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Chuck & Buck 6-2 Hour 3: One Series with Rob Staton, Baseball Brunch and the trade. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: For one entire interview, and it is good to bring
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Speaker 1: never had this guest on during our Seahawks one series,
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Speaker 1: and I'm excited about it because I've heard him talk
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Speaker 1: Seahawks all the time. I also do find it very curious, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: why all of the young, handsome journalists that come on
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Speaker 1: our radio program always want to do zoom calls, so
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Speaker 1: I have to look at my old haggard face next
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Speaker 1: to theirs.
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Speaker 2: Seems to be a trend.
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Speaker 3: Think you just answered your own question, though you know
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Speaker 3: exactly why they do it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're rubbing it in my face. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Buddy Youth You. Yeah, I think that's what's happening. Joining
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Speaker 1: us on the program. He is the senior sports journalist
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Speaker 1: at BBC Sheffield. He talks Seahawks across the Pond. He
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Speaker 1: has a Seahawks blog and you hear him a lot
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Speaker 1: here in Seattle. Rob Staton is with us here on
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Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 2: How are you man?
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Speaker 4: Fantastic Chuck it.
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Speaker 5: It's it's great to be with you, and also to
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Speaker 5: know that you are another person in America who can't
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Speaker 5: help but introduce somebody from England without doing a British accent?
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Speaker 2: Did I do it? Did I slip into it? He
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Speaker 2: did it?
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Speaker 4: Slyly slip into just a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Ashley's mom's British, so I feel like through her allowed,
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Speaker 1: I'm allowed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's got to be.
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Speaker 4: It's fun. I like it. I like it as long
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Speaker 4: as you know, I'm not gonna say yeeha.
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Speaker 5: Or anything join this interview, so it's a one way
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Speaker 5: street in that regard.
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Speaker 1: You know what, though, I think I might have the
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Speaker 1: best one of anyone you've ever heard.
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Speaker 5: It's pretty good. It's pretty good. That's that's a Southern accent.
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Speaker 5: So I'm in the north, so I you know, I'm
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Speaker 5: kind of.
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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Can Liverpool.
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Speaker 5: If you've ever watched Game of Throes. I'm in the
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Speaker 5: Winterval area and that's more in the south. But it's
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Speaker 5: a very good British accent that you.
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Speaker 2: Oh good, you court me too.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Rober, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 2: He's getting now uncomfortable with it.
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Speaker 1: I at first I was just playing along, but now
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Speaker 1: we need to stop and.
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Speaker 2: Talk about the Seahawks. All right, Well, it's great to
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Speaker 2: have you on.
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Speaker 1: I will be careful with my British accent in the future,
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Speaker 1: I promise. But let's uh, let's launch into this thing.
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Speaker 1: So who have you chosen? You had anyone but Byron
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Speaker 1: Murphy that you could have broken down with us today.
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Speaker 1: What Seahawk player do you want to talk about for
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Speaker 1: the next fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 5: I have picked DeMarcus Lawrence. He is perhaps my favorite
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Speaker 5: player on the team at the moment, and I never
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Speaker 5: waste an opportunity to talk positively about DeMarcus Lawrence.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, I definitely want to get into it.
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Speaker 1: But speaking of defensive ends, I got to get your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on what happened yesterday Miles Garrett to the Rams.
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Speaker 5: Your reaction, I'm really disappointed by that news. I think
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Speaker 5: a lot of Seahawks fans will be. I genuinely think
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Speaker 5: this is an amazing move by the Rams. I don't
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Speaker 5: take any pleasure in saying that. When you can take
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Speaker 5: the argue with the best player in the NFL, certainly
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Speaker 5: the best defensive player in the NFL, and you put
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Speaker 5: him with a Sean McVay offense with Matthew Stafford. If
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Speaker 5: they both stay healthy, Stafford and Miles Garrett, the Rams
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Speaker 5: are going to be the team to be next season.
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Speaker 5: They are going to be incredibly difficult. It doesn't mean
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Speaker 5: that they're guaranteed to win anything. Doesn't mean that they're
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Speaker 5: going to win the NFC West or the Super Bowl
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Speaker 5: or anything like that. But you can't help but think
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Speaker 5: this is a great deal for the Rams. I think
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Speaker 5: they've got good value from the trade. I think it's
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Speaker 5: it's going to make life harder for the Seahawks and
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Speaker 5: the Niners in that vision, and he kind of wonder,
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Speaker 5: is there anything the Seahawks can do between now and
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Speaker 5: the start of the season to throw a counterpunchhit?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, would you do something or do you look at
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks and say, man, things are going really well.
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Speaker 1: I mean, world champs, young team, good cap situation. Just
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Speaker 1: stay the course and win the race and the long
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Speaker 1: term I.
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Speaker 5: Think I would be prepared to do something if it's
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Speaker 5: for the right reasons. You can't just react to the
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Speaker 5: Rams trading for Miles Garrett and then feel like you've
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Speaker 5: got to do something and then overspend in a trade.
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Speaker 5: But if you get to let's say six weeks into
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Speaker 5: the season and the Las Vegas Raiders are struggling again
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Speaker 5: and they think, do you know what, we need to
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Speaker 5: look for more draft stock and we need to make
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Speaker 5: more of an investment in the future, we are going
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Speaker 5: to review trading Max Crosby again. We'll see what's out there.
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Speaker 5: I'd be very interested in doing something like that. I'm
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Speaker 5: not sure that's the kind of deal you can be
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Speaker 5: able to strike now. It's probably something that's down the line,
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Speaker 5: maybe even when the season starts. As a mention, So yeah,
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Speaker 5: very open minded about doing something. I'm just not sure
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Speaker 5: how possible that is today or before training camp.
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Speaker 1: Rob Staton is with us. I know you've heard and
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Speaker 1: read Rob's work. He blogs, so the Seahawks works over
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Speaker 1: a BBC Sheffield and he's I mean, he's wearing a
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Speaker 1: Seahawks hat on our zoom call. For goodness sake, this
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Speaker 1: man loves himself some Seattle Seahawks, So it's great to
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Speaker 1: have him on to do our Seahawks one series. And
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Speaker 1: as he's already mentioned, he is going to break down
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Speaker 1: for us today DeMarcus Lawrence. So what ran through your mind?
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Speaker 1: Being a DeMarcus Lawrence admirer, when we were hearing in
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Speaker 1: the offseason that he was contemplating stepping away from the
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Speaker 1: game and ending with a championship.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, very concerned about that because I don't think you
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Speaker 5: can replace DeMarcus Lawrence with a rookie. So when there
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Speaker 5: was taught that he might retire and you're looking at
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Speaker 5: some of these players that were available in the draft,
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Speaker 5: you're thinking, no one is going to come into this
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Speaker 5: team and he's going to be able to replace his leadership,
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Speaker 5: his presence, his physicality versus the rule. There were not
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Speaker 5: many great options in free agency as well, so it
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Speaker 5: was a concern. Now they've got good players on the roster.
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Speaker 5: I think Derek Cole potentially could be the air apparent
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Speaker 5: to DeMarcus Lawrence. And could be the long term version
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Speaker 5: of what Delau provides for the Seahawks. But right now
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Speaker 5: and here and now, in terms of your best chances
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Speaker 5: of getting back to a Super Bowl next season, you
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Speaker 5: needed DeMarcus Lawrence, so that was a concern. I think
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Speaker 5: him revealing last week that he is going to be
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Speaker 5: playing next season and that he's not retiring, was the
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Speaker 5: best piece of information the Seks could have got this offseason.
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Speaker 5: It's not been particularly eventful. They've not made any big trades.
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Speaker 5: They've replaced the players they lost in free agency in
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Speaker 5: the draft. I think the big news, the most positive
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Speaker 5: news they could have had. They did have last week,
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Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence returning for the twenty twenty six season.
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Speaker 1: And it didn't sound like he was all that serious
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Speaker 1: about it. It sounds like a story kind of ran
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Speaker 1: them up this offseason and he just didn't take the
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Speaker 1: time to squelch it. I mean, that was my interpretation, Rob.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about yours, but I'm not sure DeMarcus
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Speaker 1: Lawrence was thinking about hanging it up. And after watching
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Speaker 1: him kind of own the streets during our Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: parade with his shirt off and he looked like he
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Speaker 1: was having a better time than anyone else out there.
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Speaker 1: I would have been shocked had he not returned to
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Speaker 1: this football team.
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Speaker 5: Well, firstly, if Violen's as good as Debarcus Lawrence without
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Speaker 5: my shirts and I would never wear a shirt like
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Speaker 5: I would just walk around shirtless the whole time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so going to get produce, Yeah, no big deal.
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Speaker 4: Well welcome to him for that.
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Speaker 5: But I don't know, because he's just had a child.
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Speaker 5: You get to a point in your life playing in
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Speaker 5: the NFL. I've never been an NFL player, so I'm
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Speaker 5: not speaking from experience it at all, but I imagine
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Speaker 5: it's a bit like running into a brick wall every week,
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Speaker 5: seventeen times a year, and it will take a lot
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Speaker 5: out of you. He's played for a long time, He's
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Speaker 5: had some injuries in his career. Even last season he
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Speaker 5: missed a couple of games. So I do think that
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Speaker 5: when you get to his age, you are probably constantly
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Speaker 5: thinking about whether you want to come back and play
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Speaker 5: another year. And when you win the Super Bowl, it
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Speaker 5: would be the perfect time if you are thinking of retiring,
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Speaker 5: to go out on a high. But then I also
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Speaker 5: imagine that for some people moving away from something that's
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Speaker 5: been a huge part of your life, and then sudden
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Speaker 5: deciding you're going to do something completely different is a
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Speaker 5: huge decision as well.
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Speaker 4: And if he just loves playing.
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Speaker 5: The game and enjoys the game, he's maybe taking his
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Speaker 5: time to give this real careful consideration. And then it's thought,
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Speaker 5: of course, I'm going to play like I'm going to
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Speaker 5: come back. I want to play again. I love playing
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Speaker 5: with this team. He said that last season he'd had
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Speaker 5: more fun than at any point in his career. It
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Speaker 5: feels like a really close connected group. He's playing for
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Speaker 5: an amazing, defensive.
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Speaker 4: Minded head coach.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, really great news that he's coming back and
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Speaker 5: the Seahawks are going to really need him next season.
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Speaker 1: Rab Staton is whether we're doing our Seahawks one series,
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Speaker 1: one analyst breaking down one key Seahawk player for one
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Speaker 1: entire interview. And he's a recruiter, obviously played a hand
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Speaker 1: in bringing over Dante Fowler. Your thoughts on that, and
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Speaker 1: then secondary gar the bigger picture. You know, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about Miles Garrett to start this interview. He's joined the division.
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Speaker 1: This team's lost boy a mafe in the offseason. Not
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Speaker 1: that he was a huge contributor to the sack total
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Speaker 1: here in Seattle, but it's one player off of your
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Speaker 1: front seven grouping. So just talk about him recruiting Fouler
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Speaker 1: and if that's enough to keep this pass rush elite.
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Speaker 5: Well, they absolutely needed somebody else, and Dante Fowler of
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Speaker 5: the remaining options, was one of the most attractive in
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Speaker 5: terms of pure pressures last season. He was still very
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Speaker 5: productive and has been for some time. Whether he's got
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Speaker 5: enough juice left to be the kind of player that
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Speaker 5: we became familiar with when he was playing for the
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Speaker 5: Rams previously, I don't know whether that's going to be enough.
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Speaker 4: Again, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Boya Mafe did not get a lot of sacks last year,
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Speaker 5: but he was reasonable when it came to precious. If
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Speaker 5: the can replace that, then they may feel somewhat confident
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Speaker 5: that they can get this done. But they did need
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Speaker 5: somebody else. And it seems that the impact of Adam
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Speaker 5: Dirty is really underrated as well.
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Speaker 4: He played a.
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Speaker 5: Big part in DeMarcus Lawrence come in to Seattle a
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Speaker 5: year ago. They worked together in Dallas. Dante Fowler's worked
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Speaker 5: with Adam Dirty as well. It feels as if his
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Speaker 5: influence plus DeMarcus Lawrence's has helped bring him here. The
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Speaker 5: one thing that just gives me that little bit of
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Speaker 5: pause is in the two the last two games against
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Speaker 5: the Rams, they didn't get a lot of pressure on
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Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford. They need some quick wins against Stafford and
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Speaker 5: the Rams if they are going to have a better
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Speaker 5: defensive performance in the future against that team. I'm not
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Speaker 5: sure if they've done enough to address that. I'm not
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Speaker 5: sure if Dante Fowler is enough to solve that problem.
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Speaker 5: That is going to be a key question mark when
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Speaker 5: they eventually play the Rams late in the season, as
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Speaker 5: they're going to this season twice at the end.
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Speaker 4: Of the year.
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Speaker 2: What about Lawrence's age?
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Speaker 1: As you know in the National Football League, sometimes you
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Speaker 1: can glue look good one day and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you hit that wall.
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Speaker 2: You were concerned at all that Lawrence is near the wall.
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Speaker 5: I think you always have to be conscious of that.
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Speaker 5: The one thing I do think, and I was writing
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Speaker 5: about this last week, was if you are going to
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Speaker 5: be a Super Bowl team, I think you need some
11:17
Speaker 5: experienced veteran players. And the comparison that I made was
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Speaker 5: the Philadelphia Eagles when they won their two Super Bowls
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Speaker 5: and lost the Super Bowl as well to the Chiefs
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Speaker 5: in a shootout. You know, they had the likes of
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Speaker 5: Fletcher Cox, Brandon Grahat, Jason Kelcey Lane Johnson, who obviously
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Speaker 5: is still playing now. Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham and
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Speaker 5: Kelsey probably were not at their peak performance level when
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Speaker 5: they actually got to the Super Bowl, but their ability
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Speaker 5: to have been there, done it got the t shirt
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Speaker 5: lead by example, provide a physical presence in the trenches,
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Speaker 5: be able to get up and do it week after
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Speaker 5: week after week and be really consistent is vital. And
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Speaker 5: it complements of the young players that the Eagles had.
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Speaker 5: And I think with DeMarcus Lawrence and with players like
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Speaker 5: Jaron Reid and Cooper Cup on this roster, that's why
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Speaker 5: the Sealks needed them last year, is that you've got
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Speaker 5: a lot of talented younger players. But when you've got
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Speaker 5: the two players who are barking at the rest of
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Speaker 5: the team in the tunnel before the Carolina game, who
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Speaker 5: are they? It's it's Marks Lawrence, It's Jaron Reid. Who
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Speaker 5: are the people leading the huddles? It's Jaron Reid's to
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Speaker 5: Marcus Lawrence, you need some players like this. So whether
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Speaker 5: or not he's going to hit a wall in the future.
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Speaker 5: As you quietly said, when he's walking around with his
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Speaker 5: shirts off, the guy doesn'tok like he's going to hit
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Speaker 5: a wall. That yeah, I mean, he looks better than
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Speaker 5: a lot of these college students who are coming into
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Speaker 5: the league age twenty one, So don't I don't worry
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Speaker 5: too much about that. Injuries eventually will catch up with you,
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Speaker 5: but I'm confident that he can give us another season
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Speaker 5: of football here.
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Speaker 1: What do you think is his greatest attribute? If you
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Speaker 1: are listing them. He has numerous ones, But is it
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Speaker 1: something tangible or intangible? Is it leadership or is it physicality?
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Speaker 1: What would you rank as DeMarcus Lawrence's main attribute?
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Speaker 5: I think the main thing is is we saw what
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Speaker 5: helped the Sealk to be such a productive past rush
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Speaker 5: team last year was that they could rush with for
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Speaker 5: whatever the situation, and that allowed them to play nick
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Speaker 5: emun worry as this kind of roaming hybrid player who
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Speaker 5: could almost act like a Sam linebacker some of the
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Speaker 5: time and then drop into coverage and other times. And
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Speaker 5: the reason they could do that is because they've got
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Speaker 5: the four upfront. The not having some blitzer as much
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Speaker 5: that having to put extra bodies into the pass rush,
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Speaker 5: and you can only do that if your front four
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Speaker 5: a very good against the run and the pass, and
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Speaker 5: having somebody like DeMarcus Lawrence who can line up. If
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Speaker 5: I was an offensive tackle and I'm looking across at
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Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence, I'm not thinking this is going to be
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Speaker 5: an easy day for me. He's going to make your
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Speaker 5: life a misery against the run, and then he's going
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Speaker 5: to provide some pass rushability as well. So he is
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Speaker 5: a complete edge rusher. He's not the biggest, he's not
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Speaker 5: two hundred and seventy five pounds, but he kind of
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Speaker 5: plays like he is versus the run. So you've got that,
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Speaker 5: you've got some pass rush. He provided big plays. Think
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Speaker 5: of those two touchdowns he got against Arizona the sat
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Speaker 5: fumble again Minnesota's was one of the best plays of
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Speaker 5: the season. Even if it was against a very inexperienced quarterback.
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Speaker 5: Still that's going and make the play. Those are the
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Speaker 5: kind of moments he provides, as well as doing the
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Speaker 5: dirty work that he needed defensive linemen to do, defend
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Speaker 5: the run, set a tone up front, be physical, mate
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Speaker 5: life difficult for the other team. He definitely does that
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Speaker 5: along with all the leadership qualities he has, and he's
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Speaker 5: got that alpha presence. He's very experienced, and it's just
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Speaker 5: to get off the bus kind of player, isn't he.
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Speaker 5: He gets off the bus the other team though they're
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Speaker 5: in for a battle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting he said that because when he was
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Speaker 1: when he when the Seas acquired him.
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Speaker 2: And I saw the weight.
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Speaker 1: You know, you start doing your little research and you
14:41
Speaker 1: want to pass on the information on the airwaves, and
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Speaker 1: so I saw the height and weight and I'm like, wait, no,
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Speaker 1: that can't be right. He's much bigger than that, isn't he.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about him, but he
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Speaker 1: plays a lot bigger than he actually is. I mean,
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Speaker 1: even to this day, I got to watch him every
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Speaker 1: snap this past season. I'd still I still think he
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Speaker 1: looks like a two hundred and seventy five pound player.
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Speaker 1: He just seems to impact the game from a physical
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Speaker 1: standpoint more so than his weight suggests.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm about one hundred and ninety pounds and
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Speaker 5: his six pat looks like it weighs as much as
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Speaker 5: I know, So I don't really understand how he's like
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Speaker 5: two fifty or something like that. I mean, the guy
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Speaker 5: looks about two seventy pounds. Yeah, and it's all muscles.
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Speaker 5: He's got muscles on muscles as of he so he
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Speaker 5: looks big, and yet he's got that still got that
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Speaker 5: extra bit of quickness to get around the edge. If
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Speaker 5: you think about the play against the Rams in the
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Speaker 5: NFC Championship game where Stafford actually got away from him
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Speaker 5: just kind of slipped through the tackle and got a
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Speaker 5: first down on fourth down. The quickness that he showed
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Speaker 5: on that play, you know, deep into an NFC Championship
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Speaker 5: right at the end of the season, shows that's where
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Speaker 5: the maybe the two fifty shows up.
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Speaker 4: He is still a quick player.
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Speaker 5: He can win off the edge, but he just looks bigger,
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Speaker 5: doesn't He does look to seventy two seventy five. And
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Speaker 5: in some of these games, particularly when you get into
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Speaker 5: the into the playoffs, it is about lining up and
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Speaker 5: being more physically in the trenches.
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Speaker 4: The fourteen nineers couldn't.
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Speaker 5: Handle Seattle in Week eighteen or in the playoffs because
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Speaker 5: Seattle were just bigger, tougher, stronger in the trenches.
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Speaker 4: And you need people like DeMarcus Lawrence to have that.
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Speaker 5: It's great having the Abdul Carters and the Micah Parsons's.
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Speaker 5: You know, the undersize, they're quick, they can create sacks
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Speaker 5: and pressures. That's great. You need those kind of players
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Speaker 5: as well. But if you're going to be a winning
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Speaker 5: team in the playoffs, you need people like DeMarcus Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Seahawks have won the Super Bowl without DeMarcus
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Speaker 1: Lawrence last year.
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Speaker 4: No, they wouldn't.
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Speaker 5: And that's something I wrote about. They wouldn't have won
16:31
Speaker 5: the super Bowl with that. I think he and Cooper
16:33
Speaker 5: Cup if you look at the stat sheet, like he
16:35
Speaker 5: had six sacks, he had, I think thirty nine pressures.
16:38
Speaker 4: He's not Miles Garrett.
16:39
Speaker 5: You know, he's not twenty three sacks there and seventy
16:42
Speaker 5: pressures or whatever Garrett had.
16:43
Speaker 4: But you do need that kind of player.
16:46
Speaker 5: There isn't, like you mentioned, an intangible quality to someone
16:49
Speaker 5: like DeMarcus Lawrence. The same with Cooper Cup. You know,
16:51
Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jig Burt got all the yards, got
16:54
Speaker 5: all the touchdowns, bought Cooper Cup's ability to go to
16:58
Speaker 5: a young receiver room and even to speak to Jackson
17:00
Speaker 5: Smith and Jig Brins say, look when I'm having a
17:03
Speaker 5: two thousand yard season, this is what I do. I'm
17:05
Speaker 5: going to turn up every single day. I'm going to
17:07
Speaker 5: go to OTAs. I'm going to look after my body
17:09
Speaker 5: at my age. I'm going to be ultra professional and
17:12
Speaker 5: I'm going to show Tory HoTT and how to do this.
17:14
Speaker 5: I'm going to show you know, Elijah Royo coming in
17:17
Speaker 5: as a rookie, how to do this. I'm going to
17:18
Speaker 5: show someone like Jackson's beIN Jigbet how I've done things
17:21
Speaker 5: to have the career that I've had.
17:23
Speaker 4: You need those players.
17:24
Speaker 5: The secret weapon for Seattle last season was definitely their
17:29
Speaker 5: professionalism and their commitment to we're going to do this
17:33
Speaker 5: as a team together, and we're going to be serious
17:35
Speaker 5: and business like from day one. And when you're watching
17:37
Speaker 5: the clips over and the photos from OTAs this year
17:40
Speaker 5: and the voluntary stuff that the Seahus did, and you
17:43
Speaker 5: see their key players turning up, their big names, their
17:46
Speaker 5: veteran players who had told you don't have to be here,
17:48
Speaker 5: and they still turn up anyway. That's a difference maker
17:51
Speaker 5: compared to some of these other teams where they're flashier players.
17:54
Speaker 5: Will we sat at home on a couch on a
17:56
Speaker 5: beach watching TV doing something else, maybe even the case
17:59
Speaker 5: of can occur doing things it shouldn't necessarily be doing.
18:02
Speaker 5: You know, the Seugs have not got that kind of mindset,
18:05
Speaker 5: and you don't have that mindset without a player like
18:08
Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence.
18:09
Speaker 1: I sure hope you have some mates over there that
18:11
Speaker 1: love American football as much as you do. I just
18:14
Speaker 1: don't want to picture you sitting alone every Sunday by yourself,
18:17
Speaker 1: because you can't find in a field of soccer fans
18:20
Speaker 1: enough for American football fans to watch games with.
18:23
Speaker 2: Do you what's the situation?
18:26
Speaker 4: Do you know what it's. It's probably the fastest growing
18:28
Speaker 4: sport in England.
18:30
Speaker 5: So nothing's ever gonna top soccer, you know, football as
18:33
Speaker 5: we call it over here. That's that's always going to
18:35
Speaker 5: be the number one sport. But you then got some
18:38
Speaker 5: of the traditional other English sports, your crickets, your rugbies
18:41
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. I had to say, they don't
18:44
Speaker 5: market themselves very well and their popularity is waning.
18:47
Speaker 4: And then you've got the NFL. It's just growing and
18:49
Speaker 4: growing and growing.
18:51
Speaker 5: When I moved back, I used to live in canadays
18:53
Speaker 5: to live in Vancouver, and then I moved back here
18:55
Speaker 5: and if I saw an NFL Jersey, it was a surprise,
18:58
Speaker 5: and now I can go to them all down the
19:00
Speaker 5: road from our work here in Sheffield and I'll see
19:03
Speaker 5: Seawks jerseys all the time. I'll see Sea Oorks hats.
19:05
Speaker 5: You know, they're a very popular team over here because
19:07
Speaker 5: of the lob success and the successive hand recently, they're
19:11
Speaker 5: one of the trendier teams over here. But you'll see
19:12
Speaker 5: other teams as well. So I have got a few
19:14
Speaker 5: mates who follow the NFL. It is ever Croig not
19:18
Speaker 5: enough though, which is why I have to keep going
19:19
Speaker 5: back to Seattle. So I will be in Seattle for
19:21
Speaker 5: Week one against the New England Patriots to see that
19:24
Speaker 5: banner rays, to go and speak to some friends that
19:27
Speaker 5: I have in Seattle, and I kind of wish I
19:29
Speaker 5: could wish away the next few months to get out
19:30
Speaker 5: there to Seattle again and go and see.
19:32
Speaker 1: That well great stuff. I've heard you a lot and
19:35
Speaker 1: we've just never made the connection. So hopefully this is
19:38
Speaker 1: the first of several conversations we get to have in
19:41
Speaker 1: the future. Great to have you on and tremendous breakdown
19:44
Speaker 1: at DeMarcus Lawrence for us here today, Rob, thanks.
19:47
Speaker 5: Well, thanks having me on, and a good look to
19:50
Speaker 5: the United States the World Club.
19:51
Speaker 4: I have you finished seconds with England?
19:53
Speaker 2: Thank you.
19:54
Speaker 1: I appreciate Rob stateon joining us right here on Chuck
19:58
Speaker 1: and Buck. I think that's actually generous, you know, because
20:01
Speaker 1: I don't think that we're going to finish second. I
20:03
Speaker 1: think that's Rob. That's that's a really generous wish. Yeah,
20:07
Speaker 1: he's being very kind to Americans. Well, probably overachieve it
20:11
Speaker 1: before we finish eleventh, all right, So we appreciate Rob
20:16
Speaker 1: joining us. Of course with BBC Sheffield senior sports journalist there,
20:20
Speaker 1: he does a Seahawks blog, he's been doing it for years.
20:23
Speaker 1: He does television over there as well, and and he
20:27
Speaker 1: also I don't really think like my British accent now
20:32
Speaker 1: wasn't my best?
20:33
Speaker 3: You don't think he liked your British.
20:34
Speaker 2: I don't think he did. I think he was just.
20:36
Speaker 3: I think the first one was all right.
20:40
Speaker 1: I mean I used to be a voice actor. I
20:42
Speaker 1: can do it. Maybe I didn't have my best fight forwards.
20:45
Speaker 3: I don't think the accents were bad.
20:47
Speaker 6: I think he just wondered how many accents am I
20:49
Speaker 6: going to get?
20:50
Speaker 2: He could have got a lot.
20:51
Speaker 3: I was done, You weren't you weren't ready to be done?
20:54
Speaker 2: I could have kept going, I really could have.
20:56
Speaker 1: All right, Well, coming up next on the program, we
21:00
Speaker 1: are going to get back to baseball, because yes it's
21:03
Speaker 1: toying for the Baseball Brunch Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1: three kJ RFM, featuring Dan Wilson, Emerson Hancock, and Josh Naylor,
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Speaker 1: but starring today Cole Young.
21:15
Speaker 2: What broken back. That's time Cole.
21:23
Speaker 1: Young walk once more for the Mariners.
21:30
Speaker 4: Incredible.
21:35
Speaker 1: Aaron Goldsmith on the call Mariners TV. Ryan Healy was
21:38
Speaker 1: in there somewhere smiling. I think I think you heard
21:41
Speaker 1: his smile during that call.
21:43
Speaker 2: Did you hear it?
21:43
Speaker 3: I heard it, caught it ear to ear.
21:45
Speaker 2: Yep.
21:46
Speaker 1: He's going to join us today at nine o'clock. But
21:48
Speaker 1: right now we got the Baseball Brunch where Cole Young
21:51
Speaker 1: comes through in extra innings the Mariners win. They're seventh straight,
21:54
Speaker 1: their second extra inning win in back to back games,
21:59
Speaker 1: and they are are winning the way that the Jerry
22:02
Speaker 1: Depoto era Mariners have won, and that is getting very
22:06
Speaker 1: good to great starting pitching and then great bullpen work.
22:10
Speaker 1: And that's what occurred last night was four no hit
22:15
Speaker 1: innings from four different relievers, stretching all the way through
22:19
Speaker 1: the tenth inning, maybe the best we've seen Gabe Spier
22:22
Speaker 1: look all season long, and that set up the Mariners
22:25
Speaker 1: with the automatic runner at second base, a stolen base
22:29
Speaker 1: from Randy or Rose arena.
22:31
Speaker 2: Of third, and that set up Cole Young for the
22:34
Speaker 2: game winning hits.
22:34
Speaker 1: So let's talk about our star today, because I don't
22:37
Speaker 1: think there was any doubt about it. I mean, there
22:38
Speaker 1: are a lot of good candidates, any of the relievers, Hancock,
22:43
Speaker 1: Naylor with the big home run to tie the thing up,
22:46
Speaker 1: Randy with the huge stolen base to put Cole Young
22:49
Speaker 1: in a position to be the hero. But the star
22:52
Speaker 1: of the game last night was Cole Young. He is
22:54
Speaker 1: turning out to be pretty special. Two more hits, a
22:58
Speaker 1: walk last night. He doesn't seem to get rattled in
23:01
Speaker 1: those moments whatsoever. I don't think his pulse ever raises.
23:05
Speaker 1: And then again tremendous without having to get his uniform
23:09
Speaker 1: dirty defensively last night. He just makes really good, smart
23:14
Speaker 1: sound baseball plays all game long.
23:17
Speaker 3: Well, and that was the second play in a row
23:19
Speaker 3: that stood out.
23:19
Speaker 6: I mean, on Sunday he had that leap, that grab
23:23
Speaker 6: that was I mean potentially game saving, and then last
23:26
Speaker 6: night with the double play and even when he struggled.
23:28
Speaker 6: You said, his you know, his pulse doesn't seem to
23:31
Speaker 6: raise in those moments, those big moments.
23:33
Speaker 3: But I don't. I don't think it's I think he's just.
23:35
Speaker 6: As steady as can ever be, because, yeah, even when
23:36
Speaker 6: he struggles, he's not trying to do too much.
23:38
Speaker 3: It's just cool, calm and steady.
23:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not a complete player. I mean, he
23:43
Speaker 1: has had some experiences with drought. For offensive production, he's
23:50
Speaker 1: made a few errors this year, but he grades very
23:54
Speaker 1: highly on defensive metrics. He's playing every single inning of
23:58
Speaker 1: every single game for this baseball team, and he's driving
24:03
Speaker 1: in runs, which is forgotten statistic in the analytics department.
24:07
Speaker 1: But he's already knocked in thirty runs this year, and
24:10
Speaker 1: he just does not seem to get rattled in those moments.
24:13
Speaker 1: He laid down a bunt in the previous game, which
24:16
Speaker 1: was excellent, And you know, he hasn't done a lot
24:18
Speaker 1: of bunning in his life because he's only twenty one
24:20
Speaker 1: years old. He's three years removed from being a high
24:23
Speaker 1: school legend. You don't ask high school legends to ever
24:26
Speaker 1: bunt and so and he looked as natural as could
24:29
Speaker 1: be doing that. I mean, he didn't get down the
24:31
Speaker 1: first one, but he was like, oh, that was pretty
24:33
Speaker 1: good technique, and then all of a sudden on the
24:35
Speaker 1: second one.
24:36
Speaker 3: Perfect.
24:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just got it done. I mean, he's just
24:38
Speaker 1: got such a high floor. Lock him up, Jerry Cold, Emerson,
24:43
Speaker 1: Cole Young. That's our middle infield for the next decade.
24:47
Speaker 1: Let's all sign up for it right now.
24:49
Speaker 6: And we'll see how many people can swap their names
24:51
Speaker 6: while they're excitedly yelling Cole Young or Colt Emerson.
24:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, Colton Cole, Colton Cole, the old Colton coal train.
24:59
Speaker 6: I will say I've ironed last night, said Gosh, I
25:01
Speaker 6: sure loved the law firm of Emerson and Young.
25:03
Speaker 2: Oh that's good too. Yeah, Yeah, that's one I would trust.
25:07
Speaker 3: Agreed. I already have given him all my money.
25:10
Speaker 2: Of course.
25:11
Speaker 1: The Baseball Brunch also features Dan Wilson today, the manager,
25:16
Speaker 1: speaking after a seventh consecutive win. Yeah.
25:19
Speaker 7: Another outstanding ball game tonight. You know, we're got a
25:23
Speaker 7: little bit of a player for the dramatic, you know,
25:25
Speaker 7: recently anyway, but just a you know, a really good
25:28
Speaker 7: ball game all around. Uh, start with the pitching, which
25:31
Speaker 7: was phenomenal today. You know, Emerson continuing to do what
25:35
Speaker 7: he does. Uh, just giving up two hits to this
25:37
Speaker 7: team tonight, you know, and then they're both you know,
25:41
Speaker 7: the solo homers. But I thought he handled that lineup,
25:44
Speaker 7: you know, pretty left handed, heavy lineup very very well.
25:47
Speaker 7: It just continues, uh, using that eater, using the sweeper,
25:51
Speaker 7: you know, changing speeds, doing what he does.
25:53
Speaker 4: I thought he.
25:54
Speaker 7: Pitched an outstanding ball game. And then the bullpen you
25:56
Speaker 7: can't say enough about the job that they did. We
25:59
Speaker 7: talked about of that tenth inning and being able to
26:01
Speaker 7: hold them at the beginning of the tenth inning and
26:03
Speaker 7: how important that is Gabe with you know, sort of
26:06
Speaker 7: the meat of that lineup just went right through them,
26:08
Speaker 7: and uh, I thought that was so that was a
26:10
Speaker 7: huge part in the part in the ball game where
26:12
Speaker 7: you knew that, you know, good things were going to
26:14
Speaker 7: come on your end, and uh, you know offensively, you know,
26:19
Speaker 7: you know, doing what we had to do to win
26:22
Speaker 7: that game, you know, the home runs early. Uh, cold
26:25
Speaker 7: I thought was you know, he got that breaking ball
26:28
Speaker 7: up and put a good swing on it. You know,
26:30
Speaker 7: he just continues to swing the bat nails. With a
26:33
Speaker 7: huge homer there, uh to to tie it back. Up
26:36
Speaker 7: and and uh and then certainly Cole there in that
26:39
Speaker 7: last inning, I thought Randy stolen base there was was
26:42
Speaker 7: a big mental or a big momentum shift. Even though
26:45
Speaker 7: they got the punch out there on Wiz, it was
26:48
Speaker 7: a perfect opportunity for Randy, and I thought he, you know,
26:51
Speaker 7: he executed that stolen base extremely well and you know,
26:55
Speaker 7: put him in a really good position to score there
26:56
Speaker 7: and Cole Cole just did the rest. So just a
26:59
Speaker 7: great ball game and you know, got to keep rolling
27:02
Speaker 7: and come up tomorrow and and win the series.
27:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you to Luis Torentz that they're doing the
27:07
Speaker 1: replay right now for us, right here in studio here
27:11
Speaker 1: of the Mariners game, and Torrens is coming to the plate,
27:13
Speaker 1: former Mariner. Yeah, he's trends and I don't know. He
27:16
Speaker 1: did a saslid last night. He told relief pitcher Aj
27:19
Speaker 1: Mentor to check on Rose Arena on two different pickoff plays. Well,
27:23
Speaker 1: the same rule applies to second base as it does
27:25
Speaker 1: the first You get just two moves to that base.
27:28
Speaker 1: So he wasn't going to do a third move because
27:31
Speaker 1: if you do a third move and you don't get
27:32
Speaker 1: him out, then he automatically gets the third.
27:34
Speaker 2: It's basically a back and you're not.
27:36
Speaker 1: Going to put the winning run at third base in
27:39
Speaker 1: the bottom of the tenth because your catcher's telling you
27:44
Speaker 1: to check on a rose arena at second.
27:46
Speaker 2: He's getting pretty froggy out there, and.
27:49
Speaker 1: So a rose arena, I'm sitting there yelling at the television,
27:52
Speaker 1: just take off. There's no way he's going to try
27:54
Speaker 1: to pick you off here. And so a rose arena
27:57
Speaker 1: pretty much just takes off Steal's third without a problem.
28:00
Speaker 1: And I didn't have a lot of confidence Saint Patrick
28:02
Speaker 1: Wisdom coming through there, so I was happy that he
28:05
Speaker 1: got to third and he got there without a throw,
28:08
Speaker 1: and then that made the life a little easier for
28:10
Speaker 1: Cole for the game winning hit. So yes, I agree
28:13
Speaker 1: with Dan. That was a huge play in the game,
28:16
Speaker 1: Randy steeling third.
28:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, and thank you to Wisdom for not fouling it
28:19
Speaker 6: off in that moment and just swinging in.
28:21
Speaker 2: He did get a piece.
28:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they said he swung and miss.
28:24
Speaker 2: We'll go with it.
28:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll go with that.
28:26
Speaker 2: Maybe he did. Yeah, yeah, you're right, I had to have.
28:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So thank you for not fouling it.
28:31
Speaker 3: Off and doing your part swinging and the scene. That's
28:33
Speaker 3: all we needed.
28:34
Speaker 1: So seventeen stolen bases on the year for Randy or
28:37
Speaker 1: Rose Arena.
28:38
Speaker 2: What did we learn today, kids?
28:40
Speaker 3: Oh, that's my favorite part at the baseball brunch.
28:43
Speaker 2: This is how the Mariners win.
28:45
Speaker 1: It is with very good to great starting pitching, very
28:48
Speaker 1: good to great relief pitching, and then just scratch out
28:52
Speaker 1: just enough.
28:53
Speaker 2: Offense to win games.
28:55
Speaker 1: And this is how they've done it in the Depoto era.
28:58
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we're going to ever see a team
29:01
Speaker 1: that wins games consistently eleven to three. It's just not
29:05
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But right now, you know the Mariners are
29:09
Speaker 1: on a roll when they consistently find themselves laden ball
29:14
Speaker 1: games tied up up, one down one, because that's when
29:19
Speaker 1: they have tended to thrive. So this is how we
29:22
Speaker 1: win games. The second thing we learned is Cole Young
29:25
Speaker 1: is really good, really good, and he's got a really
29:28
Speaker 1: high floor as well, and so that's exciting. And then
29:32
Speaker 1: the third thing that we learned maybe you didn't learn it,
29:35
Speaker 1: but I learned, and that is that I'm on television
29:39
Speaker 1: now every day and I got to remember to wear.
29:41
Speaker 2: An appropriate t shirt. That's another thing that I learned.
29:45
Speaker 3: Oh okay, why is this?
29:46
Speaker 2: Is this T shirt not inappropriate? Is not like my
29:48
Speaker 2: nipples are showing or anything.
29:50
Speaker 1: But I have a tendency when I relaxed to like
29:53
Speaker 1: put my oh.
29:55
Speaker 2: T shirt over my nose for some reason.
29:57
Speaker 1: So last night after my shower, I was just sitting
30:00
Speaker 1: around watching TV, and I must have done that. And
30:02
Speaker 1: then I put this shirt back on this morning, and
30:05
Speaker 1: I got that like turkey neck thing going and I
30:09
Speaker 1: didn't even notice it, didn't even think about it until
30:12
Speaker 1: we did our Zoom call with Pretty Boy Stayton, and
30:15
Speaker 1: then I'm.
30:16
Speaker 2: Like, oh my gosh, look at my neckline. Looks horrible.
30:19
Speaker 2: I look like a laundry act.
30:20
Speaker 6: Mean, while he's got like a three thousand dollars T
30:22
Speaker 6: shirt on, it was got a nice T shirt, very
30:24
Speaker 6: nice T shirt has at least three hundred bucks. Yeah
30:27
Speaker 6: he's not buying from where Mark Zuckerberg shop.
30:30
Speaker 2: No, he's not getting anything free from the team shop.
30:32
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much like I did.
30:34
Speaker 1: But anyway, we also learned I gotta be more careful
30:37
Speaker 1: with my neck wear.
30:39
Speaker 6: Or yeah, just wear different, like put the T shirt
30:41
Speaker 6: on that you wore in the morning and then stretch
30:44
Speaker 6: that one out, and then the next day start over
30:46
Speaker 6: with a new T shirt versus the one you had
30:48
Speaker 6: on at night stretched out.
30:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
30:50
Speaker 1: I just I got I always shower at night, put
30:52
Speaker 1: on a shirt, and then I just saw it there
30:55
Speaker 1: this morning and I'm like, well, I only wore that
30:56
Speaker 1: for like a half hour last night, so I throw
30:59
Speaker 1: it on. But apparently while I was sitting there doing it,
31:01
Speaker 1: I was stretching it up.
31:02
Speaker 4: Over more noes.
31:03
Speaker 3: Well you know you were stressed out?
31:05
Speaker 2: Ye, Sorry about that. People, I'm look a mess.
31:08
Speaker 3: Look they they've been telling me all day on that.
31:11
Speaker 6: I just didn't want to tell you on the youtubeline.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've got an hour of our.
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Speaker 1: couple of big hitter guests coming up. Ryan Heay is
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Speaker 2: That was a that was a noisemaker.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was actually that was good. That was
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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, it was supposed to be. It was supposed
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Speaker 1: And so I don't know what to expect in an
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33:13
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Speaker 1: joining the biggest threat to the Seattle Seahawks. And look,
33:21
Speaker 1: I guess there's got to be a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a tip of the cap, like this is an organization
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Speaker 1: that has gone for it before and it worked out.
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Speaker 1: Hugh pointed this out. I've pointed out a few times
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Speaker 1: as well. They were supposed to have some sort of
33:36
Speaker 1: rebuilding period that's usually what happens in the National Football League,
33:40
Speaker 1: but they drafted so well in that rebuilding period that
33:45
Speaker 1: they never really felt the effects that teams that go
33:48
Speaker 1: for it in the NFL tend to experience.
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Speaker 3: And I'm so happy for them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and and so they never really skipped a beat.
33:58
Speaker 1: Then they got Matt Stafford and made them sells a
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Speaker 1: little bit better, and then that's when they did win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And so now here they are in
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Speaker 1: another go for it kind of off season. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they'll tell you they didn't win the Super Bowl last
34:14
Speaker 1: year because of that two point conversion.
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Speaker 3: It's all that Sean McVay can think of.
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Speaker 1: It, right, I mean, anything to do with anything else,
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Speaker 1: just that two point conversion that I didn't even know
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Speaker 1: was a.
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Speaker 3: Rule and we got to get a banned.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so they were already right there. And then
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Speaker 1: to go get Trent McDuffie this offseason and now to
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Speaker 1: ed Miles Scarett this offseason, and it's a better football team,
34:40
Speaker 1: and it's a scary proposition. And Charles Cross's job and
34:44
Speaker 1: his responsibilities to this team just got a lot more
34:47
Speaker 1: difficult over there at the left tackle position.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was a bit of a gut punch
34:54
Speaker 1: to see that good of a football player go to
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Speaker 1: that good of a football team and kind of to
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Speaker 1: threaten everything that we're going after. But I will say
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Speaker 1: I'd not one for the counter move. I think that
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Speaker 1: this organization right now is just on such a heater
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Speaker 1: that you just rely on the things that you're doing
35:17
Speaker 1: slow and steady. I think can still win this race
35:21
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty six and certainly beyond. I think
35:24
Speaker 1: we've got the better plan for winning over the course
35:27
Speaker 1: of the next decade. If Less Need and Sean McVay
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Speaker 1: want to Felman Louise this thing and go out in
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Speaker 1: the blaze of glory, we might not be able to
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Speaker 1: stop them. But I do believe Thelman Louise ended up
35:38
Speaker 1: in the bottom of a ravine after making out with
35:41
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt.
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Speaker 3: If you're going to go out, I guess that's the
35:44
Speaker 3: way to go out.
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Speaker 1: So you know, Snead and McVeigh aren't promised anything here
35:49
Speaker 1: just because they added another outstanding player to their roster,
35:54
Speaker 1: and so I'll stick with our plan and I think
35:56
Speaker 1: we're going to be an even better football team. Doesn't
35:58
Speaker 1: mean we'll win the Super Bowl, but I think that
36:01
Speaker 1: the Seahowks are gonna have an even better football team
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Speaker 1: this year, and I think over the course of the
36:05
Speaker 1: next eight to ten years, we really have a much
36:09
Speaker 1: better mapped up vision than what the Rams do. So
36:14
Speaker 1: I do believe that will be better defensively, and I
36:20
Speaker 1: think that we've got the right guy to pull the
36:22
Speaker 1: trigger in season before the NFL trading deadline on whatever
36:27
Speaker 1: hole might pop up during the course of the regular season.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about this, but certainly it is impactful,
36:37
Speaker 1: There's no question about it.
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Speaker 6: And I think it's worth pointing out too, you saying,
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Speaker 6: you know, well, it doesn't mean we're going to win
36:43
Speaker 6: the super Bowl. That's not something that changed because they
36:46
Speaker 6: brought in Miles Garrett. I mean, we've talked openly and
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Speaker 6: repeatedly about how difficult it is to go back to
36:51
Speaker 6: back as Super Bowl champions, and they've got their work
36:54
Speaker 6: cutout for them. There's a lot of things that have
36:55
Speaker 6: to go right in a season to win a Super
36:58
Speaker 6: Bowl one time. There's a lot of things that have
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Speaker 6: to go right again to win it a second time
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Speaker 6: or even get back there. So did the did the
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Speaker 6: NFC West or at least the Rams get a lot tougher?
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Speaker 3: I think they did get a lot tougher.
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Speaker 6: Does it make me more nervous for when we play
37:14
Speaker 6: them Christmas Day? Yes, but we got a lot of
37:17
Speaker 6: games to play before we get to that Christmas Day game,
37:19
Speaker 6: and a lot can happen by then.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. You know, Nick Gaman or
37:24
Speaker 1: is a rookie last year, you know, probably gonna get
37:26
Speaker 1: a lot better.
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Speaker 2: How second year they tend to do that. So I
37:29
Speaker 2: don't think we're done adding to.
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Speaker 1: Our specialness going forward here in Seattle, But we shall see.
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Speaker 1: But there was an interesting somebody threw out yesterday on
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Speaker 1: social media and it turned out to be a giant lie,
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Speaker 1: and unnecessarily so. But somebody posted that Mike McDonald had
37:47
Speaker 1: a reaction to the trade yesterday, and it was a
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Speaker 1: quote of him saying, we don't care, like in a
37:55
Speaker 1: press conference, not the one on this on the stage,
37:58
Speaker 1: but in a press conference, we don't care. And it
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Speaker 1: made it look like it made it look like about
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Speaker 1: as arrogant a statement as you could make, arrogant slash confident,
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Speaker 1: cocky statement that you could make. Turns out that it
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Speaker 1: was not somebody pulled it from a previous press conference
38:17
Speaker 1: and had nothing to do with Mike McDonald reacting to
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Speaker 1: the Miles Garrett trade.
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Speaker 2: But I would be interested.
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Speaker 1: I would love to know what his honest reaction would
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Speaker 1: be to it on he once he found to be
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Speaker 1: a fly on that wall, because my guess is it's
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Speaker 1: pretty something pretty similar.
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Speaker 2: I don't care bring it on.
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Speaker 6: I think yeah, I would say there was an element
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Speaker 6: of not caring, for sure, but there was also an
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Speaker 6: element of WHOA, no bleep?
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Speaker 3: All right, okay, back to work?
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Speaker 2: Okay, no bleep or oh bleep no?
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Speaker 6: I mean like not like no, not a big deal,
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Speaker 6: but like whoa kind of disbelief that he.
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Speaker 2: Do you think his reaction is like a reaction of
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Speaker 2: oh bleep? Or is it no bleep?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, like whoa, all right, good for them, back
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Speaker 3: to work?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's just it. I don't think that. I
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Speaker 2: don't think that. I mean, it's noticeable, it's eye opening, eyebrow.
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Speaker 1: Raising, it's oh okay, yeah, okay, all right, well this
39:19
Speaker 1: is yeah, it was already serious and they just threw
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Speaker 1: another haymaker. But you know, we've got an arsenal of
39:26
Speaker 1: our own, so let's go. Let's get it on.
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Speaker 3: Still got to get through a whole football season.
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Speaker 1: That's my guess on how he reacts, all right, Ryan
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