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Chuck in the Morning 8-25 H2: Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Ball does it have the lake?
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Speaker 2: Harper is just stay hooraymaker, catais hang up five spy
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Speaker 2: of the first inning.
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Speaker 3: On a three two smokes.
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Speaker 2: Drowned calla loves thing out for the second time tonight.
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Speaker 2: Bloob rightfield, Hard Cat mets the Cats.
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Speaker 1: It's a three hover game.
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Speaker 4: Caroe oh man, what a night at the ball yard
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Speaker 4: last night for the Seattle Mariners and specifically for cow Rawley.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Heally's gonna join us at nine o'clock. I would
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Speaker 1: love for if that would have been his analysis on
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Speaker 1: Mariners TV. Just a bunch of silly giggles and laughs,
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Speaker 1: and it's probably he's thinking as opposed to being, you know,
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Speaker 1: handsome Ryan Healey with all the baseball answers and talking
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Speaker 1: about approach and balance, getting his hands ready and all
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Speaker 1: that sort of stuff that doesn't matter. Screw that, just
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Speaker 1: some like just diddy reactions to oh, I remember when
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Speaker 1: Cal used to do that all the time. Three round home,
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Speaker 1: three homers last night. I should say for Cal Raleigh
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Speaker 1: in the game, he's never done that. Sixty home runs
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Speaker 1: last season, but he's never hit three and one game.
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Speaker 1: He said he'd never done it in his entire baseball life,
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Speaker 1: high school nothing, little league nothing, But he had three
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Speaker 1: home runs last night for the Mariners. Now, Julio set
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Speaker 1: the tone in this game. Within three batters last night,
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Speaker 1: the Mariners had already scored three runs thanks to Julio
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez laser beam to left off of Phillies darter Zach Wheeler,
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Speaker 1: and then Cal tacked on a two run omer in
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Speaker 1: the first So five runs in the very first inning
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Speaker 1: against one of the better, if not one of the
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Speaker 1: best pitchers in all of Major League Baseball in Zach Wheeler,
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Speaker 1: and the Mariners role to a nine to win last
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Speaker 1: night over the Philadelphia Phillies. And more on that coming
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Speaker 1: up with ABC's of the MS at seven point thirty.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Mariner's TV with the highlights and no thanks
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Speaker 1: to Ryan Healey for not giggling through them. Yeah come on, man, yeah,
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Speaker 1: get in the spirit of things. M's back in action
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Speaker 1: tonight against the Philadelphia Phillies. It'll be George Kirby going
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Speaker 1: against Aaron Nola. The team remains three games back in
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Speaker 1: the American League West, but it's not the Astros they
2:42
Speaker 1: trail at the top of the division. It is now
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Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers, who leap the Astros last night and
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Speaker 1: have a half game lead above Houston for first place.
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Speaker 1: Brian Woo's likely to return for his next scheduled start,
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Speaker 1: which would be on Wednesday. JP Crawford could return tonight.
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Speaker 1: Emerson's not going to return at all. He had surgery
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Speaker 1: on that injury and is out for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the regular season. The preseason will conclude on Friday. For
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. They'll be taking on the Kansas City
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Speaker 1: Chiefs in Kansas City, So Greg Bell chance to get
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Speaker 1: some barbecue this Friday. Hard Knocks Airs tonight the latest episode,
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Speaker 1: so a little more information to come out about the
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Speaker 1: injuries to Jake Bobo, Bud Clark, Mason Richmond, and others.
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Speaker 1: And without further ado, let's go ahead and talk to
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Speaker 1: our Seahawks insider, mister Greg Bell.
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Speaker 1: See it's preseason schedule really was the barbecue Tour of America.
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Speaker 1: When do we play Memphis next? I'm literally looking forward
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Speaker 1: to that matchup, Greg. I mean, you had you had
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Speaker 1: Nashville last week, You're gonna have Kansas City on Friday. Uh,
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Speaker 1: don't take Wendy this time. I want you to eat
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Speaker 1: your weight and ribs.
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Speaker 6: No, no, Wendy's not coming to this one. I won't
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Speaker 6: be in kidsa city logging. Okay, barbecue playing in Friday,
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Speaker 6: even Saturday and maybe later. But yeah, you're right, you
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Speaker 6: need a team in Memphis.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, team in Memphis.
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Speaker 3: Uh, DC underrated.
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Speaker 1: D C is underrating really very much. Yes, I don't
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Speaker 1: think i've ever heard them mentioned.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I've gone to a couple of places when I
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Speaker 7: went over the East Coast years back.
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Speaker 1: When do we face Austin there expansion franchise?
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Speaker 8: I really like that I could get behind an NFL
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Speaker 8: team in Austin. Yeah, I've enjoyed my time there. By
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Speaker 8: the way, I don't know if I've ever mentioned that
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Speaker 8: was a long way from everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you brought that up before.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think I've mentioned that we live
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Speaker 6: a long way from everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we've got some injury stuff to discuss.
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Speaker 1: But since I brought up Austin a college town, is
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Speaker 1: there a chance that Anthony Hankerson is going to end
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Speaker 1: up a Texas Longhorn before the end of the week.
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Speaker 6: Sure, there's a chance he could be a Washington Husky.
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Speaker 6: There's a chance that he could be a USC Trojan.
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Speaker 6: There's a chance he could be anything. Any court and
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Speaker 6: judge seems to, on a whim want them to be.
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Speaker 6: It's ridiculous how the lawyering and the judging is just
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Speaker 6: it's almost arbitrary that NFL running back, a guy who
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Speaker 6: played in an NFL preseason game Sunday can be eligible
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Speaker 6: for college football on Monday. And I hear people say, well,
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Speaker 6: they should not be denied the opportunity to make the money.
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Speaker 6: They already had that opportunity. They had nil they had
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Speaker 6: the transfer portal, they had five years of eligibility in
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Speaker 6: most cases, although the class of twenty twenty two at four,
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Speaker 6: but they had a COVID year. The high school kids
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Speaker 6: who were promised spots that are now being taken away.
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Speaker 6: What about the college kids that are on rosters that
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Speaker 6: have been spring practice in preseason fall camp who suddenly
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Speaker 6: lose their spot because there are roster sized limits. I
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Speaker 6: don't know if people realize they did away with scholarship limits,
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Speaker 6: but they do have roster size limits. They don't just
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Speaker 6: create these spots out of thin air. It comes at
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Speaker 6: the expense of somebody else. And so when a guy
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Speaker 6: is already in the NFL, I would think the guy
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Speaker 6: who replaced the guy who's in the NFL felt Okay,
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Speaker 6: at least he's not not going to come back from
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Speaker 6: the NFL and take my spot. And that's what's happening
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Speaker 6: in some of these cases. The guys that have been
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Speaker 6: in fall camp, who have lockers and class schedules. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 6: class schedules, remember those, They are suddenly done, they lose
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Speaker 6: their spot and yeah, yeah, I could just go on
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Speaker 6: and on about this, Hankerson. I mean, let's not even
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Speaker 6: there is such thing as school still, Hankerson. Just get
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Speaker 6: to go to a school that's already in session and
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Speaker 6: walk into a class where registration have already closed, Yeah,
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Speaker 6: and just sit down and become eligible. Or do they
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Speaker 6: not even go to class, which I don't even think
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Speaker 6: they go to class.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they don't.
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Speaker 6: Of course they don't they take some internship credit for
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Speaker 6: twelve credits to stay eligible by NCAA rules, and then
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Speaker 6: they watch the practice field and that's their credits. It's
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Speaker 6: it's beyond absurd. But lawyers are getting rich. College presidents
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Speaker 6: are standing by doing nothing because they don't want to
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Speaker 6: get sued, and they think that the Congress is going
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Speaker 6: to come in and swoop in and magically fix all this.
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Speaker 6: And as they keep saying that Tommy Tubberville's of Congress
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Speaker 6: are not about to legislate college sports, so they'll get
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Speaker 6: voted out of office by their Alabama constituents.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think eventually they'll get their arms around
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Speaker 1: this problem. But I a thousand percent agree with you
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Speaker 1: on the take, And like I'm it's just stunning. You
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Speaker 1: just think that they've reached a certain level and then
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Speaker 1: there's another level that they can go that you never
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Speaker 1: even imagined. I never even imagined that NFL players, after
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Speaker 1: playing preseason games could go back to college, and yet
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Speaker 1: the loophole has been found. I mean, Anthony Richardson's twenty
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Speaker 1: four years old, but the Indianapolis Colts three years in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League. Maybe he's got eligibility left. Greg
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Speaker 1: could you imagine him going back to a college campus
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Speaker 1: right now?
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Speaker 6: Well, Walter Jones only played four years of college football.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure some judge and lawyer will find a year
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Speaker 6: for him to go play somewhere else. How mus you
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Speaker 6: is signing a college basketball player who played three NBA
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Speaker 6: games last year? I mean, where's the stop? It just
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Speaker 6: doesn't until lawyers, and it's just ridiculous. College presidents are
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Speaker 6: sleeping the switch, just watching it happen and letting it happen.
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Speaker 6: It'd be interesting to see if the SEC follows through
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Speaker 6: and their threat that they're not going to allow this.
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Speaker 1: I guess the Big Tender this morning. I guess we
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Speaker 1: found out the Big Ten said they're not going to
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Speaker 1: allow it in the conference.
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Speaker 6: All the all the college presidents have to do is
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Speaker 6: tell their athletic directors and coaches, no, you're not signing
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Speaker 6: these players, right, They're not playing for you, and if
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Speaker 6: they play for you, you lose your job. That's all they
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Speaker 6: have to do. That that would get around the courts
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Speaker 6: and the suing. You just threaten your own coaches. You
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Speaker 6: can control that, and college presidents won't do that either,
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Speaker 6: but they'll take the TV money. I'd be happy to
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Speaker 6: do that.
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Speaker 1: That's an aside, just a quick, a little aside, and
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Speaker 1: then we'll get into some Seahawks stuff, like where's the
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Speaker 1: UFL and all of this? I mean, if ever there were?
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Speaker 1: I mean, isn't there like a minor league, professional league
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Speaker 1: right now that's trying to establish legitimacy. How are they
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Speaker 1: not the option for an Anthony Hankerson as opposed to
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Speaker 1: crossing a line and going back to college.
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Speaker 6: Well, as I understand it, you make more money in
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Speaker 6: most college programs than you will in the UFL. So
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Speaker 6: why would a college Why would a borderline college slash
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Speaker 6: NFL player go back to the UFL. He'd go to
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Speaker 6: the colleges where you unlimited amount of suitors. I mean,
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Speaker 6: what is it more one hundred whatever it is, number
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Speaker 6: of Division one f FBS college programs, that's far more
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Speaker 6: than they're in the UFL, and they pay more. So
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Speaker 6: a college player or an NFL player can go find
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Speaker 6: a college somebody will take. There are a lot of
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Speaker 6: Lane Kiffins in college football. Let's put it that way.
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Speaker 6: Lane Kiffin's the most Lane Kiffin of them. But there
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Speaker 6: are a lot of those guys, so somebody will pay
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Speaker 6: them they'll get paid more than the UFO would.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, all right, let's talk some Seahawks stuff here.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the quarterback room. I think I'm delaying
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Speaker 1: talking about the injuries. I don't like talking necessarily about injuries.
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Speaker 1: But let's talk about the quarterback room. How is Mike
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Speaker 1: McDonald feeling about his depth chart there?
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't think that Jalen milrose progression from year
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Speaker 6: one to year two has gone in the steady upward
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Speaker 6: climb that they had hoped. And some of it is
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Speaker 6: that he's had five offensive coordinators in five years dating
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Speaker 6: back to Alabama can't help him. I talked to him
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Speaker 6: briefly about that, but he still has decision making and
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Speaker 6: I talked yesterday about I talked to him. I think
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Speaker 6: it was your show too, but mine. I talked a
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Speaker 6: lot about they don't practice what he's not good at,
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Speaker 6: which is making decisions while he's getting hit. Nobody hits
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Speaker 6: him in practice, so even when he should be sacked,
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Speaker 6: they run right past him and he continues his throw
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Speaker 6: and he doesn't feel the physical effect or even the
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Speaker 6: mental effect of being pressured because he's just throwing. And
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Speaker 6: that's true across every NFL team, not just the Seahawks.
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Speaker 6: He's having the same problem Drew lockead and got run
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Speaker 6: out of Denver for is that when he's under pressure
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Speaker 6: and getting hit, he makes mistakes. Drew Locke led the
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Speaker 6: NFL and interceptions his second year as I started there
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Speaker 6: fifteen of them and was benched after thirteen games and
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Speaker 6: never started for him again, and then got traded in
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Speaker 6: the Russell Wilson deal to Seattle. And when I talked
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Speaker 6: to a Locke about it, they said, yeah, it was
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Speaker 6: decision making under pressure and getting hit. I would just
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Speaker 6: I look great in practice, and then when I get hit,
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Speaker 6: I was thrown interceptions and it took him a long
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Speaker 6: time to get over that. As I think Melroe is
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Speaker 6: in the same spot, and that's tough because they can't
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Speaker 6: replicate it without game reps, and he's not getting any
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Speaker 6: game reps during the season. I don't see any indication
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Speaker 6: that they're going to do the running option. That was
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Speaker 6: a cute, little fancy toy and make defenses have to
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Speaker 6: worry about it last year and then mcdonnald saw him
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Speaker 6: drop the ball against Tampa Bay and the said, okay,
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Speaker 6: we're done with that. He was not active for the
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Speaker 6: rest of the year from October on, and I haven't
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Speaker 6: seen any package of that with the starting offense at
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Speaker 6: all in training camp practices. So the thing, though, the
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Speaker 6: caveat is it's not time to give up on Jalen Milroe.
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Speaker 6: They don't need him to be an NFL ready backup
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Speaker 6: quarterback that could win games until next year and maybe
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Speaker 6: even his final year of his rookie deal, because he's
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Speaker 6: still got two years left on his rookie contract. The
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Speaker 6: decision point, though, is that Drew locks contract is ending
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Speaker 6: after this year. So these preseason games are the Seahawks'
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Speaker 6: main evidence to say, are we ready to give the
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Speaker 6: second job to Milroe right now? That answer is no,
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Speaker 6: and right now it would be Drew Locke resigning again.
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Speaker 6: The thing is Lock's twenty nine, and even he told
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Speaker 6: me in the Super Bowl locker room when they're all
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Speaker 6: celebrating in the patron and the cigars and the beer,
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Speaker 6: he said, I want to play, He said, I'd love
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Speaker 6: it here. It's great here. But of course he wants
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Speaker 6: to play. He used to be a starting quarterback. He's
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Speaker 6: now twenty nine going on thirty. He wants another shot.
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Speaker 6: So it's a down the road situation and if it
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Speaker 6: goes the way it's supposed to go for the Seahawks
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Speaker 6: this year, Sam Dart will take every meaningful snap. But
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Speaker 6: this down the road is that Jalen Milroe. They would
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Speaker 6: like him to show some progress.
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Speaker 1: all right wide receiver. I mean, he kind of sounded
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Speaker 1: like Montory Foster Junior was going to make this roster anyway.
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Speaker 1: I would think that Jake bobo injury has made that
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Speaker 1: a lock. Who else benefits from the misfortune of Jake
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Speaker 1: Bobo and his injury.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's tough to put it that way, but
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Speaker 6: that's the business of the NFL. Emmanuel Henderson is a
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Speaker 6: guy that could possibly get on for special teams. That's
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Speaker 6: also a candidate to go on the practice squad. Ricky White,
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Speaker 6: the draft pick last year, had been a practice squad candidate.
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Speaker 6: I thought he could now move up into the fifty
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Speaker 6: three man roster. Cody White, he has been mister dependable
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Speaker 6: almost every opportunity he's gotten for the last few years.
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Speaker 6: Got his first career touchdown last season. Then he made
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Speaker 6: a really uncharacteristic play in Tennessee with his turning. He overshot,
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Speaker 6: He just miss read the flight of the punt and
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Speaker 6: he ended up having to turn his back to the
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Speaker 6: punter and kind of catch it over his shoulder and
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Speaker 6: went off his hands for a muff punt inside the
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Speaker 6: ten yard line. That was really I mean, I've seen
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Speaker 6: him catch a thousand of those balls at the start
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Speaker 6: of practices and it was really odd. I don't he
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Speaker 6: They like him as a receiver Cody White, so I
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Speaker 6: think he would have a spot. It could be Montry
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Speaker 6: Foster and Cody White are the last two, and then
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Speaker 6: they hope to put others on the practice squad.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the cornerback position. What was the plan
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Speaker 1: for Bud Clark's involvement and who now has to step
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Speaker 1: up and Mike McDonald's of mind might be able to
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Speaker 1: do the same things well they were trying to.
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Speaker 6: They were weighing Clark's athleticism and ability to play the
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Speaker 6: ball with Tylecotta's impeccable always assignments, sound play and never
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Speaker 6: being out a position and diagnosing plays and routes and
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Speaker 6: runs and Ocata as a coach on the field, Clark
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Speaker 6: was struggling with some of the scheme when they were
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Speaker 6: throwing them Nicky and Worry package of a little bit
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Speaker 6: of everything, including hybrid and move up the linebacker. It
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Speaker 6: was too much for him, so they said, okay, let's
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Speaker 6: just stick him back at deep safety, and he was.
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Speaker 6: They were considering perhaps even alternating Okata and Clark in
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Speaker 6: the starting defense. So now that that's off the table,
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Speaker 6: it appears that it will be Ocada deep with Julian
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Speaker 6: Love full time as the starters. The Anthony Bell early
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Speaker 6: in training camp had gotten that nick Emun Worry hybrid
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Speaker 6: linebacker role. I haven't seen as much as that. I'm
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Speaker 6: starting to think, Chuck, if Nicky is not ready to
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Speaker 6: play September night, and right now, it's about a fifty
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Speaker 6: to fifty shot. If he's not ready for the opener,
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Speaker 6: they may go with three linebackers and a little less
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Speaker 6: of the extra defensive backs. They don't trust their third
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Speaker 6: cornerback Ross. They wouldn't be shopping for tarry On Arnold
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Speaker 6: and Trevon Diggs. Will Diggs be ready in time with
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Speaker 6: only a couple practices before the roster cuts. Don't know.
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Speaker 6: He may play Friday. Would probably benefit him to play Friday,
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Speaker 6: but not many minute starters will. So they're waiting on
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Speaker 6: emerging a third cornerback emerging that they can trust. It
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Speaker 6: hasn't been the Ami approach it. He had the job
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Speaker 6: at the beginning of training camp, and then no Ignnagai
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Speaker 6: had been done doing it recently. They're still influxed there
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Speaker 6: for a Super Bowl champions team. It's got all the
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Speaker 6: starters returning. The third cornerback position is the one spot,
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Speaker 6: and now safety depth is the other spot. Rodney Thomas
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Speaker 6: had a hand injury, got a surgery for it. McDonald
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Speaker 6: revealed that to us after the game on Sunday, So
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Speaker 6: that's another on top of Clark gets down and they
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Speaker 6: McDonald said they're reevaluating their planet safety right now.
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Speaker 1: This culture on this team is so strong. I think
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Speaker 1: it's the key to their success in a short period
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Speaker 1: of time. So I don't worry that if Terry and
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Speaker 1: Arnold ends up being the worst teammate ever, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not projecting that that's going to come anywhere close to
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Speaker 1: happen or Trayvon Diggs. You know, is doesn't fit culture.
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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that harming the overall strength of
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Speaker 1: this culture whatsoever. I also don't think that Jake Bobo
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Speaker 1: and Bud Clark and Mason Richmond, who add to this
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Speaker 1: culture so well, not having them this year, I also
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Speaker 1: don't think that's going to dent the culture. I think
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Speaker 1: it's just way too strong from top to bottom. That said,
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Speaker 1: how big of a blow was it to this group?
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Speaker 1: To that clubhouse too? Have gone through the seventy two
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Speaker 1: hours of losing three likable players off this roster.
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Speaker 6: It's jarring because these guys are human, and it's a
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Speaker 6: reminder that, man, I can lose a lot in one play.
18:41
Speaker 6: I can lose an entire season. I can lose my
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Speaker 6: track to starting, I could lose my chance at a
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Speaker 6: new contract. That the suddenness and the finality of football
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Speaker 6: was front and center for the Sea Hawks times three,
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Speaker 6: and they had to see it three different times. And
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Speaker 6: that's like a whiplash effective whoa, whoa, whoa. This sport's brutal,
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Speaker 6: and it's also cutting, and it's cold, and when you
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Speaker 6: can't play, you don't get paid, and when you don't
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Speaker 6: get paid and you can't play, they bring in someone
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Speaker 6: else who can. It's just that's how it's not like baseball,
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Speaker 6: where it's guaranteed contracts and even if you get hurt,
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Speaker 6: you're gonna get paid. I mean, that's not how football works.
19:19
Speaker 6: And these guys live it. And then they had three
19:22
Speaker 6: different reminders of it at the same time. Not to mention,
19:24
Speaker 6: Clark was becoming hugely popular in a quick way, and
19:28
Speaker 6: they loved his personality. They loved he's kind of a
19:32
Speaker 6: trash talking, swaggy type of almost Devin Witherspoon light on
19:36
Speaker 6: the field, and I'm gonna miss that too. Now he's
19:39
Speaker 6: got to grind through a long process of getting back.
19:44
Speaker 6: Not to mention the pain and the shock of just man,
19:49
Speaker 6: I was on one track and now I'm on this.
19:51
Speaker 6: It was telling and McDonald even mentioned it. It wasn't
19:54
Speaker 6: every single player because I looked, but it was about
19:57
Speaker 6: eighty eight or eighty seven of the ninety one guys
20:00
Speaker 6: got off the sideline to go onto that by that
20:02
Speaker 6: car and pat him on the back and try to
20:04
Speaker 6: console him, and Clark looked stunned. I mean, he just
20:09
Speaker 6: you could see that his season was over and he
20:11
Speaker 6: knew it. And while McDonald said it's multiple months out,
20:15
Speaker 6: broke an ankle late August, that'd be really tough to
20:18
Speaker 6: come back from him. It's the same season. Yeah, It's
20:22
Speaker 6: just it's a cold business man, it really is. We
20:24
Speaker 6: watch it for the glamour and the points and the
20:27
Speaker 6: quarterbacks and the lights, but it's a cold, cold business. Yeah.
20:31
Speaker 1: All right, what do we got at ten o'clock today?
20:35
Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about this Hankerson case and how I
20:39
Speaker 6: think that open roster spot. It was conspicuous that they
20:42
Speaker 6: cut waved Hankerson but didn't fill it with anything. I
20:45
Speaker 6: think Terry on Arnold's going to slide into that spot
20:47
Speaker 6: and they're gonna sign him. There's reasons to sign him
20:51
Speaker 6: before the cut date, there's reasons to sign him after.
20:54
Speaker 6: We'll talk a little bit aout a coastal family. Some
20:57
Speaker 6: of the Seahawk Brows are heading to Atlanta, where tomorrow
20:59
Speaker 6: the NFL is going to have a special meeting to
21:01
Speaker 6: vote on the ownership. Twenty four to thirty two yes
21:04
Speaker 6: votes needed, and it looks like it not only will pass,
21:07
Speaker 6: but maybe unanimous and they will be the new owners.
21:10
Speaker 6: But it won't be official until the bank gets the
21:12
Speaker 6: nine point six billion cleared, so they're not even in
21:15
Speaker 6: the building yet operating yet. That might be by the way,
21:18
Speaker 6: Chuck a press conference day two day of or day
21:22
Speaker 6: before the opener at bloom and Field to formally announce
21:25
Speaker 6: the Cousles as the new owners.
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Speaker 1: All Right, sounds great, Thank you, sir. I have a
21:30
Speaker 1: great show and we will talk to you again tomorrow.
21:32
Speaker 6: Thanks. Happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Anders Hurst with you here today. Ashley Ryan is still
21:56
Speaker 1: out on vacation. But you know what, we're closing out
21:59
Speaker 1: the alphabet today. Wouldn't surprise me if Ashley Ryan's name
22:03
Speaker 1: came up, oh during the course of the.
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Speaker 3: Ab interesting and I wonder what her name starts.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you're going down that road, you're gonna be disappointed.
22:13
Speaker 1: We're at the very end of the alphabet. We are
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Speaker 1: at x y Z here today, so the always difficult,
22:20
Speaker 1: the usually difficult x y z, but today it makes
22:23
Speaker 1: perfect sense. Right, X is for X rays positive. I mean,
22:30
Speaker 1: isn't that weird that when you get positive X rays
22:34
Speaker 1: a bad thing.
22:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like, yes, positive, that we found something terrible.
22:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always the report, right, X rays negative. You
22:44
Speaker 1: rarely get the X rays positive. This guy's really hurt,
22:48
Speaker 1: you know. But we now know that cold Emerson was
22:51
Speaker 1: really hurt and had been playing hurt for quite some time.
22:56
Speaker 1: So he's having wrisk surgery. He's done, cold Emerson. If
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Speaker 1: this Mariners team pulls this off down the stretch, it'll
23:04
Speaker 1: be without the help the rest of the way of
23:06
Speaker 1: Colt Emerson. He's done for the season. He will be
23:09
Speaker 1: one hundred percent recovered, certainly, as long as nothing goes
23:12
Speaker 1: wrong by the start of next year. But a very
23:16
Speaker 1: similar injury it sounds like to what JP Crawford suffered. Obviously,
23:20
Speaker 1: JP did not have surgery, and it sounds like he
23:23
Speaker 1: might be back tonight, but a season ending surgery for
23:28
Speaker 1: Colt Emerson will cost him the rest of the year. Anders.
23:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh, you know, it just adds another layer
23:35
Speaker 7: to the uh, you know the situation that Jerry Depoto
23:38
Speaker 7: was talking about when he was saying, well, like, you
23:40
Speaker 7: gotta let us know with with these injuries. You know,
23:45
Speaker 7: obviously a young player that wants to take the most
23:47
Speaker 7: of his opportunity when he gets called up, and it
23:51
Speaker 7: sucks that we haven't seen him healthy really just yet.
23:54
Speaker 7: So hopefully eventually, you know, we get to that point
23:57
Speaker 7: and he's able to have an off season where he
24:00
Speaker 7: gets healthy and kind of figure it out and come
24:03
Speaker 7: back stronger next year.
24:04
Speaker 3: I still think the Cole Young arc is on for him.
24:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too. I think that's what we're going
24:08
Speaker 1: to end up with. For those of you that got
24:10
Speaker 1: soured on him, I just don't understand it. I guess
24:13
Speaker 1: it was time for him to stop participating on this
24:16
Speaker 1: baseball team. Yeah, he needed a demotion. We find out
24:19
Speaker 1: there's an injury. I don't know how far it went back,
24:24
Speaker 1: and that's the story here. But I mean, did you
24:28
Speaker 1: want to give up on Cole Young at the end
24:30
Speaker 1: of last season? You do know that Cole Young did
24:32
Speaker 1: not make our playoff roster last year, and now he's
24:35
Speaker 1: been next to Randy a Rose Arena, our most consistent player.
24:40
Speaker 1: Arguably on both sides of the ball this entire year,
24:43
Speaker 1: and so I think we're going to see something very similar.
24:46
Speaker 1: Colt Emerson was twenty years old when he got called
24:50
Speaker 1: up twenty twenty, so he's twenty one years old. So
24:53
Speaker 1: I mean Mike Trout in his first season, not the year,
24:57
Speaker 1: first full season where he was already the best player
25:00
Speaker 1: in the game. I'm talking about back to twenty eleven,
25:03
Speaker 1: hit two twenty and forty games, had a six seventy
25:06
Speaker 1: two OPS. I mean, it wasn't embarrassing himself, but at
25:11
Speaker 1: age nineteen, that's not what we saw just a few
25:16
Speaker 1: months later, when in twenty twenty twelve, he finished second
25:19
Speaker 1: in the MVP voting for goodness sake, and probably could
25:22
Speaker 1: have won it. As for Colt Emerson, you know, I
25:26
Speaker 1: know how bad that he finished with a one ninety
25:28
Speaker 1: batting average on the season. But I'll tell you when
25:31
Speaker 1: through his first forty games of his major league career,
25:36
Speaker 1: much like Mike Trout, right, he was hitting two seventeen
25:41
Speaker 1: very similar with a seven to twenty three ops. He
25:45
Speaker 1: was actually hitting better than what Mike Trout was through
25:48
Speaker 1: his first forty games, right, And I'm not here to
25:50
Speaker 1: tell you cold Emerson's gonna end up being Mike Trout.
25:52
Speaker 1: He's not. He doesn't have that kind of an upside.
25:54
Speaker 1: But he is going to be a fantastic player who
25:58
Speaker 1: is going to be really good floor and he does
26:01
Speaker 1: have the potential ceiling to scrape greatness. So I can't
26:07
Speaker 1: wait to see what Colt Emerson's about to become. And
26:10
Speaker 1: I think we are going to see a very similar arc,
26:13
Speaker 1: as you said, to what Cole Jung did from his
26:16
Speaker 1: first year to his second year.
26:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
26:18
Speaker 7: And I wonder how much of that injury was affecting
26:20
Speaker 7: his defense too, because that was the one thing I
26:21
Speaker 7: was expecting a little bit more from him. I didn't
26:24
Speaker 7: think he was gonna, you know, be great offensively right
26:27
Speaker 7: off the rip, but I did expect him to be
26:28
Speaker 7: a little bit better defensively than we saw. So hopefully
26:31
Speaker 7: that injury was the reason why that he was a
26:33
Speaker 7: little bit underperforming in that aspect as well.
26:36
Speaker 1: Why is for yours. So here we go, man, life
26:40
Speaker 1: can be full circle. Job's yours, JP, It's all yours,
26:45
Speaker 1: all right. So JP's likely to get activated tonight, it
26:50
Speaker 1: sounds like, and not to play third base. Looks like
26:53
Speaker 1: he's going to play shortstop, so he's going to return
26:56
Speaker 1: to that position. And yes, I've had my issues, Anders
27:00
Speaker 1: had his issues with JP's shortstop defense this year, and
27:04
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be better, you know,
27:07
Speaker 1: down the stretch, but certainly when you are starting Rock
27:11
Speaker 1: Rodden and Weston Wilson and some really important games, to
27:16
Speaker 1: be able to put something a little short fire out
27:20
Speaker 1: on the field at one of those two positions until
27:23
Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan gets back, which hopefully is going to be
27:25
Speaker 1: in seven days, yeah, you know, and then we've got
27:31
Speaker 1: two guys that we feel a little better about, yeah,
27:34
Speaker 1: to be able to fill one of those spots. I mean,
27:36
Speaker 1: Rock Roden made a nice, great impression and he's a
27:40
Speaker 1: very likable player. Every time I hear his name, I
27:43
Speaker 1: think of rock Lobster, Rock Rodden by the B fifty
27:47
Speaker 1: two s. Yeah, but yeah, I think that he'll be
27:52
Speaker 1: the decision to let go now that Leo Revos is
27:54
Speaker 1: back to being a clutch player. Yeah, And west and
27:57
Speaker 1: Wilson they love for whatever reason, they love that some
28:00
Speaker 1: Weston Wilson. So I think it's JP up today, brock
28:04
Speaker 1: Rodden down today, and that's a good thing for the
28:07
Speaker 1: team to have a little more consistent of a product
28:12
Speaker 1: to finish out this season.
28:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think lineup wise, it helps. It helps
28:16
Speaker 7: because JP wile, like we said, we've had his issues
28:20
Speaker 7: with him, you know, defensively, I still think offensively he's
28:23
Speaker 7: a tool. He gets on base, he's run into one
28:25
Speaker 7: a couple of times as well. And when he has
28:27
Speaker 7: the approach that we like to see from him, where
28:30
Speaker 7: it's like take it the other way, don't try and
28:32
Speaker 7: hit a home run every single time, he can be
28:33
Speaker 7: a very valuable offensive player. And I mean it was
28:36
Speaker 7: just time for brock Rodden, like you saw the flashes
28:40
Speaker 7: of what he can be. But at this time we're
28:42
Speaker 7: in a stretch run, right, we need to we need
28:44
Speaker 7: we need our guy exactly.
28:46
Speaker 1: And look and in terms of like a storybook, like
28:49
Speaker 1: I think JP sees it on the wall, riding on
28:52
Speaker 1: the wall and right, and if nobody else does, I'll
28:56
Speaker 1: make it clear for you this is his last season
28:59
Speaker 1: with the Seattle may unless he wants to be a
29:02
Speaker 1: utility player making league minimum next year. This is gonna
29:06
Speaker 1: be it for JP Crawford. And I give him credit
29:09
Speaker 1: for this, like he has remained loyal to his guys
29:13
Speaker 1: in that locker room. He still is the guy that
29:15
Speaker 1: comes out with the trident. Yep, when he's healthy and available.
29:20
Speaker 1: He was there again last night. It was good to
29:22
Speaker 1: see him in that role again. So he has remained
29:25
Speaker 1: one of the leaders, in one of the favorite players
29:27
Speaker 1: of everyone in that locker room. And that's a valuable thing.
29:31
Speaker 1: So the chance here anders if Col's going again for
29:35
Speaker 1: JP and to finish it out and make a playoff
29:40
Speaker 1: run and get into the playoffs and be at shortstop
29:43
Speaker 1: where he wants to be, yes, and probably lead off
29:48
Speaker 1: since we don't have Donovan right now.
29:50
Speaker 3: I don't know. I like Randy that spot right now,
29:52
Speaker 3: I do.
29:53
Speaker 1: Too, but who knows. But he you know, okay, maybe
29:57
Speaker 1: you sure beggars can't be choosing. Yeah, stop getting greedy. Yeah,
30:02
Speaker 1: you playing shortstop, shortstop and a pennant stretch and so
30:06
Speaker 1: uh this is to me, I mean, you know, if
30:09
Speaker 1: I'm your buddy in the car, I'm like, here you go.
30:12
Speaker 1: This is your opportunity to just go out on the
30:16
Speaker 1: highest point that you could possibly go out. Yeah, be
30:20
Speaker 1: the shortstop, be the leader of a team that erases
30:24
Speaker 1: It's four and a half months of misery. Still gets
30:27
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and then finish it off with some
30:30
Speaker 1: sort of a playoff run. I mean, that's the marching
30:33
Speaker 1: orders for JP Crawford.
30:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, And we talked about cal Rawley's effect
30:37
Speaker 7: on the rest of players because of his leadership. I
30:39
Speaker 7: think maybe to not to the same extent with JP Crawford,
30:41
Speaker 7: but there's definitely still some of that there. When he's
30:45
Speaker 7: there and contributing, it's like it has a different effect
30:47
Speaker 7: on everyone else. So hopefully that can continue.
30:50
Speaker 1: Zia's for Zany. I don't know if this is talking
30:53
Speaker 1: behind your back, but make no mistake about it. Ashley
30:56
Speaker 1: Ryan's got a screw loose. Oh yeah, And so she
31:01
Speaker 1: really does think that the way she sits on the
31:05
Speaker 1: couch has an effect on what can happen in the
31:08
Speaker 1: baseball game. Like if she's got the right leg crossed
31:11
Speaker 1: over the left and there's a strikeout, this switch it's
31:15
Speaker 1: a given that you got to switch the leg crossing
31:18
Speaker 1: and then if that's a hit, well then lo and
31:20
Speaker 1: bowl hold that. Yeah, I can't get up to get anything.
31:24
Speaker 1: Could somebody please bring me another glass of wine because
31:29
Speaker 1: I can't jinx the entire twenty twenty six Mariners here
31:33
Speaker 1: so that's the way she thinks, that's the way she operates.
31:36
Speaker 1: I mean some of it's a little exaggerated, but not
31:39
Speaker 1: too overly exaggerated, I'm telling you. And so she's in
31:43
Speaker 1: Hawaii right now when her favorite player, and her daughter's
31:48
Speaker 1: favorite player, and probably her husband's favorite player, Cal Rawley,
31:52
Speaker 1: looks like he's fixed again. So if she is loyal
31:57
Speaker 1: to these superstitions, it's time to move to Maui, young lady.
32:01
Speaker 3: Oh well, what an inconvenience.
32:06
Speaker 1: I don't want anything bad, make a wonderful for Just
32:10
Speaker 1: stop ruining Cal Rawley, is what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
32:14
Speaker 1: live in paradise for the rest of your life.
32:16
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you get to live in Maui and
32:18
Speaker 7: Rally's fixed us. What's the downside here?
32:20
Speaker 1: Exactly? Just stay out of our lives, Just stay out
32:25
Speaker 1: of Cal's head. Just don't come with it. We'll get
32:28
Speaker 1: a restraining order. We will get a restraining order to
32:31
Speaker 1: keep you away from the big dumper.
32:33
Speaker 3: Gotta do what we gotta do.
32:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, if he's fixed, we can bring no harm
32:37
Speaker 1: to that, lady, superstition.
32:38
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
32:40
Speaker 1: You have no choice but to live the rest of
32:43
Speaker 1: your life on Hawaii God Forbid. Yeah, all right, coming
32:46
Speaker 1: up next. Um, he's like the forest Gump of evil.
32:52
Speaker 1: Why is Lane Kiffen involved in everything wrong with sports?
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33:34
Speaker 1: Once you get the impression that you could go back
33:36
Speaker 1: through time and maybe just pour over still photos, maybe
33:42
Speaker 1: even videos that are available to us evidence of some
33:47
Speaker 1: of the greatest sports scandals of all time. And don't
33:51
Speaker 1: you think there will come a point in every single scandal,
33:55
Speaker 1: even if it predates this man's birth, then you will
33:58
Speaker 1: be able to freeze frame and see somewhere in the
34:01
Speaker 1: photo or in the video Lane Kiffin in the background. Somewhere.
34:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, let's think of a scandal where he would be
34:09
Speaker 7: involved in.
34:10
Speaker 3: Let's think from.
34:11
Speaker 1: Pete Rose betting scandal. Don't you think you could go
34:13
Speaker 1: back to some old Pete Rose photos in Cincinnati with
34:16
Speaker 1: his mutton chops and everything else, and there will be
34:20
Speaker 1: little Lane Kiffin, like seven years old, running bets for him.
34:23
Speaker 7: I think it was actually Lane Kiffin, the one that
34:26
Speaker 7: was batting on the trash cans for the Houston Astros
34:28
Speaker 7: as well. Like, yeah, in the depths of minute, May
34:32
Speaker 7: Park at that point.
34:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we go and we zoom over AJ Hinch's
34:36
Speaker 1: left shoulder, yeah, there will be Kiffin. You know, Tom
34:40
Speaker 1: Toman out on a trash can, some sort of code
34:45
Speaker 1: in the Carlos Carrea and he might have like a
34:48
Speaker 1: mustache on and some dark glasses to try to throw
34:51
Speaker 1: you off, right, But it's is that Lane Kiffin? Yeah,
34:54
Speaker 1: that's Lane Kiffin right there. You know, Lance Armstrong. You
34:58
Speaker 1: look zoom out from it a photo of him being
35:01
Speaker 1: injected at Balco, and all of a sudden you zoom
35:05
Speaker 1: out from it and you're like, oh my gosh, the
35:07
Speaker 1: doctor is Lane Kiffin.
35:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:13
Speaker 1: Are we sure it wasn't Gluley and Kiffin that hit
35:17
Speaker 1: Nancy Kerrigan across the knee? We sure? Have we really
35:22
Speaker 1: investigated that thoroughly enough, because I have a feeling we'll
35:26
Speaker 1: figure it out. And I know that this predates him
35:29
Speaker 1: by like a hundred years, but Shoeless Joe would have
35:33
Speaker 1: never ever been on baseball. Something tells me Lane Kiffin
35:37
Speaker 1: talked him into him.
35:38
Speaker 3: He definitely did.
35:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's just at the epicenter of all of this stuff.
35:43
Speaker 1: And I mean, his press conferences just keep getting more pathetic.
35:49
Speaker 1: I mean his statement yesterday was if I don't do it,
35:52
Speaker 1: somebody else will, And I know that there is some
35:55
Speaker 1: truth to that. But do you think it's a coincidence
35:59
Speaker 1: that he was the first? He was right there, he
36:01
Speaker 1: was already on the precipice that he landed the first
36:04
Speaker 1: windfall of these guys no inside the state that cleared it.
36:11
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a coincidence? Because I don't that
36:14
Speaker 1: a Louisiana judge, or a Louisiana as they like it
36:17
Speaker 1: to be pronounced, a Losiana judge is the person that said, hey,
36:24
Speaker 1: I'm I think this should be allowed that former that
36:28
Speaker 1: pro football players who still are of the age still
36:32
Speaker 1: have eligibility now that we have this five and five
36:35
Speaker 1: rule in place, and now the college players are getting paid,
36:40
Speaker 1: and that's not there's nothing academic about it anymore really
36:44
Speaker 1: at all, that since we have this window, why shouldn't
36:48
Speaker 1: somebody that failed in the NFL in their first training
36:52
Speaker 1: camp not be allowed to go? That was a Losiana
36:55
Speaker 1: judge and who the hell has already started to put
36:59
Speaker 1: things in play but losing in the States. Brand new
37:02
Speaker 1: head football coach, the guy that used to run bets
37:05
Speaker 1: for Pete Rose, as we've just figured out in this segment.
37:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, he hit the trash cans for the.
37:10
Speaker 4: The guy that was the brain behind the trash can
37:16
Speaker 4: scandal in Houston.
37:17
Speaker 1: It's true, the guy that dejected Lance Armstrong. Yeah, he's
37:26
Speaker 1: the guy that happens to be the brand new head
37:28
Speaker 1: coach at LSU, who magically has already locked up three
37:32
Speaker 1: guys before anybody else knows what hit him. I mean,
37:38
Speaker 1: he got that Xavian Harris guy who was like a
37:41
Speaker 1: projected first round pick prior to last college football season,
37:47
Speaker 1: and then he had a bunch of injuries and some
37:50
Speaker 1: problems off the field domestic violence stuff off the field,
37:53
Speaker 1: and so nobody wanted to draft him. He got him
37:57
Speaker 1: back to college, possibly an All SEC tied end back
38:02
Speaker 1: to college. That's Lane Kiffin for you. If there is mud,
38:08
Speaker 1: he'll be up to his elbows in it. Well, obviously
38:13
Speaker 1: it's the latest thing we don't like that's happened in
38:16
Speaker 1: college athletics. I really do believe they are on the
38:20
Speaker 1: right track. They will get their arms around this stuff.
38:23
Speaker 1: I don't know what's taking so long, because it's so
38:26
Speaker 1: frickin obvious of what needs to be done, and some
38:29
Speaker 1: of this stuff will go by the wayside. But certainly
38:34
Speaker 1: we have guys round the clock Lane Kiffin primarily that's
38:38
Speaker 1: looking for a loophole and everything to give themselves an advantage,
38:41
Speaker 1: and they don't care what they break or tarnish along
38:44
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, he's the anti Forest Gump, all right.
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