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Chuck & Buck 3-2 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, the PJ party comes to an end and are you ready for the madness? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 7: I've been thinking about it for two days. Should I
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Speaker 7: get breakfast sandwiches on Monday?
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Speaker 3: Binge?
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Speaker 4: Watch two and a half seasons of Succession and I
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Speaker 4: can't go more than three minutes without thinking about Brian
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Speaker 4: Cox eating a big mac. All right, well, good morning
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Speaker 4: to you. We roll into our second hour here on
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Speaker 4: this Monday. Bucki's back, Ashley's here. My name is Chuck Palell.
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Speaker 4: It's time for your headlines, brought to you by Frost
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Speaker 4: brewed Cores, light shoes, chill. NFL Combine came to a
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Speaker 4: close over the weekend. I don't know anymore we're gonna
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Speaker 4: get of them. I really don't. Really feels like the
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Speaker 4: NFL's thinking about different ways of evaluating talent, that this
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Speaker 4: may be just unnecessary at this point. But nonetheless, certainly
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Speaker 4: it was an event and certainly the NFL network went
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Speaker 4: all out to cover it. We'll talk a little bit
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Speaker 4: about it coming up on the show. And it is
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Speaker 4: the start you start thinking about draftness. At this point
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Speaker 4: you probably did have to start making arrangements, you know,
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Speaker 4: get family into town for Draftmas and things of that nature.
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Speaker 3: We got to do that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you need that alarm bell to go off,
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Speaker 4: and that's what the NFL Combine is for. NFL Free
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Speaker 4: agency is going to begin next Wednesday. Of course, the
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Speaker 4: tampering period is what it's all about. That starts on Monday,
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Speaker 4: So two full days of tampering, that's right. The NFL
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Speaker 4: will be on its period between Monday and Tuesday, and
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Speaker 4: then they're going to get their tampon from that point forward.
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Speaker 4: College basketball, final week of the regular season Selection Sunday
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Speaker 4: is coming up in thirteen days. The madness is here.
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Speaker 4: We are in the month of March after all, and
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Speaker 4: the Kraken. As we mentioned with the highlight from Everett,
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Speaker 4: they did get a win they needed it over the
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Speaker 4: Vancouver Canucks on Saturday, five to one. So after losing
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Speaker 4: their first two games of the resumption to the season
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Speaker 4: following the Olympic break, they do get a win and
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Speaker 4: hopefully that puts them on the right. Of course, there'll
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Speaker 4: be an action tonight at home against the Carolina Hurricanes
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Speaker 4: at seven o'clock. Sounders are one and one on the
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Speaker 4: young season. They lost their first match of the year
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Speaker 4: to Real Salt Lake on Saturday, so too won the
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Speaker 4: final there and Mariners spring training. The players participating in
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Speaker 4: the WBC have left for the WBC. The tournament will
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Speaker 4: begin in part on Wednesday. I don't believe the US
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Speaker 4: plays until Friday against Brazil, but there will be games
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Speaker 4: starting tomorrow where it'll be the I think the US
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Speaker 4: stakes on the Giants. Yeah, and then on Wednesday they
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Speaker 4: take on the Rockies. The poor Rockies. They have to
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Speaker 4: face Team USA and so yes, they'll start playing some
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Speaker 4: like exhibition games for the exhibition tournament.
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Speaker 7: Like we don't need to add extras, extra things storry about.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, just play the games.
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Speaker 4: The count but the actual WBC games they do start
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Speaker 4: in a small form on Wednesday. All right, let's talk
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Speaker 4: some football with Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider.
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Speaker 2: With the Bell tolls.
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Speaker 3: Now with twelfth Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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Speaker 3: and Bud Well. Are you home yet, adventurer? Are you
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Speaker 3: still out on the road?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am home. Time to mention that we live
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Speaker 2: a long way from everywhere.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we brought that up in the past maybe once.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Back from Detroit Saturday night?
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, Bucky said that the best thing about getting
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Speaker 4: home was being back in his bed.
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Speaker 3: Was it nice to be back in your bed?
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Speaker 2: Greg? Yeah, I think I feel like I've slept in
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Speaker 2: my own bed for like three nights a whole month
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Speaker 2: of February. So yes, it's good to be a little thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you guys do that's right.
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Speaker 4: Well, we get ready for free agency that will start
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Speaker 4: on Monday, the tampering period will begin, and obviously the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks have a few guys that could be made vulnerable.
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Speaker 4: Do you have an idea as to whether or not
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Speaker 4: any deal is close or if John can hammer out
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Speaker 4: any deals with these six big free agents before Monday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're going to go for six.
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Speaker 2: I get the sense that Rashishihid maybe the first to resign.
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Speaker 2: As I told you, and I've gone back and forth
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Speaker 2: with about Kenneth Walker. The closer axcuming he gets to
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Speaker 2: the March ninth date when he can start negotiating with
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Speaker 2: other teams, the more likely he's going to leave. And
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Speaker 2: when the Super Bowl MVP running back twenty five years
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Speaker 2: old goes on the open market, it's a little bit
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Speaker 2: like the say kuon Barkley. He won't command as much
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Speaker 2: money or contract that Barkley did, but the attention in
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Speaker 2: the they'll be suitors. Put it that way, and suitors
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Speaker 2: will drive up the price, probably beyond what the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: have been slotted to pay the whole time. And we
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Speaker 2: mentioned how Charbonnet's injury has changed that and certainly Walker's
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Speaker 2: breakout during the playoffs changed his value to skyrocketing, and
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Speaker 2: that has seemed to maybe go out of control of
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Speaker 2: what the Seahawks want to pay. Fans see that they've
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Speaker 2: got we all see Munson just pick fans, but we
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Speaker 2: all see that they have sixty plus million dollars in
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Speaker 2: salary cap space. The NFL set the salary cap at
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Speaker 2: a three hundred and one million, and we see sixty million.
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Speaker 2: We say, okay, they should be able to for Walker
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Speaker 2: and Woolen and Bryant and see Heed and all of them.
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Speaker 2: Let's not forget that Jackson Smith and jig Ben Devin
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Speaker 2: Witherspoon are going to get paid, and they're going to
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Speaker 2: get paid this summer. I wrote it in the News
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Speaker 2: Tribune yesterday. When I asked John Schneider about that, we
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Speaker 2: included in the came Back your Own free Agents conversation
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Speaker 2: off the podium at the Combine. We also ask him
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Speaker 2: about Smith and Jigba and Whetherspoon. He said, yeah, we've
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Speaker 2: been planning for this, meaning they're gonna get paid in
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Speaker 2: the usual order of the Seahawks paying their foundation players
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Speaker 2: going into their final year of their contracts, which Smith
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Speaker 2: and Jigba and Willispon so far, so there's a nice
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Speaker 2: chunk of that Cassalari cap space they're going to go
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Speaker 2: to re signing and extending those two guys. Now, they'll
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Speaker 2: restructured the way they always do, with better cap numbers
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Speaker 2: early and very little guaranteed money later and all of that.
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Speaker 2: But still it's not like, let's just take sixty million
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Speaker 2: every signed six guys.
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Speaker 3: No, obviously it's not that easy.
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Speaker 1: But there's the math the way in which they do it,
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Speaker 1: and they we'll make more signing bonus because then that
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Speaker 1: kicks back this and the cap hit and all that
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: They figure out ways to do it. I just don't
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Speaker 3: know for sure.
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Speaker 1: I mean, to me, the straw that breaks the Camels
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Speaker 1: back on whether or not they go with ken Walker
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Speaker 1: or not. I understand how other teams are going to
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Speaker 1: get involved if they allow it to get to that
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Speaker 1: tampering period and then he's going to take whatever whoever
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Speaker 1: gives him the most money. But the idea to me is,
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Speaker 1: you know, I would just they don't have anything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not like Zach Charbony is healthy and you're like, well,
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Speaker 1: we like the way that he ran so you don't
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Speaker 1: really have a backup plan at this point in time, Soul,
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Speaker 1: do you think there's even our possibility that they would
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Speaker 1: maybe try to slap the franchise tag on him. I
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Speaker 1: know that's not one where you get to spread out
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Speaker 1: over years and whatnot that, but it's a one year
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Speaker 1: gig and maybe that gives you more time to work
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Speaker 1: out some sort of long term deal.
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Speaker 2: Sure that's possible, but that takes up almost a fourth
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Speaker 2: of your cat space. That's fourteen point five million right
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Speaker 2: off the top this franchise tag number for a running
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Speaker 2: back for twenty twenty six. And if they wanted to
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Speaker 2: spend that on Walker, they would sign him to a
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Speaker 2: three year deal. It would have far better cap numbers
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Speaker 2: for this year than fourteen and a half million. You'd
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Speaker 2: spread the signing bonus across and maybe it's six or
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Speaker 2: seven or eight million against the cap. This year, they're
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Speaker 2: going to restructure some deals. They will restructure probably Hunter
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Speaker 2: Williams and maybe de Marcus Lawrence and create more upfront
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Speaker 2: cash for them and a better cap number this year
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Speaker 2: and kick a can down the road a year or two.
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Speaker 2: There are options to go lower across the rosters of
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Speaker 2: existing contracts through next year and the year after that.
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Speaker 2: They can do that with to create more space, and
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Speaker 2: they are right. The NFL teams they hire guys who
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Speaker 2: are experts in this. Mike mccon, Josh Snyder has a
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Speaker 2: couple in his house that he counts on to do
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Speaker 2: the math and get the numbers to work if they
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Speaker 2: want guys to do it. The running back situation, I
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Speaker 2: hear you, and believe me, it would be odd to
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Speaker 2: say the least that the Super Bowl MVP walks out
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Speaker 2: the door. Well, the air apparent number one A, the
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Speaker 2: job share guy may not be on the field till
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Speaker 2: October November if then. But they've been down this road before.
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Speaker 2: I mean Chris Carson abruptly retired and they didn't have
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Speaker 2: an air They go sign, they go draft Walker, who
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Speaker 2: nobody knew what would be like in the NFL after
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Speaker 2: having played at Wake Forest in Michigan State. They gave
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Speaker 2: Thomas Rawls head job one time as an undrafted rookie
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Speaker 2: a few years ago when Marshawn Lynch retired. Who was
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Speaker 2: going to be the next guy? The NFL answered John Schneider.
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Speaker 2: Trend is to get younger and cheaper at running back.
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Speaker 2: Because of how injured the position is and how all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden the guy's career could be over. And
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Speaker 2: the calculus they tend to do that Seahawks and the
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Speaker 2: NFL included is rather than over spend on a running
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Speaker 2: back for two or three year deal with guaranteed money
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Speaker 2: and he may get hurt, Todd Gurley, go drafts and
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Speaker 2: have a rookie contract and start over. That has been
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Speaker 2: the norm. Now the catch to it this year is
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Speaker 2: the Seahorks only have four draft picks. And part of
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Speaker 2: what was really interesting that Schneider said that didn't get
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Speaker 2: a lot of attention in Indianapolis is when I asked
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Speaker 2: him how you viewed this draft with having only four picks,
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Speaker 2: and he said, this is by design. We knew a
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Speaker 2: couple of years ago that this was not going to
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Speaker 2: be a good draft. We thought twenty five was going
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Speaker 2: to be better than twenty six, and twenty seven is
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Speaker 2: way better than twenty six. So that's part of the
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Speaker 2: reason you saw us do the moves we did, he said,
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Speaker 2: meaning trading two third day picks to get Rashid Shi
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Speaker 2: heat in November. So going to go get a running
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Speaker 2: back in this draft when you're picking at the bottom
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Speaker 2: of each of the first three rounds and you only
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Speaker 2: have four picks. There's a little TRICKI your proposition that
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Speaker 2: all plays into what they do with Walker, and I
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Speaker 2: think it probably raises the price that they're going to
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Speaker 2: offer him then what they would It won't be as
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Speaker 2: hard a ligne they're towing. I don't think with Walker
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Speaker 2: than it would be normally because of those factors. But again,
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Speaker 2: if it gets to next week, he's if he's shopping,
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Speaker 2: I think he's gone. At his age and the position
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Speaker 2: he's in known, he's got to go get all the
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Speaker 2: money he can before he's not able to play anymore.
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Speaker 4: Greg Bell is with us our Sauksa inside your complete
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Speaker 4: coverage of the Seahawks, available to you twenty four to
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Speaker 4: seven there at the News Tribune dot Com from Greg,
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Speaker 4: and of course you can follow him throughout the year
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Speaker 4: at g Bell Seattle on X. He's been adventuring, he's
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Speaker 4: been in Boston, he's been in Indianapolis, he's been in Michigan,
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Speaker 4: and now he's back home, safely in bed, eating his
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Speaker 4: oat meal, no doubt, and kissing Wendy good morning. It's
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Speaker 4: chucking buck right now here, though, that's his left right now,
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Speaker 4: it's a kissing.
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Speaker 2: By him, yeah, book right now though.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yea, yeah, pretty much just kissing Bucky and I
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Speaker 4: right now, You're welcome here on the morning. Yeah, on
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Speaker 4: the forehead, on the forehead, Greg.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Let's let's not get too thrill, all right, So let's
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Speaker 4: dive further into this Walker because if you're not gonna play,
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Speaker 4: if he does leave, and Bucky's right, there's no Plan
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Speaker 4: B in house right now at the starting running back position.
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Speaker 4: But you do have three avenues. You can play free agency,
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Speaker 4: you could draft, and you could trade. Is that something
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Speaker 4: since they're a little bit down on this draft class
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Speaker 4: to begin with, even with only four picks, do you
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Speaker 4: flip a draft pick to get like a David Montgomery
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Speaker 4: of the Lions who apparently is available and you could
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Speaker 4: probably get him for a fourth, fifth or sixth round pick.
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Speaker 2: Well, those conflicting reports out of Detroit that I just left,
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Speaker 2: whether he David Montgomery really wants to leave, but yes,
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Speaker 2: they all of those things are in play. I could
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Speaker 2: see them signing and drafting and running back. Yeah, certainly,
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Speaker 2: And well yes, and if the right trade proposal came
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Speaker 2: around the thing about being thirty two in the first round.
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Speaker 2: Is if a team that had an earlier first round pick,
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Speaker 2: usually a bad team, but doesn't have multiple first round picks,
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Speaker 2: they want to go reach and get somebody they think
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Speaker 2: won't be around when they're picking again in the second round.
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Speaker 2: That's a great spot at thirty two to trade down,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's what John Schneider eventually will do
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Speaker 2: because he, as we've talked about, he never has thirty
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Speaker 2: two on their board for the first round worthy draft picks. Never,
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Speaker 2: not in my entire time covering the seorks that began
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, have they had thirty two
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Speaker 2: first round worthy players on the draft board. So it
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Speaker 2: would be make a lot of sense for them to
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Speaker 2: trade down. And whether that trade down would involve a
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Speaker 2: running back could be But I think all of those
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Speaker 2: things are in play even if perhaps they signed Kinnith Walker,
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Speaker 2: but especially if they don't. It's it is really if
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Speaker 2: you just said, well, he's a Super Bowl MVP and
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Speaker 2: he's twenty five, why can't you resign him? It's so
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Speaker 2: much more difficult than that because of the injury history
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Speaker 2: not only with him but in the position. And John
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Speaker 2: Schneider has been very very responsible, sticking to his plan.
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Speaker 2: He rarely goes and reaches because of a need, whether
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Speaker 2: it's draft or free agency. I mean, I think of
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Speaker 2: Draymond Jones as one of the only reaches when they
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Speaker 2: really need EDG. Rusher a couple years ago, and they
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Speaker 2: went for fifty one million right out of the gate
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Speaker 2: of free agency, which he never does, and Draymond Jones
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Speaker 2: did nothing, I mean absolutely nothing for them, and a
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Speaker 2: year and a half later he was gone. And that
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Speaker 2: and some draft misses have really reminded Snyder, stick to
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Speaker 2: your plan. Stick to your plan. What were you going
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Speaker 2: to give him in the beginning when you first charted
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Speaker 2: out what Kenneth Walker would be worth you beyond twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six? Stick to that plan, yes, Charbon and got
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Speaker 2: her to stick to the plant. Yes, you only afford
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Speaker 2: to stick to the plant. It's really a discipline that
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Speaker 2: he tries to adhere himself too. And I could see
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Speaker 2: him doing it again this time. How much of those
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Speaker 2: extenuating circumstances about Sharbon and nowhere apparent and all that
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Speaker 2: would raise the price. That's the question that to me
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Speaker 2: will decide whether Walker stays or not. If he's strict
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Speaker 2: to his what they have charted him to be worth
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Speaker 2: and what they were going to offer from before during
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Speaker 2: the season, he's gone if they do change that number
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Speaker 2: because of their situation there and there's a chancell stick.
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Speaker 3: Gee, I mean, just gut feel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when you win the Super Bowl, you don't
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Speaker 1: have a ton of holes to fill, even with some
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Speaker 1: exodus and a couple of guys going here and there.
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Speaker 1: But what would you say as far as what's going
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Speaker 1: to be on what are your antenna's going to be
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Speaker 1: up looking for, whether it's a free agency draft, What
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Speaker 1: is it that you think the Seahawks are going to
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Speaker 1: be most wanting to get done this offseason?
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Speaker 2: Depths on the offensive and defensive lines. They never can
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Speaker 2: have enough defensive tackles and perhaps edge rusher running back
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Speaker 2: for what we just described, and defensive backs because they're
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Speaker 2: not bringing back all of them Woolen, Job and Bryant
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Speaker 2: and they're not all coming back, so depending on how
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Speaker 2: who leaves and when next week, defensive backs probably corners.
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Speaker 2: Josh Job is interesting to me because I think the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks can have him for a price that again, if
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Speaker 2: he goes to the open market, will be much higher.
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Speaker 2: But I think he would return and sign for the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks that gave him his shot. I mean, the Eagles
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Speaker 2: just let him twist in the win and cut him
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Speaker 2: at the end of training camp a couple years ago,
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Speaker 2: and he comes to Seattle and the Seahawks gave him
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Speaker 2: a starting job at the first full time starting job
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Speaker 2: in the NFL. That stuff matters to players. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 2: about the money in the end. But if you make
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Speaker 2: a reasonable offer to Josh Job, he's going to come back.
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Speaker 2: Wooland's a different deal for what we've talked about before
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Speaker 2: because of his freak, his physical skills and his speed
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Speaker 2: and the Pro Bowl pedigree and how much he's played
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Speaker 2: in his four years. If he goes to marketeet gone.
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Speaker 2: Because he's gonna comeand a ton of money. That's way
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Speaker 2: more than what the Seahawks and might McDonald's plan for him,
18:39
Speaker 2: as they're not going to bring everybody back. They never do.
18:44
Speaker 2: They always say they want to, but just the NFL
18:46
Speaker 2: won't let him. So we'll know more this time next week,
18:50
Speaker 2: well than nine days from now, what their holes are
18:54
Speaker 2: because they're going to have a couple to come out
18:56
Speaker 2: of free agency.
18:56
Speaker 4: All right, last thing for you, I keep hearing that
18:59
Speaker 4: this is a bad draft, and yet almost every position
19:03
Speaker 4: group set a record for fastest forty times. And so
19:09
Speaker 4: I'm watching a six foot four inch two hundred or
19:11
Speaker 4: six foot five inch tow hundred forty five pounds linebacker
19:14
Speaker 4: run a four four seven. I would, I would just
19:18
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask you the question I asked Bucky last hour.
19:21
Speaker 3: Are they just getting too big and fast? At this point?
19:23
Speaker 4: I realize if they're all evolving at the same rate,
19:27
Speaker 4: But you're always talking about the collisions, the car crashes
19:30
Speaker 4: that take place every Sunday in the National Football League,
19:33
Speaker 4: they just keep getting bigger and faster, Greg, I mean,
19:37
Speaker 4: is there an end to this?
19:40
Speaker 8: No?
19:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, nutrition and weight training and pharmaceuticals. No. But I
19:46
Speaker 2: will say this, the combine has become you only run
19:50
Speaker 2: if you're fast, and if you run, you're fast. The
19:53
Speaker 2: guys that aren't fast don't run, that's true. The guys
19:56
Speaker 2: that don't do the three cone drills don't they don't
19:59
Speaker 2: do it. You're only showcasing the best of the best there.
20:02
Speaker 2: It's become an all star game. The combine is the
20:06
Speaker 2: pro days have become the combine. The combine might be
20:09
Speaker 2: going away because of how guys are just begging out.
20:13
Speaker 2: And there was a dude that ran the sub for
20:15
Speaker 2: three the other day and just say, okay, I'm done
20:16
Speaker 2: for the rest of the week. I'm not doing any
20:17
Speaker 2: more drills. I did a four to two sixth I'm good.
20:21
Speaker 2: The only the guys who run are the fast guys
20:23
Speaker 2: they used to be. Everyone ran. Yeah, and so the
20:25
Speaker 2: times are all over the map. And then you see
20:27
Speaker 2: in these stats of this is the fastest average forty
20:30
Speaker 2: times for these positions. Well, yeah, if only fast guys run,
20:33
Speaker 2: the average time is going to be the fastest they've
20:35
Speaker 2: ever been. Good point, the selectivity of the guys doing
20:40
Speaker 2: drills has really changed. Unless then that's agents getting involved,
20:44
Speaker 2: and that's pro days being outside compared to what they
20:46
Speaker 2: used to be. I mean, the pro days start today.
20:49
Speaker 2: The Seahawks are sending guys across the country starting today
20:52
Speaker 2: for their pro days. Schnyder left the combine before I did.
20:56
Speaker 2: He went back and did and watched the drills on video.
21:00
Speaker 2: So that'll give you an indication of what the Seahawks
21:03
Speaker 2: think of the combine right now. A couple of years ago,
21:06
Speaker 2: McDonald's staff didn't even come yet, didn't go to the
21:08
Speaker 2: Indianapolis at all because they were too busy doing their
21:11
Speaker 2: own stuff. The Jaguars and the Rams didn't send their
21:14
Speaker 2: coaches this year. I think the combine's on its way
21:17
Speaker 2: out because of how just it's not worth what. It's
21:21
Speaker 2: not at all what it was originally designed to be.
21:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right. I actually think you're right
21:25
Speaker 4: on that one. So all right, Greg, Well, you're right
21:28
Speaker 4: a lot.
21:28
Speaker 3: I don't mean just one.
21:29
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say one out of a year
21:31
Speaker 2: that good.
21:32
Speaker 3: No, it's just a good beat.
21:34
Speaker 2: Bad guy would fuck you? Would Is that like ninety four?
21:36
Speaker 3: Maybe forty? Not good?
21:39
Speaker 2: No?
21:40
Speaker 3: I think you want to be better than that. You
21:42
Speaker 3: have been better than that. He agrees.
21:44
Speaker 4: My point was like, as somebody that's supposed to be
21:47
Speaker 4: promoting the draft, I'm probably not somebody that should say
21:50
Speaker 4: the NFL Combine's dead, but I think I will have
21:54
Speaker 4: to agree with.
21:55
Speaker 3: You on this one.
21:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:56
Speaker 3: All right, Well we'll talk to you tomorrow. Maybe you'll
21:59
Speaker 3: get one right.
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Speaker 4: You know, if there's not going to be an NFL
22:37
Speaker 4: combine in the future, if it really is going the
22:40
Speaker 4: way of the Dodo Bird and the buggy Whip, maybe
22:43
Speaker 4: they could start a pajama party night. They can bring
22:47
Speaker 4: everybody out, all the gamblers, all the party goers, Timus
22:51
Speaker 4: and the forty, give us snacks and you know, have
22:55
Speaker 4: a good time.
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Speaker 3: We're in our pajamas out at the casino.
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Speaker 7: I like the idea of a Jamma party, but I'd
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Speaker 7: want it to be a real pajama party.
23:02
Speaker 4: I don't want to run, you don't.
23:03
Speaker 7: I want to wear like cute pajamas and have some
23:06
Speaker 7: drinks and win some money.
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Speaker 4: Maybe they just put stop watches on things like you know,
23:11
Speaker 4: drinking or eating wings.
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Speaker 5: How it takes you to hit the jackpot.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad idea.
23:19
Speaker 1: I think that we could probably team up with up
23:23
Speaker 1: and figure out some sort of combine, you know, for watchers,
23:26
Speaker 1: you know, for fans, a fan combine where we don't
23:30
Speaker 1: have to wear pajamas. I mean we could maybe just
23:33
Speaker 1: like comfy onesies or something.
23:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not like spandex.
23:37
Speaker 4: I'm not wearing a lace again, not after the last time.
23:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, after lace.
23:44
Speaker 5: Satin, like long sleep, you can forget.
23:47
Speaker 3: About a boostier. Those things are impossible.
23:49
Speaker 5: Well, I think you had a tiede wrong.
23:52
Speaker 4: Oh, I know there was a lot of chafing upside
23:55
Speaker 4: down yea.
23:59
Speaker 3: Up here.
24:02
Speaker 5: We didn't have the heart to tell you right.
24:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I must have looked silly all night long.
24:07
Speaker 3: I wish you would have.
24:08
Speaker 5: You did look really stupid.
24:09
Speaker 4: Well, anyway, we got great ideas to LALP. I don't
24:12
Speaker 4: know if you're gonna take advantage of any of them,
24:14
Speaker 4: but it seems like we come up with one awesome
24:15
Speaker 4: one a day. The pajama party probably is going to die.
24:19
Speaker 4: And as father Draftmas, I sort of get it. I mean,
24:22
Speaker 4: when the executives are leaving and they don't feel the
24:26
Speaker 4: need to be there anymore. And Greg's right, when certain
24:29
Speaker 4: players are only participating on the things they're going to
24:31
Speaker 4: flourish in, how are you going to get a true
24:35
Speaker 4: gauge as to where their weaknesses are if they're just
24:39
Speaker 4: going to accentuate their strengths. And I mean, it's I
24:43
Speaker 4: watched a lot of it over the weekend just so
24:46
Speaker 4: that I'm ready come.
24:49
Speaker 3: Draft month for us, come Draftmas time.
24:52
Speaker 4: But and as good a job the NFL network does,
24:55
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not the most scintillating event either, And
24:58
Speaker 4: so yeah, if we're if executives are starting to poke
25:03
Speaker 4: holes in it, I think it probably is just about
25:06
Speaker 4: on its last leg. And maybe there'll be another form
25:09
Speaker 4: of it in the future, maybe they'll figure out a
25:11
Speaker 4: way to do it better quicker.
25:13
Speaker 3: I don't know.
25:15
Speaker 4: I still feel like I can glean something from it,
25:19
Speaker 4: more from it than without it. I'll tell you that
25:21
Speaker 4: as just a fan and as a talk show host.
25:24
Speaker 4: But obviously NFL executives have a lot more access to
25:29
Speaker 4: a lot more evaluation and means than what we the
25:32
Speaker 4: fans and talk.
25:33
Speaker 3: Show hosts do.
25:34
Speaker 1: I think that there's useful information, right, it's a data point.
25:38
Speaker 1: I think there's something that you can get from it.
25:40
Speaker 1: That's why the executives are still there. But it's most
25:44
Speaker 1: certainly manipulated now by agents and players where they're not
25:47
Speaker 1: going to do if they don't feel great, you know,
25:50
Speaker 1: they're still recovering from something, you know, their elbow hurts
25:55
Speaker 1: from during the season, and then they aren't going to
25:57
Speaker 1: do the bench press. But if they're feeling good running
26:00
Speaker 1: and they like the turf there, then and they feel
26:02
Speaker 1: like they can go big. It was, uh, you know
26:05
Speaker 1: there's some of the guys would would run a forty
26:08
Speaker 1: and you're like, that's who did I don't know who.
26:11
Speaker 1: It was said, that's a one suit run. That meaning
26:16
Speaker 1: he's like, that's the ones that meaning after that run,
26:19
Speaker 1: he knows he's not going to be on the board
26:21
Speaker 1: the second day of the draft, Like that's it, that's
26:24
Speaker 1: one exactly, yes, And so it's to me, it's I
26:29
Speaker 1: think there's a benefit to it. I think there's a
26:31
Speaker 1: benefit from watching it, but yeah, it's one of those
26:34
Speaker 1: there's no part of me that could sit there and
26:36
Speaker 1: just it's not riveting. I don't think it's something that
26:40
Speaker 1: I think they wanted it to turn into something huge
26:42
Speaker 1: like the Draft, but I don't think that's going to happen.
26:45
Speaker 1: And yet they're going to have something to do with it, right,
26:47
Speaker 1: I mean, the Combine is not going to go away.
26:50
Speaker 3: The way in.
26:50
Speaker 1: Which the the way in which it's done, and the
26:53
Speaker 1: way in which they're trying to promote it and make
26:55
Speaker 1: it this must watch type of a thing on ESPN.
26:58
Speaker 3: I think that could be on its left.
27:00
Speaker 7: Just have the Mannings to take it over and turn
27:01
Speaker 7: it into the Combine games in the promo.
27:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to go away entirely, but I
27:08
Speaker 4: honestly I don't have any ideas for how to spruce
27:11
Speaker 4: it up. But I will say this in defense of it.
27:14
Speaker 4: I mean, and maybe this is just riders, and maybe
27:16
Speaker 4: this is just paid analysts.
27:21
Speaker 3: They sure were.
27:22
Speaker 4: Giving it credence over the weekend. And I'll give you
27:25
Speaker 4: a perfect example. Utaw Spencer Finot, who's All American tackle,
27:30
Speaker 4: and he came into the combine and they were already
27:34
Speaker 4: like wondering, all right, does he have the length to
27:36
Speaker 4: play tackle? And they get down with the combine, he
27:39
Speaker 4: gets his arms measured, and all of a sudden, people
27:43
Speaker 4: are saying he might be switching positions. And if you
27:46
Speaker 4: become a guard overnight when you were a tackle in college,
27:50
Speaker 4: you fall down the draft, you make less money. And
27:54
Speaker 4: so I don't know are we putting stock in it
27:56
Speaker 4: or not, because just a year ago, the same concerns
28:00
Speaker 4: were raised about Will Campbell, who got drafted fourth overall
28:04
Speaker 4: by the New England Patriots. The Patriots ignored the arm
28:07
Speaker 4: length concern, which people seem to think is that's just
28:11
Speaker 4: being silly to worry about it. If he can play football,
28:14
Speaker 4: he can play football. And yet by the time he
28:17
Speaker 4: got to the Super Bowl, Will Campbell was the biggest
28:19
Speaker 4: problem on the New England Patriots roster. I mean, he's
28:23
Speaker 4: one of the reasons that so many people said the
28:26
Speaker 4: Seahawks had their way with the pass rush and the
28:29
Speaker 4: Super Bowl is because Will Campbell couldn't stop anybody because
28:33
Speaker 4: of his short t Rex dinosaur like arms over even
28:37
Speaker 4: though they're only just a little bit shorter than what
28:39
Speaker 4: your average tackle is supposed to have in terms of
28:43
Speaker 4: arm length. So I mean, we are giving it some
28:47
Speaker 4: credence if we're already asking Spencer Fino before the combine's over,
28:51
Speaker 4: if he's willing to move to guard, Yeah, because his
28:54
Speaker 4: arms measured too short.
28:57
Speaker 1: I think that there's different executives give put more weight
29:02
Speaker 1: or gravity to different measurables, and then certain ones put
29:06
Speaker 1: just more of it onto strictly the tape.
29:09
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that you want to know the combine.
29:11
Speaker 1: You know, he always explains to us how they measure
29:14
Speaker 1: right six foot, this many inches and this many fractions
29:17
Speaker 1: of an inch, like you're never going to be measured
29:19
Speaker 1: more specifically or down to the you know, inth of
29:24
Speaker 1: as much as you are going to be there. So
29:26
Speaker 1: I think that that is something that they want to see, right,
29:30
Speaker 1: And then it's whether or not your Pete Carroll that
29:34
Speaker 1: you know, wants his defensive backs to have thirty two
29:36
Speaker 1: inch arms or longer whatever, or whether you put that
29:39
Speaker 1: much stock in that or not. You put some in it, right,
29:43
Speaker 1: everybody puts some in it. I mean, there's there's a
29:45
Speaker 1: prototypical left tackle that every single GM is like, that's
29:48
Speaker 1: the guy that I want.
29:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if he has.
29:50
Speaker 1: A little bit shorter arms, okay, well does the tape
29:53
Speaker 1: show me that he's not going to work or does
29:55
Speaker 1: the tape show me that it will? And certain gms
29:57
Speaker 1: are going to believe more in that certain guys are
30:00
Speaker 1: gonna say, you know, Nick emn worry what he the
30:03
Speaker 1: measurables are off the charts.
30:06
Speaker 3: I can't overlook that. I think maybe our.
30:09
Speaker 1: Head coach and GM might be the ones that that
30:11
Speaker 1: were in that category.
30:13
Speaker 3: Others are like, well, but I see some things that
30:15
Speaker 3: maybe he's gonna have to work on, you know.
30:17
Speaker 1: And and so I think that's the beauty of draft,
30:20
Speaker 1: miss I mean to me, is because it's not a
30:23
Speaker 1: proven science where you can just fight out and say, yeah,
30:27
Speaker 1: see what they did in the draft definitely gonna be
30:29
Speaker 1: the best football player at.
30:29
Speaker 3: The next level.
30:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just doesn't work like well, So I love that,
30:32
Speaker 4: I mean bringing up em and Worri, that's that's a
30:34
Speaker 4: great That's a great thing to discuss right here. Because
30:38
Speaker 4: there was a player I'm trying to find his name.
30:42
Speaker 4: It's one of the hyphen names, uh Spears Jennings, No.
30:46
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
30:47
Speaker 4: There was a player they were comparing and this is
30:50
Speaker 4: what you get from the combine is oh man, this
30:52
Speaker 4: went all the way back to last year. McNeil Warren
30:55
Speaker 4: I think is what his name is. So it might
30:57
Speaker 4: not be exactly it, but I'm in the ballpark. But
31:00
Speaker 4: McNeil Warren and they were comparing him to possibly Emon
31:03
Speaker 4: Warri and then he goes out and runs a four
31:05
Speaker 4: five forty. Well that didn'tywhere close to nick Emon Waori.
31:09
Speaker 4: But like on the tape, apparently people thought this could
31:13
Speaker 4: be the Emon Worry of the class. Well, he's not
31:16
Speaker 4: near the athlete, but we now know that because he's
31:18
Speaker 4: been measured against everybody else in his class. Dylan Tinaman
31:23
Speaker 4: from Oregon, who I always thought was a fantastic player
31:27
Speaker 4: for the Ducks. But I'm sitting here getting ready for
31:29
Speaker 4: the draft, and I suppose I got to admit why
31:34
Speaker 4: I'm guilty. He's white, so I'm wondering how fast is
31:38
Speaker 4: he really? Even though he seems to on tape play
31:42
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to be a weakness as speed turns out,
31:45
Speaker 4: he runs a four three five forty at six one
31:48
Speaker 4: two one and a forty one inch vertical. He's as
31:52
Speaker 4: good an athlete as there was there is in the class.
31:55
Speaker 4: And I think that if you were thinking Tinaman was
31:58
Speaker 4: is he a borderline first Well he's a first rounder
32:02
Speaker 4: now and it's because we found out over the weekend,
32:05
Speaker 4: and I'm sure, like John Schneider has other ways of
32:07
Speaker 4: finding this out.
32:08
Speaker 3: But we found out. I found out over the weekend.
32:11
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what I saw as a football player. Hey,
32:16
Speaker 4: we don't have to worry about his athleticism or lack
32:19
Speaker 4: thereof getting in the way. And I know that now
32:22
Speaker 4: because of the NFL combine. And I'll sit here and
32:24
Speaker 4: stand on the table and say, if you've got a safety,
32:27
Speaker 4: need get Dylan Tineman because that guy can play football.
32:29
Speaker 4: And it turns out he's very fast and very athletic.
32:32
Speaker 3: Right.
32:33
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think everybody saw what he did
32:36
Speaker 1: when he was at Purdue as a freshman, he had
32:38
Speaker 1: like six picks and then I've obviously catapulted him to
32:41
Speaker 1: the great power that is the Oregon Mighty Ducks. And
32:44
Speaker 1: you know I got through that without once. I had
32:46
Speaker 1: to do it choking on my I had to do this,
32:48
Speaker 1: and I had to do it because a second ago
32:50
Speaker 1: I said we when I was talking about something, and
32:53
Speaker 1: I was like, what am I doing? That's not a
32:55
Speaker 1: we comment? And yet so I mean, but we comment. Sure,
33:00
Speaker 1: I'll go with that. But I mean I think everybody
33:03
Speaker 1: like sees him play, has seen him play the last
33:06
Speaker 1: couple years and said, like on tape, like football speed
33:09
Speaker 1: covering ground, getting to where he needs to be.
33:12
Speaker 3: Was not an issue.
33:14
Speaker 1: But you still didn't know necessarily what hiss just flat
33:17
Speaker 1: out you know, zero to sixty or zero to forty,
33:20
Speaker 1: I guess speed is going to be.
33:21
Speaker 3: Well, now you do.
33:22
Speaker 4: Now you know it's a safety with wide receiver speed
33:26
Speaker 4: and knows how to play the position.
33:28
Speaker 3: Like yes, pretty much nobody else in the draft, right.
33:30
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about a guy that's over two
33:32
Speaker 1: hundred pounds usually, I mean, think about the big deal
33:34
Speaker 1: that we made about DK Metcalf. He's faster. I mean,
33:37
Speaker 1: that guy's faster and he's bigger. So he's the freak
33:40
Speaker 1: of the freak. But you're you're moving in that direction
33:43
Speaker 1: usually if you're running somewhere four three forty, you're not.
33:47
Speaker 1: You're not somebody that's over two hundred pounds.
33:49
Speaker 4: Now, and I'll give you one last example, just quickly
33:52
Speaker 4: on the on the interview side, which is another thing
33:54
Speaker 4: that they apparently pay attention to, maybe not so much
33:57
Speaker 4: the forty times. Maybe they've already they've got enough their way,
34:00
Speaker 4: a better way to figure that out.
34:02
Speaker 3: We don't need the forty.
34:03
Speaker 4: Times and the drills and all of that stuff that
34:05
Speaker 4: happened in the workouts, but almost everybody acknowledges the medicals
34:09
Speaker 4: and then the interviews, and apparently McKay lemon of USC,
34:13
Speaker 4: according to one reporter, the worst interviews in the history
34:18
Speaker 4: of the NFL draft combine. Wow, that he was so
34:22
Speaker 4: rude and dismissive and entitled, like he put Shador Sanders
34:29
Speaker 4: to shame. Oh the worst by far. The worst was
34:35
Speaker 4: the quote from somebody inside the event. And so does
34:41
Speaker 4: that affect McKay lemon. He's supposed to be a first
34:43
Speaker 4: round pick. They're complaint comparing him to i'm on ross
34:46
Speaker 4: Saint Brown. I'd love to have I'm on ross Aint
34:48
Speaker 4: Brown on my team.
34:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:50
Speaker 4: And so if he's that, then that's a that's a
34:52
Speaker 4: mid maybe even high first round pick in McKay lemon.
34:56
Speaker 4: And and yet he bombed the interview so badly people
35:01
Speaker 4: thought he was doing it intentionally. Wow, to whatever extent,
35:06
Speaker 4: I have no idea, because I don't think he's a
35:10
Speaker 4: It's not an intelligence issue. It was people felt that
35:14
Speaker 4: he was actually trying to be a jerk.
35:18
Speaker 3: Wow, that was his motivation.
35:20
Speaker 5: That's choice.
35:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're getting that advice from somebody, I would
35:24
Speaker 1: change counsel.
35:25
Speaker 3: Uh, that is bad advice. You don't want to be
35:28
Speaker 3: telling people that you see what just happened last year
35:32
Speaker 3: in the draft? Did you not were you not watching Holly?
35:35
Speaker 1: It's not that I mean, how would you ever listen
35:38
Speaker 1: to Why would you ever give somebody that advice?
35:40
Speaker 3: And how the hell would you ever listen to it?
35:45
Speaker 4: Coming up next? Are you ready for things that are
35:49
Speaker 4: back to normal?
35:50
Speaker 8: Now?
35:50
Speaker 3: Yeah?
35:50
Speaker 1: Did you guys miss me? I didn't get that from
35:52
Speaker 1: you in the first one episode. No, no, not necessarily.
35:57
Speaker 3: I just didn't.
35:57
Speaker 1: I didn't get a we didn't miss you or we
36:00
Speaker 1: did miss you. I just want to clarify, So you
36:02
Speaker 1: did not miss me.
36:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're pretty direct about it.
36:07
Speaker 7: We didn't we miss you, and we didn't not miss you.
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Speaker 4: We didn't celebrate that you weren't here.
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Speaker 5: We did a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I mean we had two parties. Oh yeah, big deal.
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Speaker 4: That's a lot.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, big deal. I was gone for a week. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: five days.
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Speaker 5: We should have had right, you were gone for a week.
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Speaker 5: We should have had more parties.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the only partied forty percent of the days I
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Speaker 1: was gone. Yeah, lingering effects from each party to.
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Speaker 7: Led it into the next campaign, to celebrate you, not
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Speaker 7: being Yeah, didn't and it wasn't just us, the whole
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Speaker 7: sales staff.
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Speaker 5: They brought it in for us.
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Speaker 3: Really yeah.
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Speaker 1: I did get an email I think or a text
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Speaker 1: message about food was served, lunch and joy.
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Speaker 3: That was for me being gone. Yeah cool, yeah.
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Speaker 4: We know that.
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Speaker 7: We they were, you know, happy that we've gone a
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Speaker 7: week without you.
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Speaker 3: Good to know, good to know. Anyway, welcome back. I
36:59
Speaker 3: brought that up anyway, welcome back.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're sid you're here.
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Speaker 3: You're here.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's better, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll just leave
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Speaker 1: it at that.
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Speaker 3: Not glad you're here.
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Speaker 4: Here you are yeah, Hey you're here. You you're here,
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Speaker 4: You're not not here?
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Speaker 7: Hey, welcome Guess you have returned, and that is something.
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Speaker 4: It is something, right, yeah, something great? All right, you
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Speaker 4: know what, Elsie, you've returned. I mean here we are
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Speaker 4: in the magical month of March. Now, I would argue,
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Speaker 4: probably till my dying breath, that the best month of
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Speaker 4: the entire calendar you're FIRS sports fan, is the month
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Speaker 4: of October.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: But second place, the silver medal either goes to this
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Speaker 4: month or April. And I want you to decide for me,
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Speaker 4: all right, So March here you got here's your menu
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Speaker 4: in March, March madness, MLB Opening Day, which Riz is
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Speaker 4: still trying to get.
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Speaker 3: Past as a national holiday. Good on your.
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Speaker 4: NFL free agency slash tampering period, spring training, and then
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Speaker 4: this year WBC pretty good, it's pretty good menu of events.
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Speaker 4: NHL season going on, you got NBA season going on
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Speaker 4: right now. Not a bad schedule of events right there. Okay,
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Speaker 4: But compare it to April, where you have Masters Final Four,
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Speaker 4: which is a different experience than March. I consider March
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Speaker 4: madness when it's game after game after game for.
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Speaker 5: Four straight, get to watch TV.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and the bracket, but Final Four is almost
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Speaker 4: like a separate event. I mean, that's just the four
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Speaker 4: best teams we're getting ready to side a national champion
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Speaker 4: and a span of three days, and all of that
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Speaker 4: happens in April, the whole thing. MLB seasons now in
38:54
Speaker 4: full swing, so it's not Opening Day, but we're in
38:58
Speaker 4: that mode of watching Baseball Day and draftness.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to, you know, lead the witness, but
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Speaker 4: come on. As good as March is, and it's the best,
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Speaker 4: it's the third best, it's not as good.
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Speaker 5: You also get NHL and NBA playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that starts until May.
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Speaker 7: Isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Oh NHL, I think their season wraps up mid April.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, I was gonna go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I mean I was pretty much leaning as we were
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Speaker 1: doing this little drill. I was leaning towards April, and
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Speaker 1: then you threw in like the draftmas thing, and I'm like, oh, man,
39:38
Speaker 1: see that's I don't know for sure if that's a positive.
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Speaker 3: For me all the time, it's a much.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm still gonna go April. I'm still gonna
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Speaker 1: go April. I think Final four, I think I do.
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Speaker 1: I used to like the March Madness part of March
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Speaker 1: Madness more than the Final Four, I really did.
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Speaker 4: I think I still probably do, just because it's more fun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I like it every once in a while, like
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Speaker 1: I like when the craziness happens. But it's really, if
40:08
Speaker 1: you think about it, it's more chalky. I mean it
40:11
Speaker 1: just and rightfully, so it's more often than not there's
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Speaker 1: not an upset, and so it's just a butt whooping
40:17
Speaker 1: after butt whooping. And yet so really when it comes
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Speaker 1: out in the wash, I like seeing the better teams.
40:23
Speaker 1: I like the baseball season once it gets underway. I
40:26
Speaker 1: love opening days still, but I do like when it's
40:28
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, you're into this thing. You're
40:30
Speaker 1: starting to see who's who. Yeah, you know, you're starting
40:33
Speaker 1: to see what's really what people the work that they
40:36
Speaker 1: did in the off season, You're starting to see it
40:38
Speaker 1: come pay off. You're fifty seventy at bats into a season.
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Speaker 1: I start to like that. And then draft MEAs I
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Speaker 1: do like a little twinge of draftmas to top that off.
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Speaker 4: And when you say a little twins, you mean the
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Speaker 4: whole month, four segments a day for the every day,
40:53
Speaker 4: for the entire film.
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Speaker 3: That's more than a like a little to me, that's
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Speaker 3: maybe like a lot.
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Speaker 5: The right amount.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: This is why we party when you're not here.
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Speaker 3: Stuff like this. Yeah, I do have an amendment.
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Speaker 7: NBA and NHL playoffs start April eighteenth, Al wins, Okay,
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Speaker 7: April wins.
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Speaker 3: You're right about that, all right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I don't think there's any question it
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Speaker 4: might actually be better than October as great as October. Great,
41:23
Speaker 4: right now, I.
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Speaker 7: Might agree with you because also you've got the promise
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Speaker 7: of spring, you get like just lovely sixty five degree
41:31
Speaker 7: sunny days.
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Speaker 3: I don't need that. I planted a one hundred thousand
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Speaker 3: flowers yesterday. They're going to bloom in April.
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Speaker 5: April's glorious bloom before April.
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Speaker 4: All right, coming up next. Last year was the year
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Speaker 4: of cal Might this year be the year of Julio.
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