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4-21 H1: Struggling Mariners, Seahawks RB Situation & Vrabel Breaks Silence · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: We're back. We're back at it again. We are back,
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  Speaker 1: was in the Seattle Times yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Good for everybody. Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: I've been on seven AM with Chuck and Buck all
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  Speaker 2: time gig. And people have been asking, well is this Nope,
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  Speaker 2: this is the deal, So welcome back to me and
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  Speaker 2: Chris and hopefully you'll enjoyed.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Big Seahawks Draft week, of course, the NFL Draft taking precedents.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk during this show about what head coach
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald said blew him away yesterday on the first
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  Speaker 2: day of the Seahawks voluntary offseason program.
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  Speaker 3: It's similar to last year at this time and that
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  Speaker 3: worked out pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hear a McDonald and gentlemanager John Schneider think of
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks running back situation. I asked him point blank,
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  Speaker 2: how you feel about your running back room right now?
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  Speaker 3: Two days before the draft. You'll hear what they said.
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  Speaker 2: At eleven am our Cracking kJ R man Mike Betton,
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  Speaker 2: the captain's going to join us. A day before Cracking
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  Speaker 2: GM Jason bool is scheduled to talk into press conference
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  Speaker 2: at the team's ice plicks in Northgate. It'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: about the state of the team, one that's missed the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs four of the five years of their existence.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna ask Mike at eleven o'clock, Mike Benton,
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  Speaker 3: what do they need to do?
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  Speaker 2: Just if you had to ask the Cracking leadership, which,
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  Speaker 2: of course now Ron Francis is not a part of
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  Speaker 2: leaving as the president and now Jason Bartroll taking over
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  Speaker 2: full all personnel matters and hockey matters for Jason Botterroll.
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  Speaker 2: What would you say he needs to fix first, asked
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  Speaker 2: Mike Bett at eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: At that time, four nine four to five one is
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  Speaker 2: of the show. We'll keep one question out there for
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  Speaker 2: you to respond to. Who in what position do you
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  Speaker 2: want to Seaxra draft first?
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  Speaker 3: And why? Said edge which Mike McDon can never get
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  Speaker 3: enough of, is.
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  Speaker 2: A corner to backfill Reek wooland leaving for twelve million
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  Speaker 2: dollars to the Philadelphia Eagles is a wide receiver which
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't think they need, but they seem to always
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  Speaker 2: draft them, always step from the defensive line. Jaren Reid's
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  Speaker 2: turning thirty four during this season. De Marcus Lawrence is
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  Speaker 2: thirty four. What do you think fourtnite four to five
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  Speaker 2: one will read back your text at eleven thirty before
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  Speaker 2: Ian fornesl join me. He's in the Studio's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: in the studio today. He was at the vMac yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I went and saw him.
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  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna be doing that for a while. All right, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: you're watching Marins last night three three in the eighth and.
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  Speaker 3: Then casey beans comes in, casey Bean.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty funny night. I heard Chris Crawford on
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  Speaker 2: Ian Fanessa's show calling casey beans as in legum legumina
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  Speaker 2: legom Spanish word for beans. Casey beans comes in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and you're I had not been watching most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I am partial to the Stanley Cup playoffs and weeknights
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  Speaker 2: this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: But I I.
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  Speaker 2: Was, wait, what's Casey Beans doing in the game the
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  Speaker 2: eighth inning. Turns out the reason why Lagomina was in
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  Speaker 2: the game is because Matt Brash and Spire and some
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  Speaker 2: of the other setup guys manager Dan Wilson had said
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  Speaker 2: before the game were not available because of wear and
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  Speaker 2: tear over the weekend and in the previous series at
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  Speaker 2: San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what you got. You got Legamena in a
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  Speaker 3: three to three game in the.
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  Speaker 2: Eighth and you see why they have what they have
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  Speaker 2: in bullpen hierarchy and over one hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 2: game season. You just can't trot them out there every
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  Speaker 2: single game, and you hope your starters like Brian Wu
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  Speaker 2: can get into the seventh eighth inning so that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to do those kind of moves. Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: three to three becomes six to three in a hurry,
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  Speaker 2: and that was that the Mariners end up losing six
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  Speaker 2: to four. Concerned Chris that, I mean the bullpen first,
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  Speaker 2: it's Andres Munos. This is now two times in what
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  Speaker 2: five days, the Mariners have given up six nothing leads
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  Speaker 2: and three nothing leads as their bullpen have given them up.
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  Speaker 2: They've lost two games leading a combined nine to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: They won up six.
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  Speaker 2: They were up six to oh at San Diego and
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  Speaker 2: Andres Munoz gives up five in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: night to lose seven to six. And then last night
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  Speaker 2: they're up three not thing with what has been their
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  Speaker 2: best starter, Emerson Hancock on the mount into the sixth thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, three home runs and
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  Speaker 2: it's bam, bam, bami it's three three, and then like
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  Speaker 2: Amina comes in a.
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  Speaker 3: Bullpen that you would kind of count on. Yeah, two
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  Speaker 3: times in a few days now.
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  Speaker 1: So we all know about the green flags and the
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  Speaker 1: red flags, all right here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I.
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  Speaker 1: Think the manners there they're yellow flags right now. Like
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's red quite yet, but the yellow
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  Speaker 1: is like, hey, guys, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: This is the athletics we're talking about. Like an orange
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  Speaker 3: almost an orange.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go orange, I'm gonna go I'm gonna sticking
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  Speaker 1: strictly yellow.
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  Speaker 3: It's a concern for sure.
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  Speaker 1: They're hovering not where they need to be at ten
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen, fourth in the als. If I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: Let me pull it up in double check. But the
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  Speaker 1: offense has been just awful at times. I think we
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  Speaker 1: can all agree to that team's batting around one eighty
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  Speaker 1: five overall as a team. Let can do your homework,
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  Speaker 1: Chris hey Man, you have to, so let me continue.
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  Speaker 1: The best players a Julio Naylor, they've all started slow.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool when you have maybe just Julio starting slow,
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  Speaker 1: but when you have all three that makes for it
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  Speaker 1: makes it that much more harder. That's like if you're
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  Speaker 1: playing basketball and your two best players are just not
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  Speaker 1: playing ball well. The point you need them to do
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  Speaker 1: their job and be effective, and right now those three
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  Speaker 1: guys are not not to mention the offense as a hole.
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  Speaker 1: So you're asking guys to get together and the season
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  Speaker 1: is going to continue going on. They got to win
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  Speaker 1: the series. Obviously. You don't want to lose to an
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  Speaker 1: Athletics team that people are like, well, who's on their
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  Speaker 1: roster the first place Athletics now, Chris Well, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go without it was encouraged though.
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  Speaker 2: It was encouraging though that cal Rawley in the first
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  Speaker 2: ending last night hit a home run to the opposite
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  Speaker 2: field as a left handed batter hit a home run
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  Speaker 2: the left center for the deepest part of the park.
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  Speaker 3: He's had sixty four.
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  Speaker 2: Home runs maybe sixty four to sixty five home runs
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  Speaker 2: in his.
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  Speaker 3: Career at T Mobile Park.
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  Speaker 2: That was only the fourth one to the opposite field
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  Speaker 2: ever in his career. So that is encouraging because we
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  Speaker 2: know and we've seen this team loves to pull the
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  Speaker 2: ball and try to hit at the Mercer Island or
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  Speaker 2: North Gate if you're a right handed batter, and that
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  Speaker 2: is encouraging. Julia Rodriguez has had some opposite fielding. Even
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  Speaker 2: Josh Naylor beat the shift last night later in the
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  Speaker 2: game and hit a single to the opposite field. To me,
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  Speaker 2: the very amateur baseball coach that I am, that's the
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  Speaker 2: key is to not think you have to pull everything
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  Speaker 2: to succeed. And once you start hitting to all fields
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  Speaker 2: and hitting pitchers the.
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  Speaker 3: Whites again, their whites and their eyes. Go back to
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 2: Coaching high school baseball here in Seattle, the varsity team
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  Speaker 2: University Prep. I used to tell the hitters, right handed batters,
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  Speaker 2: I was in the third bait. High school coaches sit
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  Speaker 2: and stand in the third well stand in a third
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  Speaker 2: base coaching box, and I used to tell my hitters,
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  Speaker 2: if I can see the whites in your eyes, that
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  Speaker 2: means you're pulling your head so far out.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at me, why to third base? You're right, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that the Mariners I sit behind the
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  Speaker 2: third bait when I go, I try to sit behind
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  Speaker 2: the third base dugout in the third base bag, and
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  Speaker 2: at times you can see the whites in the Mariner's eyes.
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  Speaker 2: They're right handed hitters. They're trying to hit it.
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  Speaker 3: So pull it. Hey, get on base, guys, Let's let's
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 1: I know this team is strong at homer's and scoring
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  Speaker 1: quick runs, but I think they gotta find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get on base. This is why you brought Edgar
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  Speaker 1: Martinez in to assist with your hitting and your approach
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  Speaker 1: to the game. They got to put it together. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to see multiple losing streets from this team.
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  Speaker 1: That's just too a consistent. So right now I'm pulling
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  Speaker 1: up the yellow flag for the Mariners, and if this
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  Speaker 1: continues for like the next two three weeks, it's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Go RDS May first. Is that too soon?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've been in this position before and maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll just keep it yellow through through May.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, that's a four nine. It's coming down to test line.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean to interrupt, Chris, but it brings up
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  Speaker 2: a point when for you is panic on the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: four nine four five one. To me, the history of
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  Speaker 2: this team, the fact they have pitching. I'm talking July
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  Speaker 2: All Star break, maybe the end of July.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to jump on your back and agree with
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  Speaker 1: you on that, just because we've been here, right. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we literally when we first did this, so it was, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a wrap, you know, let's look forward to Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then a few weeks later we're like, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: definitely jumped the gun, and people in the text I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, good job guys.
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  Speaker 3: Some Mariner fans you are. Here's the other reason, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: This year, I'm saying, maybe July August, look at the
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  Speaker 3: American League.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as It's not what you would expect
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  Speaker 1: going into season. You would think there would be a
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  Speaker 1: clear cut, Oh, this is the best team i e.
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners, and that is not the case. But it's
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  Speaker 1: all mumbo jumbo and everybody is struggling to find their
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  Speaker 1: consistent best.
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  Speaker 3: They're just trying.
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  Speaker 1: They're struggling to find a consistency. I know, or less
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  Speaker 1: than a month into the Major League Baseball season. But
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are the best team in the American League,
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  Speaker 1: but only thirteen and nine.
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  Speaker 3: That thirteen and nine, that's not great.
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  Speaker 2: Thirteen and eleven is Cleveland is leading the AL Central.
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  Speaker 3: A good week and a half in the maners on
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  Speaker 3: first right.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe not even that. The Athletics are leading the
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  Speaker 2: West at twelve and eleven. Yeah, that's I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: look at the National League, it's completely given. The Braves
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  Speaker 2: are sixteen and seven, the Reds of all people are
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and eight. My Pirates are thirteen and nine. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers are the Dodgers, of course, sixteen and six, Padres
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and seven. But there's some horses over there, but
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  Speaker 2: there's some donkeys.
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  Speaker 3: In the American League.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like to your point, Chris, if the Marriers
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  Speaker 2: went like three or four in a row, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be in first place. There are four games under
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  Speaker 2: five hundred, yet just two and a half back because
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  Speaker 2: the Athletics are at first place at twelve and eleven
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  Speaker 2: and a Chris's point nobody's expecting the Sacramento Athletics to
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  Speaker 2: be around in July or August near the top. But
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  Speaker 2: if this division says so bad, they will.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy. It is because no one expected that to
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  Speaker 3: be the case.
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  Speaker 1: The Manners were the clear cut number one guys to
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  Speaker 1: win this division. And now you're like, huh.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I'm not going red until they're this far under
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  Speaker 2: five hundred or worse until in the July man.
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  Speaker 3: Let me go ahead and join that bandwagon. There, Greg
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  Speaker 3: is a room over there once been twice shy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, okay for you, Chris. There's always room,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, so always room, thank you. So four nine
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  Speaker 1: four five one, how about you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this populace would not be happy if we're
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  Speaker 2: in July and there are four games under five hundred.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: For the con second Indivision, you'll be okay, exactly, you
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  Speaker 1: could be four games under five hundred. I got to
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  Speaker 1: find a streak here there somewhere between.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 2: They are one series from being in first place. Yea,
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  Speaker 2: they are now. They swept the trash Cans last week
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  Speaker 2: and then it went that they did in San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: so they're they're negated that but yeah, I'm I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Not I'm not concerned. What flag are you raising? It? Still?
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  Speaker 3: Still it's still yellow? Oh so yellow?
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  Speaker 1: It's not green because they're obviously they're not obviously not blying, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm watching is not good.
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  Speaker 3: I have watched the.
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  Speaker 2: Game or two, so now I can't call it green.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's a it's a pretty good, Amria. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Yellow flag it is. We have raised our yellow flags,
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  Speaker 1: manor fans. Yeah, yellow flag it is.
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  Speaker 3: It sure ain't white. It's a long, long season. It's
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  Speaker 3: a long season. We're not retiring the team yet. We
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  Speaker 3: believe in them.
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  Speaker 2: But four nine, four to five one level concern. And
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  Speaker 2: when would that flag turn red?
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  Speaker 3: For you?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's already red, but when would that be? And
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  Speaker 2: again the pitching staff. This team has the division they're in.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like the league they're going to be in
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  Speaker 2: this year. They're going to be in it. Even with
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  Speaker 2: the fielding of problems, the hitting inconsistencies, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in it.
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  Speaker 3: The draft on Thursday. How it works is.
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  Speaker 2: Those of you who've been around a while to probably
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  Speaker 2: already know this. But the first round begins at just
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  Speaker 2: after five pm. They got to have some huhas and
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  Speaker 2: dignitaries and Goodell got to say his stuff. It's on
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  Speaker 2: a stage at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, which is
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  Speaker 2: where the three rivers come confluence, right there at Old
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  Speaker 2: Fort pitt thirty minutes from where I grew up. And
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  Speaker 2: this year, Chris, instead of ten minutes between first round picks,
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  Speaker 2: it's eight. And I thought it was pretty good. There's
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  Speaker 2: been gms around the league. Oh, this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be terrible. I'm gonna be pressed. And John Schneider, he's
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  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl champion, so he has the advantage of
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  Speaker 2: being the thirty second pick and getting to watch all
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  Speaker 2: this the whole night.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, I doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: What it does do is it condenses the trade opportunities
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  Speaker 2: in the times that teams had to call by two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, but the trades happen on the
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  Speaker 2: clock or right before the clock they start, the calls
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  Speaker 2: really get going Thursday morning. Schneider brought this up again yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: But the actual meat potatoes of trade talks happen when
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  Speaker 2: teams are about to be or are on the clock
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  Speaker 2: and they've started to see what the other teams in
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  Speaker 2: the league are doing and who's picked and what quarterback
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  Speaker 2: may have fallen. Ty Simpson to me, is a key
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  Speaker 2: to the Seahawks being able to trade back at thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that, Well, ty Simpson is the quarterback from Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: is not reputed to be a top enough draft quarterback
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  Speaker 2: to go in the top half of the first round,
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  Speaker 2: so theory goes that he will be available late in
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  Speaker 2: round one one at thirty two.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, when the Seahawks turn to.
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  Speaker 2: Pick, that would be a prime situation for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: to trade back. Let's look at a team like Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: They have the thirty fourth pick overall, the second pick
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  Speaker 2: in round two. Arizona just cut Kiva Murray. They signed
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  Speaker 2: your man Gardner Minshew Koog, a stop gup you can
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  Speaker 2: get and say he's your franchise quarterback. So the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: have the third pick overall in the draft. A lot
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: of people think Mendoza to the Raiders and then that's
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: it for a while for quarterbacks in this draft.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Again, we've all talked about how.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Overall it's a weaker draft, But if ty Simpson, for instance,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: is not picked in the top half of the top
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: two thirds of the first round, and he's still available
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: at thirty two, and Arizona has not picked a quarterback
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: like we don't think they will at three, Arizona could
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: be in play to move up from thirty four to
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: thirty two. Now the Cardinals may say, well, that's only
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: two spots and we don't think thirty three is going
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: to take Ty Simpson and thirty three, I'm not mistaken,
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: should be the Raiders, unless no, it's the Jets actually
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: from a trade that the Jets could be in play
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: for Ty Simpson right because Geno Smith is not going
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: to quarterback them forever. They remember Gino Smith has re
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: signed with the Jets like it's back to the future.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: So you could see Arizona thinking, well, we need to
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: leap frog the Jets at thirty three to get the
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: thirty two to take Ty Simpsons before the Jets do
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: at thirty three. If we stay put at thirty four,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get them. And that's where the first prime
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: candidate to trade with the Seahawks at thirty two would
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: come up. But the Jets, excuse me, the Cardinals will
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: not know that, of course, until they're on the clock
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: over the Seahawks, I should say, are about on the clock,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: which is why the trades don't really come real. The
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: talks don't really become real until then. Would the Cardinals
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: be so desperate to jump the Jets that they might
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: overpay for dumping two spots and give the Seahawks not
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: only the fourth round pick, but perhaps two for the
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: fifth round pick. Seahawks don't have picks in round four, five,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: or seven in this draft. They have a pick at
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the bottom of one, bottom of two, bottom of three,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: and then they pick seventh or eighth in the sixth
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: round in a trade from Nick Harrison Center to the
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Browns last summer. If not them, I have on the
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: News Tribune dot Com my mock draft said, and the
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Seaks are going to trade with the Cleveland Browns at
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: thirty nine and move back and get a fourth round
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: pick from the Browns. The Browns may not need a quarterback.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: They may, but should hear Sanders Deshaun Watson that fiasco.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: But the Browns also have two first round picks already,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals only have one. Tennessee is another team with
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: multiple picks in rounds four and five that could move
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: up six to seven spots from top ten in round
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: two to the Seahawks at thirty two, but they have
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: a quarterback they just drafted number one overall on cam
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Ward last year. Quarterbacks tend to be the reason you
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: jump in why because teams like to get quarterbacks on
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: first round contracts.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: In case they hit, because if they hit, you then.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Have the option fifty year contract option because of virtue
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: of being a first round pick. The only draft picks
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: in the draft to get fifty year options are first
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: round picks. It's not a guarantee, but the option for
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: a team is only for first round picks. So teams
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: like to hedge into the first round and get a
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: quarterback that maybe second round talent in the first round
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: so that if he does hit, you got him on
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: relatively cheap. If he's playing top of the league and
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you have a fifth round option on him, you're gonna
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: that's a great deal to have a quarterback playing at
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: top of the league worthy of a fifth round option
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: yet paying rookie salary with Now, of course the fifth
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: round option is the average top ten salaries at the position,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: but still that's the reason you trade into the first round.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Now it's not all exclusive to quarterbacks. But that's usually
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the quickest way in anyway. That is John Schneider just
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: flat out. I mean, he might as well, as I
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: wrote in my lead for the story at the News Tribune,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: he might as well have been wearing a sandwich board
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: walking up and down four h five advertising that the
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: pick is for sale.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: We know, John, we know we we've been watching you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: for decades, well ten days a decade, excuse sixty sixteen years,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, it's okay, John, We understand.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: He's traded a first.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Round pick fourteen times in sixteen years, ten times down
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and the other four times involved players.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Never shock as if you took a player of thirty second,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that will be like, oh my gosh, they did it okay, And.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: That would have to be that their guy is right
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: there and they But more than that, they have to
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: think that the Jets, the Cardinals and the teams behind
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: them would take them. If they don't at thirty two,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: that's when you have to pick at thirty two. If
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: they have the NFL draft board. They have two boards,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: they have an NFL board and the Seahawks board. If
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: their NFL board, which has been very accurate over John
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Schnyder's time one of the great successes of their drafts
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: and how they've nailed what the league's going to do.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And if they think the league is going to take
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: their guy a couple picks behind, they'll take it thirty
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: two and they won't trade back.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Four nine, four to five one. What would you like
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks to do with their first pick? Who? What position? Why?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Or are you also thinking they're trading back and you're
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: going to watch the entire draft Thursday night and not
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: see the Seahawks do a darn thing. How many times
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: have I gone to rent and done.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: That by two men? To count ten to.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Be exact, ten times they've traded their first round pick
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and ten times down, I should say, in the first
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: round coming up, let's talk about the situation. I asked
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: John Schneider and Mike McDonald yesterday in Renting at the
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: press conference post Keath Walker, how do you feel about
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the running backs? We'll talk about that next on ninety
• 19:10
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• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Welcome back Greg Bell Show Christopher Kidd for the second day.
• 19:21
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• 19:24
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• 19:26
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• 19:29
  Speaker 2: at the NFL Draft. We've got a four nine, four
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to five one in to come a Dodge text line.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: We've got some people already chiming in with ideas best
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: running back available. I don't even think Sharvionny is a
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: starter when healthy, says Marcus our Man, longtime Listeneran Marcus
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: is the toughest Seahawks fan I've ever heard.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: He is tough on these boys, did Marcus? They did
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl? Marcus, I'll tell you, yeah, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: won money on there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: But you know what, I still don't think Zach Charvin
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is the Bill cow next.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Remember Zach Scharney might not be in the field until
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: October at the early I'm guessing I would put money
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: at October is when he.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Was, Like you said, they can't just roll him out
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: as soon as he's healthy. They got to ramp him
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: up twenty one day practice November. No, exactly. Yeah, it
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like I'm gonna be a twelve touchdown season from.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Him this year. If he did that, I'd be stunned.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And here's the thing, it's the last year of his contract. Yes,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: his rookie Dale love him. They do. I would bet
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: money they'll bring him back despite that happened.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: They be betting money if they get him a new
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: deal because he's coming off this reconstructive there. Yeah, that
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: is reconstructive. Knee surgery is no shirt thing. Yeah, that complicated.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I mean they had a plan. It was obviously when
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: they did a job share with Kenneth Walker during the season. Okay,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: let's see if Zach Scharbonay can take over and we'll
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: let Walker go get his.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Money and we'll just have our guy charbon Ay. They'll
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: lead back and.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Then bam torn acl against San Francisco in the Division
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: round of the playoffs.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: That changed everything, well, at least.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Changed them until October's November, and now it's not as
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: sure as slam dunk thing. If they have an air
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: again we mentioned yesterday there are seven I think it's
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: seven or eight off the top of my heads running.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Back on the ninety man roster.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I'm talking Jacrti Wright all the way up to Zach Charbonay,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Kenny McIntosh coming off injury, newly signed at Manuel Wilson
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: from Green Bay, Vellas Jones Chris.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Is doing the fingermat in there for me.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: You say cam Akers yet cam Akers, Vellas Jones, yes,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Cartier Wright. Oh, they were just seven yeah, seven running backs.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Not one of them have signed beyond twenty twenty six.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: That's the thing.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And the Seahawks, again they every NFL team they don't
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: draft for this year, they draft for four years. That's
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: because i'd be draft pick gets four year contracts, and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that's to me, what makes sense that they get a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: running back. They don't have anyone signed beyond twenty twenty six.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And the guy you would think they're going to sign,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Zack Sarbona, is coming off in the reconstructed RECONSTRUCTI knee surgery.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: That's their issue at running back. So with that as
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: a preface, I asked.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: John Schneider, the general manager, and Mike McDonald if I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: remember this is the that's the order. They answered this,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about your running back situation?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: This is what they said. How do both of you
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: feel about the running back situation you have right now? Yeah?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, I like, I think you know, signing Wilson
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: really helps us in this year's draft as well, kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: of give us some freedom. And we've talked about George
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Sharp's doing great well.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: The guys are back in today, so we have to
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: see everybody. They're all here on record. I believe in
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: our guys. And then there's a process too that we're
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: thankfully we don't have to play for another five or
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: so months, you know, had a lot of training to do.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald much more revealing in the comment than John
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Schneider was. Schnyder went uma, hummona. We got Sharbonay. But
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: McDonald has been consistent all offseason and say, hey, we
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: like the guys we got, and that's what a head
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: coach should do.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: George Hallani impressed them in the NFC Title Game and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl filling in for Sharbonay.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: They brought him back in a restricted free agent contract.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: But of course the head coaches k we love our guys.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But to McDonald's credit, he has said multiple times, including
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the combine, including the league meetings in Phoenix last month
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and just yesterday.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: This is still a part.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, respect the process and the next step in
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: that process is the draft. By the way, the Seahawks
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: have hosted Najie Harris on a free agent visit.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Remember him, He.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Actually had a really good game and get the Seaoff
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: who was in twenty twenty three or twenty two.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, he had a lot of good games on a
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: lot of teams for the Steelers. He ran for a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: thousand yard. I know, a thousand yards in the seventeen
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: game season isn't what it used to be. But he
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: ran for one thousand yards in each of his first
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: four seasons for the Steelers. And then the Steelers let
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: him go, and a lot of people in Pittsburgh, friends
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: of mine, colleagues of mine, and people where I grew
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: up are like, why did they do that? Why did
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: they let him go? Well, it's because the NFL is very,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: very very leary of giving big bucks second contracts to
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: running backs, which is part of the reason Kenneth Walker's
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: not here. What part of the reason we're talking about
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: this situation anyway. Naji Harris signed with the Chargers last
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: year on a one year contract, and what happened. Three
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: games into his contract with the Chargers he blew out
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: his achilles done. He's still on that achilles recovery. We
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: know from experience here in this town with Richard Sherman
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and others that that takes a bit, maybe sometimes a
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: full year. That would put him into September. But Naji
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Harris's agent Doug Hendricks, excuse me, not Doug Henderson, It's
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Rosenhaus from Miami. If I'm not mistaken, he is shopping
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Najie Harris. He's visited the Raiders, He's visited the Seahawks,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and the possibility exists, not now, but in a couple
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: of months if he's ready in training camp, the Nagie
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Harris could be an ad the veteran they already signed
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson has been a five hundred yard back, a
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: part time back with Green Bay. Still in his twenties,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Harris the big question mark is not his ability, but
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: his ability to come back from the Achilles. That's part
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: of the process that Mike McDonald's talking about, and so
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: is this draft.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Let's talk running backs in this draft. Jeremiah Love is
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: going to be the odds on.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Some people think he's going to go five to the Giants,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: if not before John Harbaugh. Of course, Loving to run
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the ball to the new coach in New York, Jackson Dart.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: They have their quarter. They need a running game to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: complement Jackson Dart's passing game and keep him from getting killed.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So a lot of people think that's where Jeremiah Leve
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: will go first from Notre Dame to five. The second
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: best back happens to be Most scouts agree. It's been consensus.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: The second best back in this draft happens to be
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: jeremiha Love's Notre Dame teammate, Jenedarian Price. The Seahawks have
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: been interested in Jenerium Price. He was at the note
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: they were at Notre Dame's pro day. They talked to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the Notre Dame running backs coach reportedly, and there are
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of people out there, Chris National guys, Peter
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Schreger that think the Seahawks are going to draft Jeniium
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Price at thirty two. I think this running back class
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: is so weak that Jendarium Price will be available in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the second round if and when the Seahawks trade back anyway,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and they could get him by trading back, say thirty
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: four with Arizona, thirty nine with Cleveland or wherever, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: could still get Jenerium Price. In fact, I think they
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: could get Jenarian Price at sixty four at the bottom
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: of the second round with the original pick they already
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: have in that round. That's how the league views running
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: backs right now, and this draft in particular is seen
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: as weak in running maybe the weakest position, and there
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: is a cliff most scouts that think between the second
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: running back, Jenarian Price, and the third running back, which
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: most people have is Mike Washington Junior from Arkansas. He
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: moved up from a middle round prospect to potentially a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: second round pick because he ran a four forty yard
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: dash at the combine, weighing two hundred and twenty three pounds,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the fastest forty yard dash by a running back weighing
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: two twenty Mike Washington has visited with the Seahawks. A
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: couple people have confirmed that on a pre Draft thirty visit,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: so they are looking at running back. There are a
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: couple others they've looked at as well, we talked about
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: them yesterday, but they are looking at running back. Of
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: only four picks in this draft, fewest in the league.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: So I have him actually taking Mike in my Mark
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Draft Atthewstribune dot Com. I have him taken Mike Washington
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Junior from Arkansas in the fourth round because that's how
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I see that they think that the league thinks about
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: running backs, and as I mentioned, there's a perceived Cliff
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: from the top two down to Mike Washington and the
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: others at three at the running back position. Well, see
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I have him actually taking a nose tackle with their
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: third pick.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I ain't mad at it. I think for.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I look at Mike McDonald as someone that you can
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: just trust in and everything. And while Johnson it might
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: have been uncomfortable or not knew the answer, my McDonald
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: was like, look, we got our guys. They're gonna show up,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: do their job, and we're gonna have somebody potentially in
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the draft.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I like where we're at right now.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And thankfully, as he says, we don't play for another
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: five months. Yes, So with all that being said, we
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: have time. Let's not panic right now. And John's kind
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of like, well, is that the right thing to say?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it is. You have time. You have
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the draft. You see who comes in. Maybe someone pops
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: off the grid. I don't know who it could be
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: in those seven running but chances are someone's gonna be
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the number one guy, or maybe in the draft you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: are able to find someone. Now.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I know kennth Walker was found in the second round.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He wasn't a fourth round pick or anything, but there
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: might be something to that, So we should just feel
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a little patient see what happens next week with the draft.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a free agent that they get, they had
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: their eyesights their eyesights.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: On and they go out and get them. Maybe it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Nagi Heirs.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I want to give the benefit
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of the doubts to my McDonald, who is someone that
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: believes in all those guys and regardless of what fans
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: or other teams think, whoever he has starting, that's gonna
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: be the decision. And it works out right from the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: offensive line they nailed that won a Super Bowl off
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of it. So there is definitely a perception where, yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know about this. You know, not bringing back
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: K nine, he's a little too expensive, but are you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: really gonna trust him? Kenny McIntosh coming off in acl
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: having Zach Charbonney in like November at his probably best
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: since last season, that's a little bit of a gamble.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: But we'll have to wait and see how things progress,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: because for all we know, Zach Scharbonneau could be ready
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: week one. We don't know, but all signs indicate for
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: me that I think he won't be available till probably
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: October and you just bring him slowly up to speed
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: as the season progresses, and you're hopefully you're in a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: situation where you've only lost maybe one or two games.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So it's not like we need Zach Sharburne. It's like
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  Speaker 1: we can put you in and when we want to
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  Speaker 1: per se.
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  Speaker 2: Let's face it, for those of you who might be
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  Speaker 2: chicken littling about this running back situation, this.
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  Speaker 3: Team just won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: They're not bereft, they're not adrift in some abyss and
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  Speaker 2: headed off to the four and thirteen season. They just
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  Speaker 2: won the super Bowl two months ago, and they let right,
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  Speaker 2: They let an expensive piece go because they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: it budgeted for because they'd rather spend on Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 2: and Jigba and Devin Witherspoon. And we just mean's about
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  Speaker 2: to get his we're gonna talk about him a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about what he impressed Mike Donald yesterday about. But
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  Speaker 2: first of all, they're not starting from ground zero, and secondly,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the guys in charge know what the hell they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: They just won the super Bowl. So yesterday I think
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  Speaker 3: it was the two.
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  Speaker 2: Five to three on the text line that's coming to dodge.
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  Speaker 2: Text line four nine four to five. One asked about.
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  Speaker 3: How about Jaccartia Wright. He was a rookie, undrafted rookie
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  Speaker 3: running back last year who impressed in training camp, then
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  Speaker 3: had injury issues kind of disappeared and everyone forgot about him.
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  Speaker 3: So I said, how's Jacardia Wright.
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  Speaker 2: Fit into this? And Mike McDonald said, he's a second
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  Speaker 2: year guy. Quote, he's a second year guy. But to me,
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  Speaker 2: what a great opportunity he has. The great part of
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  Speaker 2: our team right now is you can go position by position,
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  Speaker 2: you can rattle off the great competitions that we've got
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  Speaker 2: going to really throughout the team. Excuse me, great competitions
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to have really throughout the process. It's
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  Speaker 2: not always the case. So that speaks to like, really
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  Speaker 2: the depth of our team right now, which is really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Jacartia is right there, and McDonald's point is everyone's right there.
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  Speaker 2: There is no clear one, especially with sharpon a injured
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  Speaker 2: that Jaccardia Wright who is on it been that the
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  Speaker 2: team less than fewer than twelve months can.
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  Speaker 3: Be right there.
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  Speaker 2: It's open season, open competition. Here we go, and we
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  Speaker 2: know this in Seattle especially, we know hell, you could
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  Speaker 2: go through twelve fourteen sixteen running backs in a season.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks had eighteen guys carry the ball the year
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  Speaker 2: that Marshaun Lynch came back on Christmas, even unretired. This
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  Speaker 2: is the Bears mentioning again, this is the most treated
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  Speaker 2: position in the sport, with the shortest career shelf life,
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  Speaker 2: with the most major injuries. Running Back car crashes on
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  Speaker 2: every snap, pass protection, getting smashed by linebackers blitzing into you,
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  Speaker 2: blindside hits. Running Backs get hurt. It's why you don't
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  Speaker 2: invest in the league has decided not to pay big bests.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: We talked about the Todd Gurley syndrome and the league
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  Speaker 2: just shining away from big dollar contracts by and large,
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  Speaker 2: Tae Kwon Barkley being an outlier, but the Seahawks would
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  Speaker 2: rather draft running backs, use them for their four year
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  Speaker 2: rookie contract, let them go, and then start again by
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  Speaker 2: drafting another running back. They did it with Chris Carson.
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  Speaker 2: They did it with undrafted Thomas Rawls. They did it
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  Speaker 2: with Zach Scharbonay, they did it with Kenneth Walker. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're gonna do it again Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Don't
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  Speaker 2: think they're gonna do Thursday, because I think they're trading
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  Speaker 2: back and that's the only thing they'll do on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna do it on Friday. In
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  Speaker 2: rounds two and three, Rounds four, five, six, and seven
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  Speaker 2: are on Saturday. They begin at eight am and they
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: run until it seems like nighttime. The Seahawks right now
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  Speaker 2: have just one pick over that whole entire Saturday, that's
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  Speaker 2: in round sixth in a trade from Cleveland last summer
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  Speaker 2: for Nick Harris the Center, and that's it. As we
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  Speaker 2: mentioned yesterday, there's no way, no way in the name
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  Speaker 2: of Ron Wolf that John Schneider is gonna sit around
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  Speaker 2: and just do one pick over four rounds on Saturday,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: which is why I think he's trading back at thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine to get a fourth round pick from Cleveland. And
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  Speaker 2: they'll have a pick soon after eight am on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Four nine, four to five one.
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  Speaker 2: And to Como Dodge text line, you're a chance to
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  Speaker 2: talk about what you want from the sea, trade or
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  Speaker 2: don't trade. You want to keep them at thirty two
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  Speaker 2: and if so, who do you want him to pick?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: We'll ead back your text at eleven thirty up next
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Mike Rabel spoke today publicly in New England to media
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: about his imbriglio he's had for the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hear from Mike Vrabel next and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: why Mike McDonald was blown away yesterday on the first
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  Speaker 2: day of Seahawks offseason training. That's all coming up on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome at Greg Bell's showing Christopher Kidd rolling on second day.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't heard, yep, the Supermanent deal tend to noon.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell Christopher Kidd are back like it's twenty twenty four,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Like we never laughed. Mike Rabel spoke in New England
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  Speaker 2: today for the first time publicly since his pictures surfaced
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  Speaker 2: in the New York Daily.
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  Speaker 3: News New York Post.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was with Diana Rossini of the Athletic
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: This is what he had to say to Boston area media.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I've had some difficult conversations with people that
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  Speaker 7: I caret with my family, the organization, the coaches, the players,
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  Speaker 7: those who been positive and productive, and we believe in
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  Speaker 7: order to be successful on and off the field, you
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  Speaker 7: have to.
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  Speaker 3: Make good decisions. That includes me. That starts with me.
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  Speaker 7: We never want our actions to negatively infect affect the team.
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  Speaker 3: We never want to be the cause of a distraction.
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  Speaker 7: Those are comments and questions that I've answered for the
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  Speaker 7: team and with the team. We'll keep those private and
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  Speaker 7: to ourselves. I care deeply about this football team, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm excited to coach them. I also know that I'm
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: going to attack each day with humility and focus.
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  Speaker 2: That's Mike Raybral, coach of the Patriots who just played
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks in Super Bowl sixty. Sounds like he has
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the backing of Robert Kraft to report. We try to
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: get the story squashed before the photos and the story surfaced.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: So that's Mike Rabel's first comments publicly since all that
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: broke down back in Seattle. Thank goodness, we have none
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  Speaker 2: of that going on. We have Mike McDonald being the
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  Speaker 2: defending Super Bowl champion coach and yesterday he welcomed back
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  Speaker 2: what he thought were all his younger players for the
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  Speaker 2: start of the first phase of off season training. The
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  Speaker 2: NFL breaks their off season training into three phases one, two,
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  Speaker 2: and three. One is basically weight training, weight room, some
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  Speaker 2: on field stuff which is basically callaistenics, and just getting
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  Speaker 2: on the field because the Seahawks won the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: and partied hard into the end of February from winning it.
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  Speaker 2: McDonald told his veterans starters at blow off the first
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  Speaker 2: phase of OTAs or excuse me, of the off season program,
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  Speaker 2: the weight training and coming to the don't even worry
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  Speaker 2: about it. We'll do zoom calls for meetings if we
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  Speaker 2: need you, but don't show up, It's cool. We'll work
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  Speaker 2: on the younger guys. Yesterday was day one of that.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: It's a two week period. Yet Mike McDonald said he
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: was blown away by what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, we mentioned off season.
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  Speaker 6: There guys be back in the building starting the off
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  Speaker 6: season program today.
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  Speaker 3: How is it kind of getting that process rolling again already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's great.
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  Speaker 6: Today's day one for us in phase one, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: we tiered our our off season program from having like
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  Speaker 6: a later finish this season. But I was just like,
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  Speaker 6: I was blown away by the guys, some of the
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  Speaker 6: guys that showed up today and that you know, we
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: weren't asking to be here, you know at this point
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  Speaker 6: in time, and just the energy is really great. You know,
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  Speaker 6: there's still a great like sense of urgency and spirit
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  Speaker 6: to the guys, which which is exciting, but it's mostly
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  Speaker 6: just strength conditioning at this point and some individual meetings.
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  Speaker 6: But this is one of the best times of year
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  Speaker 6: to see the guys again. After the break, I almost
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: say surprise. You said, hey, look, if you if you
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: finished playing the whole season phase one, we'd love for
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  Speaker 6: you to be here, obviously, but to get more time
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  Speaker 6: out of the building so you can come back as
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: fresh as possible.
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  Speaker 3: So guys like spoon Jay reeb here wanted to be around.
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  Speaker 6: The guys again, you know so I thought that was
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  Speaker 6: really cool, Derek Hall.
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  Speaker 2: And that is what Mike McDonald believes is the key
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  Speaker 2: to winning a Super Bowl. When you talked to McDonald
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and you talked to everyone in the locker room last year,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah they had the talent, Yeah they had the tone
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  Speaker 2: of one defense. Yeah they had a quarterback who excelled
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  Speaker 2: in the clutch. Yeah they had running back Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 2: who went off in the playoffs. But they all tell
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  Speaker 2: you that their culture and their togetherness is what got
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  Speaker 2: them to win the Super Bowl. In fact, players in
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl locker room after game, smoking cigars. Karen
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  Speaker 2: Patron were talking about how sad they were that they
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  Speaker 2: weren't coming back to work to be with their guys
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  Speaker 2: again the next few days.
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  Speaker 3: That's how much they love.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been with each other since April, and this
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  Speaker 2: was February in the Super Bowl. I'd never heard that
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  Speaker 2: before in my career. That is duplicating itself right now
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: in retin This Week by Devin Witherspoon Jared Reed thirty
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  Speaker 2: three going on to thirty four years.
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  Speaker 3: Old in his NFL's eleventh season. Those guys are there.
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  Speaker 2: That's huge, and that to me is to McDonald is
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  Speaker 2: more important than anything else going on in Seattle for
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks four nine, four y five
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: one to com a Dodge text line. We'll read back
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: your text at eleven thirty. Up next, Mike Beton Pucks.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit Stanley Cuplass, but more we'll
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: talk about where the crack can go from here out
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: of the playoffs for the fourth time in five years.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Our man, the Captain, Mike Bennon is up next on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ RFM.