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Chuck in the Morning 8-21 H3: The Ocho, Kade Anderson debut, Seahawks-Titans · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: of the day, recapping the week, getting you set for
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Speaker 2: the weekend. It's probably the most important twenty minutes of
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Speaker 2: your entire day, maybe of your life. Understandable, Yeah, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: You know? Yeah? Especially so. I guess what I'm saying
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Speaker 2: is if you're torn right now between sticking around because
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Speaker 2: you think your child's going to take its first step
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Speaker 2: and listening to the O Show, pretty clear, pretty clear
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Speaker 2: and obvious. You want the eight top stories of the day. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: no question about it. Yeah Yeah, there's going to be
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Speaker 2: a lot more of those steps.
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Speaker 3: Right, there's not gonna be that many more ojos. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: hey there is. I don't know, you never know, And.
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Speaker 2: Let's be honest about it. The first step is usually
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Speaker 2: the worst one. Like, it's the least sound, you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean? It's true. Yeah, So I don't know
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Speaker 2: why you're making such a big deal.
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Speaker 4: Out of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm on over to the radio, listen to the eight
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Speaker 2: top stories of the day and actually have something meaningful
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Speaker 2: happen to your day.
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Speaker 3: As a dad that's close to having his son walk
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Speaker 3: for the first time. This hurts my soul, but I
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Speaker 3: agree with Chuck Powell.
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Speaker 2: This is the worst advice anyone's ever given on the radio.
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Speaker 2: All Right, you get to point the out job's import
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Speaker 2: it's very important. Here we go, your eight top stories
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Speaker 2: of the day. We're gonna start with Kate Anderson.
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Speaker 5: As you can see, we've had our eye on you
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Speaker 5: for some time now, mister Anderson.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's here. Is Kate Anderson, the Mariner's number one
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Speaker 2: prospect and the top pitching prospect in all of baseball.
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Speaker 2: The chosen one is the left handed neo here to
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Speaker 2: save the world the Mariners season. I mean, who's the
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Speaker 2: Machines in this situation. The only reason the Mariners were
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Speaker 2: able to select Kate Anderson is because they narrowly missed
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Speaker 2: the playoffs after a previous brutally difficult season. Yeah, we've
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Speaker 2: had a few of them. And then benefited from the
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Speaker 2: second ever NBA lottery system and ended up picking third
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Speaker 2: in that Major League Baseball draft. A little over A
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Speaker 2: year later, Kate Anderson mastered double a baseball he could
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Speaker 2: not only bend his back to dodge on coming bullets.
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Speaker 2: Turns out he also had a one point six e
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Speaker 2: RA this season for the Arkansas Travelers. Which one's more impressive?
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Speaker 2: I think it's the one point six R Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: really do melting metal. Not that big of a deal.
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Speaker 2: One point six ERA and your first full pro season. Wow? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Well he's now a Seattle Mariner. Anderson has slated to
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Speaker 2: start Saturday's home matchup with the Chicago Cubs. That's Saturday,
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Speaker 2: not tonight. Caide will enter the matrix at precisely four
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Speaker 2: point fifteen with his first pitch, and it will be
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Speaker 2: against the previously discussed Pete Crow Armstrong to start his career.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the big league son, taking the red pill. Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 2: take the red pill, don't take the blue pill. I
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Speaker 2: mean this is exciting. And yeah, I realized that there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of anger right now and it's been a
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Speaker 2: very frustrating season. But I remember the time that Stephen
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Speaker 2: Strasburg I was trying to call him Salisbury for some reason.
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Speaker 2: Stephen Strasburg made his debut and the whole nation stopped
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Speaker 2: to watch it for the Washington Nationals. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if it's quite on that level. Anderson was the third
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Speaker 2: overall pick, after all, and also he wasn't called the
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Speaker 2: greatest pitching prospect in the history of the sport like
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Speaker 2: Strasburg was. But Strasburg didn't have the success at the
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Speaker 2: minor league level that this young man has had. I
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Speaker 2: think this is a long time coming. Anders, and I
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Speaker 2: felt like this should have happened a while ago. I
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Speaker 2: thought that Kate Anderson, you could have found a role
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Speaker 2: for him on this team, even if you didn't want
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Speaker 2: to make him a starting pitcher. It just felt to me, Anders,
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Speaker 2: like you have this tremendous weapon. He's making mincemeat of
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Speaker 2: double A and what do you how many more times
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Speaker 2: you're just gonna watch him dominate double A hitters before
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Speaker 2: you give him a promotion of some kind. It's like
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Speaker 2: having a fourth grader reading at a college level, right,
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Speaker 2: and yet you still want him in the classroom, you know,
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Speaker 2: trying to figure out what a noun is, Like he's
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Speaker 2: ready does a. I mean, he's going to just take
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Speaker 2: the league by storm, and it's going to shut out
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Speaker 2: the Cubs and going to strike pca out on three
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Speaker 2: pitches the first at bat. He might struggle tomorrow, but
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Speaker 2: there's no reason to keep him in the minor league.
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Speaker 3: No, And we talked to no PQ about Mendoza resting
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Speaker 3: and you know what that would do. But and that
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Speaker 3: is good. He's not gonna get hit in the face
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Speaker 3: one time. Well, and that it's not hopefully not, it's not.
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Speaker 3: That's his situation, right, But with Caide, it's like he
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Speaker 3: can't do any more developing in Double A, Like the
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Speaker 3: next step for him needs to be at this level.
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Speaker 3: So that's another reason, even if you don't view it
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Speaker 3: as helping your team now, which it does, and you
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Speaker 3: want the best for his development solely.
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Speaker 2: That still is up here with the Mariners, despite the
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Speaker 2: frustration that this season is, despite the anger that you have,
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Speaker 2: this is a really exciting thing, absolutely that we're going
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Speaker 2: to get to watch this young man pitch tomorrow night
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Speaker 2: against the Chicago Cubs. And frankly, the Mariners have kind
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Speaker 2: of painted themselves in a bit of a no win situation.
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Speaker 2: If he fails, why is he even up? We're eight
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Speaker 2: games out of five hundred, Why does it even matter?
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Speaker 2: Trying to save this season? Might as well put him
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Speaker 2: in bubble wrap and rest him for next year. But
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Speaker 2: if he succeeds, if he's dominant, oh my gosh, how
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Speaker 2: are we not going to say? And we just kept
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Speaker 2: this guy in Arkansas while our record just kept dropping
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Speaker 2: and kept falling in the standings. So I don't know
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Speaker 2: if this is really a win win for the Mariners,
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Speaker 2: but it is a win that we get to watch
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson play tom.
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Speaker 3: And it might be one of the best pitching prospects
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Speaker 3: the Mariners have ever had make their debut. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: that'll be interesting to the probably the yeah.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to go to hyperbolic, but I think
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Speaker 2: it is. I think it's the Yeah. There are questions
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Speaker 2: about Randy Johnson, the prospect Felix too, Felix kind of
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Speaker 2: I mean, let's face it, international guy, so he's not
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Speaker 2: in the so he doesn't get quite the hype that
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Speaker 2: drafted guys get totally, so I'd probably argue that he
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Speaker 2: is the The Mariners, of course, fell to Milwaukee in
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Speaker 2: the last three days, two games out of three. You
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Speaker 2: had a chance to win the series yesterday, but George
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Speaker 2: Kirby got roughed up early.
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Speaker 6: Hi Chopper that's even the outfield that's gonna chase hold
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Speaker 6: two more.
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Speaker 2: Yelich is gonna score, Ortez is gonna score.
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Speaker 1: The Kirby's afternoon has taken a drastic turn.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers, who famously scored twenty two runs against Mariner
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Speaker 2: pitchers and utility infielders Tuesday night, scored the last five
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Speaker 2: runs of a seven to five loss to Seattle on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: So on Thursday they just wasted no time. They scored
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Speaker 2: six runs in the opening frame against a shell shocked
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Speaker 2: George Kirby. Now the ms did show some fight, they
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Speaker 2: cut the lead to six to four by the fourth inning,
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Speaker 2: but I wouldn't score again. Meanwhile, Dan Wilson decided this
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Speaker 2: game's probably not important enough to throw Gabe Spire, even
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Speaker 2: though he only threw two pitches the day before, and
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Speaker 2: even though we're only a bloop and a blast away
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Speaker 2: from a potential win here or a potential tie. He
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Speaker 2: brought in Jonathan Diaz. He gave up a home run,
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Speaker 2: and that was pretty much Katie bar the door. Mariners
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Speaker 2: fall eight games below five hundred with their seven to
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Speaker 2: four loss to the Brewers yesterday and a series loss
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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. They remained four games back of the Astros
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Speaker 2: for the division with thirty four games to play. I
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Speaker 2: thought they had a good chance a two out of three,
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Speaker 2: but George Kirby just does not show up yesterday. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and it's not in time anyway.
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Speaker 3: It's a second straight start of kind of really not
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Speaker 3: giving the Mariners a chance, which sucks.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is. At this point.
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Speaker 3: You got to start winning series, man, And that's the Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's the next It's not getting any easier this weekend
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Speaker 3: against the Cubs.
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Speaker 2: And that's just it. I took another cheap shot at
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Speaker 2: Dan with the Jonathan Diaz decision. But it's something that
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Speaker 2: Anderson I talked about at the beginning of the show,
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Speaker 2: like we have to play with urgency. Yes, and I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying every game's got to be managed like a
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Speaker 2: playoff game, but it just feels like one game is
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Speaker 2: and then the next game isn't. And I get that
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Speaker 2: there's rest that has to take place. And if you
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Speaker 2: use this passle of pitchers one day that some of
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Speaker 2: them might not be available, but all of them. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna have to start treating two run deficits like
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Speaker 2: things to protect exactly that's kind of where we're at
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Speaker 2: in the season. You've dug this hole. I didn't dig
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Speaker 2: it for you. Yeah, you dug this hole for yourself.
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Speaker 2: And it just feels like sometimes the front office acts
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Speaker 2: with urgency, at other times they're biting their time. I
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Speaker 2: do want to And sometimes Dan Wilson manages a game
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Speaker 2: with urgency and then the next night he doesn't seem to.
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Speaker 2: It's true, and the players seem to arrive in Houston
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Speaker 2: shooing through walls to beat the Astros and then show
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Speaker 2: up in Milwaukee lacks a daisical. It's really strange to
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Speaker 2: figure out that. That's the thing about urgency. You have
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Speaker 2: to be urgent at all times. There's no time to
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Speaker 2: like take a break and have a sandwich.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, really quick? What did you think of the West?
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Speaker 3: And Wilson tinch hit for brock rod in the Bigges
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Speaker 3: step out of the game later on.
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Speaker 2: No, yeah, so great, that's all we need. Cubs in
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Speaker 2: town tonight. Emerson Anncock starts for US Seattle resident or
10:26
Speaker 2: at least I don't know if he still lives here.
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Speaker 2: Matt Boyd from Sea and former Mariner will get the start.
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Speaker 2: The Cubs are throwing three left handed pitchers at the
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Speaker 2: Mariners very strategic starting tonight at seven to ten. The
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Speaker 2: NFL preseason has reached week number two. It began last
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Speaker 2: night and there was.
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Speaker 5: Only one player playing last night that was on the
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Speaker 5: minds of the masses.
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Speaker 2: Oh Abba, thank you Aba. I sure hope you hooked
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Speaker 2: up with Fernando. I think you guys make a really
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Speaker 2: cute couple. Top draft pick Fernando Mendoza look good in
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Speaker 2: his first preseason game, but against some ones not so much.
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Speaker 2: The raining Heisman Trophy winners struggled last night against the Texas,
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Speaker 2: completing just eight of his fifteen passes. He even threw
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Speaker 2: a dreaded pick six in the very first quarter. Twenty
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Speaker 2: two to twenty was a final score. I think the
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Speaker 2: Raiders ended up winning that right, Yeah, twenty two to
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Speaker 2: twenty over the Texans, even though they trailed seventeen to
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Speaker 2: nothing after one quarter of play. Kirk Cousins didn't play
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Speaker 2: for Vegas Thursday. New head coach Clint Kubiex said after
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Speaker 2: the game that the Raiders are still evaluating the position,
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Speaker 2: so I guess the door is still opened that Fernando
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Speaker 2: could possibly start the season as the Raiders quarterback, but
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Meanwhile, San Francisco pounded the Chargers
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Speaker 2: forty one to seventeen last night. Rock Perty and Justin
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Speaker 2: and Herbert both started but were removed quickly from the game. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks are in Nashville, Tennessee today for a joint practice,
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Speaker 2: and then they will play Sunday evening at five o'clock
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Speaker 2: against the Titans. Greg Bell's our Seahawks insider. He was
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Speaker 2: with us earlier today, of course, and I asked him
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Speaker 2: how much the starters are expected to play.
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Speaker 7: I don't expect much at all. Well, McDonald's mo has
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Speaker 7: been the last two pre seasons to not play the
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Speaker 7: starters at all or.
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Speaker 1: Much at all.
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Speaker 7: Now, last year was a little bit different because he
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Speaker 7: wanted to get his offensive line settled. Jamn Sindell at
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Speaker 7: this time last year was still winning the center spot
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Speaker 7: eventually took it from Oli with Timmy, so they'd started
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Speaker 7: their starting offensive line in the preseason games more than
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Speaker 7: I think he's going to.
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Speaker 2: Sunday night, but I don't.
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Speaker 7: Maybe at drive on Sunday night, if that it's on
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Speaker 7: national television.
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Speaker 1: I know the league.
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Speaker 7: It's the only guys you mentioned at the top. It's
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Speaker 7: the only game that night, the only game that day,
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Speaker 7: and it's a Fox National TV.
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Speaker 1: Brocket.
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Speaker 2: I would rather the Seahawks have the Super Bowl champions
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Speaker 2: starters out there.
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Speaker 7: They might play a series. I wouldn't expect much more
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Speaker 7: than that.
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Speaker 2: The Hawks might not play the Titans until Sunday, but
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Speaker 2: they're going to fist fight them today in Music City. Hey, everybody, fight, fight, Fight,
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Speaker 2: club Fight. I'll meet you at three o'clock out on
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Speaker 2: the football field after school. Fight. If you're not prepared
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Speaker 2: for an Anchorman like fight scene in today's joint practice,
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Speaker 2: I urge you to look away. Last scene, JSN was
13:33
Speaker 2: attempting to put a tried in in the overhead compartment
13:36
Speaker 2: while aboarding the team flight, the one the Mariners use
13:38
Speaker 2: of the home run. I think it's his own. Yeah, okay, yeah,
13:42
Speaker 2: that he reached from the hand of Nautilus himself. Three
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Speaker 2: different joint practices have ended in nothing but punch throwing
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Speaker 2: chaos this week in the National Football League, and Mike
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Speaker 2: McDonald can't wait to see his team fight. It's exactly
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Speaker 2: what's going to happen today. We all know that. And
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Speaker 2: in the shadow of the Grand Opry I just I
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Speaker 2: picture the hard knocks. We're wasting time. Come on, we're
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Speaker 2: wasting time. They're gonna get some footage, man, they're gonna
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Speaker 2: get some footage in Nashville the next five days. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna have the Rookie Talent Show tonight, you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: joint practice today, you're gonna have a game on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: and you'rena have five days in Nashville with nothing to
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Speaker 2: do but put a Cameron people's faces. Maybe yeah, it
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Speaker 2: should be the Huskies, of course, getting ready for the season.
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Speaker 2: The day's melting away. We've been at Huskies camp here
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Speaker 2: in the mornings the last couple of days. At the
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Speaker 2: end of yesterday's show, if you missed it, we sort
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Speaker 2: of made history. Jed Fish and Demand Williams Junior sat
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Speaker 2: down with us at the end of the show, both
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Speaker 2: of them at the exact same time, and Jed looked
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Speaker 2: at Demon and said, We've never done this before, have we?
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Speaker 2: So yes, there you go, the Morning Show making history,
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Speaker 2: putting Jed Fish and Demond Williams Junior on an interview together.
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Speaker 2: We're going to replay some of that for you here
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Speaker 2: in Niocho because I asked Demand Williams. We'll pick it
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Speaker 2: up at the part of the conversation with he and
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Speaker 2: coach about what he's learned about when to let the
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Speaker 2: play develop and when to tuck and run.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I want to be a passor as
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Speaker 4: much as I can. You know, I'm a pastor until
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Speaker 4: I've become a runner. So uh, that's really the main
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Speaker 4: goal for me is to continue continue being a pastor
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Speaker 4: in a when it's time the run make so you
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Speaker 4: get down and take this hit.
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Speaker 2: What is what are the instructions you give somebody because
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Speaker 2: you got to play the exist game somewhat with instinct,
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Speaker 2: but you also got to stay within the plays that
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Speaker 2: you're calling. So what do you tell them to do?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that you know, we we were talking
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Speaker 6: about the other day, like you know, your feet is
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Speaker 6: your clock, and you kind of know you know when
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Speaker 6: it's time, and you have to know when to stay
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Speaker 6: when in a lot of different manners. But when you
15:50
Speaker 6: have the skills that de has, it's very unique because
15:54
Speaker 6: you know where normally you would tell a quarterback throw
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Speaker 6: that away, you know, maybe that throw way turns into
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Speaker 6: a twelve yard scramble and that was a missed opportunity
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Speaker 6: to get a first down. So I think it's his
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Speaker 6: instincts are always gonna win versus what you know, we
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Speaker 6: coach him to do. He's got to play with instincts,
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Speaker 6: number one. But number two, it's our goal to try
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Speaker 6: to make the game the the easiest thing he does
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Speaker 6: all week. So if we can make the game the
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Speaker 6: easiest thing he does all week, then all week long
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Speaker 6: in practice, we're challenging him to feel like, Okay, this
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Speaker 6: is one I take off, this is one that I
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Speaker 6: could wait, this is one that this pressure I know
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Speaker 6: we can pick up. So therefore I can hang in
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Speaker 6: the pocket a little longer. And that's kind of what
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Speaker 6: our goal is as a coaching staff.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have some design runs too, though.
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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean, let's not forget the tools and
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Speaker 6: the toolbox, right, I mean, that would be coaching malpractice
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Speaker 6: if we don't take advantage of every asset.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna take advantage of having you two here together.
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Speaker 2: So give me, and I don't care what it is it,
16:57
Speaker 2: maybe maybe you don't like his dance moves. Give me
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Speaker 2: your favorite thing about your quarterback, and then give me
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Speaker 2: something that you drives you nuts about. Him, and then
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask him that about you. Okay.
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Speaker 6: My favorite thing about him is a smile because when
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Speaker 6: he's smiling, I know that we're just in a great
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Speaker 6: spot and that that that energy, that positivity is elite.
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Speaker 6: What drives me crazy about him?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what drives him crazy.
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Speaker 6: That he's uh right a lot. So when I kind
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Speaker 6: of uh trying to make the correction and then I
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Speaker 6: go back and I'm like, it was right on that.
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Speaker 2: All right, Now you evaluate your coach. Yeah, pressure's on here.
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Speaker 4: I think how player friendly is you know you can
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Speaker 4: go into this office at any time.
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Speaker 2: Say what's up?
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Speaker 4: Stop by, just talk about life, talk about football. It
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Speaker 4: really don't matter. And one thing to drive me crazy? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I don't think it drives me like crazy, but I
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Speaker 4: feel like on the play call sometimes if I don't
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Speaker 4: get it, it's like, oh I need it again. But
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Speaker 4: you know he's on to the next place. So we
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Speaker 4: got you forgot how to get the communication to get
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Speaker 4: it twice sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Demon Williams Junior Jedfish with us at Huskies camp yesterday.
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Speaker 2: If you want to hear the entire conversation, you could
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Speaker 2: do so on our podcast at ninety three three KJR
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Speaker 2: dot com. Great to have them on. Thanks to the
18:14
Speaker 2: Huskies for having us out there. They opened with the
18:17
Speaker 2: Apple Cup, that's right, they opened with the Apple Cup. Sunday,
18:20
Speaker 2: that's right, Sunday, September sixth, that one pm. Huskies have
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Speaker 2: a mock game tomorrow at six point thirty. A fan
18:26
Speaker 2: fest begins at four to twenty, so you can make
18:28
Speaker 2: an evening of it out there at Husky Stadium. Sounders
18:32
Speaker 2: in action tomorrow as well. They'll be taking on Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: and they need a win. You play to win the gate. Yes,
18:41
Speaker 2: maybe they need a reminder. Maybe they just needed to
18:43
Speaker 2: be reminded Andrews play to win the gate, right, Maybe
18:47
Speaker 2: they just didn't know that that's how it worked. Yeah,
18:50
Speaker 2: Herm Edwards needed to just rattle some cages. Yeah, maybe
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Speaker 2: I hope that's the case.
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Speaker 3: Because if you're trying to win and that's what's happening
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Speaker 3: in the last few months, would that be some.
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Speaker 2: Mi Schmitzer just came out and said, you know what,
19:02
Speaker 2: we haven't been trying to win and that's been our problem.
19:05
Speaker 2: That's our issue. Sounders have lost eight straight MLS matches.
19:09
Speaker 2: To avoid nine, they must win on the road against
19:11
Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati start time tomorrow at four point thirty, and
19:15
Speaker 2: the award winning pregame show with Jackson Feltz will take
19:18
Speaker 2: place at four awad winning. Finally, yesterday Seattle Times Matt
19:24
Speaker 2: Holkins decided, my integrity won't allow me to continue with
19:30
Speaker 2: my current job. Apparently Matt had a few stories he's
19:34
Speaker 2: wanted to run columns he's wanted to run over the
19:37
Speaker 2: last few years and has been shut down for can
19:40
Speaker 2: we say it, political reasons, and he said enough is enough.
19:45
Speaker 2: I don't have a plan for what I'm going to
19:47
Speaker 2: do next, but I don't want to be here. He
19:50
Speaker 2: wrote that he is leaving on good terms, he believes
19:53
Speaker 2: with the paper with his co workers, but that he
19:56
Speaker 2: wasn't going to continue operating in that He was on
20:00
Speaker 2: with our own Softy and Dick Fame last night talking
20:04
Speaker 2: about his decision.
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Speaker 8: That was really it. And I gave that to my
20:07
Speaker 8: editor on Friday morning, you know, three days later. I
20:10
Speaker 8: didn't say it needed to run in Sunday's column or
20:12
Speaker 8: anything in like that Sunday's paper. I was like, hey,
20:14
Speaker 8: if you want to take a look at this, I
20:16
Speaker 8: think it's good. No rush though, because it's you know,
20:19
Speaker 8: complicated and Uh, he said, well, we'll look at it,
20:22
Speaker 8: but he can't run for Sunday's paper. It's not ready yet.
20:24
Speaker 8: We're going to have my boss take it to the
20:26
Speaker 8: two main bosses on Wednesday. And at this point I'm going, Dan,
20:29
Speaker 8: this is like an event right now, Like it's been
20:32
Speaker 8: five days already. And then on Thursday I got a
20:34
Speaker 8: call saying we're not going to run it because you
20:36
Speaker 8: didn't tell us what you were doing beforehand, which I
20:38
Speaker 8: kind of called bs on. I'm like, that's that's not
20:40
Speaker 8: the reason you would have spiked it right away. So
20:43
Speaker 8: to me, this was another example of them not wanting
20:46
Speaker 8: to run something that kind of challenged prevailing narratives in
20:49
Speaker 8: the newsroom, you know, might have gotten the outrage mob
20:51
Speaker 8: not at them, And to me, I was just at
20:55
Speaker 8: that point I was ready to quit, you know, as
20:58
Speaker 8: soon as he said it's not going to run, pay
21:00
Speaker 8: him out. You know, I don't think I could be
21:02
Speaker 8: a columnist here. And it wasn't an emotional decision. It
21:05
Speaker 8: was something I've been thinking.
21:06
Speaker 2: About for a long time. Yeah. So Matt Calkins yesterday
21:09
Speaker 2: again another thing worth checking out on our website. You
21:12
Speaker 2: want to hear the entire conversation. There was also an
21:14
Speaker 2: interesting one with Jerry Brewer as well yesterday on the
21:19
Speaker 2: radio Progrim And just to give you a little background,
21:21
Speaker 2: he wanted to write an article about the w NBA
21:26
Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham, her statements about transgenders playing in women's sports
21:33
Speaker 2: and her wanting to keep women's sports to people who
21:37
Speaker 2: were born women. Yes, and so that's what he wanted
21:43
Speaker 2: to write about, and he was denied by his newspaper.
21:48
Speaker 2: And so I guess it's the latest example of that
21:52
Speaker 2: that he felt. He did some work on a column
21:55
Speaker 2: and it didn't even end up getting printed. So I'll
21:58
Speaker 2: just say this, as I said earlier, I don't want
21:59
Speaker 2: to get into the political conversation. I'm already over the
22:02
Speaker 2: break and that would take way too long. I would
22:05
Speaker 2: just say I do commend a person that says, hey,
22:10
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick to my integrity, even though I'm terrified
22:13
Speaker 2: that I don't have anything to do next and I
22:15
Speaker 2: still have to pay bills and things of that nature.
22:19
Speaker 2: But I can't do this anymore. And so he took
22:22
Speaker 2: the road of integrity. I think his values were his values,
22:27
Speaker 2: and those got crossed over in his mind, and so
22:30
Speaker 2: he just did not want to work there anymore. So
22:32
Speaker 2: best of block to Matt. I think he's a really
22:34
Speaker 2: good dude. Every interaction I've had with him has been terrific,
22:39
Speaker 2: and so I do wish him the best. Coming up
22:41
Speaker 2: next on our show, more on Caid Anderson and whether
22:45
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23:19
Speaker 2: All right, so tomorrow, mister Anderson, we'll pitch at T
23:25
Speaker 2: Mobile for the first time. Kate Anderson gets his start.
23:29
Speaker 2: Long awaited. I won't say long awaited. He's only been
23:32
Speaker 2: in the organization for thirteen months, but somehow it does
23:37
Speaker 2: feel long awaited. It does, And there have been just
23:40
Speaker 2: so many people that have been writing not locally, nationally. Locally,
23:46
Speaker 2: I get see. We've had our eye on you for
23:48
Speaker 2: some time now, mister Anderson. Yeah, locally, I get it.
23:52
Speaker 2: Your team's struggling, like they're not picking it up, and
23:57
Speaker 2: you just keep seeing highlights of this skin kid down
24:00
Speaker 2: in Arkansas that apparently never gives up a hit, even
24:05
Speaker 2: though he only throws like ninety ninety three, or walks yeah,
24:09
Speaker 2: or walks anyone, just strikes out everyone, everybody that he faces,
24:13
Speaker 2: never gives up a run. So I get while the
24:16
Speaker 2: local like, why aren't we activating this dude? But even
24:20
Speaker 2: nationally they're like, what are you waiting for? And that's
24:24
Speaker 2: always the push and pull with something like this. When
24:27
Speaker 2: is the right time to activate thing? I mean, think
24:31
Speaker 2: back to how right it felt watching Colt Emerson burst
24:34
Speaker 2: onto the scene earlier this year and then a few
24:37
Speaker 2: weeks later what happens? Why is he here? He can't
24:42
Speaker 2: play at this level? Get him out of here? He's
24:45
Speaker 2: killing the team became the the conversation on social media. So,
24:50
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's gonna go through ups and downs. I
24:53
Speaker 2: don't know what we'll see on Saturday, but I for one,
24:57
Speaker 2: am excited that Kate Anderson is being activated. I think
25:00
Speaker 2: he could have been activated earlier. I think they could
25:02
Speaker 2: have found a role for him, even if it was
25:05
Speaker 2: out of the bullpen. Even though I'm the guy that
25:08
Speaker 2: tabbed him the September South Paw. This season hasn't gone
25:14
Speaker 2: the way that I thought it was going to go
25:16
Speaker 2: or that you thought it was going to go out
25:18
Speaker 2: there listening. So if it's going off the rails and
25:23
Speaker 2: you've got this weapon down in Double A, Arkansas, then
25:27
Speaker 2: why isn't he being used to help us? If he
25:30
Speaker 2: can help us? And so that's the push and pull.
25:33
Speaker 2: Whenever you're activating a young prospect into the major leagues,
25:38
Speaker 2: you think he's going to perform well, but you truly
25:41
Speaker 2: never know until you see him out there.
25:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we had a very similar discussion when Cole
25:45
Speaker 3: Timerson got sent down. It's like there's two there's two
25:48
Speaker 3: ways to think about it. Number one, what's best for
25:49
Speaker 3: the team, and number two, what's best for the development
25:52
Speaker 3: of the player. And when both of those things are
25:55
Speaker 3: that the outcome of that's happened. Now it's time, right,
26:00
Speaker 3: and I just I wonder how much he can really
26:04
Speaker 3: help this pitching staff, which obviously isn't the glaring weakness
26:09
Speaker 3: of this team, but I also think hasn't been as
26:12
Speaker 3: elite lately, especially than we've come to Euston.
26:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, to see, and that's fair, but still good enough.
26:20
Speaker 2: We still lead the league and quality starts and starts
26:24
Speaker 2: where our starters go five innings like by a mile. Yeah,
26:28
Speaker 2: and we're still amongst the leaders in e er and
26:31
Speaker 2: things of that nature. So still been very good, still
26:34
Speaker 2: been much better than what our record should be, that's
26:38
Speaker 2: for sure, totally. But they see this little window. They
26:41
Speaker 2: were looking for a creative way to get Kate Anderson
26:45
Speaker 2: and let him start a game. They didn't want to
26:46
Speaker 2: use him out of the bullpen. Brian Wu has a
26:49
Speaker 2: little bit of a question when he comes out of
26:51
Speaker 2: the last game, and so that's where they decide, here's
26:54
Speaker 2: our window. Let's put Kate Anderson into and I'm not
26:58
Speaker 2: going to say into the rotation, but let's introduce him
27:00
Speaker 2: into the major leagues on Saturday. We shall see. Now,
27:04
Speaker 2: there was a reaction, a lot of I heard this
27:08
Speaker 2: with Soft and Fain last night before they eventually almost
27:12
Speaker 2: came to blows on the air. I heard them talking
27:16
Speaker 2: about there was a Texter that said, it's only being
27:19
Speaker 2: done for money. They know that the fan base is angry,
27:22
Speaker 2: and I want to cool your jets a little bit.
27:25
Speaker 2: They had already sold like forty thousand tickets for that game,
27:28
Speaker 2: so that was going to be a well attended game
27:31
Speaker 2: no matter what. It's the Cubs, for goodness, sake, and
27:33
Speaker 2: we are still in a race. I mean so much
27:35
Speaker 2: so that we're nationally televised on Sunday. We're i mean
27:38
Speaker 2: nationally televised on Saturday, not tonight, thank goodness, so that
27:43
Speaker 2: we can actually watch it. So yeah, so I mean
27:48
Speaker 2: they're still nationally relevant. And this was going to be
27:51
Speaker 2: a big game no matter what with the Chicago Cubs
27:53
Speaker 2: coming into town, and Kate Anderson's just going to make
27:55
Speaker 2: it that much bigger. All eyes are going to be
27:58
Speaker 2: on this game. So yeah, they're going to pack the
28:02
Speaker 2: house for it. And it doesn't have anything to do
28:05
Speaker 2: with ownership trying to sell out a stadium. Yeah.
28:08
Speaker 3: The only thing that does kind of is it weird timing,
28:13
Speaker 3: is that after everything that went on in the Brewers series,
28:17
Speaker 3: it does scream a little bit of Okay, don't pay
28:20
Speaker 3: attention to what's actually on the field. Look at this
28:22
Speaker 3: shiny new toy right here, a little Kate Anderson Like
28:26
Speaker 3: it's more the timing of everything.
28:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I would say to that argument, like the
28:31
Speaker 2: New York Yankees pretty much put an entire left handed
28:34
Speaker 2: lineup out there. I said at the time, Yeah, activate
28:37
Speaker 2: Kate Anderson for this week. We could really use them.
28:39
Speaker 2: They got seventy seven lefties in their starting lineup. Seventy
28:45
Speaker 2: seven lefties, seven lefties and their starting lineup, and we
28:48
Speaker 2: don't have but two lefty pitchers out of our pen
28:51
Speaker 2: and not a single one in our starting rotation. Would
28:53
Speaker 2: this not be a good time to activate them? But
28:55
Speaker 2: I think that there is an element to that. Textures
28:59
Speaker 2: points yeah, there is an element too. They saved him
29:03
Speaker 2: for home. Yeah, Now I think there's an argument to
29:06
Speaker 2: also say, well, it is a rookie, and don't you,
29:10
Speaker 2: if you could manipulate it, want him to have that
29:13
Speaker 2: soft landing when you're expecting him to be such a
29:16
Speaker 2: big part of your future, when you like for him
29:19
Speaker 2: to show off his stuff if you can, orchestrate it
29:23
Speaker 2: at home. But when you are in a pennant race,
29:27
Speaker 2: I mean that sort of sentimental crap needs to go
29:31
Speaker 2: by the wayside.
29:32
Speaker 3: Is this a soft landing? Though it's the team that
29:34
Speaker 3: hits best against lefties in the entire league.
29:36
Speaker 2: It's softer than Yankee Stadium? I would think yeah. For
29:40
Speaker 2: just from a pure stage standpoint, sure, it's one thing
29:43
Speaker 2: to have forty thousand behind you and forty five thousand
29:47
Speaker 2: want to beat you up. In the alley, and so
29:50
Speaker 2: from that standpoint, and then there's the awesome specter of
29:54
Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium. But from a lineup standpoint, yeah, you match
29:57
Speaker 2: it up a lot better against the Yankees than he
29:59
Speaker 2: does against the Cubs. So we'll see how it goes down.
30:04
Speaker 2: But I mean, I said this in the O Show.
30:06
Speaker 2: I'll say it again. I know you're angry, I know
30:10
Speaker 2: you're frustrated. I know the season has not gone the
30:14
Speaker 2: way that any of us hoped it would go. But
30:18
Speaker 2: this is a really cool thing that's happening here tomorrow.
30:21
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying go to the game. I will
30:23
Speaker 2: never tell anyone at any time how to spend their money,
30:27
Speaker 2: but watch it. Yeah, because this is good. This is
30:30
Speaker 2: gonna be pretty cool. I mean, I think it's one
30:32
Speaker 2: of the great things about baseball. Like the National Football League,
30:36
Speaker 2: when you're a rookie, unless you're injured, you play right
30:39
Speaker 2: from opening day. They all debut at the exact same time.
30:42
Speaker 2: This is one of the cool things about baseball when
30:44
Speaker 2: you got some much ballyhooed prospect and you don't know
30:48
Speaker 2: when the team's going to activate them, and then they
30:51
Speaker 2: just kind of get to make their debuts as the
30:53
Speaker 2: season goes along, well we're finally going to get to
30:56
Speaker 2: see what the hype is all about with this skinny
30:58
Speaker 2: kid out of lsu kDa Anderson on Saturday. And I
31:02
Speaker 2: couldn't be more excited. Yeah, I couldn't either. And I
31:04
Speaker 2: said also in the O Show, it doesn't come without
31:09
Speaker 2: some problems for Jerry because if he's successful, people are
31:14
Speaker 2: going to be angry that he wasn't up earlier, for sure.
31:16
Speaker 2: And if he's not successful, well, this kid's not worth
31:19
Speaker 2: the hype. This guy shucks. You know that's gonna happen too.
31:24
Speaker 2: So it's just it's historic, it really is. Tomorrow's going
31:28
Speaker 2: to be a lot of fun to see him pitch
31:30
Speaker 2: at the major league level. And they played tonight too.
31:33
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31:35
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32:05
Speaker 2: I don't want to get into this, but at this
32:08
Speaker 2: point what you and I were talking about off the air,
32:11
Speaker 2: I just it's like being chafed in the Crotchell region.
32:17
Speaker 2: Like you hitting me with a wiffle ball didn't hurt,
32:20
Speaker 2: but I'm already chafed down there. Yeah, you know what
32:24
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Yeah, we don't have to explain what I'm
32:27
Speaker 2: talking about, not at all. Yeah, it would hurt to
32:30
Speaker 2: get hit by a wiffle ball a little bit, but
32:34
Speaker 2: I'm just so chafed in that area right now. Man,
32:38
Speaker 2: that was pronounced. You know what I'm saying. You know
32:42
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. All right, Hugh Mallan's gonna join us
32:45
Speaker 2: x's and o's. Yeah, x's and o's time every Friday,
32:48
Speaker 2: nine o'clock with our QB one. We'll preview Sunday scheme
32:52
Speaker 2: against the Tennessee Titans, and we'll spend a little time
32:56
Speaker 2: right now discussing it ourselves because we have to play
32:59
Speaker 2: the game. This is the last show we're gonna do
33:01
Speaker 2: before they actually play on Sunday. So, uh, Anders, where
33:05
Speaker 2: will your eyes go?
33:07
Speaker 3: Ooh, I'm gonna I'm gonna look at the offense, mainly
33:15
Speaker 3: because of how they struggled in the first game.
33:17
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the running game.
33:19
Speaker 3: If Jadarian play Price plays, I want to see kind
33:23
Speaker 3: of what he can do in a game situation. Right,
33:25
Speaker 3: we saw all the hype clips during Hard Knocks about
33:28
Speaker 3: how this guy looks great. I want to I want
33:30
Speaker 3: to see what he looks like on an NFL field
33:32
Speaker 3: with pads, with people trying to take his head off.
33:34
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the main thing I'm looking at.
33:36
Speaker 3: But I'm also you know, I want to see the
33:38
Speaker 3: starters play as well. I know Greg said it probably
33:40
Speaker 3: won't happen, but I want I want to see the
33:42
Speaker 3: starters play.
33:43
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's gonna happen at all. I mean
33:45
Speaker 2: they are going to beat the crap out of each other. Yeah, yeah,
33:47
Speaker 2: they will. And then do you roll them over to
33:51
Speaker 2: play again on Sunday?
33:53
Speaker 3: Well almost, you think if they're gonna do they're gonna
33:57
Speaker 3: beat the crap out of each other today. In practice,
33:58
Speaker 3: maybe it will be less of a hostile environment during
34:02
Speaker 3: the game. Who knows, right, Like it's like, all right,
34:07
Speaker 3: we find each other all week, let's just get this
34:08
Speaker 3: game over with.
34:09
Speaker 2: Well, without knowing who's playing or who's not playing, I
34:15
Speaker 2: would think they're going to try to at least get
34:17
Speaker 2: a series out of Jadarian Price. And so here is
34:20
Speaker 2: the very obvious, no doubt about it. Where do your
34:25
Speaker 2: eyes go? Player in this game on Sunday, and it's
34:28
Speaker 2: Jadarian Price in parentheses if he plays, I mean we're
34:33
Speaker 2: all sitting here waiting all to see what this guy
34:37
Speaker 2: looks like running the football. I mean, didn't get that
34:42
Speaker 2: much of an indication even at Notre Dame for gonna say, right,
34:45
Speaker 2: but here he comes into Seattle, and so I mean,
34:49
Speaker 2: it's not just you're gonna be our RB one, right right,
34:53
Speaker 2: It is you're gonna replace Ken Walker an Zarc Charboney.
34:58
Speaker 2: You know you pretty much have to replace you know,
35:01
Speaker 2: one or both of them in the running game because
35:04
Speaker 2: of how weak the running back room feels right now
35:07
Speaker 2: and seems right now. So seeing Jadari and Price get
35:10
Speaker 2: a few carries in the Seahawks uniform, I mean, it's
35:12
Speaker 2: already a big deal when it's your first round draft pick,
35:15
Speaker 2: but when it's a running back, and when it's a
35:17
Speaker 2: running back replacing a Super Bowl MVP, yeah, you better
35:20
Speaker 2: believe you can't wait to see Jadarion Price take his
35:23
Speaker 2: first couple carries, even if it's a preseason game. So
35:26
Speaker 2: that's where the obvious. If he doesn't play, then my
35:29
Speaker 2: back I fall back on Tyrese Knight again. I want
35:34
Speaker 2: to see if you're the best player on the football
35:36
Speaker 2: field for a second straight game for the Seahawks. And
35:41
Speaker 2: if so, man, what is that going to do to
35:44
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's plans. How is he going to get Tyres
35:48
Speaker 2: Knight into the defense more frequently? Because Tyresee Knight played
35:54
Speaker 2: like a guy that was saying you better play me
35:56
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, that's how he played in preseason game
36:00
Speaker 2: number one and number one. So will we see him
36:03
Speaker 2: star again? Will he not star? I don't know if
36:05
Speaker 2: he can start in a preseason game start shine? Will
36:08
Speaker 2: he shine again on Sunday? If so, I mean that
36:13
Speaker 2: that sends I mean, that's a good problem to have,
36:16
Speaker 2: but it sends Mike McDonald back to the maybe drawing board, Like, Okay,
36:19
Speaker 2: let's reassess Knight and his role. Maybe how often can
36:23
Speaker 2: we get him in the game. He is showing me
36:25
Speaker 2: he's made strides well.
36:27
Speaker 3: And then conversely, I want to see it if he's
36:29
Speaker 3: gonna play what Drake Thomas looks like it does he
36:31
Speaker 3: look better than Tyres Knight? Does or is that gonna
36:34
Speaker 3: be a major opening for Tyrous Knight to come and
36:37
Speaker 3: get his starting spot back.
36:39
Speaker 2: I think they came into camp absolutely fixed with Drake
36:42
Speaker 2: Tom I think so too, and Tyree Knight has is
36:45
Speaker 2: starting to change the narrative a little. All right, are
36:48
Speaker 2: we gonna put as Greg told us, are we gonna
36:50
Speaker 2: put all three of them on the field some or
36:53
Speaker 2: more often? More frequently? Is he going to take some
36:56
Speaker 2: snaps away from Drake Thomas? I mean, we all know
36:59
Speaker 2: he's the big, stronger, faster version of the two, But
37:02
Speaker 2: Drake's just been the better football player so far, and
37:05
Speaker 2: Mike plays the better football player. All right. Coming up next,
37:09
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