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- 0:00Speaker 1: I've already had two glasses this morning. Is that kind
- 0:02Speaker 1: of a morning.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Let's hug it out. It's Chuck, It's Ashley with you.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you all. Sorry, I'm running a little
- 0:10Speaker 2: bit late. Sorry YouTubers, I'm looking right at you. Sorry Mom. Sorry. PS.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sorry to PS because he's probably he's probably
- 0:20Speaker 3: p O.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Yes for sure. But I had to do a Dan
- 0:23Speaker 2: Wilson rant today and I wasn't gonna cut it off
- 0:25Speaker 2: just so we could stay on time. So sorry about it,
- 0:28Speaker 2: and I'm not done. I'm not done ranting on Dan either,
- 0:32Speaker 2: so we'll do a little more of that coming up
- 0:33Speaker 2: later on in the show. But right now, it's time
- 0:36Speaker 2: for joy. It's time for mirth, it's time for friends,
- 0:38Speaker 2: it's time for family. It's time for draft. MIAs joining
- 0:41Speaker 2: us on the program and our friends and family segment
- 0:44Speaker 2: is our own NFL insider from the Athletic Happy Draft
- 0:49Speaker 2: miss to our friend Mike Sando. Hello, sir, Good morning,
- 0:53Speaker 2: How are you great? How are you doing? I'm doing great?
- 0:57Speaker 2: Off this week about that I've never met anybody that
- 1:00Speaker 2: loves football, the NFL, the NFL more than you. Where
- 1:05Speaker 2: does draft rank amongst your things? That you look most
- 1:08Speaker 2: forward to. It's interesting. I like the draft itself. I
- 1:13Speaker 2: don't like the build up to it. And some of
- 1:15Speaker 2: that for me is maybe I'm a little all or
- 1:18Speaker 2: nothing on this stuff. But like, I'm so into the
- 1:20Speaker 2: NFL that I feel like if you're going to be
- 1:22Speaker 2: super into the draft, that's like its own industry, you know,
- 1:25Speaker 2: to like be really be into the who's the third
- 1:28Speaker 2: best linebacker and all that type of stuff.
- 1:30Speaker 4: That's not me. Yeah, as much I love the strategy
- 1:33Speaker 4: around me. I love leave it to me, Michael. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:35Speaker 4: that type of stuff. Like even the teams get that
- 1:38Speaker 4: wrong half the time, you know. Yeah, But I love
- 1:40Speaker 4: the draft, uh, I love. My favorite thing about the
- 1:44Speaker 4: draft is kind of when it's over and when you
- 1:46Speaker 4: can kind of see what teams did. I really love
- 1:49Speaker 4: that gifts.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Yeah, you get, yeah, just from under the tree and
- 1:53Speaker 2: you know exactly what you're playing with.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you can evaluate it, evaluate the trades,
- 1:58Speaker 4: and you can kind of see what teams really thinking.
- 2:01Speaker 4: And I love the analysis of it when it happens.
- 2:04Speaker 4: The analysis of it going into it isn't as interesting
- 2:09Speaker 4: to me.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's all right, Mike. We all know
- 2:11Speaker 2: our roles. We all love, we all play our roles.
- 2:14Speaker 2: So you think it's weird that I have a month
- 2:17Speaker 2: long holiday celebration for it and I'm currently wearing a
- 2:20Speaker 2: smoker's jacket with a pipe in my hand.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Well, no, I love that people are into it that much.
- 2:26Speaker 4: I was just like, my gosh, you know, you have
- 2:29Speaker 4: to breathe sometime here. To me, going into the draft
- 2:33Speaker 4: is a perfect like It's funny. I did a coming
- 2:36Speaker 4: out of the combine. I did a thing where I
- 2:37Speaker 4: pulled some people in the league and we put together
- 2:39Speaker 4: at top ten to the NFL Draft, who are going
- 2:41Speaker 4: to be the top ten picks, you know? And then
- 2:43Speaker 4: I looked at, like, you know, the Dane Brugler's mock
- 2:46Speaker 4: draft this week, and it's like pretty similar.
- 2:50Speaker 1: You know.
- 2:50Speaker 4: I mean, we and we and we've gone, you know,
- 2:53Speaker 4: with a lot of the same players. I think three
- 2:54Speaker 4: of the top four were the same or that sort
- 2:56Speaker 4: of a thing. It's there's a lot of conversation that
- 3:00Speaker 4: happens between then and now, and I'm not convinced that
- 3:04Speaker 4: as much change is from between then and out, you
- 3:07Speaker 4: know what I mean?
- 3:08Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm looking forward to finding out
- 3:11Speaker 2: the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So Mike Sander is with
- 3:14Speaker 2: us our NFL insider, who's the who's the intriguing player
- 3:18Speaker 2: then in your estimation, whether that's a team, a general manager,
- 3:23Speaker 2: an owner in Dallas's case, I mean, what's that? What's
- 3:26Speaker 2: that storyline that you think gives us that little bit
- 3:30Speaker 2: of shock value that so many draft people love?
- 3:33Speaker 4: Well, I mean, who's going to be the how early
- 3:36Speaker 4: is the second quarterback going to go? You know? And
- 3:38Speaker 4: I think I think people have had you know, whatever,
- 3:40Speaker 4: Ty Simpson in the top of the second round or somewhere,
- 3:42Speaker 4: but you never really know on that. I think that
- 3:45Speaker 4: it just takes one team to want somebody or have
- 3:47Speaker 4: a need. I think that is that is an interesting one.
- 3:52Speaker 4: And then you know, Seattle to me at thirty two
- 3:54Speaker 4: is interesting just like how do they get more picks?
- 3:57Speaker 4: I think that there's no way they're going to have
- 3:58Speaker 4: four picks in the drafts, So how do you I
- 4:02Speaker 4: think they could be really applauded for getting you know,
- 4:04Speaker 4: six seven picks out of this, but then who do
- 4:07Speaker 4: you get? Like does it really work out?
- 4:08Speaker 2: You know?
- 4:09Speaker 4: I think I think that's interesting for a team that
- 4:11Speaker 4: lost a lot, you know, relatively speaking this offseason.
- 4:14Speaker 2: How much credit do you give to success in the draft,
- 4:19Speaker 2: because obviously it's very important, and it feels like the
- 4:22Speaker 2: ones that are good at it are consistently good at it.
- 4:27Speaker 2: John Schneider was great at it, maybe not so much
- 4:31Speaker 2: there for a while, and now he's back on top
- 4:33Speaker 2: of his game. So do you do you chalk it
- 4:36Speaker 2: up to, oh, well, sometimes you just have a good
- 4:39Speaker 2: run of luck. Or do you give Schneider the credit?
- 4:43Speaker 2: Do you give the combination of Schneider and McDonald the
- 4:46Speaker 2: credit like Pete and John used to be on the
- 4:47Speaker 2: same page, Because I think there's I don't think it
- 4:50Speaker 2: was a fluke that Ozzie Knewsom was great at this
- 4:52Speaker 2: year after year after year after year. As much as
- 4:56Speaker 2: some people want to call it a crapshoot, I just
- 4:58Speaker 2: don't ever go there. So, oh, yeah, the Seahawks are
- 5:01Speaker 2: on fire right now. Why do you think that is? Yeah?
- 5:05Speaker 4: I do think that. I do think it's having a
- 5:07Speaker 4: good connection between your coach and your and your GM
- 5:11Speaker 4: because when you think of it, like the old Bill
- 5:15Speaker 4: Parcells things. Remember Bill Parcells said, I, as head coach,
- 5:18Speaker 4: if I'm going to be making the meal, I want
- 5:20Speaker 4: to shop for the groceries. Remember that, Yeah, Well, if
- 5:23Speaker 4: the person shopping for your groceries isn't getting you what
- 5:26Speaker 4: you know how to cook or want to cook, you're
- 5:28Speaker 4: not going to have as good of a meal. That's
- 5:29Speaker 4: just normal, right, And so I think having those two
- 5:33Speaker 4: obviously know what they're doing, and then have the you know,
- 5:38Speaker 4: be on the same page. So the coaching staff is
- 5:40Speaker 4: excited about these guys. That's an underrated thing that we
- 5:42Speaker 4: don't really the curtain doesn't get pulled back on the
- 5:45Speaker 4: fact that, oh, this team didn't take this guy because
- 5:48Speaker 4: the position coach didn't like him or things like that. Right,
- 5:50Speaker 4: all sort of goes on the GM's tab. So when
- 5:53Speaker 4: you can get all of that stuff synced up and
- 5:56Speaker 4: get the right player, and I do think you have
- 5:57Speaker 4: a big boost because the number one way to have
- 6:00Speaker 4: really bad drafts is to have a lot of turnover,
- 6:05Speaker 4: be firing our coach all the time, right, And sometimes
- 6:07Speaker 4: I say, well, they fired the coach because they drafted
- 6:09Speaker 4: this guy and he wasn't any good. But a lot
- 6:12Speaker 4: of times they're gonna your draft's gonna look way worse
- 6:15Speaker 4: if you make the trade, if you make the firings,
- 6:17Speaker 4: because guys are going to come in and not like
- 6:20Speaker 4: that guy as much. So in a place like Baltimore.
- 6:22Speaker 4: He said, I just knew some knows what he's doing.
- 6:24Speaker 4: And then they've had two coaches this century, right, they've
- 6:27Speaker 4: had two coaches. They had Brian Billock and they have
- 6:30Speaker 4: John Harbaugh, and now they're gonna have finally a third.
- 6:32Speaker 4: But I think that's a great recipe. And I agree
- 6:36Speaker 4: that it's not a crap shoot. You know, I used
- 6:39Speaker 4: to do a podcast with Randy Mueller and he really
- 6:41Speaker 4: bristled at that idea that was a crap shooting. And
- 6:43Speaker 4: I know there's you can make the case that it is,
- 6:46Speaker 4: because you can go through and show that team's up
- 6:50Speaker 4: and down and all over the place. But I think
- 6:52Speaker 4: there's more to it than that. I really do well.
- 6:55Speaker 2: I think teams get lucky every once in a while.
- 6:58Speaker 2: I don't give the Patriots too much credit for time.
- 7:00Speaker 2: I'm Brady his development, but not drafting him. Otherwise you
- 7:03Speaker 2: wouldn't have waited as long as you did to get him.
- 7:06Speaker 2: And I think there are some teams that take guys
- 7:09Speaker 2: that look like short things and they crap out and
- 7:11Speaker 2: it might not necessarily be their fault, but the consistency
- 7:14Speaker 2: when you're good more often than not, when you have
- 7:17Speaker 2: good drafts more often than you have bad drafts. I
- 7:19Speaker 2: don't think that's luck. I don't think that's fluke. I
- 7:22Speaker 2: think that's what you got good per personnel people.
- 7:25Speaker 4: Yeah, and I agree with you on the Brady thing.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Obviously an extreme example that they would have taken him
- 7:30Speaker 4: earlier had they known. But a big part of the
- 7:32Speaker 4: draft is knowing when you can get players too, even
- 7:34Speaker 4: if they're really good. You know, sometimes it's knowing that, hey,
- 7:38Speaker 4: we don't have to do this here, we can get
- 7:40Speaker 4: this other thing, other guy, and that guy's going to
- 7:44Speaker 4: be here. So map having that mapped out, and I
- 7:46Speaker 4: think in general, standers done a good job of that.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Mike Sander was with us, so you can follow Matt
- 7:50Speaker 2: Sando NFL. We're talking some draft friends and family segment
- 7:53Speaker 2: here in our Draft miss celebration. How big do you
- 7:56Speaker 2: see the Ken Walker hole for the Seahawks and how
- 8:00Speaker 2: long can they wait into the draft before they take
- 8:02Speaker 2: a running back?
- 8:04Speaker 4: I think it's a big, big hole just at the
- 8:06Speaker 4: position in general, with Zach Scharbney also coming off of
- 8:09Speaker 4: an injury. So but that being said, I don't get
- 8:12Speaker 4: the sense that people are going to be clamoring to
- 8:14Speaker 4: take running backs early. So maybe there's one they love
- 8:17Speaker 4: and they feel like they got to have them in
- 8:19Speaker 4: the second round, but I just haven't felt that. So
- 8:22Speaker 4: I could see them waiting longer than that. I could
- 8:24Speaker 4: see them, you know, I could see them taking We've
- 8:29Speaker 4: seen this happen before. They don't take one. What if
- 8:30Speaker 4: they didn't take one, you know, until this sixth round.
- 8:34Speaker 4: I think that could totally happen, just based on you know,
- 8:38Speaker 4: they're not going to force that pick and they're not
- 8:40Speaker 4: going to panic over it. I think it's easier not
- 8:41Speaker 4: to panic when you just won the Super Bowl.
- 8:44Speaker 2: And speaking of running backs, is Jeremiah Love from what
- 8:48Speaker 2: you have studied? And I know that you don't find
- 8:51Speaker 2: tooth callback do you see him as special? And in
- 8:56Speaker 2: this dime a dozen running back dear that seems to
- 9:01Speaker 2: be changing here recently with Barkley kind of carrying the
- 9:05Speaker 2: Eagles to the Super Bowl title. A couple of years ago,
- 9:09Speaker 2: Bijon Robinson looked like he was worth that high pick.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Gibbs and Detroit looks like he's worth that high pick.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Has it changed a little bit behind the scenes, the
- 9:18Speaker 2: view on running backs here in the last couple of years,
- 9:21Speaker 2: and how will that reflect Thursday with Jeremiah Love out
- 9:24Speaker 2: of Notre Dame.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's going to go in the top ten.
- 9:27Speaker 4: Some of that is just because, you know, it doesn't
- 9:29Speaker 4: seem like people are overly excited about a lot of
- 9:31Speaker 4: the other players up there. So you know, if he
- 9:33Speaker 4: were to go get past Washington, even you know, that
- 9:35Speaker 4: could be surprising. I think that would be a makes
- 9:39Speaker 4: sense for them too, with their quarterback and this guy,
- 9:42Speaker 4: and you put those two things together. So I do
- 9:45Speaker 4: think that. You know, for a while there it was
- 9:49Speaker 4: overboard about how you never take a running back high.
- 9:51Speaker 4: It was kind of one of those Hey, this is
- 9:53Speaker 4: an analytics revelation here. We're in the analytics era. You
- 9:56Speaker 4: never you never do this, You never do that. I
- 9:58Speaker 4: don't think he'd never say never. I do think the
- 10:01Speaker 4: value is proven clearly. If two things players are equal,
- 10:05Speaker 4: you go at a different position because of the financial
- 10:08Speaker 4: component of drafting these guys in positions. If you draft
- 10:12Speaker 4: a running back in the top ten, you're paying him
- 10:14Speaker 4: near the top of the market for running backs, much
- 10:17Speaker 4: nearer the top of the market than if you were
- 10:19Speaker 4: to have a pass rusher at who you value similarly. Definitely,
- 10:24Speaker 4: the positional value does matter in that case. But when
- 10:27Speaker 4: you're talking about special talents, and I think people do
- 10:29Speaker 4: think that Jeremiah Love is one, you know, you you
- 10:34Speaker 4: probably I'd much sure to have that the just hey,
- 10:38Speaker 4: we did the positional value thing and got a mediocre
- 10:41Speaker 4: pass rusher. So I do think he will go in
- 10:45Speaker 4: the top ten. And and you know whether he's going
- 10:48Speaker 4: to pan out.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Shoot.
- 10:49Speaker 4: We've seen a bunch of these guys. Trent Richardson looked great,
- 10:52Speaker 4: he was going to be great, Ashton Janet, he was
- 10:54Speaker 4: going to be great. He's special. You know, I see
- 10:59Speaker 4: a lot of those guys, miss too.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Is Fernando Mendoz's special? Will he make a very early
- 11:06Speaker 2: appearance near your quarterback tier top of your quarterback tiers?
- 11:09Speaker 2: And is there another guy that you see or that
- 11:12Speaker 2: you're hearing from the people that you talk to that
- 11:15Speaker 2: might have that face of the franchise existence going forward?
- 11:21Speaker 4: Well, I know some coaches who we just as soon
- 11:24Speaker 4: have Ty Simpson as Fernando Mendez. I think it's a
- 11:26Speaker 4: smaller group, and I think that I think that as
- 11:29Speaker 4: those guys look at the players more closely. That Mendoz
- 11:32Speaker 4: has gone up. But I don't get the sense that,
- 11:36Speaker 4: you know, he's I think he's gonna go number one.
- 11:38Speaker 4: I don't get the sense that he's super generational. I
- 11:41Speaker 4: think he's you know, in a good in the right system,
- 11:44Speaker 4: good place. Seems to have be completely squared away, like
- 11:48Speaker 4: in the you know, the psychological component of this, which
- 11:52Speaker 4: is big for quarterbacks. So I think they're gonna feel
- 11:54Speaker 4: good about taking them. But I don't think that anyone
- 11:56Speaker 4: is feeling like, you know, this is the John L
- 11:59Speaker 4: Way Andrew luckdraft.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way, have you seen Trevor Lawrence's hair?
- 12:03Speaker 2: He finally cut his hair.
- 12:04Speaker 4: He looks fantasm Absolutely, he looks great. I mean it's
- 12:07Speaker 4: the biggest offseason upgrade than any one's made, don't you think.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe it. I don't know what he
- 12:14Speaker 2: was going with it for so long, and now that
- 12:16Speaker 2: I see it short, I'm like, dude, I guarantee you
- 12:18Speaker 2: he's kicking himself from here like I should have done
- 12:20Speaker 2: this seven years ago.
- 12:21Speaker 4: Oh, he's gonna be He's gonna go right to tier
- 12:24Speaker 4: one and quarterback tiers. You know, it's just gonna there's
- 12:26Speaker 4: gonna be no change in his play. Like, Oh, this
- 12:28Speaker 4: guy looks great. He looked great this offseason. I don't
- 12:30Speaker 4: know what it is. Tier one. Yeah, yeah, it's an
- 12:35Speaker 4: unbelievable Now I don't understand is it's not like he
- 12:41Speaker 4: was going with a conventional look before. I mean, no, no,
- 12:45Speaker 4: I can't either.
- 12:47Speaker 2: He's going fashionable. It just looks a million times better,
- 12:51Speaker 2: that's all.
- 12:51Speaker 4: My gosh, he looks like, you know, complete complete makeover. Man.
- 12:56Speaker 4: We all need to reassess Chuck. We all need to
- 12:58Speaker 4: like take that picture in to someone professional. He is
- 13:02Speaker 4: there something like this for me? I mean, this guy
- 13:04Speaker 4: improved like one hundred percent overnight.
- 13:08Speaker 2: I've lived that life before, by the way, I've lived
- 13:10Speaker 2: that held onto my long hair too long into my
- 13:15Speaker 2: early twenties and regret it. But now I don't have
- 13:18Speaker 2: any options left to Sando. Yeah, I'm pretty much scared out,
- 13:21Speaker 2: all right. So so give me something that Mike Sando
- 13:24Speaker 2: specifically loves about, either the draft class or the festivities
- 13:29Speaker 2: next Thursday. Maybe it's a player. Maybe it's somebody that
- 13:33Speaker 2: you really like and you cannot wait to see how
- 13:36Speaker 2: the chips fall and where that person lands.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Well, let's see where let me look through these, let
- 13:46Speaker 4: me just see. I'm kind of interested in what happened
- 13:49Speaker 4: with Reuben Bain. I think that he is somebody who
- 13:52Speaker 4: people have seen as a kind of a tone setter
- 13:56Speaker 4: in his style of play. And then we had the
- 13:59Speaker 4: big you know, little brew ha ha, where you know,
- 14:02Speaker 4: got reported that he had, you know, a pretty significant
- 14:06Speaker 4: off field thing a couple of years ago, and then
- 14:08Speaker 4: people the Draftnicks, Todd McShay and these kids are like, oh,
- 14:11Speaker 4: everybody knew about that.
- 14:12Speaker 2: You know, this is not a factor.
- 14:13Speaker 4: So I love. I don't love that somebody had a
- 14:15Speaker 4: terrible time right field, but I do like the all right,
- 14:19Speaker 4: let's just kind of see after the draft, there could
- 14:21Speaker 4: be some sort of you know, if he goes nineteenth
- 14:25Speaker 4: or something, right, then those people who brought up the
- 14:27Speaker 4: news thing, maybe they're vindicated some way. I think Dane
- 14:31Speaker 4: Bruger has him going ninth. I think he'll probably go
- 14:34Speaker 4: in the top ten. But I think that him and
- 14:36Speaker 4: then the edge rusher class in general, I think there's
- 14:40Speaker 4: a lot of those guys who've kind of been pushed
- 14:42Speaker 4: up there. And I've talked to some people with teams
- 14:43Speaker 4: like I don't know, but you got to pick somebody, right,
- 14:47Speaker 4: So how many where does he go? And how many
- 14:50Speaker 4: of those guys are in the top ten? Is is
- 14:54Speaker 4: something I'm watching.
- 14:55Speaker 2: And then something that is sort of draft related, but
- 14:59Speaker 2: more up your alli, AJ Brown Dexter Lawrence. Are they
- 15:04Speaker 2: going to get moved here before the draft or maybe
- 15:07Speaker 2: after the draft?
- 15:08Speaker 4: The AJ Brown one seems to make the most sense
- 15:10Speaker 4: after the draft for the accounting reasons, right, it's better
- 15:14Speaker 4: on your salary cap to wait until June before you
- 15:18Speaker 4: unload somebody that you're super invested in. And that would
- 15:21Speaker 4: be a J. Brown for the Eagles. And I do
- 15:23Speaker 4: think that they're going to move them. And they've made
- 15:24Speaker 4: some They've tipped their hand a little bit, right, They've
- 15:26Speaker 4: acquired like seventeen receivers in the last few weeks, right,
- 15:28Speaker 4: They've they've made a couple of trades. They've got more
- 15:30Speaker 4: than one receiver in there. And we'll see what they
- 15:33Speaker 4: do in the draft. But I do think that he
- 15:34Speaker 4: will move Dexter Lawrence. I'm not as sure on but man,
- 15:41Speaker 4: good player.
- 15:42Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, man, Well, happy Draftmas to you. Maybe
- 15:46Speaker 2: it's not for you the super Bowl, but nonetheless, I
- 15:50Speaker 2: know They're going to be a lot of intriguing storylines
- 15:53Speaker 2: that are going to be cooking next week. So we
- 15:55Speaker 2: had to have you on. We had to have a
- 15:57Speaker 2: conversation with you and had to issue a merry draftmas.
- 16:00Speaker 4: I love it. It's more like a divisional playoff game
- 16:02Speaker 4: for me.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Still big, still big, still big, still big.
- 16:04Speaker 4: Yeah, not quite the super Bowl, but yeah, yeah, absolutely,
- 16:07Speaker 4: I love it.
- 16:08Speaker 2: We'll see all right, Mike, thank you, We'll talk to
- 16:10Speaker 2: you soon. Okay, serious, Mike Sando joining us right here
- 16:13Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck, and of course you can follow
- 16:15Speaker 2: our NFL insider with the athletic at Sando NFL. He's
- 16:20Speaker 2: with us throughout the regular season and a must for
- 16:23Speaker 2: our Friends and Family segment Fridays right here during our
- 16:26Speaker 2: draft miss celebration. All right, Coming up next, we're going
- 16:29Speaker 2: to try to get four letters in the ABC's of
- 16:32Speaker 2: the MS, because I think all four of these things
- 16:34Speaker 2: have to be discussed. Sports Radio ninety three point three
- 16:37Speaker 2: KJRFM in the studio, he's going to make fun of
- 16:40Speaker 2: our picks, and then he's gonna pick two, So we'll
- 16:44Speaker 2: attempt at making fun of his picks, and then he'll
- 16:46Speaker 2: probably knock.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Us down a wrung or two ever fits hu joining,
- 16:49Speaker 3: I would assume, Yeah, I assume he's going to make
- 16:51Speaker 3: us feel like really big hockey idiots.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Yeah. Spencer was great, by the way, when we did
- 16:55Speaker 2: this with the NBA playoffs Wednesday, and so, Everett, you
- 16:58Speaker 2: got a lot to loo up here, buddy.
- 17:00Speaker 3: I think it'll be just as great and if not
- 17:02Speaker 3: more critical, because he even knows us better.
- 17:05Speaker 2: He knows this is a little bit better. He's not
- 17:07Speaker 2: afraid to tell me, like you, your skin care is rubbish. Right,
- 17:12Speaker 2: he's not afraid.
- 17:13Speaker 1: He's not afraid to use rubbish. That's for sure.
- 17:16Speaker 2: I can use it with you. You've got your mom's British.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I can understand what you're.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Saying, right, exactly, I speak your language. Let's get to
- 17:24Speaker 2: the ABC's of the MS, and I want to get
- 17:26Speaker 2: through four letters, only four different topics here, because the
- 17:29Speaker 2: alphabet's pumped out some pretty interesting subjects here regarding our
- 17:33Speaker 2: mariners here as of late, and M is for munos
- 17:36Speaker 2: andres munos. And iired a lot of different analysts yesterday
- 17:39Speaker 2: trying to figure out is there anything wrong with Andre's munos?
- 17:42Speaker 2: And it turns out all you had to do is
- 17:44Speaker 2: ask Andres Munos. I mean, he's so kind and he's
- 17:48Speaker 2: so honest. I mean he just basically spelled it out
- 17:50Speaker 2: for you. I don't have my slider feel, and that
- 17:54Speaker 2: is my best pitch, that's my most important pitch. There's
- 17:57Speaker 2: nothing wrong with his velo velocity. There's nothing physically wrong
- 18:00Speaker 2: with him. I actually thought his sinker looked fantastic the
- 18:03Speaker 2: other day. And if anything, I think he and Cal
- 18:06Speaker 2: are just so used to having him having a great
- 18:08Speaker 2: slider that they weren't calling the sinker enough in that
- 18:11Speaker 2: situation where he blew the game. He also said that
- 18:13Speaker 2: was the worst I've ever pitched, that I've never felt
- 18:17Speaker 2: that uncomfortable on the mound getting beaten up that much.
- 18:21Speaker 2: And he said I'm not pitching enough, which was very
- 18:25Speaker 2: loud and clear to me. He's not getting enough reps,
- 18:29Speaker 2: and I think that goes all the way back to
- 18:30Speaker 2: when he was on Team Mexico in the way that
- 18:32Speaker 2: they had to manage things there. Look, I don't think
- 18:37Speaker 2: there's anything wrong with Andre Smunos other than he's off
- 18:40Speaker 2: a little bit. I think that anybody that wants to
- 18:43Speaker 2: jump ship on this guy is crazy. He's been not
- 18:46Speaker 2: just a good reliever. He's been an elite reliever the
- 18:50Speaker 2: last couple of years, and he's never been south of
- 18:53Speaker 2: good his entire time in a Mariner uniform, except for
- 18:56Speaker 2: the year he missed with the injury. So I think
- 18:59Speaker 2: he's going to be fine, but he's telling you what
- 19:02Speaker 2: he needs. Number one, don't ever let anyone be in
- 19:05Speaker 2: the WBC ever again. Yes, I just heard enough to
- 19:10Speaker 2: say that everybody's out of their rhythm with the way
- 19:13Speaker 2: the pitchers throw today one hundred miles per hour. Hitters
- 19:16Speaker 2: need the routine that they have, and I think that
- 19:20Speaker 2: these modern day athletes walk such a fine line between
- 19:24Speaker 2: good and great or bad and good, that they need
- 19:28Speaker 2: their repetition. They need their routine, and we took it
- 19:32Speaker 2: away from all of our best players this spring. I
- 19:34Speaker 2: don't want to see another Mariner ever in the WBC.
- 19:38Speaker 2: And listen to your closer, Dan, he can't pitch every
- 19:42Speaker 2: six days and stay sharp, So I don't care if
- 19:46Speaker 2: you don't have situations that are perfectly tidy for a
- 19:49Speaker 2: safe situation. Up one in the ninth, Andre's Munnos needs
- 19:54Speaker 2: a little more work than what you're giving him. Get
- 19:57Speaker 2: the man some work. He's telling you publicly that he
- 20:00Speaker 2: needs it.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 20:01Speaker 3: I mean, if you can't listen to your own players
- 20:03Speaker 3: telling you straight out, flat out what they need, then
- 20:07Speaker 3: what that's part of your job as a manager. You
- 20:09Speaker 3: were supposed to be managing the people, managing the players.
- 20:11Speaker 3: He's saying it out loud.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Get him more work?
- 20:15Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 20:15Speaker 2: Uh? Nis for Naylor, he plays with intensity. I don't
- 20:20Speaker 2: know if intense guys for now that we're seeing him
- 20:25Speaker 2: over one hundred and sixty two games, maybe you can't.
- 20:29Speaker 2: I mean when he got here there was intensity, and
- 20:31Speaker 2: then he was in a playoff push, and then he
- 20:33Speaker 2: was in the playoffs. I kind of believed that that
- 20:37Speaker 2: guy was laser focused at all times. I'm not sure
- 20:40Speaker 2: he is anymore. And last night was a terrible play
- 20:44Speaker 2: by him. I mean, that is a routine play every
- 20:47Speaker 2: first baseman has to make. And it wasn't just that
- 20:50Speaker 2: he dropped it. It was the approach. It was letting
- 20:53Speaker 2: it go so far? What happened? Why not next to
- 20:56Speaker 2: him get to the bag and stretch out and go
- 20:59Speaker 2: get it, don't? Why are you letting it come to
- 21:01Speaker 2: you and then nonchalantly trying to field it off to
- 21:05Speaker 2: the side, and he took his eye off the ball
- 21:07Speaker 2: and that was a big error. That was a huge misstep.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Castillo needed everybody around him to be better so he
- 21:14Speaker 2: could get out of that inning, and instead Castillo makes
- 21:17Speaker 2: the good play, got charged with an error, initially made
- 21:21Speaker 2: the best throw that he could under the circumstances. And
- 21:24Speaker 2: Naylor a first baseman, Like, if it's some utility guy
- 21:28Speaker 2: that's not played a lot of first base, I forget
- 21:31Speaker 2: that play. That was one of those unforgivable plays right there.
- 21:35Speaker 2: You got to catch that baseball, and you got to
- 21:37Speaker 2: make it an easier catch for yourself than what you did.
- 21:40Speaker 2: So I'm putting a lot of that loss on Josh
- 21:42Speaker 2: Naylor last night.
- 21:43Speaker 3: And I think that he would be the first one
- 21:45Speaker 3: to say, wow, I was not. I mean because from
- 21:47Speaker 3: what we know of him, right, he is constantly thinking
- 21:50Speaker 3: about every aspect of the game. So there's no way
- 21:53Speaker 3: that he went into the clubhouse last night thinking, yeah,
- 21:56Speaker 3: I had a great game. Yeah, he's going to think
- 21:59Speaker 3: about that for sure. I could have improved it.
- 22:01Speaker 2: I don't think he carries it over. I think he's
- 22:03Speaker 2: one of those people I say, boy, I screwed that up.
- 22:06Speaker 2: I can't do that again. Yeah, And it's not going
- 22:08Speaker 2: to like bother him. No, I don't think he lost
- 22:11Speaker 2: sleep last night. But that was Josh Naylor. That was
- 22:15Speaker 2: a four run inning that should have been a two
- 22:18Speaker 2: run inning at most, and you fall down four runs
- 22:21Speaker 2: to this team with their bullpen, and odds are you're
- 22:23Speaker 2: not going to come back. Ohways for open minded and
- 22:27Speaker 2: I would just ask for as I get ready to
- 22:29Speaker 2: make this next statement, everybody to be a little open
- 22:31Speaker 2: minded on this. And I would really have to ask
- 22:33Speaker 2: Luis Castillo to be open minded on this. Nervous is
- 22:36Speaker 2: there a chance that Luis Castillo could be a great reliever?
- 22:42Speaker 2: Like if he got to just I'm going to come
- 22:45Speaker 2: in and throw my best, nastiest stuff for an inning,
- 22:49Speaker 2: Like could he be a back of the end bullpen guy.
- 22:52Speaker 2: I mean, we've had this conversation with Ryan Healey last week,
- 22:55Speaker 2: and we've had it a couple of times ourselves, trying
- 22:58Speaker 2: to figure out if you, you know, if you get
- 23:00Speaker 2: that six starter back in Bryce Miller, how are you
- 23:03Speaker 2: going to construct the five man rotation? Because I think
- 23:06Speaker 2: six man rotations out of the question for me, and
- 23:10Speaker 2: so I don't want to just send Emerson Hancock to
- 23:14Speaker 2: the bullpen or to Tacoma because the other five guys
- 23:18Speaker 2: have seniority over him. He might be pitching better than
- 23:23Speaker 2: any of them. He's certainly pitching better than Castillo. And
- 23:26Speaker 2: I'm watching Castillo and he's got all that run and
- 23:28Speaker 2: all that movement on his pitches, and he was getting
- 23:30Speaker 2: beat up because he was missing up last night and
- 23:34Speaker 2: then he did settle back in. But if Luis Castile
- 23:37Speaker 2: could just say I'm gonna throw as hard as I can,
- 23:39Speaker 2: with as much movement and run as I can, I
- 23:43Speaker 2: think maybe he could profile as a late inning reliever
- 23:48Speaker 2: for you. We see this happen to starters in the playoffs.
- 23:52Speaker 4: Is that?
- 23:52Speaker 2: I mean, are we open minded? Would he be open
- 23:54Speaker 2: minded to the thought of we're not just sticking you
- 23:58Speaker 2: into the bullpen to buy time, We're not going to
- 24:01Speaker 2: turn you into a long reliever. We think you might
- 24:05Speaker 2: be able to be a lights out, back of the end,
- 24:08Speaker 2: back of the bullpen kind of guy. Is that a possibility?
- 24:11Speaker 2: Am I crazy on this?
- 24:12Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't sound crazy to me.
- 24:13Speaker 3: And if you think, like, yeah, now he doesn't have
- 24:15Speaker 3: to try to maintain his arm and all of those
- 24:17Speaker 3: pitches for five or six or however many innings, is
- 24:20Speaker 3: he and just.
- 24:22Speaker 2: I think he could still be a closer, and I
- 24:25Speaker 2: would I mean, I'm not gonna make him one, no, but.
- 24:28Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind seeing him walking out of that bullpen
- 24:31Speaker 3: in the ninth inning with the fire and the you know,
- 24:35Speaker 3: flashing lights.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I feel like he'd be in
- 24:37Speaker 1: his element.
- 24:38Speaker 2: I don't think the heartbeat raises all that much when
- 24:40Speaker 2: he comes into games or in big situations. Maybe. I mean,
- 24:44Speaker 2: John Smoltz did it, and John Smoltz had a more
- 24:47Speaker 2: decorated starting pitching career than what Luis Castillo did. Trying
- 24:50Speaker 2: to figure out the use for him trying to keep
- 24:52Speaker 2: Hancock and Miller into the starting rotation, he obviously is
- 24:57Speaker 2: struggling more so than any starting pitcher so far. I
- 25:00Speaker 2: don't know. I'd just like to be open. I'd like
- 25:03Speaker 2: to have a conversation with it about it. Yeah, would
- 25:05Speaker 2: be good.
- 25:06Speaker 1: I'm open to that conversation for sure.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Finally, a PS for pinch hitter, uh Man. I could
- 25:11Speaker 2: hear Bucky Jacobson yelling into the mountains last night, Mitch
- 25:16Speaker 2: Garver might have had his biggest Garver moment of his
- 25:22Speaker 2: entire Mariner career, and considering all the evaluation. What is
- 25:27Speaker 2: Bucky said about Mitch Garver. I don't hate the guy.
- 25:30Speaker 2: I hate his approach. Yes, he's supposed to be a
- 25:33Speaker 2: designated hitter. It's a pinch hitter. It's not a designated walker.
- 25:37Speaker 2: It's not a pinch walker. And Bucky's frustration with Mitch
- 25:42Speaker 2: Garver is that he feels like every time he goes
- 25:44Speaker 2: to the plate he's looking to get walked rather than
- 25:47Speaker 2: to do damage. That's been Bucky's thing with Mitch Garver
- 25:51Speaker 2: now for a couple of years, two plus years. Last
- 25:56Speaker 2: night had to have put our friend Bucky Jacobson over
- 26:00Speaker 2: the edge because Mitch Garver literally tried to.
- 26:05Speaker 5: Walk before he had four balls last night, took off
- 26:08Speaker 5: his shint guard or whatever guard that was everything, and
- 26:12Speaker 5: then they're like, uh wait, everyone, even Aaron was like,
- 26:16Speaker 5: sometimes I wonder like did I get it wrong?
- 26:18Speaker 1: Because I keep my book and maybe I got it wrong.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Everybody was looking at him. Never before has Mitch Garver
- 26:24Speaker 2: made it more obvious to Bucky's point that he's up
- 26:28Speaker 2: there looking for a walk than the night he decided
- 26:32Speaker 2: I'm going to walk on three pitches and try to
- 26:34Speaker 2: get away with accurate three balls. I should say, because
- 26:37Speaker 2: it was a two two count. Yeah, and I think
- 26:40Speaker 2: there was a foul ball in there as well, So
- 26:42Speaker 2: he'd seen a lot of pitches yeah, and apparently had
- 26:45Speaker 2: lost track. But I could just feel Bucky fuming from
- 26:50Speaker 2: his couch in North Bend.
- 26:52Speaker 1: I'm sure he was just like, are you he? There
- 26:55Speaker 1: was definitely some swear words.
- 26:56Speaker 2: I had to bring that up to day.
- 27:00Speaker 1: I had forgotten about it till you brought it up,
- 27:01Speaker 1: So thank you.
- 27:02Speaker 2: All right, coming up next. It turned into a way
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- 28:33Speaker 2: into the weekend. Yes, we only do it on Fridays.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Now it's the Friday ocho. And I did not put
- 28:40Speaker 2: this in the top stories. I don't really want to
- 28:42Speaker 2: give this any more attention. This is one of the
- 28:44Speaker 2: this is one of the things I was struggling with
- 28:46Speaker 2: yesterday when the Angie story broke out from Barstool, and
- 28:50Speaker 2: I'm even struggling mentioning it today because there are a
- 28:52Speaker 2: lot of people like, what are you talking about? And
- 28:54Speaker 2: now you're going to go look it up.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Well, Barstool deleted it, by the way, I.
- 28:57Speaker 2: Know they deleted it, but just giving it. But it
- 29:00Speaker 2: even got another round of attention for that after. So,
- 29:05Speaker 2: I mean, if you didn't hear there was a photo
- 29:09Speaker 2: taken of Angie Mentink preparing for I mean it wasn't
- 29:15Speaker 2: even for an interview because they don't do post game
- 29:17Speaker 2: loss interviews.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it was her first game back.
- 29:21Speaker 2: And so she was on her phone and they caught
- 29:24Speaker 2: something on her phone. That's all I'm gonna say. Yeah, anyway,
- 29:27Speaker 2: it was clearly an invasion of privacy, and then Barstool,
- 29:30Speaker 2: which isn't a reputable source, decided to make it a
- 29:32Speaker 2: national story. And we've got right now this entire minefield
- 29:37Speaker 2: of people kind of attacking female sports journalists because of
- 29:42Speaker 2: the Diana Russini thing, and even though the two things
- 29:45Speaker 2: are apples and oranges, nevertheless it seems to be field
- 29:48Speaker 2: day against female sportscasters. And so Angie had a rough
- 29:54Speaker 2: day having to get kind of beaten up over this
- 29:56Speaker 2: story that popped up yesterday on barstool. So I anyone
- 30:00Speaker 2: really want to talk about it, because I don't want
- 30:01Speaker 2: to now light fire under Everybody who hasn't heard it
- 30:05Speaker 2: is going to now go look it up. But I
- 30:08Speaker 2: was struggling, Like I realized that people want to say
- 30:12Speaker 2: and defend Angie Mentink here in Seattle because they, you know,
- 30:16Speaker 2: like to love Angie Mentink, and there's a lot to
- 30:18Speaker 2: like to love about Angie Mentink. But on the other hand,
- 30:21Speaker 2: it just kept feeding the fire and that was making
- 30:24Speaker 2: me a little bit uncomfortable because barstool was getting exactly
- 30:29Speaker 2: what they wanted out of it. They got two to
- 30:31Speaker 2: three rounds of interest in a story that they should
- 30:36Speaker 2: have never run with.
- 30:37Speaker 3: Well it was, and it wasn't barstool who put it
- 30:39Speaker 3: up originally. So it had a million and a half
- 30:41Speaker 3: views from the original person.
- 30:43Speaker 2: But it would have never become big without Barstool.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was still pretty big.
- 30:47Speaker 3: It had Like for the one poster who is a
- 30:50Speaker 3: no name person who apparently invaded her privacy by taking
- 30:54Speaker 3: the screenshot, he got over a million and a half
- 30:57Speaker 3: viewsed just by himself before Barstool even got a whole
- 31:00Speaker 3: of it, so that's kind of how they found it.
- 31:03Speaker 3: I didn't have as much of a problem as all
- 31:07Speaker 3: the people who were talking about her using AI because
- 31:11Speaker 3: this is a that is kind of the way that
- 31:13Speaker 3: this world is going. And she went out and said, hey, yeah,
- 31:16Speaker 3: I experimented with it to see if it had any
- 31:18Speaker 3: questions to add to my list. It wasn't something that
- 31:20Speaker 3: she was using that day. It wasn't even taken the
- 31:22Speaker 3: day that the person posted it after the Mariner's loss
- 31:25Speaker 3: to the Padres blowing the ninth inning lead, which is
- 31:28Speaker 3: what he made it seem like like she wouldn't be
- 31:30Speaker 3: able to do.
- 31:31Speaker 1: A postgame interview after that, and it was.
- 31:34Speaker 3: But the thing that baffled me is that people were
- 31:37Speaker 3: defending or justifying that, Well, she's a public person in
- 31:42Speaker 3: a public space. So because of that, because she's a
- 31:46Speaker 3: person that you are all familiar with who's at a
- 31:49Speaker 3: baseball game working. By the way, she wasn't there watching
- 31:53Speaker 3: the game. She's working. It's okay that some ass hat
- 31:57Speaker 3: decides to take a screenshot of her phone and post
- 32:00Speaker 3: it to try and make her look bad, even if
- 32:03Speaker 3: he's not posting it to make her look bad. That's
- 32:05Speaker 3: not your business. That is her phone. If you are
- 32:07Speaker 3: in public, you are still entitled to some privacy. It
- 32:10Speaker 3: does not mean that strangers should be able to take
- 32:13Speaker 3: pictures of your phone and post it everywhere, whether you're
- 32:16Speaker 3: known or not.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree on thousand percent invasion of privacy
- 32:20Speaker 2: on top of it. And then it ends up they
- 32:23Speaker 2: got another round of attention because the stroke story was told,
- 32:26Speaker 2: and then barstools, well, we're going to take it off
- 32:29Speaker 2: because we did not know that. And here, what we
- 32:32Speaker 2: know about Angie is that she never really wanted people
- 32:35Speaker 2: to know about that to begin with. And now everybody
- 32:39Speaker 2: knows it. Yeah, now now it's out everywhere out there,
- 32:42Speaker 2: and she just unfortunately was the victim of some horrible
- 32:47Speaker 2: day that never should have existed. And then last night,
- 32:51Speaker 2: like a pro, she went out there and did the
- 32:53Speaker 2: game flawlessly.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Yes she did.
- 32:55Speaker 2: And I'm not saying she didn't have flaws. I'm saying
- 32:57Speaker 2: that she never at any moment the game would you
- 33:01Speaker 2: have thought she had a bad day trying to defend herself, right.
- 33:03Speaker 3: And this is the thing with anyone in the public forum,
- 33:06Speaker 3: right on radio, on TV, whatever, yes, you can absolutely
- 33:09Speaker 3: be critical of a person in the way that they
- 33:13Speaker 3: do their job if you don't like it, if you
- 33:14Speaker 3: have issues with it, that is one thing. But to
- 33:17Speaker 3: try and publicly mock somebody for something that is a
- 33:22Speaker 3: private thing. And she said, I'm just always learning. I
- 33:25Speaker 3: put it in AI to see if it could help
- 33:27Speaker 3: me come up with some more questions. Okay, well, why
- 33:30Speaker 3: do we have a problem with that. People use AI
- 33:31Speaker 3: in their jobs all the time, now you're supposed to.
- 33:33Speaker 2: That's just the social media is just a vicious entity,
- 33:37Speaker 2: and I, you know, I don't like it.
- 33:39Speaker 3: We had AI shoved down her throat to write an
- 33:40Speaker 3: email and like, no, I think I can write my
- 33:42Speaker 3: own damn email.
- 33:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish we didn't use it because it just
- 33:46Speaker 2: fosters this sort of stuff and it just keeps getting
- 33:48Speaker 2: uglier and nastier. It's not getting better. No O Cho's next,
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