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Chuck & Buck 4-1 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABCs of the Mariners and Reckless at Breakfast! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Oiler's clear, McDavid the red line after that, scouts god
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Speaker 1: a mc david three and nothing Edmonton, they'll seal it.
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Speaker 1: That didn't sound like edd was too Eddy.
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Speaker 1: the chin again last night, three to nothing the final score.
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Speaker 1: That's now what five of six games that they have
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Speaker 1: lost at this critical juncture of the season. They now
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Speaker 1: have just nine games remaining. They have ground own to
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Speaker 1: gain on on those in front of them to try
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Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. Everett himself told us on
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Speaker 1: yesterday's program he thinks they need to win seven of
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Speaker 1: their final ten games. Well, they just kicked one last night.
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Speaker 1: So that now I can do the math on that
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Speaker 1: Ashley seven of nine and we'd feel comfortable about them
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Speaker 1: making it into the playoffs. But man, they just do
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Speaker 1: not look capable of playing seven to eighty hockey right now.
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Speaker 3: No, and especially last night. I know we always have
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Speaker 3: a problem with Edmonton, but I don't know. I expected
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Speaker 3: a better fight.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Connor McDavid had a goal last night at
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Speaker 1: the point though. It's true, but I pointed this stat
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Speaker 1: out yesterday. Our point leader on our team has fifty
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Speaker 1: one points. Yeah, he has one hundred and twenty six.
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Speaker 2: That's different.
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Speaker 1: That is different. I realize they're hard to get and
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Speaker 1: hard to find and even harder to get. Connor McDavid's
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Speaker 1: of the world. Why we could use one? Yeah, could
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Speaker 1: use one right about now?
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Speaker 2: Could we ask father Draftmas for one?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe maybe we can. Maybe we'll have John. Maybe
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Speaker 1: John's feeling so good about the Seahawks that he just
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Speaker 1: uses a second round pick on a winger.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that'd be really nice. Tis the season forgiving, John.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at your rest of your frost
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Speaker 1: brewed cors like choos chill headlines. Of course, it is Draftmas.
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Speaker 1: That's the number one headline in the entire world. We
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Speaker 1: start our April coverage of the NFL Draft today, as
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Speaker 1: only we do. Draftmaus catalog coming up Stocking Stuffers, plus
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Speaker 1: a conversation with Greg Bell in about I don't know
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Speaker 1: ninety seconds from this very moment, but elsewhere in the
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Speaker 1: sports world. Mariners fell to the Yankees last night five
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Speaker 1: to nothing. Just was one of those games that never
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Speaker 1: really felt like they were gonna win. Logan Gilbert versus
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Speaker 1: Max Freed was a great matchup on paper. Logan wasn't
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Speaker 1: all that sharp. Max Freed was com completely sharp last
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Speaker 1: night and ends up defeating the Mariners five to nothing.
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Speaker 1: And so you will play the rubber match today at
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Speaker 1: one o'clock at Team Mobile. That the roof will be
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Speaker 1: closed as it feels very rainy and gross here in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: George Kirby versus Cam Schlittler is your pitching matchup between long,
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Speaker 1: lanky right handers. And so that's what's going to go
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Speaker 1: down today. Hopefully the three and three Mariners get the
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Speaker 1: win take their first series of the season. Colt Emerson
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Speaker 1: deal was the big story major League Baseball yesterday. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk more about it yesterday, but an eight year, ninety
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Speaker 1: five million dollar contract for someone who has never seen
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Speaker 1: a major league pitch at that level, and yet the
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Speaker 1: Mariners felt he was well worth the investment. We will
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Speaker 1: that's enough. Let's talk some draftness with Greg Bell.
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Speaker 4: With the bell tolls.
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Speaker 5: and Bud.
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Speaker 1: Where are the bells? For second? There I thought Ashley
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Speaker 1: might forget. She didn't.
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Speaker 3: Never.
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Speaker 1: Happy Draft miss World. Joining us now on the radio
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Speaker 1: program is our Seahawks insider. He's fantastic at what he does,
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Speaker 1: and lately we haven't talked to him as much as
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Speaker 1: we normally do, so we're bugging him today. He's going
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Speaker 1: to help us kick off day number one of Draft miss.
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Speaker 1: It is from the Tacoma News Tribune Greg Bell, Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 4: Sorry you haven't talked to me, but I've been like
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Speaker 4: only five days since Ashley and I have exactly been
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Speaker 4: an exile.
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Speaker 1: I see You've been insider ring behind my back. I
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Speaker 1: see see what's going on here.
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Speaker 2: We've been sneaking around.
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Speaker 1: Fooling around, all right, I get it. Well, Happy Draft
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Speaker 1: miss to you. Are you ready for this stretch drive
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Speaker 1: toward April twenty third and the spectacle that has become
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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft?
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Speaker 4: Mister Bell, Nah, I cover a super Bowl team and
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Speaker 4: they were busy doing a lot of other things until
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Speaker 4: the middle of February. So I'm like John Schneider, who's
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Speaker 4: told us at the COMBA, and I'm catching up on
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Speaker 4: this draft if I haven't been really paying attention to it.
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Speaker 4: He though, has staff who does it all year round,
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Speaker 4: and they do it independently of the season. They're college
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Speaker 4: and pro scouting, mostly college scouting staff across the country
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Speaker 4: watching college games throughout the season. The players they have
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Speaker 4: on their draft board they have looked at for multiple seasons.
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Speaker 4: It's not like they just popped on last fall. So
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Speaker 4: they are well versed. Even when the team goes all
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Speaker 4: the way through the Super Bowl, they're well versed. Like
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Speaker 4: every year about the draft, of course we talked about it, Chuck.
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Speaker 4: The difference in this draft only four picks, and it
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Speaker 4: would be the second fewest of the Snider regime if
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Speaker 4: they stay with this. It reminds me a lot of
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Speaker 4: the COVID year that they punted that draft, and Snyder
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Speaker 4: said at the combine that they viewed this assess this
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Speaker 4: year or two ago as a weaker draft, weaker than
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Speaker 4: last year, weaker than next year. So they made moves accordingly,
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Speaker 4: including trading two third day picks to get Rashid Shied.
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Speaker 4: And even though they only have four draft picks this month,
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Speaker 4: every Seahawks in and outside the building would take that
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Speaker 4: trade of Shaheed for two first round picks their third
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Speaker 4: day pick. Excuse me for how that worked out for
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks last season.
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Speaker 1: All right, so how do you think that you will
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Speaker 1: handle it? Because usually this time of the year, the
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Speaker 1: expectation and is, yeah, he's got four right now, but
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Speaker 1: let him work the draft process. He'll end up with
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Speaker 1: eight before the draft comes to a close. But if
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Speaker 1: this is such a down draft and keeping that d
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Speaker 1: Eskridge draft in mind, do you think maybe that he
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Speaker 1: will trade into next year or maybe package what he
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Speaker 1: does have together to get up in the first round
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Speaker 1: to try to get something that he likes out of
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Speaker 1: this draft. What do you think the plan would be
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Speaker 1: for a guy that normally can turn four draft picks
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Speaker 1: into eight overnight.
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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I was not going to bring
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Speaker 4: up d escorage name. I was. I was trying to
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Speaker 4: avoid that through the I didn't want anyone getting punk
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Speaker 4: in their horns in traffic.
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Speaker 1: Well that's what I remember that draft as that was the.
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Speaker 4: You and everybody else. I won't mention Creed Humphrey's name either.
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Speaker 4: I think he's going to turn four into five or six.
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Speaker 4: I think he's going to trade down from thirty two.
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Speaker 4: I know, I don't think. I know they don't have
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Speaker 4: have thirty two first round talent on their board. They
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Speaker 4: think they every single year they have twenty some players
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Speaker 4: that they give first round grades to. And we've talked
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Speaker 4: before the philosophy wide draft first round. In the first round,
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Speaker 4: take a player in the first round who had guaranteed
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Speaker 4: slotted first round salary with a fift year option. If
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Speaker 4: they don't see him as a first round talent and
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Speaker 4: where they're picking, they won't. They won't have thirty two
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Speaker 4: players in their board and they're picking at thirty two.
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Speaker 4: So having said that, it really is right for them
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Speaker 4: to trade down. And teams, usually poor teams that had
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Speaker 4: a tick at the top of the first round, get
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Speaker 4: nervous about a player they think someone else is going
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Speaker 4: to take ahead of them at the top of the
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Speaker 4: second round and then try to leap frog up into
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Speaker 4: the bottom of a round one. And I think that's
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Speaker 4: who they're going to target. We've talked about this before.
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Speaker 4: They are very good. They have been really good under
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Speaker 4: John Schneider in the connections he's made and his scouts
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Speaker 4: have made around the league. They have been very good
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Speaker 4: at forecasting what the other team's needs and moves will
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Speaker 4: be during the draft, and their board on the rest
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Speaker 4: of the league has really guided them to make some
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Speaker 4: shrewd moves, including trades down to get more picks, because
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Speaker 4: they really have buy and large over sixteen years, nailed
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Speaker 4: what everybody else is going to do in the draft.
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Speaker 4: So if they've been as good as they've been in
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Speaker 4: the past that projecting what other teams need and will
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Speaker 4: jump up to get, they'll identify quickly which teams they're
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Speaker 4: going to call to ask about trading down from thirty two.
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Speaker 4: The question will be, of course, will the player they
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Speaker 4: still would have taken it thirty two be available down
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Speaker 4: to the top of the second round that they trade
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Speaker 4: down to. And there is a lot of smoke around
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Speaker 4: a running back, specifictly a Notre Dame running back Jadarian Price.
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Speaker 4: A lot of people have him rated as the fortieth
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Speaker 4: so overall pick or talent in this draft. That doesn't
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Speaker 4: mean he'll go forty some because of needs and teams
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Speaker 4: that will. You don't we all know the draft doesn't
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Speaker 4: go down a list from one to forty or fifty
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Speaker 4: or sixty of players taking how they're ranked. It depends
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Speaker 4: on what the needs are and where you draft a player,
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Speaker 4: and a quarterback, especially who might only be the fifteenth
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Speaker 4: or twentieth overall ranking. We'll get in the top three
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Speaker 4: or four because of the position. Having said all that,
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Speaker 4: a guy like Price could potentially go to the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: at top A round two, and if so, that's what
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks would make that type of life. So that's
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Speaker 4: the calculation they're doing. How far down can we move
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Speaker 4: and still get the needs that we need. They need
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Speaker 4: a running back. I think they're going to sign a
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Speaker 4: veteran running back. They had Nagie Harrison for a free
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Speaker 4: agent Visitor's still in the middle of an achilles recovery.
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Speaker 4: He tore his achilles at the Chargers in September, so
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Speaker 4: that would be more of a longer term potential signing
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Speaker 4: in the summer, I would think. In the meantime, I
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Speaker 4: think they're going to draft a running back. They have
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Speaker 4: a history of drafting running backs in the later rounds.
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Speaker 4: We've talked about that. Chris Carson round seven, undrafted, Thomas Rawls,
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Speaker 4: second round picks Kenneth Walker, Zach charbone Be a departure
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Speaker 4: also drafted running back in the first round, which the
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Speaker 4: precedent says they'll draft one and the second and trade
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Speaker 4: down to one.
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Speaker 1: Greg Beller's with us our Seahawks Insider on the first
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Speaker 1: day of our draft miss coverage Our Seahawks Insider part
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Speaker 1: of our celebration here today. You can follow him at
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Speaker 1: Thenewstribune dot com and of course at g bell Seattle
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Speaker 1: on X. Something that John Schneider has built a reputation
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Speaker 1: for is doppel ganging some picks. I mean, he's always
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Speaker 1: taking body types. He and Pete Carroll were always trying
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Speaker 1: to find the same body type of a guy that
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Speaker 1: was successful for them in the past. See Jordan Brooks
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be the next Bobby Wagner. You know,
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Speaker 1: they always were trying to find that long cornerback with
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Speaker 1: arms at a certain length. I mean, I think they
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Speaker 1: spent like six draft picks trying to find the next
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Speaker 1: Michael Bennett and never did find the next Michael Bennett.
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Speaker 1: So I would ask, do you think Mike McDonald, now
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Speaker 1: that he's the head coach, do they still does John
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Speaker 1: still approach it that way? And if so, are they
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Speaker 1: actively trying to find someone that looked like Ken Walker,
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Speaker 1: the somebody that has those kind of characteristics versus one
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Speaker 1: that might have the Zach Sharbonay characteristics of running of football.
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Speaker 4: Not as much. And that's one of the big ways
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Speaker 4: that I think they've changed under Mike McDonald and his
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Speaker 4: player what the players he wants. Yes, you're right, he
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Speaker 4: used to be thirty two inch arms. He did not
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Speaker 4: draft a corner from twenty ten to into the twenties
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Speaker 4: that didn't have thirty two inch arms. Mike McDonald's not
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Speaker 4: that way. He's more into position versatility and not so
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Speaker 4: much body type as Can this guy play safety and corner?
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Speaker 4: Can he play inside and outside ibecker and he played
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Speaker 4: weakside and middle? Can he play Russian and also hybrid
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Speaker 4: tackle like Leonard Williams does? Can he play nose tackle
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Speaker 4: and a three or five technique outside the shoulder of
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Speaker 4: the of the guard tackle like Byron Murphy does. That's
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Speaker 4: what he's attracted to because then he can move him
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Speaker 4: like chess pieces all around and trick his offense, trick
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Speaker 4: the offense he's facing right at the snap of the
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Speaker 4: ball by moving dudes around. Nick even Worry is the,
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Speaker 4: of course, epitome of that. Nick even Worry is not
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Speaker 4: a prototypical size linebacker, which he played more than safety
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Speaker 4: last year, even though he was drafted and is listed
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Speaker 4: as a safety. He's a six three to two twenty
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Speaker 4: pounds strong SAM linebacker, so he is more interested in
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Speaker 4: position versatility than body type. Now having said that, he's
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Speaker 4: still if you're going to be a run stopper, you
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Speaker 4: need to be of a certain size, but you need
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Speaker 4: to have the speed and versatility. And that seems to
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Speaker 4: be how the scouting side of John Schneider and the
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Speaker 4: draft side of the house and the Sea Arks headquarters
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Speaker 4: has changed. It took him a year or two obviously
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Speaker 4: to figure that out right, because they got McDonald didn't.
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Speaker 4: Even that first draft we talked about this. The scouting
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Speaker 4: staff was basically going off how they'd done it all
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Speaker 4: the years under Schnyder and how they that didn't fit
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Speaker 4: exactly how McDonald did it compared to Carol In the
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Speaker 4: first draft, he was McDonald was not nearly as intimately
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Speaker 4: evolved as he was in last year's draft. That first draft,
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Speaker 4: he was still highing coaches, still Peyton Wall, still moving
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Speaker 4: in his office, still putting up training plans and figuring
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Speaker 4: out how he was going to practice these guys. And
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Speaker 4: he left it to Snyder in his pro college scouts
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Speaker 4: to draft the first draft. The second draft last year
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Speaker 4: was far more to his player style, which is why
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Speaker 4: even worry they traded up seventeen spots to get him,
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Speaker 4: and that draft already Gray is able and then that
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Speaker 4: Tory Horton before he got hurt. That draft it had
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Speaker 4: Mike McCall's fingerprints all over and it was a smashing success.
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Speaker 4: So they have much better synergy between the scouting side
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Speaker 4: and the coaching side on the type of player they
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Speaker 4: want than they did when McDonald got her two years ago,
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Speaker 4: and they should. That's the product of a experience, and
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Speaker 4: I think versatility. I think multiplicity positions, especially on defense,
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Speaker 4: is where they'll go with what three of the four
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Speaker 4: draft picks.
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Speaker 1: All right, So, yes, we got a lot of draft
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Speaker 1: to talk about during the course of April, but it's
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Speaker 1: not all that's going on with the Seahawks. Tell me, honestly,
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Speaker 1: what was the reaction from the figureheads over there to
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Speaker 1: being named a hard knocks I gotta believe they don't
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Speaker 1: like it.
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Speaker 4: No, they've been trying to avoid it. They don't want
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Speaker 4: to do it. They would rather nobody know how they
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Speaker 4: do what they do, and the NFL forced this upon him,
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Speaker 4: is what I understand. They're going back to the NFL is.
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Speaker 4: It's been for a while that the league had a
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Speaker 4: rule that if you didn't make the playoffs the year before,
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Speaker 4: you were eligible to post hard knocks. They got rid
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Speaker 4: of that rule a couple of years ago. They're going
15:57
Speaker 4: back to how it started. In two thousand and one
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Speaker 4: was the first films HBO Hard Knocks series, and it
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Speaker 4: was with the Baltimore Ravens coming off of a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: They wanted a big splash for the first season of
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Speaker 4: a high profile team and they took the Super Bowl
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Speaker 4: champion Ravens. Now twenty five years later, they're doing the
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Speaker 4: same thing, and so it's opposite of what it had
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Speaker 4: been for nearly two decades. And largely the Seahawks go
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Speaker 4: avoided that hard Knocks for all those years because they
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Speaker 4: had made the playoffs the years before. Remember nine of
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Speaker 4: twelve or ten or thirteen years under Carroll, they'd made
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Speaker 4: the playoffs. So that's how they got out of it.
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Speaker 4: But now that they've changed, the league has changed that rule. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: they didn't exactly jump up and down on Park Avenue
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Speaker 4: in New York and say please pick us. They don't
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Speaker 4: want the rest of the league to know how they
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Speaker 4: do what they do, and it'll be a lot of
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Speaker 4: ying and yang. I would think on the Seahawks say no, no, no,
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Speaker 4: we're not going to film this in the NFL, and
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Speaker 4: the NFL films say we want to show this, we
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Speaker 4: want to show this. But no doubt it's even still
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Speaker 4: it's going to be the most open public training camp
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Speaker 4: for us as beat writers. It's going to be us
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Speaker 4: having to come home and watch what we'd already watched
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Speaker 4: in person to see if they're revealing things behind and
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Speaker 4: they're usually closed doors. That is news and that's usually
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Speaker 4: what happens in this stuff. Not John Schneider, Mike McDonald's
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Speaker 4: first preference.
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Speaker 1: Nope, you play your cards right, you get on camera.
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Speaker 1: Next thing you know, you got yourself an HBO special,
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Speaker 1: the Greg Bell Special. So I want you to be
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Speaker 1: at your best this training camp.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, filmar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 4: Last week tonight John Oliver and Greg Bell. It's the
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Speaker 4: training camp. I'm sure this.
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Speaker 1: Last week tonight with Greg Bell. Yeah. I like that,
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Speaker 1: you know, but you gotta be charming. You better be charming,
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Speaker 1: extra charming this year at training camp. If you're going
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Speaker 1: to catch the eye of an HBO scouting.
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Speaker 4: Talent, I have to dress up. I have to make
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Speaker 4: sure I look the part. Yeah right, I'll just take
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Speaker 4: incidental screenshots. That'll be fine with that. Yeah, it'll be different. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I have a feeling the players might like it, especially
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Speaker 4: the veteran players will get a kick out of it.
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Speaker 4: The veteran players are probably going to get a kick
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Speaker 4: out of how much Mike McDonald doesn't like it and
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Speaker 4: how much he's probably going to be grinding through his
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Speaker 4: teeth during most of the practices and meetings that there
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Speaker 4: are cameras around. It's could be different. Yeah, they do
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Speaker 4: it a different way, even when they McDonald with the music.
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Speaker 4: Everyone does music now, Pete Carroll brought that in the league,
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Speaker 4: but the music, there's a jovial tea. It's just different.
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Speaker 4: I can't explain. I've done training camps with other teams,
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Speaker 4: and it's just there's a different, homegrown, our way, individual
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Speaker 4: vibe the way the Seahawks do it. And now the
18:43
Speaker 4: whole league, the whole country is going to get to
18:45
Speaker 4: see that.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks man, we appreciate it. Yeah, we'll
18:48
Speaker 1: be talking to you a lot throw over the course
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Speaker 1: of the next couple weeks. So we look forward to
18:54
Speaker 1: our conversations, and we appreciate you joining us here today.
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Speaker 4: You're welcome, enjoyed the month. I know it's a big time,
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Speaker 4: big deal.
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Speaker 1: Big deal around here, big deal. All right. There, He
19:04
Speaker 1: is Greg Bell, our Seahawks Insider, a segment brought to
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Speaker 1: Greg's gonna be on with us every Wednesday at seven
19:20
Speaker 1: oh five. That's his designated time for Draftmas. But I'm
19:24
Speaker 1: sure we'll hear from him a lot more than that
19:27
Speaker 1: over the course of the next three weeks or so,
19:30
Speaker 1: because he is a bit of an important element of
19:33
Speaker 1: our football coverage right here on KJR. And it just
19:37
Speaker 1: dawned on me and talking to him about HBO Hard Knocks. Yeah,
19:41
Speaker 1: don't think for a second I'm not bringing my TV scripts.
19:44
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to get a pilot shot while
19:47
Speaker 1: i'm there. Yeah, yeah, obviously, don't think I'm not going
19:50
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the opportunity.
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Speaker 3: Gay thinking, Well, you guys already broadcast from out there,
19:54
Speaker 3: so you'll probably, like at least be featured on two
19:59
Speaker 3: episodes as the focal point.
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Speaker 2: I would assume there a whole week.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it might feel strange for me to bring
20:06
Speaker 1: some you know, nine x twelve, some glossy photos of myself.
20:09
Speaker 2: It's weird.
20:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also a couple of scripts that I've been
20:12
Speaker 1: working on. But I'm gonna do it. I don't even
20:14
Speaker 1: know if the right people will be there, but they
20:16
Speaker 1: know the right people I'm sure will be there. Yeah. Well, yeah,
20:20
Speaker 1: he knows the right people. I'll just you know, stuff
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Speaker 1: a script in his back pocket, you know, with my
20:25
Speaker 1: photo at staple.
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Speaker 2: Or just drop it.
20:27
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh man, what is that?
20:29
Speaker 4: I'm like?
20:30
Speaker 2: Oh no, all thousand pages of my script are.
20:32
Speaker 1: All over like an award winning television show, just kind
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Speaker 1: of fell out of my pocket.
20:36
Speaker 2: Man, can you help me pick this up?
20:39
Speaker 1: It's funny how life works, but that's usually where you
20:42
Speaker 1: find greatness. Leave by happenstance. Yeah, a training camp, bye,
20:48
Speaker 1: carefully choreographed happens dance boy.
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Speaker 2: I sure didn't know you guys were going to be
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Speaker 2: out here.
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Speaker 1: ABC cdm's next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
20:57
Speaker 1: What great perks of draftness.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise, what are we doing just sitting there counting down
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Speaker 2: to the draft?
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Speaker 1: Right? Hell no, Yeah, that's why it's better than the
21:04
Speaker 1: super Bowl unless your team's in it. Yeah, because there's
21:10
Speaker 1: never a moment leading up to the super Bowl. We
21:13
Speaker 1: can go watch baseball.
21:14
Speaker 2: Well that's true. Okay, I'll give you that. I'll give
21:16
Speaker 2: you that.
21:16
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, think about this stuff. People get
21:19
Speaker 1: on the get on the right. You're just not thinking
21:21
Speaker 1: straight clearly. Yeah, that's one of the beautiful, amazing things
21:25
Speaker 1: about this Draftmas holiday, as we've got baseball to watch
21:29
Speaker 1: while we're getting ready for Draftmas. Yep, that did not
21:35
Speaker 1: sound as convinsing. No, you nailed it as I hoped
21:38
Speaker 1: it would. Our spot on interesting usually BUCkies the naysayer.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I love draft MEAs idees. Maybe I
21:47
Speaker 3: take it said might have been incorrect.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well I guess uh, I guess I'll have
21:54
Speaker 1: to live with that. All right, let's get to the
21:56
Speaker 1: abcs of the MS. It's our daily Mariners segment we use.
21:59
Speaker 1: The Alpha is our guide through three four different topics
22:03
Speaker 1: about the Mariners and maybe the ones that aren't the headlines.
22:05
Speaker 1: But man, when the alphabet lefts leaves off of the
22:08
Speaker 1: letter G. And then we watched the game that we
22:10
Speaker 1: watched last night of five nothing shellacking at the hands
22:13
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees. It's hard for G not
22:15
Speaker 1: to stand for Gilbert Logan. Gilbert has had two starts
22:19
Speaker 1: so far this year. He's certainly not as sharp as
22:21
Speaker 1: we've seen Logan in the past. As a matter of fact,
22:25
Speaker 1: eight runs in his two starts, those are all earned
22:29
Speaker 1: in his two starts. Meanwhile, the other four starters in
22:32
Speaker 1: four starts three runs. So obviously, you know, you got
22:37
Speaker 1: five starters, all of them have been sharp so far,
22:41
Speaker 1: and Logan's the one that hasn't been Logan Like, I'm
22:44
Speaker 1: not worried about this whatsoever, but it's a little interesting that,
22:49
Speaker 1: you know, if you're picking, if you truly are just
22:51
Speaker 1: like picking out of a hat, who's going to be
22:53
Speaker 1: your opening day starter. That we're six games into the
22:57
Speaker 1: season and he looks like the one that isn't quite
23:00
Speaker 1: where he needs to be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you would if you were to evaluate all of
23:04
Speaker 3: their performances and then say, okay, now pick your opening
23:07
Speaker 3: day starter.
23:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, Emerson Hancock, Yes would be the opens.
23:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, So he's pretty tall too, though, I'll give
23:14
Speaker 3: him that.
23:14
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true. That's true. Maybe pet should have
23:17
Speaker 1: had them stand back to back.
23:18
Speaker 2: Maybe he just eyeballed it.
23:20
Speaker 1: Mm and maybe you picked the wrong way. Maybe you
23:23
Speaker 1: should have done. Who's got the best drawl?
23:27
Speaker 2: Oh, Emerson?
23:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, Emerson would have won for sure. I mean, Gilbert's
23:31
Speaker 1: a Floridian. They don't have as good a drawl as Georgians.
23:35
Speaker 2: No they don't.
23:37
Speaker 1: So yes, I mean, I'm not worried about him at all.
23:41
Speaker 1: I mean, of all the things that we could worry
23:42
Speaker 1: about about the Mariners, put that near the bottom of
23:46
Speaker 1: the list, which leads us to h. H is for
23:49
Speaker 1: heart of the Order. Again, nothing that I'm worried about.
23:52
Speaker 1: Six games into the season. There's enough large sample size
23:56
Speaker 1: that Cal Rawley, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh Naylor are all
24:00
Speaker 1: going to be terrific this year. They're in the prime
24:04
Speaker 1: of their careers, they're all coming off a very good
24:06
Speaker 1: to great years, to phenomen to historical years, and yet
24:10
Speaker 1: they are off to rough starts. There's no question about it. Cal'
24:13
Speaker 1: itting one forty three, Julio's hitting one ninety one, and
24:17
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, oh ninety one and Josh Naylor just got
24:20
Speaker 1: his first hit last night, a measly single, but at
24:23
Speaker 1: least he got a hit, and he's hitting oh forty three.
24:25
Speaker 1: Certainly nothing that you want or expect, even six games,
24:30
Speaker 1: even in a short sample, even six games into the season.
24:33
Speaker 1: You want to see your best hitters come out of
24:35
Speaker 1: the gates roaring. We talked about Julio and how important
24:38
Speaker 1: it is for him because this is typically not where
24:41
Speaker 1: he shines, but for all three of them, Ashley to
24:44
Speaker 1: be stumbling out of the gates and Cal just looks
24:46
Speaker 1: completely broken at the plate right now. He certainly does
24:50
Speaker 1: not look locked in, he doesn't look comfortable. And so
24:54
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna look at this as an
24:57
Speaker 1: encouraging sign that some other guy have stepped up. Cole
25:01
Speaker 1: Young looks like the real deal, Brendan Donovan looks like
25:03
Speaker 1: a really great signing. Luke Rayley might be back. I'm
25:07
Speaker 1: going to kind of focus on that and then just
25:09
Speaker 1: trust that these three are going to be all star
25:13
Speaker 1: like and short order, right.
25:16
Speaker 3: And that's the thing is I yes, you say this
25:18
Speaker 3: is a small sample size versus what we know about
25:20
Speaker 3: them and how successful they can be, but.
25:22
Speaker 2: It is a you are watching every game going.
25:26
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're doing this again, okay, and then the
25:29
Speaker 3: next game okay, all right. You know, and Cal had
25:31
Speaker 3: his moment on Monday night. We kind of thought, all right,
25:35
Speaker 3: maybe that was what he needed, and it wasn't what
25:37
Speaker 3: he needed. And so you're seeing these little glimpses.
25:40
Speaker 2: But none of them are putting it together.
25:42
Speaker 3: So I just yes, I appreciate that other people are
25:45
Speaker 3: taking care of business, but on a game like last night,
25:48
Speaker 3: where nobody can get past Max Freed, it's extra frustrating
25:52
Speaker 3: when your big three can't do anything.
25:54
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, as I said yesterday, we are in essence
25:57
Speaker 1: in the third quarter of the first football game of
26:00
Speaker 1: the year, doing baseball to football math. That's where we
26:04
Speaker 1: are on the timeline. And nobody should be worried if
26:09
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold in Game one on Wednesday in the third
26:13
Speaker 1: quarter has no touchdowns in one interception, right, nobody should
26:19
Speaker 1: be worried. And yet it will stand out. It will
26:22
Speaker 1: be brought up like Seahawks are trailing right now and
26:25
Speaker 1: their quarterback needs do play better, and that's kind of
26:28
Speaker 1: where That's where we are in the conversation. The Mariners
26:32
Speaker 1: are after a three and three start, but our three
26:34
Speaker 1: best hitters are obviously all ice cold to start the season,
26:38
Speaker 1: and we anticipate the fall. We just hope it happens
26:42
Speaker 1: sooner than later, because, let's face it, we tune in
26:44
Speaker 1: to see those guys rake.
26:46
Speaker 3: Right well and on a night like we're Logan struggling,
26:48
Speaker 3: you know, we need some offense and we're hoping that
26:50
Speaker 3: those guys are going to generate it.
26:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know when those slumps are gonna come.
26:53
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want them to be to start
26:55
Speaker 1: the year, but you're going to have them, and you
26:58
Speaker 1: just you don't want to be at the beginning of
26:59
Speaker 1: the and you don't want it to coincide with the
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Speaker 1: other two sluggers slumps. And yet that's what we are
27:05
Speaker 1: experiencing six games into the year. I is far impossible.
27:10
Speaker 1: And at this point, again short sample size, we're not
27:13
Speaker 1: gonna worry about anything just yet. But based off of
27:17
Speaker 1: the short sample size, and if it ends up being
27:20
Speaker 1: a long sample size of this, I got to believe
27:24
Speaker 1: that Justin and Jerry just have to look at each
27:26
Speaker 1: other and say, finding a guy that dominates left handed
27:30
Speaker 1: hitters is impossible. I mean, how many times have they
27:38
Speaker 1: been sure, and look, I realized that some people out
27:42
Speaker 1: there a lot of people out there don't like platooning.
27:45
Speaker 1: They just don't like it. My goodness, wake up. It
27:48
Speaker 1: has been around since Casey Stengel, for goodness sake. The
27:52
Speaker 1: two teams that do it the most are the Rays,
27:55
Speaker 1: the biggest overachiever of the modern era, and the Dodgers.
28:00
Speaker 1: They platoon to a fault. This is nothing new that
28:03
Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin invented. This is nothing outside the box
28:07
Speaker 1: that they're trying to be smarter than all the other
28:09
Speaker 1: general managers. This is something that nearly every organization to
28:14
Speaker 1: some degree implements, and that is a platoon. We're gonna
28:17
Speaker 1: put a couple of guys out there. One hits right
28:19
Speaker 1: he's one hits lefties, and they will alternate whenever we
28:23
Speaker 1: face a righty or lefty pitcher. But man, have they
28:26
Speaker 1: had the damnedest time. I mean, they have searched high
28:28
Speaker 1: and low for veterans who have a long history of
28:33
Speaker 1: crushing left handers, and for whatever reason, Aj Pollock, Mitch Garver,
28:38
Speaker 1: the whole group fail when they get here. They just
28:43
Speaker 1: they can't hit left handers. And Rob Refsnider was supposed
28:48
Speaker 1: to be the guy that was going to end this trend,
28:51
Speaker 1: and right now he too looks a bit lost at
28:54
Speaker 1: the plate. He's zero for eight. Victor Roblace had a
28:57
Speaker 1: couple hits on Game one of the season, hasn't had
28:59
Speaker 1: a hit sin And so I mean, we're gonna give
29:03
Speaker 1: this a lot more time. Okay, can we all agree
29:05
Speaker 1: on that. Hands in, We're gonna give this a lot
29:07
Speaker 1: more time because Rob Refschneider has a proven track record
29:10
Speaker 1: for doing this, and Victor roblaz deserves more time as well.
29:15
Speaker 1: That should be obvious to everyone. But I'll tell you
29:18
Speaker 1: if we end up in late June and this is
29:21
Speaker 1: still going on, I mean, it would have to be
29:24
Speaker 1: the height of frustration. I would think that Jerry and
29:26
Speaker 1: Justin are just gonna it's impossible to find a veteran
29:30
Speaker 1: right handed hitter that has dominated lefties for the better
29:35
Speaker 1: part of his career and then to try to get
29:38
Speaker 1: them to have success in our ballpark. I don't know
29:40
Speaker 1: what is going on with this, but obviously we are
29:44
Speaker 1: looking at ref Snider under a microscope because we want
29:46
Speaker 1: to see this trend in. We don't want it to
29:48
Speaker 1: be another Aj Pollock situation here in twenty twenty six.
29:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, and definitely too early to panic or worry, but
29:55
Speaker 3: it is it is magnified when he's hitting second in
29:59
Speaker 3: the order and leading off.
30:01
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:01
Speaker 3: So, I mean the last two nights, I've been like
30:03
Speaker 3: just watching, thinking why are we making this move? It's
30:07
Speaker 3: fine if Ref Snyder's in the lineup, but why is
30:10
Speaker 3: he leading off and why is he hitting second? Because
30:11
Speaker 3: Monday he hit second and last night he let off,
30:14
Speaker 3: And I just kind of thought to myself, I'd rather
30:16
Speaker 3: just take my chances with Brendan Donovan.
30:19
Speaker 1: Well, because it's the belief. It's the belief that he's
30:22
Speaker 1: done it consistently. I mean, believe me, Red Sox fans
30:25
Speaker 1: hated to see him go. At the moment that this
30:28
Speaker 1: move occurred. It was amazing to me how many people
30:32
Speaker 1: nationally but even locally, we're like, oh, now, this is
30:35
Speaker 1: a smart move. There's a championship move here to bring
30:38
Speaker 1: in Ref Schneider, And I'm just yelling.
30:40
Speaker 6: It's Aj Pollack. It's the same damn thing that you
30:44
Speaker 6: hated two years ago. It's the same thing, and yet
30:48
Speaker 6: so far we're getting those same results. Like, hey, I
30:51
Speaker 6: know Aj Pollock can crush left handers. And let's watch. Yeah,
30:55
Speaker 6: I'm still watching. Yeah, oh, still watching.
30:58
Speaker 2: Gonna do anything?
30:59
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is today today? Is he going to break out
31:02
Speaker 1: over more? You know that sort of thing. And six
31:06
Speaker 1: games in three games for ref Snyder and we're kind
31:10
Speaker 1: of having aj Pollock flashback. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, And yet
31:14
Speaker 1: let's just stick with us for a while, just play
31:17
Speaker 1: it out.
31:18
Speaker 2: You don't jump to any conclusion.
31:19
Speaker 1: That trend has to end at some point, and hopefully
31:22
Speaker 1: it will end with ref Snyder.
31:24
Speaker 4: All right.
31:24
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get Reckless at Breakfast on a Wednesday,
31:27
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM an extended edition. Normally,
31:31
Speaker 1: Stocking Stuffers is put in a nine minute segment, and
31:35
Speaker 1: of not a nine minute segment, it's put in a
31:36
Speaker 1: seven minute segment. Today, we're going a full twenty a
31:40
Speaker 1: full monty with Stocking Stuffers today to launch Draftmas season.
31:45
Speaker 1: That's right, we will be doing Stocking Stuffers completely naked.
31:49
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait. It's going to be great on YouTube.
31:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're celebrating being on YouTube for the first
31:55
Speaker 1: time as well.
31:56
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that.
31:57
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, for years people have been
31:59
Speaker 1: listening to this. It's in form of audio, and now
32:02
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, even radio people want to be
32:04
Speaker 1: seen on camera apparently, And I'm just assuming the reason
32:08
Speaker 1: we're on here is because as people have been listening
32:11
Speaker 1: to us over the years, they're like, I wonder what
32:13
Speaker 1: those two look like naked.
32:14
Speaker 2: I think that's the sole reason.
32:16
Speaker 1: So let's just end the mystery. Just get it out
32:19
Speaker 1: of the way.
32:20
Speaker 2: It's going to be spectacular.
32:21
Speaker 1: The relationship grower.
32:24
Speaker 2: Not a relationship shower.
32:30
Speaker 1: I didn't mean it that way at first, but as
32:32
Speaker 1: soon as I.
32:33
Speaker 2: Said it, that's for sure where we were going.
32:35
Speaker 1: Well, as soon as I said it, I'm like, there's
32:38
Speaker 1: a really good jumping off point right there for Ashley,
32:40
Speaker 1: and you nailed.
32:41
Speaker 2: It, thank you.
32:42
Speaker 1: You absolutely nailed it all right, But we are going
32:45
Speaker 1: to get reckless at breakfast, and it is not going
32:46
Speaker 1: to be draft related. Might be next week, but not
32:49
Speaker 1: this week. The NFL meetings wrapped up in Phoenix, and
32:54
Speaker 1: so we had some rule changes here and there, and
32:57
Speaker 1: we had this McVeigh McDonalds that took place during the
33:02
Speaker 1: course of the week. But it sounds like the big
33:05
Speaker 1: topic of conversation was well, number one replacement officials and
33:11
Speaker 1: whether or not they need to be ready and equipped
33:13
Speaker 1: to have them on hand. And then the other thing
33:15
Speaker 1: was the eighteen game schedule. And I bring it up
33:19
Speaker 1: Reckless at Breakfast because we have discussed it so many
33:21
Speaker 1: times on Reckless at Breakfast. This is an original. This
33:24
Speaker 1: is a going back to me and Jackson Felt's conversation
33:28
Speaker 1: that I've had on these airwaves of what I think
33:32
Speaker 1: the future of the NFL is going to look like.
33:35
Speaker 1: So even though it's a hot button topic right now
33:37
Speaker 1: and has been for the last couple of years, I've
33:39
Speaker 1: been talking about this for ten years. And so we
33:41
Speaker 1: revisited here and Reckless at Breakfast because it sounds like
33:44
Speaker 1: no matter what the NFLPA tries to do or tries
33:48
Speaker 1: to fake, because they always try to fake how tough
33:50
Speaker 1: they are, and then they always fold that they're going
33:54
Speaker 1: to play eighteen games a year whether they like it
33:56
Speaker 1: or not, the NFL owners are going to get their way.
33:59
Speaker 1: And here's the way I'm gonna here's the way I've
34:02
Speaker 1: been saying it's going to look like. And I think
34:04
Speaker 1: it's a good day to remind you because I think
34:06
Speaker 1: we're on the verge of hearing this from Roger Goodell's
34:09
Speaker 1: mouth here in the next eighteen months, I think we
34:12
Speaker 1: will get an eighteen game schedule, and I think we
34:14
Speaker 1: will have a twenty g twenty week season. You know,
34:18
Speaker 1: you want to talk about the ability to get more
34:22
Speaker 1: money and a bigger television deal the next time around, Well,
34:25
Speaker 1: imagine if we had two extra weeks, because that's what
34:29
Speaker 1: you're going to get with an eighteen game schedule. They're
34:31
Speaker 1: going to give two buys, two NFL teams, and they're
34:35
Speaker 1: going to play eighteen games, and we're probably going to
34:37
Speaker 1: reduce the preseason schedule by a game in order to
34:40
Speaker 1: do that. Maybe the NFL owners would even go as
34:43
Speaker 1: far as saying, you do this for us, we'll get
34:45
Speaker 1: rid of all the preseason games. I don't think they will,
34:48
Speaker 1: because that's still money that they can make, and that's
34:50
Speaker 1: still television viewing that they can have. But they'll certainly
34:53
Speaker 1: trade one of the three remaining in exchange for another
34:56
Speaker 1: regular season game. But I think building in that second
34:59
Speaker 1: bye week is just as important. Imagine what that does
35:02
Speaker 1: to our fantasy seasons. Now we have we don't have
35:06
Speaker 1: to stop playing at Week thirteen, right, you know, Fantasy
35:09
Speaker 1: players now get to play till Week sixteen. Week seventeen
35:12
Speaker 1: and then have their playoffs into eighteen, nineteen, and twenty.
35:16
Speaker 1: So that's just more fantasy football for us. You're already
35:19
Speaker 1: satisfying us our season doesn't have to come to a sad,
35:22
Speaker 1: bitter end after twelve weeks of football.
35:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and that is good. And I was thinking.
35:26
Speaker 2: I was thinking.
35:27
Speaker 3: The other thing too, is which we're going to get
35:29
Speaker 3: this this year, that the super Bowl will fall on
35:32
Speaker 3: President's Day weekend, so you get that Monday off, which
35:35
Speaker 3: everybody has wanted the day after the super Bowl to
35:37
Speaker 3: be a national holiday. And as the season goes longer,
35:42
Speaker 3: that would be a real possibility.
35:44
Speaker 1: I think that they would probably fudge toward earlier, Okay,
35:49
Speaker 1: then making it longer, starting it earlier earlier. Maybe it's
35:53
Speaker 1: a balance of the two. Maybe it's one each, but
35:55
Speaker 1: my guess is it's two on the front side and
35:58
Speaker 1: nothing on.
35:59
Speaker 2: The meaningful football at the end of August.
36:02
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be my guess at this point. And
36:05
Speaker 1: then the other wrinkle to this, and this is a
36:08
Speaker 1: reckless at breakfast Chuck Powell original, The other wrinkle to
36:11
Speaker 1: this is I do believe that the NFL is working
36:15
Speaker 1: toward far more global football. I think they are working
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Speaker 1: toward two games each for every team in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League to be played overseas or at least in
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Speaker 1: another country, and I believe that it'll still be the
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Speaker 1: same number of home games, but now we don't take
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Speaker 1: away your eight home game so that you can play
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Speaker 1: in Australia. Now we're going to say we're going to
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Speaker 1: go back to everybody has eight home games, everybody has
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Speaker 1: eight road games, and everybody has two games that they're
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Speaker 1: going to play overseas. And I think that that will
36:47
Speaker 1: be married with NFL teams having their own specific city
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Speaker 1: international city. Like I've said before, I've used it as
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Speaker 1: the example time and time again, the Barcelona Seahawks for example,
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Speaker 1: So yes, it's the Seattle Seahawks, but internationally, we share
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Speaker 1: our team with Barcelona and we will play one home
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Speaker 1: game there and one road game while we're overseas. I
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Speaker 1: think that's the way that it's going to work. And
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Speaker 1: maybe they'll put those together so you only have to
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Speaker 1: make that trip once. That would be my guess. You
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Speaker 1: play your home game in your road game overseas, and
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Speaker 1: then you come back home and finish out your regular season.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's going to happen, because imagine what
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Speaker 1: you could do if Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne all get
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Speaker 1: to literally attach themselves. Imagine what that's going to do
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Speaker 1: to the growth of the sport. Imagine how much money
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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to make if you really
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Speaker 1: do officially sink your teeth into London, and London now
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Speaker 1: feels part of the Jaguars, officially part of the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: What you're going to do for merch sale, what you
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Speaker 1: can do with your next television contract, what you can
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Speaker 1: sell to potential streamers and networks and bidders that now
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Speaker 1: we are reaching so many more eyeballs than we've ever
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Speaker 1: reached before, even if it's just five percent bigger than
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Speaker 1: what it is internationally. Think about how many five percent
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Speaker 1: of the globe of sports fans, how many people that
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Speaker 1: actually is, and what you can sell and how much
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Speaker 1: money you can generate off of that. It's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: I've been saying it for ten years. All of it
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Speaker 1: is going to happen before this entire run is done.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would say that you talking about it
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Speaker 3: is not reckless because I do agree it's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: I think the NFL is a little.
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Speaker 3: Reckless at going to twenty games, and I don't know
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Speaker 3: that they'd stop there. I would hope that they would,
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Speaker 3: but I just feel like they just keep thinking, we
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Speaker 3: can just take over everything.
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Speaker 2: Let's just see what we can get away with. Hopefully
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Speaker 2: this is where they stop.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty weeks, not twenty twenty weeks. Twenty weeks. Twenty weeks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you don't want to give too much because then
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Speaker 1: you take away the specialty, and you certainly don't want
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Speaker 1: to beat your players up so much that you don't
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Speaker 1: even have them. I don't think they will go beyond this.
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Speaker 1: I think it will be the end. It'll be eighteen
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Speaker 1: games spread over twenty weeks. They'll sell that we're giving
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Speaker 1: you two weeks off to recover and repair, which you
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Speaker 1: never had before, and then we're going to throw a
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Speaker 1: trip into Europe for you for three weeks. I think
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Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen here in the next couple
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Speaker 1: of years. And I've been saying it four years. All right,
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