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9-30 H2: Gregg Bell Joins, Waiver Wire, Fact or Fiction & Reckless @ Breakfast · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg.
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Speaker 3: Morning. Good morning.
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Speaker 4: All right. Hump day it is. Game day. We can
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Speaker 4: start now previewing the Los Angeles Chargers. When the season started,
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Speaker 4: did you think, was any part of you think that
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Speaker 4: the Chargers were going to limp into a week four
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Speaker 4: game with out a win and maybe as desperate as
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Speaker 4: any football team in the National Football League to write things?
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Speaker 4: I didn't see that in my crystal ball, that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: No, I didn't see him losing to the Cardinals and
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Speaker 3: the Raiders to begin the season like they did. And
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Speaker 3: that's what happened. I could see him losing to the
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Speaker 3: Bills in every scenario, but not the first two, the
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Speaker 3: Cardinals and the Raiders. And I couldn't see Justin Herbert
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Speaker 3: being the 30th ranked passer in terms of passer rating
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Speaker 3: among quarterbacks who played multiple games this year. He's a sub-60%.
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Speaker 3: He's a 59% thrower right now with three touchdowns, four interceptions,
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Speaker 3: eight sacks in three games. Farhan Lazi, the TSN Canada
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Speaker 3: NFL reporter who I have on every week of my show,
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Speaker 3: was telling me when he was down at Chargers training
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Speaker 3: camp in August, he said, Greg, they don't have anybody
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Speaker 3: to throw to. There's no more Keenan Allens in the
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Speaker 3: Charger land, and I don't know who Herbert's going to
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Speaker 3: throw the ball to. Plus, They've got offensive line issues,
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Speaker 3: and he's been exactly right. The pressure and hits that
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Speaker 3: Herbert has taken and the fact that Ladd McConkie is
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Speaker 3: probably the only receiver he has to throw to, and
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Speaker 3: defenses know that. McConkie's had injuries, too. The running game
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Speaker 3: hasn't materialized again. They've had offensive line issues there. It's
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Speaker 3: not a Jim Harbaugh team. It's not a physical, pounding
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Speaker 3: team like he has wanted it to be. And there
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Speaker 3: are people that Jerry Epstein yesterday with IU Sports told
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Speaker 3: me that there are people around the league who think
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Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel, in from Miami, calling the plays, the hotshot
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Speaker 3: play caller, isn't meshing very well with Jim Harbaugh and
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Speaker 3: how he wants to play football.
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Speaker 4: Certainly doesn't look like they're meshing at all, and I
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Speaker 4: wouldn't have guessed that they would have ever meshed. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you want to talk about two different personalities, McDaniel and
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Speaker 4: Jim Harbaugh, and yet I'm reading this morning that Jim
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Speaker 4: Harbaugh's on the hot seat. I mean, he and his
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Speaker 4: dockers sitting warmly and firmly on the hot seat. I
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Speaker 4: can't imagine that. I think that they would do a
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Speaker 4: lot of things before they would fire Jim Harbaugh. But
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Speaker 4: it does speak to the desperation of this football team.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they don't look very good, but I guess
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Speaker 4: wounded animals are dangerous. Isn't that the analogy that people use?
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Speaker 3: Sure. And you turn the ball over two or three
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Speaker 3: times and you lose to anyone. The Seahawks just found
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Speaker 3: that out. So the Seahawks' perspective is it's on them.
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Speaker 3: About the hot seat stuff, all it takes is one
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Speaker 3: person to look at the standings and say, oh, 0-3 team,
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Speaker 3: hot seat. That's how it works.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 3: It would take quite a lot for Jim Harbaugh to
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Speaker 3: walk away for that to change there. But, yeah, the
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Speaker 3: Seahawks have some solace coming out of Washington that if
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Speaker 3: we don't turn the ball over three times, and give
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Speaker 3: the Commanders average drive starts at the Seahawks' 32-yard line,
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Speaker 3: who will win that game? And you can look at
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Speaker 3: the last three times the Seahawks have lost. They've only
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Speaker 3: lost four times since the start of last season. And
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Speaker 3: the three times they've lost, Tampa Bay, turnovers galore, handed
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Speaker 3: the Buccaneers a short field for the winning field goal. Well,
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Speaker 3: let's go to the last four games they've lost. The
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Speaker 3: opener against San Francisco last season, Sam Darnold dropping the
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Speaker 3: ball when Nick Bosa pushed Abe Lucas into him in
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Speaker 3: the 10-yard line with 30 seconds left going in in
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Speaker 3: a winning touchdown situation. Game over. Tampa Bay hands him
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Speaker 3: the winning field goal on an interception off a player's
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Speaker 3: helmet late in the fourth quarter. The Rams, Sam Darnold
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Speaker 3: throws a career-high four interceptions. Rams have short fields. Seahawks
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Speaker 3: lose by two. The commanders, Seahawks give them three turnovers,
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Speaker 3: short fields. The Seahawks lose by two. You see a
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Speaker 3: thread there? There aren't a lot of teams that are
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Speaker 3: driving down the field and scoring on this defense, so
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Speaker 3: don't put the defense in a box of having to
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Speaker 3: defend 20 and 30 yards only, and the Seahawks are
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Speaker 3: going to win. So job one, two, and three remains.
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Speaker 3: Don't turn the ball over. Don't give offenses for the
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Speaker 3: other team a chance, easy gift points to score on
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Speaker 3: the defense.
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Speaker 4: I think maybe, and this might sound strange to hear,
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Speaker 4: maybe even it's strange to say, but I think maybe
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Speaker 4: the worst thing that could have happened to the Chargers
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Speaker 4: is that the Seahawks lost as well last week to
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Speaker 4: the Commanders. Maybe their best chance was to come into
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Speaker 4: Seattle with the Seahawks 3-0 feeling fat and happy and
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Speaker 4: no one can beat us. But now that they've lost
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Speaker 4: a game and they're going to be sharper. To make
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Speaker 4: sure that that doesn't happen again, it might have foiled
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Speaker 4: what good chance the Chargers had to catch him napping.
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Speaker 4: They're not going to get caught napping. I'm curious, how
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Speaker 4: does Mike McDonald, how do you think he does respond
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Speaker 4: to the first loss? Because that was a very uncharacteristic.
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Speaker 4: Wait for the Seahawks to lose. I mean, every time
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Speaker 4: the commanders had a chance to score a touchdown, they
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Speaker 4: scored a touchdown. They weren't settling for field goals in
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Speaker 4: a 33-31 win over the Seahawks. So what is it's
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Speaker 4: been a long time since Mike's had to prepare his
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Speaker 4: team for a game coming off of a loss. But
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Speaker 4: I mean, is he cracking the whip? Is he just
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Speaker 4: getting back to the drawing board? Is he making sure
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Speaker 4: that everybody's egos got stripped and put in check? How
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Speaker 4: do you think Mike McDonald's coaching his team this week?
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Speaker 3: Well, the only ego that got stripped and put in
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Speaker 3: check was Jadarian Prices when he got benched for the fumbles.
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Speaker 3: And McDonald already started the week, the day after the game,
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Speaker 3: boosting other rookie up and saying, we're still going to
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Speaker 3: give him the ball. He's gone back to perfecting the process.
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Speaker 3: That's this whole season's quest. Can they do everything they
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Speaker 3: did last year and better? And that's preparation. That's game planning.
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Speaker 3: That's pushing the envelope on defense with different things. I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you one thing he is going to do is
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Speaker 3: he's going to put Nicky Manwari all over the defense
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Speaker 3: this week. He's not going to be reserved like he
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Speaker 3: was last week. Manwari was almost exclusively in the line
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Speaker 3: of scrimmage on the edge of the defense and most
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Speaker 3: of the time dropping into coverage. He rarely blitzed. He
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Speaker 3: rarely ran in off the edge unless it was a
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Speaker 3: run play away from him. I had my binoculars on
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Speaker 3: him for much of the game. He came out on
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Speaker 3: a lot of third down situations, third and short, third
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Speaker 3: and medium, and third and long he wasn't on the field.
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Speaker 3: He only played 52% of the snaps. That's the opposite
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Speaker 3: of last year. He was on the field all the time,
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Speaker 3: almost never came off, and he was at every level
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Speaker 3: of the defense confusing the offense of where he's coming from.
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Speaker 3: Is he in coverage?
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Speaker 2: Is he in blitz?
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Speaker 3: Is he a defensive end? Is he a linebacker? Is
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Speaker 3: he a safety? And that wasn't that way. in Washington.
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Speaker 3: I think the pacing ends this week. McDonald said the
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Speaker 3: coaches have to decide, have to be better at using
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Speaker 3: Imanwuri in more ways, which is, of course, what he
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Speaker 3: did last year. So I think the harness is off
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Speaker 3: of him post-ankle surgery this week. We'll see what that
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Speaker 3: does to the defense. We'll see if Julian Love practices
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Speaker 3: today or tomorrow. There's a chance he'll do that. They
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Speaker 3: saw how much they missed Love in the back. They
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Speaker 3: started two practice squad safeties. There were reasons that Sunday
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Speaker 3: happened beyond the turnover. The turnovers were the biggest thing.
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Speaker 3: But this defense was far from whole, missing two and
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Speaker 3: a half starters if you count that they throttled Eamon Worry.
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Speaker 2: So let's start there.
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Speaker 3: Let's see if Love and Eamon Worry come back and
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Speaker 3: what the defense looks like against the Wounded Chargers team.
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Speaker 3: And let's see if they just don't drop the ball
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Speaker 3: and throw the ball to the other team.
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Speaker 4: Price, RB1, full faith, you're forgiven heading into this game.
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Speaker 4: And then secondarily, if he fumbles again, what happens to him?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think he has full go. I think he
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Speaker 3: paid his penance. And I think Brian Fleury and Mike
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Speaker 3: McDonald saw what the run game looks like without him.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't look good. It's obvious through three games that
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Speaker 3: he's the most dynamic, game-breaking rusher they have. Manuel Wilson
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Speaker 3: looks slow to me. I know it was rainy and muddy,
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Speaker 3: but he's supposed to be the plodding power back. He's
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Speaker 3: not supposed to be the game-breaking back. Now, in Arizona,
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Speaker 3: he looked like a game-breaking back with 92 yards and
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Speaker 3: running outside zone and getting free in the open field,
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Speaker 3: but it underscores the fact that maybe Arizona stinks. They
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Speaker 3: need Price, and they don't need to lose him mentally
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Speaker 3: in Week 3 in September. So this is a repair
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Speaker 3: in a stage in comfort the rookie week, I would think.
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Speaker 3: I'd expect a ton of carries early in the game
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Speaker 3: for him to reestablish his confidence. He just needs to
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Speaker 3: hold on to the ball, period. If he fumbles again,
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Speaker 3: I think the same thing will happen, and he'll come
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Speaker 3: off the field for a large swath of the game,
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Speaker 3: and then the Seahawks will throw the ball a ton
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Speaker 3: because the running game behind him is not very good.
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Speaker 3: I do think they're still looking in the market for
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Speaker 3: a running back, and Trade deadline isn't until early November.
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Speaker 3: John Schneider has five weeks or so to find that
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Speaker 3: avenue if there's anything. But, yeah, they can't run the ball.
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Speaker 3: They cannot not run the.
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Speaker 2: Ball and win.
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Speaker 3: They can't throw 45 times and run 18, or they
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Speaker 3: won't win the rest of the season. So it won't happen,
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Speaker 3: and Price is going to get the majority of those reps.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of... confidence, where's Rashid Shaheed's right now? I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's pretty obvious he doesn't feel 100% comfortable returning punts.
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Speaker 4: At this point, he seems to be really conservative on
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Speaker 4: that front. And then he's still not getting involved in
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Speaker 4: the passing or the running game to any level. And
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Speaker 4: then on top of it, he's got the entire world
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Speaker 4: talking about, we let Ken Walker go to keep this guy?
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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's infiltrated his life, if he's
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Speaker 4: hearing that noise, but he certainly isn't playing great football
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Speaker 4: right now, and as far as I can tell, not
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Speaker 4: real confident football right now.
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Speaker 3: Well, for the first thing, it wasn't an either-or proposition
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Speaker 3: with Walker and Shahid. It was the value proposition that
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Speaker 3: John Schneider and the Seahawks made at running back. And
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Speaker 3: they just did the most attrited position, and the guy
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Speaker 3: had been hurt himself. They decided it was not worth
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Speaker 3: the money Kansas City was paying him. They could have
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Speaker 3: paid him both. They had the salary cap space to
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Speaker 3: do it. They had the ability to pay both. They
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Speaker 3: just decided not to pay Walker. And Shahid, they valued
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Speaker 3: for his game-breaking ability and overpaid to keep him here
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Speaker 3: so that somebody wouldn't outbid him. So those are too
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Speaker 3: independent to me. It's not a cause effect thing. Shahid,
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Speaker 3: for sure, is a mystery right now. They aren't throwing
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Speaker 3: to him a lot. It's not that he's not catching passes.
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Speaker 3: He's not even getting any. He is getting some, and
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Speaker 3: he's been covered more than he has, you would think,
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Speaker 3: for his speed. Their whole special teams is in disarray
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Speaker 3: right now. They're punt blocking on punt return. The reason
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Speaker 3: why he's been conservative a lot of the time is
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Speaker 3: there's often two or even three guys streaming down the
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Speaker 3: field unblocked about to take his head off, and he's
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Speaker 3: got enough sense not to run into them. So either
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Speaker 3: fair catches or lets the ball drop. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if I fault him for that. I don't think I
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Speaker 3: would be fielding punts the way their blocking has been.
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Speaker 3: And then their overall specialty, I mean, the drive starts
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Speaker 3: for the commanders after kickoff returns the other day was bad.
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Speaker 3: Even when they weren't turning it over, the commanders weren't
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Speaker 3: exactly backed up on their own goal line. So there's
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Speaker 3: some work to do there. McDonald talked Monday about the
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Speaker 3: special teams as not nearly the Seahawks standard and that
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Speaker 3: they are all going back. He also made the point
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Speaker 3: to say, Nobody's exempt from special teams. Starters, veterans, they're
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Speaker 3: looking at options for everything. But no doubt, Shahid is
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Speaker 3: not playing and they're not getting production at a $ 17
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Speaker 3: million-a-year guy. Yet another thing on the Brian Flurry to-do
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Speaker 3: list is to get him more involved. It would help
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Speaker 3: if they had a running game that was more consistent
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Speaker 3: and effective so that they can set up play-action passes
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Speaker 3: that would draw up safeties in the middle of the
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Speaker 3: field defenders to get Shahid open deep.
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Speaker 4: It speaks to how good their kick coverage has been,
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Speaker 4: because when it is off, it is so obvious. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it was glaring. Like, this is not how the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: play football. What's going on? Same thing with allowing touchdowns
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Speaker 4: instead of stopping them for field goals. It's just so
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Speaker 4: uncharacteristic of the way this team's played in the last
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Speaker 4: year and a half.
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Speaker 3: Right. And you could say, well, that was just one game.
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Speaker 3: But the New England game, they malfunctioned in all three
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Speaker 3: areas for three quarters. And only the 13 points and
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Speaker 3: the Drake made worse throw I've seen in that stadium
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Speaker 3: in a long time kept them from losing that game.
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Speaker 3: So they aren't perfect, but there's 14 games left, and
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Speaker 3: they're not panicking. They have the resolve of a champion
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Speaker 3: that's done it before with almost everybody coming back. They
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Speaker 3: were here last year. They'd lost their first game last season,
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Speaker 3: and the sky's not falling there, nor should it be.
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Speaker 3: But the running back fumbling the ball, the injuries in
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Speaker 3: the secondary, the special teams in Shahid are all concerning
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Speaker 3: issues that they're working to fix. It's not like they're
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Speaker 3: just kicking back saying, oh, this is going to be okay.
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Speaker 3: They've got stuff to do.
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Speaker 4: All right, what's going to go down at 10 o'clock
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Speaker 4: here this morning?
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Speaker 3: We're going to go to Los Angeles to talk to
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Speaker 3: the radio analyst for the Chargers games, radio broadcast, about
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Speaker 3: what's wrong with the Chargers and get another perspective, our
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Speaker 3: weekly visit with... the other side of the opponent viewpoint
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Speaker 3: for sure. And then we will talk about these issues
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Speaker 3: that you were spot on to bring up today because
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Speaker 3: those are all the things I was going to talk
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Speaker 3: about on my show.
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Speaker 4: Are you going to bring up Madison Beer and She's
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Speaker 4: the Problem with Justin Herbert? Are you going to really
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Speaker 4: dive into that?
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Speaker 2: I probably will stay away from players' choices of who
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Speaker 2: they have on the field. As a general rule, my
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Speaker 2: journalism career has served me well to just stay away
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Speaker 2: from that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay. I'm just letting you know. A lot of
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Speaker 4: people think she's the entire reason. She's the entire reason
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Speaker 4: why the Chargers are 0-3. It's Madison Deer.
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Speaker 3: In Buffalo, when they lose, it's because of his girlfriend,
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Speaker 3: not wife, Josh Allen. Yeah. No, I'm not doing that.
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Speaker 3: No one's blamed Sam Darnold's new wife for anything yet.
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Speaker 4: Oh, give me a week or two. We'll fix that.
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Speaker 4: All right, Greg, thank you. We'll be listening at 10.
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Speaker 3: Okay, see you.
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Speaker 4: All right, our Seahawks insider Greg Bell with us here
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Speaker 4: on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR. If any of you want
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Speaker 4: to follow him, do so at gbellseattle.com. And, of course,
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Speaker 4: complete Seahawks coverage at thenewstribune.com. We have them on almost
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Speaker 4: every day at 7.05 during the football season. Coming up next,
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Speaker 4: we'll play some fact or fiction. I hear that Christopher
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Speaker 4: Kidd's prepared for it, so we'll do that at 7.35.
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Speaker 4: That's a nice change-up. Novel concept. And also, Waiver Wire Wednesday,
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Speaker 4: which I have prepared for. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Have
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Speaker 4: people on the other side of a rope.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And then there's like a clock and he's got to
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Speaker 4: gather or she's got to gather as many coins as
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Speaker 4: possible because as soon as the clock expires, everybody gets
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Speaker 4: to rush in and steal your money. Whatever's left.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I kind of like that.
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Speaker 3: Do you? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I thought people would hate that idea. I just thought
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Speaker 4: it would be funny. It would be funny.
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Speaker 5: I like it because I don't have a chance to
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Speaker 5: win and it wouldn't be me that would be getting
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Speaker 5: my money stolen.
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Speaker 4: What if at the last second we just told the
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Speaker 4: $ 10, 000 jackpot winner, we're going to pay you in cheese.
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Speaker 4: $ 10, 000 worth of cheese. I'm not playing back to fiction.
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Speaker 5: Would you go for lifetime supply of cheap cheese or
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Speaker 5: would you go like super expensive like just go for
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Speaker 5: the highest quality cheese for like a year.
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Speaker 4: Ten thousand dollars worth of government cheese like it fills
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Speaker 4: your entire garage oh my god or or like okay
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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars or we give you five thousand and
16:49
Speaker 4: you get to kick softy right in the jimmy Go Cougs.
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Speaker 4: I'm taking it. Yeah. Softie, I hope your Jimmy's ready
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Speaker 4: for it. Yeah, that's what I would take. 100% what
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Speaker 4: I would take. I'd do that just for free. Oh,
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Speaker 4: come on now. Hey, hey, hey. Softie's listening, man. Take
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Speaker 4: it easy. Let's protect our guys, Jimmy.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 4: Factor Fiction comes your way at 7.35. None of that
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Speaker 4: is going to happen. None of that. That was me
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Speaker 4: thinking fantasy. versus the reality. Oh, I get it now. Okay.
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Speaker 4: You know, the reality of how Factor Fiction is played
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Speaker 4: will spill out for us at 735. But we're going
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Speaker 4: to do a little fantasy here, waiver wire Wednesday action
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Speaker 4: for you. And there's a rush right now to get
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Speaker 4: the backup running backs that are going to be starters
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Speaker 4: for this upcoming week, or at least we think they're
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Speaker 4: going to be starters. Brees Hall is out. He is
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Speaker 4: actually like week to week, it looks like, where Devon
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Speaker 4: Achan is obviously out for the season. But how much
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Speaker 4: do you want a Dolphins running back? How much do
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Speaker 4: you want the inferior sub for a team that is
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Speaker 4: clearly tanking this year and A-chan couldn't perform. Why would
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Speaker 4: we think Ali Gordon Jr. is going to perform? Certainly
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Speaker 4: worth grabbing on the waiver wire if you have some
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Speaker 4: running back issues. Certainly worth giving a shot. He is
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Speaker 4: going to get some touches. But Braylon Allen is somebody
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Speaker 4: that I like a lot. I mean, I have thought
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Speaker 4: about picking him up. All the way back to the draft.
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Speaker 4: And if he ever took over for good, the Jets
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Speaker 4: running back job, I think he's somebody that would be
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Speaker 4: really valuable to your fantasy football efforts. But they've already
18:35
Speaker 4: committed financially to Brees Hall. And I just think week
18:38
Speaker 4: to week, I'm not sure who I would value more.
18:41
Speaker 4: The guy that looks like he's taking over the job,
18:43
Speaker 4: and yet I still think he's going to be sharing
18:46
Speaker 4: carries in Miami. versus a guy that is likely going
18:50
Speaker 4: to take almost every snap, well, Isaiah Davis is probably
18:54
Speaker 4: going to get some carries too. But for what, a week?
18:58
Speaker 4: So I don't know how much I'd rush in to
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Speaker 4: grab one of these guys, but they are certainly the
19:02
Speaker 4: two big names on the waiver wire.
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Speaker 5: Depends on your team situation. If you have, maybe you
19:06
Speaker 5: have Brees Hall and you need something to cover for
19:10
Speaker 5: a couple weeks until he gets back.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: So that's where Braylon Allen would be a perfect choice
19:14
Speaker 4: for that.
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Speaker 5: Or maybe you have Tavon Achan and you need someone
19:18
Speaker 5: for the rest of the season. So it depends on
19:21
Speaker 5: your running back situation or you're me and you have
19:23
Speaker 5: Jadarian Price and you just don't know what the bleep
19:25
Speaker 5: to do.
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Speaker 4: I think I would probably, I mean, I just, I
19:30
Speaker 4: didn't go after either one of them because I don't
19:33
Speaker 4: want to waive anybody that I have, even though I've
19:35
Speaker 4: got a terrible team right now. For some reason, I
19:38
Speaker 4: still think it's outstanding. I might be lying to myself.
19:41
Speaker 4: I'm so low on my team. It's crazy. Lowest I've
19:44
Speaker 4: been in a long time, to be honest. But I
19:46
Speaker 4: didn't pick either one of these guys up because there
19:49
Speaker 4: were a couple. like I have a Mike Washington Jr.
19:52
Speaker 4: who I kind of value more. If Jente goes down,
19:57
Speaker 4: I got a stud. If Ken Walker goes down, I
20:03
Speaker 4: got the Chiefs running back sitting there. So I don't
20:06
Speaker 4: want to get rid of those guys for a guy
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Speaker 4: that may only start for a week And another guy
20:10
Speaker 4: that even if he starts, I don't know if he's
20:12
Speaker 4: going to be any good. The other waiver wire suggestion
20:16
Speaker 4: that I would make, I don't know how your league
20:19
Speaker 4: is set up, but man, there are an awful lot
20:21
Speaker 4: of tight ends in our league anyway that are free
20:24
Speaker 4: agents right now that are pretty good, that are off
20:28
Speaker 4: to good starts. I guess if you don't have to
20:30
Speaker 4: have a backup tight end in your league, then you're
20:33
Speaker 4: not worried about the quality of your backup tight end.
20:35
Speaker 4: But A.J. Barner, who I... Still thinks going to be
20:40
Speaker 4: the number two target for Sam Darnold this year. Way
20:43
Speaker 4: behind JSN, but nonetheless, I think ahead of Shahid and
20:46
Speaker 4: ahead of Cup. Brenton Strange, people continue to sleep on
20:51
Speaker 4: him in Jacksonville. That offense is for real. Trevor Lawrence
20:54
Speaker 4: has finally arrived. Joe Burrow loves Mike Gasicki. He loves
20:59
Speaker 4: him some Mike Gasicki. His new weapon, Noah Fant, has
21:02
Speaker 4: three touchdowns already for the Saints. Darnell Washington, the 300-pound
21:06
Speaker 4: tight end, might be Aaron Rodgers' favorite target right now.
21:09
Speaker 4: And Tyler Higbee's coming off a huge game with the Rams,
21:12
Speaker 4: and he is the starting tight end for the Rams,
21:15
Speaker 4: for goodness sake. And yet, he's available in a lot
21:18
Speaker 4: of leagues. Maybe an opportunity to bolster your tight end ranks.
21:22
Speaker 4: There are a lot of good ones, it feels like,
21:24
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21:26
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21:54
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22:20
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22:24
Speaker 4: As a talk show host, maybe you don't like my takes,
22:26
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Speaker 4: What do you got here?
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 6: Well, I know these two teams are 3-0 and only
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Speaker 6: one's going to come out alive, but I think we
22:54
Speaker 6: can all agree Kirk Cousins is old as hell.
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Speaker 3: Check. Check.
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Speaker 4: Their defense.
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Speaker 6: Could be good, but I do like what the defense
23:02
Speaker 6: of the Kansas City Chiefs with Spaggs over there, he's
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Speaker 6: going to blitz the hell out of Kirk Cousins. I
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Speaker 6: don't know if he's going to make it through the game.
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Speaker 4: Oh, just going to crumble to dust.
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Speaker 1: Literally.
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Speaker 6: What did Thanos do? Snap his fingers? Yeah, that'll be
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Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins Sunday. He gets snapped and turns to dust. Anywho,
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Speaker 6: give me Kansas City minus four and a half on
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Speaker 6: the road in Vegas. Beautiful Sunday day, but I think K-9,
23:25
Speaker 6: I think he's going to have a really strong day.
23:26
Speaker 6: I think Patrick Mahomes is going to Probably throw 200
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Speaker 6: yards through the air.
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Speaker 4: Probably 300. I'm going to be a little nice, Chuck.
23:33
Speaker 4: I'm going to go 400. Okay, we're going to stop there.
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Speaker 4: You guys hear me.
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Speaker 6: Chiefs minus 4.5 at the Raiders.
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Speaker 4: The pick is in.
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Speaker 6: It's Chiefs minus 4.5 at the Raiders in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 4: Go ahead and give it to me.
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Speaker 3: All right. I like it.
23:47
Speaker 4: I like it, too. See, that's what scares me. You should.
23:51
Speaker 4: I can't imagine a world where the Raiders start 4-0.
23:55
Speaker 4: After beating the Chiefs, too, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:57
Speaker 4: Yeah. Prove me wrong. I think we separate the men
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24:05
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Speaker 4: Coming up at the top of the hour, we're going
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26:09
Speaker 4: that works. I am the fairest of them all. It'll
26:11
Speaker 4: be Chris Kidd's first Mirror Mirror segment with us. So
26:16
Speaker 4: we'll have a topic and I want to get your
26:18
Speaker 4: juices going here, get your responses going. So a lot
26:21
Speaker 4: of talk about Jerry DePoto, obviously, this week. And so
26:25
Speaker 4: the Mirror Mirror topic, and I promise I'll be the
26:28
Speaker 4: fairest of them all, is going to be, what would
26:32
Speaker 4: you want? If Jerry DiPoto did get removed, what do
26:35
Speaker 4: you want in a GM slash front office executive? What is,
26:41
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want a name. I don't want
26:44
Speaker 4: a person's name. What attributes do you want?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
26:46
Speaker 4: What is it that you want? And please don't say
26:49
Speaker 4: somebody that wins goes to the playoffs more than two
26:52
Speaker 4: times out of 11. I mean, any general manager that
26:55
Speaker 4: comes in here is going to try to make it
26:57
Speaker 4: to the playoffs more than two times out of 11 here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You're going to try to do it every year. So
27:01
Speaker 4: I don't want that. I want, like, be somebody with
27:06
Speaker 4: a solution, not just a complainer. Have a reason. Have
27:10
Speaker 4: an attribute that you would want a Jerry DePoto replacement
27:16
Speaker 4: to possess. And don't give me a mountain of evidence.
27:20
Speaker 4: We don't have time to sift through that. And plus,
27:22
Speaker 4: we want a lot of different participants. So use the
27:25
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27:31
Speaker 4: our YouTube channel if you'd like to do it that way.
27:33
Speaker 4: A lot of different ways to communicate with us and
27:36
Speaker 4: give us a good, solid reason. Give me one attribute
27:41
Speaker 4: that your Jerry DePoto replacement needs to possess that Jerry
27:46
Speaker 4: simply lacks. Does that make sense? Makes sense. I don't
27:49
Speaker 4: need to explain it any further than that.
27:51
Speaker 5: One thing you want if we were to get a
27:53
Speaker 5: new general manager, like an example would be What's– he's
28:00
Speaker 5: better at– I don't even know. Utilizing– Well, drafting. Let's
28:04
Speaker 5: just say drafting. I need somebody that drafts well because
28:07
Speaker 5: Jerry does draft well.
28:08
Speaker 4: It's one of the things you can't knock him for.
28:09
Speaker 4: But just as an example like that. We got to
28:11
Speaker 4: draft better. Okay.
28:13
Speaker 3: Whatever.
28:14
Speaker 4: Just give me a reason. Give me an attribute that
28:18
Speaker 4: you feel is lacking right now in Jerry DiPoto. And
28:21
Speaker 4: if we would replace him, and we would replace him
28:24
Speaker 4: with a guy that just has this. Yeah. On his side,
28:28
Speaker 4: we'll be better for it. Okay? Yeah. 49451 text line.
28:32
Speaker 4: Use the talkback feature. Also, we're not going to use
28:34
Speaker 4: anybody that's belligerent, just so you know. But you can
28:38
Speaker 4: be critical. You can be hypercritical of Jerry, the organization, me, Anders,
28:43
Speaker 4: whatever you want to be. Just we're not going to
28:45
Speaker 4: air anything that's belligerent. Just know that right off the bat.
28:49
Speaker 4: I mean, we are not even allowed by law. uh,
28:51
Speaker 4: to do that. Uh, all right. So, uh, we'll get
28:53
Speaker 4: to your mirror mirror responses. The fairest of them all
28:56
Speaker 4: will address them coming up in a little bit. So
28:58
Speaker 4: for reckless at breakfast, let's talk about Dan Wilson's replacement. Um,
29:04
Speaker 4: I was asked by one of the 50,000 people that
29:07
Speaker 4: reached out to me last night. Um, Hey, I'm putting
29:10
Speaker 4: together a list of potential Mariner managers. And this is
29:14
Speaker 4: a guy that does national stuff. Uh, and so he
29:19
Speaker 4: wanted to pull out like a poll. He goes, give
29:20
Speaker 4: me a few names that I should put on that list.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
29:24
Speaker 4: And so I gave him, this is the list I
29:27
Speaker 4: gave him. I said, just some names that came to mind. Um,
29:34
Speaker 4: and I did put them, I thought in order. And
29:36
Speaker 4: I started with number one, clear favorite, Tori Lavello. who
29:40
Speaker 4: we've been talking about on this show for months now.
29:44
Speaker 4: And with no inside information. And now he looks like
29:47
Speaker 4: the clear favorite out there. Yes. I didn't come up
29:49
Speaker 4: with this one, but there's an awful lot of buzz
29:51
Speaker 4: around Rocco Baldelli, who had a little bit of success
29:54
Speaker 4: with the Minnesota Twins. Yes. Tampa Bay Rays organization, which
29:58
Speaker 4: a lot of people want Tampa Bay people. I put
30:02
Speaker 4: him number two. Alex Cora, I put on the list
30:05
Speaker 4: just because of the wealth of experience that he has
30:08
Speaker 4: and the success that he's had at the major league level.
30:10
Speaker 4: Of course, I think he's already headed to Philly. And
30:13
Speaker 4: then there's the other side, the Boston Red Sox have
30:16
Speaker 4: taken off without him. So I don't know how much
30:19
Speaker 4: people want to read into that. And then Brandon Hyde,
30:21
Speaker 4: who looked like he'd turned around the Baltimore Orioles until
30:24
Speaker 4: he didn't. And now they've become one of the more
30:27
Speaker 4: disappointing teams in Major League Baseball the last couple of
30:30
Speaker 4: years as they replaced him last season and he still
30:33
Speaker 4: hasn't been. But those are experienced guys. And I think
30:37
Speaker 4: Jerry has to go with an experienced guy because if
30:40
Speaker 4: he doesn't, I mean, you've already tried to go with
30:43
Speaker 4: the gut feel. I think that's a guy that has
30:46
Speaker 4: what it takes to be a successful Major League manager,
30:49
Speaker 4: and that's failed. I think you now have to just
30:51
Speaker 4: give in to the fact, I need to have seen
30:53
Speaker 4: him be successful as a manager at the Major League level.
30:57
Speaker 4: I think that's what has to happen. So then I
30:59
Speaker 4: put together an inexperienced list. Guys that you might take
31:03
Speaker 4: a chance on. Albert Pujols, I think, is very interesting.
31:08
Speaker 4: Somebody that is loved and admired and respected the league over,
31:13
Speaker 4: and a lot of people have thought he's a managerial
31:15
Speaker 4: candidate for quite some time, and he seems to have
31:18
Speaker 4: a little bit of interest in it. Has he been
31:20
Speaker 4: removed far enough from the grind of being a player
31:23
Speaker 4: that he would like to welcome the grind of being
31:26
Speaker 4: a manager? Man, what he might be able to do
31:29
Speaker 4: for a Julio Rodriguez mindset, hitting approach, everything. That's an
31:35
Speaker 4: interesting name. Raul Abanez, if you're looking for the guy
31:38
Speaker 4: that has Mariner background. Chris Negron is another one. that
31:43
Speaker 4: I don't think they should hire because that's another one
31:46
Speaker 4: from really inside the house, even though he's right now
31:48
Speaker 4: not currently with the organization. And then I put three,
31:52
Speaker 4: actually four wildcard names, Anders. Kevin Cash, Stephen Vogt, who
31:57
Speaker 4: you would probably have to trade a player to get
31:59
Speaker 4: one of those guys because they're under contract. Joe Madden
32:03
Speaker 4: is a name that a lot of people have brought up,
32:04
Speaker 4: and for some reason people don't think he uses analytics,
32:07
Speaker 4: which is weird for me. And then Jason Veritech is
32:11
Speaker 4: another name that is a link to Seattle. He also
32:14
Speaker 4: became available when Boston did its firings. I think everyone
32:18
Speaker 4: in Boston believed he would someday be the future manager
32:21
Speaker 4: of the Boston Red Sox and yet got fired in
32:24
Speaker 4: the middle of the season as a coach. And they've
32:26
Speaker 4: committed themselves to Chad Tracy going forward. So he's not
32:29
Speaker 4: going to be the manager of the Red Sox anytime soon.
32:32
Speaker 4: But a lot of people have felt he's had success.
32:34
Speaker 4: manager but he's manager material for a long time any
32:36
Speaker 4: of those stand out to you.
32:37
Speaker 5: Yeah i mean i i've always liked steven vote i
32:40
Speaker 5: like kind of the way he runs things with a
32:43
Speaker 5: oh i love it not very talented roster in cleveland
32:46
Speaker 5: um and seems they had him yeah imagine.
32:48
Speaker 4: If we would have chosen vote instead of dan.
32:50
Speaker 5: I know uh local guy too like from here not
32:53
Speaker 5: just like mariner ties like seattle ties or this area
32:57
Speaker 5: so i think that The fit's great. I'm a little
33:00
Speaker 5: higher on Negron than you are, mainly because I always
33:04
Speaker 5: kind of pegged him as the next guy.
33:06
Speaker 4: But isn't that just service, Dan and Negron?
33:10
Speaker 3: Yes.
33:10
Speaker 4: It's another Jerry gut. I've always liked that guy. He
33:14
Speaker 4: has no experience. I mean, that's just setting yourself up for.
33:18
Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 5: PR wise, I agree. That's what it would look like.
33:21
Speaker 5: But that doesn't mean he wouldn't be a good manager.
33:24
Speaker 5: So just my gut thought on that one. But Tori Lavello, obviously,
33:30
Speaker 5: checks a lot of the boxes. And I've always loved
33:32
Speaker 5: Kevin Cash, but I don't think that's very likely. So
33:35
Speaker 5: I'm looking at vote or.
33:37
Speaker 4: Well, Cash and vote are the same thing. Those are
33:39
Speaker 4: your top two choices, but they are under contract and
33:43
Speaker 4: you'd have to trade a player. in order to get them.
33:46
Speaker 4: And that's even if the other two teams would want
33:48
Speaker 4: to play ball. So those two guys are your top
33:51
Speaker 4: two choices. It's just whether or not they're available.
33:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I would want Alex Cora. I don't really
33:57
Speaker 5: take a ton of stock into the Red Sox. Tough start.
34:00
Speaker 5: He's had a ton of success. I think he's a
34:03
Speaker 5: good combination of modern-day managing, but also... very much has
34:08
Speaker 5: his own like way of doing things that he wouldn't necessarily, um,
34:13
Speaker 5: if he disagreed with something, he would be able to
34:15
Speaker 5: tell Jerry that, Hey, we're not doing it that way.
34:17
Speaker 5: We're doing it this way and kind of work with
34:19
Speaker 5: him on that. But I agree with you. I think
34:20
Speaker 5: it's kind of a foregone conclusion.
34:22
Speaker 4: He's going to Philly.
34:23
Speaker 5: So yeah, there's a lot of good options, no matter
34:25
Speaker 5: what you're looking for, uh, experience, not experienced Mariners related,
34:28
Speaker 5: not Mariners related.
34:29
Speaker 4: However you look at it, it's going to be hard
34:30
Speaker 4: not to upgrade.
34:31
Speaker 1: Yeah.
34:31
Speaker 4: All right. Coming up next, it's Mirror Mirror. So what
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Speaker 4: do you want if Jerry were to leave the organization
34:39
Speaker 4: or be canned like so many people want him to be?
34:41
Speaker 4: What would you seek? What is the one attribute that
34:45
Speaker 4: Jerry lacks that you would want in the next GM
34:49
Speaker 4: slash president executive of your Seattle Mariners? We will ask
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Speaker 4: Mirror Mirror next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.