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6-3 H2: Nate Atkins (The Athletic), Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: How's it going a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of busy week here, But that's what happens on.
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  Speaker 3: The speed sometimes that is that is what the Rams
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  Speaker 3: have been is busy. First of all, Miles Garrett and
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  Speaker 3: idea like this obviously doesn't come out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 3: happened overnight. From what you've gathered, How long have the
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  Speaker 3: Rams been interested? What did it take to finally get
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  Speaker 3: it done? How reluctant or ready were they to give
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  Speaker 3: Jared Verse to the Browns to make this happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is an idea that the Rams you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to pounce on before the draft. Initially, they were
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  Speaker 2: really after big time upgrades, especially on defense. They did
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  Speaker 2: one with Trent McDuffie with the Chiefs and their other
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  Speaker 2: you know, fascination became Miles Garrett just because he was
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  Speaker 2: a player that Sean McVay always thought was the absolute
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  Speaker 2: hardest the game plan for in the NFL at that time.
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  Speaker 2: That you know, the Rams wanted to make it all
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  Speaker 2: about draft compensation and the Browns were not into that.
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  Speaker 2: So that the draft happens, and you know, they keep
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  Speaker 2: trying different offers over the coming month or so, and
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  Speaker 2: finally the Browns asked for Jared Verse, And initially the
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  Speaker 2: Rams answer was no, they believe a lot in Jared Verse.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually really expecting a big leap from him this
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  Speaker 2: year from pro bowler into an elite class. But as
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  Speaker 2: time went on, I think they just looked at it
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  Speaker 2: and realized the Miles Garrett's already everything that they could
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  Speaker 2: ever dream of Jared Verse becoming. And based on the contract,
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  Speaker 2: the way that it would split out is that they
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  Speaker 2: would get Miles Garrett for eight million this year, seventeen
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  Speaker 2: million next year, and then twenty one million after that.
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  Speaker 2: So a true bargain on arguably the best defensive player
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. And so as much as they love
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  Speaker 2: the long term and the potential of Jared Verse, you know,
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  Speaker 2: their desire to go win the Super Bowl this year
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  Speaker 2: with Matthew Stafford at age thirty eight kind of reigned supreme.
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  Speaker 2: And it ends up kind of explaining a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of why they decided to take Ty Simpson as a
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  Speaker 2: backup quarterback quarterbacks the future in the first round, because
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  Speaker 2: that to them is freed up the twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: and twenty twenty eight draft picks to not have to
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  Speaker 2: say for a quarterback. So they could push the chips
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  Speaker 2: in with Jared Vertz and go and get Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they were one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Rare teams that has a vetination like that and then actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, finds the way to pony up and make
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  Speaker 2: it happen.
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  Speaker 3: This is Nate Atkins, beat writer for The Athletic covering
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  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Rams calling talking to us from Southern
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  Speaker 3: California the Beacon Plumbing Hotlight. Nate, how much of the
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  Speaker 3: Browns moving around Miles Garrett's money, moving some of the
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  Speaker 3: bonus money from March into the summer and then the
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  Speaker 3: acceleration costs that the Browns of course had to do
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  Speaker 3: and absorb it against the Cap instead of the Rams
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  Speaker 3: by trading him. How much did the money show gain
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  Speaker 3: and the Browns made it easier to trade Garrett? How
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  Speaker 3: much did that play into the Rams finally getting it done.
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  Speaker 2: That was basically the turning point because when they were
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  Speaker 2: talking before the draft, that was what the Rams were
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  Speaker 2: hoping the Browns were open to doing. Without that, it
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  Speaker 2: would have been just a lot harder for an outside
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  Speaker 2: team to acquire Miles Garrett. Once that actually went through,
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  Speaker 2: That's when Ram Zero manager West needs saw more of
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  Speaker 2: a lane, more of an opening to keep coming back
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  Speaker 2: after this and see what they could do. So that
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  Speaker 2: was pretty much the game changer and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: How much, Nate, how much of this move was do
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  Speaker 4: you think was more about maximizing these remaining years of
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  Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford versus building a RAMS roster that can contend
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  Speaker 4: even when Stafford eventually hangs them up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both elements are in play. That's why they were
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  Speaker 2: also interested in Trent McDuffie because they were ready to
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  Speaker 2: sign him to a four year extension. They saw Miles
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  Speaker 2: Garrett as a guy at the top of his game,
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  Speaker 2: and he's turning thirty one this year, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just had twenty three sacks last year. In the
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  Speaker 2: contract that's so affordable for the next three seasons that
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  Speaker 2: they saw this as a bargain financially for them kind
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  Speaker 2: of no matter how it would shake out, even if
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  Speaker 2: he drops off a little bit. So there is a
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  Speaker 2: vision for you know, when when Ty Simpson steps in
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  Speaker 2: ideally having this elite defense. You know there are years
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  Speaker 2: Miles has five more years on his deal and the
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  Speaker 2: contract goes way up for the final two seasons and
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  Speaker 2: that's when ty Simpson's supposed to step in, and so
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  Speaker 2: that was the idea there. But there is risk to
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  Speaker 2: that approach too, because bringing in Miles Garrett is going
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  Speaker 2: to make it a lot harder for them to retain
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  Speaker 2: the four free agent offensive linemen that they have, and
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  Speaker 2: they are two free agent wide receivers and Devonte Adams
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  Speaker 2: and pukin Akua, so they're going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: very choosy as to which ones they bring back. They
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  Speaker 2: hope they have a runway of multiple years with Matthew
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  Speaker 2: Stafford to start drafting and developing future starters at those positions,
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  Speaker 2: But ultimately they were willing to do it because this
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  Speaker 2: is still about on Sean McVay on the offensive side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball, and with this quarterback they drafted, so
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  Speaker 2: I think they just decided they'd rather figure out that
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  Speaker 2: side of the ball when the time comes and hope
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  Speaker 2: that they still have an elite defense that can lower
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  Speaker 2: the pressure on a young quarterback whenever it is tys
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  Speaker 2: Simpson's turn to go out there and start.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned that looking a few years ahead and
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  Speaker 4: talking about what Miles contract creates and difficult decisions regarding
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  Speaker 4: extensions for players like I'm assuming Pogan Nakula, Kobe Turner,
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  Speaker 4: and Byron Young. You think the front officers will is
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  Speaker 4: comforable with that trade off, considering let's say they do
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  Speaker 4: win it all in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the super Bowl is the number one goal by
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  Speaker 2: far for this season, and I think if they're able
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  Speaker 2: to get two super Bowl rings out of that trade
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  Speaker 2: for Matthew Stafford, they'll look at this era as a
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  Speaker 2: big time success. Well knowing that, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: challenge to sustaining doll and luckily to them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett's extend his contract is affordable enough the next
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  Speaker 2: three years that there is some that they can do.
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  Speaker 2: Where it gets tough is if they're trying to sign
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  Speaker 2: a four year extension that starts next year for some
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  Speaker 2: of these players, the ones who can really demand it,
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  Speaker 2: like Byron Young and Kobe Turner and Kuka Nakua. That's
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  Speaker 2: where it could be a little bit more challenging. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think they understand that they were already having
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  Speaker 2: a hard time ranking the free agents that they have
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  Speaker 2: and prioritizing exactly which ones to sign and which order
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  Speaker 2: to do it in so this.
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  Speaker 1: Muddies that picture.
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  Speaker 2: But to them, Miles Garrett was the bigger investment than
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  Speaker 2: all of these free agents, and I think they're willing
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  Speaker 2: to let several of them go, and I think several
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  Speaker 2: of them will hit free agency and then.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just have to deal with that when it comes.
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  Speaker 3: Nate Atkins, the beat writer for the Rams in Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles for the Athletic Talkinos on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
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  Speaker 3: here on ninety three point three KJRFM, You've mentioned a
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  Speaker 3: Koua a couple times as a priority. He's entering the
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  Speaker 3: final year of his contract. It was assumed that he
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  Speaker 3: was going to get a deal add or maybe above
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  Speaker 3: the value of Jackson Smith's and Jigba, who just signed
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  Speaker 3: the record in this spring for one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 3: eight million dollars a wide receiver record in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Does all of this, Nate, mean that maybe Nikoua plays
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  Speaker 3: out his contract year and the Rams revisit this after
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  Speaker 3: the season, or do you think between this and the
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  Speaker 3: hiatus that he's been on working on his life off
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  Speaker 3: the field, does that change what the Rams want to
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  Speaker 3: do with Nakoor? Do you still expect that to get
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  Speaker 3: done in pre.
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  Speaker 5: Season well to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: Before the Miles hear It trade, I still didn't think
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  Speaker 2: that was going to be a deal that would happen
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  Speaker 2: until after this season. It's possible that there's a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: They tend to try to do some of these extensions
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  Speaker 2: in August, and they've done a couple in season last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible that by then they came to a new conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: But they really wanted Puka to display a long pattern
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  Speaker 2: of new behavior because there's a long pattern of concerning
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  Speaker 2: behavior that led up to it. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: set him up in a situation where you just have
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  Speaker 2: to kind of go through motions for a month or
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  Speaker 2: two and then land a deal that gives him all
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  Speaker 2: the power in the world to kind of do whatever
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  Speaker 2: he wants. And so they've been cautious with it ever
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  Speaker 2: since last season ended.
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  Speaker 1: I think getting Miles.
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  Speaker 2: Garrett and Trett mcduffy was their way to buy into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people and players that they already believe in
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  Speaker 2: who don't have to prove anything else to them, and
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  Speaker 2: through that show, send a message to Puoka and everybody
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  Speaker 2: else of what they're looking for and players that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to extend sou. I totally expect Puka at this
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  Speaker 2: point to play out this season and then and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. There's different options they could. They could sign
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  Speaker 2: him after the season. They could use the franchise tag
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  Speaker 2: and give this a two year evaluation. They could look
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  Speaker 2: into a franchise tag in trade potentially, but they'd have
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  Speaker 2: to have other receivers which they don't have on the
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  Speaker 2: team under contract right now, so a lot is up
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  Speaker 2: in the air. And they really really do need this
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  Speaker 2: to work out with Puka Nakua, not only for Matthew
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  Speaker 2: Stafford's window, but you know, win Ty Simpson steps in.
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  Speaker 2: He really needs a go to receiver and they that's
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  Speaker 2: the only one on their roster that has that potential
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of years. So they still really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to come together. They're challenging and supporting Pooka to make
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  Speaker 2: those changes, and I think they've seen good progress just
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  Speaker 2: in these past couple months of him going to holistic care,
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  Speaker 2: seeking out team therapy and then coming back and putting
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  Speaker 2: in good work in this offseason program.
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  Speaker 1: They just need to see a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: They need to see it carry through the highs and
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  Speaker 2: lows and the fame and expectations of this make or
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  Speaker 2: break season for their team, and so I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's something we're gonna have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 3: On Nate Atkins, Rams meatwriter for The Athletic joining US
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  Speaker 3: Live and KJR okay. On top of all of that,
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  Speaker 3: you reported yesterday of Sean mcvay's comments about Aaron Donald,
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  Speaker 3: the fact we've seen online Donald working out with his
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh trainer as if he might come back to play
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  Speaker 3: at age thirty five out of retirement. And then you
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  Speaker 3: reported on McVeigh saying that he's spoken to Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 3: about the possibility of him perhaps rejoining the Rams now
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  Speaker 3: that Miles Garrett is here. How viable is this is
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  Speaker 3: his option? Do you think this is a little smoke
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  Speaker 3: or you think this is real? And how much does
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  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett coming tell Iron Donald let's let's do this.
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  Speaker 3: Is Is this a tipping point that might put him
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  Speaker 3: in the Rams uniform this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's definitely a possibility, but a lot more
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  Speaker 2: has to happen for it to become, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: probability or something that actually happens. You know, my Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Donald is you know, he's been retired since the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three season at this point. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: asked him last fall when he came back to be
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  Speaker 2: honored by the RAMS, I asked him, what still gives
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  Speaker 2: you the itch sometimes in your daily life that makes
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  Speaker 2: you miss playing and he said at that point, he.
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  Speaker 1: Said absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And so if he's now having an itch for this,
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of figure out that it has a
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  Speaker 2: lot to do with Miles Garrett and maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit to do.
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  Speaker 1: With Trett McDuffie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a different kind of setup for a player that
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  Speaker 2: would want to come back and play a limited role.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll just kind of have to see how it
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  Speaker 1: plays out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Aaron Donald has worked out to this level
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  Speaker 2: pretty much every day since he retired, so that hasn't
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  Speaker 2: really changed it all. And that's that's why they've always
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  Speaker 2: held out a little bit of hope. It's that this
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  Speaker 2: isn't a player who is just going to turn off
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  Speaker 2: everything physically for years and then try and kick off
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  Speaker 2: the rust. He is in great, you know, training as
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  Speaker 2: far as the weight room goes, but it's a different
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  Speaker 2: world when you're talking about training camp and playing a
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  Speaker 2: long season and playing that position in the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: And you know he's still going to get double teams
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  Speaker 2: even if Miles Garrett is out there. And that was
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  Speaker 2: all the stuff that led Aaron Donald to retire in
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  Speaker 2: the first place, and so you just never see that.
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  Speaker 2: I can think of a defensive lineman coming out of retirement,
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  Speaker 2: you know, multiple years later into his mid thirties. But also,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Donald is different than just about every defensive lineman
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  Speaker 2: who's ever played. So if there's someone who could do
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  Speaker 2: it and be very effective and fit a window, it's him.
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  Speaker 2: But he has to be the one the oldest way
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  Speaker 2: to decide that, and I think certainly he seems intrigued
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  Speaker 2: by the possiblity of Miles Garrett, but there's more that
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  Speaker 2: has to happen, I think, for him to actually fully
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  Speaker 2: come on board and decide to do this, when just
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  Speaker 2: last fall he had it so.
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  Speaker 1: Far out of his mind.
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  Speaker 4: If Donald, let's just hypothetically play this fun game that
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  Speaker 4: we do on radio all the time, but let's say
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  Speaker 4: Donald does return, how would that change what the Rams
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  Speaker 4: defense is trying to be compared to last season when
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  Speaker 4: they were younger and they were developing unit versus bring
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  Speaker 4: back Donald, you have Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 5: How does that look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it look a lot different. You know, there were
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  Speaker 2: people who wanted him to come back late last season
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  Speaker 2: when it was player they had a Super Bowl contending team,
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  Speaker 2: but like you mentioned, that was a much younger defense
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  Speaker 2: and a lot more would have been on his plate,
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  Speaker 2: even as they were pretty talented up front. This year
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  Speaker 2: would be different just because Miles Garrett would be obviously
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  Speaker 2: the lead engine of the defensive line, the guy demanding
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  Speaker 2: so many double teams. It would take some of those
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  Speaker 2: off of a player like Aaron Donald who would play
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  Speaker 2: there at the three technique spot, and you know, he
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  Speaker 2: would end up rotating with you know, Kobe Turner and
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  Speaker 2: Braden Fisk and would end up, you know, that would
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  Speaker 2: end up being a kind of neat tandem to see
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  Speaker 2: them mix and match there. And if Aaron Donald's back,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they would I'm sure they would do everything
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  Speaker 2: they can to have him only play passing downs rather
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  Speaker 2: than you know, try and hould up on double teams
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  Speaker 2: in the run games.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the value of.
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  Speaker 2: Having a Brandon Fisk and Kobe Turner, and then what
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  Speaker 2: they did in the secondary, adding Trent McDuffie and Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Watson from the Chiefs. Ideally, that's going to make life
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  Speaker 2: easier on all these defensive linemen to rush rush for
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  Speaker 2: less time and be able to get to the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: or affect the throws and have the defensive secondary make
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  Speaker 2: plays off of it. So it's a much better situation
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  Speaker 2: than Aaron Donald has ever been able to look at
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  Speaker 2: with this team since he retired and even think about
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  Speaker 2: coming back. But you know, still a challenge for a
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  Speaker 2: guy that's in his mid thirties and hasn't played in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years to hold up at that position.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, they would have to get creative as
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  Speaker 2: far as the snap count in the role and maybe
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  Speaker 2: some of the timing of when you know when he
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  Speaker 2: would practice or maybe even when he would come back.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's the other question out there is, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he wants to do it. You know, he'd
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  Speaker 2: have to decide does he wanted to go through training camp.
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  Speaker 2: Does he want to use that as a ramp up?
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  Speaker 2: Is it more of a you know, mid season type
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  Speaker 2: of thing when you look at a team that you
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  Speaker 2: can already expect to be in the playoff push, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of a lot of questions out there,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where they have not gotten into anything yet
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  Speaker 2: because they're just waiting to see if Aaron really wants
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  Speaker 2: to do this, and that's something he's got to decide.
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  Speaker 2: But no doubt if they're able to add Aaron Donald
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  Speaker 2: to a defensive line with Miles Garrett and Byron Young
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  Speaker 2: and Kobe Turner and Braden Fisk and Poonah Ford, they'd
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  Speaker 2: be very happy to do that. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: would work out pretty well if he's willing to do that.
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  Speaker 3: How much money you think Poona Ford got to give
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  Speaker 3: up ninety five to Miles Garrett Nate.
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  Speaker 2: That was funny, Miles Yestudy said, Well, Sean McVay asked him.
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  Speaker 2: He said, oh, you had to spare a couple of bucks,
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  Speaker 2: and he said more than a couple bucks, so probably
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  Speaker 2: curious to.
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  Speaker 1: Ask Poona about that.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually it came together so quickly though the trade went
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  Speaker 2: down on Monday morning, Poona tweet had a joke about
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  Speaker 2: getting a jersey stolen, and then by the very next day,
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  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett's holding up number ninety five. So I have
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  Speaker 2: a feeling that Miles figured that out, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: a good amount of money.
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  Speaker 1: But he also had some time he knew.
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  Speaker 2: I think this has been pretty close in the works
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  Speaker 2: for about a week now, so it didn't all happen overnight.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Poona got a little bonus out
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 3: Poon Afford the former popular Seahawks Nose Tack Report. It's guys,
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  Speaker 3: start here in Seattle as an undrafted rookie UT of Texas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: go forward. It's a big popular favorite up here, Nate.
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  Speaker 3: We spent a lot of time up here in Seattle
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  Speaker 3: and have since the Super Bowl really talking about the
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  Speaker 3: Rams and how they're reloading and gunning for the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 3: and how much are the Seahawks on the minds of
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  Speaker 3: the Rams. How much do they think the gap is
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: already closed by the moves they made. How much of
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: this all is with Seattle in mind?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Seattle and San Francisco are both very
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: much at the front of our minds because now they
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: know they went through that gauntlet last year, how difficult
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that was and didn't end up winning the division. And
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: you know it worked out to get the NFC title game,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: but they weren't at home for that. They had to
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: play in that crazy Seattle crowd and environment. I think
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: they looked at last year and I really thought that
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: they were right there neck and neck with the Seahawks,
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: which is how each of those three games played out,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: but the Seahawks ended up pulling.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Out the last two.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And I think the way they looked at it is
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: that while they thought the teams were equal and maybe
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: total overall abilities, the Seahawks were the more balanced and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: well rounded team. They had to it on offense, defense,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: and special teams, whereas the Rams put everything on the
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: number one scoring offense tried to survive the other two
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: in those games are what really.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Exposed the leaks there.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: So you know, I think the moves on defense answer
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: in their minds or at least address a lot of
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: that where they felt like they weren't physical enough in
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: coverage on the outside or good enough in run defense
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: when Kenneth Walker would spring it outside. So they brought
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: in some more physical cornerbacks and then Miles Garrett becoming
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: that guy that if you want to the Seahawks Rams
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: games last season, the Rams were able to get pressure,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: but they just weren't able to finish the deals. Sam
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Darl was able to get out of it find different outlets,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: So I think going and getting a player like Miles
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Garrett lets them believe that, you know, you can double him,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: you can send anything, any kind of attention at him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: He's still the type of talent who can win on
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: third and eight against attention the way that Jared Vers
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: just wasn't quite ready to do all that last season.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: So I think this is you know, it's a move
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl and all the teams that they'll face,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: but that very much starts with the Seahawks and the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and that's a big reason why they've
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: been this aggressive this year, where you know, there they
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: were already the Super Bowl favorites before this Miles Garrett trade,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: but they realized just how difficult this road is going
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: to be this season, and they'd really love in their world.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: In their minds, the perfect world would be to get
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: home field advantage and then play four games, three games
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: at so FI Stadium, including the Super Bowl next year.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: That's their dream, and that's why they're going so hard
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: after it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: They've done that before and won a Super Bowl with
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup and the Gang doing just that
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: on their home field. Nate, I know it's been busy week.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you joining us. I'll see you in a
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: couple times at least maybe three times again this year
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: in the press boxes at Rams Seahawks games. Thanks all
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: for joining us.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: And make sure you don't write any of your game
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: story until the final minute because.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Those games are so absolutely crazy. But it should be.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It should be a fun battle again this year.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Thanks Nate. We'll have him back on So Nate Atkins
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: from Los Angeles, the beat writer for the Rams for
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: the Athletic, saying of Aaron Donald at age thirty five,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: three years now out of the game, possibly coming out
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: of retirement to join Miles Garret on the Rams defense,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: he said, you just don't see it after being out
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: that long, and then Nate Atkins said, quote, then again,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Aaron Donald is different than just about every defensive lineman
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: that's ever played. He also thought it was interesting that
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Nate Atkins, the Rams beat writer for the Athletic, just
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: told us that the Puka Nakua deal may not happen
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: this year. He may play out his con here and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: perhaps be franchise Tag and Nate Atkins for twenty twenty seven.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Nate Adkins brought up the possibility of a franchise tag
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: and potentially trade depending on how this year goes for him,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: not just on the field, but off the field. How
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: much the Rams want to see Pooka Nakua improve off
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the field and grow and mature, and the problems that
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: he's had off the field, those are interesting. If you
• 19:21
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• 19:30
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• 19:32
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• 19:44
  Speaker 3: is on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back to
• 19:52
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• 19:54
  Speaker 3: week day from tenny and a noon here on ninety
• 19:56
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• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Athletic Center, home of the Super Bowl champion Seahawks are
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: having OTA practices open to the media today and tomorrow.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Expected to talk to.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold after practice today. I talked to Derek Hall
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: after practice today. Just signed his three year contract extension
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: this morning here at team headquarters. Those stories will be
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: up later at the News Tribune the Newstribune dot com.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: You know what time it is. The music means it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: time to reaback your text. I will say four nine,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: four to five one in the Kamadud's text line as
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: soon as I ask for your favorite moment of in
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  Speaker 3: Living Color, a flood of text commit. I spent all
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: this time on the show preparing and what we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk about, and details and the reporting and the journalism
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: of it, and then I just throw that in off
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the cup and the text line blows up above in
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Living Color and some great Waynean's memories and build a
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  Speaker 3: Fireman and men on film it Chris, what we got?
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: This is from the three six Oh is it a
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: coincidence that for the last two weeks nobody's wanted to
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: fire Dan Wilson?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, winning does that, doesn't it. There's still some people
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: mad about how the Piggyback's working out but yeah, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: win eight games in a row, that does tend to
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: go away pretty quickly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Right, this is from the two to oh eight.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: To be a championship caliber team, you must win a
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: win series against weaker clubs. When the schedule works in
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: your favor, take advantage of it. And yes, from the
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: two o eight, the Manners are definitely taking advantage of
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: it and they can really stretch out this lead.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: In the Al West.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Four to five. Homie the Clown, Environment Bill. That's some
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: USCG O Day listener, Go Coast Guard co Irish Jason
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: two six in Living Color, Anton Jackson the homeless man
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: living in a box. There's a good one in here
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: about somebody who senior year in high school dressed up
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: as Anton Jackson. I have to find two six Homie
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: de Clown. My freshman year, I walked into school five
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: feet nothing tall. It was Halloween. The biggest senior the
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: school was dressed up. Is Homie de Clown walking around
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: with a sock full of bald up socks, beating freshmen
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and telling them to shut up. I'll never forget it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Thanks Aaron. The two six a lot of Homie the
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Clown and Fire Marshall bills on here.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, without a question, Anton Jackson, you mentioned that one. Okay,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: here we go.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: This is from the two o six Watch every NHL
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: game on CBC thank me later.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, totally agree, especially because, like I said, we're paying
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: five hundred dollars a month for cable. Maybe the best
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: thing about having cable over any other streaming services being
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: able to watch CBC. Can you watch CBC on fubu
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and switch titch whatever those.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Things are called, I would assume.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I know there's some international rights between borders sometimes on
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that stuff and streaming and whatnot. But four two vicees go,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: nights go. So glad I moved to Vegas before the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: crack can arrive and saddle me with another underperforming Seattle
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: sports team with no championships four two vicees. Why do
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: you keep saying about the age Matthew Stafford at age
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: thirty eight when he was MVP at age thirty seven,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Because he's thirty eight, and because he's not gonna play forever,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: and because the Rams fully admit they're loading up before
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: four before Stafford retires, and that's the impetus for all
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: these moves. They're going for it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: This is from the two six rams are and quotations reloading,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: but reloading counting on old players and we don't play
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: them until late in the season and the Seahawks are young.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: We'll see who is the healthier team Christmas.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big question, right, Everyone says this plan
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: goes to hell if Matthew Stafford gets injured, it doesn't
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: play a full season. He had the back issues last preseason,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: which didn't prove to affect him during the season at all.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: He won the MVP after all, Like the Texter pointed out,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: but it's all fun and games until you lose your
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback in the NFL. Everything you did up to
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: that point goes for not if you lose your starting
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: quarterback to an injury. That's true of anybody, but especially
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: when you have the MVP coming back.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: From the three to six to Oh, I'm super excited
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: to see how Riley Mills does with a starting season healthy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Dude was a monster in the Super Bowl. Yeah, he
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: should be a uh he should be a great addition.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: And he also adds that he loved the show. Appreciate
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the love. Three to six zero, Yeah, I appreciate that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: And there are a couple of Riley Mills text on
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: here for what they're looking forward to this season. Riley
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Mills to me is maybe a track like Byron Murphy
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that at beginning they're gonna not be sure how much
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: he'll play, not sure how much he might contribute to
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the pass rush den boom. He shows pass rush ability,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: gets more playing time, and we saw what he did
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl his first career sack. Remember, Riley Mills
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: was not on a field until December last year, twelve
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: months after he had torn his knee his final game
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: at Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff. So what
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: is he going to be like now with a full offseason,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: fully training, fully in the weight room, fully on the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: field for these OTA's mini camps. In training camp, you
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: talk about quantum leaps from year one to year two.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Riley Mills, just in terms of being prepared to play
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: an NFL season, is going to be night and day
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: compared to this time last year. Pete Carroll used to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: talk all the time about the growth in understanding maturity, responsibility,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: and just playing an ability between your first and second
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: NFL seasons. Riley Mills, this probably might make the biggest
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: leap of any player on the team. M all right,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: this is from the three six oh oh? Excuse me
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: two five to three. Who do y'all have tonight in
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: the NBA Finals?
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Spurs?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: And what do you think about steven A still messing
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: with the Dan Housen curse. I don't know about the
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: curse as much, but I think the Spurs get the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: dub tonight. I think they actually take the series in
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: five or six games, Nick.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: And I hope this is the last time we mentioned
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: steven A Smith on this show ever.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Someone is not a supporter.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: That guy needs to go away fast.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: From the four to one oh, any idea where that is?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Greg four one oh? Off the top of my head,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Houston.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I will double back and look that up. CNV and
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Sportsnet are superior for hockey covers. They actually know the game,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: unlike ESPN, Slash ABC, who could give two craps about hockey.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Baltimore's four one oh. Baltimore's four one.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, Well, that was fast.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But I'm sure he lives or she lived, has lived
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: in the Border area to be able to watch CBC,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: or maybe lived in Canada. A lot of Detroit people
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: watch CBC out of Windsor and feel the same way
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: about CBC's coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs. CBC used
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: to have it itself, and then they lost the contract
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: to Sportsnet Sports and actually sub leases Hockey Night in
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Canada to the franchise, the famous franchise in Canada. They
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: sublease it to CBC for CBC to carry it's Sportsnet owned,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: its sports Net produced, as employees are all sports Net.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: It's not CBC's franchise anymore. Sports Net body and now
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: they sublease it so that it's all over the air
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: across all of Canada on what it is public television essentially,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: in fact, is public television, government owned CBC.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Last one for me from the four to two five
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: in Living Color, fly Girls and Young j Lo.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Those are some hot topics there, for sure.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Jennifer Lopez was one of the dancers the fly Girls.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: And we've talked about this before, but Rosie Perez was
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the choreographer of the fly Girls. Rosie Perez of White
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Men Can't Jump, The Wife Jeopardy playing wife White Men
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Can't Jump. But yeah, Rosie Prez got her big start
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: as a choreographer for the fly Girls and Jennifer Lopez
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: is one of the fly Girl dancers on In Living
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Color in the early nineties. My kids get a kick
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: out of watching and Living Color reruns. Of course they'd
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: never heard of it. They're only twenty three years old,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: but they liked. They really like Fire Marshall Bill. They
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: think that's let me tell you something, Homie the Clown.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: There's some good memories of in Living Color. That's like
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: college for me. Man. That dates me. A lot of
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: people talking about the Seahawks and the Rams chasing the Seahawks.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: They think the Rams are reacting to the Seahawks, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: that the Seahawks are where they are. I'm summarizing, basically,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: where the Super Bowl Champions come get us. That seems
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: to be the theme on the text line. I heard
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Chuck pal say that on the radio earlier. It's a
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: pretty nice perch to be in when you're the Super
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Bowl champions. Where I am inside their team headquarters, they
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: are gathering to practice. Shortly, Ian Farness has walked into
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the building. He's going to join me next to talk
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: about what he's got on his show from twelve until
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: three from Seahawks Headquarters on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, Seahawks Headquarters,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Seahawks OTAs today. The Greg Best Show with Christopher Kibb
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: will be back out here tomorrow ten am to noon
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: with me again today and tomorrow and Fords Mayor Maple
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Valley joining me. Hello, sir, how are you? I was
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: good as well, really great Game one at the Cup
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Final last night.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: That's an unbelievable Yeah, that's what you want in the finals,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: isn't it exactly? I mean, give us, give it. I mean,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: And when it was one nothing twenty five seconds in
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: and two nothing three or four minutes in, I'm like, well,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: the NHL needs games like that, They need a good series.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: They've had a record setting gear in terms of television
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: viewers and and and so forth. But you know they're
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: always gonna be playing second fiddle to the NBA finals,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: so you need to you need to do something high
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: level like that, and they certainly did yesterday. It was
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: everything you wanted.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Then some I saw teams road teams and game one
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: of a Cup final that trailed by multiple goals were
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: over and fifty five yeah last night, Yeah.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Which is wild because home I said, advantage has not
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: met much in these players, but it and last night,
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: I mean that building last night was popping. It was
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: crazy when they tied it. I mean back and forth
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: were like use the basketball term. There was like quick
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: four lead changes in that game.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: So fun game. I'm with you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I watched, I watched TBC.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It was funny.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: With all the TV numbers that the NHL talks about
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: in the States, those don't include people like US watching
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: on CBC. And it's not just US Minnesota, like a
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: lot of the a lot of the border cities. Yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: I have CBC and they'll watch that over an ESPN broadcast,
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: although I think Sean McDonald doesn't. He does, Okay, he's fine.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: I prefer the T and T stuff, but I think
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Johnny's better than I'm just biased, but I think Johnny's
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: better than Kenny Albert. But the way we go, we
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: had nice that we have John fors and aady old
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: check on on KJR, were carrying all the games on
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: ninety three point three KJFM, and we had Johnny and
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Edzel on last night. Edzo interviewed the commissioner in the
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: pregame show. I'm driving home listening to that and Betman's
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: just busting his chops and it was just fantastic.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: So I looked for it. Didn't see Bettman mentioning anything
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: or being asked about.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: No. No, they I'll be honest. They didn't get out.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: They didn't get out of that what they probably wanted to.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Leave it at that, Okay. I do expect Adam Silver
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: to get asked about Seattle tonight in his pregame one.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: I hope so, I hope so. And just in fairness,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: even to the stuff yesterday, if you don't have Seattle
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: media there or people that are vested in it, you know,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: like if you're if you're covering the NHL Finals, the
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: only person that would have asked Betman or Daily about
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: it would have been probably Emily Kaplan, who had the story.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: And I don't even know if she was there. She
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: was probably prepping for the broadcast.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: And then tonight, I mean and with in San Antonio,
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Like really, I don't know who who would be there
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: that we care about expansion unless there's somebody from Seattle
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: or Vegas. And I know the journalists that would be
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: there for Seattle and they're not there. So the guy,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: one of the that guy would be covering the Mariners
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: game today, our buddy Timmy so exactly so, and Daniels
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  Speaker 6: isn't there, So yeah, I don't know. I hope he's
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  Speaker 6: asked about it, but because I think what I'd like
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  Speaker 6: to know is, like, what is the name Melinda French Gates?
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  Speaker 6: I mean Adam Silver. Let me emphasize the last name.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 6: Let me emphasize that last name for a second.
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  Speaker 3: I'd probably answer that question too in sub Way for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So out here at Seahawks, I've made a point
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: during the show about how different this team is just
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: in twelve months, and every NFL team is different, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: different into how the same they are, and forty nine
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: and fifty three coming back twenty of twenty two starters.
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  Speaker 3: You could make the case that this is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: uneventful ota offseason, maybe preseason.
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  Speaker 6: Even if it span it out, because if it's you know,
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  Speaker 6: if John was listening Schneider right now, you would be unhappy.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: It's a seventy man roster. Grein, Yeah, excuse me, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: even with the seventy's, it's in the sixties out of seventy, yes,
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  Speaker 6: including the practice squad. Price So and look your offensive
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: line more than likely a set unless pos Stevens steps up.
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  Speaker 6: But I mean maybe there's a competition at right guard.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't even know if there is.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna watch Stevens throughout
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: training camp to see all.
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  Speaker 6: I just felt like they never had any appetite for
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was Bradford and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 6: I know every fan wanted to be different. But aside,
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: where's the other competition?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Tyle Cutt and Bud Clark. It's safety because draft
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: to Clark so high.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would think so. And we had Tie in
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  Speaker 6: here last week when we were here for the first
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: not it was open to us. And and you know,
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  Speaker 6: I mean he he knows his role. I mean his
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: role really is a Swiss army knife. It's you're there
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  Speaker 6: for love, You're there for probably Clark, depending on if
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: they go dime what they want to do. I mean,
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Tie is a pretty valuable piece to the puzzle. But
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously the upside of of Bud Clark's a
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: lot higher, especially where he's picked. But yeah, I mean
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: maybe that's a little mini competition. Maybe a little mini
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: competition for the third corner. I think you talked about
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: that today with me and my Pritchett, right, but it
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: kind of feels like, you know, with the rookies there,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: that could happen. Really outside of that, wre where's the
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: comps final?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is Emmanuel fit Wilson fit in? That's curious
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to me because if you draft Jedari and Price first,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: you expect him to be number one in the first
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  Speaker 3: round pick. Wilson has a contract that is barely above
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: veteran minimum.
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  Speaker 6: He's in, He's a jag man.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: He is just a guy. He's a body.
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  Speaker 6: Like in an ideal world, because you know what he is.
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  Speaker 6: You've got tape, you get NFL tape of him. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: he's just a dude. I think in an ideal world,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: obviously Price is your one. When Charbonay is healthy, he's
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: one A or two. Halani is in the mix, and
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: I'm sure that they would ideally, they would ideally love
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: either Macintosh or Jacarti Wright to be a guy there
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: as well. Yeah, because all those guys have shown glimpses
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: of being having a higher upside than Wilson.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: In every season you need four or five right every season?
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: No, matter what, and they probably feel like like a
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: right guy, like right, they can probably aways flow him
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: through the practice squad. But I mean a year ago,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: well ten months ago, right in July, we're watching Jacarti right,
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: and he's he's a dude. Yeah, he was every he
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: was ahead of he was ahead of not McIntosh, he's
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: ahead of what's his face, Damian Martinez Kings.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And that's so much so that the rid of Martinez.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Right and then right got hurt. But yeah, I don't,
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: I don't. I think Wilson is this year's version of
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Marquez Valdez Scanling Mike like, Okay, you're bringing a guy in.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: He's a veteran. If he makes it great, if he doesn't,
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: there's no like you said, the contract is easily easily
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: distinguished or extinguished.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: I should say, what do you get today?
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Steve Pelozolo thirty thirteen checked the Mike podcast. At twelve twenty,
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: we'll talk about the Miles Garrett. We'll get into that situation.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: We'll do that at twelve twenty. Hugh Mellin's gonna join
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: me at one. I haven't that chance to talk to
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: him about Miles Garrett. And then I'm gonna get a
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: little little different thing with Hugh, you know, with the
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: whole baseball situation going on with the MLBPA and Major
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: League Baseball, the owners and the early talk about salary cap.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: You know, he was a player rep for a long
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: time in the NFL, has been through these types of
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: things before, and I believe he was the player a
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: player rep in the NFL at the time when everything
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: got changed in the NFL back in the when they
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: went from the Plan B free agency our actual free
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: agency and all that stuff.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm just.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Gonna I think it'd be interesting to lean on you
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: a little bit for his insight on because it feels,
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: I know, it's June and we're a ways away. They
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: are so far apart, like they are just fundamentally salary cap,
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: no solar cap, right, and they and this is there's
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: always been talk of salary cap. This is the first
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: time they've gone heavy heart into the salary cap talk
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: since ninety four. And I don't have to remind people
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: what happened in ninety four. Look for look for the
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: World Series champ that year and you'll find out you'll
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: find nothing. It's like looking for the NCAA champion in
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: basketball March Madness in twenty twenty. There is nothing there.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: It's a black slate. So we got out of that
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: coming up today. Oh and then Elijah Royal is gonna
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: join us, oh A twenty I believe in there.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: There's a Seahawks who has a lot at stake here
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: this offseason.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: I would say, and he's getting some opportunities since Barner's
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: coming up, coming off some surgeries. He's getting he's getting
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: some runs. So we'll talk to the second your tight end.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: You look at the you know this that the move
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: that Barner made from year one to year two, quantumly massively,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: production wise, everything else. Arroyal probably in position to do
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: that too, So we'll talk to him coming up, get
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: to know him a little bit.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Twenty five or so. That's here from the Virginia Maates
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Athletics Center, Seahawks headquarters. I'm heading out to practice to
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: watch that. I'll tell you what I saw. Tomorrow ten
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: to noon. Ian is up next with Anderson Hurst.
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  Speaker 1: Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks back at the studio, Chris, and I will be
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  Speaker 3: with your ten and noon tomorrow in ninety three point
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