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- 0:28Speaker 1: Something complete? This is Chucking Buck in the Morning. What's up, folks?
- 0:32Speaker 1: Why you people are beyond Let's go, Let's get the
- 0:35Speaker 1: game off. Well, Good Monday morning to you all. Welcome
- 0:52Speaker 1: into the radio.
- 0:53Speaker 6: Extravaganza known as Chucking Back in the Morning Sports Radio
- 0:56Speaker 6: ninety three point three kh A r f M. We
- 0:58Speaker 6: hope you had a wonderful week a soaking up some
- 1:00Speaker 6: sunshine here in the Pacific Northwest and we get.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Things going on a Monday morning for the next.
- 1:06Speaker 6: Four hours, so we will take you through the latest
- 1:09Speaker 6: and greatest on the Seattle sports scene.
- 1:10Speaker 1: So sit back and enjoy. Ashley Ryan is here. My
- 1:14Speaker 1: name is Chuck Powell.
- 1:15Speaker 6: And lookie, lookie, who's returned to the Pacific Northwest. He
- 1:20Speaker 6: decided not to stay on the mountaintops of Arizona.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Buggy's back. Yeah, it's going to be back.
- 1:29Speaker 3: When did you do turn this into an astravag extravaganza?
- 1:32Speaker 1: When did that appen? That's just what people have been saying.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, so it's been we've been known as it, right, Okay, okay,
- 1:39Speaker 3: I didn't know if there were some big.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Things responding to demand. Okay, okay, cool.
- 1:44Speaker 7: Just like people were saying you were eating canned beans
- 1:47Speaker 7: on a mountaintop.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's where you right, Yes.
- 1:50Speaker 5: That's.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:53Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I don't mind eating canned beans, and
- 1:57Speaker 3: I love being on a mountaintop.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I right, So no harm done?
- 2:01Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, Yeah, you're right. Nothing happened bad while
- 2:05Speaker 3: I was gone. I now I'm very curious to hear
- 2:07Speaker 3: what else I was going.
- 2:09Speaker 1: While I was gone. No, nothing else. Just welcome you back,
- 2:14Speaker 1: not without an attorney present. Yeah, I don't think we
- 2:17Speaker 1: should have that, all right, you should be protected for you.
- 2:22Speaker 3: There was a couple of times that I kind of
- 2:23Speaker 3: wished I was on a mountaintop somewhere where it was
- 2:25Speaker 3: a little bit cooler, because it got it got really
- 2:28Speaker 3: warm there. It did it got like like ninety Yeah,
- 2:32Speaker 3: me and my very pasty children, we got red.
- 2:36Speaker 8: It look very colorful.
- 2:38Speaker 1: We had a good color.
- 2:39Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 2:39Speaker 7: I don't think you look red. I think you look
- 2:40Speaker 7: like you it's the middle of summer, and I'm jealous.
- 2:43Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thank you. We we handled it. Okay, I
- 2:46Speaker 3: I found an umbrella. Well, Bear got more son than
- 2:49Speaker 3: he's ever gotten before. H not to the bad parties,
- 2:52Speaker 3: not peeling or blistering or anything, but yeah, we got
- 2:54Speaker 3: some son.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Kate's belly I don't know.
- 2:56Speaker 3: If it's seen sun since two Okay, it got really red. Yeah,
- 3:03Speaker 3: so yeah, we all kind of got like, who here
- 3:06Speaker 3: we go.
- 3:07Speaker 1: But it was good. It was great.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:08Speaker 3: A lot of swimming and a lot of water slides
- 3:10Speaker 3: and took some baseball in and it was good, good.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Very good.
- 3:15Speaker 6: That's what it's all about. You had a little rest our,
- 3:18Speaker 6: little quality time. Those most deer very good.
- 3:22Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 3:23Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:25Speaker 6: I was seeing though, you know, just watching various games
- 3:29Speaker 6: that were down there that I guess records for most
- 3:32Speaker 6: ninety plus degree days this early.
- 3:36Speaker 8: In the year February.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
- 3:39Speaker 6: I lived there for fifteen years without failed. Pacific Northwesterners
- 3:43Speaker 6: think that they would love to move there, and I
- 3:47Speaker 6: don't know if I've met any of them they could.
- 3:49Speaker 6: I mean, you're right, like ninety four they can't handle it.
- 3:52Speaker 6: I'm like it get's gonna get twenty five degrees hotter
- 3:55Speaker 6: than that before the summer comes to a close. So
- 3:59Speaker 6: you know, you know, be care be careful what you
- 4:01Speaker 6: wish for where you think there's greener grass, because yeah,
- 4:06Speaker 6: in the direct sun, eighty four degrees in Arizona, even
- 4:11Speaker 6: that'll get you much less ninety four, much less one
- 4:14Speaker 6: hundred and four, much less one hundred and fourteen. So
- 4:17Speaker 6: you know what, I've been here now for eleven years,
- 4:20Speaker 6: kind of like it up here.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I had enough of the desert life.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there's certain times, you know, and I were
- 4:28Speaker 3: talking about what we were down there, certain times where
- 4:29Speaker 3: it's like, you know, nine o'clock at night and it's
- 4:31Speaker 3: still like seventy eight degrees you know, in the winter
- 4:34Speaker 3: or something. You're like, okay, now this I understand. But yeah,
- 4:37Speaker 3: when it's just blistering, like you can feel the flickers
- 4:40Speaker 3: of flames from the sun like hitting me in the face, Like, ah,
- 4:44Speaker 3: what the hell is that?
- 4:45Speaker 1: It's too much?
- 4:46Speaker 3: It's too much, And I know I got back here
- 4:48Speaker 3: and I put on some overalls and just stood outside
- 4:51Speaker 3: in the brisk air for a couple of days, or
- 4:53Speaker 3: a couple of minutes.
- 4:54Speaker 8: On couple days. He's just.
- 4:58Speaker 1: All week back.
- 5:00Speaker 6: Last Thursday, I got to come in and do the show,
- 5:02Speaker 6: but I standing on my overalls, just soaking in the
- 5:05Speaker 6: mountain air.
- 5:05Speaker 3: No shirt on underneath, just feeling the briskness on my areas.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it was.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Actually it was kind of like what you guys are
- 5:15Speaker 3: painting the picture of it was. I just was like, oh,
- 5:18Speaker 3: this is my kind of air. This a coolness in
- 5:20Speaker 3: the air.
- 5:21Speaker 1: So I enjoyed it. It was fun.
- 5:23Speaker 3: I'm glad that we went down there and it was
- 5:24Speaker 3: you know, it was fun doing the shows down there
- 5:26Speaker 3: for a week, and then it was fun hanging out
- 5:27Speaker 3: with the family down there for a week, and it
- 5:30Speaker 3: was fun getting back home.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Hello Elk, Hello, hey you.
- 5:34Speaker 8: Miss I've got apples, come get them?
- 5:38Speaker 3: Getting close, poor Elk run they love me.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Hello, river, Oh you feel it is still. I love
- 5:49Speaker 1: it when you're not flooding my yard. River, Yes, I
- 5:52Speaker 1: do too.
- 5:52Speaker 3: I planted about one hundred thousand wild flower seeds.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Yes, the bank of the river. Nobody did one by one.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Nobody can that many flower seeds without loving their heart.
- 6:05Speaker 3: That's where I live, sprinkling them right just with with
- 6:09Speaker 3: love in my heart.
- 6:10Speaker 8: Right singing you were doing there was singing?
- 6:13Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was more like making it rain, you know,
- 6:17Speaker 3: like you do, just putting the seeds and just.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Beautiful. How did you know the song? And you're out there?
- 6:27Speaker 8: His favorite?
- 6:28Speaker 1: It was wonderful.
- 6:29Speaker 3: I was in shorts because it was almost very springy.
- 6:32Speaker 8: Yes, gorgeous.
- 6:35Speaker 1: It was great. It's great.
- 6:36Speaker 3: And now I got to wake up and see you.
- 6:41Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it does get better, No, I agree.
- 6:44Speaker 3: No, So things just just continuing to go up.
- 6:48Speaker 8: Isn't that the joy of vacation? You have to come
- 6:50Speaker 8: back and.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Actually you guys, see you guys.
- 6:54Speaker 6: I'd like to see it like there is something to
- 6:56Speaker 6: the routine, like I mean as much fun. Because I
- 6:59Speaker 6: had a great time at the super Bowl with all
- 7:01Speaker 6: of you jackasses and down at Radio Row and getting
- 7:04Speaker 6: ready for the super Bowl and doing the shows and
- 7:07Speaker 6: uh and and.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Everything gets messed up a little bit, but it was great.
- 7:10Speaker 6: I had a great time. I had a great time
- 7:12Speaker 6: at spring training. To do every single year, but there
- 7:15Speaker 6: is something to like that flight home.
- 7:17Speaker 9: We're like, I just want to go back to the routine.
- 7:20Speaker 1: I need some you know, repetition in my life right
- 7:24Speaker 1: now because I'm tired.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really tired. Yeah, I'm with you on that.
- 7:29Speaker 3: The thing I was mostly for you is my own bed.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Two weeks of the comfort in sweets. I don't know
- 7:37Speaker 3: about that name so much, not that comfort.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Uh.
- 7:41Speaker 3: And then the Great Wolf Lodge, great place, kids love it.
- 7:45Speaker 3: They're not known for comfortable, but comfortable beds either. It's
- 7:48Speaker 3: not the West and I'll just take you.
- 7:50Speaker 1: So two weeks. So when I got back on my bed,
- 7:53Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm home, honey, I'm home. Well,
- 7:58Speaker 1: welcome back, thank you, welcome back. Yeah, yeah, good to
- 8:01Speaker 1: be back.
- 8:01Speaker 6: And you got to Yeah, you did get the good color.
- 8:03Speaker 6: You're not here peeling and blistering. You got just the
- 8:06Speaker 6: mouth of the sudde You can tell you were on
- 8:07Speaker 6: a trip. And yet you're not miserable because you forced
- 8:11Speaker 6: being out.
- 8:12Speaker 3: In the suner No, No, I did not. I mean
- 8:14Speaker 3: I did force you to be out in the sun.
- 8:15Speaker 3: But then I found a shade. Also, because I've been
- 8:19Speaker 3: this pasty ginger for fifty years now, I understand.
- 8:23Speaker 6: Yeah, congratulations on your fiftieth year being thank.
- 8:26Speaker 1: You very much.
- 8:26Speaker 3: I like to thank my mom and my dad and
- 8:29Speaker 3: all the little people help get me here.
- 8:30Speaker 6: Not a lot of people may get fifty years right
- 8:33Speaker 6: around thirty five they're like, I'm going to be a brunette.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a lot of people do that. Yeah.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Well mine's trying to change to white. So I'm still
- 8:40Speaker 3: going to claim ginger though.
- 8:43Speaker 6: Well, you know, I mean it was not your typical
- 8:47Speaker 6: sports weekend. As you know, we sit here on a Monday.
- 8:51Speaker 6: Normally we have a story that is the story to
- 8:55Speaker 6: recap from Sunday as our top sports story of the
- 8:58Speaker 6: day to launch into our conversations. Not really that kind
- 9:03Speaker 6: of weekend, though, and so this is sort of a
- 9:07Speaker 6: look ahead kind of week because we are going to
- 9:10Speaker 6: be counting down the days till NFL free agency, And
- 9:14Speaker 6: the top story right now here in Seattle is just
- 9:18Speaker 6: which of the Seattle Seahawks free agents a Super Bowl
- 9:22Speaker 6: championship team they're going to be able to hold on
- 9:25Speaker 6: to between now and you know, when the tampering period ends,
- 9:29Speaker 6: when the free agency period ends, and so really today
- 9:33Speaker 6: we start that, we start that countdown toward NFL free agency.
- 9:38Speaker 6: The tampering period starts one week from today, and then
- 9:42Speaker 6: almost everything will be done by the time free agency
- 9:44Speaker 6: begins on Wednesday. That's kind of the way it works.
- 9:48Speaker 6: And so we'll get you started. We'll get it going
- 9:50Speaker 6: here this morning.
- 9:52Speaker 1: And of the.
- 9:53Speaker 6: Six major free agents that the Seahawks have, of course,
- 9:57Speaker 6: the name that most prominently comes of mine that we've
- 10:00Speaker 6: been discussing for a month or so, is ken Walker,
- 10:04Speaker 6: the starting running back the Super Bowl MVP, and I
- 10:08Speaker 6: would just start the conversations this week, because we're going
- 10:11Speaker 6: to talk a lot about it today and certainly throughout
- 10:13Speaker 6: the course of the week with our various experts, including
- 10:16Speaker 6: the latest from Craig Bell coming up on the show.
- 10:20Speaker 6: But where are you feeling about whether or not ken
- 10:24Speaker 6: Walker is going to be a Seahawk for another day
- 10:27Speaker 6: beyond free agency? Good feeling about it, bad feeling about it,
- 10:32Speaker 6: just straddling the fence. Where do you sit with whether
- 10:35Speaker 6: or not ken Walker will still be a Seahawk at.
- 10:37Speaker 9: The end of all this.
- 10:38Speaker 3: I feel good, But I think that's not probably that's
- 10:43Speaker 3: probably not rooted in like much science or really anything
- 10:48Speaker 3: of substance. It's like, I feel good because I think
- 10:50Speaker 3: he wants to be a Sea Hawk. But I think
- 10:54Speaker 3: that the Seahawks are going to basically set a put
- 10:57Speaker 3: a number out there. I would be willing to bet
- 11:00Speaker 3: they've already put numbers out there, And the fact that
- 11:02Speaker 3: we haven't heard anything yet about him re up and
- 11:06Speaker 3: means that they're not in agreement. And so to me
- 11:09Speaker 3: it's kind of I feel good that that ken Walker
- 11:12Speaker 3: wants to be here. I'm not really sure if I
- 11:15Speaker 3: should feel as confident about it simply because I think
- 11:18Speaker 3: the Seahawks are going to put a number where they
- 11:20Speaker 3: feel he's worth because of what they could maybe look
- 11:24Speaker 3: for on the other out there on the free agent market.
- 11:27Speaker 3: As far as other running backs are possibly even in
- 11:29Speaker 3: the draft, well.
- 11:30Speaker 6: I would just say, I mean, I don't know if
- 11:34Speaker 6: we need to read in so that it's not done,
- 11:36Speaker 6: because as far as I can tell, when these negotiations
- 11:39Speaker 6: take place, I mean, I mean, the first strategy is
- 11:43Speaker 6: to wait till the eleven o'clock hour. We waited this long,
- 11:47Speaker 6: You've had four years to do this. I don't know
- 11:50Speaker 6: how serious the negotiation gets. To keep him until you
- 11:54Speaker 6: get closer to a deadline. That's just seems to be
- 11:57Speaker 6: the way that the sports world operates, and the deadline
- 12:01Speaker 6: will be Sunday, I suppose, because Monday the tampering period opens,
- 12:06Speaker 6: and I'm sure people are already tampering.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Uh.
- 12:09Speaker 1: But I don't read too much into the fact that he's.
- 12:11Speaker 6: Not not signed based on a negotiation may not be
- 12:15Speaker 6: going the right way, but I do believe that that
- 12:20Speaker 6: it's certainly up in the air right now. I don't
- 12:24Speaker 6: know if I feel strongly one way or the other.
- 12:28Speaker 6: I mean, I'll say this, the national audience seems to
- 12:31Speaker 6: think he's gone, and I don't know if that's them
- 12:33Speaker 6: rooting for it, because we do sort of like as
- 12:37Speaker 6: sports fans, if we don't have an investment in the
- 12:40Speaker 6: actual team or player, we just I mean, people just
- 12:43Speaker 6: like seeing good players wear different uniforms.
- 12:46Speaker 1: It's just a it's just part of the beast. I
- 12:48Speaker 1: don't know why that.
- 12:49Speaker 6: I mean, I've been like that since I was a
- 12:51Speaker 6: kid myself, So I don't know if people just like
- 12:54Speaker 6: the idea more of somebody changing hands. But you can't
- 12:58Speaker 6: open an article about Ken wall Talker without it suggesting
- 13:01Speaker 6: that it feels like he's leaving Seattle, and so, I mean,
- 13:07Speaker 6: I've moved a little bit toward the middle on this.
- 13:10Speaker 6: I was sort of sure that he was going to
- 13:12Speaker 6: be gone. I moved a little bit toward the middle
- 13:16Speaker 6: since last weeks. You and I spoke about it, Ashley
- 13:18Speaker 6: and I spoke about it last week, and so I'm
- 13:22Speaker 6: a little bit on the north side of thinking he's
- 13:26Speaker 6: going to be gone versus going to be staying here.
- 13:28Speaker 6: But I'm a lot closer to fifty to fifty than
- 13:31Speaker 6: I was when this process started. And that basically has
- 13:34Speaker 6: everything to do with if not him, who Because the
- 13:39Speaker 6: options I don't really love and I'm not sure the
- 13:42Speaker 6: Seahawks would love at this point, but they're going to
- 13:45Speaker 6: set their price. Ken Walker's going to accept it, and
- 13:49Speaker 6: I think he's going to get more than what he
- 13:51Speaker 6: would have gotten a month ago or two months ago
- 13:54Speaker 6: had they had to come to a deal.
- 13:56Speaker 1: But I don't know.
- 13:57Speaker 6: It seems to me like the free that the agent's
- 14:00Speaker 6: gonna drive this bus a little bit, and if he's
- 14:03Speaker 6: driving the bus, then he's going to have him test
- 14:06Speaker 6: the free agent market.
- 14:07Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm definitely leaning towards him staying and for that
- 14:10Speaker 7: exact reason though, of who else are they going to
- 14:13Speaker 7: get that they're going to be satisfied with, especially again
- 14:16Speaker 7: with the uncertainty of when Zach Charbonnay will be back.
- 14:19Speaker 7: I do think the agent's gonna make, as you put
- 14:23Speaker 7: last week, the Seahawks get uncomfortable. They're going to feel
- 14:25Speaker 7: a little uncomfortable with having to pay him more. But
- 14:28Speaker 7: I still think it's going to be around that eleven
- 14:30Speaker 7: or twelve ten or twelve million dollars range that they're
- 14:33Speaker 7: going to give him. I think that he's going to stay,
- 14:35Speaker 7: and it's it's going to be mostly because he's the
- 14:38Speaker 7: best option they have.
- 14:39Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I feel a lot better about him staying
- 14:43Speaker 6: than I did, but I do feel like I think
- 14:46Speaker 6: there's a better chance that he's leaving, and it's because
- 14:50Speaker 6: of the agent's desire to test free agency. I think
- 14:54Speaker 6: the agent's like, hey, there's no there's no getting sentimental here, Ken.
- 14:58Speaker 6: They had four years to make sure that you felt
- 15:00Speaker 6: loved and a part of the Seahawks. It's not it's
- 15:03Speaker 6: not our fault that you played your best football right
- 15:07Speaker 6: at the perfect amount of time to enter free agency.
- 15:10Speaker 1: So we're not gonna get sentimental on this.
- 15:12Speaker 6: They're gonna give us what we want, or we're gonna
- 15:15Speaker 6: go test the free agent market.
- 15:16Speaker 1: My guess is that's where they would go.
- 15:19Speaker 6: But I feel Bucky that there's a lot better offer
- 15:23Speaker 6: that they're going to get on their table now from
- 15:26Speaker 6: the Seahawks that could change things, that could draw him
- 15:29Speaker 6: back into the nest.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's so weird.
- 15:32Speaker 3: I mean, because I do think that the running back
- 15:35Speaker 3: market has rebounded to some degree. You know, I think
- 15:38Speaker 3: that it's not this, oh, well, there are a dime
- 15:41Speaker 3: a dozen, you don't pay him because they're definitely gonna
- 15:43Speaker 3: get hurt. I think that it's it's recovered from that sum,
- 15:47Speaker 3: but not fully and rightfully, because they're not. They do
- 15:51Speaker 3: take a crazy amount of punishment, and so to invest
- 15:54Speaker 3: a long term amount of big time money it is
- 15:58Speaker 3: not very smart. And so it's something where I think
- 16:01Speaker 3: the running backs need to if they don't sign you
- 16:04Speaker 3: up and give you know, when you have one year
- 16:07Speaker 3: left on your contract, if they let you get to
- 16:09Speaker 3: this point, then you should go test the free agent mark.
- 16:12Speaker 3: You should see if there's one team out there that
- 16:14Speaker 3: just flat out has loved you and then watched you
- 16:17Speaker 3: run to a super Bowl last year.
- 16:18Speaker 1: And said, oh thank god they didn't sign.
- 16:21Speaker 3: Him all give him that extra year of guaranteed money
- 16:24Speaker 3: right like that wherever it is. If you're going to
- 16:26Speaker 3: sign for a four year deal and maybe it's only
- 16:29Speaker 3: going to be an average of thirteen million dollars a year,
- 16:33Speaker 3: but you get one team out there will give you
- 16:35Speaker 3: an extra year of that being guaranteed somewhere, then he
- 16:38Speaker 3: has to do that. That's where I mean I feel
- 16:41Speaker 3: like because there still is the opportunity if the Seahawks
- 16:44Speaker 3: start hearing that there's teams out there that are wanting
- 16:47Speaker 3: to wanting to take him. The fact that they could
- 16:50Speaker 3: still say we'll go one year and run this thing
- 16:52Speaker 3: back again to the franchise tag. That's the straw that's
- 16:55Speaker 3: breaking the camel's back. Because I'm right in the middle,
- 16:57Speaker 3: I can see how he would be like him and
- 16:59Speaker 3: his agent, we're gonna go get money. You didn't sign
- 17:02Speaker 3: us up when you had the opportunity. You've had four
- 17:03Speaker 3: years to do this. We're gonna go get the best
- 17:06Speaker 3: price we can possibly get. On the flip side of it,
- 17:09Speaker 3: they could say, no, you're not franchise taking.
- 17:12Speaker 6: I mean, the Jets are tagging Breesehall. It's fourteen and
- 17:16Speaker 6: a half, but it's only a one year commitment. I
- 17:18Speaker 6: mean I could, I could actually, I think I can
- 17:22Speaker 6: see a world where that makes sense. I don't know
- 17:24Speaker 6: if I see a world that where John does that,
- 17:28Speaker 6: and you know it would sometimes it could just buy
- 17:32Speaker 6: you time or leverage over a player to agree more
- 17:36Speaker 6: to the deal that you want.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Maybe he would do that.
- 17:39Speaker 6: Maybe that's something that he would try to try to
- 17:42Speaker 6: keep Ken Walker in a Seahawk uniform and drive him
- 17:44Speaker 6: more toward the price that they want to agree to
- 17:47Speaker 6: long term. But we shall see that tag. I don't
- 17:52Speaker 6: know why it does, but it pisses players off. It
- 17:54Speaker 6: does pretty much like it eliminates like whether or not
- 17:58Speaker 6: they're going to sign a long term with you. But
- 18:00Speaker 6: it's one of the factors in this conversation, There's no
- 18:03Speaker 6: question about it, and we are going to discuss it
- 18:05Speaker 6: a lot on today's radio program. Let's find out what
- 18:08Speaker 6: else is on tap for the show today.
- 18:12Speaker 4: What's on tech?
- 18:14Speaker 1: What's on tech? Well, the pajama party is over.
- 18:17Speaker 6: It concluded four days of workouts, an entire week of evaluation, analysis,
- 18:22Speaker 6: investigation in Indianapolis, and so we've got a few of
- 18:26Speaker 6: the results that will pass along to you just in
- 18:29Speaker 6: case you needed me to be your eyes and ears
- 18:31Speaker 6: as father draft miss on the NFL Combine.
- 18:34Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later on in the show.
- 18:36Speaker 6: NFL free agency begins next Wednesday, but the tampering period
- 18:40Speaker 6: that starts Monday, and we know, we all know.
- 18:43Speaker 1: It's about tampering this time of the year.
- 18:46Speaker 6: Greg Bell's going to join us today at seven o
- 18:48Speaker 6: five to discuss it. College hoops final week of the
- 18:52Speaker 6: regular season is here. Selection Sunday is now less than
- 18:56Speaker 6: two weeks away. It'll be March fifteenth on Saturday. Lost
- 19:00Speaker 6: to Wisconsin. But Debtla Shremp was the real story. He
- 19:03Speaker 6: was honored, he had his number retired. Turns out he
- 19:05Speaker 6: accepted it. Yeah, turns out he didn't come into the
- 19:08Speaker 6: game and then refuse Yeah I don't really want that.
- 19:12Speaker 6: Yeah from the rafters. Good for him, don't insult me
- 19:19Speaker 6: and then flip the bird to the crowd and walk away.
- 19:22Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's too nice. We got to do that.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Uh.
- 19:26Speaker 6: USC cut its leading score uh yesterday because for some
- 19:31Speaker 6: reason he thought it was okay to take himself out
- 19:35Speaker 6: of a game.
- 19:36Speaker 7: Uh.
- 19:36Speaker 6: Why wouldn't you claim that it was an injury? Not
- 19:39Speaker 6: let the training staff look at him? Uh, go back
- 19:42Speaker 6: into the locker room, come out in full uniform and
- 19:45Speaker 6: go sit with his friends and family in the stands.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Yeah he got cut. Yeah, he'll talk about that.
- 19:52Speaker 6: Cracking Hurricanes tonight at seven o'clock. Cracking did win over
- 19:56Speaker 6: the weekend. So those two ugly losses, they at least
- 20:00Speaker 6: rebounded over the weekend against the Canucks and got back
- 20:04Speaker 6: on the winning track.
- 20:05Speaker 1: They're a weird team to figure out. I'll tell you that.
- 20:09Speaker 1: I mean, if that's what their goal was this year,
- 20:11Speaker 1: we're going to be the weirdest team to try to
- 20:12Speaker 1: figure out success. You pulled it off.
- 20:16Speaker 8: Way to go, Way to go.
- 20:18Speaker 6: Team, And so we'll talk a little bit about that.
- 20:21Speaker 6: Sounders lost their first match of the season two to
- 20:24Speaker 6: one to Real Salt Lake on Saturday, so they are
- 20:27Speaker 6: one and one to start the year, and all sorts
- 20:29Speaker 6: of Mariners news to discuss here today. Bryce Miller has
- 20:34Speaker 6: been sat down. He's got a little bit of a
- 20:37Speaker 6: tweak to his side. They're saying it is just extra
- 20:41Speaker 6: extra precaution at this time of the year, so nothing.
- 20:44Speaker 1: To worry about.
- 20:45Speaker 6: But sometimes you hear that and there's something to worry,
- 20:48Speaker 6: So we'll worry. Kate Anderson made his debut on Saturday,
- 20:54Speaker 6: gave up a couple runs in his inning, but he
- 20:56Speaker 6: did strike out the side. And then Ryan Sloan worked
- 20:59Speaker 6: a perfect one three inning on Sunday. So the buzz
- 21:02Speaker 6: around Ryan Sloan continues. So we got a few things
- 21:05Speaker 6: to discuss f Marin or spring training. But the big
- 21:08Speaker 6: story from spring training right now is that our best
- 21:12Speaker 6: players are leaving the team for a little while. We'll
- 21:15Speaker 6: discuss whether or not we're excited about the WBC Sports
- 21:19Speaker 6: Radio ninety three point three kJ r.
- 21:21Speaker 7: F M.
- 21:25Speaker 3: Based off one byte the cracket two fits done here.
- 21:29Speaker 10: Stevenson downs it front.
- 21:38Speaker 3: The Captain's Cut two and the Seattle cracket on one
- 21:44Speaker 3: with eight O four to.
- 21:45Speaker 6: Play at the third.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Ball, did they need that win? Oh boy? Do they
- 21:53Speaker 1: need that win?
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- 22:13Speaker 6: You know it's kind of funny about the power of
- 22:15Speaker 6: advertising though. So I'm speaking of McDonald's. So I'm finally
- 22:20Speaker 6: getting around to watching that TV show Succession, and everybody's
- 22:23Speaker 6: right that told me that I would like it.
- 22:25Speaker 1: I do like it.
- 22:26Speaker 6: I don't know if I love it, but I do
- 22:28Speaker 6: really really like it. You'll end up loving it, is
- 22:30Speaker 6: that right?
- 22:31Speaker 10: All right?
- 22:31Speaker 6: Don't tell me anything because I'm in the middle of
- 22:33Speaker 6: season number three, so I'm right there at the sweet spot.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Yeah dies remember.
- 22:39Speaker 6: But anyway, Brian Cox is the lead actor in it,
- 22:43Speaker 6: and he doesn't come across as like being exactly the
- 22:46Speaker 6: most fit guy in the world. And every time he talks,
- 22:49Speaker 6: I just hear him doing his McDonald's ass, and every
- 22:56Speaker 6: time that he has like a health episode, I'm like, well,
- 22:58Speaker 6: you're eating too much McDonald's.
- 22:59Speaker 8: Man, I know what the problem is off sandwiches.
- 23:03Speaker 6: I mean, I know it's delicious, but yeah, I mean,
- 23:06Speaker 6: if you're you're having some difficulty and moderation, bud, it
- 23:09Speaker 6: looks like you got a nugget belly there.
- 23:11Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe about getting us McDonald sandwiches this morning, because
- 23:15Speaker 7: they're a dollar on the app today. They're rewarding people
- 23:19Speaker 7: doll dollar breakfast sammis, Yeah.
- 23:21Speaker 8: See, yeah, you're right, it doesn't work.
- 23:23Speaker 1: It's power advertising.
- 23:25Speaker 8: I've been thinking about it for two days. Should I
- 23:26Speaker 8: get breakfast sandwiches on Monday?
- 23:29Speaker 1: Binge?
- 23:29Speaker 6: Watch two and a half seasons of Succession, and I
- 23:31Speaker 6: can't go more than three minutes without thinking about Brian
- 23:34Speaker 6: Cox eating a big mac. All right, well, good morning
- 23:38Speaker 6: to you. We roll into our second hour here on
- 23:40Speaker 6: this Monday. Bucki's back, Ashley's here. My name is Chuck Powell.
- 23:44Speaker 6: It's time for your headlines, brought to you by Frost
- 23:46Speaker 6: Brewed Cores, Light Shoes, Chill. NFL combine came to a
- 23:49Speaker 6: close over the weekend.
- 23:51Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm many more we're going to get
- 23:52Speaker 1: of them. I really don't.
- 23:54Speaker 6: Really feels like the NFL's thinking about different ways of
- 24:00Speaker 6: evaluating talent.
- 24:01Speaker 1: That this may be just unnecessary at this point.
- 24:04Speaker 6: But nonetheless, certainly it was an event and certainly the
- 24:09Speaker 6: NFL network went all out to cover it. We'll talk
- 24:12Speaker 6: a little bit about it coming up on the show.
- 24:15Speaker 6: And it is the start you start thinking about draft
- 24:18Speaker 6: miss At this point you probably did have to start
- 24:20Speaker 6: making arrangements, you know, getting family into town for Draftmas
- 24:24Speaker 6: and things.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Of that nature. We got to do that.
- 24:27Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes you need that alarm bell to go off.
- 24:30Speaker 6: And that's what the NFL combine is for. NFL free
- 24:32Speaker 6: agency is going to begin next Wednesday. Of course, the
- 24:35Speaker 6: tampering period is what it's all about. That starts on Monday,
- 24:39Speaker 6: so two full days of tampering, that's right.
- 24:42Speaker 1: The NFL will be on its period between Monday and Tuesday,
- 24:47Speaker 1: and then they're going to get their tamp on from
- 24:51Speaker 1: that point forward.
- 24:52Speaker 6: College basketball, final week of the regular season selection Sunday
- 24:56Speaker 6: is coming up in thirteen days.
- 24:59Speaker 1: The mad is here.
- 25:00Speaker 6: We are in the month of March after all, and
- 25:03Speaker 6: the Kraken as we mentioned with the highlight from Everett,
- 25:07Speaker 6: they did get a win they needed it over the
- 25:10Speaker 6: Vancouver Canucks on Saturday, five to one, So after losing
- 25:15Speaker 6: their first two games of the resumption to the season
- 25:17Speaker 6: following the Olympic break, they do get a win and
- 25:20Speaker 6: hopefully that puts them on the right course. There'll be
- 25:23Speaker 6: an action tonight at home against the Carolina Hurricanes at
- 25:27Speaker 6: seven o'clock. Sounders are one and one on the young season.
- 25:31Speaker 6: They lost their first match of the year to Real
- 25:33Speaker 6: Salt Lake on Saturday, so to won the final there
- 25:37Speaker 6: and Mariners spring training. The players participating in the WBC
- 25:42Speaker 6: have left for the WBC. The tournament will begin in
- 25:46Speaker 6: part on Wednesday. I don't believe the US plays until
- 25:50Speaker 6: Friday against Brazil, but there will be a games starting
- 25:55Speaker 6: tomorrow where it'll be I think the US.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Stakes on the Giants. Yeah, and on Wednesday they take
- 26:01Speaker 1: on the Rockies, the poor Rockies. They have to face
- 26:04Speaker 1: Team USA and so yes, they'll start playing some like
- 26:08Speaker 1: exhibition games for the exhibition.
- 26:11Speaker 7: Tournament, Like, we don't need to add extras, extra things
- 26:14Speaker 7: story about.
- 26:15Speaker 8: Yeah, just play the games.
- 26:17Speaker 6: The count But the actual WBC games they do start
- 26:23Speaker 6: in a small form on Wednesday. All right, let's talk
- 26:26Speaker 6: some football with Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider.
- 26:29Speaker 1: With the Bell tolls.
- 26:30Speaker 2: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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- 26:46Speaker 2: Now with twelk Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
- 26:50Speaker 2: and Budd.
- 26:52Speaker 6: Well, are you home yet? Adventurer are you still out
- 26:55Speaker 6: on the road.
- 26:57Speaker 10: Yes, I am home. I ever mention that we live
- 26:59Speaker 10: at waye from everywhere.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Ye brought that up in the past maybe once.
- 27:05Speaker 10: Yeah, back from Detroit Saturday night?
- 27:07Speaker 9: Okay, all right?
- 27:08Speaker 6: And yeah, Bucky said that the best thing about getting
- 27:12Speaker 6: home was being back in his bed.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Was it nice to be back in your bed.
- 27:15Speaker 10: Greg, Yeah, I think I feel like I've slept in
- 27:17Speaker 10: my own bed for like three nights.
- 27:19Speaker 5: The whole month of February suggests good. Yeah, you guys do.
- 27:24Speaker 5: That's right.
- 27:26Speaker 6: Well, we get ready for free agency that will start
- 27:32Speaker 6: on Monday. The tampering period will begin, and obviously the
- 27:37Speaker 6: Seahawks have a few guys that could be made vulnerable.
- 27:41Speaker 6: Do you have an idea as to whether or not
- 27:43Speaker 6: any deal is close or if John can hammer out
- 27:48Speaker 6: any deals with these six big free agents before Monday?
- 27:53Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't think they're going to go for six.
- 27:55Speaker 10: I get the sense that Rashid Shahid maybe the first
- 27:58Speaker 10: to re sign, as I told you, and I've gone
- 28:02Speaker 10: back and forth with about Kenneth Walker. The closer, excuse me,
- 28:06Speaker 10: he gets to the March ninth date when he can
- 28:09Speaker 10: start negotiating with other teams. The more likely he's going
- 28:13Speaker 10: to leave. And when the Super Bowl MVP running back
- 28:17Speaker 10: twenty five years old goes on the open market, it's
- 28:19Speaker 10: a little bit like the say kuon Barkley. He won't
- 28:20Speaker 10: command as much money or contract that Barkley did, but
- 28:24Speaker 10: the attention and they'll be suitors. Put it that way,
- 28:29Speaker 10: and suitors will drive up the price, probably beyond what
- 28:32Speaker 10: the Seahawks have been slotted to pay the whole time.
- 28:35Speaker 10: And we've mentioned how Charboney's injury has changed that, and
- 28:38Speaker 10: certainly Walker's breakout during the playoffs changed his value to skyrocketing,
- 28:44Speaker 10: and that has seemed to maybe go out of control
- 28:47Speaker 10: of what the Seahawks want to pay. Fans see that
- 28:50Speaker 10: they've got. We all see nuns just pick fans. But
- 28:53Speaker 10: we all see that they have sixty plus million dollars
- 28:55Speaker 10: in salary cap space. The NFL set the salary capital
- 28:58Speaker 10: three hundred and one million.
- 29:00Speaker 5: And we see sixty million.
- 29:02Speaker 10: We said, okay, they should be able to for Walker
- 29:04Speaker 10: and Woolen and Bryant and Seaheed and all of them.
- 29:09Speaker 10: Let's not forget that Jackson Smith and Jigba and Devin
- 29:11Speaker 10: Witherspoon are going to get paid and they're going to
- 29:13Speaker 10: get paid this summer. I wrote it to the News
- 29:15Speaker 10: Tribune yesterday. When I asked John Schneider about that, we
- 29:20Speaker 10: included in the bringing Back Your Own free Agents conversation
- 29:24Speaker 10: off the podium at the Combine. We also asked him
- 29:26Speaker 10: about Smith and Jigba Wetherspoon. He said, yeah, we've been
- 29:29Speaker 10: planning for this meeting that they're going to get paid
- 29:33Speaker 10: in the usual order of the Seahawks paying their foundation
- 29:36Speaker 10: players going into their final year of their contracts, which
- 29:40Speaker 10: Smith and Jigba and Wierspoon Bufar. So there's a nice
- 29:44Speaker 10: chunk of that salary cap space they're going to go
- 29:46Speaker 10: to re signing and extending those two guys. Now, they'll
- 29:49Speaker 10: restructure the way they always do, with better cap numbers
- 29:53Speaker 10: early and very little guaranteed money later and all of that.
- 29:58Speaker 10: But still it's not like, let's just take sixty million
- 30:01Speaker 10: every side six guys.
- 30:03Speaker 1: No, obviously it's not that easy.
- 30:06Speaker 3: But there's way, the math, the way in which they
- 30:09Speaker 3: do it, and they will make more signing bonus because
- 30:11Speaker 3: then that kicks back this and the cap hit and
- 30:13Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. They figure out ways to
- 30:15Speaker 3: do it. I just don't know for sure. I mean,
- 30:18Speaker 3: to me, the straw that breaks the camels back on
- 30:20Speaker 3: whether or not they go with Ken Walker or not.
- 30:22Speaker 3: I understand how other teams are going to get involved
- 30:25Speaker 3: if they allow it to get to that tampering period,
- 30:27Speaker 3: and then he's going to take whatever whoever gives him
- 30:29Speaker 3: the most money. But the idea to me is, you know,
- 30:33Speaker 3: I would just they don't have anything. I mean, it's
- 30:35Speaker 3: not like Zach Charmon is healthy and you're like, well,
- 30:37Speaker 3: we like the way that he ran, so you don't
- 30:40Speaker 3: really have a backup plan at this point in time.
- 30:42Speaker 3: So do you think there's even our possibility that they
- 30:45Speaker 3: would maybe try to slap the franchise tag on him.
- 30:48Speaker 3: I know that's not one where you get to spread
- 30:49Speaker 3: out over years and whatnot that, but it's a one
- 30:51Speaker 3: year gig and maybe that gives you more time to
- 30:55Speaker 3: work out some sort of long term deal.
- 30:57Speaker 10: Sure that's possible, but that takes up almost the fourth
- 31:00Speaker 10: of your cap space. That's fourteen point five million right.
- 31:02Speaker 5: Off the top.
- 31:04Speaker 10: This franchise tag number four a running back for twenty
- 31:08Speaker 10: twenty six, and if they wanted to spend that on Walker,
- 31:11Speaker 10: they would sign them to a three year deal. It
- 31:13Speaker 10: would have far better cap numbers for this year than
- 31:15Speaker 10: fourteen and a half million. You'd spread the signing bonus
- 31:18Speaker 10: across and maybe it's six or seven or eight million
- 31:20Speaker 10: against the cap. This year, they're going to restructure some deals.
- 31:24Speaker 10: They will restructure probably Hunter Williams and maybe de Marcus
- 31:27Speaker 10: Lawrence and create more upfront cash for them and a
- 31:30Speaker 10: better cap number this year and kick a cand down
- 31:33Speaker 10: the road a.
- 31:33Speaker 5: Year or two.
- 31:35Speaker 10: There are options to go lower across the rosters of
- 31:37Speaker 10: existing contracts through next year and the year after that.
- 31:40Speaker 10: They can do that with to create more space.
- 31:43Speaker 1: And they're right.
- 31:43Speaker 10: The NFL teams they hire guys who are experts in this,
- 31:48Speaker 10: and Mike mccon or Josh Snyder has a couple in
- 31:51Speaker 10: his house that he counts on to do the math
- 31:53Speaker 10: and get the numbers to work if they want guys
- 31:55Speaker 10: to do it. The running back situation, I hear you,
- 32:00Speaker 10: and believe me, it would be odd to say the
- 32:03Speaker 10: least that the Super Bowl MVP walks out the door.
- 32:05Speaker 5: Well, the heir apparent.
- 32:07Speaker 10: Number one A, the job share guy may not be
- 32:10Speaker 10: on the field till October November if then, but David
- 32:14Speaker 10: Dallas for before I mean Chris Carson abruptly retired, they
- 32:18Speaker 10: didn't have an air They go sign, They go draft
- 32:21Speaker 10: Kenneth Walker, who nobody knew what would be like in
- 32:23Speaker 10: the NFL after having played at Wake Forest in Michigan State.
- 32:28Speaker 10: They gave Thomas Rawls the head job one time as
- 32:30Speaker 10: an undrafted rookie a few years ago when Marshawn Lynch retired.
- 32:34Speaker 10: Who was going to be the next guy? The NFL
- 32:37Speaker 10: answered John Schneider. Trend is to get younger and cheaper
- 32:40Speaker 10: at running back because of how injured the position is
- 32:44Speaker 10: and how all of a sudden the guy's career could
- 32:46Speaker 10: be over. And the calculus they tend to do Seahawks
- 32:51Speaker 10: and the NFL included is rather than over spend on
- 32:54Speaker 10: a running back for two or three year deal with
- 32:56Speaker 10: guaranteed money and he may get hurt Todd Gurley, go
- 33:01Speaker 10: drafts and have a rookie contract and start over. That
- 33:06Speaker 10: has been the norm. Now. The catch to it this
- 33:09Speaker 10: year is the SEC only have four draft picks.
- 33:12Speaker 5: And part of what.
- 33:13Speaker 10: Was really interesting that Schnyder said that they didn't get
- 33:16Speaker 10: a lot of attention in Indianapolis was when I asked
- 33:18Speaker 10: him how you viewed this draft with having only four picks,
- 33:22Speaker 10: and he said this was by design. We knew a
- 33:24Speaker 10: couple of years ago that this was not going to
- 33:26Speaker 10: be a good draft. We thought twenty five was going
- 33:28Speaker 10: to be better than twenty six, and twenty seven's way
- 33:31Speaker 10: better than twenty six. So that's part of the reason
- 33:34Speaker 10: you saw us do the moves we did, he said,
- 33:37Speaker 10: meaning trading two third day picks to get Rashid shi
- 33:41Speaker 10: heat in November. So going to go get a running
- 33:46Speaker 10: back in this draft when you're picking at the bottom
- 33:49Speaker 10: of each of the first three rounds and you only
- 33:51Speaker 10: have four picks, it's a little trickier proposition. That all
- 33:55Speaker 10: plays into what they do with Locker, and I think
- 33:57Speaker 10: it probably raises the price that they're going to offer
- 33:59Speaker 10: him than what they would It won't be as hard
- 34:02Speaker 10: a ligne they're towing. I don't think with Walker than
- 34:05Speaker 10: would be normally because of those factors. But again, if
- 34:09Speaker 10: it gets to next week, he's if he's shopping, I.
- 34:12Speaker 5: Think he's going. At his age position he's in.
- 34:15Speaker 10: Known he's got to go get all the money he
- 34:17Speaker 10: can before he's not able to play anymore.
- 34:19Speaker 6: Greg Bell is with US our Seahawks insider complete coverage
- 34:22Speaker 6: of the Seahawks available to you twenty four to seven
- 34:25Speaker 6: there at the News Tribune dot Com from Greg and
- 34:27Speaker 6: of course you can follow him throughout the year at
- 34:29Speaker 6: g Bell Seattle on X. He's been adventuring, he's been
- 34:33Speaker 6: in Boston, he's been in Indianapolis, he's been in Michigan,
- 34:36Speaker 6: and now he's back home, safely in bed, eating his
- 34:40Speaker 6: old meal, no doubt, and kissing Wendy good morning. It's
- 34:45Speaker 6: chucking buck right now here though. That's his life right now.
- 34:47Speaker 6: It's a kissing back.
- 34:48Speaker 10: And you just had a great and you pay him. Yeah,
- 34:50Speaker 10: the book right now though, Yeah, yeah, to real luck.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, just kissing Bucky and I right now.
- 34:56Speaker 1: You're welcome here on the morning.
- 34:58Speaker 6: Yeah, on the forehead, on the forehead, Greg, Yeah.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's not get too still.
- 35:07Speaker 6: All right, So let's dive further into this Walker because
- 35:10Speaker 6: if you're not going to play, if he does leave,
- 35:14Speaker 6: and Bucket's right, there's no plan B in house right
- 35:17Speaker 6: now at the starting running back position. But you do
- 35:20Speaker 6: have three avenues. You could play free agency, you could draft,
- 35:25Speaker 6: and you could trade. Is that something since they're a
- 35:27Speaker 6: little bit down on this draft class, to begin with,
- 35:31Speaker 6: even with only four picks, do you flip a draft
- 35:34Speaker 6: pick to get like a David Montgomery of the Lions,
- 35:38Speaker 6: who apparently is available and you could probably get him
- 35:41Speaker 6: for a fourth, fifth or sixth round pick.
- 35:44Speaker 10: Well, this conflicting reports out of Detroit that I just
- 35:46Speaker 10: left whether he David Montgomery really wants to leave. But yes,
- 35:50Speaker 10: they all of those things are in play. I could
- 35:52Speaker 10: see them signing and.
- 35:53Speaker 5: Drafting and running back.
- 35:54Speaker 10: Yeah, certainly, and well yes, and if the right trade
- 36:00Speaker 10: proposal came around. The thing about being thirty two in
- 36:03Speaker 10: the first round is if it's a team that had
- 36:05Speaker 10: an earlier first round pick, usually a bad team, but
- 36:08Speaker 10: doesn't have multiple first round picks, they want to go
- 36:12Speaker 10: reach and get somebody they think won't be around when
- 36:14Speaker 10: they're picking again in the second round. That's a great
- 36:16Speaker 10: spot at thirty two to trade down. And I think
- 36:19Speaker 10: that's what John Schneider eventually will do because he, as
- 36:22Speaker 10: we've talked about, he never has thirty two on their
- 36:25Speaker 10: board for the first round worthy draft picks. Never, not
- 36:28Speaker 10: in my entire time covering the SEORKX that began in
- 36:30Speaker 10: two thousand and five, have they had thirty two first
- 36:34Speaker 10: round worthy players on the draft board, so it would
- 36:37Speaker 10: be make a lot of sense for them to trade down,
- 36:39Speaker 10: and whether that trade down would involve a running back
- 36:43Speaker 10: could be But I think all of those things are
- 36:45Speaker 10: in play even if perhaps they signed Kenneth Walker, but
- 36:50Speaker 10: especially if they don't. It's it is really if you
- 36:54Speaker 10: just said, well, he's a Super Bowl MVP and he's
- 36:56Speaker 10: twenty five, why can't you resign him? It's so much
- 36:59Speaker 10: more difficult in that because of the injury history, not
- 37:02Speaker 10: only with him but in the position. And John Schneider
- 37:07Speaker 10: has been very, very responsible sticking to his plan. He
- 37:11Speaker 10: rarely goes and reaches because of a need, whether it's
- 37:14Speaker 10: draft or free agency. I mean, I think of Draymond
- 37:17Speaker 10: Jones as one of the only reaches when they really
- 37:20Speaker 10: need edge drusher a couple of years ago, and they
- 37:22Speaker 10: went for fifty one million right out of the gate
- 37:24Speaker 10: of free agency, which he never does, and Draymond Jones
- 37:27Speaker 10: did nothing, I mean absolutely nothing for them. A year
- 37:31Speaker 10: and a half later, he was gone. And that and
- 37:34Speaker 10: some draft misses have really reminded Schnyder, stick to your plan,
- 37:39Speaker 10: stick to your plan. What were you going to give
- 37:41Speaker 10: him at the beginning when you first charted out what
- 37:43Speaker 10: Kenneth Walker would be worth you beyond twenty twenty six,
- 37:46Speaker 10: stick to that plan. Yes, Charbonne got her stick to
- 37:48Speaker 10: a plant. Yes, you only a force to stick to
- 37:50Speaker 10: a plant. It's really a discipline that he tries to
- 37:54Speaker 10: adhere himself too. And I can see him doing it
- 37:56Speaker 10: again this time. How much of those extenuating circumstances about
- 38:01Speaker 10: Charbona and nowhere apparent and all.
- 38:04Speaker 5: That would raise the price?
- 38:05Speaker 10: That's the question that to me will decide whether Walker
- 38:08Speaker 10: stays or not. If he's strict to his what they
- 38:11Speaker 10: have charted him to be worth and what they were
- 38:13Speaker 10: going to offer from before during the season, he's gone.
- 38:17Speaker 10: If they do change that number because of their.
- 38:20Speaker 5: Situation there and there's a chance to stay.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Gee, I mean, just gut feel.
- 38:25Speaker 3: I mean, when you win the Super Bowl, you don't
- 38:27Speaker 3: have a ton of holes to fill, even with some
- 38:29Speaker 3: exodus and a couple guys going here and there. But
- 38:33Speaker 3: what would you say as far as what's going to
- 38:35Speaker 3: be on what are your antenna's going to be up
- 38:38Speaker 3: looking for, whether it's a free agency draft, what is
- 38:41Speaker 3: it that you think the Seahawks are going to be
- 38:43Speaker 3: most wanting to get done this offseason.
- 38:46Speaker 10: Depths on the offensive and defensive lines. They never can
- 38:49Speaker 10: have enough defensive tackles and perhaps edge rusher running back
- 38:55Speaker 10: for what we just described, and defensive backs because they're
- 38:58Speaker 10: not bringing back all of them Woolen, Job and Bryant,
- 39:03Speaker 10: and they're not all coming back, so depending on how
- 39:06Speaker 10: who leaves and when next week, defensive backs probably corners.
- 39:13Speaker 10: Josh Job is interesting to me because I think the
- 39:15Speaker 10: Seahawks can have him for a price that again, if
- 39:18Speaker 10: he goes to the open market, will be much higher.
- 39:21Speaker 10: But I think he would return and sign for the
- 39:23Speaker 10: Seahawks that gave him his shot. I mean, the Eagles
- 39:25Speaker 10: just let him twist in the win and cut him
- 39:28Speaker 10: at the end of training camp a couple of years ago,
- 39:30Speaker 10: and he comes to Seattle and the Seahawks gave him
- 39:32Speaker 10: a starting job at his first full time starting job
- 39:35Speaker 10: in the NFL. That stuff matters to players. Yeah, it's
- 39:38Speaker 10: about the money in the end, But if you make
- 39:41Speaker 10: a reasonable offer to Josh Job, he's going to come back.
- 39:45Speaker 10: Woolan's a different deal.
- 39:46Speaker 5: For what we've talked about before, because of his freakish
- 39:48Speaker 5: physical skills.
- 39:49Speaker 10: And his speed and the Pro Bowl pedigree and how
- 39:52Speaker 10: much he's played in his four years. If he goes
- 39:55Speaker 10: to marketeet gone, because he's going to come hand a
- 39:57Speaker 10: ton of money that's way more than what.
- 39:59Speaker 5: The seah Mikecdonald's plan for him is.
- 40:03Speaker 10: They're not going to bring everybody back.
- 40:05Speaker 5: They never do.
- 40:06Speaker 10: They always say they want to, but just the NFL
- 40:08Speaker 10: won't let them. So we'll know more this time next week,
- 40:12Speaker 10: well than nine days of from now, what their holes are,
- 40:16Speaker 10: because they're going to have a couple that come out
- 40:18Speaker 10: of free agency.
- 40:18Speaker 1: All right, last thing for you.
- 40:20Speaker 6: I keep hearing that this is a bad draft, and
- 40:23Speaker 6: yet almost every position group.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Set a record for fastest forty times.
- 40:29Speaker 6: And so I'm watching a six foot four inch two
- 40:33Speaker 6: hundred or six' five inch two hundred and forty five
- 40:35Speaker 6: pounds linebacker run a four to four seven forty WOULD
- 40:39Speaker 6: i would Just i'm going to ask you the QUESTION
- 40:41Speaker 6: i Asked bucky last.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Hour are they just getting too big and? Fast at this?
- 40:45Speaker 6: POINT i realize if they're all evolving at the same,
- 40:48Speaker 6: rate but you're always talking about the, collisions the car
- 40:52Speaker 6: crashes that take place Every sunday in The National Football.
- 40:55Speaker 6: League they just keep getting, bigger and, Faster, GREG i,
- 40:58Speaker 6: mean is there an end to?
- 40:59Speaker 10: This, no nutrition and weight training and. Pharmaceuticals. No BUT
- 41:08Speaker 10: i will say, this the combine has become you only
- 41:12Speaker 10: run if you're, fast and if you, run you're. Fast
- 41:15Speaker 10: the guys that aren't fast don't, run that's.
- 41:17Speaker 1: True the guys that don't do.
- 41:19Speaker 10: The three cone drills don't they don't. Go you're only
- 41:22Speaker 10: showcasing the best of the best. There it's become an
- 41:25Speaker 10: all star. Game the combine is the pro days have
- 41:28Speaker 10: become the. Combine the combine might be going away because
- 41:32Speaker 10: of how guys are just begging Out and there's a
- 41:35Speaker 10: dude that ran the sub for three the other day
- 41:37Speaker 10: and just, say, Okay i'm done for the rest of the.
- 41:39Speaker 5: Week i'm not doing any more. DRILLS i did a
- 41:40Speaker 5: four to two. Six i'm.
- 41:41Speaker 10: Good the only the guys who run are the fast.
- 41:44Speaker 10: Guys there used to be everyone. Ran, Yeah and so
- 41:47Speaker 10: the times are all over the. Map and then you
- 41:49Speaker 10: see in these stats of this is the fastest average
- 41:51Speaker 10: forty times for these, Positions, well, yeah it's only fast guys.
- 41:55Speaker 10: Run the average time is going to be the fastest
- 41:57Speaker 10: they've ever. Been good point the select inctivity of the
- 42:01Speaker 10: guys doing drills has really, changed unless then that's agents getting,
- 42:05Speaker 10: involved and that's pro days being outside compared to what
- 42:08Speaker 10: they used to. BE i, mean the pro days start.
- 42:10Speaker 10: Today The seahawks are sending guys across the country starting
- 42:13Speaker 10: today for their pro. Days schnyder left The combine BEFORE i.
- 42:17Speaker 10: Did he went back and did and watched the drills on.
- 42:21Speaker 10: Video so that'll give you an indication of what The seahawks
- 42:25Speaker 10: think of.
- 42:25Speaker 5: The combine right.
- 42:26Speaker 10: NOW a couple of years, ago McDonald and his staff
- 42:29Speaker 10: didn't even come, yet didn't even go to The indianapolis
- 42:31Speaker 10: at all because they were too busy doing their own.
- 42:33Speaker 10: Stuff The jaguars and The rams didn't send their coaches this.
- 42:36Speaker 10: YEAR i think the combine's on its way out because
- 42:39Speaker 10: of how just it's not worth what it's not at.
- 42:43Speaker 5: All what it was originally designed to.
- 42:44Speaker 6: Be, YEAH i think you're. RIGHT i actually think you're
- 42:46Speaker 6: right on that. One so all, Right, Greg well you're
- 42:50Speaker 6: right a.
- 42:50Speaker 1: LOT i don't mean just.
- 42:51Speaker 10: ONE i was just gonna say one out of a
- 42:52Speaker 10: year that's pretty.
- 42:53Speaker 9: Good, no it's just a good.
- 42:55Speaker 10: Beat bad guy would fuck?
- 42:57Speaker 4: You?
- 42:57Speaker 10: Would is that like ninety? Four maybe forty.
- 42:59Speaker 9: Five it's not.
- 43:00Speaker 3: GOOD i think you want to be better than. That
- 43:03Speaker 3: you have been better than.
- 43:04Speaker 6: That my point was, like as somebody that's supposed to
- 43:09Speaker 6: be promoting the, Draft i'm probably not somebody that should
- 43:12Speaker 6: say THE Nfl combine's, dead BUT i THINK i will
- 43:16Speaker 6: have to agree.
- 43:16Speaker 1: With you on this. One, yeah all, Right, well we'll
- 43:19Speaker 1: talk to you. Tomorrow maybe you'll get one right. Again all.
- 43:22Speaker 6: Right greg, bell Our seahawks, insider joining us right here
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- 45:10Speaker 6: Is always flask and As Fred rogers sweat flasky. Best all, Right, so,
- 45:18Speaker 6: UH wbc will start this. Week Julio rodriguez will be
- 45:22Speaker 6: participating in that last year FOR. US i, mean there
- 45:25Speaker 6: was no getting around. It it was the year Of.
- 45:27Speaker 6: Cal like Everything cal.
- 45:28Speaker 1: Did turn to.
- 45:29Speaker 6: Gold it, SEEMED i, mean sixty home runs in a.
- 45:33Speaker 6: Season where did that come? FROM i mean forty, yeah
- 45:36Speaker 6: but sixty, uh the home run. Derby he became a household,
- 45:41Speaker 6: name not just In, seattle but. Nationally everybody now knows
- 45:44Speaker 6: the name Cal, rawley the Big. Dumper he's a. SUPERSTAR
- 45:48Speaker 6: i mean he even looks. DIFFERENT i don't. Know there
- 45:50Speaker 6: was something about. Him he just seemed to sparkle when
- 45:52Speaker 6: we were down in spring. Training he just looked more
- 45:55Speaker 6: legendary than what he did in previous spring.
- 45:58Speaker 1: Trainings if you asked, Me i'm not even making that.
- 46:01Speaker 6: Up like he would get up from the you, know
- 46:03Speaker 6: catching a, bullpen and it's like the dust like fell around.
- 46:07Speaker 6: HIM i don't. Know there was something about. Him he
- 46:09Speaker 6: Looked Paul bunyan. Like he looked, bigger he looked, thinner
- 46:12Speaker 6: he looked more muscled when we were down there in spring.
- 46:15Speaker 6: Training it's like he got rid of all of his
- 46:17Speaker 6: baby fat this. Offseason there was just something legendary looking
- 46:21Speaker 6: about Cal rawley at spring training a couple of weeks.
- 46:24Speaker 1: Ago he does look. BIG i mean he.
- 46:27Speaker 3: Kind of was is a YOUNG i mean he's still young,
- 46:30Speaker 3: man but he kind of his first couple of years,
- 46:33Speaker 3: here he still looked like a. Pup he, looked you,
- 46:36Speaker 3: know he just looked like a big you, know like
- 46:38Speaker 3: a dog that has the big, pause which, like wait
- 46:40Speaker 3: till he grows into those. Things he was, like he
- 46:42Speaker 3: hadn't grown into his dumper. Yet he looks like he's
- 46:44Speaker 3: grown into his. Dumper at this. Point it was it
- 46:47Speaker 3: was a baby dumper before it's it's full blown big
- 46:50Speaker 3: dumper at this.
- 46:50Speaker 1: Point and everybody has that moment in their, life, mom
- 46:54Speaker 1: when WILL i grow into my.
- 46:56Speaker 7: Dumper it's, like, now finally he's wearing the. Dumper the
- 47:00Speaker 7: dumper's not.
- 47:01Speaker 3: Wearing, yep exactly pretty much nailed. It, NO i believe.
- 47:04Speaker 3: YOU i think there is something. TOO i think he
- 47:06Speaker 3: walks a little. Taller not that he's cocky or, arrogant
- 47:09Speaker 3: there's just a you, know you just walk a little bit,
- 47:12Speaker 3: slower a little bit. Taller everything just feels a little more.
- 47:15Speaker 3: Comfortable at this, point we were walking out of batting
- 47:19Speaker 3: practice and he ends up going nice cup bear to my, Son,
- 47:24Speaker 3: well the reason his hair looks the way it looks
- 47:26Speaker 3: is because my wife takes a picture Of Cal rawley
- 47:29Speaker 3: says this is what hair do he? Wants and So
- 47:31Speaker 3: cal ended up commenting on, it and yet that's. SOMETHING
- 47:34Speaker 3: i mean just a couple of years, ago he wouldn't
- 47:37Speaker 3: even have thought that somebody would be having his, haircut,
- 47:40Speaker 3: right he wouldn't even have, it just wouldn't even cross his.
- 47:43Speaker 3: Mind now it's like he's pretty.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Sure, yeah that's, WELL i kind OF i kind of like,
- 47:49Speaker 1: that like there's THIS i GET i get. It i've
- 47:54Speaker 1: done some.
- 47:54Speaker 6: Things, Yes like he's not necessarily it's not like oh, shucks, Guys,
- 47:58Speaker 6: No i'm just A i'm just trying to make my.
- 48:01Speaker 9: Way i'm just trying to not get.
- 48:02Speaker 6: Cut you, know he's not that, humble, right you know,
- 48:05Speaker 6: what because that would be disingenuous or. Naivity i'm not.
- 48:09Speaker 6: Sure but there is an ownership of. It, yeah remember
- 48:14Speaker 6: when you hardly even knew my. NAME i mean that
- 48:16Speaker 6: came up in our interview with. HIM i, mean he
- 48:19Speaker 6: knows he pull off something special last. Year he knows he's,
- 48:21Speaker 6: arrived he knows he's better than what even he had
- 48:25Speaker 6: forecasted for. Himself and he's walking the. Walk, yeah so to,
- 48:32Speaker 6: speak he's owning. It he is owning, it and it
- 48:35Speaker 6: looks good on. Him, yeah it's like not. Uncomfortable he's
- 48:37Speaker 6: just very comfortable in his own, skin being a superstar
- 48:40Speaker 6: Of Major League baseball right, now and that's. Awesome so
- 48:43Speaker 6: let's talk About. Julio if last year was the year
- 48:46Speaker 6: of cal what chances do we give for twenty twenty
- 48:49Speaker 6: six for all of those things to fall into place
- 48:52Speaker 6: for our center.
- 48:52Speaker 1: FIELDER i, mean six.
- 48:54Speaker 6: Foot four two twenty, eight full of, muscle big, smile darling,
- 49:00Speaker 6: eyes you, KNOW i, mean the whole package is there
- 49:04Speaker 6: fast as the. Wind goal gets some better defensively every single.
- 49:09Speaker 6: Year last, Year bouck he had a.
- 49:11Speaker 1: Six point eight.
- 49:12Speaker 6: War he had a seven war, season even though for once,
- 49:16Speaker 6: again for half of the year pulling out our. Hair you,
- 49:20Speaker 6: know people on the text line and On twitter wanting
- 49:23Speaker 6: him to be sent to the minors for goodness, sake
- 49:25Speaker 6: because he wasn't coming through in the first half of
- 49:28Speaker 6: the season.
- 49:28Speaker 1: With runners in scoring.
- 49:30Speaker 6: Position and yet at the end of the year a
- 49:34Speaker 6: seven war. Season you, know a few players have a
- 49:37Speaker 6: seven war season starts this. Year is the number one
- 49:41Speaker 6: rank center fielder in all of? Baseball and so are we?
- 49:46Speaker 6: Going are we? Ready is he? Ready age twenty five?
- 49:50Speaker 6: Season this is this is entering your. Prime he's just
- 49:53Speaker 6: now entering his. Prime are we going to see the
- 49:57Speaker 6: year Of julio potentially this year like we saw the
- 50:00Speaker 6: year Of cali year.
- 50:01Speaker 1: AGO i.
- 50:03Speaker 9: Hope.
- 50:03Speaker 3: SO i, mean REALLY i kind of feel like it
- 50:06Speaker 3: is just a matter of. Time and that's some people
- 50:08Speaker 3: out there want to hate On julio even though he's
- 50:10Speaker 3: made a Few All star. TEAMS i, mean HE'S i
- 50:15Speaker 3: think he finished like fourth and seventh and. Sixth he's
- 50:18Speaker 3: played three seasons in the big. Leagues he's finished in
- 50:22Speaker 3: the top seven three different times IN mvp. Voting, Crazy,
- 50:26Speaker 3: yeah that's the guy we should send. Down, okay so
- 50:30Speaker 3: it but it does still feel, like and this is
- 50:33Speaker 3: WHERE i have the same. Frustration it just is it's
- 50:35Speaker 3: tempered beyond the person that thinks he's overrated or that
- 50:39Speaker 3: he's the most you, know, misunderstood like overappreciated athlete In seattle.
- 50:46Speaker 3: History it's, like, no the dude is he's done really
- 50:49Speaker 3: well as a young, kid being kind of the face
- 50:53Speaker 3: of the franchise up Until cal maybe took that moniker
- 50:56Speaker 3: from our last. Year yeah, yeah BUT i MEAN i,
- 50:59Speaker 3: THINK i, mean what he's done is basically average thirty
- 51:02Speaker 3: homers a season as a twenty year old twenty one
- 51:05Speaker 3: twenty two to twenty three year old whatever it. Is
- 51:08Speaker 3: he's hitting two seventy, five which is as a, career
- 51:12Speaker 3: that's pretty. Good that's WHAT i. Mean there's not very
- 51:14Speaker 3: many people that do. That, now you're like you, said
- 51:16Speaker 3: he's getting better and better defensively every single. Year i'm
- 51:20Speaker 3: playing near Gold glove. Caliber he's definitely playing Gold glove.
- 51:23Speaker 3: Caliber he just hasn't won The Gold glove. YET i, think,
- 51:26Speaker 3: YES i would say that it's just a matter of.
- 51:29Speaker 3: Time And i'm hoping that this is the year that
- 51:31Speaker 3: he goes out there and doesn't have a poor month
- 51:34Speaker 3: or month and a half of the. Season if he
- 51:35Speaker 3: can get off to a good start in the first
- 51:37Speaker 3: forty games of the, year he's gonna hit three, hundred
- 51:40Speaker 3: he's gonna hit thirty five or forty, homers he's gonna
- 51:43Speaker 3: steal thirty or forty. Bags he's gonna win a Gold.
- 51:46Speaker 3: Glove you're talking about AN mvp caliber talent, Guy and
- 51:49Speaker 3: it's just a matter of. Time and you're, right twenty
- 51:51Speaker 3: five is when it should click for this.
- 51:52Speaker 7: Kid, Well and it's interesting because you know he has been,
- 51:55Speaker 7: good but because he hasn't achieved the expectations of you,
- 52:00Speaker 7: know being that superstar that you can count on every
- 52:02Speaker 7: yet bat and all of these things that people had
- 52:04Speaker 7: placed on him from the, beginning you, know before he
- 52:06Speaker 7: even really.
- 52:07Speaker 8: Arrived you're still getting we got.
- 52:09Speaker 7: A textas, Morning julio's the most overrated, athlete probably the
- 52:12Speaker 7: most overrated athlete In seattle sports.
- 52:14Speaker 8: History oh. War now there's an.
- 52:16Speaker 7: Overreaction but that's and that's just a bummer For julio
- 52:21Speaker 7: because it's, like, well he's been. Good you can't but
- 52:24Speaker 7: people don't want to recognize that he's been good because
- 52:26Speaker 7: he hasn't been.
- 52:27Speaker 1: Spectacular he hasn't had the full.
- 52:30Speaker 6: Season he's gotten off to slow starts all four years
- 52:34Speaker 6: of his young career and then got hot in the
- 52:38Speaker 6: second half and then at the end of the year
- 52:41Speaker 6: ended up posting. NUMBERS i mean, he's you, know twenty twenty,
- 52:46Speaker 6: four he had just twenty home, runs BUT i mean
- 52:49Speaker 6: he's averaged twenty eight home runs per season since he came.
- 52:52Speaker 6: Here bucky mentioned the two seventy four batting average a
- 52:55Speaker 6: one thirty ops plus one hundred is considered. AVERAGE i,
- 53:00Speaker 6: mean that's well above average for his. Career that's the
- 53:04Speaker 6: average of his career and As bucky mentioned as, well
- 53:08Speaker 6: three top SEVEN mvp votes for a guy that has
- 53:12Speaker 6: not had a full season where he started the year,
- 53:14Speaker 6: CLICKING i don't know what it takes to get him
- 53:18Speaker 6: out of the. Gates maybe THE wbc will help to
- 53:22Speaker 6: your point from, Earlier maybe getting some bats in the
- 53:26Speaker 6: middle Of march and we can rattle that cage a little.
- 53:30Speaker 6: EARLIER i don't, Know but if he gets off to
- 53:35Speaker 6: a good start for, once, Boy i'd.
- 53:37Speaker 1: Just like to see that season. Right just do.
- 53:41Speaker 6: That don't, start don't start in a hole that you
- 53:45Speaker 6: have to dig yourself out of the rest of the.
- 53:47Speaker 6: Year if he could get off to a good, START
- 53:50Speaker 6: i want to see what then, clicks what locks in
- 53:55Speaker 6: place for him for the entire, year because there's no.
- 53:58Speaker 6: DOUBT i, mean he's not put putting up Judge in type,
- 54:01Speaker 6: Numbers he's not putting Up Ronald akunya type numbers so
- 54:07Speaker 6: far in his young. Career but is there any doubt
- 54:10Speaker 6: that he's got fifty homer, potential got fifty homer potential
- 54:16Speaker 6: and then tack on thirty stolen base forty stolen base
- 54:20Speaker 6: potential still in his mid. Twenties for goodness, sake defense
- 54:24Speaker 6: keeps getting. Better you, KNOW i don't know how you
- 54:28Speaker 6: correct being more reliable.
- 54:31Speaker 1: With runners in scoring.
- 54:32Speaker 6: Position that might be something between the years that he
- 54:35Speaker 6: struggles with because he doesn't have the best at bats
- 54:38Speaker 6: in those. Situations it's not that he's just it's not
- 54:40Speaker 6: that he's just. Failing it's that we've never liked his
- 54:44Speaker 6: approach in those. Situations he always seems like he's trying
- 54:47Speaker 6: to hit in one thousand foot home run when all
- 54:50Speaker 6: you need is a. Sacrifice and, SO i, mean there's
- 54:54Speaker 6: a lot of improving to. Do BUT i would just
- 54:56Speaker 6: like to see if he didn't wake up On may
- 55:00Speaker 6: with a two to ten batting average and three home
- 55:03Speaker 6: runs for a, change what that could unleash for him
- 55:07Speaker 6: for an entire.
- 55:07Speaker 3: Year, WELL i, mean we've seen something that is remarkable
- 55:11Speaker 3: as far as his resilience or the mental toughness that he.
- 55:14Speaker 3: Brings Because i'm gonna tell, YOU i DON'T i don't
- 55:17Speaker 3: care who you. Are when you look up and you're
- 55:19Speaker 3: one hundred and one hundred and twenty abs into the
- 55:21Speaker 3: season and you got a one something batting average or
- 55:24Speaker 3: a barely over two.
- 55:26Speaker 1: HUNDRED i mean you're not hitting your.
- 55:27Speaker 3: Weight that's not, enjoyable and you know that at that
- 55:31Speaker 3: point you can't GO a one for four isn't doing.
- 55:33Speaker 3: Anything it's not, Changing you're Not you go from a
- 55:36Speaker 3: one oh eight batting average to a one oh nine batting.
- 55:39Speaker 3: Average with a one for, four now an zero for,
- 55:41Speaker 3: Four it'll keep. Dropping and so you got to start
- 55:44Speaker 3: putting together multiple knock days to start climbing out of that.
- 55:47Speaker 3: Hole and he's done it every single, year including the first,
- 55:51Speaker 3: year the first year he Wins rookie of The year he.
- 55:54Speaker 3: Has you, know it's kind of shortened to some. Degree
- 55:57Speaker 3: he only played one hundred and thirty two, games but
- 55:59Speaker 3: HiT's almost thirty. Homers it was. Unbelievable now he kind
- 56:02Speaker 3: of dropped a little bit and then dropped a little
- 56:04Speaker 3: bit more in his second and third, season and everybody's, like,
- 56:07Speaker 3: oh here we, go. Bust it's, like, no he still
- 56:09Speaker 3: is well above, average well above. Average he's just not
- 56:13Speaker 3: hadn't came to fulfill the promises that maybe we set
- 56:17Speaker 3: the expectations too high for people when we saw. HIM
- 56:19Speaker 3: i don't think we did, necessarily but BECAUSE i don't
- 56:22Speaker 3: think we did, period BECAUSE i still think that he's
- 56:24Speaker 3: a forty to forty, GUY i. Don't it's just a
- 56:27Speaker 3: matter of he has to stop get digging himself into
- 56:30Speaker 3: a hole where all of a, sudden you, know it's
- 56:32Speaker 3: it's this last. Year what was the bet that the
- 56:36Speaker 3: kid had somewhere like that he wasn't gonna Bear. Agowyers,
- 56:39Speaker 3: yeah wuldn't get to get to twenty home looking.
- 56:41Speaker 1: For a long time like he. Wasn't, yeah well not
- 56:44Speaker 1: just to get.
- 56:44Speaker 3: There, yeah he had like nine or, something with like
- 56:46Speaker 3: a month left in the season or something crazy like,
- 56:48Speaker 3: that and all of a sudden he got hot enough
- 56:50Speaker 3: to where he ended up getting to. Twenty it's if
- 56:52Speaker 3: he doesn't dig himself into a. HOLE i have a
- 56:54Speaker 3: feeling that because when he gets, hot he gets as
- 56:58Speaker 3: hot as anybody.
- 56:59Speaker 1: GETS i mean.
- 56:59Speaker 3: He he goes nuclear on people when all of a sudden
- 57:03Speaker 3: he starts feeling.
- 57:03Speaker 1: Hot and so if he.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Can get on that, EARLY i, MEAN i think you
- 57:07Speaker 3: could be looking at a guy that's sitting at around
- 57:10Speaker 3: what his career average is now as The All star
- 57:12Speaker 3: Break home runs. Wise, now all of a, sudden if
- 57:15Speaker 3: he does, that he's gonna already have twenty five thirty
- 57:19Speaker 3: stolen bases as. Well you're gonna be talking about a
- 57:21Speaker 3: guy midway through the, season as far as in AN
- 57:23Speaker 3: mvp conversation gold glove conversation that could possibly go forty,
- 57:29Speaker 3: forty LIKE i, said or even beyond.
- 57:30Speaker 7: Now it's interesting BECAUSE i feel Like julio and The,
- 57:33Speaker 7: mariners like the way that people treat both of, Them
- 57:36Speaker 7: like the organization of The mariners as a whole And
- 57:38Speaker 7: julio are very. Similar there's you, know it's it's a
- 57:42Speaker 7: lot of, well we're gonna wait and see what they can,
- 57:46Speaker 7: do not high, expectations not, saying, oh, yeah this team's
- 57:49Speaker 7: gonna go to the playoffs to start the.
- 57:51Speaker 8: Season you, know there's so much.
- 57:52Speaker 6: We're gonna believe in you Because i'm gonna brace myself
- 57:55Speaker 6: for you, disappointment, yes.
- 57:56Speaker 7: Exactly and then when they disappoint or have a, slump
- 57:59Speaker 7: it's he told you exactly what we thought was going to.
- 58:02Speaker 7: Happen and they do the same thing With, julio they
- 58:04Speaker 7: do the same thing with The. Mariners it's AND i
- 58:08Speaker 7: don't understand.
- 58:08Speaker 1: IT i think it's.
- 58:09Speaker 6: Fair and, LOOK i, MEAN i, mean obviously The mariners
- 58:13Speaker 6: have a lot of proving to, do, yeah and they
- 58:15Speaker 6: have mishandled things here in the last ten. Years certainly
- 58:20Speaker 6: over fifty, years they've mishandled, Things they've screwed things. Up,
- 58:23Speaker 6: yeah And julio's not a perfect baseball player by any
- 58:28Speaker 6: stretch of the, imagination and so he does have some
- 58:32Speaker 6: things to shore. Up BUT i do believe you're, right
- 58:36Speaker 6: and that people get so blinded by their expectations and their.
- 58:41Speaker 6: Hope you were supposed to Be Ken Griffy junior and
- 58:44Speaker 6: you haven't been that, yet and so NOW i exaggerate when.
- 58:48Speaker 1: You do fit me.
- 58:49Speaker 8: Exactly, yeah that's a good way to put.
- 58:51Speaker 6: It, Yeah AND i want to get one other thing
- 58:54Speaker 6: in on this BECAUSE i think for a year Of
- 58:58Speaker 6: kyl to take place For, julio so a lot has
- 59:01Speaker 6: to lock into, place and that includes like the psyche
- 59:04Speaker 6: about it, All like you've got to be in the right,
- 59:06Speaker 6: mindset you've got to be ready to seize, superstardom uh
- 59:10Speaker 6: when you're. THERE i, mean we Watched Jared kelnick Versus Julio,
- 59:15Speaker 6: rodriguez and it could not have been easy For jared
- 59:19Speaker 6: to sit there and Watch julio become the face of
- 59:22Speaker 6: the franchise while he's struggling to hit over two hundred
- 59:26Speaker 6: AND i don't know if that drove him to such
- 59:28Speaker 6: madness because he was already a bit of a head
- 59:30Speaker 6: case that he couldn't get out of his own. Way
- 59:33Speaker 6: maybe he wasn't going to get out of his own
- 59:35Speaker 6: way no matter. What or maybe watching somebody else flourish
- 59:39Speaker 6: while he's struggling was the death nail For Jared.
- 59:43Speaker 1: Kelnick in A mariner. UNIFORM i don't.
- 59:45Speaker 6: Know that probably dangerous, speculation but it's hard for me
- 59:49Speaker 6: not to consider. That, WELL i Watch, julio who had
- 59:54Speaker 6: to now go through the experience of Watching Cal rawley
- 59:58Speaker 6: pass him as the face the franchise this. Passion, yeah
- 1:00:01Speaker 6: he had to Watch year Of cal even when he
- 1:00:04Speaker 6: was struggling back In april And, may and he had
- 1:00:07Speaker 6: to watch the love affair crow and blossom to this fevered.
- 1:00:12Speaker 6: Pitch and now he's had to live with that an entire.
- 1:00:16Speaker 6: OFFSEASON i wonder how he'll handle. THAT i wonder if
- 1:00:20Speaker 6: that motivates, Him bucky or discourages, him if that makes
- 1:00:24Speaker 6: him mentally stronger or mentally. Weaker because these things do factor.
- 1:00:30Speaker 6: In they are human. Beings this is why. Robot If
- 1:00:34Speaker 6: hulo was a, robot we just set him to his
- 1:00:37Speaker 6: talents and he'd have a forty forty. Season but if
- 1:00:41Speaker 6: he can really, embrace if he gets off to a
- 1:00:44Speaker 6: good start and kind of embrace like it is awesome
- 1:00:50Speaker 6: That cal AND i are doing this together when both
- 1:00:52Speaker 6: superstars at the same, time he might go out And
- 1:00:55Speaker 6: roger maris the thing this, year.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: You know WHAT i.
- 1:00:58Speaker 6: Mean but if he does get into a slump and
- 1:01:01Speaker 6: it does start to weigh on him That cal that
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: was supposed to be, me Which i'm not seeing any
- 1:01:07Speaker 6: evidence that that's. True they seem to get along really,
- 1:01:10Speaker 6: well then it could end up damaging him going.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Forward so there's a lot of factors in. It bottom.
- 1:01:19Speaker 6: Line in the last couple of minutes here of the,
- 1:01:21Speaker 6: SEGMENT i think there's a chance we're going to see
- 1:01:24Speaker 6: The year Of. JULIO i think IT'S i think there's
- 1:01:26Speaker 6: a And i've said, THIS i guess three years in a,
- 1:01:28Speaker 6: row so why would you listen to?
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Me BUT i think it's gonna come together this.
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: YEAR i think he's got the right mindset for, it
- 1:01:34Speaker 6: and certainly as the, talent and if it can just
- 1:01:37Speaker 6: get off to a decent start In, APRIL i think
- 1:01:40Speaker 6: we're going to see that magical year we've been waiting for.
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: It, WELL i, MEAN i mean you have said, It
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: i've said, It we've all thought it that this is
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: the year that he's going to break, out and yet
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: he's really let us down and only hit like thirty
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: homers a. Year SO i mean IT'S i, mean it's
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: the guy is ready to. Pop it's a matter of
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: how he handles what you're talking talking about being passed
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: on the face of the franchise. Chart but remember last
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: year when they lost that game seven AND i think
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: it was wu was being interviewed and you heard that
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: primal scream from the.
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: Showers, yeah that was.
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: Him that's the dude that is twenty five years old
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: that has made the playoffs twice in his four years
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: he's been, here and yet was not satisfied with getting
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: further than The Seattle mariners have ever.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: Gotten he Wasn't he's not.
- 1:02:28Speaker 3: Satisfied SO i don't think that he's satisfied at sitting
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: at a thirty two homer. PACE i think he knows
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: he's capable Of ronald o'cunya. NUMBERS i don't know if
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: anybody's necessarily capable Of Aaron judge.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: Numbers judge And otani that's pretty. Much you could just
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: go do your. Thing, yeah you do do your.
- 1:02:45Speaker 3: Thing BUT i think he's capable of putting up numbers
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: with anybody else that plays the, Game Juan SOTO'S i,
- 1:02:50Speaker 3: mean he's not gonna hit for that kind of, average
- 1:02:52Speaker 3: have that kind of on base. Percentage but he can
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: hit for, power he can hit for, average he can steal,
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: bases he can do everything you need to. Do he
- 1:03:00Speaker 3: actually has the clutch gene as. Well he just at
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: times tries too damn. HARD i think that it's a
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: little bit OF i have to do.
- 1:03:07Speaker 5: It.
- 1:03:07Speaker 3: Well now you Have, naylor you Have Brendan, donovan you
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: have cal who's come in to. It you, don't you
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: have A, Rosarina you don't have to carry.
- 1:03:14Speaker 8: Anything the pressure is just do.
- 1:03:16Speaker 9: You, yeah just go do.
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: You and you. Will gave me. Goosebumps just gave myself.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: Goosebumps just go do you and you.
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: Will you will end up carrying this team plenty of
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: the games over the course of the.
- 1:03:27Speaker 7: Season, YEAH i was gonna, SAY i feel like this
- 1:03:29Speaker 7: year is probably the least expectations placed on him for you,
- 1:03:33Speaker 7: know what the team needs from, him and maybe that
- 1:03:37Speaker 7: alone right, there just being able to go in saying, Like,
- 1:03:39Speaker 7: OKAY i don't have to get sixty home runs in
- 1:03:42Speaker 7: order for this team to make the.
- 1:03:43Speaker 8: PLAYOFFS i. Could it'd be really.
- 1:03:45Speaker 6: Great my expectations for, you if you're listening, earlier are
- 1:03:48Speaker 6: higher than ever. Before all, Right but you but to your,
- 1:03:53Speaker 6: point because if they can Just mickey And mariss this
- 1:03:58Speaker 6: thing and and you, know If kyl has a right
- 1:04:02Speaker 6: not at sixty homers, again but, yeah if we've got
- 1:04:04Speaker 6: a forty homer a year catcher and a forty five
- 1:04:09Speaker 6: homer a forty forty five homer a year center, fielder
- 1:04:12Speaker 6: what do they?
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Do what do they? Say build it up the?
- 1:04:15Speaker 9: Middle oh my.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: Gosh and they're both in their.
- 1:04:17Speaker 8: Twenties, yeah that'd be.
- 1:04:19Speaker 9: Great, jeez it could be.
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: Fun All, Right we've got some breaking news from The
- 1:04:24Speaker 6: National Football, league AND i do wonder how it affects
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: The Ken walker.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: Situation we'll talk about it.
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: Next Sports radio ninety three point THREE kjrfm by nine o'clock.
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: Hour here on This monday.
- 1:04:50Speaker 6: Morning great to have you with, Us Chuck, cole Former,
- 1:04:53Speaker 6: Mariner Bucky, jacobson And Ashley ryan with. You we'll talk
- 1:04:57Speaker 6: more about The mariners coming up a little bit later
- 1:04:59Speaker 6: on in this Hour The.
- 1:05:00Speaker 8: Kids it was The kids.
- 1:05:03Speaker 6: Also we'll get into the Ken walker. Topic we've had
- 1:05:06Speaker 6: a couple of breaking stories today in THE, nfl including
- 1:05:10Speaker 6: trade Of David montgomery from The Detroit lions to The Houston.
- 1:05:14Speaker 6: Texans he has just one year left on his. Contract
- 1:05:17Speaker 6: they gave up a fourth, rounder a seventh, rounder and
- 1:05:19Speaker 6: a player in exchange For, montgomery and for a team
- 1:05:23Speaker 6: that feels like it's in a Super bowl window, themselves
- 1:05:26Speaker 6: it might just be a couple offensive pieces. Away that's
- 1:05:29Speaker 6: a pretty nice little move there for The Houston, texans
- 1:05:33Speaker 6: but it does take another possibility for replacing potentially Ken
- 1:05:38Speaker 6: walker off of the, market As montgomery did seem going
- 1:05:43Speaker 6: into today to be a viable trade option for any
- 1:05:47Speaker 6: team in The National Football, league and now you can
- 1:05:50Speaker 6: cross him off the list, then because he is no
- 1:05:53Speaker 6: longer available to potential. Suitors Greg, Beller seahawks, insider was
- 1:05:58Speaker 6: with us at seven o'clock this. Morning we asked for
- 1:06:01Speaker 6: a little bit of an update on Ken walker and
- 1:06:04Speaker 6: whether or Not john and The seahawks will get something
- 1:06:07Speaker 6: done with ken before free.
- 1:06:08Speaker 10: AGENCY i could see them signing and drafting or running
- 1:06:11Speaker 10: back the thing about being thirty two in the first
- 1:06:13Speaker 10: round is a team that had an earlier first round,
- 1:06:16Speaker 10: pick usually a bad, team but doesn't have multiple first round.
- 1:06:20Speaker 10: Picks they want to go reach and get somebody they
- 1:06:23Speaker 10: think won't be around when they're picking again in the second.
- 1:06:25Speaker 10: Round that's a great spot at thirty two to trade,
- 1:06:28Speaker 10: down AND i think that's What John schneider eventually will
- 1:06:30Speaker 10: do because, he as we've talked, about he never has
- 1:06:33Speaker 10: thirty two on their board for the first round worthy draft. Picks,
- 1:06:37Speaker 10: never not in my entire time covering The seahawks that
- 1:06:40Speaker 10: began in two thousand and, five have they had thirty
- 1:06:43Speaker 10: two first round worthy players on their draft. Board so
- 1:06:47Speaker 10: it would be make a lot of sense for them
- 1:06:49Speaker 10: to trade. Down and whether that trade down would involve
- 1:06:50Speaker 10: a running back could Be BUT i think all of
- 1:06:53Speaker 10: those things are in play even if perhaps they Signed Kenneth, walker.
- 1:06:57Speaker 5: But especially if they.
- 1:06:58Speaker 10: Don't if you just, said, well, well he's A Super BOWL,
- 1:07:00Speaker 10: mvp and he's twenty, five why can't you resign, Him
- 1:07:03Speaker 10: it's so much more difficult than that because of the
- 1:07:05Speaker 10: injury history.
- 1:07:06Speaker 5: Not only with him but in the.
- 1:07:08Speaker 10: Position And John schneider has been very very, responsible sticking
- 1:07:13Speaker 10: to his. Plan he rarely goes and reaches because of a,
- 1:07:17Speaker 10: need whether it's draft or free. AGENCY i, MEAN i
- 1:07:20Speaker 10: think Of Draymond jones as one of the only reaches
- 1:07:23Speaker 10: when they really Need Edge rusher a couple of years,
- 1:07:25Speaker 10: ago and they went for fifty one million right out
- 1:07:27Speaker 10: of the gate of free, agency which he never, does
- 1:07:30Speaker 10: And Draymond jones did, NOTHING i mean absolutely nothing for.
- 1:07:34Speaker 10: THEM a year and a half later he was. Gone
- 1:07:37Speaker 10: and that and some draft misses have really Reminded. Schnyder
- 1:07:41Speaker 10: stick to your. Plan what were you going to give
- 1:07:44Speaker 10: him in the beginning when you first charted out What
- 1:07:46Speaker 10: Kenneth walker would be worth you beyond twenty twenty. Six
- 1:07:48Speaker 10: stick to that. Plan, Yes charbonne got her stick to a. Plant,
- 1:07:51Speaker 10: yes she only afford to stick to a. Plant it's
- 1:07:53Speaker 10: really a discipline that he tries to adhere himself. Too
- 1:07:56Speaker 10: AND i could see him doing it again this. Time
- 1:08:00Speaker 10: how much of those extenuating circumstances About charbona.
- 1:08:04Speaker 5: And nowhere apparent all that would raise the.
- 1:08:06Speaker 10: Price that's the question that to me will decide Whether
- 1:08:09Speaker 10: walker stays or. Not if he's strict to his what
- 1:08:12Speaker 10: they have charted him to be worth and what they.
- 1:08:14Speaker 5: Were going to offer from before during the, season he's.
- 1:08:17Speaker 10: Gone if they do change that number because of their
- 1:08:21Speaker 10: situation there and there's a chance to, stay, well they
- 1:08:23Speaker 10: have to change the.
- 1:08:24Speaker 6: NUMBER i, mean he's forced them to change the. NUMBER
- 1:08:26Speaker 6: i kind of think they will and should change the.
- 1:08:30Speaker 6: NUMBER i think that considering the other options out there
- 1:08:35Speaker 6: for running back and Replacing Ken. Walker, Yeah I'M i
- 1:08:39Speaker 6: mean right. NOW i mean Spoke trek still has them
- 1:08:41Speaker 6: valued at nine. MILLION i don't see any place On
- 1:08:45Speaker 6: earth where that's going to. HAPPEN i think he's going
- 1:08:48Speaker 6: to get up to around twelve if he wants to
- 1:08:52Speaker 6: enter the bidding from teams across The National Football. LEAGUE
- 1:08:56Speaker 6: i Think Dalvin cook drove it to twelve a year.
- 1:08:58Speaker 6: Ago if you're the number one free agent on the
- 1:09:01Speaker 6: market at that given, position market value is going to
- 1:09:06Speaker 6: speak to how much money you, make not, necessarily, well
- 1:09:11Speaker 6: you're not better than Not Dalvin, Cook James. Cook you're
- 1:09:14Speaker 6: not better Than James, cook so you're not going to
- 1:09:16Speaker 6: get the. Money, no if he's the number one running
- 1:09:18Speaker 6: back and there's a need for running backs out there
- 1:09:20Speaker 6: and everybody just got thirty extra, million because they've created
- 1:09:24Speaker 6: more cap. Space Ken walker's probably going to make more
- 1:09:27Speaker 6: money than that this season on the open. Market, now
- 1:09:31Speaker 6: DO i go all the way that far If I'm John,
- 1:09:33Speaker 6: Schneider probably, Not but you're certainly going up from what
- 1:09:37Speaker 6: you were planning to offer him a month.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: AGO i, MEAN i think.
- 1:09:41Speaker 6: That maybe four years forty four seems pretty reasonable to.
- 1:09:45Speaker 6: ME i might even go a little bit further BECAUSE
- 1:09:48Speaker 6: i don't really love the options for replacing him out,
- 1:09:51Speaker 6: there And i'm down two running, backs not just. One
- 1:09:54Speaker 6: i'd like to have something That i'm familiar, with THAT
- 1:09:56Speaker 6: i like THAT i, trust and Ken walker coming. Back,
- 1:10:00Speaker 6: plus he's a twenty five year old free, agent and
- 1:10:02Speaker 6: nobody likes young free agents more Than John schneider.
- 1:10:04Speaker 10: In the entire.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: World, SO i, mean there's.
- 1:10:06Speaker 6: A lot of reasons to think that The seahawks are
- 1:10:09Speaker 6: going to get uncomfortable for their offer to keep Ken.
- 1:10:13Speaker 6: Walker you just have to wonder if the agent's going
- 1:10:18Speaker 6: to know if the agent's going to drive such a
- 1:10:21Speaker 6: hard bargain that they're at least going to test the.
- 1:10:23Speaker 6: Waters and once they test the, Waters Bucky, man that
- 1:10:28Speaker 6: price might shoot well past eleven million per.
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: Year, YEAH i, MEAN i, Yeah i'm with. You WHEN
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: i first looked into it and saw the nine, Million i'm, like,
- 1:10:37Speaker 3: well that's that's a pretty good, deal all, right that
- 1:10:39Speaker 3: would be a great deal when you go up to
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: eleven and you said you'd possibly even go beyond that
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: if you start, thinking, okay four years forty, four like
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: you're talking about what would that be two years? Guaranteed,
- 1:10:51Speaker 3: right probably something like. That so then you're, saying, okay
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: we're on the hook for twenty two million. Bucks, well
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: at that, point are you trusting if you'reder, now if
- 1:11:00Speaker 3: you are A seahawks fan and you're Trusting John schneider
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: to make the right, call do you want to put
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: twenty two million bucks for? Sure twenty two million bucks
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: into somebody that has had one season of staying fully.
- 1:11:11Speaker 3: Healthy that's something THAT i, MEAN i think there's something to.
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: It maybe you've figured out the game plan of you
- 1:11:18Speaker 3: do have to have a one b that do you
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: have to you have to give? Him then that's not.
- 1:11:23Speaker 3: Unusual there's very few bell cows out there that just
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: kind of take the rock and run at thirty.
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: Times there are still, Some, yeah well those are the.
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: Ones that is The Saquon barkley's if you will that
- 1:11:33Speaker 3: you're gonna have to pay more for. Ye so if
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: he's willing to dance with, you it's somewhere around the
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: ten million ten eleven, ish then maybe you go, there
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: because otherwise your other option is do the franchise tag
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: and paying fourteen for one, year and now all of a,
- 1:11:48Speaker 3: sudden he either gets hurt and you still have to
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: pay m fourteen million bucks or he runs out of
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: that contract and he's gone after a. Year because you're
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: not gonna then you've you've kind of squashed the idea
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: of them sticking around for any loyalty reason because you
- 1:12:02Speaker 3: didn't invest in them long. Term SO i think that
- 1:12:06Speaker 3: there's they're gonna come up to that. NUMBER i Just
- 1:12:08Speaker 3: i'm kind of with you that if you don't get
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: this done before the tampering period and they get to
- 1:12:13Speaker 3: start receiving phone calls if they haven't, already and finding
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: out what other people are willing to pay for, him
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: because you know that there's ONE gm out there that
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: loved him when he came, out loved what he did
- 1:12:24Speaker 3: his first, year and then blamed The seahawks and their
- 1:12:26Speaker 3: ocs for not using him the right.
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: Way, uh and then all of.
- 1:12:30Speaker 3: A sudden when they start giving him the rocket throughout the, playoffs.
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: Boom he helps you, know lead you guys or helps
- 1:12:36Speaker 3: contribute to get to a Super.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: Bowl, SO i don't.
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: KNOW i mean they don't have a, ton, RIGHT i
- 1:12:41Speaker 3: mean they Have Jakaria wright who got hurt Last, well
- 1:12:44Speaker 3: they got.
- 1:12:44Speaker 6: NOTHING i mean they Have macintosh and they've got some
- 1:12:47Speaker 6: other guys that they don't have. Anything they have nothing
- 1:12:50Speaker 6: to repeat a Super bowl with at running, back.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: Right they don't have something you could plug in. There
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: BUT i would be willing to bet that they think
- 1:12:56Speaker 3: of one of those guys as possibly the ability if
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: if they Thought Zach charbonay could be back and ready
- 1:13:03Speaker 3: sometime early next, season that maybe that could be the
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: one be to.
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: Him i'll bet you they think one of those.
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: Guys but, AGAIN i think you're taking a step backwards
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: from where you just ended the season as a Super
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: bowl if you do.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: That, NO i Think charbonnay's value is the change. UP
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: i don't think him being.
- 1:13:18Speaker 6: Your bellcow running back works for, me AND i don't
- 1:13:21Speaker 6: think you went a Super bowl that. WAY i think,
- 1:13:24Speaker 6: that but it does beg the question where do you
- 1:13:26Speaker 6: go from? Here LIKE i said a couple of, TIMES
- 1:13:28Speaker 6: i don't love the options out.
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: THERE i, mean you just call up a free agent.
- 1:13:32Speaker 6: List Breys hall's going to get franchise tagged by The,
- 1:13:36Speaker 6: jets so that's not going to.
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: Happen and Then travis at.
- 1:13:40Speaker 6: Ten but if the running back market is COMING i
- 1:13:43Speaker 6: Like Travis, atien but he's two years older Than. Walker
- 1:13:46Speaker 6: if the and if the value of the running back
- 1:13:49Speaker 6: market is coming, up and you've got to go nine
- 1:13:52Speaker 6: for at ten when you could of gone ten For,
- 1:13:55Speaker 6: Walker i'd rather have the GUY i, know rather dance
- 1:13:58Speaker 6: with the DEVIL i, know And Ken walker at. Ten
- 1:14:01Speaker 6: i'm not gonna go with my second option just to
- 1:14:03Speaker 6: save a million dollars per. Season and then after, THAT i,
- 1:14:07Speaker 6: MEAN i don't see really a one guy that you could.
- 1:14:10Speaker 6: Have you got everybody else on the free agent market
- 1:14:13Speaker 6: is somebody that you pair to be and their power,
- 1:14:17Speaker 6: guys which you already have the power guy and Sharbon a,
- 1:14:20Speaker 6: theoretically but Like dowdele And pacheco uh And Brian robinson
- 1:14:26Speaker 6: And Rashad. White, YEAH i Think i'd be all right
- 1:14:29Speaker 6: if they were my ONE b. Option but i don't
- 1:14:32Speaker 6: want them to be my one a option trying to
- 1:14:35Speaker 6: repeat as Super bowl. Champions SO i don't know IF
- 1:14:38Speaker 6: i really love that group. Whatsoever and, again if that's
- 1:14:44Speaker 6: the Group i'm having to choose from to find my
- 1:14:46Speaker 6: starting running, Back.
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: I'm going to the agent like how? Much how much
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: more DO i need to? Go what do we gotta do?
- 1:14:53Speaker 7: Here that's WHY i think that's WHY i lean more
- 1:14:55Speaker 7: towards him coming, back just because of. That those other
- 1:14:57Speaker 7: options doesn't seem like anything That John schneider be comfortable.
- 1:15:00Speaker 8: With and then, yeah you're going to draft Some, well.
- 1:15:03Speaker 6: The question is is there something that he's going to
- 1:15:05Speaker 6: be more comfortable, with BECAUSE i think people would argue
- 1:15:08Speaker 6: he's going to be.
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: Less comfortable overpaying a running.
- 1:15:12Speaker 9: Back.
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: Ye then he is trying to, find through three different methods.
- 1:15:18Speaker 8: Replacements, yeah, No AND i DO i do understand.
- 1:15:21Speaker 7: THAT i JUST i do think he'll they'll come to
- 1:15:23Speaker 7: an agreement on a price that's fair For, walker that
- 1:15:25Speaker 7: doesn't Make schneider want to poop.
- 1:15:28Speaker 8: Himself you, KNOW i think he'll be, well, yes.
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: If they do, that then that's. Easy then you sign
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: him and you keep. HIM i think they want to keep, Him.
- 1:15:35Speaker 6: Yeah but you know there's going to be a limit
- 1:15:38Speaker 6: to how much they're going to pay. Him and if
- 1:15:41Speaker 6: they don't figure if the agent THINKS i can get
- 1:15:43Speaker 6: twelve thirteen million dollars a year on the, market then
- 1:15:48Speaker 6: you're not accepting The seahawks offer Before. Sunday so that's
- 1:15:52Speaker 6: the trick of it. ALL i Meant williams got. Twelve
- 1:15:54Speaker 6: Javonte williams got eight million dollars a year from The Dallas.
- 1:15:57Speaker 6: Cowboys that's sort of the off season market center for
- 1:16:02Speaker 6: the running back. Position they gave him, eight so you're
- 1:16:06Speaker 6: gonna have to go more than, that that's for. Sure
- 1:16:08Speaker 6: probably gonna have to go to nine. Minimum my guess
- 1:16:11Speaker 6: is they are offering four forty that's not a. Problem
- 1:16:16Speaker 6: here's ten and.
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: Gave in mind this IS nfl, math which isn't real.
- 1:16:20Speaker 6: Math and then if you want to keep, him If
- 1:16:24Speaker 6: i'm the, agent, like, well what are you going to
- 1:16:25Speaker 6: pay us to keep us from testing the? Market, okay
- 1:16:30Speaker 6: we'll go eleven forty. Four but my guess is that's
- 1:16:33Speaker 6: about where it's going to. End and if he wants
- 1:16:35Speaker 6: more than, that they think they can get more than,
- 1:16:37Speaker 6: that THEN i think he hits the open. Market somebody
- 1:16:42Speaker 6: who's not as good at what they do As John schneider.
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: Is we'll pay him more and we might say goodbye
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: to him at that.
- 1:16:48Speaker 3: Point, yeah it ends up making you kind of go
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: down the list of what's the new offensive coordinator's name
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: slip in my? Mind the new offensive coordinator for A sioux? Flurry,
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: yeah that maybe he has someone in mind right that
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: he was running With, robinson the guy that was a
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: backup to McCaffrey In San.
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: Francisco you got they're gonna.
- 1:17:08Speaker 3: Have there's obviously names on their table when they're they're
- 1:17:11Speaker 3: making their plan and their contingency plan Of, OKAY i
- 1:17:14Speaker 3: think that they would most certainly Want walker back.
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: If it's the number that makes them feel good or even.
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: Comfortable there's an uncomfortable number they're not going to go,
- 1:17:22Speaker 3: to and then they start looking at, okay, well and
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: the fact that you have a new offensive, coordinator that's
- 1:17:27Speaker 3: a new set of, eyes it's a new. Brain it's
- 1:17:29Speaker 3: somebody that wants somebody that runs it the way that
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: he wants them to.
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: Run AND i would be willing to.
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: Bet that there's someone out there that they have their
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: eye on that if this doesn't. Work they're not going
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: to feel like they're like we have a, hole like
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: we aren't gonna they have something in mind that they
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: would be able to figure, out which would be planned
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: b if Ken walker is their.
- 1:17:48Speaker 6: Plan, yeah well my guess is that if it's Not,
- 1:17:52Speaker 6: walker then maybe you make a run at. Ten but
- 1:18:00Speaker 6: if you end up having to pay pretty close to
- 1:18:02Speaker 6: what you have to Pay, walker then you go with
- 1:18:05Speaker 6: what you, know the other option you could. Trade, now
- 1:18:09Speaker 6: we just had somebody come off the board And Dave,
- 1:18:11Speaker 6: Montgomery DEVIN. H chan is an interesting name out there
- 1:18:16Speaker 6: The Miami, dolphins and HE i think you have to
- 1:18:19Speaker 6: pair with a, bruiser and yet for some reason The
- 1:18:23Speaker 6: dolphins decided to run him between the tackles and the
- 1:18:29Speaker 6: bigger running back.
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: Outside it's really, strange strange.
- 1:18:33Speaker 6: Philosophy That mike McDaniel used a lot of injury history,
- 1:18:37Speaker 6: there but obviously an explosive running. Back he's got one
- 1:18:41Speaker 6: year left on his. Deal it looks like The dolphins
- 1:18:43Speaker 6: are going to. Rebuild sounds like they are going to trade.
- 1:18:45Speaker 6: Him their stories all over the place about how The
- 1:18:47Speaker 6: Chicago bears are trying to land A chan to their.
- 1:18:51Speaker 6: Team but that's interesting for The. Seahawks he'd make just
- 1:18:54Speaker 6: six million dollars for this upcoming. SEASON a year, ago
- 1:18:57Speaker 6: they were saying a first, rounder but that was with
- 1:18:59Speaker 6: two years left on his. Contract now he just has
- 1:19:02Speaker 6: one year left on his, Contract SO i would imagine
- 1:19:04Speaker 6: A day two. Pick maybe you'd.
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: Have to give up a late second rounder in order
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: to Get david Eight.
- 1:19:10Speaker 6: Chan but that's, interesting you, know you just we're in
- 1:19:14Speaker 6: a championship window stop gap running. Back maybe we don't
- 1:19:19Speaker 6: invest long term into an, undersized injury suspicious running back
- 1:19:26Speaker 6: in Eight, chan but we just use him for this,
- 1:19:29Speaker 6: year like The texans apparently are going to Use David
- 1:19:31Speaker 6: montgomery for a. Year Alvin kamara is another guy That
- 1:19:35Speaker 6: New orleans would like to get out from underneath his.
- 1:19:38Speaker 6: CONTRACT i don't think that The seahawks would trade For
- 1:19:41Speaker 6: kamara under his current, Deal but if you could work
- 1:19:45Speaker 6: out a, deal a different deal where he's less of
- 1:19:49Speaker 6: a cap hit against, you even though he's got fading,
- 1:19:52Speaker 6: skills that's somebody that had a pretty high bar in
- 1:19:56Speaker 6: terms of his abilities to run a. Football maybe that's an. Option,
- 1:20:00Speaker 6: AGAIN i don't think it would be at his, salary
- 1:20:03Speaker 6: BUT i think a combination of a draft. PICK i
- 1:20:06Speaker 6: think for sure The seahawks are drafting a running back
- 1:20:09Speaker 6: even if they keep Ken, walker and THEN i think Without,
- 1:20:13Speaker 6: charbone you take that draft pick and you team them
- 1:20:16Speaker 6: with either a cheap free agent or you pull off
- 1:20:20Speaker 6: some sort of trade on an expiring.
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: Contract at this, point those are their.
- 1:20:24Speaker 3: Options, yeah, YEAH i, mean they'll figure out. Something but
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: it is interesting because you're kind of the clock is
- 1:20:31Speaker 3: ticking on what you would WHAT i would think from
- 1:20:34Speaker 3: an outside and OBVIOUSLY i don't know all the information
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: of what they're talking, about and they who they, love
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: if there's somebody on that free agent, list or if
- 1:20:42Speaker 3: there's somebody in a trade that they're, like we, know
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: we love that guy enough that we would give them
- 1:20:47Speaker 3: their asking price to fill this. In if Ken walker does,
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: WORK i MEAN i would imagine Ken walkers their number one.
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: Choice but if that isn't or if there's a close,
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: second if they're PLANNING b is something they feel really comfortable,
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: with then maybe it doesn't feel like the clock is
- 1:21:02Speaker 3: ticking quite the same as it does to. Me to,
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: me it feels like you just want a Super. Bowl
- 1:21:06Speaker 3: you are in the midst of a championship, window for,
- 1:21:10Speaker 3: sure when it comes to how that defense. Is you
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: got your quarterback all lined, up your wide receivers lined.
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: Up as far As jaysen, goes it looks like everything
- 1:21:20Speaker 3: is pointing in the right.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: Direction but that's a big.
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: PIECE i, mean as much as they undervalue because of
- 1:21:25Speaker 3: the injury history with running, backs that is such a
- 1:21:28Speaker 3: big piece that you saw how important it. WAS i
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: Think i'm with. YOU i think they probably win The
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: Super bowl even if he doesn't run the way that
- 1:21:35Speaker 3: he ran throughout the. Playoffs but at the same, time
- 1:21:37Speaker 3: to just come in with something that feels like a
- 1:21:39Speaker 3: question mark to, me is not the practice that they
- 1:21:42Speaker 3: want to go. WITH i just have a feeling they
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: have other contingency plans that they don't feel are going
- 1:21:47Speaker 3: to be quite as bad as probably what it would
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: it feel like to.
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: Me, YEAH i don't think.
- 1:21:51Speaker 6: THAT i think they're more worried about overpaying for somebody
- 1:21:54Speaker 6: than they are being without. Something, YES i. DO i
- 1:21:58Speaker 6: think that's just the Way John. SCHNEIDER i don't think
- 1:22:00Speaker 6: that he with. It we're at the beginning of the.
- 1:22:03Speaker 6: OFFSEASON i, Mean David montgomery's been. Traded that's the only
- 1:22:07Speaker 6: thing that's happened to the running back, market, right so
- 1:22:11Speaker 6: we're at the beginning of.
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: IT i think he's would be.
- 1:22:14Speaker 6: FAR i think he would be far more reluctant to
- 1:22:17Speaker 6: overpay for Ken walker than he WOULD i don't think
- 1:22:22Speaker 6: that he fears starting, over even if he has to start,
- 1:22:27Speaker 6: over because he has everything at his, disposal, trades free,
- 1:22:31Speaker 6: agents and then of course the.
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: Draft and we've found plenty.
- 1:22:34Speaker 6: Of guys that make an immediate impact right off the
- 1:22:36Speaker 6: bat through the. DRAFT i will only point out one
- 1:22:39Speaker 6: BECAUSE i pointed him out last week as the guy
- 1:22:41Speaker 6: to circle at THE Nfl combine over the, Weekend Arkansas's
- 1:22:45Speaker 6: Mike Washington junior became the darling of the running back
- 1:22:49Speaker 6: class with all of the measurables over the weekend six
- 1:22:53Speaker 6: one two twenty three runs like Ken.
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: Walker four three three forty at two twenty, three four three.
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: Three that's, moving.
- 1:23:03Speaker 6: That's, yeah and that's you, know twelve pounds more than
- 1:23:07Speaker 6: what Ken walker.
- 1:23:08Speaker 1: Weighs.
- 1:23:08Speaker 3: Yeah, WELL i mean you just think about, it and you're.
- 1:23:11Speaker 3: Right IN nfl, math capology is not normal. Math but
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: it's still the fact of it is you can go
- 1:23:17Speaker 3: out and get you, KNOW i, Mean Brice hall and
- 1:23:19Speaker 3: Ken walker are like the top two guys as far
- 1:23:21Speaker 3: as our market value Ken walker probably even above him
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: when it comes to what he would ask for this.
- 1:23:26Speaker 3: Year you can get another free agent guy and a
- 1:23:30Speaker 3: rookie or two for the price of one Ken walker
- 1:23:33Speaker 3: if he's wanting to get the top dollar out. There
- 1:23:35Speaker 3: so then then you have three options to where you're,
- 1:23:37Speaker 3: like hopefully one of these sticks and you're off and.
- 1:23:40Speaker 6: Running, well the countdown is on against the clock from this.
- 1:23:44Speaker 6: Standpoint the tampering period starts On, monday so you probably
- 1:23:48Speaker 6: do need to get a deal done Before sunday to avoid.
- 1:23:52Speaker 6: This we shall see two trains leaving the. Station where
- 1:23:57Speaker 6: will they? Intersect all? Right coming up next on our radio,
- 1:23:59Speaker 6: program we'll talk a Little mariners spring. Training the kids
- 1:24:03Speaker 6: are making. Noise Sports radio ninety three point three K
- 1:24:06Speaker 6: a R F.
- 1:24:06Speaker 4: M you KNOW.
- 1:24:27Speaker 6: WBCs starting this, week they'll have some exhibition games for
- 1:24:32Speaker 6: the exhibition tournament On tuesday And. Wednesday some ACTUAL wbc
- 1:24:37Speaker 6: games are going to be played as early As, wednesday
- 1:24:41Speaker 6: and THEN i don't think a TEAM usa plays Until.
- 1:24:44Speaker 6: Friday but SO wbc tournament getting ready to. Begin all
- 1:24:48Speaker 6: the players have left the. Camp there's another, thing ANOTHER
- 1:24:52Speaker 6: mlb event The Spring, breakout which is now an annual
- 1:24:56Speaker 6: thing where they just for a couple of games show
- 1:25:00Speaker 6: off all the top prospects in the, sport all at
- 1:25:02Speaker 6: the exact same. Time that's coming up on the nineteenth
- 1:25:05Speaker 6: Of march through the twenty second as.
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: Well so a couple of different. Events one's going to
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: hand off to the other where you're going to actually
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: see baseball where people aren't just working on, things actually
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: trying to get each other out on. Stuff, yeah you,
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: know trying to hustle out round for. Reels, yeah maybe
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: break up a double. Play oh better not do, it dark, guy, imagine.
- 1:25:27Speaker 6: Imagine BUT i want to ask, YOU i, mean you've
- 1:25:31Speaker 6: gone through this process before. YOURSELF i THINK i can
- 1:25:35Speaker 6: make sense of the spring training at, Bats Like Kyle
- 1:25:40Speaker 6: rawley leads the team right, now he has had nineteen played.
- 1:25:43Speaker 9: Appearances in five.
- 1:25:45Speaker 1: Games that's.
- 1:25:46Speaker 6: Unusual usually the star player in the first five spring
- 1:25:50Speaker 6: training games that he plays doesn't get nearly four at, bats,
- 1:25:54Speaker 6: Right but he's going to be in THE, wbc so
- 1:25:58Speaker 6: they're getting him ready for, that right?
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: Yep all?
- 1:26:01Speaker 6: Right so Cal Josh naylor is the has received the
- 1:26:05Speaker 6: second most played appearances so far in the. Spring he's
- 1:26:09Speaker 6: playing For Team. Canada they're getting him. Ready Miles Master
- 1:26:12Speaker 6: bony and Dom canzone are fourth and fifth on the
- 1:26:16Speaker 6: list in terms of played appearances so far in spring training.
- 1:26:19Speaker 6: Games they're both playing For Team italy And RANDY. A
- 1:26:22Speaker 6: Rose arena's sixth most played appearances and he's playing For Team.
- 1:26:26Speaker 6: Mexico so that's pretty clear cut and, dry, right this
- 1:26:30Speaker 6: is an excessive number of play appearances for a normal
- 1:26:33Speaker 6: spring training for you, know five veteran players like, this
- 1:26:37Speaker 6: and yet what they're clearly doing is ramping these guys
- 1:26:41Speaker 6: up FOR.
- 1:26:41Speaker 9: Wbc.
- 1:26:42Speaker 3: Correct, yeah, yeah there's no. DOUBT i, Mean i'm sure
- 1:26:48Speaker 3: that they want.
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: More AB's.
- 1:26:49Speaker 3: Right you don't want To you wouldn't want to go
- 1:26:51Speaker 3: through your normal, amount which is literally it usually, is
- 1:26:56Speaker 3: first game you go, out get ONE A. B maybe
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: two may if you don't have to play defense another
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: inning before you get your SECOND. Ab, Okay i'll get
- 1:27:04Speaker 3: two the first game or the first sand second. Game
- 1:27:07Speaker 3: IF i got to go play defense another, One they're, Like,
- 1:27:09Speaker 3: nope we're not going to risk. That we don't just
- 1:27:12Speaker 3: go you can go hit in the. Cage but when
- 1:27:15Speaker 3: my family AND i went to a, GAME i think
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: we went to The tuesday game And cal had two
- 1:27:22Speaker 3: abs And i'm, like all, right we'll probably leave after,
- 1:27:24Speaker 3: this and THEN i wanted to watch somebody, throw and
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: so we'll leave after this. Inning and THEN i was, like,
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: well let's make Sure cal's not going to hit. Again
- 1:27:32Speaker 3: he hit, again and then he hit, again and so
- 1:27:35Speaker 3: we ended up staying. LONGER i was a okay with,
- 1:27:37Speaker 3: it but we ended up sitting sitting around and watching
- 1:27:40Speaker 3: him And naylor both actually get two more at bats
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: than WHAT i thought they would. Get AND i think
- 1:27:44Speaker 3: it is just plain and. Simple the guys want to
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: get ramped up a little bit more before it kind of,
- 1:27:49Speaker 3: matters because while it doesn't matter it is an exhibition,
- 1:27:53Speaker 3: tournament it.
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: MATTERS i, mean this.
- 1:27:55Speaker 3: Is the equivalent of The olympics for, baseball and you're
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: not gonna want to go out there and and you,
- 1:28:00Speaker 3: Know i'm just working on some things getting ready for
- 1:28:03Speaker 3: the regular.
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: Season when you have your, country you, know across your. Chest.
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: Yeah so THAT'S i kind of figured out the math on.
- 1:28:10Speaker 6: This so WHEN i look at so that's the, first, second, fourth,
- 1:28:14Speaker 6: fifth and sixth most played appearances in spring training.
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: Games the GUYS i just Mentioned so.
- 1:28:19Speaker 6: There's one of your top six guys that is not
- 1:28:22Speaker 6: playing in THE wbc that's getting the most looks in live,
- 1:28:26Speaker 6: action Cold EMERSON yep sixteen played appearances and seven spring training.
- 1:28:34Speaker 6: Games that's more than two per game that they're giving Cold.
- 1:28:38Speaker 6: Emerson also pretty clear to read into that that they're
- 1:28:43Speaker 6: giving him every opportunity they are trying To they are
- 1:28:48Speaker 6: trying to expose him to the best pitching out there
- 1:28:52Speaker 6: to see just how ready he, is how close he
- 1:28:54Speaker 6: is for maybe opening day.
- 1:28:57Speaker 3: ACTIVATION i think that it's part that and part we're
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: getting him as much time as possible before he gets sent.
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: Down both so you're covering.
- 1:29:07Speaker 3: Both, now you're giving the opportunity if he goes out
- 1:29:09Speaker 3: and balls out And Cole young doesn't for, example and
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: maybe you can all of a sudden thrust him in.
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: There and BECAUSE i don't Think Cole young obviously didn't
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: do enough last year to where it's like you are
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: written in permanent marker in the second base spot to
- 1:29:23Speaker 3: start day. ONE i think we talked to people and
- 1:29:26Speaker 3: they said.
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: He's in the pole.
- 1:29:27Speaker 3: Position BUT i think that he's Getting you, know Cold,
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: emerson you're not sending he's not going anywhere except For
- 1:29:33Speaker 3: TRIPLE a or the big, leagues and so you don't
- 1:29:36Speaker 3: need to send him down so he can get more
- 1:29:38Speaker 3: looks At TRIPLE a. Pitching he's going to be facing
- 1:29:40Speaker 3: some of. THAT i did notice a couple of things
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: while we were, there and then the week that afterwards
- 1:29:45Speaker 3: when they started playing. Games Cold emerson is one of
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: those guys that's on the reserves even when he's not
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: starting a game in spring, training he's on the reserves.
- 1:29:53Speaker 3: List whereas you, KNOW i WATCHED Jp crawford and other
- 1:29:57Speaker 3: guys just when they got done with their early work
- 1:29:59Speaker 3: or their infield outfield and taking some hacks and, cages
- 1:30:02Speaker 3: they went and got dressed in their. Head now they
- 1:30:03Speaker 3: don't even go over to the. Game they're not on
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: the reserve. List Cold emerson's a guy that even when
- 1:30:08Speaker 3: they're not gonna start, him he's on the reserve list
- 1:30:10Speaker 3: so they can get him in a bat or two
- 1:30:12Speaker 3: later on in the game if they. Want they're trying
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: to give him as many opportunities as possible against the
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: toughest competition he's ever, faced which is going to be
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: in big league spring training.
- 1:30:21Speaker 6: And usually at the start of spring training. Games, yes, yeah, so,
- 1:30:25Speaker 6: YEAH i hear your point that he's being used even
- 1:30:28Speaker 6: in reserves, sometimes which is adding to his plate appearance.
- 1:30:31Speaker 6: Total BUT i mean very first game he's in your starting, Lineup,
- 1:30:36Speaker 6: yeah spring training, game and they're trying to get him
- 1:30:38Speaker 6: looks against major league. Pitching they are trying to evaluate
- 1:30:41Speaker 6: him right now against major league. Pitching AND i don't
- 1:30:44Speaker 6: think he's gonna break camp with the, Club BUT i
- 1:30:48Speaker 6: think what you are seeing is them seeing just how
- 1:30:52Speaker 6: soon they will be able to call them. Up, yeah
- 1:30:55Speaker 6: it's gonna be his. Look is he gonna be sent
- 1:30:56Speaker 6: down to the. Miners he's not gonna face major league.
- 1:30:58Speaker 6: Pitching but it just feels to, me Maybe i'm reading
- 1:31:01Speaker 6: too much into it that they're looking for every opportunity
- 1:31:04Speaker 6: to have him get at bats against major league caliber.
- 1:31:08Speaker 3: Pitchers, well one thing we heard straight From jerry's mouth
- 1:31:11Speaker 3: And justin's both they were both, saying we're not going
- 1:31:14Speaker 3: to be in the business of holding guys. Back if
- 1:31:17Speaker 3: they Say i'm, ready then we're going to find a
- 1:31:19Speaker 3: way and you can do. That there's not a big league,
- 1:31:21Speaker 3: roster maybe outside of The, dodgers that you have to
- 1:31:24Speaker 3: be major League All star caliber ready before we can
- 1:31:29Speaker 3: bring you up to the big, leagues including The. MARINERS
- 1:31:31Speaker 3: i mean there's a couple spots at the end of
- 1:31:33Speaker 3: the roster WHERE i, think you Know Miles. MASTRIMONY i like.
- 1:31:36Speaker 3: HIM i like the way that he plays the. GAME
- 1:31:37Speaker 3: i think he's a. COMPETITOR i think he can go
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: out there and, grind he can play multiple. Positions but
- 1:31:42Speaker 3: he's Not his floor is lower and his ceiling is
- 1:31:45Speaker 3: lower than a guy like Cold. Emerson so if Cold emerson, proves,
- 1:31:49Speaker 3: Hey i'm, ready or if an injury, Happens JP's dealing
- 1:31:52Speaker 3: with some sort of shoulder, thing so that could be
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: adding to some of his usage in spring training games as,
- 1:31:57Speaker 3: well BUT i think it's more so of any way
- 1:32:00Speaker 3: we're going to be able to find out if this
- 1:32:01Speaker 3: kid's ready at the when we break, camp or if
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: he's gonna be ready when we need to call upon
- 1:32:06Speaker 3: him three weeks into the, season or five weeks into the,
- 1:32:08Speaker 3: season or two weeks into the. Season you never know
- 1:32:11Speaker 3: when it comes to injuries and. Whatnot we want to
- 1:32:13Speaker 3: make sure that this guy's gotten every opportunity to get
- 1:32:15Speaker 3: as much exposure to what it's gonna feel like as humanly.
- 1:32:20Speaker 3: Possible so they start making cuts. Here soon they'll start
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: sending guys down because they have like ninety.
- 1:32:24Speaker 1: Guys in spring training right. NOW i, mean it's like.
- 1:32:26Speaker 3: Something it's ungodly how many people they have at big
- 1:32:29Speaker 3: league spring. Training they're gonna start sending guys down this
- 1:32:31Speaker 3: second that minor league camp guys start to. ARRIVE i
- 1:32:35Speaker 3: think Cold emerson's gonna be there for the long Af
- 1:32:37Speaker 3: he'll be there till the last. Cut and even if
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: they've already decided a week or two before that that
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: you're gonna start In TRIPLE, a they're gonna say you're
- 1:32:45Speaker 3: gonna start In TRIPLE. A you'll be down there for
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: the last three days of minor league spring training before
- 1:32:49Speaker 3: you go To. Tacoma we want you to get as
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: many at bats. Here we'll plan on seeing you at
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: some point this, season and you, know for the, future
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: you're gonna be one of our.
- 1:32:57Speaker 1: Dudes, well according To buster only he thinks the plan
- 1:33:00Speaker 1: is by Mid. May like that's the plan like right,
- 1:33:03Speaker 1: now without.
- 1:33:05Speaker 6: An injuries or slumps or. Anything well that they, ideally.
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: What he's hearing is they would like to have him
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: be major league on the major league roster by Mid. May.
- 1:33:19Speaker 1: Wow that's. Fast, well it is very.
- 1:33:21Speaker 3: Fast it's very, fast and obviously at that point you're
- 1:33:24Speaker 3: just kind of looking into the natural order of. Things
- 1:33:27Speaker 3: is out Of Brendan, donovan who's on fire so, far
- 1:33:31Speaker 3: out Of Brendan, DONOVAN, Jp, Crawford Cole, young which are
- 1:33:35Speaker 3: the positions that he would play AND. DH i suppose
- 1:33:39Speaker 3: you could mix that in, there even THOUGH i don't
- 1:33:41Speaker 3: think he's you're going to be bringing him up to
- 1:33:43Speaker 3: TAKE dh at bats that you're figuring. On one of
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: those is going to be something that if he goes
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: down and studs out at TRIPLE a like he did
- 1:33:52Speaker 3: in his short sample size he had last, year then
- 1:33:54Speaker 3: when it's time that he's just, saying, hey you can
- 1:33:56Speaker 3: find army for. You, yeah we're going to have to
- 1:33:58Speaker 3: find room. Somewhere, now that's just they're just in. THERE
- 1:34:02Speaker 3: i Guess buster one's probably saying someone's going to be
- 1:34:05Speaker 3: opening the door to some, degree, Right Cole young is
- 1:34:08Speaker 3: going to not be because If Cole young goes out
- 1:34:10Speaker 3: and plays like a.
- 1:34:11Speaker 6: First Rounder Caul young to, PLAY i think it's not
- 1:34:15Speaker 6: cold or.
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: COAL i don't think that's. IT i really.
- 1:34:18Speaker 6: Not after what after speaking to them down, THERE i
- 1:34:22Speaker 6: Think Cole young's are starting second.
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: BASEMENT i think It's.
- 1:34:25Speaker 6: Emerson to third and Then donovan switches over to that
- 1:34:30Speaker 6: super utility role where he's in the lineup every. Day
- 1:34:33Speaker 6: but it might be D, h might be, smoutfield might
- 1:34:35Speaker 6: be stuff like. That the guy whose roster spot would
- 1:34:39Speaker 6: then come into. Question i'll Just Luke rayley better not
- 1:34:42Speaker 6: get off to a slow. Start he hit a bomb,
- 1:34:44Speaker 6: yesterday he. Did dom Can zone better not get off
- 1:34:47Speaker 6: to a slow start with two options still in his back.
- 1:34:51Speaker 6: Pocket because if their ideal plan is for Cold emerson
- 1:34:56Speaker 6: to be ready By may and contributing to, this they're
- 1:35:00Speaker 6: not calling them up to play a bench, roll right
- 1:35:02Speaker 6: promise you. That then you know a couple veterans maybe
- 1:35:06Speaker 6: looking over their shoulder at this, stage.
- 1:35:09Speaker 3: And rightfully, SO i don't think that any of those
- 1:35:11Speaker 3: names you just mentioned to have done anything that warrants
- 1:35:15Speaker 3: them not looking over their.
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: SHOULDER i, mean that's that is a.
- 1:35:18Speaker 3: Rare air when you get to a place where you
- 1:35:21Speaker 3: are on the big league roster and you know for
- 1:35:23Speaker 3: a fact that you could go oh for spring training
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: and you're still making the. Club this team has a
- 1:35:27Speaker 3: few of, THEM i mean they have more than a.
- 1:35:29Speaker 3: Few but there's definitely some guys that are on the
- 1:35:31Speaker 3: bubble and they know. It they look like they showed
- 1:35:33Speaker 3: up spring training and understanding exactly, that and they're gonna
- 1:35:37Speaker 3: have to go out and perform to make sure they
- 1:35:38Speaker 3: can hold off these.
- 1:35:39Speaker 6: Youngsters young only has one hit so far in the,
- 1:35:41Speaker 6: spring but it was a.
- 1:35:42Speaker 9: Bomb it was a bomb about that.
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: Guy he was some taters, now.
- 1:35:47Speaker 3: Yeah and he needs to mix in more hard, contact,
- 1:35:50Speaker 3: yeah and then the taters will.
- 1:35:51Speaker 1: Come.
- 1:35:51Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 1:35:52Speaker 6: Yeah BUT i didn't know he had that in, him
- 1:35:54Speaker 6: but we saw a couple of them last, year and
- 1:35:56Speaker 6: his first home run of this year was, well four
- 1:35:59Speaker 6: forty three or something like.
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: That, yeah it's, Big it's.
- 1:36:02Speaker 9: Insane all.
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