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: discuss that at 1110 when we air his press conference.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: But remember last year, Jalen Miller played the whole game.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: The third preseason game.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm wondering because... Oh, sorry. I'm wondering if they
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: need a harder look in... deciding whether or not to
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: carry three quarterbacks on the roster when it comes to milrow.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah could be yeah um on speaking frankly here milrow
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: hasn't done anything that would the seahawks should be concerned
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: that he's going to get claimed off waivers i mean
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: they could put him on the practice squad i think
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: because of his performance so far this preseason now if
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: he lights it up tomorrow night in kansas city perhaps
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: that would be a riskier proposition but what jessima's talking
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: about is last year he played was on the roster
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the entire season, but he only played in three plays
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: in three different, one in each of the three games
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: into October. He fumbled, of course, against Tampa Bay, and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that was it. He didn't see the field the rest
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of the year. He wasn't even active for a game
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season, yet he stayed on the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: 53-man roster. So that begs the question, do they want
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: to use another roster spot on him to carry him
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: as the third quarterback, emergency third quarterback, or do you
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: bring him up from the practice squad early in the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: season to fill that emergency third quarterback role? But to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: get him on the practice squad, you have to pass
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: him through waivers. And a third-round pick, high-profile program like Alabama,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: maybe you'd say he wouldn't clear waivers to get to
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the practice squad. But his performance this preseason so far,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the interceptions, the holding the ball in sacks on fourth down,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the league sees that. They have it on film. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that if he is among the 1,100 players waived on
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Sunday at the cut-down day from 90 to 53, he
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: probably could sneak through and get to the practice squad.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: But what's that do to Jalen Milrow? Because he spent
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: all of last season on the roster. Then you pick
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: him off. the roster and make him the practice squad,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and now you have a mental-emotional component to that to
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a young quarterback who's already been struggling this preseason. I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: think he's going to stay on the 53-man roster for
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: that reason and the fact that they will keep him
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: as an emergency third quarterback. But again, if the Seahawks
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: season goes anything as they're planning, Milrow and Locke aren't
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: seeing the field. And I haven't seen anything of the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak special package run plays. I haven't seen that
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: at all under Brian Fleury.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember Fleury saying that. We're not making that happen.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: If the game dictates that, then maybe. But he's not
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: planning on it is the gist that I got from
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: his press conference.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they want Milrow to be a quarterback. They want
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: him to step back and make decisions in the pocket,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and when he thinks he can beat someone on the edge,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: be decisive in taking off and doing that. He just
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: hasn't done that consistently in the preseason game. I think
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: they're going to, if I had to guess, I think
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: they're going to give him the same treatment they gave
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: him in Green Bay last year, play the whole game,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: come out, start the game, come out in the second half,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and Drew Locke has done enough already in Seattle before
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: this preseason even to know the Seahawks know he can
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: come off the bench and win a game if Sam
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Darnold isn't able to play for some reason. 49451, your opinions,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: your thoughts. We'll read back your text at 1130. At 1110,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you'll hear Mike McDonald live following his practice here before
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the team gets on a plane to Kansas City. Up next,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you're going to hear from the new owners of the Seahawks,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: the first public verbal comments. He's commented online quite a bit.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: He has a very robust social media presence, Vinod Khosla does.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But now he's talking as a Seahawks owner for the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: first time. You'll hear from him next on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Seahawks Headquarters, the Virginia Mason Athletic Center,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: where Seahawks are on the practice field right now. Really
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: light practice, an hour practice before they head to Kansas City,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: get on a bus, fly out this afternoon for the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: game tomorrow night, the final of three preseason games. Mike
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: McDonald is going to speak right at the end of
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: practice today. We expect it to be about 11.15, 11.10
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: or so. We'll carry his comments live here on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre with you. Yesterday, Vinod Khosla
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and his wife, Nehru, and his son, Neil, were in Atlanta.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: So was Roger Goodell. So were all 32 team owners
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: in the NFL or their representatives, and they voted on
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the sale of the Seahawks, and they approved it. All
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: 32 yes votes, a unanimous approval. The Khosla family has
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the new Seahawk owner buying the club from the estate
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: of Paul G. Allen. Vinod Khosla had spoke to the media.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: There was an impromptu kind of informal press conference right
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: after the vote. These are his first public comments as
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: owner of the Seahawks. Vinod Khosla, a new owner, 71
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: years old, Sun Microsystems co-founder, AI investor at the beginning
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of AI, is now the owner of the Seahawks. This
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: is Vinod Khosla yesterday.
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: As Roger said, it's pretty simple when the team is
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: functioning as well as it is today. How often do
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: you get to buy a franchise that just won the
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: Super Bowl? So we are incredibly lucky and humbled by
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: this gift, I would say, from the Allen Trust. And
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: of course, having been to Lumen Field and watching the
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: 12s everywhere, I do want to thank them for their
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: passion and fervor. And the community in Seattle is incredibly valuable,
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: so we hope we'll engage a lot more with the
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: community also. The task ahead is actually pretty simple. Keep
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: the winning streak alive, get another Super Bowl. In general,
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: our approach is generally going to be long-term focused.
• 23:55
  Speaker 12: That's our inclination always. So keep winning, take a long-term approach,
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: and learn a lot.
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: We don't know enough, and so hopefully the other owners
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: have been incredibly welcoming and willing to teach us. Lumen
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: Field is iconic and very much a part of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: Seahawks brand.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So that's all I will say for now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: Obviously, we are not owners yet, and we need to
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: learn a lot more. But we will work with management
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: and with others and the community in Seattle to hopefully
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: preserve this iconic brand.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: The note cozily yesterday in Atlanta to reporters, that last
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: comment was a question about the future of long-term future
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of Lumenfield. Him referencing they're not owners yet is a
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: nod toward the fact that the lawyers and the bankers
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: have to vet the $ 9. 6 billion transaction. As we mentioned,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: it's not like you're plopping down $ 20 on some stake
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: at Safeway. It's a little more complicated than that at
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: $ 9. 6 billion. So that's why they're not officially the owners yet.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: What I'm told is the Those transactions and the lawyering
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and the vetting of it will probably take a week
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: or so, given the Labor Day holiday that's coming up
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: next weekend. It's likely the Seahawks will have an introductory
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Here Are New Owners press conference at Lumen Field, maybe
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the day of the NFL kickoff game, September 9th, Seahawks
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and Patriots, maybe the day before. But around that time,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: right after Labor Day, maybe a target date that they
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: become officially the new owners. But you heard him talk
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: about Lumen Field, and he said he wants to preserve it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It's an iconic venue. He wants to preserve the legacy
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: of Lumen Field. There's some things at play there. One,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I talked with Ian a little bit about this yesterday,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: but he didn't come right out and say he's going
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to keep Lumen Field exactly as it is because he
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: wants to generate as much revenue as he can out
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: of that stadium. The new owners are always seeking to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: improve local revenue, and an existing stadium– that has two
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: open sides to it, the two corners of the north
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: end zone next to the hawk's nest on the downtown
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: side of the stadium, that's begging to be closed, right?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: You could put a couple thousand seats permanently in those
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: corners to close the bowl, and you'd have a stadium
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: that goes from 68,000 to 70-plus thousand easily. Now, of course,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that takes a little outlay of money. It takes negotiating
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: with the public entities and the stadium district that operate
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the stadium at first and goal Inc that was created
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: to run the stadium after Paul Allen got it built.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And Kozla said they look forward to working with the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: community and the entities around the stadium about that. I just,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I think as a Seahawk fan, you like to hear
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a new owner come in and say, we want to learn.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: We want to see and learn.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: That was my favorite part actually. And acknowledging the fact
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: that they just won the Superbowl. I'm really not going
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: to mess with much.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: As a fan, a football fan, that's the best news
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: of all. Their family recognizes this team just won the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And he said, we're blessed. We're lucky that
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: we have this opportunity. His quote was, how many times
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: can you buy a Super Bowl champion? It's almost unprecedented.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I did some research and I can't see a team
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that won a Super Bowl that was sold within months.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, the team went on sale like a week
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: or two after they won the Super Bowl. Most franchise
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: ownership changes are because the owner is dumping it for
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a profit or there's some dysfunction or they're forced out
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: by the league. We all know examples of that. And
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: this is not the case here. This is not the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: case of an out-of-town owner coming in and buying from
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: an owner who is just trying to make a profit
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and turn a buck. Paul Allen, when he died, he
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: left in his will that we have to sell, that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: you have to sell all of my assets and give
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: it to philanthropy. Not in someone's pocket. This isn't Howard
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Schultz selling to Clayton Bennett and Howard Schultz getting all
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the profit from the sale of the Seahawks or the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Sonics 2018 years ago. This is from the Paul G.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Allen Trust. It was a mandate. And all this money,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: $ 9. 6 billion, is going to go to philanthropic causes. So
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: it's a completely different transaction and financial situation there. Look, Jessamyn,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the way I view Lumen Field, yes, it doesn't have the–
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: team-owned restaurants and bars that the Patriots and that other
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: teams are building to increase their local revenue. It has
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: everything else that he would seek in a new stadium, say,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: if he wanted to go to Bellevue or something. He
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: has the confluence of I-5 and I-90, two major regional
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: transportation companies.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, the location is unbelievable.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: He has light rail and public transit at his doorstep.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: He is just off the waterfront, and he is at
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: a downtown location that people can go places after. Now,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: the team doesn't get the money for that because they
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: don't own those restaurants and bars. But I get the sense, Jessamyn,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: that billionaires who are able to spend $ 9. 6 billion on
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: a team aren't quite as motivated. Not all NFL teams
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: are billionaires. But my sense is he's not quite as
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: motivated as to rip it up and start over from
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the stadium perspective just to build restaurants and bars. That's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: my opinion. That's what impression I've got. a few times
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I've heard from him. But we'll see. Never say never.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: And they own the team and they obviously can do
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: whatever they want to do with it. But I just
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: don't see it right now. To reiterate the stadium situation,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the lease runs through 2031. There are three 10-year options
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: that the team and the stadium have. I'm currently told
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: that there's no reason to think they won't enact at
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: least the first of those extensions and lease options that
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: would take you to 2041. The other thing to consider
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: here is that 2041 is the end of that first
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: option of the lease. It's 15 years from now. Vinod
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Kozla and his wife Nero are 71 years old. Their
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: son Neil, in his late 30s, is probably going to
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: be the one who's the point man or the operator
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: of the franchise in the longer term. I mean, let's
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: just be real. It's two billionaires in their 80s probably
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: don't want to have a lot to do with the
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: daily operation.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Of a football team. Yeah, we all see the writing
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: on that wall. I mean, it makes sense.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Here's another thing to consider about the Kozels. AI. They are...
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Vinod Khosla was one of the foremost and leading investors
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: in artificial intelligence when it first came on the scene 10,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: 15 years ago, when it really became in the Bay
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Area became a big deal. His son is the owner
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and co-founder of a firm that does AI work in
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: the medical field. His wife has used AI in reading
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and reading programs in a company that she has founded.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: AI is coming to the Seahawks with this sale. And
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: what do I mean by that? I'm talking coaching. I'm
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: talking planning and training, nutrition, practice schedules, the way they travel,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the way they eat. AI is going to be a big,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: big player in that. The Seahawks coaching staff feels they're
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: a little behind in this compared to, say, San Francisco,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: which Fennel Kozla and his family were minority investors in
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: until this purchase of the Seahawks. Remember that Kozla has 3%.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Vinod Kozla had a 3% stake in the 49ers. Part
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: of the reason that the sale was unanimously approved is
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: that the NFL owners already had vetted Kozla because they
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: had to to make him a minority owner of the 49ers.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: But the 49ers are ahead of the Seahawks in their
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: use of artificial intelligence and football operations. That's coming. That
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: might be a behind-the-scenes immediate impact to the Seahawks with
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the new ownership chains that fans won't be able to see,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: but the football ops and the coaches will. And I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: think that's coming sooner than later now that they are
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the new owners. 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I get it. I bet we're going to hear some
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: consternation and some concern about out-of-town owners, their comments on
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Lumen Field and thinking that that means the stadium is
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: changing or they're going to get a new one. I
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: get it. We've lived here in Seattle more than a day,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you know, from the Sonics' understanding. We'll read back your
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: text at 1130. Up next, Cooper Cupp talked about the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: ownership chains as a native of Washington, a Yakima native,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: a Davis High School graduate, an Eastern Washington University star
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: player over in Cheney. He talked about the meaning of
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: owning the Seahawks, the meaning of the Seahawks as a
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest entity, and about the loss of Jake Bobo
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: to a season-ending knee injury. You'll hear from Cooper Cupp next.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Just after 11 o'clock, you're going to hear from Mike
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: McDonald live here from 93.3 KJRFM. Hi, welcome back. Greg Bell,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Justin McIntyre with you. He's there every weekday, 10 a.m.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: to noon here on 93.3 KJR FM. Although I will
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: not be here 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow, I am
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: flying to Kansas City day of the game. Flight leaves
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: at 8.30 or so. So Mike Benton will be here tomorrow.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: He's going to interview Ryan Spielbros, who's one of the
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: commentators for the Amazon, or no, Apple TV, whatever, streaming
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to it. Apple TV broadcast of the Mariners at Toronto tomorrow. So, yes,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the first game of the three-game series, Blue Jays and Mariners,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: not on Mariners TV, not on your local normal way
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: to watch the Mariners. It's on Apple TV tomorrow. Ryan Spilbrose,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: one of the NL's former Major League player, will join
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton and Jessamyn tomorrow. And I'll be flying to
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Kansas City tomorrow. Covering for the News Tribune, I'll tell
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: you Monday what I saw in the final preseason game tomorrow.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Remember Factor Fiction? Remember that game? Guess along with us
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: on NFL and college football games with the spread or
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the over-under. That contest starts Monday, September 7th, two days
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: before the Seahawks against the Patriots. So your chance during
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: every show from the morning all the way through to
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fane. so september the 7th
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: is the start of factor fix a lot of questions
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: on that cooper cup born and raised in yakima he
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: knows how important the seahawks are he calls it very
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: special to play for him he talked yesterday following practice so.
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: You're walking off with jay keats what do you think
• 35:00
  Speaker 13: he's adding to the quarterback or what kind of coach
• 35:02
  Speaker 13: is he and what do you think he's.
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: Adding um yeah i mean shoot he's a high energy
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: individual um and he knows a lot of football so
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: um you know i think there's a There's a lot
• 35:13
  Speaker 14: of stuff in that room in terms of the processing
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: that happens at the quarterback position. It's good to have
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: someone in there that has been in that spot before
• 35:24
  Speaker 14: that's also allowing Sam understands the amount of football that's
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: been played in that room and knowing what information needs
• 35:33
  Speaker 14: to be put on the table, what stuff can be
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: jumped over, just to give Sam, I think, the most
• 35:38
  Speaker 14: clarity possible.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: We saw the uh clip of mike on your.
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• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Uh has that happened to you before what was the
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: reaction when when he yeah you.
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: Know we're working through some stuff and so it's kind
• 35:51
  Speaker 14: of like uh you know i i understood where he
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: was coming from and um yeah it is what it
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: is i'm i trust mike and ultimately what uh he's
• 36:01
  Speaker 14: looking out for his for his guys for his team
• 36:03
  Speaker 14: and um so you know there's always a party that
• 36:05
  Speaker 14: wants to compete the competitor that wants to go out
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: there and um, go in those situations. Um, those practices
• 36:11
  Speaker 14: are a lot of fun. Um, but understand that that's
• 36:14
  Speaker 14: kind of, uh, some of you, you know, I, I,
• 36:17
  Speaker 14: I trust Mike. Does your mind go at all the
• 36:20
  Speaker 14: sliding doors of if you've been out there and what
• 36:22
  Speaker 14: happened with Jake and, and you not being out there? Uh, yeah,
• 36:27
  Speaker 14: I mean, that's, it's, um, but that's, that's an absolutely
• 36:34
  Speaker 14: awful situation. Um, and obviously everyone here feels for Jake.
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Um, so, um, yeah.
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: Hey Cooper, you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: Teach a lot of the young guys, you know, give
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: them skills and stuff.
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: Have you seen anything from the new young wide receivers,
• 36:51
  Speaker 14: like anything from them that they've taught you or you've noticed? Um, yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 14: I mean, yeah, they're a lot of fun. Um, yeah, they, uh,
• 37:05
  Speaker 14: I mean, I think there's always stuff. There's always, I mean,
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: there's something you grab from everyone in terms of this,
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: you know, how you're seeing a stem of rust. Like,
• 37:11
  Speaker 14: you know, I've, I've run a certain route along for
• 37:13
  Speaker 14: a long time. Someone comes in and sees it, runs
• 37:16
  Speaker 14: it for the first time, the way they see it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 14: It's like, you know what? Like that, I never would
• 37:20
  Speaker 14: have ran it that way, but let's talk about it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 14: There's something that might be something to how you're approaching
• 37:26
  Speaker 14: that route.
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: And so that's cool.
• 37:28
  Speaker 14: And we've got guys that are very intentional in that way. Um,
• 37:31
  Speaker 14: they're not just out there doing things just to do them.
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: There's a reason behind them. And so, uh, yeah, you're always,
• 37:36
  Speaker 14: I mean, keeping an eye on things and, um, having
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: those conversations in our room.
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: Um, it makes it a lot of fun to, uh,
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: to talk ball.
• 37:43
  Speaker 12: Your perspective in your 10th year, what can you say
• 37:45
  Speaker 12: about perspective on the field, off the field?
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: I know it's a big question.
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: Uh, yeah, it is a big question.
• 37:51
  Speaker 14: I mean, um, and there's so much, I think the, uh,
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: I think things get, uh, I don't know what the
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: word is exactly. This is not the right way to
• 38:02
  Speaker 14: say it, but things become less.
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: Things aren't as pivotal. When you're young, every single play
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: holds away the world.
• 38:13
  Speaker 14: A win can put you in a place that you
• 38:19
  Speaker 14: feel like you've got it all figured out, which isn't
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: the right place to be. And then a loss in
• 38:24
  Speaker 14: a rep can make you feel like you'll never be
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: able to do it. And both those things are wrong.
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: But I think as time goes on, you realize it's
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: all a journey. It's all a process. It's all about
• 38:34
  Speaker 14: this build into who you're going to be and just
• 38:37
  Speaker 14: constantly responding to those opportunities that ultimately is what is
• 38:42
  Speaker 14: going to write the story, right? It's not the outcome
• 38:44
  Speaker 14: of the moment. It's how you're going to respond to
• 38:46
  Speaker 14: the string of moments that happen.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Cooper, as somebody from the active volunteer with the cell,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: what does it mean to.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Have this next chapter, this team that's been with you
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: your whole life?
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know, it's pretty cool.
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: I mean, I've talked a lot about growing up a
• 39:02
  Speaker 14: Seahawks fan and then eventually learning bedtime was when the
• 39:07
  Speaker 14: game ended. So then it became just I was rooting
• 39:09
  Speaker 14: for overtime at all times and just enjoying football. But
• 39:13
  Speaker 14: it's not missing me how cool it is to come
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: back to the state. I grew up here, spent 18
• 39:20
  Speaker 14: years of my life in Yakima, spent you know 23
• 39:26
  Speaker 14: years in the state of washington and um you know
• 39:29
  Speaker 14: that there's a lot of memories there's a lot of
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: people that came alongside me that helped get me to
• 39:35
  Speaker 14: where i am today so um it's definitely something that's
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: uh not missing me a very very special thing Yeah, so.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: With that said, what does it mean that somebody wants
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to spend $ 9 billion on a culture that was built
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: by this team?
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, it's super cool. And yeah, I'm excited about that.
• 39:50
  Speaker 14: I think there's a lot of people that are, you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 14: I think, you know, Jody was awesome in my time here.
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: And I know Mike absolutely loved working with her.
• 40:05
  Speaker 14: And I think there's also some excitement for what's, what
• 40:07
  Speaker 14: this new ownership group has, and I'm looking forward to
• 40:11
  Speaker 14: meeting them, seeing what their plans are for the team.
• 40:15
  Speaker 15: The leadership council Mike does, I'm sure a lot of
• 40:17
  Speaker 15: teams have some version of that. What do you like
• 40:19
  Speaker 15: about the way Mike does that? What do you feel
• 40:21
  Speaker 15: like you get as a team out of having those
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: meetings with him?
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: I think it's a great job of just creating an
• 40:26
  Speaker 14: open room for conversation. There's plenty of stuff on there
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: that you I'm sure don't see, that for sure you
• 40:34
  Speaker 14: don't see on hard knocks, but it's a great space
• 40:37
  Speaker 14: for conversation just for guys in every room around the
• 40:42
  Speaker 14: team to be able to have a say on how
• 40:44
  Speaker 14: guys are feeling, where guys are at, what they see,
• 40:46
  Speaker 14: if there's a need that needs to be met, if
• 40:48
  Speaker 14: there's something we can do better, and then we can
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: have that conversation, a truly open conversation about.
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: How we feel, and Mike does a great job of.
• 40:58
  Speaker 14: Being able to open that door for communication, not just
• 41:01
  Speaker 14: to go from coaches down, but to go to players
• 41:04
  Speaker 14: up as well.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: When you're in Mike's office and he's picking your brain,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: is that more you going like, hey, coach, I've seen something,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: or is it him coming to you asking questions?
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: I think there's a little bit of both.
• 41:13
  Speaker 14: I mean, I think I probably ask more questions than
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: he's asking me questions. I mean, I've certainly asked him
• 41:18
  Speaker 14: more than he's asking me.
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: But it's just great.
• 41:20
  Speaker 14: I mean, he's got an open-door policy. At least I
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: think he does. I don't want to put him on
• 41:25
  Speaker 14: the spot. But, you know, guys going there, they've got
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: something to say. I mean, Mike's great about giving you
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: his time.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: When you have a chance to speak to the Colson family,
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: what is it that you want to tell them about
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: what it feels to be a CNR?
• 41:41
  Speaker 9: Um, what do I want to tell them?
• 41:45
  Speaker 16: Oh, I don't know.
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: I mean, I think, I'm sure they've done their due diligence,
• 41:50
  Speaker 14: you know, on what we're about.
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: And what it's like in this building.
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: Um, and, you know, I think there's a reason why, um,
• 41:59
  Speaker 14: they want to be a part of it and see
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: the value in it. And so, um, I hopefully I
• 42:06
  Speaker 14: wouldn't have to say anything. They would just know that
• 42:08
  Speaker 14: there's something special here in terms of how we go
• 42:10
  Speaker 14: about our business. And, um, you know, actions speak louder
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: than words in that way.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Back to Bobo. What do you think your receiver core
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: will miss with him out? Yeah.
• 42:19
  Speaker 14: Um, and a lot, I mean, just, uh, I mean,
• 42:22
  Speaker 14: first and foremost, just the person that he is, um,
• 42:25
  Speaker 14: you know, it's, uh, that I think is the thing.
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: That, um, is overlooked upon all of this stuff, right?
• 42:32
  Speaker 14: It's like, you know, we're, we're a, a group of
• 42:35
  Speaker 14: men that come together every day to pursue a goal
• 42:38
  Speaker 14: and have our own lives that all, you know, coalesce
• 42:41
  Speaker 14: into the story that makes this season come alive. And
• 42:45
  Speaker 14: so not having him be a part of that story, um,
• 42:48
  Speaker 14: moving forward for this year is tough.
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: It was really hard.
• 42:51
  Speaker 14: And, um, you know, I know he's going to get
• 42:54
  Speaker 14: after things in terms of the rehab and all of
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: that stuff. Um, but just not, just not having bubble
• 42:59
  Speaker 14: the person, um, around us is, uh, it's been really tough.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Anything else, guys?
• 43:05
  Speaker 15: You've talked in the past about kind of with the
• 43:08
  Speaker 15: cerebral side of the game, all the studying, that coming
• 43:10
  Speaker 15: out of necessity.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: You said you weren't the biggest guy, the fastest guy.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: But other than that, you had to do it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 15: How much do you enjoy that side of finding those edges,
• 43:18
  Speaker 15: as Mike would say, and helping Mike unlock something on tape?
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Is that fun for you to see that side of it?
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: Without a doubt it is.
• 43:24
  Speaker 14: I think that's one of the coolest parts about this
• 43:27
  Speaker 14: game is finding ways to And really, I think it's
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: just finding ways for the team to have an edge, right?
• 43:32
  Speaker 14: Finding something that comes alive in a game. And it's not...
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: I mean, it's almost better... I don't want to say
• 43:40
  Speaker 14: it's better when it's not even you that's the one
• 43:42
  Speaker 14: bringing it alive, but when you find a way for
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: someone else to have success and bring something.
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: Bring that edge and find success and find a way
• 43:52
  Speaker 14: to beat a team based on things that we collectively
• 43:56
  Speaker 14: work together to solve, that is.
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: that is my favorite thing in the world.
• 44:01
  Speaker 14: And so, um, yeah, that's, that's what, uh, you come
• 44:04
  Speaker 14: in and watch the film for us, what we communicate for.
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: That's what makes, you know, a team that wants to
• 44:09
  Speaker 14: collaborate together so much fun. If you came in here
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: and you just had to do exactly what the coaches
• 44:13
  Speaker 14: say with no say in terms of how it was
• 44:18
  Speaker 14: going to get done. Um, I don't know that I'd
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: still be playing football in all honesty. Um, so that
• 44:24
  Speaker 14: wouldn't be, that wouldn't be much fun for me, but, um,
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: being able to collaborate, being able to figure it out
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: together and work together, having guys in our room, players
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: that are open to asking questions and also giving suggestions.
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: That is what makes this game so much fun.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, native. Cooper Kopp talking yesterday after practice,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: and you heard him say it, and it bears repeating.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: How about a shout-out to Jody Allen for what she
• 44:53
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• 44:56
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• 45:01
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• 52:16
  Speaker 2: million for the rest of the season. Yeah, I know
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: he strikes out a lot, but he also has a
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: lot of good vibes when he's in Seattle. What do
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: you think, Mariner fans?
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: I do like the good vibes.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: 49451. Yeah, that's true. They are starting to vibe, but
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: bring them in. Why not? Less than $ 3 million for
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: a month. It might get you into the playoffs. Bring
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Suarez back. It's not like he hasn't had big hits
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: for this team either. Grand slams in the playoffs. We're
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: awaiting Mike McDonald, the head coach of the Seahawks, as
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: they come off the practice field here in Renton. When
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: he goes for his press conference, we will join it live,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: and I'll run out and ask him questions like, who's
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: going to play tomorrow? It's not going to be any
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: of the 22 starters. I've already been told that. It's
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: not going to be Jadarian Price, the rookie first-round pick.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: I've already been told that. So what are they looking at? Well,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: third cornerback again. Is Trayvon Diggs going to be able
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: to play? He hadn't been in pads since January. When
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I asked him last week, could he play in this
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Chiefs game, he said maybe. This is the final chance
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: for guys like Montori Foster, who I think is already
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: on the team. Guys like Aiden Hubbard, who we talked
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: to early in training camp, the undrafted rookie. The guy
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: like Uso Seomalo, the nose tackle, undrafted rookie. This is
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: their final chance to make the team tomorrow night in
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Kansas City. I will be there at Arrowhead Stadium. I'm
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: flying out tomorrow, which is why Mike Benton will have
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the show tomorrow from 10 to noon with Jessamyn, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I'll be in Kansas City for the final preseason game.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: But this is a trend around the league that most
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: coaches don't play their starters. Andy Reid is not going
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: to play their chief starters tomorrow, including Kenneth Walker, who's
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: had a foot and ankle injury. He's not going to
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: play tomorrow against his former team. We talked to Farhan
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Lalji this week. He was at Chiefs camp last week,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: and he said that they were giving Walker the full
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: meal deal. They were splitting him out wide. They were
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: throwing the ball down the field. And that he doesn't
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: see a viable backup running back, which would suggest that
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Walker's going to be a three-down back. Everything he's always
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: wanted in this league and didn't get last year when
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: he was splitting time with Zach Charbonnet. But you won't
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: see Kenneth Walker tomorrow. You're not going to see Patrick
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Mahomes tomorrow. You're going to see Garrett Nussmeyer. son of
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: former Huskies offensive coordinator. Garrett Nussmeyer from LSU is going
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: to be the quarterback tomorrow to start the game for
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, I'm told, against the Seahawks second or third string.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: So it's a good day. If you have a dog,
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: walk it. If you don't have a dog, go to
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: the shelter or adopt one and walk it. Because a
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: lot of the guys playing tomorrow are not going to
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: be on the team Saturday or Sunday when the cuts
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: are due. 90-53. Deadline cut day is Sunday. That's the
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: 30th of August. And then week and a half until
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks play the first NFL game against the New
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: England Patriots. Remember, we are going to start our Factor
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Fiction contest on September the 7th, the week of the
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Seahawks opener, the week of the first NFL games. I
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: know college football begins this week. And then next week,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: college football here in Seattle begins with the Apple Cup,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Washington State and Washington on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: That's going to be September the 6th at Husky Stadium
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: at 1 o'clock. We'll have it live, of course, here
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJR with Elyse Woodward's debut as the voice
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: of the Huskies. And then a day after that, September
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: the 7th on Monday, Labor Day, we will begin the
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction Contest for the week. Who's going to be
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: the first one that picks in four-factor fiction, the Seahawks opener? Hmm.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'll do that. Yeah. Because then you're
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: a Wednesday game? Fact or fiction? You're already in a
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: hole or you're already up one. Ian might do that.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: He could.
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: There's a good chance.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Or you might do that. No, no.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I have to do NFL.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: You can't do college?
• 56:20
  Speaker 16: No.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: No.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: I won't do it.
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: There's probably no one that would figure it out, but
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: I can't do it. I mean, it's just like Ian
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: would never bet on an NHL game or something like that.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's in his contract as an employee, right? Well,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: he's not betting, though. He's advising, but he's not actually
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: putting money down.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: No, I think he specifically said if he goes to
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: Snoqualmie Casino, he would never put money down. I feel
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: unethical doing college football, so that's why I stay away
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: from it.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: I see. I do not feel unethical about Army and
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: the Under. You're going to hear that a few times.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: Well, you're not working for them.
• 56:56
  Speaker 7: No, I'm not.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Used to. No, I'm not. He sure did. 49451 on
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: the Tacoma Dodge text line. The question I just kind
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: of threw in there at the end of headlines. How
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: do you feel about Eugenio Suarez? Eugenio Suarez is now
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: a free agent if he clears waivers, which he will,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: almost certainly. Or they could just claim him off waivers.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: He's on waivers for 48 hours in Major League Baseball
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: after you're put on it the next day or so.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Should the Mariners claim him? Or do you think he'd
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: pass waivers and be a free agent and sign him
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: that way? But If you claim him, it's a little
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: less than $ 3 million for the rest of the season,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: the final 28 games. We know about good vibes only
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: and Suarez and what he did again coming back last
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: year in the playoffs, hitting a grand slam in the AOC.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: We know all that. I know a lot of fans
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: would want him back. What about you on the text line?
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: Does it take away some at-bats for younger guys? Are
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: they going to bring up Michael Arroyo as a September call-up?
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: And would Suarez arriving take some at-bats from Arroyo perhaps?
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: something to consider, but I say, bring him back, Jess.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: I don't see the downside of it.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
• 58:06
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: And, and he doesn't have to be an everyday player. He, he,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: maybe he would be, but, or he could be a
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: designated hitter or split it with Ken's own or I, yeah,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: but just, he's almost worth it to sign for the
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: environment in the clubhouse.
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: That's where I am. I mean, and then anything else
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: is a bonus, right?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Four, nine, four, five, one. How do you feel about that? Okay.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I see on the text line, you were asking if
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: I'm broadcasting from jail, interviewing Jed York.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's pretty good.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: No, that was in a, we're in the side room
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: of the media room here at the Seahawks. And it's
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: just a white wall room with four white walls and
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: very small. So there's an echo. We try to minimize
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: that in different ways, but that's what that is. Two, five, three, six, seven,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: 253 says, what are the chances the Seahawks trade or
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: cut Melrose? Trade is almost nothing because what value would
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: he have for another team? Teams are really reluctant to trade.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: a guy who's still only halfway through, not even halfway
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: through his four-year rookie contract. A third-round pick, he's only
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: in his second training camp. Yes, the 2-5-3 says he's
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: been terrible in preseason game. He has not had the
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: preseason he wants. I think he's going to play the
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: entire game tomorrow. We're standing by for Mike McDonald's press
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: conference to start in which he may tell us that
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: he's given Milrow the start and play the whole game,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: just like he did in the third preseason game last
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: summer in Green Bay, it'll be the last time Milrow
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: plays this year. I mean, this is the last opportunity
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: they have to evaluate him going forward versus Drew Locke.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke, of course, we've talked about this. His contract
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: ends after this year, and they have to decide, based
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: largely on these preseason games and what Locke has done
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: for them in the past, whether they want to re-sign him.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: be on this year. He's 29. We talked about the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: fact that he would like to play and be a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: starter again. He was pressed into duty as a starter
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: with the Giants a couple years ago when Daniel Jones
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: got hurt. He didn't sign with the Giants to be
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: a starter. Jones was the starter there. But Locke would
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: like to play again. He's told me that. He's told
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: others that on the record that he would like to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: play again. Of course he would. He's only 29. So
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: the decision on Milrow, is he the future backup quarterback,
• 1:00:28
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• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke is tomorrow night in Kansas City for Jalen Milrow. So, no,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: they're not going to– I don't believe they're going to– no,
• 1:00:39
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• 1:00:42
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• 1:00:44
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• 1:00:48
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• 1:00:59
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  Speaker 21: The day-to-day, really just how much he's invested into our
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  Speaker 21: team and really his teammates. And I'm really, really excited
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  Speaker 21: to have it happen. I mean, it's really great news.
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  Speaker 21: So I understand he hasn't signed yet. He's going to
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 21: sign here within the hour, and everybody's going to celebrate.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 21: It's a great deal for everybody, and we're excited to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 21: make it happen. Some of the best in the world.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 21: His production is high, but it's also a synergistic thing
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 21: where I feel like the way he plays sets up
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 21: other players as well, both in the run and pass.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 21: Let alone how he interacts, just how he builds up
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 21: the whole team on a day-to-day basis too. So again,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 21: I think it's a great deal for both sides and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 21: he's earned it and we're excited to make it happen. Man,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 21: I have a hard time thinking people, it's hard to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 21: not see what he does. It's interesting that you guys
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 21: are asking those questions. He's an absolute force that people
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 21: have to account for. And when you do that, that
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 21: takes resources. towards him, and he can win those matchups.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 21: And when you allocate resources one way, you can't allocate
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 21: them another way, and now our other guys have opportunities.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 21: So not only is he making a ton of plays,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 21: he's setting his teammates up for making plays as well,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 21: and we play better defense with him for sure. Yeah,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 21: that's what I'm saying. He's a great teammate every day,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 21: same guy, positive outlook. We talked about Warriors in the Garden,
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  Speaker 21: who we want to be as people, and he's that.
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  Speaker 21: That's who he is.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of allocating resources, I know that you.
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  Speaker 16: Don't jump too much in the weeds when it comes
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 16: to the contract stuff, but how big of a deal
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  Speaker 16: is it that.
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  Speaker 2: You now have several more seasons where you get to
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: have Leo.
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  Speaker 21: And Byron playing together and not have.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 17: To worry about Byron having his pending contract and things
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 17: like that?
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 20: It's just hard to keep two high-priced DTs together and
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 20: having that luxury.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 21: I'm very excited. Look, we want great players, great people.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 21: We want Seahawks on our team, as many as we
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 21: can possibly have. You want to be able to pay
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  Speaker 21: everybody as much as you possibly can. Obviously, there's limitations
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 21: on these things, which is why it's so important for
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 21: us to be able to keep as many Seahawks that
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 21: we feel like can help us out in our building
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 21: as we come down to this portion of the year
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 21: and really throughout the season. but when there's game-changing type
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 21: guys like Leo, like Spoon, like Jax, we had the
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 21: opportunity to lock them up for an extended period of
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 21: time and make them foundational pieces of our team. That's
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 21: got to fire you up. It's pretty awesome.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 15: All those guys you just mentioned, Leo, Jax, they're all
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 15: in that leadership council that we've heard you.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 21: Reference, but we saw it on Hard Knocks the other day.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 15: For you as a couple years ago first-time head coach,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: how valuable has that back and forth been with a
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 15: group of guys to get their feedback and not just.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: Here's how I'm going to do it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 21: They, they, they've been great. Um, Charles is part of that, uh,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 21: crew as well. And, uh, I've had a couple of
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 21: fun conversations since then. It turns out if you'd like,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 21: if I, if I, if I, if we have a
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 21: leadership meeting, you can be excused from other responsibilities in
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 21: the building. Uh, so we've had, but no, the guys
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 21: have been great. They, uh, It's just, it's trying to create,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 21: trying to create an atmosphere where we're all aligned in
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 21: how we're doing things. And so sometimes it's what's coming
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 21: down the pike. Sometimes it's, Hey, you know, maybe we
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 21: need to, maybe we need to veer. Sometimes it's coming
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 21: from me. Sometimes it's coming from the players. It's a,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 21: team effort on getting the ship sailing in the right
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 21: direction at all times. I'm done now.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 14: Sorry.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 15: Have you guys already made your decision about whether Zach
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 15: Charbonnet is going to come off PUP, or is that
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 15: something that can still happen.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 21: Before next week? We don't have any. Let's just say
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 21: we don't have any news on that front right now.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 15: Nicky Mimori, when would he have to start practicing to
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 15: be available in week.
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  Speaker 2: One for you guys?
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  Speaker 21: Probably not going to answer that one.
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  Speaker 2: How's Tori Horton doing?
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  Speaker 21: Doing good. Doing good. All the injuries. You know me.
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  Speaker 21: Injury stuff coming into week one. We're going to keep
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  Speaker 21: it pretty close to the vest.
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  Speaker 2: Has Tori's long-term injury been ruled out? Yeah. Leo's just
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: one of four guys. You have a friend who's played
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: 10-plus years. Chen is right there, too. What is that?
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  Speaker 15: When you're, whether it's in-game, trying to adjust things or
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 15: plan things, just that level of experience you have.
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  Speaker 2: Up front, what's that do for you?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, that's a great question. It's a fun group to
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  Speaker 21: work with. And, you know, the trap is that you
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 21: have all this experience, which means you have a lot
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 21: of production and a lot of success individually, you know.
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  Speaker 21: And so people... if you don't create the right environment,
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  Speaker 21: you know, the right type of guys, you have a
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  Speaker 21: lot of guys, you could end up in the trap
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  Speaker 21: of people trying to kind of get theirs and ego
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  Speaker 21: gets in the way. But you, you know, the guys
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  Speaker 21: that you mentioned, the guys that are on our team,
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  Speaker 21: they use it as a plus, you know, they use
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  Speaker 21: it as a way to get the solutions and, um,
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  Speaker 21: bring each other's games to another level, which is, which
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 21: makes the process a lot of fun. And I'm not
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  Speaker 21: really in the weeds on how we do what we're
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 21: doing play to play, um, And how we're getting it cut,
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  Speaker 21: just in the meetings and the details and all that.
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  Speaker 21: AD does a phenomenal job, CP, Bynes, Hines, those guys.
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  Speaker 21: It's a tremendous team partnership on how we utilize our front,
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  Speaker 21: the techniques we do, how they prepare, all those things.
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  Speaker 21: It's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, well, they've proven experience.
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  Speaker 15: It can be kind of tough for some of the
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  Speaker 15: younger defensive linemen to really stand out, but JR Singleton
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  Speaker 15: this past weekend led the team in tackles.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen him progress this year after last
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: year being a practice.
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  Speaker 21: Squad the entire season? JR actually had a good camp
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  Speaker 21: last year. To your point, being in a room with
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  Speaker 21: veteran leaders is actually a great opportunity because those guys
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  Speaker 21: don't need as many reps as the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 21: You're going to take a ton of reps. If you
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  Speaker 21: can take advantage of those opportunities... And then the rookie
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  Speaker 21: dynamic and the rookie aspect of being in with vets.
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  Speaker 21: You take care of the vets in the room, they're
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 21: taking care of you. There's a lot of knowledge that's
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 21: getting poured into you with the guys that we have
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  Speaker 21: and the way that JR goes about his business. So
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  Speaker 21: he's definitely taken advantage of it, and he's played good football.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 21: He should be proud of himself.
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  Speaker 3: We know Bud's out for the year with Freeno, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but how's he kind of doing and what's kind of the.
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  Speaker 9: Outlook for him at this point?
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  Speaker 21: I'm really impressed with Bud and his mentality. Bobo, too. Mason,
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  Speaker 21: same way. Those guys are studs. I think their mentality
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  Speaker 21: is just, hey, let's go attack. What's the next thing?
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  Speaker 21: It's probably going to be surgery, and we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 21: It hurts, but you're also rooting for him. You're going
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 21: to be beside him every step of the way. Judarian,
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  Speaker 21: what have you thought of the camp he's in? Say
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 21: that again? What was the question about?
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  Speaker 2: What are the general thoughts on the camp that he's had?
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  Speaker 21: He's done a great job. He really has. All three downs.
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  Speaker 21: He still means a rookie in terms of there's going
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 21: to be things that we're going to need to attack
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  Speaker 21: in his game that will show itself in games. I
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  Speaker 21: think we haven't been afforded the luxury of having the
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  Speaker 21: bodies right now at running back to give him the
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  Speaker 21: reps maybe in a game that we normally would give
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 21: to a rookie runner. But he's shown that we're really
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  Speaker 21: confident in him going into week one. He's kind of
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  Speaker 21: earned that decision for us to feel good about it,
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  Speaker 21: even though just about any other circumstance, you definitely want
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  Speaker 21: really any rookie to get preseason exposure and experience.
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  Speaker 3: With Bobo out and Torrey down for the moment, how
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  Speaker 3: do you view where your receiver spot is behind the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: top three? Obviously, Montori's made an impression during camp, but
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  Speaker 3: how do you see that group and what.
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  Speaker 21: Are you looking for? It's a tough one. We're down
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  Speaker 21: a couple guys right now. The whole room has done
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  Speaker 21: a really good job. As much as you hate saying it,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 21: there's opportunity for guys now that those guys aren't available
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 21: right now, but it'll be interesting. You know, again, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 21: you're always in like team competition. It's not, it's never
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 21: a one for one. It's never, this guy doesn't go.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 21: So this guy goes or we're swapping. It's always the
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 21: whole team, you know, it's even like between sides of
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 21: the ball, you know, you could now, now you're talking
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 21: about special teams types decisions where, you know, it's the,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 21: it's the DB group or the outside linebacker. How does
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 21: that get involved with, you know, decisions that you're making
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 21: on who's dressing for you in games and what roles
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 21: are playing. So, that's why it's important not to count
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 21: numbers and to, you know, okay, I've made it, or
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 21: maybe I haven't made it because it's always, it's always
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 21: where you are and where your game is compared to
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 21: where you can take it to the next level. And
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 21: then what the team needs, you know, to go put
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 21: together the best squad we can to go play a game. So,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 21: but we're excited about the guys we still have.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 18: You now, since you now know that Bud's out for
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  Speaker 18: the season, how do you feel about the rest of
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 18: the safety group in terms of trying to fill the different.
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  Speaker 2: Roles that you had?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah. It's really the same answer. It's really the same answer. It's,
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  Speaker 21: We're excited about the guys we still have, and we'll
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 21: go from there. But like I said, after the game,
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  Speaker 21: I think we're working through on how we can fill
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 21: Bud's role and how we envision Bud playing for us,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 21: and that'll be a process that we haven't necessarily come
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 21: to all the solutions right now, and that's okay. It's
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 21: just something that we need to be aware of.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: What's Trayvon Diggs showed you this week in.
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  Speaker 21: Practice and how ready he might be? He's going to
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 21: get a look tomorrow. which is exciting. He's done a
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 21: good job. He's been having attention to detail, doing all
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 21: the things we're asking him to do. It's not an
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 21: easy ask coming from training, not with a club, to
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 21: coming in and trying to play high-level football, but given
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 21: the opportunities, definitely made the most of it, and we'll
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 21: see where it goes.
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  Speaker 2: What does he show?
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  Speaker 21: I think I think it's a similar answer that I
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 21: gave earlier in camp. It's, it's not, it's a, it's
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 21: not an easy position to just come in and play
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 21: to the level of our, of our vets. So we
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 21: just understand that he's on a different, different path, you know,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 21: just keep attacking the things. It's not because we're, or
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 21: we are where we are right now with, you know,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 21: everyone sees that the, you know, everyone sees that it's
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 21: transaction days in a few days. That's, it's not whatever,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 21: however we decide to, to operate. That's not the end-all,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 21: be-all with him. He's got to stay on track. Keep
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 21: taking your game to the low. Keep stacking wins. Stay
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 21: to the process. Trust it. We'll see where his career
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 21: can go, but he can definitely play in this league
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 21: for sure.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Related to that, the effort play that Peely made in
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: the red zone the other night to draw the holding play,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: what does Peely do?
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  Speaker 21: Peely's done a great job. He's a I mean, it's
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 21: been a journey with him since he's gotten here, but
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 21: he's really applied himself, and I think he's taken his
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 21: game to the level. It's one of those things where
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 21: we take a lot of pride in our players playing
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 21: their best football when they're with us, and I think
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 21: he's definitely an example of that. He's shown when you
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 21: stick to the process and you trust it and you
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 21: have an honest way about going about your work, you
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 21: can really excel, and that's what he's doing right now.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: What have you thought of the preseason of Bo's.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 21: Defense? Yeah, Bo's coming along great. He's really applying a
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 21: lot of competition to his room, really excited about where
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 21: he is and his trajectory. He's got a great career
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 21: ahead of him. I really believe that. Just plays of
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 21: chasing the ball and finishing plays. You can tell he's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 21: got the right mentality, so he's going to be a
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 21: good player.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: Coach, it was last week, but we saw it on
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks. You referenced your mentor, O.J. Progrance.
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  Speaker 18: When you were breaking down the team, you were saying,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 18: we owe it to him.
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  Speaker 2: To be ourselves.
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  Speaker 15: What way did your mentor shape the way that you
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 15: have that as your value system?
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  Speaker 21: Actually, Daniel Stern put together a video for the team.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 21: Hard Knocks did a great job editing it, but there
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 21: was a video we showed to the team I just
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 21: painted a great picture about who OJ was and what
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 21: he meant to not only the Ravens, but really everybody
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 21: that he came in contact with. I think OJ had
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 21: such a great perspective on life and such a great
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 21: spirit about him. There was a strength behind everything that
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 21: he did. I got kind of like a fierce love
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 21: behind just how he lived his life. He didn't have
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 21: to pour into everybody that he did. He had a
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 21: lot of stuff going on, but the way that he
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 21: did and invested in all those people's lives, I mean,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 21: I think that speaks volumes about who he is and
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 21: where his priorities lied, and I think he set a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 21: great example for everybody. I'm actually really happy that they
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 21: included that scene in the show because I think his message,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 21: his legacy is able to reach as many people as possible,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 21: which is really powerful and we'll all be better for it.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else? Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: There you have it. Mike McDonald, live from VMAC. We
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: do appreciate you listening.
• 1:19:12
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• 1:19:14
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