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Chuck in the Morning 9/1 H2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, Stop! and Lane's a turd. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: 1-1.
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  Speaker 2: This ball into right field for a base hit. Young
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: is in to score. Here comes Wilson to the plate.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: He slides and he's safe.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Randy Arrozarena. Man, a one-man.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Wrecking ball at Fenway Park tonight.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: He has tied the game in the sixth inning. Almost
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: a second. Randy's best game of his career game last night.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: He played real well. I mean, it's hard. I guess
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: it didn't end like three home run game and a
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: playoff game one time. I guess nothing will ever top that.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: But certainly in a Mariner uniform, he's now twice in
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: recent memory put the team on his back for an
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  Speaker 2: entire game. And he did it again last night. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't result in a victory. The Mariners coughed up
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: nine runs, combination of pitching and poor defense and poor decisions.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: And in 10 innings, the Boston Red Sox may have
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: delivered a death blow to the Mariners' playoff chances last night.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: 9-8 the final score in 10 innings at Fenway Park.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: We do roll into the month of September starting today.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: In case you have bills to do or something.
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  Speaker 1: Ugh.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: So a month to go, 24 games to play, but
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners wake up this morning in Boston, six games
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  Speaker 2: out of first place, because both the Rangers and the
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: Astros won last night, and there are 24 games to play.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu will get the start tonight for the Mariners.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: The Red Sox still undecided. My guess is they're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to find a left-hander that works down the street.
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  Speaker 3: Although we didn't, offensively, didn't fare poorly against the lefty
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. And Laz Montez is going to
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: make his debut tonight for the Mariners. I don't know
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: if that is pitching hand-dependent, whether or not he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the starting lineup, but he will be
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: called up, September call-up, for the Mariners. So you get
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: a look at their number one power prospect, certainly, in
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  Speaker 2: the entire organization. So there is the Mariners news, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how grim it is. We will get more into
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: that topic a little bit later on in the show.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: It is Apple Cup week, and I should clarify something.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the Big Ten schedule now being nine games,
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  Speaker 2: that it's an odd number, some years you get to
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  Speaker 2: host five and some years you get to host four
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: conference games. So with those other three games, the Huskies
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  Speaker 2: need to host all of them at least every other year.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. Now, I guess you, so they can, they
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  Speaker 2: have to play seven home games. So I guess you
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  Speaker 2: could alternate. Well, then just alternate. That's the years. I
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  Speaker 2: guess you could do that. But then that keeps the
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  Speaker 2: Huskies from ever scheduling a home and home against a program,
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  Speaker 2: a bigger program that could help their resume. They would never,
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  Speaker 2: ever be able to do that. So just from a
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  Speaker 2: scheduling standpoint, we're probably looking at the last days of
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  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, it's just not the same as
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  Speaker 4: it was either.
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  Speaker 3: So it does feel like, as I said, something that
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  Speaker 3: we're kind of forcing to try to keep alive, and
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  Speaker 3: I wish it were different. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel will join us today at 9 o'clock. We
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: are eight days away from the Seahawks opener. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Next Wednesday, the defense of their Super Bowl title begins
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  Speaker 2: at Lumen Field. Of course, we'll have a full broadcasting day.
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  Speaker 2: That does not include us in the mornings. Like people
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: don't want an omelet ten hours before kickoff. That's ridiculous.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: So....
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, eight days, a week from tomorrow, we will start
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: the National Football League season. Welcome back. Football yesterday, the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks pretty much set their practice squad, Trayvon Diggs and others,
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: to the practice squad. Jared Ivey's leaving. It looks like
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: Cody White is leaving. and those are things that we
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  Speaker 2: can discuss with our Seahawks insider. Joining us right now
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  Speaker 2: is Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 5: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 5: this is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 5: with our own Greg Bell. Brought to you by Emerald
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  Speaker 2: For more info, visit EmeraldQueen.com. Well, I say Mr. Greg Bell,
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: but should I address you, like, by your rank? I mean,
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: are you, like, doctors? Like, I've earned the degree. I mean,
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: should I be calling you, like, lieutenant? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how high you made it up the ranks, but is Mr.,
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  Speaker 2: is that, like, an insult to you, potentially?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. Mr., I'm a civilian now. Okay. I
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: was a captain, but... Captain! Oh, I like that. The
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  Speaker 1: only time it's... as a captain but there was if
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  Speaker 1: you're retired officially meaning 20 years of service then sometimes
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: guys retain their or gals retain their rank but even
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: then it's a it's a little pretentious to walk around
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: saying colonel retired or retired retired general you've earned it
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  Speaker 1: i guess you've earned.
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  Speaker 2: It but i now kind of want to call you captain.
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  Speaker 1: Bell Matt Sikaris and Blake Price up in Vancouver are
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  Speaker 1: still on with him and their show. Sikaris calls me
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  Speaker 1: Captain Bill all the time.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when you still call a coach a coach.
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  Speaker 3: He might not be coaching anymore, but he was a coach.
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  Speaker 2: Even more so. I kind of feel like I should
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  Speaker 2: do it now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to lose the rank because you're not there.
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  Speaker 2: And probably, even if we don't end up calling you
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  Speaker 2: Captain Bell every time we see you, we should stop
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  Speaker 2: calling Mike Benton the captain because I know he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: earned it.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think he has. He's definitely the captain of
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  Speaker 1: that Kraken ship, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good to have you with us, Captain. We appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: And let's get into things. Cody White's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: you've liked for a long time, and apparently Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 2: likes him as well.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently he likes Clint Kubiak because it's a like-for-like
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  Speaker 1: trade that he's going to— trade' s the wrong word. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: trade him. But, I mean, for Cody White, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to the Raiders practice squad. The Raiders announced that yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So the Seahawks were obviously offering him the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: and he chose the Raiders and Quinn Kubiak, and it
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  Speaker 1: suggests that he really likes Kubiak in the offense and
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  Speaker 1: how he hit it off with last year's offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Seahawks themselves assume that everyone that they cut
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  Speaker 1: wants to come back. Well, Cody White's been here for
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  Speaker 1: now four years, and although he had his first career
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  Speaker 1: touchdown last year and kind of broke through a little
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  Speaker 1: bit last year he still if he looked and took
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  Speaker 1: stock of everything he's still where he's been four years
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  Speaker 1: ago and that's on the fringe of the roster and
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  Speaker 1: starting this season on the practice squad having to earn
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  Speaker 1: his way back in and apparently he wants to try
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  Speaker 1: that and start a new somewhere else why not start
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  Speaker 1: with the play caller and coordinator i had my first
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  Speaker 1: big regular season break with last year.
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  Speaker 2: Now jared ivy is leaving as well he's going to
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  Speaker 2: atlanta and um And I'm not surprised by that. I
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  Speaker 2: think even Travis Kelsey said, that Ivy guy, man, that
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  Speaker 2: guy can play. But then again, he was on a
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  Speaker 2: group that might be the strength of this football team,
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  Speaker 2: probably is the strength of this football team. So, not surprised,
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  Speaker 2: I take it, that somebody claimed Jared Ivy.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know why they kept him on the roster
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  Speaker 1: all last year as an undrafted rookie free agent, even
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  Speaker 1: though he didn't play one snap at all. And we...
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  Speaker 1: Those of us covering the team were like, wow, Jared
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  Speaker 1: Ivey must have pictures of somebody somewhere. What's going on? Well,
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  Speaker 1: now we know why. The Seahawks feared that if they
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  Speaker 1: had tried to put him on the practice squad last year,
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  Speaker 1: he'd try to clear him through waivers. Someone would have
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  Speaker 1: claimed him, and then that happens this year. They moved
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  Speaker 1: Ivey from linebacker to defensive end this year, and I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if that change and then him showing up on
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  Speaker 1: preseason game films at defensive end while other teams scouted
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  Speaker 1: him as a linebacker, wonder if that multiplicity is the
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  Speaker 1: reason the Falcons took him. Because, yeah, again, they were
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  Speaker 1: so used to everybody coming back. It does somewhat jolting
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  Speaker 1: to the team and to those who cover the team.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, he's leaving? Why would you leave? But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the position that, I just think he became more attractive
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  Speaker 1: to the league when they saw him at a second position. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the front seven looks pretty good at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and so I know they wanted to keep him, but
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  Speaker 2: Jared Ivey is off to the Atlanta Falcons. So how
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  Speaker 2: do they feel good now that the dust has settled
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  Speaker 2: from all of this with their practice squad? Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like they believe they gambled and lost a couple
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  Speaker 2: of guys, or did they read the tea leaves right
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  Speaker 2: and they were braced to lose White and Ivey?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they probably did try to sneak Ivey through, and
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  Speaker 1: they're probably a little stunned by that. I wouldn't say stunned,
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  Speaker 1: but they were probably a little surprised because, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they're so used to everybody coming back. But every single
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  Speaker 1: one of the 17 guys on the practice squad were
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  Speaker 1: here in the preseason and in training camp. All four
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  Speaker 1: of the rookie draft picks that they released, what waived
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, signed back. So they have to feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about that. None of the practice squad players right
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  Speaker 1: now they have to start anew with or has to
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  Speaker 1: learn the system. And they've all been here. And that's unusual.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I can remember the end of preseason
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  Speaker 1: where the entire practice squad had is from the training
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  Speaker 1: camp roster. It also speaks to a Super Bowl champion
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  Speaker 1: team that you cut three, four of your seven draft
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  Speaker 1: picks that there just wasn't room for. And that also
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  Speaker 1: speaks to a Super Bowl roster that's bringing most of
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  Speaker 1: the players back. So coaching-wise, familiarity-wise, for both the players
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  Speaker 1: and the coaches, it's a great deal that they don't
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: have to ramp up somebody. I mean, right now, Trevon
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  Speaker 1: Diggs is the most new guy on the roster. And
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  Speaker 1: he's a veteran enough to, he knows how to play football.
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  Speaker 1: It's just nuances of my talent system.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us. Our Seahawks insider here joins
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  Speaker 2: us every day. Thanks to the Emerald queen casino here
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  Speaker 2: at seven Oh five during the football season. So what
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  Speaker 2: is the playing time plan then for Trayvon digs going forward?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be up to dig how well he, how
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  Speaker 1: quickly he proves that he's in football shaped, to play
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  Speaker 1: two-thirds of a snap. So I really think he's in
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: line to get the third cornerback spot. And I know
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: McDonald isn't satisfied with Nehemiah Pritchett or Noah Igbenogany. Another one,
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  Speaker 1: a veteran who might have thought to come back, and
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  Speaker 1: he's not on the original practice squad roster. Pritchett made
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: the team, and he's still just– three years into his
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: four-year rookie deal, so they still had club control with
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: another season after this one, which partly explains that. But
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  Speaker 1: it's Diggs' job to win now, and now that he's
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: on the practice squad, it's kind of the Seahawks' way
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  Speaker 1: of saying, you can take your time or do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you need to do to be acclimated and in football shape,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: but there's a job waiting for you. The other thing
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: about the practice squad, as we know, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: an initial roster, it is an initial practice squad. The
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  Speaker 1: practice squad's going to change before the first game, and
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: it's going to change about 100 times during the season.
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  Speaker 1: Guys coming on and off of it. Some guys get
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: hurt going practice squad injured reserve. Guys come off of
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: it and get jobs with another team's 53. The one
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: poaching fear you have as a GM and personnel side
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: of a team, NFL rules allow practice squad players to
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: be signed to another team's active 53-man roster at any point.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: Now that every team has their roster set, it's probably
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: not going to happen until the first game. But once
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: there's first games and injuries and guys from other teams'
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  Speaker 1: practice squads move up or injuries on the 53 and
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: pro personnel scouts from around the league, oh, what about
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: that one guy that's in Seattle's practice squad now? And
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: then you start seeing losses that way, and then the
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  Speaker 1: practice squad turns again. The Seahawks are notorious for using
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: practice squad as stowing players they want to play in
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: the preseason as well, in regular season and call-up as well.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: You can get called up up to three times from
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  Speaker 1: the practice squad to the active roster for game days
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  Speaker 1: before you have to then, after the third time, either
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  Speaker 1: offer him a spot on the 53 or allow him
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to be free agent. So it's a constant,
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  Speaker 1: constant churn that happens. Initial is very much an initial
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  Speaker 1: practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: Eight days from opening day, is Nicky Manwari going to
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  Speaker 2: be ready?
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  Speaker 1: I'd still say it's 50-50. They're expecting it, but they're
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: not counting on it yet. He just had one. The
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  Speaker 1: first practice I've seen him in both cleats, a jersey,
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  Speaker 1: and looking like something of a participant like the rest
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: of the team was on Sunday. So he's got some
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: ramping up to do. He still, even Sunday, he was
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit on the side doing his own stretching
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  Speaker 1: and his own extra work before the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: team began. Then they shooed us out after five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't get to see how he actually participated
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  Speaker 1: in the practice itself. On Thursday, all the days are
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: screwed up for the Wednesday game. Saturday will be the
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: first day that the league is going to require the
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Seahawks issue a practice participation slash injury report. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what the Seahawks list him as as far as participating
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 2: And Price is fine. They've just kept him out, right?
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Just so he wouldn't get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Right. It's a total bubble wrap deal. I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: he'll be on the injury list or practice participation list
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 2: What sense do you get from being around coaches in
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: your career? being around Seahawks coaches, that when you get
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: to actual game prep week, when you actually get to
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: the let's prepare for our first opponent that counts in
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: the standings, what kind of energy does that bring to
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: the building?
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  Speaker 1: Well, certainly to the players. The coaches, my experience is
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: it's all part of this process. They get through the preseason,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: all the talent evaluation, and Training camp is so heavy
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: into player evaluation and very little into opponent prep. Now
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: they sprinkle in practice periods, the Patriots, what they do,
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  Speaker 1: and the scout team a little. But there's not scout
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: team periods per se. Well, now starting Sunday there are.
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  Speaker 1: And for coaches, honestly, especially a coach like Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: who loves to be X's and O's and is a
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: nerd for scheme, he loves this. I mean, he likes
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: the evaluation stuff too. But now he's actually got– he's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: a mad scientist who's back in the lab. And he
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: hasn't been in the lab since the Super Bowl because
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he hasn't had really an opponent to prepare his players for.
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  Speaker 1: So this is why McDonald coaches. All that other stuff, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get through it to get to the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. But game plan, opponent, film watching– figuring out
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  Speaker 1: how to attack the Patriots and what flaws he sees,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why he coaches. That's what he does most
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  Speaker 1: and does best, even more so than Pete Carroll. Carroll
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  Speaker 1: was more in, if I had to compare the two, Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: he was more of a training camp guy. He loved
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  Speaker 1: the relationships. He loved molding a team, choosing players that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: fit his ethos, and then the season started. McDonald can't
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: wait for the season to start so he can go
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: be the X's and O's coach he grew up in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. That's kind of what I expected,
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  Speaker 2: that he really would start salivating at this point now
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  Speaker 2: that all this is over, now he's got his roster.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start watching the Patriots film and break this thing
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  Speaker 2: down and shut him out.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks starts, or not starts, but another episode of
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks tonight. We know Montori Foster Jr. is going
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: to be featured with his dad and his mom. That's
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: going to be an obvious one. How much will new
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: ownership be featured, do you think, in this episode?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. I wasn't in Atlanta when they
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: did the vote. I don't know if Hard Knocks took
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a camera crew there. I'm assuming they did, because there
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: are a lot of them. There are camera people and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: sound boom people, so they would be an obvious next
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: for leaving the the preseason heading into the regular season.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: It is the last episode they're done filming. I think
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Sunday's practice was the last film day. Um, and tonight
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: will be the premiere of the last episode of it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: And that would be, I hadn't thought about that, but
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: that would be a unique way that they haven't had
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to do that for any other hard knocks team that's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: covered to have a, an entry of a.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: World championship that gets sold.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: That's pretty, that's unprecedented.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It is unprecedented. The one thing is, they're still not
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: technically the owners. And Vinod Khosla made note of that
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: when he talked to the media last week. He says, well,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: we're not really the owners officially yet. It still has
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to go through the banking and the vetting and the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: lawyers and all that, that I'm told is going to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: take maybe less than a week. I think the Seahawks
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: would like to, either the day before or the day
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: of the opener, have a press conference at Lumen Field.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: with a Seahawks helmet and the three Kozlas up at
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the podium and unveiling with all the national and international
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: media who's going to be here for the NFL kickoff
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: game next Wednesday. That's my assumption, but I'm not sure
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: that timing's going to work that way. They certainly want
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: it to be done before the opener, and I think
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: all signs are that it'll be official-official before that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Whose job will it be to tell Vinod to stop
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: using social media?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: It is different, isn't it? He can't keep up that pace.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. There's no way he's going to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: keep up that pace. He's responding to everybody.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It's true. If anyone wants to be talked to on
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: social media by the new Seahawks owner, just say anything
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that has Vinod Kozla in it. Anything. Do you like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: his tie? Or do you like his sports coat? Or anything.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He will respond. It is so different than the Allen regime, right?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I mean... Jody Allen never uttered a public word online
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: in person ever. Paul Allen, you at least saw him around,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: especially in the locker room after games, home and away,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but he didn't talk to us, and he certainly didn't
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: have a Twitter. account. And that's a guy who helped
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: create the internet. So it's so different. All of us
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: have covered the team for a while, getting a kick
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: out of it. him responding to every little Joe and Jeannie.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Out on the internet. It not only has to thin out,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it has to stop. He has to stop doing it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: You would think. It's his new toy, and he wants
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to play with it. He's got the Seahawks. I do
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: think it is just ridiculous that people are bent out
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: of shape about this whole Steelers thing. When he came
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to America in 1976... If it's a brand-new sport to him,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and of course he liked the Steelers. They won four
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls in six years then, and they were always
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. They were always on national television.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: They were always playing in the Super Bowl. If you
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: were brand-new and thrown in like a Martian came down
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: from another planet and landed, of course they were going
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to notice the Steelers.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: If he liked.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Football at all, he'd go, oh, the Steelers team looks
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: pretty good. What is wrong with that?
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, come on. He's still a human being. Plus,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: he's got good taste, like the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Go back and watch that coke ad and see if
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Mean Joe Green really said, hey, Vinod, catch, with his jersey.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: There might be something to that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Do you think it was him in the tunnel?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It was him in the tunnel. Giving me and Joe
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Green his Coke.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: 85% of the visiting audience have no idea what we're
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: That's all right. Research it. All right, so what's on
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the Captain and Jess show a little later today?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we're going to start talking a little
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: bit about the Apple Cup. We were thinking of having
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Dave Softy Mahler on, but we don't know if that's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a good idea or if he'll be just screaming about
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the Apple Cup. He's probably a little bit fired up
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: about that. I did notice, I don't know if you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: noticed yesterday, he asked Dave Softy-Mahler, asked during Jed Fish's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: press conference at UW about NFL players coming back to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: college football and whether UW and Jed Fish would be interested.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: He said, we're not doing that. I thought that was
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: actually the perfect dismissive answer to that whole idea about
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Huskies head coach. I don't know how much you've talked
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: about the Mariners, but can they just play little league-level fundamentals?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just absurd. The things... Let's play no
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: doubles defense and then have the center fielder come charging
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in and be between two minds. It's so lack of–
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, a high school player should be pulled for that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know why he's not benched. I don't know
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: why they haven't benched starters for some of the bonehead
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: things they've done, and now it's too late. It's just,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: once again, the 2026 Mariners, a collection of talent with
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: no leadership, and that's decisively going to kill them.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, we'll be listening at 10. Thank you, sir.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you. There he is, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You can follow Matt G. Bell, Seattle on X, thenewstribune.com.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: That's where he works. And of course, he works at
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: 10 o'clock every day here at Sports Radio 93.3 KJR
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: FM as well. So you can check out his show
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: today and every day at 10 o'clock. Coming up next
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: on our radio program, we will talk about one of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: those leaders for the Mariners and a Press conference soundbite
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that may explain the entire season. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I've said it before. I'll say it again. I just
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: really do enjoy that relationship between Jalea and Dick Fane.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: They just seem like such supportive friends.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: They're just tight. Yeah.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Buds.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Buds.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: It's uplifting.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: It is. Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And it's helping me get through some of these hard
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: times watching our baseball team.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Because you know that you could have a friend like Jalea, too.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: If I, you know, if I'm better. Yeah. If I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: can make myself better.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: If you improve. Me. Yourself. Then I will attract that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: kind of friendship.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: It's on the horizon for you, Chuck. I can feel it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I appreciate that because I needed it. Yeah,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I think we all need something. We all need a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: little pat on the back from a friend right now
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: or a Peyton Tolley hug or something to try to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: help us.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: There's no understanding what's going on with the Mariners. I
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: think it's just more of coping with it, accepting it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: This is who they've been this year. And I'll argue
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: for the rest of my life with anybody that wants
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to argue with me in a bar or whatever the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: case may be, that it should not have been this
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: way this year. That this team should have won the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: American League West and by 10 games. That's... the discrepancy
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: in my opinion in roster talent, but the team didn't
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: play well this year. They are what their record says
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: they are. That's the way that they've played all season long.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And obviously nothing that Dan Wilson can say is going
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to adjust that. And I don't know, as we've discussed
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: with Ryan Healy on this show, what gets said behind
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: closed doors for the Mariners. But if, his press conference
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: are any indication of just how easygoing he is about failure?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: That might be the explanation for all of this. Everybody knows.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I would have fired Dan Wilson coming out of the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: all-star break. We made a really big deal out of it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I went on 38 different shows talking about it. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I've made my feelings known about Dan and the job
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: he's done this year. And I don't want to sit
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: here and pile on every day because I do know
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: he's a good guy. And I do know that he's
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: a beloved in this city for what he did as
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a player. And I don't want to take anything away
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: from that. But since that statement, Man, I've wanted to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: back off of it at some point, Ashley. And instead,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: at just every game, my fever for why is this
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: guy our manager, it grows every single game.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And it's understandable because they are severely underperforming. I think
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: one of the things that I dislike about him being
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: our manager is that it is tainting. his legacy. I mean,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: he is beloved as a player and now everybody should
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: remain to be.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And people are getting angry because he's been put in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: a position that I don't think he was ready for.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: He thought he was ready for it. And I don't
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: know what the conversation was that they convinced each other
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: that this was the right, I don't know, solution. Um,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but let's just play that clip and it's a minute
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: and a half clip, but I'm going to stop it
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: At various times. And I'm just going to point out
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: how many times it annoys me.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: So this was the clip we played at Mariners morning after.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It's from last night. I didn't listen to the press
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: conference last night because I couldn't take it. As soon
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: as the game was over, I flipped over to something
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: else and tried not to think about the Mariners again
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the evening. But Ashley played it
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to fresh ears this morning, this minute and a half clip.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And there were just alarm bells for me going off
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: every like 15 seconds. So here's Dan after the game. Obviously,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a really difficult loss. This is Fenway Park.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Stop.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: All right, let's stop it already.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Difficult loss. Obviously, someone went to him and said, stop
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: saying tough one. Because it's his crutch.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: And I have crutches. Every radio person, anybody has a crutch.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: And sometimes you need the boss to point it out
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: to you. I don't know why it took so long.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But obviously this became a thing. Like people were really,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was on everybody's left nerve that he
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: just keeps explaining every loss away as a tough one.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And so I think somebody finally got to him because
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I think he said it after every loss this year.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: He has.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And so he says a difficult one. just to change
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: it up a little bit. And then, right there on
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the back end, starts blaming the results last night on, well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: it's a crazy ballpark.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is Fenway Park.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: All right, keep going. All right, stop. Nobody's here for
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: moral victories right now. I get it. Eight runs were scored.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: There should be some mention of Randy Orozarena putting the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: entire offense on his back. But no one's interested in
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the moral. This is not the moral victory portion of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the season. It is like urgent win or die. That's
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the portion of the season that we're at at this point.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And so do we really need a rundown of the
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: superlatives from a night that has to rank as the,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: if not one of the top five at worst, toughest
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: losses of the entire season do we have to have
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: a dose of the superlatives you can tell you can
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: tell the players that when you get back in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: locker room who had a good game uh if you
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: want give them a lollipop and a little neck rub
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: uh whatever you want to do but i i don't
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: want to hear the superlatives i don't want to hear
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the moral victories after that loss last.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Night no if you're gonna if you're gonna praise the
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: offense you got to do it by saying and it's
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: a shame that the pitching couldn't hold their hold up
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: their end.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Tonight Yeah, how about that?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't and same vice versa when the pitching
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: does a great job and the offense doesn't show up
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: you can say you know great pitching effort too bad
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the offense couldn't get jack squat done i mean you
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: can do it and praise one by but still be
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: honest about how the game actually went because yeah the
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: offense did a good job the offense could have gotten
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: even more runs Well.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Randy Rosadina did a really good job.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. All right.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Keep going. And, you know, kept adding on. Randy with
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: a huge night offensively.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm all right with that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: He's doing extremely well. And all our guys in there
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: with a chance. And attacking some runs on. And, you know,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: George gave us the five. Stop. George gave us the five.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Five mediocre innings.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Actually bad. That's a nine ERA.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: It wasn't good.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: That wasn't good. George gave us the five.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Could have said George had a tough night. You could
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: use tough there. That would have been all right.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm not saying he has to go, please. Not
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: at all. I don't want him to go like... Scorched
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: earth or whatever. Exactly. I don't want him to suddenly
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: change his personality. He's ripping everybody. I don't think that's
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: what it calls for. I'm just saying, after that crushing
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: of a loss... And then we're going to go around
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the room and make sure in the media everybody hears
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: that I patted you on the back when they're not
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: even listening to your comments. You don't have to be
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: critical of George. You don't have to say, George, let
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: us down tonight. Nobody's asking for that. But do you
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: really need to find time in your press conference to
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: tell us he gave us the five tonight? That's minimum
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: expectation for what you wanted from George Kirby. Can you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: at least give us five? That's minimum expectation.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Just be honest. That's the thing. It seems like he
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: wants to sugarcoat everything. Just be honest. It was a
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: rough night for George.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And our guys continued to fight back. It didn't matter
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: where we were at. took the lead back and that's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the ultimate one stop that's the ultimate one that's they
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: continued to fight back you lost the game nine to
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: eight again it's not moral victory speech time yeah there
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: are certainly times during the course of a season where
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: you do point out moral victories it's not it's not
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: now it's not when you've fallen six games back with
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: 24 to go and 10 games under 500 on a
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: colossal goat f of a season that you've put.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Together Yeah, if you win the game, sure, you can say, man,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the way we kept coming back.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Sure, of course.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Then absolutely. But, okay, you did it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they tried.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Just a tough one tonight. Okay, Aaron, stop. Tough one tonight.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: He couldn't help himself. Yeah. The crutch came back out.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: He said you know a lot less in this one, though.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I will say that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Tough way to end that one. Dan, what did you
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: see on that Roman Anthony triple leading off there, and
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: what's your message to Julio.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: After that play?
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a play where, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: you get too close, it's really hard to knock down,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: and it's a decision, you know, you've got to make,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and that one slipped by him, and, you know, that's
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: a tough break in that situation.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Stop!
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: That is not a tough break.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: It was a mistake.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: That is a bad decision by a person, an adult
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: man that has played center field for five years every
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: single night and has practiced and performed to play in
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the major leagues and should know better than to try
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and dive for a ball in that situation. It is
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: what lost you the game. That is not a tough break.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: That was not bad luck. That was an in-between ball.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: That even if you think you've got a chance, you
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: have to make the prudent decision to... Most important thing
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: is to not let a runner in scoring position right now.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That is my job in this moment. And instead, he
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: wants to play hero ball... Make the diving catch. The
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: ball gets past him. Almost was an inside the park
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: home run.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Almost.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: But it ends up being a stand-up triple when it
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: should have been nothing more than a single. And the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: way that Munoz was throwing gas last night, that's as
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: far as it would have gone last night. And instead...
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: He goes after the ball, gets caught in between, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: then falls and lets it get past him. The last
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: thing that can happen in that moment, and every person
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: that has ever played center field beyond Little League knows
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: not to do that. But we're going to call it
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a tough break.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Again, there's no honesty. It's just soft.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: That's all I can listen to.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: We're out of time anyway.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Stop!
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: No.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think your emotions can handle it right now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: We'll go to break. Let's talk about Lane Kiffin. What
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: a douche.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Next, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: What you said.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, great morning to you all. It is Chuck and
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Ashley with you here on this Tuesday. Rick Neuheisel makes
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: his debut today for the brand new football season. Actually,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I am going to spend some time later in the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: show going through our entire 2026 fall lineup for you.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: A lot of the same people back. You know, why
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: would you break a good thing? We got good relationships,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: good people that participate on this morning show. every single fall,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: but we do have a couple new wrinkles that we're adding,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: and so we'll go through that a little bit later on,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: and you now know officially that Rick Neuheisel will be
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: a part of this flying circus again this year. He'll
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: join us today at 9 o'clock, and certainly we're going
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to talk about the Apple Cup with Coach. He's coached
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: in a few of those, and we'll get his evaluation,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: but also a national topic that I've got to bring
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: up with him is Lane Kiffin. I mean, have you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: ever in your life I mean, he is my nephews
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: when they were, you know, four to nine years old
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: playing board games with him. Where they tried to cheat
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: the entire time and spent their entire time that you
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: played board games accusing other people of cheating when they
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: were the ones that were cheating. And then the fits
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: that they would throw and if they were losing, they
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: would just toss the game pieces. I mean, I had
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: to just stop playing with him. I'm like, I don't really...
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know you four. Go out and play. Go
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: do something outside. And that's what I want to tell
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Lane Kivitt. He is the embodiment of that. He is
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a 50-year-old man, 45-year-old man, for goodness sake. And it
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: is just... I am going to try and cheat to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: win forever. I'm never going to ever try to operate
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: on the same playing field. I'm always going to push
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: the envelope to try to get an unfair advantage over
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: everyone else. And it doesn't matter what you say against me.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to stop. I mean, that is what's happening.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: The entire SEC. I mean, some pretty... Some guys that
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: have crossed the line a few times in the past
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: are like, what are you doing, man?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Stop it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: We do not need pro players coming back and taking
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: the field for us. And yet he's not stopping. The
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: SEC has voted, no, we're not going to do that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And he says, yes, I am. I'm still going to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: You can try to fight me, but I'll sue you
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: or I'll win on whatever arguments.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a turd. He's always been a turd.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: You would know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I would.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: And I've always thought he was a turd. I have
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: never been a Lane Kiffin fan. I think what he
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: did to Ole Miss when he left there was terrible.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I think he is just terrible for college football. He
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't care about any rules, and college football already has
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: a problem with rules.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: And at least they're trying to make them.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: And he's saying, no, I don't like that rule, so
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to do my own thing. And no,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: pro players should not be allowed to go back to college.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: You decided to enter the draft. If you didn't make
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: a team, that's not our fault.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: His statement basically is, if I don't do this, someone
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: else will. But no one else is doing it. Right.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Every other conference has said we're not allowing it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: So you are going out of your way to do
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: something that you want to do so you can be
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: ahead of something else. for reasons that if I don't
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: do it, somebody else will do it and I'll be behind.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: But nobody else is doing it. Nobody else wants to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: do it. You're instigated. You're going to force other people
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: to potentially do this down the line, and it's all
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: because of you. And I'm going to tell you this
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: right now. I guarantee you what happened here is that
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: he had relationships with those former players that he had
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: at Ole Miss, and they went into the NFL draft,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: and that's where it started. And he started thinking, like,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: why couldn't I go after them if they get cut?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And he went to a Baton Rouge lawmaker who was
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: an LSU fan. And he started the ball rolling so
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: that when this ruling came out, he had already done
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the legwork. He'd already talked to all of these guys.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: It was, I've already done the legwork on this. I
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: want to do this. Now I'm going to go to
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: the biggest LSU fan that has the power to make
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: this real. I'm going to tell him my plan. He's
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: going to enact it. And I will be 10 players
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: up on everybody else in the National Football League. That
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: is what he did. And the SDC is saying, no,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: we're not going to be a part of it. All
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the big conferences said, no, we're not going to be
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: a part of that. We're not going to allow it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: And he's still planning to do it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: He's going to take the field with these guys next week.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: And it's ridiculous.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: And then he said, oh, well, I talked to my
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: leadership committee, my players, they support it because they.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Want to win. Well, I don't think he even did that. No,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: maybe not.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: But even if they did, they're college kids. And you're
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: saying like, don't you guys think this would be a
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: great idea?
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: We're going to do this.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: And now we can win a national championship.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: He's, again, simple.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: He's a turd.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: He is. I mean.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: There's a lot worse words I could use, but I
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: can't say them.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: On the radio. I can't take the guy. I can't
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: take him. No. Get him out of the sport.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, let's talk about another thing we can't take.
• 40:14
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