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Chuck in the Morning 8-17 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, more from Mike and ABC's of the Mariners. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Run it first home too, sona mess, strike three, Andre's
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Speaker 1: Munios comes back from Friday Nights to feet and sinches
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Speaker 1: up a series win for Seattle.
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Speaker 2: The Maritors are four back in.
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Speaker 1: The Al West and they've won nine of eleven this
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Speaker 1: year against the Astros.
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Speaker 2: What a game it really was. It was a really
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Speaker 2: good game. And frankly, if you didn't have rooting interest
0:38
Speaker 2: Friday Night was unbelieved.
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Speaker 3: It really was. That was an exciting game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it ended in crushing sadness, but before that.
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Speaker 2: Yay, yeah, yeah, exactly. Good morning to you, Great morning
0:50
Speaker 2: to you all. Happy Monday. Ashley Ryan is year. You
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Speaker 2: better soak her up though, because it's gonna be gone
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Speaker 2: for a little while.
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Speaker 3: Soaking up the sunshine.
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Speaker 2: Oh jeez, Why how do people get to such destinations?
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Speaker 3: I have nine straight days off of work.
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Speaker 4: I cannot robot the last time in my life I
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Speaker 4: have had nine straight days off of what?
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Speaker 2: Oh geez, how about that?
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Speaker 5: Yea?
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Speaker 2: Some have said you've taken ten days off.
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Speaker 3: Some have I don't know who those people are. Well,
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Speaker 3: and then why stop there?
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Speaker 4: Because I wasn't here Friday, So basically three years off
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Speaker 4: of work. I've taken three straight years off of work. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: you're welcome.
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Speaker 2: Well, here we go, we roll into our second hour.
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Speaker 2: We've got Greg Bell coming your way here in a
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Speaker 2: minute and a half to talk about the preseason opener,
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Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon, Terry and Arnold, and who knows what else
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Speaker 2: on today's conversation with our Seahawks insider. But let me
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Speaker 2: get to your headlines. They are brought to you by
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Speaker 2: Frost Brewed Corps. Like Choose, chill a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: Dallas wins over Seattle seventeen to seven in the preseason
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Speaker 2: opener for both teams. It's Nashville this week for some
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Speaker 2: fighting during the week, and then an actual game will
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Speaker 2: be played between the Titans and the Seahawks on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon did agree to a brand new deal since
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Speaker 2: last we spoke over the weekend, a four year extension
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Speaker 2: that's going to pay him about thirty three million dollars
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Speaker 2: per year. Terry and Arnold was also signed since last
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Speaker 2: we spoke, to a one year deal, but there's a
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Speaker 2: lot to figure out before he could ever take the
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Speaker 2: football field for the Seahawks. We'll find out more information
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Speaker 2: from Craig Bell here in a little bit. Also from
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Speaker 2: the National Football League, Aaron Donald at a second workout
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Speaker 2: with the Rams. Pretty much the consensus is, if not
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Speaker 2: the unanimous, there's just a matter of time before he
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Speaker 2: announces his return to the Rams. Jamal Adams didn't make
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Speaker 2: a very long into Vikings camp with his new team.
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Speaker 2: He is out for the season with a knee injury,
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Speaker 2: and it looks like the Browns are very close to
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Speaker 2: naming Deshaun Watson their starting quarterback for the opening game
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Speaker 2: of the year. Husky's camp continues, We're going to be
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Speaker 2: out there wins and Thursday. When I say we, I
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Speaker 2: mean the morning Show. We're gonna have a cast of
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Speaker 2: a thousand different guests that are going to stop by
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Speaker 2: and join us on Wednesday and Thursday. So we look
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Speaker 2: forward to that. The Mariners took two out of three
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Speaker 2: from the Houston Astros over the weekend, despite their crushing
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Speaker 2: defeat Saturday Andres Munnos two run lead going into the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the tenth and cannot hold on to it,
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Speaker 2: and so the Mariners come back with a win on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: They win yesterday by a final score of three to two.
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Speaker 2: They are four back in the American League West two
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Speaker 2: and a half games out in the Crazy American League
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Speaker 2: Wild Card and they will have a day off today
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Speaker 2: before resuming play tomorrow in Milwaukee. Tommy John passed away yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I'm sad. Was really a class gentleman in Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 2: known more for his surgery than his baseball playing. But
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Speaker 2: he was a very good baseball player. And the Sounders
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Speaker 2: have now lost seven straight matches in the MLS. They
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Speaker 2: lost to the white Caps last night by a final
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Speaker 2: score up two to nothing. Let's talk football with Greg Bell.
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Speaker 5: Happy Monday, Greg, Happy Monday. Hello.
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Speaker 2: When do you head to Nashville Wednesday evening?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'll be doing my show there Thursday.
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Speaker 2: Oday, Thursday, Friday, and then uh come back Monday or Tuesday.
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Speaker 5: Actually Monday, I'll be doing my show from too. Okay,
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Speaker 5: because I can't fly back in time for the show,
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Speaker 5: so I just don't do it at Nashville show Monday.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, if you're going to be stuck in a city,
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Speaker 2: you might as well make a Nashville let me see.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, it ain't Green Bay exactly.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well let's get into it. A lot to
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Speaker 2: discuss here today. Mike McDonald was not happy with his
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Speaker 2: team and his coaches. I think after that preseason opener.
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Speaker 2: It's not like he ranted and raved, but he started
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Speaker 2: his press conference with his displeasure. What exactly was he
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Speaker 2: disappointed about.
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Speaker 5: He said he didn't like the process, and that means
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Speaker 5: the operation, which means getting in and out of the
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Speaker 5: huddle when the play's over, getting back to the huddle,
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Speaker 5: getting the call, and getting set for the next play.
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Speaker 5: Especially on defense, he talked about that the pace between plays.
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Speaker 5: On offense, he didn't name him by name, but think
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Speaker 5: about it. He had a offensive coordinator, the first time
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Speaker 5: he's ever done in his life, played called offensive plays
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Speaker 5: forty one years old. Brian Fleury, the tight ends coach
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Speaker 5: from the forty nine ers, a new offensive coordinator, and
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Speaker 5: on defense, he had adding dirty to call in the
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Speaker 5: plays the defensive coordinator, who does not call the plays
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Speaker 5: during the regular season, was calling him Saturday night. McDonald,
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Speaker 5: in fact, was on the other end of the sideline
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Speaker 5: most of the time. I'm from Dirty to separate himself
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Speaker 5: and just watching. So for someone who's used to being
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Speaker 5: a maister of the defense and calling all the plays
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Speaker 5: through the headset into the middle linebacker and being in
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Speaker 5: control of everything, he probably was frustrated because it wasn't
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Speaker 5: doing any of that. In fact, after the game when
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Speaker 5: I asked him about having Dirty calling the plays, and
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Speaker 5: he said, Dirty did a great job and let's plott
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Speaker 5: it some lots. But he did say I think maybe
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Speaker 5: I'll take it over next week because I need to
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Speaker 5: get ready for the real season myself. So expect in
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Speaker 5: Tennessee him to be calling the plays this week. But
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Speaker 5: it was left unsaid. But I thought it was telling
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Speaker 5: that if the process and the operation of the team,
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Speaker 5: the pace and all that, it probably had something to
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Speaker 5: do with two first time well not in Dirty's case
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Speaker 5: exactly first time play colors.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just the complaints of a perfectionist like you know,
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Speaker 2: he wasn't doing it and it was driving him crazy
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Speaker 2: because he would have done it a little bit different
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Speaker 2: pretty much exactly. Yeah, all right, well, let's talk about
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Speaker 2: some things that were that emerged that were good from Saturday.
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Speaker 2: In your estimation, Who's the player that stood out.
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Speaker 5: On offense? Montory Foster. Every time they ask him to
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Speaker 5: do something here, go run a deep out here, go
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Speaker 5: running out in route in the end zone and turn
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Speaker 5: your head real quick as the balls hit in your
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Speaker 5: stomach and catch a touchdown pass. He broke free on
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Speaker 5: a long should have been another second touchdown. Drew Lock
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Speaker 5: missed him. He was three yards beyond his defender and
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Speaker 5: Locke missed him for what would have been a second
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Speaker 5: TV Locke blamed himself for that. The substitute teacher from
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Speaker 5: Wakewood I seen at high school and real estate agent
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Speaker 5: from Ohio. The story I told you about him finding
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Speaker 5: a quarterback randomly in some Planet fitness gym that worked
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Speaker 5: him out to keep him sharp during last season when
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Speaker 5: he was teaching instead of playing with the Seahawks. All
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Speaker 5: of that's panoff for him. I wrote the story this
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Speaker 5: morning at the News Tribune It's at the Newstribune dot
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Speaker 5: com about I think he may fit as an extra
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Speaker 5: wide receiver and I'm starting to think about who place
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Speaker 5: he could take. There's probably two spots among Jake Bobo
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Speaker 5: and Cody White and Ricky White the third and Irvin Charles.
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Speaker 5: And I think Foster's forced himself to be there. I
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Speaker 5: mean he's now getting one's time in practices and yeah,
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Speaker 5: he's just it's a cool story. It's not to mention
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Speaker 5: my nephews went to the high school, so I kind
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Speaker 5: of knew about the story before he's broken out here. Defensively,
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Speaker 5: Tyree Knight was the middle linebacker signal caller, getting the
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Speaker 5: calls in from dirty which he doesn't do of course,
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Speaker 5: Ernest Jones, that's his job. And Knight went back to
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Speaker 5: what he was doing the first couple of years at
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Speaker 5: utap In College Texas al Paso before they moved into
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Speaker 5: outside highpackers last year, and the Knights that he really
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Speaker 5: liked it and when you do it in that role
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Speaker 5: and calling the plays, and McDonald notices that McDonald has
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Speaker 5: a place on this roster for Tyree's Knight be in
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Speaker 5: special teams or to be in backup inside week side
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Speaker 5: linebacker and now showing he can do this, the Ernest
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Speaker 5: Jones rolling a pinch, Tyree Knight's going to keep stay
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Speaker 5: on the team, still in his rookie contract, but he
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Speaker 5: really helped himself.
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Speaker 2: And I.
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Speaker 5: Shuddered to say that the offensive line was terrible, because
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Speaker 5: how many years did we say that? But the offensive
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Speaker 5: line was Nobody that's intending to play during the regular season,
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Speaker 5: or at least the Seahawks hope not. None of the
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Speaker 5: twenty two starters unless you count Georgia Alani as a starter,
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Speaker 5: and I don't. I think that Jenaron Price is the
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Speaker 5: starter is to lead back. None of the twenty two
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Speaker 5: starters played, and the offensive line in particular got just
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Speaker 5: beaten around by the Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: Front Greg bellis whether us our Seahawks insider joins us
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Speaker 2: nearly every day during the season thanks to the ameral
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Speaker 2: Queen Casino right here at seven h five or recapping
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Speaker 2: the seventeen to seven preseason loss to the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 2: on Saturday evening as part of our conversation. But there
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Speaker 2: are a lot of other things to get into, which
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Speaker 2: we will here in a moment. I do want to
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Speaker 2: ask you one more thing about the game, and that
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Speaker 2: was you wouldn't have known this you were actually there,
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Speaker 2: but in watching the television broadcast, I mean, everybody was
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Speaker 2: just raving the entire game about Riley Mills. I mean,
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Speaker 2: are they preparing us for something special here or are
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Speaker 2: they over hyping this young man? But because he pretty
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Speaker 2: much was the conversation from the beginning of the game
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Speaker 2: to the end of the game, everybody that mentioned somebody
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Speaker 2: that has been standing out at camp, be it player
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Speaker 2: or analyst, keeps mentioning Riley Mills, what can we expect
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Speaker 2: from this guy this season?
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Speaker 5: Well, my guess is Michael Bennett was saying some of that, right.
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Speaker 2: Michael Bennett, al Abe Lucas, Leonard Williams. I mean it
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Speaker 2: was just continuous.
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Speaker 5: Well Abrilon Bennett play played on the defensive line, so
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Speaker 5: they have a prepared to watch for him. They haven't
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Speaker 5: been out of practice every single day, so some of
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Speaker 5: what Mills was doing was new to them for this
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Speaker 5: training camp, not for us that have been there every day.
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Speaker 5: We've seen him do it. He's very quick off the ball.
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Speaker 5: They're moving him from defensive end to defensive tackle. The
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Speaker 5: versatility that McDonald loves. Yeah, he's been a standout. But
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Speaker 5: I didn't see anything Saturday night that I haven't seen
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Speaker 5: during practices and it looked the same to me. And
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Speaker 5: he's been doing against starting Seahawks offensive lineman, not the
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Speaker 5: backup Cowboys on Saturday. So it didn't stand out to
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Speaker 5: me because it's what he's been the whole time. He's
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Speaker 5: risen to the point where he will be a primary
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Speaker 5: rotation guy. And we talk all the time about defensive
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Speaker 5: line depth and when the Seahawks legion of Boom defensives
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Speaker 5: were rolling, how they'd have ten or eleven players, they'd
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Speaker 5: roll like hockey line changes in the first quarter and
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Speaker 5: wear offensive lines down. Riley Mills is a huge step
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Speaker 5: toward that. They don't have it yet, but he's a
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Speaker 5: huge step toward that because he can play like a
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Speaker 5: said inside and outside, And yeah, I would count him
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Speaker 5: as an absolutely camp stand out. Bridley Mills on offense,
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Speaker 5: Montory Foster on Radman is on defense in Montori Foster
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Speaker 5: on offense.
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Speaker 2: Huh, let's talk about Devin Witherspoon. He's got a brand
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Speaker 2: new deal, broke the bank and the original report that
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Speaker 2: I read said that it got heated before it got sold.
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Speaker 2: Were you hearing the same things?
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Speaker 5: No, that's eric an agent's characterization. The national reporters who
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Speaker 5: write these contract stories are getting it straight from the
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Speaker 5: agent and the agent wants to sound like he went
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Speaker 5: to nails the nails with It wasn't contentious. Heated maybe
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Speaker 5: in the sense of a lot of work got done
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Speaker 5: at the very end and they finished. But I don't
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Speaker 5: think anyone's throwing chalkboards or anything at anybody or iPads.
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Speaker 5: I guess these days. It's one hundred and one million.
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Speaker 5: That's notable. It's one hundred it's one million more than
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Speaker 5: Trent McDuffie got. It's thirty three million dollars a year,
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Speaker 5: which is notable because it's the richest average annual value
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Speaker 5: and that's what agents and players use as comps to
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Speaker 5: other players, eclipsing the Denzo Award deal. It is everything
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Speaker 5: we thought it would be. And the reason it took
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Speaker 5: a while is because Christian Gonzalez, agent is also Devin
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Speaker 5: Witherspoon's agent. Now Gonzalez will go get his If the
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Speaker 5: agents do their job, it'll probably eclipse Witherspoon's as the
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Speaker 5: new richest contract. But what's notable most and I think
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Speaker 5: it's getting lost a little bit on Witherspoon's new deal.
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Speaker 5: It keeps him with the Seahawks through twenty thirty one.
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Speaker 5: It's a four year deal. Tacked on to the two
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Speaker 5: remaining years they already had. They had him on the
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Speaker 5: last year of his rookie deal, they'd already exercised his
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Speaker 5: option for twenty twenty seven as the fifty year option.
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Speaker 5: As a first round draft pick. They gave him more
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Speaker 5: a lot more guaranteed money up front for the first
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Speaker 5: two years to get him to sign this deal. He's
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Speaker 5: going to make fifty six million dollars the next two years,
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Speaker 5: well more than he would have under his final year
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Speaker 5: of his rookie deal and the twenty plus million dollar
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Speaker 5: fifty year option next year. So it's win winning, as
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Speaker 5: they say, certainly for Wierspoon, but it's a win for
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Speaker 5: the Seahawks to have a twenty five year old, three
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Speaker 5: time Pro Bowl cornerback at one of the most important
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Speaker 5: positions in a pass happy league under contract through twenty
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Speaker 5: thirty one and we're not even starting the twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: six season yet, that's value for the Seahawks. By the
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Speaker 5: time his contract ends in twenty thirty one, he'll be
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Speaker 5: thirty years old, and it will look like a steal
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Speaker 5: for the Seahawks because the salary cap will be well
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Speaker 5: over three hundred million from or it's closer to four
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Speaker 5: hundred million by then, and it's three hundred and one
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Speaker 5: million this year, and so that contract will be in
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Speaker 5: the middle of the pack in the NFL. He'll he'll
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Speaker 5: outplay that probably halfway through. And well, it's so it's
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Speaker 5: the richest deal now, it won't be the richest deal then,
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Speaker 5: and that's a good deal for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Seahawks insider Greg bel is with us follow mat g
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Speaker 2: bel Seattle and get everything you need at the Newstribune
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Speaker 2: dot com. Terry and Arnold also signed. Since last we spoke.
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Speaker 2: And so what was the final reason, What was that
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Speaker 2: that pushed it through? Why did the Seahawks feel like
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Speaker 2: this juice was worth the squeeze?
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Speaker 5: Well, again, they were in first, They felt like they
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Speaker 5: were in most And this can be either a layaway deal,
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Speaker 5: depending on his legal situation in Florida, or it could
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Speaker 5: be that he never plays for him at all. That's
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Speaker 5: also a possibility if he's found guilty or the course
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Speaker 5: won't let him, or the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodo puts
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Speaker 5: him on the exemp list, So there are a lot
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Speaker 5: of ifs to get there. They think he can practice soon.
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Speaker 5: They don't know if it's this week, but they think
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Speaker 5: they can have him enough that he will at least
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Speaker 5: get in the program here this month, whether he comes
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Speaker 5: to Tennessee or not. Practices for the first time in
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Speaker 5: Tennessee on Friday in the joint I don't know. They
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Speaker 5: don't know yet, at least as of the weekend, didn't
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Speaker 5: know when he was going to sign so officially be
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Speaker 5: in the bill. He is not there yet, so we'll see.
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Speaker 5: To use the words of Mike McDonald, when you sign
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Speaker 5: a guy facing eight felonies in life in prison, you
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Speaker 5: kind of have to go with what the guys that
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Speaker 5: could determine life in prison for him say. And that's
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Speaker 5: where the Seahawks stand right now. But they cast their lot,
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Speaker 5: they put in their bid, he took it, and now
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Speaker 5: they at least have the option of him playing for
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Speaker 5: them if it all goes his way. And that's it,
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Speaker 5: needless to say it. GI can'ty kiff.
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Speaker 2: So now that you got JSN, now you got Witherspoon done.
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Speaker 2: How bigs the contract look for Byron Murphy next year.
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Speaker 5: Well, he's on a trajectory toward I'm not sure at
16:43
Speaker 5: this point he's Jalen Carter richest deal in NFL history
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Speaker 5: for a defensive tackle yet. But if he hasn't a
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Speaker 5: production up tick like you did last year, he will
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Speaker 5: be Mike McDonald's saying that he thinks he can have
16:55
Speaker 5: more sacks, more productivity in the pass rush game, and
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Speaker 5: he had seven and a half in limited reps last year.
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Speaker 5: He wasn't always on the field when they passed us.
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Speaker 5: He's going to be on the field more this year,
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Speaker 5: and he could be out at end more than he's been.
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Speaker 5: I've seen him going up and down the defensive line
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Speaker 5: even more than I did last year. I think McDonald's
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Speaker 5: going to be creative in ways that put him on
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Speaker 5: one on one matchups, kind of like an NBA player,
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Speaker 5: clear out the Wayne and let him go one on one.
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Speaker 5: I think I've seen that a time or a million
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Speaker 5: in the NBA lately. That's kind of what they're doing
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Speaker 5: with Byron Murphy. They're trying to find a weak link
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Speaker 5: on an offensive line and put him over that guy.
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Speaker 5: The great thing about Murphy you can hit him in
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Speaker 5: the field for every play. He can stop the run,
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Speaker 5: and if you want to try to double team with
17:39
Speaker 5: good luck, he's the best double team guy. In the league.
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Speaker 5: Leonard Williams, Jared Reed. You talked to defensive linemen that
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Speaker 5: are older than he by five ten years. They can't
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Speaker 5: believe how good Byron Murphy is against double teams. He
17:50
Speaker 5: drops to a knee, he thrust his arm up. I
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Speaker 5: call it a Turkish get up, get kettlebell move. For
17:57
Speaker 5: those listening that are cross for it, it's crazy how
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Speaker 5: good he is at three hundred pounds to just push
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Speaker 5: his way off his knee through a double team and
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Speaker 5: ruin it. I wouldn't take him off the field. I mean,
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Speaker 5: he's in the middle of what he's a twenty still
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Speaker 5: only twenty three, twenty four years old. He should play
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Speaker 5: ninety plus percent of the snaps, but they want to rotate.
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Speaker 5: Of course, the defensive line. We talked about depth and
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Speaker 5: Riley Mills. But yeah, Byron Murphy, if he's if his
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Speaker 5: arc continues the way it went last year, he could
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Speaker 5: be in that conversation. He's really really good at something
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Speaker 5: that gets overlooked, and that's defending double teams.
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Speaker 2: Well, needless to say, we just scratched the surface. So
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Speaker 2: I would imagine ten o'clock today, a lot of.
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Speaker 5: Seahawks talk, Oh, Seahawks talk. Yeah, oh, I touch a
18:49
Speaker 5: bit on first. I'm going to play Ryan Smetro's comments
18:53
Speaker 5: after the Sounders game, because there are a lot of
18:55
Speaker 5: people who thirty thousand in the yard last night who
18:58
Speaker 5: were pretty frustrated. The Sounders fan base not used to
19:01
Speaker 5: seeing seven losses at the road. It's never happened MLS play.
19:05
Speaker 5: But we're gonna talk a little bit about the Maritors.
19:07
Speaker 5: I cannot believe. I mean, as great as that weekend
19:10
Speaker 5: series was, they may be kicking themselves mightily for losing
19:13
Speaker 5: that Friday game and blowing that lead they came back from.
19:16
Speaker 5: Instead of two games back, their four and I know
19:19
Speaker 5: they have the tiebreaker, but their lead, their deficit is
19:23
Speaker 5: double because of that game. But yeah, tons of Seahawks.
19:26
Speaker 5: You'll hear from mon Tory Foster. You'll hear Mike McDonald's summation,
19:30
Speaker 5: and you'll probably can hear him gritting his teeth through
19:32
Speaker 5: his words too.
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Speaker 2: All Right, we'll be listening. Thanks man, appreciate.
19:37
Speaker 5: You, all right, thank you, sir. All Right.
19:39
Speaker 2: Greg bell Our, Seahawks insigner from the News Tribune, Go
19:42
Speaker 2: ahead and check out his full coverage of the weekend.
19:45
Speaker 2: A lot of things to have to write about at
19:47
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19:50
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19:54
Speaker 2: every day nearly during the football season at seven o
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20:00
Speaker 2: we will hear from Mike McDonald as he pushes words
20:03
Speaker 2: through his gritting teeth after the game on Saturday. We'll
20:07
Speaker 2: hear it right from the mouth of the head coach
20:11
Speaker 2: exactly what was frustrating him. Sports Radio ninety three point
20:14
Speaker 2: three KJRFM. So another thing, I mean, they don't just
20:18
Speaker 2: have a name in common, the two great Mike McDonald's
20:23
Speaker 2: of all time, and they don't just have greatness in common.
20:28
Speaker 2: They are fi astantas.
20:31
Speaker 3: Yes, I've often said that about both donald's.
20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they're not gonna get your weekend going. You're
20:37
Speaker 2: not gonna get your weekend truly going until you hear
20:41
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald sing, you're not going to really understand what
20:44
Speaker 2: I watched today until you hear our head coach talk.
20:48
Speaker 2: So after every Seahawks game, preseason, regular season, super Bowl championships,
20:53
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, we always hear from coach McDonald. Here
20:57
Speaker 2: he was after the game and went to the poem
21:00
Speaker 2: and did not seem happy.
21:03
Speaker 7: I just told I told the team it's we're gonna
21:06
Speaker 7: learn a lot from this game, whether you know, take
21:08
Speaker 7: the result out of it. Obviously, it's disappointed to lose
21:10
Speaker 7: the game anytime you line up and anything. Competitively, we're
21:13
Speaker 7: trying to win. But right now our process needs to improve.
21:17
Speaker 7: That's really the biggest takeaway is on really in both
21:20
Speaker 7: phases on offensive defense, our operation is not up to
21:24
Speaker 7: par and how we're finishing plays is not up to par.
21:27
Speaker 7: So that'll be a focus moving forward. But it's good
21:29
Speaker 7: to know, you know'd we know now and the things
21:31
Speaker 7: we need to be able to do to take our
21:33
Speaker 7: our team the next level. And then we have a
21:37
Speaker 7: great opportunity to go to figure it out. You know,
21:39
Speaker 7: we got a big week coming up, a couple couple
21:42
Speaker 7: of great practices opportunities, and then and then off the
21:46
Speaker 7: Tennessee we go have a great practice and and play
21:49
Speaker 7: another great game and take you know, and move forward.
21:52
Speaker 7: So that's where we're at.
21:54
Speaker 2: You see, the operation wasn't outside of your standard.
21:57
Speaker 7: What do you mean, just all all the things, you know,
22:01
Speaker 7: how we get calls in, how we take the line,
22:03
Speaker 7: how we motion, how we shift, how we get lined
22:05
Speaker 7: up on defense, how we communicate. All those things need
22:10
Speaker 7: to take a very big jump, very quickly. But it's
22:15
Speaker 7: good to know. Now we know it, so let's go get.
22:16
Speaker 2: It the process.
22:18
Speaker 3: Isn't that what they say all the things?
22:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it wasn't about the effort or necessarily the play.
22:25
Speaker 2: It was putting yourself in the best position every single
22:29
Speaker 2: play to make your best play. That's that's what he
22:32
Speaker 2: was frustrated about, was, you know, sort of the conversations
22:37
Speaker 2: and the urgency to get in line. And I think
22:41
Speaker 2: a lot of that blame was being thrown as we
22:43
Speaker 2: talked about with Greg at the two guys calling the place,
22:47
Speaker 2: Brian Fleury's first game as an offensive coordinator and then
22:50
Speaker 2: adding Dredatt on the defensive side was actually calling the place.
22:54
Speaker 2: And also, let's face it, part of it is when
22:57
Speaker 2: you are a control freak like Mike McDonald is, like
23:01
Speaker 2: I like everything a certain way, and we have a
23:06
Speaker 2: system in which the little details are going to be
23:11
Speaker 2: so finely tuned. That's going to be part of our excellence.
23:15
Speaker 2: And when you're not doing your duties, when you hand
23:20
Speaker 2: them off to somebody else and you're just observing, then
23:22
Speaker 2: what do you tend to do. It's like when you're
23:25
Speaker 2: at home with your kid, you might feel like they
23:30
Speaker 2: get away with a little bit more. But when you
23:33
Speaker 2: are on the field and you aren't in that comfort zone,
23:37
Speaker 2: when you go to like somebody's house, now, all of
23:39
Speaker 2: a sudden, you might be overparenting because you don't want
23:42
Speaker 2: them to embarrass you.
23:44
Speaker 4: Well, and also because you're probably comparing it to how
23:46
Speaker 4: you do it right and being a perfection. It's like
23:48
Speaker 4: he is, It's like, oh right, and then it's just hard.
23:51
Speaker 4: You're sitting there like I know I could do this better.
23:53
Speaker 4: It's like when you're watching someone struggle with something that
23:55
Speaker 4: you want to help them with.
23:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're like, no, I have to let them
23:58
Speaker 3: learn this on their own. Bath Well, can I just
24:00
Speaker 3: do it real quick, way faster?
24:02
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean the unicorn does that with me
24:04
Speaker 2: all the time. That's not how you load a dishwasher.
24:11
Speaker 2: Just get out of the way.
24:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, just get out of the way.
24:13
Speaker 2: Let me do it.
24:14
Speaker 3: I want it done right.
24:16
Speaker 2: So I think that's part of it too, Like he
24:19
Speaker 2: wasn't doing his normal thing and so he ended up
24:22
Speaker 2: noticing more, observing more. But he's right though. I mean,
24:25
Speaker 2: you've got two more of these things. Use it as
24:28
Speaker 2: a teaching tool, use it as a point of emphasis
24:32
Speaker 2: at practice this week. Now you're going to be practicing
24:34
Speaker 2: against another team this week, but he's certainly going to
24:38
Speaker 2: hammer those points home. He wants more communication, he wants
24:43
Speaker 2: more urgency, and he wants everything to happen faster, and
24:49
Speaker 2: that includes coaches, relaying of information all of that, not
24:55
Speaker 2: just the play on the field. I don't think he
24:57
Speaker 2: was complaining about necessarily the play on the field. It
25:00
Speaker 2: was all the preparation and not just going into a game,
25:03
Speaker 2: but from every single play, between every single play. Uh.
25:07
Speaker 2: The other thing that Mike McDonald and is press press
25:10
Speaker 2: conference ended up talking a lot about, understandably because it
25:15
Speaker 2: does feel more important than a preseason game or result,
25:19
Speaker 2: and that is that he did lock up Devin Witherspoony
25:22
Speaker 2: and John Schneider. The Seahawks have locked up Devin Witherspoon
25:25
Speaker 2: to a four year extension one hundred and thirty two
25:28
Speaker 2: million dollars for the star cornerback. Coach was asked why
25:33
Speaker 2: is Spoon so important to what you do now and
25:37
Speaker 2: what you're going to do in the future.
25:38
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, Spoon, Spoon is all the things. He's
25:42
Speaker 7: a he's a great person, he's a great football player,
25:46
Speaker 7: he's a great teammate, he's a great leader. Those are
25:50
Speaker 7: the guys we want to be here. So it's kind
25:52
Speaker 7: of similar to Jacks. It's like, these are these are
25:53
Speaker 7: foundational people to our to our to our team, and
25:58
Speaker 7: I'm sure to get that foundation laid, you know where
26:03
Speaker 7: we know Foon's going to be here for the long haul,
26:04
Speaker 7: and and and we're also excited for the opportunity to
26:08
Speaker 7: reward him. You know that this is a contract that
26:10
Speaker 7: we feel like he's earned and we should celebrate it
26:12
Speaker 7: as well. But it's also really exciting to know that
26:14
Speaker 7: we've we have foundational players that are gonna be part
26:16
Speaker 7: of our team here for a long time.
26:18
Speaker 5: He was one of the guys when you said, you know,
26:20
Speaker 5: the first.
26:20
Speaker 3: Phase of Cots, some of the venter has didn't need.
26:22
Speaker 6: To be there.
26:23
Speaker 5: He's their day one.
26:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a yeah, Well he's so waiting to get
26:27
Speaker 2: a deal that like, was that how you got it?
26:29
Speaker 7: Well, that's that man paints a great picture. John like
26:32
Speaker 7: he he's just in factious and he loves the game.
26:35
Speaker 7: But you know, we were talking today, he's just you know,
26:38
Speaker 7: people would hopefully doesn't mind me sharing this, but people
26:40
Speaker 7: would talk to him about, you know, ask him why
26:43
Speaker 7: he does, why he's doing what he's doing. He's like, yeah,
26:45
Speaker 7: I love I love the game of football, and there's
26:47
Speaker 7: a season it ready for.
26:48
Speaker 2: You know.
26:49
Speaker 7: He kind of keeps the main thing, the main thing,
26:50
Speaker 7: without getting distracted by all the extra stuff. He also
26:55
Speaker 7: probably feels, you know, he's also a great teammate. You know,
26:57
Speaker 7: he just wants to be there for the guys and
27:00
Speaker 7: and how our team plays is important to which is
27:02
Speaker 7: which is really cool.
27:05
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald after the game talking about Devin Witherspoon, I
27:07
Speaker 2: wish you would have sung it. I wish she would
27:09
Speaker 2: have sung his thoughts.
27:10
Speaker 4: If he was like he gonna be there, Yes, yeah.
27:19
Speaker 2: And he's right. I mean we talked a little bit
27:22
Speaker 2: with Greg about Byron Murphy being next and identifying those
27:26
Speaker 2: core players, and the cap keeps growing and building every year,
27:31
Speaker 2: and yet once you start doing that, it does put
27:35
Speaker 2: you in a position you don't get used to this.
27:37
Speaker 2: By the way, if they just keep winning in our
27:39
Speaker 2: successful and I'm not talking about a Super Bowl every year,
27:42
Speaker 2: but at this stage you know, let's face it, we're
27:45
Speaker 2: expecting them to be contenders for a good stretch of
27:49
Speaker 2: time here going forward, considering their champs already, and have
27:53
Speaker 2: one of the youngest, if not the youngest roster in
27:56
Speaker 2: the National Football League. So this is going to be
27:58
Speaker 2: a good run. But what comes with that in a
28:02
Speaker 2: salary cap league is guys like Kobe Bryant. You know,
28:07
Speaker 2: we all wanted Kobe Bryant back, right, good player seem
28:12
Speaker 2: to be kind of a glue kind of player, a
28:15
Speaker 2: really good glue kind of player. And yet those are
28:19
Speaker 2: the decisions that you're probably going to have to make.
28:21
Speaker 2: You probably are going to have to experience off seasons
28:25
Speaker 2: where more is going to be leaving more in terms of,
28:30
Speaker 2: you know, the number of players are going to be
28:34
Speaker 2: leaving than are coming in, because you're going to have
28:37
Speaker 2: to make room for Withetherspoon's deal and jsn's new deal,
28:41
Speaker 2: in Byron Murphy's new deal next year, and Sam Darnold's
28:44
Speaker 2: going to get a new deal next year, and he's
28:47
Speaker 2: probably going to go from thirty three to fifty five
28:49
Speaker 2: or fifty And suddenly those core players that you've highlighted
28:55
Speaker 2: are making up a lot of your cap and so
28:58
Speaker 2: then you have to rely on on the draft, and
29:00
Speaker 2: you've got to rely on development, and you've got to
29:03
Speaker 2: rely on developing guys like Tyo Cotta's and Drake Thomas
29:07
Speaker 2: that come out of nowhere. But Mike McDonald's just that good.
29:11
Speaker 2: And so you can take someone else's trash and turn
29:14
Speaker 2: it into treasure. But even those guys will eventually get
29:17
Speaker 2: paid and probably have to leave in order to make
29:21
Speaker 2: room for the foundational pieces that you've identified. It's just
29:25
Speaker 2: going to be the process here going forward. And I
29:27
Speaker 2: think that is the right process. I think letting the
29:30
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryants go to keep the Byron Murphy's and the
29:34
Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoons because there are fewer of those guys. There
29:37
Speaker 2: are more Kobe Bryants than there are Devin Witherspoons in
29:41
Speaker 2: the league. I think that is the right course of action.
29:44
Speaker 2: And yet it will lead to, probably year after year,
29:49
Speaker 2: us losing some pieces that we think are valuable, but
29:52
Speaker 2: you just don't have a chance. You can't keep them all.
29:54
Speaker 4: Right, And we talked about this when Kobe Bryant left,
29:57
Speaker 4: and we talked about this when Derek Hall signed his
29:59
Speaker 4: extension early.
30:00
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of these guys are.
30:02
Speaker 4: Going to have an opportunity to have more money thrown
30:05
Speaker 4: at them than they've ever dreamt about. And it's not
30:08
Speaker 4: going to come from the Seahawks, because the Seahawks aren't
30:10
Speaker 4: going to overpay most of them to keep them. It's
30:13
Speaker 4: going to be from a team that needs them more,
30:15
Speaker 4: needs that position more, and they're.
30:17
Speaker 3: Going to get that.
30:19
Speaker 4: They're going to have that conundrum of do I take
30:21
Speaker 4: more money yeah? Or do I want to stay here
30:24
Speaker 4: for the money that they're offering me.
30:25
Speaker 2: If you want the highest price you can get on
30:28
Speaker 2: an open market, it's not going to be.
30:31
Speaker 3: With us, right exactly, Boy.
30:33
Speaker 2: Mafe have fun than Cincinnati in no way we're paying Yeah,
30:38
Speaker 2: go get it. But Derek calls a great example of
30:40
Speaker 2: somebody that said I will take less to stay here. Yeah,
30:43
Speaker 2: and so okay, then let's do a deal. You know,
30:46
Speaker 2: but if you want a max out, it's not going
30:48
Speaker 2: to be as a Seahawk. It's just not going to be.
30:51
Speaker 2: And I don't mind. And then the writing's on the.
30:54
Speaker 3: Wall, Yeah, exactly right.
30:57
Speaker 2: Brady Russell doesn't make Derek Hall money. Derek Hall's not
31:02
Speaker 2: ever gonna make JSN money. I know that's just the
31:05
Speaker 2: way it works, and so I think they're right. I
31:08
Speaker 2: think they're identifying the right people, and I think it's
31:11
Speaker 2: right to pay those true special players like they've assembled
31:16
Speaker 2: all right. Coming up next on the program before Hugh
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Speaker 2: mellan joins us for our first Monday morning quarterback session
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Speaker 2: All right. ABC's next on kjr QB one the preseason.
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Speaker 2: The beginner opener for the Seahawks goes the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 2: way seventeen to seven. But a lot to discuss, and
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Speaker 2: I can promise you you saw more than any of us.
32:30
Speaker 3: By a million.
32:30
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you watched the game rewound readd it.
32:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did that seventeen times, right, and a very short.
32:37
Speaker 2: Efficient amount of time as well. He's uh yeah, he's
32:40
Speaker 2: got an eye for this sort of thing. Yeah, let's
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Speaker 2: get to the ABCS oft the m So we're gonna
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Speaker 2: squeeze that in. We left off of the letter G
32:47
Speaker 2: on Friday, GS four Gauntlet, and unfortunately that is what
32:52
Speaker 2: the Mariners are getting ready to face. They're not at
32:54
Speaker 2: the end of that gauntlet. You know, we were talking
32:56
Speaker 2: about this tough schedule that they have here in the
33:00
Speaker 2: month of August. We're only in the middle of it.
33:03
Speaker 2: We are in the eye of the storm pose having
33:07
Speaker 2: gone through Tampa Bay, New York, Houston recently. I mean
33:12
Speaker 2: we still got to go Milwaukee on the road, then
33:15
Speaker 2: three with the Cubs, three with the Phillies, three with
33:18
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, and three with the Red Sox in
33:22
Speaker 2: a row.
33:22
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
33:23
Speaker 2: H And so I mean then it does lighten up
33:28
Speaker 2: considerably in September. A lot of games with the Angels, Rockies,
33:32
Speaker 2: and A's in the month of September. So, I mean
33:35
Speaker 2: it does get light But you know, in terms of
33:40
Speaker 2: and you've you've made this bed for yourselves seven games
33:44
Speaker 2: under five hundred and four games to make up. You
33:46
Speaker 2: can't drowned here in good competition over the next few weeks.
33:52
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's gonna get tough. The Brewers are as
33:54
Speaker 2: good as anybody. They just beat the hell out of
33:56
Speaker 2: the Dodgers over the weekend. The Cubs, you get to
34:00
Speaker 2: get to face them here. They're a much better team
34:02
Speaker 2: at home. Philly's dangerous, Toronto's back to playing good baseball again,
34:06
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox have been the hottest team in
34:07
Speaker 2: baseball in the second half. So you got to keep
34:11
Speaker 2: a float here and then hopefully you get to swim
34:15
Speaker 2: without restriction.
34:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, just cruise. Yeah through September.
34:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, through the month of September. But the Gauntlet. As
34:22
Speaker 2: we discussed, it's just beginning. We're not even in the
34:25
Speaker 2: middle of.
34:25
Speaker 3: It yet, which is yeah. I was thinking, like, okay,
34:28
Speaker 3: we had Houston and now Milwaukee and then it'll be
34:30
Speaker 3: all right.
34:30
Speaker 4: I was I didn't look past there because I don't
34:33
Speaker 4: like to because it makes my heart stressed out.
34:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this team really doesn't seem to care who
34:39
Speaker 2: the opponent is. They can play down to anybody, and
34:42
Speaker 2: they can play up to anybody. True, So we'll see
34:44
Speaker 2: how they manage it all day off today and then
34:47
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee for three games starting on Tuesday. H is
34:51
Speaker 2: for Houston, and that is one thing. I mean, we
34:54
Speaker 2: did get the tie breaker, and you do have more
34:56
Speaker 2: games against the Astros before the season comes to a close,
34:59
Speaker 2: two two of them as a matter of fact, But
35:02
Speaker 2: you do have the tiebreaker. So that is something to
35:05
Speaker 2: keep in mind, certainly as we head down the stretch.
35:09
Speaker 2: And I don't know what flipped, because they've made a
35:12
Speaker 2: big deal out of it last night on NBC. Just this.
35:15
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a strange season to begin with,
35:17
Speaker 2: strange for the Mariners, strange for the division, strange for
35:20
Speaker 2: the league American League that the Rangers have owned the
35:26
Speaker 2: Mariners this year. The Mariners have owned the Astros and
35:29
Speaker 2: the Astros have owned the Rangers. But whatever has flipped
35:33
Speaker 2: in our relationship with the Houston Astros, it's real because
35:37
Speaker 2: they have just dominated them this season, probably should have
35:41
Speaker 2: swept the series this weekend. They've only lost twice to
35:44
Speaker 2: them this entire year, and they did the same thing
35:47
Speaker 2: to Houston a year ago in taking the division from
35:50
Speaker 2: them finally, so there seems to be hand in this
35:53
Speaker 2: relationship now owned by the Seattle Mariners.
35:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean it is a a much more
36:01
Speaker 4: pleasant place to be. I just wish overall we were
36:03
Speaker 4: playing better so it could be more enjoyable to be
36:06
Speaker 4: winning that rivalry.
36:08
Speaker 3: This year doesn't seem as jovial ass as it was
36:12
Speaker 3: last year, but we got time.
36:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I did love Jeff Blum's comments because
36:17
Speaker 2: the first three innings you could just hear him shaking
36:20
Speaker 2: his head, like, I don't know what all this talk about.
36:22
Speaker 2: This Mariners team can't hit, because every time I've watched them,
36:25
Speaker 2: because he does Astro's color, every time I've watched them,
36:29
Speaker 2: they just hit line drives and home runs all over
36:31
Speaker 2: the park, And I don't know why that is either Again,
36:33
Speaker 2: it's part of the strange fabric that has made this
36:36
Speaker 2: strange blanket that the Mariners have woven this year. But
36:40
Speaker 2: for some reason the Astros pitching or at Houston, something
36:46
Speaker 2: about those dimensions gives them comfort in the batter's box.
36:51
Speaker 2: I thought we saw a much scrappier version of the
36:54
Speaker 2: Mariners than we've seen all season long. And maybe that
36:57
Speaker 2: has something to do with playing getting done back and
37:00
Speaker 2: Donovan back like backpack. Brock Rodden added to that, and
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Speaker 2: Victor Roblaz, who I think we've learned a lesson. We've
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Speaker 2: not been playing that guy enough. He puts the ball
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Speaker 2: in play and he does some silly things on the
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Speaker 2: base paths sometimes, But for a team that's having a
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Speaker 2: difficult time putting the ball in play, Victor Roblaze does
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Speaker 2: at least that. Yeah, I shouldn't have ever pinch hit
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Speaker 2: Mitch Garver for him, I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 3: Oh God, Oh God.
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Speaker 2: And finally, I is for inclusion. September call ups are
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away. Kate Anderson's at least going
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Speaker 2: to be a part of that. If there's anything wrong
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Speaker 2: with Brian Wu's shoulder. He left the game with a
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Speaker 2: little bit of shoulder soreness yesterday that we may see
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson earlier. I will also tell you I watched
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Speaker 2: Las Montes play Friday for the Tacoma Rainiers. He's now
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Speaker 2: up to what thirty six home runs this year, and
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Speaker 2: so you're running out of time justin on your promise
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Speaker 2: that if he's hits forty, I guarantee you some of
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Speaker 2: them will be for the Mariners. I heard that, Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: we're running out of time on that. He's getting really
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Speaker 2: close to that forty homer mark. And I watched a
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Speaker 2: guy that improved greatly defensively from the last time I
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Speaker 2: saw him. He put on a defensive show Friday night,
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Speaker 2: plus had a two run bomb that went practically over
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Speaker 2: over all of the foliage on right field, and had
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Speaker 2: a couple of other decent a bats. So I don't know,
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Speaker 2: kind of looks ready, kind of looks like he could help,
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Speaker 2: and I know Kate Anderson could help. So we'll see
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Speaker 2: how they're going to include them the rest of the
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Speaker 2: season in this master plan, all right, hughme Mellen's next
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Speaker 2: Monday Morning quarterback on KJR