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8-20: NCAA ridiculousness, Matt Calkins resigns, we hear from Grey Zabel and Trevon Diggs · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: No from the Star Rentals Sports desk. Your ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three JJRFM sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Happy Thursday from Nashville. Headlines have brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by Frostby course, I choose chill. One night after
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  Speaker 2: twenty two to nil. Of course the Mariners left out.
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  Speaker 2: There was seven to nothing leading the second inning of Milwaukee. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course, brows of thirty games over five hundred entering
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  Speaker 2: last night's game, and the Mariners went up seven to
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  Speaker 2: zero on him, and none of the runs came on
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  Speaker 2: home runs. This is how some of them happened. Brant
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  Speaker 2: bouncing ball right to Donovan.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's gonna start a four to six to three
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  Speaker 3: double play. The run will score.
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  Speaker 2: It's a two run game now, but the bases are empty.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, bottom of the ninth, Mariners looking for
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  Speaker 2: the win. Seven to five. They lead, Andres Munos will
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  Speaker 2: take the ball. He'll have to earn it.
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  Speaker 4: There's two outs, ground ball, Roden's got it on the
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  Speaker 4: first ball game, Munyos, and a complete turnaround from last night.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Anderson of Brewers TV on the first clip of
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  Speaker 2: the double play ball and then, of course the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: calls Gary Hill junior first and the radio call Rich
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  Speaker 2: Waltz closing out another perfect inning and save twenty thirty
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  Speaker 2: of the year for Andres Munos. EM's held on to
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  Speaker 2: seven to five win. Trash Cans won, so Seattle is still
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  Speaker 2: four games behind Houston for first place in the American
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  Speaker 2: League West. The EMS are two and a half games
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  Speaker 2: out of the wild card race, thirty five games left.
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  Speaker 2: Game three of the Milwaukee Series today, George Kirby starts
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  Speaker 2: trying to get the Ems a second straight series win.
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  Speaker 2: Then they fly home the host of Cubs this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks are getting on a plane today to fly here
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  Speaker 2: to Nashville joint practice against the Titans tomorrow. Trevon Diggs
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  Speaker 2: expected to be on the plane today and land with
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  Speaker 2: the team tonight. Here today Here, twenty twenty one all
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  Speaker 2: Pro quarterback for the Cowboys signed a one year deal
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  Speaker 2: with Seattle one day after his Seahawks tryout. He said,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to prove that he's still the best
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  Speaker 2: in the games. Some people in Dallas aren't sure he
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  Speaker 2: was ever the best. Hadn't played a full season since
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. That was his second and last Pro
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  Speaker 2: Bowl year. More on this more on Diggs's fit when
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  Speaker 2: he might play, how it affects a Terrriot Arnold situation
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  Speaker 2: during the show. Sounders last night loss yet again at
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  Speaker 2: the stadium, falling behind two nail to Austin in the
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  Speaker 2: second half ninetieth minute goal not enough, two to one loss.
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  Speaker 2: Franchise record eight straight losses in MLS play. Fans are
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  Speaker 2: putting bags on their head inside loom and Field. Coach
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  Speaker 2: Brian Smetzer again pleaded publicly for upper management GM Craig
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  Speaker 2: Wibel owner Adrian Hanauer to get him some more veteran
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  Speaker 2: players and make amid eight injuries to the veterans, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Smitz is just coming out to say it, I need
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  Speaker 2: more guys.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he is a pretty candid dude.
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  Speaker 2: He's twice now after matches. He said that Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 2: nose tackle vidavea former Washington Husky star, ended his hold
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  Speaker 2: in with the Buccaneers, signed a one year extension gives
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  Speaker 2: him an additional six million this year twenty four million
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  Speaker 2: for twenty twenty seven. Houston Texas and wide receiver Jayden
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  Speaker 2: Higgins out for the season. Torn acl I got in
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  Speaker 2: the joint practice with the Raiders. A lot of joint
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  Speaker 2: practice around the league this week Patriots and Eagles. AJ
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  Speaker 2: Brown lighting up the Eagles yesterday. Hey, remember the Soundview
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  Speaker 2: Little League team the coach Kyle Yarborough we interviewed the
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  Speaker 2: other day from William Springs, Frankie McCabe, and Winston Weaver
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  Speaker 2: combined to throw seven shutout innings for Soundview with Tacoma
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  Speaker 2: team at the Little League World Series beat Phoenix City,
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  Speaker 2: Alabama to nothing in the first game. Phoenix City, Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Jessman, I don't know if you noticed,
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  Speaker 2: had a girl pitching seven shutout innings, six shutout innings
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  Speaker 2: with eight strikeouts yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Of Davis Man, I remember get that mentioned Davis.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, they had a ninth girl to ever
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  Speaker 2: pitch in the College World Series. You might say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the nine, what's the big deal? There have been thirty
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  Speaker 2: three hundred kids in the Little League World Series.
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  Speaker 5: It is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's a huge deal. And she threw six shutout innings
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  Speaker 2: with eight strikeouts against the sound View Tacoma team before
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  Speaker 2: Soundview want it in the extra inning seven to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Great job for Kyle Yarbow and the boys down at
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  Speaker 2: Tacoma and Williamsport. Now it's a Thursday show, Greg Belle,
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  Speaker 2: News Tribune.
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  Speaker 6: The least it is.
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  Speaker 2: Man, You get off the plane and the humidity just
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  Speaker 2: strikes you. I mean it's bam.
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  Speaker 5: We are a little blessed out here with the lack
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you complained about eighty five, get ninety with
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  Speaker 2: about ninety percent humidity. It's a different deal here. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the Seahawks will be practicing in tomorrow. I'm here
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  Speaker 2: in advance of the team landing just when McIntyre's back
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  Speaker 2: at the Elliott Base Studios in downtown Seattle. Good morning, ma'am,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not jealous of that humidity. So sometimes i'm jealous
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  Speaker 7: of where you are when I can't be there.
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  Speaker 5: Today is not one of those days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've done your sideline duty at Auburn and you
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  Speaker 2: know exactly what this is. Seahawks will be here tomorrow. Today.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow they have a joint practice and then what guys
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  Speaker 2: are looking to forward to. Almost as much as the
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  Speaker 2: joint practice is the rookie talent show that's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen Friday night.
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  Speaker 7: I forget that they do these fun things.
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  Speaker 2: They will tell you that last year the bonding they
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  Speaker 2: had in the Rookie Talent Show and the outing in
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay propelled them to the super Bowl. It further
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  Speaker 2: bonded their togetherness. And they think that togetherness is the
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  Speaker 2: unique special sauce that Mike McDonald's created in Seattle to
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  Speaker 2: get into be Super Bowl champs. Well, because they had
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  Speaker 2: such a great time last year and because it's such
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  Speaker 2: a great time here in that outing two years ago
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  Speaker 2: when they had the Titans and joint practice in a
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  Speaker 2: preseason game, they are looking forward to Friday night. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to a barbecue place. It's got a stage. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they played music.
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  Speaker 7: Oh so there was some planning that went into this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. And they got a hotel that's right near
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  Speaker 2: the barbecue plays and it's a giant barbecue plays with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of tables, picnic tables, open seating, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a stage in the back. And that's where they had
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  Speaker 2: the talent show. And two years ago.
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  Speaker 8: We were here.
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  Speaker 2: It was apparently off the hook some guys. So you'll
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  Speaker 2: see Friday night Saturday morning Seahawks posting on their social
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  Speaker 2: media accounts clips of the Rookie Talent Show.
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  Speaker 7: They probably have to have a review process.
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  Speaker 2: Assuming well, but they should they do?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely should I never, you know, with the joint practices
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  Speaker 7: and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Was p Carroll not the biggest fan of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he absolutely abhorted. Yeah, he said that he
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  Speaker 2: would never do that because he didn't want the other
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  Speaker 2: team or the league to figure out what the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are doing, even if it was just how they run practice.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's opposite. He wants his Ones to go against
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  Speaker 2: the Ones in a controlled environment, and he uses the
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  Speaker 2: joint practice as their preseason game. Tomorrow will be the
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  Speaker 2: only time the Ones play the Ones, and the only
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  Speaker 2: time we're going to see Sam Darnold and Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 2: and Jigba. That's why I'm here because that is their
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  Speaker 2: most important preseason event, this joint practice, and the coaches
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  Speaker 2: get to blow the whistle if guys get too close
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback. Yeah, there'll be fights. Yeah, Devin Witherspoon's gonna
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  Speaker 2: mouth off and get everybody of the Titans mat That's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 7: And it's gonna be awesome because that is his strength
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  Speaker 7: and they wanted McDonald wants it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he's not tamping that down.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, he wants them to push it. And maybe
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  Speaker 2: go across that line a little bit. So, Yeah, as
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  Speaker 2: long as dudes don't take off their helmets and start
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  Speaker 2: flinging them at each other, which happens too, then that's
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  Speaker 2: when it drosses the line. And but McDonald is gonna
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  Speaker 2: make sure he tells those guys just keep your helmets on,
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  Speaker 2: don't use a hand to hit a helmet, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: You saw Kenneth Walker. I thought Kenneth Walker fight, his
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  Speaker 2: fight in Kansas City Chiefs Practice a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago is brilliant. He just did a suplex takedown of
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  Speaker 2: a guy and just tackled him.
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  Speaker 7: He's a nine point, he's obviously stacked when it comes
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  Speaker 7: to his body, but he's not like the biggest dude.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But that's a smart way not to get hurt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just rugby roll somebody to the ground. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: the way to fight. So that's the kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that Sea Hawks will be talking about. But yeah, they're
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  Speaker 2: already talking about this rookie talent show. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: on Friday Night. That's gonna be the highlight of most of.
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  Speaker 7: The guess we'll hear from grades Abel later on in
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  Speaker 7: the show at ten forty five.
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  Speaker 5: But I know that he just went through it.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, so he has the most tangible information.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he does. And you will hear what he did
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  Speaker 2: last year. It may surprise some of you. He claimed
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  Speaker 2: he was pretty good at it. You'll hear what his
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  Speaker 2: skit was coming up, that is at ten forty five. Well,
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  Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock you're hear Tron Diggs why he signed
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  Speaker 2: with Seattle over to Detroit who he also visited, and others,
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  Speaker 2: what his goal is. Here we'll talk about the fit,
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  Speaker 2: how it affects a Terry on Arnold's situation, and then
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about a ridiculous, I mean ridiculous development
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  Speaker 2: in the already ridiculous world of Jessman's college football. NFL
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  Speaker 2: players currently in training camps, including a Seahawk, may have
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  Speaker 2: just become eligible to play college football again. As in
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  Speaker 2: beginning this week. It's come on, it's unbelievable. A judge
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  Speaker 2: in Louisiana has granted a temporary restraining order that will
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  Speaker 2: enable players who are currently in NFL training camps to
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  Speaker 2: go back and play college football with a next year
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  Speaker 2: of eligibility.
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  Speaker 7: And we're all under the assumption this is obviously not starters.
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  Speaker 7: These are guys that are going to get cut when
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  Speaker 7: they do the cut down to fifty three.
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  Speaker 2: There was a dude for the Buccaneers, a line We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about this, but there's a linebacker for the
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  Speaker 2: Buccaneers who had two sacks in a preseason NFL preseason
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  Speaker 2: game last week who is now eligible to go by
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  Speaker 2: this court order to go back to college football. He
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  Speaker 2: played for LSU last year. Two sacks for the Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 2: They're a pro team, by the way. The Buccaneers in
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  Speaker 2: a preseason.
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  Speaker 7: Game A nice reminder, by the way, they still are
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  Speaker 7: a pro team. They did not yet relegated, and.
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  Speaker 2: This cat could be playing Nickels State or whoever the
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  Speaker 2: hell LSU opens with in two weeks. College in the college,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about this. College presidents are just asleep
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  Speaker 2: at the switch.
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  Speaker 5: They have been for ages.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, afraid to get ensued so they don't do
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  Speaker 2: a damn thing and watch the money roll in. It's
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  Speaker 2: just Groves. We'll talk about that development out of Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get the agent of TJ. Hard
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  Speaker 2: Why am I talking about TJ.
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  Speaker 8: Harden?
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  Speaker 2: Remember the Seahawks running back who just ran straight into
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  Speaker 2: the line at the goal line the other night, and
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  Speaker 2: the failed three plays the Seahawks had on the first
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  Speaker 2: and goal from the five against Dallas. Well, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: cut TJ. Harden, undrafted rookie from SMU after that performance.
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  Speaker 2: He also cut the other undrafted running back, rookie running
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  Speaker 2: back Jones, who did the same thing in the same series.
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  Speaker 2: They cut those two. Well, TJ. Harden is part of
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  Speaker 2: this sixteen players that are in this judge's rolling in Louisiana. TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Harden is now contemplating and is eligible to enter the
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  Speaker 2: college football Portal and play college football, not next year,
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  Speaker 2: next week. He just played for the Seahawks last weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to go into the portal and can be
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  Speaker 2: eligible now because of this judge's ordered to play college
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  Speaker 2: football next week. Four nine, four to five. One is
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  Speaker 2: enough enough in college football? Are you to the point
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, I'm done or are you so like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's great, I'll just still keep watching.
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  Speaker 7: I think that the loyalty that comes with college football
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  Speaker 7: will precede everything.
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  Speaker 5: It'll you know, override and the majority of those feelings.
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  Speaker 7: But some people are just going to be like, I'm
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  Speaker 7: waiting till Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Are we in college football? Are we just rooting for
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  Speaker 2: laundry right now? Are we just rooting for colors because
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  Speaker 2: the players come and go?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So what are we paying for? And what are we
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  Speaker 2: cheering for? Are we cheering for because they're crimson for
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  Speaker 2: the Kuges and purple for the Huskies? Are we cheering
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  Speaker 2: for colors? Are we actually cheering for players? Coaches? It's
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  Speaker 2: tougher and tougher to do that when dudes are coming
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  Speaker 2: and going, when dudes are entering the NFL and now
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  Speaker 2: coming back to college, right, I mean, come on, Walter
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  Speaker 2: Jones has college eligibility left while we're at it, technically
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  Speaker 2: he only played four years at Florida State. Bring them
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  Speaker 2: back for a fifth year? I mean where do we stop? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, and then you look at I mean, guys
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  Speaker 7: without big contracts and everything, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 7: this is it probably nil deals flying at someone who's
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  Speaker 7: had NFL experience, who still has eligibility. And also with
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  Speaker 7: the way this is one judge right sore how this
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  Speaker 7: would go and if it all of a sudden gets
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  Speaker 7: overturned in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly right, like this could change at any moment if.
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  Speaker 2: They appeal it or if a school it. But but
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing. Schools and meaning college presidents don't stand
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  Speaker 2: in the way of any of this because they're afraid
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  Speaker 2: to get ensued and are they're already their budgets are
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  Speaker 2: already tightened because they have to share revenue. The last
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  Speaker 2: thing they want is a lawsuit in legal fees that
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  Speaker 2: the university has to pay for. When some of these
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  Speaker 2: universities are subsidizing athletic programs so they can revenue share.
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  Speaker 2: Many schools in Division I call it by big time
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  Speaker 2: power for college football, and even smaller ones are using
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  Speaker 2: student fees to pay for revenue sharing for college football
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  Speaker 2: and basketball play. Now, how do you make that feel?
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  Speaker 2: If you're a parent of a geology major at you
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  Speaker 2: dub and you're paying for Demon Williams to come back
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  Speaker 2: to school. Come on, maybe that geology student isn't even
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  Speaker 2: hasn't even gone to a football game, and you're going
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  Speaker 2: to raise the bill, the tuition bill on a college parent,
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  Speaker 2: so that our football team can keep the quarterback or
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  Speaker 2: the wide receiver. The right, that's happening in college football
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's bad.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I've been pissed for years now. As you
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  Speaker 7: might imagine, yes, considering.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine you're watching it up close so here. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just unbelievable. So attorneys are getting paid. In this story
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  Speaker 2: yesterday from On three Sports that broke this story about
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  Speaker 2: this ruling temporary restraining order by a judge down in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 2: Attorneys on the case are Ryan Downton and Mark Pepper. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what those dudes are getting paid to. The lawyers
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  Speaker 2: are getting paid, players are getting paid, and we're getting
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  Speaker 2: stuff like NFL players eligible for college football next week.
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  Speaker 2: This is from the On three Sports story. Per the
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  Speaker 2: signed order by the judge in Louisiana, the sixteen college
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  Speaker 2: football players named in the complaint will be allowed to
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  Speaker 2: enter the transfer portal. The NCAA's rule of restitution and
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  Speaker 2: the ghost transfer rule are also enjoined. Quote from the
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  Speaker 2: temporary restraining order by the judge Louisiana quote the NCAA
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  Speaker 2: is ordered to open the transfer portal from one week
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  Speaker 2: for one week from entry of this order, meaning today
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  Speaker 2: a judge in Louisiana is just ruling that college football
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  Speaker 2: is now open to a transfer portal in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of preseason practice, out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 7: Out of nowhere, there's no foresight. They're reactive and not proactive.
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  Speaker 7: The NCAA has been for ages.
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  Speaker 2: But let's not forget Jessaman, I brought you know this,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to bring it up again for the listeners.
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  Speaker 2: The NCAA is not just a building in Indianapolis, a lifeless,
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  Speaker 2: faceless And it's not just what was Mark Emmert and
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  Speaker 2: now the new Prayer. It's not them. It's the member institutions.
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  Speaker 2: All the legislation, all the rules that the NCAA has
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't have and watches it stand by, is voted
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  Speaker 2: on by the members the schools and not the athletic directors,
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  Speaker 2: but the college presidents. And the college presidents are so
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  Speaker 2: fearful of lawsuits that they have just decided to throw
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  Speaker 2: up their hands since the House settlement and say, forget it,
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  Speaker 2: we're not challenging anything transfer portal, sure, nil deals. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about legislating that. Whatever.
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  Speaker 7: They could have thought about it with Obanon all the
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  Speaker 7: way back in the day, that's right in.
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  Speaker 2: Video games and all that. And meanwhile they were building
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  Speaker 2: palaces and paying coaches ten million a year and not
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  Speaker 2: giving the players anything. I'm all for the players getting paid,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not for lawlessness and allowed them to have anything
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  Speaker 2: goes and dudes off the street becoming agents of college
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  Speaker 2: players and taking twenty twenty five percent of their NIL
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  Speaker 2: deal when NFL agents only get three percent.
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  Speaker 7: Year old players who don't know anything about any of that,
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  Speaker 7: and they just have a guy get in their ear
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  Speaker 7: who could be a grease ball.
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  Speaker 5: I mean not saying they all are, but could be.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of them.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of them that will just go, I
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  Speaker 7: can get you this, that and that, and they make
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  Speaker 7: promises that they're not legally obligated to keep.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Also, so there's a there's a player on the Seahawks
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: roster right now, Anthony Hankerson, who played college football for
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: a couple of years of Colorado. He finished his career
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: at Oregon State. He ran over the Huskies one game.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: He's just got signed last week to the Seahawks, and
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: it actually is this week. Right after they cut those
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: two running backs, including TJ. Harden, they brought in Hankerson.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Hankerson is one of the sixteen people named in this
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: complaint who just got eligibility yesterday by this temporary restraining
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: order by judge in Louisiana. If Anthony Hankerson feels like it,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: he doesn't have to get on the plane to go
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: to the Seahawks today. He may in fact make more
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: money and play more by going back to college football.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And he's on the Seahawks roster right now. That is
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: how absurd this, I mean, seriously, it's Walter Jones, Matt Hasselbeck,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Max Strong, Hey, Sean Allen's there, come on down. If
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: you haven't played five years, now that it's five years
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: now that it is.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Which it wasn't for that correct, But now, so.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Let's go judge in there and say, hey, Walter Jones,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you got an extra year oldgibility, come on back. It's
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: just I mean, draw a line somewhere please. And the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: college presidents won't, no, they won't. But they'll collect the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: TV revenue from ESPN, they'll collect the college football playoff revenue,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: they'll collect season ticket revenue, but they won't do a
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: damn thing about stuff like this. When someone needs to
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: stand up and say, nah, we're not no, they are eligible. No,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: we're not playing players who are in NFL training camps
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: on our college campuses. No, we're not doing it, and
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: no one's doing that. Four nine four five one is
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the talk back line will read back your text at
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: eleven thirty. Like Jessman and I those of us that
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: have been in college football, I still, as I mentioned,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: teach at the University of interco Collegiate athletic leadership for
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: coaches and athletic directors. I have to deal with these
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: issues all the time in class with them, and they
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: bring up questions like what do we do? How do
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: we And my advice right that now to them is
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: go to pros and go to high school. Stay the
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: hell out of college sports if you want a job,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: because we don't know what tomorrow is going to be,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: and we don't know what the budgets of athletic departments
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: already even hire you anymore. And just when they hire you,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: they can fire you because they need your money to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: go pay the backup quarterback up next.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: I think that you said it all just well.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I feel like I just stepped on a soapbox again.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: But I like that soapbox. I'm there with you. I'm
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: making sure you don't slip off of it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. It's life boy from Nashville. Up next,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Why did the Seahawks sign Trevon Diggs? What's it due
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to the agreement they have to sign Tara and Arnold.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: We'll explain all of that. Ten forty five you'll here
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: from Gray's abel and what he didat year in the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Rookie Talent Show. He was impressed with himself by the way.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Eleven o'clock fill here from Trevon Diggs himself. I'm here
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: in Nashville before the Seahawks get here. On ninety three
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. Hi, welcome back, Craig Bell in Nashville,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Jessmen McIntyre back in Seattle, and our Elliott Bay Studios.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: On ninety three point three KJRFM. Why am I in
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Nashville because the Seahawks are going to be here in
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a few hours. They're flying here right now. I'm here
• 19:39
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• 19:41
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• 19:45
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• 19:47
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• 19:49
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• 19:51
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• 19:56
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• 20:00
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• 20:04
  Speaker 2: the Titans is tomorrow. I'll be on the edge of
• 20:05
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• 20:09
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• 20:11
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• 20:16
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• 20:33
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• 20:34
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• 20:37
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• 20:39
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• 20:41
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• 20:43
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• 20:47
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• 20:50
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• 20:54
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• 20:57
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• 21:00
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• 21:03
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• 21:06
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• 21:10
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• 21:13
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• 21:15
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• 21:18
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• 21:31
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• 21:33
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• 21:38
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• 21:41
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• 21:46
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• 21:50
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• 21:52
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• 21:54
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• 21:55
  Speaker 7: I like the voices on the air, No, I just
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: always liked them, and I think that we've especially with
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: your opening segment on what's going on in college football.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: I really want to hear people's opinions on that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: If you missed it off the top. A judge in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Louisiana has granted a temporary restraining order, which is effectively
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: law until someone else challenges it or appeals it, that
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: sixteen players whose college eligibility they thought had ended can
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: go back and play another year. Part of it is
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the five years of eligibility that every college player now
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: gets as of six months ago. Included in that list
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: is TJ. Harden. He can now go back to play
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: college football. He played for the Seahawks last weekend. He
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: can play college football tomorrow next week in the opener
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in ten days. And also on that list is Anthony Hankerson,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: who's currently on the Seahawks roster as a running back
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: rookie from Oregon State and Colorado is now eligible to
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: play college football if he so chooses. I'll be looking
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: to Marriscie if Anthony Hankerson's on the field here and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: If he's not, that means you didn't get on the play.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Be go back to play college football. The judge's orders
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: says that the players in the complaints, sixteen of them,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: including a Buccaneers linebacker from LSU who had two sacks
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: in an NFL preseason game last week, can go into
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the transfer portal effective immediately. Immediately. What are we doing?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: That's four nine four talkback. We will play those back
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: at eleven thirty. Okay, yesterday Trevon Jiggs Tuesday he tried out.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yesterday he signed. It was one of the quickest turnarounds
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I can remember. Why. Well, the Seahawks are pivoting here
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: in a practical sense as their third quarterback corner with
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a sea back situation. It's obvious Mike McDonald does not
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: like what he has currently. He started camp with Neemaiah Pritchett,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the unproven third year vet that they got in the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: draft out of Auburn. A few years ago. He was
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the third cornerback with Josh Job and Devin Witherspoon relate. Recently,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they've gone to Noah Igbinoghany, who we interviewed a couple
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. The eight year veteran that Dan Quinn
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: turned into a nickelback for the Washington Commanders a couple
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: years go and changed his career. Well, Nicol is where
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: he's been playing more instead of Pritchett. Pritchett had been
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: moving outside. Witherspoon has gone an inside when they went
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the three cornerbacks at the starter camp. Now Witherspoon is
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: sometimes staying outside when Igmanogheny comes in in scrimmages to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: play nickel. Well, here comes Trevon Diggs. Twenty one All
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Pro with the Dallas Cowboys led the league with eleven
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: interceptions and two returns for touchdowns that year. The next year,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, is third in the NFL after the
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Cowboys drafted him in the second round Alabama twenty twenty two.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: He was also a Pro Bowl selection. Twenty twenty two
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: is the last year that Trevon Diggs has played an
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: entire season in the league. So that's one red alarm
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and that's partly why he was available in mid August
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: last year. Jessmon, do you know how he got uninjured
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: reserve and missed half the season? I don't. He got
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a concussion. Okay, you think, Well, he got.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: A week to ten days. Maybe correct.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you think, okay, he got a concussion, maybe
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: head to head home, up to home of contact. Right, No,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: he got a concussion in his house. I asked him
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: about this concussion yesterday and he told me the story
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: had been Gentilator down in Dallas wrote this story last winter,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and I just wanted to confirm the details were true.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: He was installing a television into the wall of his
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: house at home.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Oh man, the television guy for that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the television slipped out of his hand and fell
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on his head.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Oh that's awful and a concussion. This is a guy
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: who gets hit for a living.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: How big is that tv? Was it like ninety inches?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I mean that the NFL? That must be a theater television.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: There's different ways you can get concussions. I've had three
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: in my life, and some of them seem more innocuous
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: than the other big hits that you've tried to concussion.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: That explains everything.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Just I'm going to say the listeners will not be
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: surprised to hear that. Well, it was all sports related,
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: but some of them, the impact that I had did
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: not seem you know, concussion worthy.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: But it can happen.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: But didn't you play volleyball?
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: I did, But the floor does not lie Greg when
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: you're diving for a ball and your head is the
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: first thing to hit the turf. I also yeah, I
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: also got one when I was playing on a playground
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: when I was younger, and a lacrosse net, you know
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: the big metal bars and everything that were just on this.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: You know, it was probably like ten The whole thing
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: came down because we were all playing on it, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: that literally landed. My head hit the grass and the
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: bar fell right on my forehead. So I got one
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: of those. I also got one from a horse.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yes you are in equestrian, Yes, uh fell off the horse?
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: No I did not. I was walking the horse back.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You got hoofed.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: Nope, neck, You would not think that that would do that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: But the horse got spooked, you know, so all of
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: the tacking was off and everything, just walking it back
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: to a barn and it got spooked by a sheet
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: that was blowing in the wind and it went whoof.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: I got lifted up off the ground and his whole
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: neck Thank god it wasn't his face because that's all bones.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: Lifted me off the ground. And you know the horse
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: ran away. It wasn't going at me or anything, and anyway,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: I landed on the ground, broken nose, two black eyes,
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: and then concussion to boot.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: How old were you when that happened?
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Thirteen? Wow, the only true athletic.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Concussion I got was playing volleyball.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Your college football coach's father must be proud of you
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: for having three concussions. Oh, very different ways.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, my head was throbbing with that horse
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: one and just looks at me and he goes, oh,
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: you're going to have two really good shiners tomorrow. He
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: was so proud of the fact that I was going
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: to have some true black eyes.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've met just recognized father. He is sawt of
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the earth. I mean, like a caricter. If you could
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: pick out what a college football coach should look like,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: he is a year poor john, no nonsense crew cut.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: He's the guy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: He was walking around during the Army Navy game and
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: people were taking him for a service.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I could totally see that. He looks like I bet
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: colonels and sergeant majors who don't look as formidable as
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: your dad. I can totally see that. Yeah, that's awesome.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Coach Mac has still got it. I can tell you that.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: But that was me at thirteen. Yes, he was so
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: proud of the fact that I would have two Shiners
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: as his firstborn daughter.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, so, why well, how does Trevon Diggs signing? First
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: of all, when's he gonna play? Well, I asked him,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: do you think you could play in the last preseason?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: He's not gonna play in this one because he hasn't
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: been on the field since January, when he played two
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: games with the Green Bay Packers after Cowboys cut him
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: following the TV falling on his face. He came back.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: He played total of just seven games last year for
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys. They released him at the end of December.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: The Packers signed him. He played one regular season finale,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: one playoff game. I think he had one tackle in
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: one play, and then they cut him in mid January.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: He's been out since then. Why well, One is he
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: hasn't played a full season since twenty twenty two. He
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: just he's going to turn twenty eight next month. The
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: other reason is, just when we've talked about this, it's
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the same thing as the Aaron Donald deal down in LA.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: These veterans, once they get to their upper twenties, early thirties.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: They don't want to be coming into training camp in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: August and tenth fifteenth. And it's a grind, guys.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Walter Drones special right there, exactly.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Walter Jones used to just good reference. Walter Jones used
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: to push trucks down in his hometown in Alabama until
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: he just damn well felt like he wanted to come
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and to be ready. And if you're a Hall of Famer,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: you knew what every hell you want. Just show up
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: when the games get real. Well, Tron Diggs doesn't want
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to come into training camp on August the first or
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: July the twenty fifth. He wants to come in when
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you Donald pleases. And because he had multiple suitors that
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: he had tried out or visited with the Detroit Lions,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: he said he had other They always say this, but
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: they said they had other teams interested as well. Why
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: do you choose a Seahawks familiarity is college? The college
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: coach is defensive backs coach at Alabama is Carl Scott,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: now the Seahawks defensive backs coach. He played on the
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Cowboys with DeMarcus Lawrence at in Dirty the Seahawks defensive
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: coordinator was his defensive line coach when he was in
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the secondary in Dallas. Noah Igbinoghany was a teammate. Dante
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Fowler was a teammate in Dallas. Josh Job was a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: teammate of Diggs in Alabama. Familiarity is why he said
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: he's here. But he picked his time and picked a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: spot and here he is. Okay, when can he play?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: He won't play this weekend. I asked him about Kansas
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: City next Friday. He said, maybe he's got to get
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in football shit, because he hasn't been in pads for
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: what eight months now, seven and a half months. So
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: how's this effect Terry on Arnold? Well, as we talked
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: about yesterday, But if he missed it, there is no
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: impetus now that the commissioner is going to put him
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: on the exemp list as soon as Arnold signs with
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. There's no reason to sign him now because
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: if you do so, you're going to have to cut
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: somebody off the ninety man roster. So why not wait
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: until the end of the preseason. After that Kansas City
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: game on August twenty eighth, cuts our August thirtieth, they're
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: going to sign him on August twenty ninth, because they
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: will already have the evaluations done of all ninety players,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: they knew who they want to cut. Anyway, they'll cut
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: a one dude and bring on Arnold on the twenty ninth.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: The legal put him on the exemp list on the thirtieth,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and that way he'll be roster example, without taking up
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: somebody who you were evaluating in the preseason, because the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: evaluation will be over after the Kansas City preseason game.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: So that's what the Arnold situation stands now, a layaway
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: deal for sure that perhaps he could play later in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the season if the legal process goes his way. In
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the meantime, they now have a cornerback of veteran cornback
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: who can play in practice right now, and that's Trevon Diggs.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: He'll get a chance to be the third cornerback behind
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Josh job which teammate at Alabama, and Devin Witherspoon four
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: nine four y five one. Your reaction to all of that,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: if you believe they should just abandon the terry On
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Arnold pursuit now that they've got Trevon Diggs, it's how
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: it's not worth it. We will read back your text
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: at eleven thirty up next Gray's Abel. He enjoys this
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: weekend in particular because of the rookie talent show that
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: comes after the joint practice tomorrow. And well you'll hear
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: from grays Abel and what he did last year as
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a rookie in his talent show performance. It might surprise you.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Eleven o'clock you'll hear from Trevon Diggs himself before the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Seahawks get here to Nashville on ninety three point three KJRFM, Hi,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: welcome back to Nashville, Greg Bell, News Tribune, Jesse and
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: McIntyre back in Seattle and their Elliott Bay studios were
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: on every day ten am the noon on ninety three
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. You're gonna hear from Trevon Diggs after
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Right now, you're gonna hear from Gray's Abel,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the rookie left guard, stud rookie left guard, last year,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: first round draft pick. He's gonna tell us on what
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: the value of this joint practice weekend in Nashville is.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And it's not all on the field, Okay, When.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: You were a rookie last year, you guys went on
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: the road for a joint practice.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: What did that kind of extra.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: Time on the road would the team do for terms
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: of bond and getting to know everybody as a newcomer
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: to the team.
• 33:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean when we went to Green Bay last year,
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: that's kind of when we realized how special of the
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: team that we had went there. I thought we had
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: a fairly good joint practice versus them. And then you
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: obviously get to have their rookie talent show to kind
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: of bring the team together and have fun and have
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: the joys of being a football team. And then uh,
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: just kind of brought us together and showed us kind
• 33:49
  Speaker 11: of our first road trip together to kind of how
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: things work and how to operate and what to expect.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: The trick best memory of the rookie talent.
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: Showing same day, man, I think Fed's Mariachi band has
• 34:03
  Speaker 11: got to be up there. That was that was very
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: impressive and brought the whole singing and everything with it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: So probably that what did you do? Okay, just spit
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: some bars. Thanks, the future got after it, you know,
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: day one.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Install Creature one of your faves.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just kyp.
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: Know your personnel and go out there and do your
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: best blasting that level tractor.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I hope sure.
• 34:30
  Speaker 12: Where do you Where do you feel like you guys'
• 34:32
  Speaker 12: running game is right now when you're out throw on
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: the field and the practices and everything.
• 34:36
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, obviously there's a lot to improve across
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: the entire board, but I think it showed really good
• 34:43
  Speaker 11: signs of how we're kind of projecting and and getting
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: better every single day. And when you're going against the
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: front like ours, it's a your find out your deficiencies
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: and what you need to get better at a very
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: rapid rate in practice, so at the end of the
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: day you can always improve and never finished product.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: How do you think this joint practice will help you
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: guys in careers on that?
• 35:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's just maybe a different scheme, different front,
• 35:08
  Speaker 11: different type of defense, and how they play certain formations
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: and certain run games and stuff. So it kind of
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: give us a different view on things. And then obviously
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: it just kind of shows you a little marker stick
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: of where we're at and how we need to improve
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: and and and give us a good kind of spotlight
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: on what to expect come this season.
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: I can say you guys obviously got you guys go
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: against the best in the NFL. All the time here,
• 35:32
  Speaker 12: but Jeffrey Simmons is really good too, and he'll be
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: going up against him too.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: I just getting that kind of experience or something like.
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: This that be awesome.
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, he's one of the best to ever play
• 35:42
  Speaker 11: three techs, So he's a guy that you It's one
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: of those deals.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: We we love going against competition.
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: We don't straight away from it, and we want to
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: be the best we can be, So you got to
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: go and compete against the best. And I think it'll
• 35:53
  Speaker 11: be awesome to go out there and compete Friday and
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: possibly Sunday against him, and then going and and kind
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: of see what you're up against and improve and get
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: better and compete.
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: A few of your linemates have talked about John Benn
• 36:05
  Speaker 13: having kind of that old school coach and approach, but
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: away from the field, having some different ways of the
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: e reigious players Google Earth in particular something to feel
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: and mentioned like, what have you learned about him over
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: the course of the last year plus in terms of
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: away from the field and how he is able to
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: approach you guys.
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the best way to describe it is
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: there's a method to his madness. The stuff we do
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: to bond and get to know each other and take
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: breaks from meetings and get back to learning and all
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: that stuff. And how he coaches is there's a method
• 36:38
  Speaker 11: to everything that he does. I mean, he's one of
• 36:41
  Speaker 11: the best offensive line coaches that I've been around and
• 36:43
  Speaker 11: in the NFL to say the least. So he's done
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: a super high level and taken us to places there
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: we didn't even think were possible. So it's one of
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: those deals where you just got to keep knows of
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: the grindstone and just trust him and trust his process
• 36:59
  Speaker 11: and understand that he's coaching you because he loves you
• 37:02
  Speaker 11: and he wants the best out of you, and and
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: and you got to understand that.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: He'd do for your to have him as your coach,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: in particular your rookie season.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: How did that?
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, if you would have saw me during ot as
• 37:15
  Speaker 11: my rookie year and you you would have said, what
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: is this guy doing at the Seattle Seahawks and then
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: just him coaching me and helped me understand the game
• 37:22
  Speaker 11: and a different lens and just staying on the process
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: of of process over results.
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: And ended up being an okay rookie year.
• 37:33
  Speaker 11: And but there's a lot to build on and he's
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: understood that, and he continues to coach me every single day.
• 37:37
  Speaker 11: And you got to give where credit is due to
• 37:41
  Speaker 11: to the unbelievable coach person leader.
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: Just he's the best.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: How were you a mess your working medicare?
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: I mean when you're going against some o best and
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: you're you're new to the the NFL, it's uh you
• 37:59
  Speaker 11: you get get taken to the woodshed quite oftenly so
• 38:03
  Speaker 11: that yeah, but at the end, it's what during the
• 38:07
  Speaker 11: week doesn't have to look pretty.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: He's just got to be there on Sunday.
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: Do you ride when you win?
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: Moment?
• 38:11
  Speaker 14: Mike talks about rookies in the fog last year when
• 38:14
  Speaker 14: that flog lifted at all or was it any.
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: Certain game, And it's just a continued improvement process.
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: For Yeah, I think I think you said it perfectly,
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: like just continue to improve day after day, a week
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: after week, and then you get into the regular season
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: and then the game every single week starts to slow
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: down a little bit more and more, and then by
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: the end of the day, you're thinking you're out going
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: out there on Sunday and playing some of your best
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: ball because you've gotten every look throughout the week and
• 38:41
  Speaker 11: you understand what the opponent's gonna do, the looks, the blitzes,
• 38:46
  Speaker 11: the types of coverages that kind of show things, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 11: then when you get there on Sunday, the fog kind
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: of lifts and you can play fast and free because
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: you know you've kind.
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: Of put in the work and the preparation for it.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: What are you learning about Brian Fleury as a coach or.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: As a person?
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: Just seems like theman dot com. It's a good dude,
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: unbelievable coach. Love his his run first mentality and we're
• 39:09
  Speaker 11: gonna enjoy it. And he's doing an unbelievable job so far.
• 39:12
  Speaker 11: And I know he kind of demands excellence and I
• 39:15
  Speaker 11: love that out of a coach, and he's gonna hold
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: us to a standard and not waiver.
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: You mentioned the bond that you guys have, the offensive line,
• 39:22
  Speaker 13: the fine system that you guys haven't place.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: How have you seen that change this year?
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: Being a year two, I saw Jalen Sundell was taking
• 39:28
  Speaker 13: a video, so I'm wondering if that that may have
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: been a part of your system.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's it's one of those deals.
• 39:38
  Speaker 11: It's, uh, we have a fine system and obviously talking
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: to you guys, that would be a fine, but at
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: the end of the day, it's it's something we do
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: to have fun, keep it lighthearted in the old line
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: room and kind of keep everything happy, go lucky, and
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: then at the end of the year you normally take
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: an old line trip, but last year I think we
• 39:57
  Speaker 11: just kind of donated throughout the staff, throughout the team
• 40:00
  Speaker 11: and stuff because it was the middle of February and
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: we weren't really looking to schedule an no line trip.
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: Everyone want to go home after Super Bowl, So it's one.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Of those deals. I'd gladly do that year after year.
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: And this year I'm not getting fined as much, not
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: being a rookie, but yeah, I was still yet, Yeah, poor.
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: Boat because he's the only rookie.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: You're not going no the Bow Show does not get
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: a break gray out on his hype man duties.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: A lot to.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: Improve, but it's you got to get through the storm.
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: You gotta get through a fog in those duties, and
• 40:34
  Speaker 11: luckily there's I don't think there's any more fan practices,
• 40:37
  Speaker 11: but uh, it's one of those deals. Just gotta wear
• 40:39
  Speaker 11: it on the chin and it's never gonna be good.
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: Enough, I do you think I'll do THEE.
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't very promising the first
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: one back in ot A S. But I try and
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: give him pointers and help all that stuff and we'll
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: go from there.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Did the old lineman put him up to the mc
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: gig or is.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: That did you guys?
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: No?
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: Last year it was JB's I did to do the
• 41:03
  Speaker 11: rookie height machine for the fans and stuff, and it
• 41:06
  Speaker 11: was kind of one of those deals that first day
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: of fan practice, he told us in meetings and we're
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: all kind of looking around and then it was just
• 41:14
  Speaker 11: one of those deals you just had to take it
• 41:15
  Speaker 11: and run with it, and it was It was good
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: from there.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: He appreciate you today.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Gray's able yesterday at press conference and Rent and a
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: lot to talk about there and react to, including the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: reverence for John Benton, who might be the best move
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's made in his two and a half years
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: as the Seahawks coach. Up next, another move the Seahawks
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: made Trevon Diggs signing yesterday, the All Pro, the former
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: All Pro Dallas Cowboys cornerback. He'll tell you why he's here,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: what his goal is, where he might fit and when
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: he might be able to play. Trevon Diggs is on
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: next by from Nashville. Here on ninety three point three
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• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports Tests your ninety three
• 42:03
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• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Good Morning, I from Nashville. Headlines are brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by Frostbrewed Corpus Light Shoes Chill. One night after twenty
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  Speaker 2: two nothing. Of course, the Mariners got out to a
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: seven to nothing lead in the second inning at Milwaukee,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: a Brewers team thirty games over five hundred entering the game.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: None of the runs came off of home runs either.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Taylor Ward at his biss first big hit as a
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Mariner seven to nothing leads seven to five. They hold
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: on to win. Trash Cans also won, so Seattle four
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: games behind Houston for first place in the America League West,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: two and a half games out of the wildcard spot.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Thirty five games remain, including today a game three the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee series. George Kirby starts for the MS, trying to
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: get a second straight series win on the road. Then
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: they fly home the host of Cubs this weekend. By
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: the way, Kyle Rawley's now batting one fifty six in
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety one plate appearances. There's only been
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: one batter in Major League history to have a lower
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: batting average with that many or more plate appearances. Joe
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Gerhardt on the eighteen eighty five New York Giants Seahawks
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: are getting on the plane today, flight here to Nashville,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: joint practice with the Titans tomorrow. Travon Diggs is going
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: to be on the plane. He's going to be if
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the team. We'll see if he's on the field tomorrow.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: He down twenty one to all pro cornerback for the Cowboys,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: cent a one year deal with Seattle yesterday. You'll hear
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: from him in a few minutes. Sounders lost yet again,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: falling behind two nail to Austin and a home in
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: the second half ninetieth minute goal not enough, two one
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: loss at the stadium, franchise record eight straight MLS losses,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: eight straight for the Sounders. What's going on? Seven to
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: one and three to seven, nine and three, twelfth place
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: in the Western Conference. Coach Brian Smetzer again pleading publicly
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: after the game for upper management, meaning GM Craig Wible,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: specifically Adrian Hannah were the owner to get him more
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: veteran players, and then he's got eight injured veterans right
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: now bringing up kids from Tacoma Defiance, pro Bo Nosteger,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Vita Vea for washingt a Husky Star and it is
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: hold In with the Buccaneers signed a one year deal
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: in stension, actually gives them six million more for this
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: season and twenty four million in a new contract for
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. Houston Texans wide receiver Jayden Higgins out
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: for the season torn ACL he got in a joint
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: practice with the Raiders. James Harden in the NBA agrees
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: to a three year, ninety seven million dollar deal this
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: morning to remain with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And Hey sound
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Via Little League down in Tacoma, Frankie McCabe and Winston
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Weaver combined to throw seven shutout innings. Sound View Little
• 44:27
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• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Series Game two nothing over Phoenix City, Alabama yesterday. Of course,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: we talked to Kyle Yarboro, their head coach from Williamsport
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the other day. What a great conversation that was. If
• 44:38
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• 44:48
  Speaker 2: today hear this interview they're gonna hear right now with
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Trevon Dick twenty twenty one All Pro with the Dallas
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Cowboys when he had eleven interceptions to leave the league.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: That was his second year in the league. He's turning
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: twenty eight next month. He was available in mid to
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: late August because he hasn't played a full season since
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, because a TV fell on his head
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: last year and gave him a concussion, because he's had
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: knee injuries, because he's had a lot of things cut
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: by the Green Bay Packers in midly mid January. Excuse me,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: he hasn't been in pads in more than seven months.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: But he's supposed to be on the plane here to
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Nashville today and should be on the field tomorrow here
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee when the Seahawks and Titans have a joint practice.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Ravon Diggs explains why he's here, he knows a lot
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: of Seahawks, explains what his goals are and when he
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: might be able to play first fucking Seattle.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 45:39
  Speaker 12: What made a skip fit for you?
• 45:43
  Speaker 15: The history, seeing what these young guys, what the team
• 45:47
  Speaker 15: has been doing, Seeing a lot of young guys just
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: coming together and just being a great football team. I
• 45:53
  Speaker 15: know a lot of familiar faces here, Josh, Joe d Law,
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: just those guys talking to those guys, they're saying, great fit.
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: You know, just everything that they have going here, and
• 46:02
  Speaker 15: you know, I would love to be a part of it.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: What did the coaches tell you about what they want
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: you to to show or what they think you're what
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: would you Yeah?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: I just come here to compete, you know.
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: I just wanna come here, compete, you know, earn my keep,
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: you know, just do everything I can just to you know,
• 46:16
  Speaker 15: earn a spot here and you know, hold his team win.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: When did this come together? Yesterday?
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: The first guy they showed interested.
• 46:25
  Speaker 15: Uh, yeah, they been talking to my agent for a
• 46:26
  Speaker 15: little bit and then they s he told me they
• 46:29
  Speaker 15: were gonna come down here, get me down.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: For a workout.
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: I came down here, I worked out, you know, and
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: then the rest is history with Detroit as well, and yeah,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: what were yeah?
• 46:40
  Speaker 15: Uh, I had a visit with Detroit I was supposed
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: to see a couple of other teams, but you know
• 46:45
  Speaker 15: it's I like to hear a lot like this feels
• 46:47
  Speaker 15: like home. You know, I got a lot of familiar faces,
• 46:49
  Speaker 15: Coach Scott uh Ad, you know, so just being a
• 46:53
  Speaker 15: part of those guys, those guys knowing me, knowing you know,
• 46:55
  Speaker 15: where my heart is, knowing how how I wanna compete,
• 46:58
  Speaker 15: so you know it it felt right.
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: What are the biggest driving actor for you? Just the technique,
• 47:02
  Speaker 10: get some of the guys you're particularly in the secondary.
• 47:04
  Speaker 15: Yeah, most definitely. You know, you gotta have someone that
• 47:07
  Speaker 15: you know, you can relate to and talk to. You know,
• 47:09
  Speaker 15: guys gonna help you out and you know, push you
• 47:11
  Speaker 15: to to be your best, you know. And that's what
• 47:13
  Speaker 15: I want for myself. And that's what I wanna do.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Is the plan to start someone as your plan to
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: be picky and wait for the summer, find a situation
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: you really liked or what was your plans?
• 47:22
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I just finding somewhere that you know, felt like home,
• 47:25
  Speaker 15: you know, find it somewhere you know that I'll have
• 47:28
  Speaker 15: opportunity to compete, have an opportunity you know, to play
• 47:32
  Speaker 15: and just you know, if it felt right. You know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 15: that's what I want to do more to make the
• 47:35
  Speaker 15: right decision for me.
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: What do you feel like your strengths are as a
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: corner and where's some places that you wanting to improve my.
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: Strengths as a corner. I got great ball skills, you know,
• 47:44
  Speaker 15: a great knack for the ball. Just understanding you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 15: c offenses, understanding routes, understanding you know what receivers want
• 47:51
  Speaker 15: to do.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that's my abilities.
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: I feel like the defense that they play here, and
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: you know, I'm familiarity with uh Carl and Josh from
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: college and having them a year. How does it translate
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: for for what you're doing here.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of similarities.
• 48:05
  Speaker 15: Just talking to Josh, you know, earlier today he was
• 48:07
  Speaker 15: telling us a lot of similarities. You know, he said,
• 48:10
  Speaker 15: gonna help me out, you know, get the playbook down.
• 48:12
  Speaker 15: You know, I'm gonna be in my playbook every day
• 48:14
  Speaker 15: just to get the whole defense down. And you know,
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: just being able to give myself a chance, give myself
• 48:19
  Speaker 15: an opportunity to come out here and compete.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: And you know, help win.
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: And do you feel like you're fully healthy?
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Most definitely.
• 48:25
  Speaker 15: It's my first off season that I've been able to,
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: uh just not rehab and actually do off season training.
• 48:31
  Speaker 15: So you know a lot of trainers put the work in,
• 48:34
  Speaker 15: help me put the work in to get to where
• 48:36
  Speaker 15: I'm at today. You know, I'm truly thankful for that.
• 48:37
  Speaker 15: And you know it's a blessing for God and from God, honestly,
• 48:41
  Speaker 15: just to be able to you know, come out here again.
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: What are you looking at the show? Obviously you had
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: a tough run injuries there. Now that you are healthy,
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: like you said, what are you looking at the show here?
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking to show that I'm still the best.
• 48:50
  Speaker 15: You know, I'm looking to show that I just want
• 48:53
  Speaker 15: to win, you know, be there for my teammates, to
• 48:55
  Speaker 15: be a great teammate, you know, uh and be a
• 48:57
  Speaker 15: great player.
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: Know what d long?
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: What's the having in those teen dings?
• 49:01
  Speaker 15: Uh, it's really good, you know, Like I said, just
• 49:03
  Speaker 15: having someone that you're familiar with or that you can
• 49:05
  Speaker 15: talk to, you know, ask questions with it helps out
• 49:08
  Speaker 15: a lot.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: It's less you're tough for.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: You with the injuries and the concussions that you ever
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: dealt with anything like the concussion relative.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Uh No, that was my first concussion ever.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 49:16
  Speaker 15: It was different, you know, but just overcoming uh, injuries,
• 49:20
  Speaker 15: you know, just adversity. Overcoming adversity period is always tough.
• 49:23
  Speaker 15: But you know if if you did it before, you
• 49:25
  Speaker 15: know you can do it again.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 49:26
  Speaker 15: It's just I just wanna be able to play healthy,
• 49:29
  Speaker 15: you know, this year, full season and help.
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: What was it like trying to deal with those tu
• 49:34
  Speaker 10: threies coming to corner or another and just kind of feeling.
• 49:37
  Speaker 16: You're repeatedly in the same spot trying to.
• 49:40
  Speaker 10: Work back from h How was that the handlementally and
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: all that, and then what was the process of getting
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: to back when you feel like your niece is mattera,
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: your your back homes.
• 49:48
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it was tough. It was tough, but just keeping
• 49:52
  Speaker 15: good people around you. You know, my family was a
• 49:54
  Speaker 15: a great support system for me, keeping my mental straight. Uh,
• 49:59
  Speaker 15: just keep going, you know. You know I love football,
• 50:01
  Speaker 15: you know, Uh, I I just love football.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: I love to play.
• 50:04
  Speaker 15: So this being a part of football, you know, it's
• 50:06
  Speaker 15: kind of like it's part of my job. It's a
• 50:08
  Speaker 15: part of your job. You're gonna get hurt, you gonna
• 50:09
  Speaker 15: have things that happen, you gonna get traded, you gonna
• 50:11
  Speaker 15: get cut, things happen, but you just gotta keep going.
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: Marcus Lawrence came here from Dallas, wanted Super Bowl last year,
• 50:16
  Speaker 9: and now you got Dante Vaalor here and you here
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: at Dirty's here.
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: It's like Dallas.
• 50:21
  Speaker 9: A lot of guys coming here from from that organization. Yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: what are your thoughts on on the kind of that transition?
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: And obviously at the different places you played.
• 50:28
  Speaker 15: Just being with those guys, you know, the things that
• 50:30
  Speaker 15: that we were doing, the the family aspect of it,
• 50:33
  Speaker 15: you know, I I I see a lot of similarities.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Just uh how close the guys are. You know, how
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: how tight the group is.
• 50:39
  Speaker 15: You know, uh that that's very important with a football team,
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: just you know, being together, you know, being one, making
• 50:44
  Speaker 15: sure your locker room is straight, and you know, I
• 50:46
  Speaker 15: see a lot of similarities there.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Good concussion, what's it?
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: It's true?
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: Is it?
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: You are mounting at television?
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you fell on your face or what happened?
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fell in my head?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: And if you were affected for a couple of months,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: you're not right.
• 51:00
  Speaker 15: No, it was it was only I was out of
• 51:03
  Speaker 15: percussion protocol in like a week, but I was dealing
• 51:05
  Speaker 15: with some other injuries.
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: Timing wise, do you like it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 12: You're joining the team, then you're gonna get on the
• 51:11
  Speaker 12: roads Rode, extend the trip to kind of start from
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: that bond of team.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
• 51:15
  Speaker 15: You know, just wanna get in with the guys, you know, vibe,
• 51:20
  Speaker 15: you know, get familiar with them, get familiar with new faces,
• 51:23
  Speaker 15: and just go out there and help.
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: What have you kind of admired about like McDonald's defense,
• 51:28
  Speaker 10: watching it afar and kind of amazing what what they
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: do and then jumping into it.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: How big of a factor is that breaks?
• 51:34
  Speaker 15: It looks amazing. You know, they get to the quarterback,
• 51:37
  Speaker 15: you know, they get to create turnovers. You know, they
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: do all the right things. So you know, I'm excited
• 51:42
  Speaker 15: to you know, hopefully be a part of it. Go
• 51:45
  Speaker 15: out there and compete and just try to help this
• 51:47
  Speaker 15: team win. That's all I wanna do.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: If you haven't played it a minute?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Could could you play like the final preseason game next Friday?
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Do you think you're getting changed.
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: Good by that? Uh?
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Possibly? I gotta put into work, you know, get practice
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: reps and maybe for all the things that go.
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: Through the gina here and I have this opportunity be
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: and the one that works with defending champions your position
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: is a position of need for them as like meant
• 52:09
  Speaker 9: to be in a way, right, Yeah, And.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: It was definitely.
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: Is.
• 52:13
  Speaker 15: It's been a long journey, you know, and I was
• 52:15
  Speaker 15: just extremely thankful, you know, it's been a blessing, you know,
• 52:18
  Speaker 15: from God.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: You know, I thank him the most, you know. Uh,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: And I'm just thinkingful the opportunity.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: You played something in the slot, Is that right?
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: Or have you mostly been on the outside. I've been
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: on the outside. I played in the slot too wherever.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you everyone.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: That was Tremon Diggs yesterday with us after practicing renting.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: The last question by Brady Henderson ESPN dot com pertinent
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: because the Seahawks third cornerback situation is a little bit
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: of both inside and outside so far the third corner.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Let's go back last year third cornerback. They had three
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: cornerbacks for two jobs. How Mike McDonald saw two starters
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: three spots. By the way around three starters for two spots,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Rieke Wolan, Josh Job basically rotated. Wolan played about seventy
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: percent of the snap so it wasn't starting most games.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Job was. Witherspoon stayed on the field almost exclusively and
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: when the third cornerback would come in. Witherspoon would move
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: inside to nickel where he's really good, and we saw
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl him just to dominate the Patriots
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: with blitzes from the nickel position. This summer without Wolven,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: who's now a Philadelphia Eagle in free agency, the Seahawks
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: letting him go, letting him his contract lapse without giving
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: him a competitive offer to keep him, they've been The
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Seahawks have been going with Neemiah Pritchett. He's a third
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: year pro, fifth round pick from Auburn a few years ago, unproven,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: is barely played because Wooln and Job and Witherspoon have
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: been here. McDonald tried Josh Joe, Witherspoon and Neemia pritch
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: It together and when they did, Witherspoon would go inside,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: pritch It outside. That was the start of training camp. Well,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: obviously McDonald isn't convinced Pritchett's an answer, because then they
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: looked at terry On Arnold, who's facing eight felonies in
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: life in prison. Then they looked at and signed Trevon Diggs.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Now Noah Igbinoghany has recently been the nickel with Witherspoon
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: staying outside with Job as the outside corners. When they've
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: gone three cornerbacks and practices. Now Diggs comes and when
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: he can finally get into shape and acclimated to getting
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: back in pads for the first time in seven months,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: will he go inside and keep Witherspoon outside. My hunch
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: is that he'll go outside, where he's played the majority
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: of his career. Heard him say that he's played both
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: inside and outside, but he's played most of his snaps
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: outside and that's where he became an All Pro with
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys when he had eleven interceptions to leave the
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: NFL in twenty twenty one. So my supposition would be
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: a lot like last year, when Witherspoon and Job would
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: be on the field at the same time. Excuse me,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Job and woman would be on the field at the
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: same time. Witherspoon would go inside. If Digs can prove
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: to be any semblance of what he used to be,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: then he'll go outside and put Witherspoon back inside. On
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: top of all this, Jessman, is the fact that I
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: have seen more three linebackers from the Seahawks in recent
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: practices than I've seen in three years what's that. Well,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Tyree Knight, we saw ten tackles last preseason game last weekend.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: He was the starter until Drake Thomas took his job.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: And basically two linebackers plus Nickymun Warrior is a hybrid
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: big safety linebacker. That was what McDonald did most of
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: the time last year in sub packages. If they go
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: three linebackers, which McDonald said he wants to do more
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: of this year, that would be Ernest Jones in the middle,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: flanked by Drake Thomas and Tyrese Knight. If you've got
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: three linebackers off ball linebackers on the field at one time,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: you've got to take somebody off. You can only play
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: at eleven, So that means one fewer defensive back. That
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: could be McDonald's hedge against not trusting his third corner said,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I like you explaining it, but I would
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: rather see the Seahawks put nick Emun Worry and Devin
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Witherspoon on the field at the same time in a
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: hybrid nickel and have the ability to have up to
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: dime and keep Witherspoon and even Worry on the field
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: with a third cornerback they can trust. That's how McDonald
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl and led the league in points
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: allowed last year. He had nickel and dime personnel who
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: could both stop the run, cover and rush the quarterback,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: and not many teams have that, and nick Emun Worry
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: and Devin Witherspoon give him the ability to do that.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Of course, even Worry, we don't even know when he's
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: gonna get on the field, although these suppositions still expect
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: him to play in the opener. Him not on the
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: field has created this concern for the Seahawks. They would
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: not nearly be as concerned on who their third quarterback
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: was if nick Emun Worey was on the field playing,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: because he could hedge it with three linebackers, or he
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: could just say he's in nickel like he did last
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: year by having even Worry essentially being a hybrid linebacker
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: as a fifth defensive back. But now, because even Worry
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: is out, who do I have now to put in there? Gignogamy, Pritchett, Arnold, Well,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get onto this exemple list. So if it's
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: not Arnold, let's try Trevon Diggs. You get my point.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: They're going through all these iterations because we Emon Worry
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: is not on the field, and when Emon Warri does
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: come on the field, well we see more three linebackers
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: with Emon Worrey coming up as pessentially a fourth linebacker.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: That all could be Mike McDonald's counter to the counter
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: that we know Sean McVay and Kyle shanahan are going
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: to have for the Seahawks defense from last year to
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: this year. That that's a little inside ball stuff.
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: It is in chess constant, Yeah, right about that coach's daughter.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: It is chess on top of chess when it comes
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: to schemes, and Mike McDonald's trying to stay a step ahead.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: We'll see how Trevon Diggs figures in all of that.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Four nine, four five one. Your opinion on them adding
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Trevon Diggs, do you think they should just cut bait
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: on the whole Terry on Arnold's situation. They haven't signed
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: him officially yet, so they aren't mandated to sign him
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: and pay him yet. Nope. Yet, they aren't in the
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: business usually of going back on their own word, though
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: with agents players around the league, that word gets around,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: so chances are they're still going to sign him, but
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: just have him on a layaway deal. Next, your chance
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: to be a part of the show. There are comments
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: on the text line at tacomadadge text line four nine
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: four to five one about Matt Cowkins leading the Seattle
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Times leaving the Seattle Times after eleven years. I purposely
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: haven't commented much other than telling you what his statement was.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: One because they're my competitor at the News Tribute, but
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: also I know Matt personally, hang out with him on
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: the road. We'll talk about what you thought comments. We
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: got some comments on that, comments about the Mariners, about
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, about the little league team in Tacoma. Your
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: chance to be a part of the show next. Bring
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: in your talkbacks just when we'll play them back next
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: to ninety three point three KGRFM.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: Hey wanted to respond to that Matt Calkins news.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Can you reread his reason for leaving again?
• 59:10
  Speaker 17: I was a bit confused the article that he didn't
• 59:14
  Speaker 17: get published was from two female.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Athletes, actual female athletes or the perspective of his imagining
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: of what they would think.
• 59:28
  Speaker 17: Greg, thanks for telling us about Matt Caulkins resigning. Good
• 59:31
  Speaker 17: on Matt Caulkins for standing on principle. If the Times wouldn't.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Publish his story about biological.
• 59:40
  Speaker 17: Men competing as women against women, which is absolutely disgusting
• 59:45
  Speaker 17: and awareness needs.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: To be brought to that.
• 59:48
  Speaker 17: It's unfair and good on Matt Caulkins.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of him.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: Those are the first couple we have on that subject.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Well, let me clarify what Matt said. Statement was the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: impetus was the Times declining to run a column I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: wrote from the perpective of two female student athletes who
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: were supposed to be competing against biological males. He also
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: said it was one of several pieces of mine that
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: had been spiked, So it wasn't just this. That's just
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: clarifying what Matt was explaining on why he chose.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: And he did speak to those athletes, because one of
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: the voice texts did say is he imagining it?
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: No, he spoke to them. I don't know that.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: Oh it was I went to a sub stack and
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: I read it.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. He quoted them directly, thank you, thank you.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: That wasn't clear on that myself, so thank you. He
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: wrote it from the perspective, meaning he actually did interview
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: and quoted thank you.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 7: Joseh Right, Yes, well, yeah, and I wanted that to
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: be clear as well, because when I went to his article,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: he talked about who he spoke with, and it was
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 7: the young woman who it's a girl, I should say,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: because she's sixteen years old, who cussed out by one
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: of the co owners of the storm.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: He spoke to that woman directly, the sixteen year old girl.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: I should say, therein lies why that may have been spiked.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: Never know, but it definitely points to something.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: The Seattle Storm, of course, a constituent in this community
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: that the Seattle Time serves. I will say it is
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: a very very very contentious thing when columnist there was
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: supposed to be a voice of your newspaper, that you've
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: hired to be a voice of your newspaper with opinions
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: is muted because of his opinions, and that is that
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: happens repeatedly. That is cause for alarm. As a journalist,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: I will say that I'm not going to speak for
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Times, a competitor of mine, but I will
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: say that that is a contentious thing for any journalist.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: But when you say that it was he interviewed the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: young woman, the girl who was yelled at by the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: rated by the Seattle Storm co owner, well that as
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: a famous journalist. One says, now you have the rest
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: of the story.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, no.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: I would encourage people because if you did just read
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: his post on his social media, there is a link
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: to a sub stack and you could read his.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: Full story there.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 7: You're welcome anyway, and let's move on to other subjects
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 7: be covered.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 18: Hey KJR folks, if the presidents of these universities, the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 18: athletic directors, and the coaches did not make a spot
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 18: available to these players in the transfer portal, the whole
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 18: process and would dry up. Think about that for a minute.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 18: Is it the customers or is it the suppliers that
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 18: are at fault?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: Do you, alum and booster?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: He should be fired?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: So what are we doing in college football?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 16: Are they even attending class? Are you even enrolled in
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 16: the school. This is actually a minor league or amateur
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 16: football if you want to put it that way, you know, fine,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 16: But if it's still part of the collegiate game, you
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 16: already declared for the draft, you're already out of school. GTFO, guys,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 16: you're taking away opportunities from kids.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: You suck.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: I do appreciate the self edit when they come in
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: It went off the roads at the end. But class,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: what are classes? Since one has class been a concerned
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: of this.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: The majority of them are only online. They do not
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: show up. They're you know, celebrities on campus. I get
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: that part of it.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: But they have a busy schedule. They have the student job,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: and they have what is the majority of their job,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: which is playing a sport.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say again that ninety percent of college athletes,
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  Speaker 2: and if you go to different levels Division two to
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  Speaker 2: three ANDAI, maybe ninety eight percent of college athletes are
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  Speaker 2: there to get a degree, are there to go to class,
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  Speaker 2: and many, many, many millions of student athletes have used
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: sports to get a degree as their vehicle, their platform
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  Speaker 2: to then earn a college degree that maybe they otherwise
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: would not have gotten without sports in one of them. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: and that those are not the people that they're getting
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  Speaker 2: all the money and thus all the attention and all
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: the legal introjections and all the court cases and all
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: of this. That's not them. Yet they're the ones that
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: suffer when there's spots in their teams get cut because
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: that's fewer entries into the college landscape and a chance
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: to get a college degree. About the point about well,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: the college presidents and athletic directors should just deny these
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: people the opportunities in the transfer portal. Then they're going
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: to get sued because the Supreme Court has already ruled that.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: First of all the at obandon case, then the House
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: settlement that players get paid, and the transfer portal. The
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: NCAA presidents have already decided they're not going to challenge
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: at all for fear of getting sued. So if the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: current rules in place are that it's legal to get
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: paid from the school itself in revenue sharing and from
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: nil collectives outside of the school, and also if it's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: legal to transfer at will in these portal periods, now,
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  Speaker 2: if a college president says no to that, he's going
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: to get sued because it's against the law. That's why
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: the college presidents have been asking for this Hail Mary
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: from Congress to step in and legislate all of this.
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  Speaker 2: And we've already talked about that and why that hasn't
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  Speaker 2: happened yet. It's complicated, it's nuanced, but it ain't good.
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  Speaker 7: No, it is not, and I don't see it getting better,
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  Speaker 7: especially with this development, Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 5: And it's not as long as.
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  Speaker 2: The money keeps flowing and as long as the Halves
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: keep getting more, and that's what it's running to that
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: the Halves are going to eventually break off from the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: have nots. Washington is in a peculiar spot. Washington State
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: has already been left behind, but Washington is in a
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: peculiar spot. They joined the Big Ten to stay with
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: the Halves, right yet they have half revenue of the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: rest of the Big Ten. That was the condition for joining.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Until the end of this decade, they only get half
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  Speaker 2: as much money from the media rights deals in the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: revenue to the Big Ten mix as Michigan, Ohio State,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: and the rest. Oregon and Washington said that okay, they'll settle.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: That Oregon has enough of its own internal revenues and
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: sources that they're okay. Washington, on the other hand, is
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: in a different spot. They are in a very prestigious
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: academic situation. They are a very fine public institution, one
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: of the best in the country. Yet they want to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: be with the halves in college football and basketball. The
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Halves are about to split off from the have nots
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: and they're going to create their own super league, Big
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Ten and SEC with their own rules. And I've had people,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: I have people on campuses tell me that they're going
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: to eventually what's going to happen. And I've mentioned this
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: college big time college football and basketball programs are going
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: to split off from the universities and become their own
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: private LLCs off campus, and they're going to lease the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: colors and the stadiums in the arenas. They're going to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: become private companies with their own us that they don't
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: have to be subject to Title nine, they don't have
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: to be subject to federal funding. Now if we study
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: subject to anything but their own rules, and that would
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: lead to players being employees, and if they're employees, that
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: would lead to unionizing. If that's unionizing, that could lead
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: to players getting fired. And college degrees are academics aren't
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: even in the equation in that scenario, and that the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: Huskies would have a headquarters off of the campus, and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: they would pay the University of Washington to play in
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Husky Stadium, they would pay licensing fees to pay the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: University of Washington to use their colors and their brand.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: People are convinced in psychollege athletic this is where it's headed. Man,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: how are you going to fund that as an alum.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: Are you going to reconcile that they're already scrapping and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 7: scraping to find alums all over the place who do it?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: I mean, and you know, maybe the Texas schools with
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 7: their oil money are the only ones that don't have
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 7: to do that, because there are some tycoons that already
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: own those athletic programs literally because they pay.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 5: All of the nil money. Right, But what about everyone else?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: I could see a husky donor who says, you know what,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give to ben Royal Hall, or I'm gonna
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: give to the Seattle Art Museum, or I'm gonna give
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: to the Fred Hudg Cancer Center, or I'm gonna give
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: to Children's Hospital. Something a lot more worthwhile than sinking
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: money into a quarterback who may leave the next year. Eventually,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: those are those guys and gals are gonna tap out.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have hit them up so many times for
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: nil donations, for guys that don't even stay beyond a year,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: that they're gonna finally check outs. I'm done. I'm gonna
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: spend my money elsewhere. My investment goes somewhere.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: It's been broken for a very long time.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 7: But before we exit, let's get into another subject that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: we covered and thank you for this one.
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  Speaker 14: Hey Mariners fans just want to apologize. I was in
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 14: Milwaukee on Tuesday for that twenty two to zero loss.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 14: If the Mariners won't take accountability for that, I will,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 14: that's on me.
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  Speaker 3: That's my bad.
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  Speaker 8: Getting to watch that.
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  Speaker 6: In person was horrible.
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  Speaker 8: Just just want to say sorry, tough loss. Huh, tough loss.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate your candor we can blame him.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two nothing. He's the skid. He and the third number,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: the third string hitting coach. Coach.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's coming from Kyle in the two five three.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, thanks Kyle two oh six. I think
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: to coming out text on four nine four five. My
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: cousin Mark is the first base coach for the Soundby
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Little League team in Tacoma, and his son Tyler is
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: the third baseman. Let's go baby with four exclamation points.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: That's off. They won yesterday in the first game of
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: the Little League World Series. Go Mariners. Since all MLB
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: upon it two three to six, Oh, go Mariners. Since
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: all MLB opponents believe we can't hit lefty pitchers, that's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: what we face by the playoffs, and the Mariners will
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: be in the playoffs. The Mariners are going to be
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: the best hitting team versus lefties. We can already see it.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Go Mariners.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's some wow, really good more.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: He's more positive than you are.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: I know you would help Susie bleeping sunshine over here.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, right truth three six oh, Mariners lit
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: up that left handed picture maze yesterday. Mariners are heating up.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: It's all about peaking at the right time after one game.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: That's an interesting way to look at it. Okay, I
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: hope we hope Seattle hope you're correct.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right. Ian is lurking around here, lurking.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: The mayor Maple Valley. He's going to tell us next
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: what he's got on his show. And I think he
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: has something to say about Matt Hawkins leaving the Seattle time.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: Does I think we might talk a little bit about
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: that next. Hi, welcome back. I'm live and now Justman's
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: back in Seattle ninety three point three kJ R FM.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks are getting here today for a team joint
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: practice against the Titans tomorrow Tennessee's practice field and facility.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: I'll be broadcasting live from there tomorrow. The only Seattle
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: radio TV entity that I know of is gonna that's
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: going to be there tomorrow at Titans practice field facility
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: right outside of downtown, just a couple of miles from
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: where they'll play.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 6: That's true, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: I don't care about that. Screw the joint practice.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: Where are you going tonight? I mean you're in Broadway?
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 6: Where are you going tonight?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: We just got a tip from the text line thank
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: you two O six to recommended an Indian place. My
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: wife is with me on this trip, so we're not
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: just doing barbecue. She's a vegetarian, longtown for that, all right,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: But we we we took a walk on Broadway last night.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: We were just in you know, T shirt and tennis
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: shoestrn out. But she's she's enticed to go back out
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: tonight for sure. I like this. I like the stage.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: I like how down HOMEI the stage is right on Broadway. Yep.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Three floors in every bar anyway, including the States. So
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: we will probably go there among other places.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 6: But all right, well, yeah, I've I've been there twice.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 6: I've enjoyed it once because the second time I went
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 6: there was when Fits got sick and so I was
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: going cracking and I imber it was their second game, Yeah,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: their second game. Yeah, their first road trip.
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  Speaker 8: But I went.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: I wandered down to the edge of Broadway, right next
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: to the arena, looked down, looked down there and said, man,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: I nope, I better not because I've got I've got
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: I've got five hockey games and a Seahawk game in
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh squeezed in between that I had to cover. And
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: so I went and actually, actually Nationwide Arena, Bridge On Arena, sorry,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 6: Bridge Down Arena has like an outdoor bar sort of
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: it's attached to the arena. I walked, Yeah, and I
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: walked by there. It was fairly empty. I sat at
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: the bar and met the martender was an awesome dude
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: and kind of told them what was going on, and
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: it was it was cool, but it was like, yeah,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: I I was about it. So the first time we
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: went there was one of the r was at twenty seventeen.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the year that I think that was
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: the year the Black Lives Matter protest was. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: they met. I was in the Seahawks team hotel lobby,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: waiting all day for them to come out and release
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: a statement on what they were going to do the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: next day. There was some thought they wouldn't even take
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: the field.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 8: That was we ended up.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we ended up doing a story that night in
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: the news. And because that was I had an assistant
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: coach at the time tell me that that was on
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: the table, yes, and I remember saying, and I remember
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: one of the things that came out I remember it
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: was too was you know they the Titans had basically
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 6: reached out to the Seahawks for their guidance on what
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: to do.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Because that's exactly what happened.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because of the strong how do I say that,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: the leadership, the personnel, I mean the Shermans of the world,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: the Bennetts of the world, guys like that, and they
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: were looking up to them, they said, what are you
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: guys going to do? And they they came to the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 6: conclusion that they would all both be inside for the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 6: anthem that day and come out after the anthem. And
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 6: I remember on the field, we were doing a pregame
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 6: show and I had an assistant coach, another assistant coach
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: tell me says, we didn't do one football thing last
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 6: night and yesterday in the hotel, like normally that's your
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 6: last day of prepp and all that. And he says,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: we didn't do one thing that had to do with football.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 6: It was all about everything else. And I said, good
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: or bad. He goes, that's a peak call. I could
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: tell the coach didn't agree with it because he didn't
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: feel like they were prepared like they should have been.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 6: And they got beaten that game. But sometimes things are
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: bigger than that and a way they went. But yeah,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 6: that was a that was a wild It was a
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: wild day.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think it was Black Lives.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: Was it Black Lives?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 6: Because that was after George. It was this was the
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: president Trump was the president. Is the SOB term or whatever.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: It is football players or sob ye for taking knees? Yes, yes, ye, yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: That was September twenty twenty four, twenty seventeen. The Seahawks
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: fell behind thirty to fourteen in that game, brutal.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 6: And they should have just run those guys out of
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 6: the building that day, right like, and they just were not.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: They weren't ready to play football. And that's me again.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 6: They're progative and not for us to debate, but it was.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 6: I remember how strange that day was because we that
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 6: that night before and that day of the game. It
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: was it was what how different this team is in
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: that team?
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 18: Sure?
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  Speaker 6: I I want to know what you're doing tonight.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: That's my that was my key.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 6: I want to know what you're doing tonight.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: So good, I'm glad. I'm glad. Your wife's so that's awesome,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: have funny, thank you you saw Matt Hawkins. I saw that.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: We're going to touch in on that. I've talked to
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: Matt quite a bit out at Seahawks the last couple
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: of weeks and knew this was maybe something he was
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: thinking about. Also had he had told me and I
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 6: think a lot of others about the muting that had
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: taken place, not just this one time, but a number
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: of times. And so honestly, I think it's TH's terrifying
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: in a sense. That's what newspapers used to be and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: they're not anymore.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: And it's not good. No, if you hire a calumnists
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: to be a voice of your paper, it's I've been
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: in the journalism print journalism business for twenty five years.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: Yep, yep, we're going to talk to John Canzono of
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: twelve twenty about just that he left The Oregonian for
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 6: some you know, some of the same reasons. Uh started
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 6: his own thing. So we'll get to that. We got
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: hey today and guess who's here. Jess is here? Hey, No,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 6: unofficial star of the weekend. Unofficial star of the weekend
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 6: Brandon Funds at at two o'clock today. People, here we go,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 6: Here we go, four nine, four to five on your questions.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: So we'll get to that too.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, their text line is starting right now. It will
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: open up for that exactly. Let's go and he'll be
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: on with jess Man the next three hours, just like
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: gold times. Thanks for letting me borrow her for the mornings.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Again, that's not my call.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: I'm not that nice, you know what.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: I like to call it sharing across oliver Osha sure
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 7: that whatever you want to call You're with you guys
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  Speaker 7: both today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: She does a great job some obviously pro Thank you
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: very much, all of you. Thanks for listening. Thanks for
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: the text tomorrow when you hear from me next I
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: will be on the sidelines of the Seahawks Titans Live
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: joint practice. It'll be going on right when we take
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  Speaker 2: the air tomorrow at ten to noon. End's Up Next
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  Speaker 2: by from Nashville on ninety three point three KJRFM.