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Chuck in the Morning 8-19 H2: Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners, Reckless at Breakfast · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Drives it white center field. It's deep. World will looks
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Speaker 1: it's going as rough as this is. No one wants
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Speaker 1: to be out on the field right now. Obviously Rebus
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Speaker 1: is not having any fun with this.
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Speaker 2: Named a sacrificial land Yellich de center. Julio is there
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Speaker 2: and he makes the catch and Julio through the ball
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Speaker 2: into the seats. Julio threw the ball into the seats.
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Speaker 1: That was the second out.
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Speaker 3: This on.
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Speaker 4: The runners are going to advance two bases, which will
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Speaker 4: score another run.
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Speaker 1: And this just adds to a miserable.
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Speaker 4: Night here in Milwaukee. The two errors in the last sitting,
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Speaker 4: the throw over the over second base, Naylor dropping of
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Speaker 4: a routine throw.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is rough.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that was almost a quick pitch too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The pitch clock is a They may have turned it all.
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Speaker 1: On the ground.
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Speaker 5: This will do it?
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Speaker 1: Are you rough? Rough?
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Speaker 3: Night?
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Speaker 4: Rough for the Mariners here to open up a huge
1:30
Speaker 4: series in Milwaukee. A game that gets away and then
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Speaker 4: really gets away with Rivos pitching the eighth. The Brewers
1:37
Speaker 4: had a pair of five run hittings and a nine run.
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Speaker 1: Hitting Mariners DD on the call last night of the
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Speaker 1: dreary twenty two nothing lost of the Milwaukee Brewers, yet
1:49
Speaker 1: made far worse by Leo Reebos coming in and throwing
1:52
Speaker 1: slow pitch softball pitches to a major league lineup. But
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Speaker 1: U thirteen two nothing, not really much of a difference,
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Speaker 1: and that kind of a gross performance. But the Brewers
2:04
Speaker 1: take them out and we'll try to do it again tonight.
2:07
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert gets the start for the Mariners, going up
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Speaker 1: against Dustin May. First pitches at four forty. There's any
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Speaker 1: silver lining. The Astros lost last night, and so you
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Speaker 1: didn't lose any ground either in the wildcard race where
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Speaker 1: the Mariners are three out of the wildcard, or in
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Speaker 1: the divisional race where they are four back of the
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Speaker 1: Houston Astros. Good morning to you, Happy Wednesday. It is
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Speaker 1: Chuck in the mornings as we broadcast live from the
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Speaker 1: greatest setting in college football. We are at training camp
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Speaker 1: for the Washington Uskies, where I'll be broadcasting breach of
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Speaker 1: the next two mornings. It is great to have you
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Speaker 1: with us. Of course, Mariners stealing headlines for all the
2:42
Speaker 1: wrong reasons last night. Do want to thank Mariners TV
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Speaker 1: for those calls. Seahawks training camp of course continues as well.
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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks aired last night more on that from Greg
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Speaker 1: Bell here in a moment. He's getting ready to go
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Speaker 1: to Nashville for joint practice against the Titans this week
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Speaker 1: and then a Sunday season game number two on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: Sounders taking on Austin Wednesday tonight actually will be the
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Speaker 1: matches the Sounders look to end a seven game losing streak.
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Speaker 1: Those are your frost brewed coores like choose Chill headlines.
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Speaker 1: And I should also tell you, by the way, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk a lot of Huskies of football here from
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Speaker 1: seven forty five on on the show today, But they
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Speaker 1: do have their mock game this weekend at six point
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Speaker 1: thirty and then FanFest at four to twenty something. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about with our guests later on in the show, but.
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Speaker 6: Right now it's time to talk to Greg Bell as
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Speaker 3: Comiday, Greg get in money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, ain't get enough a camp life. I just go
4:01
Speaker 1: from one camp to the other right now. Like I
4:04
Speaker 1: had such a good time over at Sea Hawks summer
4:06
Speaker 1: camp that I decided, Hey, why not go get poison
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Speaker 1: ivy and make a macaroni necklace at another summer camp.
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Speaker 3: Mon like's a good place to be, right. Actually, it's
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Speaker 3: a lot better than indulging in the baseball team right now.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well we're not indulging, that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: That was my wife to and Andrews. My wife doesn't
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Speaker 3: really get into the eaches of it. He just said,
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Speaker 3: how could a major league baseball team run out of pitchers?
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Speaker 3: How did he not have enough pictures?
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Speaker 1: Well, they all do. I mean, once you get to
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Speaker 1: a certain point, you don't want to use another one,
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Speaker 1: So they use a they use a position player, and.
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Speaker 3: I mean ran out of pictures. But I would say
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Speaker 3: they ran out of pictures when Simpson came into the
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Speaker 3: game when it was closed.
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Speaker 1: That's true. It probably shouldn't be on this roster, that's
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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, it was ugly. It was ugly last night.
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Speaker 3: Well call it another one, another one.
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Speaker 1: Well, we got a lot to get to here today.
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Speaker 1: And so Hard Knocks It airs last night, first and foremost,
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Speaker 1: before we talk about Terry and Arnold, which is probably
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Speaker 1: the headliner here. Did Brady Russell have his baby? Yeah,
5:23
Speaker 1: we're good. Brady's good.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's gonna be on my show at eleven
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Speaker 3: o'clock today. He has a crazy story about how all
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Speaker 3: that went down. Well, he just casually told me. I said,
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Speaker 3: how's married life? Because then we got married this offseason.
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Speaker 3: He said, great, we just had our baby two days ago.
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Speaker 3: I was like, wait what baby told me the story
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Speaker 3: and he was his wife went into labor before the
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Speaker 3: game began, and his wife and everybody, they said, well,
5:51
Speaker 3: this might take a while. Apparently she'd had been gone
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Speaker 3: into labor before. She was a couple of weeks late delivering.
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Speaker 3: So they see, I go play the game, and if
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Speaker 3: we let you know, if something happens you need to
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Speaker 3: get we'll let you know during the game. So he
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Speaker 3: checked his phone. I mean, he can hear the whole
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Speaker 3: thing at eleven, but he checked his phone at halftime.
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Speaker 3: I let him tell the rest of the story eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 3: But they had a police car ready to take him
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Speaker 3: and whisk him out of there. If they needed to.
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Speaker 3: They the Seahawks were, they were deep for planning this. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: They got him out of there at halftime, and he
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Speaker 3: was there in time for the baby to be born
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Speaker 3: and everything's fair. A nine pound baby.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean she was very, very pregnant based
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Speaker 1: on what I.
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Speaker 3: Said, ninos nine pounds, pops, do this? Can you imagine
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Speaker 3: your wife lugging nine pounds? No? Nine pounds?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 3: Not alone? Was I mean, like I said, eleven o'clock,
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Speaker 3: I was. I kept asking another football question, but then
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Speaker 3: it kept going back to this. The whole thing was
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Speaker 3: just crazy, the story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was making me nervous on hard knocks.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you are putting your socks on two slow,
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Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. But all turned out well,
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Speaker 1: so good.
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Speaker 3: Add in Dirty McDonald saying what is he going on
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Speaker 3: and tells him and Dirty just goes, oh, like it
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Speaker 3: was no big deal, a gigantic deal.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk about Terry on Arnold because
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Speaker 1: it really came across to me and maybe you've gathered
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Speaker 1: some more information. But in the episode last night that
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Speaker 1: John was convinced and spent a lot of time like
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Speaker 1: trying to make sure that he just wasn't too excited
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Speaker 1: about the player to overlook the person. Uh, it did
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Speaker 1: seem like he did his due diligence, but it just
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Speaker 1: felt to me like he was convinced from the jump
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Speaker 1: and he was gonna make damn sure that others were
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Speaker 1: as convinced as he was. That was my interpretation of
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Speaker 1: events last night. But never got any doubt that our
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Speaker 1: general manager wanted to sign Terry On Arnold.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and it's because he was hearkening back to his
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Speaker 3: love for Arnold coming out of the into the draft
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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago out of Alabama, and he
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Speaker 3: so far. They showed on the episode last night him
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Speaker 3: watching the interview that they had the Seahawks had with
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Speaker 3: Arnold leading into that draft, and he said it was
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Speaker 3: one of the best interviews they ever had. And they
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Speaker 3: were playing some of the clips and he was talking
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Speaker 3: about you know what failure makeshew and the character and
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Speaker 3: all of this stuff. And yes, he said it was
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Speaker 3: interesting to meet that. Snyder said he talked to coach
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Speaker 3: Nick Saban about him, and Saban said Arnold's character was
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Speaker 3: just as good as Jalen Milrose, who was very highly
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Speaker 3: regarded comes from a military family, the Alabama quarterback and
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Speaker 3: teammate of Arnold. It was also interesting to hear that
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Speaker 3: Nicole Lynn Arnold's agent called Schneider and was saying, Hey,
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Speaker 3: we want this to be a long term play, a
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Speaker 3: human development from a human development standpoint, Coln, we're forgetting
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Speaker 3: about this, nicolens Hyen. Taron Arnold is only twenty three
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Speaker 3: years old. Whatever he did or didn't do, and we'll
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Speaker 3: see what becomes of the legal case in Tampa. He's
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Speaker 3: a young man and there's a lot of his life
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Speaker 3: ahead of him, and this decision or whatever situation he
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Speaker 3: put himself in to get eight felony charges against him.
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Speaker 3: Whether they're stick or not, either it's true or not,
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Speaker 3: that's still a mistake to put yourself in that circumstance.
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Speaker 3: Whether you're an NFL player or someone who just works
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Speaker 3: at Walmart. He's got a lot of life ahead of him,
9:35
Speaker 3: and his agent was doing a good job there saying
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Speaker 3: I want to do this from a human dot and
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Speaker 3: John Schneider, of course, is appealing to that interest saying, well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're about the whole person. We're going to make him
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Speaker 3: a better person and a better player. And what's lost
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Speaker 3: in all of this, Chuck is this is not a
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Speaker 3: deal for August of twenty twenty six. They put their
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Speaker 3: bid in on Arnold so they could have the option
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Speaker 3: to have him later this season if the legal process
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Speaker 3: goes in his favor. If it doesn't, they could still
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Speaker 3: keep him next year. If he doesn't play at all
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Speaker 3: this year, he would probably be an exclusive rights free
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Speaker 3: agent to Seattle, which means they would because they signed
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Speaker 3: him this year, they would have the option to get
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Speaker 3: him out of very low salary next year to play
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Speaker 3: for them in twenty twenty seven if the legal system allows,
10:23
Speaker 3: and they could even do it beyond that, or get
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Speaker 3: him a multi year deal if it worked out beyond it.
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Speaker 3: This isn't a deal for hey can he play in
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Speaker 3: the preseason of twenty twenty six? And Snider would not
10:33
Speaker 3: be going through all this if it was just for
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Speaker 3: that he's got now the Seahawks now own the rights
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Speaker 3: to his contract beyond this year. And I think that's
10:42
Speaker 3: what the play is here. And I think that's when
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Speaker 3: Nicolen said, this is a long play, long term play,
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Speaker 3: that's what they're talking about. Snyder's not going through all
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Speaker 3: these gymnastics and bringing in players and calling Nick Saban
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Speaker 3: to see if this guy can show up for preseason
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Speaker 3: of this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's pretty spot all
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Speaker 1: on gregs with us our Seahawks Insight. You can follow
11:02
Speaker 1: him at GML Seattle on X and of course, gobble
11:04
Speaker 1: up his complete Seahawks coverage day in, day out, night in,
11:09
Speaker 1: night out at the News Tribune dot com. Montori Foster
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Speaker 1: got some love on Hard Knocks and you been telling
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Speaker 1: about him, You've been telling us about him all camp long,
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Speaker 1: and and so what is the fate for Montori Foster?
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he got he got some run on
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Speaker 1: HBO last night. But this thing, in order for it
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Speaker 1: to be a happy ending for him, he needs to
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Speaker 1: make this football team. Is that gonna happen?
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Speaker 3: Yes, it is. They made another one handed, one arm
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Speaker 3: catch yesterday with his left arm over Bud Clark on
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Speaker 3: a pass from Drew Locke in the back corner of
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Speaker 3: the end zone, and everybody just as there's Foster again.
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Speaker 3: He's getting a lot more time with the ones, both
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Speaker 3: in individual position groups, Sam Darnold's throwing to him and
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Speaker 3: in eleven on eleven And they don't do that with
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Speaker 3: guys that they don't think are going to make the roster.
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Speaker 3: They don't even waste the starting quarterbacks arm rotation and
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Speaker 3: motion on receivers that the Sam Darnold chooses which receiver
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Speaker 3: he jumps from line to line. There's two lines of
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Speaker 3: go on either side of the field during group drills,
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Speaker 3: and he chooses which guys he throws to. Tory Horton.
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Speaker 3: He always jumps in line four. Well, now he's jumping
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Speaker 3: in line from mon Tory Foster. That tells me that
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Speaker 3: Foster is going to make the team. Just little things
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Speaker 3: like that, not to mention he's in with the ones
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Speaker 3: with the scrivaging. But who's going to make the team
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Speaker 3: a defensive well they are about Let's look at the
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Speaker 3: wide receivers, Smith and Jagoba and Cup and Horton and
12:36
Speaker 3: Shaheed of course all locks. So those four. Then you
12:40
Speaker 3: get to Bobo, who has been injured for half of
12:43
Speaker 3: camp but has been is our fourth year incumbent and
12:46
Speaker 3: huge and special teams, so you think that maybe five plus.
12:49
Speaker 3: They just gave him a two year deal to match
12:51
Speaker 3: the Jacksonville Jaguar has restricted free agency offer on him,
12:54
Speaker 3: so he's probably five. So now you're talking just probably one.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes they go to seven receivers, usually they keep six.
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Speaker 3: So he's competing with Rochelle who returned the punt fifty
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Speaker 3: two yards the other night in the preseason game. Cody White,
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Speaker 3: who every time they give him a shot does something
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Speaker 3: and has for years and finally got his chance last
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Speaker 3: year with his first touchdown. He also White can play
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Speaker 3: special teams in return kicks. Emmanuel Henderson Junior is the
13:20
Speaker 3: draft pick they drafted out of Kansas four special teams.
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Speaker 3: He's a guy that can probably get out through waivers
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Speaker 3: and onto the practice squad. Irvin Charles, who's barely been
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Speaker 3: on the field because of injuries this the preseason, and
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Speaker 3: Ricky White, the third last year's draft pick, who they
13:35
Speaker 3: also may be able to sneak through waivers and get
13:38
Speaker 3: on the practice squad. So he's really fighting against maybe Rochelle,
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Speaker 3: maybe Cody White. But that's it. I think he's gonna
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Speaker 3: make the team. And it's a great story. Yeah, we've
13:50
Speaker 3: already talked about it many times. But if you produce
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Speaker 3: and then you're producing games, Mike McDonald rewards him. So far,
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Speaker 3: he's rewarding him.
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Speaker 1: My favorite part of the episode last night was the
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Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon portion of the hour where not only did
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Speaker 1: he get his deal, but the reaction from his teammates
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Speaker 1: and then the meeting that he had just the three
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Speaker 1: of them, Mike McDonald, John Schneider and himself, and that
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Speaker 1: just circle of appreciation and gratitude that was taking place
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Speaker 1: between the three of them. But I would ask you,
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Speaker 1: I mean, there was also a previous moment in the
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Speaker 1: first episode of Hard Knocks where Brady Russell was scolded
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Speaker 1: for not being for saying something about Derek Hall's money.
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Speaker 1: Has it always been like this? I mean, in your
14:36
Speaker 1: days of covering, have the players always been as supportive
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Speaker 1: as this team seems to be when a guy gets paid,
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Speaker 1: when he gets bank or is that something unique, different,
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Speaker 1: special about this team. Does jealousy run rampant and past
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Speaker 1: locker rooms that you've been a part of and this
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Speaker 1: one's special? Or has that just become the norm in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League that when a guy gets paid,
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Speaker 1: his teammates and friends celebrate him.
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Speaker 3: No, this is rare, and this is what Mike McDonald
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Speaker 3: has done. But the legion of Boom was not like this.
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Speaker 3: The legion of Boom was Richard Sherman looking at how
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Speaker 3: much Earl Thomas was getting Okay, Chancellor saying, wait a minute,
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Speaker 3: they haven't paid me yet, so I'm holding out to
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Speaker 3: the second game of the season. I'm not coming at
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Speaker 3: all for training camp. Way different. And even Sherman last
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Speaker 3: night on the episode talking to McDonald, people heard him
15:28
Speaker 3: talk about the differences and the edginess, and even Sherman said, well,
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Speaker 3: this guy was worried about how much this guy was
15:34
Speaker 3: getting paid. That is all Mike McDonald. And again, the
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Speaker 3: greatest accomplished of Mike McDonald's done in two seasons. Here
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Speaker 3: is the culture he's built and the Brethren and the
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Speaker 3: catheredas the walking talks and tell us youre why. The
15:46
Speaker 3: result of doing all that, of guys learning other guys
15:49
Speaker 3: backgrounds and they're wis and learning about their kids and
15:52
Speaker 3: their family and their upbringing is what you saw with
15:55
Speaker 3: the Witherspoon contract reaction. Those guys are really tight and
15:58
Speaker 3: know each other more than NFL know each other. And
16:02
Speaker 3: that is different. And that's because a one man and
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald doing that as a first time head coach
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Speaker 3: at age thirty six thirty seven and reinventing himself from
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Speaker 3: year over year to over year already. How he talks
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Speaker 3: in front of players. You can see he's awkward talking
16:17
Speaker 3: to front of players. He's not comfortable. But he's gotten
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Speaker 3: so much better than he was when he first got here.
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Speaker 3: But the fact that they've done all of this while
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Speaker 3: winning has been a perfect successful combination for locker room culture.
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Speaker 3: If they did all this togetherness and walk and talks
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Speaker 3: and learn about your whys and they go five and eleven,
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Speaker 3: five and twelve, guys would think this is just a
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Speaker 3: bunch of smoke and this is there's no substance to it.
16:41
Speaker 3: But on top to the culture, on top of the schemes,
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Speaker 3: and they wins. Haha. Now we have the number one
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Speaker 3: defense in the NFL. Ha, Now we have a super
16:48
Speaker 3: Bowl championship. This guy's a genius. That's where we're at
16:52
Speaker 3: right now. And so that's the result of that. Yes,
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Speaker 3: I've been in many even Major League Baseball locker rooms
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Speaker 3: when I was beat right, they ain't like that. It
17:02
Speaker 3: is way different, and that is in a nutshell that
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Speaker 3: with it's been seen, is why the Seahawks won the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl last year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, that's great. That is great stuff. All right,
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Speaker 1: what he got playing for ten o'clock today.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're going to talk about the tarryan On situation
17:18
Speaker 3: and the bigger scope of it and how the Seahawks
17:20
Speaker 3: may have miscalculated whether he could play or not in
17:22
Speaker 3: the preseason. But like I just mentioned, that's beside the
17:25
Speaker 3: point that there's a longer play here, and we saw
17:27
Speaker 3: that last night in the episode. We have to talk
17:30
Speaker 3: about the historical significance of twenty two nothing. Mariner fans,
17:35
Speaker 3: they don't deserve this. They just don't. Fifty years no
17:38
Speaker 3: World Series and you got a team that should be
17:40
Speaker 3: in the World Series losing twenty two nothing to anybody,
17:43
Speaker 3: that should never. That's just should never happen. Not to
17:45
Speaker 3: mention the Julio play boy. He chucked that ball too.
17:48
Speaker 3: That was almost to the upper deck. That wasn't just
17:52
Speaker 3: a toss into the bullpen. That was crazy.
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Speaker 1: I honestly, I don't even blame him for like checking
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Speaker 1: out at that point. I had a lot in the.
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Speaker 3: Field for forty five minutes, Yeah, watching him back throw
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Speaker 3: I had.
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Speaker 1: I had a lot bigger problem with his non competitive
18:08
Speaker 1: bat in the first inning than I did with him
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Speaker 1: forgetting how many outs there were While Leo Revas was
18:12
Speaker 1: pitching but but I understand it was sort of the
18:15
Speaker 1: symbol of last night for sure.
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Speaker 3: Correct. But well, if you talk about non competitive bats,
18:20
Speaker 3: we could single out anybody for the last four months.
18:24
Speaker 3: Was not just the Leio Rodriguez. Yeah, eleven o'clock you'll
18:27
Speaker 3: hear Brady Wrestle My talk with him. H It was
18:30
Speaker 3: a really it was a cool conversation. Accidentally bumped into
18:33
Speaker 3: this story of leaving an NFL game at halftime so
18:36
Speaker 3: you could be there for your wife's birth. And he
18:38
Speaker 3: was so either that.
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Speaker 1: He's such a great dude, Like he just comes across
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Speaker 1: like the most likable guy in the room.
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Speaker 3: So the son of a military man, Yeah, he's that.
18:47
Speaker 3: His father was a marine pilot and then a commercial pilot.
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Speaker 3: He talked about that with me too. Is upbringing that way?
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Speaker 1: All right, awesome, all right, we'll be listening at tenth.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: It is the ABC's of the m's right here on
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Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the mornings. Great to have you
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Speaker 1: with us, anders Hurst back at the studio. My name
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Speaker 1: eight to ten out here as we broadcast for you
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Speaker 1: here at Husky's training camp. Very excited to be here
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Speaker 1: and more on the Dogs in a moment. But the
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Speaker 1: ABC's of the M's, our daily segment, we got to
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Speaker 1: get to. We got to get that taken care of
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Speaker 1: here today. We left off of the letter M yesterday
20:53
Speaker 1: and M is for Milwaukee, the opponent that we are facing,
20:57
Speaker 1: best record in all of Major League Baseball. Shouldn't be
21:00
Speaker 1: beating us twenty two to nothing. I'll give you that.
21:03
Speaker 1: But certainly a very good team, a very good organization,
21:07
Speaker 1: and they do it with scraps. They that's the way
21:10
Speaker 1: that they have carved out their success, which does prove
21:14
Speaker 1: it is possible to be a good successful organization. Six
21:19
Speaker 1: consecutive winning seasons, not just winning seasons, but you know,
21:24
Speaker 1: they're winning ninety ninety five ninety seven games during this stretch.
21:28
Speaker 1: So this is truly of the small market organizations, mid
21:33
Speaker 1: to small market organizations. This is the bell of the ball.
21:35
Speaker 1: I mean, they're better than the Tampa Bay Rays right now.
21:38
Speaker 1: But I am going to take exception and it's probably
21:41
Speaker 1: not a great morning to defend the Maors after what
21:46
Speaker 1: we saw last night, and certainly I don't want to
21:49
Speaker 1: take a cheap shot at my friend Matt Caulkins, who
21:51
Speaker 1: I think does a terrific job and he is a
21:54
Speaker 1: great guy. That said, I think he took a cheap
21:57
Speaker 1: shot at the organization, yes with his column. And frankly,
22:02
Speaker 1: I find it to be baseless. The two things that
22:06
Speaker 1: stand out to me. They're sinking into irrelevance line is ridiculous,
22:12
Speaker 1: as bad as they've been this year, and they've been bad,
22:15
Speaker 1: and we can point our fingers and we're going to
22:18
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season if they don't turn
22:20
Speaker 1: it around, and we'll also spend it in the offseason
22:22
Speaker 1: and heads could roll, and I would imagine that they will.
22:26
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to say that anybody is untouchable
22:29
Speaker 1: in the entire organization after a disappointing year like this,
22:33
Speaker 1: But this team was seven games under five hundred and
22:36
Speaker 1: was on the Sunday Night Showcase. I mean they were
22:38
Speaker 1: the Sunday Night Showcase game. Like, they're not irrelevant right now.
22:43
Speaker 1: They have played their worst, most underachieving baseball in the
22:48
Speaker 1: last and the Depoto era this season, and they're not
22:52
Speaker 1: irrelevant now. And as Anders and I sort of mapped
22:56
Speaker 1: out for you yesterday, you know, with a foundation of Julia,
23:00
Speaker 1: Josh and Cal. I mean, if you believe that those
23:03
Speaker 1: especially Cal and Josh suck now like that they're never
23:07
Speaker 1: going to come out of this. Yeah, there's a lot
23:09
Speaker 1: of reason to worry because those are three players that
23:13
Speaker 1: they've identified as the foundational pieces for what this organization's
23:16
Speaker 1: going to be over the course of the next five years.
23:20
Speaker 1: If you think the can bounce back at all and
23:24
Speaker 1: be what we thought they were just a few short
23:27
Speaker 1: months ago, then that's a pretty good foundation to have
23:31
Speaker 1: to build on. Now. Add to it, no matter who
23:34
Speaker 1: you let go this offseason, five terrific controllable young starting pitchers,
23:40
Speaker 1: including the top two prospects in the entire sport pitching wise,
23:46
Speaker 1: that are getting ready, that are nearly major league ready,
23:49
Speaker 1: and Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan foundational pieces in Cole
23:53
Speaker 1: Emerson and Cole Young. I mean, there could be heads roll.
23:57
Speaker 1: We could have a new manager next year, maybe we
23:58
Speaker 1: have a new general manager, maybe we have a new
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Speaker 1: president next year, but they're going to wind up down
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Speaker 1: the street. For the talent that has been assembled in
24:06
Speaker 1: this organization, there is a strong foundation that should be
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Speaker 1: winning now and did win last year and will win
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Speaker 1: into the future. So they're not even close to syncing
24:18
Speaker 1: into irrelevance as the suggestion was made. The other thing
24:22
Speaker 1: I'll take exception with is that they were set up
24:26
Speaker 1: just like the Milwaukee Brewers, but the Milwaukee Brewers did
24:29
Speaker 1: something about it, very very just loose term right, that
24:35
Speaker 1: the Brewers did something about it. Let me tell you
24:38
Speaker 1: the difference between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Seattle Mariners
24:41
Speaker 1: and the way that they built their franchises. There are
24:43
Speaker 1: two of them. Number one, the Brewers spend a lot
24:47
Speaker 1: less money, all right, think about that, because I don't
24:51
Speaker 1: think there's anybody listening right now. I mean, nine out
24:54
Speaker 1: of ten Mariners fans blame they're not being successful on
24:57
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't spend enough money. Spend a
25:00
Speaker 1: lot less money on their payroll than what the Mariners do.
25:04
Speaker 1: And every time that they get a player like a
25:06
Speaker 1: cal Raley or a Julio Rodriguez, they use them for
25:09
Speaker 1: five six years and trade them before they become free agents.
25:13
Speaker 1: That's how they do it. I mean, they don't keep anybody, anybody,
25:16
Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns, ccs nobody. They don't keep anybody. That's how
25:22
Speaker 1: they keep their edge because they're just drafting and developing. Well,
25:28
Speaker 1: they develop as well as any organization out there. So
25:32
Speaker 1: they draft and they develop, and then they make sure
25:34
Speaker 1: that they don't over commit financially so that they believe
25:38
Speaker 1: that they can remain competitive. So number one, they spend less.
25:41
Speaker 1: Do you want to do that? I don't think you
25:42
Speaker 1: do want to do that. The other thing that they
25:45
Speaker 1: do differently, and this is something that I think that
25:47
Speaker 1: the Mariners organization has adjusted to and still need to
25:52
Speaker 1: do more adjusting to, especially with whoever they have as
25:56
Speaker 1: manager next year. They play small ball. They don't sit
26:00
Speaker 1: there and just wait for the three run homer. That
26:02
Speaker 1: was an analytical thing that people just thought, that's the
26:05
Speaker 1: way that you win, good pitching and wait for the
26:07
Speaker 1: three run homer. Well, obviously that doesn't work. The Brewers
26:11
Speaker 1: put the ball in play. The Brewers run bases like
26:13
Speaker 1: nobody else. The Brewers score and scrap out runs. Now,
26:17
Speaker 1: it doesn't benefit them in the playoffs. It looks like
26:20
Speaker 1: that style of ball does not win in the postseason.
26:24
Speaker 1: But in the regular season, oh yeah, the Brewers do
26:27
Speaker 1: it as well as anyone, and I mean anyone there
26:30
Speaker 1: are better than the Dodgers. The last three years regular season.
26:35
Speaker 1: So that version, that ability to create runs without hitting
26:41
Speaker 1: a home run is something that the Mariners drastically lack
26:47
Speaker 1: and need to correct now. I will say this in
26:51
Speaker 1: case we're sleeping on it a little bit. Wait a
26:54
Speaker 1: couple years ago, that was the goal. It's been the
26:58
Speaker 1: goal to try to find more guys that put the
27:00
Speaker 1: ball in play. If you remember the off season where
27:03
Speaker 1: Gino Suarez was traded away, the idea being we led
27:06
Speaker 1: the league in strikeouts, we need to take the money.
27:10
Speaker 1: Since John Stanton has kept us from being able to
27:13
Speaker 1: spend more this offseason, reallocate, repurpose that money, and try
27:18
Speaker 1: to get some guys that can put the ball in
27:20
Speaker 1: play more frequently. So you got rid of Gino, you
27:23
Speaker 1: got rid of Teoscar, two of the what three leading
27:26
Speaker 1: strikeout guys that year in Major League Baseball. You brought
27:30
Speaker 1: in Polanco, you brought in Garver, and what happened? You
27:34
Speaker 1: struck out more. I mean they try, they tried. Whatever's
27:41
Speaker 1: going on offensive philosophy wise in the organization needs to
27:46
Speaker 1: be studied for the rest of time. Why players get
27:49
Speaker 1: here and play the worst that they could possibly play
27:53
Speaker 1: Once they put on a Mari in her uniform. Anders
27:55
Speaker 1: and I are actually going to discuss this when I
27:57
Speaker 1: have more time on Friday show back in studio. But
28:01
Speaker 1: they have tried. Brendan Donovan was an attempt to get
28:04
Speaker 1: a guy that plays the game differently. Activating Coley Young
28:09
Speaker 1: was supposed to change that a little bit, and yet
28:13
Speaker 1: it doesn't really change. We're still just sitting here waiting
28:17
Speaker 1: for the three run Homer. Then, yes, I'm gonna put
28:19
Speaker 1: quite a bit of that on the front office, and
28:22
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a lot of that on the manager
28:25
Speaker 1: as well, who apparently doesn't know how to manage any
28:28
Speaker 1: other way than to sit around and wait for a
28:30
Speaker 1: three run Homer. Doesn't how to manage any other way
28:33
Speaker 1: than to have his starting pitcher, no matter if he's
28:35
Speaker 1: being effective or not, go one hundred pitches, whether that's
28:39
Speaker 1: in the fourth inning, sixth inning, eighth inning, he's got
28:41
Speaker 1: to go ninety to one hundred pitches and then we
28:43
Speaker 1: take him out. He no creativity whatsoever. But that's Pat
28:49
Speaker 1: Murphy versus Dan Wilson. So I think there were two
28:52
Speaker 1: unfair shots. I think it was a baseless accusation because
28:58
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers pretty much build their organization like the Mariners,
29:03
Speaker 1: except for two reasons. Two things, they don't spend as much,
29:06
Speaker 1: which we don't want, right and then secondly, they actually
29:11
Speaker 1: do have a manager that takes the assets that he
29:15
Speaker 1: has and manages to avoid counting on the three run homer,
29:22
Speaker 1: and the front office deserves blaming that as well. Don't
29:25
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but I don't think that the Milwaukee
29:30
Speaker 1: Brewers did anything. They The line was they they were
29:34
Speaker 1: the exact same place as the Mariners, but they did
29:37
Speaker 1: something about it. The only thing they did about it
29:40
Speaker 1: was spend less and get rid of star players and
29:43
Speaker 1: restock their farm system continuously. And guess what, they got
29:46
Speaker 1: a top three farm system right now and the best
29:49
Speaker 1: record in Major League Baseball. So it's a bad example
29:52
Speaker 1: to use, and it is a baseless accusation against the organization.
29:56
Speaker 1: As far as I am concerned, I got to get
29:59
Speaker 1: to a couple of other quick things and I can
30:01
Speaker 1: tie them together. Innis for now. Now is the time
30:04
Speaker 1: to activate Kate Anderson. Do not wait for this September
30:07
Speaker 1: call up nonsense. He should have already been on this roster.
30:11
Speaker 1: And if he replaces Bryce Miller, he replaces Bryce Miller.
30:15
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson needs to be pitching innings right now. How
30:18
Speaker 1: are you not using this weapon in your state of desperation.
30:22
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Even if it's in relief Kate Anderson,
30:26
Speaker 1: there is a role for him. I mean, he's gonna
30:28
Speaker 1: be a relief pitcher. If the Mariners somehow pull off
30:31
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs, He's gonna be used as a
30:33
Speaker 1: reliever in the playoffs most likely. And so why aren't
30:37
Speaker 1: we getting him used to doing that. We don't have
30:39
Speaker 1: to piggyback the guy, but let's put him in a
30:42
Speaker 1: position where he can get some meaningful innings in Last
30:45
Speaker 1: night would have been a perfect opportunity. Bryce Miller was
30:48
Speaker 1: cooked after four innings. Everybody could see it cooked. He
30:52
Speaker 1: was red faced, his hair was drenched and sweat and
30:56
Speaker 1: he was walking guys uncharacteristically. So that would have been
31:01
Speaker 1: a perfect opportunity to bring Kate Anderson into the game
31:04
Speaker 1: and preserve a one nothing deficit and give yourself a
31:07
Speaker 1: fighting chance. But we don't have a guy like that.
31:10
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, that leads us right to oh,
31:13
Speaker 1: which is for omission. Why do we not have a
31:16
Speaker 1: long reliever? Why are we Why is Jerry and why
31:20
Speaker 1: are Jerry and Justin so opposed to having a long
31:23
Speaker 1: reliever that can be weaponized. The Tampa Bay Rays have
31:26
Speaker 1: like two of them, and sometimes they spot start when
31:30
Speaker 1: they're needed. Sometimes they go one inning, sometimes they go
31:33
Speaker 1: four innings. Sometimes they just bail out the team in
31:36
Speaker 1: a deficit. Ian Seymour is the guy that the Tampa
31:39
Speaker 1: Bay Rays use at an almost all star level. Why
31:42
Speaker 1: couldn't Kate Anderson be that for this team right now?
31:46
Speaker 1: If you didn't want to take Bryce Miller out of
31:48
Speaker 1: the starting rotation. I think that's a major mistake by
31:52
Speaker 1: the front office. I've felt it for years. For some reason,
31:55
Speaker 1: they just don't like the idea of having a long reliever.
31:59
Speaker 1: They are helped full as spot starters or as guys
32:02
Speaker 1: that can step in like last night and get the
32:05
Speaker 1: job done for you and maybe keep the lead, keep
32:09
Speaker 1: the deficit at one nothing rather than turning it into
32:11
Speaker 1: thirteen to nothing. That seems valuable. I mean, maybe I'm
32:15
Speaker 1: just you know, blowing hot air. That seems pretty valuable
32:18
Speaker 1: to me. And if not, you're getting him, just like
32:20
Speaker 1: you said, getting him used to being a reliever at
32:22
Speaker 1: this point, Yeah, well yes so, And I don't think
32:24
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with it. I don't think that that
32:27
Speaker 1: derails his development as a starting pitcher for future years.
32:31
Speaker 1: Get him up here, use his innings. We need it.
32:34
Speaker 1: We've got like a Thanos type weapon down in the
32:38
Speaker 1: minor leagues and we just left it on top of
32:40
Speaker 1: the car and drove away without it. Like, are we
32:43
Speaker 1: really gonna go through this grossly disappointing season without using
32:47
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson until it's too late? That's nonsense. Get him
32:51
Speaker 1: up here, use him as a reliever. If you don't
32:53
Speaker 1: want to take anybody out of the starting rotation. It's
32:55
Speaker 1: a mistake, all right. We get reckless at breakfast on
32:58
Speaker 1: the Dogs next before Greg Lewis is here and joins
33:01
Speaker 1: me at the top of the hour for a lot
33:03
Speaker 1: of Huskies talk here at the greatest setting in college
33:06
Speaker 1: football on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, before
33:13
Speaker 1: we bring Greg Lewis on here to be level headed,
33:17
Speaker 1: sane and normal at the top of the hour and
33:21
Speaker 1: for the next couple of hours, I get to get
33:23
Speaker 1: reckless here on my radio program about the Dogs and
33:27
Speaker 1: Josh Pate, who is being turned into a pretty well
33:31
Speaker 1: known respected national analyst. He gets a lot He's getting
33:34
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. He recently said of the Washington
33:39
Speaker 1: Huskies they could be the ultimate chaos agent this year
33:42
Speaker 1: in college football. That if they don't make the tournament field,
33:48
Speaker 1: which he believes they can, that they could spoil someone
33:52
Speaker 1: else's trip to the tournament field. He thinks Washington is
33:56
Speaker 1: being underrated and has an ability to really be a
34:01
Speaker 1: major player this year in the college football season. If
34:05
Speaker 1: that is to happen, here are my thoughts, and Greg's
34:07
Speaker 1: listening right now, so he might shoot all these down
34:10
Speaker 1: come eight o'clock. Here are my thoughts. If that's gonna happen,
34:13
Speaker 1: three things to me have to be true. Number one,
34:16
Speaker 1: that offensive line play really is the key to football.
34:22
Speaker 1: That this offensive line might actually be the strength. When
34:25
Speaker 1: Jedfish took over this program, it was definitively the weakness
34:30
Speaker 1: of his first football team, and now they're talking about
34:33
Speaker 1: that it might be the strength of this football team.
34:36
Speaker 1: If that is true, and if offensive line truly is
34:39
Speaker 1: at the college level winning those battles in the trenches,
34:43
Speaker 1: then yes, that will go a long way toward Washington
34:47
Speaker 1: being that ultimate chaos agent. Demand Williams Junior is key.
34:52
Speaker 1: Number two. He not only has to give us highlight football,
34:58
Speaker 1: highlight real football. And he can't just dominate the lesser thans.
35:03
Speaker 1: He needs to be great in every game this year.
35:06
Speaker 1: He's got to be good, too great against the good,
35:10
Speaker 1: too great teams. He cannot take those days off. He
35:14
Speaker 1: cannot have poor performances. If you're gonna make the tournament,
35:17
Speaker 1: you got to beat the teams that you're expected to beat,
35:20
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to pull off an upset against
35:22
Speaker 1: one of these powerhouses inside your own conference. And in
35:26
Speaker 1: order to do that, Demon Williams cannot keep with the
35:29
Speaker 1: trend of playing great against teams that you should beat,
35:34
Speaker 1: but then having a nightmarriage time against the dominant teams
35:38
Speaker 1: in this conference. So Demon Williams has to have a
35:42
Speaker 1: season in which his A game or at worst B
35:46
Speaker 1: plus game shows up every week during this college football season.
35:51
Speaker 1: And then the third thing that I would say is,
35:54
Speaker 1: and I do believe that this is true. So I'm
35:57
Speaker 1: not doubting that this is going to happen. But there's
36:01
Speaker 1: a trend now in college football because of the amount
36:05
Speaker 1: of high school football development that takes place in camps
36:09
Speaker 1: and whatnot, there's this feeling that freshman can hit the
36:12
Speaker 1: ground running more so now than ever before. Well, I
36:16
Speaker 1: hope that that is the case, because jet Fish is
36:19
Speaker 1: going to be counting on a lot of freshmen to
36:22
Speaker 1: play some really key roles this upcoming year. It's gonna
36:25
Speaker 1: have his left tackle. That I mean, your left tackle
36:29
Speaker 1: is going to be a freshman, and there's really little
36:32
Speaker 1: doubt about that at this point. Derek Coleman brus might
36:36
Speaker 1: end up being your best defensive lineman this season. He
36:39
Speaker 1: better be the real deal. He's a freshman. He better
36:42
Speaker 1: be ready to step up. Quaid Carr could end up
36:45
Speaker 1: being the guy that gets the most carries. This seems
36:47
Speaker 1: like it's a pretty big running back competition right now.
36:50
Speaker 1: The Quake car could end up being the guy at
36:53
Speaker 1: running back. He's at least going to play a role.
36:56
Speaker 1: Jaren Jones is gonna have to step in for a
36:58
Speaker 1: while for Dylan Robinson, who's dealing with an injury right now.
37:02
Speaker 1: So they're are I mean, those are some key ass
37:05
Speaker 1: positions for a football team. Pass rusher, left tackle, running back,
37:10
Speaker 1: and corner. I mean, you're gonna have freshmen at all
37:14
Speaker 1: those positions. They better be able to hit the ground running.
37:18
Speaker 1: This isn't we can wait till develop them, and then
37:21
Speaker 1: by week four or five or six, maybe they're They're
37:23
Speaker 1: going Now. The competition is light a little earlier in
37:25
Speaker 1: the season, but these guys need to be ready by
37:28
Speaker 1: the time Big Ten play starts. They gotta be playing
37:31
Speaker 1: well at their positions, and I think that they can.
37:35
Speaker 1: But those three things, to me are the key. Freshmen
37:38
Speaker 1: better not need ramp ups. The offensive line better be
37:41
Speaker 1: as good as advertised. And Demon Williams Junior better be
37:45
Speaker 1: ready to bring it every single week this football season
37:49
Speaker 1: against even the best competition that this team has to face.
37:52
Speaker 1: They do that, maybe we are talking about a season
37:56
Speaker 1: this year where the Huskies make the playoffs. Joining me next,
38:00
Speaker 1: Greg Lewis is going to be with US Husky's Camp
38:03
Speaker 1: Coverage eight to ten. I got Greg Lewis by my side,
38:06
Speaker 1: one of the Hanks, the former Doak Walker Award winner,
38:09
Speaker 1: the Husky Legend. He'll be with us on our show.
38:12
Speaker 1: We also have a number of guests joining us as
38:14
Speaker 1: well in the next couple of hours. Husky's Coverage next
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