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Chuck & Buck 4-14 Hour 2: Rob Rang, ABC's of the Mariners & the NBA has some problems... · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Naylor looking to drive to fall into the big part
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  Speaker 1: of the yard, get cow plenty of time to get
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: in from third.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Naylor shoots this deep.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Right field, gone, John Tyler, He's been waiting for him.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: His first of the year. He's a three run homer
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: in the first inning. Now that is a good situational
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: hitting slunk center field back, He's good.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Other line, Josh Miler has Howard on back to back
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: pitches his second of the day. Well, getting that first
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: home run will certainly put a skip in your step,
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: and Josh Naylor goes.
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: Back until back. He's bigging up for lost time.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Aaron and Dave on the call last night Mariners TV
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  Speaker 1: with the highlights or not last night, but yesterday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: Mariners do win over the Houston Astros by a final
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  Speaker 1: score of six to two. It is a four game
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  Speaker 1: suite for the Ms against a division rival, and suddenly
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: they've gone from four to nine to eight and nine
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  Speaker 1: in a very short span. So have nearly climbed out
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: of the hole they dug for themselves at the start
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  Speaker 1: of this season, a season of high expectations that got
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: off to obviously a very cold and unexpected start. But
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: then again this team always starts slow, and so maybe
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: they've started to rev it up. Josh Naylor at two
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: home runs. He knocked in five of their six runs.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: They scored six runs in every game of the series
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  Speaker 1: against the Houston Astros. They had scored six runs in
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: the entire series against the Texas Rangers when they were
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  Speaker 1: swept in the Metroplex. And so the Mariners hopefully back
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: on track, hopefully the big three year back on track.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: We'll test that theory tonight. They'll take on the San
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Diego Padres.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Padres, they better not try to take that guitar
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  Speaker 3: from us.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you better not claim you're bigger Eddie Bedder people
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  Speaker 1: than we are, even though he likes the Cubs more
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  Speaker 1: than both.
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  Speaker 4: Of us, that's right, but we are the real.
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  Speaker 2: Anger Growl rivalry.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: So it's just a short three game road trip, So
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: four game homestand three game road trip and then right
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: back at home starting on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Weird the MS eight nine on the year.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Wu gets the start tonight. He'll take on Michael King,
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  Speaker 1: a battle of right handers, all star caliber right handers
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  Speaker 1: of both of them, and so this will be a
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  Speaker 1: tough matchup against the Padres team that has won five
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  Speaker 1: straight games. We'll talk more about that. ABC s of
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  Speaker 1: the MS coming your way at seven thirty. As for
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: the your frost brewed Cores Light Choose Chill headlines. NBA's
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: play in round of the playoffs will start tonight. Miami
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte is the first game. Portland Phoenix is the later game.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Remember that Portland and Phoenix. The winner gets into the
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: playoffs as the seventh seed. Automatically, Miami and Charlotte are
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: the bottom feeders in the East and so whoever loses
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  Speaker 1: gets eliminated. The winner will have to play tomorrow night's
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  Speaker 1: loser between Orlando and Philly, and they will play that
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: game on Friday. So we're still a few days away
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  Speaker 1: from setting the sixteen team field for the NBA Playoffs,
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: But the play in doubleheader begins tonight. Luka Doncics not
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  Speaker 1: sure he's going to be available for the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: He went back home, went overseas, didn't go back home
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  Speaker 1: overseas to see doctors he trusted more than his own
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and I guess they're not sure if
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be ready for the playoffs. We shall
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: see WNBA draft last night they celebrated Draft miss the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Storm by feat seemingly winning the night. With the
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  Speaker 1: third pick, they took Spain's Awa fom. Although a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are pronouncing it fam, she said fomb.
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  Speaker 4: She did say pomm video she said, Hi Seattle, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is ala fom tm fom Okay, good flow.
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  Speaker 1: J Johnson out of LSU was also acquired by the
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  Speaker 1: Storm in a trade, and they got a third first
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  Speaker 1: round pick in Tana Mayer out.
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  Speaker 2: Of Duke at fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Overall, the crack and fell to the Kings last night
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  Speaker 1: five to three. We'll talk to Everett fits you about
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  Speaker 1: that and other cracking things at eight thirty today. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are nine sleeps away from the National Football League Draft,
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  Speaker 1: and joining us now is our NFL draft expert around
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  Speaker 1: these here parts from Fox Sports Rob Rings. Good morning, Rob.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: How I'm great?
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling? You know, ten nine day shy
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft? Are you still art into sweat
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  Speaker 1: at the palms and you know, armpit areas at this point?
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  Speaker 5: I am not. I am ready to go. I'm excited
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  Speaker 5: about this draft. I think it's been a little bit
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  Speaker 5: undersold and underrated. By others, but I think it ties
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  Speaker 5: in very nicely to the Seahawks needs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about those needs. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good place to start here. You're drafting at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the first round, second round, and third round. Most
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  Speaker 1: people believe edge rusher, cornerback, and running back are the.
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  Speaker 2: Three biggest needs.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that John will address those three needs
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  Speaker 1: with those before the end of day number two? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's that pressing of a need.
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  Speaker 5: I do, and I think that it ties in pretty
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  Speaker 5: well again with the strength of this draft class. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the running back class is not as as deep and
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  Speaker 5: doesn't have the top end talent, but the edge rusher, cornerback,
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  Speaker 5: and wide receiver to me are unquestionably the three positional groups.
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  Speaker 5: So yes, I would be surprised if that first round
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  Speaker 5: selection for thirty two overall, of course, assuming seats and trade,
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  Speaker 5: it's that that selection will be used on one of
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  Speaker 5: those three positions, and then I expect that the second
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  Speaker 5: round is actually going to be a player who's going
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  Speaker 5: to be very valued similarly as the player you get
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  Speaker 5: in the first round, also at at least one of
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  Speaker 5: those positions. Once we get in the third, fourth, round.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously Seallais and currently have a fourth round selection. I
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  Speaker 5: think it is a good possibility that he trades down.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that once you get in that third
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  Speaker 5: or fourth round, that's where things will get a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more best player available strategy. But to start off
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  Speaker 5: the draft check, I would be stunned if the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: are not getting themselves a corner, an edge rusher, or
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  Speaker 5: running back.
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  Speaker 1: Now what their first selection, whether that's thirty two, or
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  Speaker 1: they trade down to thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: wherever that beat, wherever that might be. Do you like
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  Speaker 1: the depth of the running back group, or based on
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  Speaker 1: our conversation from last week, are you more of a
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  Speaker 1: mind that man Seahawks with their running back hole, better
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  Speaker 1: get one of these better running backs in the draft Price?
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  Speaker 1: Who you raved about last week or Washington? Do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like running back is such a need that maybe
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  Speaker 1: they do need to knock that thing out earlier than later.
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  Speaker 5: That's the way I would approach it. I'm a big
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  Speaker 5: advantage of daring on Price. I mentioned last time we spoke,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't say there's a good chance that he winds
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  Speaker 5: up having the production that Jeremiah Love is much more
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  Speaker 5: celebrated former teammated Notre Game has in the NFL. There's
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  Speaker 5: no question that Jeremiah Love is a better athlete. I
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  Speaker 5: just think that we're talking about instincts for the running
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  Speaker 5: back position than JENDERI on Price as the best instinct
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  Speaker 5: going to give you a beautiful fit in Seattle's live
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  Speaker 5: zone offense. All of that said, I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: having evaluated John Scheider in the way he attacks drafts
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  Speaker 5: now for twenty years, basically, I think that Mike Washington
• 8:02
  Speaker 5: Junior is going to be somebody that that Schnyder is
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  Speaker 5: going to be absolutely smitten with. And I recognize the
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  Speaker 5: fumble issues, and he had seven fumbles that he are
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  Speaker 5: seven times he put the ball on the ground, only
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: lost a couple of them, but still seven fumbles over
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  Speaker 5: the last couple of seasons and bounced around different colleges.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, you're there, they're shades of
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  Speaker 5: Adrian Peterson. When you see this guy at six to one,
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty five pounds running in the four threes,
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  Speaker 5: it's just easy to get excited about the explosive element
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  Speaker 5: that he would provide. I think that frankly, he would
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  Speaker 5: be a better a better tandem with George Hallaney while
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  Speaker 5: you wait for Zach Charbonnet and Kenny McIntosh.
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  Speaker 6: Et cetera, et cetera to get back onto.
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  Speaker 5: The field for you. Then even Jaderim Price, who I
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  Speaker 5: think has a little bit of a similarities, so it
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  Speaker 5: might be a little bit redundant to a player like
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  Speaker 5: a George Halaaney who you know. Schnyder and Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 5: are both unprompted mentioned many times. So I do think
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  Speaker 5: that Jilani is playing a significant role in this. So
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  Speaker 5: I think if there's good depth as far as a
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  Speaker 5: couple of the other backs, I think that you could
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  Speaker 5: get Jonah Coleman from University of Washington's another player I'm
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  Speaker 5: very high on. Think he's a third round selection all
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  Speaker 5: day long. Emmitt Johnson from Nebraska. But after that, chuck
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  Speaker 5: to me, I said a moment ago a good depth,
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  Speaker 5: I was remissent saying that, I think that it falls
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  Speaker 5: off a cliff a little bit, and everybody else you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna be finding on day three. They're gonna be kind
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  Speaker 5: of rotational backs rather than a guy who could be
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  Speaker 5: the bell cow if you need one.
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  Speaker 1: Rob rang Is with us NFL draft to expert we
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  Speaker 1: lean on during draft season during draft mess. He's with
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: the Fox Sports and you can follow Rob at Rob Rang,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: rob r.
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  Speaker 4: M G on X.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of really interesting angles and articles
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  Speaker 1: written about the NFL draft. As we sit here, just
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  Speaker 1: nine sleeps away from the first pick of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six draft. All right, give me a plumb of
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  Speaker 1: a pick at edge rusher then on Day number two
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. Somebody that looks like a great fit
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  Speaker 1: for Mike McDonald's scheme that might be available at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the second round or possibly end.
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  Speaker 2: Of the third round. Go ahead and dartboard this thing
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: Bullseye an edge rusher that seems like a great fit
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 5: I really think that the the edge rusher talel is
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  Speaker 5: very much at its best at number thirty two overall,
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  Speaker 5: and I would be surprised, frankly if Seattle decided to
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  Speaker 5: go in a different direction other than edge rusher with
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  Speaker 5: either number thirty two overall or in a slight trade down.
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  Speaker 5: I've talked to before about Gabe Actis from Illinois, my
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  Speaker 5: Zion Young from Missouri, both of them have that that
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  Speaker 5: physicality and the size that it seems like that certainly
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  Speaker 5: John Schneider has preferred, and it feels like the Mike
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  Speaker 5: McDonald's preferred. They're roughly six y four two hundred and
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  Speaker 5: sixty pounds, long arms, physical at the point of attack,
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  Speaker 5: better run defenders frankly than they are pass rushers. But again,
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: just kind of parsing through the Tea Leaves series, it
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  Speaker 5: seems like that the Seahawks are really concerned about the
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  Speaker 5: fact that in losing boy Mafe.
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  Speaker 6: They lost that speed rush element.
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  Speaker 5: And so if they're looking for a player like that,
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  Speaker 5: to me, are Mason Thomas and Casius Howell are guys
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  Speaker 5: that make an awful lot of sense. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 5: our Mason Thomas, and I've seen that some are projecting
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  Speaker 5: him as a possibility for the Seahawks at number thirty
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  Speaker 5: two overall.
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  Speaker 6: And I get the twitch.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's six foot three, he's two hundred
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  Speaker 5: and forty pounds, so he's significantly underside. He's got short arms,
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  Speaker 5: but he is lightening off the edge and he plays
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  Speaker 5: with physicality, and so there's some intriguing things there. At
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  Speaker 5: the same time, he also is a player who was
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  Speaker 5: struggled with durability, and so number thirty two overall to
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  Speaker 5: me just feels too rich. So I think that if
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  Speaker 5: he is somehow available at number sixty four overall, he
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  Speaker 5: would make an awful lot of sense player that I'm
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: actually plugging in for the Seahawks at least as of
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: right now in the final mock draft that I'll have
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: a Fox Sports dot Com as well as one on
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: Seahawks dot Com is right now is going to be
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  Speaker 5: Cashius Howell from Texas A and M. Now, maybe things
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  Speaker 5: change in these next few days, but I really think
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: the Cash's howl makes an awful lot of sense. He
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: is a very productive pass rusher, also very quick off
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  Speaker 5: the ball. But one of the things I'm most intrigued
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  Speaker 5: by with him, Chuck, is that earlier in his career
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  Speaker 5: when he first he began his career at Bowling Green and.
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  Speaker 6: Was very productive as a pass rusher there.
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  Speaker 5: Transfers to Texas A and M, and initially they just
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  Speaker 5: had so many talented defensive linemen two years ago that
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  Speaker 5: they actually asked him to play more of an off
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: ball linebacker and he would drop into coverage, and that,
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  Speaker 5: to me, is one of his the secrets with him
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  Speaker 5: that I think is going to really appeal to the
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks is that versatility. And so if you're gonna be
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and forty five pounds, then I think that
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  Speaker 5: they want a guy who also can not just pass rush,
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  Speaker 5: but also drop back into coverage and play the run
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  Speaker 5: and cashus. Howe does all of those things, and so
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  Speaker 5: to me, he is the one that makes a lot
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  Speaker 5: of sense. Now I've mentioned one of the players as
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  Speaker 5: far as top sixty four pick. If we're waiting to
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  Speaker 5: the second round, Kei Roon Crawford, the edge rusher from Auburn,
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  Speaker 5: to me, has a lot of the traits that you're
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  Speaker 5: looking to develop. He's a speed rusher, he's a former
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  Speaker 5: basketball player, and so he's a guy that you know
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  Speaker 5: is still learning the nuances.
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  Speaker 6: Of the position.
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  Speaker 5: But when everybody was looking at Kendrick Falk the big
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  Speaker 5: first round, no question about edge rusher for Auburn, they
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  Speaker 5: kept looking at Kieron Crawford number twenty four.
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  Speaker 6: Who's this guy's flashing.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Crawford checks off a lot of Seahawk
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  Speaker 5: boxes as well.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk the uub angle here.
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  Speaker 1: In this second conversation with rob Rang Denzel Boston, what
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  Speaker 1: kind of day do you think he's going to have
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday?
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  Speaker 6: Ike, He's going to have an exciting one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't necessarily believe that he's going to be a
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  Speaker 5: top fifteen, top twenty pick, but I would be surprised
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  Speaker 5: if he was not a first round selection. And I
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  Speaker 5: think he's good enough Chuck that I just argued that
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  Speaker 5: edge rusher, cornerback, and running back should be the priorities
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  Speaker 5: for the Seahawks. I just think if you're going to
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: take the best player available approach, and Denzel Boston is
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  Speaker 5: still somehow on the board at number thirty two overall.
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  Speaker 5: I recognize that what the Seahawks have done at wide
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  Speaker 5: receiver and extending Jackson Smith and Jigbun and bringing.
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  Speaker 6: Back with Shichih.
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  Speaker 5: But but Boston six ft four, you know, two hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 5: has the lateral agility he has, he can make people miss.
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  Speaker 6: People forget that he was a punt returner as well.
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  Speaker 5: For you, Dub, I just think that his ability and
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  Speaker 5: make people miss at that size and with his hands,
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  Speaker 5: and obviously the regional ties you have Emerald Ridge High
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: School in the PU office area. You know, I mean
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  Speaker 5: this is this is a homegrown product, and a very
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  Speaker 5: good one at that.
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  Speaker 6: He to me is a slam dunk first round selection.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Let's go another wide receiver that seems to be making
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of headlines right now, Carnel Tait, who at
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  Speaker 1: the draft, he didn't run at the combine, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: run a great forty, so he seemed to be falling.
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  Speaker 1: And now Rob, I mean, everywhere I look, it's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was up to number seven yesterday. It's all They
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  Speaker 1: up to number four some of the rumors in the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 2: This seems to be the wild.
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  Speaker 1: Card of the first round right now and the hottest
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  Speaker 1: name going right now. How do you evaluate Carnel Tate,
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver out of Ohio State.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I understand why there there's some buzz about him
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: right now, just because it's funny. Almost every position you
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: can make an argument, oh is it this guy the
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: top guy? Or is it this guy or is it
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  Speaker 5: wide receiver? It's almost consensus, at least in my opinion
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  Speaker 5: and conversations with scouts as well, that Cardinal Tate is
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  Speaker 5: the number one wide receiver in this class. And so
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  Speaker 5: I just for similar reasons, what we have talked about
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  Speaker 5: with Denzel Boston from the University of Washington. I just
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  Speaker 5: think Cardl Tate is just a little bit better in
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  Speaker 5: a lot of different.
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  Speaker 6: Ways, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But again a you know, no shade towards Denzel Boston,
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  Speaker 5: terrific player, but Cardonel Tate just the lineage of Ohio
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: State wide receivers, the fact that they just come into
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  Speaker 5: the NFL and all of them seem like they run
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: a little bit slower than you expect, but they just
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: play so damn fast because they they just are just
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: really instinctive players know how to use their body. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and jag But did the same thing at
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  Speaker 5: Ohio State. I think the lateral agility, the body control.
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  Speaker 5: He was often used as more of a slot receiver,
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  Speaker 5: Cardinal Tate was early in his college career and he
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  Speaker 5: got overshadowed by all the other superstar buck guy wide receivers.
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  Speaker 5: And then this past season, even with Jeremiah Smith on
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  Speaker 5: the field, you know, he's the super sophomore of course
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  Speaker 5: gonna wind up being a top five section himself next year.
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  Speaker 6: That Cardinal Tate was the guy. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 6: the one that.
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  Speaker 5: Went over the top and became the vertical threat, something
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  Speaker 5: that he wasn't always known for being able to do.
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  Speaker 5: And then there were so many like highlight reel catchers
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  Speaker 5: where he just skies up into the air and even
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  Speaker 5: with bodies surrounding him, he was able to just pluck
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: the ball out of the air and make the spectacular play.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: And so that's I think from a scouting perspective, when
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: you're talking to your general manager, you're kind of pounding
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: the table the team owner and you're like, this is
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: the guy I believe that can take our franchise to
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: the next level. It's easy with Cardinal Tates highlight reel
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: to make that argument.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: What's the intrigue for you right now nine days away
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: from the National Football League Draft? I mean, obviously for us,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: it's what are the Seahawks going to do? And then
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: there's the top of the draft, which seems to have
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: been settled for quite some time. But is there a
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: player or is there a team that right now just
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: intrigues you more so than anybody else as we sit
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: here a week and a half away from the first
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: and second selections.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: So, I G that's a really interesting question.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: And there are so many different things that are kind
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: of running through my head as you were explaining it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: A couple of teams I think are fascinating. It is
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: because they have to figure out what the heck they're
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: doing at the quarterback position. Certainly the New York Jets,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: who have as much draft capital, two first round picks,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: a couple of second round picks, you know, what are
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: they going to be doing?
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: Especially at quarterback?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Of course, it's former Seawk star Gino Smith is, you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: kind of the holdover quarterback that they have right now,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: but he's obviously not their future, and so is Aaron
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Glenn feeling enough pressure that he is going to push
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: to citizen left maybe a Ty Simpson in this class
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: because obviously the number two overall pick that they have
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: for Anna Mendoza is going to go to the Raiders.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: So are they willing to make a trade up or
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: or are they willing to use their second selection, Ite's
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: number twenty overall to take that quarterback. So that's going
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: to be interesting. Arizona Cardinals a very similar situation. Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: What's the long term plan behind Aaron Rodgers? Assuming mister
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Rogers decides to return and grace the NFL with his
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: presidence yet again, you know so, I think those are
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: all fascinating storylines. And then that the Ty Simpson angle,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: And to me, it's ty Simpson at quarterback, Jendarium Price
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: sit running back. When does the second player at those
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: respective positions, when did they come off the board. That's
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: going to have massive ripple effects for a team like
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks, who, of course, you know, have other needs.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: And I think that if you do see these quarterbacks
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: and receivers and running backs, so called skill position players
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: go earlier than expected, I think there's a real possibility
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: of that that's going to push down a very very
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: talented corner or edge rusher that has no reason being
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: available at number thirty two overall, but could in this
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: particular draft class.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: And that is exactly what John Scheider is hoping for.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: All Right, when's the last mock come out? And where
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: can people find it?
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, the last monk will come out. Actually, I'll
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: turn into the editors on Sunday, okay, and then it
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: will likely yeah, it will likely be available at both
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Fox sports dot Com and Seahawks dot Com. I would
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: expect by say Tuesday at the latest. And I have
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: to have my mind draft done a couple of days
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: before the actual draft itself, so it gives people time
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: to check out those websites foxsports dot com, Seahawks dot
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: com for for what I think is going to happen
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: before U before we start to learn about some of
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: the moves that actually are made in the hours before
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: the draft. And you can see all these draft analysts
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: out there change everything at the last second. Nick themselves
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: look smart. I'd rather look prophetic. Uh, you know a
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: little bit a couple of days before.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll go over that, and we'll go
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: over a Seahawk mock next to Tuesday, as we always
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: do the week of the drafts.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: We'll do that next week.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I know they feed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Us well over at the vMac during the draft, but
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: are you with me? Maybe they could give into this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: draft MIAs theme a little bit more. Maybe we do
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a draft miss Goose this year. Maybe some figgy pudding,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe that should be available this year. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: don't know if they're as much swept up in the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: draft miss Spirit as you and I are.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Rob, Well, that's unfortunate, right.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Should be should be some nog out there exactly.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I like the ideas of the you know, the the
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: suits and the gowns that we saw and uh in
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: the w NBA draft last night. You know, I'll do,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: you know, give them, give them the owl Storms certainly
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: credit for kicking off draft miss in in fine fashion.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: So hopefully that the Seahawks will follow that lead.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm expecting uh, you know, suits and uh
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: in gowns and in crab legs and fountains and.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, a nog fountain.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, would it
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: killed Dave Pearson to put on a tie? Come on now,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: all right, Rob, Well, we'll talk to you next week.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Great stuff, as always appreciate you.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Looking forward to it, Chuck as always take it, Rob.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Right joining us right here on Chuck and bucking and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: follow Rob at Rob ring, Uh there on X And
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he's got his mock coming out next week, which we
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: will go over with him. Yeah, I mean, I want
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Schneider dressed as old Feziwig dancing a jig right in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the middle of the old auditorium for us all to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: every time they'd make a nice draft pick. He comes
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: out and he dances, and he's from a Christmas carol.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, thing. I know that, Carol.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he was the one that really taught Ebenezer
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Christmas spirit that he forgot all about.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: That's what I would like to see Schneider do.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I thought that was the ghost of Christmas.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: He always had a red solo cup in his hand.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I don't know how I missed that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, always dancing a jig out there, just I mean,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: just a merry fella.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Sounds like, Yeah, that sounds just like John Schneider.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: That is John Schneider to a t.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Come on, now, get swept up in it. Jigg stop
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: acting like you're cooler than the room.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Seahawks, get in the spirit. Lack like your World Champs
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: ABC's of the Ems next on kJ R on Chia
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Seeds and rich Crackers. And only people were exposed to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it from an audio point of view. Now people have
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to watch it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Or yeah, you just mute your microphone and then no
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: one would know.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: But now here's the problem with YouTube too, is when
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: our microphones for the radio, if we're on the air
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: on YouTube, it's muted, but if you make a noise,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: it'll still go to you.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I did not know that, so it'll look at you, like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: so you'll be.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: On camera and you'll be over there choking, swishing your
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: water because you made a noise in your studio even
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: though no one else heard it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So all the time that I mute myself and drop
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: f bombs at Bucky.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Now people are going to be able to hear that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: No, they're not gonna be able to hear it, but
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: they'll be able to read your lips.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, good to know. Yeah, see, we're
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: learning right alongside you. I know, time for the ABC.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: So the ms here on Chuck and Buck in the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: But we are at the letter D and D is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: for dawdling, oh or delaying what's going on with Bryce Miller.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Like to me, it just did not feel like anybody
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was acting like that was some sort of a serious injury.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And it's not like it happened right at the end
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of spring training. I thought there was a chance. I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: mean they and they were acting like no.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Big deal, no big deal. And yet here we sit, you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Know, three weeks into the season, and yeah, we got
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: an update yesterday that he's a he had a good
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: bullpen session and he's about ready to start his rehab process.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And yet how long is that? I mean, what are
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: we doing? We're doing two.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Outings, three outing, one outing. How's that because that's five
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: days in between each one. If you're going to do two,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that's ten days from now. And yet I've also heard
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: reports suggesting that he might be available as soon as
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this homestand this next homestand that starts Friday. So I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: don't know if they're just making There are a lot
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of reasons why you might.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Delay or dawdle, a lot of reasons.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Number one, it allows Bryce to be one hundred percent
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: healthy when you activate him. Doesn't really feel like you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: have to have him right now. Look the way the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Dot Dodgers are approaching Blake Snow. As long as you're
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: already by October, that's all we.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Care, right We don't care about the games in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: regular season.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't think you have to have him right now,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and I certainly don't want any kind of setback. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: so I don't know if you have to get him
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: back into the rotation. Number two, I'm sure they would
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: love to just get a little more of a sample
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: from Emerson Hancock.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: The new Emerson Hancock. I mean, it has just been
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: three games.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: As Ryan Heally pointed out yesterday, he looked a little
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: more human in his third outing as opposed to the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: dominance he showed in his first two outings. And so yeah,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, the history suggests Emerson Hancock's not this good,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: but this is also supposed to be a new and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: improved Emerson Hancock. Right now, I don't want to take
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: him out of the starting rotation. And as long as
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you continue to delay or dawdle with Bryce Miller's activation,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: then he stays in. And then the third thing is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it also gives you a chance to assess Luis Castillo
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit longer. He also told us yesterday that
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: he doesn't think that when Bryce Miller's ready, no matter
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: what happens in the next couple of weeks, that that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: necessarily means somebody is sent down to Tacoma, and that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: somebody would be Emerson, that maybe they just get sent
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen. I'm not sure if I like that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: at all. I mean, I can't imagine doing that to Castillo,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: can't imagine having him become a long reliever at this
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: stage in his career, and yet he's certainly our least
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: effective starting pitcher right now. I don't think that I want.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm disrupting Emerson enough by sending him to Tacoma,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think that's less of a disruption to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: what he's experiencing in his breakthrough season than sending him
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen where he doesn't know when he's going
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to pitch.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: From game to game. So I mean, I don't love
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that either.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And of course I don't love the idea of not
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: having Bryce, because I think Bryce's gonna have a fantastic
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: season for the Mariners this year. So this tricky, this
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: little six guys for five spots thing is tricky. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'm getting the impression that Bryce Miller probably could be
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: back sooner than they're saying, but they're not in any
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: rush to make that happen so that they can figure
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: out all three of these things, these operations that are
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: existing at once.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as much as we say it's a good problem
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: to have, it is a problem. It is something they
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: have to sort out. So maybe buying themselves more time
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: is something they're all right with.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it certainly helps you make a decision. The
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: little more time that you buy it helps you, you hope,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you hope make a decision because right now I don't
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: know what to do. If he was ready tomorrow, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what I would do.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean neither.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, he is for Emerson, Colt Emerson. I'm
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: going to get to see him this Friday with the Rainiers.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I'm doing the broadcast out there with Riley pay and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Softy and Dick are going to be out there as well.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So it's our first Rainiers game of six this season
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that kJ R is going to be involved in. So
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to my first Tacoma Day of twenty
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: twenty six, and for more reasons than just you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: eating at the pizza place I like and going to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the record store I like. I also am looking forward
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to seeing Colt Emerson and see exactly what kind of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: player we got because really I've only seen highlight packages
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and few spring training at bats, but it'll be nice
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to see him play in a game. Also very interesting.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was just a tweet sent out yesterday
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: by Buster.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Olney or was it Ken Rosenthal. It was one of them.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: That's fair. You gave him both some credit.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't care, but the suggestion, that's the important thing.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: The suggestion was that maybe the Pittsburgh Pirates jumped the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: gun on Connor Griffin. He's off to a one fifty
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: two start, the nineteen year old phenom for the Pittsburgh Pirates,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and maybe they got a little carried away and trying
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to get him to the bigs because they wanted him
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: there for the home and then they announced the contract
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and everything else. Well, this is what you in my opinion,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: this is what you don't want to do. I mean,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: if cold Emerson stays down there a little bit longer,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: so be it. I don't think it's I don't think
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: there's some major hole right now on the Mariners that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: cold Embersson needs to fill to get the team back
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: on track. Kind of feels like they're back on track.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: But what you don't want to do, in my opinion,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: is take a nineteen year old who's never failed at baseball,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: or in Colt's case, a twenty year old who's never
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: failed at baseball, rush him up. When you do have
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to kind of slow play it, and then
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he starts to struggle because he's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: facing major league pitching for the first time, and major
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: league pressure for the first time, and now all of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a sudden you're thinking about sending him back down. I
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: don't like I don't like that idea at all, the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: idea of entering it into somebody who has only ever
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: succeeded at baseball and now all of a sudden you're
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: going to give them their first dost of you're not
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: ready for this, buddy.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I don't like doing that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm good with dawdling and delaying on Colt Emerson
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: as well, to make sure he's where you want him
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to be, because I do think, even though the Pirates
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: are having a great season so far this year, that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: maybe they rushed him up for pr reasons and not
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: for reasons that were best for Connor Griffin.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like it, and I'm glad that we
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: don't have to do that and that we're not doing that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Let him have Let Colt have his time, and he'll
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: be up when he's ready.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: He'll be up.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He'll be up, and he'll be up this year and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna help the Mariners win this year.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: But right now, what's it hurt to give him a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: little more exposure to near major league pitching and make
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: sure that he's having plenty of success there before we
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: thrown him right into the fire. So I like it,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: but I'm also looking forward to seeing him play on Friday. Finally,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: FS for Friars. The San Diego Padres host US tonight.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Padres are ten and six five straight wins, but those
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have come against the Colorado Rockies. They've won four straight
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: against the Colorado Rockies. And just as another tool to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: prove it's early, I just saw like three days ago,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Brian Kenny, who I really like at MLB Network, did
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: this whole breakdown about these teams that nobody had expectations
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: for that are often these great starts, teams like the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Marlins and the Rockies and a couple of others that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: are already the White Sox. The White Sox were one
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of them. All are they going to be breakthroughs? And
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: since he did that, they've all stunk. They've all proven
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: who they are, and that's where we are right now.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: We need, as Ryan Healy said yesterday, we need about
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: forty to fifty games. We need about it before we
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: can really make a judgment on teams good or bad.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And we need about one hundred and fifty.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: At bats where we can make any judgments on players,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: especially veterans into a season. And so how about we
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: just give it some time and.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Let the dust settle a little bit.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I like that plan.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: The Rockies stink, they do.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, don't get carried away because they won four of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: their first.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Six or something. All right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, the NBA's play on round the starts tonight.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: No one's picking upsets in the first round of the
• 32:23
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• 32:27
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• 32:30
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• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, Happy Tuesday to you all.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Chuck Pole, Ashley Ryan with you know Bucky Jacobson here today.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's just out at Talala Brasort Casino.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: That's what I heard. Actually, that's the word on the street.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's where he's been this entire time.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Can't blame him. I'd skip work too of a minute,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: could hang out there vaguely.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: He's probably probably a table game player. That guy, That's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: how he strikes me. Probably is taking advantage of the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: ability to win up to five hundred dollars and table
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  Speaker 1: game chips every Sunday in April at Quill See the
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  Speaker 1: Creek Casino.
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  Speaker 2: That's Bucky in a.
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  Speaker 4: Nutshell, Bucky in a Nutshell, You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Sundays in April four pm to eight pm. One winner
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  Speaker 1: actively playing table games will be drawn every thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and two winners at eight pm will win a bag
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  Speaker 1: of chips.
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  Speaker 4: About that like potato chips, tortilla chips.
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling their money chips.
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  Speaker 4: I like money chips the best, So that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure before I jump to
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  Speaker 3: conclusions and.
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  Speaker 4: Want to be like, oh my god, I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: for money chips, and they're like, actually it's free doos.
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  Speaker 2: There're salt and vinegar money chips.
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  Speaker 1: Details at the One Club and everything to lalup dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It is Chuck and Ashley with you.
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  Speaker 1: We do have Stocking Stuffers, an extended edition coming up
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  Speaker 1: at eight o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 2: But tonight the NBA play in takes place. They're already there's.
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  Speaker 1: This feeling of I just talked to Chris Kidd and
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  Speaker 1: Mark James yesterday after the show was over, just quick
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  Speaker 1: a little conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Are you picking any upsets in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: No, no one's picking any upsets in the first round
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA playoffs. And this, to me, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think Adam Silver is really having sort of a
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  Speaker 1: league midlife crisis kind of moment here of Okay, whatever's
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  Speaker 1: happening right now. We have a good product, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a successful product. We have a financially lucrative product,
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  Speaker 1: but we got way too many things that have gotten
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  Speaker 1: out of whack, and through no design of their own,
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  Speaker 1: they've tried little measurements to try to curb some of
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  Speaker 1: these issues. But NBA teams have just kind of said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what you're gonna do to find us
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  Speaker 1: this helps us win in the playoffs, or this helps
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  Speaker 1: us get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to tank, and we are also going
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  Speaker 2: to load manage.
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  Speaker 1: And you can put up whatever little tiny rules that
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  Speaker 1: you want and whatever tiny little finds that you want
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  Speaker 1: to slap on us. Either of the matter is the
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  Speaker 1: better path is to load manage, and is to tank
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  Speaker 1: when you're not any good, especially in a year in
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  Speaker 1: which there are a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of good draft picks that are going to be on
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  Speaker 2: the board.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think they really got to do a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive and just kind of till this soil and
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  Speaker 1: just turn it over so the future crops. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you ruin this year's harvest, but future crops are.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be bounty because of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is I mean, it just flies in
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  Speaker 1: the face of all of the problems that you have,
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  Speaker 1: some of the decisions that you've made just to make
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  Speaker 1: another extra buck or two.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've known forever, you have too many teams in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Forever well, and they all and everyone complains about too
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  Speaker 3: many games well or the seasons too long. Get rid
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  Speaker 3: of some of the teams in the playoffs, and there
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  Speaker 3: you go, you shortened your season.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do it because that's where they make their
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  Speaker 1: most money. But when all of your rules and everything
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  Speaker 1: that you have going on or pointing toward, well, one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest problems you have is your playoff is
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  Speaker 1: too big, and that you play too many games, and
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  Speaker 1: that the season is too long. Those are pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the three problems that you have right now that you
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  Speaker 1: have always had. Right now, and your decision is few,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to put more play.
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  Speaker 2: Off the games.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, let's see how we can add. So
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  Speaker 4: what you're saying is you'd like more. Is that what
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  Speaker 4: I'm hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're telling me we should have fewer. But what
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  Speaker 1: I'm not hearing is whether or not we should have more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think we'll try that. Then give me
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  Speaker 4: your feedback.
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  Speaker 2: So I make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to fix the product or do you
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  Speaker 1: want to look for every opportunity to make a cheap buck.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'll watch the NBA play in games,
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  Speaker 1: not religiously tonight, not if baseball's on, It'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the side.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have it on.
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  Speaker 1: But this is part of the problem that they have
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  Speaker 1: is that they won't look in the mirror and recognize
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  Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't be wearing this shirt. Maybe it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: flatter me. Maybe sequence sleeveless sequence, showing my belly button
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  Speaker 1: is not a good look for a fifty four year
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  Speaker 1: old man who's overweight. Maybe it does give me a
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  Speaker 1: muffin top, right, And yet they will no, that's sharp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going with it, and solow cutenes.
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  Speaker 1: Just recognize where your weaknesses are and work on those.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, your weaknesses are what is accentuating all of
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  Speaker 1: these new problems that you didn't see coming down the road. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the first thing that I would do this
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  Speaker 1: offseason is get rid of the damn n season tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: They're dumb, And I would get rid of the play
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  Speaker 1: in they're dumb. If you don't ever want to chop
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  Speaker 1: it down from sixteen. I get it, there's money to
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  Speaker 1: be made there, but there's no reason that we should
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  Speaker 1: be operating with twenty four teams making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And anytime you get stupid, yeah, anytime you can look
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  Speaker 3: and evaluate what you're doing and say, how similar to
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  Speaker 3: soccer are we Like within season tournaments, you should say,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we should pivot, maybe we leave that for soccer
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  Speaker 3: and all their weird in season tournaments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's soccer be some Yeah, let's.
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  Speaker 4: Soccer be soccer. Let the NBA be the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Get rid of the n season tournament, which doesn't even
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  Speaker 3: count for anything other than to say, well, we won
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  Speaker 3: a tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, do you win the NBA Championship? No, we won
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  Speaker 4: the one in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, some of these problems, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Some you didn't foresee, and.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't and you thought maybe you could put some
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  Speaker 1: little parameters in there that could curb it, if not
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  Speaker 1: fix it, and it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It made it worse.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's not an easy problem to solve, not sitting
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  Speaker 1: here pretending like it is.
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  Speaker 2: But we but you've always.
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  Speaker 1: Known there are too many teams in the playoffs. There
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  Speaker 1: aren't enough upsets. It's not worth the damage that you're
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  Speaker 1: doing to the players to extend their seasons when they
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  Speaker 1: have no chance of winning series. And now we've decided
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  Speaker 1: to add eight more teams to it, or four more
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  Speaker 1: teams to it, or whatever it is. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's where I start this offseason, in an off
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  Speaker 1: season of tilling the soil.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I start. No more play games in the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs because they're dumb, all right.
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