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Chuck & Buck 3-9 Hour 3: T-Minus 1 hour til we Tamper! Crosby's out & we're fine, plus should we make changes to the WBC? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Happy Monday to you, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the fren See. We are now just one hour away
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Speaker 1: from the lid being lifted off of this simmering pot
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Speaker 1: of stew. Yeah, we kind of are naive if we
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Speaker 1: don't believe that there's been some contact between agents, teams
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Speaker 1: and free agents in the National Ball League before today's
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Speaker 1: The tampering period officially gets underway at nine o'clock. And
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Speaker 1: yet they've done a nice job keeping that lid on.
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Speaker 1: We haven't received any concrete information about a free agent
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Speaker 1: going from one team to the next. So it looks
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Speaker 1: like we'll make it to the tampering period and not
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Speaker 1: have a pre tamper. Yeah, yeah, y'all, you gotta worry
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Speaker 1: about a pre tamper when you're getting ready to throw
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Speaker 1: a tampering party that you know. I don't want people
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Speaker 1: showing up already drunk on tampering when I'm getting ready
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Speaker 1: to throw a party.
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Speaker 2: Starting at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I've been known to pre tamp before tamp before
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Speaker 4: you can.
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Speaker 2: You can, but it does.
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Speaker 4: It takes away from the actual event a little bit
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Speaker 4: more and the patient.
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Speaker 2: I'm protecting the event. Yeah, well, you.
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Speaker 5: Got to eagerly await it and then pop them bottles.
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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I'm just saying. I mean I didn't pre
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Speaker 4: tamp for this tempest.
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Speaker 2: You haven't signed any free agents.
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Speaker 3: I haven't sign any free agents. Good yet, Good that
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Speaker 3: you know about good? Good, good, because.
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Speaker 1: I know you were always trying to talk people into
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Speaker 1: chopping wood out there. I don't know what kind of
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Speaker 1: prices you're offering, but if you end up Ken Walker
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Speaker 1: doesn't run play running back for the Seahawks next year
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Speaker 1: because he's out at your place chopping wood, you.
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Speaker 4: Have some people pissed him, may or may not have
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Speaker 4: had him out there to discuss a couple of things.
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Speaker 4: There is at new that new rule that they can
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Speaker 4: actually starting here in just an hour, they can actually
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Speaker 4: start talking to the actual athletes. I guess before it
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Speaker 4: was they could only talk to the agents. But now
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Speaker 4: this year you can have five one hour conversations with individuals.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and so we'll see.
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Speaker 4: I mean they're going to have to get a hold
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Speaker 4: of me he's out there by the river right now
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Speaker 4: and join some coffee.
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Speaker 2: Oh good, Good, at least you provide coffee.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean we don't have any information that
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Speaker 1: will start at nine.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how long it will take.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get a couple of them to pop before
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Speaker 1: ten o'clock comes to a close, because that's what we're
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Speaker 1: here for as your friendly neighborhood sports talk show hosts,
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Speaker 1: to try to deliver that information and some analysis as
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Speaker 1: quickly as possible.
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Speaker 2: I doubt the.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks do anything before ten o'clock today, but that means
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Speaker 1: that maybe they do something a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: one of.
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Speaker 2: The other shows. But we're ready for it.
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Speaker 1: We have the grounds secured for tamp profest to explode
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Speaker 1: on us coming up here starting at nine o'clock. So
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Speaker 1: let me give you the late is because we have
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Speaker 1: had some activity today. You know, teams still have another
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Speaker 1: part about you know free agency starts really at nine
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Speaker 1: o'clock today, is that you have that window to get
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Speaker 1: everything you want to do prior to free agency done
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Speaker 1: if you can. And so we have had some activity,
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Speaker 1: some teams putting themselves in financial position to best approach
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Speaker 1: the tampering period here and free agency at large.
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Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins have been very active today.
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Speaker 1: They're clearly with their new regime and a bit of
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Speaker 1: a rebuild situation here they have officially released to a
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Speaker 1: tongue of Iloa. They're going to eat one hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollars in dead cap just to get him out of
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Speaker 1: the building. I mean, to a tongue of Iloa. Apparently
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Speaker 1: kind of lacked in leadership there with the Dolphins. He
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Speaker 1: obviously had had a lot of injury situations there, so
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Speaker 1: that makes the organization in anybody that would sign him
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Speaker 1: a little bit leary.
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Speaker 2: And then his play this year was.
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Speaker 1: Just subpar as well, and and by the end of
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Speaker 1: the season it was pretty obvious that they weren't going
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Speaker 1: to bring to a tongue of Iloa. Back tried to
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Speaker 1: trade him, couldn't find any takers of that big salary.
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Speaker 1: So they would rather eat one hundred million dollars in
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Speaker 1: dead caps spread over the course of the next two
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Speaker 1: years rather than have to a tongue of I Looa
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Speaker 1: infect their building anymore.
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Speaker 4: That's something crazy, yeah, And I mean the fact that
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Speaker 4: they signed him before they absolutely needed to almost just
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Speaker 4: you know, you see organizations do this and they'll they
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Speaker 4: make whatever move they make, they draft so and so,
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Speaker 4: and then they will stick to that because they don't
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Speaker 4: want it to come across as a mistake. Well, sometimes
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Speaker 4: you just have to kind of take your medicine. You
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Speaker 4: made a mistake, maybe not a mistake in drafting him,
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Speaker 4: but you most certainly doubled down on that when he
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Speaker 4: had shown that he was going to have hard time
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Speaker 4: staying healthy because of banging his head and having his
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Speaker 4: concussion issues and you know, just the inconsistency of play,
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Speaker 4: and you ended up resigning him like, oh, he's our
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Speaker 4: franchise guy.
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Speaker 3: We we spent our.
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Speaker 4: Big fifth pick overall on him, so we have to
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Speaker 4: resign him to some crazy money. When you didn't you
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Speaker 4: didn't have to do it at that.
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Speaker 3: Point in time. Well, now it's coming back to hauntum.
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Speaker 4: So at least they finally recognized, Okay, this is something
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Speaker 4: we got to cut off and and just take our
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Speaker 4: medicine at this point, even though it's a little bit
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Speaker 4: late for that.
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Speaker 1: And that is yeah, and that is something that's happening
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League number one teams. So aren't
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Speaker 1: just hey, we made a mistake of drafting this guy high.
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Speaker 1: Do we make another mistake by just flushing it out,
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Speaker 1: or do we acknowledge our mistake, move on from it
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Speaker 1: and try to course correct same Thing's happening now since
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Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson move in Denver, where Sean Payton gets there, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's just eat it, Like we need to start moving
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Speaker 1: in a better direction at the quarterback position. He's not
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Speaker 1: the answer, so let's just rip off the band aid.
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Speaker 1: And now they're out from under it and have actually
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Speaker 1: not just been competitive, they had the number one seed
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Speaker 1: in the AFC this past year. So Miami sees that
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Speaker 1: as a template. We're not going to stick around with
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Speaker 1: a guy that we know isn't worth what we're paying,
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Speaker 1: and so let's just eat the money and then try
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Speaker 1: to find.
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Speaker 2: Our next quarterback.
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Speaker 1: So that's what's happening in Miami. They also just approve
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Speaker 1: that we're in a rebuild. Move Minka Fitzpatrick for a
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Speaker 1: seventh round pick to the Los Angeles Chargers today to
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Speaker 1: get rid of more money there in Miami. We've also
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Speaker 1: seen Rashan Gary traded away from Green Bay to the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys for a fourth round pick in twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: High salaried player seems stuck on seven and a half
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Speaker 1: sacks per year. I think the Packers were expecting him
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Speaker 1: to do more for them, so they move that giant
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Speaker 1: salary off of their books get a fourth round pick
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Speaker 1: in exchange from the Dallas Cowboys and the Cowboy It's
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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys and Packers are still working on the
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Speaker 1: Micah Parson Straight. Are we done trying to make the fair?
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Speaker 1: You know, let's do a little bit more here.
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Speaker 5: Do you want a bag of skittles in there as well?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, So Rashaan Gary is now a Dallas a complish.
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Speaker 1: So that's just some of the stuff that has happened
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Speaker 1: before we even get to the tampering period. So let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the Seahawks and where they sit. Ken Walker
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Speaker 1: is about to hit free agency. There is a thought
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Speaker 1: that the story out there that the organization is trying
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Speaker 1: to re sign one of their six starters that is
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Speaker 1: entering free agency in the next hour.
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Speaker 2: But his name is not Ken Walker. That name is
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Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant.
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Speaker 1: That seems to be the story out there, trying to
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Speaker 1: keep him from getting to free agency by signing him
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Speaker 1: here in the next hour. Walker it looks like is
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Speaker 1: as good as gone from the organization. He's going to
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Speaker 1: hit the free agent market and have a lot of
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Speaker 1: bidders out there. I mean, I'm hearing reports this morning
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Speaker 1: to say he might get more per year than what
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Speaker 1: but he would have gotten on the franchise.
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Speaker 5: That seems like you're really reaching.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and yet I saw Michael Sean Dugar suggests that
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Speaker 1: four years, forty million is his market.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. We'll see if.
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Speaker 1: He enters this as the number one running back in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League. There are a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: out there are a lot of money to spend. The
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs spent the weekend being discussed as the
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Speaker 1: most likely team that Walker was going to end up with.
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Speaker 1: The Giants were mentioned a lot as well, but in
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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours there's been a story suggesting
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Speaker 1: that Walker has priced himself out of the Giants. The
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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders seem linked to everyone including Ken Walker. Also
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Speaker 1: add the Pittsburgh Steelers to this list, the Denver Broncos
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Speaker 1: to this list, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Walker is going to
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Speaker 1: have no He's not gonna be shy of suitors in
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Speaker 1: this process. And I do believe he's going to get
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Speaker 1: more money than the Seahawks were ever going to consider
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Speaker 1: paying him. So I'd be one of the first ones
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Speaker 1: that go down today. I think I think we'll learn
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Speaker 1: by the end of today, maybe by the end of
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Speaker 1: our show, where ken Walker's going.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean he's definitely one of the bigger names
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Speaker 4: out there, and coming off of what he did. I mean,
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Speaker 4: if if you were interested in ken Walker coming out
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Speaker 4: of the draft and then watched him sporadically, there was
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Speaker 4: there's spurts of seeing a guy that's, you know, top
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Speaker 4: of the league type of a running back. And so
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Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, the Seahawks allow him basically
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Speaker 4: to walk or allow him to go test free agency.
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Speaker 4: So it's all going to come down to how many
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Speaker 4: teams are interested and then if they get into a
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Speaker 4: bidding war. HI mean, he's going to be a rich man,
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Speaker 4: probably by the end of today, but definitely by the
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Speaker 4: end of this process. And I'm kind of torn as
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Speaker 4: a you know, I don't think that as I don't
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Speaker 4: think the Seahawks are going to bring him back. I
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Speaker 4: feel like that's water already under the bridge. If they
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Speaker 4: would have wanted to do that, they probably could have
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Speaker 4: found that number. Considering he wanted to come back here.
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Speaker 1: To some degree, I've already accepted a life without ken Walker.
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Speaker 4: Being a Seahawk and yet so I mean, coming at
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Speaker 4: it from the Denver Broncos fan perspective, it's like it's
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Speaker 4: part of me. They would like to see this guy
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Speaker 4: in a Broncos uniform. And yet if it's more than
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Speaker 4: what the franchise tag would have been, that's all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden I'm not sure because he hasn't been He
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Speaker 4: hasn't been that guy consistently on a consistent basis. And
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Speaker 4: so somebody's going to pay this guy some big money
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Speaker 4: and it's one of those whoever does it's going to
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Speaker 4: be super excited.
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Speaker 3: But if it's over fifteen million dollars a year, then
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Speaker 3: there's gonna.
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Speaker 4: Be some some hesitation I would imagine by fan base
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Speaker 4: and that organization.
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Speaker 1: I saw just a conversation this morning. It was people
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Speaker 1: discussing ken Walker's free agent candidacy. And it's so clear
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Speaker 1: that you just started paying attention to ken Walker in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's like, you.
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Speaker 1: Can't let a guy walk out of your organization like this,
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Speaker 1: a former player.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know who it was.
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Speaker 1: He's got vision, he's got explosion, he's got power, he's
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Speaker 1: got speed, he's a big playmaker. Like, yes, all things
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Speaker 1: we saw in him when we drafted him four years
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Speaker 1: ago out of Michigan State. So's he didn't just develop that.
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Speaker 1: It is not like that has been ignored by the
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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. We just weren't seeing that produce the results
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Speaker 1: that it should for four years. And then in his
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Speaker 1: fourth and final year, after a frustrating year for him
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Speaker 1: of not getting as many carries as he thought he'd earned,
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Speaker 1: Charbonne goes down with the injury. Walker's the only guy
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Speaker 1: in town, and he was fantastic and was as big
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Speaker 1: a reason as any in the playoffs that the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: ended up on winning a super Bowl, and he's named
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. But yes, everybody in Seattle has been
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Speaker 1: talking about all of those traits that Ken Walker has possessed.
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Speaker 1: But for four years, more often than not, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: producing the results that you wanted it to produce. And
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Speaker 1: so do you sacrifice four years of evidence for three
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Speaker 1: games of evidence, even though they were big games, to
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Speaker 1: sign him at a salary you believe is beyond what
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Speaker 1: he's worth. Seahawks just aren't going to do that. But
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Speaker 1: make no mistake, John Schneider, Mike McDonald, no more than
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Speaker 1: anybody the physical traits that this dude brings.
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Speaker 3: To the table.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but they also know that, you know, you would
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Speaker 6: have to pay him to split carries in order to
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Speaker 6: make sure he's healthy enough by the end of the season.
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Speaker 6: And that's a lot, as we have talked about, to
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Speaker 6: pay somebody that isn't necessarily your for your you know,
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Speaker 6: running back one. It's one A and one B and
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Speaker 6: you've got them both. And you have to think if
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Speaker 6: Ken Walker would have been the one that got injured
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Speaker 6: and Zach Charbonay was the one that had to step up,
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Speaker 6: the same results would have happened.
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Speaker 1: I don't believe that, but I think Walker is the
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Speaker 1: superior athlete, so therefore the superior back, don't I don't
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Speaker 1: think the same thing would have happened. The same result
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Speaker 1: would have happened. But certainly there were times during the
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Speaker 1: course of the season where Mike McDonald and Clint Kubiak
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Speaker 1: were deciding Charbona is the man for the job, not
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Speaker 1: number nine put scharbon A in the game.
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Speaker 4: Well, ultimately, I mean just just going back to the
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl, I mean, how many times did we see
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Speaker 4: him run and they were lotting him about this patience?
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Speaker 4: Oh what a patient run, Well, that's the same run
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Speaker 4: that if you'll get stuffed at the line of scrimmage
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Speaker 4: or minus one yard. Every he's like, well, you just
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Speaker 4: hit the hole instead of tiptoeing around.
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Speaker 2: And yet it worked out.
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Speaker 4: And so I don't know if that's him figuring it
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Speaker 4: out fourteen games into Clint Kubiak's outside zone blocking scheme.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the line holding that block
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Speaker 4: or those blocks are creating the seam for just a
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Speaker 4: split second longer that allows him and his patient style
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Speaker 4: of running to work. But I can tell you for
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Speaker 4: four years there was a bunch of times, especially not
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Speaker 4: this past season, but the season before and the season
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Speaker 4: before that, that it was one of those dude, why
13:53
Speaker 4: are you It's like your two patients. What Zach Charboney
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Speaker 4: would do is he would run and then he knew,
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Speaker 4: I have to hit this hole or that, and if
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Speaker 4: neither one of them were open, he put his head down,
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Speaker 4: lowered his shoulder pads, and tried to get two yards.
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Speaker 4: And that's what they wanted more often than not, because
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Speaker 4: second in ad is a whole lot better than second
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Speaker 4: and eleven. And I think that Ken Walker, while he's
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Speaker 4: a better athlete, for sure, there's times that he didn't
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Speaker 4: run like a better running back. Just go get the go,
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Speaker 4: get the tough yards every once in a while, and
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Speaker 4: it's not like he's incapable of doing it. But times
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Speaker 4: I don't know if his business decision or he's trying
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Speaker 4: to make more out of certain plays and what a
14:30
Speaker 4: lot of offensive coordinators or even coaches just in general,
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Speaker 4: what they want is you just get what you can
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Speaker 4: get out of it. I don't care if it's just
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Speaker 4: tough running and you can get two yards falling forward,
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Speaker 4: go ahead and get that instead of trying for the
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Speaker 4: home run.
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Speaker 2: And so I don't know which it was.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure it's probably a combination of all of those
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Speaker 4: things as to why he ran the way he did
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Speaker 4: in the playoffs. But he's now going to get paid
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Speaker 4: like that's who he is majority of the time as
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Speaker 4: this point.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's proven in a short spurt of time
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Speaker 1: that he can be the number one guy. But he
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Speaker 1: was given four years to prove that he could be
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Speaker 1: that guy, and when he was most effective was in
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Speaker 1: this Carrie sharing corporation with Zach Charbonnay this past year.
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Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna pay him, like, hey, Bell cow running back.
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Speaker 1: That's what he's going to make, and maybe he does
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Speaker 1: end up doing he's twenty five years old. I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe he did figure something out. I mean, Saquon Barkley
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Speaker 1: needed Brian day bauld to show him how to become
15:28
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. Sakuon Barkley was a highly disappointing. Yeah he makes,
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Speaker 1: he's good to have on a fantasy team, but he's
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Speaker 1: not good to get wins in the National Football League
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Speaker 1: type running back. And then Brian day Bolshow showed up
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Speaker 1: and suddenly he became the next in one year time,
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Speaker 1: a running back that you can count on not just
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Speaker 1: for the big play but for the tough yardage as well.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that patient Le'Veon Bell style of running is
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Speaker 1: something ken Walker did adopt right in the nick of time.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that will be the way that he runs going forward,
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Speaker 1: and maybe that'll be an effective tool for him. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks will have to suffer watching him have his
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Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred yard seasons like they envision
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Speaker 1: in another uniform.
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Speaker 2: But it's going to have to be in another uniform.
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Speaker 1: Because I don't think at this stage there's much chance
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Speaker 1: at all of him returning to Seattle.
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Speaker 5: And if that's the case, good for him.
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Speaker 6: You know, if you leveraged this opportunity to go somewhere
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Speaker 6: else and get overpaid to.
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Speaker 2: Do it good.
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Speaker 6: I don't want the Seahawks to overpay for him to
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Speaker 6: try to do it here.
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Speaker 1: I don't think the Seahawks are going to overpay for
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Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed. Looks like he's leaving. We kind of discussed
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Speaker 1: that last week as well. The one team that comes
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Speaker 1: to mind is Las Vegas. That's what we're hearing a
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Speaker 1: lot over the weekend. Said this earlier in the show.
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Speaker 1: I'll say it again. I don't know if that's just
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Speaker 1: inside I don't know if that says analysts putting two
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Speaker 1: and two together, or if insiders have inside information.
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Speaker 2: But Clinton Kubiak, who had.
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Speaker 1: Him in New Orleans and had him here in Seattle
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Speaker 1: and is now in Vegas, and he's a free agent,
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Speaker 1: and Kubiak seems to value him more than anybody else.
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Speaker 1: But I don't expect that he'll be back in a
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Speaker 1: Seahawks uniform. We'll see if he ends up with the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: Alec Pierce, by the way, outside of Seattle, they're saying
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Speaker 1: that he's going to really cash in. He might be
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Speaker 1: a twenty seven to thirty million dollars per year wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: and that he might have priced himself out of Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: And he seems to have quite the list of pursuers.
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Speaker 1: The Patriots commanders, they're in on everybody, Vegas and Tennessee. Also,
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Speaker 1: Wandale Robinson of the Giants has been heavily connected to
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans.
17:41
Speaker 2: If there was.
17:41
Speaker 1: One definitive like expect this to happen story that I
17:46
Speaker 1: read this morning in preparation for today's show, it was
17:49
Speaker 1: Wandale Robinson to Tennessee. So maybe that's something that'll be
17:52
Speaker 1: announced in forty five minutes.
17:55
Speaker 2: As well, we shall see.
17:57
Speaker 1: Some other things. Boy A Mafe looks like he's gone.
18:00
Speaker 1: New England Patriots are being prominently mentioned. The Dallas Cowboys
18:04
Speaker 1: were Maybe that changes with Boye Mafe being traded or
18:08
Speaker 1: Excumi Rashaan Gary being traded there today, Reek Woolan has
18:12
Speaker 1: been linked to, of all teams, the San Francisco forty
18:15
Speaker 1: nine ers for goodness sake, So that's something worth keeping
18:18
Speaker 1: an eye on. And as I mentioned before, the Hawks
18:21
Speaker 1: do seem to be fighting to keep Kobe Bryant from
18:25
Speaker 1: hitting the free agent market.
18:27
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any truth to that.
18:29
Speaker 1: But there are several rumors out there, several suggestions that
18:33
Speaker 1: that is what's going on behind the scenes of all
18:35
Speaker 1: the six that the Seahawks might lose in free agency.
18:39
Speaker 1: Maybe they're going to fight hardest to keep Kobe Bryant
18:42
Speaker 1: in their secondary.
18:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like it.
18:46
Speaker 4: Like I said, I mean, you think about some of
18:48
Speaker 4: the defensive guys that are also on that list, with
18:52
Speaker 4: Reek and boy A Mafay. To me, it feels like
18:56
Speaker 4: the one that is the most solid at just kind
18:58
Speaker 4: of being where he's supposed to be what he was
19:00
Speaker 4: supposed to be doing, not a whole lot of criticism
19:03
Speaker 4: thrown his direction since Mike McDonald's been here is Bryant.
19:07
Speaker 4: So to me, I wouldn't be surprised one bit if
19:08
Speaker 4: they're like, that's one that we're gonna have to pay
19:11
Speaker 4: and because I just don't know for sure if you
19:13
Speaker 4: can strike out on all of them. I get that
19:15
Speaker 4: you can't pay all of them because some of them
19:17
Speaker 4: you feel are overpriced, and that might be it safety market.
19:20
Speaker 4: I mean, what is he that's thinking some people are
19:23
Speaker 4: thinking fourteen million bucks.
19:24
Speaker 3: That's a lot for a safety when.
19:25
Speaker 4: You're already paying Julian Love some good money back there
19:28
Speaker 4: as well. But then again, you kind of have to
19:32
Speaker 4: you know, you have to play the game. You have
19:33
Speaker 4: to pay some of your players. You can't let them
19:35
Speaker 4: all walk.
19:36
Speaker 6: Well, and as you said last week too, that could
19:38
Speaker 6: be you know, the Seahawks valuing him more than other
19:40
Speaker 6: teams because they know what he means to their system
19:42
Speaker 6: and what they're doing, and so in that case, yeah,
19:45
Speaker 6: then you probably are going to get him for a
19:47
Speaker 6: fairly decent price.
19:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, And maybe the safety market is so engorged with talent.
19:54
Speaker 1: I mean, we just saw Minka Fitzpatrick gets ready for
19:55
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick today, so maybe it's not going
19:59
Speaker 1: to be as hot. A more market is what running
20:01
Speaker 1: back and wide receiver are going to be. Just because
20:03
Speaker 1: of how few top end talent running backs and wide
20:07
Speaker 1: receivers we have entering free agency. Why Ken Walker is
20:10
Speaker 1: going to get paid so much. He's the number one guy,
20:13
Speaker 1: And so teams with money and a need at running
20:16
Speaker 1: back and a need for some splash and some pr
20:19
Speaker 1: juice probably are going to spend a little bit more
20:22
Speaker 1: on Ken Walker than what he's worth, and that's just
20:25
Speaker 1: not what John Schneider is going to do.
20:27
Speaker 2: Just not going to do it. And in John we trust.
20:30
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a name that is being connected
20:33
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks from outside of the roster, Greg Newsom,
20:37
Speaker 1: a cornerback, former first round pick out of Northwestern who
20:42
Speaker 1: got off to quite a bit of a slow start
20:44
Speaker 1: in his NFL career but has rebounded midway through his
20:47
Speaker 1: career and is coming off a fine season. That is
20:50
Speaker 1: a name that is being connected to the Seahawks in
20:53
Speaker 1: case they were to lose both Josh Job and Riek
20:56
Speaker 1: Woolen in this process. And just quickly, I'll mention Travis Kelcey.
21:01
Speaker 1: Apparently he's thought about it, had some time to step away,
21:04
Speaker 1: wants to keep playing, and it might not be Kansas City.
21:07
Speaker 1: He is shocking, actually entertaining leaving Kansas City and playing
21:12
Speaker 1: for another team. That doesn't seem right. No, that just
21:15
Speaker 1: does not seem right. That's like breaking up with Tata.
21:18
Speaker 1: I mean, it just does not seem right.
21:20
Speaker 5: People would be more upset about if you broke up
21:22
Speaker 5: with Taylor Probably.
21:23
Speaker 2: I think I'd be more upset if you broke up
21:25
Speaker 2: with Patrick like that.
21:26
Speaker 5: Andy Reid.
21:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, that just doesn't seem it doesn't seem right.
21:31
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next, one name that we discussed
21:34
Speaker 1: a lot last week. Well he's not coming to Seattle,
21:36
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much. Max Crosby.
21:38
Speaker 2: What on earth how did we miss out on that?
21:41
Speaker 1: We'll discuss the next Sports Radio ninety three point three
21:43
Speaker 1: kJ RFM. If you forgot, make sure you swing by
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Speaker 1: the store get whatever you need from there to get
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Speaker 1: your tampon.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I like these table cloths.
21:52
Speaker 2: These are new.
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Speaker 3: Did you get these? Where'd you get these? Bad boys?
21:55
Speaker 2: I made them? You them. I liked the stitching.
21:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, the stitching is nice, and I like the colors
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Speaker 4: that you use.
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Speaker 3: It's impressive.
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Speaker 4: I would have thought that this year's tampon you would
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Speaker 4: have got it with you know, used actual silverware instead
22:09
Speaker 4: of this plastic stuff. But you know it's disposable. I
22:11
Speaker 4: guess you're, you know, going a little bit more inexpensive.
22:15
Speaker 5: Est isn't a long period of time.
22:18
Speaker 1: Silverware is like ink pens. If you provide the good stuff,
22:22
Speaker 1: you'll never see It's true.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, people will take every single good pen.
22:25
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that was a thing with ink pins.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Okay, even bad ink pens, yea, even bad silver.
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Speaker 2: Well they will take.
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Speaker 5: Because they'll think, oh, there's a reason they've got it.
22:34
Speaker 5: It's got to be better than I thought it was.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you know, I will reserve for the elite of us.
22:42
Speaker 1: The good China. Oh yeah, thank you brought some of that.
22:46
Speaker 4: You're excited to have a little piece of tamp professed
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Speaker 4: cake on that china.
22:50
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you need to do that. And when I
22:52
Speaker 2: say the good China, I mean all the plates with
22:54
Speaker 2: China Phillips face on the china really classy.
22:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So good morning.
23:06
Speaker 2: It is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you.
23:08
Speaker 1: And yes, the tappering period gets start started in less
23:11
Speaker 1: than a half an hour. I do have to correct something,
23:15
Speaker 1: and I do apologize if I led you astray. Hopefully
23:19
Speaker 1: I didn't make anybody sad by this misinformation today. But
23:22
Speaker 1: you know, when you're doing a live radio show and
23:24
Speaker 1: then you're getting updates on your phone, you only have
23:27
Speaker 1: like a glimpse, And so I combined a couple of
23:31
Speaker 1: things incorrectly. Minka Fitzpatrick was traded today, but he was
23:35
Speaker 1: traded to the Jets. Now where I got confused and
23:39
Speaker 1: saying he was going to the Chargers. Was that it's
23:42
Speaker 1: the Chargers picky in the what was the seventh round? Yeah,
23:46
Speaker 1: so the Jets owned the Chargers pick in the seventh round.
23:50
Speaker 1: But when you just kind of glance at a tweet
23:53
Speaker 1: or a text out there, you know, I saw Fitzpatrick
23:58
Speaker 1: seventh rounder traded Chargers, But it.
24:02
Speaker 2: Is the Jets.
24:03
Speaker 1: He's going to the Jets and they're going to give
24:06
Speaker 1: up the seventh rounder that they own via the Chargers
24:09
Speaker 1: in return.
24:11
Speaker 2: So there you go. Either way.
24:12
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins got rid of Tua today and Minka
24:15
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick today from their roster. Max Crosby is now a
24:20
Speaker 1: Baltimore Raven. This was probably our primary topic of conversation
24:24
Speaker 1: last week on the show, and it did turn out
24:28
Speaker 1: that he went for what we were suggesting, a couple
24:32
Speaker 1: first round picks. That is usually an area designated for
24:37
Speaker 1: elite NFL veterans because you're already making a big salary.
24:41
Speaker 1: You got to be a really special player for somebody
24:44
Speaker 1: to take on that salary and give a team two
24:47
Speaker 1: first round picks. But Max Crosby seemed to fall under
24:50
Speaker 1: that umbrella, and the Seahawks probably were going to have
24:54
Speaker 1: to go a little more. I mean, that's pretty obvious
24:57
Speaker 1: if they were in on him at all. I have
24:59
Speaker 1: no idea if they were in on him, but we
25:01
Speaker 1: did hear rumors suggesting that John Schneider's been interested in
25:04
Speaker 1: Max Crosby for a long time. I just want to
25:07
Speaker 1: clear up something because Greg keeps saying they didn't ever
25:09
Speaker 1: have the draft capital.
25:10
Speaker 2: Of course they had the draft capital. I mean it
25:13
Speaker 2: was a.
25:13
Speaker 1: First rounder from Baltimore this year and a first rounder
25:16
Speaker 1: from Baltimore next year. It's just that their first rounder
25:20
Speaker 1: this year is a lot more attractive than our first
25:22
Speaker 1: rounder this year. But Seahawks certainly could have gotten there
25:27
Speaker 1: with Max Crosby. Now, if you're glad that they didn't,
25:30
Speaker 1: if you're making the statement John Schneider's just not going
25:34
Speaker 1: to make trades on the other person's request.
25:38
Speaker 2: He's going to He's going to.
25:40
Speaker 1: Dominate the negotiation, and that's why he ends up pulling
25:44
Speaker 1: off a lot of deals.
25:44
Speaker 2: Where you're like, wow, we got him for just that. Well.
25:48
Speaker 1: I don't know if John Schneider would even considered paying
25:52
Speaker 1: two first round picks, but they could have gotten there, Bucky.
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean, you packaged your first rounder and next year's
25:58
Speaker 1: first rounder together. You might have to throw in a
26:01
Speaker 1: little extra draft compensation or even a player, but you
26:04
Speaker 1: could have gotten there for Max Crosby. Clearly John Schneider
26:08
Speaker 1: didn't want to.
26:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, the idea of.
26:12
Speaker 4: You right now, I mean the fourteenth pick, is that
26:14
Speaker 4: what you said Baltimore's is at that they gave up
26:17
Speaker 4: for this year. You don't know about next year's where
26:19
Speaker 4: that'll be. But still you just got to figure this
26:22
Speaker 4: is a move that they're making hoping that it's even
26:25
Speaker 4: worse pick next year. The Seahawks, if they were to
26:28
Speaker 4: go out and give two first round picks, they're given
26:31
Speaker 4: the worst first round pick this season, and they're hoping
26:33
Speaker 4: that it also is another bad one late in the
26:36
Speaker 4: draft in the first round next year.
26:39
Speaker 3: So when you're thinking.
26:40
Speaker 4: About the Raiders, they're like, well, that's significantly better getting
26:44
Speaker 4: the fourteenth pick in this year's draft versus thirty second,
26:47
Speaker 4: that is significantly better. So, yes, if they wanted him,
26:50
Speaker 4: they would have had to come with a little bit
26:52
Speaker 4: more to the table, whether it's a player or another
26:54
Speaker 4: late pick maybe in next year's draft, because they don't
26:57
Speaker 4: have a ton of draft capital in this year's draft.
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Speaker 2: Then yeah, they could have done it.
27:02
Speaker 4: I think it just boils down to more so of
27:05
Speaker 4: he's twenty nine years old, he is coming off of
27:08
Speaker 4: an injury, He's highly productive when he is on the field,
27:13
Speaker 4: and yet we want to do you want to sign
27:15
Speaker 4: somebody for thirty million dollars a year when you don't.
27:19
Speaker 2: Really need it per se.
27:21
Speaker 4: It's not a it's not a you don't need anything
27:23
Speaker 4: right now, so why would you be paying top dollar
27:25
Speaker 4: for something?
27:26
Speaker 1: It'd be a luxury. It would be a luxury decision. Like,
27:29
Speaker 1: we believe we're in a championship window. Even if we
27:31
Speaker 1: lost all six of our guys in free agency, we
27:34
Speaker 1: still believe we're a championship contender for a second year
27:37
Speaker 1: in a row. And if John Schnider really did come
27:39
Speaker 1: at Max Crosby and has for years, and he was
27:42
Speaker 1: truly available, which we all believed that he was, then
27:46
Speaker 1: you know, it might be one of those situations like, well,
27:49
Speaker 1: when else do we have a chance to let if
27:51
Speaker 1: we're gonna be good again for a long period of time,
27:53
Speaker 1: we're probably not gonna be able to draft a player
27:55
Speaker 1: of this caliber. Even though Max Crosby was a late
27:58
Speaker 1: draft pick, so it would have.
27:59
Speaker 2: Been a lucky decision.
28:01
Speaker 1: And yet I think John and Mike are on such
28:04
Speaker 1: a role in finding just the guys that they need.
28:07
Speaker 2: I don't think they even need to do it.
28:09
Speaker 3: I really don't.
28:10
Speaker 2: I don't think they need to make these splash moves whatsoever.
28:13
Speaker 4: Well, you essentially would be last year you went up
28:15
Speaker 4: and got Sam Darnold, obviously a much more important position
28:19
Speaker 4: than even the edge rusher, as important as that is,
28:21
Speaker 4: but you pay him basically thirty three and change a year,
28:25
Speaker 4: you would be paying thirty million dollars for a guy
28:27
Speaker 4: to rush the quarterback on the other side. So, in
28:30
Speaker 4: comparison basically last year, which was they spent a lot
28:33
Speaker 4: of money in free agency the Seahawks did, you got
28:36
Speaker 4: basically a Cooper Cup, a DeMarcus Lawrence and Drew Locke,
28:39
Speaker 4: a Marquez Valdez Scanley, and a Josh Jones, all for
28:42
Speaker 4: the price of what you would have to throw all
28:44
Speaker 4: those eggs in one basket for Max Crosby. Now, is
28:48
Speaker 4: Max Crosby better than all of those guys combined? I
28:51
Speaker 4: don't think you probably would think so.
28:53
Speaker 2: I don't.
28:53
Speaker 4: I most most certainly don't think that John Schneider would
28:56
Speaker 4: think so. And so the idea of you get to
28:58
Speaker 4: spread that thirty million bucks that you didn't spend in trading,
29:02
Speaker 4: and the first and the couple first round picks, you
29:05
Speaker 4: get to spread that over a bunch of other areas.
29:08
Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden, you're gonna feel a
29:10
Speaker 4: whole heck of a lot deeper, even if maybe you
29:12
Speaker 4: didn't just make some splashy move to get get after
29:14
Speaker 4: the quarterback.
29:16
Speaker 2: Here's my thought, here's what I think we're gonna end up.
29:18
Speaker 2: And I don't.
29:19
Speaker 1: This is not me telling you to temper expectations, but
29:22
Speaker 1: this is my feeling. I think they're going to extend
29:26
Speaker 1: JSN this offseason. I think that's going to get done.
29:29
Speaker 1: Maybe they do Witherspoon, maybe they wait a little while
29:31
Speaker 1: longer on that. But also keep in mind, you can
29:34
Speaker 1: manipulate when, especially when you're renegotiating early in a deal
29:39
Speaker 1: that you don't really have to bear much of a
29:42
Speaker 1: brunt on that contract in the first season. You can
29:45
Speaker 1: construct it however you'd like, quite frankly, And so I
29:49
Speaker 1: think that's going to happen. I think of these six
29:53
Speaker 1: guys that we've talked about, I don't think they're gonna
29:55
Speaker 1: lose all six. I'm gonna guess they're going to get
29:57
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant back, and then I think you are going
30:00
Speaker 1: to see is Greg's pointed out a couple of times
30:02
Speaker 1: where John tends to make his hay this time of
30:05
Speaker 1: the year is in that second and third wave of
30:07
Speaker 1: free agency.
30:08
Speaker 2: I think they will get a veteran.
30:09
Speaker 1: Wide receiver to compensate for losing Rashid Shah heat but
30:13
Speaker 1: that Tory Horton is going to be the new number
30:15
Speaker 1: three receiver. And whoever you get is gonna be like
30:18
Speaker 1: a Jalen Naylor type from Minnesota, young fourth wide receiver
30:23
Speaker 1: or a Christian Kirk veteran out of Houston who's coming
30:26
Speaker 1: off a hell of a game in the playoffs. This
30:29
Speaker 1: pat it's gonna be somebody like that. I think he
30:31
Speaker 1: will add a running back. I think he's gonna draft
30:33
Speaker 1: one as well, but I think he will add a
30:36
Speaker 1: veteran running back before this process comes to a close.
30:40
Speaker 1: And depending on what's going on with DeMarcus Lawrence, you
30:44
Speaker 1: are gonna lose Mafe. If you lose Lawrence as well,
30:47
Speaker 1: then you better have your eye on an edge rusher
30:50
Speaker 1: or two. And my guess is he's going to go
30:52
Speaker 1: after one of those sneaky veterans that he always seems
30:55
Speaker 1: to acquire versus you know, trying to find that guy
30:59
Speaker 1: or those those guys in the draft. That's my expectation
31:02
Speaker 1: for the offseason. It doesn't sound that sexy, but I
31:05
Speaker 1: think it's still winning football.
31:07
Speaker 2: It's winning roster building. And and they.
31:12
Speaker 1: Are in such a good position because of all the
31:14
Speaker 1: great things John and Mike have done together here in
31:17
Speaker 1: the last two years, that you can continue to operate
31:21
Speaker 1: just being prudent and smart and let everybody else make
31:25
Speaker 1: the overpriced mistakes and.
31:26
Speaker 2: You just keep on winning. Yeah, you just keep being
31:30
Speaker 2: the engine that purrs. You know.
31:32
Speaker 1: Make sure you get good oil, good earl, keep her
31:36
Speaker 1: gassed up.
31:38
Speaker 5: But I say, W forty, but that's not oil.
31:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the car's sexy.
31:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fast, reliable, dependable, don't have many dents in it, right, Yeah.
31:50
Speaker 2: You got yourself. You got yourself a roadster.
31:56
Speaker 4: Oil like you're talking about the earl might be really
31:58
Speaker 4: all you need versus going out.
32:00
Speaker 3: You don't got to put a spoiler on this thing.
32:02
Speaker 3: It's already fast.
32:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't put a spoil.
32:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, don't make it sound really loud when you
32:06
Speaker 6: go down the road because nobody.
32:09
Speaker 5: That sound like a douche.
32:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something that Tennessee Titans would do.
32:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't be a Titan.
32:14
Speaker 2: Let the Titans be douches. Let's be champions. Yeah, champions.
32:18
Speaker 4: You know.
32:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, you look at you right now. They're going to
32:22
Speaker 6: spend plenty of time looking at you.
32:23
Speaker 2: Have a classy automobile.
32:26
Speaker 3: You know that.
32:26
Speaker 1: People are like, now, there's a nice car. And if
32:29
Speaker 1: we want to, if you really do need to express
32:31
Speaker 1: yourself individually, then just put champions on the vanity plates.
32:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do that. Yeah, I'm with you on that,
32:40
Speaker 3: all right.
32:40
Speaker 1: Coming up next the WBC, I want to spend a
32:44
Speaker 1: little bit of time on it because this tournament needs
32:46
Speaker 1: some adjusting already. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
32:50
Speaker 1: R f M. As the NFL free agency frenzy continues,
32:53
Speaker 1: let me get you updated because the information is now
32:55
Speaker 1: starting to roll as we're getting closer to the top
32:57
Speaker 1: of the hour and the tampering period official beginning. Travis Kelcey,
33:02
Speaker 1: despite what I just said about fifteen minutes ago, looks
33:06
Speaker 1: like he will be returning to the Kansas City Chiefs
33:08
Speaker 1: on a fourteenth season. So it looks like he will
33:11
Speaker 1: play again for the Chiefs. That just seems right. Dallas
33:14
Speaker 1: Cowboys seem to be very interested in Trey Hendrickson. The
33:18
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons might be a team that pursues to a
33:21
Speaker 1: tongue of by Low. I guess they want just all
33:23
Speaker 1: left handers, all South paws.
33:25
Speaker 3: I did hear that?
33:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess maybe you don't have to change things.
33:29
Speaker 4: If Pennix goes down, you're really don't change anything for two.
33:34
Speaker 2: And then Tebow think they're signing him as well.
33:37
Speaker 3: Idea of them great idea.
33:39
Speaker 1: Sounds like the Trent Williams San Francisco forty nine ers.
33:42
Speaker 1: Things just not going to come together. And some other
33:44
Speaker 1: teams are starting to be linked to Trent Williams, including
33:46
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. So that's something certainly worth monitoring.
33:50
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, Philadelphia Eagles are shopping not
33:54
Speaker 1: just one of their issues, one of their players that
33:59
Speaker 1: causes them angst in aj Brown. They might be dangling
34:03
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter as well. There's a lot of smoke here
34:07
Speaker 1: for there not to be any fire, but Jalen Carter
34:10
Speaker 1: is being discussed in a lot of trade rumors out there.
34:13
Speaker 1: Green Bay, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, and the Seattle
34:19
Speaker 1: Seahawks Jalen Carter, So a lot of things we're monitoring
34:24
Speaker 1: here for you, and we'll get more into it in
34:27
Speaker 1: our nine o'clock hour once the tampering period is underway,
34:30
Speaker 1: we'll have more time to discuss this Wednesday or maybe Thursday.
34:33
Speaker 2: But I just I want to say it now. I
34:35
Speaker 2: want to go on the record in our minute left
34:37
Speaker 2: that we have here in this hour.
34:40
Speaker 1: I'm liking the WBC, but are we really exposing all
34:45
Speaker 1: of our best major league players to this competition to
34:51
Speaker 1: just have a series of blowouts in pool play against
34:56
Speaker 1: countries whose majority of their rosters aren't even from their country?
35:02
Speaker 2: I mean, are we real?
35:03
Speaker 1: I mean, we already talked about how we're not real
35:05
Speaker 1: comfortable about having to play these games, and you know,
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Speaker 1: possibly risking major league players for the season to participate
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Speaker 1: in this WBC Classic. And to me, I'm fine with
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Speaker 1: that as long as we've got a good competition. But
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Speaker 1: all I'm watching in pool play is one blowout after
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Speaker 1: the other against countries who don't even have anybody from
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Speaker 1: the country on the team.
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Speaker 2: Why are we doing this?
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Speaker 1: I mean it's to me, I think that we got
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Speaker 1: about eight teams that should not even be participating in
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Speaker 1: pool play. They just get to advance right to a
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Speaker 1: tournament and then let everybody else fight it out in
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Speaker 1: pool play that doesn't have fifteen to twenty five major
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Speaker 1: league regulars on their roster. It just feels unnecessary to me.
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Speaker 3: I mean there is a lot of blowouts.
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Speaker 4: I mean a Dominican you know, versus what the Netherlands
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Speaker 4: or whatever.
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Speaker 3: I mean, typically those aren't going to pan out.
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Speaker 2: That's not one of the examples.
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Speaker 1: They got like nine guys, but then again, none of
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Speaker 1: them are from the Netherlands.
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Speaker 2: They're all from Kiasu. They got like nine major leaguers
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Speaker 2: on that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's I don't know, I like
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Speaker 4: seeing these underdogs because it's a lot of the guys
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Speaker 4: are you know, they're playing for you know, Australia for example.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw that that one brother
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Speaker 4: was in the stands, that his brother was out there
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Speaker 4: pitching and he's getting all emotional because it's the biggest
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Speaker 4: thing that his brother has ever done, and so he's
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Speaker 4: kind of getting to live through that vicarious. I mean,
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Speaker 4: there's there's a lot of guys on some of these
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Speaker 4: teams that will never be in a bigger game than these, right,
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Speaker 4: and so they're getting if they're getting to play against
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Speaker 4: a Dominican or Venezuela or America, you know, Japan, these
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Speaker 4: the teams that would probably advance, like you're talking about.
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Speaker 3: That's some pretty cool stuff.
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Speaker 2: Was it?
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Speaker 3: Who was it the seventeen year old kid that was
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Speaker 3: pitching against us?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like high school kids the big league.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was kind of cool to see that moment. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: that was pretty neat. I can't imagine what's going through that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying cool moments don't come around. But if
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Speaker 1: I'm John stantlemke I invest I have two hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollars invested in Julio Rodriguez and he has to face
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Speaker 1: a seventeen year old knock.
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Speaker 2: Need gid that might hit him in the ear. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: To me, it's not worth it for those extra couple
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Speaker 1: feel good stories.
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Speaker 3: Just isn't.
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Speaker 2: So I just want to skip over.
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Speaker 3: I don't.
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Speaker 1: I think some teams just are too good to be
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Speaker 1: in pool play. We don't need to see all these blowouts.
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Speaker 2: I don't need to. I don't need Cal Rawley catching
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Speaker 2: nine innings in a blowout.
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Speaker 6: I can tell I can definitely understand the nervousness of
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Speaker 6: having them play against some people maybe who you know,
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Speaker 6: aren't nearly up to their talent level. But I think,
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Speaker 6: I mean, you could get hit by a pitcher, you
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Speaker 6: could get hit by Derek scouble in the year. I
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Speaker 6: mean it doesn't you know that's a risk, regardless of
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Speaker 6: who you're facing.
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