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10-22: Kenneth Walker talk, Zach Charbonnet activated and Farhan Lalji · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 2: Good morning, happy Thursday from Seahawks headquarters. Headlines brought to
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks had Zach Charbonnet return to practice full go
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  Speaker 2: yesterday for the first time since he tore his knee
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  Speaker 2: ligaments in the January playoff game against the 49ers. Expecting
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  Speaker 2: a roster move today to move Charmony off the physically
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  Speaker 2: unable to perform list and onto the active roster to
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  Speaker 2: make his season debut at running back Sunday night versus
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City, the unbeaten Chiefs and the Kenneth Walkers. NFL
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  Speaker 2: Now on with the Thursday show. Happy Thursday. I'm back
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  Speaker 2: out at Seahawks headquarters. Jessamyn McIntyre back in our Elliott
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  Speaker 2: Bay studios in downtown Seattle. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Send in those talkbacks. I get lonely back here.
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  Speaker 2: The iHeartRadio app, 933-KJR, or... Our website, 933KJR. com, where this
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  Speaker 2: morning I put up my latest Seahawks story I wrote
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  Speaker 2: for our KJR website about the Seahawks' love for Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Walker to this day, including coach Mike McDonald. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Walker is leading the NFL in rushing for the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: because the Seahawks did make an effort to re-sign him,
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  Speaker 2: letting him walk after his Super Bowl MVP performance. And
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  Speaker 2: now Walker is ripping it up for the Chiefs, playing
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  Speaker 2: more than he ever has in the NFL. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear today from Julian Love, Mike McDonald, A.J. Barner.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of love in the locker room still for
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, who, of course, began his career as a
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  Speaker 2: second-round pick for Michigan State and Wake Forest in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: And then last year, a job share that pretty much
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  Speaker 2: cemented his choice of, even if you brought Brink's truck
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  Speaker 2: up to me, I don't think I'm staying. And Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Walker's now in Kansas City. So that's been the story
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  Speaker 2: of the week out here and the talk of yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: Is it revisionist history or is it legit to say this?
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker was a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: A mistake to let him go?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's revisionist history. I mean, what other sacrifices
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  Speaker 5: would they have had to make?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's just it. Probably none because they had enough
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  Speaker 2: cap space and cash to sign both he and Rashid
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  Speaker 2: Shahid back. We've talked all week about what the value
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  Speaker 2: proposition is in the Seahawks and John Schneider's minds. about
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  Speaker 2: the running back position and why they didn't do it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just thinking more about their future cap space because
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  Speaker 5: he is expensive.
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  Speaker 2: He is, and he gets hurt, and the running backs
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  Speaker 2: get hurt in general, and the philosophy has been let's
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  Speaker 2: not pay those guys who are going to break down.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since the Seahawks paid a $ 61 million contract to
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  Speaker 2: Sean Alexander back in 2006 coming off a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: and a National Football League MVP season, ever since then,
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  Speaker 2: and that turned out to be a mistake, and Alexander
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  Speaker 2: was turning 30 and he went over a cliff and
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  Speaker 2: injured and never became anything close to that under that
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  Speaker 2: new contract. But that was a previous regime. That was
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  Speaker 2: the Tim Ruskell previous. That was totally outside of what
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  Speaker 2: John Schneider, how he's operated the last 17 years with
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. But ever since then, the Alexander deal is
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  Speaker 2: pretty much the last free agent extension or contract they've
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  Speaker 2: given to a running back. And, There's a reason for that.
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  Speaker 2: And we've talked all week about those reasons. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make a Seahawks fan feel any better this week. Not
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  Speaker 2: with the undefeated Chiefs coming in and Walker leading the
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  Speaker 2: NFL in rushing and the Seahawks 3-3 with just schmoes
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  Speaker 2: in the running game. Yeah. We spent a long time
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  Speaker 2: on the roundtable with Hugh Millen, Chuck Powell, and I
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  Speaker 2: talking about that this morning. And Hugh was saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a mistake. And it is. I tried to present
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  Speaker 2: the reason of why they did it. their thinking, their
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  Speaker 2: philosophy at running back, but at this moment is where
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  Speaker 2: it stands. It's a mistake, but I will say this, Jessamyn,
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  Speaker 2: jury's still way, way out on Jadarian Price, right? They've
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  Speaker 2: still got four years of him. We've only seen three
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  Speaker 2: games of him so far. So, he's on injured reserve
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  Speaker 2: until at least next month, but I hear you. I
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  Speaker 2: know it was a mistake sitting here now that the
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  Speaker 2: leading rusher that you had, Super Bowl MVP that you had,
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  Speaker 2: is coming into play against you because you didn't make
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  Speaker 2: a serious offer for him, and That so far has
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  Speaker 2: come back to bite him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have a question for you, too.
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  Speaker 5: If you knew, because you've talked about it, your conversations
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  Speaker 5: with him, how would you feel that he didn't want
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  Speaker 5: to stay?
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  Speaker 3: How hard would you fight to keep him?
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  Speaker 2: It was twofold. Right. They didn't want to commit any
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  Speaker 2: big money that would keep him, and he didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to stay. And that's really the bottom line. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why it never got pretty much anywhere. You'll hear Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald talk about what really was the last time Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Walker was a Seahawk, the day after the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: I asked him about, I just flat out asked the
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  Speaker 2: coach yesterday, do you have second thoughts about Walker leaving
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  Speaker 2: and you guys not keeping him? And he went to
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  Speaker 2: the story about the day after the Super Bowl, and
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  Speaker 2: they were in a van from the team hotel in
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  Speaker 2: San Jose all the way back up to downtown San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco for the day after head coach and Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: MVP press conference with the commissioner in the Moscone Center
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco. I was there. And it takes, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's Monday morning rush hour. And the thing started like
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  Speaker 2: at 830 or something. So it took about an hour
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  Speaker 2: to go that 40-some miles from San Jose to downtown
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco. And McDonald talked about that van ride and
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  Speaker 2: the conversation that he had with Kenneth Walker and said
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  Speaker 2: it was about everything pretty much but football. They spent
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  Speaker 2: that whole day together. They flew down to Southern California
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  Speaker 2: together from San Francisco because then Walker went to Disneyland
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  Speaker 2: as a Super Bowl MVP and Mike McDonald went to
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  Speaker 2: Southern California with Walker because he went to Hollywood to
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  Speaker 2: take a Jimmy Kimmel episode from that night. And so
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  Speaker 2: they had a lot of time together, Walker and McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: the day after the Super Bowl, just the two of them.
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  Speaker 2: While the rest of the team, the players and coaches,
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  Speaker 2: flew back to Seattle, McDonald and Walker flew to Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles in Southern California. So you'll hear from Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: talking about that and what really was the end of
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker as a Seahawks Walker knew then. He knew
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  Speaker 2: four days before the Super Bowl when I talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: And when I told you, he said, well, how would
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  Speaker 2: you feel about the job share with Charbonnet? They knew.
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  Speaker 2: They knew that they weren't going to make a competitive
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  Speaker 2: offer and he was going to leave. And here they
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  Speaker 2: are now. The Seahawks are trying to prepare to stop
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  Speaker 2: the NFL's leading rusher Sunday night when the undefeated Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: come in. Julian Love talked about Kenneth Walker at length yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I talked in the locker room before practice with A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Barner about how much they love Kenneth Walker still. And always,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear from all of them. Love, Barner and McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: about Barner being at the Ronald McDonald House Gala last weekend?
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  Speaker 2: And you'll hear from him in talking about that. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man... If you do that, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to publicize it and trumpet it like I did when
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  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson did it, like I did at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Washington when teams would go over there, the whole
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  Speaker 2: soccer team, and they would just go. And Heather Tarr
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  Speaker 5: So that's nice. And so, yeah, that Kenneth Walker story
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  Speaker 2: That was from this morning and it was about how
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  Speaker 2: much they still love him. And my question to Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald about, do you still have second thoughts? 49451 on
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  Speaker 2: the Tacoma Dodge text line, your opinion about Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of you opining that Walker would
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  Speaker 2: have returned had they make some kind of money offer
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  Speaker 2: that they did not make. I'm here to submit to
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  Speaker 2: you that Walker was of the frame of mind back
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  Speaker 2: in September that he may be leaving because of this
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  Speaker 2: job share. Think about it. Last year, he played 47%
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  Speaker 2: of the snaps in a contract year. 47. And for
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  Speaker 2: most of the season, until Charbonnet got hurt in January,
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  Speaker 2: he was playing, Walker was playing fewer snaps than Charbonnet
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  Speaker 2: was in a contract year. And He, in fact, went
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  Speaker 2: down from 64% of snaps to 64% in 2024 to 47%
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  Speaker 2: last year. Why was that? Well, in August of 2025,
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  Speaker 2: during the preseason, we were in Green Bay. We were
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  Speaker 2: at the downtown hotel with Mike McDonald. We were meeting there.
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  Speaker 2: It was the hotel that Vince Lombardi first got introduced
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  Speaker 2: as a Packers coach back in the late 50s. Historic place.
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  Speaker 2: There's Vince Lombardi memorabilia all over the lobby of this hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Hotel in downtown Green Bay. And we were just sitting
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  Speaker 2: there drinking beers and talking to Mike McDonald. And at
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  Speaker 2: that time, in August of 2025, he was concerned about
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker's durability to last and stay healthy through the
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  Speaker 2: entire season, which he had yet to do in his
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  Speaker 2: first three seasons with the Seahawks. And he was also
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  Speaker 2: concerned about a foot injury that kept Walker off the
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  Speaker 2: field for much of 2025's training camp. That foot injury
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be related to the high ankle sprain
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  Speaker 2: that Walker had that prematurely ended his 24 season. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he went on injured reserve in December of 2024, if
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  Speaker 2: anyone remembers that. But it was yet again another season
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  Speaker 2: in which he did not play 17 regular season games.
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  Speaker 2: So the Seahawks decided then, back in the summer of 2025,
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  Speaker 2: to govern him, to limit him, and to do this
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  Speaker 2: job share with Charbonnet. The idea being fewer snaps for
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  Speaker 2: the longer haul of having Walker all 17 games. Now
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  Speaker 2: that certainly benefited the team. Because Zach Charbonnet ended up
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  Speaker 2: rushing for 12 touchdowns during the last regular season, the
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  Speaker 2: most since Marshawn Lynch in 2014 for Seattle. And Walker
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  Speaker 2: played all 17 regular season games for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in his career. But he played the fewest snaps in
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  Speaker 2: his contract year. So for him, while it benefited the
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  Speaker 2: team for sure, it did not benefit Kenneth Walker. And
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  Speaker 2: he was coming off the field inside the 20 yard line.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as the ball got in the red zone,
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  Speaker 2: out comes nine and in comes 26. And Charbonnet scores
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  Speaker 2: 12 touchdowns. Well, then Charbonnet gets hurt in January in
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  Speaker 2: the playoff game, rips out his knee ligaments against San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco in mid-January, and all of a sudden Walker got
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  Speaker 2: what he'd been seeking the whole year, which is a
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  Speaker 2: stage to himself to be the lead back in the
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  Speaker 2: biggest games of the year. The second half of the blowout,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: win of the 49ers in a divisional round, the NFC
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Championship game against the Rams, and most of all, of course,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl with 200 million people watching in February
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: when he went wild. 135 yards rushing, two touchdowns, And
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: everybody then said, whoa, how much money Kenneth Walker just
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: made for himself in this postseason. And that ultimately is
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: what priced him out of Seattle. But again, he was
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: predisposed because of the whole preservation mode that the Seahawks
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: put him in to get him through 17 games last year.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: He was predisposed to say, man, I'm out. I'm going
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: to go find somebody who will use me 75% of
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the time. That's the current snap count offensive usage for
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs. With Kenneth Walker, 75%, far above what he
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: ever did in his four seasons with Seattle. That is
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: just the summarized version of why Kenneth Walker is going
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to be in white, red, and gold on Sunday night
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: instead of Seahawks royal blue. They're wearing their throwbacks again.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: They were on the practice field yesterday. Silver helmets, the
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: royal blue jerseys, silver pants that the Seahawks wore in
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Denver last week they'll be wearing on Sunday night. Why
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: don't we make those permanent?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: They're really nice.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What's the problem with just getting rid of the navy
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: blues and just go with the throwbacks?
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it makes it more special when it
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: is a throwback. To be honest, I just really think
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: it pops a little bit when it's a little bit
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: different than what you've been used to seeing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I like the navies.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with them, but all of a sudden,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: some of the old throwbacks come back.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: It creates nostalgia, but... I don't know. I wouldn't want
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: to see it every week. I want it to be special.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: No, I think it's amazing, and I love it, but
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I think it makes it more special when you don't
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: see it every week.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I should have gone into marketing.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Navy's over gray is their best uniform, their current uniforms.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they should just go back to the throwbacks,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: just full-time. Just do them. They won't, but for me,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I would just go royal blue over silver every home game. 4-9-4-5-1,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about that? I think a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: of you might agree that you take the Royal Blue
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: throwbacks over those Navy Blues. Up next, the love for
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker inside this building at Seahawk Headquarters. We talked
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: a lot about it yesterday with a lot of players
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and coaches, and you'll hear Mike McDonald answer my question,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: do you have second thoughts about letting Kenneth Walker walk?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock, Farhan Lalji of TSN Canada, our weekly visit
• 18:54
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• 18:57
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• 19:02
  Speaker 2: from Seahawk Headquarters on a Thursday. Thanks for listening. 93.3 KJRFM.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Seahawks headquarters. Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre is
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: back in downtown Seattle at our Elliott-based studios, 93.3 KJR FM.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Seahawks back on the practice field today. Sam Darnold is
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: going to talk at noon press conference. They do a walk-through.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: How do Seahawks normal Wednesday, Thursday, Fridays are? They do
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a walk-through practice in T-shirt and shorts in the indoor
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: facility to go over the gameplay. in the mornings. Then
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: they break around the lunch hour for media, for lunch,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: for some treatments. And then about 1.30 they go back
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: out on the practice field for the fuller practice. Usually
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: in shells this time of year. The NFL restricts practices,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: padded or full pad practices to just 14 once the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: regular season starts. Just 14 over a 17-week, 18-counting-by-week regular season.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: So the Seahawks will be most likely in shells again
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: today on Thursday. They'll issue a practice report again yesterday.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet was listed as a full-goal participant for the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: first time since his knee reconstructive surgery in February. He's
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: still in the physically unable to perform list. Today is
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the day of the 21-day practice window ending, where the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Seahawks must make a decision whether to put him on
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the active roster or or to keep him on the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: pup list for the rest of the season, meaning out,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: essentially IR. So they're going to do that today. They're
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: going to put him on the active roster. I'm expecting
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a corresponding roster move to take someone off the 53-man.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And Zach Charbonnet is going to make his season debut
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Sunday night against the Chiefs in some capacity, in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: words of Mike McDonald. Not sure how many carries he'll get.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I doubt he's going to get the full meal deal,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: full load, 15 to 20 carries on his very first
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: game back, eight months after reconstructive knee surgery. The talk
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: of the week... including around the Seahawks and certainly around
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, is Kenneth Walker's return to Seattle. He has
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: 665 yards rushing through five games. The Chiefs have already
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: had their bye. Jessamyn, I don't know if you know,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks have had nine ball carriers this season, nine
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: different players, including quarterbacks Drew Locke and Sam Donald, run
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the ball.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for reasons, yes.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: The rushing total for those nine players over six games,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: fewer yards than Walker has by himself in five games. Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: It hasn't been ideal.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Fewer yards than Walker has by himself. 643 yards total
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: rushing for the Seahawks through six games. Walker himself, 665
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: yards rushing in five games for the Chiefs. That's the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: most yards over the first five games ever in the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: NFL for a running back with a new team.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Ever.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And they play in 75% of the stats for Kansas City.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid's keeping them on the field for all three downs.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: They've got Patrick Mahomes playing under center far more than
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: they did before. because of the outside zone run game
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: that Kenneth Walker is thriving in with the Chiefs. So
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you're going to see Mahomes under center way more than
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Shotgun than he used to. Mike McDonald talked yesterday about
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: that and how different that is going to be, the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: game plan and how defending the Chiefs has changed because
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of Walker and the fact that Mahomes is under center
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a lot more. The Chiefs have gone from the second
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: least productive team under center last year to the second most,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: currently the most, according to Sam McDowell, we talked to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: yesterday on our show. from the Kansas city star mentioning
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that they have now the most productive team under center
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: because of canine Kenneth Walker. Walker's return is the talk
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of the town here in Seattle. Talk of the Seahawks headquarters.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: It's what everyone talked about yesterday. And when everyone asked
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: everybody about yesterday, I asked Mike McDonald, the head coach,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: do you have second thoughts about Kenneth Walker leaving and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you letting him walk to Kansas city instead of resigning him?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That answer and more is from the coach right here. Mike, um, Screens.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid's known for them. Obviously K9 is known for
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: them as well. You guys have had some challenges there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: How do you take steps against that part of the game?
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we looked at the screens over the weekend. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: think there's a couple big plays that distort the... It's
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: like every old school defensive coordinator is like, if you
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: take out all the bad plays, you're playing great defense.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: So it's part of the... Offenses are allowed to run
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: any play they want to and our job is to
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: stop it. So It'll always be a point of assist
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: for us. It's a team play. It's not any individual player.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: We've got to do a great job identifying it and
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: getting everybody to the party.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: With Ken, what do you think of the start he's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: off to in Kansas City?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Off to a tremendous start. Stats back it up. Tape
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: definitely backs it up. He's playing great football.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Did they use him in a different way than you did?
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Did you notice anything that's not what you saw him
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: used in Seattle?
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: They're executing their offense and And he's moving the ball.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: He's scoring.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: He's doing a great job.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: They're under center a lot more this year than last,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: or at least more. Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Probably more frequently than they have in the past.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: How does that help running back and how does that
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: hinder a defense in a run game?
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Uh, I just, I think it's a methods principle saying,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I think there's been really effective teams that have run
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: out of the gun. I know that the trend nowadays
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: is for more under center. Uh, certain runs are probably
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: better out of, out of certain sets. So, um, It
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: also sets up different parts of your game. You move
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: people and that provides limitations on things that you can
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: and can't do. It's just how everything's set up. They're
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: blocking it well under center. Ken's seeing it great and
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: he's running at a high level.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: We know the why, Mike, why Kenneth Walker's in Kansas City,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: but From a football perspective, have you had second thoughts
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: or what-ifs or anything about that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I'll just say I.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Love Ken.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I thoroughly enjoyed him being on our football team. We've
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: had some great one-on-one conversations. I feel like we have
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: a great relationship. I respect the heck out of him.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: I'm happy for him. Obviously, we have to do a
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: great job of stopping him this week. I think, I think,
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: I think there's mixed emotions in terms of like, you're
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: happy for him, but also the way we're trying to
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: figure out ways to stop this guy too, because he's playing,
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: he's playing a really high level.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: How did it end? Cause you went to Disneyland with him.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: If I remember after the Superbowl, was there a departure,
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: a chance to say goodbye or any of that?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Or did he just leave with his decision? And that
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: was that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Well, I think for everybody after the Superbowl, no one's
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: really hanging out, but yeah, we, we, We had a
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: media session. It was just us in the van for
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: like an hour. We were talking all sorts of stuff.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Really nothing about football. That's what I'm referencing. I have
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: nothing but great memories. We appreciate the heck out of
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: them guys. Super Bowl MVP helped us win a championship.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: These things happen. We have to move forward now. Nothing
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: but great things and great memories of camp.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald yesterday talking about Kenneth Walker. He didn't really
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: answer the question whether he had second thoughts. He just said,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I love Kenneth Walker. Julian Love said the same thing.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: What else did he say? Well, I thought he might
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: say something to the effect of there's no doubt that
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: we would love to have him and it just didn't
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: work out or whatever. He didn't really say that. He
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: went on to say these things happen, meaning the business
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of the NFL. Julian Love, the Pro Bowl safety, the veteran,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: said the same thing. And talking about Kenneth Walker yesterday too.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: What's it like just when you see Ken on the
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: other side and kind of just see the success he's
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: having and what that challenge will be like for you
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: guys this weekend?
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's weird for sure.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: Doing what he did for us last season or past
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: bunch of seasons for the Seahawks. And he has just,
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: he's left off where he, you know, he's picked up
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: where he's left off from last season. He's playing, his
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: tape looks incredible. And so it's all hands on deck
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: effort to try to contain and try to stop him.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: He looks every bit as explosive as he's had for
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: the Seahawks.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Well, the guys on the team, you guys get it,
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: the business of football. You understood why Walker left and
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: why they didn't keep him. And then the veteran committee
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: that you guys have in the council, did they come
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: to you in the offseason and say, here's our strategy,
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: this is why we're going to do this?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: No. You're never part of that, right?
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: No, no, we're definitely never part of that. Are you
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: guys sitting.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: There wondering how come we don't have number nine in
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: our backfield?
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's– it's crazy when you look at the
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: tape and see, oh man, this guy is incredible.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: We knew that he was incredible.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: Um, but that's just, that's people above us. Um, I
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: think the players will always have a bond and a
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: love and respect for a canine. Um, a lot of
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: guys in here, you know, are, are incredibly close with
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: him still. Um, and we will, because of what we
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: did last year, that bond will be forever. Um, we'll
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: always kind of be attached. Um, but you know, while
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: he wears another Jersey, we have to attack him just
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: like anybody else with another Jersey.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: Um, I think he would want that. I think, uh,
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: that's just how it is in this league.
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: But those, those conversations are a way above players heads.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: How aware, how aware are you of the 35 game
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: franchise record.
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: Without allowing, um, 100 yard rusher?
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: And is this the biggest challenge you've had to date
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: and trying to.
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: Uh, I mean, definitely it's a huge challenge today. Um, I,
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: I hear that stat every, you know, bunch of games.
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: Somebody says that I think when we play great running backs,
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: that always kind of comes up.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Um, I don't know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: I think it's kind of our collective style. I don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: think anyone on defense is realizing that in the moment.
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: We're just trying to, whoever's running the ball, try to
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: stop the run and defend the pass. And the stats
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: kind of show what the stats show. Yeah, and our job,
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: I mean, just not with him, with their other backs
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: as well, is like, just not let them go campus
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: legend mode while they're here.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: Try to stop the run. And yeah, just play sound defense.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: In training camps, when you guys would go 1v1s, you
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: know ken was obviously a lot of times the guy
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: back there is there anything from those experiences that whether
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: it's mannerisms style you know traits whatever that help you
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: guys at all this.
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: Week yeah i think what always impressed me about him
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: was that he always just practiced really hard um every
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: run that he got in practice he would finish in
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: the end zone um and we could be 70 yards
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: uh kind of on the opposite 30.
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: Um, that's just kind of how he worked.
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: Um, and his ability, I mean, like I kind of said,
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: it is really good contact balance. His, his balance ability,
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: his cutback ability. Um, he just, his center of gravity
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: is always changing and that's what makes him a tough tackle.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And you've seen it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: He's a ton of explosives this year cause people just
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: don't know how to tackle him. Um, And so, yeah,
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: I think he has all the traits of being a
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: huge point of emphasis.
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: Aside from the playoff run last season, Ken mostly split
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: carries with Zach over those three or four years.
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: Is it at all.
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: Surprising he's on track for a career high in carries, yards, touchdowns,
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: all that, that he's become that bell cow?
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: Definitely not surprising.
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: I think I don't know how many people on the
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: team have played against him before. My last year in
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: New York, I played against a rookie canine, and he
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: was every bit as incredible back then. He had a
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: dynamic rookie year. I think it's just he's not playing better.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: I think he's just getting the ball a little bit more. So, yeah,
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: that production rate is still super high. He's just getting
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: now a lot more touches.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Julian Love, the Pro Bowl veteran, really good with the media,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: putting things in perspective. He's the best. Our job is
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: not to let Kenneth Walker go campus legends mode. The
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: streak alluded to there is 35 games since the Seahawks
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: have allowed a 100-yard rusher. James Cook of the Bills
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: in October of the 2024 season, the first season Mike
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: McDonald was the head coach of the Seahawks. That's the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: last time someone's run for 100 on Seattle. That's their task.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You're going to hear that stat Sunday night during the
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: broadcast as well. The Seahawks with Kenneth Walker coming in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: averaging 117-plus yards a game. A.J. Barner was in the
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: locker room before practice yesterday talking also about Kenneth Walker.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I asked him. about how much he's beloved inside the
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: locker room. How beloved is Kenneth Walker still in this
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: locker room? I think he's loved for sure.
• 31:32
  Speaker 14: I mean, I'm a big fan of K-9. He was
• 31:35
  Speaker 14: a great back for us. Obviously part of the business
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: that someone, you know, when you move on from a player,
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: but I think, you know, a lot of us still
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: have so much respect for K-9 and want the best
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: for him. You know, obviously we want to play well
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: on Sunday, but when I see him, you know, have
• 31:51
  Speaker 14: success on other games, I'm always a big fan.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: In a week like this, dude, when you're watching film,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: you're going, oh, dang, why do we not have him
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: on our team anymore?
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously he's such a spectacular
• 32:04
  Speaker 14: talent that you see the plays he's making, and it's like,
• 32:07
  Speaker 14: you know, that would be nice to have around. But,
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: you know, I think we have confidence in the guys
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: that are here and coming back from injuries. So we're
• 32:16
  Speaker 14: excited to get everyone back, but we know K-9's a
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: great player.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Like you said, that's the business, right? Yeah, unfortunately, yeah,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: part of.
• 32:22
  Speaker 14: The business when– Teams make decisions, players make decisions, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: everyone's got to move forward.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: Yes, sir, of course.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: A.J. Barner at his locker right before practice yesterday. Think
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: about it. If you're watching film, Jessamyn, this week, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you're studying the Chiefs offense, especially defensive players, and you're
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: seeing number nine in a Chiefs uniform just running all
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: over the NFL, you'd be like, wait a minute. He
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: was just in our locker room eight months ago winning
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl MVP for us. Why is he not here?
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but his season was very different leading up
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: to that, you know, national moment that we all saw
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: and everything. And I just thought that the Seahawks, for
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: their season last year, did everything right between the splits.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: You know, between Charbonnet and himself. I just thought it
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: worked well. And what is the end goal? To win
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: a Super Bowl. K-9 was fresh for that. It's why
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: he got the MVP. And as Coach Mack would say,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: that is unsustainable. But if you save it for the
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: playoffs and a Super Bowl championship, then it is sustainable
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: for that short period of time. I'm so happy for
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Kenneth doing everything that he's doing. But man, I hope
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: it doesn't wear on him because I... I truly root
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: for him, just not against the Seahawks.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: 49451, coming out of Texas, do you agree with Jessamyn?
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks did the right thing last year in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: way they managed Kenneth Walker with a job share with
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Zach Sarbanet. It's an interesting way to put it. Up next, A.J. Barner.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: More from A.J. Barner. I talked to him about how
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: he got involved with the Ronald McDonald House. His gala
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: event he had with Steve Rabel and Jim Zorn last
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: week and raised $ 1. 5 billion in just a couple hours
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: for the families of the very sick children who have
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: to stay long-term at Children's Hospital in Seattle, right across
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the street from the Ronald McDonald House in the Lowellhurst
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: neighborhood of our city. You'll hear from A.J. Barner how
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: he got involved in this great, worthwhile cause and what
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: it means to him next. 11 o'clock, Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada,
• 34:22
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• 34:25
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• 34:28
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• 34:31
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• 34:34
  Speaker 2: All that's coming up from Seahawks headquarters on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show, the Greg Will Show. Desmond
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: McIntyre is back at the Elliott Bay Studios in downtown Seattle.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I'm out at SEAC headquarters along Lake Washington. Tonight, remember,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: 9.50 a.m. has got your NFL game. Excuse me, the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Patriots at the Bears in Chicago. 5.15 on the a.m. side.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: It's on the a.m. because FM's got crackin' hockey tonight.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I misspoke earlier. It's a 7 o'clock puck drop because
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: of national television. 6.30 pregame show with the captain Mike Benton.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock puck drop. Utah Mammoth at Climate Pledge Arena
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: to play the Kraken. Kraken have their most wins through
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: ten games yet of their franchise history. Six seasons. This
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: is six wins, three losses, and an overtime loss. That's
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: most wins in ten games to start a season. Loving it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Going for number seven tonight against Utah. Then they're home
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: against Minnesota. And then they're home again next week against Toronto.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: So a homestand here for the Kraken. Continuing their night
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: against Utah at 7 o'clock, Buckyard Pier. with Everett Fitzhugh
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: and Al Kaminsky on 93.3 KJRFM, your home of the Kraken.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lalji is going to join us at 11 o'clock,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: talk all around the NFL like we do every week
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: at that time. AJ Barner, I talked to Seahawks tight
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: end yesterday before practice about Kenneth Walker, about some other things,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: and about the Ronald McDonald House that he's involved in.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Remember earlier this week I told you Barner, Steve Rabel,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: and Jim Zorn, Seahawks legends, were out. at a gala
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: event benefiting the Ronald McDonald House, an annual event they have.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It raised $ 1. 5 million in just a couple hours Saturday night.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: That's how A.J. Barner spent his mini-buy weekend off after
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks played in Denver on Thursday. Awesome cause. I mean,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: think about how much it would cost families that have
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: children that have to be an inpatient in Seattle Children's Hospital.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: In the Laurelhurst section of Seattle, to stay in a
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: hotel or an Airbnb in northeast Seattle for two weeks,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: 30 days, 60, 90 days, that would bankrupt people. It
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: would bankrupt anybody.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Through the devastating medical bills that they're probably dealing with
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: as well.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Exactly. On top of the stress, the Ronald McDonald House
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: houses them in a great, comfortable setting among trees, across
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the street, in Laurelhurst, right across the street from Seattle Children's.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: They feed them. They have people that bring in food
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: for them, all from donations, the Ronald McDonald Charities. But that,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: in particular, is an awesome one, the Ronald McDonald House.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: So I asked AJ Barner how he got involved in this.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I think I answered this once, but how did you
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: get involved with Ronald McDonald? I started working with Ronald
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: McDonald House. I was actually able to work with McDonald's
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: as a partner and.
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: Then kind of took it to another level and wanted
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: to work with the house. So I've been working with
• 37:49
  Speaker 14: them for over a year now. And then also the
• 37:52
  Speaker 14: connection with the Seattle Children's Hospital. So I've met a
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: lot of great people at the house specifically and like
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: worked helping them make food for the families, meeting the families.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Meeting some of the kids.
• 38:05
  Speaker 14: But majority of it is like obviously the kids and
• 38:09
  Speaker 14: what they have going on, but like for them to
• 38:11
  Speaker 14: be able to house the families during.
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: That time is definitely like what it's all about.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Had you been to a Ronald McDonald house before that?
• 38:19
  Speaker 14: I don't think I did before I came out to Seattle,
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: but I've been multiple times now to the Seattle one,
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: went to the gala, and then also have been to
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: the children's hospital many times, like a bunch of my
• 38:31
  Speaker 14: other teammates.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: And how did you first get in with McDonald's?
• 38:35
  Speaker 14: Just kind of like a marketing, yeah, just kind of
• 38:37
  Speaker 14: like a Western Seattle deal, and then I wanted to
• 38:42
  Speaker 14: do my Cosmic Leaps with the house.
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 38:46
  Speaker 14: And from there, I've just built a great relationship with
• 38:49
  Speaker 14: the people that work there and visit there quite often.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Because that's really expensive for families, some of those stays
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: for those kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it not is.
• 38:57
  Speaker 14: So a lot of it's, like, the funding that they
• 38:59
  Speaker 14: get from people donating and all that. So it takes
• 39:03
  Speaker 14: a big burden off the families. A lot of them
• 39:05
  Speaker 14: come in from out of state, too. There's families from
• 39:07
  Speaker 14: Alaska or all over Washington.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's great. Well, good on you. Thank you.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: You're welcome. AJ Barnum, the Seahawks tight end. He's from Aurora, Ohio,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: about an hour north of where I grew up in Steubenville, Ohio.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: He went to the University or Indiana University and then
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: he went to the University of Michigan for his final
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: college season before the Seahawks drafted him three years ago.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I don't often end my interviews with players saying good
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: on you. and congratulating for what they do. But as
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I've said, you do this. You do something that benefits
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Children's Hospital, the kids there, the families there, Ronald McDonald
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: House right across the street from the hospital. You do that,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to publicize it. I did it for Russell Wilson.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I did it for visits. I have a personal connection
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: there where my wife's been working there for over 20 years.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: And as A.J. Barner mentioned, my wife has patients from
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: all over, from China, from Alaska, from Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the East Coast, everywhere. And those people don't have connections
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: to Seattle oftentimes. Or even if you're from Yakima or Wenatchee,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: you're not going to commute driving over to be able
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: to see your sick child in a hospital. You want
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to be right there. Well, to be right there costs
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: money in Seattle, a lot of money. And those stays
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: are often long-term stays. Those kids, I mean, that's huge
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: to have your family there. Ronald McDonald House makes it
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: possible for their families to be there. So good on A.J.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Barner for spending his off time last weekend raising money.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: He auctioned those cleats he mentioned. My cause, my cleats.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Every November, the NFL does that. And his cleats last
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: year were Ronald McDonald, the Ronald McDonald House. It was fantastic.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a hand-drawing, crayon drawing by children for Ronald McDonald Charities,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and that's what Barner auctioned off as part of the
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 5 million that they raised for the Ronald McDonald House.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: I think it's a wonderful cause, and I know that
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: sometimes we'll kind of push back on the pink gear
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: that the NFL takes a chunk of.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: This was an authentic... auction.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Right here in seattle and those my cause my cleats
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: those actually go directly to the causes that they choose
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: and i think more people should be aware of that
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: it's not the same thing that an nfl gets a
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: bite of.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Correct and it's the players who get to choose and
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: their own auctions and their own charities and their own
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: awareness raising awareness for that'll be coming up again next
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: month for every the annual thing that the nfl and
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: their players do Good on A.J. Barner, for sure. Thank
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: you for him. Thanks for the text line. A lot
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: of people commenting on the Tacoma Dodge text line, 49451,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: about Jessamyn's point that the Seahawks did it right last
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: year because they won the Super Bowl splitting the running back.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: And they got.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: That's the goal.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: They got Kenneth Walker through 17 games for the first
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: time in his career. It cost them keeping him, but
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: they won the Super Bowl doing it, and that's what
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the team is all about, so... A lot of you
• 42:04
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• 42:14
  Speaker 2: our buddy Farhan Lalati from TSN Canada joins us every
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: week on Thursday at 11 o'clock to talk about all
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: things NFL. Jalen Hurts, how badly did the Eagles do this,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: and why is the NFL just going along with it?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Why is his agent going along with the Eagles going
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: along with how it all went down? that he played
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: with blood clots that are now in his lungs and
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: have him out for the season. And is the NFC
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: West already over? The Seahawks are three and a half
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: games back already, six games into the season. The Rams
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: are four and a half back from the unbeaten 49ers.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Does Farhan think the Seahawks and Rams are just playing
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: for a wild card at this point? We'll talk to
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: him next on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
• 43:02
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• 43:05
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• 43:12
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• 43:14
  Speaker 2: to do today. They have activated Zach Charbonnet from the
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: physically unable to perform list onto the 53-man active roster.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: That clears him now ready to go for his season debut,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: most likely to come Sunday night when the undefeated Kansas
• 43:27
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• 43:31
  Speaker 2: on the 53, off of the physically unable to perform list,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: onto the 53-man roster as of a couple minutes ago.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks put tight end Elijah Arroyo on injured reserve.
• 43:40
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• 43:43
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• 43:46
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• 43:50
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• 43:53
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• 43:57
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• 44:01
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• 44:05
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• 44:07
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• 44:10
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• 44:14
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• 44:16
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• 44:19
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• 44:22
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• 44:27
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• 44:31
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• 44:34
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• 44:38
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• 44:41
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• 44:44
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• 44:48
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• 44:53
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• 44:56
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• 44:59
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• 45:02
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• 45:07
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• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Lalji of TSN Canada. Covers all things NFL. He was
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: in the press box with me last week in Denver.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: watching the Seahawks lose an overtime to the Broncos. I
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: have a feeling he's going to be in the press
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: box at Lumen Field on Sunday night to see Kenneth
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Walker's return to Seattle Chiefs and Seahawks on Sunday night.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Farhan joins us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Hello, sir.
• 45:30
  Speaker 12: How are you, buddy?
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: It should be an exciting one. The two teams I
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: probably cover closer than anybody else in the league.
• 45:37
  Speaker 12: Are going to get on the field, so it'll be
• 45:39
  Speaker 12: a lot of fun.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: That's true. Kenneth Walker.
• 45:42
  Speaker 12: But how about that matchup with Kenneth Walker coming back?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: How about? Not only. He's leading the NFL. As I
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, he has more yards than nine Seahawks. More
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: yards in five games. The Chiefs have already had their bye.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: More yards in five games for Kenneth Walker than all
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: nine Seahawks who've run the ball this year have in
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: six games total. More than the whole team. 75% of
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: the snaps Walker's playing for Andy Reid. He's used them
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: in the pass game. He's used them under center. He's
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: used them in shotgun runs, outside zone, screens, route trees
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: down the field. Is this sustainable, Farhan? Do you see 75%
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: of the snaps, 20-plus carries all season long for Kenneth Walker?
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: It's the reason the Seahawks didn't resign him, didn't think
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: he could last a full season doing that workload.
• 46:30
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's the big question, right?
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: And you look at around the league, you know, we
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: talk about the NFC West and, you know, whether or
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: not some of these guys are going to be able
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: to sustain themselves.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: We're going to get to the division in a moment,
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: but it's wild what they've done here. And that was
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: what Kenneth Walker.
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: Always wanted, right? Like the Hawks didn't believe it. He's
• 46:47
  Speaker 12: had some injuries from time to time.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: In previous seasons. And I think they were wise for
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: how they handled it a year ago. I thought they
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: were I thought the decision to move on from him
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: was justifiable. But then, you know, when you I understand
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: the decision wasn't a choice between Walker and Rashid Shaheed.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: But it certainly has played out that way when you
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: look at the similarities in the contracts.
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: And the lack of production for one versus the immense
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: production of the other.
• 47:12
  Speaker 12: But it's worked, right?
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: And it works until it doesn't. And when you look
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: at Kansas City's offensive line, they're very good in the interior.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: They've got questions on the edges, especially now with the
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: back injury for Simmons. Right now, it doesn't look like
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: it's going to require surgery, but that is all kind
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: of part of the puzzle in terms of his ability
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: to be sustainable with that kind of load. I don't
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: think the Seahawks ever believed he could have that big
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: a part of the passing game that he's had right now.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: And you can see in training camp that they really
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: wanted to test that.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you said that too. Yeah, you said that. Yeah.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah. And it was, it was evident that they wanted
• 47:47
  Speaker 12: to do that.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we're seeing him more in the screen
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: game and within five yards of the line of scrimmage
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: than we are necessarily down the field, but he's taken
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: some shots down the field.
• 47:55
  Speaker 12: And they're not afraid to do that. And I think
• 47:58
  Speaker 12: at some point in the season, the offense is going
• 48:00
  Speaker 12: to revert back to Patrick Mahomes, right?
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: And look, Mahomes is still the maestro and he's got
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: his finger prints on all of it, but it'll probably
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: be a little bit bigger of a load on Mahomes
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: as he gets more comfortable and that much farther removed
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: from his knee injury. But, you know, Andy Reid's pretty smart.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: Eric Bien-Ami's pretty smart. They're probably going to find a
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: way at some point during a five-game stretch midseason where
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: they reduce his numbers down to about 15 or 16
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: carries a game and reduce his touches, not eliminate them,
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: but just reduce them a little bit and potentially still
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: more than what he ever did in a dual backfield
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: role in Seattle. You know, they've got that other young
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: running back that they've also got out of the draft
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: that I think they like, that they're going to increase
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: his role as well.
• 48:39
  Speaker 12: So let's see what it looks like. I think there's a...
• 48:41
  Speaker 12: I think there's a plan there for them.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: To execute, which I think they're going to need to
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: execute if they want Walker at his best at.
• 48:49
  Speaker 12: The end of the year, much like he was last year.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Rookie, you're talking about Emmitt Johnson from Nebraska. We had
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Sam McDowell from Kansas City Star talking about him yesterday,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: but saying that Kenneth Walker is getting all of the
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: reps right now over Emmitt Johnson, the rookie from Nebraska.
• 49:04
  Speaker 12: Hey, what about the streak? What about the Seahawks' streak
• 49:06
  Speaker 12: of not.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Allowing the 100-yard rusher?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: 35 games.
• 49:09
  Speaker 12: You don't think Kenneth Walker's got that circled?
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, he does. He knows that. He was on the
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: team in 2024 when James Cook ran.
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: Absolutely. Yeah.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: He knows about that for sure. That's the big subplot
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: to the game on Sunday at Lumenfield. Chiefs, undefeated Chiefs,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, the NFL rushing leader against what has been
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: one of the best NFL rush defenses the last couple seasons.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: All right, you were in the press box with me,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: sitting next to me in Denver in the stadium there.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: You watched Emmanuel Wilson play. running outside zone and just
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: not getting to the holes before they closed. What are
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: they going to do at running back? What do you
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: think the Seahawks do? Do you see John Schneider using
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: this cap and cash space that he has to acquire
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: a running back? And if so, whom? Could you see
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: a Saquon Barkley with two-plus years remaining on his contract
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia? Could you see a Jonathan Taylor with two-plus
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: years left on his deal in Indianapolis?
• 50:04
  Speaker 12: That's the challenge, right?
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Because the Seahawks have some contracts and some young players
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: that they've got to get extended this offseason. And I
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: think it'd be much more likely if one of those
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: players only had a year left on their deal. People
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: are talking about putting Nelson at guard and potentially bringing
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: him in and really upgrading that offensive line, which is
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: going to get Anthony Bradford back this week. And that
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: might be a more... logical solution. He's not a running back,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: but he could improve the run game. He can improve
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: the pass protection and he's only got one year left
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: on his deal.
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: Right? So you don't have to fully commit to him.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: You can evaluate him like you did with Rashid Shaheed
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: and then kind of make some decisions in the off season.
• 50:39
  Speaker 12: You know, I think there might be some.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: More value opposite value possibilities available to them that have
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: either less dollar or less term associated. I mean, Saquon
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Barkley would be, would be such a sexy pick. Jonathan
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: Taylor would be such a sexy addition as well. But
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: 20 plus million on those guys' deals, it would be
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: scary to try to navigate that in the coming offseason.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: I think the dead cap hit on Taylor is 10 million.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: If they decide to move off from him, like if
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: they were to acquire him and move off of him
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: in the offseason, what that would cost them and that
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: would impact them in terms of their ability to make
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: the moves they want next year. So I think it's complicated, right?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: I think in terms of the acquisition costs, they're talking
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: about a second round pick. For Jonathan Taylor, I think
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: that's great, right?
• 51:22
  Speaker 12: Like, I do that. I would do that in a second.
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: It's just that.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: $ 20 million on the two years remaining on the deal
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: that would make me nervous, right? Because you weren't willing
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: to give it to Kenneth Walker. Now you're going to
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: give it to an older player.
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: Like, I get the thought process coming into the year, right?
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: That we're going to be able to backfield by committee
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: this with Judarian Price. I don't think they ever factored
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: the turnover possibilities into it. but I think they figured
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: they could get away with a, you know, 15 carries
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: a game, 12 to 15 carries a game from price and,
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: you know, two to three to four carries for Halani
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: and Wilson. And you could navigate your way until Zach
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: Charbonnet came back and then you could have a two
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: headed monster.
• 52:03
  Speaker 12: Should they be patient.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Because they could be a couple of weeks away from
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: doing that, right? We know Charbonnet got taken off the
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: publicist today. We know he's going to play. We'll see
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: how much he's going to play and potentially as early
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: as next week, they could get pricebacks.
• 52:16
  Speaker 12: Or should they just be patient? We'll see, right?
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, this week will tell us a lot. It'll
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: tell us a lot about their panic level. It'll tell
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: us a lot about Charbonnet. And we'll know more about
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: price as well.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: You mentioned, Jonathan Taylor, the $ 10 million in dead money
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: if the Seahawks would have to acquire him and then
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: let him go after this season. Well, that dead money
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: for next year for Saquon Barkley in his age 30
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: season is $ 28. 9 million. I know.
• 52:43
  Speaker 12: I don't know how to live with that.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to keep him. If you trade
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: for him right, you're going to end up keeping him
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: because that's double the price the Chiefs are paying per
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: year for Kenneth Walker, which was the price the Seahawks
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: didn't even want to come near touching. That would be
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: such a departure for what John Snyder has given to
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: the running back position. Around the NFL, Jalen Hurts. I mean,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: you're a father of a son who plays big-time football.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: If your son had blood clots, whether they're superficial, whether
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: they're in the calves, and he played a football game,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: And then you had that team fly your son across
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: the pond, a seven-and-a-half-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean. You'd
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: have some questions. Why is it that the NFL, the Eagles,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: and even Nicole Lynn, Jalen Hurts' agent, all coming out
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: and saying this is handled the right way?
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bizarre to me, and you have to believe
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: that Jalen Hurts was kind of given the options and
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: kind of signed off on what was there in front
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: of him. And, you know, they've got qualified medical people there. Obviously,
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: they should not have trotted Nick Suriani out there to
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: try to get him to answer the questions.
• 53:47
  Speaker 12: Because definitely a lot of that is above his pay grade.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, look, I know that certainly here in Vancouver,
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: two years ago when the Canucks were in the playoffs,
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: one of their top players at the time, Brock Besser,
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: dealt with blood clots like between game six and seven.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: And he didn't play game seven, right? Like as soon
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: as they found them, they began the blood thinners and
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: they pulled them off. Now, I can't tell you whether
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: that was a superficial blood clot versus what Jalen Hurts has.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: But now that, you know, you've got the deep vein
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: thrombosis now as the blood clots have moved. And now
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: he's got two blood clots in his lungs. Like that's
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: some scary, scary stuff. And you have to wonder if
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: any of that could have been prevented if he was
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: handled differently when he was first diagnosed because, you know,
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: we believe it happened on October the 4th, right?
• 54:35
  Speaker 12: When he got kicked in the calf a little bit and.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: Then he didn't talk to the trainers about it and
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: then inform them until October 8th.
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: And then, you know, like you said, he played the game,
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: got on a flight, all of that. But the PA
• 54:45
  Speaker 12: is not letting this go, nor should they, right? Because
• 54:48
  Speaker 12: I think they want to make.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: Sure that there should be some level of precedent in
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: this case. And look, we're always going to get something.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: New, right?
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: There's always going to be a different scenario that maybe
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: hadn't happened previously or hadn't been fully disclosed previously that we.
• 55:02
  Speaker 12: Get exposed to. Medical science, much like any science, is
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: not always black and white. It's moving. It's evolving.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: And if this is part of the evolution of this
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: type of injury so that it gets dealt with differently
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: down the road, great. Like, I applaud the PA for
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: getting involved here and demanding either an investigation or an explanation,
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: like one or the other, right? Like, why aren't you
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: investigating if you haven't? Why do you believe that this
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: was properly handled? Because, yeah, on the surface, I look
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: at it and I say blood clots and blood thinners.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: You know, you can't get hit in that moment. And
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: this is going to take three months now. So his
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: season's done. You know, and you wonder if it could
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: have been handled differently if the outcome right now would
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: have been different.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for them just to say, yeah, we checked it out.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Everything was cool.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, look, in the.
• 55:48
  Speaker 12: NFL, over the course of time... has been probably the most.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: Accountable of leagues, right? Or at least the most transparent
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: of leagues, not accountable.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Except for CTE and concussion settlements. They had a $ 700
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: million concussion settlement to try to get CTE to go away,
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: but there was that.
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: Sure, yeah. But they didn't run from the science.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: You look at how the National Hockey League handles CTE,
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: and they simply won't admit it. They're not going to
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: sign off on that because it requires a level of admission,
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: which they're simply not willing to do. So I'm not
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: sitting here and saying the NFL is altruistic, but compared
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: to the other four major professional sports leagues, they probably
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: have a little more transparency simply because they have the
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: money to be transparent.
• 56:31
  Speaker 12: We can make the payout. We can do that.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: So it's not like the NFL to run from this situation.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: I think they can step into it because... All things
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: are forgiven when it comes to the National Football League, Greg.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: There is nothing they can do that the public will
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: turn on them for. It just isn't going to happen.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: So they can afford to be transparent.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: You're sadly correct about that. Nothing will keep people from watching, betting,
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: fantasy footballing, the NFL. You're absolutely right about that. Hey, Farhan,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: is the NFC West already over? Three-and-a-half game lead for
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: the 49ers over the Seahawks. Four-and-a-half over the Rams because
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: they have wins over each of those teams. Are the
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and Rams just playing for a wild card at
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: this point, which might not be a bad deal with
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: the way the NFC East and South are, but what's
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: left now for the Seahawks and Rams realistically playing for here?
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think that's fair, and I think even
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: though they're only a game apart, I think the Rams
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: are in a much bigger world of hurt than the
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Seahawks because their problems are so multilayered, whereas the Seahawks'
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: problems are one thing, right?
• 57:37
  Speaker 12: Offensive turnovers. They're like, that's the issue.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: When you look at the Rams, their special teams are
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: a disaster. You look at them in terms of their health,
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: and you and I talked about this when I was
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: down in both Rams and Niners camp.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Injury and managing injury is going to be the storylines
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: for both these teams. And I felt the 49ers weren't
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: going to do it right. I mean, I know you've
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: kept the receipt about me saying it was going to
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: be a two-horse race in the division. You know, and
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: I picked the wrong horse because it might be a
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: two-horse race and the Rangers are the ones that are
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: going to be.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: Out of it.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: But the injuries, the age and injury is certainly a
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: huge factor.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: I think we lost Farron for a second.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a segment without losing Farron. Two meetings
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: and then the one in the season finale in Inglewood.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: And then the Seahawks play the 49ers for the second
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: time next month. The Seahawks' task is to get within
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: two games of the 49ers before that game to try
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: to make that game within one. Right now they're three
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: back in the standing. So they would need the Seahawks
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: to win as the 49ers drop a game or two.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: The 49ers play Atlanta this weekend. Their schedule, we talked
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: about it. They've got the Raiders on the schedule coming up.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: The Giants, I think, are on the 49ers schedule before
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks play them again. There's a strong chance the
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: 49ers are going to be undefeated by Thanksgiving weekend when
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks head down there November 29th in Santa Clara.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: I think we have Farhan back.
• 59:04
  Speaker 12: We do. Well, yeah. And Greg, first of all, this
• 59:08
  Speaker 12: is crazy.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: Cause like I'm literally in my home studio where I
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: have done interviews in London, England and Australia.
• 59:14
  Speaker 12: And from here to Seattle, I'm cutting out. Like I've
• 59:17
  Speaker 12: had a home studio.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: We're not gonna have a problem, but, but you know,
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: you mentioned the Niners schedule and the buy coming.
• 59:24
  Speaker 12: Up for them is perfect, right? Like it's just perfect.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: Because they can let Mike Evans sit out this game
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: if that's the way it winds up going, because they
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: know they've got to buy, so they're going to gain
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: the extra week. There was talk of Nick Bosa coming
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: back this week. Now they can just wait, get to
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: the buy. They've got some cushion in the standings, and
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: then they're going to potentially be.
• 59:42
  Speaker 12: That much more healthier.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: When you've got your top five players in terms of
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: offensive output over the age of 30, Like you need
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: the schedule. You need load management in football more than,
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: you know, you've ever seen before in this sport. And
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: they might be in a position to do it because
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: they've now got a bit of a lead, right? Like
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: I really feel that injuries are going to affect some
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: of these guys. Like I think Mike Evans is going
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: to be dealing with this Achilles for a while, but
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: they'll get DeMarcus Robinson back. They'll get Christian Kirk back.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: Like they'll get a few players here and there that can,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: you know, they can, they can stick a hole in
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: the dike and tread water a little bit. to the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: point where I just don't think Seattle can catch them.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to maintain this pace, but
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know that Seattle can catch them because they're
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: going to have to go on some kind of heater,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: you know, in order to do that.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 12: And I guess they did it last year.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: So I think San Francisco is going to win the division,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: but I do think Seattle could set themselves up for
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: a pretty good first round playoff game or a matchup
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: and eventually a path forward.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: 49ers play at Atlanta this week. Then Farhan mentioned the bye.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Then the 49ers get the Raiders at home at Dallas.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Minnesota in Mexico City before they play the Seahawks on
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: November 29th down in Santa Clara. About Minnesota, Vikings, are
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: they for real? They're averaging around or below 20 points
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: a game on offense. They're 5-0. They've had their bye already.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: The NFC North is what the Seahawks probably are going
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: to be competing with for wild cards. Detroit, Chicago, Green
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Bay looks like they may be starting to right themselves.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Do you think the Vikings are for real? And what
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: do you think about the Packers emerging or maybe the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Lions emerging? Caleb Johnson's health with the bears. We're going
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: to see them tonight with the Patriots. But what do
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: you think about the North?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 12: Like I love it.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, coming into the year, I think we were
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: so fixated on what the NFC West was going to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: look like is the toughest division in football.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 12: It might be changing in a hurry.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, when you look at.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: What's happening, when you look at what's happening in that
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: division and as teams get healthier, you know, like it's,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: it's impressive what they're doing right now.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 12: And I, you know, the bears who we're going.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: To see in Seattle next Monday night are only getting
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: better with Caleb Williams back in the lineup. I wasn't
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: sure that this was sustainable for Minnesota. And when you
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: look at just that marriage right now between Kyler Murray
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: and Kevin O'Connell, like they are really, really making pretty
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: good music together. And that defense we knew coming.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 12: Into the year was going to be very good.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: I wasn't sure what the system fit was going to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: be like. Obviously, if you're O'Connell and you made a
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: work with Donald, you can make it work with Murray
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: and it's, their way, it's going to be a lot
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: better than trying to make it work with.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 12: What he had to make work a year ago.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: And, and going back and forth and shuttling between JJ
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: McCarthy and Wentz and what they were doing to quarterback.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: So I think coach is comfortable. Quarterback is comfortable and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: the defense is playing at a really, really high level.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: And those other three teams stumbled enough early. you know,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: it's a two game pushing only for the Vikings. But
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: I think when you look at how their schedule sets
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: up over the next month, they could still maintain a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: level of distance while these other teams are playing catch up.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Fine. Where are you going to be this weekend? I
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: think you're with me in Seattle for Kansas city, Seattle, right?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 12: Can I wait? Yeah, no, it's going to be a
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 12: good one. I don't have to travel.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: I can, I can be close for that one before
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: I get back out on the road the following week.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: You got your daughter's volleyball or whatever she's got going on.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Home games galore.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: I'll be in, you know, she's actually got a, she's
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: actually got a little bit of a back issue. So
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: we were holding her out for the final two weeks
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  Speaker 4: of the volleyball season. And there you see, he's like,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be dealing with blood plots.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And, and then, and then I'll, I'll head to Virginia
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  Speaker 4: next week to go watch my son play. So, so
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  Speaker 4: that'll be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go.
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  Speaker 12: Good times, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you Sunday night in the stadium. Thanks, man.
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  Speaker 12: We'll see you Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: It's an evening game, so we don't have omelets. What
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: have we got for Denver meal? Can we talk about
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: the Denver meal?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Denver meal was so good that the Denver Broncos PR
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  Speaker 2: staff sent the menu to the beat writers before the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a smorgasbord.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 12: I was going to post it.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: I was going to post it just to show the
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  Speaker 4: first world problem. It was beef and chicken and ice cream.
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  Speaker 12: They had everything.
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  Speaker 2: They did. That was a pretty good spread, I have
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  Speaker 2: to admit. I'm sure listeners love to hear what the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: writers eat in the press box.
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  Speaker 12: First world problems to all the listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, man. I'll see you Sunday night.
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  Speaker 12: All right. Take care.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lazi from TSN Canada Homes Games for him this weekend.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: He's not traveling. He's coming down to the Sunday night game,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: the big game between the Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: the unbeaten Chiefs, and the Kenneth Walkers are coming in.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: 3-3 Seahawks. Pivotal game here. They can go to 3-4.
• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:29
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• 1:04:33
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• 1:04:35
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  Speaker 15: Has anyone asked Coach McDonald why Jadarian Price was initially
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 15: said to be out for a week with the chest injury,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 15: and then he comes out of that week's practice or
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 15: during that week's practice and goes on the IR?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 12: Why was he even out there on the practice field?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have the general manager. John Schneider has talked
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: about that on his pregame show before the 49ers game.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: He said that when Price came, it might have been
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: before the Chargers game, now I think about it, He
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: said that Price was back to practice and working back
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: from the injury. He first got week two in Arizona
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: when LJ Collier fell on him and hurt his ribs.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: It was first listed as a chest injury. Then McDonald
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: said it was a shoulder. Well, it was high ribs,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: upper ribs. And he was working back from that, Price was.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: He was wearing a red no-contact jersey in the practices
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: before the game against the Chargers. And then the week
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: after that is when he was in practice on Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: and fell on the same side that was injured. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was contact, he slipped, we
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: don't get to watch practice, but he fell on the side,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Snyder said, that he had already injured, and that fall
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: caused the injury that led him to injured reserve. So
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: he was practicing because he was on his way back.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: In fact, he played hurt in Washington in Week 3
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: when he got binged, and McDonald was saying that Price
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: was heroic in playing that game. He wore the red
• 1:06:39
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• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: fell on him again and re-injured himself. So that is
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: the clarification on that. He is eligible, Price is, to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: return November 2nd, the game after the just weekend Chiefs
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: game for the Seahawks against the Chicago Bears on Monday night.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: As of this week, as in yesterday, Mike McDonald had
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  Speaker 3: I'm going hometown. Not this hometown.
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  Speaker 5: Yep. I mean, just to be honest, by the time
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  Speaker 5: Jets minus four and a half as they host the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 5: And I will just say, even though the Dolphins might
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  Speaker 5: be quote unquote due at 0-5, they're due for a win. No,
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  Speaker 5: I definitely think that they're coming up from their sunny
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  Speaker 5: it is a very, very feisty crowd, especially when it
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  Speaker 5: I think the Jets are going to beat them by
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  Speaker 5: more than four and a half points.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be 67 and sunny in the Meadowlands
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's frigid for those guys down in Miami.
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  Speaker 5: So, no, it's going to be optimal weather when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to a football game. But I just like the
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  Speaker 5: Jets in this one. And they're, you know, they only
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  Speaker 5: have two wins on this season. I think that the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: team is going to, the fans are going to show
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• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: It gets loud there as well. Maybe not looming loud.
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  Speaker 5: But it is not going to be a friendly environment
• 1:09:42
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  Speaker 3: To the Jets?
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  Speaker 2: Hey. Sorry. I'm just stating facts.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I always have that there do thing in the
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  Speaker 5: back of my head when it comes to teams who
• 1:10:13
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  Speaker 2: Although the Dolphins have only... I would caution against fiction
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  Speaker 2: here because the Dolphins have only scored 70 points.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're really bad.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: 70 points.
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  Speaker 3: They're really bad.
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  Speaker 5: And the Jets' losses have been close games, too, to
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: decent teams. If you look at their schedule, they are
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: not horrid. They are just playing better teams, and they're
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  Speaker 5: just not that good.
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  Speaker 3: But they're not Dolphins bad.
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  Speaker 2: They're not Dolphins bad.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be a thing that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to say. Are they Dolphins bad?
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  Speaker 2: There are only three teams in the NFL that have
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: fewer than 100 points scored through five, six weeks of
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: the season. The Dolphins, the Titans, 1-5, and the 0-6 Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Nobody else in the NFL, 32 teams, have
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  Speaker 2: scored as few points. The Dolphins with just 70 in
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: five games. If you agree with Jessamyn, Jets minus 4.5
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  Speaker 5: And if anyone comes at me with them coming off
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  Speaker 3: What could they possibly fix in that time? Like, I
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: They are coming off a bye week, but no.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: I just like someone else occupying the basement for us
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: in the AFC East for once.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: From the Tacoma Dodge text line 49451, the 206 agrees
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: with Jessamine. K-9 was used correctly last year. His career
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: issue is inconsistency. 21 yards one game, 80 the next.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: He only had six 100-yard rushing games going into the
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: playoffs last year. 206 says, thank you for finally articulating
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: that so clearly. Splitting time led to fresh legs in
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: the playoffs and a Lombardi trophy. That is the goal.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: I understand that led to Walker's departure, but they did
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  Speaker 2: the right thing from a team perspective.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: And they did it by, isn't every NFL, I get
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  Speaker 5: that he was in a contract year, but isn't every
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  Speaker 5: NFL player's dream to even sniff a Lombardi?
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Right. Also, he says, or she says, 206, Let's revisit
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: this in week 15. Hard to know if this is
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: sustainable for him. Yes, we made that point with Farron, too. Yep.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: 206 goes to the Wayback Machine. While the canine mistake
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: isn't looking as bad as Steve Hutchinson yet, it may
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: become the second worst move of not re-signing a player
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: in Hawks history. I covered that for the Associated Press.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: The Steve Hutchinson poison pill when Tom Condon, his agent,
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  Speaker 2: basically engineered his way to Minnesota by causing the contract. Man.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks messed that up. That was a Tim Ruskell special.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus 206, friend of the station, said it was a
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  Speaker 2: bad job the way the Seahawks handled Walker last year
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  Speaker 2: because we knew he wouldn't even want to resign here
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: after that. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure. But they still didn't just run him out
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: and like, let's. get the most we possibly can. They
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: only did that out of necessity. It's not like they
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: ruined him in a contract year. They actually protected him.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: And then they only pushed him into the service we
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: saw for the last one and a half games because
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: of Zach Charbonnet's injury.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Marcus206 also says, Charbonnet isn't that good. We're going to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: find out. He's going to be the guy once he
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: works back in. He's activated today. taken off the physically
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: unable to perform list onto the 53-man active roster. The
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Seahawks put tight end Elijah Arroyo, the second-year tight end,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: who really has not emerged like they had hoped for.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Shoulder injury, he's going on to injured reserve to clear
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: the roster space for Zach Charbonnet. It's a crackin' hockey day,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: a home match tonight against the Utah Mammoth, who've been
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: rolling lately. 7 o'clock at Climate Pledge Arena. Ian Furness
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  Speaker 2: will be there. Mike Benton will be there. It'll be
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: on your air at 6.30 pregame, 7 o'clock puck drop.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Ian next on what he's got going
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  Speaker 2: on on his show today on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell and Jessup McIntyre with you on 92.3 KJFM.
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  Speaker 2: You have a minute or two still to get in
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  Speaker 2: minus four and a half at home over the winless Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Furness joins us now to tell us what he's
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  Speaker 2: is Ashley's pick today. Does Ashley stick to NFL? No,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: she wanders. She'll wander. Yeah, she'll wander.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't done a deep dive yet into her picks,
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  Speaker 8: but they're better than mine.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, everyone's except for Fane's are better than mine,
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  Speaker 8: so that's not a high bar.
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  Speaker 2: You always have Dick Fane to fall back to.
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  Speaker 8: Thank God. I'm already 0-1 this week. I chased earlier
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  Speaker 8: this week. I was in good shape until the Niners
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  Speaker 8: decided not to play the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Fun. Yes, they did. Yeah, yeah. They've got the
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: Kraken hockey tonight. Utah's a pretty hot team coming in. Yeah,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: they're good. I mentioned a couple times on the show
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: that their six wins in their first ten games is
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: the most the Kraken have had in their team's history
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: for ten games. What stands out to you the most
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of why they're winning?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 8: Better special teams. At least power play better. Goaltending's been elite.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 8: depth scoring, like everyone, they've got 12 or 13 guys
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 8: now have multiple goals this season. I think 16, I
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 8: think the only skaters that don't have a goal that
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 8: have played a regular amount of time are Larson and Mahura,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 8: if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so I mean, they're getting balanced,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 8: they're getting good goaltending, you know, and they're finding ways.
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  Speaker 8: I This is a team that has not been that
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 8: resilient over the last couple of years. They're a lot
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 8: more resilient now. Bad things happen. They're able to come
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  Speaker 8: back and bounce back. Tonight's a tough test. They've never
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 8: had success against Utah since they moved from Arizona. Saturday's
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 8: really hard because Minnesota's elite. Kaprizov has 11 goals already
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 8: this season. He's rolling in here on Saturday. So, yeah,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 8: two tough ones coming up, and then Toronto next Wednesday,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 8: and away we go. Then they get Calgary again, so
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 8: that's good.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: A bye game. Yeah, exactly. Am I crazy to think
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: that Philip Grubauer should maybe be the number one goaltender?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: No. He probably is, in a sense. I just don't
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 8: think they rotate. I mean, Phil got two straight starts
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 8: on the trip. So I think you can kind of
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 8: read into that what you like. I think Joey's going
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: tonight and Gruby will go on Saturday, but then we'll
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: see what happens. You'll probably be able to answer that
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 8: question depending on how they do the next two games
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 8: by next Wednesday's game, because there'll be plenty of time
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 8: off in between. Kind of like the Bears have, plenty
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: of time off in between games. I just noticed that, Greg,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 8: that the Bears play tonight, right?
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and not again until Monday night. Wow.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 8: That's nice for them, huh?
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: It's a rest advantage Chicago in that game.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: What was your favorite Elijah Royal moment from this season?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 8: Which of the one catches was it?
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. He is a second-round pick. He is not.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: That's... You know, we can talk Ken Walker all we want.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: This year's draft class has produced nothing. Last year, better, but,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 8: I mean, Arroyo, like you just said, a high draft pick.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 12: He's got.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 8: He had one catch this season.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: He had 15 catches last season.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 8: And last year, give me... I don't know if I
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 8: give him more of a benefit of the doubt, but
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 8: last year, at least, he had... He's banged up a
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 8: little bit last year, right? He was really never healthy,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 8: he said. But I thought he'd be a factor this year.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: I thought he'd be a big factor for them. But
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 8: that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: I did, too. A tight end coach is now the
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. I saw tight ends flying down the field
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: in deep routes in the middle and all through. training camp,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: and they have yet to unleash him or A.J. Barner,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: for that matter. Barner's due for a huge game one
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: of these times. They have a running game to throw
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: off of, finally. We'll see. The news of the day,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: Charbonnet activated from the pup list. He's now on the 53,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: clearing the way for him for his season debut. Sunday night,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: Elijah Royal onto the injured reserve list. What do you
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: got today?
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  Speaker 8: Just real quick, how many carries do you think Sharpe's
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 8: going to get?
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  Speaker 2: Six, eight.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. Corbin said seven to eight. I think
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 8: everyone's kind of thinking that six to ten range at
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 8: the max, right?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Right, right. I think it would be malpractice to give
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: him 20 carries, although they need to. I can't do that.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 8: I believe he's only had 20 carries once in his career.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't see that anyway. All right. Yeah, we've got
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: Ross Tucker joining us coming up at 1220 today, his
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 8: weekly visit. We're going to flip things around a little
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 8: bit today. Brandon Funston, he's jumping on a plane later
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: this afternoon, so we're going to move him up to
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: 1 p.m. So the unofficial start of the weekend is
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: an hour earlier. 1 p.m. for Funston. Your text, 49451,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 8: starting at noon. So get those in.
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  Speaker 2: Not earlier.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: Not a second earlier. Not a second earlier.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: Don't infringe on our hour.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 8: Do not. 49451, your Brandon Funston questions again.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: 1 p.m.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 8: Today for Funston and 2 o'clock, Steve Palozzolo, 3013. Check
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 8: the Mike podcast. We'll break down Seahawks and Chiefs and
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 8: kind of find out what's going on in the NFC
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: as a whole with the playoff race. All that coming
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 8: up today.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Is John Forslund back where you're going to be hosting?
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 8: No, it's national TV today.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 8: John is back. Next Friday in Calgary. So I've got
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 8: the next two Saturday and Wednesday next week.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. TV play-by-play, man. Ian Furness from
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: the Kraken. Kraken home tonight against Utah. Ian's up next.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: I'll do it again tomorrow with Jessamyn. I think I'll
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: be face-to-face with her tomorrow if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: Well, let's go.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: Ian's up next. And tomorrow's a high school football focus Friday.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: Remember that. Ian's up next on 93.3 KJRFM.