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Chuck & Buck 7-13 Hour 3: Husky One Series with Scott Eklund, the FIre Dan Wilson show continues and we get feedback from you! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan with you as well, not just here on
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  Speaker 2: the radio station, but also YouTube, where you're watching us
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  Speaker 2: every day and judging me on my brand new goateee.
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  Speaker 1: But I do realize that it was a little fuller.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a little bit more. I noticed that,
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  Speaker 3: And I noticed you also went with a black shirt. Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: Heally would be very proud.
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  Speaker 2: I did go with the black shirt. Yeah, probably a
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  Speaker 2: little too warm for later today. But then again, we
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  Speaker 2: get up at ridiculous hours.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, in the icebox.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so good to have you with us here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: And I got two big topics. We got a change
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  Speaker 2: in Seahawk's ownership, which we discussed for nearly the entire
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  Speaker 2: seven o'clock hour. And I also went way out on
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  Speaker 2: a limb, maybe not so far out on the limb
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  Speaker 2: this morning. And I did make the statement that I
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  Speaker 2: think it's time for a managerial change with our baseball team,
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  Speaker 2: which we will discuss in greater detail a little bit
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  Speaker 2: later on this hour. But today also marks the day
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  Speaker 2: of our Huskies one series. You know what we do
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  Speaker 2: in June, every single day throughout the month, one analyst
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  Speaker 2: breaking down one key Shawk player for one entire interview. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we spend a week in July getting you ready for
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  Speaker 2: a Husky's training camp as well, one of our analysts
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  Speaker 2: in town breaking down one unit of the Huskies roster
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  Speaker 2: for one entire interview, and we get that started right
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  Speaker 2: now with our friend from dog Man, Scott Eckland, now joins.
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  Speaker 1: Us year on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Can
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  Speaker 1: you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: Football is almost here, mister Eckland. I know that now
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  Speaker 2: because I'm talking to you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, guys. It's great to be on and
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  Speaker 5: excited to start talking some Husky football. Right after forth
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  Speaker 5: of July. The blood starts flowing just a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 5: It's you can tell that we're getting close.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I usually think about it when I buy
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  Speaker 2: my first college football magazine, which I know sounds old school.
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  Speaker 2: You just use the old internet, right, But I still
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  Speaker 2: buy a college football magazine every year and I have
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  Speaker 2: yet to do that. So maybe i'll go get that
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  Speaker 2: done near tonight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I was that same person, Chuck, just like you. You
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  Speaker 5: and I are. I think I'm a little older, but
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  Speaker 5: not much older than you. So you and I come
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  Speaker 5: from that generation where we still had to read newspapers
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  Speaker 5: and got black ink on our on our fingers and
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  Speaker 5: everything like that. But yeah, I'm the Actually, it's funny
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  Speaker 5: this year I am the same way I usually buy
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  Speaker 5: a magazine and haven't done so yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe today, and maybe it's an excuse to
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  Speaker 2: go over to my local Barnes and Noble. All right, well,
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  Speaker 2: great to have you with us, Good to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 2: It does mean football's almost here, and I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to this breakdown here today. Scott has chosen the front
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  Speaker 2: seven to discuss for the upcoming Huskies season, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we got to discuss, first Scott, those that have left,
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  Speaker 2: and I think of two names in particular, Zach Durfy,
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  Speaker 2: who I hate to say it never did quite live
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  Speaker 2: up to the lofty expectations that we set for him
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  Speaker 2: here as a football community. And then Antario Ontario Tom,
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  Speaker 2: who maybe just the opposite, just just consistently grinded and
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  Speaker 2: was just good and maybe went overlooked during his time
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  Speaker 2: as a Washington Husky. They're both in the National Football
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  Speaker 2: League right now. How difficult is it going to be
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  Speaker 2: for Jed Fish and his staff to replace these two guys?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the one thing that you really have to look
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  Speaker 5: at is the fact that those are two leaders for you,
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  Speaker 5: no question. But Washington returns a couple of experienced guys,
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  Speaker 5: one at edge and one along the interior that are
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  Speaker 5: definitely gonna help the help them. They brought in a
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  Speaker 5: couple of nice transfers, nice guys that they can add
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  Speaker 5: to the depth along the defensive line, and but they
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  Speaker 5: have some ridiculously talented younger guys that are going to
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  Speaker 5: be impactful not just this year but in the in
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  Speaker 5: the future going forward, namely Derek Coleman, the top in
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  Speaker 5: state recruit from the state of Washington for the twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty six recruiting class, was six five to seventy when
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  Speaker 5: he wrapped up his high school career and is already
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  Speaker 5: up right around three hundred pounds since he arrived in January.
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  Speaker 5: So he is going to be an absolute beast. But
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  Speaker 5: you got to remember these kids a freshmen, They're gonna
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  Speaker 5: make mistakes, They're going to do things that kind of
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  Speaker 5: give Jason Kafusi and Ryan Walter some gray hairs more
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  Speaker 5: than they already have. But you know, these are these
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  Speaker 5: are very talented guys that the Huskies are really, really,
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  Speaker 5: really excited to have. What I'm really looking forward to
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  Speaker 5: is the person that they they have replacing Tony Caster Cone,
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  Speaker 5: that person pronouncing t i umu case, which is toofanua
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  Speaker 5: ion atana umu case. It's gonna be real interesting to
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  Speaker 5: hear him his name announced. But no, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: a lot of talent coming back. Lennius Davis up front
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  Speaker 5: as well, Jacob Laane, Devin Hyde. These are going to
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  Speaker 5: be two guys that make some impacts on the outside.
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  Speaker 5: And then you got your linebackers. You know who these
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  Speaker 5: guys are special. I think they're one of the top
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  Speaker 5: ten units in the entire country. You know, some of
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  Speaker 5: the national pundits don't put them there, but I think
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people are sleeping on what Washington has
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  Speaker 5: going going on at the linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 2: We'll expand on that. Why do you say that, what
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  Speaker 2: is it about the group or the individuals that you.
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  Speaker 1: Are so high on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, you know, except for maybe a select
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  Speaker 5: few schools in this country, guys like Exray Alexander Zadrius Rainy, Sleay,
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  Speaker 5: Jacobs Manu, those guys could all be starting at other
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  Speaker 5: schools in this country and you're only going to be
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  Speaker 5: playing two at a time, so one of those guys
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  Speaker 5: is not going to be starting. The other good thing
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  Speaker 5: is they're versatile. Jacob Manu is almost strictly an off
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  Speaker 5: ball linebacker, but xadriis Reigning Slay and ex Ray Alexander
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  Speaker 5: both have the ability to slide down and maybe play
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  Speaker 5: an outside edge, a seven technique, a nine technique. Guys
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  Speaker 5: who can rush the quarterback from those wide angles that
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  Speaker 5: that can really make a difference. And so I think
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  Speaker 5: Ryan Walters really loves versatilities that those guys bring to
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  Speaker 5: the table. Jacob Manu and one thing that Jedfish has
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  Speaker 5: said over and over when he's healthy, and he got
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  Speaker 5: he got healthy late in in like late September, and
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  Speaker 5: he only played four games last year because they hadn't
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  Speaker 5: instituted the five for five rule yet, so he only
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  Speaker 5: plays four games last year, but every game that he
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  Speaker 5: played he made a huge impact in He's a guy
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  Speaker 5: that Jedfish said, every time he's on the field, he
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  Speaker 5: has a problem for the offense and he's a guy
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  Speaker 5: that we could we we should have on that on
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  Speaker 5: that on that field, and so he's kind of your
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  Speaker 5: your director. But he's only like five to nine five
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  Speaker 5: to ten, so that's really gonna be That's why he's
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  Speaker 5: kind of restricted to playing just in that middle linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 5: But Alexander is roughly six two six three and Xadrius
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  Speaker 5: rainey Lai is almost sixty four, So those guys can
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  Speaker 5: play outside, and that's why their versatility is going to
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  Speaker 5: allow them to come from different angles and let Ryan
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  Speaker 5: Walters do a lot of different things up front.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Eckland is with us from dog Man. Joins us
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  Speaker 2: every year for our Huskies one series, One Analyst in
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  Speaker 2: town breaking down one unit on the Huskies for one
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  Speaker 2: entire interview, and we are starting today with our one
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  Speaker 2: series by discussing the front seven. By the way, just
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  Speaker 2: as a side note, I don't think anyone ever in
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  Speaker 2: the history of broadcasting was better than castor Cone at
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  Speaker 2: pronouncing names.
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  Speaker 1: He is amazing. Yeah, he's amazing. He never misses.
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  Speaker 2: I asked him about it one time and he looked
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  Speaker 2: at me like, it's not that hard, Like, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you it's just not hard for.
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  Speaker 5: You, Bud. Some of these you know, I still think
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  Speaker 5: and you know this is you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 5: put myself on the line here because it's a cultural thing.
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  Speaker 5: But you know when the when the Polynesian community became
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  Speaker 5: so prevalent in football over the last I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what two decades, you know, where we've seen more and
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  Speaker 5: more Islander people with Islander backgrounds coming into things. The
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  Speaker 5: play by play men and and the analysts having to
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  Speaker 5: pronounce these names has been has been very challenging for them.
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  Speaker 5: So I put kudos on anybody who can pronounce all
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  Speaker 5: these names correctly and keep them straight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Castor Cone was special, all right, Scott Eckland with
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  Speaker 2: us here on the chogging back. All right, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about Coleman Bruce So we haven't spent enough time on him,
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  Speaker 2: because man, he has been creating a buzz, maybe more
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  Speaker 2: so I argue here Cody Green. It seems like are
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  Speaker 2: the two guys both freshmen that we're creating the most
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  Speaker 2: buzz during spring ball. So tell Husky fans what we're
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  Speaker 2: getting in Derek Coleman Brusa and how quickly he could
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  Speaker 2: impact make a major impact on this football team.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so, just so people know, he's he was running
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  Speaker 5: with the first unit for almost the entirety of spring football.
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  Speaker 5: So the fact that he's a freshman is not going
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  Speaker 5: to play into anything. That kid is gonna play, and
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna play a lot this year. Do I think
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be necessarily the starter coming out, Probably,
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  Speaker 5: but I think he's going to get a challenge from
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  Speaker 5: Darren Conley, who is a really good defensive lineman that
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  Speaker 5: came in the transfer port from a from a group
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  Speaker 5: of five school out there in the mac and you
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  Speaker 5: know he's but he's gonna those two are going to
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  Speaker 5: battle for playing time in reps next to Aleneus Day.
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  Speaker 5: But he just gives you a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 5: of versatility. I mean, at six five, three hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 5: he can still be a stand up guy who plays
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  Speaker 5: on the edge, although he's probably gonna be a better
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  Speaker 5: fit along along the front as a three technique, that
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  Speaker 5: guy who's just on the outside shoulder or I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: inside shoulder of the of the guard in between the
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  Speaker 5: center and guard going to be able to pass rush
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  Speaker 5: to quarterback. But also has that bulk and that size
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  Speaker 5: and that quickness that can make things really hard in
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  Speaker 5: their run blocking schemes. He can blow up a lot
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  Speaker 5: of plays up front. So he was, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: offensive line, which for Washington has kind of started to
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  Speaker 5: become a strength for them. The interior guys that he
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  Speaker 5: faced off with every day in practice said he's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a problem. He's already gotten better against us
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  Speaker 5: than the fifteen practices that we had, and he's only
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  Speaker 5: going to get better as he gets more experience. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: faul Camp, he's going to get a lot of experience
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  Speaker 5: playing against Washington's offensive line this year. Then he's got
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  Speaker 5: three games to warm up against in the in the
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  Speaker 5: you know, the preseason, I guess is what you call it,
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  Speaker 5: the out of conference schedule before he hits He hits
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  Speaker 5: the ground running against Minnesota that last week of September
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  Speaker 5: and the and to start big ten plays. So he's
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of time to get some experience and
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  Speaker 5: get a lot of coaching, really good coaching from Jason
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  Speaker 5: Cafusi as well as Ryan Walters and what they want
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  Speaker 5: him to do. But yeah, special kids, special player. Comes
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  Speaker 5: from a great family. His brother Loewen is a Rechid Well.
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  Speaker 5: I guess they don't call him Rechard freshman anymore because
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  Speaker 5: they get five years down. But is a is a
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  Speaker 5: second year player along the offensive line. He's not going
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  Speaker 5: to figure in the depth this year, but probably next year.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, they come from a great family. They're
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  Speaker 5: they're hard workers, They're they're you know, I hate to
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  Speaker 5: use a cliche lunch pail guys, but they really are.
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  Speaker 5: Considering how talented both of those guys are, but especially Derek,
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  Speaker 5: he just he brings his lunch play to work every day.
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  Speaker 5: He's very aging. He doesn't have that superstar mentality. He's
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  Speaker 5: got the mentality of, Hey, I'm a freshman. I need
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  Speaker 5: to come in and work and work harder than everybody
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  Speaker 5: else because I want this and I want to play
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  Speaker 5: as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you brought up a muquseen a little surprising to me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just randomly brought up a depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how accurate it is, but it has
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  Speaker 2: him in on the fourth string at this on this
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  Speaker 2: particular depth chart. So how how much are we talking
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  Speaker 2: about him pressing for playing time a rotational piece? Is
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  Speaker 2: he somebody that might be starting at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year. Is he gonna star? I mean, tell me
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more about him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so he's he's a guy who isn't isn't You're
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  Speaker 5: probably not gonna see a lot of him early on.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's going to have to work his way
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  Speaker 5: into things, probably because they're very loaded at that nose
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  Speaker 5: tackle spot. And and you know, Deshaun Wats was a
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  Speaker 5: great pickup from Sacramento State. He just is about five
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  Speaker 5: to eleven, three hundred and I don't know, three hundred
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  Speaker 5: and ten pounds whatever he is, but he's he's a
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  Speaker 5: guy who really surprised in camp and is is just
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  Speaker 5: a fire plug and and uh energizer bunny inside. So
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna be He's gonna back up, uh Alineus Davis.
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  Speaker 5: You're also gonna see Darren Conley in there. We already
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  Speaker 5: kind of talked about him. They're gonna kind of work
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  Speaker 5: through a rotation, so we probably won't see a ton
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  Speaker 5: of him early on, but I think as the season
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  Speaker 5: goes along, we'll see a lot more of him. He's
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  Speaker 5: a he's a depth piece, of rotational piece right now.
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  Speaker 5: But in you know, Elineus Davis has I trying to
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  Speaker 5: remember off the top of my head, but I think
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  Speaker 5: he's got two more years this coming year, in the
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  Speaker 5: following year with the fifth year, and I think that
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  Speaker 5: Umu case could be really I'm pressuring him for playing
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  Speaker 5: time and possibly even a starting spot. Not this year,
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  Speaker 5: but probably but possibly next year, and he'll be a
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  Speaker 5: very key rotational piece for Washington just this year and
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  Speaker 5: next year and heading into the future.
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to get rid of the freshman sophomore, junior,
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  Speaker 1: senior and just call him one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea how we're going to do it.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're just gonna end up calling him first
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  Speaker 5: and second your players now, you know, like they do
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  Speaker 5: in the NFL, because you can't call them cherd freshman anymore,
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  Speaker 5: so you could you could call him. You can call
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  Speaker 5: them freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, super, senior or something high super.
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  Speaker 5: Want to call him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, well we haven't invented a new term for
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  Speaker 2: a while. Maybe it's time to do that. Scott Eklan
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  Speaker 2: is with us our Huskies won series talking about the
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  Speaker 2: Dogs front seven. All right, who's going to get after
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback? I mean, uh, We've we've launched some praise
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  Speaker 2: toward the linebacker group. Uh, and we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of interesting interior defensive linemen. It sounds like, but who's
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  Speaker 2: going to sack opposing quarterbacks this year?
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  Speaker 1: Scott?
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  Speaker 5: Well, so Jacob Blaine is going to be one of
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  Speaker 5: your your outside guys for sure as a starter.
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  Speaker 3: He is.
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  Speaker 5: He's a guy from Emerald Ridge down there in puallup.
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  Speaker 5: He started from the moment that he got here. He
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  Speaker 5: is a fourth year player, so he's a guy who'd
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  Speaker 5: never red shirted and he will. So he will have
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  Speaker 5: this year and next year. That's a huge bonus for
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  Speaker 5: Washington if he ends up deciding to stay. He and
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  Speaker 5: I talked a little bit this offseason when I ran
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  Speaker 5: into him at something at an event, and he basically said,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm hearing you know, fifth round right now
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  Speaker 5: because of my ability to stop the run. If I
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  Speaker 5: can show some pass rush, maybe I could bounce up
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. But you know, we'll see. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he might just decide, hey, I'm not going to boost
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  Speaker 5: my stock anymore and head head to the NFL. But
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  Speaker 5: he will have that fifth year available to him if
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  Speaker 5: he decides he wants to stay. But that being said,
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  Speaker 5: this year, talking about this year, he's going to be
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  Speaker 5: one of your leaders up front. You've got Devin Hyde.
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  Speaker 5: I already kind of talked about him. He and a
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  Speaker 5: guy by the name of Russell Davis will will be
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  Speaker 5: battling for REPS as the starting other edge on the
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  Speaker 5: other side of Jacob Blaine, and you also have Isaiah
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  Speaker 5: Ward and Davis and Ward when they are healthy, and
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  Speaker 5: that's the key word with them healthy. When they are healthy,
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  Speaker 5: they are special pass rushers and they could actually get
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  Speaker 5: after the quarterback. And I don't know if they have
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  Speaker 5: double digit sack abilities because of their I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to call them liable, you know, liabilities against the run,
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  Speaker 5: but they're definitely not able to anchor as much. They're
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  Speaker 5: in the two hundred and thirty five to two hundred
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  Speaker 5: and forty pound range. But those are guys who can
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  Speaker 5: do a lot of damage for you on the outside
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  Speaker 5: as a pass rusher. So the key will be keeping
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  Speaker 5: them healthy. Russell Davis didn't played down for the Huskies
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  Speaker 5: last year because of because of a leg injury that
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  Speaker 5: he suffered, and Isaiah Ward was a spot player here
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  Speaker 5: and there, did some things for the Huskies last year,
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  Speaker 5: but really didn't make much of an impact as a
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  Speaker 5: pass rusher that you'd like to see. But both of
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  Speaker 5: those guys have natural pass rushing ability, and I think
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  Speaker 5: that's who that's kind of top four as long as Davis,
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  Speaker 5: as long as all four of them are healthy, they
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  Speaker 5: are going to be the top four guys, you know,
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  Speaker 5: thrown at offenses. But then you're gonna sprinkling guys like
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  Speaker 5: uh JD. Hill, who is a true freshman out of
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  Speaker 5: Mission Viejo. If he was if he was two or
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: three inches taller, we're talking about a possible five star guy.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: His productivity was off the charts. But he's about six
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: to two and so a lot of people think he's
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: gonna move inside, but he's gonna start out outside for
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: the Huskies.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: You got David Schwarzel, who's a freshman from Odey High School.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: You got Tom Malu who's a freshman from Charles Wright
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: who's only played two years of football. He's been he's
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: his only two years of football were the two years
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: of Charles Wright has played football. So but he was
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: an MMA guy. He was planning on an MMA career
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: but got a little too big and so, uh, he
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: ended up deciding to play football and loved it, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: so he'll be at Washington as well. So that's kind
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: of the group out there along the defensive line. I'm
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: also forgetting about Logan and I'm drawing a blank on
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: his last time. I don't have the roster up in
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: front of me.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: But Logan George.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Let's see Logan George. Yeah, I help want to say
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Clark Logan George, who was a transfer from Ohio State.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: He actually went to Idaho State, transferred to Ohio State
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: and was injured for much last year and wanted to
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: get back out here to the West coast, and so
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: he came back out. We didn't see much of him
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: because he was injured this spring, but the coaches really
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: like what he brings to the table. He's not gonna
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: give you, you know, double digit sacks, but he could
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: give you, you know, ten to fifteen reps per game
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: as an edge guy and just this smart, savvy veteran guy.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: He's a I think I believe he's twenty three years old.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: So he's gonna be a guy's who can be like
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: a Jacob Blaine. Just that that leader has played at
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: a high level and done and done some really exciting things.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Maybe at a lower level, but can really help Washington
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: with their with their depths at the edge spot.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: All right, what can we promote for you?
• 19:12
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• 19:16
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• 19:20
  Speaker 5: as we ramp up for fall camp. Fall camp starts
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: on the sixth of August and goes all the way
• 19:27
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• 19:30
  Speaker 5: they then they close everything down. Dog Man will be
• 19:33
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• 19:36
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• 19:38
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• 19:43
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• 19:44
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• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt always do all right man, Thank you
• 19:49
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• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Football's almost here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Oh thanks guys. I look forward to it every year
• 19:56
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• 20:01
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• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and so we'll do this once per day all week
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  Speaker 2: long here on Chuck and Buck coming up next though,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I must admit it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You know we talked about it early, haven't talked about
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: it in a while, but.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: It's the lead of the show.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: It's not every day that I ask for a person's job.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: We'll remind you that next Sports Radio ninety three point
• 20:35
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• 20:36
  Speaker 1: M spinning plates. That's what we're doing here. That's one
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of the frustrat things about being a sports talk show host.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Most times, I just want really one big giant topic
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to discuss, oh yeah, you know, and then and then
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: few side topics so that we don't just do the
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: same topic for four hours, so that we could satisfy
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: at a lot of different tastes out there and appetites
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: out there for what they want to consume sports wise.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: But when you have like three monster stories going on,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I mean a Seahawks ownership change, which we talked about
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: in the entire seven o'clock hour. We started a brand
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: new Seahawks Huskies one series today. That's an annual tradition,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: so just happened to fall on this week. We got
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the home run Derby tonight, which we haven't even discussed
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: but we will at nine o'clock today, and the All
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Star Week at large, which maybe fall a little bit flat.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Then he got World Cup on top of it, but
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it probably wasn't the day to lead the show with
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: something so big from a sports talk show host perspective,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: but I did it anyway. I didn't want to wait
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: another second. Ashley knew I was going to do this
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. I just watched that performance on Saturday from
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the Mariners, and oh, if you've been listening to the
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: show that I've been very critical of Dan Wilson this season,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: even last, and yet I'd fallen short of calling for
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: his job.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I got to Saturday.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I watched that team the way it's played here as
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: of late, the fact that it was guaranteed to go
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: into the All Star Break with a record under five hundred,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: which I think is inexcusable, And then watched all the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: players stick around after the game and stare out over
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the field like they just lost a championship and were
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: watching the other team celebrate so that they could feel
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the pain. Even though it was just a regular season
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: game on a Saturday in the worst stadium in baseball.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: There wasn't anything special about it other than their reaction
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to the devastation that they showed. You could see it
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: in their faces. They are lost. They were lost on
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Saturday and I don't know if tables got overturned Saturday
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: or I don't know if there was some closed door meeting,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: but they obviously played better Sunday.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: They win a game heading into the.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: All Star Break, which is great, but they're not going
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to play again till Friday. And I am not going
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to allow that little bit of goodwill on Sunday distract
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: me from what I think is a worthy conversation this morning.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I said it earlier in the show. I never take
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: this topic lightly as a sports talk show host. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: really do try to respect an honor this platform that
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I'm given, this microphone that I'm given, the stage that
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: they put me on to try to be a voice
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: for Mariner fans at times, and so I don't go
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: about this lightly, and I think my record shows that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: But today, for the first time, I'm calling for it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Ashley, I think that Dan Wilson is the wrong guy
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: to be the manager of the Seattle Mariners.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I you gave great reasoning in the which
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: we're gonna go over again again.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: We'll go over.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: But I think the thing that stands out to me
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: is I cannot come up with a defense. And that's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: what's hard is I don't says a lot. Yeah exactly.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I don't like to call for someone's job either, But
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: if you're if someone came to me and said, okay,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I need five reasons why he should keep his job,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I'd be silent.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: And that's like Dan. Dan is a nice guy. But
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I said it before, I'll say it again.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: A nice guy and a you know, Mariner's legend are not,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: you know, a good reason to keep someone as a
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: just you knowed like Iowa's Dan are not a good
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: reason to keep someone as a manager.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: They're not a good reason to hire someone as a manager.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Well as you know.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe I need to remind you, but I gave Dan
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Wilson a C minus grade last year, so that was
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: heading into the playoffs, and I pointed out of all
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the things that I'm worried about heading into the playoffs
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: managerial decisions, this first time doing it, I'm not sure
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: how good he is to begin with. And I'm not
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: saying we didn't make it to the World Series because
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of him, but there was a pitching change certainly that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: cost us the World Series. I think that if a
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: different pitcher was on the mound facing George Springer, at
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that point we would have gone to the World Series
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: last year. I'm not gonna hang the entire series on
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson, but it did rear its ugly heads. So
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I've had a big problem with his pitching decisions and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: his usage of the bench, his pinch hitting decisions as
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: well since he took over, not just this year, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: since he took over.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's a couple of things that he's really
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: struggled with.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: And when you think about it, in today's modern game,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: they're really the only two things that a manager from
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: an x's and o's standpoint even manages. I mean, base
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: steelers are just given the green light. On occasion, you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: might tell a base runner you don't run. You might
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: do that, but for the most part, I mean, Josh
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Naylor's never been given a steel sign in his entire career,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and he's got eighteen stolen bases this year. So base
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: dealers are given a green light and they're trusted to
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: not run when we don't. We shouldn't run, even though
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: we do it all the time, Randy, So he's not
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: managing that. Managers today they don't bunt, they don't hit
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and run three and Oh's are green.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Lights used to be.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: You know, you look down to the manager to see
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: if you were supposed to take well, actually you took
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: on three and zero. There really wasn't an option, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you would look down there to see when you should take.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not part of the game anymore, so that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: not happening.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Defensive alignment is handled completely by analytics, and manny act
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: has got a card and he's positioning people around or
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: they've got a card in their back pocket and they
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: know where to go on every given batter. The lineups.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Anyone can make a lineup. Anybody listening could make a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: decent lineup. Anyone listening can set a rotation, starting pitching
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: rotation when you've got five slash six guys as good
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: as this one. So there really aren't that many x's
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and oo's decisions that a manager has to make anymore
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: in the modern game. Really two when do you take
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: a pitcher out? And who do you put in? And
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: when do you pinch hit? Who do you pinch hit?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And how do you use your utilize your bench in
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: an effective way that satisfies giving guys rest when they
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: need them, but also within the game. Who's the better
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: matchup for this given moment and will be for the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: rest of the contest. And I think he's bad at both. Yeah,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I think he's really bad at both of those things
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: and has been since he took over. And what the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: scary part is for me and the reason that I've
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: arrived at this conclusion, I think he's getting worse.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's definitely not getting better.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this, I think he's gotten better at
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: pinch hitting.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that part he made a change, But he
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: made a change.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: He made an active change. It was an admission of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing this the right way. So I don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: know if somebody over head told he's got to change that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And so I think that he's struggled with both of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: those things. And so it really does come down then
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: when you're a manager of modern day baseball, there's a
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: reason they don't call them head coaches at the major
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: league level. They are managers, and your job is to
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: manage your personnel, coaches, players, situations, and to try to
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: maximize your chances. And that includes how you play every
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: single instrument on your roster. That's your job get the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: most out of the talent given you. Well, I don't
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: think there's one person listening that would make an argument
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: that we're getting the most out of this town. This
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: is the most talented roster in the American League. It
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: is the pitching makes it so, not the offense. The
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: pitching makes it so. But this is the most talented
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: roster in the American League and we are a game
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: under five hundred years one hundred games into the season.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: He is not maximizing the talent. Yeah, Phillies have already
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: fired a very popular manager and Rob Thompson replaced him
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: with Don Mattingley. And I don't think Don Mattingley's a
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: great manager, but the team took off once he took over,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and I mean immediately, and sometimes that shake up can't
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: have a positive effect. I think it's time. I don't
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: think that they will make the decision. I don't think
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: we're going to find out later today or Wednesday after
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: the All Star Game. If they don't want to show
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: up the All Star I don't think we're gonna find
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that out. I think Dan Wilson is safe as manager,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: but I would not let him manage another game.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: His last one would have been yesterday, and that's just
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: where I'm at. And I, like I said, and I don't.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I don't make this statement lightly. I never do.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But as you just point it out, Ashley, I think
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: very well, show me the reason why he should stay
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: and other than what you did last year, or he
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: deserves more time. I don't know a tangible reason why
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson should still be the manager of this baseball team.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And it is way too important of a season to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: mess around with this. I fully agree the fiftieth year
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: anniversary for the only team in baseball that's never made.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: It to the World Series.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Like, I'm yeah, so, And we might not have a
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: season next year, right, It could disrupt this window that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Jerry and Justin have created for us to be very
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: competitive for another decade going forward. But so this year
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: feels like the most important year of the fifty. We
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: can't squander this roster, we can't squander this pitching staff,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: we can't squander this talent.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: We need somebody that can get the most out of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this group.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And I've just watched way too many lackluster moments, and
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I have watched way too many wasted opportunities for us
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to continue on this road, even though I'm sure we
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: will continue on this road. If I were making the decision,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: i'd pop him today.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't think that they will. I do
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: think he'll continue to keep his job.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: A lot of people have been bringing up the idea
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: of the fiftieth anniversary and that he's a big part
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: of that, and wouldn't it be awkward if they were
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: to fire him before that?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Which is a good point. Ye this weekend, No, I
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: think it's this week two or three weekends.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Jeez, oh gosh.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But and that's a good point because I do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Think I'm but it's not going to let that get
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in the way either.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: No, you wouldn't, but I think the Mariners would.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I will say this just quickly, and then we're going
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to get to your responses, because I asked earlier in
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the show for I wanted to hear some reaction to
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: people that want to keep him and why. Okay, So
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: we'll get to that in our next segment. But I
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: do it's not just about getting rid of Damp. I
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: get rid of Dan, I get rid of Anniakta, and
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: i'd get rid of Danny Farquhar, and I would hire
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Alex Cora, Joey kra and.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Jason Vertek all of them available right now.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Because Kyle's got a really close relationship with Dan, but
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: he also Jason Vertec's favorite player of all time. So yeah,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: we're going to make up. Yeah, he'll be sad, but
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it'll also be kind of excited. Yeah, So that's what
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I would do. That's what I would do today or
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, or I just before Friday. Yeah, I would
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: do it before Friday. But I don't think they will
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: tell me why they shouldn't.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That's what I want to.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Hear from you on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I kind of feel like that here today, like I've
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: made some big, bold decision.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: You have.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: This morning as we crack the mics on a very
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: busy Monday. By the way, I've seen enough. I think
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the Mariners need a new manager, and so I've given
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: my reasons. But I asked earlier in the show for
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: some feedback that we would get to in this segment
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: and in the next about whether or not I'm wrong.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I want to hear defense, frankly for Dan, whether on
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: talkback or at four nine four or five on the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: text line, or on our YouTube channel.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to hand it over to Ashley and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: to you, what do we got?
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: All right, here's our first talkback.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I don't believe Dan should keep his job, but he's
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: not going to get fired, and not because he doesn't
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: deserve it, because the Mariners do the Mariners thing always
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: and box themselves in. In two weeks, they have this
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: fiftieth celebration thing coming up that he's going to be
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: a big part of as part of that nineties championship
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: quote unquote team, So they can't fire him before it,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: and they can't fire.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Him after it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: So best case scenario is we'll fire him in the offseason.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: And they're not going to do that either. Why.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think there's some actually grim truth today.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I know that's yeah, and he's not the one to
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: bring that up.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I think they're probably I mean, you're probably right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Would they do it otherwise? I don't know, But I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: guess when they put these master plans together, there there
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: was the feeling that, man, we got our guy.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know how much that they believed in
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: their guy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I was even talking about in the offseason that we
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: should at least consider an upgrade at this But I
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: think the thing I'm most disappointed about is that I
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: haven't seen improvement from him as a manager, and I
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  Speaker 2: also don't see his team playing as hard for him
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  Speaker 2: as they did a year ago, which kind of suggests
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  Speaker 2: that his soft ways of having everybody's back at all
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  Speaker 2: times may be backfiring, maybe blowing up in his face.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe now, can he get it going again? Yes, absolutely,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: he can win the World Series. They can keep him,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and they can still pull off all of their goals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Barry Switzer won a Super Bowl for goodness sake,
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  Speaker 2: so it can still happen.
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  Speaker 1: But what do we do in baseball? What does he
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  Speaker 1: do every game? What does Jerry do? We play the percentages?
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's a better manager out there for
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  Speaker 1: this team. Yeah, and yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know if he's going to stick around. He's got
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: to make some changes. We'll go to a text real
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: quick from the four two five. I'm not disagreeing on Dan,
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  Speaker 3: But the bigger issue is Depoto, father of the piggyback
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  Speaker 3: and bullpen rules.
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  Speaker 2: Well, number one, everybody has bullpen rules. Number two and
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  Speaker 2: they're very similar, by the way, very similar. And then
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  Speaker 2: number two, he admitted himself that the piggyback is different,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: strange situation, unique situation, and they were experimenting with it.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I was going to get some Jerry's the
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  Speaker 2: problem response to this. By now you should know I
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: don't think that he is. I think the roster is fine.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not me like defending Jerry. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know if I even have a good relationship with
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the Mariners anymore.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It might be bad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I'm certainly just telling you how
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I see it. I think the roster is fine. That's
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: why I have such a problem with the manager, because
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: he's not getting the most out of the roster. So
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  Speaker 2: if I'm going to point fingers, I'm certainly not going
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: to point it at roster construction.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to point it at the manager getting the
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  Speaker 1: most out of the roster.
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  Speaker 3: This text, I feel like it needs to be read
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  Speaker 3: following the last one in this conversation.
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  Speaker 4: This is from the two six.
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  Speaker 3: The only real Mariner's solution is to do the piggyback manager.
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  Speaker 3: Dan is the manager for the day until the fifth inning,
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  Speaker 3: then anyone else can be hired for any six and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a great solution.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: Dan only gets to make decisions till inning five.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: There are hand There really aren't any decisions to make
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: in a baseball game anymore before inning number five, perfect
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: line up, starting pitcher, and then you kind of wait
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: till the fifth of start actually managing.
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  Speaker 4: And then you could be the manager. Sure, six, seven,
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  Speaker 4: eight nine.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take I'll take the job. Piggyback
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  Speaker 2: form or otherwise. All right, we'll continue with this. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: know we got some more talkbacks to get to, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I know we got a lot of texts and a
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: lot of YouTube, but feedback on this. I do want
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: to talk about the home run derby because I think
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: everybody needs to be made aware of the format changes.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: But maybe I'll save that for one last thing. Coming
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: up next, we'll continue our conversation about whether or not
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson should remain the Mariners manager. On Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kh ARFM.