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Chuck & Buck 2-25 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, the Kraken are back and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: The combines have become a little bit more about like
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  Speaker 2: I said earlier, about what the like free agency and
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  Speaker 2: trades and what's the spring gonna look like. And then
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  Speaker 2: like we just kind of the medical portion's huge, you know,
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  Speaker 2: basically started because you know, the Jets drafted a guy
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  Speaker 2: that was legally buying in one eye, So the medical
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  Speaker 2: parts huge for us. And then all the interviews, the character,
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  Speaker 2: the person, and then it all just kind of starts,
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  Speaker 2: you know, building. These guys are going on on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: they're starting to go to schools, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, to go to the pro days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's like it's like it's like the
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  Speaker 2: it's like a I was just telling Jared, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a it's like a reset, like all right, here we go,
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  Speaker 2: we're moving, you know, and we don't know what next week.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, here we go, Like we're gonna be into
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  Speaker 2: the free agency next week. Like I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: what it's gonna look like. As if today.
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider talking about the Pajama Party which will start
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow the NFL. The week is underway. They're doing all
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  Speaker 4: the waiting and the measuring and all of that stuff and.
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  Speaker 5: Been weighed and measured.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, uh, thank you, Heath Ledger.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the NFL Combine will be a topic with Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 4: He went to Indianapa, he took, he made all they
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  Speaker 4: went to all that trouble to get to Indianapolis. So
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  Speaker 4: we're going to of course chat with him here in
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  Speaker 4: a couple of minutes. But yes, I mean that's that's
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  Speaker 4: sort of the long and short of it. I still
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  Speaker 4: think that the NFL Combine is not going anywhere because
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  Speaker 4: it's now a TV event and it pulls ratings for
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  Speaker 4: the NFL network and for all of us that love Draftmas,
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  Speaker 4: it is a cheat code. It kind of is a
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  Speaker 4: cram session for all of us that didn't watch every
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  Speaker 4: single football game this year and yet want to be
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  Speaker 4: familiar with the players as we get ready.
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  Speaker 3: For the draft process. So I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 4: Can't wait to watch a little pajama party starting tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll get the latest from John Schneider through the
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  Speaker 4: lens of Greg Bell here in a minute and change
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  Speaker 4: this morning. But let's get to the rest of your
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  Speaker 4: headlines first. Here at Sports Radio ninety three point three
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  Speaker 4: Shoes chill cracking season resumes tonight in Dallas. They'll get
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  Speaker 4: started at five o'clock. They haven't played in three weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, they are a playoff team if the season
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  Speaker 4: we're to end today, but the season won't end for
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  Speaker 4: another twenty five games. Can they get off on the
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  Speaker 4: right foot? Everett Fits you told us yesterday. Whoever does
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  Speaker 4: kind of come out of these gates, these newly built
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  Speaker 4: gates at this stage of the season, is probably going
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  Speaker 4: to set the tone for the rest of their year.
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  Speaker 4: So pretty important that RUSS didn't accumulate and that rest
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  Speaker 4: actually benefits the organization. We'll start finding out tonight at
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  Speaker 4: five o'clock. Al Kiniski's going to join us today at
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  Speaker 4: nine point thirty. Sounders will play their second match of
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  Speaker 4: the year on Saturday against Real Salt Lake. You dub
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  Speaker 4: one a basketball game last night, seventy nine seventy two
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  Speaker 4: winners over Rutgers. They will take on Wisconsin Saturday at
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  Speaker 4: one o'clock. It will be Debtlift Shremp Day. And let's
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  Speaker 4: face it, I've seen the way Debtlift SHREMP lives. Every
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  Speaker 4: day is debtlaft Shremp Day.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I celebrate it.
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  Speaker 3: That guy really has it figured out.
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  Speaker 4: That celebrate his full catalog and the Mariners loss yesterday
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  Speaker 4: in Cactus League Action, twelve to ten to the Chicago
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  Speaker 4: White Sox. We'll talk a little Mariners baseball with Reckless
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  Speaker 4: at Breakfast coming up later this hour at.
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  Speaker 3: Seven forty five.
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  Speaker 4: Cal Rawley did hit his first spring training home run
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  Speaker 4: yesterday and that was the highlight of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk to Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 6: With a bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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  Speaker 6: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell, brought to
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  Speaker 6: only with Copola Diamond Forseco. Now with twelk Man News,
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  Speaker 6: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bud Well.
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  Speaker 3: They were April first.
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  Speaker 4: I might run the joke that we don't have time
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  Speaker 4: to talk to Greg today after he drove sixty five
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  Speaker 4: hours from Boston to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, he wrote his article about his conversation with
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider. You can check that out at the Newstribune
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  Speaker 4: dot com. And here he is our Seahawks insider Greg
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  Speaker 4: Bell is with us.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, Dan?
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  Speaker 7: You know I would life would mark on if you
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  Speaker 7: do what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a little insulting though, wouldn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 7: If I did it go one e five miles an
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  Speaker 7: hour through Ohio yesterday, I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: Say in Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how are you feeling? Are you tired? Do you
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  Speaker 4: have like jet lag even though you weren't on a jet?
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  Speaker 1: No, that's just it, No jets, no lag.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a long time ago.
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  Speaker 7: That's to taking the entire Eastern times pretty flat Indianapolis
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  Speaker 7: just as flat as it was last year's toe ever,
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  Speaker 7: seems to change there no snow. And you know what
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  Speaker 7: is different though, check for the Seahawks. This is almost
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  Speaker 7: every year increasingly gets this way, but more so than
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  Speaker 7: I can ever remember covering a combine. It's not about
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  Speaker 7: the college prospects in the underwear Olympics you're going to
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  Speaker 7: see on TV this weekend. It really is about John
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  Speaker 7: Schnider meeting with these agents for his free agents, chiefly
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  Speaker 7: the Super Bowl MVP, kennth Walker, Rashi Jihi, week Willing,
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  Speaker 7: Kobe Bryant. That is the most important thing John Schnyder
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  Speaker 7: is doing. They are already meeting with those agents formerly
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  Speaker 7: and formally coffee shops, meeting rooms, on the phone, and
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  Speaker 7: the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Are already having free agent.
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  Speaker 7: Meetings here in Indianapolis about how they are, what their news,
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  Speaker 7: they're hearing, how much money it's going to cost. He's
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  Speaker 7: getting the initial intel from agents this week on what
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  Speaker 7: they're thinking in terms of annual salary going forward. The
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  Speaker 7: Seahawks will take that all back to rent next week.
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  Speaker 7: Their analysts will figure out what the cap looks like
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  Speaker 7: with their seventy men roster. Is what Snyder again emphasized yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: how it all fits in. And the party line continues
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  Speaker 7: to be just what we said yesterday. He would say
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  Speaker 7: that he wants to bring everybody back, but he also says,
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  Speaker 7: we got to see how it fits into the seventy
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  Speaker 7: and in the NFL they pretty much legislate you can't
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  Speaker 7: bring everybody back and give him raises at the same
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  Speaker 7: time because of a solid cap.
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  Speaker 4: Before the playoffs, before ken Walker starred during the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: before Zach Charbonnet was injured, how what was their mindset
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  Speaker 4: about whether or not they were how aggressive they were
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  Speaker 4: going to be toward keeping Ken Walker, as you could
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  Speaker 4: read it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, not very right because they didn't even offer him something.
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  Speaker 7: They wanted to see Walker play an entire season injury free,
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  Speaker 7: and they saw that, and they wanted to see what
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  Speaker 7: Walker injury free and the entire season would look like
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  Speaker 7: while in tandem with Zach Scharbering, and they saw that
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  Speaker 7: until the playoffs when Scharbenning gets hurt early in the
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  Speaker 7: divisional round game. And then the only time all year
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  Speaker 7: Kenneth Walker looked was in the role that he was
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  Speaker 7: in for most of the first three seasons, the lead
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  Speaker 7: back role with unchallenged no job share. He has the
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  Speaker 7: best three to four game stretch of his career, especially
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  Speaker 7: during mistakes, and become Super Bowl MVP. So their approach
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  Speaker 7: has changed from now to what they had been doing
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  Speaker 7: all up till January and Sharbay's injury. There's a price
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  Speaker 7: to that change, and right now the Seahorks are trying
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  Speaker 7: to figure out Snider's trying to figure out how high
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  Speaker 7: do we want to go on.
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  Speaker 1: That price, how much do we want to change what we.
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  Speaker 7: Had already budgeted for the running back position going forward
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  Speaker 7: because of scharbon Ay's injury, slash Walker's emergence.
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  Speaker 4: And now that he has had this, how desperate do
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  Speaker 4: you feel that they are, if at all about getting
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  Speaker 4: him signed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, they have the inside track because he just won
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  Speaker 7: a Super Bowl, ring with him. He's the only team
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  Speaker 7: he's ever played, They've ever he's ever played for Walker,
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  Speaker 7: and he's still only twenty five five years old. Nobody's
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  Speaker 7: gonna know him, nobody's gonna use him better than Seahawks will.
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  Speaker 7: If it's a straight money grab, Chuck, you would think
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  Speaker 7: he's gonna go to free agency and see how many
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  Speaker 7: bidders he can get to drive up the price. Typically,
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  Speaker 7: in this situation, John Schneider asked, and usually gets from
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  Speaker 7: the player and his agent write a first refusal and
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  Speaker 7: that go ahead, We'll let you shop your first time
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  Speaker 7: in free agency, see what you get, and then come
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  Speaker 7: back with the offers you get and let us try
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  Speaker 7: to match it and see if we can match it.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes it do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes players say you're
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  Speaker 7: gonna let me test the market.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't coming back.
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  Speaker 7: I have a failing Walker would come back if it
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  Speaker 7: got to that point and let the Seahawks try to match. Then,
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  Speaker 7: of course the number would become whether that number got
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  Speaker 7: higher than the Seahawks are willing to pay, and I
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  Speaker 7: think it will if it gets to that point, because,
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  Speaker 7: as I said, super Bowl MVP still twenty five years old,
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  Speaker 7: it's such an important thing. Having said all that, remember
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  Speaker 7: he plays running back. Remember this league is really hesitant
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  Speaker 7: for the reasons we've been talking about for a couple
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  Speaker 7: of weeks to give long term second rich second guaranteed
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  Speaker 7: money contracts to running backs for how much they get hurt,
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  Speaker 7: and that also plays in Seattle favor. Greg BELLI, if
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  Speaker 7: you had to pin me down right now, Chuck, I'm
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  Speaker 7: sorry if you had to pin me down. I think
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  Speaker 7: he's probably gonna come back. But if if Walker comes back,
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  Speaker 7: then they may they may not get too many the
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  Speaker 7: other core guys. They could get proad for sheets Head
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  Speaker 7: and lose the two per cents back of Pryan and Woman.
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  Speaker 7: If Walker does go test the market, I think he's gone.
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  Speaker 7: And if he does, I think perhaps the other three
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  Speaker 7: could come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of have a feeling the other way. I
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  Speaker 4: kind of feel like he's gone. I think that there
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  Speaker 4: are teams out there that aren't as good as what
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  Speaker 4: they do. As John Schneider that are going to give
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  Speaker 4: a salary that he's just not willing to meet. So
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  Speaker 4: we shall see. Greg Bellis with Us our Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 4: And I do like your video. I mean you look
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  Speaker 4: like some you know CNN reporter outside the Capitol Building.
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  Speaker 3: With your smart glasses. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, okay, since I talked to you every day, I
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  Speaker 7: tide the inside story of those classes.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, they are for distance.
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  Speaker 7: I'm fifty five going off fifty six and I can
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  Speaker 7: no longer see distance driving at night or.
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  Speaker 1: Scorewards across the stadium. But I had a mouth.
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  Speaker 7: Surgery last week and my face fell up and I
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  Speaker 7: had a black eye.
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  Speaker 1: It was yellow yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: So I was wearing my distance glasses everywhere because it
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  Speaker 7: looked like my wife or somebody had just thrown a
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  Speaker 7: chair at my face and I absorbed a whole blow
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  Speaker 7: of a chair or something. But that's the whole reason
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  Speaker 7: I had my glasses on in that video.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you should wear more often. Think you
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  Speaker 3: look smart?
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  Speaker 7: No, hey, that appreciate that. I'll tell my wife that
• 10:47
  Speaker 7: somebody said it made me look smarter, which means I'm
• 10:49
  Speaker 7: probably look pretty dumb most times.
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  Speaker 3: Greg bell Is with us our Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've chopped up the Ken Walker story obviously
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  Speaker 4: and shaheeds free agency, and we've even.
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  Speaker 3: Brought up Bryant a number of times.
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  Speaker 4: We have really not discussed boy A mafe So what
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  Speaker 4: is their objective with boy A Mafey? I mean, what
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  Speaker 4: kind of handicap do you give? His chance of remaining
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  Speaker 4: a Seahawk?
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  Speaker 1: Not very high.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think he's the every down run stopping edge
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  Speaker 7: guy that Mike McDonald really wants. Yeah, he can rush
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  Speaker 7: the passer occasionally, but even his production there wasn't very
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  Speaker 7: high in last year. So but he's from drafted from
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  Speaker 7: a different regime obviously, as anyone beyond two years here was.
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  Speaker 7: But seeing how McDonald plays defense and how multiple he
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  Speaker 7: wants to be, especially with linebackers, Mike McDonald would not
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  Speaker 7: have drafted boy Mafay in my opinion, And so I
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  Speaker 7: don't think they're going to invest a big, big effort
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  Speaker 7: and try to get him back now. Having said that,
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  Speaker 7: Mafay's low production means he may not get too many
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  Speaker 7: suitors in the open market anyway, and perhaps the Surs
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  Speaker 7: could bringing back on a team friendly deal minimum, So
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  Speaker 7: maybe a year or so at most. Having said that,
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  Speaker 7: he's an eddresser, still young, and those guys coming to premium,
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  Speaker 7: but he just doesn't seem production wise and style wise,
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  Speaker 7: he's just not multiple enough.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind. It's how McDonald likes to play defense.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Bell our guest Seahawks insider. He's at the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 4: NFL Combine. The workouts start tomorrow. But as he wrote
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  Speaker 4: today at the News Tribune, this is really about free
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  Speaker 4: agency trades. John Schneider meeting with agents and perhaps other
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: executives to try to craft the start to their off season.
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  Speaker 4: And so we dive into some of those topics here
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  Speaker 4: this morning with him. What else did John reveal to
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  Speaker 4: you that you thought was noteworthy.
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  Speaker 7: Status quo on the team sale. He's met with Jody Allen,
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  Speaker 7: who told him and Snyder's words, go get it, let's
• 12:57
  Speaker 7: go rip it. I mean, let's go run it back
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  Speaker 7: into it again. And therefore it's business as usual signing
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  Speaker 7: players they'll still have. It's not like a new owner
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  Speaker 7: is going to change the money they're going to play players.
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  Speaker 7: The salary cap in the NFL is what it is,
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  Speaker 7: no matter who owns a team. So all of that
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  Speaker 7: stuff won't change. When I asked Snyder yesterday, does he
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  Speaker 7: think Jody Allen's still going to be the team chair
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  Speaker 7: by the beginning of next season, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Jody Allen's not about to tell him. Here's
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  Speaker 7: when the sale is going to happen. From what I'm
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  Speaker 7: hearing around the league, they don't have a buyer yet,
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  Speaker 7: but they just went on sale a week ago, so
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  Speaker 7: that's not an alarm or anything. Still unknown whether there's
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  Speaker 7: going to be multiple buyers or just one. Seems like
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  Speaker 7: there would be multiple investors, and that's going to change.
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  Speaker 7: I talked Snyder and how he operates. I talked about
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  Speaker 7: that with him, and he said, sure, the actual interpersonal
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  Speaker 7: dynamics of someone that he's been talking with, and it
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  Speaker 7: was Paul Allen first and until his death seven years ago,
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  Speaker 7: then Jody Allen. That's going to be a change no
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  Speaker 7: matter who comes in. But the football of it, no,
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  Speaker 7: and not of the signing players and any of that.
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  Speaker 1: He did say, as I told you he would. We
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  Speaker 1: knew he would. He wants to bring everyone.
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  Speaker 7: Back because especially this He says that every year, but
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  Speaker 7: he said especially because they just won the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 7: and that he noted even during the parade, he said
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  Speaker 7: he noted the veteran players say, and.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get everybody back so we can do this again.
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  Speaker 7: Even though that's almost physically physiscally impossible to do. Other
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  Speaker 7: things I'm hearing around the combine, Chuck, the Seahawks are
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  Speaker 7: I won't I'll say a really good chance they're going
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: to play in a national game. But now the Slaughters
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  Speaker 7: are starting to fill up. This morning, the league announced
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  Speaker 7: that the Washington Commanders will be involved in one of
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: the London games. The Seahawks have the Commanders on the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys are reportedly going to be in the
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  Speaker 1: real game.
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  Speaker 7: Reo Nation are in Brazil, unknown whether they're going to be.
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  Speaker 7: The Cowboys will be the home team of the visiting team.
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  Speaker 7: The Seahawks have a home game against the Cowboys scheduled
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  Speaker 7: for next season, so if the Seahawks were doesn't have
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  Speaker 7: the home team for really could just keeps eibly play there.
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  Speaker 7: But it looks like Madrid or Mexico City might be
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  Speaker 7: the games that, as of yet unannounced, that the Seahawks
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  Speaker 7: could slot into. So far in this international series, the
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  Speaker 7: Seahawks have avoided giving up a home game, and they
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  Speaker 7: really have tried to do that. They want to maximize
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  Speaker 7: the chances for the twelve to sell out Bloomenfield and
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  Speaker 7: be on the waiting list of season beigcause and all that.
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  Speaker 7: But this year they have nine coming up. This next season,
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  Speaker 7: I'll have nine home game one extra. The normal in
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  Speaker 7: the league likes to give the unbalanced seventeen game regular season.
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  Speaker 7: The years that the teams have nine home games, they'd
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  Speaker 7: like to give those guys the international home game. Give
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  Speaker 7: up one of those games so you have the usual
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  Speaker 7: eight anyway back at home. So just reading the tea
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  Speaker 7: leaves and what I'm talking to people around the league,
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  Speaker 7: there's that if they do play an international game, perhaps Madrid,
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  Speaker 7: perhaps Mexico City against San Francisco, which already is a
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: home game for the Niners.
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  Speaker 4: Last thing for you, I mean, we've talked about possible
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: early extensions for JSN and Spoon, So I won't bring
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: that up here today, but I will ask you about
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Sam Arnold, I mean, a Super Bowl champion quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's under contract, but you know, is.
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  Speaker 4: There any thought to like rewarding him giving him an
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  Speaker 4: extension himself for a higher salary next year.
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  Speaker 3: Is that even a part of the equation this offseason.
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  Speaker 7: I'm chuckling as you're asking, because I asked Sniger that
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: yesterday off the podium and he looked at me, like, great,
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: can't you do mass. We gave him a three year contract.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: He's only played one of those three. Yeah, he has
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: two years left. That's exactly what he said to me.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: And I laughed and said, Okay, I just testing the
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: waters to see if might he might. Now he's not
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: gonna tell me in February twenty fifth. Yeah, we're gonna
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: go give a new brinksload truckload of money too. No. No,
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: But the point to him, he made it clear to me.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: The point is we got to get these decisions on
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Walker and she Heat and Woolan and Bryan and Massey.
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: Then we they are going to give Jackson Smith a
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: JIGBA a new deal this summer. It's probably gonna be
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: close to two hundred million dollars. And then when they
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: give the NFL Offensive Player of the Year the money,
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: they're going to give Devin Witherspoon, the three time cornerback,
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: the money. And those have been the priority for the summer.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Usually that's done right around the start to others, certainly
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: after they started turning camp, which is all that long
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: way to say, Sam Donald can wait his turn and
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: then this time next year they'll be talking about that
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: and he has already outplayed the contract that they get.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Well, technically you do have two years right on Spoon
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: and on JSN, so you could wait until next year
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: by his math, because you just put the fifth year
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: option on them, so you do have two years before
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: you have to go.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: We asked him now yesterday and he said, we don't
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: see it that way. We don't consider their fifty year
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: option possibility as that precedent.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Let's not do it all two years. He because we've
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: talked about this.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: They don't use the options very much, Franchise tags and
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: options Snyder doesn't use very much, so he doesn't consider
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: the fifty year option a extra year to consider.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Well, we still got two years of those guys.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: He's considering JSN and whether it's to be entering the
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: final year of their deals in lieu of the fifth
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: year option that he rarely uses anyway, But good, good
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: point bringing that up, because we asked him the same
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: question and he said, that's what he said.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Got it got it all right, Well, you're gonna do
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: anything fun in Indianapolis tonight, You're gonna just cut it
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: loose on the town. I think you need to wear
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: those glasses and get yourself a tweet jacket and find
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: some you know, snooty upscale bar and then just see
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: where the night takes you.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And Wendy.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Well, when he's back on working, get the play.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: So part of the part of the reason that I
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: drove to Ohio was that was Cleveland was one of
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: the few airports I could get her home last night,
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: So that's why we drove. I dropped her up at
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Cleveland with her parent mom, and her mom drove to
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: the airport. Well, I drove on to Yeah, she has
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: the real world of work to do with children's hospitals,
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: so she can't she can't play. I'm just looking for
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: six consecutive hours asleep, to be honest with you, not
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: much ripping here.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, uh, nice work, nice advance. I'm sure
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: can't wait to hear the article about how you got
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: to Indianapolis.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I figured John Schneider was going to say what he said.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: What I want to find out is about the event
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: that took place between Boston and Indie.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun. That was one of the that
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: was that was one of the highlights of our marriages.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: We had a really good and don't and you don't
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: have to read into our marriage. It was really that
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: good of a time.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Well, God, very good. All right, Well we'll check in
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: with you tomorrow. I'm sure.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: All right. Happy Wednesday.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: There's our Seahawks inside of Greg Bell joining us from
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Indianapolis side of the NFL combine again the pajama party ors,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: he calls at the Underwear Olympics.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: We'll get started tomorrow.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: One more day to you know, chop it up if
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: you're John Schneider with agents and executives, and certainly I
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: think the NFL network coverage starts today, which I always
• 19:53
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• 20:20
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about the crack and restarting their season tonight
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFL that Pride More.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: He knows how to dress, doesn't he.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: He's always looking so sharp?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Is he not? Just neat as a pin?
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, never, never tries too hard, no, but just looks
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: very well put together every day.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: And like, I'm like, oh, man, you look you look cozy,
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: you look clean, fashionable.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Fashionable, all of the things all tied into one.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I know, and I envy people like that because I
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: made my living doing this, and you know, you kind
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: of give into it. I've never shown up in sweatpants,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: but for the first time, I now wear shorts to work.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Why I started to do that a couple of years.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I've never done that in my entire career. But you
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: just kind of give into it. You don't shave most days.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I haven't shaved in like three years, frankly, and you
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: just sort of kind of give into a little more.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: But I see a guy like Pride More, and I'm like, man,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I never did have to dress like I needed to
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: present myself every day.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: He's got it down.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: He does. I wore jeans today and was proud of myself.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah we should have pride More, Yeah we should. Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, I mean he's like he's like a
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: you know, coteur Fred Rogers.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: He's just really sharp. Yeah, everything's just on point.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: He looks like he could be in a catalog.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah he does.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and he always comes in and he
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: opens up the blinds and he lets the sun shine in,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and he's always got a song in his heart.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: I kind of want to be around that guy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a real gym.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Probably like alphabetizes his vegetables at home, probably names his socks.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: I bet he would be organized enough that he could
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: have one of those clear fridges like that you could
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: in and everyone will be like, wow, that's an awesome fridge.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: You have looked at all this the fresh price.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: He's got an awesome fridge.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do not have that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You could not.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: I cannot have a clear fridge.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: It's full, but it and I organize it every few weeks.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: But it couldn't be always on display.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Pride More's fridge, it could always be on display, on
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: display like better homes and gardens. Yeah, kind of thing. Yeah, actually,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think they show refrigerated well along those lines
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: his lawn, I guarantee you he's out there with a
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: pair of scissors, like cutting.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I bet he tells Scott's how to take care of
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: their long All.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Right, let's talk some krack and hockey. Finally they're getting
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: back on the ice tonight. It's been a three week layoff.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: They had actually felt like they had solved some of
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: their issues. They were playing really well before the Olympic break,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: and now the trick's gonna be to get.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: It going again.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think, actually, this is such a talented team
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that you know, if they're not on their game, they're
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: gonna lose that night, and they they might lose several
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: nights in a row. I mean, I think that's I
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: think the proof is in the pudding, the way that
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: they've kind of played this year, and so you do
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: want to capture those moments where Okay, we're playing really
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: good hockey right now, we are firing on all cylinders,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: we're executing Lane Lambert's game plan. And unfortunately they kind
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: of felt like they had figured stuff out when the
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: break came, of course, and so now the trick's going
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: to be who Jeckyll and Hyde team? How are they
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: going to start things tonight? And Everett fits you told
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: us yesterday on the show he thinks it might be
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: make or break the way that they come out of
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: this three week you know span without playing any hockey.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Do they pick up where they left off? Or is
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: their rust? And do they have a little bit of
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: trouble getting into rhythm because I'm not sure they can
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: afford one of their classic eight out of ten loss
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: stretches just to try to save it with eight out
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: of ten wins the following ten games.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Oh that my heart couldn't take that.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, with twenty five games to go, you don't have
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: the ability to have a big stumble. And I think
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: you know Everyett also mentioned he didn't know how many
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: of the Dallas players that were in the Olympics we're
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: going to play tonight. I think they had what five players?
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: I know they're all back with the team, but will
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: they have a night off? Who knows? So at the
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: very least if they're not playing. I mean Ottinger, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: know is back with the team, but who knows if
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: he's playing tonight.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: If they're not playing then you better.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Take advantage of that advantage that you have over Dallas
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: tonight and that gets you off on the right foot
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: and then you got another road game, then you're back home.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: But if you can keep you know, as Mike McDonald says,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: stack those wins.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but if you can do that and you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: just get yourself on the right foot tonight, hoping that
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: we maybe Dallas isn't full strength because of the Olympic break,
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: then I think that you could put yourself in a
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: really good position.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've kind of been waiting. I mean, Everly's
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: had a really good year this year, but where was
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: the Jared McCann scoring potency? And then suddenly they start
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: putting him on the same line together, and you're like, well,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: why hasn't this been happening, because they're pretty much producing
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: every single night. Ye this line that they're on along
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: with Matty Beniers, who's who've been playing his best hockey
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: since his rookie season in my estimation here heading into
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: this break. So maybe that's something that they solve. Maybe
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: they now do have a true number one line that
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: they trust more so than the experimentation that has been
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: taking place to try to find it. Maybe they've identified it,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: maybe they have that line that they can count on
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: on a nightly basis to get them a goal. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: then from from the goalie standpoint, I'm stunned that Grubauer
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: is outplayed Decord this year.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't see that coming.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But it's great to have Grubauer back, and although the
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: court hasn't been bad this year, he's going to get
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the start tonight, it sounds like to start the rest
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: of this way. And I mean, I think that's the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: another key. Number One, that that number one line that
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: you have is scoring consistently. You have a number one
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: line that scores consistently, and then number two if they
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: can get Decord back to Decord form from a year
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: ago with Groobauer back, now all of a sudden you
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: got that one two goalie combination and the way that
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: they play defense, then I think you're going to win
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: more than you lose the rest of the way. And
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: that's probably what's going to be all that's going to
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: be required of getting into the playoffs. Maybe not by
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: a huge margin, but getting into the playoffs based on
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: where you sit.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Right now, well, and yeah, it doesn't matter how many
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: games you get into the playoffs. By as long as
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: you get into the playoffs, especially in the NHL, Yeah, you.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Just got to get in there.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: And I mean as much as they don't have that, yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: that superstar that standout, they do have what seems to
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: be a great team chemistry.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: And you've seen we've seen.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: How that well, that can work for the Mariners and
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks when the team is all on the same page.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I do think the Kraken are all on the same page.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Clearly they were not earlier in the season, and there
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: was some very angry locker room exchanges that kind of
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: forced them all to take a look inside themselves and
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: as a team and say, like, what are we doing here?
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: We're blowing an opportunity. And I think they've all come
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: out stronger after that.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Well consistency, good goaltending, that would be great, good goaltending
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: play from both guys, a number one line that we
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: can count on more often than not to score a.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Goal that night.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: And then and then the other aspect that I would
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: like to point out is that we haven't even reached
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: the NHL trading deadline.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the NBA and NHL are.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Pretty much you know winter Sports, right, NBA trading deadline
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: was weeks ago. We haven't even reached the NHL trading deadline.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: It's not until March six. We still have a couple
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: of weeks. So as long as they come out because
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: if they come out of the gates slow here, then
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: you're not going to be aggressive. You're you're you're just
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: not going to be aggressive. But if you come out
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: strong and you you motivate Jason Bottrel and Ron Francis
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: to and Toddle like we could like we're gonna we're
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: gonna add a piece here.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: All right, we see what you're doing. Yeah, we're here.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: That might end up being the difference.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's really important to start this reset.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Not I mean, you don't have to win five in
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a row.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: You don't have to play better hockey than you've played
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: all season long.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Don't need to be streaky, you just need to be consistent.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: You just can't come out of the gates slow, broken, bad, rusty,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: any of that, because I think that will end up
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: costing the spot in the Stanley cupany and stay healthy
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: please all right, coming up next Reckless at Breakfast, so
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: we'll talk a little baseball here on Sports Radio ninety
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: three point three kJ RFM.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I'm allowing myself to get a little reckless every.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Show, getting reckless with the reckless.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: And normally this is when we do reckless at breakfast.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: So this is the least reckless of the breakfast. Feels
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: calm if this is normal, this is normalcy. People are
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: used to be being reckless at least once a week,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: and so we designate this time to get a little
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: reckless at breakfast. This is where I get at get
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: to be a little loose hot take ye, if you
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: will look out, and I'd like to say without judgment,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: but we all know that Bucky judges me, Ashley judges me,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: and all of you listening judge me consistently.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, if you've ever looked at the text line, I
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: mean to judgment you, all of us.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Uh. So today I'm gonna talk baseball.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I've talked about the tanking issue in the NBA each
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: of the last two days, So let's talk baseball today.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: And one of the things that pops up a lot is,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: you know, how will the Mariners approach their four young
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: starting pitchers that have been the rotation now for multiple
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: years and at some point are going to have to
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: be paid. They're gonna hit free agency or bump up
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: against free agency. There are early candidates for extension.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And then how is that complicated?
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say complicated, but affected is probably the better way.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: By the fact that Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan seem
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: to be on the come and quicker and very quickly.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: At this point, the objects in the rearview mirror are
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: closer than they appear. And so how will that affect
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: the futures of the four horsemen, if you will, that
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: have been eighty percent of the starting rotation for the
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: last you know, year and a half two years here
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: in Seattle. Well, I think I've got good and bad news,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: and this is just my interpretation of things. I know
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: that they haven't really started the conversation with Logan Gilbert,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: but my guess is that what's going to happen because
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: all of them have multiple years remaining on their deal,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: and Gilbert's gonna have two years this year and next
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: year before he is a free agent. And so there,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: you know, they obviously have shown a willingness maybe even
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: a penchant those that they have identified as core foundation
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: members let's lock them up, see if we can get
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a deal, which they clearly got
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: with cal Uh and and we get that's one thing
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: that we can trust, that we can rely on. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: think Gilbert's the candidate for that, and I think that
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: that will get done before next season. And I think
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: there are a lot of reasons for it. Number One,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: he's very good. Number two, he's very grounded. Number three,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: he's very loyal and very committed, not that the rest
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: of them aren't. And then the col Raleigh relationship, I'm
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: not sure there's a better one in the organization than
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: those two guys. And I think he really wants to
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: be here. I think he wants to see this thing through.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: So they're going to tap into all of that, and
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: maybe Logan is the candidate that gives you a hometown discount,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: since everybody looks for that, because he does not want
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: to leave Seattle. He does not want to leave col.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: He does not want to know the leave the organization that.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: He's ever had.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that George Kirby wants to do any
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: of that, but I do believe that the organization will
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  Speaker 4: make a choice between the two of them. They can't
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  Speaker 4: resign all of these guys. They can't have. They're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna have two years from now, four guys in their
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: rotation making twenty five to thirty million dollars forty million.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows how highatt gets.
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  Speaker 4: If George Kirby goes out and have a cy young
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  Speaker 4: season this year, for goodness sake, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: we're looking at a market value of forty forty five.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if Trek scuble ends upsetting this mart Kyle
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  Speaker 4: Tucker made sixty million dollars this season, what's Trek Scubale
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  Speaker 4: gonna make when he hits free agency?
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  Speaker 3: Sixty five seventy million a year?
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  Speaker 4: And then that obviously affects the pitching market as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna drive up all of those prices. George Kirby
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  Speaker 4: has that breakthrough season that everybody expects him to have
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  Speaker 4: at some point, I mean, his value skyrockets, and so
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  Speaker 4: this organization, in my opinion, I've been saying this for years,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: they're gonna make a decision between the two of them.
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  Speaker 3: And the other one.
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  Speaker 4: They will move while trade value is high, and that
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: could be his earliest next year.
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  Speaker 3: So follow with me, Walk along with me.
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  Speaker 4: Logan gets the extension because he's a little more willing
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  Speaker 4: to play ball right now about the hometown discount. And
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  Speaker 4: then you get that great year out of George potentially,
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  Speaker 4: and even if you just get a good year out
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  Speaker 4: of him, and then you move him with two years
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  Speaker 4: left on the deal and you activate Kate Anderson to
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: replace him in the starting rotation, and do you realize
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  Speaker 4: the treasure trove you get and a George Kirby trade
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  Speaker 4: with two years left on his deal with the need
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  Speaker 4: for pitching that is out there. I mean, Jim Palmer
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: salivates over George Kirby every time we face the Baltimore Orioles.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, give him anything they want. And there's an
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: element of that that the Mariners might take advantage of
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  Speaker 4: this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: So you lock up.
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  Speaker 4: One of them because that feels good. We know what
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: we have in Logan Gilbert. The other one gets moved
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  Speaker 4: with multiple years on his contract. You get a boat
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  Speaker 4: load in return, so you're always restocking that farm system
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  Speaker 4: to keep you a contender for years to come. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: you could also not just get prospects. You could get
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: a really good player and prospects when you dangle at
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: George Kirby at his age, his level of accomplishment and
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: with two years left at a really cheap rate on
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: his contract before he makes big money.
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  Speaker 3: And then I.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Think after that you live with that rotation for a year,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: You've got Ryan Sloan coming, and you'll eventually Ryan Sloan replaces.
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  Speaker 3: Luis Castillo who's got two years left or is a
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: one year left. Should have known that, should have looked
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: that up as quickly.
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  Speaker 4: When Castillo is now expired, now Sloan replaces him, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: then you will eventually have I think the same choice
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years down the road between Miller and
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Wu and injuries could take care of that knock on wood.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: But let's just for the sake of reckless at breakfast,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: say that both are continuing to pitch well, growing, developing,
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  Speaker 4: and then then you'll make the same decision between those two.
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  Speaker 4: And in the meantime, maybe it's that pitching prospect you
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: got for George Kirby that is ready to step into
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  Speaker 4: the rotation. And obviously they do a really good job
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: in the draft of finding pitching talent. It probably is
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: the strength of the organization quite frankly, so I think
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: that's what it is. And I don't know if that's
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: good news for people I look at it. I mean,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: it is a business, after all, we talked about it
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: with Emerson Hancock last week. You're not They're not all
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: going to stay together. They're best of friends. They are
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: so fun to be here. That's so cool to see
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: the way that they interact. But they understand it's a
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: business and this organism and this rotation is not going
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: to be able to stay together forever. These four they
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: just can't afford it. It's just not financially feasible.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Uh. And that's the pain of developing great talent. Yeah,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: you know, that's the good and the bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So my guess is that Gilbert, it stays. Kirby gets
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  Speaker 4: moved in the off season while his trade value is
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  Speaker 4: its absolute highest, and then in a couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: they'll think the same decision between Miller or Wu and
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: then they will trade the other one. And then that
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: next offseason Anderson replaces Kirby next year, Sloan replaces Castillo
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  Speaker 4: full time two years from now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, And that's that.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: And so they just keep the ball rolling, and there
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: is no reason to lessen your expectations based upon that
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  Speaker 4: evaluation for how great this pitching rotation can continue to
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: be for years to come. They have got it smoking
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: right now. They have really got it clicking in this organization,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: and I expect it to be in the conversation for
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: best starting rotations in baseball for the next ten years consecutively.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They sure seem to have it set up to go
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: that way. Yeah, yeah, but you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Got to make some Yeah, you got to make some
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: difficult decisions, and finances play a part of that. And
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: so that's my expectation at this stage. And it'll be
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: tough to say goodbye to a couple of those guys,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: but that's just that's the that's the price of business.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't want to see any of them in
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: a Yankee uniform.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's another ways. And you trade them so you
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: don't let them hit free agency. Yeah, you trade them
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: and then you can control that's what I Yeah, if
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: you don't want to see them in a Dodger or
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: a Yankee uniform, you can control where they go.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:19
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• 37:22
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