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Chuck in the Morning 8-31 Hour 4: Looking at the 53 with Hugh, pure disappointment and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, 9 o'clock hour. It is Monday Morning Quarterback
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  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Chuck Ashley with you.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no Monday Morning Quarterback without the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen is with us as well. One more segment today.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours Monday Morning Quarterback during the course of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. But we'll keep Hugh for one more segment
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  Speaker 1: because we've got a lot of things to analyze. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks wrapping up the preseason on Friday night with
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  Speaker 1: a 9-9 tie. We have discussed Jalen Milrow and how
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  Speaker 1: good he looked. We've discussed Jason Myers, and now concern
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  Speaker 1: has crept into our thoughts about him. But what I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about in this segment is the 53-man roster. So, Hugh,
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  Speaker 1: let's see if we can pull this off. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: through the whole roster. But I'm going to go a
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  Speaker 1: position group at a time, and then we'll point out
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  Speaker 1: something that stands out to you about each position group.
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  Speaker 1: So Sam Darnold, obviously, Drew Locke, your second stringer, And
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Melro makes the team as the third stringer. And
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  Speaker 1: you got to feel a lot better about Jalen after
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  Speaker 1: Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: You really do. I think he made a big step
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  Speaker 2: up in terms of how he handled the pocket, was
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  Speaker 2: willing to look down the field and find some big
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  Speaker 2: plays after having turned down a number of them in
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  Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks. And four out of five
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  Speaker 2: were between the numbers of his big plays. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more processing involved. in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the field. And so you feel good about him. Now
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  Speaker 2: we have not seen them use some kind of package,
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  Speaker 2: some Taysom Hill package. If there was a thought about that,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they'll unveil it under the cloak of secrecy, but,
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  Speaker 2: but we have not seen anything that would suggest that
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  Speaker 2: that's a plan for them.
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  Speaker 1: No one's ever abandoned anything faster than Mike McDonald of
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  Speaker 1: abandoned the Jalen Milrow package plan.
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  Speaker 2: Speed option to the, to the, To the Buccaneer sideline
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  Speaker 2: and the errant pitch. He's like, okay, I've seen enough.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hard no.
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  Speaker 1: He just decided I'm never doing that again for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year. All right, running back room. We'll
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  Speaker 1: put fullback Brady Russell in this room, but only three
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  Speaker 1: running backs, George Helani, Chadarian Price, Emmanuel Wilson. That number
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  Speaker 1: doesn't bother you. What does, if anything, about the running
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  Speaker 1: back room?
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  Speaker 2: Well, want to see if Emmanuel Wilson can truly be a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe a five, six carry guy per game
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  Speaker 2: and say, okay, that's a legit number two. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's in question. The, the, the status to Darian parts.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing I did when I saw it, well,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, when he got drafted, remember he, his
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  Speaker 2: combine weight was 10 pounds below his, his listed weight
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  Speaker 2: at Notre Dame, exactly 10 pounds. And, And that's something
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  Speaker 2: we discussed on draft night. Then I saw him on
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  Speaker 2: training camp. I thought his legs were skinny. I thought
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  Speaker 2: his legs looked more like a wide receiver legs than
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  Speaker 2: they look like running back legs to me. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a big workload at Notre Dame because of Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 2: And so I feel like the Seahawks are expecting a
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  Speaker 2: lot from him. I'm holding my breath. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: a talented guy. You know, his vision, his acceleration. There's
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  Speaker 2: a reason his talent put him, you know, late first round.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's about right. But he's got big shoes
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  Speaker 2: to fill. And until Charbonnet's there, I think, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: running back's a concern. Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And until you see Price, I'd just like to see
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  Speaker 1: him play.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to have to wait. Hang on to
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  Speaker 2: the football, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to wait until next
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to see that. All right, wide receivers, they kept five. JSN,
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  Speaker 1: he made it. If anybody was worried, he made the team.
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  Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed, Cooper Cupp, Torrey Horton, and then Montori Foster Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: the feel-good story of camp, has made the wide receiver room.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's shown himself as a blocker. I know there's
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  Speaker 2: a special teams contribution that they expect of him as well,
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  Speaker 2: and and there's a certain polish to him, acceleration, tracking
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  Speaker 2: the ball, making the catches, the tough contested catches, so
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  Speaker 2: he benefited from Bobo, but you know what? Sometimes that's
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  Speaker 2: how the NFL works, so that's a feel-good story. Torrey Horton,
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  Speaker 2: this was a problem at Colorado State, feeling a little
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  Speaker 2: bit uneasy about that, a little bit impatient with the
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  Speaker 2: Torrey Horton situation, and then Rashid Shaheed, you paid him
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  Speaker 2: $ 17 million when you wouldn't pay Kenneth Walker $ 14 million.
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  Speaker 2: That tells you that you better expect something from this guy. Arguably,
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  Speaker 2: I'll put it down, the best return guy in the
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  Speaker 2: planet when you consider kickoff and punt abilities. But you
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  Speaker 2: still need more. Hopefully he was acquired on November 4th
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  Speaker 2: of last year. There wasn't the opportunity to gain that cohesion.
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  Speaker 2: And so hopefully this offseason for a quarterback, if you
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  Speaker 2: learn a guy's pace and how he comes out of
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  Speaker 2: the route and you learn against air over and over
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  Speaker 2: again all through the offseason, then in a game when
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  Speaker 2: your vision is blocked momentarily, you're just like, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: know where he's– That spot is I don't see Rashid
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  Speaker 2: here for half a second, but I can still cut
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  Speaker 2: the ball loose because I know where he's going to be,
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  Speaker 2: and then you can be accurate because you have that familiarity.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully they acquired that type of rapport in this offseason
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  Speaker 2: because they're going to need Shahid to do more as
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  Speaker 2: a wide receiver than he did for the Seahawks last year.
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  Speaker 1: Tied-in room, Eric Saubert, Nick Collarup, And then you have
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  Speaker 1: the two guys we expect to get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: playing time. Elijah Arroyo, who surprisingly played a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was going to get bubble-wrapped for at least
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  Speaker 1: game number three, but he He was back out there
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  Speaker 1: on the field again, so I don't know what that
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  Speaker 1: suggests when you sat pretty much every other first and
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  Speaker 1: second stringer for that game on Friday. And then A.J. Barner,
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  Speaker 1: who we've not seen at all in the preseason. That's
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  Speaker 1: how much they've elevated him as a clear-cut number one,
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  Speaker 1: maybe on the verge of stardom type tight end. So
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  Speaker 1: tight end room, you've got to feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 1: this group. Yeah, I love A.J. Barner.
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  Speaker 2: He's a guy who's emerging as a, you know, You know,
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  Speaker 2: top 10 tight end in the league. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say top five, but that's a possibility. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to put a lid on him. But the combination
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  Speaker 2: of what he brings to you is a tall, big guy.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's a nice target. He's gaining experience there.
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  Speaker 2: He's confident. His blocking is more than solid. Saubert is
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  Speaker 2: a real blocking special, so you'll like that. Regarding Arroyo,
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  Speaker 2: my theory, I could just say this. If I was
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  Speaker 2: in a high position with the Seahawks, the head coach
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  Speaker 2: or the offensive coordinator, I'd say, listen, your ass is
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  Speaker 2: playing against the Kansas City Chiefs, and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: show us that you can block. that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get down and dirty, you're going to widen your base,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to drop your ass, you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: nasty with your head up, and you're going to use
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  Speaker 2: that athleticism to do something more than run down the
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  Speaker 2: field looking pretty for catches. Because if you can't block,
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  Speaker 2: you can't play. And so, yeah, your ass is going
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  Speaker 2: to play every damn freaking down until we get the
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  Speaker 2: urgency that we need to have the blocking. You're too
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  Speaker 2: damn talented of an athlete. You are too good to
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  Speaker 2: lay that crap on the tape like you've been doing now. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's improved that the, the cowboy game was atrocious. Um, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: at any event you ask, why was he playing? That
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  Speaker 2: would be my speculation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, offensive line, 10 guys, Anthony, you're going to have first,
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  Speaker 1: you've got your first teamer. Uh, you got Sundell at center.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have Zabel at left guard. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have cross at left tackle a Lucas at right
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  Speaker 1: tackle and Anthony Bradford at right guard, and then a
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  Speaker 1: complete um, backup, uh, group to those guys, um, with
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  Speaker 1: Josh Jones and cable do at the tackles and Stevens and, and, um,
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  Speaker 1: Haynes at the guard and Ola with Timmy at the center.
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  Speaker 2: What stands out about this group? Yeah, well, Josh Jones,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think played as well this summer as he
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  Speaker 2: did last year, but, but he's, he's proved himself as,
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  Speaker 2: as a swing tackle. That's important. I think that the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks would have kept Mason Richmond. Um, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of tall for a guard. So He would have
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  Speaker 2: projected to be an all-purpose guy, but you lost him
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  Speaker 2: in the game at Tennessee. You've had Christian Haynes got
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  Speaker 2: more snaps at left guard, so he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: kind of a swing guard. Bo Stevens showed some nice things,
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  Speaker 2: I think worthy of the fifth-round pick, and you traded
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  Speaker 2: up to get him. Bryce Cabledew, I think, has shown
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  Speaker 2: an improvement, a sixth-round pick in 2025. He probably benefits
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  Speaker 2: from Mason Richman being hurt That would be my speculation.
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  Speaker 2: So I think this is an offensive line that obviously
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  Speaker 2: to have them all back and as a unit, you
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  Speaker 2: feel pretty good about the way this unit played at
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  Speaker 2: the end. I don't think they're among the very best,
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  Speaker 2: but they've come a long way from even midseason a
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  Speaker 2: year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, another group I can't wait to see play.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't play at all. None of the starters on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line played at all.
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  Speaker 2: In the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: So looking forward to that next Wednesday. Defensive line room's
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  Speaker 1: got to be the best room on the entire roster.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you consider Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 1: and then the veteran Jaron Reed, I think Brandon Peely
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  Speaker 1: is always good for a couple good plays here and there.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Morris might be the question mark, but Riley Mills
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  Speaker 1: may have won the award for uh, Hugh in 2026
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  Speaker 1: for the talk of camp. I mean, yes, to a man,
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  Speaker 1: they can't stop talking about Riley mills. So certainly looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing what he could do this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Those interior guys. Uh, I think you summarized it well. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on, on balance, the, the defensive line, when
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  Speaker 2: you throw in the edge guys, um, it's relatively veteran
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  Speaker 2: Jaron Reed would fall in into that, but, um, it's
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  Speaker 2: nice to get the youth in Riley mills. He's a
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  Speaker 2: fifth round pick. And, um, You know, he'd have probably
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  Speaker 2: been a second rounder had he not hurt his knee.
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  Speaker 2: He was that good playing for Notre Dame and just
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  Speaker 2: watching the tape. And you're right. They're talking about him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that the confidence that he has in himself
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  Speaker 2: and the teammates and staff were buoyed by his sack
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  Speaker 2: where he just, you know, just trucked the right guard
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  Speaker 2: of the Patriots, I believe it was, and gets a
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  Speaker 2: sack in the Super Bowl. So I think the depth
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  Speaker 2: is the most important. I think if you say, tell
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  Speaker 2: me a position group you'd want to have the most depth,
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  Speaker 2: I would say defensive line, because very simple. Defensive guys
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  Speaker 2: get more tired than offensive guys. They have to chase
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  Speaker 2: the ball. Big guys get more tired than small guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's obvious. So having a guy like Mills as a
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  Speaker 2: second stringer, excited to see what he can bring. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to be very impactful.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when the starting defensive lineman and the starting
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman get interviewed all camp long and they all
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  Speaker 1: get asked that same question, who's standing out to you?
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  Speaker 1: I think every single one of them, both offensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: and defensive lineman said Riley Mills.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. And, and we were at
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  Speaker 2: practice and, and he made that kind of imprint as did, uh,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Riley Mills, of all the guys that you'd
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  Speaker 2: say are relatively unproven, he showed the most consistently. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they're lumping all of these guys at linebackers. There are
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  Speaker 2: obviously some edge guys who are kind of defensive ends
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  Speaker 2: slash linebackers. And then you have your interior inside linebackers
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  Speaker 2: as well, but I'll just go through the whole group. Fowler,
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  Speaker 2: Dante Fowler Jr., Derek Hall, Ernest Jones, Tyrese Knight, Demarcus Lawrence,
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  Speaker 2: Uchenna Nwosu, Patrick O'Connell, Connor O'Toole, Chaz Surratt, and Drake
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  Speaker 2: Thomas all making the roster.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good group there. What stands out to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think they're very deep at inside linebacker, off-ball linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: I'm impressed with Patrick O'Connell. Tyrese Knight was just a
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  Speaker 2: beast in the Cowboy game so much that Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to see him anymore after 10 tackles in
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  Speaker 2: that opener. Even Chaz Surratt as an off-ball linebacker, weak
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  Speaker 2: side linebacker. Chris Paul... uh, you know, I mean, he, he,
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  Speaker 2: he could have made the team a lot of teams. So,
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  Speaker 2: so I think they're very deep. I kind of, you,
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  Speaker 2: you described accurately that, that they're all lumped together. I
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  Speaker 2: view them as off ball linebackers and edge. So I just,
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  Speaker 2: that those were, that's my thought on the off ball guys.
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  Speaker 2: Very deep. The edge guys are deep, but they're age
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  Speaker 2: they're old, you know, uh, I don't want to use old,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're, they're, they're, They're old. They're, they're seasoned.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? A new, new. So Dante Fowler, we,
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  Speaker 2: we just don't know much. That could be, that could
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  Speaker 2: really pop or that could be just, uh, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that could be a want, want, you know? So, so I,
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions about him. Derek Hall,
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  Speaker 2: we expect him to be on the incline to Marcus Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: You just hope that he's, he, uh, he maintains what
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  Speaker 2: he had from a year ago. So that's the one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, now Connor O'Toole has impressed, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: sets a, a mean edge on the end on running downs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, first and second down, bring him in to
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  Speaker 2: provide some depth and a rotation there. So I think
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  Speaker 2: you feel good about it. You just hope that age,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of bypasses that room, you know, and just,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Yeah. Bait some lamb's blood on the door
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  Speaker 2: and let father time just keep on walking by these
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  Speaker 2: guys so we can get what we got out of
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  Speaker 2: them a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: In talking to Uchenna, I mean, this was like the
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  Speaker 1: first time in three years that he didn't spend the
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  Speaker 1: entire off season rehabbing.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see a better version of him this upcoming year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, cornerbacks. This is interesting. You keep only five.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is Julian Neal, who might not be
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  Speaker 1: healthy enough to start the season. Another one is Avery Smith,
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  Speaker 1: who they just acquired this offseason. Another is Nehemiah Pritchett,
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  Speaker 1: who might have been as criticized as anybody. in training
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  Speaker 1: camp and in the preseason. And then you've got Devin
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  Speaker 1: Witherspoon with his new money. And then Josh Jobe, the
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  Speaker 1: forgotten one. I mean, we haven't even really discussed Josh
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  Speaker 1: Jobe much. But that's your cornerback room right now. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: the most concerning group in the entire roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was the most shallow at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of training camp. I think all the activity surrounding it.
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  Speaker 2: With Diggs and Terry and Arnold and the trade for
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  Speaker 2: Avery Smith kind of confirms that Mike McDonald and John
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  Speaker 2: Snyder were thinking the same way. Pritchett, I think, is
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  Speaker 2: an important figure here. He took the first rep with
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  Speaker 2: the starters in training camp. And there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of feeling about, remember, he was a fifth-rounder from 2024
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  Speaker 2: coming out of Auburn. And there was a thought, okay,
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  Speaker 2: he needs to get more physical. He really dedicated himself
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  Speaker 2: to the weight room. That impressed folks out there. And
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  Speaker 2: you say, okay, generally improved play comes with that. But
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  Speaker 2: then there was kind of a low-lens performance. I think
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  Speaker 2: he kind of did a little bit of a boomerang
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  Speaker 2: and came back and has played this last week or
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  Speaker 2: 10 days of camp. I think he's played better.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of been a good, bad, good impression of him. Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 2: what needs to be said, not much. He's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best players in the NFL at his position, and
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  Speaker 2: he's arguably the emotional leader of the team. Josh Jobe,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is just kind of solid, a guy that
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  Speaker 2: a good quarterback will think, hey, I can go after 29.
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  Speaker 2: that'll be a game plan for guys. So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how he responds there. So, so I think the cornerback
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  Speaker 2: position you could just say is, is kind of almost
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  Speaker 2: in flux would be a, a way to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: But there's some star power with Witherspoon and, and some
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  Speaker 2: young guys that may come on, haven't seen anything from
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  Speaker 2: Julian Neal, third round pick, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you start to say Shaquille, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just O'Neal comes in. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. Shaq Griffin was a third rounder and
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  Speaker 2: started and played very well as a rookie. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: Julian Neal is hiding something from us that he'll pop maybe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, midseason and beyond. But at this point, you
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  Speaker 2: just kind of feel like there's too much activity, too
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  Speaker 2: many spinning plates to feel great about it. But lost
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  Speaker 2: in all this, is remember how talent this damn team is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I, I just saw the ESPN, their
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  Speaker 2: power rankings. It came up. That's the front thing on
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  Speaker 2: their website. Well, the Rams are number one and the
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  Speaker 2: power rankings, the Seahawks are number two. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not surprising. So, so, um, they're the, all of these
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  Speaker 2: concerns we talk about, we got to say, well, concerns
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  Speaker 2: within the, the acknowledgement that it's a damn talented roster.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: And so the corners you could, fit that description as well.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Not only do I want to see Shaquille O'Neal in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: pads and a Seahawks helmet, I want to see him
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: line up, march him on the field, and then he
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: plays corner of all positions.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, corner, yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Let's see Shaquille O'Neal play corner.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: That wouldn't be where I'd put him. If Myers doesn't
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: start making... pats i want to see if he can
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: kick but um but uh i would i'd love to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: on the one yard line just let him play uh
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you know flex him out like a big tight end
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and that'd be a mighty big tight end and let
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: him go stand in the end zone and just throw
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: it up uh yeah i think he might be able
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to come down with a ball or two but um
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: at any event um Got big, soft hands. Got big,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: soft hands, that guy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the safety room. You've already
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: expressed maybe your most concern for this group because of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the low number. Ty Okada, Julian Levin, Nicky Minori.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, weird. I mean, Nicky Minori had under 10 snaps
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: as a back-end safety, so to me he's not a safety.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: You call him an outside linebacker, call him a nickel,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: call him the star. There's a lot of things you
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: can call him. but you can't call them a back-end safety.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: And there's only two of them on the roster now,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Josh Jobe and Ty Okada. And so something will come
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: forth from there unless they feel like, you know, I'm
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: looking at these corners. Are any of those, could they
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: play safety? I mean, it doesn't jump out at me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: So to me, I feel like.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: even mine, uh, for those listening, not you, but Bud
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Clark was supposed to be in this group.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed. And, and, uh, uh, yeah, it's fair to
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: remind everybody. Um, but Julian love is one of my
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: favorite players on the team. Um, you know, he's, he's
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a leader. He's very intelligent. He keeps guys lined up. Um,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: he's a pro in every sense, Ty Okada, uh, really
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: impressed in preseason last year. Uh, he, he was probably the,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you go back to 365 days ago, Chuck, the guy that, um,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: was the biggest surprise with Ty Okada, maybe, you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: him and Drake Thomas, you know, the kind of similar categories, but,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: but for Okada to have made the team and he
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: felt like he was on the back end, uh, of
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the roster, I can remember halfway through camp, you never
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: even would have projected that he'd make the team. So
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: he makes the team, and then he ends up starting,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and then he ends up playing damn well. So Ty
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Okada has been a great story. You feel solid about him,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: but you would have liked Bud Clark to be in there, like,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you know, picking away at him, and then eventually, you know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: somewhere in October, early November, you would have projected Bud
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Clark to overtake Ty Okada just from a talent standpoint.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: But you feel solid about Ty Okada. The depth is non-existent.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: And so I think there's going to be something is
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: going to change between now and even when you play
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the Patriots there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Final three.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: We did it, by the way. Specialists, Michael Dixon, punter,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Jason Myers, kicker.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And if you were ever going to era, I don't
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: think in all my years doing with you, have you
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: ever done a segment where you ranted about the long snapper?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Here's your opportunity to really crush Chris Stoll between your
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: analytical fingers if you'd like to do it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you keep waiting on that, Chuck. Michael Dixon, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: don't think I'd trade him for a punter in the league.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I haven't gone to school hard on that, so maybe
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm overlooking, but he's just been phenomenal. There's a versatility.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: There's an athleticism. He has a very unique style. It's
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the anti-Ray guy style for those– uh, old timers like me, uh,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you know, Ray guy used to, you know, kick his
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: leg in and go way, you know, way above his head,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you know, this beautiful fall through Michael Dixon just kind
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of punches at it. Uh, and, but somehow he's just
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: so twitchy that he can get as much distance as
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: he wants with, with no follow through. It's a very, uh,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: unique style of punting, but he's a hell of an athlete.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: He's a hell of a punter. He's got, he's got
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Frisbee punts. He's got all kinds of things to make
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: guys miss. So, So he is elite. He is an
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: elite punter in the National Football League. Jason Myers, we
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: think of maybe not elite, but very, very, very good.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: He did not have a very, very, very good preseason.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned if there is a game winner against the Patriots,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: where his head's at. We already went into that in detail.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Won't review that, but arguably the Seahawks are 2-1 in
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the preseason. If Myers has the type of preseason that
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: we would have expected from him and he would have
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: expected of himself. So he's got to get things turned
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: around and not be losing games.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: All right, man.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Great stuff. Awesome.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We did it. We got through the entire roster. Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Nice work. Yeah.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: All good. Yeah. Go Hawks. This is fun. All right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon, man.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Rock and roll.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: There he is. Hugh Mellon, our QB1 with a special
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback session, not just wrapping up the preseason,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: but breaking down the entire roster for you in one
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: convenient segment.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't even think we could do it, and we
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: pulled it off.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: It was miraculous.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: By gum.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, that means we do have
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: one more fat segment here this morning to talk about
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: those Mariners again. So we'll get into that next on KJR.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I do want to let you know that, yeah, the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: start of the regular season is coming next Wednesday.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Everybody knew that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I knew that. What you didn't know is that you
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: could go to a party at a really awesome place, and.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: It's going to be hosted by Ashley Ryan.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That's me.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: September 9th, Tulalip Amphitheater. So you're going outside in the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: amphitheater to show this thing on the big screen.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Apparently, that's how popular Seahawks... I guess a lot of
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: people like the Seahawks, Chuck.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: There's at least 12.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: At least 12, and that means outdoors.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: 3,000 seating capacity, so don't worry. Invite yourself and everyone
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you know. Because there's going to be room out there
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: for thousands at the amphitheater. And you get to sit
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: outside and enjoy the festivities. There are going to be
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: prizes there. Ashley's presence. Tulalip Amphitheater. They're waiting for you. EverythingTulalip.com.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: When all you want is everything.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Tulalip Resort Casino.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll tell you more details about that later
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: on in the week. Let's talk about the Mariners some more.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: We did start the show. First two segments of the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: show today were about the Mariners. We also did the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: ABCs earlier. And then since like 7.05, it's been mostly
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Seahawks and roster. And of course, a Monday morning quarterback
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: session with Hugh Millen. But obviously, this is at the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: top of mind for a lot of sports fans here
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in town. And so just going to go back to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: our thoughts that we shared a little bit earlier in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the show. I believe that that was the worst weekend
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of Mariners baseball that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Recall, um, and I might be prisoner of the moment.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I've been here 11 years and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: there've been a lot of Mondays where we've cracked these
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: mics and been very disappointed with the Mariners weekend and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the Mariners performance. And I'm not talking about heartbroken. I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: not talking about, um, you know, when you, when George
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Springer Springer does, uh, I'm talking about just like, like,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: like Ashley said earlier, just like that is just so disappointing.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I would have thought you got to Toronto and as
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a team would be chewing through the walls to get
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: at the Toronto Blue Jays this weekend. Instead, you get
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: blown out on Friday. You have to pitch Emerson Hancock beyond.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, he clearly was injured, but because we have
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a manager that doesn't know how to manage a bullpen,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: we can't take a starting pitcher out. In the second
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: or third inning, we probably just quit, probably just walk
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: off the field if that occurred. And so had to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pitch Emerson Hancock while he was injured, not just hurt,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: but injured. And then that game got away from them,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and they lose it in blowout fashion on Friday.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Then on Saturday, a little.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Bounce back, something that they have done this year quite well.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: When they get embarrassed, when they have one of those
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: truly embarrassing games, they typically come back the next day
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and play well. Looked like you were on the path
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: for that, up 3-0. And then Edward Bazzardo fills in
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: for Kate Anderson, takes on very little traffic, no big deal,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: should be able to get out of this inning. And
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: he pitched scared. He would not throw a strike to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays' top hitters. He just kept working completely
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: off of the plate and getting them to chase to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the point where against George Springer, and there's a history
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: between those two, Um, he just threw one 10 feet
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: outside rather than risk giving up a grand slam, throws
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: one to the backstop. And then, so you got to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this point because of fear, uh, And then all of
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a sudden, stupidity takes over. Just absolutely no awareness of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: his surroundings. Cal's rushing to get to the ball because
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he knows that runner might score from second base. Never
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: even crossed Bazzardo's mind that his catcher is hustling and
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: trying to get him the ball back. Why are you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: doing that, Cal?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: We didn't have a chance to get that runner at third.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: We're fine.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And from that point forward, I mean, the air was
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: just out of the balloon. You ended up just losing
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: by a run. Jose Ferrer actually didn't pitch all that bad.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: A couple of blue-seeing-eye jobs by the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But the Bazzardo moment, the next 15 innings of baseball,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it's like they weren't even there. It's like there were
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: ghosts on the field in the everyday lineup. To get
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: one hit by Max Scherzer... and his 6.5 ERA, throwing 92,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: 93 miles per hour, and yet you're late to fastballs
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and absolutely in over your head over any kind of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: breaking stuff that he threw. He just toyed with them
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: for seven innings, allowed one hit. It was gross from
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the weekend to the end of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: weekend and at the absolute worst time to be at
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: your worst.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and everybody knows Max Scherzer, and he has been,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: you know, at moments, several, lots of moments, dominant in
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: his career, but that's not who he is right now,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: and we made him look like a Cy Young contender,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and it was frustrating. You said, you know, it felt
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: like the air was let out of the balloon, and
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's a very good way to put it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: It just felt, you felt deflated watching it, and I
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: feel like we've had those moments several times this year,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: but now as we are here on the last day
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: of August... it feels heavier than it has at any
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: point this year, for sure. Because this is, you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: coming off the last two weeks of baseball, you had
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: quite a bit of hope going into the series that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: they could at least win the series. I wasn't thinking
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: they were going to sweep the Blue Jays, but I
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: thought they'd win the series and to get swept by
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: It's just disappointing, deflating, all of those things.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: And it's not over. I mean, five games back, nine
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: games under.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It should be.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: It should be over, but it's not. But it is
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: going to require some streak of significance.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Something, yeah.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you bounce back and you take three
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: from the Boston Red Sox because they're so weird of
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a team and of an organization, they do stuff like this.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Um, you, you, you get that back. I mean, I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: know softy and I went into the week and thinking, Hey,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I'm okay. Three and three like to get four out
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of two, but three and three, you do that. Stay
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: within three games of the Astros with what? 20 to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: play and a really soft schedule the rest of the way. Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: That's, that's quite doable.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But at this stage, having lost all three of them,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: five games back, nine games under. and obviously playing terrible
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: baseball again, and taking on a team that has a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: lot to play for in the Boston Red Sox, it
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: certainly doesn't look good whatsoever. So for Dan Wilson to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: say we're running out of time, it's a tough one.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think he has any answers right now for
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: how to get this team to where it needs to go. Otherwise,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: they would have shown up over the weekend.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Starting on Friday.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: I would have thought.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: And I just, I cannot figure how over and over
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: and over this team just seems to lose whatever momentum
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: they gain.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: It is like a curse and I cannot figure it out.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: You are so right. I don't think I've ever seen
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: anything like it. It's it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: There's my history of watching sports.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: It's baffling. There's no way to explain it. I just
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: can't understand it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the moment that it feels like, okay,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Eight out of your last 13 against really good competition.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: You really do want to get there. You really do
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: want to overcome all of these struggles. And it's as
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: if they didn't get off the plane.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. In Canada.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Only Cal did.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Pretty much.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Cal. Yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Logan.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Logan for sure. I thought Logan actually showed a lot
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of grit yesterday.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Brock Rodden.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know any other way. Brock Rodden. He doesn't
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: know any other way to play. Other than that, it
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: looked like every swing on a fastball was.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Made underwater against Max Scherzer yesterday.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was disappointing.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was hugely disappointing.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So Red Sox starting tonight, and again, based off of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: what I've seen all season, and then this weekend, we
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: don't stand a chance against Peyton Tolley. 6'6, throws a 98-99,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: just comes after you, left-handed pitcher.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: It's our kryptonite.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: No nonsense.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Like, that guy?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: That guy probably dominates us. But this weird-ass team might
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: score 17 runs against him. All right, coming up next,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: one last thing, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: KJR FM.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, Greg Bell coming up at the top of the hour.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: He's going to empty the notebook today for you in
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: regards to all the Seahawks news that we've dealt with
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: this morning. 53-man roster set, and yet it's fluid. There's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of injuries on that roster right now, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: who knows? It looks like there's some small, small groupings
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: at some positions. So, Greg, we'll have the absolute latest
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: for you coming up. including what's going on with Terry
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: and Arnold at 10 o'clock with Jessamyn McIntyre. We're going
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to close out this Monday show with one last thing.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Ashley, what you got?
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I always look forward to fall. We
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: talk about it all the time that fall is our
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: favorite season.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: And this weekend I started.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: To kind of get into the fall vibes. And I
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: think it was because preseason ended and I was like,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: and then we had college football on on Saturday. Yes.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: And it was a little cooler. It wasn't in the 80s.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: You know, the light kind of changes a little bit
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: in the evening.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: On Saturday night, it was chilly.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I sat outside with a blanket in red. And I almost,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I was this close to putting out pumpkin candles.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: But I stopped myself. I will wait until tomorrow. But
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Wait till tomorrow.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I did change out the baseball soap in the guest
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: bathroom to football soap because we are officially in football season.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: That's a reflection on you, Dan Wilson.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I thought, you know what?
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: We're moving on to football season. I'm not giving up
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: on you, but you don't get the soap.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You do not get the soap. Nope. You don't get
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: the toilet paper signed by Cal Rodgers.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Not right now. It's not Caloween right now.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: So September 1st, like you're saying, I have to wait
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: until September 1st to start really.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Putting out the fall stuff?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Is that the theory behind it?
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you wanted to do it this
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: evening so you woke up to it tomorrow, I don't
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: think anyone's going to judge you. Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I've already had a taste for pumpkin. I now go
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: get pumpkin pancakes almost every Saturday morning.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: That sounds delicious.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're so good.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: My mom got a pumpkin spice latte yesterday. And I
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: was like, oh, the PSL, it's here. It's here.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: That usually is a big fall indicator right there.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: It is, and I will commend. I know people, nobody
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: likes Starbucks.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Or not nobody, but a lot of people are angry
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: with Starbucks. But I will commend them on this.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Usually, or in the past, like last two years, I
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: think in a row, they've put the PSL out in
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: like the beginning of August.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: That is way too early. I think it just came
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: out last week. That's much more appropriate.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's better.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: So thank you for your patience on that.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your appropriate nature.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to close with this. So I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: told you I was going to talk about my movie day. Yes.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: For the end of the show.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So Friday, I did Tacoma Friday.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: It was our last one. Thank you, Riley. Thank you, Riley.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And so I get out there, I have lunch, and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: then what I typically do, I take my laptop and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I do some writing and I drink a lot of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: coffee to keep myself awake because I usually take a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: nap every day and I blow that off on my
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Tacoma Fridays. Well, I get done with coffee, dessert, even
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: at a sugar rush, and I get my laptop out
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm starting to fall asleep. Uh-oh.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, what can I do for three hours?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I got three plus hours to kill before I'm on
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: with Softie and Dick at five o'clock. And so I'm like,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you know what? I think there's a movie theater right
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: down the street. So I still hadn't seen The Odyssey
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and I knew it was three hours long.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: So I look up. to see if they have a showing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: 1.30.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, perfect.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's meant to be.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: 1.30 to 4.30. I'm a mile away from the theater
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: right now where I'm having lunch.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: It was meant to be. So I'll do that. Movie
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: will be done at 4.30. I drive over to Cheney.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'm there with 15 minutes to spare, 10 minutes to spare.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So I sit down in my seat, and I forgot
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: how long previews are now.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, God, so long.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: 20 minutes, 25 minutes of previews, and I'm like, oh
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: my gosh. I'm going to have to pick a time
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: at the end of this movie to leave.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be able to see the ending.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Oh. I just got to figure out when that's going
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to be. And I'm like, I'm cutting it off at 4.30.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: That's when I'm going to go.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: And sure enough, I hadn't even seen Twilight die yet.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: If you can't figure that out, you're a dope.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And so I'm like literally standing in the aisle way
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: toward the door, like behind the partition. Yeah. And watching
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the movie standing so that I can escape. And I
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: know I'm not going to get to see it all. Right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: But I have to choose.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: So I stayed to like 540. I pushed it to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: like 540. Wow. Got out to my car 545. Going
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: ahead and put Cheney Stadium in my GPS so I
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: have the exact direct route. Yeah. Says I'm going to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: take 15 minutes to get there and it's 545. So
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I might be able to still time this out perfectly.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: So even though I didn't get to see the end
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: of the movie, still haven't. I get there, and it
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: is a straight shot. I don't have any dopes in
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: front of me. Like, it is a straight shot. And
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm making such good time.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: And actually a minute or two kind of comes off.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And I get to the bottom of the hill, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the stadium is right there. And I get behind a
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: woman that refuses to take a right on a red.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're just yelling.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, what are we doing?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And she's got three kids, so I'm not yelling at her,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: but I am.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Frustrated.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Like, why are we not turning? I'm going to make this.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: If you will just go.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: You get a little gutsy.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: And you know something? I look down. Hand to God.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. She was driving a Honda Odyssey.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. That's pretty funny.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know what?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: If Matt Damon can wait out a Cyclops who just
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: ate some of his friends in a cave, then I
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: can be patient with a mother of three driving her
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: minivan after school. So if I'm late, I'm late. It's
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: no big deal. Have a very comfortable drive.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Yes enjoy your pilot seats so there you go that
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: was my movie oh my gosh so now you have
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: so now you have to go back and watch the
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: whole thing.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sneak in i'm gonna go watch another movie
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: at some point and then sneak in and watch the
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: end of it And another theater at some point. But
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I had to do it pretty quickly. But it was
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: It was really good.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: The first three quarters of it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I missed probably ten minutes. Oh, that's all. I
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: saw almost all of it. I just missed like ten minutes. Okay.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: That'll do it for us. Greg and Jess, I'm in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: her next. We'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
• 40:02
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• 40:05
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