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10-6 H2: Gregg Bell Joins, The Koshala's, F.o.F. & ABC's · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, we got some news to discuss here today.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Mixon being added to the running back room. What
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  Speaker 3: goes into this decision?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they no longer have Jadarian Price, at least for
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  Speaker 2: the next month, and Zach Charbonnet is not back yet.
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  Speaker 2: So we've been talking about a veteran presence, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what they went out and got. Now, Mixon's available because
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  Speaker 2: he didn't play at all last year because of a
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  Speaker 2: foot injury that Reportedly, he told his old Bengals teammates
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  Speaker 2: he'll never play again because it was so bad. So
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  Speaker 2: they had to have him in for a tryout yesterday
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  Speaker 2: to see how healthy he is. They were pleased enough
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  Speaker 2: to agree to sign him, but Mike McDonald said yesterday
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  Speaker 2: it is to the practice squad. This is now becoming
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  Speaker 2: standard fare for veterans who haven't played in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I think Trevon Diggs at Seahawks signed in August. You
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  Speaker 2: put him on the practice squad so he doesn't eat
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  Speaker 2: up an active roster spot while he works his way
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  Speaker 2: back into football shape. He hasn't been on a field
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  Speaker 2: with a team since January of 2025 with Houston. But
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  Speaker 2: when he's healthy, he's 30 years old now, when healthy,
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  Speaker 2: he's had four 1,000-yard seasons in the seven he played
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  Speaker 2: for Cincinnati at the beginning of his career, and then
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  Speaker 2: the 1,000-yard season and the only season he had with
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  Speaker 2: Houston in 2024. Of course, he's had off-field problems, domestic
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  Speaker 2: violence issue in college, allegedly pointing a gun at a
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  Speaker 2: woman at a traffic altercation. When he was in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 2: that may have scared some teams off, too. But the
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  Speaker 2: fact is, productivity on the field, when healthy, he's done that.
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  Speaker 2: As most recently as the most recent season he's played, 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Low risk, low investment, and to see if they can
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  Speaker 2: get any return on somebody they need in the backfield.
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  Speaker 3: And even if they put him on the practice squad today,
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  Speaker 3: as he's signed to be on the practice squad, they
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  Speaker 3: could activate him at any time off of that, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Even in time for the 49ers on Sunday, if he
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  Speaker 3: looks right.
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  Speaker 2: Correct? Yes, they can elevate him up to three times
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  Speaker 2: before they'd have to sign him to the active roster. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that would have to be done by Saturday. I would
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  Speaker 2: doubt he's going to play this coming weekend because of
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  Speaker 2: the fact he hasn't been off field in almost two
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  Speaker 2: full years. But, yes, he's eligible to be.
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  Speaker 3: All right, tell us a little bit about Robert Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Then. Undrafted rookie from Texas, San Antonio. Other people thought
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  Speaker 2: he was going to get drafted in the sixth or
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  Speaker 2: seventh round, but he had some fumble issues in college.
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  Speaker 2: He was an all-conference guy, American conference guy. He averaged
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  Speaker 2: almost seven yards a carry, 6.9 yards a carry his
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  Speaker 2: final college season. He started out in junior college before
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  Speaker 2: he went to Texas San Antonio. Of course, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: scouted him for the draft and probably had him in
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  Speaker 2: their sights to potentially sign as an undrafted rookie for
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they made this move. It's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: going fishing in someone else's pond type deal in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: When you have guys on the practice squad, teams are
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  Speaker 2: always looking over their shoulder knowing that another team can sign–
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  Speaker 2: any of your practice squad guys onto the active roster
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  Speaker 2: at any time. A player doesn't have to agree to it,
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  Speaker 2: but they almost always do, because why would you want
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  Speaker 2: to stay on the practice squad and get paid a
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  Speaker 2: fraction of what you would get paid on the 53-man
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  Speaker 2: roster of another team? But the NFL rules are that
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  Speaker 2: any team can take any player off any practice squad
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  Speaker 2: and sign them to their active roster, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: they reportedly are doing with Robert Henry Jr., So he goes,
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  Speaker 2: unlike Mixon, he goes right on to the active roster,
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  Speaker 2: which would make you think he's going to be dressed
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  Speaker 2: and available to play on Sunday. Man. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So how am I supposed to read into this Jadarian Price?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what kind of absence are we staring at?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when John Schneider makes the statement, it's not
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  Speaker 3: like he's out for the season or anything. Why did
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  Speaker 3: you even put that in our heads? Nobody was thinking
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  Speaker 3: he was going to be out for the season until
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  Speaker 3: you said that. So how long are we looking at
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  Speaker 3: before Jadarian Price? I mean, you signed two running backs
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  Speaker 3: in one day. Makes you think that maybe they're not
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  Speaker 3: expecting the rookie to be ready again for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do the same thing when they put a
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  Speaker 2: guy on injured reserve. When they put a guy on
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  Speaker 2: injured reserve, they don't give a ton of details about
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  Speaker 2: what they think his long-term prognosis is. So the best
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  Speaker 2: way to try to get a gauge on how serious
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  Speaker 2: the injury is, is to ask, do you think this
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  Speaker 2: is season ending or do you think this is long-term? So,
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  Speaker 2: and it was unprompted that Snyder did say, doesn't think
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  Speaker 2: it's season ending or anything. Yes. So it's either a
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  Speaker 2: month or it's many months. And that's kind of what
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  Speaker 2: the delineation is once they go on injured reserve, the
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  Speaker 2: way the rules are now. So we know it's at
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  Speaker 2: least a month and not many months by his answer. The, the,
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  Speaker 2: The fact is they can't just keep going with what
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  Speaker 2: they've got of Emmanuel Wilson, George Helani, Vellis Jones Jr.,
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  Speaker 2: and let's go. They don't have any game-breaking speedbacks. Robert
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  Speaker 2: Henry Jr. is a smaller speedback. He's 5'9, under 200 pounds.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to keep lining up Rashid Shaheed and
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  Speaker 2: have him tailback 20 times a game. They have other
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  Speaker 2: things in their offense and special teams they're paying him for.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why they're doing this. And Mixon is something
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  Speaker 2: of a flyer. Well, he is a flyer. Put him
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  Speaker 2: on the practice squad, see how he looks in a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks, and then see how he can contribute. And
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  Speaker 2: the money's next to nothing, a veteran minimum deal. And,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, now he's on a practice squad salary in
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  Speaker 2: the meantime. So I get what they're doing. They're backfilling
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  Speaker 2: with a veteran and a rookie player. And they obviously
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  Speaker 2: have scouted the rookie enough to know how he could
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  Speaker 2: potentially fit.
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  Speaker 3: Greg Bell is with us, apparently only talking about running
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  Speaker 3: back news here today. I might set a record. I
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  Speaker 3: might bring up more Seahawks running backs than anyone has
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  Speaker 3: ever done in an interview. So prepare for your Marshawn
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  Speaker 3: Lynch question later this segment. Also your Thomas Rawls question.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Dornick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ricky Water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a few more of those planned for
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  Speaker 3: you before the end of the segment. But let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about Zach Charbonnet. So, you know, he's been activated his
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  Speaker 3: practice window, but Mike McDonald suggesting yesterday, he's not going
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  Speaker 3: to be ready by Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know why that would be a surprise
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  Speaker 2: to anyone. A guy hasn't even been eight months removed
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  Speaker 2: from reconstructive knee surgery. He's not Hercules. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: pump the brakes move by McDonald to say at the
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  Speaker 2: onset of this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's eligible to now that he's, The Seahawks have played
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  Speaker 2: four games, as the pup rules are, but we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to rush him back. He's only a couple days
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  Speaker 2: into his 21-day practice window. I wouldn't see that as
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  Speaker 2: a setback or anything else. I would see it as
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  Speaker 2: we're not even eight months out from reconstructive knee surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Most times, those recoveries are eight to 12 months, so
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  Speaker 2: we're still on the short side of a typical recovery time.
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  Speaker 2: Not to mention, he plays a position where he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be really stressing his that reconstructive knee, lateral movements
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  Speaker 2: and cuts and the like. We've talked about this, though.
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  Speaker 2: There is absolutely an urgency for Charbonnet because he's in
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  Speaker 2: a contract here. His rookie deal ends after this year,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been forgotten because of all the... He's been
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  Speaker 2: trying to come back and get back on the field.
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  Speaker 2: But his opportunities for his next contract at the sport's
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  Speaker 2: most attrited position are dwindling by the week. So definitely
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  Speaker 2: he feels an urgency to get back. That... does not
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  Speaker 2: jive with the Seahawks' usual very conservative nature of bringing
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  Speaker 2: guys back from major injury. I played on my show
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  Speaker 2: yesterday when I asked Nicky Manwari in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: the other day after the game about that conservative way
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks bring guys back from injury, and he said
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  Speaker 2: he really appreciates it. And he now, in retrospect, loves
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  Speaker 2: my team for how they took care of me and
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  Speaker 2: how other teams might have just thrown me out there,
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  Speaker 2: as he said. And that's where they may be with Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 2: Charbonnet wants to come back as soon as possible, maybe yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And the team's like, well, wait a minute. You're coming
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  Speaker 2: off a reconstructive knee and haven't been on a field
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  Speaker 2: since January. Nope. That's just publicly stated. None of us
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  Speaker 2: expect you to play this week. Of course, they have
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  Speaker 2: a short week next week. They play at Denver on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday night after this 49ers game. That may not
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  Speaker 2: be the week either for him to come back. And again,
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  Speaker 2: If he doesn't play week six, I still don't think
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  Speaker 2: he's behind in any way. They've got 21 days to
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  Speaker 2: decide if he's ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: How many carries does Derek Fenner get on Sunday or
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  Speaker 3: Chris Warren? Two to three?
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  Speaker 4: Two to four? What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Just in the mix?
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  Speaker 2: They should be by their phone at this rate. We joke,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a team that brought Marshawn Lynch out
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  Speaker 2: of retirement on Christmas Eve. I mean, he was done.
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  Speaker 2: And they called him up and said, come on out.
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  Speaker 2: This is a team that's been like eight years ago
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  Speaker 2: now that had 18 different ball carriers in one season.
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  Speaker 2: That's how this NFL is with running backs. They just
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  Speaker 2: get hurt everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so as we sit right here today at
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  Speaker 3: 715 on a Tuesday before the 49ers game, what is
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  Speaker 3: the running back depth chart? How does it look for
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  Speaker 3: Sunday in terms of who gets carries and how?
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson is still the number one. He had 21
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  Speaker 2: rushes for 81 yards against The Chargers, he has a
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  Speaker 2: 91-yard rushing game against Arizona the day that Price got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: George Helani will still be the third down running back
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  Speaker 2: type pass blocking. pass catching back, and Vellis Jones spelling Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: And I can see Robert Henry Jr. getting carries, not
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  Speaker 2: a ton, but in the mix of rushing carries. He
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  Speaker 2: also was known as a pretty good receiver at Texas
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio as well. And then on that depth chart,
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  Speaker 2: you'd have kind of out as a sidecar Rashid Shaheed,
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  Speaker 2: and that would be their potential game-breaker, get into the
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  Speaker 2: open field type running back, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and is that still a plan, or was that
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  Speaker 3: one of those, hey, we can play this trick one
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  Speaker 3: time because the opponent's not going to see it coming?
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  Speaker 3: I was just watching a Game of Thrones episode last
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  Speaker 3: night where Tyrion Lannister launches the fire into the lake,
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  Speaker 3: and Stannis Baratheon says afterwards, the imps played his one trick.
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  Speaker 3: He can't play it again. I mean, can they play
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  Speaker 3: it again? I mean, is this going to be a
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  Speaker 3: regular part of the rotation going forward since it was
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  Speaker 3: so successful, or is it something that you've got to
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  Speaker 3: tuck away for a surprise element later in the year?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I have no idea what you just referenced.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Anders knew. I said that for Anders.
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  Speaker 4: Game of Thrones, Greg? Come on. I said that for Anders.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. I have two kids, Anders, twice as many
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  Speaker 2: as you do. For 23 years, I haven't watched Game
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  Speaker 2: of Thrones. That's probably one reason why.
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  Speaker 3: You missed a really good show. You missed a really
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  Speaker 3: good show.
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  Speaker 4: You told me they haven't seen Game of Thrones, maybe?
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  Speaker 2: No, they haven't either.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't either. Yeah, I know. I don't drink coffee
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  Speaker 2: and I don't smoke cigarettes either. But that.
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  Speaker 2: They did that for two reasons. I really do think
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  Speaker 2: they did it in that particular game. One, because they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have Price, but they also wanted the 49ers to
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  Speaker 2: spend time this week on game planning against Shaheed in
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  Speaker 2: the backfield. But I don't think that's the last time
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see that as long as Price is
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  Speaker 2: on injured reserve. I think you will see it sparingly,
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  Speaker 2: but enough that teams now are going to have to
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  Speaker 2: prepare for it. And Coaches love to make other coaches
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  Speaker 2: have to scheme against what you just showed on film
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  Speaker 2: and send them down a rabbit hole. And I think
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  Speaker 2: there was some of that that the 49ers now have
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  Speaker 2: to spend time on this week.
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  Speaker 3: So Sherman Smith not going to get carries this week.
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  Speaker 3: Just so I can ask one more Seahawks running back
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  Speaker 3: question before I move on.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: John Alexander is still available.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad you brought him up because we just
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  Speaker 3: did set the record. Way to go, guys. Good job, gang.
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  Speaker 3: Set the record for most Seahawks running backs brought up
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  Speaker 3: in one segment.
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  Speaker 4: Well done.
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  Speaker 2: Frank O'Harris is not available.
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  Speaker 3: Leave it to the Steeler fan.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Childhood Steeler fan.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of the more jarring things of my childhood,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, watching... They showed it in Pittsburgh, Franco Harris'
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  Speaker 2: first Seahawks game, specifically put it on in Pittsburgh so
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  Speaker 2: we could all watch it, and he ran like eight
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  Speaker 2: times for nine yards. And it was just even to
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  Speaker 2: see him in a Seahawks uniform, we were like, what?
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  Speaker 2: That was scary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was back in a time where players didn't
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  Speaker 3: move around as much. So it was odd, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of oddities like that. Let me ask about Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't get to it yesterday. He ended the game
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  Speaker 3: with an injury. How is he looking right now?
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  Speaker 2: Ankle injury, it really looked bad. I mean, Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: was really concerned. He got off the sideline pretty quickly
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  Speaker 2: and was standing there. Williams was on his back and
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  Speaker 2: grasping his face mask in pain. It looked bad. And
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  Speaker 2: he went into the tent, came back out, was holding
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  Speaker 2: his helmet, standing next to McDonald for the last plays
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  Speaker 2: of the game. And then yesterday, McDonald said that he is, quote, optimistic, unquote,
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  Speaker 2: that Leonard Williams will play against the 49ers, so that's positive,
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  Speaker 2: and that's much better than it looked like.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you answered that so quickly, I can ask my
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  Speaker 3: Terry and Arnold question. What's the latest on him? What
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  Speaker 3: is happening there? Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't look good because one of his co-defendants,
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  Speaker 2: one of his lifetime boyhood buddies, got reached a plea
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  Speaker 2: deal with prosecutors yesterday that gave him 10 years in
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  Speaker 2: prison and compels him to testify against Terryon Arnold, one
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  Speaker 2: of his eight felonies that he's facing in Tampa. So
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't sound good, does it? So he's under contract.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the exempt list. He can't practice or play,
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  Speaker 2: but he can be in the building and be a
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  Speaker 2: part of meetings. But now he's going to have his
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  Speaker 2: childhood buddy testifying against him in a kidnapping case. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: More to come, obviously, but Doesn't look good when the
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  Speaker 2: co-defendant has got 10 years in prison and now has
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  Speaker 2: turned and flipped and testified against you.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, sir. We appreciate a lot of information there,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of running back talk, and we'll be listening
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  Speaker 3: at 10 o'clock. What do you got planned today for
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  Speaker 3: the show?
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  Speaker 2: Max Strong is not going to be on our show,
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: although he could. He would also fit. Dory Epstein of...
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Yahoo Sports, Senior NFL writer. We're going to talk about
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: all the 4-0 teams, which of course include the 49ers.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about why the 49ers are 4-0.
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  Speaker 2: Did the Chargers ruin and Mike McDaniel ruin Justin Herbert?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that as well. And then
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about this running back situation for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: and why they're doing what they're doing. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday. Thank you. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider. If you want to follow Greg,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about Vinod Khosla. I'm sure every
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  Speaker 3: show has had a crack at this, but we really haven't.
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  Speaker 3: And then yesterday was all Seahawks Chargers, understandably. A little
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  Speaker 4: Seriously.
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  Speaker 3: Why would anyone of any level of success use social media?
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  Speaker 4: If you didn't have to.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you think it was going to be fun?
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  Speaker 3: Why did you think that everybody was going to love
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  Speaker 3: you and accept you and send you all sorts of
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  Speaker 3: flattery and everything else? Thank you for buying my football team.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the way that that platform works. You are
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  Speaker 3: going to get roasted at least by half of the audience,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not half, at least by 25% of the audience
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  Speaker 3: to rip you limb from limb. That's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: And the entire family won't get off. At least Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Coastless got a clue. We don't see her on social media.
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  Speaker 3: The son and father get the F off social. What
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  Speaker 3: are you, fools? What are you doing that for if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to do it? So there's number one, Anders.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just, there's just no reason to. They maybe
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  Speaker 5: think it's this charming, like, oh, we're going to actually
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  Speaker 5: be in touch with.
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  Speaker 3: Our fan base.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to just end up angry with your fan base. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and that's exactly what's kind of happened here. They've had
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  Speaker 5: to apologize, basically, for things that have come out three
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  Speaker 5: times in three weeks of owning the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: I just I don't understand why they would even touch
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  Speaker 4: any of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to do it. Stay away from it.
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  Speaker 3: Avoid it like the plague. You've made money. What the hell?
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  Speaker 3: much money that you could purchase a thicker skin.
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  Speaker 2: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what you're going to need if you're going
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  Speaker 3: You're going to start disliking the franchise that you bought.
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  Speaker 3: Stop being fools. Get away from it. Don't ever even
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  Speaker 3: look at it, much less participate in it. The other
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  Speaker 3: thing I would say in defense of the Kosas a
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  Speaker 3: is going to understand how the American sports fan thinks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's learned over the years, but he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: born and raised in this, in the American sports fan's passion.
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  Speaker 3: It's just different. And so when he says something like
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  Speaker 3: is certainly going to keep their basketball team in Seattle
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  Speaker 3: You know, what do you think is going to happen
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  Speaker 3: when a person says never say never? So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just offend them a little bit. I don't think that
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  Speaker 3: he meant that he was thinking about selling the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: man that says, never say never. I just subscribe to
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: That cuts a little deep. I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that the game played out as I
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  Speaker 4: expected to. We just don't get awarded for that, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: It's fine.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm going to go along with what has given
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Ravens on Sunday Night Football. They are giving two and
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  Speaker 4: So they are.
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  Speaker 5: Two and a half point favorites in this game. They
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  Speaker 3: He revoked his challenge privileges.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Andy Pahis is no longer allowed to challenge calls.
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  Speaker 3: He's so bad at it. So I think you should
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  Speaker 3: are not only wrong, but you're using them in bad situations.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we had the classic case of it. Josh
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  Speaker 2: Awful.
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  Speaker 3: The worst. I mean, we had Mitch Garber behind the plate.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of at the plate, no one was
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I frankly think it should happen more often than what
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  Speaker 3: And to me, it's not a percentage thing. Like how
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  Speaker 3: often you get it right. It's about when you're challenging.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So if it's a first pitch of an at bat
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  Speaker 3: Can I also say, speaking of challenges, I wasn't even
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  Speaker 3: given to be able to decide whether or not he's
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  Speaker 3: going to challenge a call on the field?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they give him a little extra time.
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  Speaker 3: They give him extra time, do they not?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: You should be on a clock. As soon as that
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  Speaker 3: you got 30 seconds. Well, isn't it the pitch timer
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  Speaker 3: 15 seconds whatever yeah maybe yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like i don't know they're.
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  Speaker 3: Holding up play though so there's some element of hold
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Our team had four errors last night, but we feel
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  Speaker 5: like we were hard done by the umpires.
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  Speaker 3: Was there ever any more uneasy moment for Dan, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, when he was waiting on that and he
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  Speaker 3: Did he do this?
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  Speaker 4: Nope. We're not challenging.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Q is for question. Here's a question for you.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a chance... Oh, boy. Is there a chance
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  Speaker 3: that Josh Naylor didn't hit for power this year because
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  Speaker 3: he played with a bad wrist all season long?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And is there a chance that Cal Raleigh did not
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  Speaker 3: play well because he dealt with a side injury and
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  Speaker 3: a shoulder injury? I mean, Anders, they're getting surgery done.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as much as everybody wants to not only...
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  Speaker 3: Bash the team for a really embarrassing season, which we
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  Speaker 3: all have and should. But everybody wants that this team's done.
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  Speaker 3: Shut it down. Not everybody. That's unfair. But a lot
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Just maybe. Josh Naylor didn't hit for power because he
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  Speaker 3: didn't have any power in his wrist. And maybe Cal
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  Speaker 3: Raleigh had a bad season. Because he played through injuries,
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  Speaker 3: and if he would have told us how bad they were,
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  Speaker 3: and he wanted to be there for his teammates. Is
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  Speaker 3: there a chance that they're, I mean, right? Isn't there
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  Speaker 3: a world where both of those things are true and
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  Speaker 3: that we can expect that Josh will be better next
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  Speaker 3: season and that Cal will be back to being Cal
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  Speaker 3: next season?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I almost take this season as, especially with how
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  Speaker 5: Cal looked down the stretch, that was much more the
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  Speaker 5: Cal-Raleigh And even that, still while playing through injury, supposedly. So,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a ton of fear that Cal Rawley's
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  Speaker 5: falling off a cliff. I don't even have a ton
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  Speaker 5: of fear that Josh Naylor's falling off a cliff. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if he'll be the 290-25 homer guy
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  Speaker 5: that we traded for in the middle of last season.
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  Speaker 5: But I think he could very much have a bounce
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  Speaker 5: back year offensively. The one that I am worried about
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  Speaker 5: is Julio. Because there wasn't really... didn't look like there
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  Speaker 5: was an injury he was playing through. Now, he did
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  Speaker 5: get the concussion in, what, July, and that supposedly had
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  Speaker 5: some lingering effects on him. His defense went down, and
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  Speaker 5: he's been kind of on a downward trend since his
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  Speaker 5: rookie year. So that's the one that I am worried about.
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  Speaker 5: But with the other two, absolutely there's a reality where
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  Speaker 5: they bounce back close to what we expected from them
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  Speaker 5: this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know Josh at times looked... Of all
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  Speaker 3: the people that looked unfocused, which has now been an
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  Speaker 3: accusation from on high, from John Stanton to Jerry DiPoto
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  Speaker 3: we had players that looked unfocused at times. And so
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  Speaker 3: it's not just you, the fan, that saw it or
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  Speaker 3: the loudmouth talk show host that saw it. We've now
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  Speaker 3: had it acknowledged by pretty much from the top of
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly appear unfocused, which I think that he was. But
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  Speaker 3: in terms of like being the guy that he was
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  Speaker 3: in your head. It's just not as enjoyable to play
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: baseball when you're not playing it as well as you
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: know you can play it. And the reason is because
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: of an injury that you're trying to gut through because
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you feel like you need to be there for your teammates,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: for the fan base, for the organization. So maybe Josh
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Naylor is not such a lost cause. Um, I think
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: we're going to see bounce backs from both of them
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: and I think Julio will be better. I'm curious to
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: see what Julio does. to kind of retrain his swing
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: in the offseason. I think there's going to be a
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: major overhaul with Julio's swing this offseason.
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  Speaker 5: I really hope so. And that's why they call it
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: the most grind-worthy. I don't know if that's a word.
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  Speaker 5: But the biggest grind of a season in sports is baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Because even with the 82-game seasons, basketball and hockey, you
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: at least have a day or two in between each game.
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  Speaker 5: Where if you are dealing with something, you can kind
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: of recuperate a little bit and rest. But if you're
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: playing every single day on a baseball team that expects
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: you to play every single day and is paying you
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: to play every single day, there's no time to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You keep just, I don't say re-aggravating it, but you
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: never really get fully healthy throughout the whole season.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's not the violent game in the NFL, but
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: it's the hardest game to play through nicks and bruises.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And they have nicks and bruises all the time.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: It's time. Gene Steratore is going to join us next.
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