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Best of Chuck & Buck 4-2 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Backpack two one to cow. Why drive right field base?
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  Speaker 2: He can't soon his head right on his heels, call
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  Speaker 2: young col Rawley, puts the Mariners on the board, and
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  Speaker 2: we got a ball game at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: eighth in age.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't capitalize on that, Julio, that would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been nice. It would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you had to do it. Nobody's angry
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  Speaker 1: with you, just saying it would have been nice. Would
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  Speaker 1: have been great, maybe to have a nice rally if
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees two out.
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  Speaker 3: Of three, I would have really appreciated it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of put everything in the right direction going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I realize we're just leaving the harbor and the whole
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  Speaker 1: voyage is ahead of us, but it would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: Has been nice he come through in that situation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: smooth sailing going forward out of the harbor out onto the.
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  Speaker 3: Sea would have been swell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no big deal. Sure we forgive you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, ain't mad about it, Nope, Nope.
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  Speaker 1: We have moved on, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Was there even the game yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you all. My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: That is Ashley Ryan in there. It is seven o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: our second hour of our four hour extravaganza that we
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  Speaker 1: have planned for you here today, on this second day
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  Speaker 1: of Draftmas, the second day of April twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It is tremendous to have you all with us and
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a moment to help us celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft and the Draftmas holiday. Is Eric at Hoolme
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  Speaker 1: from NFL dot Com. He's got a mock draft, he's
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  Speaker 1: got trades, he's mocked up. You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a guy that loves himself some draftnas Eric at Hoolme
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  Speaker 1: does it right? Yeah, probably got a honey baked ham
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  Speaker 1: right now in the.
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  Speaker 3: Oven, probably, Yeah, that just wakes up every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what I want for lunch today, honey,
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  Speaker 1: a holiday honey baked ham.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some fruitcake for dessert.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't kid yourself at home? Is nutty about fruitcake?
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to your headlines. They are brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Frost Brewed COR's Light for goodness sake,
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  Speaker 1: choose chill. The NFL Draft won't come until April twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: but we had plenty of NFL news here today. Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins has signed with the Raiders, according to Adam Schefter,
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  Speaker 1: and that's going to get a lot of people talking
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  Speaker 1: about what is going on with Fernando Mendoza. Not that
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  Speaker 1: they won't draft Fernando Mendoza, but it might hammer home
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  Speaker 1: some of those discussions that are being held that maybe
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders want to draft Mendoza and then have him
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  Speaker 1: sit for a year behind Cousins. Or maybe they are
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  Speaker 1: entertaining some offers that they cannot resist from teams that
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  Speaker 1: want to get up to number one in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, but let the speculation began also from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL RAMS superstar wide receiver Pooka Nakua. He's been acting
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  Speaker 1: really weird ever since the season came to a close,
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  Speaker 1: and now maybe we understand why. According to his attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Pooka Nakoua has checked into rehab and has been there
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time. So I guess maybe after the
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  Speaker 1: butt biting incident that Pooka Nakua or his family thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've now crossed the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's gone too far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he is in rehab and from what
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  Speaker 1: I've gathered this morning, he's going to be there for
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  Speaker 1: a while. They're really going to try to not shortcut
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  Speaker 1: this thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably a good idea, you dub. Springball continues. Demand
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  Speaker 1: Williams has changed from number two to number one college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Bill self is not retiring at Kansas, so one of
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  Speaker 1: the best in the game will continue, despite his health
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  Speaker 1: concerns and his frustration with the current state of college athletics.
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  Speaker 1: Final Four is going to be ald on Saturday. We
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  Speaker 1: got you covered right here at Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM three o'clock start time. Illinois and Yukon,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan and Arizona will play the night cap. Oh by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I mentioned yesterday that some analytics people were
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  Speaker 1: saying that it's the third greatest matchup in the history
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  Speaker 1: of college basketball, and then I didn't provide who that was.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just some you know, It wasn't like ed.
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  Speaker 3: Who just went and did some crunch some numbers, right.
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  Speaker 1: And put together a ranking list. It was actually, uh
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  Speaker 1: Ken Palm oh like that. Yeah, the people that everybody
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  Speaker 1: checks in. Yeah yeah, yeah, so like a kind of
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate source. Okay, but it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: great couple of games on Saturday crack, and we'll take
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  Speaker 1: on the Utah Mammoth tonight at seven o'clock. It's awfully
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  Speaker 1: musty over there at Climate Pledge Arena right now. You
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  Speaker 1: know that old dilapidated building.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I guess we need a new one if we
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  Speaker 4: want to get a basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: What an uninformed statement from a guy that apparently covers
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  Speaker 1: the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: For a living.
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  Speaker 3: I was, I was yelling. I was like, is this
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  Speaker 3: the dumbest thing I've ever heard?
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  Speaker 1: Mariners have a day off after losing yesterday to the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees five to three. The Ms off to
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  Speaker 1: a three and four start. Not great, but man, they
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  Speaker 1: have faced some great starting pitching so far, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it explains why the heart of the order is struggling
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  Speaker 1: so much. They'll try to get well in Anaheim, starting
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow against the Angels. All right, those are your headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Let us celebrate the draft miss holiday with a good friend,
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  Speaker 1: Eric ed Holmes to come on this show regularly. He
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  Speaker 1: writes for NFL dot Com. He does mock drafts. He's
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  Speaker 1: a mockumentarian, that's what he is. He has his mockedorate
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  Speaker 1: in mock drafting. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 3: I would try. He drinks mocktails.
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  Speaker 1: He does while he mock drafts yep, mockedor yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he earned his degree this mocked. Eric at home joins
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  Speaker 1: us right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Goodness,
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again, Eric.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying a mocktail right now.
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  Speaker 5: Are you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I floated it out there that you were so much
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  Speaker 1: into the Draftmas holiday spirit that maybe you already had
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  Speaker 1: a holiday honey baked ham in the oven for lunch
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  Speaker 1: today because you want to get out ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: holiday traditions.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like like baked ham weather around here. It's
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  Speaker 2: like forty three in raining, so I could certainly use that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I had one in my oven right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, it's that time, that time of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just spend the entire month addressing rumors
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  Speaker 1: and speculation until we actually get to April twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just start with the headline here today. What
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  Speaker 1: do you read into the kirk Cousins signing with the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders here this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it was. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of rumored for a couple of weeks, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: where was Kirk going to land? And I think it
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And you know, I mean
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kobiac kind of suggested that, you know, a rookie
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  Speaker 2: quarterback may not be ready to start right away. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know who that rookie might be and watched him
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  Speaker 2: yesterday as pro day for Ana Mendoza. But yeah, I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I think just having a veteran option is a nice deal.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, having somewhat of a promising quarterback room
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  Speaker 2: is pretty new for them too, at least in recent years.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, obviously it's it's a good support staff there,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and you know, I'll be fascinated to see
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  Speaker 2: how they build up the rest of the offense. And
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  Speaker 2: obviously Kirk would love an opportunity to start somewhere. Probably
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen, but who knows the way Clint's talking,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, perhaps Cousins gets the few first few games
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  Speaker 2: of the year until they feel Fernando's ready. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really think that's the way it's going to be, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, you never know. I mean years ago, cart
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  Speaker 2: Palmer staff for an entire year as the number one pick.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's a different generation. But crazy things can happen,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the Raiders. There's always that element of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't hate the idea of a rookie, even
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  Speaker 1: a number one overall pick, sitting a year. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's proved beneficial to a lot of the all time
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  Speaker 1: greats to do that. Do you have any room in
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  Speaker 1: your mock drafting mind for the possibility the Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: won't be taken number one? Or is this thing set
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  Speaker 1: in stone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I haven't heard any real buzz or talk. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I've been making a few calls recently to teams picking
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  Speaker 2: a little later in round one to see what they've
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  Speaker 2: heard about what's going on at the at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the draft, and you know, there hasn't really been
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  Speaker 2: any discussion of that. I know there was some speculation
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  Speaker 2: around the combine that, you know, the Jets could make
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  Speaker 2: a grandfather offer, the Cardinals could sweep in and try
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  Speaker 2: to blow them away or something, But I just I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it would take to get them to
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  Speaker 2: move off that spot. You know, they had ten people
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  Speaker 2: there yesterday. They sent the GM, the head coach, and
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  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator, you know, I mean they were there
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  Speaker 2: and watched a good performance. I thought Fernando drove the
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  Speaker 2: ball down the field. Well, he didn't have a ton
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  Speaker 2: of deep throws, but when he did, there was one
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  Speaker 2: that went sixty plus in the air and through it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, seemed to have poison command out there only
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  Speaker 2: one off target pass that I saw, though, Again it
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  Speaker 2: was a very crisp showing, and I just think it
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  Speaker 2: would take such a big offer for them to get
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  Speaker 2: off this pick. And given the way that the Crosby
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  Speaker 2: thing fell apart already, you know, they're probably better off
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  Speaker 2: just staying and picking Mendos if they have conviction in them.
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  Speaker 1: Eric at Holmes with us. He writes for NFL dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he spends a lot of time talking about
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  Speaker 1: the draft there at NFL dot com and old friend
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  Speaker 1: of the radio show here and he's with us. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to follow him, do so at Eric Underscore
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  Speaker 1: ed Holme ed h O. L M. As we celebrate
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  Speaker 1: with an old friend this draft miss Holiday Day number two,
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  Speaker 1: just three weeks away from the actual NFL Draft Day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about your thoughts on the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: You got two articles out fresh hot off the presses
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  Speaker 1: here in the last week. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your trade article that you wrote, because you mocked something
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  Speaker 1: up for the Seahawks. You seem to be of the
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  Speaker 1: mind of most of us here in Seattle that with
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  Speaker 1: only four picks in the draft, John Schneider just can't
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  Speaker 1: live in that world, and that he'll move out of
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  Speaker 1: that thirty second slot. So tell us what you concocted here,
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  Speaker 1: what you came up with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, my editor pitched the story that how about
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  Speaker 2: five trades that make sense, like five trades that that
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  Speaker 2: could happen right that that they're within the reasonable range
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  Speaker 2: of exchange picks. And I thought, well, this could be
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  Speaker 2: a stretch only because this is not a draft where
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  Speaker 2: you know you have you don't have a feeling that
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a ton of trades. I think
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  Speaker 2: something with Ty Simpson a few other guys. But as
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  Speaker 2: it went along, I found an enough spots, including Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: where I felt like, Okay, I can see this right
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, just what you're thinking, which is four
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  Speaker 2: picks one after the top hundred. You know, limited resources,
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  Speaker 2: Do they have a ton of needs and a ton
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  Speaker 2: of spots they're itching a fill? Probably not, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think given the way that they've used those Day
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  Speaker 2: three picks in the recent past, and going back even farther,
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  Speaker 2: that's been a very important spot for the Seahawks and
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  Speaker 2: John Schneider. That's it's an area where they do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good work. So I would be surprised that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't end up with more than one Day three selection.
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  Speaker 2: I think trading out of thirty two makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense. You know, you're gonna stay up and watch
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  Speaker 2: the draft, be prepared. You're gonna have to wait a
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  Speaker 2: while a and then be You may be disappointed, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a reasonable possibility, especially if there's a
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  Speaker 2: run on edge rushers. If they're not prepared to draft
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  Speaker 2: a running back, it's thirty two if they if their
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  Speaker 2: guy isn't there. I know they do the draft a
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  Speaker 2: little differently than other people. It's obviously had success. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked by anything, but I think a trade.
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  Speaker 1: Down as possible. Yeah, I think it's very possible. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering where you are with Ty Simpson because now
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see everybody say that he's falling, may
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  Speaker 1: even fall out of the first round. I mean, to me, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: that's the ideal scenario for the Seahawks if they're wanting
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  Speaker 1: to get out of pick number thirty two, is to
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  Speaker 1: have Simpson still on the board. And I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a team or two that would like to have that
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  Speaker 1: fifth year option on a quarterback if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: draft one. Do you think that there is a scenario
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  Speaker 1: where those worlds come together that Simpson's still on the
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  Speaker 1: board for the Seahawks at thirty two to trade out
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  Speaker 1: of that spot to a quarterback needy franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it is, it would be a team that's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it could be the Jets, but
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  Speaker 2: it would be a team wanting to leap frog the
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  Speaker 2: Jets at thirty three too, you know, Arizona, thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh maybe. You know, there's other possibilities. Cleveland certainly has
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  Speaker 2: the ammunition, but yeah, you kind of look at how
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  Speaker 2: that second round lines up, and look, dropping down one
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  Speaker 2: spot wouldn't be the you know, I mean having an
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  Speaker 2: entire night to reset your draft board, Like if you
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  Speaker 2: move down to thirty three or thirty four, you basically
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  Speaker 2: get to decide over a period at twelve hours you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna draft. You know, more than that twenty four hours almost,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a good position to be in. Even moving
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  Speaker 2: down those two slots can give you a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a shocking level of security and sense of you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get to really plan this thing out instead of
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  Speaker 2: making a pick in ten minutes here, So that's a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny with Simpson, you know, I feel like there's
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  Speaker 2: a campaign out there to either boost this draft stock
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  Speaker 2: artificially or to completely tank it. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of funny to hear the last reports in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks or so. So hard to say
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  Speaker 2: exactly what's going to happen. But in a draft where
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  Speaker 2: mendoz Is won, Simpson is probably two in most people's boards,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of unknowns at that spot quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll still do pretty well for himself.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Orlatsky effect, is what that's called.
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  Speaker 5: That?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Eric Eric at Holme is with us from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL dot Com. He's got another fresh article out
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  Speaker 1: talking about he's supplied the top two picks that every
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  Speaker 1: NFL team has and who the ideal pit picks should be.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that Eric makes this very clear. He's
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  Speaker 1: not trying to read the room. He is trying to
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  Speaker 1: in his own assessment, these are the two guys that
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  Speaker 1: they should take that I like for the team, and
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  Speaker 1: not trying to, you know, try to lean on rumors
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  Speaker 1: that he's hearing from out of the Seahawks facility more
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  Speaker 1: of who he thinks are good fits for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a little surprised. I mean, I'm not surprised
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  Speaker 1: that you have Avian Terrell, the cornerback out of Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: That seems that's a name I've heard a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: I've also heard Jendarian Price, who you have going to
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks at sixty four, But I've heard him mention
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  Speaker 1: a lot to the Seahawks at thirty two. So do
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  Speaker 1: you think Price could I mean, obviously you do. Why
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  Speaker 1: would Price fall that far? What is it that you
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  Speaker 1: see that might make him available at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the second round?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much like quarterback, running back is one of
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  Speaker 2: those positions that's viewed as a clear number one guy.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame his teammate. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Janerim Price could have gone anywhere else in the country
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  Speaker 2: and may have helped himself who knows had he been
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  Speaker 2: more of a feature back, but he did enough there
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  Speaker 2: to show people that he can play. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: got a chance to be a top fifty pick, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's guaranteed. There's still kind of
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  Speaker 2: a stigma against the running back position. I know the
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  Speaker 2: run game has obviously cycled back into the league, and
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  Speaker 2: I think we're back on an up swing with the
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  Speaker 2: run game in the league. But backs themselves aren't always
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  Speaker 2: directly the beneficiaries of that, so he could slide again.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the question of does another team like Mike
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  Speaker 2: Washington Junior from Arkansas, you know, Jonah Coleman from Washington,
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  Speaker 2: I think will go a little lower. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are a couple backs that could possibly slip ahead
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  Speaker 2: of him, not many, but one or two. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it's a position that I think people are going to
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  Speaker 2: slow play a little bit this year, so that it
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  Speaker 2: surprised me when I went through my simulation and he
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  Speaker 2: was still there at sixty four. I thought there might
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  Speaker 2: be a spot along the way that another team would
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  Speaker 2: scoop him up. If he's there or within a short
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  Speaker 2: pitch of there, I think they could easily move up
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  Speaker 2: and get him. So yeah, I mean part of this
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  Speaker 2: was definitely me saying here's what I think are good fits.
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  Speaker 2: But you also have to keep the team what they
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  Speaker 2: look for in mind. You're not going to be drafting
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  Speaker 2: guys that don't fit their system obviously, so you do
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  Speaker 2: have to incorporate a little bit of just a sort
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  Speaker 2: of knowledge of what they want to do.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Eric had almar guest here on the chucking back in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the morning. Well, let's talk big picture, then, who is
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: your favorite guy in this draft? I mean that doesn't
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: mean necessarily the best one, but who's the guy that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Eric ed Holm is just like, I really like this player,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and I know they're talking about him going fifteenth, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: this is the one that's going to really click in
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Put your put it on the line here
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for us at home, all right.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I was gonna say Sunny South from Ohio State.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's probably gonna be a top five pick,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: but that's failed down may go a little lower just
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: because safety. You know, people aren't dying to take safeties
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: in the top ten. But a pretty special player nonetheless,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And boy, if Jordan Tyson from Arizona State could ever
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: stay healthy he could be a phenomenal receiver in this league.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got the full package. It's just a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: matter of eight consistency B helps you know, those are
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the two big questions, and I'll be fascinated to see
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: where he goes because he could be the first receiver
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: taking off the board. He could be the fourth. I
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: mean that that's the reality, is that he's such a
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: wild car or because of the injury factor and just
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a little bit of consistency here and there. But yeah,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's a really good tight end class.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I like a lot of guys if you want to
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: go really deep. The one who's fascinated me has been
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Oscar delt at Georgia. I mean, for a guy who
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: had forty four catches in thirty three games, I think
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: he can play in this league and be he could
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: catch fifty passes in an NFL season as things go right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I just think he was sorely under used there and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: a much better athlete than that they were able to
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: display with him.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: What do you make of this Makai Lemon situation. I mean,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just a year ago, Shador Sanders was the talk of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the draft because he failed the interview if you will,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and tumbled all the way down into the fifth round.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy seems to be taking that even
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: further this year. And I realize that he is a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: first round talent, but he seems to be bombing every
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: opportunity to try to impress people with his character. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: seems actually indifferent to trying to impress people with his character.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: How do you think that affects him on Draft night?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't heard anything quite that strong. I mean,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: unless there's something specific. I mean, I know that there
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: was some talk about what happened at the combine and stuff,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: but was there another incident or something I'm not aware of.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Or well, just like the acting like he didn't want
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to answer any questions. And then he apparently held a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: press conference at USC this past week to tell everybody, no,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that's who I am. That's me. Yeah, No, I'm a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guy that is trying to sabotage anyone's the belief that
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I have a personality. Yes, that's me.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, I think some of that stuff can be,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you know, used against the players sometimes, and I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the interview process obviously sometimes with those combine interviews, you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: they're fifteen minutes of shotgun dating, whatever you want to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: call it. Some of these guys, after they've been through
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of them, they just kind of mentally check
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: out a little bit, and that can't affect their draft status.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: If you're going into a job interview, you look like
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be there, you're not giving them much.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: They're going to say, why would I hire this guy?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So it's possible. You know, those things do matter. I
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: don't know how much emphasis is put on it, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I do know it's part of the equation. And obviously
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I think he does have somewhat of a different personality,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: can come off as appathy maybe, or but I haven't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: spent enough time around him to really kind of know. Okay,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you know this is what we're dealing with, or you
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: don't have to worry. And I haven't heard those specific
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: complaints come from NFL teams, but I also haven't asked
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: about him in the last couple of weeks, So you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: know it's possible. It's bigger than I'm aware of.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, I hate to end on that. One.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Kind of caught you off guard with that, but we
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are out of time. Great to have you on Interesting Reads.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Both of those articles. And where's only three weeks away.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It's almost here, man, Yeah, I can't wait.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And it should be fun even if you guys have
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: to wait a little bit. That's a good thing. You
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: want to ring and it's well deserved.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just sit over here on our championship thrown
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and waited out, No big deal, Eric.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That's the way to do it, right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll eat some champ Well, it just gives us
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to eat some more championship chips, you know, and.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Championships.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some championships some call them you know, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and then on Friday we can you know, zip some
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: championship beer. It's fine, fine for some champ chip chimps.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Shampain him ship.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Harder to work in. Well, enjoy it all, man, Thank
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. We appreciate you Eric
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and joining us right here on Chucking Buck in the morning.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And of course you can follow Eric and get all.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, he writes a lot. He writes a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of stuff, and it's not just mock drafts. He always
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: takes a couple of different angles with it. Uh So,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: if you want to check out the entire articles of
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the entirety of both articles then do so he can
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: follow I'm at Eric underscore at home eed h O
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: l M all right, coming up next. Oh, I needed
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to prep people because we've only done this in the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: eighth o'clock hour in the past. We have a segment
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that we launched a couple of weeks ago and we
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like it. It's called SUPU and it's pretty much just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you asking the show a question, and it can be anything.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Be draft related, since it is draft miss it could
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: be baseball related, it could be personal. You can dive
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: into our dark pass if you would like, but the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: text that we're asking for has to begin with sup
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: blank yep, tell me about this. So you say, Sup, Ashley,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: tell me about this in your life or sup Chuck,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: tell me about this? So four nine four five one.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: You can also use the YouTube chat as well. Oh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: listening on YouTube, you can text in there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Look at that forgot all about I just keep forgetting
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that I'm on camera.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah you are looking good.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I don't. Well, that's nice of you too. Live. Yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all right. Sup is next on Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM, Ashley and I allowing you to pry
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: into our professional and personal lives, maybe even into our
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: thoughts on the sports world at large, or this the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: intimate stuff that we cover here in Seattle. It's entirely
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: up to you. Four nine four five one. Ask us
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: your question, Begin it with Sup, direct it at someone specifically, Sup, Ashley, Sup, Chuck,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and then ask your question. I think I heard Talala
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Brasort casino which has drafting sports book. It's got all
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: sorts of table games and slots and restaurants and dining
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and all. I mean, it's just a carnival of this
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Morgasboard Smorgasboard of Adventure. But I hear they're considering putting
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a SUP table right there in the middle of the casino.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: You can just walk by and ask them what so right?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I believe it's called the concierge desk.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Is that what that is?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeahaha?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Sup?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Sup with the blackjack dealer over there on table forty two?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Why am I not winning?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Sup?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: With this ticket?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you con cover? Hey? Yeah?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Sup? With really good food, some great drinks.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: SUP with supper. All right, let's get to the SUPs,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: if you will.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Let's get to the subs. Sup, Chuck.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, at what point do we have to start worrying
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: about the top of the Mariners lineup not producing?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's a long way away. Yeah, you know what, I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: have this for ABC's.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, we can talk about it then try to save
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: it for them, or should I bet?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need to answer the sup question.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'll just put it this way, that it's way too early.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I keep pointing this out. I mean, it's the equivalent
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of being in the third quarter of the first game
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of the NFL season. So if Sam Darnold was sitting
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: there in game number one on a Wednesday, and Sam
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: has thrown no touchdowns in one interception and we're trailing,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, would we freak out at that point? I
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: realized some of you probably would. But are we going
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to open Monday up? We're gonna start tweeting out there,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Like I guess all the critics were right. You know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's just so early, and baseball's just one of those
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: games I would have preferred had Julio not gotten off
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to a slow start and Josh and Cal but they
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: are and there's just a long way to go. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: what I'll save for ABC's is also factor in the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: pitching that we faced so far this year. I'm not
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: making excuses for them. But if you're not in your
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: zone and it's cold, yeah, and the regular season has
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: begun and you're facing, you know, some of the best
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: starting pitching that the sport has to offer, maybe there's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: some reasons why they're off to slow start. So I'm
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: not worried at all.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: All Right, I like it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: If the question is when, Okay, if we're still sitting
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: here twenty five games in and our three best hitters
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: can't get out of their own way, yeah, then I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: gonna get concerned.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: We've got this one from the three six Oh sup
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: ash I was visiting my in laws in eastern Ohio
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and driving in the Youngstown, Ohio area, and I swear
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I heard you as the DJ on the station playing music.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Am I going crazy? No, you are not going crazy.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: That was me in eastern Ohio. And I'm also in
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: southern Illinois and lots of small small towns.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know I wasn't asked this question, but people
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: should finally find out Ashley has several families. I do, yes, yep.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: And I spend time working in radio in each city
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: where my family's right right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Your husbands are all great, they.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Are, and they go buy the names five iron, six iron,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: four iron and wedge and.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Eric. I love that you will only date guys who
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: will accept golf club nicknames. Uh, why don't you tell
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: them the real reason while you're on there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just have other another several jobs. Yeah, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: one of them is that. Yeah, I am a music DJ.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I work on KZ okay here in Seattle, I am
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: in Oregon, in Portland, I'm in San Diego. I am Sacramento,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Vegas until Friday. Yeah yeah, so and then i'm and
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: then I work for another coming that has all little markets,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: so that's like thirty five or forty markets.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I do love that somebody that listens to you here
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: just happens being Youngstown, Ohio, and then you just pop
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on there. I am that's pretty cool.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been to Youngstown once, went into a roadhouse, oh,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a Texas roadhouse, okay, and kind of thought I was
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: gonna get murdered. Yeah, well yeah, but I think I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: was just exaggerating that in my head. All right, what
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: else do we have?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Sup?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Chuck and Ash?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: If you had an entire weekend with no sports to
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: watch or talk about on Monday?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: What would you do?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's and I'm just staying at home right, not traveling,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: not traveling, no sports at all. But that's a rarity.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I love to write, so I'd probably use that to write.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And I certainly love going outside, so I would probably
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what I would do is I would get in my RV.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I would probably go to a wonderful like scenic Seattle town,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you know, and then I'd probably spend the weekend writing
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and enjoying nature.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: That's probably what I would do. What about you?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I would definitely be binge watching some reality television. Oh,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I'd be doing house projects, probably working on softball with
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Palmer in the backyard. And then i'd have a happy
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: hour or two.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think you're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: doing enough for yourself. Yeah, it sounds like you're like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Fringe watching reality TV. It's not hard work that much.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: All Right?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: What else we got we've got? Where did I just
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: lose that one? Oh?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Slup, chuck, give me your Martini, specs, brands and ratios.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I go, Well, Unicorn has taken that over. She's the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: bartender on martini night, and well we just kept I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: pretty much just drink vodka in a cold glass, Okay,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it's practically what it's come to. But she's Celiac,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so we had to find a gluten free vodka, which
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: most vodka is. Yeah, so we do Chowpan and I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: wouldn't go with anything else. And people always think that's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: like fancy and expensive. It's not. It's like one of
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the cheaper ones. But we go showpan and and then
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: three blue cheese olives and you eat one per martini.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I like that, okay. And so you start off your
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: taste buds with the blue cheese olive and then you drink,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and then you let the other two sit, and then
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you just go through the three olives and your three
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: drinks by the end of the night.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: So that's the plan. And there's just a little bit
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of dirt in there, like a little bit of olive juice,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: but really about as tiny amount as you can imagine.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And that's it. No vermooth nothing, all right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So vodka and a cold glass.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, shaking with ice, always shaking, shaking, not starred,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: always shaking, but cold glass filled with vodka and olives
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and blue cheese. That's that's my drink.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: We got another one for you here, step Chuck, new
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: baseball fan here. I'm sure this is a dumb question,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: but what the hell does it mean to pull the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: ball or hit it the other way?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Stupid? I'm glad you're asking that. I you know sometimes
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, we want to talk up here, but we
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: all obviously don't. I mean, we want to welcome new
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: sports fans, though I want to learn. I'd like to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: get on board. I don't know what they're talking about.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Pulling just means okay, so you're if you're a left
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: handed batter, okay, and you hit it to the right
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: side of second base, okay, So that means that you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: are The term is as opposed to pushing it the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: other way. You are pulling your hands through the ball
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and you are hitting it to the right side of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: second base, So you could pull it to the first basement,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: second baseman, right field, or right center field gap. That's
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: pulling the baseball, okay, And so they don't call it pushing. Yeah,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: when you hit it the opposite way, I don't think
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that it's as common a term as pulling, but that's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: what they mean. And if you're a right handed hitter,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that means you're pulling between on the left side of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: second base, so you're hitting the ball of the shortstop,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: third baseman, vicinity, left field, and left center field. So
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that's what pulling me seem.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: That's a good description, and now someone's learned something.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I like that and there are no dumb questions when
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: you're trying to learn about sports.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Completely different term in football. Pulling in football is that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you are an offensive lineman who loops around to the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: side where you're sending the play ready to smash somebody.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Oh right, fair, here's our last one, sup weirdos. Going
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: to the Mariners game for humpy Plush night? What should
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I get inside the ferry boat?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I think you gotta go fish and chips.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I love that entire Yes, me too.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: It made me laugh really hard.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But first of all, congrats on getting the humpy plush
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: and I would go fish and chips.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: In the ferry boat.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go nachos, but that just seems like
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: a lot of nachos and I can't eat cheese.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So okay, what is the faerry boat Oh, it's that
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you mean the actual faerry No, that they serve.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: And then you can take it home and it floats.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: They can play with it in the bathtub.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, and they serve how much on them?
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You think you can get nachos, you can get fish,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and chips, you can get I think there's like three
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: or four options that you can get inside the ferry boat.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, Martini's probably.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, who doesn't want a ferry boat full of
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Martinis with blue cheese alaves?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: How do you enjoy Humpy the plushy without Martini in you?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Or several or several h I love that every part
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of that question. Right, let's go to the ABC's of
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the MS. Thanks for your questions. We appreciate it, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I will dive a little deeper into exactly what our
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: hitters have been up against in the first seven games
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: of the year. Now making excuses for them, but might
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: stand out as a reason or two. Sports Radio ninety
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: three point three kJ r FM, No Bucky Jacobson today.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I know he's sorely missing the abcs of the MS.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: It's pretty much the best thing in his life.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Well except for trivia.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we could even do trivia today.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I know, yeah, yeah, really sad.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Because somebody isn't at work today. Who's that who? Who?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: The game is built around on his insistence? So we'll
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: we'll get through it. We got to wait. Basically do
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a daily Mariner segment. I use the alphabet as my guide,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and who knows where the alphabet takes us, but hopefully
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it'll take us to some interesting subjects. And we left
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: off yesterday had the letter J and Jay is for judgment.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Judgment is made. Let's not be so quick to rush
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to judgment on the offense so far this season. I mean, yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: we got to get better production, especially out of our
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: big three in the middle of the order. They're just
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: off the bad starts. I said, I wouldn't start worrying
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: about that for another fifteen to twenty games before I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: start worrying about it or wondering, you know, what's happened.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But I will say this, and I'm not going to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: say this as an excuse. It's just baseball is baseball,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and you go in and hitters go into slumps, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: then they get hot, and you just hope that your
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: three best hitters aren't all slumping at the exact same
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: time because It's hard to win baseball games that way,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and that's where we're at right now. We've got seven
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: games into this season and Cal and Julio and Josh
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: just aren't hitting bottom line. But maybe we do give
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit of credit to who we are facing.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees have some
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: of the best starting pitching that the world has to offer.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And if you think that we struggled against Tanner, Biby,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams, Max Freed, and Cam Schlittler, well you should
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: see what the other teams that they faced did against them.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams just baffled the Los Angeles Dodgers, you know
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: that team that's supposed to win a thousand games this year.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Seven shutout innings for Gavin Williams, Tanner byby four innings,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: one run allowed. The night before Parker Messick, who he
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: did not face, six innings, no runs allowed against the Dodgers.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: So Cleveland's starting pitchers against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: healthy Los Angeles Dodgers allowed one run over seventeen innings.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say too. And it's not like
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: they were benching people. This was Otani and Tucker and
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Betts and Freeman and Smith and Hernandez.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I mean it was their starters.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And then the Yankee starters gave up one run on
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the entire series to the San Francisco Giants, same thing,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: sixteen innings, Freed Schlittler, who we faced both of those guys,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: so combined Biby, Williams, Schlittler and Freed against other opponents
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the Giants and the Dodgers allowed one run over eleven
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: twenty two and a two thirds innings. That's pretty good, right, Yeah,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: we scored six times off of Bibey and Williams combined.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: So yes, we've got we got three important hitters off
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the very slow starts. But you never know what can
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: keep a hitter from getting hot. And I'll tell you
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the number one thing face really great starting pitching, you know.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: And so we haven't gotten off the mat. Those three
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: guys specifically have not gotten off the mat this point.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But they're going up against very good rest and they
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: pin their shoulders to the mat. And I do believe
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a day off. I can't believe I'm saying this. The
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: team looked like it needed a day off. I think
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: they're the only team in baseball that's played all seven
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: games to start the season. So they have a day
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: off and they're going to go to Los Angeles, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you the Angels have terrible
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: starting pitching. This reed Detmers kid seems to be having
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a great spring, but certainly this is gonna be a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: walking apart compared to what the Mariners have gone up
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: against thus far. And those same pitchers that seem to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: dominate the Mariners more so dominated the Dodgers and the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Giants lineup, so they're on their game. Hitting is hard.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It's particularly hard at the beginning of the year. It's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: particularly hard at the beginning of the year when it's cold.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And so right now, pitching that we've faced has looked
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: awfully dominant, and I suspect that on Friday we'll see
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of those guys, maybe not all three of them,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: but I think a couple of those guys are getting
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: on track. And Cal kind of already feels like he's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: getting on track. He's had a couple of big hits
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: in the span of three games against the Yankees. So
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I think we're fine, don't worry about it, and maybe
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: give a little bit of a credit to the opponent.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And then kay is for Kirby, they're going to have
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to let him challenge some pitches. I mean, I don't want.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what it is about teammates
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: right now being comfortable with calling out other teammates. But
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: we've already seen Paul Skeens stare down O'Neil Cruz in
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: center field in Game one. We've already seen Matt Chapman
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: tell his first baseman to catch the effing ball yesterday
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and the Giants game, and last night, Kirby threw a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: little bit out there, like we got to challenge that pitch.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I know it was a strike, it was on the corner.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And the Mariners have the rule that Cowl's going to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: make those decisions, and I think that's going to suit
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: everybody and the starting rotation and probably the bullpen just fine,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: except for one guy. And that's going to be George.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: And when George gets rattled or George thinks he's been wronged,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, when George thinks he's been wrong by an umpire,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it gets bad. If George starts thinking he's going to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: get wrong by his own catcher, his you know, his
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: battery mate, his pal.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we want George living. I think
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that at first we're gonna have to give George. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: think everybody would understand that in the starting rotation. Just
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: let George be able to challenge. And if he builds
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: up a statistical resume that says I'm not good at it,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: at least you have evidence to show him. But George
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: really wants to be in command when he is on
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the mound, and he does not like others taking away
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: from his causing him to not have success umpires, fielders
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: and certainly catchers. I mean, he did not want Sebby's
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Avala catching him a couple of years ago. You could
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: see it in his face. Okay, and so I think
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: that you might have to make an exception, and I
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: think everybody else will understand. George, I think is going
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: to have to be allowed to challenge until he proves
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's fair.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: And then if he proves he is great at it,
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: you keep letting him do it. If he proves he's
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: he's really bad at it, then all right, he had
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: his chance.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Well, and cal think about what Kyle told us a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: spring training like Cal really wants to save them. He
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: thinks that totally, and I agree with him. Needs to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: be situational, and I can't have George challenging things when
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: you're down three to zero in the count to try
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: to get back into the count with the base is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: empty and two outs. Can't have that. And so, but
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I also think George is gonna have to learn that
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: lesson because if you tell him he can't do it,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and he knows that the option out there is out
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: there to do it, and that he thinks that Cal's
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: not getting the job done for him, then you might
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: not have as an effective George. So I don't know.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation about this, but I think
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: that he's going to have to be made an exception
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's early, so this is the time to
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: do it. It's in the season. Let's figure it out
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: right with some trial and error.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Right right. And if he struggles with it or he
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: takes you both your challenges away, now you've got ammunition
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to say, see, we can't do it this way. Yeah,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to play ball with us here on this.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't until he fails at it. I don't
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: think he's going to accept that he's not allowed to
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: do that. Just my two cents. Yeah, all right, Speaking
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: of two cents, I got three or four cents on
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson. When is he going to be activated? We'll
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: discuss it next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Hey,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: good morning to you all. It is Chuck Poll and
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan with you. No Bucky Jacobson this week. Happy
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Draftmas to you all as well, day number two of
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: our Draftmas celebration. All sorts of Draftmas things going to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: happen before the end of the show today, Stocking stuffers
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: coming up at nine thirty our daily segment. Also, we
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: introduce a brand new Draftmas feature this hour. You know,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: you try to keep it fresh most holidays just I
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: guess rest on their laurels is a lazy yeah, you know,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: things like Thanksgiving just turkey every year. I guess we
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: try to keep it fresh though here during Draftmas season
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: as the inventors of the holiday, and so we will
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: have one of our brand new features that we will
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: debut coming up a little bit later on this hour,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and a lot of other things to discuss, including our
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: camera usage day number two of our camera usage as well.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they got it to us just on
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the day of Draftmas. It was like a little present
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: for our selves. But now you can see everything that
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: we do. And I am gonna forget, Ashley, don't forget
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: a lot. Don't forget a lot that I am on camera.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: And I am just hoping that I unknowingly don't have
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of bad habits that people will be able
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: to stare at now. But I'm not sure. I will
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: say sure about that. I really don't like things in
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: or around my nose, so I do a lot of this.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: I've never noticed that really.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh good, because I'm awfully self conscious about it,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Like my nose gets really like is really sensitive like anything,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and so anyway, I'm worried about that.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't worry about that. Also, your camera that's for
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: YouTube is on that side over there.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, oh it's this one. Yeah, okay, now you're
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: looking right at it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: But we did get a text on the YouTube chat
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: that was like, it's really weird to watch you guys talk,
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: and I was like, yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I bet it would be.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: And you only listened and then all of a sudden,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: You're like, wow, they're like people with mouths.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Kind of like when you see a music
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: video but you know the song and then you see
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the music video and it takes on a whole new Yeah.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, that's the interpretation they went.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Seeing the person sing, I think, do think changes it
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: a little whit? It does sometimes for the worst. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know which category we belong in, but who knows.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I don't know which category we belong in either.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: That's s yeah, but I just I don't, man, I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: hope I don't have anything that gets caught on camera
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that I don't want to, like selling drugs, for example,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I do that. I'll try to keep it off.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Camera right well, and obviously as as well documented on
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: this show My heroin Addiction, right.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, I sell drugs too, yeah.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: To me in the breaks, but that's why we turn
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: the cameras off.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Hopefully that doesn't get caught on camera as an.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Example, yes, of things we don't want.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Can I ask though, before we dive into Colt Emerson
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: again here, what is it with the individual's fascination with
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: spreading false stories?
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: What are they getting out of it in which sense.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: In the last twenty four hours, I've seen someone out
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: there tweet out that cold Emerson's been activated. Okay, I
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: saw another story that chased the latter who he faced
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago he fouled the ball off
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: his foot in the Dodgers series and he and I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: saw he went on the sixty day il and I
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: just saw yesterday the Detroit Tigers have signed Trek school
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Bull to a ten year, four hundred and one million
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: dollar contract. Now, so it does cause you, like, because
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know all of these sources. I don't know
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: all of the reputable sources and the disreputable sources, and
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: so it caused me for three different times yesterday like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: is that true? And then I had to go find
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: out No, nobody else is of any substances reporting that
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: it's just not true. So obviously there are just people
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: out there that want to break stories. And I get
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: that they are going to get likes that way, They're
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: going to get views that way, But how much do
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: you need a like and a view? What career are
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: you trying to launch that you need a like in
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: a view? And so you make up a store what's
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the thrill that a person gets out of that. I'm
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: not sure I get that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I think the thrill, sadly is that they they get
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: the attention, they get people to believe something. And yesterday
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: was April Fool's Day, so maybe, oh maybe people were
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: just I just I just put that together too, because
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: I was like, I don't I mean, I see it
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: on other days.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: That aren't that right?
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: People, there's parody accounts when they want to seem like
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: a sports reporter.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not just bringing this back up based on yesterday.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: But maybe that's why I had so many.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: That's probably why there were so many yesterday.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, it happens all the time, and it's
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: annoying because then you have to go look to find
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: out that. I think they have to label themselves as
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: a parody account, but you have to go to the
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: account and make sure this is or it's not real,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: Like that's what happened with Hard Knocks the other day.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, this is that really, Bob Padda.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, it's one thing to try to be
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: funny with a fake story, but that's not what's happening.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: It's just I like lying to people and tricking them, yeah,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and then getting called out for it. I am now
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: snickering in my mom's basement over the chaos I created
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: in the world. Just now. Yeah, I'm so clever.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: It seems like they're doing and that is a pathetic existence.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: It truly is so cold. Emerson has not been activated.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: That was a lie fabricated by a liar.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's coming soon. I don't think there's any
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: doubt that it's on the horizon. And I know a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: lot of people are wondering, all right, he's under contract now,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: so when's it going to happen and where is it
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: going to happen? Well, well, as they will tell you
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: in the baseball world, some of these things kind of
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: take care of themselves. And so my guess is, and frankly,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: this is the thing to be most encouraged about with
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson and his future is that Jerry Depoto can't
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: stop putting, can't stop talking about him, like, can't stop
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: praising him. I mean, just yesterday he was asked about it. Now,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: maybe it was an April Fools joke maybe, but just
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: yesterday was asked about it, and he's like, he's checked
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: every box but one extended game views of major league
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: slash near major league caliber caliber pitching. That's the only
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: box that we have to check. So we want to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: get an extended look at that while he's into Cooma
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: that you know, jumping up to the next level and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you're either facing major league caliber talent or guys that
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: are right on the fringe of major league caliber talent
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: that know to get hitters out. So we want to
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: expose him to that. And we don't know, there's not
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: a really designated amount of time that we need to
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: expose him before we will know it when we see it.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: That's I mean, I'm paraphrasing. That was one of the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: great efforts of paraphrasing everything.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: And I thought, you, yeah, did a great job word
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: for word.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: You thought that was word for word.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, huh sorry, okay, yeah.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: But I mean they, I mean, just the fact, going
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: back to spring training. I mean, once upon a time,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: the rule was that even if you thought he was ready,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: you didn't say that publicly. We were in December and
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin were like, he might make the team
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: out of spring. No, So that's how much they think
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: of him. That's how much they think that he can
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: handle the pressure of being called up and signing an
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: eight year, ninety five million dollar contract without having played
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: a single game of major league baseball. That's how much
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: faith that they have in him that they can actually,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: kind of in a norm, add to that pressure and
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna fold. They can say in December, we've
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: got a twenty year old who's major league ready. It's
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: just a matter of time. You can get to spring
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: training and you've got veterans everywhere trying to make the club,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: and you're saying, when this guy's ready, he's taking somebody's job. Yeah,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: this year, it's going to happen at some point this year.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Right before the season started, we asked Jerry about it.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Probably May, somewhere in May seems to be the area
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: in which that they are concentrating. And so they're just
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: his own words, looking to check that last box before
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: they activate him. So there is a strong belief that
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: cold Emerson is major league ready and we just need
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: a little bit of fine tuning, a little bit of
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: exposure down in Tacoma before he's activated onto this team.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: And that's really exciting, and you can tell I mean,
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: every time you guys have asked Jerry and Justin about him,
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, especially in spring training year, Justin was not
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: holding his excitement back at all.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: And I mean it.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Was even to the point where it was kind of
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: what he had said was breaking news, like he's coming,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: He's going to play this year.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: It's just a matter of win.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you how close he is because the month
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: that they're saying they're going to give him, they're sort
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: of acting they've loosely said it, but maybe around mid
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: May or so. So that sort of gives you. This
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about when you say sometimes these
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: things takes care of themselves. In six weeks time professional baseball,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have an injury. Somebody's probably going to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: get injured. I mean not calling what, I'm not trying
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: to jinx anything, but probably somebody's probably going to get
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: injured in that process. And so that's what I mean,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: like that kind of might take care of if you're
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out the roster crunch, whose job does
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: he take, because JP's going to take Rebos, Revos will
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: go back to Tacoma, or he'll go into the utility role. Uh,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: at that point. But I mean, he's gonna take somebody's spot.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: It could very well be that we'll wait five six
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: weeks and see what roster spot opens up in that
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: span of time, and then if no roster spot does
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: open up, then we'll force the issue. This is how
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: close though, I think he is. If like one of
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: those roster spots opened up tomorrow, like if we add
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: an injury and God forbid, yeah, knock on, yeah, knock
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: on him my head, knock on your head. I think
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: they'd activate him. I think they'd activate him, like if
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: somebody went down, because it's not like it has to
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: be that specific position. That's what Brendan Donovan gives you.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't have to be a third basement, shortstop
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: or second basement. It could be anybody on the roster
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: because you can put Emerson at third base, shortstop, or
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: second and Donovan can play outfield for you. That's the
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: flexibility that Donovan gives you in that situation. So it
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be somebody that plays infield that would
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: theoretically get hurt and clears the space for Emerson. No,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: anybody offensively gets hurt and then Emerson it's activated. And
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: then Donovan turns into this jack of all trades, which
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: is where he's thrived, but a different type of jack
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: of all trades, more like a super utility. Dylan Moore
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: was a utility player, don't get it twisted. Superutility is
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: somebody that plays every single day, but you don't know
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: what position they're going to go over day, and that's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: what Donovan is going to thrive at. He's not going
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: to go into a polatoon role. Donovan's gonna play every day,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: but it might be left field one game, it might
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: be right field one game. It might be second base
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: one game, it might be first base one game. I
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: think they'll probably give him a first basement. It might
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: be DH most of the time, but that's not going
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: to get in the way of cold Emerson. So that's
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: how close I think Holt Emerson is to being on
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the Mariners twenty twenty six. We're going to win the
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: World Series roster is that? I think if there was
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: an injury now, they'd activate him. Wow, I really do.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Well, and I think I mean, you don't offer him
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: an eight year, ninety five million dollar contract with a
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: ninth year option if you're not planning on having him
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: up here soon, So that wouldn't surprise me. I mean,
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: I was thinking when they even when they did that,
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: I was like, well, I feel like he'll be up
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: here in the next two weeks, maybe when that contract came.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe I've said this the entire process. When they feel
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: he's ready to be one of the starting nine, because
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: you're not bringing him up and then put him in
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: a platoon role or a you know, a bench roll
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Nope, when they feel he's one
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: of the nine best hitters everyday players in this organization,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: because they don't want to rush it too much and
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: then he struggles because they don't want to have to
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: experience sending him back. They want him ready because when
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: he comes up, he's here for good, okay, And so
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that's another reason why they're taking a little bit more
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: time to get there. But I think right now they
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: believe he's one of the nine best players in this organization,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: like he is major league ready, but let's make a
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: little bit more sure, because we just don't want that
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: experience of him struggling so severely in a championship or
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: bust kind of year that we have to then pull
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: him off the team, and what is that going to
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: do to with Psyche and what is that going to
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: do pr wise because we just signed him to an
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: eight year, ninety.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: Five million Yeah, then you give all the Mariners fans
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: reason to be angry.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Look at what they did.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: All it is another Evan White situation when it's not
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: another Evan White situation.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: So they're buying some time with that, making sure putting
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: him in the best position to succeed for all of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the reasons that I just stated. But I think in
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: their hearts and minds, they already feel he's one of
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: the nine best players in this organization and that's how
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: they're going to treat him when he comes up. And
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: they'll figure out the role based on other circumstances, other
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: issues that are whether that's injury or whether that's a slump,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: or whether that's just a guy that they're not altogether
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: married to for now and into the future. And there
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: might be I'm not going to speculate on who that
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: might be at this stage, but there's a guy they
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: have in mind that if he's just not a part
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: of their future like Emerson is that they'll sacrifice that
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: guy for the opportunity to get Emerson's clock started. So
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: that's my broad brush stroke of this entire thing.
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean as a Mariners fan, I'm very
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: excited just to see because it's an added element. Right,
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: You're watching your team, You're watching them play, hopefully getting wins.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: But on top of it, you know, you've now got
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: this excitement of when is he coming up? And what's
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: going to happen here? And and when he comes up,
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: like how big of an impact is he going to make?
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Immediately? I mean, it's an entire new thing.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: It's like you just are going to get this great
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: addition to your team early on.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Now, I had Peter Tweeter send me a nice interesting
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: texts like weren't they talking about this with Jared Kellnick.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: Two and a couple of questions about that and how.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Much would that look like it would have backfired. I
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: think it's a great point. I think it's a fair point,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: and I think it belongs in the conversation. The only
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: pushback I would give on that is I don't know
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: how far down the road they had gotten with Jared Kelnick.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I think it was thrown out there as a possibility
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: and Kelnick kind of shot it down himself publicly. I'm
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: not sure that they were at the point with him.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I could be wrong, could be wrong. I'm not saying
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: that I know, but I'm not sure they were at
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: the point with him where they were sure. I mean,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I had a couple of conversations and back to back
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: springs with Scott Servis. I mean, the first time I
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: ever Askedcott service about Jared Kelnick, he just looked at
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: me like, have you met him? That's what he said,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: have you met him? And it wasn't like it wasn't
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: like ripping on him. It was this cat's different. This
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: dude has a different way that he walks, talks, acts,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: conducts himself. And they already knew that. The yeah, the
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: talent is all there, but we got to get the
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: mentals right. And so I'm not sure they ever got
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to the point where they were ready to hand him
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: a contract. Evan White was as I mentioned yesterday, I
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: think that was an example of John Stanton wanted to
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: sign those kinds of deals. That's the kind of stuff
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: that he wanted to do. And I do think they
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: put the cart before the horse on him because they
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: thought Clubhouse, yes, first base, best defensive first basement arguably
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: in the world already, so at least he's going to
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: give us that. And so I think that that was
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: John Stanton saying I want to establish and I think
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: they just got a little hasty with that sort of
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: a pro to contracts. This one, I think is a
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: lot more thought out. I think Emerson checks way more
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: boxes than either one of those guys, and so I'm
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: not trying to make excuses for them, but I do
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: think that that represents why this situation's a little bit
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: different than those other two.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean, you have to take risks, whether
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: we like it or not, right and do they all
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: work out?
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: No, That's why it's a risk. So they're taking this risk.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: They think that they've calculated it very well and that
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: it's less risky and there you go.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mentioned this yesterday and I'm just going
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: to go through it quickly. Here are the reasons why
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: potentially that they are doing this now, because I know
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are freaked out about it. Number One,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: there's a collective bargaining agreement change that's going to happen
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: here in the next year or so, and it might
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: lead to a lockout. It might lead to a strike.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: We don't know how much baseball we could potentially miss
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: because of this new collective bargaining agreement. Rob Manfred is
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: bound and determined to get a salary cap into the sport.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: There is never anything that the Baseball Association Players Association
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: has ever pushed back on. More so, he's got his
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: work cut out for him, and it means he's going
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: to have to dangle a very juicy, delicious carrot in
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: front of the players. What if what if one of
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: the things that they might be willing to offer the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: players is earlier free agency? Right right now, you have
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: to wait six years. What if Rob Manfred is so
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: determined to get a salary cap He's like, I'll make
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: it four. I'll cut two years off of that four years,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: and you can become free agents if you give me
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: a salary cap all of a sudden. Players, So, ye
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: oh oh, that's interesting.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't just dismiss that.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Right And I'm not saying that's happening, But what if?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: What if? So what if organizations know this? What if
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin know this? Now it makes a whole
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: hell of a lot more Since you just bought three
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: years of his free agency from him already. What if
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: it's really five? Yeah, yeah, I mean what I mean
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about stealing. I think they've stolen.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: On the face on its face, I think they stolen
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: with this contract. I think the agent did him as
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: his service.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: But if they're if, maybe the baseball people know that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: what changes might be possible in the future, and that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: is encouraging organizations to sign deals like this, because I
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: can promise you it's not the last one. Connor Griffin
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, JJ Weatherhold from Saint Louis, Kevin McGonagall from Detroit,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: They're all going to be offered contract. They're all working
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: on deals on those guys to get them signed. And
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin has not made his debut either, So other
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: teams are lining up to do the exact same thing.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: In a couple of cases, they already have. I said, yeah, yesterday,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee already did it with Cooper Pratt, who's not near
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: the prospect that Emerson is, and he did it in
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the same week. They just did it three days before
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: the Mariners signed Emerson. So this is something that all organizations,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: at least the mid to small market organizations are considering
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: right now and are doing at a more rapid pace.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: And I think they know something. I think they know
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: something about the future, and it's why it's become such
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: an impetus in the sport. And just the final thing
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: that I will say, if this is happening, you know,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: think about the JSN contract. What did we say about
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: the JSN contract? Sign him now. The longer you wait,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the more expensive that he gets, Well, just give him
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the next brick in the road. And he took it.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: He took the next highest contract. He didn't try to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: break the mold. He just took the next highest contract.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: He just became the highest paid receiver in the National
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Football League. And he's going to be surpassed by the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: next superstar. We thought it was Nikub but he's on
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Goofers and so we thought that maybe that was going
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: to be. But he just took the next brick in
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the road. Well, if you know that's how the cars
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: are aligning, why wouldn't you be the first? Why wouldn't
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: you want to get ouhead of Pittsburgh and the Conor
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Griffin contract and Saint Louis and the JJ Weatherholt contract
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: and Detroit and the Kevin McGonagall contract be the one
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: that sets the tone rather than chase the money. And
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: I think that's another splendid reason why the Mariners signed Emerson,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: even though it makes a lot of Mariner fans uncomfortable.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it seems to be making a lot of
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: them uncomfortable. But yeah, I just think in that case, yes,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: you're saving yourselves money if you have to now wait
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: or if you wait for those contracts to come out.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Now, you're allowing him to have the.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: Leverage to say, well, look at what Pittsburgh did, Look
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: at what this team did, Look at what this team did.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: I want more.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking Connor Griffin, I just saw breaking news. He
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: just got called up. He's going to debut tomorrow for
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. I think he's nineteen years old.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So there you go.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Big moment.
• 1:04:03
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• 1:04:33
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• 1:04:35
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• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:46
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• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: in our nog fountain too much. Yeah. I really appreciate
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Marshall stepping up and buying us a nog fountain this year.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: He's a good guy.
• 1:05:00
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• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:05
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: Good morning. You know, many many years ago, I remember
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: somebody ruined eggnog for me. Oh, because like I think
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: I had my It was like my second eggnog latte
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: and they were like, oh, liquid big Mac and I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: was like, oh my pardon me. And you're like, yeah,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: like eggnog lattes are like liquid big Macs. And I
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: was like, I hate you. I absolutely hate you.
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  Speaker 1: So were they saying that from like a caloric standpoint
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: or consistency standpoint or do they think that they tasted
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: like big match? I think that's probably yeah.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: I think about that on the holiday. As a matter
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: of fact, I'll eat a big Mac with a nagnog chaser.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: I'll do it.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I will dip the big Mac in the vat of
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: eggnog and eat it that way. How about that square? Yeah,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: the holidays. Tell your calorie counting friend a buzz off.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: We're celebrating around here. Well, happy baseball season to you.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: Oh it's so good to be back. So fun. Yeah,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: and you know, I know that that some things haven't
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: gone the way people would have liked, then others have
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: gone spectacularly well. And that's what's just made me kind
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: of smile, is like, yes, this is baseball, you know,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: however you think things are going to go, It's like life,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: you know, life is what happens while you're making all
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: your plans. However you think things are gonna go, it
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: never does, and that's what makes it so incredibly awesome.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about something that we hope that are real.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Why is Brendan Donovan and what we see out of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: him offensively anyway real? And why should I believe that
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Cole Young has arrived because they've been two of the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: positive stories so far this year.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm kind of nerding out on Brendan Ryan already,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: or Brendan Donovan, Brendon Rohan. Uh, Brendan Donovan already. Just
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: like so many little things that this guy does, he's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 5: such a grinder. I going into the wall the other
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: day in Foul Territory. How many pitches did that save
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: your pitcher? You know, him beating out the back leg
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 5: of a double play and then you know that's the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: difference between him the inning not being over and now
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden the double and he scores from
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: first on the double. I mean, you've got to get
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: a great jump, you got to be you know. I
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: know it's kind of an easy to read in to left,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: But just like all of the little things that this
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: guy does, he is as good as advertised and thrilled
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: for Cole Young. You know a guy that went into
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 5: the off season and just said, I'm gonna work, I'm
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 5: gonna work, and I'm just gonna keep working. And he's
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: done that. I don't think I'm not trying to take
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: anything away from Cole that he's the most you know,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: athletically gifted guy out there. But I love guys that
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: work and the work pays off, and that's what you
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: are seeing. You know, with Cole Young. There's guys that
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: are quicker, that are guys that are faster, but this
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: guy is put in the work and we're seeing it already.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: And you know, he changed his approach. I think he's
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: not coming around the wall as much. He's staying up
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: the middle, and that's allowing him to hit less. He's better.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: It's at him to hit right handed, pitching better as well.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: It just it's a good approach and I hope he
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: stays with it.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: He feels like a threat. I mean I did not
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: feel that way about Cole Young last year, but now
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: every time he comes to the plate, I'm like, oh,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: he just feels like a threat up there right now,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: Who's got the better hair? Donovan or Ben Gamble. Has
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Donovan replaced Ben Gamble on the greatest hairdoo list You've
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: ever put together?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean he might.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: He might some good salad, good salad that yeah is slow.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: Game is strong, for sure, he might see. I hate
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: to even bring these things up because I know guys
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: they're so touch hims Britain and Donovan may have a
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: better hair line.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Oh look at you.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: It might put him over the edge. It's so hard
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: to tell, you know, so often with baseball players you
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: never see them because they have their hats on.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: But is hot, his hair has a high upside still
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: where maybe because his fore hair.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 5: His forehead is not high.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Benji Mintink is with us here on Chuck and Buck.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the elephant in the room.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Three and four. Start with our three best hitters, just
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: starting about as ice cold as you possibly can. Cal Rawley,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, Julio Rodriguez. What's wrong?
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: You know? I don't want to, you know, point and
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: just go look at the WBC. But I think that
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: baseball is a game that you have to do a
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: little a lot. You can't do a lot a little.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: You know, you've heard about like cal rawly trying to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 5: cram for the test at the end there and try
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: to get as many at baths as he can. It's
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: based on isn't a game like that? Like and and
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: it's not even at baths. I know everybody keeps talking about,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: you know how he didn't get as many at baths.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 5: I think it's it's the it's the grind that's necessary
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: behind the scenes. And I also think, like I can
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: point to the value of Bobby and Maguianas and Kevin Sitzer,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: the hitting coaches, because those guys know these guys' swings
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: in and out and can make like a little tiny
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: adjustment as far as like you know where their hands are,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: where the bad angle is that their their launch points.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 5: And I don't think they've had that, you know. It's
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: it's like these guys go into spring training and going
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: back to Brendon Donovan, I mean that guy was like
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: living in the cage for four hours a day and
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 5: they didn't have that of spring training. They didn't have
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: their normal facilities to be able to, you know, put
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: in one hour one day and for the next and
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: then three you know.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: The following day.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: And a guy that knows their swing frame by frame
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: to say, hey, I'm seeing this. Try putting your hands here,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: try putting this here. Hey, I feel like you're coming,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: your weights coming, you know, just a little before look
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: at your head here and look at this. I don't
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: think that's happened. I don't think I think that is
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: what has been missing. It's not necessarily just the number
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: of a bats and that you know that want either
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: desired a cramp for the test and try to get
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: in as many at bats. It's the work. Yeah, that
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: was missing because of the WBC.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I like that. I like the way you broke
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: that down. I was just blaming it on the WBC
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: without a really clear definition or explanation.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: That we're saying the same thing. Okayook, WBC is lots
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: shorter than what I just went through.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Why Why is the Emerson Hancock outing? Why should I
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: believe that that's real? And then secondarily it's crazy because
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: I saw your tweet about how kind a person he is.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy you follow such a cool team for
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: a living that like Logan Gilbert's like the third nicest
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: guy on the roster, Like nowhere else in the world
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: is Logan Gilbert the third nicest person in the room.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: But that's how awesome dudes they've gathered here in Seattle.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. And when I saw Emerson, like I
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: was like like jumping on him and I was like,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: you know, Pugney, did you do it yesterday? What did
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: you do? I was like, I'm so happy for you.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: He was like, oh my gosh, angy And I'm like,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: And that's the thing is like he will come up
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: to you and say your name. I mean, I know
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: that sounds like a dumb thing, like oh what a
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 5: human thing, you know, like I feel like a cartoon.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: He knows my name, my name. But that's the way
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: Emerson is. And so you're just absolutely thrilled for, you know,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: his success, because he as good as a baseball player
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: he is. He's just such you know, a great, you know,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: human being. And again, these are things that should not
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: be the test, like, oh, you actually asked somebody how
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: they're doing. You know that you actually know they have
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: my job, everything about you. But as far as like
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: if it's real, I don't know, ask me if there
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 5: is next start. But this is a game where you know,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: these guys just don't go and and most of them anyway,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: you know, don't go and get off season jobs. You know,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: the money is good enough that they can just spend
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: their off season training versus driving for FedEx. And so
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 5: you know, he's another guy that he's just he he
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: never has stopped working. And sometimes you know, that's what
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: happens when the Karens dangled in front of you and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: you've had to play the role, you know, like he has.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: It's like, you know, hey, we need the sixth starter.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: You know you're up. Okay, go back to Triple A
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 5: and work on things. Hey we need you again. And
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 5: you know, you have this this back and forth and
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: you really want to be here and you get such
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: a taste of being here that it makes you, when
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: you're not here, work even harder to get back here.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: And so he's had that struggle slashed luxury and and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: I'm just I'm thrilled, Like you know, he's going to
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: have to miss bats. You know, velocity is a real thing.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: And he's not been a guy that's lit up the
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: radar gun, but his velo is up. And the other
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 5: thing that has happened with him tent of year after years,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: it's there in the spring, you know, is it there
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 5: in July? And so is this going to be able
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: to you know, continue That's a big thing because velocity
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: really does affect swing decisions and when guys you know,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: have to get going with their swing and then he's
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: got all this movement and all this change of speeds.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: So as long as he's got that villo, I think
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: this this could be very real for him.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: In our last minute here together and great to have
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: you on, but we haven't had you on yet so
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: far this season. So just your outlook, I mean, is
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: it feeling to you like a World Series type year?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Is this the type of roster that has been assembled
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: here in Seattle? And I'm sure that seven games in
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: a three and four start is not taking you away
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: from your preseason prediction.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to say this very slowly because this guy
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: worries me every time. Cam Schlitzler, last night's pitcher for
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 5: the Yankees. He went to an interview with Susan Waldman,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 5: who's this nasti legend with the Yankees, and I was like, hey,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 5: to say anything interesting, and she said he wouldn't stop
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: talking about you guys, the guy that has to stand
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: sixty feet six inches away from you and try to
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 5: get you out. He is a really good idea of
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 5: what he's up against. He sees the swings that you
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 5: put on his best stuff, and he said he works
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: all night long trying to keep the Mariners off balance.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 5: That speaks volumes to me with the star that that
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: guy has and said, that's a playoff team over there.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 5: So what other people say about you, in particular the
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: guys that are trying really hard to and are really
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: good at getting you out and they walk away even
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: though they got the best of you and went that
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 5: was hard. I think that that that goes well for
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: this team. And again with the very top of this
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: this order is doing what the bottom. We haven't even
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: seen the best I think out of our pitching staff,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: even though they've been very very good, very very good.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: When you get two three four going like lookout, look
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: out and two three four two good, they're gonna get there.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Ye.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: It's just unfortunately they haven't had a little a lot,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: but they will. It's one hundred and sixty two game
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: season and they get there and there's josh Naelo looks great.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: You know. I said that to him yesterday. It's like,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: you're a pro sure, at that's look great, you know.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, Julio scored up a ball what was it,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 5: one hundred and seven off the bat or something, and
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 5: he doesn't get a hit it off of that, Like
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 5: what why? That's not fair? So they're comming it's coming,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 5: they're going to fall.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well we're just at the beginning
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: of it. Great to have you now. Now I feel
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: like now we're ready for the season. We had to
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: talk to Angie first, so your founces, that's right. I'll
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: get you a cup or two. So thank you very much,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: great to chat with you. Enjoy the ride, and we'll
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: talk to you very soon.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: All right, thank you so much.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Appreciation Angie. Men take from Mariner's TV of course, new
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: television deal over there, and so we're all now seeing
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: her on twelve sixty one, So we appreciate her joining
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: us here this morning. And I think a lot of
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: great analysis right there from Angie this morning. That explains
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of things. I have talked a lot of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: baseball here today. We got stocking stuffers coming up in
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: the next segment. But I'm going to transition a little
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: awkwardly to this because I think Ashley will appreciate this.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine could you imagine trying to teach NFL
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: math in a classroom?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, no.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Could you imagine like a kid trying to wrap his
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: brain around numbers in addition of subtraction and division and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: everything else, and they think that they're almost there. And
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: I realized they teach math differently now in a lot
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: of schools than what I was raised on. I'm not
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: sure I agree with doing it that way, but whatever.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 4: Actually nice as a parent though, because I'm like, sorry,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know how that's done.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: But imagine if you threw NFL math, Like if John
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: Schneider like, all right, today, we're going to teach a
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: salary cap math and and then I mean the kids
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: is they were just like minds would get blown.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: He'd be like, wait, but this money's not real.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: They would go home crying. The story about Kirk Cousins,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: I want you to just bear me out on this one. Okay,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: So kirk Cousins signed with the Raiders today. That's an
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: interesting story enough, Adam Schefter update comp update kirk Cousins
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: will sign a five year right, I can stop right there. Yeah, Well,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: that math doesn't make sense right there? Yeah, five year,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy two million dollar deal with the Raiders. Okay, okay,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: think about that. I mean, Kirk Cousins is absolutely on
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: his last leg. I don't even know if he has
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: a leg left, and yet five years, one hundred and
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: seventy two million dollars. Now it goes on. But in reality,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: it's just a one year, fully guaranteed, twenty million dollar
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: deal that also contains a club option for two years
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: at eighty million dollars. But the Falcons will only pay
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: eight point seven million this season, the Raiders another one
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: point three million, and Las Vegas also agreed to pay
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: its new quarterback a fully guaranteed ten million dollar roster
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: bonus on the third day of the twenty twenty seven
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: new league year. How in the f could anybody make
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: sense of that if they didn't have a little bit
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: of background on how to do NFL math? Is that
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: not just the most convoluted story that you've ever read
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: in your entire life? So yes, fully guarantee he's getting
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars to sign with the Raiders and then
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: a club option for two years that I'm assuming they
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: would never dream of picking right, especially if they're taking
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza. If you take Fernando Mendoza number one, and
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: then you're picking up a two year option at eighty
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: million dollars for Kirk Cousins after this season, something has
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: gone wrong with Fernando Mendoza. He might have been kidnapped
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: during the course of the football season for you to
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: be even entertaining. So I don't know why. I don't
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: know why NFL math has to do this. I don't
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: know why we've got to go through the process of
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: announcing a five year, one hundred and seventy two million
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: dollar deal for a player which only means one year,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: twenty million, and yet he only counts eight point seven
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: against the cap.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: I can't even how do you.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Even wrap your brains around that? How could anyone do
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: that math? I mean, I know, I know that, I
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: know that there's weird math, and that's the only thing
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: that keeps me from being confused about that. But the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: fact that you can announce a five year, one hundred
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: and seventy two million dollar deal it's really only one
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: year's twenty million, and that it only counts eight point
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: seven million against the cap.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: Who yeah, I don't.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm like Zach Galifanakis right now in
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: the Hangover with all the numbers going through, but they're
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: not adding up to anything for me. I guess some
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: would say rain Man as well, but or beautiful mind.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: It would make more sense if Kirk Cousins showed up
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: for the first day of Raiders camp with Carlos and
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: a Bjorn.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: I could understand that.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: He on his side, Yeah, and Heather Graham's standing next. Yeah,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: they'd be like, Okay, I don't know what's going on here,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: Kirk on the first day of practice, but makes a
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: lot more sense than your contract.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he pulled out his own tooth maybe too,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: like just a combo of all the characters.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes more sense.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: NFL math, that's they should teach a class on it.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: They should.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: I mean they do offer now like in college, you
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: can like take classes to become an NFL executive. Yeah.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: I wish they'd had that when I was a kid.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that they do teach teach capology in there
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: with Joel Professor Joel Corey at the front explaining what
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: everything means. But man, just show that to somebody that
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't follow football and say, makes sense of that?
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: Maybe, like does those numbers don't add up correct? Oh
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: they never will.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: He just got really rich. Oh my gosh, five years
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy No, no, no, no, AWA's only getting twenty.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: I don't understand. It's just twenty.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's an NFL math.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Why then five years one seventy two doesn't matter? It
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's it's like, okay, perfect Nate Bargatzi George
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: Washington's skit here.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, we need to bring it back, get the boat.
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  Speaker 1: And why General Washington? Is he getting five years one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two million dollars? No one knows.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but everybody accepts it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next Stocking Stuffer's Time, Happy Draft, Miss Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM Spirit And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you're there with us. And even if though you're
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  Speaker 1: not here at our studio, around our fireplace and hearth
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate the holiday, you're in our hearts every single one, right, yep, here, yep, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of space in there piling. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the suv of heartwall.
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  Speaker 3: We're not turning anyone away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the mom van of hearts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and I have that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So just clown cart. Let's get up in there. Ye,
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  Speaker 1: all of your friends and family. Just load her up,
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  Speaker 1: load her up.
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  Speaker 3: What could possibly go wrong?
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  Speaker 1: It's time for stocking stuffers. That is a staple of
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  Speaker 1: our Draft miss celebration. They are hung by the chimney
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  Speaker 1: with care. Stocking stuffers are filled with. Our stockings are
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  Speaker 1: filled with the NFL Draft rumors, and so yes, we
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  Speaker 1: open them one at a time on a daily basis
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  Speaker 1: to find out what the latest buzz is around the league.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to start with one that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to just create because I don't hear it buzzing, and
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  Speaker 1: I believe that it will start buzzing before we get
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  Speaker 1: to draft day. But I'm not hearing this being brought
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  Speaker 1: up whatsoever. The name is Jeremiah Love, and Jeremiah Love
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  Speaker 1: is the number one running back without question in this
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  Speaker 1: draft class, the kid out of Notre Dame. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's big, he's fast, he's agile. I mean he just
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  Speaker 1: looks the part. He's got a great name. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's really nothing to love but not to love about
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah love and yeah, they've got him. There's not a
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  Speaker 1: draft that has any running back going higher than him,
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  Speaker 1: and he keeps creeping up the list. I mean started
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  Speaker 1: off as you know what these guys, Diamond dozen blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. He could go as high as
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  Speaker 1: nine to the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, he hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: forecasted to go that low in quite some time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's making his way up to number five to the
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  Speaker 1: Giants or even number four to the Tennessee Titans. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting the rumor you haven't gone far enough o
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  Speaker 1: sa Kwon Barkley and others, and even the Sea Awks
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  Speaker 1: this past year and their commitment to the run, I
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  Speaker 1: think is going to change the way, and not drastically,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to adjust the way the teams are going
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  Speaker 1: to draft this upcoming season. I think there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I think running backs are going to start moving a
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  Speaker 1: little bit back up the board. And if you've got
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  Speaker 1: one as special as this, because I really am one
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  Speaker 1: of those, I'm kind of a disciple of the running
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  Speaker 1: backs of a Diamond dozen. I don't like overdrafting running backs.
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  Speaker 1: I think we took Zach Sharboney too high. But I
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  Speaker 1: also have always said about it, when there's a special dude,
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  Speaker 1: you can't take him high enough. When there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Truly special guy, Yeah, if you don't want to lose him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, then I think you could justify him going as
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  Speaker 1: high as number two in the draft. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's going to reach that eye. But I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you the team that Jeremiah Love's gonna end
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  Speaker 1: up on. You want a stocking stuffer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all ears it's gonna end up with the.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals at number three.
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  Speaker 3: I don't love that for us.
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  Speaker 1: And I realize that they have committed to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of slow plotting running backs for some reason because they're
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  Speaker 1: not a great organization. But like they've signed Connor and
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  Speaker 1: they signed al Jeer, which I think is the same person,
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  Speaker 1: and so they've kind of committed to slow, durable, physical,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say durable, slow, physical, plotting running backs
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  Speaker 1: that can move piles. But where's their playmaker? They don't
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  Speaker 1: have one of those. This guy's playmaker. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing I know about the Arizona Cardinals going. I know
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  Speaker 1: I've known both Bidwells, the old man wanted some sort
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  Speaker 1: of you know, some sort of shiny object to show
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  Speaker 1: in front of his fan base, dingle to dangle to
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  Speaker 1: move tickets, and young son Michael hasn't fallen far from
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  Speaker 1: the tree, except he's more arrogant and douche here. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, they hate him in Arizona. So I
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  Speaker 1: think this is an organization that still to this day
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  Speaker 1: regrets not taking Adrian Peterson in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: They let him fall to the Vikings at number seven
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  Speaker 1: and ended up with Levi Brown, even though all the
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  Speaker 1: talk that draft was to take Adrian Peterson and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. This is an organization going all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to Bill Bidwell in nineteen ninety three that
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  Speaker 1: with the third pick overall, took Garrison Hurst. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: have another star on the team. Steve Burrline was their quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Proll was their number one receiver. For goodness sake,
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  Speaker 1: he was the Rams number four receiver when they actually won.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't have a star player. Kyler Murray didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out for them. Harrison doesn't seem to be working
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  Speaker 1: out for them. They need somebody to dangle in front
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  Speaker 1: of their fans to give them some excitement, keep them coming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna end up being I think
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  Speaker 1: Love's gonna climb all the way to number three. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to be the typical Arizona Cardinal. We
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  Speaker 1: need a star to move merchandise and to move tickets,
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  Speaker 1: and a tackle's not going to do that. Even if
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  Speaker 1: it does make the most sense. They say, Jeremiah Love
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  Speaker 1: is the best prospect in this draft, regardless of position,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the Cardinals are going to take him
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  Speaker 1: number three. I'm starting a rumor today. I like Usually
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  Speaker 1: I unwrap rumors that are already started. I'm starting a
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  Speaker 1: rumor today.
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  Speaker 4: I like that you're starting the rumor and just going
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  Speaker 4: with it and taking the initiative to see if it sticks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't love that Love would be in
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  Speaker 3: our division.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't either, because when the Arizona Cardinals have
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  Speaker 4: had great running backs, they've been.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think it's probably not the why. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason that nobody's mocking him to Arizona because
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  Speaker 1: they believe the wiser decision is they need to fix
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  Speaker 1: their trenches. Maybe maybe it's not the wisest decision to
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  Speaker 1: take him, So maybe you root for that even though
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  Speaker 1: he is a spectacular player.
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  Speaker 4: And I hear what you're saying too about them needing
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  Speaker 4: to do something to appease their fans, because you can't
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  Speaker 4: just have a crap product year after year after year
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  Speaker 4: and expect them to keep buying tickets.
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  Speaker 1: They're in a bad way. Yeah, they're in a bad
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  Speaker 1: way that organization. I mean, look, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal fans get ripped on, but since they now have
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  Speaker 1: generation I mean, it's such a town of where people
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  Speaker 1: move to Arizona, but now they've got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: generations there where most of the fans have grown up.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinal fans. They support the team. They've had a
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  Speaker 1: long run of sellouts. They support the team. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's the lowest they've been in quite some time. That
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  Speaker 1: they thought they were building something special and it crashed
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  Speaker 1: and burned. Like the last couple of years. They were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to take steps forward and they've crashed and burned,
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  Speaker 1: and so a lot of doubt with Arizona Cardinals football again.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think this is going to be like
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  Speaker 1: a cheap ploy to try to win them back over.
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  Speaker 1: And that is to get them the shiny object that
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  Speaker 1: is the Adrian Peterson like running back that's in this class.
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  Speaker 1: So just a theory, we'll see if it comes to fruition.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to a couple of other stocking stuffers here.
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  Speaker 1: How about this one. The Detroit Lions may have tipped
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  Speaker 1: their hand a little bit. They did not bring back
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Decker. They are operating right now without a left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: That is one area in a draft that most people
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  Speaker 1: are describing as a down draft that seems to be
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  Speaker 1: very strong. There seem to be some really good left
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  Speaker 1: tackles in this upcoming draft from Caden Proctor, the monster
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  Speaker 1: out of Alabama, Spencer Finou out of Utah, Muwaga, the
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  Speaker 1: All American out of Miami, Monroe Freeling out of Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: who seems to be the flavor of the month right
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  Speaker 1: now at this position. So there's about there are probably
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  Speaker 1: four left tackles that people believe are plug and play
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  Speaker 1: type left tackles, and it sounds like Detroit is attaching
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  Speaker 1: or a lot of people are attaching one of those
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  Speaker 1: four to Detroit. But they have left themselves with such
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  Speaker 1: an open hole. It might seem too obvious that they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to take advantage of a tackle rich draft, and
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  Speaker 1: so what they're wondering now, and what people are starting
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  Speaker 1: to rumor about, is that if these tackles start firing
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  Speaker 1: off the board earlier than Detroit thought, that they may
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  Speaker 1: be compelled to move up from seventeen to get up
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  Speaker 1: into position. I mean, they have Super Bowl aspirations, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're coming off a wildly disappointing year and
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  Speaker 1: they've let their left tackle walk. I mean, you're not
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  Speaker 1: making your team better exposing Jared Goff's backside. He's not
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  Speaker 1: exactly the quickest dude in the building. So they need
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  Speaker 1: to protect Jared Goff. And so a left tackle need,
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  Speaker 1: their left tackle need might be one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: needs in the entire draft. And if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: sit there and they might not have the luxury of
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  Speaker 1: just sitting there waiting for one of the four or
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  Speaker 1: five tackles that are first round worthy to fall into
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  Speaker 1: their lap. So that's something worth keeping an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, from Stocking Stuffers, let's address the AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: rumor again. I am just of the belief that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to get moved. And you can see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mock drafts right now having the Eagles take a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver, and the reason is that even if they
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  Speaker 1: do keep AJ Brown in the interim that event that
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  Speaker 1: it's not a long term solution for them. But I
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  Speaker 1: take it even further. I mean, where there's smoke, there's
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  Speaker 1: fire usually with these NFL trades, and this has been
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  Speaker 1: a raging inferno really for the last year basically, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think they are going to move him. And
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  Speaker 1: at one point the Rams were highly connected to AJ Brown.
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  Speaker 1: That's another thing you don't want to see coming into
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  Speaker 1: the division.
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  Speaker 3: Necessarily, that's not what we need.
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  Speaker 1: But you do wonder if they re enter that conversation
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  Speaker 1: with what Pooka's got going on right now. I don't
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: think that Rams fan have to worry about Puka and Naku.
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  Speaker 1: I think that he's getting the help that he seeks,
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  Speaker 1: and my guess is that he's going to be fine.
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  Speaker 1: There certainly wasn't anything wrong with his game this past year,
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  Speaker 1: that's for damn sure. But if they were already thinking
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: about teaming the two together and now suddenly we've got
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit of doubt for the first time in
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Nicoua's career as to you know, how this thing's going
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  Speaker 1: to proceed. Maybe that's worth revisiting if you are the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: and they still have DeVante Adams by the way as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think that feels like a marriage to me.
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  Speaker 1: But I do believe that all of the mockers out
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: there that keep taking wide receivers for the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're in the same boat that I am.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to move AJ Brown this year.
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  Speaker 1: There's just I mean, it's beyond smoke with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: And so maybe it does make sense that the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: go wide receiver in the first round of the draft
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  Speaker 1: and finally let Davonte Smith show if he's a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's terrible idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you'd really answer the question if Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 4: or A J. Brown was holding the back, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why of the talk is that it's Aj that
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: it's that it's er Jalen Hurts, not AJ Bri. I
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: heard a really good, interesting comment about that that said, boy,
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  Speaker 1: you should really look at something where AJ Brown can
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: be that disruptive, that vocal. You don't seem like that
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: big of a pain in the ass. And yet the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: team is siding with him, like most of the players
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  Speaker 1: are siding with him, as if to say, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like that he's saying it, but somebody needed to and
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  Speaker 1: that's man. Yeah, that's that's a really interesting spin on
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there in Philadelphia. But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they'll get rid of the quarterback. I think they will
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the wide receiver. All right, We close
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  Speaker 1: out the show with one last thing next at Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,