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Chuck & Buck 2-24 Hour 1: Will the Hawks keep Ken Walker? ICYMI: Andres Munoz and Reckless at Breakfast round 2. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: feel feeling sped up, feel frenzied. Okay, Yeah, it's hard
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  Speaker 3: difficult when you go to one gas station and they're
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's happened to me before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you got to go to a second one,
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  Speaker 3: and you weren't really counting on that, and you're already
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  Speaker 3: at the you know, it's clicking so slowly that you're
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  Speaker 3: just like enough, I think.
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  Speaker 2: An eighth is fine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get to work as long as I can get there. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I had to actually stop getting gas in the mornings
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  Speaker 4: because I had too many, Like there would be the
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  Speaker 4: credit card machine doesn't work, so then you're going to
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  Speaker 4: the other pump and then you're annoyed just on a
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  Speaker 4: simple one or you know, sometimes none of the machines
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  Speaker 4: are working, and I was like, I don't have the
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  Speaker 4: bandwidth for this in the morning. So as much as
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  Speaker 4: after the show, all I want to do, YEA, go
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  Speaker 4: straight home.
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  Speaker 5: I make myself if I need guess that's what I
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  Speaker 5: gotta do.
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  Speaker 2: It's the solution, it's.
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  Speaker 3: The smart way to go. And I think of that
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  Speaker 3: every time. But I'm not nearly as hungry as I am.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah on the on the morning, as I am on
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  Speaker 3: the way home, and I'm just like I'll get it
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. I mean how much more time does
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  Speaker 3: it really take? And invariably you're always running like two
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  Speaker 3: minutes behind, and then that makes you ten minutes behind.
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  Speaker 3: It does, and then if you got to go to
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  Speaker 3: the other gas station, that makes you fifteen minutes behind.
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  Speaker 2: And if you've got to.
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  Speaker 3: Share a pump with you know, Julie, Yeah, then you're
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  Speaker 3: seventeen minutes behind.
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  Speaker 4: So here there was a cop that had pulled someone
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  Speaker 4: over there, so you couldn't just you turn normally.
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  Speaker 2: Do I go all the way down?
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  Speaker 5: Because I was like, I don't want to you turn
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  Speaker 5: right here.
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  Speaker 3: Man, if you got if you're gonna get us for
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  Speaker 3: that boy, even though you'd already pulled someone over, So
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he was gonna like let that person
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  Speaker 3: go to be like, hold on, we've got a bigger problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really follow the news anymore, but I gotta
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  Speaker 3: believe that there's a lot more to concern yourself with
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  Speaker 3: than a person you turning at five thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: I think you can like rob a store and they
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  Speaker 5: don't care anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe hope, So maybe you know what.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of which, I was at the airport and it's
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  Speaker 3: the closest i've ever come to robbing something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we have those.
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  Speaker 3: When we were at the airport coming back, we were
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  Speaker 3: given these little like gift cards instead of just per
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  Speaker 3: diem cash.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what you know. And we had to work
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  Speaker 2: our way towards that because our system for receipts here
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  Speaker 2: at work is awful. Like it doesn't it really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: even work. Frankly, they just they just get frust They
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  Speaker 2: just make you get frustrated with the system and quit
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  Speaker 2: and then eat the money. That's how they do it, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And so we we have settled on a better system,
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  Speaker 3: not a great system, but we have these gift cards.
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  Speaker 3: But the gift card didn't take, and and yet it
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  Speaker 3: did take like it said on there, like fish and funds,
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  Speaker 3: and yet the purchase went through. Oh so I had
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  Speaker 3: my hands full. I walk away and then I get
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  Speaker 3: halfway down there and I'm like, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: because I was on camera.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like, did I just steal something or not?
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  Speaker 3: So I went back and then well, we can look
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  Speaker 3: it up for you if you like, and you can
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  Speaker 3: call your bank. And I said, well, that's way too
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  Speaker 3: much trouble that I want to go through. I would
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  Speaker 3: rather just pay for it twice, so I can either
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  Speaker 3: put it back or I can pay for it twice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, sir, you don't need to
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  Speaker 2: do that. We appreciate your honesty.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, we'll see, we'll see. So, yeah, I tried,
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  Speaker 3: came close to committing a crime. Yeah, and an American airport,
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  Speaker 3: honest about it. Yes, but they still have my face
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  Speaker 3: on camera, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I don't think that they're coming after you in
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  Speaker 4: that situation in an American airport as you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they might get they might well, it depends. I
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  Speaker 5: think there's other things happening.
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  Speaker 2: You would say, just like the U turn situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I can clear up this whole U turn
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  Speaker 3: situation for you.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's from a movie, but I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Pam or Pam. Oh yeah, yeah, it's from step Brothers.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I do know that.
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  Speaker 5: Great radio.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I found you know a magician.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we could actually tell everybody we have Red Panda
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  Speaker 4: because we don't have cameras.
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  Speaker 5: To prove it.
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  Speaker 2: We have the power to do that.
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  Speaker 4: But come Monday, maybe we might have cameras, so then
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  Speaker 4: we couldn't have red Panda.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't have her.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I used to do a bit because I
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  Speaker 3: was a radio magician. Nobody could tell if I was
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  Speaker 3: really making the other members of the show disappear or not.
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  Speaker 5: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to take.
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  Speaker 3: My word for it, all right. So let's get started, though.
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  Speaker 3: We've got the Combine coming up on Thursday. And as
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  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter said just this morning and interview, like, nobody
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  Speaker 3: really uses the NFL Combine for as much as they once.
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  Speaker 2: Did for draft purposes.
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  Speaker 3: The NFL Combine itself is sort of used for, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of meeting and conducting business. He even said this
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  Speaker 3: morning that some teams don't even go anymore to the
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  Speaker 3: NFL Combine. What the Combine really is set.
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  Speaker 2: Up for is it will set off an alarm.
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  Speaker 3: Occasionally during the course of the four days of the workouts,
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  Speaker 3: you will think you've got to read on a player,
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, that player ends up
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  Speaker 3: running a four two, five forty and you're like, wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute, wait a minute, I did not know he
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  Speaker 3: was that fast. And it forces you to go back
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  Speaker 3: and look at the tape a little differently now that
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  Speaker 3: I know he's got that kind of speed. How now
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  Speaker 3: does that translate when I watch his game on film?
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  Speaker 3: But the film, the tape, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 3: is still going to the day you're scouting, is still
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  Speaker 3: going to carry the day.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing the combine.
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  Speaker 3: Is really set up for is to possibly identify a
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  Speaker 3: player that maybe you need to reevaluate, right, maybe he's
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  Speaker 3: more athletic than you thought, or maybe he's far less athletic.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe his arms are little reptile arms and you had
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  Speaker 5: no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff like that. It just makes you evaluate them differently.
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  Speaker 3: And if you like him enough, you're still going to
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  Speaker 3: take reptile arm guy because you love his game and
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't seem to hinder him on a football field,
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  Speaker 3: but it does kind of cause you. I've won every
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  Speaker 3: few players to reevaluate and maybe look at the film
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  Speaker 3: a little differently, And then I think, really, why the
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  Speaker 3: NFL combine is still around and it hasn't just been
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  Speaker 3: flushed quite frankly, is.
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  Speaker 2: That for me? It's a tremendous cheat sheet. It's an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: For those that do love the draft, and you can't
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  Speaker 3: watch every college football game that you get to sit
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  Speaker 3: there and you get to identify the players and allow
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Jeremiah and Charles Davis and Rich Eisen and their
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  Speaker 3: cast of thousands that the NFL Network uses to give
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  Speaker 3: you information that you wouldn't have had otherwise. It's a
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  Speaker 3: cheat code for Draftmas, frankly, and that's why it's sort
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  Speaker 3: of essential in the entire Draftmas holiday process. But long
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  Speaker 3: way of saying that, really, what John Schneider is doing
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  Speaker 3: in Indianapolis is not necessarily carrying a stopwatch around trying
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  Speaker 3: to find out if that guard from Idaho State actually
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  Speaker 3: runs a sub five point forty. He's there to conduct business.
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  Speaker 3: He is there to meet with other general managers. He
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  Speaker 3: is there actually working the phones with agents. He's trying
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  Speaker 3: to re sign as part of his week, guys that
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  Speaker 3: he wants to keep for next year. And the name
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  Speaker 3: that certainly comes to mind is ken Walker. And we've
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  Speaker 3: discussed him quite a bit, and I think we probably
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  Speaker 3: are going to discuss him quite a bit more before
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  Speaker 3: we actually know what ken Walker is thinking. And I mean,
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  Speaker 3: here's sort of my baseline with how I've operated with
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  Speaker 3: the ken Walker free agency process to date. To me,
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  Speaker 3: I think that his excellent performance, you know, helps you
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  Speaker 3: win a super Bowl. We'll take that, but it also
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  Speaker 3: sort of belies the player that you had under your
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  Speaker 3: system for the last four years. I mean, he hadn't
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  Speaker 3: had three games that great, that consistently in his well
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  Speaker 3: maybe going back all the way to his rookie season
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  Speaker 3: when he finished so strong, but maybe not at all.
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  Speaker 3: That might have been his three best games that he's
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  Speaker 3: ever played, and they just so happened to be in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and it crowns with a Super Bowl Most
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  Speaker 3: Valuable Player award, and so his value skyrockets. But the
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  Speaker 3: Ken Walker camp might argue, well, that's because you didn't
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  Speaker 3: have another running back getting in the way of him
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  Speaker 3: getting the football, and running backs need petition, they want
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  Speaker 3: to be fed, and you kept using him as a
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  Speaker 3: one to A to a one B running back all
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  Speaker 3: season long and for parts of last season. And so
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  Speaker 3: now the NFL got a look at what this guy
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  Speaker 3: can do when he has just fed the rock, and
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  Speaker 3: look what he did.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's the argument on that side.
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  Speaker 3: The argument on the Seahawks side is, well, we gave
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  Speaker 3: him four years and we kind of wanted him to
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  Speaker 3: become that running back, and he just kept trying to
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  Speaker 3: find the big play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was a game earlier this year that
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  Speaker 2: I circled.
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  Speaker 3: It was the most frustrated I've ever been with ken Walker,
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  Speaker 3: And believe me, since his rookie.
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  Speaker 2: Season, I was expecting huge things.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've had ken Walker three of his four
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  Speaker 3: years in existence on my fantasy Yeah, are you just
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  Speaker 3: you circle him? Because I expected big things out of
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  Speaker 3: him and we just haven't gotten that during the regular season,
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  Speaker 3: And clearly there was some frustration from the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Share carries backfield with a guy that has been described
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  Speaker 3: as a bruiser that will give you tough yards. You
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  Speaker 3: know why you have a guy that you're sharing carries
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  Speaker 3: with that is considered a bruiser who gets you tough
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  Speaker 3: yards because there's a belief that you can't get tough
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  Speaker 3: yards and we know that he can.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's strong. Ken Walker is strong. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the more underreported things about him. But was he
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  Speaker 2: getting you the tough yards? Was he taking three yards
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  Speaker 2: when two was available? Sharbon Ay gives you that. And
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  Speaker 2: I think there were some frustrations.
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  Speaker 3: For four years with this guy not running the play
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  Speaker 3: like it was designed. I mean, we know that Pete
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  Speaker 3: Carroll sat him down at one point. And we know
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  Speaker 3: that Mike McDonald I wouldn't say benched him this past
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  Speaker 3: couple of seasons, but there were times where it's like
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  Speaker 3: keep Sharbonay in the game, you know, in the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of years under Mike McDonald. So certainly there's been
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  Speaker 3: some frustrations. And yet they drafted him. They knew his
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  Speaker 3: potential all all and everybody got to see us potential
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  Speaker 3: and there had to be a little bit of an
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  Speaker 3: element of maybe we should have been doing this all along.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we should have been giving him all of the
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  Speaker 3: carries and Charbonay only plays when he needs a breather. Well,
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  Speaker 3: and look, Mike Holmgren and Hugh Millen Monday Morning Quarterback
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  Speaker 3: after the Super Bowl both said to the question why
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  Speaker 3: was Ken Walker so successful the last three weeks because
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  Speaker 3: Charbonne's not there, both of them, And these are the
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  Speaker 3: two smartest football players that we come in football, people
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  Speaker 3: that we come in contact with around easier parts that
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  Speaker 3: KJR and so I think there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: blame the Seahawks have to wear a little bit for this,
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  Speaker 3: but there's also a little bit that goes to Ken
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  Speaker 3: Walker as well. And so now here he is at
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  Speaker 3: free agency, are you going to break your back to
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  Speaker 3: sign him? Because you're going to have to spend a
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  Speaker 3: lot more than you thought. I went to spoke track
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  Speaker 3: the moment the season was over to see what his
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  Speaker 3: free agency value was, and they were saying eight million
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  Speaker 3: dollars a year. I mean, there is no way that
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  Speaker 3: he's only going to do. I don't take a contract
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  Speaker 3: of eight million dollars a year. They've since bumped it
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  Speaker 3: because I'm looking at the page right now to nine
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  Speaker 3: million dollars a year. There is no way he's going
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  Speaker 3: to accept nine million dollars per year. Javonte Williams for
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  Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys just got a three or twenty four
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  Speaker 3: million dollar deal. So unfortunately for running backs, that kind
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  Speaker 3: of is the market for guys that aren't proven stars.
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  Speaker 3: But you also are what the market is willing to
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  Speaker 3: pay you. And there's no doubt that this is a
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  Speaker 3: hot name right now. That just showed the world that
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  Speaker 3: if you make me number one, not one A, you
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  Speaker 3: make me number one, look what I can do in
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  Speaker 3: the biggest moments on the biggest stage. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that that salary will be far superior to nine million dollars,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just how much higher do the Seahawks want
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  Speaker 3: to go. I think I think, despite what I've said
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  Speaker 3: in the past, like I think, you do go a
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  Speaker 3: little more than what you're comfortable of doing, because right now,
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  Speaker 3: there's really not a great free agent market for running backs,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not a great draft this year for running backs.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know that he works, and you just
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  Speaker 3: saw him recently work really well, and you know that
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  Speaker 3: he gets along in the clubhouse because he's just so
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  Speaker 3: easy going that everybody likes ken Walker, or so it
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  Speaker 3: does appear, but there's also from frustrations. You know, in
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  Speaker 3: the Red Solo Cup speech, there was a reason that
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider just kind of turned and like ken Walker
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  Speaker 3: everybody he made it a point to bring up ken Walker,
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  Speaker 3: and he made a point to make eye contact with
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  Speaker 3: ken Walker to make sure that ken Walker heard some love.
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  Speaker 2: But it was kind of awkward. Why.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why it was awkward, But there I'm
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  Speaker 3: having a hard time reading just how much they would
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  Speaker 3: want to sign him. But you obviously are gonna need
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  Speaker 3: a couple running backs if he walks out of Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Who might that be?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Travis atn is a free agent, but he's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna get more than what the market suggests he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get, and that to me is a slight
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  Speaker 3: downgrade from what you have. Pretty good player, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he has the explosion that ken Walker has.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, I mean, you're looking at Rashad White
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  Speaker 3: and ric o'dowdell and Isaiah Pacheco. I mean you just
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  Speaker 3: getting down to Pacheco and I have no interest at
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  Speaker 3: all and what's on the free agent market draft wise, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can get somebody, and we're gonna talk about a
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: couple of guys later on in the show when we
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: do a Pajama Party preview, but certainly that you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: unless you get Brece Hall, there's really not another ken
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Walker that is available on the free agent market. I
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: think at ten is in the conversation with ken Walker.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: But that's just what robbing Peter to pay Paul. That is,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: let's not pay the salary for ken Walker, but we
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: will for Travis Eten. That doesn't quite make sense to me.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: So this is gonna be fascinating. I think maybe you
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: do make yourself a little bit uncomfortable if you're the
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Seahawks willing to go to that four year, forty four
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: million dollars deal for Walker because I think that's at
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: least what it's going to take.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: But my guess is actually that it's going to go
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: even higher than that. I think it's going to go to.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Like twelve forty eight or twelve fifty or some excuse me,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: four or forty eight or four fifty or something like that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And I do.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Believe that that the rest of the league's going to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: price the Seahawks out of this, because the Seahawks aren't
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: as desperate as some other teams to win, obviously, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: so I don't think this is going to end up
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: working out. But I do believe that the Seahawks, just
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: to put a finishing point on it, do need to
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: go to the point of discomfort to keep him because
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I love the options to replace him
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: out there.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And I would think it is interesting to
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: hear Spotrek say eight or nine million dollars. I would
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: think the Seahawks would probably go up to twelve and
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: that would make them very uncomfortable. A lot of people
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: have asked, well, what about franchise tagging him? That's a
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: fourteen million dollar price tag for day and a half. Yeah,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: there's and that's just at that point, which is baffling
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: to me. If spow Track's saying eight to nine million
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: dollars in the franchise tag is fourteen and a half
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: million dollars, that just seems like it's outrageous for any
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: of these running backs. So I think, but I think
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised at a twelve million dollars a
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: year contract.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I think they could push it up to eleven, maybe twelve.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I think James Cook ended up getting around twelve last
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: year when he held out. And also keep this in mind,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: one other point on this, he's twenty five years old.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: No general manager slash executive in the National Football League
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: loves young free agents more than John Schneider.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: It's true.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I mean he took have you seen Devin Bush is
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: still only twenty eight years old? Remember when we got
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Devin Bush and they were like, well, how long has
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: that guy been in the league?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Four years?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: How old is he twenty two or something like that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: It was great, he's still only twenty eight years old.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: In the National Football League, John loves young free agents
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that he loved four years ago.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: At the draft loves them, Yes he does.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: And here he has somebody that he actually drafted. And
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: he is the youngest free agent on the market at
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: his position by a considerable margin. And so I mean
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: if he was if ken Walker was playing for the
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Broncos last year and became a free agent, John to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: be all over this guy. So just because he got
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a history with him, a little
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: bit of experience with him, and it all wasn't always
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: skittles and rainbows with ken Walker. Recognize what you've got.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: He's not a disruptive influence whatsoever. And I don't think
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: pushing it from nine million to twelve million a year
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: considering you have seventy three million dollars with a cap
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: space h is something that I would rule out. I
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: would try to get. I would make myself a little
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: financially uncomfortable. I'd go a little bit over what I
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: had originally intended to pay or offer ken Walker to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: try to keep him, because I am just not in love.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: With the other options out.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I agree, All right, let's find out what's on tap
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the show.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: What's on to what's on tep?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: All right, NFL combine wee. Greg Bell is actually going
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: to make his way. I think he's already made his way.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: He I talked texted with him last night. They had
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: four more hours to go in their eleven hour sleigh ride.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: As he called it, Oh my gosh, why did you
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: do that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Greg?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And he said he would be talking to us from
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: somewhere in Indiana this morning.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: You know what, you had.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: An opportunity trapped in a hotel room in Boston watching
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: two feet of snow grow with your wife.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It could have been I mean, that's like a romantic movie.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Instead, they walked like a half mile to a rental
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: car place and then drove through the snow basically, I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: think until they got to Ohio.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I think it's the whole way.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could have had some romantic You could have
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: had the notebook there with your what and instead you
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: turned it into planes, trains, and automobile and that.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: He did reference that planes, trains and jeep.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts, by the way, is going to be franchise
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: tagged by the Atlanta Falcons. No word as to whether
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: or not he hates that idea, but Pitt's had a
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: pretty decent year. May have salvaged what was looking like
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: a bust of a career this past season. It's got
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: a new offensive minded head coach there in Atlanta. They
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: want to keep him, so he's going to get franchise tag.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Same thing might happen to George Pickens coming off a
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: career year with the Dallas Cowboys, but he's not going
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: to like it at all, and his agent has made
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: that very clear. So of course the Dallas Cowboys are
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: going to try to drive a hard bargain. Stay in
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: the headlines with George Pickens, have him hold out and
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: what have you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It's just amo cracking. We're going to be at the
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Stars tomorrow.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: We got a cracking ticket Tuesday today, So be listening
• 21:58
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• 22:01
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• 22:03
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• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the gold medal win for the US in Canada, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: think there's a little bit of hockey fever going on
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: here in America, here in Seattle, and we're going to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: try to satiate that. Ellie Tolvenan's going to join us
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: today at seven thirty and we'll have our normal eight
• 22:20
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• 22:24
  Speaker 3: off to a one and oh start play again this weekend.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: We'll dive into that later on this week.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And Mariner spring training continued yesterday with a loss to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Dodgers by a final score of three
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: to nothing. But there were some interesting things that happened
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: in that game that I cannot wait to discuss with
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: you right here on Chuck and Buck. And speaking of
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Mariners spring training, we were just there last week providing
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: our award winning coverage.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Just try to top it. I feel bad for the pop.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: We'll try to top it, Ellen Kin fools fools erin.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to replay some of the interviews so
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: we did last week, at least chunks of them, one
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: per day throughout the course of the week. And if
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: you did not hear our conversation with Andres Munjos, I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: still blown away by how much I enjoyed actually having
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: him on the air and finally getting a chance to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: interview our closer.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna replace some of that for you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Next it is chugging' Buck here on a Tuesday Sports
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We did the job for you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: We got you to the people you wanted to hear
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: from talking about the things you wanted to hear is
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: talk about and part of our week last week, I mean,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: we talked to a lot of the people that we've
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: discussed with the past. We've developed a few relationships with
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: one guy that we've been around every year is the closer,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Andres Munjos. And every year we try to convince Andres
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: to come on the show with us, and he always like,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: kicks the can down the.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Road tomorrow or Friday.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: He always says it, And I think it's because Andres
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: is he wants to sound He wants his English to
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: be just nailed. He will always You'll hear it in
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: the interview. He will always say something and then.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: He'll be like, did I get the right word right there?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: So I think it's just him like wanting to before
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: he did a full fledged interview with us, just want
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I want my English to sound great.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, he wants to be comfortable so he can
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: be himself.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, and his English is great. And so I
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: told him this year, I said, you're coming on with
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: us this year. Your English is great, Like, come on
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: with us and let's do an interview. People want to
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: hear from you. And he's such a nice guy. We
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: already knew that. What I didn't realize is how great
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: an interview he is.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: He's awesome.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: He was fantastic. So, in case you missed it, because
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: we did play it late in the show on Thursday,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I wanted to replace some of it for you here
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: this morning. Since we are a few days removed from
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: spring training coverage, I wanted you to hear from Andre's Munio,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: So we play a little bit of that for you
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: here today from our SPA training coverage last week. I'll
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: pick up the conversation when I asked Munhos how excited
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: he is to be representing Mexico and the upcoming WBC.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I am really excited. Of course. I am really happy
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: that they give me the call and they give me
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to be part of that, and hopefully I
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: will do my best over her and try to be
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: try to put the Mexico flag on the top. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: that is a plan. I just go there and have
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: some fun and be able to represent my country.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: How fun has it been?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Have you been talking talking to trash.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're too nice to probably do it, but
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: cal or anybody because you guys are in the same.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Pool, right, No, no, oh, yes, we're in the same pool.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: But I don't talk to him. You know about that
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: obviously I would like to avoid facing him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but maybe something nice you say, something like, hey,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Cal by the way, just so you know, if I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: face you, I now have a split finger. You won't see.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Yes, I actually any of my bullpins, he hasn't catching
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: any of them. That is a plan, so he can't.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: He don't. Hopefully he forget about my stuff and he
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: is bran new to him when I when he's on
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: the bucks, that's good. H. I don't think he's going
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: to catch any of my games too, so I also don't.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Think he's going to forget about yourself. So sorry to
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: disappoint you. Andre's munios is with us right here on
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: jucket bucket in the morning, the closure for your Seattle
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Mariners here at the spring training. When did you start
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: throwing hard like the first time you played baseball? Did
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: you throw harder than all the other kids?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: No? No, I was just normal like abarach velocity. Then
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: when I was what's the point of my I didn't
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: want to like get full in baseball. When I was thirteen,
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: then I stopped playing baseball for some things I have
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: and over there, like we have a tryout and they
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: put attention in other kids and they put me on
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: the side. So I take that as an experience, used
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: to like okay, like I'm going to prove that you
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: are wrong. And then I start to do three things
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: during the day. I was doing swimming, track and field
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: and baseball. So I did that for six I was
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: throwing like eighty eighty one eighty two. I did that
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: for three for six months, six to eight months. Then
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: when I came back no rather gones know anything. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: used to play catch, trowble pens. Then when I went
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: to the game in the first pitch that I threw
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: was ninety one or eight months later, just doing that, whoa,
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: And then I continue doing that for basically my home
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: whole main league career. When I was seventeen one was
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: the first time that I threw hundred and then every
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: time that I went home, I continue with that workouts
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: like swimming, track and field, baseball, and that is that
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: is part of my routine now like all the time
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: when I go there. I was a triple jumper, So
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: every time that I go to Mexico, that is my training.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: That is the way that I train, like I trained like.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Irain triple jump throw pitches for a living. Yes, interesting,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: what your wife's attracted fields?
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Start?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: What? What was her about?
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Eight hundred meters and fifteen hundred meters?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, swimming when you're doing your swimming. I was a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: swimmer in high school, believe it or not. That was
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: like one hundred post yeah, but but what was what
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: just like freestyle like front crawl or just front and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: sprints or distance distance distance distance?
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: We use that more for I don't know what I
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: feel when I do. It's the swimming, but feels like
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: I am working and I am really at the same time.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: So and and that is something that if you have
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: things in your mind, you're get in a pool and
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: then you start swimming and swimming and swimming and then
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: you forget about it. And that is really cool thing
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: to do. Uh is I using more inter relaxing things
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: like UH used to relax to get get out of
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: things on my mind and and just use that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And you're getting in shape while you're doing it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Andre Smunos, our guest here, first time we've ever had him.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Why have you not been on more often? You're awesome?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: This has been great joining us here on the chucking box,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: so very close to making it to the World Series
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: last year?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: How painful was.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: It to come up short as a team, and then
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: how much of a motivator has that then to get this.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Season started this year?
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Obviously it was first of all, like we have to
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: thank God for how far we get. And I don't
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: know he's used like at the same time we were sad,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: but we were happy to see how far we can
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: we can get and how close we were to be
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: in the word serious, and I feel like that helped
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: us a motivation too, for us just to know that
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: we are able to do it and we are able
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: to be against the best of the best, and and
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: that gives us a lot of confidence. And the mentality
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: has changed to like we know that we are able
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: to do it. It's not that before we we weren't
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: able to or we we didn't have the mindset, the mentality,
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: but we never experienced that, and now that we experienced that,
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: we we have a lot of.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Confidence.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: On ourselves. Okay, we we can do we can we
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: can be there, uh this year, and that is the mentality.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: As soon as we got here, we all, we all,
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: everybody got so excited about it, and now we are
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: excited to be there again. So hopefully, Uh, that is
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: a plan of everybody.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, be there.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: And and and be the baseball.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Andre s Munos joining us last Thursday at our spring
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: training coverage.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: He was he's great.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: My favorite was you love your cat, don't you? Yes,
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: but sometimes we think she hates us. It was such
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: an honest answer, like, yes, I really do, but sometimes
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: we think she hates us.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: And then he goes on to say that he's learned
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: patience from watching his cat and it's helped him in
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: his baseball career. And no one has ever said that
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: about their cat in the history of mankind that has
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: played professional baseball.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: But the way he explained it, you're like, I kind
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of get what you're saying.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: He made total sense to me because he said, she
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: never changes, She's always the same. You know what you're
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: gonna get. And he said, so I try to always
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: be the same and never and.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: I was like, uh, man, I hear you. I get it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, no doubt Pete Woodworth is a good
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: pitching coach, but the real brains behind the operation is
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: much killed.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: She is a beaute And I just and I love
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: that he's so open about, you know, his love for
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: his cat and that he's turned it into help being raised.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Why the guys are embarrassed that they like a cat
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and won't admit.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: It, and you shouldn't be because cats are awesome, Dogs
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: are awesome.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: They're all awesome.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: And he's raised money for pet you know, for the
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Humane Society and all sorts of things around town. And
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: he's just I was so excited when you guys got
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: to talk to him because I that just was awesome.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I mean we were talking about it for the next
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: two days, Bucky and I. And after the interview was over,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I ran into the clubhouse to thank Freddie who's the interpreter,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: and to give him an update like that was fantastic
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: and I and I wasn't even thinking, he's now my
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: favorite person in the world. And Luis Castillo was standing
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: right there at his locker and he goes, what about me.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: You're like, well, come on the show.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he does.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: You just give us sound bites yeah, pictures day.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you can't become my favorite. Just give
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: me sound bites though, Come on.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Next, hear Luise, it's up to you exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know you want to get on my good side,
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  Speaker 3: Come on rock all right, coming up next. I told
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  Speaker 3: you we're going to do a Reckless at Breakfast every
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  Speaker 3: day this week. I'm going to move it around though
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  Speaker 3: for people that don't normally get to hear it, and
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  Speaker 3: so it's coming your way next. On Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 3: Segment we do and have done for ten years here
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  Speaker 3: on the radio show Wednesdays at seven forty five. But Bucky,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is my opportunity to.
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  Speaker 2: Get really, you know, a little nut so.
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  Speaker 3: Here, and Bucky has a little hard time when I
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  Speaker 3: get just kind of nuts, so well, this just kind
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  Speaker 3: of lets me off the rails. So I got to
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  Speaker 3: deal with his judgment all the time. So while he's
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  Speaker 3: away this week, I'm gonna do a Reckless at Breakfast
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  Speaker 3: every single day this week, and we'll bounce it around
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  Speaker 3: the show, not just have it to obviously Wednesday, and
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: for the second day in a row, I'm going to
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: use the same topic because and I wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna do this.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to do something baseball related today because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody can figure out the NBA
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  Speaker 3: tanking issue. And yet this story happened yesterday, and so
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  Speaker 3: now I have to talk about it. Yusuf Nurkic, who
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  Speaker 3: is a big man for the Utah Jazz, it was
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  Speaker 3: announced yesterday's going to undergo nose surgery and sit out
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 5: The rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: This is already a team that was under the microscope
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  Speaker 3: for blowing games, not playing their starters.
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  Speaker 5: SI did their no surgery blowing.
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  Speaker 3: Games, and then they've had They acquired Jaron Jackson Junior
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  Speaker 3: from Memphis at the trading deadline, and he's had an
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  Speaker 3: injury and a surgery, a procedure that will cost.
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  Speaker 2: Him the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And now yesterday, apparently Nurkic's knows his recent sickness has
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  Speaker 3: been just so debilitating. He can't possibly play basketball again
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  Speaker 3: with a stuffed up nose.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, it's too difficult.
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  Speaker 3: So he's having a surgical procedure and he can't possibly
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  Speaker 3: pay basketball again. Now, maybe I mean, I'm no doctor,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe this is very serious, and I'm making light of it.
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  Speaker 3: The point of it is it reads again like the
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  Speaker 3: Utah Jazz are trying to find creative ways in order
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  Speaker 3: to lose games so they can improve their standing for
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  Speaker 3: the lottery, which I don't trust anyway. So again, the
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  Speaker 3: NBA is going to go a long way this offseason
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  Speaker 3: in trying to fix their tanking issue or try to
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  Speaker 3: decentivize tanking in the most creative way possible. So I
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  Speaker 3: present to you this here on Reckless at Breakfast. My brother,
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  Speaker 3: who while he was in college, got a job and
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  Speaker 3: he was is this place called Hit and Run, and
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  Speaker 3: he would deliver growthrocries. So you just pulled up and
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  Speaker 3: then you would order your groceries and he would run
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  Speaker 3: into the store and he'd gather all the groceries and
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  Speaker 3: he'd bring them back out to you. Okay, that's the
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  Speaker 3: way it worked. I mean, it seems like pretty reasonable system.
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  Speaker 3: We have a very similar thing today, but at the
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  Speaker 3: time it was revolutionary. Yes, And so this is the
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  Speaker 3: job he had, and he ran across a lot of
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  Speaker 3: really unusual characters, both those in the employ of Hit
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  Speaker 3: and Run and then the customers that he ran into,
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  Speaker 3: many of them regulars because it was in a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a.
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  Speaker 2: CD part of town.
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  Speaker 3: So he ended up making a board game about his
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  Speaker 3: hit and Run experience that he played with the family.
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  Speaker 3: Very creative project. I'm not sure it was worth the
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  Speaker 3: time and effort that went into it, but we ended
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  Speaker 3: up playing the Hit and Run board game numerous times.
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  Speaker 3: And a little wrinkle, the little creative aspect that he
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  Speaker 3: made was as you were playing, and there was comedy
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  Speaker 3: throughout it. The cards were all comedic. As you were
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  Speaker 3: playing't know what the objective was because underneath the board
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  Speaker 3: would be a slip of paper and then you would
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  Speaker 3: play the game, and then as soon as the game
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  Speaker 3: was finished, you'd take out the piece of paper and
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  Speaker 3: you'd read it and it would say whoever finished furthest
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  Speaker 3: from the finish line as your winner. So, in other words,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't know you could be you. You could be
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  Speaker 3: the first of the finish line, or you could have
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  Speaker 3: the most hit and run dollars, or.
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  Speaker 2: You could be you could end up in Hit and
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  Speaker 2: Run jail and.
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  Speaker 5: You could still win, and you could still win.
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  Speaker 3: You never knew what the objective was because underneath the
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  Speaker 3: board it was predetermined.
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  Speaker 2: You know who ended up winning the game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so it seems ridiculous, and yet it would be
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  Speaker 3: an improvement over what they're doing. And the point that
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to make is in the NBA, if at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of if you had the lottery at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year and not at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year, and you put the envelopes and they were
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  Speaker 3: stacked like they were twenty four seven cameras, so nobody
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  Speaker 3: knows they were tamed. Maybe at the NBA headquarters they're
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: in glass cases that are locked and that they're on
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  Speaker 3: twenty four to seven camera surveillance and they just sit
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  Speaker 3: there all year long. And then at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year, the number one pick goes to who and
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  Speaker 3: you open it up the team with the.
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  Speaker 2: Eighth worst record in the NBA, and the second pick
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  Speaker 2: goes to the team with the twelfth worst record in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're still going to give the top draft picks
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  Speaker 3: to the teams that don't make the playoffs, but you
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  Speaker 3: absolutely can't do anything to improve your lottery chances by
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  Speaker 3: losing on purpose this way, because it's just gonna be random,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: dumb luck for whoever misses the playoffs. As to whether
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  Speaker 3: or not you're gonna end up with the number one pick,
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  Speaker 3: or the number two pick, or the number ten pick.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: So it behooves you to make the playoffs and avoid
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  Speaker 3: this process entirely because you're not gonna have an advantage.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to weigh it in your favor. It's
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  Speaker 3: just gonna be dumb luck. At the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 3: it was in an envelope, secretly on full display, and
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  Speaker 3: yet captain secret the entire year, unbeknownst to anyone else
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  Speaker 3: in the world that the team with the fourth worst record.
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  Speaker 2: In the NBA was going to end up with the
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  Speaker 2: number one pick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it wouldn't be team specific, just your position
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  Speaker 4: is where you'd fall.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And also I would like to give Utah credit though,
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  Speaker 5: for their creativity.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, you know, if everybody in school comes in
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: with the excuse, oh, I didn't do my homework because
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: or my dog ate my homework. But then another kid's like, well,
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: let me tell you what happened to my homework, and
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: they go on an elaborate story. I'm like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: everybody else fails, but kid, you came in ready to
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: do business.
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  Speaker 5: And I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My dog has a deviated septimy. Yeah, and that's why
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: he ate my homework.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he tried to he was trying to fix
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  Speaker 4: his nose on his own and it wouldn't work.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll say, Danny Ainge will bite. I mean he
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: was a player. He would bite, scratch, whatever it.
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  Speaker 2: Took to win.
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  Speaker 3: He's the same way as an executive. So you can
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: tell him don't tank and he'll be like why.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: He'll be like, I'm going to find I'm not tanking, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, Yeah, I'll find a creative way to lose games.
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  Speaker 3: I'll put my best players on the il with mysterious injuries.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do anything about that. Yeah, alright.
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