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4-29 H1: Look Out Rookie, Andre Fuller Joins & Seahawks DB Room · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No. To answer your question, no, Greg, I have not.
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Speaker 2: You should anyone in Seattle if you have never been
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Speaker 2: to the Windimre Cup in the opening of the boating
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Speaker 2: season on the first Saturday in May, go down to
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Speaker 2: the Motley Cup on Saturday. It's gonna be seventy degrees
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Speaker 2: late morning, and you're gonna see great Britain in the
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Speaker 2: men and women's internationally renowned, world class national champion rowing
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Speaker 2: teams competing. I wrote a book on the history of it.
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Speaker 2: At his thirtieth anniversary nineteen eighty seven, John Jacobe Windemere
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Speaker 2: read a column by Blade Noonham in the Seattle Times
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Speaker 2: about how the opening day of the voting season was
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Speaker 2: just kind of blah, that U doub would have this Forgatta,
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Speaker 2: and they'd bring Oregon State and Seattle U and local
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Speaker 2: rowing programs who were not even close to U Dub's program,
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Speaker 2: and Washington Husky smoked them. This is the Washington Huskies,
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Speaker 2: the boys in the Boat nineteen thirty six, Berlin Olympics.
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Speaker 2: That's the legacy of rowing at Washington. And in nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty seven Jakobe had the idea, let's make the Windimere Cup.
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Speaker 2: Let's make this first day of the building season, a
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Speaker 2: big deal. We'll call it the Windamer Cup. We'll sponsor it,
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Speaker 2: and let's bring the best rowers in the world. And
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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty seven, you know who they brought who
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Speaker 2: the Soviet Union. This is when the Cold War was
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Speaker 2: still raging. It was three years before Ronald Reagan said,
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Speaker 2: mister Gorbichip teared down that wall, four years before the
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Speaker 2: Berlin Wall came back. I'm dating myself. Half my audience
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Speaker 2: might say, what's the Berlin Wall? Yeah, it doesn't exist.
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Speaker 2: He used to divide East and West Berlin as a
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Speaker 2: symbol of the communism in the free world. Divide. Well,
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Speaker 2: four years before the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet
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Speaker 2: Union rowing team came to the Motley Cut. Keith Jackson,
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Speaker 2: yes that Keith Jackson called the race on Como television
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Speaker 2: on a Saturday morning in the rain in May when
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Speaker 2: the Russians, the Soviets and their red singlets came and
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Speaker 2: raised the men and women of you dubbed now they
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Speaker 2: beat them handily. I mean we were talking Olympic medalists
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Speaker 2: and old medalists and bronze medalists in that boat. For
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Speaker 2: the Soviets twenty five twenty eight year old men and women.
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Speaker 2: But that was where the Windimere Cup was born, and
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Speaker 2: ever since then Great Britain, Australia, I met rowers from
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Speaker 2: all over the world. In my book, I wrote a
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Speaker 2: story about a Romanian woman, still when the wall was up,
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Speaker 2: and still when there was communism and Romanian was Communist
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Speaker 2: rule Soviet satellite state. A Romanian woman they went to
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Speaker 2: a party after the race on a local yachtsman friend
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Speaker 2: of the Windermere Cups hosted a party. She went, She
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Speaker 2: hid out on the boat and never went back with
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Speaker 2: her team and defected on the boat.
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Speaker 1: She never left.
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Speaker 2: She said she didn't go back with her team the
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Speaker 2: SeaTac didn't fly home. Called her parents a couple of
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Speaker 2: days later, said, Mom, Dad not coming home. She had
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Speaker 2: a one room, she had an outhouse for a bathroom
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Speaker 2: in her home in Romania. This is again communist era
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Speaker 2: Soviet block. And she saw the United States and blue
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Speaker 2: jeans at u village and she said, I'm staying it's
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Speaker 2: all in the Windermere Cup. If you haven't read the story,
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Speaker 2: it's about the ub bookstore has it Third Place Books
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Speaker 2: has at least they used to. Anyway, Saturday is a
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Speaker 2: perfect day weatherwise and time wise. If you have the time,
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Speaker 2: take an hour or two. It's like mid morning, nine
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Speaker 2: ten o'clock. The race is good. It's a series of
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Speaker 2: racist youth seniors, and then the featured races are the
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Speaker 2: end around eleven am the UDUB men and women Varsity
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Speaker 2: eight four's row. I mean it's a rowing we're got
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Speaker 2: and after it's all over. The Seattle Yacht Club sponsoring
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Speaker 2: and partnering with U DUB, they have the boat parade
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Speaker 2: the opening day of their boats at the Seattle YAKA
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Speaker 2: go back through the Mount lay Cut with the competing
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Speaker 2: boats who all hang out the finish language for them
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Speaker 2: got to end, and then they all row back to
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Speaker 2: the Connover show House to get It's a fabulous tableau,
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Speaker 2: especially on a weather day like this. Anyway, if you
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Speaker 2: haven't done it, it's it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: So we got a ten thirty.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to the seventh round pick Andre
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Speaker 2: Fuller from Toledo. He went to Arkansas Pine Bluff first,
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Speaker 2: transferred like most, and finished his current Toledo. Interestingly, though Chris,
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Speaker 2: he played multiple college seasons as a safety. YEP, I
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Speaker 2: saw that, yeah, and That's another thing Mike McDonald likes
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Speaker 2: is multiplicity and cornerbacks who tackle like safeties.
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Speaker 1: Bud Clark has.
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Speaker 2: A little bit of corner and nickel experience. The second
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Speaker 2: round pick, the third round pick, Julian Neal Guess what,
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Speaker 2: He's a cornerback who used to play safety. So is
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Speaker 2: Andre full With the seventh round pick from Toledo. He
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Speaker 2: was on a pre draft visit with the Seahawks before
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Speaker 2: they drafted him. We'll talk to him at ten thirty
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Speaker 2: live on the air, and at eleven o'clock we're going
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Speaker 2: to talk to the running back coach from Notre Dame
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Speaker 2: who coached the Seahawks' first round pick, Jedarion Price. Yes,
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Speaker 2: Judarion Price from Notre Dame back up to.
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love Jay one sider my Man.
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Speaker 2: Chris Kidd tracked him down on the recruiting trip in Texas,
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Speaker 2: and he's going to be on the phone with us
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Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock before he catches a plane talking about
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Speaker 2: coaching the seahawks first round pick Price. All the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: are coming to the Rookie Minnie Camp at the Virginia
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Speaker 2: Mason Athletic Center this weekend. Chris of all the rookies,
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Speaker 2: they got eight of them, and then they signed seven
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Speaker 2: more undrafted rookie free agents we talked about this week.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you're gonna say Price, But who are you
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Speaker 2: most excited to see how they fit in this team?
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Speaker 2: Not now in April, but eventually.
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Speaker 1: Wooh, that's a fun one.
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Speaker 3: And No, I would not take the easy pick of
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Speaker 3: Jay Price because I think that is too easy. If
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Speaker 3: I had to, I would have to go with either
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Speaker 3: Julian Neil cornerback out of Arkansas or Bo Stevens.
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Speaker 1: One of those two.
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Speaker 3: I'm leaning more towards Neil just because I like, I
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Speaker 3: think he's going to he might be a guy that
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Speaker 3: could be starting. I think he's capable of that. Now,
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Speaker 3: everything we'll have to wait and see. You know, Ricky
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Speaker 3: Minnie Camp is going to be the first opportunity to
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Speaker 3: see what he's able to do. If he dominates in
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Speaker 3: the fashon I think he can, that's a good sign.
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Speaker 3: If he doesn't, I mean, he's not going to be
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Speaker 3: good either. But I just think Julian Neil he's one
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Speaker 3: guy that I'll keep an eye on. I think the
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Speaker 3: way he talks, how he carries himself, and being around
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Speaker 3: this team. I think that's going to bring out the
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Speaker 3: best in him. So I'm really looking forward to seeing
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Speaker 3: what Julian Neil can do. He just falls shot of
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Speaker 3: the top one hundred, like he he's ninety nine, like
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Speaker 3: he's in that group. So he's a really talented player.
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Speaker 3: He made a point of mentioning that after he got
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Speaker 3: drafted too, So I'm I'm excited to see Hif I
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Speaker 3: had to pick one player, give me, give me Julian Neil.
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Speaker 1: What about you?
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Speaker 2: Bud Clark is really fascinating to me. I had to
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Speaker 2: write yesterday. I did a freelance contract piece for Athlon magazine.
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Speaker 2: Some of you may read the Athlon, NFL and College
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Speaker 2: Football Preview magazines will come out in the summer. Well,
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Speaker 2: those stories actually get written in the spring, right after
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Speaker 2: the draft and my Seahawks won. To Athlon was due
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Speaker 2: yesterday and they asked me to project the too deep
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Speaker 2: roster and I have Bud Clark starting in a three
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Speaker 2: man rotation with Josh Jouvin, Devin Witherspoon potential dime. Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 2: they go Nickel, I'm his base, which they did last year,
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Speaker 2: and that gives Witherspoon the opportunity to move inside if
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Speaker 2: they want to put him at nickel. Nick Emon Warry
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Speaker 2: is basically a Sam linebacker when they go extra defensive backs,
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Speaker 2: so there is room for another outside corner, and I
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Speaker 2: think Bud Clark, the second round pick from TCU, has
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Speaker 2: every chance of getting that job. Yeah, and the MII
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Speaker 2: Pritchett's there and they have a crowded cornerback room. We're
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Speaker 2: going to talk about that after we talked to Andre
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Speaker 2: Fuller at ten thirty. But second round picks. You don't
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Speaker 2: draft second round picks unless you think they're going to play.
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Speaker 2: It is a disappointment when second round picks don't get
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Speaker 2: on afit. Look at the second round pick they got
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Speaker 2: last year. His GID name was nick Emon Worri. That
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Speaker 2: went out.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I saw somewhere somebody I think it.
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Speaker 2: Was a Fowler from ESPN, not Chris Fowler, the what's
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Speaker 2: his name? The NFL draft in NFL Jeremy Fowler writing
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Speaker 2: about the Rams taking Ty Simpson the quarterback at thirteen
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Speaker 2: in the uproar from that, and what we've talked about
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Speaker 2: here and what most of you and Seattle are probably
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Speaker 2: thinking is whoo, thank goodness of Rams didn't take someone
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Speaker 2: like a top receiver or a top weapon or pass
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Speaker 2: protector for Matthew Stafford to have one last reload and
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Speaker 2: make that team better this year, right now, the team
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Speaker 2: that only lost the NFC title game by four points
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Speaker 2: here in Seattle, and Jeremy Fowler said, come on, do
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Speaker 2: you really think a rookie who might catch fifty passes
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Speaker 2: and four touchdowns can be the difference between going to
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl or not? If they had picked the
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Speaker 2: top receiver and all kinds of people on Twitter X
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Speaker 2: chiming in from Seattle, going, you ever heard of Nick
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Speaker 2: even worry and Grey Zabel? Those two dudes were absolutely
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Speaker 2: critical to the Seahawks get to the Super Bowl last year.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I think it's clear the Seahawks would not
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Speaker 2: have had the number one defense in the NFL without
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Speaker 2: Nick even Warrey playing when he did. I think there's
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Speaker 2: no doubt about that. And the way Mike McDonald used him,
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Speaker 2: and then Gray Zabel, you could argue Gray Zabel single armedly,
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Speaker 2: single handedly revised the whole offensive line. His mentality, his
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Speaker 2: trash talk, his technical expertise, his leadership. They talked in
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Speaker 2: in the offensive line room, they talk like this guy
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Speaker 2: talks like his ten year vet learning from the defensive lineman.
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Speaker 2: He was a revelation from day one as a starter.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think. I think, I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 2: I'm not misrepresenting. It was Jeremy Fowler. Rookies sold a
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Speaker 2: huge difference.
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Speaker 3: You get the right you do your part and going
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Speaker 3: out and finding the right type of guys that match
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Speaker 3: what you're looking for. Huge as you looked at it.
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Speaker 3: The last two to three drafts with the Seahawks have
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Speaker 3: picked and those first rounds have been really good.
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Speaker 1: Some guy named Devin Witherspoon was for him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he became the best receiver arguably in the NFL
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Speaker 3: last season All Pro offensive players. What we were saying here, So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: the guys you take can definitely define your season positively,
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Speaker 3: positively or negatively.
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Speaker 2: And to your point, not just this season, future, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're picking for four years and first round pick, you're
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Speaker 2: picking for potentially five and you pick a layaway quarterback
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Speaker 2: if you're the ram again, put him on layaway for
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Speaker 2: a couple of years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a good deal unless you think you
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Speaker 3: are Andy Reid the quarterback whisperer. Yeah, and you you know,
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Speaker 3: he took Mahomes ten sat on one year and then
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Speaker 3: now you argue the gravest of all time unless you
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Speaker 3: see that from this kid, I'm not really I'm not
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Speaker 3: sure that'd be the right thing to do. Not to
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Speaker 3: mention Patrick was lighting it up, right, he was at
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Speaker 3: Texas Tech, right.
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Speaker 2: But they're not only that the Chiefs were not in
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Speaker 2: the AFC title Game of the year they drift them.
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Speaker 1: No, they were not.
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Speaker 2: The Rams just were. Yeah, Rams are one of the
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Speaker 2: best three teams in the league and they just took
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Speaker 2: a quarterback at thirteen. It's I could get on the
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Speaker 2: field for a couple.
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Speaker 3: Of years and that The more we talk about it,
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Speaker 3: the more it was a really bad decision to make.
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Speaker 3: Like you usually, whoever you draft in the first round,
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Speaker 3: you want them to start, no question about it, right,
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Speaker 3: you want them to see the field.
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Speaker 1: You're not paying them X amount dollars to hit.
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Speaker 2: The bench's especially when you have a thirty eight year
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Speaker 2: quarterback with a bad back, who's the NFL MVP, who
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Speaker 2: ain't gonna be playing for all ever. Make your run now, man,
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Speaker 2: you can't count on Ty Simpson taking you to the
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Speaker 2: NFC Championship game. When Stafford retires.
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Speaker 1: Saw McVay is probably not going to return next season
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Speaker 1: if they don't win.
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Speaker 2: The Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people think that Chris is that is
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Speaker 3: just becoming more and more clear. You mean to tell
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Speaker 3: me we were a couple of plays a defensive stop,
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Speaker 3: pump return.
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Speaker 2: What if they had another pass rusher? You think that
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Speaker 2: wouldn't given the Seahawks problems.
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Speaker 4: They got already an attacking These are two teams that
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Speaker 4: are a player away from being just oh, we're better
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Speaker 4: than you, and the Rams said, you know what, and
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Speaker 4: a quarterback?
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Speaker 1: We good. I think that'll work. We're good. We'll bring
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Speaker 1: this layaway play in. I won't start till twenty thirty.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's been great going against Sean. Best of
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Speaker 3: luck to you and the family with whatever you do afterwards,
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Speaker 3: whether it's you know, you hop on TV and you're
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Speaker 3: talking ball or you ride into the sunset and you
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Speaker 3: do nothing with football, Like, I feel bad for you.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: That sucks.
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Speaker 2: That suck. If you're in what are you thinking? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't buy one second that pr spin that McVeigh
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Speaker 2: tried to put on two days after the draft.
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Speaker 3: I guess they're hoping that he is the Andy Reid
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Speaker 3: coaching wise, and well, not even him because it's not
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Speaker 3: his fault. It's not like he wanted the dude Andy Reid.
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Speaker 3: He pretty much runs things over there. So Andy Reid
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Speaker 3: made that decision. Sean McVay did not make that decision clearly.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know why I used that comparison now
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Speaker 3: that I think about it, because that was two different
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Speaker 3: coaches in style.
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Speaker 1: So but you're right about the whispers deal. So yeah, but.
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Speaker 3: Now that I'm thinking, like Sean McVay, he's literally like
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Speaker 3: the head coach and the offensive guru. He didn't really
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Speaker 3: have a say, as we saw with his face reaction
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Speaker 3: when at the presser they're talking about He's like, I
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Speaker 3: didn't want this guy, but here he is. So we're
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Speaker 3: gonna make dudes. Yeah yeah, tough love.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, that broke well for the Seahawks. Next
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Speaker 2: someone else they help breaks well for them. Andre Fuller.
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Speaker 2: He's a rookie cornerback from Toledo. He has experienced at safety.
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Speaker 2: He is in the building at the Seahawks headquarters in Renting,
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Speaker 2: and the seventh round pick. The rookie for the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: Andre Fuller, the cornerback, seventh round pick from Toledo who
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Speaker 2: had been a safety at Arkansas Pine Bluff. He's the
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Speaker 2: oldest of six children raised by a single mother in
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Speaker 2: Palm Beach, Florida. I'll ask you about that he's talked
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Speaker 2: in has past about that. I'll talk about moving from
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Speaker 2: safety to cornerback. I will ask him a couple of
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Speaker 2: taking Ty Simpson first two six says everything about Simpson
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Speaker 2: tells me he's not a McVeigh quarterback. Yep, that's true.
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Speaker 2: So he didn't buy the spin either. Andre Fuller of
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks is one of three cornerbacks that they chose
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Speaker 2: in this draft. They had eight total picks. They chose
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Speaker 2: four defensive backs, safety Bud Clark in the second round,
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Speaker 2: Julian Neal in the third round of cornerback who used
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Speaker 2: to play safety at Presno State before he moved to cornerback,
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Speaker 2: and then he was at Arkansas for his final college year.
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Speaker 2: And then in the seventh round they took two cornerbacks,
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Speaker 2: Andre Fuller of Toledo and Michael Dansby of Arizona. Mike
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Speaker 2: McDonald loves his corner he said after the draft. Can't
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Speaker 2: hit enough of them. You can never have enough cornerbacks,
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Speaker 2: is what Mike McDonald said after he drafted three out
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Speaker 2: of the eight he chose overall. And we saw last
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Speaker 2: year how he used cornerbacks interchangeably. He had three starters
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Speaker 2: playing two spots essentially because Josh Jobnriq Wolan alternated at
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Speaker 2: the outside corner spot opposite of Pro Bowl Devin Witherspoon,
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Speaker 2: and he moves Witherspoon inside and Nickel at times. We
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Speaker 2: know what he did with nick Emun worry safety on paper,
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Speaker 2: but anything but in their defense. Sometimes he was a
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Speaker 2: cover safety sometimes, most times he was a sam linebacker
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Speaker 2: when they went to five and six defensive bags. So
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Speaker 2: with Woolan signing with Philadelphia in the offseason for a
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Speaker 2: twelve million dollars one year contract, there was a need
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Speaker 2: for replenishing the corner depth. They also had Neemiah Pritchett.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about him in a little while
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Speaker 2: as well. They have options Chris. It's corner and now
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Speaker 2: they've added two. With three new cornerbacks, now, let's face it,
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to talk to Andre Fuller about this
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Speaker 2: in a few minutes. You have to play special teams
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Speaker 2: as a rookie in order to get on the field
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Speaker 2: and stay on the game day roster, and I will
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Speaker 2: ask Andre Fuller about his special teams experience. He did
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Speaker 2: talk a little bit about that when he talked to
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Speaker 2: us after they drafted him. On Saturday, Andre Fuller, the
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Speaker 2: seventh round pick of the Seahawks, is on the Beacon
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Speaker 2: Plumbing Hotline with US live from the Virginia Mason Athletic
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Speaker 2: Center in Renton.
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Speaker 1: Good day, sir, thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 6: I think it's a pleasure I have.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So tell it is.
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Speaker 2: This is literally your first day in the building, right, Oh, no, tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Will be okay. So have you arrived in Seattle yet?
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Speaker 6: No, I'm currently still in Florida.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So the question from the text line to Andre
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Speaker 2: Fuller was what is your feeling walking into the locker
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Speaker 2: room with Super Bowl Champions three says you were drafted
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Speaker 2: arguably the best into the best defense of the league.
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Speaker 2: How do you feel you can compete and earn a
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Speaker 2: spot on the field.
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Speaker 7: I say, just trying my best every day and just
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Speaker 7: learning from like a champion caliber team.
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Speaker 6: Champion Championship caliber on defense.
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Speaker 2: You first team All Mid American Conference cornerback last season
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Speaker 2: for the Toledo Rockets ten pass breakups. What were you
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Speaker 2: doing when the Seahawks called on Saturday and were you
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Speaker 2: beginning to think maybe another team or the Seahawks might
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Speaker 2: sign you as a free agent.
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Speaker 7: I was just spending time my family, just enjoying the moment,
17:41
Speaker 7: getting phone calls here and there, talking about free agency,
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Speaker 7: praying that I got my name called. The Seahawks reached
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Speaker 7: out to me, said it was gonna take me or
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Speaker 7: automatically birthed out in the series is a Dream Comes True?
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Speaker 1: Who were you with at the time.
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Speaker 2: I saw pictures of you or videos of you. It
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Speaker 2: looked like your mother and your siblings were with you
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Speaker 2: in Florida.
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Speaker 6: I was with my whole family, everybody.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Andre.
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Speaker 3: I'm curious and I want your honesty here. What is
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Speaker 3: more satisfying for you locking down a receiver the entire
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Speaker 3: game or getting that one flashy interception, maybe a pit six,
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Speaker 3: Which one? Which one Bode's best for you?
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Speaker 6: Locking down our sever the whole game?
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Speaker 1: Why is that?
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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just.
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Speaker 7: Doing my part, like third down, getting a team off
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Speaker 7: the field.
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Speaker 6: Cursing time in the game. I'm coming up with a
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Speaker 6: PBu strapping their best receive.
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Speaker 7: Just eliminated explosive plays, and just taking away their biggest threat.
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Speaker 2: Andre Folly, the seventh round pick for the Seahawks rookie
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Speaker 2: cornerback who's heading to Seattle for the Rookie Minnie Camp
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Speaker 2: this weekend, joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline here
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Speaker 2: in ninety three point three KJRFM. Andre, can you describe
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Speaker 2: the defense you played into when you went the corner?
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Speaker 2: Was it a lot of press man? Were you in
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Speaker 2: varied coverages with zone? Did you blitz a lot? What
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Speaker 2: kind of coverages and defense did you play?
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Speaker 7: We really played a lot of man, a lot of brackets,
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Speaker 7: a lot of cover two with blitz sometimes off the corner.
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Speaker 7: We really mixed it up a lot, but I'll say
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Speaker 7: we primarily stayed in manned a bracket type of defense.
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Speaker 2: And you played safety at Arkansas playing bluff before that, correct, No.
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Speaker 7: Sir, I played corner until I got to Toledo. I
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Speaker 7: think my second year at Toledo I started to play
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Speaker 7: a little bit of safety.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, And and what did you get out of
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Speaker 2: playing safety and having multiplicity in different positions. What'd you learn?
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Speaker 2: How did that help you play corner?
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Speaker 7: I'll say it just gave me like a better understanding
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Speaker 7: of the defense as a whole, like knowing like the
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Speaker 7: hands and out of east position, being a corner nickel
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Speaker 7: orson safety, the strength and weaknesses of each position, Knowing
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Speaker 7: that where my hope is going to be, Knowing how
20:08
Speaker 7: I can help my safety, how I can help my
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Speaker 7: nickel because me being in that position, knowing like what
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Speaker 7: positions like put me in like a difficult spot. Just
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Speaker 7: knowing how to help my teammates, knowing where my hope
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Speaker 7: is going to be.
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Speaker 3: Quarterbacks are known to have the shortest memories in terms
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Speaker 3: of resetting after a big play. So when something like
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Speaker 3: that happens with you, after you give up a big
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Speaker 3: play or you miss a tackle, how do you reset
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Speaker 3: and try to ground yourself in a situation? Now you
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Speaker 3: know what, I made a mistake, but let me bounce back.
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Speaker 7: I just have the mentality that my next player is
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Speaker 7: gonna be my best player. There's something bad happened, it's
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Speaker 7: not the end of the game. It doesn't define a game.
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Speaker 7: Just looking before my next player be my best player.
20:53
Speaker 7: Just watching it down the drain.
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Speaker 2: Andre Forward, seventh round pick from Toledo cornerback Yawks. I'm
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Speaker 2: coming up this weekend. He's joining us on the Beacon
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Speaker 2: Plumbing hotline that two o six, Andre asked off the
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Speaker 2: text line. I would ask him about his mindset coming
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Speaker 2: into this rookie mini camp and training camp, super Bowl champions,
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Speaker 2: dogs all around. How will you approach practice and practices
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Speaker 2: and camps. I hope he gets after it and all
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Speaker 2: the bets and aggressive. How are you approaching going into
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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl champion locker room.
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Speaker 6: I'm just ready to get to work.
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Speaker 7: I just want to show the coaches and the whole
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Speaker 7: stuff that they made a great decision.
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Speaker 2: Picking me up, where were you watching the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 2: Were you in Florida? Were you back up in Toledo?
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Speaker 2: You're probably on mind, You weren't, probably on break. It
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Speaker 2: was in February. What did you watch the Super Bowl
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Speaker 2: and what did you think of it?
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Speaker 7: I watched the Super Bowl at home my family. I
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Speaker 7: knew that I knew to see all I was going
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Speaker 7: to win the whole time. Yeah, it was. It was
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Speaker 7: a great game, just watching watching them dominate and just
21:55
Speaker 7: seeing like how great along football they play.
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Speaker 2: What do you like about Mike McDonald's style of defense.
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Speaker 2: When you watch the Seahawks play.
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Speaker 6: They're physical.
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Speaker 7: Like just seeing how they use Nick email Orri and
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Speaker 7: Devin with this one, they're a very physical defense. Yeah,
22:15
Speaker 7: I just love the way they play defense.
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Speaker 2: And then you missed most of the twenty four season,
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Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken to Toledo. What happened? What was
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Speaker 2: the injury?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I had missed that whole season.
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Speaker 7: Unfortunately, got injured, whether sports turneyo or CMI like a
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Speaker 7: week before our first game of the season.
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Speaker 6: Tried to rehab come back.
22:38
Speaker 7: I thought it was best to just sit out the
22:40
Speaker 7: season and just you know, recover and get my body
22:43
Speaker 7: right still just like stay engaged in football, but just
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Speaker 7: take a little break, and then came back this season
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Speaker 7: and played my best ball.
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Speaker 2: Can you describe to us and the listeners the anxiety
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Speaker 2: you must have felt second to last year in college?
22:57
Speaker 2: You have NFL aspirations obviously someone who had so got
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Speaker 2: drafted into the league, and you miss an entire season
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Speaker 2: because of a sports jurney right before your first game?
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Speaker 2: How did you endure that? How stressful was that whole year?
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Speaker 6: That was extremely stressful?
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Speaker 7: Just having a thought, am I going to come back
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Speaker 7: the same? Will I like persevere as good as injury? Well,
23:20
Speaker 7: I just felt like I just kept a positive mindset.
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Speaker 7: I will come back stronger than I left off. I
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Speaker 7: will overcome this injury. I will have the best season
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Speaker 7: of my life when I come back. Just speaking positives
23:31
Speaker 7: to just speaking positivity into my life and just knowing
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Speaker 7: that I'm going to come back better.
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Speaker 1: Who or what did you lean on during that time under.
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Speaker 6: I leaned on my family and my faith.
23:43
Speaker 7: Talking to my family, they spoke words of encouragement to me,
23:48
Speaker 7: and I definitely pray, pray a lot, knowing that if something.
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Speaker 6: That's really meant for me and it's already read it
23:56
Speaker 6: for me.
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Speaker 7: There's no stopping it from me having it. And I
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Speaker 7: feel like this is truly.
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Speaker 6: Right and for me.
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Speaker 1: This is the voice of Andre Fuller.
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Speaker 2: He's the seventh round pick for the Seahawks rockey cornerback
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Speaker 2: from Toledo.
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Speaker 1: He's the oldest of six children.
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Speaker 2: You have two younger brothers, three sisters, your younger sister, youngest.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: I got three. I got three brothers and tuttle sister.
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Speaker 1: Thank you your youngest sister is a toddler.
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Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, she's three.
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Speaker 1: And the story goes that I've read that you were.
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Speaker 2: Changing diapers and feeding milk bottles to your little sisters
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Speaker 2: when you were and brothers, perhaps when you were in
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Speaker 2: middle school? Is that correct?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? I was doing hard at the middle school.
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Speaker 2: What was that experience like? And your mother friend Edmund
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Speaker 2: who raised you? And you said, is your rock? And
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Speaker 2: how did she support six children? What job does she
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Speaker 2: do or how did you help her?
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Speaker 6: My mom? She worked at an urgent care, worked.
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Speaker 7: Extremely hard, never complain, try to give us, try to
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Speaker 7: always give us the best that she had.
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Speaker 6: So I feel like I owe the world to her,
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Speaker 6: like you know, owe everything.
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Speaker 2: And when you got drafted and when you will sign
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Speaker 2: your first rookie contract here in a matter of weeks
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Speaker 2: or months, what would you do for your mother? What
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Speaker 2: will your thoughts and words be to her?
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Speaker 7: Just tell her I love her and I appreciate her
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Speaker 7: and thank thankful for her, like blessing me, like just
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Speaker 7: being there for me my whole life. Whatever she needs,
25:35
Speaker 7: you can get.
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Speaker 3: One more from me, Andre, if you could line up
25:40
Speaker 3: against any wide receiver in the league after president, who
25:44
Speaker 3: are you picking and why and if it's JSN, I
25:46
Speaker 3: respect that.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm looking forward to guarding Jess and every day
25:51
Speaker 7: of practice, you know. I mean, I feel like you
25:54
Speaker 7: only get better by facing the best. And I feel
25:56
Speaker 7: like he's arguably probably the best receiver in the league.
25:59
Speaker 7: The way he runs, that's why he gets open.
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Speaker 6: I'm just looking forward to competing against the best in practice.
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Speaker 2: What's your goal for either this weekend, for training camp,
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Speaker 2: for this first season with the Seahawks, mister Andre Fuller, I'll.
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Speaker 6: Stay just.
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Speaker 7: You know, balling out in practice, getting into the coach's room,
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Speaker 7: talking ball, getting to know the defense. I'm just just
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Speaker 7: going to hang up everything when I get there.
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Speaker 1: You were born in Louisiana, but you grew up in Florida.
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Speaker 2: Correct. What age did you move to Florida?
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Speaker 3: Nah?
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Speaker 6: Nah? Who told you?
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Speaker 2: I'm reading from your or Toledo bio, reading about your
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Speaker 2: birthplace and moving and whatnot. But go ahead and correct this. Please,
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Speaker 2: thank you.
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Speaker 7: No, I don't. I don't know who told them I
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Speaker 7: was from Louisiana, But no, I'm I'm born and raised
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Speaker 7: in Palm Beach, Florida. That's where I've been at the
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Speaker 7: Mold I've never been to Louisiana, non like that, but yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'm a Florida boy.
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Speaker 1: And have you ever been to Seattle or in the Northwest? Oh,
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Speaker 1: you took a thirty visit?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Thirty visits? Right? Yeah, I took a top thirty visit
27:12
Speaker 6: on my birthday actually.
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Speaker 2: And and what's struck you about the Seahawks and about
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Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest on the visit, Well, just.
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Speaker 7: Like the coaching staff, everybody seemed like very friendly on
27:25
Speaker 7: very open armed. Just talk to the coaches. It seemed
27:30
Speaker 7: like they really like me. They seemed like great teachers,
27:35
Speaker 7: definitely willing to like learn, like the defense, and excited
27:38
Speaker 7: to learn the defense and different ways they can use me.
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Speaker 2: Have they mentioned how they may use you or what
27:43
Speaker 2: kind of role you might have?
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Speaker 7: I don't know what the moment got just show what
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Speaker 7: I can do and showed.
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Speaker 1: Oh my bad, I lied, Ondre. I got one more
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Speaker 1: for you man.
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Speaker 6: Music wise, that's.
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Speaker 1: Music wise, what are you slide into? What are you
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Speaker 1: listening to?
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Speaker 3: I know you said you mentioned from Florida, any possibility
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Speaker 3: listen to Kodak, But if not, what are you listening
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Speaker 3: to to get yourself hyped up for a game?
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Speaker 1: What are you listening to?
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, definitely some Kodaks, some Kodak, some young boy.
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Speaker 6: Who else? I listened to a little.
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Speaker 1: Popper Okay, No, not a lot of I don't.
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Speaker 3: I'm at to tap in. I do listen to Kodak,
28:23
Speaker 3: so I'm right there with you. Kodak one of my
28:25
Speaker 3: one of my favorite young ones out there doing it.
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Speaker 3: So that's that's really cool to hear. Man, what's your
28:30
Speaker 3: favorite song from Kodak? Give it to me.
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Speaker 6: I'll say I got like two. I never imagine, never imagine,
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Speaker 6: no flocking.
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Speaker 3: All right, were on the same page, Andre appreciate you man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Andre FOURD. We appreciate your time.
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Speaker 2: Have a great long trip here to Seattle, and I'll
28:52
Speaker 2: talk to you this weekend at mini camp. Thanks a lot, sir, congratulations.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Andre four.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like some of his were in the background
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Speaker 2: his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He's the oldest of
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Speaker 2: six children, cornerback from Toledo and Arkansas Pine Bluff. Before that,
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Speaker 2: it was a common coach who knew a friend of
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Speaker 2: his that had been coaching in the Florida area who
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Speaker 2: then moved to Toledo and that's how he got to Toledo,
29:17
Speaker 2: and then he ended up the story of the sports
29:19
Speaker 2: turnia surgery. I mean, Chris, you're thinking you're on your
29:23
Speaker 2: way of the NFL and then you get your whole
29:25
Speaker 2: next to last college season bagged.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's mint I.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good for him because that is that's tough like.
29:33
Speaker 3: And he mentioned he had his best season right after that.
29:36
Speaker 3: So imagine if he had been able to play right
29:38
Speaker 3: that's two really good seasons.
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Speaker 1: He's probably not even a seventh round pick.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he's a fourth or fifth round guy, but he
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Speaker 3: had the opportunity now and he's excited for it.
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Speaker 2: That's Andre Fuller, one of three cornerbacks the Seahawks chose
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Speaker 2: in that's NFL draft, two of them in the seventh round.
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Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna talk about the whole
29:55
Speaker 2: cornerback situation, how Andre Fuller may fit in. I didn't
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Speaker 2: get in the question of what special teams he played,
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Speaker 2: but he did ask. He did say last weekend he
30:04
Speaker 2: played multiple special teams units in Toledo. That may be
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Speaker 2: his way onto the roster in game day rosters. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk cornerbacks next and at eleven o'clock We're going to
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Speaker 2: go to a Texas where the Notre Dame running back
30:14
Speaker 2: coaches on a recruiting trip. That's running back coach for
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Speaker 2: Sea Ow's first round pick, Jadarian Price. That'll be at
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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Your text will read back at eleven thirty.
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Speaker 2: All that coming up here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
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Speaker 2: We've reached the funk portion of the Greig Bell Show.
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Speaker 2: Christopher Kidd, Thank you, Chris. If you missed our Andre
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Speaker 2: Fuller interview, the seventh round pick, the Bricky Cornerback from Toledo,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure where you'll find it. I don't see
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Speaker 3: Yeah, wherever you get podcasts. Just type it in g
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Speaker 3: So it's available everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: We talked about the cornerback situation.
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Speaker 2: Now that Andre Fuller is joining it, so is Michael Dansby,
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Speaker 2: the seventh round pick from Arizona. So is julian Neal
31:22
Speaker 2: Chris's guy, the third round pick from Arkansas. So what
31:25
Speaker 2: do the Seahawks have now, Well, you know they have
31:27
Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon. He's about to get minted at thirty one
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Speaker 2: million plus a year. That would make him the highest
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Speaker 2: paid cornerback in the NFL. Trent McDuffie is currently currently
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Speaker 2: the highest paid at thirty one million a year thanks
31:38
Speaker 2: to the Rams trading with the Chiefs. So, I guess
31:41
Speaker 2: if you're the Rams, you can say, well, that was
31:43
Speaker 2: our first round pick because we traded our first round
31:45
Speaker 2: pick to Kansas City to get McDuffie. Then we paid
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Speaker 2: him thirty one million dollars, and then we got our
31:49
Speaker 2: layaway quarterback. So maybe that's their rationale. Chris, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: not buying it, man. You can always get better. Yeah, yeah,
31:57
Speaker 2: I agree with you there.
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Speaker 1: So Wuispoon is staying, he's going.
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Speaker 2: To get about a four to maybe three four year
32:03
Speaker 2: contract at thirty one plus million a year. Probably gonna
32:06
Speaker 2: happen right around the start of or maybe right after
32:09
Speaker 2: the start of training camp in late July. Josh Job,
32:12
Speaker 2: they chose Job over Rike Will and let's be honest,
32:15
Speaker 2: eight million a year for Job. A former waiver cast
32:18
Speaker 2: off by the Philadelphia Eagles. They signed a few years
32:20
Speaker 2: ago in the summer, and McDonald loves he loves his tackling,
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Speaker 2: he loves how aggressive he is. He's an interesting guy
32:28
Speaker 2: for having. He plays with a bravado that makes you
32:30
Speaker 2: think he's Devin Witherspoon first round pick pedigree. He's a
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Speaker 2: guy who got cut by the Eagles, coming in here
32:36
Speaker 2: and winning a job and making they think Req wo'ing expendable.
32:40
Speaker 2: It's why Woollen went and signed in free agency a
32:43
Speaker 2: one year deal with the Eagles. They chose Josh Job
32:45
Speaker 2: instead to be the starter opposite of Witherspoon. But as
32:48
Speaker 2: we saw last year, Mike McDonald doesn't just use two corners.
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Speaker 2: He wants to move Witherspoon inside into the Din package dime.
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Speaker 2: If you count nickyven Warria's at defensive back, he's usually
32:59
Speaker 2: more of a sam line when they go five or
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Speaker 2: six defensive backs, and when they do go there, which
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Speaker 2: has been mostly their base defense for last year, then
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Speaker 2: they have a third corner come in as the outside guy,
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Speaker 2: replacing Witherspoon out there. And that's where perhaps Julian Neil
33:13
Speaker 2: could get a shot. Well, he's not the only one.
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Speaker 1: Neam I a pritchet They drafted him a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago out of Auburn. McDonald talks highly of.
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Speaker 2: Him a lot. He said, didn't pritch it this season
33:23
Speaker 2: and this training camp is a big one for him
33:25
Speaker 2: to make a step that when they let wool And go,
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Speaker 2: part of the reason was they want to see what
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Speaker 2: Pritchett's got to do next and whether he could be
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Speaker 2: that third cornerback rotation guy. People have forgotten they signed Noahgogy.
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Speaker 2: I'll get it right. Igmanogany used to be a starter
33:44
Speaker 2: two years ago with dan Quinn and Washington. Monogamy was
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Speaker 2: starting for ten games as a cornerback for Washington. He
33:51
Speaker 2: started a few games before that in the around the
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Speaker 2: league with Dallas, but didn't Miami excuse me, before he
33:58
Speaker 2: went to Dallas. He entered the league in two though
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Speaker 2: twenty with Miami. He's now an eight year veteran in
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Speaker 2: this league, so I wouldn't discount him. They brought him
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Speaker 2: in because of the starting experience just two years ago
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Speaker 2: with Washington, and now you have Julian Neil, Andre Fuller,
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Speaker 2: Michael Dansby coming in as well. You would think Fuller
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Speaker 2: and Dansby need to make the team by special teams
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Speaker 2: and get on active day game day rosters on special teams.
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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting Chris whether Julian Neil how he's going
34:27
Speaker 2: to fit into that. I would guess Neomia Pritchett's's biggest
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Speaker 2: competition one thousand percent.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see it just because I mentioned I
34:34
Speaker 3: think on Monday Show Neomira Pritchett had the greatest PBu
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Speaker 3: of all time. I think, so I see why Mama
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Speaker 3: Donald's like, you know what, let's see what this kid
34:41
Speaker 3: can do that.
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Speaker 2: You're right, he may earned a good shot at Inside
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Speaker 2: Track based on that one play. Literally that was amazing.
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Speaker 2: Up next, we're going to go to Texas on a
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Speaker 2: recruiting visit with Notre Dame running back coach Jaywan Sider.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be on the air.
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Speaker 2: Talking about the Seahawks first round draft pick, Jeddari and Price.
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Speaker 2: He coached Price the last two years at Notre Dame
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Speaker 2: and he's going to be on your air next on
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