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6-12 H2: John Boyle Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Good friend of ours is John Boyle, team writer for
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, team reporter for the Seahawks. Used to be
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  Speaker 1: at the Ever Harold covering the University of Washington and
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. He joined us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
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  Speaker 1: live because his girls are now in school and this
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  Speaker 1: is a good time for us to get a hold
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 2: We just dropped him off.
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  Speaker 1: John was in the super secret double secret probation dinner
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  Speaker 1: last night, Ceremony of the Rings, the Lords of the Rings.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks got their Super Bowl rings last night. John
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  Speaker 1: Boyle got one because he's a Seahawks employee and busts
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  Speaker 1: his tale to do it. He joins us now to
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  Speaker 1: tell us all about it.
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  Speaker 2: How about John? Congratulations?
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  Speaker 3: Well thanks Greg.
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  Speaker 4: To clarify the not all the staff has gotten there, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but you guys, there will be a later celebration happening,
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  Speaker 4: so do not have mine yet.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought they counted you in the football staff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's you know, it's kind of a they
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  Speaker 4: got to cut their.
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  Speaker 3: Remember off that mark. But we were there, our department
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  Speaker 3: was there in a working capacity. After the event, I.
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  Speaker 2: Stand corrected all morning. I've been pumping up. How you're
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  Speaker 2: going to tell us how heavy it is?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I saw him a post, I held one. I
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  Speaker 3: can tell what?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's what makes it speakable?
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  Speaker 1: Let's first of all, let's describe the event for people
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  Speaker 1: who now that they put videos out and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: What was it like there?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a good time. So now that it's over,
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  Speaker 4: we can tell people where it was. It was in
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  Speaker 4: a big old hangar and boeing that they did up
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  Speaker 4: very nice with a lot of curtains, basically created like
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  Speaker 4: separate roots for a cocktail hour and a dinner and.
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  Speaker 3: Then the after party. It was a it was a
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  Speaker 3: good time.
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  Speaker 4: I will have a story publishing soon about the event.
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  Speaker 4: And my biggest takeaway is as someone who was around
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  Speaker 4: the team, you would appreciate just like how fun these guys,
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  Speaker 4: how much fun these guys were having together, and how
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  Speaker 4: like I mean it was they were having the hardest time,
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  Speaker 4: like staying on schedule. Players to just run off to
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  Speaker 4: get drinks with each other and chat and like you
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  Speaker 4: need to sit down, like do the ring. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: you saw everyone saw the videos. The rings get lowered
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  Speaker 4: to their tables, which means players need to be in
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  Speaker 4: their seats where their ring is going to come down.
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  Speaker 4: And that was not an easy thing to get done,
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  Speaker 4: but it was. Players had a great time.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I heard some people involved in planning the event and saying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes players get from past Super Bowls. What
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  Speaker 4: they've heard is or past parties, players get their rings
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  Speaker 4: and they jet out, you know, they want to go
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  Speaker 4: to their own party or go out with their friends.
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  Speaker 4: Almost everyone stayed till this party ended and was you know,
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  Speaker 4: they were dancing on stage. It is just it is
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  Speaker 4: very fitting for what you know, this team. You know,
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  Speaker 4: one of their biggest strengths last year was how close
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  Speaker 4: and how together this team was and that carried through
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  Speaker 4: the party.
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  Speaker 2: You sound like you had a good time, John, your
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  Speaker 2: voice is tired.
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  Speaker 3: I was working. I think I think I got my
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  Speaker 3: daughter's cold. I was working.
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  Speaker 4: I was weird there late in a in a less
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  Speaker 4: you know, party capacity, but it was still it was
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  Speaker 4: still a fun thing to be around and to see
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  Speaker 4: the players doing their thing.
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  Speaker 3: I got I.
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  Speaker 1: Got to ask you about the rings coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the sky.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a.
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  Speaker 1: Boeing hangar, the one in Renton down at the airfield
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  Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, up and see okay at Bowing Field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and so this the guys had to be in their
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  Speaker 1: assigned seats because each individual box was individualized for them
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  Speaker 1: of course, because their rings are individualized, and so they
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  Speaker 1: had to de scrat that whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Would they come down on wires and the parachutes? What
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  Speaker 2: was that about?
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  Speaker 4: It was like it was like auto light fixture that
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  Speaker 4: you know, so just sitting on top of a little
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  Speaker 4: square light and I don't know the you know, the
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  Speaker 4: engineering behind it, but they just slowly lowered they put
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  Speaker 4: on it. This was actually very funny. On a five
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  Speaker 4: minute countdown clock, players on a huge screen, five minutes
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  Speaker 4: counting down, and at the end of the five minutes,
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  Speaker 4: cool like hype video started and then the rings were
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  Speaker 4: supposed to lower. They ended up having to reset the
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  Speaker 4: five minute video put three more minute clock because people
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  Speaker 4: there's music playing in the background and players were up
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  Speaker 4: on stage with the DJ Dancy and when they're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to get in there, so that the five park became
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  Speaker 4: five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: To three minute.
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  Speaker 4: Then they finally got everybody seated, but yeah, then they
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  Speaker 4: just slowly lowered down and it's funny. Some players saw
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  Speaker 4: it coming and we're looking up and other players are
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  Speaker 4: kind of looking around and all of a sudden like, oh.
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  Speaker 3: There's a ring in front of it. Yeah. It was
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  Speaker 3: very cool and.
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  Speaker 4: The player reactions were pretty cool to see how into
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  Speaker 4: it they were.
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  Speaker 1: What's cool about the ring? How heavy is it? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: does it feel like a weight in your hand?
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  Speaker 3: And how big they're?
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  Speaker 4: They're big, as you know, as we've said, they're the
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  Speaker 4: biggest super Bowl rings ever made. I don't have a lot,
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  Speaker 4: like I haven't handled a lot of Super bowlings well,
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  Speaker 4: so I can't compare the weight to anything else, but
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  Speaker 4: I'll say it, it would not be a practical piece
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  Speaker 4: of jewelry to wear around.
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  Speaker 1: You say, the biggest rings ever made. That you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about circumference size.
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  Speaker 4: I I you know, I don't even honestly know what
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  Speaker 4: how they just find that. I would assume it's just that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the circumference of it. But I know that's
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  Speaker 4: just kind of what we've been you know, what we've
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  Speaker 4: been hearing from the jeweler and everybody else. So they are,
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  Speaker 4: they're big, and they're spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about this piece of a football. There's actually
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  Speaker 1: leather inside each ring? Am I right?
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  Speaker 2: And you open up a door.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the jeweler Jason, the Beverly Hills who did these,
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  Speaker 4: They got procured a bunch of footballs. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: they're all actual Super Bowl footballs, but they're all like
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  Speaker 4: from the season. Got a bunch of footballs and just
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  Speaker 4: cut up little tiny pieces so it opens up kind
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  Speaker 4: of the top of the ring becomes like you can
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  Speaker 4: wear it separately as a pennant has a thing like
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  Speaker 4: you can put a chain in. And underneath that is
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  Speaker 4: the fiftieth season logo and that's kind of backed by
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  Speaker 4: a piece of leather that's from a football.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, all right, I need one of those, but that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna cost me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you can get one actually cool fifty replicas, right,
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  Speaker 1: you could buy replicas, Yes, and they're only they're only
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  Speaker 1: sixteen dollars, right, No, fifteen hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a less expensive version as well. That's the
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  Speaker 4: the very limited like there's only seventy six of those
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  Speaker 4: for the for the inaugural season, seventy six. There is
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  Speaker 4: a I wouldn't call it cheat by any means, but
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  Speaker 4: the less expense.
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  Speaker 3: The version on the case of Bettverlely Hills website as well.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, Mafi was there. Craig.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Riek Wolland post on his Instagram he was there, boy, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant was Was Kenneth Walker there?
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  Speaker 4: I did not see him, No, I you know, I
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  Speaker 4: can't one hundred percent confirm that he was not there,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't see him anywhere. It was a cool thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know when Mike, Mike and Mike and John Schneider
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  Speaker 4: and Chuck Ar'll gave a little speeches and Mike made
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  Speaker 4: sure to kind of shout out and thank those guys
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  Speaker 4: who were no longer you know, members of the team,
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  Speaker 4: but for their contributions. You know, there were some former
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  Speaker 4: coaches there, including Quint Kubiak was there, Nolan Nolan teasily
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  Speaker 4: made it back. He was there, so they all got
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  Speaker 4: you know, made sure to shadow those guys as well.
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  Speaker 2: John.
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  Speaker 5: I understand you spoke with Jason about how collaborative the
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  Speaker 5: design was, but was there one specific feature or maybe
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  Speaker 5: a detail that generated the most discussion or debate before
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  Speaker 5: the final design was even approved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean from talking to him and people in the
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  Speaker 4: organization who are involvement, it sounds like it was very
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  Speaker 4: as you might expect, kind of how this source has
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  Speaker 4: always been.
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  Speaker 3: It was very much about like.
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  Speaker 4: Celebrating the fans and with that looming field, there's you know,
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  Speaker 4: the sides of the rings or the arches of women field. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: if there's all twelve flag button that when pushed causes
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  Speaker 4: the arches to pop out, So it's a very like
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  Speaker 4: connected to the fans. You know, there's a few different
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  Speaker 4: representations of twelve on the ring. There's like twelve feathers,
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  Speaker 4: so there's twenty one on one side. So it was
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  Speaker 4: a very cognitive effort to sure that the fans in
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  Speaker 4: the stadium were a part of this.
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  Speaker 5: M OB Money over Bs became that mantra for this
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five team.
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  Speaker 2: How much of that mindset influence d I was.
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  Speaker 3: Able to money missions mission?
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was that's what I said, mob mission,
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  Speaker 5: money said, money Bad said.
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  Speaker 2: Is on the side of one of the sides of
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  Speaker 2: the rings.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, why was that important enough to earn a permanent
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  Speaker 5: peace on the ring?
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  Speaker 2: You think?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think it was just kind of
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  Speaker 4: celebrating part of what that that particular team, what was
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  Speaker 4: one of their rallying cries and what made that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's the way Mike's all talks about process or
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  Speaker 4: that term mob of like they don't you know, they
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  Speaker 4: were focused on the important stuff and not not all
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  Speaker 4: the that can cause distractions and cause division.
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  Speaker 3: On a team.
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  Speaker 4: Like they were a very tight knit together group and
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  Speaker 4: stayed focused on what they needed to and that was
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  Speaker 4: a big part of last season's success.
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  Speaker 1: John, when we were covering the Super Bowl forty eight champions,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember when those guys got their rings, do you.
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  Speaker 4: I believe it was similar timing, but I don't, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was around this time of year though.
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  Speaker 1: So talk about the timing of it, Gray, Zabel, Leonard
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  Speaker 1: Williams talked about getting it now, and Zabel in particular,
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  Speaker 1: You're next to me when Zabel was saying how it
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  Speaker 1: bookends and closes a chapter the last season and moves
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  Speaker 1: them mentally onto this season, did you sense that too, that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is our last to run. Now we got to
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  Speaker 1: go to work for July twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it makes I mean just logistically doing it
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  Speaker 4: around Mini camp is makes sense because that's like the
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  Speaker 4: one mandatory part of the offseason calendar.
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  Speaker 3: To doing it when you know you're gonna have.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody there, but also yeah, like if if you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do this and like it well into trade camp, that
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  Speaker 4: is gonna feel okay, Well, our tensions on twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 4: and yet we're talking about last year still, which kind
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  Speaker 4: of gets in the way of Mike's ford Mont. So
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  Speaker 4: he did feel like a night's okay, we're wrapping up
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  Speaker 4: mini camp. But they obviously workout program and now one
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  Speaker 4: more celebration. Remember last year forward? It was funny actually,
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  Speaker 4: the the DJ at the event, metro Boom, and he
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  Speaker 4: a couple times to take the mic and say some things.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of times he says something along uns have
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  Speaker 4: you all ready to run it back? And you could
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  Speaker 4: the players go no, they're so in tune with Mike
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  Speaker 4: of no, we're running it forward. So even when the
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  Speaker 4: DJ at the party wants to run it back, they
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  Speaker 4: were correcting them.
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  Speaker 1: For those of us who are not in there, what
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  Speaker 1: is John What is Mike McDonald like in these type
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  Speaker 1: of events?
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  Speaker 2: Is he in characters?
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  Speaker 4: He's having a good time. He's he's not like, all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden some different person, but he's he's enjoying himself.
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  Speaker 4: From one point, I did notice it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: pretty late in the night and he and Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 4: were having a long talks like they're probably talking about some.
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  Speaker 3: Dirdy football stuff right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's he's having a good time and
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  Speaker 4: just like everybody else, it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You and I are watching practices last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What stood out to you about these offseason practices if anything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know, several things, but you know, you were
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  Speaker 4: there yesterday, Like it it felt very like spirited, like
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  Speaker 4: they knew that was the last day they The competition
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  Speaker 4: seemed to kind of ramp up, the trash talk seemed
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  Speaker 4: to ramp up a little bit. You know, I think
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  Speaker 4: we all know this defense is going to be really good,
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  Speaker 4: and they had some really good moments.
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  Speaker 3: But I think one thing that's going to really make
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  Speaker 3: a difference for.
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  Speaker 4: This team this year is, even with the new offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: there's so much more continentity both you know, personnel wise.
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  Speaker 4: Last year you're changing quarterbacks, you're moving on from some
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  Speaker 4: key player including DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. To this year,
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  Speaker 4: it's like you have so much continuity in the offense
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  Speaker 4: and the scheme will be very similar even with a
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  Speaker 4: new head coach. So I think like that we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: see that unit. I think a lot farther ahead than
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  Speaker 4: it was.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Chris gambling man here, or I should say
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  Speaker 2: just betting in general? What is the I would.
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  Speaker 5: Say that I know, John, I am, I completely understand
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  Speaker 5: that John, get it.
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  Speaker 4: But let's say we have a robust gambling.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, let's put the wearing of your ring that you
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  Speaker 5: will get at some point this summer over under at
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  Speaker 5: five and a half you will wear it five and
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  Speaker 5: a half times over under.
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  Speaker 4: That question exactly under. This is not, again, a very
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  Speaker 4: practical piece of jewelry. As much as my eleven year
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  Speaker 4: old wants to take it to school, that ass me
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  Speaker 4: that she's like when you get your rink and I
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  Speaker 4: work as well, I think I'm going to pass on that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this will probably, you know, map to show some family
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  Speaker 4: and friends and then be locked away safely.
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  Speaker 3: I understand you know a lot of people who were.
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  Speaker 4: With the team in twenty thirteen hundred previous rings on.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe we say over as just a really optimistic
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  Speaker 4: hope for the future of the organization.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's true, okay, fair, we're talking fifteen years.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully, there's many more parties.
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  Speaker 1: You got to slap a chain on there and let
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  Speaker 1: your goaler at the school the pendant off to bling
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  Speaker 1: that that's going to.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna not do that. As much as I as
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  Speaker 4: much as I trust the fifth grader, I'm gonna I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that probably worth at least fifty sixty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a piece, I would think.
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  Speaker 3: Right I that I don't know, but they're they're not cheap.
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  Speaker 3: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: If they're selling replicas for sixteen thousand, you can bet
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  Speaker 1: they're probably four times that an actual. Ye, John, I appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: I know you got a cold. I know you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get into the off season for real. Like I am,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you bringing on. Enjoy the weekend, enjoy the soccer.
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  Speaker 4: No pro guess, John Boyle.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend a long time. He and I have been
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  Speaker 1: working together here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: He said.
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  Speaker 1: Nneth Walker was not at the ring ceremony that he
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  Speaker 1: had been telling the Seahawks he would be there. Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald said he was very much looking forward to Kenneth
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  Speaker 1: Walker returning after signing with the Kansas City Chiefs, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently was not at the event last night. To get
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  Speaker 1: his ring. What do you do with that? You sent
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  Speaker 1: it in FedEx, you say I got delayed or something.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, Maybe he'll just pick it up when the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs and Seahawks play this coming fall and Lumanfield. But no,
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  Speaker 1: it's apparently a couple of people on the text line
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  Speaker 1: asking but Kenneth Walker was not there. But again, the
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  Speaker 1: reason we had John on is first to give you
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  Speaker 1: a feel for where I'm glad he told us it
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  Speaker 1: was at a hangar at Boeing Field. We didn't know that,
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  Speaker 1: And also to underscore the fact that this doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: every day. This is only the second time ever that
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  Speaker 1: a Seattle Seahawk has received a Super Bowl ring for
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  Speaker 1: winning the game, and it doesn't happen very often around
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  Speaker 1: the league that you get back and do it again
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  Speaker 1: the next year. Yeah, it has happened. It's not impossible,
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  Speaker 1: but it's hard, and there are a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that have to go in your favor, most of which
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  Speaker 1: being the health of the players and starters to get
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  Speaker 1: back there. And no matter how good your team is,
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  Speaker 1: they just cannot replicate exactly what they had last year.
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  Speaker 1: It will be different in some way, not the least
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  Speaker 1: of which the rams reloading and Miles Garrett and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. But I got to sense yesterday out at
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  Speaker 1: the facility they appreciate the rarity, the uniqueness, the specialness
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  Speaker 1: of last night and getting their rings four nine on
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  Speaker 1: every day at eleven thirty, and that's what's going to
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  Speaker 5: Greg opened up the show asking y'all about your interests
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: of the World Cup taking place here in Seattle, and
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: we got a bunch of responses from the three six
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  Speaker 5: oh do not care from the two O six pretty
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  Speaker 5: much watch on the US on a couple other teams
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  Speaker 5: until the final rounds when I watched them all two
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  Speaker 5: O six zero interest in soccer, rooting for USA, but
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: will not watch two five to three. I played soccer
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: back in fifth grade through high school, but not really
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  Speaker 5: caring too much about the FIFA from three to six
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  Speaker 5: oh on a scale of zero to ten. My interest
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  Speaker 5: level is Neil well played there, so you know about soccer.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you did there.
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  Speaker 5: Two five three I'll be watching a lot half German.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Grew up with soccer as basically my religion. Four two
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  Speaker 5: five Not interested in soccer in Seattle is pushing this
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  Speaker 5: mayhem went from actually just leave it at that, uh
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  Speaker 5: from three to six Oho. Not the biggest soccer fan,
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  Speaker 5: but I will definitely watch them, maybe all night matches,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: just you know, to go along with Mariners games, but
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  Speaker 5: probably won't watch too many other countries. From a four
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  Speaker 5: to two five big fan, going to watch every single
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: game I can. We'll be down there for the Belgium
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  Speaker 5: and Egypt on Friday match on six nineteen, and that's
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  Speaker 5: that's our O day guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, coach guard guy, thanks for that two oh six
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  Speaker 1: said admitted local lifelong soccer player parents Sounders season ticket holder,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: lover of the game. Being a host country of the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup as an honor, regardless of the issues around
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the cost et cetera. Being a host city takes it
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to another level for locals that don't care about soccer.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I recommend people watching and enjoying the passion of tourists
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: who no doubt will have a blast experiencing our region
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  Speaker 1: in addition to the great game in a world class stadium. Enjoy.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: I'm guessing the barge offers a great background view of
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  Speaker 5: downtown from the two to six.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yes it does, and the Ferris Wheel, the Great Wheel
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  Speaker 1: and Eliot Bay and with the day this clear, probably
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics mountains in the distance. Yeah, it's pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: to us.
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  Speaker 2: Six points out. Thank you that the barge.
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  Speaker 1: All the proceeds from the fan barge for the World
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Cup on off of Peer sixty two go to the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Ray Foundation, the Sounders and Rains Charitable Community Fund.
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  Speaker 2: So that's cool.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Fifty two dollars to go onto the barge two hundred
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and twenty seventy one vip up on the lows.
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  Speaker 2: Level, this is a fun one. From the five, eight
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  Speaker 2: to five.
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  Speaker 1: That's our buddy, that Rochester.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Greg and Chris with the World Cup starting. What sports
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: do you not care about watching at all? Mine is
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: fighting sports. I cannot get into boxing, UFC and especially WWE.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I got say I'm with you on the wrestling.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: As a as a young man growing up, I enjoyed
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  Speaker 5: it from my maybe teenage years eleven to like sixteen,
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  Speaker 5: and then after a while I just got like man.
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  Speaker 5: But now that I understand the backstory of it, I
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  Speaker 5: probably could get back into it, but I.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Don't watch it anymore. So I'm with you with the wrestling.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I agree with Rochester on UFC and MMA can't get me.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I did I boxed at West Point. You had the box.
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  Speaker 1: It was a mandatory graduation required.
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  Speaker 5: No, I was slow, and you see a bit of
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: him beating up somebody from talking crazy to him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I know how to rip your voice box out, But no,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that's all you need. Greg. They didn't say, you know
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: there's a tactic to this.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Can you win the fight? They told me how to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: rip a voice box out. I've never practiced it because
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: it's a human nature. I think you'll be okay. If
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: your life depended on it, you will have a voice
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: box in your hand.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: But no, UFC and MMA not for me. Non combative sports.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I don't like. That's a good question.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I wish I understood curling. I can't get into it
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: well better than me. I've never even tried to watch it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I even went to the Granite Club up on across
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  Speaker 1: from Ingram walk right out.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I stayed. We tried. I just couldn't get it, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: we tried it. He's tried what we do. It was
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  Speaker 2: kind of cool. I guess showed me the motion.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not easy, it's I don't think i'd be
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  Speaker 5: any good to watch. Yeah, that's the I'm combative sport. Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: curling is probably way up there for me. But I
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: would never think, huh, curling's on TV. I would just
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: skip right on through. I like bowling. I could watch bowling,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: really bowling on TV.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You know, you.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Remember that moment where the gentleman won and said, who
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: the hell do you think you are? That was probably
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: the greatest bowling one that was.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Who was?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I can picture him, but I can't remember his name.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Someone on the text line exactly I will not be
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: attending the three six says I'll be staying as far
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: away from Seattle as possible. That's a lot of people
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: think that way. Of course, three six O means you're
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: not in Seattle to begin with. Two six Adidas and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Timbers are hosting a four day watch party here in
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: downtown Portland for all games through Monday. I think I'll
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: go watch the Canada game in my all USA gear,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Canada and Balsia Herzegovina kick off in about twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the games.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Two o six All Zip Interest World Cup bringing half
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  Speaker 1: a million visitors Seattle awesome because of that on slate
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  Speaker 1: Nae Fox of money blah blah blah, two o six.
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  Speaker 1: When I played high school football, our football coach required
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you to do at least one other high school sport
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: or prove you were doing something athletic outside of school karate, club, soccer,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: et cetera. But that was the late nineteen eighties.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: That's a great coach. That is a great coach.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And the NFL coaches that I talked to, Pete Carroll,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, guy all around the league, the Harbaughs, they
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: all extlore the values of playing multiple sports and the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: trend in this sports toward singular sports. It's in all
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: around baseball travel teams and AAU basketball teams and seven
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  Speaker 1: on seven football teams that take up all of their
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: offseasons and then you only play one sport is wrong.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: It's a money grab, it's for for profit. It's all
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: about what's wrong in youth sports. Diversify. Pete Carroll talked
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  Speaker 1: all the time about he wanted players football players for
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks who stood at the file line with a
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: second left in the game and the pressure of that
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: who stared down a pitch at three to two, bottom
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of the ninth, bottom of the seventh of a high
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: school game with a game on the line. He wanted
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: players like that who had to sink a forty foot
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: putt to win a prep a youth golf tournament. He
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: wanted that as a football player. But now it's oh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: these kids got to go to a seven on seven
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: flag whatever tournament in June in Arizona that cost five
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, or some performance center or AAU travel basketball
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: or travel baseball or gymnastics or what have you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: It's soccer. If you go on not about soccer and
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: youe soccer, it's ridiculous.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So hats off to you and the two oh six
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: who had a coach who saw the importance of playing more.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I played four sports in high school and it was
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: really glad I did. But soccer and football wouldn't max. So, oh, well,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I'll be watching it. Let's see, I'm a soccer fan.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I am not three successes. I am not a soccer
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fan at all, but I will definitely watch some of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: maybe all of tonight's match along with the Mariners game,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: but I probably won't watch other countries matches. There are
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of people like that who will watch that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: They will watch the US matches, and rightly so. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: do not care you or said that ghost Seahawks said
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to two five three, I get that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It's three six? Oh isn't it?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Isn't Ian Farness a former star soccer player at oday?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It depends what you call star.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: How do you define the word start? I know he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: played soccer at oday, but I don't know if he
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: was a n't have to ask.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: He is going to be very like, oh, you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: it's pretty good. He's not gonna Yeah, he won't.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Was he a star?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Is his name on the waldo day for an? It
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: probably is, and he won't. Even if it is.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: His name's on the walledo deck. I wouldn't be surprised. Really, yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: look what he's done.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Is your name on the wall? Absolutely not. I'm on
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the top ten of long jump, you know, so your
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: name is on the walleto deck. I don't know it's
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: not on the wall. I don't.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: It might be in all like Breezeway, because I'm top
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: ten all time in the long jump. Now I just
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: moved down the seventh because some kid, you know, he
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: did really well.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Did you meet him? I haven't met him.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: But the guy that is leading us, he jumped like
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: twenty three feet and he was back in nineteen seventy something.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Would you jump? I jumped twenty one to four. Really, yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: that's not shabby.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: It's not And then I got hurt because I thought
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: I was gonna go to state and win it, but
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: I got hurt.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: So it is what it is. It would be nice
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to do that, but the fact that I'm still the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: top ten is kind of cool.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Wonder how long I'll be up there? It spend what
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: thirteen years? So we'll say if it you know how
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: long that stands? Hugh Bruce Springsteen's Glory Day music. That's
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: what my kids would be saying right now, Cory Days. Yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I get that a lot at home.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And for Nas the mayor, Maple Valley, the Star player,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: former day high school soccer player joins us Next on
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ RFM, Welcome Back Craig bellin
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: newstribute Christopher Kidd with you as we are every weekday
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: ten am to noon on ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 1: RM again the World Cup starting back up again in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: about ten minutes time in Toronto, Canada, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: then tonight six pm the US and Paraguay and Englewood
• 25:35
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• 25:37
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• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: What's the upshot of the crack and hiring the fired
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Canucks GM as assistant.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Jatrick Alvin good hockey guy didn't really run the show there.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: He was kind of a puppet for Jim Rutherford. Has
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: you know we had Thomas transon from Vancouver yesterday who
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: would be the first to criticize if he be. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: can say I like Thomas, but BB and he said,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: well respected in the hockey community, well respected in the
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: scouting and personnel circles. Gives Jason botroll a I think
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: an experienced right hand man in that regard. Ryan Jankowski,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Alexandra MANDRICKI and are the other two assistant gms that
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: deal with personnel and so forth. But they're not at
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: the there their titles, their expertise or experiences different than
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Patrick Alvin. And then the third one is is Ricky
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Olchek and he's he's assisant GM, but he's basically their
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: salary cap guy. He's the old Matt Thomas. So uh,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: it was a position you certainly probably in some ways
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: needed kind of replacing Botroll's position that wasn't replaced last
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: year when he got bumped up, right, So yeah, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: think it's I think it's a good move.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's a good you know.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I mean you, on the surface, Vancouver fired, Vancouver Canucks GM,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: worst team in the league, You're like, what the hell?
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: And then you kind of look at how actually it
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: ran there, and it was it was very It wasn't
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: like here where it was Ron Francis Jason bott Roll,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: but Francis was just kind of up in a bigger
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: kind of on the exit plan. It was all Boughts
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: last year with your fronsibility. The model they had in
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Vancouver with Jim Rutherford and Patrick Alvin was a lot
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: like Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander, if.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That makes sense. Yeah, right, we all know who runs a.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Show and ain't Justin.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: So botterlerel of course, he used to be the Sabers GM.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of seventeen to twenty and a lot
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of people in Western New York chuckle when you wear
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that bottrel is now cracking. What's different under him than
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: under Francis.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: You can ask me that about July third or fourth, honest,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: after the draft and free agency, because I can't tell
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: you right now. I wish I could have. I wish
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: I can't tell you. But they have money to spend,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: as so does everybody else. Okay, that's a problem with
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: the league. It's the solar CAP's gone up so much
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: that everybody has money. The free classes awful. Uh So
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: you've got to go out and get aggressive, like trade
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: draft picks and trade prospects, and trade some guys that
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: might be popular for the fan bait. You've got to
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: do some uncomfortable things this this next three four five
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: weeks period into story. I don't think there's an option.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: I don't think the option is stamp pat. If you
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: stand pat, You're just you're cutting yourself off at the knees.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: You're making it really hard on the business side to
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: try to get people excited about hockey. You've got to
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: do some things so there's a lot of rumors about
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: there about Matthew Barzel.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: So we'll see if that maybe becomes fruition. That would
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: be a that would want one.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That would be a big fish.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: That'd be a big fish.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Number one center. They don't have a number one center. Sorry, Maddie,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: You're not a number one center just the way it is.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: So yeah, they gotta I think move Shane rights. Matty's
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: a two. Janeler Stevens is a three. All of a sudden,
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: you're a lot better at that point. Move Shane right
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: hell yeah yeah, are you still young? Yep, just not
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: working here, And I think I think for the for
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: the for his sake and.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: For the team's sake. Sometimes she's got move on.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Those are some of the tough Movisians talking about what
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: do you got on the show today?
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: We got a Daniel and Neil weekly visit one twenty
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: today and then we'll check in with Corbyn Smith at
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: two and we'll talk a little World Cup and a
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: lot of Seahawks as well.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I had a great conversation yes with Drake Thomas.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: Revisit some of that coming up at twelve twenty today
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: or twelve thirty fun Gouty A toxic, great story. I
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: love the story. I'm like you, I like the stories. Yeah,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: I like the I mean there's a lot of big
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: names we can talk to. I like the good stories.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: We had Tyle cod On a couple weeks ago. Great story,
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Drake Thomas the same thing. Neither one of those guys
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: looks like an NFL player. No, I mean they're just
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: not big. They're not huge, they're not but boy, both
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: are just great stories. And they're both exactly and it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: what I would think you would agree with. This one
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: of the shared characteristics of Mike, of Mike McDonald and
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: Pete Carroll and probably it's the GM right as much
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: as anything. They don't care. And I'm not saying we
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: don't care. We didn't care. They don't care where you
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: came from or where you were drafted, or what you
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: look like, or how fast you at the combine or
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: what percentile you are in.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Can you play football?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Can you play football?
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: And Mike McDonald found two guys in Okata and and
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: and Drake Thomas ended up being starters for them and
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: key contributors. Thomas I had him break down the play
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: the interception because I was thinking to myself everyone was
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: raving about the ball skills, which they were like, yeah,
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: because the ball was kind of tipped a little bit
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: by Mafe McCaffrey probably should have caught. It still goes off,
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: but you still have to make a great play hands
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: wise if you're Drake Thomas at the goal line in
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: that game, in that last game against the forty nine ers,
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: ten point game or thirteen point game at that point,
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: could have been a three point game they score, right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: and I was thinking he had to, Like there was
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: a read on that play for the linebacker with McCaffrey
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: coming out of the backfield, and he did. We'll hear
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: this at twelve thirty, a great breakdown of he's going
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  Speaker 6: to do this or he's gonna do that. I had
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: to react here or be there. He was there, he's
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  Speaker 6: gonna make the tackle. McCaffrey's not going to But it
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  Speaker 6: was just a great read, great play, and that's one
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  Speaker 6: of the reasons the guys playing, you know, he's Mike
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  Speaker 6: McDonald's guy.
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  Speaker 2: In a very cerebral defense from I'm mistaken it was
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  Speaker 2: a ten to three game at the time or thirteen three,
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  Speaker 2: because I think I think that I think thirteen. I
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  Speaker 2: thought the sas then went down and kicked the Clinton
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  Speaker 2: was his tempoint game. It's a tempoint game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that might have been. They start, Okata and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Thomas start because of how good they are practicing. They
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: are exquisite practice players like to a detail to a t.
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  Speaker 6: They know everything and where to be and how to
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  Speaker 6: be there. And not every guy in your team is
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: going to be an all pro, right just I mean,
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I know we all want to and right maybe rightfully
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: so wrongfully so we all want to bash in the
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  Speaker 6: right guard. Not every player is not all twenty two
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  Speaker 6: guys are going to be great.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, Anthony Bradford is the starting right guard
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  Speaker 1: and I don't see anything yet changing that.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to know, I mean, it's going to
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: take a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We Bo Stevens, the rookie fifth round pick,
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  Speaker 1: is well behind. He was third string the.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Whole OTAs and Mini camp. When Bradford missed a couple
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: on the way when he was out there, there was
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  Speaker 6: no question, no none, no, that was it was the
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: offensive line looked If you want to know what the
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: offensive line looked like, look at the Super.
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  Speaker 1: Bowl and John Benton, the offensive line coach, loves Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Bradford loves his physicality. I signed pick up a one
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: man sled yesterday and about throw it. Yeah, and nobody
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: else goes even lifting out the ground and Bradford almost
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: picked up him through it.
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  Speaker 2: And John Bent was like, that's amazing, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: Well he brings he brings up an attitude that I
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: don't know if it exists with the other guys, like
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: like he has. There's a little DJ flucker, there's a yeah,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: there's a little i'll use a gym warre terms a
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: little dirt bagging him, a little dirt bagging him, which
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Benton loves. You know all right? Were you
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a soccer star at Oday? That's what the text text
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  Speaker 2: line as star star.
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  Speaker 6: I almost let him go without asking Chris Star No,
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  Speaker 6: uh no, I played on it when I was at Oday.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know how their team is now, I'm
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: not sure. But when I was at Oday, we were
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: all four years I was there, I didn't play varsital
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: four years, but all four years I was there, we
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: were ranked as the number one team in the state.
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  Speaker 6: We never won a state title, got knocked out by
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: the Schmitzer Boys my senior year.
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  Speaker 2: They were good at soccer. I don't know if you've
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: ever heard.
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  Speaker 6: I heard, yeah they played for Nathan They actually they
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: were a legitimate Nathan Hale team, not one that was
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: bought and paid for it. But no, I was okay.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: We had a great team. We had great I mean
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: O date Pat Rainey was our coach, great programs you played.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: I was a goalie, you were a goalie, a keeper.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: I would not have guessed that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: was defender. Yeah, was outside back.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: I was about one seventy five one eighty back then,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: so a little bit a little bit lighter five pounds, yeah,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: just five pounds from where I am now.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Sure. But other keeper, Steve McChesney was better than me.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: He was our number one guy. I was number two.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: But we we combined to allow fewer goals and I
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: think any any year school history. So yeah, we were
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: all right, but we had guys. I mean there were
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: games we didn't see the ball, like we're that good.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Like half our team got drafted in an ASL. The
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: other half was playing in Division one soccer or at
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: worst playing at Seattle Pacific D two which was better
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: than most D one schools with Cliff McGrath, I was
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: the exception. So to say I was a star, no,
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: I was the I was the outlier. I just was there.
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  Speaker 2: There you have it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I was there.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I was there.
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  Speaker 6: I was good enough to be on the best team
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  Speaker 6: in the state. I was not one of the better
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: players by any stretch.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Now we know. Yeah, there's the official word from me,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and yeah, all right, we're late. It's Ian's time, so
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I don't care see it.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. Thanks for listening.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I will talk to you from Jimmy's on First across
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the street from the World Cup in Seattle on Monday morning.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, Thanks for everything.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: To Chris, I have a great weekend, and Ian and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Anders are up next to ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 1: r FM.