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Chuck in the Morning 7-31 Hour 1: Byron Murphy Impresses, Mariners Morning After and Talk of Camp · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. This is kjr's
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  Speaker 2: Well, great Friday morning to you. Ald Tis just died today.
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  Speaker 2: It is Chuck lonely and yet embracing, embracing the silence
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  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks training camp facility here and Renton, Washington,
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  Speaker 2: overlooking the beautiful field here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 2: Another practice, another training camp, invite to all of those
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  Speaker 2: crazy radical twelves out there. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: another high energy day here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 2: And it is great to have you with us here
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  Speaker 2: on this Friday. Apparently we've got Mariners stuff to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: we've got trade deadline stuff to talk about, we've got
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks stuff to talk about. As I was able to
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  Speaker 2: observe up close and personal practice yesterday, which was great,
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  Speaker 2: stayed for the whole thing. So I've got my own
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  Speaker 2: little personal observations that I'll be sharing with you here
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit. Apparently we even have you know,
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  Speaker 2: what is this a cornhole set to give away today?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? It is that? How we're celebrating a Friday no.
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  Speaker 3: Cornhole partnering up with Hard Knocks from HBO to give
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  Speaker 3: away a cornhole set.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't have I have no clue what cornhole
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  Speaker 2: has to do with Hard Knocks or HBO, but apparently
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  Speaker 2: we're giving away a corn hole set. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: how this came about? Why would Why is HBO pedaling cornhole?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know corner fun this summer, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, eh, I guess, but that's a strange combination.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll figure it out today. I actually went, I'm
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  Speaker 2: from southwestern Illinois, and you know, we didn't we didn't
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  Speaker 2: come up with a lot of really like breakthrough innovative people,
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  Speaker 2: uh in my hometown. But there is a guy and
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  Speaker 2: I have met him before. I don't know his name,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't tell you. And maybe I was lied to as
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  Speaker 2: a child and this really isn't even true. Uh. That
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  Speaker 2: happens a lot in southwestern Illinois as well. Uh. But
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  Speaker 2: this guy apparently invented a game called washers. So you
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  Speaker 2: just took washers like things that you you know, like
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  Speaker 2: on the back of uh you know, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like uh, like a tool, like metal metal equipment like
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  Speaker 2: goes on car carburetors and stuff like that, like a washer. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like flat discs, not the like the
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  Speaker 2: ones that look like nuts or you know, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a flat disc skinny, yeah, super skinny and flat, and
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  Speaker 2: the hole in the middle like a bagel. And it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty much just cornhole, like the washers. You play it
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  Speaker 2: just like cornhole. So this guy invents this game, and
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  Speaker 2: it did make its rounds in southwestern Illinois. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people played it. But apparently it came out right
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  Speaker 2: at the exact same time that Cornhole came out, and
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  Speaker 2: the Cornhole guy just went gangbusters, and the washers guy
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  Speaker 2: was He had to have been sitting there thinking like, man,
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  Speaker 2: if I'd have just been five years earlier, or if
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  Speaker 2: I would have murdered cornhole guy a sleep, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something like that, then maybe I would be on top
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  Speaker 2: of the Mountain right now, everybody would HBO would be
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  Speaker 2: giving away washers. Washers set here today and not Cornhole.
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  Speaker 2: But when you really think about it, the whole beanbag
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  Speaker 2: thing and if you got hit in the eye with
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  Speaker 2: a washer, you're probably losing that eye. A beanbag though,
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  Speaker 2: no big deal, right, And so you do, Travis understand
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  Speaker 2: why the beanbag guy and his game took off and
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  Speaker 2: washer guy and his game, he's just kind of a
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  Speaker 2: footnote in Southwestern history.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now I feel bad for the washer guy, but
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  Speaker 3: he's getting you know, he's getting this to you're you're
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  Speaker 3: shouting them out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if you can buy it at
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  Speaker 2: Target or anything like, probably an off brand of washers
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  Speaker 2: that you could get somewhere at some black market, uh,
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  Speaker 2: on the internet. I have no idea. Uh. Actually, it
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  Speaker 2: was such a simple game. If you could just go
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  Speaker 2: out to your tool shed, you can find a few
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  Speaker 2: and then so you can experience the wonderment that is
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  Speaker 2: playing washers. After the show today, please do take your
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  Speaker 2: kids out there in the backyard. Make sure they're wearing
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  Speaker 2: proper eyewear, you know, get some safety goggles on those kids.
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  Speaker 2: I think you could you'll be all right without them.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and even if you do lose an eye, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And so uh yeah, uh yeah washers did not.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's like the guy that decided to invent the
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  Speaker 2: unicycle one week before Henry Ford invented the automobile. Exactly. Man, Man,
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  Speaker 2: I got this rolling one wheel apparatus, and you can
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  Speaker 2: go from point A to point B faster than you
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  Speaker 2: can walking. This is gonna be awesome. I'm gonna be rich.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make tens of dollars off of this. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then Henry Ford and his smug ass showed up
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  Speaker 2: and decided to show off for everybody and give us
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  Speaker 2: the model T and it kind of blew unicycle guy away,
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  Speaker 2: even though he still has his foothold in the market.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's not a there's a there's not an
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  Speaker 2: athletic person alive that doesn't have at least one unicycle
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  Speaker 2: in their garage. I know that. I know that for
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  Speaker 2: a fact, as a matter of fact. So yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Seahawks players have them. It's a really really
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  Speaker 2: please don't cycles players, please? You heard yourselves, really popular
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  Speaker 2: sporting item, the unicycle still to this day. All right,
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  Speaker 2: well we are underway. It is a good Chris morning
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  Speaker 2: here in the Great Pacific Northwest, and we are going
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  Speaker 2: to talk a lot of Seahawks football today. We're also
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  Speaker 2: going to talk a lot of Mariners baseball. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: sure really what to start with. We're certainly gonna do
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  Speaker 2: baseball at the bottom of every hour, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: the O Show today. I'll go over what's on tap
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  Speaker 2: in a moment, but I will start with my observations,
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, I've stuck around for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of training camp, but that's really hard to do when
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  Speaker 2: you get up at three point thirty in the morning
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  Speaker 2: and practice starts at one, and so yesterday they started
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  Speaker 2: at ten o'clock, so I got to watch the entire practice,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly that was great. And usually what you do
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  Speaker 2: is you end up talking to people you haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: in a while. But you did get to hone in
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  Speaker 2: on some of the things going on out here. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something, and I don't want this
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  Speaker 2: to sound like I'm picking on Gray's abel. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: saying this so that you can get some perspective on
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  Speaker 2: what Byron Murphy did yesterday. But there was a moment
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  Speaker 2: in the practice. So quarterbacks and receivers are over on
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  Speaker 2: the far field, and then all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 2: big guys start moving over here to the near field
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  Speaker 2: where I'm sitting, and all of the media members just
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  Speaker 2: start moving this way, like every single one. I think
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  Speaker 2: maybe Hugh stayed on the far side of the field
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  Speaker 2: because he can't get enough a quarterback play. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, Hugh, I think stayed on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the field. But all the other media members are
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  Speaker 2: moving this way. Well, I'm kind of just now getting
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  Speaker 2: the chance to go out and join what's happening, And
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  Speaker 2: so I ask. I'm like a salmon swimming upstream, and
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  Speaker 2: I ask a guy on the way, I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's the where's everybody going? Aren't they when you want
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  Speaker 2: to watch the quarterbacks? He's like, oh, no, no, no, it's
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  Speaker 2: one on one O line versus D line drills. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a must watch right here. So I follow
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  Speaker 2: the pack because you know, I'm like that, I guess sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: I also wore a mullet in high school and my pants,
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  Speaker 2: even though I thought it was stupid. Ah, but I
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  Speaker 2: know I fit in with the crowd, and I swam
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  Speaker 2: with the salmon the other the other way, And so
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  Speaker 2: get over to the side of the field and they
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  Speaker 2: line up and they're getting ready to face off, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Byron Murphy puts this move on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive guard that he's lined up against and completely
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  Speaker 2: like jukes him out of his shoes. The guard just
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  Speaker 2: goes stumbling to the right and falls on his bake.
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  Speaker 2: I mean literally faked him, juked him out of his shoes.
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  Speaker 2: This is a three hundred pounds man jukes the offensive
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  Speaker 2: lineman off his feet. I mean that happens on the
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  Speaker 2: playground in basketball, and that guy might have to move,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, he might not be able
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  Speaker 2: to stay in the neighborhood any longer because it got
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  Speaker 2: out that he got juked out of his shoes on
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  Speaker 2: the on you know, at Rucker Park, but out here
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  Speaker 2: on the football field. So all the ooze and the
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  Speaker 2: oz went out with Byron Murphy. And I'm there on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline thinking, oh, because you can't quite see the
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  Speaker 2: angles of the numbers, but I knew it was a
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  Speaker 2: tall white guy, so I'm like, I might that must
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  Speaker 2: be that Mason Richmond guy. Uh that he just did
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  Speaker 2: that to poor Mason Richmond. Then they line back up again,
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  Speaker 2: and this time Murphy goes straight at him. Bull Rush
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  Speaker 2: puts his puts his forearms into his chest, backs him
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  Speaker 2: all the way up into the quarterback. And then, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you this is what happened, tossed him, lifted
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  Speaker 2: him off his feet and tossed him to the side
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  Speaker 2: like he were nothing more than a bag of rubbish,
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  Speaker 2: like he was taking the trash to the curb. Just
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  Speaker 2: tossed him as easy looking as you could. And at
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  Speaker 2: that point, I'm like, my goodness, poor Mason Richmond, he
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  Speaker 2: might not live this down. I stare at the player
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  Speaker 2: a little while longer he stands up. It is Gray's able,
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  Speaker 2: It is our outstanding going to be a pro bowler,
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  Speaker 2: probably this year, probably not too far into the future,
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  Speaker 2: and all pro guard in this league. The guy that
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  Speaker 2: hit the ground running a guy that was a tackle
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  Speaker 2: in college. I mean this is not some like six three,
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  Speaker 2: three hundred pound undersized guard. This is like six five
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  Speaker 2: three twenty left guard. And Byron Murphy, on back to
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  Speaker 2: back plays in this drill just abused our star guard.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying this not to tell you, oh, worry
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  Speaker 2: about Gray's abel, not in the slightest I don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about Gray's Abel at all. I'm telling you this because
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  Speaker 2: Byron Murphy did something like superhuman on back to back
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  Speaker 2: snaps out here in practice, and I cannot believe it
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  Speaker 2: came at the expense of someone as good as big
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  Speaker 2: and as strong as Gray Zabel. I mean, there is
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  Speaker 2: talk around this camp that the that Byron Murphy come
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  Speaker 2: next year, now that Jalen Carter has re established the
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  Speaker 2: market for defensive tackles in the National Football League, get
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  Speaker 2: forty million a year, We'll be making that, if not more,
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  Speaker 2: next season when it's time to pay him. And man,
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  Speaker 2: if that's any indication of what else Byron Murphy might
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  Speaker 2: have stored away in his upside, that was as impressive
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  Speaker 2: a thing that I've seen in my eleven years of
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  Speaker 2: covering Seahawks training camp in a short spurt was Byron
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  Speaker 2: Murphy just abusing an outstanding large guard in great Zabel Travis.
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  Speaker 2: It was a thing of beauty. Well, I love to
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  Speaker 2: hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sorry, Are you expecting at least double digit
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  Speaker 3: sacks from Byron Murphy this season?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know that. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: defense as great as it is, and as great as
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's scheme is, it doesn't seem to me like
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  Speaker 2: he puts any merit in making sure guys get to sacks.
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  Speaker 2: That he thinks that just because you had ten instead
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  Speaker 2: of seven, that that means you have it a greater season.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure what future you know
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  Speaker 2: what statistics he's going to put out this year, but
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  Speaker 2: he was under the radar outstanding this past season. I
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  Speaker 2: asked you about him yesterday. Hugh says that he has
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  Speaker 2: to be re signed no matter what the figure is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he did point out that there is a
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  Speaker 2: limit that obviously you can't go by, but in his estimation,
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  Speaker 2: that is a must keep going forward. I know when
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  Speaker 2: we had Corbyn Smith on in our one series that
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  Speaker 2: we did back in June, that's Corbyn, I think was
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  Speaker 2: our first, our first analyst, and Corbyn chose Byron Murphy,
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  Speaker 2: and he chose him for the reason of telling us, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't realize how great Byron Murphy is, I'm
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  Speaker 2: here to tell you. And I think there's an expectation
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  Speaker 2: that he takes a big giant leap another big giant
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  Speaker 2: leap forward this year. I mean, the buzz on the
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  Speaker 2: sidelines is that this is an All Pro. Should have
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  Speaker 2: been an All Pro last year, will be an All
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  Speaker 2: Pro this year. And man, I mean this organization is
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  Speaker 2: just humming right now. It is just smoking right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna make they make JSN the highest
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  Speaker 2: per year salary wide receiver in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: We're still waiting on the news that Devin Witherspoon might
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  Speaker 2: become the highest paid cornerback in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: He's at least gonna be around that mark. And Byron
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  Speaker 2: Murphy it's probably his future as well. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: the salary cap league. You can't do that with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna have to lose. Somebody's gonna have to lose
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  Speaker 2: their spot on the Seahawks roster if you're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: this repeatedly. But certainly it feels around here that Byron
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  Speaker 2: Murphy is that special of a talent. That doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if Spoon's locked up, if JSNS locked up, Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 2: will get locked up before next season. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about it right now, but before next season.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that they're there is this feeling here
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  Speaker 2: that he is going to have a monster year. And
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  Speaker 2: what I saw it yesterday, I mean it was just
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  Speaker 2: flat out monster us. I mean it was hugely impressive.
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  Speaker 2: And on back to back place, I juke you out
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  Speaker 2: of your shoes and you fall to the field on
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  Speaker 2: the first snap, and then we line him back up again.
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  Speaker 2: You just embarrass me. There's no way you're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: that to me again. And this time he catches him
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  Speaker 2: on his heels, lifts him off his feet and tosses him,
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  Speaker 2: just tossed him over to the side, and then just
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  Speaker 2: sort of tapped the quarterback. And the first time, first
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  Speaker 2: time he did it with the juke, it was like
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  Speaker 2: oohs and ahs, and the defensive players were celebrating. When
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  Speaker 2: he did the second one, it's as if no one
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  Speaker 2: wanted to say a word for Gray's sake. It's like
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  Speaker 2: the defensive sort of went quiet, like oh, oh, oh oh,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, you think they'd go crazy, but instead
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  Speaker 2: they were. They it was almost like out of respect
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  Speaker 2: to Gray. Oh Gray, poor Grey. He just got he
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  Speaker 2: got abused and he's really important to us, So let's
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  Speaker 2: not make a big deal out of this one, Fellaws,
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  Speaker 2: what do you say? But it was a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if it'll pop up on Hard
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  Speaker 2: Knocks so that people get a look at it. But
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  Speaker 2: it was, man, it was it was something to see.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't emphasize enough. Gray's Abel's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Gray's Abel's gonna be great. Gray's Abel is awesome. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's a reflection at all of Gray's Abel.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's an offensive lineman doing drills, going one
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  Speaker 2: on one against one of the true special players on
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  Speaker 2: defense in the National Football League. And Zabel just got caught,
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  Speaker 2: you know, once leaning and then once back on his heels,
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  Speaker 2: and Byron Murphy just sort of abused him in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: But Gray's going to be fine and Murphy's going to
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  Speaker 2: be great. That's my That's my conclusion to it all.
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  Speaker 2: Gray will be fine, but Murphy's gonna be outstanding. That's
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  Speaker 2: just what I came away with. All Right, Well, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of us YUKS coverage. I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell about that a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 2: the show. He's going to join us at seven oh five.
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  Speaker 2: Let's find out what else is on tap for today's program.
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  Speaker 2: Training Camp week one ends today and there will be
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  Speaker 2: fans here today, So it's back to a one o'clock practice.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald spoke everywhere, spoke with our own Inferness and
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  Speaker 2: Hugh Millen yesterday on my drive home after practice. It
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  Speaker 2: was great. We're going to replay a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: for you a little bit later on at the show
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  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock in case you didn't hear it. I
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  Speaker 2: want to I want to react to a few things
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  Speaker 2: that the fellows asked Coach and how Coach reacted to it.
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  Speaker 2: He just continues to impress everyone he's around every single
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  Speaker 2: day here at the facility and beyond. We have a
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  Speaker 2: special head coach here in Seattle. People. Hard Knocks also,
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  Speaker 2: the clips are starting to make their rounds. There's a
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  Speaker 2: clip of Coach McDonald kind of addressing the room with
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  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks being part of training camp this year, and
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  Speaker 2: it's starting to make its rounds. I believe it's Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: right the fourth, that we will have the first episode
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  Speaker 2: of Hard Knocks featuring the Seahawks, and of course we
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  Speaker 2: will react to that for sure. The day after the
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Jidebian Clowney to the Seahawks. Rumors are real. That's a
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: real thing. That's not something being made up. They are interested.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Jedebion Clowney played for Mike McDonald in Baltimore and had
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: one of the best seasons of his career, and Jedebon
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Clowney had some really great moments here in Seattle as well,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: So it's not like he left here and the organization thought, oh,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: don't ever want to see that guy again. So as
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: strange as it might sound because you have Fowler Junior
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: in camp and it seems like you're mostly set in
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: your front seven rotation, especially with all the talk about
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Riley Mills. No, there's still legit interest in Jdevion Clowney,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: who is the best remaining free agent on the market
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at this late stage in the process, and they love
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: his versatility and they think that he can be an
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: asset to this roster. But of course it's going to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: come down to a negotiation and trying to convince him
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to come back to Seattle on the amount of money
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: that they're willing to pay, because they're going to try
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to keep their cap space for later in the season
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: if they need to make a trade at the deadline.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: But it's real, Jadevian Clowney is somebody that they're interested in,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and he's interested in them. We'll talk with Greg Bell
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: about that at seven to five. Speaking of the trading deadline,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: we are three days away from the MLB trading deadline
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and still I mean, we had a trade yesterday a
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: relief pitcher from the Mets aj Mentor to the Minnesota Twins.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: But we're up to three legitimate trades so far in
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the deadline, which in normal years, I would probably punch somebody,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: just a perfect stranger, right in the throat, if we
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: only had three trades at this time, because I'd be
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: so angry. But I knew what was coming. I know
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: that the flurry of action is going to happen, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a flurry. But I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen on Sunday going into Monday, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: then Monday I think is going to be crazy. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: think the Mariners will get involved. There is a pretty
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: substantial rumor flying around today on social media that Elliott Ramos,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: right handed hitter for the San Francisco Giants, might be
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the target right now. But the market is not good
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: for teams with pitching depth that are dangling pitching. It's
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: great for teams that are dangling hitting, and you combine
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: those two things together, it feels like we might have
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to overpay for Elliott Ramos. I think he'd be a
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: nice addition to this team. I really do, But right
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: now I'm worried about how much you're gonna have to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: give up in order to get him. So we'll talk
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: about that a little bit later on in the show
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: as well. We also have Marin this morning after coming
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: your way at six thirty, will go over last night's game.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: We will address last night's game. I know we haven't
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: brought it up yet, but we will get to it. Also,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Daniel Laurie's gonna join us again. We love her. She'll
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: join us at eight thirty. We're gonna talk about her daughter.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Believe it or not. A big game Little League World
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Series Softball Sunday morning at seven am. Daniel Laurie's little
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: girl is the star of the team. As you might guess,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Snowhomish versus Lake Mary, Florida gets the Little League College
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Softball World Series started day at seven am. So Danielle's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: gonna join us. We get to chat with her every
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: once in a while. She's she's great too. A Sounders
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Timbers tomorrow at seven forty five. Huge game for the Sounders.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They got to prove that they just didn't forget how
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to play soccer over the long break that provided the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: World Cup for us. They're taking on the Portland Timbers,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: who embarrassed the Sounders a couple of weeks ago five
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to one, and Brian Schmetz are going to try to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: get a completely different outing tomorrow night seven forty five.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in the ochow and finally Storm
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: versus Dream tonight at four thirty. Coming up next though
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck in the Morning's Live from the Virginia
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Mason Athletics Center, we will talk about last night's loss
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to the Dodgers. It felt heavy. Mariner's Morning After comes
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: your way next. Sports Radio ninety three point three kja
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: RFM Mariner's Morning After. We do this after every Mariner's game,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: every single one win or loss, and another loss, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: they've piled up here as of late. And let's face it,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: we got a lot more losses than we expected to
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: deal with one hundred and ten games into the season,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and certainly I am flored that this team is fifty
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: three and fifty seven. I sold at the beginning of
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the year that not only would they win the division comfortably,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: that it would be a comfortable year that we would
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: not have to deal with what we've dealt with the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: last five seasons where the team has been competitive has
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: been playoff like all five seasons, and then of course
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: having crossed over into the playoffs a couple of times.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: But it was never easy, never, never in the Jerry
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Depoto era is anything easy for what I believe is
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: a very talented roster, and has been for the last
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: four seasons for sure. But this one, this team has
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: taken the cake because it wasn't just me, it was
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: national analysts everywhere. It was Vegas that said the Mariners
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: were supposed to run away with the American League West.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And here we have fifty two games to go. They're
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: four games under five hundred, They're two and a half
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: games out and the worst division right now in Major
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: League Baseball, the American League West, and they just seem
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: a bit despondent right now. Last night against the Los
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers are taking on a great team, but you
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: beat them two nights ago, were a really focused effort,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: seven hits in the game, five home runs, and certainly
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you had to question again this team's fire. Last night.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: They fell behind in the first inning for the seventh
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: game in a row. Our starting pitchers have given up
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: runs in the first inning, and this team does not
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: do well the twenty twenty six. I've seen some Mariner
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: teams since I've been here that are scrappers and do
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: pretty well in fighting back from deficits. But this is
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: not one of those teams. They do not play with
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the same fire when they fall behind early, and that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to me showed up again last night. Certainly didn't play
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: with the folks in the fire they brought to Los
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Angeles three nights ago. And so Brian Wu has to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: take the mound. Brian Wu, we all know, has struggled
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: on the road mightily this year and has been as
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: good as anyone in the sport when he's pitching at home.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: It's a psychological thing, there is no question in my mind.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And last night and this is where the psychology creeps in.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, we out hit the Los Angeles Dodgers, who
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: were out based them. I should say they had eight hits.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: We had eight hits, We had five walks, they had
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: three walks, and yet we lose by six by four runs,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: six to two because we can't come up with the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: big hit. Brian Wu actually had, I thought terrific stuff
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: last night. But once he on the road, and it's
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: not just traffic on the base paths, it's traffic on
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the bass paths when he thinks he should be out
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: of the inning, and that's where it creeps in. It's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that instead of that bulldog mentality of I've got to
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: dig deeper. I gotta throw my best pitch here. I
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: promise you. What's happening is, oh, here we go again.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I had Edmund struck out in the first
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I missed by an inch Umpire punched him out. But
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: he called a ball. He challenged it. First batter of
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the game challenges it. He gets on first base. He
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: ends up striking out fre Eeman and Muncie, and I'll
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: bet you it creeps into his head. I should already
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: be out of this inning, and instead got one out
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to go. Mookie Bets clears the bases with a double
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: into left center field. Now skip forward to the fourth inning,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: same thing going on here for Brian wu who looked
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: like he'd settled down and was locked back in, walks
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, who is not playing well this year. But
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: he walks Kyle Tucker with one out. Then tayoscar and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: gets on on an infield single where Herman, Munster, himself,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: West and Wilson can't get to the ball quickly enough,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and then for some reason takes three steps before he
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: throws the baseball Taoscar Hernandez. As we know is not
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: a fast runner, and he's slower now than when he
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was as a Mariner. And Hernandez gets an infield single,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and I promise you what entered Brian Woof's head is
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: here we go again. Can't get picked up by my defense.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And he's never gonna outwardly say that, because he's a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: good guy and he's a good teammate. But he and
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: George Kirby both have that when you've had a lot
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: of struggles and you know, you feel like you can't
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: catch a break, especially on the road. Instead of digging deeper,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: what's entering your mind is I should have two outs
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: right now and a runner at second. That's what I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: should have. And instead he's thinking, and so it distracts
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: him from digging deeper. So here's Dalton rushing at the play.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Good hitter, even though he hits down in the order
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: for the best team in Major League Baseball, gets ahead
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: of him all one and then just throws a cookie
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: slider right over the middle. And Dalton rushing does this
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: mean this is hammered?
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: And god, well, he's having him out a series. He
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: blows it open five nothing in the.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Four Mariners TV. Aaron's just I think he's sick right now.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But if he's not sick sick of the team, he
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: might be sick of the team. Maybe. I actually did
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: put in a text to people that know him a
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: little better than I do. I don't know him hardly
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: at all, so to text him directly it was not
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: going to happen. I don't have his number, but I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: text a person that knows him a little better. I'm like,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is he sick? And I was told that he is
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: stealing under the weather. He talked about it in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: broadcast last night that the Dodgers sound system has also
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: weakened his voice, so maybe he's trying to preserve the voice.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: But he did sound sad. I mean he sound He
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: has sounded depressed the last two nights on the on
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the air, and it's matched the way the team has
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: played the last two After looking as fired up and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: focused as they have all season long in Game one
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: of the series, they fell behind in each of the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: last two and they just they just look kind of melancholy.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: But it's not it's not a reflection on their effort.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: When I say this, it because the effort is there
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: and they did battle, but they can't I mean the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Dodgers got two men on base three times in the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: game and they scored five runs out of it. They
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: got a basis clearing double with two outs and then
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: they got a three run homer. We got three straight
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: innings multiple guys on the base paths in this contest.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: At the end of the game six, seventh, and eight,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, we threatened to mount a come back in
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: three consecutive innings against Dodgers pitching, and instead of getting
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: that big hit that bets base clearing double or rushing
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: three run homer, we got out of three innings of
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: traffic on the bass paths. And I'm talking about multiple
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: base runners. I'm not talking about when a Rose Arena,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you know, doubled home Cole Young. I'm talking about when
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: we had multiple runners and a big hit could have
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: changed the game, could have gotten us back into the game.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Three straight innings, multiple base runners on and at times
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: with less than two outs, and we got a grand
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: total of a bass loaded walk in a clutch moment
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: where ourbis were on the table, and all we got
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: out of three innings in the clutch. We got the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: guys on base, so they were battling. But in the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: clutch when you needed that big hit, that rushing homer,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: or that that's double. We got a base, we got
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: a basis loaded walk, and that's how we scored a run.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And that's I mean, that's been the story all season
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: long with this team. And so they lose it last
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: night six to two. We don't have sound from Dan Wilson.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the people that gathered the sound
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: just didn't want to talk to him, or if he
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: just blew out of town. I don't know. So in
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: lieu of having Dan Wilson audio for you in our
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Mariners morning after, here's the SoundBite I have for you
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: this morning. Yeah, that's all I got for you. That's it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: About as much information as an actual Dan Wells the
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: press Huntrenz exactly.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, look, I know, you say one hundred
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: and ten games, that's a large sample size. I mean
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: there's nothing. I mean, I know, we keep talking about
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: it like, oh, maybe they're about to catch fire. Every
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: time somebody, you know, hits a home run. Oh maybe
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: that's the turnaround. We keep waiting for that moment. I
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: don't think this theme's going to hit some magical groove.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I just don't think it's going to happen. But fortunately
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: you are in a division where no one's run away
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: with it, and you do have great pitching, especially at home.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: So here you go. This is it, This is foot
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: in the ground moment. You can't slide back any further
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: than this. Fifty three and fifty seven, two and a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: half games back in a bad division, with the Astros
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: actually playing really good baseball, and they're ahead of you
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: two now. But you got nine games, You got a gauntlet,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: a very difficult competition coming up. By comparison, the next
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: nine games at home, where you are much better and
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: you certainly pitch much better. This is your opportunity. This
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: is it. It's now. It's not tomorrow, it's not next week,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it's not ten days from now. It is now. You
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: get this thing going now. And I'm not talking about
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: a complete magical turnaround where suddenly you pull a seventeen
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: game winning streak out of your ass. I'm talking about
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: play better baseball, get off to better starts, play with
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: more fire, play with more focus. Someone in the big
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: three particularly come through with a big hit in a
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: big moment. You've got the twins who are in contention.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: They got a better record than us. You've got the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Tigers who are getting ready to sell a lot of
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: players at the trading deadline before you face them early
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: next week. And then you got a good Tampa Bay
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Ray's team, but not one of those teams that beats
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the hell out of people. They're gonna try to beat
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you three to two. We try to beat teams three
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to two. You should be in every single one of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: those games. Now is the time get it done. If
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: you don't over the next nine days, it's just not
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. I don't see in this team so magical
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: run coming in September. They just don't play consistently enough.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: And so let's see if they can get something going.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: But you know, I need at least a six and
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: three homestand and seven and two sounds a lot better
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: than that. So it starts tonight against the Minnesota Twins.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: For some reason, Bryce Miller couldn't pitch yesterday. I don't
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: know why. But he's going to be able to pitch
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: today and he'll be taking on Zebi Matthews, who is
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: young Minnesota Twins pitcher talented, but he still hasn't put
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: it together. Five point two one era. We should smack
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: him around a little bit and our home ballpark tonight.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: But you never know with this offense. Please get off
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: to a fast start, for once in your lives. Get
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: off to a fast start. Miller versus Matthews tonight at
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: seven ten. We'll talk more about the MS a little
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: bit later on in the show, but coming up next,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: talk of camp. I mean, we can throw out a
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: lot of different names, but I'm gonna be honest with you,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: there's one guy who's the talk of camp around here.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about an next Sports Radio ninety three
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: point three k A r F M.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Let's give him something to go bout. Let's give him
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: something to talk about. How about love, Love love love us.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, great morning to you. It is a beautiful Friday.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: The sun now starting to splash across the field here
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Oh, you should see
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: what it looks like from out here. Lovely, lovely. It's
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: still got the moon hanging up in the sky over
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: there as well. And then you got the sun over
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: here saying what up? Moon?
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And and so just a beautiful setting. Looks like we're
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: gonna have another gorgeous day. Yesterday was fantastic. I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: not just a cooperative the summer heat, if you will.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: We haven't only had summer heat. I guess we're having
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a few hot days next week, but the temperatures have
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: been cooperative. And then you combine that with the breeze.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Of course, I am the founder and CEO of Breeze Club,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: so I love that the breeze coming off the lake,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and it's just an idyllic setting for some training camp football.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Far cry from when I got ready for football practice
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: back on the mean fields of southwestern Illinois, where you
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: really I mean, there were literally during football practice moments
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: where the coach felt that the grass beneath our feet
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: was too plush and he wasn't getting enough out of us.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: So he would take us to the places where there
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: were dirt, clods and rocks and we would practice there
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: because we were getting way too spoiled practicing on grass. YEP,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: that's the way it worked once upon a time, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: things have certainly changed. It's pretty much perfect out there
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. All right, Well,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: let's do talk of camp. It is a feature that
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: we have not on a daily basis, but it's something
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I've been doing at training camp since I started eleven
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: years ago at kJ R. And so we do we
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: do back camp battle, which we're gonna do a little
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: bit later actually in our Greg Bell conversation at seven
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: o five, and then we do talk of camp. Who's
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: creating the buzz here at camp? And certainly there are
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: some guys we've already mentioned. I've already mentioned Byron Murphy.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I think Byron Murphy had everybody like gasping yesterday they
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: couldn't believe what they were seeing. We have had Riley Mills,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: who both Hugh and Greg in the span of you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: twelve hours and talking to both of them both mentioned
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: separately that Riley Mills was creating the buzz at camp.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I've heard Bud Clark creating buzz here at camp. But
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is, and I am all
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: about the truth. You know that by now. The truth
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  Speaker 2: of the matter is that there is really one person
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  Speaker 2: that is the buzz of this camp, and he doesn't
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: probably want to be, not with his personality, but it's
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  Speaker 2: the guy that everyone's talking about in every conversation, whether
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: it be media member, Seahawk organizational member, player, whatever it is, coworkers,
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  Speaker 2: it's Mike McDonald. It's the head coach. And you know what,
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  Speaker 2: we don't ever use in my talk of camp feature
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: a coach. I don't have spring training. We do talk
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: of camp, Bucky, and I've always done talk of camp,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: never brought up a coach being the talk of camp,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: never brought up Dan Wilson or Scott Servis. But in
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: this particular case, I mean, we just gotta be honest
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  Speaker 2: with ourselves. This guy, I mean Hard Knocks puts out
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: his first vignette to promote its show with the Seahawks
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: starting next week, and it's Mike McDonald upfront addressing the team.
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  Speaker 2: That's who they think that this entire drama is gonna
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: be built around this training camp. And it's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I got Hugh Millan, who's just was giddy
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  Speaker 2: about getting the chance yesterday to talk to Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: He jumped on on Ian's show. He's gone as far
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  Speaker 2: as saying that Mike McDonald might be his favorite professional
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: coach in Seattle history. Wow, and this is just the
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: third year that we're into this. It's Mike McDonald. I mean,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: no matter who you talk to, his name gets brought up,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: the praise for him gets brought up. Uh, And I
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: love the fact that he's humble about it and doesn't
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: want to be the center of attention, and yet can't
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: help but be the center of attention. So, man, do
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: we have a good one. I wouldn't trade him for
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: any head coach in the National Football League, And man,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I think that. Let everybody else talk about the Los
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Angeles Rams, But this team won a world championship last
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: year and it's going to be better this season. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest reason. There are a lot of reasons,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: but the biggest reason is the head coach. The talk
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: of Camp. Greg Bell's next with us at seven oh five.
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